6 Cycle Oddball Engine Part 6 Cylinder Head

by Joseph Higgins

[@daclotype]

good times

[@nigesbasementworkshop9541]

I always learn something from your videos Joe

[@JoesModelEngines]

@@nigesbasementworkshop9541 Hi Nigel, thank you for being a continuous consumer of my videos. I hope 🤞 you continue to enjoy and get something useful from them. Joe

[@StuartsShed]

Great approach. I like how you didn’t just chop off all the fins on the one side, but rather made a slot for the mating part. Looks much, much neater.

[@JoesModelEngines]

@@StuartsShed Hi Stuart, Thank you for your comment, Your feedback is greatly appreciated. I just try to make little improvements that make the end result more pleasing to the eye. Joe

[@RustyInventions-wz6ir]

Very nice work sir. Beautiful engine. Coming along nicely.

[@JoesModelEngines]

@@RustyInventions-wz6ir Thank you Rusty, You’re encouragement is much appreciated. Joe

[@WayneCook306]

Looking good so far Joseph well done, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@JoesModelEngines]

@@WayneCook306 Hi Wayne, Thank you for all the thumbs up, that kind of encouragement definitely helps. Joe

[@taranson3057]

You make these parts appear to be so easy to make. I am considering giving this build a go. I am not a trained machinist, I make things just for fun, and if I am careful I am usually successful at what I'm trying to achieve. If I can get a set of these plans I just might give this project a try. I have plenty of raw materials to work with. I guess time will tell.

[@JoesModelEngines]

@@taranson3057 Hi , the book that the plans are in is available from Home Shop Machinist magazine. Good luck with your project. joe

[@taranson3057]

@@JoesModelEnginesI actually found the plans in a book by Phillip Duclose, Shop Wisdom or something like that, now I can follow along.

[@JoesModelEngines]

@@taranson3057 I’m sorry I guess I forgot to tell you , at the beginning of video #1 I showed the book. I also think that it is only place that you can get the plans. I’m glad you have them now. Keep making things for fun, I do the same. Joe

[@taranson3057]

@@JoesModelEngines no need to apologize, at my age I tend to forget things. I get so caught up in watching a video of an engine build that I go looking through my scrap bins to see if I have the materials to build the same engine. In this case, I do have the materials. Then I had to figure out where I heard the name Philip Duclose and after a while, it dawned on me that I have one of his books. After a bit of research, I learned that the plans were made available in a few editions of the Home Machinist magazine that were issued back in the 1990s. Digital Home Machinist magazine only goes back to I think 2004 or 2006. They may have hard copies of the magazines from the 1990s but I never contacted customer service to find out. Some back issues of the magazine are available whether they have the issues that cover this engine I don't know. The back issues are kind of spendy at $10 plus each. There is a digital copy of “the shop wisdom of philip duclos” on Scribd.com. Thats all the info I have for now. Time to get back to reading about this build.