Haynes Combustion Engine £9.99 on amazon

Jet Black · 28-01-2013 10:50am #1

As the title says. Was £29.99, its €12.99 in argos but only 3 left in Kilkenny.

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Build your own. The engine you build is a greatly simplified version of a real car engine. The model is designed to be fun to put together, and to make it easier for you to understand how a full-size four-stroke car engine works. This box contains all the parts and tools you need to assemble the working model. It comes complete with its very own Haynes Manual giving you clear step-by-step instructions to guide you through the build process, all you need to provide is the time, two batteries and a little vegetable oil. The on/off controller also includes a sound chip which reproduces the noise of an engine starting, as the model begins to work. What a beauty.

Basq · 28-01-2013 11:25am

Got this last week in Argos for €12.99 and spent some of Saturday afternoon it assembling it.

Not for the fainthearted.. 100+ pieces and everything needs to be assembled from scratch but very rewarding once done.

Definitely a good buy!

Atomic Pineapple · 28-01-2013 11:43am

Got it for xmas, girlfriend paid around 30 quid for it so a nice bargain, I built it all in one evening, the most annoying thing is breaking the pieces off and filing the nubs off the various parts. Really rewarding "puzzle" though, well worth €13.

Basq · 28-01-2013 11:50am

draffodx wrote: »

Got it for xmas, girlfriend paid around 30 quid for it so a nice bargain, I built it all in one evening, the most annoying thing is breaking the pieces off and filing the nubs off the various parts. Really rewarding "puzzle" though, well worth €13.

Yep, I was using a sharp knife to file off the burrs..

.. eventually girlfriend arrived in with a metal nail file just to avoid that inevitable Saturday afternoon visit to the ER!

ncur · 28-01-2013 1:32pm

When you click the link, it's gone back up to £20.45, with 17 new from £19.99 listed also. Pity, as I bought one for my nephew for Christmas and I wish I'd bought one for myself and wasn't fast enough to get it again from my local Argos before they went out of stock!

Not near Kilkenny either to get it from them unfortunately. Will keep an eye on Amazon, hadn't considered it might be on there for a reasonable price. Thanks op!

Oracle · 28-01-2013 5:26pm

Just what I've always wanted a self assembly model of a combustion engine ..... :rolleyes:

RobertFoster · 28-01-2013 5:56pm

Oracle wrote: »

Just what I've always wanted a self assembly model of a combustion engine ..... :rolleyes:

Good to know. Since Christmas is just gone, when's your birthday? We'll have a whip round and get you one.

dingding · 28-01-2013 6:54pm

http://www.checkargos.com/StockCheckPage.php?productId=9245770

Check Argos link.

quinnthebin · 29-01-2013 7:31am

Have one reserved in Wexford Extra till tomorrow evening but won't be able to collect.
First pm is welcome to reservation code

randombar · 29-01-2013 9:28am

Ahhh looks cool, sold out everywhere now and price gone back up on amazon. BOO!

dingding · 29-01-2013 9:52pm

1 in Kilkenny

zom · 29-01-2013 11:12pm

I've got 2 of this for family youngsters as Christmas presents - have had to help assembly both as it is too complex even for 10 year old. Must say - seems like that's some old stock, plastics are fine but rubber bands are little stiff. Got some problems with setting timing belts in both.

Chet T16 · 29-01-2013 11:28pm

I got one of these years ago, more than 10 anyway. This was before Haynes started doing them and it actually came via a Renault dealer through the accessories catalogue.

I had the same problem with the belt, it was so tight it was a struggle to get on and the crank was flexing. The timing is way off. I blew one of the spark plugs hooking it up to my bench power supply to see how fast it would go too.

Alanstrainor · 30-01-2013 12:39pm

I got one of these a couple of weeks ago, and it was a cool build. Really interesting, took me maybe an hour and a half or so. Definitely not something for a 10 year old, I can't see them having an interest in it tbh.

Interesting seeing how it's all put together, and for that price it's worth.

Had no troubles with belts or anything like that, only trouble I had was putting on some part back to front and only realising near the end of the instructions...had to take the whole thing apart again!

discombobulate · 31-01-2013 5:03pm

£21.50 now on Amazon

zom · 31-01-2013 10:49pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

only trouble I had was putting on some part back to front and only realising near the end of the instructions

I have some garage experience and still got crankshaft back to front in the first one ;-). And I had one 10yo nephew who's into karts with big interest in that model.