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chuck foster:
looking real good nick :thumbup: :thumbup:

you could use a router bit to shape the edges of the ali base, router bits were made for wood but they do a great job on ali and brass.

chuck :wave:

sbwhart:
Great Job Nick :clap:

Running a bull nose cutter around the edges finishes them off nice.

Have fun

Stew

bogstandard:
Nick,

Conrod, burner, RUN. In that order.

Get it running first, bling after.

You are only putting off the inevitable, so get to the running stage first, as you might need to make slight tweaks and could damage the bling. Then polish and shape away to your hearts content.

John

NickG:
Chuck / Stew -

I don't have any ball nosed cutters, might have to buy a few thought, they are sure to come in handy anyway. I was looking in a tool catalogue yesterday and saw a sort of engraving / chamfering tool that looked quite handy. people could make these themselves if they had indexable tips - it's basically a straight rod with the end milled flat and a 90 deg indexable tip bolted on. They were about £50 squid though - sod that!

Chuck, I think my dad has some router bits but not sure if he's got any small enough. What sort of speed would I need to run at for ali?

Bogs,

I usually jump the gun and try to run things before they are ready so thought I'd try to finish this one first as in the past I've forgotton about things like brown stuff bases and it's ended up looking crap! Do you reckon I should mount the stuff on a scrap, test base first to get it running then incase I need to move holes etc? Then make the real base and do finishing touches?

Cheers guys,

Nick

bogstandard:
Actually Nick, I got myself into the same predicament as yourself.

I got my twin licker running wonderful on a crappy base. Unfortunately it was at a time when I had loads of ideas for new engines in my brain cell, and I concentrated on getting them made and running.

Only now am I getting back to a couple of them, to bling them up, in fact one is destined to be started next week or the week after.

I don't want to restart the Halo project until Kvom has his up and running, as it is silly having two of the same sort of builds going on at the same time. So I am getting those engines up to scratch first.

In all honesty, you have made such a big dedication to this post, I don't think you would do what I did, and leave it unfinished. So get it running first by whatever means, only then finish it off to a high standard using the dimensions for the base of the running engine.

John

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