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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
The FlamelickerBy James L. EochantinRoute 1 Box 54 Du Bois, Illinois 62831 The "What Is It?" engine, on the top of page 22 of the March-April GEM, is indeed a "flamelicker". I came across an article in the December 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics ; It explained the operation of this type of hot-air engine, and included plans for construction of one. The burner, or candle flame, provides the power for the engine. The two-stroke cycle is shown in the diagram. Just before top dead center the valve opens; the piston starts on the downward stroke (fig. 1.) and "inhales" part of the flame (actually hot gas); the valve closes at bottom dead center, and immediately the gas cools, creates a vacuum, and draws the piston back up (fig. 2.), the power stroke. The valve opens just before top dead center to let the cooled gas escape before drawing a fresh charge of hot gas. ...817 of 4106 characters shown.
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