> 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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DM,
I replied to this you should already have copy,
If not then in short there must still be a pressure relief valve (old
style radiator cap)
in the cooling system at the highest point. The rest is in the other reply.
Just will not happen the way it is put above.
Unless you are nutty enough to leave out any pressure relief, should the
worst happen.
You would have to have a multiple catastrophic failure all at once.
You would need something like this to happen all at once.
Pressure relief failed, the water pump belt broke and the air flow to
the cooling system got blocked.
The chances of this happening at once approaches zero.
Regards David Gaze
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