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NickG:
Thanks guys, glad it's not just me! :lol:

I really need to make a depth stop, I had no idea how useful they'd be, but the Tim Mk 2 works just fine for now so I think it may get deployed more in the future!

You might be right about the taking the step back being good Tim. This project is taking me ages, but (touch wood) I haven't made a costly mistake yet (shouldn't have said that :lol: :doh:), it's just frustrating that the box of bits looks nothing like an engine yet, let alone two!

Nick

AdeV:
Lots of good work on this one Nick, I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.... I certainly don't feel ready to tackle an engine yet (at least, not a whole one! :lol:)

Just going back over a few posts to your parting off troubles - I did something very similar with a piece of tube (3" dia, maybe 1/16" wall thickness), get a few thou into the cut then "KLUNK". I'm fairly sure I've mortally wounded my 3-jaw chuck, it's quite stiff in several places now.... but the 4-jaw is easier to fix the run-out, I'm finding, so I'll just stick with that one I think.

I find I take most of my photos between operations, rather than during (the occasional under-power shot being the exception). I never really thought about how much time it was taking, or whether it was distracting; I know most readers here are voracious photo consumers (myself included), so partially I aim to please on that score; but also I find them useful for me too, so I can go back & review what I've already done.

The writeup is another kettle of fish. Each of the longer BMW Sump write-ups takes me about an hour to do, all told. I may need to reduce that a bit, but TBH I find the writing about it almost as much fun as the actual doing (more so, if I'm not comfortable with the doing).

Anyway, enough thread hi-jacking. Just to say I'm loving your work, and hope you find the time to keep the excellent and thorough documentary going. They're really useful to newbies like me - even, no, especially the "warts and all" photos. :thumbup:

spuddevans:

--- Quote from: NickG on March 04, 2010, 07:19:48 AM --- This project is taking me ages,

--- End quote ---

Dont lose heart, this is more about the journey than the destination. If all we were interested in was just the end result we'd just go out and buy the completed model. But by taking however long as the project needs, and our own personal circumstances allow, we get the satisfaction from beating poor defensless bits of metal crafting and sculpting raw stock into working parts of a project.

So what's the rush, you know you are just going to start on another project as soon as you finish this one, so just enjoy the journey with the rest of us :thumbup:

Tim

madjackghengis:
Hi Nick, it's good to see you posting, I take it to mean you've got past the bug you were under the weather with. For myself, reading other's posts is good when I'm doing something on my own project which involves lots of repetition, such as making cylinder blanks for a radial engine. I haven't stopped working on it, but serial pictures of the ten or eleven cylinders being machined as I get opportunity between jobs would be boring to look at, so I took a couple of pictures in the beginning, and will take a picture of all of the little soldiers standing in a row, when they're lapped out and ready for fitting pistons. In the mean time, I have got off land line internet, got on satallite internet, and actually viewed someone's engine running, seeing a u-tube video for my first time ever.
I am almost done with the many cylinders, and in the mean time, I'm enjoying watching this thread, as I intend for the "poppin" to be my next project, and want it to go perfect, smooth, and without a bump first time out. I don't suppose that's asking too much in one sitting is it? mad jack :headbang:

Rob.Wilson:
Lookin good Nick :clap:
Great read and photo build , keep it coming.

Cheers Rob :beer:

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