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Re: Pneumatic Engines
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:24:44 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Max Maxwell writes:
> 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.
Alex Zorko has done just that.
http://www.nicjasno.com/
See 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 to use twice as
many valves!
Rob
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| (...) 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 (22 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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