DIY Homemade Steam Engine Running - Made Without Any Machining
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2014
- My first steam engine works! Was built with parts found in my junk bin from things I took apart and things you can buy at a hardware store. It took me two days to build this but I had been thinking about it for months! I measured the electrical power output with the same generator I use on my stirling engines and the power is about 0.1 watts. So it's less powerful than my stirling engines(running on about 5PSI of vacuum, pressure still needs evaluation). But at least it works! It will probably be a bit more powerful when I build a boiler and get some real pressure to it.
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You described pressure in mm/Hg. You sir, are a geek. I respect that.
A real geek would use Pascals.
James Keller what does mm/hg mean?
@@STORMY-lv9lr millimeters of mercury. describing the pressure change as it would read on a barometer for instance. The "HG" standing for "Hydrargyrum". which approximately means liquid silver
That would say mmHg, not mm OVER Hg. No reason for a fraction in the unit at all.
Amazing work!
I made one, but I invented a different valve mechanism. Thank you very much for the technique for the piston. I could never get perfect pistons before, but now I can.
Keep up the good work!!!!!!
Very nice engine Makerj101! Nice to see that you just use what you've laying around. Looking forward to your next video!
TriangleStirling Thank you! The in depth steam engine video is coming Thursday! Now I have to build a boiler from stuff I have laying around! Thank you!
Nice work The beauty of steam engines is they will run on compressed air and are quiet. Good Video.
this is what kids need to do. learn. we don't have that any more. awesome man. you did that!!!!!
Excellent work bro keep up the good work finally some one who know how to make engine from scrap
Lady you are too good! Sound of engine is realistic. Love you.
Really enjoying your videos. You're a smart guy, keep it up.
Thank you!
very cool engine, I love the design
Nicely made, well done
well done mate,
much better than video games in my humble opinion.
Matthew Gischus Thank you!
He is saying that its better to do this instead of playing video games
Bobitza aka NoobulPlictisit id rather both
I disagree, People play them for hours, and who would want to watch this engine spin for hours?
Very creative. Nicely done.
this is pretty cool, i hope to build a steam engine soon.
Great piece of engineering, regards Doc Cox
Nice work!
The promised video of my Steam Engine!!! :D
Radical! I'm gonna follow, make sure to post the follow up vid!
Lead is soluble to steam.
very neat looking
GREAT example of "Sculpting your imagination" Well done
William Ortman I have it uploaded and it's scheduled to go public on Thursday next week! Thank you!
this is really, really cool!
This is so cool!
that good...I like its design, simple, effective and with simple materials ..
Good job works very well !
bor_12345's Electrofied Gaming Thank you!
Nice job!
Awesome man
Nice job,, Cheers, Pete
Cool...! Very smart... congratulations ..!
Good stuff man!!
***** Thank you man!
great job, that's amazing...
Hi there. Impressive! And nice video.
Well done 2020 bump .... you sound young ... considering that ... excellent project and well done video
Waw!! Thanks giving knowledge !!
Pretty cool!
Here's a big thumbs up for you, young man. You're young mind was already at work regarding mechanics instead of being a computer push-button rag doll. You may be collage age by the time this is posted and I certainly hope you went into engineering.
Steam Engine without Steam xD
Technically the steam engine is literally just that, the engine. The mechanism that converts pressure to mechanical motion. The steam generator is what actually makes the steam that feeds into the engine.
Well done.
Bravo. you used your time better than somebody and made your life more useful. respect from Iran.
very cool!
Very nice, congratulations,
cool little stream engine. if u replaced the cam with another rod, u would have more precise timing and it would be quieter at high rpms cause u wouldn't have valve float. i have a steam engine running a generator at my house. it's fun. i can heat my house and have just about free electricity during winter.
Good job thanx very much!
Very good, I believe this type of engine should be simpler to build. I also believe that are not so critical with friction compared to Stirling engines.
How did you do this piston?
Leandro Wagner.
Manual do Motor Stirling - Leandro Wagner Very true! I used epoxy putty to make the piston of my engine. Here is a link to how to make it. DIY simple epoxy putty power piston for Stirling engines
Thank you!
Excellent
congratulations !! u do a very good job for ur first built !! great !
In machine shop I built a 3hp 2 cylinder steam engine I just got it to run today it was a great project.
Ryan Lambert That sounds awesome! Post a video! I'd love to see it. :)
Awesome
Nice build!(we use the same basic compressor for a vacuum pump)I love the tuneable counterweight! Check out the one I made way back in the day! John Wade you tube.
Scale it up! Scale it up! ☺
Amazing
brilliant.
"its got a fair amount of power" proceeds to stop it without any strength
Awesome :)
Teddybear500 Thank you!
