i was looking through some old pictures of one of my full size engine projects and thought i would show a before and after of one of the engines i have restored.
the first picture shows what i bought (not much)

in the picture it is missing the connecting rod, piston, main bearing caps, sub base, gas tank, fly wheels, exhaust rocker arm, carburator, crank guard and some other bits and pieces.
a good friend of mine loaned me all the pieces i needed, so i set out and copied his parts for my engine.
my dad made a pattern for the fly wheels (heres a pic of the pattern)

we took the pattern to a local foundry and had them made of iron. the fly wheels are 24" in dia. and weigh 165 pounds each.
and look like this

from start to finish it took me six months to get to this

now the engine is kinda dirty in the above picture due to some renovations we did in our barn were we store some of the full size engines.
it has been run at several steam and gas engine shows in the last 3 or 4 years.
i just thought you might like to see the kind of things i do for fun, i have been restoring engines for the last 30 years and i have owned about 60 or 70 of them.
chuck
