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Ed Huntress wrote:

"Don Stauffer" wrote in message
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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.

A basic problem with the Crosley was that the copper brazing (pure copper)
on the steel engine parts created galvanic corrosion. When GM revived the
idea in the late '70s, they pointed out that today's antifreeze solves the
problem.

Ed Huntress
look at that web page

http://www.ggw.org/~cac/Mighty_Tin.html

the famous crosley

by the way i should have point out of thin metal plate not sheet metal

it would be fun to see a small engine cyl block for a 1 cyl 8hp made of
1/8 inch or 3/16 inch plate all welded together

like i said in my subject question diesel engine ( series 567,645,710
from V6 to V20 cyl configuration) in EMD GM locomotive have all there
cyl block are made out of steel plate assembled than welded together

i have a pocket maintenance book on the 567 and there is an illustration
of cyl block where you can really see the welded seams clear

PS: the emd series number = cu/in displacement per cyl


IIRC Franklin did this as well on their large diesels, especially the
ones that used both ends of the same cylinder. (Two crankshafts with
pistons compressing towards each other.)

Later,
Joe