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Elmer’s ‘Standby’ #19 part three

On to the last lap with this Elmer variation. The cranks were machined out of stainless using plenty of cutting oil. I picked up a litre bottle of cutting oil from Machine Mart and as I work mainly in...

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Elmer’s ‘Standby’ #19 part two

The next stage was to make the cranks and for these I chose stainless steel. I have never had much success with mild steel but find I can achieve a reasonable finish with free cutting stainless. The...

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Elmer’s ‘Standby’ #19

After a 3 month haul making my Beam engine I wanted something less demanding and finally chose Elmers #19 Standby engine which is an interesting variation on the ‘wobbler’ engine in that the cylinder...

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