Aeolus's Trident- MAJOR UPDATE! 11/26/2010
- Technician1002
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When retracted fully into the nipple, does the o ring have any chance at exiting the other end of the nipple into the coupling?
Chance of course, but I highly doubt it actually would. It would have to almost completely deform the bumper (Which cannot be done by throwing all my weight onto a clamp), but if it did, the bounce back would shred the o-ring for sure. It's likely that the previous UHMWPE backing did deform a little and allow the o-ring to poke out the back of the nipple and shred on the way back in when I re-pressurized.
I am now going to make the piston's ghettoness factor go up by about a factor of 100 in an attempt to make it ideal, so wish me luck!
I am now going to make the piston's ghettoness factor go up by about a factor of 100 in an attempt to make it ideal, so wish me luck!
O-ring was not sealing correctly due to a diameter deficiency. I wrapped the section of the bolt under it in some cellulose mixed with a solution of vinyl acetate ethylene copolymer, and it's working like a real check valve now.
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I was wondering if next time you get it open you could take a few pictures of the piston seat for me, I'm not understanding how it seals on a standard bushing
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Sure, if I can manage something that's not a big white blur. My camera hates dark shots.
EDIT: Yeah, it hates dark shots. This is the best I can do for you right now .
And also this is the end product of today's work (I think I can, I think I can, I think I can)
EDIT: Yeah, it hates dark shots. This is the best I can do for you right now .
And also this is the end product of today's work (I think I can, I think I can, I think I can)
Shot a 11/32" low-carbon steel ball at 1/16th inch weldable steel plate.
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so you just really wrenched that fitting in?
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Wrenched indeed . Well actually, since the cross is type 304/304L stainless it acts as a chasing die on almost any other fitting I pick up from my local hardware store. Use it like a die; Turn it in, back it out, repeat. Clean out shavings. Repeat. Eventually it goes all the way in.
New video compilation on the first page, since I finally bothered to learn how to use Windows Media Player. In the course of doing so, I made a pseudo slow-motion by fading in consecutive frames, and what it shows about the airfloat expansion is quite interesting (since the brain interpolates what's between the frames as they fade together).
I think I can answer that now as a yes, but my camera isn't high-speed so the vortex ring is forming in one frame, and disintegrating in the next. Watch the video, at the very very end.Technician1002 wrote:Did it eventually turn into a vortex ring?