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Subject:	Re: Radial Engine (and V8 crankshaft)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:38:43 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Nathan Bell wrote: > That design eats my design with a chipper! I tried to make a radial engine with > a single row of cylinders and had to butcher 6 cylinders, two wheel rims, and > one "lever" piece! Their design for the master cylinder would eliminate the > butchered lever on my design, and their design for the circular array of > cylinders is better too. Now if someone can figure out a way to arrange a > (Lego) V8 crankshaft to bend 4 directions instead of 2, I will repent from the > sin of butchering Legos! > http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=837365 Reading your mail I remembered my attempts to build a radial engine and decided to finish it. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1144776 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1144779 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1144783 Walter Geissmann

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		Re: Radial Engine (and V8 crankshaft)
(...) So far it looks like the only way to make a Lego radial engine is to make 2 rows (or loops) of cylinders. Has anyone ever been able to do it with just one row? (6 cylinders) Nathan Bell (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)

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		Re: Radial Engine (and V8 crankshaft)
(...) That design eats my design with a chipper! I tried to make a radial engine with a single row of cylinders and had to butcher 6 cylinders, two wheel rims, and one "lever" piece! Their design for the master cylinder would eliminate the butchered (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-05, to lugnet.technic)

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