Very nice. Im on a Steam/Stirling building kick myself. I may try that free design program to design some oscillating cylinders for steam engines. Great breakdown of functionality and operation. At first i thought it was a Stirling until i saw you were injecting air pressure.
Thanks! I took a look at the piston engine on your channel; it looks awesome. Some kind of slide valve to let air exit the chamber when the piston is rising would help a bunch, since you wouldn't be recompressing air inside the cylinder.
Sure, There's just a few extra non printable parts you'll need. I put up a thingiverse page here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:4768637 The parts are intentionally slightly oversized so that they can be filed or sanded down to make a good seal against the bushings. You'll need to sand the outside of the inlet, the piston shaft, the four sides of the piston head, and the flywheel shaft as well. When sanding the piston head sides, try to stay a little larger than you think would be needed for the engine. I sanded mine down too far the first time by just 0.5mm, and it made the engine very weak.
Very nice. Im on a Steam/Stirling building kick myself. I may try that free design program to design some oscillating cylinders for steam engines.
Great breakdown of functionality and operation. At first i thought it was a Stirling until i saw you were injecting air pressure.
Genius Doug! Way to go! I’m so glad you’re rockin’ it at college!
Thanks! I'm having a lot of fun here!
Explained very well, I'm going to have to try and design an engine with a slide valve in the near future!
Thanks! I took a look at the piston engine on your channel; it looks awesome. Some kind of slide valve to let air exit the chamber when the piston is rising would help a bunch, since you wouldn't be recompressing air inside the cylinder.
@@dougmoore8695 Thanks! I'll have a look into that.
nice, this would accept twice as much air and generate twice the power compared to mine, might have to cop this design
Any chance you have models to share? Would love to play with this! Thanks for sharing!
Sure, There's just a few extra non printable parts you'll need. I put up a thingiverse page here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:4768637
The parts are intentionally slightly oversized so that they can be filed or sanded down to make a good seal against the bushings. You'll need to sand the outside of the inlet, the piston shaft, the four sides of the piston head, and the flywheel shaft as well. When sanding the piston head sides, try to stay a little larger than you think would be needed for the engine. I sanded mine down too far the first time by just 0.5mm, and it made the engine very weak.
Good job man >>> what is the application you use?
I used Solidworks to model the engine because I have an academic license through my school, but an amazing free alternative is Fusion360.
@@dougmoore8695 Thank you for this rich information