I did lot of model building.
It is fun build and see the engine come to life. Then find a use for engine is more fun. The next step is finding all the little things need to make whole thing work.
Dave
What is your purpose in getting into the hobby of building model engines?
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I did lot of model building.
It is fun build and see the engine come to life. Then find a use for engine is more fun. The next step is finding all the little things need to make whole thing work.
Dave
I like hobby
I like see what was before steam and engines . Then how used then build the rest or just research.
Like Kohler power plants at 32 volts DC. It was a battery charger and power plant . Then what the 32 battery was used besides a battery for lighting.
FYI
They use made fans at 32 volts next appliances for kicking was 32 volt DC radio. The most interesting was 32 volt DC motor generator to AC 60hz 120 volt.
Just more fun knowing how a engine is used. Some are easy see how a engines like a tractor engine
Dave
I like see what was before steam and engines . Then how used then build the rest or just research.
Like Kohler power plants at 32 volts DC. It was a battery charger and power plant . Then what the 32 battery was used besides a battery for lighting.
FYI
They use made fans at 32 volts next appliances for kicking was 32 volt DC radio. The most interesting was 32 volt DC motor generator to AC 60hz 120 volt.
Just more fun knowing how a engine is used. Some are easy see how a engines like a tractor engine
Dave
I start with model aircraft and engines back in the 1960's. It was nice to something you work on coming to life.
It nice small. Work I did was very big had cast iron wheels over 1,000 pounds. Not a lot of fun. I don not think any one would build a model of what I design and manufacture.
Today working smaller engines and other projects. is a lot more fun.
I never try money off the hobby it take away for injoyment of hobby.
Dave
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Went to a Tech school in the 50s so got exposed to messing with metal.
Alas a young family and mortgage payments ruled out play toys.
THEN, retirement and finally I got a cheap Chinese 7X14 mini lathe followed a few years later with a Seig X2 mini mill. Machining on a shoe string budget happily making swarf and several simple engines that actually run.
Yep, got the usual, "But what does it do?" but my answers varied from, "goes round and round" to Keeps me out of the house.
Now 83, still pottering. OH, my avatar is a paddle wheeler chugging around in my son's pool.
Alas a young family and mortgage payments ruled out play toys.
THEN, retirement and finally I got a cheap Chinese 7X14 mini lathe followed a few years later with a Seig X2 mini mill. Machining on a shoe string budget happily making swarf and several simple engines that actually run.
Yep, got the usual, "But what does it do?" but my answers varied from, "goes round and round" to Keeps me out of the house.
Now 83, still pottering. OH, my avatar is a paddle wheeler chugging around in my son's pool.
I have been absent for a few months and just came back and re-read this topic from beginning to end. A lot of different opinions and they are all fine. My wife participates in a lot of hot-topic forums and groups (something I choose not to do) and I was talking to her about the controversies earlier in this topic. She told me that she uses a personal rule whenever reading someone's post, to read it "with the most charitable interpretation in mind." She is a smart woman. And reading back on some of the things I wrote, I might have been a bit too touchy in my posts. I will do my best to avoid that and stay positive in the future.
Lloyd
Lloyd
I got into the IC engine thing when I wasn't even a teenager. An older gentleman down the street who worked on small engines gave me and my brother each a worn out engine to take apart or do whatever we wanted with them. I started meticulously taking mine apart, studying each piece and trying to figure out how it all worked. I was quite intrigued and that was the beginning of the hobby for me.
My brother, on the other hand, took a few bolts out of his, got bored, and finished the job with a big ball peen hammer.
My brother, on the other hand, took a few bolts out of his, got bored, and finished the job with a big ball peen hammer.
I like vary small engines. The size if drop it on your foot and you not you think getting a x-ray and your wife is dragging you hospital
and keg of pain pills 
and hoping they work. FOR A HOBBY Also not so small you need a microscope if drop the parts on the floor
Dave
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