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Old 03-18-2011 | 09:39 AM
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Hey in the link below there is a little diesel engine below and was wondering if they could tell me where to get it or who made it they look great i tried to contact the guy who posted the video
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http://www.youtube.com/user/nitroair.../0/svZ0sC6PDGA
Old 03-18-2011 | 09:54 AM
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I would venture it is a video of someone who made a Nano .1cc model diesel engine.
Hard to tell from the video for sure though.
Your other thread here about the Nano engine:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10404211/tm.htm

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no i do not think it is a nano because this one here is 0.13cc and i found out it mas made by a man called Les Saxby but any more info or detaials on this engine would be greatly appreciated
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Les Saxby was a well-known engine maker and restorer in the 1950's through the 1970's.  He lived in England.  I don't know what became of him after that, but I have seen a few examples of his work, which is uniformly superb. He made a number of small engines of various types - I hadn't seen this particular one before.
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Les Saxby is featured in some youtube videos by the same user as the original one that i posted but i cannot contact anyone who knows him does anyone know of someone that could build me the nano 0.1cc [i have the plans]
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I don't think this is a Saxby design. The crankcase looks cast and Saxby machined his engines out of barstock. Pity the video is such poor quality!

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yeah the video quality is poor i cant tell howt the crankcase is made from my scren
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<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Well the same YouTube poster gives this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzK2BVoUlk

And this is Les Saxby.

Interestingly the original YouTube clip was entitled
</span></span><h1 id="watch-headline-title"><span style="font-size: smaller;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span title="Baby Model Aircraft Engine from solid" dir="ltr" id="eow-title">"Baby Model Aircraft Engine from solid."</span></span><span title="Baby Model Aircraft Engine from solid" dir="ltr" id="eow-title"> </span></span></h1>
So it could mean that it was made from 'solid' bar stock.

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yeah but i thought that solid were group or company of model engine builder from the uk?
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yeah but i thought that solid were group or company of model engine builder from the uk?
The lack of capitalisation for the word 'solid' either tells me its not mean't to be a name or the original poster got very lazy with their typing.

But who are the group or company called 'Solid?'
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I don't know but the name apears in a few of the users other videos i think.
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The term "solid" is universally used by model engineers like Les Saxby to denote an engine that is made without the use of castings.  I'm sure that this is the context here.
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thanks for that, that would explain why other videos by this user say 'from solid'
thanks for that
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I means that it was made from solid bar-stock.
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ah so they both mean sort of the same thinking so i have come to the conclusion that the engine was made from bar stock

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