Author Topic: New project started, double acting "steam" engine!  (Read 17510 times)

Offline Stilldrillin

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Re: New project started, double acting "steam" engine!
« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2009, 04:09:57 AM »
That`s great John!  :thumbup:

Love the sound, & slow pace.....  :clap:

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Re: New project started, double acting "steam" engine!
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2009, 04:33:38 AM »
Well done John - will have a look at vid tonight!  :beer:  :ddb:
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Re: New project started, double acting "steam" engine!
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2009, 05:58:21 AM »
Well done John, you are getting the hang of this.

It might be slow but isn't that a long stroke, does it have power?

What is the size, it's hard to tell ...  :clap:
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Re: New project started, double acting "steam" engine!
« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2009, 03:17:16 PM »
Darren, it is quite big I suppose, 50mm bore, 50mm stroke, 105mm diameter flywheels and about 375mm overall length.

Thats about as slow as it will run at least until the tight spots get eased a bit  but of course it goes really fast too if the air is available to drive it.

It does have considerable power and I am wondering what shop device I could put it to work driving, maybe a paint can shaker or perhap a reversed Stirling to cool my beer supplies. :scratch:
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Re: New project started, double acting "steam" engine!
« Reply #29 on: December 24, 2009, 04:02:40 AM »
John, I had no idea it was that big!  :jaw: That is HUGE!
Nice work!

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