Rod wrote:
Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-05-16 17:52:44 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:
I'm assuming this machine has a swash plate pump, unlikely to be
anything else (just looked & it does). There are two parts to the
head, the pressure
head & the crank, called housing 1 & housing 2 on this diagram
WHat is a swash plate pump and how does it work? Enquiring minds
need to know.
A lovely little animation of how they work:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/pumpglos/swashpla.htm
(A former life with anorak friends and a certain interest in diesel
hyrdaulic locomotives equipped me with the basic idea. But Google was
need for anything more.)
Seems to be a difference in terminology here. What the pressure washer
industry would call a swash plate pump is described as a wobble plate pump
on this site.
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/pumpglos/wobble.htm
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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk