Received an email from Australia regarding a 1996 air motor conversion
patent located at;
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,515,675'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,515,675&RS=PN/5,515,675
Apparatus to convert a four-stroke internal combustion engine to a
two-stroke
pneumatically powered engine
This conversion claims to retain most of the parts of the internal
combustion engine and to run at pressures of 200psi or less.
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I knew there were numerous schemes for conversion of ordinary internal
combustion engines to air but had not seen this newer patent, thanks.
It seems like something that anyone could do simply by setting up an air
tank, removing the carburetor or modifying to allow high pressure, which
by the way I understand is from about 300-500 psi to kick the pistons
with useful power.
I don't know of anyone in Australia who is working on anything like
this, maybe Duncan Roads at Nexus might know, he gets a lot of mail and
much of it he cannot use for the magazine for space considerations. His
email is; Duncan Roads nexus@peg.apc.org
An onboard compressor would only need electricity and a short time to
recharge, the question would be how much range it would get per
compression charge, but I love the idea of using air as a driving force,
no pollution, no consumption of fuel except for what it took to produce
the electricity in the first place.
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