Well a long weekend here in West Aust for Labour Day.
I'm always bored, when there is not any wind.
This is why I love what “justoeduardo” has been constructing. His designs are fantastic and fun to watch his video clips too.
So had a brain wave. (Now there in itself, lies the problem eh?)
No wind, I reckon I could fix that.
So off to the man cave. With much measuring, calculating, cutting, welding and bashing, to come up with my solution to this never ending problem.
Hope this sorts out my dilemma.
I have taken all the precautions, hence my protective gear. Ha ha.
Got to be careful, I can't afford to lose any of the hair I have left.
Aw, come on……………… The pressure stamp on the cylinder is still in date!!!
It's a 12 pound thrust, LPG/petrol fueled, "Thermo pulse" valveless pulse jet.
It should fire, 1230 times (hertz) a second at 130 decibels, at full power and consume 16 kgs of LPG an hour.
Might just wait till the wife goes shopping before trying this little number.
get a video and you will lose the SC label for ever!!!!!
of course this will up the ante rather a lot
UMMMMM chook- do you have any idea how loud a pulse jet is?
We made a conventional pulsejet (reedvalve thingy at the inlet)
Combustion chamber was IIRC 100mm diameter, whole thing was a bit over a metre long.
Bolted to a steel workbench, being environmentally friendly we used unleaded fuel, aerostart and compressed air to get it started, ignition was a sparkplug and magneto to begin with, changed to something else later on for a reason I cant remember.
Got it running and with a bit of fine tuning the bench started sliding across the workshop floor, stopping only when the fuel hose kinked.
The workshop was on Collingwood street osborne park.
Our pulsejet could be heard on the freeway.
Stephen
Now chook you have started something. I think we should look at some wacky machines.
Mmmm I have an ultralight motor wonder how I could fit it to a yacht maybe for lefroy
vic
Ya crazy basket
Just a small point, actually two points.
Where is the bleeding brakes?
How ya starta de Eng ?
Isnt it just bloody huge us blokes never actually grow up
^^^^^
Even more fun now, no brakes to write home about
I need to figure out a reason to drive to Esperence to see Chook2 run this thing.
I think you will melt the plastic gas pipe where it runs into the induction pipe.
The last half metre or so needs to be something which will take a lot of heat.
But so far I like it.
OK! Chook,
So when you gonna fill a whole bunch of balloons with Hydrogen and Fly the whole thing above Lake Lafroy?? Yu Bleedin Nong!
I said Land Yachting should be a bunch of fun and forget the politics not turn it into an attempt at the Darwin Awards..
Ron
He he, yes Stephen it's a poor day you don't learn something new.
Lots of great fun to be found on the net, (that's how you guys have ended up with me here). If you take it all with a touch of salt and only believe half of what's quoted your pretty close to the money.
Come on Chook- I'm kinda expecting a landyachting version of one of these things
Not sure whether Scrapheap Challenge reached the Southern hemisphere but the concept is build a set project from a scrap yard in 10 hours + tinker time. These were knocked up in that time using lorry turbos and bits of tube. Cheap as. Notice the heat shield!
I think Chook might have been doing some testing.........
We just received an email from "The Esperance Severely Charred Land Sailing Club"
Stephen
Too hot at 39.5 degrees today, for testing. I'm getting too soft. After welding at work today, I'm cream crackered.
Rest assured you guys will be the first to know how it performs.
Oh.............. other than my immediate neighbours.[}:)]
and yes we do get "Scrapheap Challenge" on ABC2, but I had missed that episode.
Thanks, I really enjoyed that. Lisa's a spunk.
Got a bit more done this morning.
The gas stinger is made and fitted and the supply line is sorted. Made up from 5mm steel brake tubing.
I will use an acetylene regulator, fitted with a flashback arrestor to sort out an even supply of LPG.
I'll get it running on gas and then sort out the petrol system. I'll build a steel fuel tank and spray bar with needle valve for it when I get more time. This will be a lot of work.
I have had a bit of a hiccup with the ignition system.
I didn't realize how hard it is to buy a condenser for an old coil setup.
All the mechanics I've asked, have said they haven't fitted a set of points to a vehicle in the last 5 years, let alone a condenser.
The local motor part shops have no stock and are checking them out for me now.
I'm just going to use an automotive relay and a coil, to build a buzzer coil setup, for the ignition.
Chook
Chook.
Try companies that deal with Classic Cars - like old MG's (had a cousin in Taz that used to restore MG's for a living). It's this distance thing again - I've got a pile of them in the garage from converting old cars to electronic ignition. Other option is....lawnmowers, I've used the full ignition system on model engines.
Cheers Col