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Penny Engine- micro air powered engine! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Step 4: Crankshaft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1. A penny for the crankshaft and flywheel.
2. Small screw. Just need one!
3. Scrap piece of aluminum sheet metal.
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1. Pin vise or jewelers drill.
2. Dividers.
3. Assorted TEENSY drill bits.
4. Tap for screw if needed, and allen wrench also for screw.
5. Jewelers saw for cutting the tubing.
6. Scribe or scratch awl for marking cuts and dimpling metal for drilling.
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1. Penny flywheel.
2. Crank spacers- one for the crank and one for the crank pin.
3. Crank.
4. Crank pin.
5. Cylinder.
6. Piston.
7. Cylinder pivot spacer.
8. Pivot screw and spring.
9. Valve plate.
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Step 4: Crankshaft.
Start with the crank. Take your time and mark the center of the penny. Very carefully drill as straight a hole as possible that matches the size of the rod / tubing you are
going to use for the crank. I used 1/16" aluminum tubing, so my hole was 1/16".
Decide how long you want your stroke to be, and using the dividers, mark half of that distance from the crank hole. Drill another hole for the crank pin.
Cut a short length of tubing. Pinch one end of it and push it through the center crank hole. Add a drop of crazy glue and tap it in as far as you can. The pinched end will
hopefully be a very tight fit, and the glue will hold it all together without any play.
Cut another short length of tubing and repeat the process for the crank pin hole, but it should stick out the other direction.
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1. Both holes drilled. One end of rod flattened to make a tight fit, still needs to be
tapped in with the hammer and glued.
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1. Assembled crankshaft.
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1. Tubing for the cylinder.
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1. Crimped tightly so air wont leak out!
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1. Pivot hole drilled big enough for the screw to fit through, and the pressure hole
drilled into the cylinder.
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1. Piston should have at MINIMUM 1/4 of its length in the cylinder when at the
farthest out position (bottom dead center).
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1. Mark pivot point.
2. Arc scribed from pivot point, same distance as from center of pivot hole to
pressure hole on cylinder.
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1. Plate bent.
2. Center hole for crank marked. Estimated by measuring distance from center of
crank to crank pin, and using the 1/4 of piston in cylinder rule.
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1. Marking line for valve plate holes- line up pivot hole with crank pin when it is
all the way to either side. Mark, then drill!
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1. Other side.
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1. One side drilled larger for pressure tube to be installed later- note that IT
DOES NOT GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!
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1. Order of assmebly- screw through spring, cylinder, and spacer, into valve
plate. HOLE MUST GO AGAINST VALVE PLATE!!!
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1. Crank spacer
2. Piston spacer.
3. Piston should be parallel with valve plate.
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1. This area MUST BE AS FLAT / PARALLEL AS POSSIBLE to insure a good
seal...
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1. Potential bind point- crank pushes piston sideways and it jams in the cylinder.
2. Potential bind point- piston is too tall / long, and it hits the top of the cylinder on
the up stroke.
3. Potential bind point- if the crank pin is crooked, as the flywheel spins it will try
to twist the piston causing it to bind.
4. Potential bind point- if the spring is too tight, it will pinch the cylinder against
the valve plate and / or pull the piston off of the crank pin. Too loose, and there
won't be a good seal for the air pressure.
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1. Pressure tube, which was attached to an air gun on my compressor.
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