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Steam Turbine - Home Made and first Air Tes
« on: December 02, 2020, 08:32:37 pm »
Steam Turbine - Home Made and first Air Test
Really enjoyed this making this DIY steam turbine. Extremely loud running at 60 psi and I made the fan that runs on a steel axle and bearings from a hefty piece of brass and the fan blades from a heavy gauge copper so there is a fair bit of weight when its spinning.


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Re: Steam Turbine - Home Made and first Air Tes
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2020, 08:38:42 pm »
Great sound to that one  8)

I like your heavy duty hose clamp too  :D  Always a fun scramble when a line blows off at high psi  :D
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« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2020, 08:43:00 pm »
Quote from: Nick on December 02, 2020, 08:38:42 pm
Great sound to that one  8)

I like your heavy duty hose clamp too  :D  Always a fun scramble when a line blows off at high psi  :D

Looked everywhere to take one off something else Nick and couldn't find one so the vice was the next best thing. There was some air leakage though from it being squashed :)

The big dog has had enough 'turbine' noise for today or I'm gonna' have to give him a Valium.
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« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2020, 11:53:10 pm »
My X-ray eyes aren't working tonight JIM, so you're going to have to open it up to share the inner secrets with us!   ;c)
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Re: Steam Turbine - Home Made and first Air Tes
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2020, 08:28:41 am »
Nicely balanced at speed. For a DYI, it seems that would be the hard part.
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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2020, 09:56:31 am »
Nicely done Jim , seems well balanced (as stated prior) and very nicely presented. The real fun of a turbine is the "spooling up" & yours does that with ease 😄.
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2020, 12:22:10 pm »
Fun project Jim, well done !
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« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2020, 05:33:10 pm »
Thanks all, its a pretty simple design the internal spinning fan, even at 120 psi there is zero vibration -

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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2020, 01:03:35 pm »
Awesome Jim.

Thanks for the schematic.

Have you steamed it yet?
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Re: Steam Turbine - Home Made and first Air Tes
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2020, 01:59:31 pm »
I really like that Jim, Very pretty in Red and Brass. :)
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