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by cbromano
Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:11 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Designing a 200lb thrust engine, anything majorly wrong?
Replies: 25
Views: 28373

Thanks for the help. The part about the retainer plates makes sense.

Did I read the caption on the image right? You said you used razor blades for the valves?

Thanks again-
CB Romano
by cbromano
Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:27 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Designing a 200lb thrust engine, anything majorly wrong?
Replies: 25
Views: 28373

MK-
How did you fasten the spring steel to the valve plate? Also- I am probably wrong but wouldn't the valves not carry enough momentum to go past a line parallel with airflow? I would think the retainers would not be necessary because the valves move a lot less then petal valves.

CB Romano
by cbromano
Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:09 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Fuel Control
Replies: 5
Views: 5612

Hmmm- I have very little experience in circuitry like this. It will take me quite a while to fully comprehend what you are speaking of. I was hoping for a simple solution like a manual valve but as the saying goes "anything worth doing is worth doing right." I am reading the links you posted and am ...
by cbromano
Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:28 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Fuel Control
Replies: 5
Views: 5612

Fuel Control

I have been fishing around in junkyards for fuel injector parts to fuel a pulsejet with 25lbs of thrust. I have realized that the entire time I have just looking for the pump and the injector. Have I overlooked a way to monitor fuel flow? The magnetic switch in the fuel injector can start and stop f...
by cbromano
Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:29 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: Russian Flying Saucer
Replies: 9
Views: 10318

As you might imagine the US Air Force has thought of all this long before. They have tried both sucking and blowing air around the airfoil. The ability to make the air “stickâ€
by cbromano
Fri Jan 16, 2004 5:30 am
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Gas Fuel Lines
Replies: 5
Views: 6644

I had to change DIY stores after i told them what i was going to use the lines for. But yes they absolutely refused to sell me anything gas related with out a regulator.
by cbromano
Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:43 pm
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Gas Fuel Lines
Replies: 5
Views: 6644

i ran into the same problem. DIY stores didn't want to sell me a propane line w/o a regualtor and offered absoulutly no help on how to solve the problem. For mine i bought a 5 foot hose that is meant to adapt natural gas from the house to a propane grill. I also bought the type of propane fitting th...
by cbromano
Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:14 am
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: When is a tube not a tube?
Replies: 5
Views: 4789

Wow our guest really has some great insight for us.
by cbromano
Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:12 am
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Fun with Latex?
Replies: 1
Views: 3504

Fun with Latex?

Tupperware just came out with new pans made of some latex type stuff. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and are about a quarter inch thick. My mother is obsessed with them because she can’t get over putting rubber in the oven and it not melting. Is there any use? I dont have a clue how mu...
by cbromano
Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:00 pm
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Blue Tempered Steel for the valves
Replies: 10
Views: 10796

Are you sure that was the doorbell ringing and not yours ears??? :)
CB Romano
by cbromano
Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:22 pm
Forum: Ramjet forum
Topic: Pop Sci Ramjet
Replies: 7
Views: 13656

Pop Sci Ramjet

I have a friend who talked about a ramjet design in Popular Science that could run stationary. Anyone have a clue what he was talking about?
thanks CB Romano
by cbromano
Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:48 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Dual Augmentors and Air Cooling
Replies: 7
Views: 7668

I realize that the air "drawn" through the front would have little (read: no) acceleration due to thermal expansion like what you are talking about in normal augmentors. BUT here's what I was thinking- As the air bypasses the jet it will absorb quite a bit of heat it would by no means be as hot as t...
by cbromano
Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:12 am
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Liquid fuel vaporizer
Replies: 22
Views: 25136

Being the Cheep skate i am i wonder if those air diffusers they use in fishtanks would be able to do anything to release fuel underpressure
by cbromano
Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:21 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: Dual Augmentors and Air Cooling
Replies: 7
Views: 7668

Dual Augmentors and Air Cooling

A friend of mine builds hovercraft as a hobby. We want to make a jet propelled version but safety has become a real issue. If the thing catches an edge at high speed it will most likely flip. The problem is that we would have to mount the engine low for balance reasons and far too close to the drive...
by cbromano
Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:05 am
Forum: Valved pulsejet forum
Topic: V-1 Zipfiles
Replies: 15
Views: 20029

BTW Some People DO READ subject lines

:)