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| raynerd:
Looks really smart Kwackers - makes my 10V look tiny. |
| scrapman:
Looking great so far :thumbup: , i was thinking of the No4 maybe as a next build from the 10V, Ray. |
| Brass_Machine:
Hiya Steve, Looking good so far. You are gonna love it when it runs the first time. Eric |
| madjackghengis:
Hi Steve, that's quite a fine looking bit of machining you've been doing, what is the bore and stroke, if you don't mind my asking? It is looking very close to fixing to a mount and steaming, I'm looking forward to hearing it run. Very nice all around. mad jack |
| cidrontmg:
Hi Kwackers, looking real good so far. A Stuart 4 is a big engine. I once built one, and to this day I canīt say how fast it might have ran. I didnīt, and still donīt, have a compressor big enough to keep it going for very long with a serious pressure, and even less a boiler to match. It was leaky, admittedly, and needed more pressure and air volume because of that. But it also had ball bearings, and was quite free running (of course, with a sloppy piston... :lol: ). Did Stuart supply piston rings for it? I built mine > 20 years ago, and it was supposed to have 2 cast iron rings, but they were missing in the package, and I never got them. So I ended up using graphite yarn packing, which frayed in no time at all, because the piston was made under size, for the rings, and the cylinder honed. It spat out the graphite yarn with the exhaust in small bits of oily lint, making an awful mess... I hope your engine behaves better! :wave: |
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