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[The Artful Bodger]

The engine that powered Snoopy's Sopwith Camel was a rotary engine, nothing to do with Wankels. Familiar round aircraft engines are radial engines in...

[The Artful Bodger]

Maybe you are thinking of a WWI era rotary aircraft engine where the crankshaft is fixed to the aircraft and the cylinders were connected directly to...

[The Artful Bodger]

If I recall correctly the object of this exercise is to compare normal cranks with Boomer's improved cranks?

A small spring loaded jockey...

[The Artful Bodger]

Boomer, what you have is an irregular power source and a complex load so I suggest the way to record watt hour production is to record watts at intervals,...

[The Artful Bodger]

A mechanical system has been in my ideas file for quite some time although I am primarily interested in extreme telephoto rather than macro shooting....

[The Artful Bodger]

Nothing new about using a shaper as a power hacksaw...https://www.nevilshute.org/Engineeri...ingshaper1.php

[The Artful Bodger]

I have never owned any of the modern style of small 'truck' and at this age I assume I never will but I do regret the passing of the Aussie style 'ute'....