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Re: Engine Idea
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.build, lugnet.space
Followup-To: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:26:11 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jeff Elliott writes:

Are you kidding?  Those engines are junk!  Any sane space-engineer
knows that it's lunatic to put the floozium injector ports so close
to the trilithium uptake valve!  The vibrations at peak output could
cause the elliptical cam to gradually slide up the beam shaft and
catch on the flange rebate dislodging the gripley, with disastrous
results! :O

All kidding aside: Nice work!  Now are you going to let us in on the
secrets of construction? :)

Jeff Elliott

No! No! No!

It's all compensated for by the proximity of the doohickey coil.

~Mark

XFUT: off-topic.fun



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  Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously
 
(...) Ha ha! Your superior weapons are no match for my puny intellect: I override us back to lugnet.space! But seriously - the whole thing with flange rebates and the like - I *do* think in those terms when I'm designing engines, weapons, etc. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)

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  Re: Engine Idea
 
Mladen: Are you kidding? Those engines are junk! Any sane space-engineer knows that it's lunatic to put the floozium injector ports so close to the trilithium uptake valve! The vibrations at peak output could cause the elliptical cam to gradually (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)

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