Diesel heads! turn the lathe!

Wow. Those look good. I have wanted a small hobby lathe for a while now to do things like this, but even if I did get one, I would not know the first thing about using it!

Very Nice work , does Exmodelengines not ship to Mexico ??  http://www.exmodelengines.com/ My Bad there in CA .

getback wrote:Very Nice work , does Exmodelengines not ship to Mexico ??  http://www.exmodelengines.com/   My Bad there in CA .

We ship worldwide, including Mexico. We are located in Connecticut, USA

What is your diesel fuel mix and how difficult is it to obtain ether in Mexico?

Hi Guys!

well, doing those heads are not hard. i get my lathe 2 years ago, and i didn´t know any about. but there are a lot of tutorials on youtube. maybe the hardest part to do is the thread.

those heads (engines) runs almost with any mix you already have. my first tries were with british mix, now i´m using 30 ehter, 20 castor oil and 50% diesel car pumb, or parafin or petrol.

Ether can be found on Pharmacies. hard to find the one who sells. I have the biggest drugstore in the city just 2 block from my work, BUT, being a big drugstore, i need to register some papers, explaining what is the use for ether, my id, and that stuff...

all my heads had been tested on the bench... the final test will be made next sunday on a plane.

EXModelEngines wrote:

getback wrote:Very Nice work , does Exmodelengines not ship to Mexico ??  http://www.exmodelengines.com/   My Bad there in CA .

We ship worldwide, including Mexico. We are located in Connecticut, USA

Thanks! i know! but you don´t sell diesel heads...... i already buy some stuff last weekend, but sent to my cousing in Denver as she will come to Mexico next saturday!

Rodrigo

On your video, I'd guess that your Diesel Bee is swinging that 7-4 prop at maybe 8K, which is really less than what I've see an unconverted Baby Bee do. HOWEVER, I will note that CDMX is at 2,250 meters (7,500 ft.) above sea level. It would be interesting to see some early morning tests done in, say, Veracruz.

Also, if you can find a cast aluminum Cox exhaust collector ring/pipe (which can also be fitted with a synthetic rubber hose extension), that might be very useful for grease control. I am told by a diesel friend that on real Euro small diesels these devices do not cause a discernible decrease in power output.

https://www.google.es/search?q=Cox+.049+exhaust+collector&rlz=1T4VSNH_enUS777US777&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=qWtSpeT35dT77M%253A%252CN5sXpkYATBsrJM%252C_&usg=__7yzFyGpU4YQ1JFlPN0KXWf78_5A%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje5eqfqp7bAhXBu1MKHQ_mAbIQ9QEIMDAB#imgrc=qWtSpeT35dT77M:

Sorry about the Mexico shipping. We used to ship there but stopped doing so about a year ago as at least 50% of the packages never arrived and, of the ones that did, most of them took at least two months. In either case we ended up with disappointed and angry customers and we simply cannot afford the losses. This is the case for 5 or 6 other countries as well.

Now having said that, we do ship to Mexico and those other countries if the customer is willing to pay for tracking, which is unfortunately cost-prohibitive

That lanky yellow bird is beautiful !!!