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Postby racear » Thu May 07, 2009 10:51 am

I have a homemade flow bench and am getting +60 in depression even with two 3 inch bleed offs. Working around this now. But need help on two problems , one is I need a simple valve opener; second is that I am sucking the valve open with the springs I am using. Need some thoughts.
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Postby msj442 » Thu May 07, 2009 11:06 pm

i would like to see and learn more about your bench. internals, etc

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Postby racear » Tue May 12, 2009 5:54 pm

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I am using a 1271 blower mounted on a 50 gallon tank and driven by a 5hp 3200 rpm 220 volt motor. I then push air thru a 3 inch pipe with air straighteners in it that dumps into a 25 gallon tank that I have more air straighteners welded in. This inturn goes into cylinders of different dia. to meet my needs. I can flow from as small as I want to 5 inches in dia. I have a inclined manometer that is five feet long with two u tube manometers. One is 36 inches long and other is 12 inches long. I can check port pressure as well as depression. I just installed a Audie Tech system in the 3 inch tubes and am now running comparison test. I made my own orifice plates and ground the internal dimesions to SAE specs but have never flowed them against a known reference then I get lucky and pull the heads off and install them on my grunt engine for my dyno that I built.
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Postby msj442 » Tue May 12, 2009 8:56 pm

man sounds like you been busy over the years.
any pics to share?

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Postby racear » Wed May 13, 2009 9:44 am

I do have pictures of the dyno. I will take pics of the flow bench and post them. I will dig up the dyno pics and post them. If any one interested will post pictures of the CNC mill. Hoping to do a lathe shortly.
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Postby msj442 » Wed May 13, 2009 5:34 pm

i would like to see your mill also

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Postby jakesportingservice » Sat May 16, 2009 9:11 pm

It sounds very interesting all of the equipment you have available pics of some of these project would be great to see.
i myself have been wanting to convert my mill to cnc .

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