@@Anonymouzor yeah but the temperature will increase with the pressure and ultimately lead to a spontaneous combustion because the ethanol is lighting itself up, wich would be very very dangerous. Since it is hard to controll this system so that this doesn't happen, I would not recommend to try this at home.
@@draco5991rep it was a joke dude. You didn't see that he had a bomb and fire at the end of the comment. Everyone knows that this would cause a catastrophic explosion. SMH just about every one of the comments related to this were sarcastic not serious.
Video idea: create a 3d printed DC motor to use as a pump for one of your rockets, which would allow you to explain a bunch of different physics concepts, maybe a DC motor with Bell electromagnets
Ive been watching you for a while now Integza, and I just wanna say its awesome to see how much the production quality of your channel has gone up! Loving it man keep it up
Video Idea: I would love to see projects done with recicled/scrapped electronics so people like me that lives in countries where getting some products/materials is expensive or impossible can learn and do projects from your videos! :)
you can transform a fog machine to make high pressure steam. I already put instead of fog liquid, water. I've already tried this and it really works because the machine has a mini water pump that generates a considerable pressure and when the liquid goes to the heater it boils instantly which almost triples the original pressure
Fluid doesn't flow to higher pressures. For example, in a liquid rocket the fuel pumps generate all the pressure of the exhaust, the combustion in the combustion chamber just increases volumetric flow rate.
Hi, steam locomotive engineer here, and I noticed that while your steam engine does work, it's quite inefficient, and has some potentially fatal errors. First of all, there's water in the cylinder, and this comes from using saturated steam. You could superheat the steam if you wanted, but the most simple solution is to add what are known as drain cocks to the cylinder. Basically, they're valves that you open for the first few strokes of the cycle, to allow the water to drain out. Also, the valve and it's timing, while useful for a simple engine, could benefit from being adjustable. Something like Walschaerts valve gear or Baker valve gear, with a "cutoff" to allow variation in the valve timing, and making the engine more efficient. Also, it seems to leak steam everywhere... I don't have a solution for that one, so just go with your gut on that problem. One thing I'd definitely suggest is getting a dedicated model boiler, like a Wilesco or a Mamod unit. Hope this helps!
I also noticed that there were no piston rings on the piston. With the heated steam, I'm wondering how much blowby he was getting with everything expanding. Though the cylinder doesn't seem to hold much pressure so rings would pose an issue. You would need to solve the issue with containing pressure or design a piston that uses a lubricant as a seal rather than a mechanical seal. Like the rocket engine, you should try to measure useful work of this engine and then tune it as Mike G suggests.
Ok so how about you build a vacuum motor for a player piano- Ok if you don’t know what that is it’s the 5 bellow engine that converts the vacuum created by the foot petals into rotational energy to spin the roll. This roll can be programmed with different songs for the piano to play.
Video idea: It'd be neat if you created a methane powered internal combustion engine, and then power it with methane derived from decomposed tomatoes/another source [as noted by Dan] or something like that.
@@danb4275 Yeah that may be so, but that was mostly a joke in reference to his distaste for them. Maybe he could make it from another source... or just buy some to cut some of the trouble.
Video idea: have a steam propeller engine for a model airplane(to have it portable use the hydrogen and potassium permanganate mixture, and they could get mixed using syringes injecting the mixture. You could use the same method as you did for the Devil's Toothpaste Rocket Engine that was mounted on the skateboard?)
There's another engine that works both like combustion engine and steam engine, it's called Stirling engine, and this type an engine uses heat so that the heat pushes the pistons in the cylinders, it is also maybe better than steam engine.
Integza! I've spent the last 8 months trying to design the world's first 4 stroke compressed air engine, an I finally have one that works! The problem is it runs like crap and is less efficient than a 2 stroke alternative! I challenge you to improve it!
You improve it by making it a two stroke - air doesn't explode, so there's no point having a compression/ignition cycle. You've invented something that automatically has half the efficiency (your 2:1 camshaft is the clue).
Love your videos! Technically two video ideas; First make a parabolic mirror reflector, Second use said reflector to power a solar powered heat engine (similar to your steam engine but modified in a few key ways) to go from sun to motion with very few steps!!!
Fun project! I always enjoy your videos, you always have a creative solution to thorny problems. You can get much better performance from your engine if you lubricate it. Steam engines used hydrophilic oils that would actually be carried by the steam into the cylinders. If I recall correctly, animal fats (tallow) are particularly suited. The engine will also perform poorly when cold and uninsulated. You'll lose tons of power because it's all used up when the steam condenses back into water in the cold cylinders. Harvesting more of the steam's energy as it expands gives you the most efficiency (compound engines do this using cylinders of varying bores, high pressure cylinders have smaller bores than low pressure cylinders after them).
You need to superheat the steam as it comes out of the pressure cooker, so you get dry steam, it will also increase your pressure as well. Run it thru a copper coil with a gas flame heating it.
As user C Moore mentioned, a steam turbine would be great! Just to see how much power you can harness from a particular heat source. Either run a driveshaft directly to a vehicle or turn it into electricity with a generator. Messing with the drive shaft gearing or the shape of the turbine blades could be fun trial and error.
As a businessman, I respect the effort to return to the classics. However, I would recommend producing a better steam production device, to hopefully make the system more mobile.
