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Re: Pneumatic Engines
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:54:57 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Rob Stehlik writes:
Hi everyone,
As promised, I have been working on a more interesting Technic project. I
have made a couple pneumatic v4 engines which you can see here:

http://sparky.i989.net/rstehlik/pnengines.html

If you have any ideas on how to measure the power of these things, let me
know. It would be fun to scale it up and compare with real engines.
Rob

It would be fun to make it a v8 with eight new double acting pneumatic
pistons (if you had enough). Really powerful, but kinda big. Might take too
much effort to pump it though. Guess it would be a v16 then, with 16 power
strokes per cycle.

MM



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  Re: Pneumatic Engines
 
(...) Alex Zorko has done just that. (URL) the bottom of his ideas page, and also his dodge charger model. He says it powerful enough to tear apart gearboxes. I am going to try using the new style cylinders, but they are much stiffer and I will have (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)

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  Pneumatic Engines
 
Hi everyone, As promised, I have been working on a more interesting Technic project. I have made a couple pneumatic v4 engines which you can see here: (URL) you have any ideas on how to measure the power of these things, let me know. It would be fun (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)

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