Building the Titan .60 Glow Plug Engine #1 

Really nice job. What an honour it will be to have something in the craftsmanship museum.

Excellent! I’m embarrassed to be one of the people who turned down this project. I really wanted to do it, but my project backlog is already large enough to kill a small bear if it topples. So glad it found a good home! Roger is a great guy (I met him at the Bash as well) and I love how you’re tackling the project. I’m learning a lot.

I built one years ago. It runs just fine. Ran it for the first time on 9/11, 2001. That is what I was doing when the first plane hit the Trade Center tower!

I convinced a woodshop student of mine to machine an engine in his other class. Everything from scratch. He wanting something more challenging and interesting. The teacher knew nothing about model engines (he was a bit of an ass). I supplied the drawings. He did a very good job. When I tried to start it we could not. We tried and tried. After an hour he left. Later I tried again. Hit it with the starter and wham - it ran like a top. I had plugged my starter in backwards and the engine was running backwards! Then it hit me. I took it apart and sure enough the crank Venturi was off by 90 degrees counter clockwise. The timing was off. He was a terrific kid.

Well I am so glad to see this project! I’ve tinkered with those models since the sixties .

Hi Mark, The hole in the crankpin is to promote air fuel flow through the crank bushing to lubricate the thrust face and the bushing, Positive crankcase pressure will eventually come out behind the prop driving “washer” An excellent job so far, looking forward to the next episode. Regards

I know all about the typical RC 2 cycle nitro fueled engines and really like this series. Pop up the next video. I can't wait...

Back in the early 90's I had a Super Tiger 60 on a Ugly Stick, it was a monster of a power house. It's nice to see them still getting made.

Hello Mark, I built this engine from the kit maybe 18 years ago. It challenged me in the machine shop. Lots of different techniques. I have never started it. I will be waiting for the finale when you start it up. Good luck. Paul

I think you struck RU-vid gold with this one.

Very nice….. definitely fun times. Mr Taylor - thank you for your generous gift to Mark so we can all enjoy the build 😁 👍👍👍👍

Mark, as a kid growing up in the states, I built many U-Control (60 ft or 18.29 meter) control line model airplanes. I had a McCoy .60 Red Head engine.that powered many of my creations. I was the envy of my neighborhood. I built and flew some wild models. I concentrated on speed and aerobatics. I had ZERO appreciation of the engineering detail that goes into making your engine. I am so impressed with this project. I look forward to the day it runs.

Good morning Mark. What an awesome kit and project. What a shame no one has ever finished it. I saw the picture you place on Instagram yesterday. Beautiful work Preso. Cheers Aaron. PS: I popped into school yesterday to see my teacher aide. He had some old books a retired sheetmetal teacher gave him. Govt issued curriculum from the 60’s. All hand drawn, bloody amazing.

Hi Mark. I'm not in the least surprised that the gentleman chose you to send this project to because you would have been my first choice too. You did a great job and I can't wait to see the complete build.

Outstanding video. I am a current control line builder and flyer. Your childhood roots building and flying are common to so many of us. There is still a community of modelers that build and fly control line models. You are clearly one of us!! Good on you

I may be watching this backwards but I am sure enjoying it. I worked for 15 years as a machinist making ships engines and pipe line compressors. That and time as a naval machinist in the Canadian Navy. Retired now and pouring silver to maintain my sanity I have no real machine shop tools aside from a lot of well cared for files, a bench top drill press and various hand drills and a small lathe (a 1950 3 speed, belt drive) with a bunch of tooling that gets me by for most things. This looks like a fun build. Good to see you after a good long time eh.

I was looking at your #2 video, but I kept wanting to come back to this for a comment, My Dad taught Electronics Engineering at Long Beach College, here in California, after he came back from Korean war. He was Electronics Engineer there. He studied at Cornell in Ithaca, New York and had a PHd in Electronic Engineering and a teaching degree. And even better....when I was in grade 1-6 school, I walked right past the original COX manufacturing plant, twice a day...it was a pretty old grimy place, maybe 50 X 60 foot building, but it was a start for them! And yes, every kid I knew had a COX .049...! I think they cost about $3...a couple months allowance for me. For those with less money, there was the .020.....

