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This will blow most people's minds and will certainly be of great interest to machinists. The man in this video is the ultimate craftsman. I have great respect for such ability.

The world's tiniest V12 engine. [VIDEO]
http://www.wimp.com/tiniestengine/

Neil

That's amazing. Think we can get that guy to do a .45 luger (or 2) for his next trick?

Jack

WOW! That is awesome! The machine work is more like artwork.

Machining a Luger should be a cake walk after that engine.

I wonder what is actually running it at the end? What is the tube running to it? That is a really cool piece of work. I wonder how long it took to make.

At the end of the video, it says that work hours was 1,220. That's 152.5 days at 8 hours per day--a labor of love for sure.

I'm assuming its fed fuel from the tube running under the base....I wonder whats the ignition source? I dont see any wiring...running as a diesel?

Diesel. Beautiful, almost as nice as the GM v16s on our Submarine, GM 1670s IIRC. The real sound of music.

I stood my watches in the maneuvering room, and at times with all four of our GMs running, the enginemen in both engine rooms would be nodding off. Music indeed!! :) :)

I suspect the engine is not running on any fuel source but perhaps compressed air? There is no oil in the lower portion of the engine, no heat detected from the exahust or smoke. Even with a diesel you need a glow plug for fuel ignition and there was none of that in the film.

I was amazed but all of the machining operations necessary ..that and the parts fabrication of non machined parts. I wonder if the guy had a giant pile of mistakes somewhere?

My Italian is a little rusty but does the facts page say there were 222 screws used?

An amazing work and labor of love as you say Niel! Thanks..

Having been an IC electricain, I never worked on our GMs, except to crawl outboard and change pyrometer heads. Seems to me those babies started totally by compression causing the fuel ignition. I remember each piston was about 10" across and it took two men to lift a cylinder head. Those were the good days.

V-12
 

Watching it being made and assembled was as close to a spiritual experience as I'll ever get!

Spanish, not Italian. I agree with Jerry that the engine is running on compressed air or other non combustion method.

:crying: I guess I will have to try and see it from home... videos are filtered out by my employer...

Agreed that that is/was an air driven engine. Beautiful work.

This gentleman definitely has both skill and patience....what a beautiful piece!!

Yep, that hose seems to be for compressed air. Even a diesel would need some kind of heat source to get started, and I didn't see any glow plugs. It would also need a lot of compression, which means head gaskets, piston rings and other parts I couldn't see that he used. Still, that's an amazing piece. Just imagine making all those tiny rocker arms, all exactly the same... "Ok, one down, 23 to go..." :D

there are actual miniature v12 engines on Youtube that have ignition, fuel etc and run....even more impressive

I am mightily impressed by this engine... :thumbup:

But...Dual camshafts in the block, push rods, individual cylinder heads (no gaskets!), no carburation...

Sort of like a Jaguar V-12...This has to be his own design, rather than a copy of an existing engine...

...Or it's a very old V-12 engine design... :D