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Re: Reversible pneumatic engine
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 00:56:13 GMT
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"Kevin L. Clague" wrote:
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> In lugnet.technic, Paul Krieg wrote:
> > Kevin,
> > This is truly great! At the moment I barely understand it at all. I must build
> > one. Reversible valve gears have interested me for some time. This is not the
> > first reversible engine. I will soon upload photos to Brickshelf. My version
> > is from '93, I think. Anyway, my ambition has been to produce something like a
> > Walschaert valve gear. The link and radius rod have been impossible to do (so
> > far). :-) Another goal of mine has been to build an engine that can be started,
> > stopped, and reversed, all by using one control or lever.
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> Hi Paul,
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> I look forward to seeing your reversible engine.
It's here, among Paul's other creations:
http://www.ozbricks.net/cssoh1/oldengin.htm
> I looked at the Walschaert valve gear. Wow, that is hard for me to
> understand, even with animation.
Yes, it's truly marvellous what the old locomotive engineers could do
with just mechanical linkages.
--
C S Soh
http://www.ozbricks.net/cssoh1
....where air is power!
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| (...) Hi Paul, I look forward to seeing your reversible engine. I looked at the Walschaert valve gear. Wow, that is hard for me to understand, even with animation. With longer tubes, I could have easily hooked the two multiplexers to the same (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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