Tips/Techniques Machining prints or plans exchange?

[Brian Lawrence]

I am wondering if there is anybody interested in starting a forum for trading prints & plans? I have a small collection of small engine plans that I have built over the years and would be interested in trading plans for ones that I do not have. Of course I am not interested in plans that are copyrighted as this would NOT be legal. I am only interested in plans that are NOT copyrighted. Most of these plans require having both a milling machine as well as a metal lathe among your basic hand tools.
Examples like:
- 3 cylinder Radial engine (not 100% sure if this one is copyrighted)
- 9 cylinder Radial engine ( " " " " " " " " )
- Tiny Inline 4 cylinders. 32 pgs
- Twin Bee's (this involves adapting 2-0.49 cox type engine into a twin version. 4 pgs
- 5cc Outboard engine. 6 pgs
- 4 cylinder Opposed Horizontal Engine. 62 pgs
- 24 lb Navel Cannnon. 9 pgs
- Cam making made easy. 46pgs

If your interested in something like this, then please email me at bj.lawrenceshaw.ca and maybe we can work something out.

Lets all have some fun...........

Brian
email: [email protected]

 

[johnnielsen]

Good idea. I've got some plans but haven't built any as I am gun shy about ic engines.

 

[Susquatch]

Good idea. I've got some plans but haven't built any as I am gun shy about ic engines.

You don't have to actually run them John.........

I have two little engines that I was given when I retired (a Honda and a Linamar). They are great display items. I have no plans to ever run them.

They are little jewels on their own merit. But their value to me would skyrocket if I had built them myself from scratch.

 

[Mike R]

I'm interested but I'm acquiring projects at a pace that will require me to live to 150 years old in order to complete them.
I've hoarded all sorts of drawing and plans that have been published on the net over the years, not necessarily with the intent to build them but I find I learn something from most of the drawings and instructions I look at. I hope it makes me a better designer as I try my hand at making my own design, or modifying someone else's.
I also have drawn up in cad a few of them or scrapped Grabcad when someone else drew it up.
I have links to various model engine websites that many who have been around will have already have found but may be of interest to newcomers, and for a couple of them I shelled out and bough the CD's of the archived or members only material. i.e. Ron Chernich's website archive of https://www.modelenginenews.org/index.html along with the "Motor Boy's International Model Engine Plan Book" that we are allowed to share freely under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/