black85vette
It's not that I don't want to make gears, I do. I just never have. The problem is that I am starting from a slightly radical point and want to design an IC engine around the wobble plate mechanism. I know what you are thinking. "This guy's got a one track mind". You are right.
There is a current topic underway where several members discussed the difficulty of keeping foccused and getting projects finished. I have a similar problem. I don't know when it's finished. I get the engine to run and then I want to get it to run better. In the process, a design change occurs to me and I am off in a slightly different direction meant to improve the project, but its still the same project. I don't find fault with the original designer because that's me. Sometimes the change just means remaking a part with a better fit. Sometimes it involves a major redesign of a critical component.
When I get the three cylinder version of the engine fine tuned, I will turn to fine tuning the six cylinder version. When I get that done, I will add governed power control. After that I may build a boiler to see how it runs on steam. At some point in the future I will want to build an IC version. So as I said, I'm thinking waaaaaay ahead.
Solver
Thanks for the link. I looked at Jan Ridders simple two stroke design. It does not use a closed crancase which I like. Maybe I can find a way to incorporate some of it's features
Thanks for the responses.
Jerry