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Started by Monsterlover, March 01, 2015, 07:20:13 PM

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Monsterlover

March 01, 2015, 07:20:13 PM
Stationary crank, cylinders rotate around it

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March 01, 2015, 07:44:56 PM
I can't say I understand why, but wasn't that fairly common with aircraft motors of the time?

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You'd think all that rotating weight would be a problem, but those old biplanes did manage to get airborne despite it.

Doing that in a passenger car & rotating horizontally, though, is pretty awesomely batty
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March 01, 2015, 08:27:18 PM
It was pretty common on that era of aircraft.

I've always wondered why they did it that way, besides it just being the 'other' way to do it.

Wiki says they were quite smooth, as the engine itself was a substantial flywheel.
And they could provide that smoothness at a lower overall weight than an equivalent radial with a big flywheel.
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March 01, 2015, 11:14:36 PM
Self cooling was a big plus.
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March 02, 2015, 07:15:50 AM
I wonder how they dealt with lubrication?
Seems to me all the oil would be flung to one side.  ???
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March 02, 2015, 07:29:03 AM
I'm having a little difficulty wrapping my brain around power transmission in a car.

The plane is pretty self explanatory.
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March 02, 2015, 07:32:33 AM
Quote from: Ducatamount on March 02, 2015, 07:15:50 AM
I wonder how they dealt with lubrication?
Seems to me all the oil would be flung to one side.  ???

Total loss-castor oil, iirc.

Now if it was on a conveyor belt.....
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March 02, 2015, 10:25:50 AM
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March 02, 2015, 06:28:44 PM
Quote from: Satellite smithy on March 02, 2015, 07:32:33 AM
Total loss-castor oil, iirc.

Now if it was on a conveyor belt.....

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March 02, 2015, 06:38:31 PM


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