Spanish engineer crafts "world's smallest" V-12 engine

[Jason M. Hendler]

Spanish engineer crafts "world's smallest" V-12 engine

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Check out the 10 minute video at the end showing how he fabbed, assembled and ran the little V-12 - it is jaw dropping.

[bonaire]

Cool engine there.

Reminds me of an old favorite video of ours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxYRa0pqxlw

[barry252]

I love that kind of stuff! 1200 hours put into a desk top trophy seems a little extreme though! Did you notice that it's not actually running on gas? It's compressed air.

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[spreston]

It's like those painstaking mininature reproductions of silverware. They reproduce everything with incredible precision on a tiny scale.

[spreston]

Yea, no spark plugs. The pushrods didn't seem to move consistently either. Still very cool.

I love that kind of stuff! 1200 hours put into a desk top trophy seems a little extreme though! Did you notice that it's not actually running on gas? It's compressed air.

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[Jason M. Hendler]

Yeah, I noticed the push rods intermittently working. Still, machining the crank shaft and piecing it all together and having it operate to any degree just floors me.