Around 1900 there were all sorts of projects in magazines on building
copies of small, new-fangled gasoline engines.

In fact, one story I read claimed Henry Ford's engine for his first,
homemade car came from such a project article in a magazine. It used
pipes and pipe fittings for various major engine parts.

BTW, the Crosley engine was designed by a guy named Taylor, and required
very specific processing before and during brazing, and Crosley would
not take time nor money to do it right, and that is why they failed, and
he went to cast blocks.

The Wrights used a lot of weldments and stock in their first few
engines.

nanotech1 wrote:

i was looking at some web site about the crosley engine
notice that cylinder and head section was made of brazed sheet
metal but not the crankcase and i was wondering if it is possible to
build an engine about the size of a 8 hp Brigg and straton
out of steel or aluminium sheet metal ( for cylinder block and
crankcase) and tubing( steel tubing for cylinder sleeve cyl,head ports)
yet some parts still be made in billet it would be water cooled and
overhead valve or flathead it would be a nice project with the right
machine tool ( milling , metal lathe ,ect) all sheet metal arc welded
then machined i know that GM EMD diesel locomotive engines are done this
way and some european diesel truck engine like MATRA ( there V12 engine
block is made out of steel sheet metal) does some knows if it as been
done for a project

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Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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