meat grinder gas engine

[anthacdc]

nice what sort of tools do yuo use to machine your engines?

[nrowland56]

I was a kid when this was machined so the main machines my dad had in his shop at the time was a small (10") Sheldon lathe & old (1900) Jackson vertical mill. Also used a drill press, files ect.

[MeIsArtTickYouLet]

do they put a hayabusa engine on the meat grinder and do a meatless burnout

[robinhooodvsyou]

Absolutely amazing engine, THIS is some steampunk stuff !

[cffellows]

That's one cool engine! Is it 4 stroke or 2 stroke? Also, can't tell where the power piston is? Does it us poppet valves? Again, nice work! Chuck

[nrowland56]

Hi Chuck, it's a 2 stroke. The piston is inside the vertical cylinder (that's hard to see) in the top opening of the meat grinder. You can pour water in the opening & around the cylinder to keep it cool but the only thing that ever got hot was the top chamber. It originally had 3 flat-faced poppet valves (my first attempt at making a valve) but soon replaced them with regular tapered ones that seated a lot better. I have a pretty big bag of extra parts