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Originally Posted by belovelife
is that a fundimental flaw in the desighn, or a desighn aspect needed for the tool?
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A fundamental flaw of design, primarily for profit yield, secondarily because the fellers that came up with the design for whatever reason decided it was good enough long before giving it enough thought to catch the errors of their ways.
It really is a good foundation for an air motor design but serious rethought need be applied to how the slides (pistons) and rotor seal to each other and the housing, also the inlet and exhaust port flow should be parallel to the rotation of the motor rather than the oddball perpendicular layout found in many tools or the paralel in perpendicular out flow.
Of course a liquid refrigerant powered rotary which uses atmospheric heat to convert it to a gas and then an electric compressor to squish it back to a liquid would be super cool....use the evap. to cool the refrigerant holding tank so the compressor don't have to work so hard and use the condenser to heat the rotary....while ye rat it use the heat from the alternater and compressor motor to provide more heat to the evap. side....yah .....won't run forever but prolly a lot longer than compressed air and at much lower pressures....I call it the atmospheric heat steam engine (the steam being R134A or similar in gass form)
