My Paddleducks Book

[BogstandardParticipant @bogstandard]

An easily explained way to make an engine

[BogstandardParticipant @bogstandard]

A few years ago, I did an engine build on the Paddleducks website.

 

It was designed, written and catalogued as it progressed, no plans,
just sketches and making things to fit as it went along. All written
and described in laymans terms, for an audience of people with very
little machining skills.

 

It is a fairly large engine for it”s bore and stroke, and wasn”t
really designed to go into anything, but by the many builds that have
taken place since of this engine, it has shown that even a relative
beginner can fabricate this engine, and end up with a nice working and
complicated looking display model, or you could even put it to work.

 

There are still a few builds in progress on model engineering
sites, namely Madmodders and Home Model Engine Machinist, and has become
a rather popular engine to make for say a second or third build, there
is even one chappie who is building five of them off site, at the same
time, and is in regular contact with me about it. I think he is looking
at maybe Christmas presents.

 

Luckily a gent at the time took the whole 2 month+ post and edited
it completely, and turned it into a ”book”, resulting in a 22MB PDF
file. So it should download fairly quickly.

 

I have had this for free download on a few sites, some no longer in
existence, but now comes the crux of the matter. It will very soon no
longer be available for download from Rapidshare, as I am letting that
account lapse, but the good news is that it is now available on my new
Hotfile server. During the last year, it has had nearly 1000 downloads,
and a few thousand before that.

 

I make nothing from this, and I only do it for the love of trying
to keep this hobby alive and interesting to new people to this art form,
who could very easily be put off by too much technical jargon.

 

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Main book as a plain RAR file, you unpack yourself.

Main book as a self extracting file.
This does it all for you, just download and run the program, it will
extract everything for you into the same directory as the exe file is
in.

Plans dfx files, not done by me so take if you want them, I can”t guarantee them. This is again a self extracting file, so just run it.

 

Don”t worry if you don”t have a Hotfile account, if you wait a
few seconds, you can download it as a free server. As a suggestion,
download the self extracting one, it saves a lot of effort, and is
guaranteed by me to be totally virus and other nasties free.

 

Just enjoy it for what it is, not only may your learn a few
techniques and build an engine, you might also enjoy the sometime
humourous ways it was written.

 

 

Bogs

[BogstandardParticipant @bogstandard]

Seeing as there have been no complaints, and the download total is growing at an alarming rate, I suppose everything is OK now.

 

Bogs

[AndyBParticipant @andyb47186]

Hi Bogs,

 

Thank you very much for your generosity…again.

 

I can’t access the site so I guess with everyone downloading like mad, it has exceeded its bandwith for the moment.

 

I will try later.

 

Andy

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Thanks Bogs,

 

Neil

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