Small Diesel? Air Sled

danegreen

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I picked up a small hobby lathe and mill a while back and needed to break them in. This is a project I put together from some leftover RC stuff. No spark plugs so I guess that makes it a diesel. It has 0.4cc engine and is way over powered. It would jump up to about 40mph in a hurry. It flew, almost literally. I had trouble getting it out of a turn. More R&D on the control surfaces.
 

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AWESOME!!!

what mill/lathe do you have? i am looking into getting one but i dont know which to get, nobody around here has any feedback with any of them.
 

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id like the hear more about the lathe too.

what parts on that did you mill ?

maybe you could flip those mean lookin teeth
so that you would get more down force instead of lift.
 

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mini-lathe

I forgot to mention that this was designed to run in the snow. The teeth are patterned after one of my favorite WWII fighters, the P40 Warhawk.

I picked up my mini-lathe and mini-mill through Homier. They have a travelling tent sale that goes through here once a year or so. They also have a website. Most of the "mini" series machines that are available are manufactured by the same company, in China, but sold through various outlets; Homier, Grizzly, Micro Mark. I went with Homier because they were about $100 cheaper for each than anyone else. The machines are "assembled" when you get them. You need to break down the major components, clean, re-assemble, then adjust gibs etc... to get the most out of them. you can easily hold 0.001"-0.002" with these machines. Some have even been retrofitted with CNC.

The parts that I milled for the sled were the Lexan base, front end, and motor mounts. There is a "velocity stack" that I turned from some aluminum stock. Ive also done bushings for the bogie wheels on my brother's dryer, bore holes larger than 1/2", shear pins for the snowblower, and other stuff like that.

Here are some links for the mini series machine tools.

mini-lathe.com home page
Homier Distributing Company, Inc.
LittleMachineShop.com - tooling, parts, and accessories for bench top machinists
Micro-Mark: The Small Tool Specialists | Photo Gallery
Model Engineering
 

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What fuel / oil mixture you running in that? Something already brewed or a "special" mix?
 

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The parts that I milled for the sled were the Lexan base, front end, and motor mounts. There is a "velocity stack" that I turned from some aluminum stock. Ive also done bushings for the bogie wheels on my brother's dryer, bore holes larger than 1/2", shear pins for the snowblower, and other stuff like that.

COOL ! :clap:
 

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