Not just any sort: Swash-plate steam engines! What's that? Go see! Scroll down and play the videos; the operating mechanism is fascinating and uncommon. Crazier than an elbow engine! Internal-combustion axial engines -- swash-plate and kin -- have done serious work in places like torpedoes.
More conventionally: the largest hit & miss engine I have yet seen, in one of the odder applications. And you've gotta love the starter!
Neat link on that Green Steam engine. I wonder how hot the spring gets, flexing all around like that.
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ReplyDeleteCome to Minnesota to the steam threshers reunion. If you like steam, hit and miss and even two steam locomotives you have to come.
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Do you realize that for two generations of American soldiers "swash plate" says "helicopter"? So I was lookin' for a steam egg beater...
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Drang, that's what I learned when I looked for more. Interesting, some of the earliest uses of axial engines were in aircraft -- it's be a nacheral for a helicopter. Dunno about the boiler, though I love the idea of a helicopter with a stoker!
ReplyDeleteI have never met '9EVT, but I'd certainly like to! What a wonderful collection -- and set up to be used, too.
ReplyDeleteIs that hot-bulb engine on that go-cart?
ReplyDeleteNever knew you could drive a shaft with a swashplate. But then mechanical engineering ain't my thing.
Cool stuff, Miss X. :)
Jed, from the way he starts the big one, I am guessing it as a very large -- and unusually vertical -- hit & miss light-fuel engine with spark plug or ignitor. A hot-bulb would have required a torch to preheat the combustion chamber rather than a starter to spin it up.
ReplyDeleteThe starter's a sweet Deere hit & miss.
WOW! neat :-) Thanks for posting that!
ReplyDeleteI wanna commute in that.
ReplyDeleteThank you, my brain is fried by the elbow engine.
ReplyDeleteWell, silly me. I've seen only a few hot-bulb engines, and only in pictures and video, so I forgot about the pre-heat.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I know about hit'n'miss engines too.
I really like the hit & miss concept; it's a pretty clever bit of automation that dodges a lot of complexity in the carb in exchange for a simple fix with most of the hardware (centrifugal governors) ported over from steam.
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