Here are some pictures of the original engine. For a video of this engine running, please Click Here. The video is only a couple minutes long and is 3 megs, so if you don't have a very fast connection it could take a
few minutes.
This is a view of the exhaust end, and the makeshift nozzle.
Here you can see the oil return hose, which was fed directly into a bucket.
The mounting system was very archaic, in fact it was a come-along with a couple of pieces of sheet metal tacked together.
The ignition transformer is viewable, it used 110 A.C. to step it up to a 10,000 volt arc.
This was the very leaky fuel pump, again from the old oil furnace. It delivered 110 P.S.I., and was driven
from an ordinary windshield wiper motor.
The fuel and oil buckets respectively, $2.50 at home depot... and the oil filter relocation kit.
This is a picture of the turbine in early start-up, if you look close you can actually see a flame protruding out
the end of the exhaust cone. This is from the video.
Once again I stress how it this project was thrown together, it only took about two months from the time I started researching
and scavaging parts to get this far. I am a tightwad when it comes to spending money, I built the toolbox from scavenged wood
for my classes at MTSU, it came in handy when I decided to build this turbine engine. The systems are very simple. When you
here me fliping switches I am turning on the electric fuel and oil pumps. I used a $19 leaf blower to spin the engine
up. This video was only the second or third time I had ran it, so it takes a minute to sustain. It never really runs up to
full power because the fuel nozzle is to small. I am using diesel for fuel. The fuel pump is off of an old oil furnace and
it is driven by a windsheild wiper motor. The ignition is also from the oil furnace and is a 10,000 volt step up transformer
run from regular 110 ac. The oil pump was an electric fuel pump and only delivered about 30psi of oil pressure(really
not enough). The oil and fuel are contained in buckets hanging from the toolbox. The oil is filtered through a remote filter
unit purchased from nearly any automotive store. The exhaust nozzle is of a convergent design from 5 to 4 inches
this allows for an increse in velocity which in turn produces thrust (I don't know how much yet)and backpressure in the combustion
chamber. In this video I had to much fuel, too early, you can see a nice flame until the engine sustains. When it does sustain
I had an outrageous EGT of 1200 degree's F. I believe that this is due to the combustion chamber air holes being in the wrong
places. The Mark II should be a much better design.
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