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Fool wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:43 am Mr. Machine Guy,

Awesome engine. Thanks for sharing. How did you make that crankshaft. How did you retain the crank pins in the disks? Are they press fit? It seems to me the most difficult thing to build is a robust crankshaft. Good work.

Pressed. There are actually two cranks, 4 main bearings

Tom Booth wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:29 pm It seems there was a typo:
A missing capital A after CAD in your link

This should work:

https://youtu.be/zNnyuCADAas

Thanks Tom! Strange, I copied the link right off the address bar. It had no extra "A"

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