[modeleng] Re: Tr: Re: Steam engine RPM ?

  • From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:10:26 +1000

An engine that size should nearly be OK for that steam tricycle you've been
lusting after Al.


> I do not know what I would use it to power, but the
> Ugly Vertical Oscillator Engine is 1.625" Bore x 3.00"
> Stroke.  I just wanted to build a BIG oscillator is
> all.
>
> Al
>
> --- alan Stepney <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Tel, the reason I went for the maximum speed is
> > that, at 1.5 bore and 2.25
> > stroke it may well be a working, as opposed to
> > display, engine.
> > It could generate a reasonable power.
> >
> > I agree that for best viewing, a nice slow speed is
> > best.
> >
> > Alan
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:24 AM
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: Tr: Re: Steam engine RPM ?
> >
> >
> > You sure don't Al, if it was mine I'd be aiming for
> > perhaps half of AJ's
> > suggested figures
> >
> >
> >
> > > If this is a working display model, you don't want
> > it
> > > operating so fast that the workings of the motion
> > are
> > > blurred, do you?
> > >
> > > Al Messer
> >
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