<VV> Re: quest for fans and info..

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/6/2007 6:34:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
s10birdman1966 at yahoo.com writes:

hi,Scotty...I posed a couple ideas a while back to a few people,mabe  you can 
tell me why they 'won't work'...one is using 'sqirrel-cage' units  driven off 
the crank,on shafts parrallell with it;transit buses use these on  heat/a/c 
systems,a 24v electric motor between 2 fans,each has a 4"x5" or so  
discharge,and one 'unit' fits nicely on each Corvair head,like above the  
sparkplugs...they throw these out when the 24v motor goes bad,so i grabbed  several...other 
idea is putting 2 magnesium fans back-to-back,housing them in  a 'tombstone' 
above the center of the engine,on a common shaft parallel and  driven off the 
crank...either could be driven by electrics,i guess,at a fixed  optimum 
speed...still have a problem with the "14hp" figure,as the big A/C  compresser uses 
25hp from a series-50 Detroit 4-cyl bus engine,and people  saying a fan needs 
'x' electrcity--instead of the motor driving it...i took  pics of the ideas,if i 
can find them...Tom  Z,Rustchester,NY


I haven't seen one of these and I can't or don't visualise them clearly so  I 
can't tell you why they can't or don't work.  Looks like I'll have to  find a 
transit bus broken down on the street (in L.A. that's not  uncommon--(sigh.)) 
 That or hang out at one of the bus garages (another  sigh.)
When I do, I'll get back to you with my thoughts on this.
 
Scotty from Hollyweird



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