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Cylinder Heads - Part 3 26/12/14

Cylinder Heads – Part 3 26/12/14

December 26, 2014
Alex du Pré
Engine Build Blog

Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Cylinder Heads – Part 3 Work on the cylinder heads has continued over the last couple of months.  Wow, there…

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Miscellaneous milling tooling

Miscellaneous milling tooling

August 13, 2014
Alex du Pré
Tooling

Overview Any milling machine needs a comprehensive set of milling clamps, dogs, jacks and so on to enable work to be set up quickly and…

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Cylinder Heads - 12/08/14

Cylinder Heads – 12/08/14

August 12, 2014
Alex du Pré
Engine Build Blog

Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Cylinder Heads The blanks for the cylinder heads were all cut from the bar stock and machined square and…

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Mk. II 1/5 Scale R/C car

Mk. II 1/5 Scale R/C car

April 26, 2014
Alex du Pré
Large Scale R/C Cars

Overview The Mk. II car is my latest car design.  It will be a significant improvement over the Mk. I and draws together all the…

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My Books

My Books

April 26, 2014
Alex du Pré
Books and ebooks

Dividing – Tools and Techniques.  Crowood Metalworking Guides. My first book, titled as above, has been commissioned by Crowood Press and is now on sale!…

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Machining the Cylinders - Part 2 - 05/01/14

Machining the Cylinders – Part 2 – 05/01/14

January 12, 2014
Alex du Pré
Engine Build Blog

Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Despite a slight slowing down of work over the Christmas period, I have still managed to do a bit…

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Magazine Articles Index

Magazine Articles Index

October 30, 2013
Alex du Pré
Articles

I have had a number of articles published in Model Engineer (ME) and Model Engineers’ Workshop (MEW) magazines.  The list of published articles is here….

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Machining the crankcases 30/10/13

Machining the crankcases 30/10/13

October 30, 2013
Alex du Pré
Engine Build Blog

Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines The months since the last update have been spent machining the crankcases for all five engines.  This has taken…

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Using the Arduino in Model Engineering

Using the Arduino in Model Engineering

July 7, 2013
Alex du Pré
Arduino

The tools and equipment available to the model engineer are rapidly evolving, with traditional approaches being augmented by CAD, CAM, CNC, laser cutting, 3D printing…

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Tool Grinding Rest

Tool Grinding Rest

June 14, 2013
Alex du Pré
Tooling

Overview This tool grinding rest is the ‘complex’ design by Harold Hall.  I made it exactly to the instructions in the Workshop Practice Series book…

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