| Image Comments |
| biplane guy | 25-Nov-18 15:27 |
| scratch built engine, front |
| biplane guy | 25-Nov-18 15:32 |
| 455 individual pieces. OCD members will understand. |
| Don C | 26-Nov-18 09:42 |
| Holy smokes! That is gorgeous. |
| mark eggebeen | 26-Nov-18 16:10 |
| yikes !! |
| kenm94591 | 26-Nov-18 16:52 |
| That engine is absolutely beautiful. Can you share what was used to build this engine.
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| jgood | 26-Nov-18 22:27 |
| Amazing work. |
| biplane guy | 29-Nov-18 07:47 |
| Thanks guys. For kenm: The engine crankcase is a 3/4" PVC pipe cap which I drilled and tapped at 40 degree intervals for the nine cylinders. Each cylinder is made of 15 stacked metal washers of two different sizes which are CA glued together. They are secured to the cap with a countersunk type machine screw. An "O" ring is then snapped around the screw head and glued in place to provide a flat surface on which to mount the cylinder head. The bases for the heads are punched from a styrene sheet. The cooling fins and rocker arms are styrene strips and rods. The exhaust pipes are half-round styrene strips that were heated and bent 90 degrees and then painted with metallic copper enamel. Pushrods and spark plug wires are music wire. The spark plugs are tiny rivets. The pieces between the prop and crankcase are cut from the molded engine/cowling provided in the kit and a cone shaped rubber faucet washer adds the clearance between the prop and cowling when mounted. Two more machine screws are used for the prop shaft and the crankshaft extension in the rear. Hope this helps. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | 29-Nov-18 12:44 |
| Biplane,
Absotively posilutely gorgeous (my wife's favorite expression)!! When will you start production? I'll buy a few from you. You've done a masterful job once again. Fellow OCD member here. Marvelous workmanship. Very creative. Outstanding. |
