[modeleng] Re: Piston Rings

And then he'll be building a boiler to one of A A Raymers designs and we'll 
have another real Steam NUT on our hands!!  LOL!

Al


--- On Sun, 9/21/08, Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Piston Rings
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:39 AM
> Or at least with aluminoooonimum liners as
> "someone" here suggested Al! ;-)
> 
> Tony.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 3:18 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Piston Rings
> 
> 
> > Ah----who's got the "bug" then?  Just
> wait, he'll be doing one in Brass 
> > and Steel before you know it!!!
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 9/20/08, Tony Wells
> <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [modeleng] Piston Rings
> >> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 2:46 PM
> >> Firstly, thank you everyone who took the trouble
> to reply to
> >> my query on piston rings on my proposed wooden
> model of a
> >> steam engine, which I forgot to do at the time
> .....
> >> <blush>  Since then, thanks to a link from
> Tel, I have
> >> purchased a set of plans for a wooden double
> acting
> >> oscillator from Bill Reichart's widow, who is
> continuing
> >> to sell all of his engine plans. Of possible
> interest to the
> >> group is that whilst it is designed to run solely
> on
> >> compressed air, there aren't any sealing rings
> at all on
> >> the (wooden of course) piston. According to
> Bill's
> >> original notes, he found that it still ran quite
> >> satisfactorily however, though with wood's
> natural
> >> movement as the ambient air humidity changes, I
> will have to
> >> wait and see if this is correct. I shall be
> changing the
> >> plans very slightly, to give a bore the same
> diameter as the
> >> closest O-ring diameter however, just in case I
> have to fit
> >> one retrospectively.
> >> Thanks again,
> >>
> >> TonyW.
> >>
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