I'm using 7075T6 for mine. The properties of 2024 and 7075 are close enough. You might want to check out the strength at elevated temperature though. I had to...
Just thought I would try to add some help to this discussion.... Mil hndbk 5 (materials bible for aircraft alloys....) is now called MMPDS-01 it is accessable...
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Well here we go the start of the sub heads as you can see in the file section name Luke's stuff I have uploaded some pictures of whats happening here, picture...
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Well thanks but what you are doing in foundary work is a dream here and is something that is in the works here just gotta find me some refractory cemment....
The Dayton, Ohio WW1 airshow is scheduled for September 30 to October 2, 2005. They only hold this show every other year. This is probably the premiere event...
We are going to Dayton the Monday after Easter. I would be glad to have a look around to see what is avalible. I would even look for a group rate if enough...
Been awhile but were back at milling out the rest of the head first we had to finish cracking them in two pieces next was to mill out the underneath of the...
Hi, This is my first time writing into the group. I am very interested in the HCI but have a couple of questions that have probably been answered before. How...
M14 is able to work for ages non stop, but you can not say that for HCI. M14 fitted in thousands of aircraft but HCI can be counted on the fingers jadams37...
Radial engines have some real advantages, and power to weight ratio is one of them. There were tens of thousands of radials used in WW2 and they had...
Hello Rob - not to start an argument, but if you check, you will find that hp/displacement is higher with water cooling, while hp/weight is fairly constant....
Edi, I have built the same list myself, and found the same thing. I started to post this last night, but nited that Roberts post was a radial/non radial...
Hello Charles - all true - as a compact package only the rotary engines were better. A year or so back I was teasing the grey matter with trying to arrange a...
Hello Rob - not to start an argument, but if you check, you will find that hp/displacement is higher with water cooling, while hp/weight is fairly constant....
To answer the question that began this thread I came across an SAE article written in the 1930's. It can be found in our "files" section under RADequation and...
Hi all -- I have received vol 1 and 2 of the Alternate engines manuals as a gift and I already have them. These are unopened and full of articles and...
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMMOTORS66/ <--- this is a great place for all your custom needs all brought together in one site please feel free to post...
Hi Larry, just in order to come back to the initial question :-) The Russian M-14 is as it is, not more or less. It has 360HP and could not be counted by many...
To All, I am in the beginning stages if a possible project. I have fallen into a Loehle P-40 project and am wondering on how to proceed. I love Radials and am...
A few years ago the posts talked about overhead valves running on the R220. Also, that HCI was trying to sell the business. Any updates on these two issues? ...
Hello Yes we are running our R-220 with overhead valves. The setup works extremely well. All R-220 plan sets now include the OHV drawing set. It is true that...