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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 16:24:21 GMT -5
"Yes, and independent of the wind, and without oars, just keep a fire going. And most ships already have furnaces on board..." These propellers could take the ship... Pretty fast. "Only thing controlling your direction is the tiller."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 16:31:15 GMT -5
I'd bet it could out-pace a Baroque if you pushed it hard enough... But that would probabilly blow the boiler.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 16:40:10 GMT -5
"That actually depends on the scale of it." Linx was picturing something... Pretty big. "In order for it to be an even trade-off from sails, as far as mass, it would be... Extremely fast."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 16:47:58 GMT -5
We're talking a sloop here my friend. Baroques leave ships like that in their wake by about twenty knots. With this new system you're desiging, you'd be adding a potential twenty-four knots not counting having full canvas out to catch a strong wind during a chase. You're looking at another dozen on top of the two dozen gained by that boiler. As standard you've got about ten knots curising speed for a sloop, three times that for a baroque, all in favourable winds at full sheet. With this new system, that's six knots on top of a baroque.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 16:49:41 GMT -5
"Which is a baroque... It might include sails also, it really depends on the power of the engine. Its magnitude could... Thinking here... It could, if I design this right, get it to... Fourty."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 16:54:15 GMT -5
Fourty plus a dozen and a half-score? FIFTY-TWO KNOTS?!? Jeez... Now that's REALLY pushing the limits of enginering.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 16:56:54 GMT -5
"No, the hull will stay intact, we have steel and good designers." Linx smiled before continuing. "Actually, if it's going that fast, could it actually push against a wind going in the direction it is, but slower?"
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 17:05:40 GMT -5
Still, you're gonna have so much stress on the steel plates... Also, if you keep a high speed like that you'd burn out the moving parts. Which is where the sails would come in handy... Not to mention as a disguise. A corsair sees us comming with full sheet out and he'll aim for the sails, and leave us for "dead" in the water... That's where the boiler come into it... We shoot off after him without sails, and he'll have a fit. See? Play like a normal sloop and we get the advantage. "Think your opponant has a weakness and it becomes his strength". I mean, what corsair ship is going to expect us to come after him with no sails, or even a bank fo oars to porpel us?
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 17:07:53 GMT -5
"Good plan, I like it with the sails... Although I don't know what you mean, 'burn out the moving parts'. Nothing will burn out, there's no reason for good-quality, simple mechanisms to just... 'Burn out'."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 17:11:40 GMT -5
Even gears need oiling Linx. If the oil goes, the parts heat up and sieze. That is effectively your burn out. Don't try to tell me it's not possible, as it has happened. Especially in water mills when the owners forgot to oil the parts.
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 17:14:09 GMT -5
This put Linx deep in thought. He barely even got out a comment about the steel plates. "Steel not an issue, integrated, not added after..."
"There'll be two pairs of gears and that's all. One on each side of the main axle, beveled gears, for the propellers, 90-degree total angle. How to keep those intact..."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 17:21:15 GMT -5
How to keep what intact?
**Raiden was impressed, from just a few pointed comments on the vulnrubilities of the gears to siezing up, Linx had come up with a way to reduce the total damage done should that happen.**
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 17:24:11 GMT -5
"The gears. Two gears, and... Oil tanks. Slowly dripping, like a water clock, to give them constant lubrication."
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Post by Raiden, Zahi, Lars and Ama on Dec 30, 2007 17:26:08 GMT -5
Preventing burn-out and sizeure until the oil level runs out... Which would be after supplies I assume?
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Post by Linx Exotic on Dec 30, 2007 17:28:04 GMT -5
"Which I don't suppose will be much of an issue, this ship isn't going to be an explorer or anything. Just for war." Linx had this all figured out... Already. "Not like it'll be out in nowhere without oil... No problem there. Sounds like we should start on diagrams." And it looked like the beasts around them were finishing with assembling the cannons.
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