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Re: steam pick up truck

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RN

09-02-2005 17:42:26




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Steam car engine? change camshaft gear to 1/1 drive instead of 2/1. Pipe high pressure steam from boiler though shutoff valve to intake manifold. Exhaust manifold low pressure steam and water drops to radiator/ condensor then to recovery tank. Recovery tank through filter and back to boiler. Very simplified explanation.




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mike brown

09-02-2005 18:15:25




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 Re: steam pick up truck in reply to RN, 09-02-2005 17:42:26  
A valve would have to open at tdc, close at bdc.



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buickanddeere

09-02-2005 18:18:43




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 Re: steam pick up truck in reply to mike brown, 09-02-2005 18:15:25  
You want to close the intake valve long before the piston is near bdc. 20 degrees after tdc should do. It's not unheard of for custom duration cams to be ground.



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RN

09-02-2005 20:54:45




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 Re: steam pick up truck in reply to buickanddeere, 09-02-2005 18:18:43  
Camshaft timeing? Ford truck grind/LP gas conversion specs perhaps. The old BMW R50/2 was intake open 20 degrees after TDC, no overlap with the exhaust. Exhaust was also short duration. Somewhere there is an article about a Ford 200 inch 6 cylinder converted to steam used stock cam with small gear match crank size, shortened chain. That engine had intake manifold cast into head. While 1 cylinder may have intake opening slightly before TDC, other cylinders are open valves after TDC. A converted single cylinder Briggs engine at steam days show had external, reversable drive to cam stub outside crankcase- demonstartion was run engine one direction, close steam valve, switch cam drive by slideing gear outward so it ran in series with reverse idler gear, then open steam valve to run engine in reverse. Edgerton, Wi steam thresher days had some other little models, powerplants, conversions. .

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