Yes, BUT the rig itself is a little too heavy to be honest.
I plan to improve on the design with a few tweeks, make the ducting MUCH better then put the rig into either a little model jet dragster, or most likely into an EDF 'jet' boat that i made a while back.
It is made from a 12 volt electric ducted fan (a cheep one) running on a 400 sized motor. The body of the combustion chamber is made from an old 500ml paint can and cut at the end with a dremel to make a nozle.
The fuel is gas. you can use butane lighter gas or hair spray or my personaly favorite, cheep spray deoderant. It is piped into the conbustion chamber just atfer the fan. there is also a flame holder installed between the fan and fuel input.
the flame holder is a disk of metal with holes cut in it. It allows the air past without too much resitriction but provides turbulance to ensure that the fuel can ignite and burn.
I tried to run it on liquid fuel (petrol) but vapourising the fuel is really hard. If you just pour it in, it won't burn properly and will end up spewing out of the end. I shoud know!
It produced a fair amount of thrust but was more for making fire than anything productive ;)
Nice. You can bypass all the hassle of vaporized fuel and a spark lighting system, though, if you just pour liquid fuel (i.e. charcoal lighter fluid) into your combustor. It will lay on the bottom of the combuster and burn away gradually once lit.
On this when u use afterburner on a real engine do u have to nut gas I'n it or will it use the gas not burned up
1950dodgefan 7 months ago
To answer so questions
Yes you can use an 50 or 70 mm edf. I used a cheep 70 mm edf, but this was more about fire than thrust.
As for regulating gas I was just pressing the nozzle in on the gas can.
The fuel goes in after the fan, just behind the flame holder.
Google for thermojet or motorjet to get an idea of what is inside.
Lewis
skodasupercar 1 year ago
Can one be made into a 50mm and/or 70mm jet?
i plan on impressing my step dad for once with my planes
ive been searching for an afterburner kit for my jet.
can you email me the details? lockheedzack@yahoo.com
lockheedzack 1 year ago
holy shit!!! lol
rockonmyfriend 1 year ago
Sweet and dirty motorjet! --SFH
hallsf 2 years ago
heloo! i made the same thing
can you show me a video from the inside, ore some pics??
thanks!
9unuunu 2 years ago
insulte the duct well, as foam melts very easily.
appa609 2 years ago
That should be interesting in a foam edf
mgrande11 2 years ago
goes the fuel in before or after the van?
pyromaniac933 2 years ago
does this provide enough thrust to be used in a RC plane model?
xmind22 3 years ago
Yes, BUT the rig itself is a little too heavy to be honest.
I plan to improve on the design with a few tweeks, make the ducting MUCH better then put the rig into either a little model jet dragster, or most likely into an EDF 'jet' boat that i made a while back.
skodasupercar 3 years ago
Thanks for the comments.
It is made from a 12 volt electric ducted fan (a cheep one) running on a 400 sized motor. The body of the combustion chamber is made from an old 500ml paint can and cut at the end with a dremel to make a nozle.
The fuel is gas. you can use butane lighter gas or hair spray or my personaly favorite, cheep spray deoderant. It is piped into the conbustion chamber just atfer the fan. there is also a flame holder installed between the fan and fuel input.
skodasupercar 3 years ago
the flame holder is a disk of metal with holes cut in it. It allows the air past without too much resitriction but provides turbulance to ensure that the fuel can ignite and burn.
I tried to run it on liquid fuel (petrol) but vapourising the fuel is really hard. If you just pour it in, it won't burn properly and will end up spewing out of the end. I shoud know!
It produced a fair amount of thrust but was more for making fire than anything productive ;)
skodasupercar 3 years ago
@skodasupercar How much thrust would you say this gives off
BCQD4 9 months ago
Nice. You can bypass all the hassle of vaporized fuel and a spark lighting system, though, if you just pour liquid fuel (i.e. charcoal lighter fluid) into your combustor. It will lay on the bottom of the combuster and burn away gradually once lit.
hallsf 3 years ago
i forgot, what is the gas running through teh blades and what is teh gas?
glamterra 3 years ago
nice, howd you make it?
glamterra 3 years ago
Good one.
hallsf 3 years ago