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Running the Enjomor Whippet on glow fuel. I’ve made a cooling tank, part made a fuel tank and the engine is fix to an oak base. Before going too much further I really wanted to run this little engine. The engine has a good quality engine oil in the sump. Must admit that I screwed the … Read more
From an idea for the Whippet cooling tank to the finished tank on a tripod. The Enjomor Whippet is water cooled and to fit with my construction of it as a stationary engine I needed a simple water tank. The basic idea was to have a simple cooling tank next to the engine on the … Read more
A peek inside the Enjomor Whippet was just too tempting, especially with a set of Wera Allen Keys laying nearby. The head of this Whippet engine is interesting as it is constructed as two layers. The combustion chamber has a heart shape cavity that links the sidevalves to the cylinder. The video shows us removing … Read more
The Enjomor Whippet head and combustion chamber was worth a look, even before running it. This is a side-valve four-stroke and so I was expecting a simple flattish head design. With the head removed the top of the cylinder can be seen. Now you can see a cylinder liner, brass or bronze valve seats and … Read more
A parcel arrived from StirlingKit yesterday and I had to just calmly wait until this afternoon before unpacking the Enjomor Whippet. Must state that this is a Paid Promotion as this is a gift from the StirlingKit team for me to review. Initial impressions are that this is a very well designed, engineered and made … Read more
Stirling Kit have been designing and making model engines for over 10 years, originally inspired from seeing a model engine at a local show. Based in Shenzhen, China they have grown to over 100 people now making over 7000 model engines a year. Nowadays, their engine designs often start with ideas and opinions from their … Read more
We had to have a Stefan Gasparin gallery page as he is for me the number one person in the design and manufacture of CO2 engines. These are engines that use compressed CO2 as their energy source and primarily designed for indoor free-flight model aircraft. Stefan has been making CO2 motors since 1972, but started … Read more
Thought I would take you through bench running a small glow plug engine. This is quite easy to do, you just need to follow some simple steps and you will be ready to go. Bench running is a good way to get used to starting and tuning these small engines. Even model car engines can … Read more
For a while I have been looking around at model engine transistor ignition systems. Wondering what to buy or even just build from a circuit design. The I saw the kit that is available from jerry-howell.com (this is actually: model-engine-plans.com). The ignition systems and parts are actually on their sister site: model-engine-ignition.com. I bought a … Read more
I often work backwards, going from Sketches to Models to CAD. However, it works for me as it allows me to create something in the workshop. Sometimes I think this works really well and I think a good example is the five cylinder rotary engine. The only sketch I have of the engine before making … Read more