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- From: msw@meaddata.com (Michael Walpole)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Gear drive & Prop
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 22:04:26 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- References: <1992Dec7.204955.28832@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <ByyEIE.A43@storcon.uucp> <Byyzp8.G3o@inews.Intel.COM> <Bz9C4q.87J@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <Bz9C4q.87J@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- |> In article <Byyzp8.G3o@inews.Intel.COM> user@machine.domain writes:
- |>
- |> >Has anyone ever marketed a gear drive for gas engines? Whatever
- |> >advantage it gives to an electric motor should also apply to
- |> >the gas engine. (Or is it less weight to simply use a bigger
- |> >engine that add a gearbox to a smaller one?)
-
- I believe at onetime OS made a .60 with a gear drive.
-
- |> There have been several used in competition that I've heard of. One
- |> of the top Pattern fliers has a .60 on a belt reduction drive. There
- |> have even been pictures of someone's (Dean Pappas'?) contrarotating
- |> prop setup - two gear or belt-driven .60s, one facing forward, the
- |> other backwards, driving concentric shafts.
-
- Dean Koger has been flying a belt reduction drive for about 4 or 5
- years. This unit lets the engine run at 15K rpm while the prop turns
- at 7K rpm. The unit with the engine is a little lighter than a YS120.
- I think the unit was designed by Wayne Ulery. Wayne also designed and
- built the Vortex, Dean's pattern plane. Dean uses a highly modified Webra
- .61 that with the unit turns a 16"x16" prop a 7K rpm. Simalarly, a
- YS120AC on 25% nitro will turn a 14"x14" prop approximately 8500 rpm.
- The geared .61 2-stroke has more power than the 120 4-stroke.
-
- The real interesting part is that a friend of mine built an exact copy
- of the unit and used a YS61 instead of the Webra. The YS61 had just
- been rebuilt with new bearings and a Shadel piston and liner. Once
- the YS61 had been setup, it turned a 16"x16" prop the same rpm as the
- Webra.
-
- The unit consists of a frame that the engine mounts on and holds the
- bearings for the pulleys. There are two sets of pulleys and the total
- gear reduction is about 2.25 to 1. The belts used are standard cog
- belts and the pulleys are cut off pulley bar stock. This unit uses a
- brass flywheel on the engine to smooth out the power strokes. If the
- flywheel wasn't there, the engine would strip the teeth off the belt
- the first time it was fired up. This unit would probably cost $200 to
- make if you had the drawings and knew a good machinest/toolmaker.
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