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Miniature Internal Combustion Engines | 
 enlarge | Author: Malcolm Stride
Publisher: Crowood Press
Category: Book
List Price: $53.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 304531
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1861269218
Dewey Decimal Number: 620
EAN: 9781861269218
ASIN: 1861269218
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
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Product Description
Model engineers have been making models of internal combustion engines since the invention of the real thing, but it has always been surrounded by a mystique, and a perceived difficulty that has put many people off.
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 What a ripper May 2, 2008
Miniature Internal Combustion Engines is as good as I expected. The author combines basic information about ICE engines that would make the book useful for a newcomer (maybe a young adult with an interest in engines) with clear descriptions and instructions for constructing them. That is, it is useful for someone who is a fair way down the track in model engineering. It assumes a reasonable knowledge of workshop practice, but that's fair enough for its target market. It deals with an old fashioned hobby, but doesn't ignore the possubility of using new technology (CAD design and CNC milling). Altogether a great little book that I have found hard to put down.
 The fundamental knowledge you needed for MICE December 30, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book covers most (if not all) of the MICE you will come across if you are trying to make one in home workshop.
Pros:
1) It will give you the knowledge you will needed as a model engineer not a engineer. i.e. it won't bore you and you don't have to come across any thermal dynamic theory / calculation.
2) It states which component is critical, what material is preferred and, a briefing on the procedure in making them if you don't have a CNC.
3) Some options / suggestions on `hard to machine' parts, that help you to decide whether to machine it from single piece of stock metal or using build-up technique.
4) Easy to understand, no (minimum) difficult technical terms.
Cons:
(Not really Cons, but may be out of your expectation)
1) No drawing provided, even the one designed by the author. But it is not hard to search Google.
2) That means, the book is not a "from start to finish" approach. You will be on your own for your first attempt in building one.
3) No illustration on the processes in making the critical components, the author uses only `a series of' description. It may hard to figure out what is happening if you do not have that component on hand.
Bottom line:
A must have if you want to build a MICE using your mini-lathe & mill, there isn't much option. After all, it save you a lot of time browsing through newsgroups.
Exactly the book I wanted for model engines November 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have many books on Internal Combustion engines and various other heat engines. I've built a few model sized engines and was surprised by how much easier it was than I thought it would be. After all, the big engine makers have huge teams of designers, engineers, machinists and metallurgists. It had to be hard or at least a very lengthy process or so I and many others thought.
This book does exactly what I and (I know) many of my colleagues needed. It dispels the mythology, it provides plenty of examples, tells you what tools & materials can be used and how to substitute if you don't have a particular thing. I pre-ordered and waited impatiently for it to come. I am so pleased with it.
Yes, there have been a couple of publishing problems which the publishers acknowledge but they do not harm the clear integrity and concise descriptions provided by the author. It is my prediction that if you have not built or designed an Internal Combustion engine, you will rush out and do both once you have this book.
Buy other books by all means, because you will need them for complex or larger engines, however even those are dealt with here.
My hope is that model engine designers & constructors, with the help of this book, readily available computers and model sized machining equipment will produce many new variations on the worlds existing designs.
Go, buy it, add to your collection and start a design now!!! This book will convince you that you can do it and show you how easy it really is.
Like all books on construction subjects, you wish there were even more examples and more details and you wish you could touch the example models. This is a long awaited book. I hope there will be a sequel and very soon.
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