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On Wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
Posted 6:36 AM by whatley (6) comments

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Which begins a sequence that will end at 9:10:11 12/13/14. Is this a mystical message about the end of ________ in eight more years? Fill in your own dire prediction.

# posted by  Andy : April 04, 2006 9:24 AM
 
If you use the European date notation (day/month/year), the sequence will end at 8:09:10 11/12/13, 13 months earlier. I forsee the formation of a cult, and a subsequent schism over the "correct" Ultimate Date. The resulting media-enhanced conflict will permit our government to divert attention from rising poverty and social unrest in this country. Let them eat cake. Politics as usual, boys and girls.

# posted by  Andy : April 04, 2006 9:33 AM
 
You're still unemployed aren't you, Andy?
This may help occupy you're time. This is a hydraulic motor from Poclain Hydraulics. Think it could work as a diesel?

# posted by  A. O. : April 04, 2006 10:10 AM
 
There doesn't seem to be any point where the piston chamber is sealed as it is moving. Every time any piston is moving, there is a port connection open. All intake and exhaust. No compression or expansion. Since fluid is incompressible, that was not part of the hydraulic design. An internal combustion engine is largely an air pump. You can use an IC engine as an air compressor if you drive it externally and add a couple of check valves in the plumbing.

Still idle. Communing with the fluids and fiddley bits on my motorcycles. Had some days of 60-degrees. Now hovering near freezing.

# posted by  Andy : April 04, 2006 12:50 PM
 
I thought you might be able to reconfigure the valving and make it a four-stroke process with each cylinder firing three times per revolution. If you remove every other pair of valves it gives you a compression and firing cycle. The timing would be a bitch but the torque would wicked high.

# posted by  A. O. : April 04, 2006 3:53 PM
 
Why not a two-stroke? Already have the sliding port details in the central flywheel/rotor. Sealing against combustion pressures is an unkown (was the bane of early Mazda Wankels). Timing would be an expensive development, since each change would require re-machining the side-wall plates. Keep piston stroke short for better side-loading control. For emissions, current diesel technology uses direct injection (DI) at max compression/ignition point. With the combustion chambers rotating, high-pressure injector feed is another unknown.

# posted by  Andy : April 05, 2006 12:07 PM
 
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