Building a jet turbine engine on a shoe string budget

[plavins1]

if anyone needs this book i can send a pdf file. just pm me

[heshamez]

@plavins1

does the book include the theory of jet engines work?

[heshamez]

does the book include the theory of jet engines work?

[heshamez]

does the book include the theory of work of jet engine ?

[plavins1]

@heshamez

i havent red the the book thoroughly but im 100% sure it does, i downloaded it mostly for the plans.

[madinventor13]

I had always wanted to order the plans for the "Screaming Demon" gas tubine from the adds in the back of popular mechanics since I was a boy. I finally did and got them here. They only give you partial instructions. You still have to design for yourself the oil system, the fuel pump and nozzel, the shaft bearings, and a bunch of stuff. I have the machines and skills, but no time.

[badboybilzer]

turbine blades extract both impulse (air pressure/ pinwheel) and recurve (airfoil / heat to mechanical energy) , Gas Turbine system tech

[TetrisPlayer]

Just got the book today and I can't wait to try it out. I have been told it is not the best design compared to the stuff they have today but who cares. It is a working jet engine that is affordable! Now I just got to figure out where to get one of those gas canisters for the body in america.

[pr4wn5tar]

what about the compressor?

[yTubeBlowsBigBalls]

That's an impressive engineering marvel.

[Thetruthishere11]

garbage

[ricardhoamorim]

Building my own now starting... at now!

[COD5252]

to be strict turbine extracts heat n converts to motion by the blade theory (airfoil)and not by the impact of the hot gases

[schlusselmensch]

@COD5252 I'm afraid the impact of the various toasty molecules do indeed do most of the work of turning the turbine.

[vlinderbom2]

i want that book but its $60 and i cant make a jet engine anyway mine would be more like a bomb than a jet

[merlin905]

dude,realy it work?

[GregoryLog]

The author of the book suggests it does. He has built several I never made this engine so I will take the word of the author of the book this jet engine works.

[maydayfire]

@GregoryLog where can I get this book?

[heshamez]

,,what is a shoe string budget?

[JoelHarvey1]

Hay nice but when are you going to ad my vid resons i am happy to ad yours as i did but i exspect th same curtisy

[GregoryLog]

JoelHarvey1, I know you requested a video response to "Building a Jet........ Shoe String Budget." I got an e-mail in my Yahoo account alerting me to it, but when I went to my YouTube account I could not find a way to add it. You sent a request twice and each time I went looking in my YouTube account I couldn't find a way to add your video. I did put this video as a video response to your video "Joe Harvey's Home made Turbo Charger Gas Turbine Jet Engine" Resend a request maybe It'll work

[GregoryLog]

My other thought there might be some government entity that doesn't like such information dispensed so freely. I suppose if you attached a warhead and a small set of wings to a jet engine like this you'd have something similar to a V1-Flying Bomb minus the most primitive of a guidance system and you'd have a very small warhead capacity. Such a weapon would be a terror weapon more than a tactical weapon. Some big users of poorly guided missiles were Iraq and also the Palestinians.

[unambitious]

@GregoryLog People could have done it (and have) long ago despite the internet. just sayin...

[lexichronicle2]

@GregoryLog Nah, these things are easy enough to buy and designing them isn't that hard.

Terrorists hate complicated things, they love jam jars full of nails and explosives or other ultra simple stuff.

However, there was a guy in the US who tried using such an engine to build a small cruise missile, a GPS for guidance. He specifically stated it was to 'demonstrate how easy it was'. I believe the police did take the DIY missile off him.

[stdavross666]

@lexichronicle2 The guy is from New Zealand not the US

[GregoryLog]

Be sure to check out YouTuber ' thewebmaster93 ' He is currently constructing a turbine engine. It should be fun to see his completed project.

[arias1772]

awesome what is the budget?

[DannyMNL]

do you happen to know the ISBN-number of the book? very interested in this technique, I've only built propellor driven model planes up until now....

[GregoryLog]

Model Jet Engines, third edition, by Thomas Kamps, The Modeler's World Series. ISBN 1-900371-91-x I bought my copy at a hobby store for $36.25 You might be able to get a better deal with an online purchase somewhere.

[GregoryLog]

What ever

[drdhdmd]

What can I do with the info on this video?

[GregoryLog]

drdhdrnd, not much! It was just a motivational video and a quick book preview. Buy the book and you'll have all the details necessary. From the pictures, you can see bending and shaping turbine blades is done by hand. There is no elaborate machining required to build a jet turbine.