Member postings for Roger B

This is the clamping screw:

There are quite a few pictures on here which may help you to identify what you had:

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My brother has a tender locomotive and I have a stationary engine.

These people have them, but I don't know if they can deliver to the UK at the moment.

https://www.maschinen-werkzeuge.com/de/spannzange-er16-o-12mm.html

The first question I would ask is what are you going to do with the engine? If it is going to idle for a few hours a year at a show mild steel will be fine. If you are going to haul passengers with it in an 1831 every other weekend then you will need to use something better.

Splendid job

There was some discussion about this on another forum. The key points for good hit and miss operation were low friction and the quality of the firing stroke, a good hit is required. You may need to experiment with the mixture and timing to find an optimum. If you can apply a load to the engine to keep it below the governor speed adjustment may be easier.

Thank you This is my first go at a two stroke and bought a number of challenges. The prototype has angled ports, drawing these and the susequent maching was interesting. I strarted with an aluminium piece with the same dimensions as the cylinder but much shorter. This gave me a chance to see what was going on and reduced the amount of scrap. Using small long series milling cutters results in some deflection.

I cheated with the reed valves and bought a comercial set (spare part for a scooter, less than £2) which fitted in the space that I had.

I initially ran the engine as a spark ignition petrol engine to confirm that the red valves and ports actually worked.

Lots of fun

Very impressive work on the gearbox

There seem to be very few people building land vehicles powered by self built engines. There are a lot of ETW Wallabies out there but very few 1831s. I have seen a number of Lanz Bulldog derivatives. I think someone makes casting sets.

I am working (very slowly) on a couple of models. One will be powered by a 12cc four stroke twin. I have almost got the engine running to my satisfaction with a constatnt depression carb. The simple carbs tended to struggle when a load was applied. This will be a freelance design.

The engine on it's test bed

The second one is based on the Field Marshall horizontal single cylinder two stroke diesel. I am slill learning/experimenting with the injection system. I have acheived some firing but not sustained running.

There appears to have been at least 3 different designs of coupling used. I found this company when looking to upgrade my MF70 to ER 11 collets. I decided that the price was a bit high and instead I may purchase a plain shank ER11 chuck and machine the top to take the Proxxon coupling.

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What is your coupling like? This is mine:

In an attempt to add more confusion. The FF/PF 400 (FF was freestanding, PF mounted on the back of the PD 400 lathe) appear to have had two types of collet. The early one looks a bit like an OZ but I think was a Proxxon own design is shown here as part number 24252.

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The later machines used normal ER20 collets. The changeover from the old style is mention at the bottom of this site:

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A German owner of an older PF 400 ordered the newer ER20 spindle from Proxxon complete with bearings and tolerance washers for around €100 (in german).

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The Proxxon spares site (in english) is here:

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Roger

That's an impressive engine. Did you run it much? Is that a fuel or oil pump next to the carb? Is the camshaft chain or gear driven?

Excellent, One of the rather rare IC locomotives powered by a home built engine.

Thank you. I have seen your video on YouTube.

I am also working (slowly) on a 20cc two stroke full diesel based loosely on the Field Marshal layout. The details are on MEM:

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Best regards

Roger

Is your Lister the 6/1 that was serialised in ME?

Interesting If I am reading under the radiator correctly it's an Australian maker. I thought that the single cylinder hot bulb/semi diesels were a European thing.

Do you have thoughts for the injection system yet?

Best regards

Roger

You shouldn't have a problem joining the plug leads, but leave as much of the old lead as you can in case you have to remake the joint later.

I have made clips for that type of plug from phosphor bronze sheet that retains it's spring.

I also have an MF70 and decided to check the play and runnout. Measuring on the shank of a 3mm endmill I got a play of around 0.02mm and runout of around 0.04mm.

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So far I have only broken one 1mm end mill when cutting a keyway in a silver steel shaft. This was mostly my fault. The first cut just put a flat on the shaft and the second cut was a full slot and was too much with the depth of cut I had chosen. Reducing the depth of cut resolved the problem.

I have an Angst floating reamer holder like this:

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It has an adjustable centering spring to control 'droop' when used in a turret/automatic machine.

I have used this material, EN AW-2007 AL CU Mg Pb F37, for crankcases and cylinder blocks. It is available up to 40mm square in 200mm lengths. It's a German company and appears to offer shipping to the UK for €6.99.

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I don't know how the prices will compare to UK suppliers.

It turns well with specific inserts for aluminium. I have used threads down to M1.4.

Difficult to say exactly what is going on. There should be a thrust race (33) and a collar (8) held in place with a taper pin. This locates the headstock end of the leadscrew. The tailstock end is located by the hand wheel. There is a simple dog clutch to connect the change gears.

Best regards

Roger

This user has had a similar problem:

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