hi..my dad likes to tinker around, has been for awhile trying to make his own working steam engine..small one of course..he is using the crank shaft out of a sewing machine.also the flywheel and connecting rod off a sewing machine as well...and he has been working making the cylinder out of cast aluminum drilled .bored ect.. you know every thing that would be needed..
in the past he has used compressed air to run the things which is sorta like cheating i guess...so he is running piping and such to a pressure cooker and hopes the thing will run on like 10 lbs of steam pressure....
he keeps asking me and others if 10 lbs of steam pressure is the same as 10 lbs of air pressure....
sounds like pressure would be pressure...
are there anything thoughts on this..more power with steam etc?
or other benefits or problems involving steam...? thanks
in the past he has used compressed air to run the things which is sorta like cheating i guess...so he is running piping and such to a pressure cooker and hopes the thing will run on like 10 lbs of steam pressure....
he keeps asking me and others if 10 lbs of steam pressure is the same as 10 lbs of air pressure....
sounds like pressure would be pressure...
are there anything thoughts on this..more power with steam etc?
or other benefits or problems involving steam...? thanks