(Part 2) Top products from r/MachinePorn

I was for the most part doing other stuff in the shop but when I was over there it was pretty sweet. The coolest thing about this set up is that when they bar it over (turn the crank by hand) everything works. We had it cut so that you could see everything work.

As far as learning more I would just use wikipedia or how stuff works has a pretty good basic concept of two strokes. But if you have the money and wish to learn more there are a lot of books out there that are very helpful. I used a similar edition to this in school. You don't have to buy it you can thumb through it and get a pretty good understanding.

Hope that helps!

It does, and its called More Than My Share Of It All. Its interesting, but i found Ben Rich to be a much better writer. Kellys book is not as interesting (at least to me) but nevertheless a good read.

I actually came in this thread to recommend that book. I shouldn't be too surprised that WSPer /u/irishjihad beat me to the punch.

Richard Preston is a fantastic nonfiction author. I've liked all his books, from the Hale telescope in First Light to enormous redwoods in The Wild Trees, and of course what's probably his biggest commercial success, The Hot Zone.

It's an OK placement. You really want the BOV as close to the throttle body as possible... this gives the fastest release of the pressure from the system.

For anyone interested... there's a great book called Maximum Boost on designing and building turbo systems... LOTS of good information in there.

Thanks for this! The turbo-compound Allison was a beastly machine. One of my favorite machineporn subjects. By that point jet technology was eclipsing the high performance piston engine in aviation, and it didn't make it out of the prototype stage as you said. Wright implemented a turbo-compound setup with some of their post war 3350 radials that served well, and continue to serve. An aerial firefighting outfit out of Greybull, Wyoming still flies turbo-compound 3350s in some of their firefighting planes.

Advanced high performance aviation piston engines and their systems are fascinating machines.

You probably already know this, but 2 great books any gear head should own are:

Vees for Victory: The Story of the Allison V-1710 Aircraft Engine 1929-1948

and

R-4360: Pratt & Whitney's Major Miracle

Both books are meticulously researched and will melt your brain if you read them for too long. (in a good way)

Thanks for sharing OP. I'm in middle of The Winter Fortress, a non-fiction book about exactly what you said. Very cool to see a picture of the real thing!

In case anyone is wondering, it's a Rumpler Taube "Dove"

From "Flight- the complete history" page 71 (excellent book by the way, if you like aviation you should definitely buy this book)

> Instantly recognizable by its swept, bird-like wings, which warped for flight control, the Austrian Taube (dove) had its roots in the Etrich-Wels glider of 1907. Manufacture was initially licensed to Rumpler, and the design is generally associated with that company; although it's initial success as a reconnaissance platform in the early days of the war led it to be being built by Albatross, Gotha, and DFW.

> 100 HP Mercedes engine, 6-cylinder liquid-cooled
> 47ft wingspan, 32ft length
> Two seater with a top speed of 60mph

I have the book this is from. Lot's of good cross sections.

https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Absolutely-Section-cross-sections/dp/0751371033

I don't have the book to hand for an exact citation, but it's from Shutting Down the National Dream

Cool! I just finished reading this about a month ago, so this is particularly relevant for me. (And there were no pictures of it in the book).

A CO2 scrubber needs power to work. A couple of 12 volt, 50 amp-hour batteries would keep that running for about a day.

This would roughly double the cost of the pod, and require constant maintenance as the soda lime adsorbent in the canister would gradually capture CO2 no matter how well it's sealed.

Or THIS BOOK.

Its a work truck, not a show truck

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Truck-Kersten-Hamilton/dp/0670014672

Unlike what the submitter claimed in the title, it's actually 2560x1594 pixels, which isn't a lot, but enough to print on a poster.

It's from this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Sopwith-Camel-1916-1920-Owners-Workshop/dp/0857337955

Here's a slightly less compressed link:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1hJG5JDBtL.jpg

And here's a higher res drawing of another WW1 British biplane from the same illustrator:

https://d32ptomnhiuevv.cloudfront.net/en-gb/sites/default/files/product_jackets/Haynes-H5846-page-4.jpg

Do you have a copy of this book http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Railroads-Electrified-Revised-Edition/dp/0253339790

For US electric railway fans its practically a bible. Had my copy of the first edition signed by Middleton himself at a convention years ago.

Great Book on Alcoa by Richard Preston.

Consumer HDDs easily reach 8TB these days. Even in 2.5" form factor, here's a 5TB going for $181

Going by this link from the other comments a 10MB 1960 HDD costed nearly $36,000

Insanity

>desinged to operate for long periods at 3.5 times the speed of sound

FTFY!

This is, to this day, my favorite aircraft ... hell my favorite machine, built by man.

May I recommend picking up a copy of Flying the SR-71 by retired Colonel Richard H. Graham? I always get the weirdest boner reading this book.

Edit: Hell, if you haven't read it yet and do not have the means to pick up a copy, I will buy it for you. Just send me your info in PM.

I’d highly recommend Robert Massie’s Castles of Steel for an excellent overview of the naval conflict of WWI. He goes into great detail about the ramifications of the submarine campaign and how it ultimately pulled America into the war.


Previous to WWI, commerce raiding was done by well-armed ships which would force a merchantman to stop, board, determine its nationality, pull off the crew, and then scuttle the ship. Initially, submarines attempted to follow this model. Unfortunately, they had no space or crew to detain potentially hostile passengers and enemy crews. Furthermore, they were extremely fragile things and, once the British began using Q ships (merchantmen with naval crews and hidden guns), the Germans could no longer risk surfacing and engaging with gunfire.


These factors, compounded with the problem of identifying a ship’s (possibly fake) flag from a dim periscope a few feet above the waves lead the Germans to declare the entire North Sea a battle zone in which any ship of any nationality might be fired upon. It was this factor, which America saw as an unjust abrogation of its rights as a neutral, combined with the loss of American lives and ships from the submarine campaign that drew the nation into the war.