A Really Good Book on Building Small I.C. engines

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I did look into publishing my own book on building small engines. Model engine building is such a "niche" market that the big publishers won't...

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I have reached a point of total "Burn out" on building model engines. I want to coast for a while now. I have a number of good books on building...

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There is no gearbox. Only a small v-pulley driving a large pulley.

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Doozer--I was hoping to find a nice simple two wire motor that I might salvage and use on something. This motor has many more wires and a bunch of other...

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My son is a garage door technician and he recently upgraded an older house with new garage door openers. He brought the old ones to me, and I disassembled...

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Growing up where I did, I can confirm that Northern lights do indeed make a sound. Not a loud sound, so you need the background noise to be very silent....

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Maybe now would be a good time for a career change. I hear that the Blueman Group is looking for someone to add to their troupe.

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When I was a kid, the big lake I grew up on was three miles long. Sometimes in January we would get a big thaw, then freeze up again and that whole three...

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The first set of 60 .pdf drawings has been sent out to Graham Vickery. This is a fairly complex engine, and I expect Mr. Vickery to have a few questions...

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Graham Vickery---Email me at [email protected] I've got your drawings but don't know your email to send them to.---Brian

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So, this is the final final. I made a nice video, and forgot to mention that I had not only changed the base, but had also put sealed ball bearings on...

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There are four valves. It is a twin cylinder engine. No mention of the other cams because they are all "rotationally fixed" in relationship...

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The engine is running good and starting very easily. The only issue is that I can't coax it into a slow idle. Research shows that a bit of advance on...

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My engines are set up to run with the exhaust valve beginning to open 40 degrees before bottom dead center and the intake begins to open at 15 degrees...

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One time in Peterborough I managed to lock my car keys AND my wallet in my 1962 Chev, in the parking lot of a big mall. I went into the nearest clothing...

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Matt--While I was cruising the web looking for information about valve timing, I see there are a lot of posts about exactly that---variable valve timing....

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I've been doing a bit of research today, and I copied the following from a website dealing with valve timing events:

Cam Timing Relation...

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Engine starts good and runs good now. It doesn't want to go into that nice low idle, about 900 rpm. I am suffering from machine shop burnout right now...

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Willy---I really don't know. Compression seemed good, but after trying all of the different settings (there aren't that many), I decided to put the old...

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I finally had to resort to using the old cylinder heads with the sparkplugs located right at the very bottom of the cylinders. There was just no way I...