[modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?
- From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:15:10 +0100
Not so much as a lot like as too much like Charles! I do have access to a
scub divers' bottle for a quick top up of a low pressure tank from thathigh
pressure one, but I still hope to build the steamplant though.
Tony.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles & Dorothy Brumbelow" <cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:47 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Steam engine RPM?
> Actually, Tony, you COULD replace one of the spark plugs in your
> automobile
> with a check valve and use that cylinder as a compressor. That was a tip
> in
> one of the early (prewar?) DIY magazines here in the states. Might have
> been fine to fill up a tire after repairing a flat, but it sounds a lot
> like
> a potential bomb if you filled up a metal tank with the mixture of
> gasoline
> and air under pressure. Charles
>
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