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Bogstandard:
Jack,

No chance of anything soon, I haven't even been near the shop for a couple of days, and it might be a few days longer yet.

Everything you have mentioned I have already chewed thru.

John

SPiN Racing:
Hi All,

Beautiful machine there John. Always very enlightening to read your methods and learn from the oddities you discover and correct for. :)

I was looking at the engine, and thinking about the graphite block, and the clearance issue you had with the threads earlier, that were corrected by the gasket.

Does the graphite wear over time? ANd or need to take a "seat" on the surface as the engine runs?

The reason I am asking... the head nuts/studs you have.. the two on each side protrude, and I was wondering if you will encounter clearance issues once the graphite wears down a bit from sliding up and down on the head...

Its been a long AM, so I may be off with my thoughts.. but I was curious on that one.

Beautiful Machine
I hope the pain in your bod gremlins leave off. I Know my wife has good and bad days as well. so I truly understand my friend.

Scott

Bogstandard:
Scott,

All the clearances have now been sorted, the block will have to wear down to a point where the engine will not continue to run before anything fouls again.

This is a very quickie post as I am having site access problems.

Just one pic at this time.

As I said, I needed to check out the geometry of the plans. I just used basic pythagoras for working it out, not wanting to bring operating arcs into the equation, but the information that it gave me showed that I have more than enough movement for the block to work correctly.

I also reshaped the block to what I thought it needed, but I will have to show you that next time, as I haven't taken any pics of it yet.

This is the reason for no piccies. I wanted to try it out first, just to see if I had my calculations right.

I seem to be gasping for air. In fact I am just recovering from a chest infection and a cold, hence I haven't been in the shop for a while. But within 10 minutes of getting in there this morning, the engine was basically up and running, not too well, but plenty good enough for me to see that it has potential. The sound has changed from a 'quack' to an ic engine exhaust sound, and unlike the other flame licker I built, this one has useable POWER :clap: :clap: :clap:, so maybe a little generator might find it's way onto the scene.

Bogs

lordedmond:
Good work

Looks like you have it sorted

Stuart

sbwhart:
Wooooo I thought I heard a big cheer go up over your way this morning.

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Nice one :thumbup:

Stew

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