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Posted by The Lightning Stalker on December 12, 2006, 6:05 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Either way, post your findings here, so we can read it too, ok? :)
I believe I have found what I was looking for thanks to help from
someone in alt.crafts.glass. It's called the North American Combustion
Handbook and is available from amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/North-American-combustion-handbook-industrial/dp/0960159614
Cheers,
Robert
alvinj@XX.com wrote:
> > Hello. Does anyone know what parts of a gas inspirator (venturi)
> > primarily affect the fuel/air ratio? I've tried searching high
> > and low for the answer to this and can't find it anywhere. It
> > seems like a black art or something.
>
> Yeah. :/
>
> > See, what I'm doing is building a reproduction of a pest scaring
> > device which makes a loud noise to scare away birds and animals
> > from crops, just in case anyone was curious. The goal is to have
> > an adjustable fuel/air ratio to vary the flame speed. This
> > changes the "tone" that is produced. Maximum flame speed occurs
> > when the mixture is stoichiometric and tapers off on either side.
> > I figured someone on here would know about this because sometimes
> > blacksmiths make their own custom burners.
> > Thank you,
> > Robert
>
> Cool question! :)
>
> Along the same lines I'd like to read about carburetors where the
> author really knows his stuff. Already read the "common" books on
> the subject. ...or should be "skirting" the subject?
>
> I read my "yardsale" Encycolopedia Britanica from the mid 50's about
> flame and flame fronts etc first-thing then went to researching it
> further. Never ran across anything that was anywhere near as good
> as the first.
>
> No kidding.
>
> Suspect you need to look for "old" infomation.
>
> Either way, post your findings here, so we can read it too, ok? :)
>
> Alvin in AZ
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