Awesome Mark, thanks for taking us along! :-)

I'm really glad I happened upon your youtube. I'm looking forward to this series. Thanks.

I'm so happy you put your hand up.

Indeed, it’ll be fun for sure. Looking forward to the following episodes!

That engine design is from the 1940's-1950's. By the 1960's most model aircraft engines had the exhaust port on the right side. That way the crankshaft rotation would assist in sweeping the air/fuel charge up into the bypass and into the cylinder. You properly identified the glo-plug tap as 1/4"-32, a little finer than what might be mistaken as the more common 1/4"-28. Many heads have been ruined when modelers tried to clean up the threads with the wrong tap. The counterbalance and cutaways on the crankshaft have to not only balance the crank pin, but the mass of the lower end of the connecting rod, just as on locomotives, as well as the reciprocating weight of the upper end of the rod and piston. And to think they used to figure that out with a slide rule! This will be a fun project to watch.

I just started watching the Titan episode it's very interesting. My grandfather (Lud Kading) was a partner of K&B where he made engines for the hobbiests

Wow! Thank's for a trip down memory lane! Cox 0.49!! Will definitely be following this one.

Well done! Looking forward to watching the next instalment :)

Waited 50 years to see a talented man build one of these.....Thank you for sharing this great project👍👌😀

This should be interesting. Looking forward to it.

Outstanding craftsmanship!

Nice job. Looks good. And yes, ALWAYS check tailstock alignment when turning between centres.

Very impressive results Mark. Looking good.

Beautiful piece of kit glad you got it glad we get to see you build it thanks 😊

Beautiful work, I will be following this project. Good luck

Great project. Looking forward to watching the project come together

Will be throughly enjoying this engine build. Thanks for the look.

Best of luck Mark, have my fingers crossed but I'm sure you'll be fine. Looking forward to seeing her run.

Great start to the series.

Excellent work Mark. Threading like a Boss!

my kind of series... love to see take its shape...

This is going to be a great project to follow. Hurry now! Get busy and share part two 😎. I will be glued to this project until it’s final completion. Someone needs to scratch build an airplane that is large enough for this engine, that would be the proper way to display the engine. Just my two cents.

Oh the look of relish in your eyes at the prospect of this new project. Wonderful.

Looking fantastic, critical part left to do on the crank is the timing of the port on the side of the shaft, location and width determine the intake cycle.

Finally an actually interesting up and coming creator, cheers!

Guess you just gained a subscriber. Like many others, old control line guy. Fascinating.

Stunning to follow along this ride.

Hello Mark, A very nice project to work on and the icing on the cake is having the completed engine in the museum. See you next time Take care Paul,,

Very cool project Mark. I'm going to have to make your die holder, nice design.

So satisfying to watch a bar of steel being turned into a object of such beauty. Thank you for such a brilliant start to what will be another informative, educational, inspirational and entertaining series. 👌👏👏👍😀

Great lathe work there Mark. Thanks for the video.

Good stuff this one! I recall the days with a battery connected to the glowplug trying to get the most out of my P-51 and P-40 tethered planes. Nothing like getting good and dizzy with a engine on the end. Im into building quadcopters from scratch level components and flying FPV these days. But at almost 60 I find the government trying to tell me how I can and cannot play with my toys!

Im enjoying this no end, Ive never seen a crack shaft construction from scratch before. Thank you

Thank you for video. Will be an interesting build series. Cheers.

Wow that's going to be quite a cool thing.

Going to be an excellent build series. Cheers Kevin

Looks good that Mark 👍 I've only made one model IC engine; a Boll Aero diesel. I found the conrod to be the most challenging part so I will be paying particular attention to how you tackle it.

