Miniature engine builders in NYT

The NY Times has a fun article about guys who make beautiful, working replicas of internal combustion engines. Make magazine hosted these delightful makers at Maker Faire in May.

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Downsizing may be a chilling concept nearly everywhere, but not in the workshop of George Luhrs, a machinist in Shoreham, N.Y., with an affinity for the very small. Mr Luhrs has built a single-cylinder engine you could lose in a pocketful of nickels and dimes.

The piston of Mr. Luhrs's itsy-bitsy engine rides in a cylinder whose bore is just 1/8-inch across. The engine's stroke – the distance that the piston travels up and down inside the cylinder – is only 5/32 of an inch. The spark plug? You could lay seven of them across the face of a dime and still see F.D.R. peeking through.

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