Tesla CD Turbine Pumpkin Cuttin' Ceremony

Pumpkin carving with the Tesla CD Turbine, Steampunk Edition. A new design of the little turbine made from recycled CD's and supermagnets gets put to the test.

Will the barely held on, magnetically-coupled spinning Skilsaw blade, cut through the tough and messy flesh of the poor little Pumpkin??

This machine had the honour of being Gadget Freak #122 in Design News magazine!

This Tesla CD Turbine is made from recycled CD's CD cakebox, neodymium supermagnets, a nozzle and glue. It features brass fittings for a steampunk look.

The original Tesla disc Turbine was invented by Nikola Tesla about 100 years ago.

For detailed pictures and info on how to build this wild machine, see my Instructable at:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Tesla-CD-Turbine-With-Scary-Steampunk-Laser-P...

Mrfixitrick always orders magnets from:
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/default.asp?PARTNER=mrfixitrick

Visit the Tesla CD Turbine web site:
http://www.cdturbine.com

Check out how a new understanding of magnetism will radically change our world, presented by nuclear engineer Mehran Keshe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtf5bp76ArE

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[meetsouder]

wont the saw fly off? cause the magnets arent strong enough?

[MrfixitRick]

@meetsouder

Strangely enough, the magnets in the magnetic coupling are strong enough in repelling mode, to keep the saw blade on and centred, without a shaft.

That was one of my biggest discoveries of the past few years!

[schbrachbolidsei]

The Pumpkin Cuttin' Ceremony I do with a knife. Faster and much more appropiate. Without consuming electric power! Incredible, dont you think so?

[MrfixitRick]

@schbrachbolidsei

Nope. Got bored with that years ago.

[DigiDan09]

You sir, have built a gizmo that manages to be both hideously dangerous and utterly awesome! Great job man!

...but you won't see me with a CD-powered saw any time soon, as epic as it may be! :D

[scottwasson]

pumpkin snuff film

[vishva8kumara]

You made to pumpkin cry..

[onefodderunit]

Surprisingly torquey.

[MrfixitRick]

@sn1pe352

Yes, I saw that saw.

Tesla had a design for "flying machine" (not an airplane;) powered by twin counter-rotating Tesla Turbines of 200 horsepower each.

[sn1pe352]

@MrfixitRick hey have you seen that counter-rotating saw on the american infomercials/ (The DUAL Saw)

you should check it out if you haven't :D

I love your page Rick, keep up the great work

[TIBSCNetwork]

People like you are the kind of people who deserve money and praise.

[MrfixitRick]

@Suyamu

The Tesla disc Turbine is unique in that it can take the shock pressures and corrosiveness of wet steam as well as dry.

It is also the only form of turbine that can handle direct biomass combustion byproducts.

It can run on any fuel.

It's cheaper to build and maintain than other turbines.