Thread: V12 Model motor,RC Engine

Hi everybody,

by looking round the net I found your thread and I have to say, that the engine in the video is only a copy of the original engine which I have designed and built in the year 1996.

For further information (even to other engines) please visit my homepage Martin Ohrndorf Modellbau - Exklusive 4-Takt-Motoren für den Selbstbau or see the V12 running at youtube [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5JaweAJbw"]YouTube- V 12 Modellmotor RC Engine Eigenkonstruktion ![/ame]

I have a friend, a retired taxation inspector, who started off with a TAFE course in metal machining and making small steam engines from hobby shop kits. He moved onwards and upwards to a triple expansion engine for a 24 foot launch, then built the boat to take it.

His first model internal combustion engine was an 8" diameter model of a WW1 Bentley Rotary aircraft engine which runs very well. This was made from a casting kit bought at a modeller's exhibition in London. He is just about finished a model RR Merlin, also from a kit, but which required considerable jigs, fixtures and tooling to be made from scratch. This would have been quite an task even for a tradesman. Example- a fixture to hold and index the camshafts whist grinding.

He plans to make from drawings, not a kit, a running scale model of an Indianapolis Offenhauser. Given his progression with the steam engines, I would not be surprised in a few years to hear of an Indy roadster sighted growling around the streets of Coorparoo in the dead of night.