Big Snip      Of course we must control the heat input into the pressure

cooker

....................ah

.........................I have an idea a cooling system to get rid of
the excess heat :)

.................................................... sorry about
that.....................

Regards David Gaze


If you continue to heat the water the pressure will continue
to build eventually bottoming out the piston and cause a major
failure somewhere else. Steam boilers are known for blowing
up from time to time.

If you have steam coming out of your cowl in a simple pressure can
system with a pressure relief cap you can back off on the power and find
a place to land while you still have some coolant left in the engine.
If you are lucky the engine temp will drop low enough at reduced power
to stop generating steam. In other words you have a warning.

With an accumulator system the first warning is a burst radiator
with all the coolant departing overboard shortly through the hole.

Just like a steam locomotive engineer you need to keep your
eye on the temp pressure gage.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul ..this is a VERY important safety consideration and needs to be

repeated in case anyone slept thru the msg.       DM



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