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BiggerHammer:
Thank you for showing how you lap your cylinder and piston. Looks much more effective than my method.

Bogstandard:
Lookin' good Jack.

You seem to be gettin' a bit of a fetish for them thar lickers.

Be careful, they can take over your life.

John

sbwhart:
Great job Jack, :thumbup: :clap: :clap: :clap:

All the clutter on your benches is very interesting too, trying to work out what all the bits and pieces are for.

:wack: Yes I know I'm a nosey bugger.

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Cheers

Stew

madjackghengis:
Thanks all for the interest, Saw, run your flycutter as fast as you can on aluminum, with as fine an edge as you can hone on it with a stone, and use coolant, try to have the cutter overhang either side by just a little bit, and make sure you're head is trammed (perpendicular to the table) and you'll get a nice finish. John, it's one of those things that bites you, and then you have this disease :lol:, I get too many ideas looking at everyone else's projects, and keep wanting to try them out. Stew, don't worry about nosey, I can't help but look at all my mate's clutter as well, with interest and wonder, suffice to say some are parts that didn't work but might work on something else, some are potential parts, and some are just clutter, there for confusion's sake. Mr. Hammer, I learned to lap for fuel pumps for diesels, and for aircraft hydraulics, I can't help it, when I have fine grained cast iron, it demands a finish worthy of its structure and capacity, as it's so easy to work with and get a gorgeous finish.
I've been busy writing this morning, but I've got more to post, so I will have substantially more posted tomorrow, and maybe a video if I'm lucky. John, every time I see a flame eater, it's got a different valve arrangement, or some other substantial part is interesting, and I can't seem to not build it into "just one more before I get back to my main post". Then I also get the comments of those who come into my shop and that just takes me over the top and I've got to grab another piece of cast or billet or something, and get on with the idea. This engine is your fault, with that crazy valve arrangement :poke: :lol: :beer: Cheers, Jack

Bogstandard:
Jack,

I know exactly where you are coming from.

I got enthralled with Chuck's poppet valve engines a while back, and just had to make one, but got carried away experimenting with different cams. It is half way thru a bling exercise, one of the many engines I have to finish off after the proving run. My flame licker takes priority though, that is being finished off first.

This is what I ended up with when I tried to make an engine like Chuck's.

John

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