Valve design

[tel]

Very similar to this one of mine.

 

[black85vette]

Brian; not 100% sure but it looks like you have the valve plate with the 9 holes in it placed to the outside of the valve body. It should go between the valve body and the cylinder body. Then the cover is the same size but without the 9 holes.

Pretty cool to see all the parts modeled and exploded.

 

[cfellows]

Ya beat me to it Chuck - I was just over on Matt Keveney's site getting the link.

Sorry, Tel, didn't mean to rain on your parade...

Chuck

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Black85vette---You were right--I've corrected it.

 

[tel]

Sorry, Tel, didn't mean to rain on your parade...

Chuck

;D No worries matey, the link got here, that's the main thing!

 

[agr]

Brian,

There is a web site I came across quite a while ago that has some great information on steam engine design, including many "Rules of Thumb' for calculating valve sizes, piston rod diameters, etc. It might be of some interest

http://www.alanstepney.info/index.html

This page specifically talks about valve dimensions
http://www.alanstepney.info/page28.html


Tony

 

[ianjkirby]

Hello Brian, and anyone else interested,
There are a couple of good computer simulations of various valve gears on the net, and the links are;

http://www.avocetconsulting.com.au/modeleng/

and

http://www.tcsn.net/charlied/

In both cases, just follow the links to the simulator programs. They have to be downloaded and installed, but they are both "safe", many people have used them.

They cover both inside (usually piston valve), and outside (usually slide valve) gears, and if nothing else, will repay your time "playing" with them. That said, they are a bit deep, and may be beyond interest unless you are keenly wishing to learn about valve gears. Have a look, and make up your own mind.

Regards, Ian.

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Great thread with lots of good information.
Very helpful.
Thanks.

 

[Brian Rupnow]

There are some excellent guidlines for valve design in the following link. Thank you agr!!
http://www.alanstepney.info/page28.html

 

[gmac]

Brian;

I know squat about steam engines :big: but I ran across this site in my daily internet travels and was reminded of your question about valve timing - it may or may not help;

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...kel+engines&ndsp=20&hl=en&sa=N&start=640&um=1

(if you can chew all that web address...)

Garry

 

[gmac]

Sorry;

Got that address muddled; try these;

http://oldenginehouse.users.btopenworld.com/vg.htm (software)

http://oldenginehouse.users.btopenworld.com/technical.htm

Garry

 

[hammers-n-nails]

this old book should have way more than enough information for our purposes.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kr...resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

hope this helps