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#1 TDIMeister

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 23:25

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#2 desmo

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 23:55

I'm not clear on either the cooling or the combustion chambers, both seemingly missing from the descriptions. And there naturally is the usual alt-engine sliding sealing stuff.



#3 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 00:05

How does the valve? induction work? 

The rest seems feasible but really reinventing the wheel.



#4 gruntguru

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 00:26

So you bend the cylinder block around into a circle, replace the crank with a swash plate, rotate the block past the stationary cylinder head withs its ports and spak plugs and viola! a Duke. There was a radial concept along the same lines many years ago - proposed by an Aussie bloke. The Duke is more compact.



#5 TDIMeister

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 00:32

I'm also curious of how and how well the Duke engine seals the rotating cylinder "block" with the stationary head...



#6 Magoo

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 00:58

Interesting -- I saw the video going around the webz yesterday. There doesn't seem to be anything new here except a new social media marketing program. They do have an attractive video they so should be able to generate some web stories.