I too am going to love this project. I have many glow plug and diesel model engines. And I have made many parts for them, but never a crankshaft. So this was fantastic to see, Well done mate.

Great planning makes great parts. You make it all look so simple. Your tools and drill bits are all very sharp. Nice chips. There is so much you don't say. Don't need to. Artfully done.

I am really looking forward to the rest of this series. my first and only RC aircraft was a model Cessna 182 with a Cox .049 black widow. you could fly it about 5 minutes with its very small fuel tank. always wanted to get in to bigger RC planes but it was cost prohibitive for a kid of 14. then I discovered cars and even bigger engines, and machine work. I love seeing old school machine work. the way I learned in High school, on an old South Bend lathe and Bridgeport mill. the school shop only had one lathe with a DRO and one mill with a DRO. they upgraded one of the mills to a CNC the year after I graduated. I also worked after school for the shop teacher as an apprentice teaching adults the basics of machining, mainly as a gopher and answering simple questions and in his personal shop rebuilding hydraulic cylinders, basic welding, and rebuilding automotive engines and other odd jobs.

Wow, I’ve had the Home Shop Machinist book “Projects Seven” for years, it contains this…..looking forward to seeing this!

No wonder everyone else turned down the opportunity, it looks complicated with plenty of chances of messing up hours of work. Well done for taking up the challenge.

Nice work! Thanks for not spending an entire video reading the instructions. That op where you were clearing material around the crankpin looked tricky. I think this will be a great project, not too big but as you say more precise than a steam engine. Also a nice move to offer to give it back for the museum :)

Hi Mark', I had a .049 Cox powered stingline Stuka back in 1966, crashed it into the cricket pitch on a Perth oval.

Hi Mark. I'm John from Florida in the US. Google thought I would be interested in your' channel. I guess because I occasionally check out machining videos. I am a retired Tool and Die and porotype tool maker. At the end of WW2 my father came home from the Army with a passion for U control model airplanes. Him and I flew almost every Sunday at a local Base Ball park (you can't do that any more) along with about four or five other enthusiasts. I had an Ohlson 60 engine much like the one you are building. At first we needed ignition. Then they invented the Glow Plug. That was a big improvement over Ignition. It did away with Battery, spark plug, Points, Condensers and ignition timing. I used to take the remanences of my fathers crashed planes and build one of my own design. We couldn't afford to supply two pilots with airplane kits. I finally acquired a pilots license in 1958. I ended up building the full sized airplane in my thumb nail picture for my flying pleasure. All that boils down to I always wanted to build an engine like you are doing when I was working in the shop. Sadly I did not. I still have a few of the old engines stashed away somewhere and a 36 inch WS Corsair hanging on my living room wall. Sorry this is so long. Thought you would find it interesting. John

Roger is a good guy, met him a couple times.

Awaiting part 2.

Very cool project... I was unaware that somebody was making machinist kits for those vintage engines. I say vintage because those were quite old and used on free flight models and line control. I had a few of them 35 years ago. Reason why they didn't go on R/C is because they have no throttle control. They just run wide open until the fuel tank runs dry.

As Usual Mark, great work, great skills and a great video from the master. cheers T

Good Show Mate: as always. 50+ years ago, I wanted to do this. I didn't have the equipment at the time. I did fly Radio Control airplanes so this would have been in keeping with that. Now I have the machines, but it's 50+ years later. I have no want to...so I'm glad you are doing this so I don't have to. Lot's of fiddly stuff. I don't do fiddly stuff as well as I used to. I'm glad you do fiddly stuff well. Good luck. I'll watch on the side.

You're a lucky man. At high school I never had a turn on the metal lathe. It could only be one student per week and the teacher had a few favourites so I missed out. Have always regretted it as I would love to turn something.. anything. I often think I should go back and demand my turn, even though I am now 73. I had a magic engine - an Enya 29 3B Super Typhoon. It out performed Ron De'Chastel's imported engine in the QLD 5cc team race championship.

