Feedback 005 - Barktypes
Added 2022-11-22 15:00:08 +0000 UTCKaBLAM! FEEDBACK on October's shows!
Check out The Lovecraft eZine tribute issue to A Night in the Lonesome October.
Here's that article on Jack the Ripper referenced by Lackey.
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All we need to know now is what a 'balls up' is, and then we'll be covered. I think.
Thunk
2022-11-28 07:35:47 +0000 UTCI'm so glad Chris enjoyed my description of Ball's Out. I do need to make a minor but oh-so-important correction, in case civilization collapses and this Patreon feed becomes one of the only references available to enable reconstruction: I said that when the balls are down thanks to gravity, the valve is closed, and opens in the presence of steam. This is incorrect. When the balls are down, the valve is open, and steam can move from the boiler to the pistons. The pistons spin the wheels (or whatever the load is) and also the balls. The faster the balls spin, the further up and out they go. The further up and out they go, the more they restrict the flow of steam to the pistons. This a negative feedback mechanism, providing an upper limit to the speed that the engine will turn the wheels/drive the load. The engineer can adjust the balls along the length of the valve lever, changing the amount of leverage required to close the valve, thus adjusting max speed.
Jeremy Impson
2022-11-26 22:45:21 +0000 UTC
