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Re: Radial Engine (and V8 crankshaft)
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Date: 
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:59:21 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Walter Geissmann wrote:
> 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

Great job!

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


> 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)
 
(...) Naturally it is also possible with only 6 cylinders. I removed one row. (URL) Geissmann (22 years ago, 15-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Radial Engine (and V8 crankshaft)
 
(...) to finish it. (URL) Geissmann (22 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)

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