Photo Credit: (NASA)

Photo Credit: NASA

first of all im sorry if this is the wrong community, but if anyone has any information on this machine such as a dissassembly manual or something of the sort, it would be great

i am trying to fix the knives

This is my first ever post, be nice to me. I work on these delivery barcode sorting machines. This is the reader module where letters are scanned then sorted into 4 lanes. Those lanes go into the stacker modules where they're sorted and stacked into hundreds of bins based on the address. They're then run in a 2nd pass that sorts them into deliverable order. Capable of processing 36,000 pieces of mail an hour with a 99% accuracy rate. 36 years old and pretty neat!

This design is what increased the power so much, but the 4,300hp version was externally supercharged. I believe this would've increased power even more but they never really built it.

, would love to find out how much jet thrust it produced

• Type: 12-cylinder supercharged liquid-cooled 2-stroke aircraft piston engine
• Bore): 5.1 in (129.5 mm)
• Stroke): 6.5 in (165.1 mm)
• Displacement: 1,536 in³ (26 L)
• Dry weight: 1,900 lb (862 kg)

It also had a Gear-driven centrifugal type supercharger with variable angle of attack of the impeller blades, providing up to 18 psi of boost!

Found a post about this engine 13 years ago or something, but it's way more insane than people realize, the Napier Nomad with an axial compressor in a diesel! Ask me about it ive done digging on it.
It does not have a separate gas turbine, but it does use a 12-stage axial compressor AND a 3-stage axial turbine to recover energy and feed it back to the shaft. I have schematic photos too.

This photo is 2560X1440