It's a Radial!

[BKB]

Made this in my shop.Thought some of you airplane fans might like it.
Runs on compressed air. Bore is .375",Stroke is .375".
Total displacement is a whopping 1 cubic inch!
Over 300 pieces,including machined parts and hardware.
Tell me what you think of the colors.I personally like the green...........
When I figure out how to attach a video,I'll show some of it "under power"

Brian(B2)

[FlyKidChris]

Re: It's a Radial!

Awesome! Now just scale it up 3,350 times and you'll have a bunch of racers beating a path to your door!

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: It's a Radial!

That is beyond amazing! Did you have a kit, or do it from your own design? Either way, very impressive!

[BKB]

Re: It's a Radial!

Built from a set of crude plans I found.Modified them to better suit what I was looking to achieve. There is about 100 hours of shop time in this.
I have big old sausage fingers and the scale is right about the minimum size of parts I like to work with.It was fun,for sure.I'm an inline fan.
It was cool to get a better understanding of how a radial works.

Brian(B2)

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: It's a Radial!

Brian, I have to admit, I'm a "water pumper" fan myself... this, after YEARS and YEARS of owning VW's.. At the time, I was convinced that air was the only way to cool an engine and water was always a bad thing to have near an engine... After years, now, of owning three different GM trucks, a couple Toyota's and the like, I find myself asking myself.. "WHAT WAS I THINKING!" I actually get almost as good milage with my '97 CK1500 w/350 as I did with my 1.8 liter veedub van!

Neat project! Thanks for sharing!!

[Chad Veich]

Re: It's a Radial!

Is it a pusher? (Propeller appears to be on backwards.)

[BKB]

Re: It's a Radial!

Is it a pusher? (Propeller appears to be on backwards.)

Good catch Chad!

It's on backwards because the motor runs counterclockwise when viewed from behind.

Brian(B2)

[Pete]

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too cool.

Can you show us some pics of the internals?

[Skyracer]

Re: It's a Radial!

It's on backwards because the motor runs counterclockwise when viewed from behind.

Brian(B2)

HUH??

[Lockheed Bob]

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An old Chinese Naval saying was"All Those Forward Go Aft & All Those Aft Go Forward, Those Midship Direct Traffic". Huh?

[Exhaustgases]

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Not to out do the nice radial you made. I just thought the inline folks would be jelous. So this is for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xe1LL1IC7Y

[440_Magnum]

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Good catch Chad!

It's on backwards because the motor runs counterclockwise when viewed from behind.

Brian(B2)

It wants to be a Centaurus when it grows up.

Very nice work!

[BKB]

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Well I think I figured out how to upload some video.
Here is a short clip of the little radial running.
Sorry fo the lower quality of cimematography.I only have 2 hands and have no staff at this time.

Brian(B2)

http://vimeo.com/52363046