Nice
Now I'm gonna watch your other video on how to make it
Cool! When are you gonna make the boiler and how will it look?
i could not find the vid explain how u did the parts.. nice work
For the cylinder, does the air flow directly through or do it escape through a valve so the plunger can return.
Really nice work. You might consider a Maritime Academy for college-they love that stuff.
Nice do you have any plans I would like to make it 👍🏼
cool now make a huge one for a boat
He even sounds like a mad scientist
how would one hook this up to something to be powered by the engine? (lightbulb, toy car, etc.)
sweet!
im gonna try 3d printing most of the parts, but since pla is craptacular when it comes to heat i will subsidise many parts with concrete since i have no manufacturing capability when it comes to metal, i will as an example use concrete to infill the rim of my flywheel since said component requires mass, i will also attempt to cast a concrete piston (yes im being serious) and those pieces of flatbar seem like they may be cast as well, this will definitely be a failure.
nice engine , pretty clean soldering , how strong is the soldering iron you use ? or a torch ?
i made one about 2 years ago the same size as your engine but mine was crap and funny ! hhhhhhhhh
MegaMalek95 I used my Weller WESD51 soldering station to do most of the soldering. When I soldered the copper tube to the steel mounting plate I also used a bit of heat from a heat gun to help the soldering iron get the work pieces up to temperature. The 50 watt iron just didn't quit have enough heat.
Hahaha I see what you mean! But I like it! It shows that you don't have to have buy a lot of stuff or have expensive tools to make something that works. Nice job!
Thank you!
this man should get Isekaid
Barry nice
Hey man... what size pipe did you use to transfer the steam
Who's here after watching Dr. Stone: Stone Wars
+Makerj101 waw good job i'm doing this for my thermodynamics project is there a way to calculate the crank length to get an exact stroke i searched all over the internet nothing related to this kind of crank
wow... thats amazing! i built a pulse motor awhile back and i really enjoyed that, i might start building more motors soon, i love your construction of this. btw how come your vacuum pump spits oil? i use a refrigerator pump to and no oil comes out... maybe its all gone? hahahaha
corbonzo1 I've done basic pulse motors a while ago with a reed switch. Then I didn't know about protection didoes so the reed switches didn't last long! I don't know why it spits oil. I have a jar on the output to collect it and I have to empty it every once and a while. It's a really old pump. 1971 if I remember correctly. If the oil didn't smell so bad I wouldn't mind the oil going into my engine. Hahaha yeah maybe your compressor is low on oil! It could just be the design of my pump. BTW I have done the basic tests on the oil for PCB because it was made before PCB's were band in 1979.
ahh i see, yeah its probably a much different design. i used reed switches for my pulse fire and i havent had any problems why do you need protection diodes?
corbonzo1 It was probably that I was using way to big of a electromagnet. It had a really big flyback spike because I got shocked a couple times from it. The flyback spike probably arced when the reed switch opened and ate away the reed's contacts. Could also been from the in rush current.
Makerj101 yeah ive gotten a good jolt from mine before hahah its amazing what they can put out
***** I've never heard of a pancake compressor. I'll have to google that one! Awe that stinks. :(
how it reverse? explain with more pls.
cool
ember this i have built tons of boilers if you don't seal it tight enough and it builds up pressure it will spit shrapnel everywhere. so be careful
Hi HOW ARE YOU? IM IMPRESS WITH YOUR PROYECT, CAN YOU SHARE HOW YOU DID IT?
I APRESSIATE IT IF DO!
REGARDS!
Make a video of trying it with a air conpressor:)
laggydirt 98727 I ran it on steam which is much more powerful! Check my channel for those videos!
Could you make a primitive version from wood, clay and tree sap for adhesive?
Hahaha suuuurrrrreeeee
how much work does it provide?
Pretty cool but where's the steam?
Does anyone else see this guy's workbench and think mad scientist in training?
LOL Thanks!
Yeah.
epic
0:26 It's "et cetera" not "exetra"
how does the pressure actually mke it spin? thats something i never understood
As the flywheel spins it opens the valve at the top of the cylinder. The pressure pushes the piston down, and that spins the flywheel more. The spinning flywheel then closes the valve at the top of the cylinder which removes the pressure in the cylinder and the piston moves back. Note that the closed valve is also an exhaust port.
I bet you can run Playerunknow's Battleground with that Steam Machine
+Kibro this must be a video game reference?
Makerj101 The Steam Machine is a console ^^
So it runs from pressure *and* vacuum? Can it do both at once?
Can I find plans to your valve online?
