Apples
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2008
- Location
- Toowoomba, Australia
I have started this thread after this one how to silence my big air compressor.
After hooking up a length of 1" PVC pipe to my a/C inlet's there is a flow of air that is blowing out the end of the pipe.
It is a 2 cylinder machine and I always knew that it had "blow by" as in air coming back out of the inlet tract. Whether this is because the reed valve does not seal properly when the piston comes back up. Or if it is just the inertia of the air flow being stopped suddenly and the valve closes, the air must just then have no where to go and it bounces back.
What I had in mind was getting one of those one way valves or maybe two of them and putting it inline with the plumbing of the inlet pipes.
The idea being if the valve locks the air inside from the top of the piston or valve to just outside the head, it will slightly pressurize that area. The theory then is that on the down stroke the valve will open quicker and the cylinder will fill up faster as it has a pressurized blast of air at the start of it's stroke.
Any thoughts on this guys?
Peter
After hooking up a length of 1" PVC pipe to my a/C inlet's there is a flow of air that is blowing out the end of the pipe.
It is a 2 cylinder machine and I always knew that it had "blow by" as in air coming back out of the inlet tract. Whether this is because the reed valve does not seal properly when the piston comes back up. Or if it is just the inertia of the air flow being stopped suddenly and the valve closes, the air must just then have no where to go and it bounces back.
What I had in mind was getting one of those one way valves or maybe two of them and putting it inline with the plumbing of the inlet pipes.
The idea being if the valve locks the air inside from the top of the piston or valve to just outside the head, it will slightly pressurize that area. The theory then is that on the down stroke the valve will open quicker and the cylinder will fill up faster as it has a pressurized blast of air at the start of it's stroke.
Any thoughts on this guys?
Peter