Recent content by blkexp98

I don't have any useage info yet. Those are some good ideas and starting points. Ill do some more research on them and see what would be the good and bad points of the methods. That may steer me in a more focused direction. 1,2 and 3 would work well in a horizontal position too where as 4...

I have a project that I have been thinking about and need to us CO2 for it. What ways are there to measure the amount of CO2 left in a cylinder if its mounted to a moving object? I thought about the normal scale method but with bumps it wouldn't be accurate. You can't really measure pressure...

Some quick things to get you thinking are: -Are there any fluids going to be around the area you want to transfer power at? -How far away do you need to transfer the power? -Is weight a consideration? -Do you have a place to mount all the gears? -What kind of ratio do you need? -Will you...

Yea I see what you mean about separating the two sections but wouldn't that be wasting some of the compression if you let some blow by to slow the second power takeoff section? I guess you may could have a smaller compressor and let the air expand to be used by a larger turbine so it would turn...

Is there such a thing (other than wind) as a slow speed turbine? If not is it an efficiency issue or what? Turbines seem to be able to put out high horsepower but at a cost of speed. By that I mean its too fast to get useable torque at low speeds. With gas being the source of power and not...

How do you get started learning how to write a program to display and manipulate information from various sensors? What I am mainly interested in are volts and mA's since that's what most transducers and sensors use. I would like to be able to see the information on a computer or eventually on...

Could you have someone with a mandrel bender just bend your choice of tube and have a water jet cut the tube? With a fixture and program for the water jet you could duplicate the 4 parts pretty close. I have no idea how much they would charge for shop time on a water jet though. If you made a...

Thanks for the replies. I have considered turbines but I don't know enough about them to build them and transfer the power to something else. Turbines seem a little less forgiving and have to be balanced better than i think I can do right now. I have thought about the pneumatic cylinders...

The army also uses the M24 which is a Rem 700 action. As you said the mission chooses the weapon if they have that option. In my experience like Mr. Bridge noted the velocity difference isn't much to really dictate the choice. The Navy also uses the M21 as a weapon in their inventory...

To give a little background I have machine tool training but not much other than what I have taught myself in general physics. Its a VERY interesting subject for me and I have thought about going back to college just to take a course or two relating to it. I come up with various ideas I would...