We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ":::Jerry::::" saying something like:
You utter, completely incompetent buffoon. Do you even know what the meaning of the word 'engine' is?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Dean Dark saying something like:
Jerry is the ape sitting by the pool playing with a stick. Sometimes he will turn over a stone with it and sometimes use it to scratch his arse. Both show promise, but it will be a while yet before he invents the lathe.
haven't heard
I suspect that mechanical wear with the main cam (aka crank) shaft could be a problem and that it would not take kindly to being revolved backwards.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ":::Jerry::::" saying something like:
Don't be using them teknikal terms Jerry; they don't suit you - in fact they suit you as much as s dinner jacket on an oran utang.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ":::Jerry::::" saying something like:
Alas, Jerry; we are all lumps of clay, destined to vanish back into Mother Earth. Some of us, however, are more lumpish than others.
So you will admit that you over simplification of what is a IC engine is wrong?
I know it's more than just the cylinders and pistons...
: The thing won't work well without a boiler, it is designed to work : with a boiler, anyway a car engine without a fuel system is just a : lump of metal................
Do you think the fuel system is inside or outside the thermodynamic system boundary for the Otto cycle?
Ian
: You are a trolling idiot, you arte implying that an IC engine will : work without a fuel supply !....
No.
Ian
: I suggest you go and find a clue, you utterly ignorant little moron : troll.
Ooooooh. Sound like someone's wetting his knickers big time.
Ian
: The whole frigging thing is the engine, were is the crank-shaft (if : it has one) on a railway steam locomotive.
Erm, between the cranks, just like on any other engine?
Ian
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ":::Jerry::::" saying something like:
How can it be over-simplified if it's an attempt to explain it to you?
There's no such thing.
At last a return to proper units of power! Forget BHP, SAE, kilowatts per unit nurdle and all that stuff. Bring back the RPU - the Rice Pudding Unit! The power required to pull the skin off a British Standard rice pudding.
Reminds me of the MilliHelen. A unit of feminine beauty, based on the legend that Helen of Troy had a face which launched a thousand ships. Therefore, one MilliHelen is the required quantity of puchritude to launch one ship. Much more accurate than "Phwoar! - Look at that!" It is of course possible to have a negative value, in which case it would be someone so plug ugly the ships would sink rather than be launched.
Unreconstructed, born before political correctness, still thinks in Fahrenheit and has just bought a postage stamp for 9/3 (nine shillings and thruppence).
Geoff MacK
It's the huge great big thing between the driven wheels. Sometimes they're forged or built-up with internal cranks, sometimes they're external and overhung. But (barring the handful of steam turbines and the geared-drives from separate engines, like the Shay and Hustler) railway steam locomotives have thumping great big crankshafts that are very obvious.
Look at the second order derivatives of the cam profile - they're discontinuous. That's a cam arrangement that will hammer itself to death in short order.
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That is irrelevant, the Otto cycle is meaning less without a fuel supply...
will
So the fuel supply is part and parcel of the 'engine', or are you going to claim that an engine is just cylinder and piston?...
But were are they, considering that people are implying that the mass is not the 'engine'.
But were are they, considering that some the implying that the mass is not the 'engine'....?
You're a hopeless cause. You'll never understand.
I thank whatever deities are in control of things that you're never going to have any responsibility for any machine(1) that I'll ever use.
Goodbye.
(1) Machine. Look it up. It might be a good place to start, the concept is a bit simpler than 'engine.'
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