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Re: Reversing of model double compound steam engine
« on: August 25, 2019, 04:54:33 pm »
With compound engines (piston plumbing in series rather than in parallel), the steam lines matter a lot.

In the Woolf configuration, the two cylinders are 180 degree apart so the exhaust from the HP cylinder feeds the LP cylinder directly. If you have it 90 degrees apart, you need to have a "receiver" that acts as a buffer.
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