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MacGyver

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Posted: 09:29pm 14 Sep 2009

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Ropatec

Has anyone on the forum ever built one of these? It'd make a dandy air
pump, eh?

Here's the link information:

Ropatec

I've tried and tried to make the link work and just can't get the hang of it.
I even tried HTML to no avail!

If you have trouble (you will!), just click on the little yellow finger at the
top of the page that says "Back to Homegrown Power". That will take you
to the front page and it's a link down near the lower right side that says
"Click Here".

I've been on this forum for months and only today realized there was a
front page with oodles of intriguing information. You'd also think by now
I'd have figured out this link thing too, right? NOT . . . Duh!

HEY! The link worked for a moment. Now it's messed up again. Go
figure!

Edited by Gizmo 2009-09-16

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Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
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Posted: 03:51am 15 Sep 2009

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I fixed that link for you, what internet browser are you using?

I do like the Ropatec, and I've been tempted to build one. The power is good, and they are nice and quiet.

Glenn

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Posted: 04:39am 15 Sep 2009

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Gizmo:

Thanks! I'm using Safari on a Mac. I must be using the caveman version, I
dunno; just can't seem to get a handle on this link and picture-posting
thing.

I sent you a private email; I'm putting the finishing touches on a very
exceptional air motor this week. Maybe next week I'll build a Ropatec!

:O)

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Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
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oztules

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Posted: 06:31am 15 Sep 2009

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Sorry Gizmo, your fixed link returned the dreaded 404

try this:
rotopec

.............oztules

Village idiot...or... just another hack out of his depth

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Posted: 07:17am 15 Sep 2009

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That looks like the same bug that I've seen we get with Google Chome, it inserts hidden line breaks into the text, which throws out the link code. Put simply, Safari ( and Google Chrome ) are trying to be smart and formatting the text for you, but they are in fact stuffing it up.

http://www.thebackshed.com/windmill/articles/TownsvilleStran dWindmill.asp

MacGyver do you have access to a PC with either Internet Explorer or Firefox? It would be interresting to see if you have the same problem on another PC.

Glenn

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Posted: 03:50pm 15 Sep 2009

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I'll try my next post containing a link using Firefox; maybe that'll be the
trick here. I haven't even touched my PC for about 6 years! I don't even
know if it will operate after such a long siesta.

Other Stuff:

Latest air engine is almost a go. Here's a little teaser: One 'cylinder', one
'piston', 12" stroke, piston's power stroke is 345 degrees; runs on low-
pressure compressed air, is positive displacement and has 2 moving parts.
Figure that one out!

Hint: It's 'non-traditional' rotary; not sliding vane.Edited by MacGyver 2009-09-17

Nothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
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Greenbelt

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Posted: 06:15pm 15 Sep 2009

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MacGyver;
This has style!
if power out = appearance then I would say a dandy engine for pumping air.
If anyone is interested in using hot water to heat their home then a heat pump compressor would do a fine job transfering energy to a water reservoir through a heat exchanger.
What I like about the Heat pump cycle is the efficiency ratio 3 to 1, If this turbine can produce 1 hp. at 15 km. wind (746 watts) the heat output would be over 2000 watts.

Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True?

Robb
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Posted: 04:23am 16 Sep 2009

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Firefox sounds like a good move

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