The Elmer Verburg Wobble Plate Engine

[jason4420]

In searching for a first engine to build I have downloaded, printed out, studied, and even started a few but have always hit a road block. The nicest are almost always in metric, to which i'm not yet equipped to drill, tap, etc. The most unique ones are above my ability at the moment or I just don't have the patients to see through. With the weather turning poor i'm finding myself in my shop a lot more, so I set out to find a project. It had to be from cardstock, not metric, and not to complicated ( don't want spend all winter scraping camshafts) i need an accomplishment . I stumbled across this set of plans on a site I hadn't visited in a year or so. Www.john-tom.com .

 

[jason4420]

 

[jason4420]

I first roughed out the base plate

 

[jason4420]

I then chucked up an old bronze hammer head and whittled out a couple crank bushings.

 

[jason4420]

Then I pressed one of the bronze bushings into front plate that I made but forgot to take a pic.

 

[Propforward]

Excellent - I am following this with a lot of interest, because this is the next engine I intend to build.

Good stuff!

 

[jason4420]

I clamped front bearing plate in mill and cut first angle. Just eyed it up



Then I measured rear height with a couple gauge blocks so I could flip over and repeat. It is pivoting on bearing shoulder .

 

[jason4420]

Round stock drilled for crankshaft



Crankshaft turned to size

 

[thayer]

Looking good so far.

Elmer's Engines offers a lot of good starter projects. I've done two myself and recently started on the next two.

Thayer

 

[Propforward]

That's coming on really well - nice job! I am very excited to see further progress. Thm:

 

[rleete]

Looking good. I've always intended to make one of these, just haven't gotten to it yet.

 

[Propforward]

Very nice!

 

[rleete]

Is there a particular reason you hijacked Jason4420's thread as your own? I find this to be incredibly rude.

 

[hdwrench1]

Is there a particular reason you hijacked Jason4420's thread as your own? I find this to be incredibly rude.

I didn't realize I highjacked his thread.
I read it initially and thought I would add some input by starting on the Wobble plate.

Cheers
Wayne

 

[jason4420]

I had the intention of banging out this build before Christmas, but have not been in shop for a month. I'm glad this has started a place were people can share there experience of working on this engine. I don't mind it being " hijacked ". Lol

 

[lensman57]

Hi Jason 4420,

I built this engine last year and I love the way it works, it has a very nice tone to its exhaust.

Well done and keep on going.

Regards and Greetings,

A.G

 

[lennardhme]

One I havent made before. I will build along in concert in the hope that I'll finish one for myself before getting sidetracked with someone elses job.
thanks.

 

[rleete]

Sorry, I thought is was more than coincidence that hdwrench had posted, and you disappeared. His engine looks very nice, but I thought it rude to "upstage" you in your first build.

hdwrench, my apologies if I sounded overly harsh.