Benoist Project - Roberts Engine Reproduction
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- First Published on February 17, 2013
Kermit Weeks and Ken Kellett of Fantasy of Flight travel to Vintage & Auto Rebuilds, Inc in Ohio to meet with owner Steve Littin and check on the progress he's made on the reproduction of the Roberts engine he was commissioned to build for the Benoist project.
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good video
Neat!
I DONT KNOW HOW YOU DO IT KERMIT. IV WORKED WITH MACHINERY ALL MY LIFE. WHAT CAN GO WRONG WILL GO WRONG. ONE THING IS TO FIND THESE SHOPS. ANOUTHER THE IS TO FIND ONE THAT WILL DO WHAT YOU ASK AND MAKE IT WORK. LOT OF YOUR ITEMS ARE ONE OFF.
FASCINATING. LOTS OF LUCK.
P.S. HOW DO YOU SLEEP? 😅
Very well, thank you.
@@KermitWeeks444 HELLO KERMIT. IM THE VERY HAPPY OWNER OF DOUG WARDS 1940 J-3-75 CUB. I THOUGHT ALOT OF DOUG. PROUD TO HAVE HIS CUB. IT WILL BE FINISHED BY SUN & FUN 2020.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THANK YOU, LEE TOENSEND
LAKE WALES
Love the evolution of this whole project. Thanks for sharing!
Love these restoration videos - really appreciate you sharing with us, Kermit. Many, many thanks.
Wonderful!
I have worked as a machinist making custom parts. That crank shaft would have a huge pucker factor.
Oh, yes..! What a primitive piece of work the crankshaft is and so impressive that the originators made it work so well and with quite some skills back then. This a most unusual engine, never heard of it before this video.
What i always think about is, a lot of times what I make stuff it is some variation of something I've seen before, but when those guy made those engines, there was nothing like it before, and they had rudimentary equipment by today's standards to make it with. The casting alone on that lightened crank is a work of art.
For an "engineer" maybe. For a mechanic/machinist not so much.
With the eccentrics on that hallow crank casting, I would worry that it still might have internal stresses from casting that would appear as cracks while cutting the off center journals. It would all have to be counter balanced to cut any of it off center and turning it down to 28 pounds wouldn't leave much structurally to absorb and harmonics. Even if you stress relieved the casting first. I have worked as a machinist.
Bud,it started as a billet not cast.They machined it down to rough size and sent it for heat treating.
Very interesting video !
Excellent work ! To think that all this is being re created with money being spent in a positive way, some lottery winners go through millions with nothing but a headache to show for it, well done Kermit !
As an airplane builder, I like the McMaster Carr parts bags from their aviation department ... ;) Love to see this fly.
Kermit, if you offer me a job, any job at FOF, I'm there like a shot. To work on old aircraft would blow my socks off, better than the 34 years I put into the telecom industry, and better than the cement business I now run. Always have loved aeronautics and building stuff out of nothing. I know IC engines inside out, love woodwork and I can really relate to what I see in your videos. Problem for me is transport....South Africa is a fair way from FOF!
Live the Dream, Kermit.
This engine alone is high art.
I believe 3d printing has evolved how casting molds are made, should be much faster and easier now.
Ted bears a resemblance to the auto racer Hans Stuck. It’ll be interesting to see this engine running with a prop on it! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Looks like Kermit expected more progress being made...
Holy mackerel that is one engine I don't want to be around. The workmanship is beautiful though. Kudos to those guys.
Does it matter that Roberts is not an FAA certified Repair Station?
Somebody started machining that first casting. Started at the ends anyway.
If I could like this twice I would
So, if you look at the dates of all of these Benoist videos, they were published in 2012 and 2013 for a flight that was to happen in 2014. Does anyone know if the flight ever took place and on time?
Hello, I live near that area. I have wanted your other videos and I was wondering where you fly your older airplanes so I can watch?
this is 3 yrs.. old why is it coming up in my feed as new ? what ever happened to this project anyway ?
Look at the description. See PUBLISHED and REPUBLISHED? These are VIDEOS but you can actually learn something by READING.
Fascinating project but horrible camera work
May as well start sending projects like this to China, Kermit. Everything you send to the U.K. or that goes to companies run by Brits or Aussies or Kiwis seems to take years to get from start to 50% done with only 90% to go.
50% done with only 90% to go?
You threw some trigonometry in there didn't you? Lol
You should task them with reverse engineer a Merlin
Hi Kermit,
You are making a lot of good shows about airplanes, engines and other stuff that have my interest.
I believe that you like both appraisals and critic.
As you already have been appraised it is time for some critic:
You know already why we have one mouth and two ears.
You ask questions, but don't always listen to the answer, - that is plain irritating.
You might know the answer, but we don't.
In this video, somebody else than you is doing the videoing, - and keep the focus on faces of you and the guy you are talking to, - rather that focusing on the item you discuss.
Though you are a good looking guy (no, - I'm not a queen), I'd rather look at the parts than you.
Regards from Denmark from a model 1954 :-)
28 lbs? And its iron? You're not going to get an iron crank that long down to 28 freaking pounds. Clearly that's his FIRST CRANKSHAFT. Gonna be damned hard to finish that casting or forging on a standard lathe. You have to have an offset crankshaft grinder to finish cranks. And those "greasers" are going to immediately push all their grease into the bearings. Somebody tried to turn an OILER into a "greaser" and it's not going to work. Oilers have adjustable valves to control the flow of liquid oil. A spring-loaded plunger is going to constantly "pump" whatever material is in it. I don't think these "experts" know their asses from a hole in the ground. Sounds like somebody saw a market ripe for "investment" and some "engineer" got some cash thrown at him to start a business to exploit that market and nobody bothered checking to see if the "engineer" could build a LEGO set before they handed them a big check to build a machine shop business. And they probably found somebody with a degree in "economics" to play bean counter. Two "experts" and no knowledge trying to make and build things. Mechanics make and build things. Not Masters degrees and math. And people with 4-year or more "advanced" degrees don't want to pay good money to people with grease under their fingernails to tell them what has to be done to build shit. Or maybe its people with degrees under their belt don't want to pay people with "de grease" under their fingernails....
Well Steve Litton and his Vintage & Auto Rebuilds in Ohio have been doing this kind of work for decades and are considered by many to be the tops in the vintage engine and auto restoration and rebuild field. They indeed got the shaft done and you can see it and the engine perform in these clips...
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