Single Cylinder Opposed

[Boswell]

Beautiful Build Ray.

Have figured out what's next?

 

[Janderso]

Anyway, I copied the text, translated it and pasted it back in.

We have smart people in this room !!!!!!

 

[rwm]

Best yet!!!

 

[rdean]

Have figured out what's next?

Thanks
No not yet.
You have any ideas?

Thanks Jeff and Robert.

Ray

 

[Boswell]

You have any ideas?

Have you built a W8? Wikipedia link

 

[rdean]

That is an interesting engine and I will have to think on that one a while.


The engine now has a home.



I had an old kitchen cabinet that I mounted on the shop wall but hadn't decided what to put in it yet.
I cut out the center of the door and put in a piece of plexiglass. I still have room above for something else but it will have to be small.

Ray

 

[Eddyde]

First, Congratulations on such a well executed, lightning fast build! In almost 10 years here at HM, I don't think I've seen any project go so smooth.

Here's an odd ball engine I have been obsessed with since I remember reading about it in Popular Mechanics Science magazine back in the 70's:

Some info here:

The Rotary Vee: Imagine 400 insane little horses between your legs | Stories | Eat Sleep Ride

If you're a committed moto-fiddler, whether motorcycle or otherwise, prepare for multiple mindgasms. This highly weird story dating back to the '70s, is about a lone engineer geniusing up an ultra-radical, comically simple two-stroke engine that by rights should be powering a hefty chunk of the...

eatsleepride.com

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19890016636/downloads/19890016636.pdf

There's more out there if you dig a bit...

 

[rdean]

Now you've done it after looking at your suggestion Eddy of the rotary vee engine I am interested.
Further research has produced this video.

I think an air model will have to be built first in order to work out the details but then an internal combustion engine may be able to be built.
I have downloaded the plans for a 3 Vee air model shown in Popular Mechanics July 1965 that look doable.
If I decide I will start a new thread.

Ray

 

[Eddyde]

Now my obsession has ben rekindled... Found these links too:

http://acversailles.free.fr/documentation/08~Documentation_Generale_M_Suire/Moteur/Documentation/Rotary_Vee_engine.pdf

https://archive.ph/2005.01.08-165819/http://www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/heritage/bricklin/Rotary.htm

Parts 4&5 shows the engine running.

 

[rwm]

Do the spark plugs rotate? And if so, how would that work???