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THAT'S right! The flame of a commoncandle is the sole source of power—noboiler, no displacement chamber, no ex-plosion within the cylinder itself. Fig. 1shows how it works. You will see rightaway that it is essentially a model of theheavy-duty, horizontal-type gasoline en-gine, except for the hinged valve mountedon the cylinder head. This trap-door affairfits tightly over an opening in the cylinderwhen closed, and is actuated by a cam onthe crankshaft. The lighted candle is setwith its flame adjacent to the opening. Asthe piston moves in one direction, the valveopens and the flame is sucked into the cyl-inder. At the end of the stroke the valvecloses. The moment the flame is cut off avacuum is produced in the cylinder, andthe piston is drawn inward on a powerstroke. When the piston reverses its di-rection, the cycle is repeated.Fig. 2 details the base which is simply amatter of bending, filing and solderingsheet metal. The cylinder, Fig. 3, is a morefussy job. A 1-in. pipe nipple and cap formthe body. The inside surface of the pipemust be machined smooth and bored to adiameter uniform throughout the length.Later the piston is turned to fit the bore di-ameter. The contact surfaces of the valvemechanism should be surface ground andthen finished up on a surface plate. Sootwhich accumulates on the meeting sur-faces tends to seal the valve. As you willsee from Fig. 3 the pipe-cap cylinder headrequires just a simple shoulder cut in thelathe and then some careful hand filing.Fig. 4 shows the crankshaft, flywheels
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efinley

you could tell me an engine ran on rainbows and lollipops and I would believe it - nevertheless, this is still pretty cool

reply08 / 28 / 2009
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