" The Cathedral 2 " Steampunk Hot Air Engine no 7

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Engine no 7, The Cathedral

After the challenge of building engines 1 6 I felt that I might be able to build a double hot-air engine and the result is the Cathedral.
The hot-air engines of this machine are aligned with a bronze flywheel weighing about 3 kg.
The cooling and engine plates are made of segments from a large bronze flange, found at the scrap dealers.
I paid a lot of attention to the design. (This model has been streamlined and the bolts and nuts are invisible)
I called this engine The Cathedral because of its height and its pillars.

It has become a very stable running engine with a variable stroke of 24 38 mm for the displacer and the power piston. That makes the load factor of both engines extremely adjustable.
The cranks and the eccentrics of both engines are aligned about 180° to each other, which produces the best results with this engine.

Both hot air engines have enough power to drive a dynamo which lights a few LEDs between 1.5 and 2 Volts.
This description of the model has been more detailed because this project has been my biggest challenge so far: to make two engines run together in good balance.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• the-cathedral
• steampunk
• stirling
• kinetic-art
• hot-air-engine
• heteluchtmachine
• modelbouw
• kunst
• brass_goggles
• oxford

[YLJW4]

i cant get enough of these machines there great, albinarrate is right the music is spot on, is it just me or did it make anyone else think of steam trains, industrial revolution and for some reason Russia??

[albinarrate]

WOW, this is AMAZING.

[arakano]

I would love to learn how to make these type of things!

[SWINGREGORY]

at the TOP

[albinarrate]

BTW, what music is this? That really adds to it.

[trossachs2003]

I went to the Tate Modern in London two weeks ago; what a load of crap it was. This is the sort of thing that should be in there - this is just beautiful!

[tomatoso27]

nice!

[redforkempire]

Holy crap, this is the best one yet, I never comment on anything but you my friend deserve much praise. Thank you for posting your work.