Depending on what you mean by "old cars", the brake systems have changed a lot. Newer cars have dual diagonal brakes so a loss of one system still retains one front and one rear brake. Earlier systems had the fronts tied together and the backs on another system or all four on one system. Loose...
Probably the easiest sprag is a one way roller clutch needle bearing such as a Timkin. It does not have the dead space between reversal and drive that a bicycle sprag would have.
Without windage trays and trap doors, multiple pick-ups are necessary unless the lateral acceleration does not last...
You did not state if the engine cranks were tied to each other in any way than the pump drive. Engines do not turn a constant angular velocity when running a "constant" RPM. The crank accelerates with each power pulse and slows during the rest.
Any reason the pump cannot be driven by one engine...
The original Mahle cylinders are nikasil plated. Several places in the US now do it and also repair it. Check the advertisements in Cycle News.
Something I would check on the billet cylinders is whether the fillets are maintained at the base of the fins. On both types, what the wall thickness is...
You might try the motorcycle parts suppliers. I bought a switch with retracting lock pin through K&L ( a m/cycle parts distributor) that was reasonable. It uses the round cylinder type key. Obviously the steering shaft has to have the slot milled into it.
Check the Morse website. I believe that Hyvo chain is used in high speed highway snow blowers, rear wheel drive of some off road trucks, et cetera.
I believe earth moving trucks use hydraulic drive. through a planetary drive in the wheel hub.
Yes, the NOrton NRS588 liquid cooled rotary. The center housing is fully coated with MSO2 (the aircraft part), the endplates are only coated around the edge where the tip seal runs. The side seals are running against bare aluminum hence the need for some sort of coating. These are the only...
Suggest you look into the NACA reports on muffler tests. Do not remember the number at the moment, but look at the NASA Glenn site and search on "muffler". They did theoretical calculations and acoustic tests on 77 configurations. Several were built and tested on a 7 cylinder radial engine.
Thanks, any idea if this is a better coating than using a soft grade of tungsten carbide in terms of durabilty and wear of the side seals? The rotary has air/oil mist through the interior of the rotors for cooling/lubrication and I will be adding two-stroke oil to the fuel to aid in the tip seal...
Roller chain has friction when bending each link pin at the sprockets. Hyvo chain uses rocker pins that roll against each other. It also keeps the pins at the pitch line of the drive whereas roller chain goes through a chordal motion with each roller contacting the sprocket.
If by "single speed"...
Greg has the right idea. Imagine two bellcranks side by side. One set of push/pull rods connects to the centre of each, the other connects to one end of each. The outputs are the opposite ends. Which input is elevator and which is aileron depends upon the throws available/required. If the middle...
LCD and LED drivers are quite different. LED drivers only need to source or sink current. LCD drivers have to supply an AC source. Probably easiest to use a micro-controller or specialized LCD driver chips to supply the signals for a LCD driver. Then you need to decide on reflective, back lit or...
You might want to check out Morse Hyvo chain. It does not use rollers in the joints. The joints are rocking pins so do not have the sliding friction of roller chain. Roller chains have chordal motion lifting each roller over the top of the sprocket arc causing vibration. The drawback is if you...
There are IC LED drivers available with BCD input. Simplest is to add a switch for each position (or one switch for forward, one back and one for each lane of the gate), connect the switches through logic gates to convert it to the proper BCD output.
National Semiconductor, among others make them.
