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Apr 28, 2009 15:01:15 GMT
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I'm not sure how to tackle this thread. So far I've got away with not doing it but a few of you have seen my garage and I've been exposed by Grizz so now I have to. There's a lot to go in so I'll keep it in one thread and add it s-l-o-w-l-y as my bandwidth allows  I'll kick off with my jet scooter. I built a large-ish pulsejet as part of my final year project at university. It's made from mild steel pipe and rolled sections with a 2" exhaust. It runs on propane and output is about 15lbs of thrust I think, can't remember. Naturally with a jet in the shed you need a scooter to put it on so I lengthened one of those metal kick scooters and mounted the jet on the back. This is what I ended up with:   Note how there's no throttle and no brake. Power is controlled by winding in the regulator which is about 5 turns from off to 4 bar of gas pressure:  Noisy end where all the fire comes out:  Intake, sucks the hairs off your legs:    And as with most of my toys it folds up and neatly stashes in the corner  How does it go? Well it makes a proper load of noise, glows red hot, there's fire, explosions and a real risk of getting hurt. It doesn't actually go all that fast because it doesn't have a huge amount of thrust for the weight of a person. I have ridden it and slipped off and when the weight is off the deck it tries to fly off. So consider this the mk1 and there's a mk2 in the pipeline with brakes, proper throttle control and somewhere better to stand. And a little more thrust of course Here's a youtube video of some early testing. It's all the footage I have but the jumping camerman who starts to back off when I wind it up gives you an idea how loud it is! Running procedure is sparkplug on, gas on, shoot some air in the front with a leaf blower to start it, turn the sparkplug off and wind the gas up. At the end you see a shower of sparks fly out the front and the motor stops. This is the valves destoying themselves before I had found suitable material for them and I experimented with a tuned valveless intake for indefinite running. Short video here: There, that's not such a bad start, don't know what I was so worried about ;D |
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mason
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Apr 28, 2009 15:31:50 GMT
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thats fantastic ;D and to think i felt sorry for my neighbours!!
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Apr 28, 2009 15:48:05 GMT
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The Christmas I first started testing this I had no idea how loud it was going to be. At about 7:30pm I was ready to go  and after a bit of messing around we got it running. Once it stopped there was a shout over the fence from a few doors down: "What the bloody hell is making that noise!!!" "It's a jet" "Oh" And that was that ;D |
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Apr 28, 2009 17:11:06 GMT
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hey thats cool if it don't have enough power just build add another jet to the scooter  could you maybe run a control cable to the handle bars. |
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Apr 28, 2009 18:56:15 GMT
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Nicola and me chuckling like loons here.
Nice one Jonny69.
Nicola says your head is a very dark place, but she likes it.
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Apr 28, 2009 20:33:14 GMT
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Thats awesome! This is the crazy sorta stuff I'd build if I had the materials. Was expecting more flameyness out the jet though. Looks fairly simple though, I mean... Its not rocket science is it? XD Sorry, been wanting to use that. You must show us more creations! |
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The Doctor
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Apr 28, 2009 21:32:05 GMT
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haha, this is going to be a cool topic to bookmark! |
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Apr 28, 2009 21:48:22 GMT
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Ever had a go at this in your inventing lab? Looks like it'd be right up your alley...
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"Chasin' the gash, with a four-out-the-dash"
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Apr 28, 2009 23:02:41 GMT
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You're totally insane! I love it!!!  |
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tux
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Apr 30, 2009 12:44:02 GMT
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I reckon Jonny69 should change his username to Q !!!! ;D Much awesomeness. |
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joda
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Apr 30, 2009 13:10:46 GMT
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you should do a flat pack kit, so i can buy it and build one of my own!!
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TS
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Apr 30, 2009 20:02:42 GMT
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I want one!
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Next up is this spudmatic gun. I built it on Tuesday so I've got build pictures as well and it's doomed for the Lemans trip to terrorise my camping mates. Just like a normal spudmatic, just bigger and more powerful.  Plan was to make a little reservoir out of steel tube that I can pump up with a bike pump and have a ball valve at the other end to let it all out at once. No fire, reliable and repeatable tried and tested method which I used last week on one of the gags at work, for firing a model Polaris missile. Start with a bit of 75mm tube, this bit is 250mm long:  It needs two endcaps, one with a hole in it. Cut these out with a 1mm blade in the angle grinder, then clean them up with a flap wheel. The hole is cut with a Screwfix holesaw which has lasted just 3 holes in 2mm steel:  (I'm not all pro using engineers blue but the way, the steel I had happened to have it on already) Through that hole is going a brass tank fitting, a common plumbing fitting for 15mm copper pipe:  Fits through the hole like so:  I've drilled a hole in the side so I can squish through a tyre valve that I got from the local tyre place:   This is the only difficult bit for most people, welding the ends on:  The tank fitting needs to be tightened up before the end is welded on so I cranked it up paggin' tight with some PTFE inside, welded in short stitches and cooled in water each time to stop too much heat getting to the brass:  It's assembled with a lever ball valve tap thing, again, another common plumbing part with compression fittings so no tapping or soldering needed:  Testing. The good news is it works pretty well. The pump is a bit rubbish but 40psi sends a 15mm slug of potato clean over the 3 stories of flats in my building. 100psi sends it right over the block adjacent and 160psi (which is pretty much all I can manage with all my weight on the pump) goes about 75 metres down the road with a bit of recoil. I'm chuffed, first toy for the camping trip in June is complete. Better stock up on potatoes Have a video: |
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I like the spud gun - I've made a few and found that the length of the barrel make a lot of difference. I used 22mm copper for the chamber and 15mm for the barrel, with 3 metres of 22mm (1.5 metres each side, to a T and then the valve making a very elongated m shape) and 1.5 metres of 15mm for the barrel.
Using a potato to seal it, I fired a 5ft length of plain 14mm dowel well over 400 (The field we were on was 400m long and it easily cleared it :S) this was at 100psi.
It will fire 6 inch nails into trees, burying the head an inch in!
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rodharris83
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^^Madness!
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My hydragas pump goes up to 400PSI odd if you want to have a play with that?
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You Jonny are a nutcase! Bloody love it
What about a 12v compressor?
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cool. do you have to smack the valve open quickly? what about having it spring loaded with a trigger to release ?
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Thats awesome, i started making a spud canon but i am going to make one like that now. Nice and simple and no fire. Would be great to see it shooting some targets!
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It will fire 6 inch nails into trees, burying the head an inch in! I wondered what would happen if I left the bolt in there It would definitely go better if I could shove it down a longer barrel. May have to make a little musket barrel tamper to go with it. The main plan of that end barrel is I've got a bad full of the little sealing olives so I can make a selection of different barrels that just screw on for different ammo. I reckon another 2" tank fitting in the end of some 2" steel pipe would go quite well with bigger vegetables You Jonny are a nutcase! Bloody love it What about a 12v compressor? Plan. Mine goes up to 260psi  cool. do you have to smack the valve open quickly? what about having it spring loaded with a trigger to release ? Just whanging it open quickly seems to do the trick. The mk2 may have something like that... |
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