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Never mind making a camera , <a href="http://modelengineeringwebsite.com/Napier_Dagger2.html" target="_blank">This</a> is what you call complicated :blink:


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Screwy wrote: Never mind making a camera , <a href="http://modelengineeringwebsite.com/Napier_Dagger2.html" target="_blank">This</a> is what you call complicated :blink:
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Is that link right? I'm being taken to an engine. :unsure:
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Claw wrote: Is that link right? I'm being taken to an engine. :unsure:
It's a 1/3rd scale model of the Napier Dagger aero engine , And no CNC involved :o Though I do wonder if the original link is of the full size engine ? anyway I have attached a pic of what looks like the actual model .

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That truly is a thing of beauty :)
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I'm not an aircraft expert, so did some research. One thing that struck me was this design feature; "since the cylinders are opposed, the motion in one is balanced by the opposite motion in the one on the opposite side, leading to very smooth running."

To accomplish something like that is fascinating in something so intricate yet so prodigious. Although there were problems with its cooling, I wonder if this was more of a design issue (not flaw) around the aircraft engine housing itself.

There aren't many people like that around today... even when you open a Big Mac carton these days you have to do some reconstruction. Where's that eye for detail gone, eh?
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