Rotary+Engine

Rotary Engine.

During the week of Feb 2, our plan is to reevaluate the material requirements of certain parts due to budget constrains. For example the front plates' original material called for alloy steel at 1/4" thickness. A large factor of safety existed; but recently some 3/8" 6061 Al became available at reduced cost. We plan to make stress calculations to verify the new material. As far as manufacturing; most parts shall be produced by us or the Jims in house with the exception of the inner pinion and the inner gear. Due to the gear phasing requirements an outside machine operator has been contacted for the project. Manufacturing should start ASAP on the front plates, they are the most simple parts to be machined on the CNC machine so we plan to learn the CNC programming basics on a more forgiving part.