Customer Reviews:
 look again August 31, 2008
D. A. Murray (US)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This might be good for practicing millwork and lathework. but the engine design is a particularly inefficient one, and will not provide much power. I recomend against it.
 Excellent book September 25, 2007
R. S. Rehmel
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Gingery lays this book in a practical way so that you can easily follow his instructions for building this engine.
 Sad that it requires Foundry set-up to build the engine July 19, 2006
Andy Chan (Hong Kong SAR, China)
44 out of 45 found this review helpful
I own a micro-lathe and milling and it's my dream to build an engine by myself. So I order couple of books from Amazon include this one. I haven't built this yet, but at the first glance, layout and description of the book is clear with step-by-step guidelines. Not really detailed but for sure, it's enough for you to make one (I assume you have engineering background). But I can't guarantee it turns.
But sad to find out most critical parts demand you to have a foundry set-up, and the parts are quite impossible to make by lathe/milling machines. It is impossible for where I live (apartment) to have such set-up. Besides, from my experience, foundry is very hard to manage compared with lathe/mill, it needs a lot of practices. I wish I can figure out the work-around to have those parts made by lathe/mill.
One more reminder for non-US customers is that, American use imperial measures not metric. Should not be a big problem but you either have to modify the design or you have to buy another set of tools/parts if you're usung metric.
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