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Anonymous
What is it?
>> Archive
Uhhh, maybe part of an aircraft rotary engine?
>> Anonymous
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The part circled in green is the crank shaft for a normal car engine. The parts circled in red are assorted inner parts to a propeler engine for a aircraft. Most likly from a single engine fighter plane.
>> Anonymous
>>230408
the crankshaft is to the engine block right above it. they attach multiple pistons to each of the four things on the camshaft, so at any given time, the 7 or 8 pistons around it are at varying degrees of depth.
>> Anonymous
The Junkers Jumo 222 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Jumo_222) is the only thing I could find close to that configuration, but its cylinders were in-line, rather than staggered.

The engine is basically four, six-cylinder radial engines mated axially. They are connected to the single crank shaft in the center (the one in green). That crank shaft is obviously not from a normal car engine, since a normal car engine wouldn't need anything like that thick. This is probably designed for aircraft, but could also be for compact power generation.
>> Anonymous
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I think its from a Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major engine
>> Anonymous
Its a P&W R-4360, 28-cylinder (4x7) radial engine.
>> Anonymous
Fun fact: While you guys are educated (I assume) to know what these are/do. I'm stupid enough to make the castings!
Anyways, poast moar. I'm trying to find something I've worked on. I know Pratt & Whitney is one of our customers so there was a possibility I'd recognize something.

PS. I hate my job :D
>> SAGE AnonEmous
Umm, it's broke!
>> Anonymous
dick
>> Anonymous
>>230491
Hey, someone's gotta lay the foundation too. The world can't consist solely of engineers and scientists.
>> Anonymous
>>230422
i looked at that and saw something in half-life 2 that i either have to kill or use as a weapon
>> ?????????????????????????????Anymonous?
ROTARIES SUCKS!
(sorry)
>> Anonymous
>>230759
That is a piston engine, not a rotary.
>> Anonymous
>>230412
how do you attach eight pistons to one crankpin?
>> Anonymous
aircraft engine????
Rotary????
the new valveless engine???
>> Anonymous
>>230820
Only one is, rest of the pistons are connected to that one.

See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine
>> Bat Guano
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>>230422
Yes.
Made at the end of WW2, but the war ended before any aircraft could be fitted with it.
Powerful, but had problems with crank case oil leaks.
>> Bat Guano
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Here's a Boeing B-50 Superfortress, a post-World War II revision of the wartime B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber, fitted with new, more powerful Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial engines.
This example is a B-50D Superfortress recon plane, made in 1965, one of the last B-50s. Others were turned into tankers, but I believe they were not well suited for this because of the tremendous turbulence generated by the propeller wash that made refueling difficult for the planes closing from behind her.
>> Bat Guano
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These engines were also fitted in the US Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, a long-range cargo transport; this American Overseas model was made in 1949.
>> Bat Guano
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This Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter, a militarized Model 377 optimized for long range heavy cargo transport, and also was based on the highly successful B-29 bomber and similarly fitted with Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major engines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-97_Stratofreighter