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Thread: Jan Ridders Pressure-controlled Two-stroke engine
22/05/2009 16:53:33
Although Jan suggested emailing him directly, I am posting my question here so others can see it.
 
I have built the air intake on the carburettor with the bottom pipe not touching the fuel as the drawing shows. On Jans website his model shows this pipe immersed in the fuel, almost touching the bottom of the tank. This gives the fuel a frothing effect when running. Should I modify mine or should it run with either design?
 
My congratulations to Jan for his engines (as shown on his website), they are quite remarkable. 
21/05/2009 17:57:52
The design relies upon petrol vapour being sucked up into the cylinder from the fuel tank, not neat or atomised petrol. Its difficult to tell if this is taking place as you can't see it.
19/05/2009 23:18:44
Hi John,
I to have made this engine and it looks very good. But like you I cannot get it to fire. I am using a piezo crystal from a gas lighter which seems to give a good spark.  This is my first IC engine. I quite thought that with a quick turn it would be away. Its difficult to know where to go from here. I have put a picture in my album. Maybe I should stick to steam, I can get them to work.
Regards,
Peter
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