Calling all HMS engine builders...

[J Tiers]

Sorry Jerry, I have a few problems with it.

I read through all of it, its plausible but not quantified yet.

You cant sell it saying chit like I imagine so, I imagine it to be correct. Those terms dont work. JR

I found a diagram of the method, which agrees with the pictures and so forth. It was also about what I had "imagined" from the other pics that don;t show the complete thing.

You KNOW, right, that it was about 120 years ago, and probably nobody will ever know more about it than the stuff which has been found so far shows..... Yeah, speculation works as well as anything else in that case.

If you have problems with all that, then I hope you are nearly done with that time machine you were working on.... Did you design it to move location as well as through time? You are gonna need it to get the certainty which you so obviously crave.

No need to be "sorry", I just don't care.... do you?

[JRouche]

It is actually pretty simple, and you should be able to imagine the method used before actually seeing the diagram of it (which you can find in under 2 minutes on line). There are only a few possible methods, given the way the engine is made. Mechanically, it is not a good method, IMO, but.......

Sorry Jerry, I have a few problems with it.

I read through all of it, its plausible but not quantified yet.

You cant sell it saying chit like I imagine so, I imagine it to be correct. Those terms dont work. JR

[J Tiers]

Relics indicate he tried at least two methods.

I only found one diagrammed.

[The Artful Bodger]

If one's interest runs towards balanced engines they should be interested in the works of George Lanchester https://historicvehicles.com.au/hist...ds/lanchester/

[The Artful Bodger]

It is actually pretty simple, and you should be able to imagine the method used before actually seeing the diagram of it (which you can find in under 2 minutes on line). There are only a few possible methods, given the way the engine is made. Mechanically, it is not a good method, IMO, but.......

Relics indicate he tried at least two methods.

[A.K. Boomer]

I been keeping my eyes open actually for a couple of years now and nobody's getting rid of these things most likely cuz their Stihls and expensive to start with, plus id need two of them,

I could go for perfect balance and run two separate cranks geared together, and just build an adaptor crankcase,,, or go opposed conventional, and have to build or couple the two cranks together and accept a little "block rock" imbalance, no big whoop,

If the charge ended up actually being copious and too much for low RPM's creating spark knock or worse yet detonation - I could build a separate crankcase "block piston" with O-ring seal that is centrifugally engaged to expand inward at higher RPM's and pulled back out of the block some for lower ranges, making more room in the crankcase would create a much lazier supercharging effect...

https://www.stihl.com/4-mix-engine-lightweight-and-with-good-lugging-power.aspx

[J Tiers]

.................................................. ....please do show how the motion is turned into rotary cuz that could prove actually much heavier --- or did this POS try to flap it's wings?
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It is actually pretty simple, and you should be able to imagine the method used before actually seeing the diagram of it (which you can find in under 2 minutes on line). There are only a few possible methods, given the way the engine is made. Mechanically, it is not a good method, IMO, but.......

[JRouche]

I made a play on words joke.
People can call themselves what they want.
Hence my reply about me being a porn star.
Trying to continue the funny.
I just don't record it.

-D

There are two things about jokes.

Can it be received as told, or can the teller send it. You Sir can not do one or the other. JR

[The Artful Bodger]

Again where's the thing that turns it into a rotary motion?

Do your own research.

[A.K. Boomer]

The rotating valve concept is similar to the Corliss. The Corliss used a rocking arrangement for port opening/closing.
It's advantage in the steam world was that it's steam admission duration could be changed to throttle the engine and react to loads.

Sid

I remember studying just about every valve train design ever invented along with reciprocating ports built directly into cylinder liners themselves,,,

Ton's of different Desmodromic valve train designs but Fabio Taglioni was always one of my hero's that way still is...

I just dug up the Apex seals and tensioners I used for the build, To this day I have no idea how I got ahold of them, I do know they are from a Mazda rotary engine, I fear I may have entered a salvage yard late at night on a full moon and like a werewolf disassembled a rotary engine and ran off with the seals...

These are early model apex seals, meaning they came from the models that had a separate small anti freeze tank that injected small amounts of anti-freeze into the intake track and combustion chamber upon start up - just for a few seconds, it kept the ceramic composite seals from breaking,,, is there a chemist in the house? am told burning ethylene glycol at high temps is not a very healthy choice,,,,

[A.K. Boomer]

That sounds like an awesome head conversion.
Would you say it is like a Corless valve type of head?
I think Smokey Unick made a Chevy head with spinning tube rotating valves.

-D

It's bizarre looking back on it - No machinery, just unstoppable drive to get it done I did have to take things to a machine shop to get the slots cut for the apex seals,


I do remember these guys, I believe they were out of Canada, there was no internet or anything back in them days but somehow found out about their spherical design and it came out about the same time I finished my project,
I did a little research on them a few years back, it seems as if they migrated to the diesel realm,,, I possibly know why, you cannot beat valves for perfectly sealing off the combustion gasses, I was getting occasional popping back through the intake track - but the diesel is immune to this effect - nothing to ignite there... who knows now with direct injection gas and them having trouble keeping intake valves clean maybe something like the Coates Rotary's will find a path into mainstream...

https://www.coatesengine.com/csrv-system.html

[sid pileski]

The rotating valve concept is similar to the Corliss. The Corliss used a rocking arrangement for port opening/closing.
It's advantage in the steam world was that it's steam admission duration could be changed to throttle the engine and react to loads.

Sid

[Doozer]

My very own P.A.C. (Port Aspiration Concept) I built when i was a kid - adapted to a GN-400 suzuki, basically two tubes spinning inside of tubes, sealed by volkwagon piston rings and Mazda rotary apex seals... the carb was mounted on the other side with a rotating seal and the exhaust was full bore wide open...

I built a four stroke without valves when I was just 23...

That sounds like an awesome head conversion.
Would you say it is like a Corless valve type of head?
I think Smokey Unick made a Chevy head with spinning tube rotating valves.

-D

[Doozer]

Who would you call the home shop machinist that built the engine on the Wright Flyer for their first flight? The FAA to this day gives out an award each year to mechanics in his name.

I am familiar with Charlie Taylor for sure.

-D

[Doozer]

Yeah, I wouldn't either.

JR

I made a play on words joke.
People can call themselves what they want.
Hence my reply about me being a porn star.
Trying to continue the funny.
I just don't record it.

-D