{"id":141,"date":"2025-08-13T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/?p=141"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:56:08","slug":"engine-mount-fab-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/engine-mount-fab-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine mount.. Fab begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Overview-Engine-mount.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Overview-Engine-mount.jpg 359w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Overview-Engine-mount-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The diagram is a rough sketch of the pending build.  I obtained it in one of the initial books purchased for this journey.  I&#8217;ll put later the more detailed version.  Many dimensions missing, but since it&#8217;s a 1 to 5 scale I can measure from the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll post pictures of the completed unit that my neighbor is going to assist as he&#8217;s a top notch retired welder and great metal fabricator.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I managed to pickup the 1&#8243; square tubing from a local metal supply vendor on their cut-off rack.  They happened to have 6 24&#8243; lengths and this should allow me to complete the full assembly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to clean the rust from the steel and the following 3M tool was recommended to use on my Power Drill (Milwaukee).  Wow was it a good remover of the rust and likely left the surface close to ready for painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-600x848.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel-945x1336.jpg 945w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3M-stipper-and-steel.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The full diagram of the assembly is below..  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Summary-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Summary-rotated.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Summary-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Summary-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Diagram-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Diagram-rotated.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Diagram-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BSA-Engine-Mount-Diagram-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diagram is a rough sketch of the pending build. I obtained it in one of the initial books purchased for this journey. I&#8217;ll put later the more detailed version. Many dimensions missing, but since it&#8217;s a 1 to 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/engine-mount-fab-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engine","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brainwalkers.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}