Simon B. from Hong Kong sent us these pic­tures of his lat­est project, an 18 cylin­der radial engine, built from plans from Lee Hodg­son at Age­less Engines. From Simon:

“I am presently build­ing the Hodg­son 18 cylin­der radial engine and have been involved with this project for about six months.
I am a radial engine fan and even have my own WACO A/C hangared in the UK(picture attached). I hope one day to scale its Jacobs engine down and machine that as well.
I draw the parts in Solid­works and then trans­fer them to Fea­ture­cam. I have mod­i­fied the FADAL 3 and 4 axis posts within Fea­ture­cam to enable the NC pro­grams to run the PCNC1100 Mill. Both crankcase halves, the oil pump, the cam sup­port, front and rear case, impel­lor, radial holes etc have all been done on the mill.”

Here’s some pictures:

Simon made all parts made with Tor­mach PCNC and 13x40 Man­ual Lathe

Simon used the PCNC to make the crankcases, front cas­ing, oil pump, cam sup­port, and fix­tures. Next up is the cylin­der heads

Ann M. thought this was one of the clean­est cus­tomer shops we’ve seen pic­tures of. Bravo!

Simon’s next project is a scaled down model of its Jacobs engine