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Making the piping semi transparent might also work, particularly with this baby. Depending on your software, you may want to create a master assembly with everything visible and together and copies of it with exploded / transparent components. I have created several 6-inline and V12 diesels this...

Looking at photos of the complete thing, one cannot make out the basic shape of the block and cylinders for all the piping-the same would happen with a virtual model. My solution for engines is to create a staged exploded view, that is, show the block assembly, the moving parts as assembled, the...

Your R-4360 looks truly impressive!!! I have started repeatedly on one (and stopped, and started...) mainly due to lack of information. You are dealing with a 15,000+ part engine. A few drawings are not going to give you more than a vague idea of the overall effect. If I am going to reconstruct...

Also, mating wings and tail surfaces to fuselages keeping the correct cross sections of all can be a real headache if not planned for. My best solution is to build a single surface model of all the major contours combined, and copy it to build whatever solid parts of it I need to keep separate...

I have no Corsair drawings to offer, but I do have extensive experience in 3D modeling, including aircraft at 1/1 (I am slowly working up a B-36 in full detail) How you produce the model depends on what you want the final product to be (scale model, flying model, fully detailed reconstruction)...

Sorry, I misread your message. Your tapes sound quite interesting, though, and sooner or later I will find a VCR and digitize them. Please let me know what arrangements you want to make to pay for the costs and mailing the tapes to me. Thank you.

I would be ecstatic to take your videos and vcr, mainly because I would be able to create digital files from the tapes as well as from a number of my own VHS tapes. There are innumerable programs that were only produced in VHS and deserve to be preserved.

GrauGeist said: I'm going out on a limb here, based on observation, and think that you're not all that familiar with how an internal combustion engine works. What part of this statement does not seem condescending to you? Let me know so that I can clearly...

Fascinating and revealing. What a fine post!

Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. Strictly speaking, the intended correct term would have been pressure differential. And yet, you would never call out "pressure differential-assisted brakes". In technology vacuum tends to describe a negative pressure differential actuated system...

And where is YOUR evidence? You are obviously not interested in whatever I might have to say, so any further involvement on my part is fruitless. I am sorry I wrote to such eminent authorities in my attempt to contribute to a dialogue. I will not try it again

And BTW, when the exhaust valves open the pressure differential between the burnt fuel air mixture and outside air also create what you would call a vacuum as the piston moves upward in the exhaust stroke. In all kinds of internal combustion engines.

But this is not how a DIESEL operates. And I was referring to the V-2, which was a diesel with four exhaust valves per cylinder operated by two separate camshafts. But of course you knew that. You know everything. You know me so very well. Thank you for the lecture and condescension.

АМ-34 — Википедия В-2 — Википедия М-17 (двигатель) — Википедия For starters I also based myself on a set of 1942 manufacturing drawings and several wartime and postwar user, maintenance and repair manuals, particularly for the V-2; I would not have attempted a virtual engineering model without.

Suction is generated by the down stroke of the piston. Air is drawn from the perforations towards the top of the cylinder. The original V-2 was normally aspirated. Postwar versions added a turbocharger, different pumps, an electric starter even. There may not have been any original part of the...