You may be able to make a low presure boiler solderig a pipe into a jar lid and boil water in the jar with induction :)
Mongrel Shark Yep both at once would even work! It would make it work even better! Just needs a pressure difference on the out put and in put. Umm they are of my own design... but here is a link to a picture of a steam engine with a valve I used to figure out the timing. www.google.com/search?q=steam+engine+diagram&safe=active&rlz=1C1CHMO_enUS511US511&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yLnuU_P8A4_6oATC-4CwDw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=775#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=6iebRRQsf34bMM%253A%3B3MUOO6wCQ1Y8qM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F7%252F72%252FSteam_engine_nomenclature.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommons.wikimedia.org%252Fwiki%252FFile%253ASteam_engine_nomenclature.png%3B892%3B532
Wow long link! hahahah!
Interesting idea! I'm not sure I would be able to get enough heat into it to make enough steam though. I've only been able to induction heat with a couple hundred watts.
Thank you!
Makerj101
I think I see what you did there. Very clever and much better than the idea you based it on. Looking forward to seeing more detail on that valve! Ypu should upload a drawing to G+ or your website if you get a chance. I think a lot of people would benifit from your design.
Could be upscaled to run a 4 stroke through the spark plug hole, and not worry about the built in valves. If you had pressure and vacuum, it would be a half stroke. With 80% power cuycle... a 2 cylinder with 90 deg crank seperation would be awesome!! If only I had a Ducatti motor to test it on...
Dont fridge pumps push and pull at the same time?... The oil could be good if it was getting recycled...
Or you could put a bottle with baffles or something in line to gravity filter the oil...
you probably want some oil in the cylinder though. Will help seal the piston as well as lubricating it...
Mongrel Shark Hmm I could see if I have some time. Tomorrow is my first day of college!!! So I don't know how much time I'm going to have! Hopefully I will still have some time because I need time in my workshop sometime. But I'll try my best! Wish me luck!
Yeah I've thought about that. I think people have done that before. I have a 2 stroke that I could do that to but I don't really think it would be worth the time. I'd rather and I think I would learn more by building from scratch like this engine. But none the less good idea. I really want to make a internal combustion engine from scratch! I attempted about a year ago but it didn't work very well.
No, fridge pumps pump continuously. Here is the wiki article on the refrigeration cycle, though I don't think it's particularity good in my opinion. I like a lot of diagrams and it doesn't have that.
It's not that I don't want oil in my engine. In fact I would love to have a continuous supply of oil going into my engine. The problem with the compressor oil is that it has a really strong and bad smell and when the oil gets on something it's super hard to get the smell out(including my hands). Even the air that comes out of the compressor has the horrid odder. It even kinda makes me feel a little sick after a while. I have a jar with a paper towel filter on the output right now. The jar collects the oil and then the paper towel gets rid of some of the odder.
Thank you!
***** I just checked him out and gave some of his videos a watch and they are very good! I just subscribed too! Thank you!
***** Yep! Thank you!
Please add Made It
Wouldn't this technically be an air engine? :D Just kidding, nice work.
A tripod would be great, I get vertigo watching this with you bouncing around
Wood you like some cheese with your whine? It looks fine.
the rotar is fully unbalanced ,think about it that the pushing shaft should be small
Is that the flywheel you cast
longboy1998 Yes it is! Thank you!
coool
where did you get the flywheel from?
Dean Walcott I cast it out of aluminium in my aluminium casting video with the lost foam method!
Makerj101 thanks for spelling aluminium correctly.
i plan to do this but worse by using wood and crudely casted aluminum
Bonjour .tres bon travail.bravo tu peux m'envoyer le croquis et le dessin plus les cotes .merci
Jessie Eisenberg made a steam engine what?!
how much please i want it
I'm just here to say steam engines are the shit. mkay.
Which country from ?
Now time to make a tank and take over the world
use a pop can for a boalr
do you think u could make a stoke engine
science Vlog Do you mean internal combustion engine? Thank you!
yes
I'm not experienced with engines. My question is, If I boil water and run the vapor into the intake - will it run? It essentially runs on pressure?
+Joe Tese No...that wont work at all. The intake on a normal IC engine is waiting for the intake valve to open so it can inhale air and fuel on the down stroke...then compress....then ignite the fuel air mix.... A steam engine works by having a valve move so it routes the steam toward the down or up stroke... basically an IC engine can be made into a steam engine with a lot of modifications.... but you cant make an IC from a steam
+Joe Tese
Yes.
For some reason I thought that this persons question was directed toward an IC engine.
If he meant a Steam Engine...It would only work if the steam was properly "timed" for a piston movement. Oh well... No biggie
+SquillyMon
Pretty sure it would run whether timed or not= pressure is pressure. not necessarily self start but would run. If it runs on vacuum it will run on pressure.
No it would need to be timed... Otherwise it will either trap the piston in the down....or up position. Thats the function of the other rod...to time the pressure pulse.