Paul,
I'm not an engineer so help me out here.  I get some junk mail from an
Army-Navy surplus type that sells guns, parts and books.  One of the

manuals

they sell is a study done on the fabrication of silencers for guns by some
government arsenal.

Now my question; How does the detonation of a gun and the detonation of an
engine differ other than in the sound wave speed and frequency?  If one

can

silence a gun can't we do the the same with the rotary?   Do you think any
of the techniques of gun silencers would be applicable to silencing of our
Mazda rotaries?  Wasn't some Detroit grad student on the list going to

help

us make the rotary purr like a kitten?

Jim Brewer
Albemarle, NC

There are some similarities that's for sure.

Paul Lamar

Todd Carrico Wrote:

I will go out on a limb here.  A silencer basicly allows the expanding gas
to finish expanding and making noise, before the bullet exits the barrel.
That is my understanding, but thier could be other more advanced methods.
We do not have projectiles (well we arwen't suposed to anyway), and they
also aren't trying to silence 4500 bangs a minute.

I don't want to rain on your parade though, sometimes you have break the
rules to make great strides.  May be worth a looksy.  If nothing else you
could silence your favorite varmit getter and stop disturbing the neighbors
<grin>.

tc

10,000 bangs a minute at 5000 RPM.

Paul Lamar
 
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