#garfield Logs

Sep 25 2012

00:19 rue_house I thougth you were going for something more than a 2 cyl
00:29 rue_house its no toto much to ask to be understood
00:29 rue_house hmm, some letters got out of order
00:29 rue_house "its not too much to ask to be understood"
00:29 rue_house irony, I think
01:16 katsmeow-afk the gear in the center
01:17 katsmeow-afk it is more than 2 cyl, i can hang 2 or 4 on each crank throw, AND with steam i can make each one be double-acting
01:17 katsmeow-afk i was gonna go with 2 on each throw
01:18 katsmeow-afk with a steam engine , torque is easy, almost too easy, rpm is hard
01:19 katsmeow-afk so i must have gearing, to make life easier at low rpm on the engine, hence the big center gear between the bearings
01:21 katsmeow-afk for example, at a dead stall, which you wanna avoid in a steam engine, four 4inch cylinders with 4inch throws at 500 psi can make 2000 ft-lbs of torque
01:22 katsmeow-afk and at 90 degree throws, and double acting cyl, they can do it like a 2-cycle V8 can (2x what a 4-cyle regular V8 can do), all the way around
01:26 rue_livingrm iirc you can just start a 2 cyl steam anywhere because its doubleacting
01:28 katsmeow-afk only if you make it to be started anywhere, not all are doubleacting
01:28 katsmeow-afk there are stupidites in the steam world just like everywhere else
01:29 katsmeow-afk sterh;g;slgsddites
01:29 katsmeow-afk i got no sleep last nite, and my brian shut off an hr ago
01:32 katsmeow-afk there was a team in Oz 10+ yrs ago, had a marevelous steam VW beatle, they stomped the gas pedal the morning of the investment banker pitch, sheared off the crankshaft from too much torque, didn't have anotehr engine to demo, got no banker money, went bust
01:33 katsmeow-afk if you look closely at a railroad steamer, the pins on the drive wheels are 90 degrees apart
01:33 katsmeow-afk so are mine
01:34 katsmeow-afk the reason is one pin is always at max torque position while the other is at zero torque position
01:34 katsmeow-afk it also works if there's one throw pin, and the cylinders are at 90 degrees
01:35 katsmeow-afk and they are doubleacting
01:35 katsmeow-afk radials are inherently self starting, eve without double actions
01:38 katsmeow-afk btw, Dr Oz says we ae all lacking in Magnesium, that's why we are tired
01:38 katsmeow-afk i knowi do not get even 20% of usrda of it
01:39 katsmeow-afk also, it must be taken thru the day, ot as a pill in the morning
01:41 katsmeow-afk zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
08:57 rue_house a radial doubleacting could be made
08:58 rue_house might be big