V-Twin Board track racer
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Thanks guys
Steve the flywheels in the first and third pictures are cast iron wheels that I found and repurposed and are the only castings used.all the other parts are weldments that were welded then machined.
Here's a little about the engines
The first picture is a 1883 Economic motor works engine it was is a non compression engine built in the US.
The second picture is a 1888 Atkinson cycle engine it makes all 4 strokes in one turn of the flywheel and all 4 strokes are a different length.
The third picture is a 1887 Welch and Lawson - coke bottle engine
The forth one is a 1886 Benz
Steve the flywheels in the first and third pictures are cast iron wheels that I found and repurposed and are the only castings used.all the other parts are weldments that were welded then machined.
Here's a little about the engines
The first picture is a 1883 Economic motor works engine it was is a non compression engine built in the US.
The second picture is a 1888 Atkinson cycle engine it makes all 4 strokes in one turn of the flywheel and all 4 strokes are a different length.
The third picture is a 1887 Welch and Lawson - coke bottle engine
The forth one is a 1886 Benz
Wow, just wow. How did you make the tower for the 1887 Welsh and Lawson? I was looking at the flywheel for the Mercedes Benz and kept going back and forth with myself as to whether you had made it or not. I could sort of visualize how it was done but then it looked like an original. Then I looked closely at everything else and it all looked original but I'd seen you motorcycle so I was thinking it was all your work.
My mothers father was a tool and die maker in England until they moved to Canada in 1929. He the shop foreman at Warnsworth Electric Co with a 130 employees. They made electric lights and parts and he was the man in charge of installing the lighting in the Titanic. I always wished my brother and I could have apprenticed with him but he was long retired before we were born.
Steve.
My mothers father was a tool and die maker in England until they moved to Canada in 1929. He the shop foreman at Warnsworth Electric Co with a 130 employees. They made electric lights and parts and he was the man in charge of installing the lighting in the Titanic. I always wished my brother and I could have apprenticed with him but he was long retired before we were born.
Steve.
Steve that's some good family history.
Here is some pictures of how the cylinder was made.
Here is some pictures of how the cylinder was made.
You know, I see the metal working skills, and I see that there are places in the world where hands on metalworkers who are disregarded in the lands of their birth, would be lauded and seated at the top table in others. The question is how would you feel about being offered a goat's eyeball as a starter?