WOW!!!! BOTH OF YOU, ARE GENTLEMEN, AND SCHOLARS!!! BRAVO!!! TO YOU!!! GREAT WORK, GREAT MISSION, GREAT SUCCESS!!!

Be nice to see it fly!

Superb video content and presentation

You said it, LIKE A BOSS !!

This is going to be very interesting. For me (being a aeromodeller many years ago - still have a couple of motors ,OS, Merco, Rossi - and small time hobby machinist I will follow with interest. I think this I an advanced machining project. Thankyou for sharing. ( I like your technique for information sharing)

My father used to be big into RC airplanes and helicopters and have a bunch of nitro engines lying around. They're a lot of fun to play with. The neatest one is a rotary engine

Looks pretty cool. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Beautiful work Mark, like many other subscribers I'm really looking forward to how this comes together and whether you can do what so many haven't been able to achieve, make it run. What an honor it would be to have a Hand Made piece made by yourself in the Joe Martin Museum, no pressure though. Cam

George submitted a full set of plans in the "Home Shop Machinist" ( I forget the year and month, but can dig around for them) for this engine to be built from scratch..I built on and it ran like a top. The only change I made was I used a commercial carburetor with a spool throttle Instead of his venture carb. I have a couple hours run time on it on the bench so far.

I enjoyed following along with you. You're a good lathe hand. I subbed.

Superb Job !! You certainly have an amazing workshop, I've found that I still have something to learn about 2 stroke glow engines from watching your series :-)) really enjoy your videos, keep them coming. Cheers Paul from Cape Town

Pretty excited to see this project to the end, an ic engine is on my bucket list to do.

beast mode .. nice work

The good old days of the 049

Model engines are Cool. thanks.

Thank you for all of the information looking forward to part two

Just subbed. Outstanding work and video camera work. Hats off to you. Cheers

I will be following along with this one. Are you able to post the build notes so we can follow along? Or is that copy right?

I immediately subscribed when I saw this Wonderful project. I will follow along as it triggers fond memories of machining really neat parts.

Gday Preso, I can say already this is going to be a fantastic series to follow, I have no doubt it will run like a clock when it’s all done, I wish I had the skill to tackle a project like this but the would be a pile of shit on the corner of the bench that would block the sun out I’m afraid, really enjoyed watching mate, have a great weekend, Cheers

Great video, Sensei. : ) Fun project. Brings back good memories. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Wonderful work. Looking forward to next episode.

Hey Mark, I’m really enjoying this. I like the way you explain what you’re doing and excellent camera work too. Cheers Stuart.

really nice and interresting build. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos and share them

mark i am enjoying your work my wife is watching magic chef on bbc i am in awe at your skill will watch all your vids

Hello again. I'm very excited to see this through. You face some challenges outside of the lathe. A bit of Gearhead is needed in calculating the timing and fuel mixtures. My world is the Oscilloscope and Transistors, but I have a few Fox, Mccoy, Enya and K&B engines not using a throttle valve, only the needle to adjust fuel flow. Timing is everything. Fuel is science too. Break-in and lube mixtures, ect. This is going to be good. Count me in on every installment. Good Luck!

Great project, and a worthy goal to shoot for. That's going to be a beast of a motor !

Looks great, Mark 😀! Eccentric turning is fun. It just looks so wrong until your part is finished and then it looks so cool 😁. Love that your gonna donate your finished project back to their museum. A real testament to the quality of your character 😊. This is gonna be a super fun build, great job on your crank shaft, Preso, and for showing off your manly man skills! Cheers! 👍😁👍

What an awesome project!

nice project !! SALUDOS from MEXICO !!

I've just discovered your channel, its an absolute pleasure to see some one using workshop machines to manufacture unusual bit of kit rather than build steam engines. Congratulations you are unique, I really appreciate you thinking out of the box. Graham 🙂

Looks very interesting .. you just got a subscription! 🇨🇦