Video idea: I think the natural continuation from steam engine is to build a Stirling engine. Those are much more interesting than steam engines, but quite as easy to build. Furthermore, there is at least three main types of Stirling engines to choose from.
for anyone who really wants to find out about how steam engines work heres some differences between this engiene and a normal stream engine: 1. normally a steam engine has a much thinner piston 2. that design of piston is designed to be used with a o-ring 3. most steam engine will not use the flywheel for the valve timing. early steam engines used a round peice with and eccentric hole. later engienes used complicated systems that would take far too Long to explain in a comment. 4. most stream engines will use a slide valve and a steam chest. the steam chest is filled with steam/air and the slide valve moves to allow steam/air to flow into one port that is uncovered and connects the other Port to the exhaust hole. 5. alot of engienes use crossheads and crosshead guides to keep the piston rod from bending ofcourse there are exceptions however this is true for the majority of engienes
You should definitely try making a stirling engine. Almost like a steam engine but it runs on air contracting and expanding because of temperature. And you liked engines, right? Great video!
You should try redesigning and building or just making your own version entirely of Nikola Tesla’s peace ray or death ray to melt a tomato. That would be super awesome to see what you could do with that! For anyone that doesn’t know Nikola Tesla tried designing a defense weapon that directed charged particle beams. Love your videos!
Look up the Doble steam cars. They generated steam in about 90 seconds by using a containment vessel that used copper tubes that were heated up. Basically instead of boiling a large amount of water at once Doble steam cars flash boiled small amounts of water quickly. The idea was to have the water pass through the tubes and have the heat of gasoline heat up the tubes and turn the water to superheated steam. Jay Leno explains this. It’s kind of how tankless water heaters work but it’s much more powerful
Video idea: Build an steam engine with four or more cylinders and a crank shaft, and messure how many horsepower it makes and perhaps make a vehicle out of it ;) P. S. Keep up the good work:) love your videos:):)
maybe the real problem of steam cars is efficiency and water recovery. so i presume they'd need high steam pressure at first. it's better to have a steam air-compressor etc... compressed air'd be good to recover water also.
I also would like to see this steam engine improved. As many other comments suggest, O-rings would be an automatic improvement, especially with the low pressures you're working with. Too much pressure is leaking out of both the piston chambers and the valve. At 3-4 times the pressure, waste wouldn't be such a big deal, but losing half of such a small input is kindof rough lol. Friction would be a big problem with o rings so it might necessitate looking at alternative seals... Like in modern engines, solid piston rings are a thing so 3d printing a "soft spring" could do better than a rubber ring in theory. Plus it'd center the piston up so less jiggle would be present. Another change could be to move the valve onto a lower portion of the cylinder to help evacuate condensed water while maintaining visibility for the sweet transparency effect to be maintained.
I'd like to see an opposed piston engine, as I've only seen a few pictures of them & want to see you explain them to everyone. I'm not sure if you could engineer a steam version, but I certainly think It'd be an interesting project.
I’m dying to know why you shouldn’t drink rose wine in Croatia! 🤔 Edit: Is that a Bowden tube you’re using to get the steam from the pressure cooker to the engine?! I would never have thought that would work. You’re really good at this.
I'd be interesting in a video specifically focused on how you make the pistons in these projects and the tricks you've found most effective to creating as close to air-tight 3d printed piston systems. It would be super cool to see if you could calculate their efficiencies too.
Now that you’re working with steam engines. One of the main things I have noticed is that steam engines have a drawback that they run out of water/fluid to produce steam. What if you could make a condenser chamber to collect the vapors and “refuel” the engine
Since you getting into aircrafts how about building a airship that is powered by an engine turning a propeller e.g. a two stroke engine powered by a small CO2 tank? On a airship you don´t need to worry about weight and lift as much as on a plane because you can just make the body of it bigger. And Helium is also pretty easy to get in vast quantities (the one for party balloons).
Glad to see it worked! If I may make a few small suggestions, some O-rings, grease, and a O-ring on the piston rod and the cylinder head (packing gland). That's where this engine is likely losing efficiency. Also some cylinder cocks (valves to drain condensed steam from the cylinder) may help, as you can see the water start to build up in the steam test.
In the next video, you could make a boiler that produces more pressure with a heating element from a water heater. Then you would have more flexibility in future steam related projects
You should try and make an engine that runs off of a weight on a line attached to a gear ratio along with the steam engine idea, just to give it a little kickstart and help it run better while under load.
Idea: make a powerfull enought steam engine to drive an rc car or so, with stearing and forvard/backwards gears and controll it via the remote. (for any improvements leave a comment)
Video idea: It will be cool to see Quadcopter with jet engines instead of propellers :D. Even some single jet with variable thrust will be good option.
Idea: I think it would be awesome trying to make the steam engine go super fast with heating wires or creating a closed steam engine so that there is no water wasted. It would also be cool putting a propeller on a steam engine and making that the engine of a plane (or just keeping the glider idea :p). (Using some type of pressuarised container can be helpful then XD)
The only steam powered airplane to successfully fly, IIRC, was a Travel-Aire modified by the Bessler brothers in 1933. The engine is on display in the Smithsonian. There is at least one UA-cam video about it.
Sterling engines (which Integza has made before) are the main example I can think of where they have a closed loop of the heat transfer fluid. Trying to build a closed loop which can cool off steam to enough efficiency to run an engine sounds INCREDIBLY difficult, I would guess that is more cooling than most cutting-edge VGA cards require, even for the steam engine in this video
@@gregw1076 Yes, that is a really good point XD. It would really be cool, even if not having the best efficiency, to see how to overcome the challange of it!
You can get more pressure without changing the boiler. Just superheat the steam coming from the pressure pot by passing It through a coil that your heat up with a Torch, or that more generally passes through something hotter than 100°C
🤖Please Integza, make a documentary about rocket's engine or maybe about first 3d printers(like something about its patent ).You have made videos with some really funny animation in the past, so I would love a video like this.Hope I'm not the only one . Love your videos , thank you.🤖❤
@@PieterRottiers 3D printing and hydrogen combustion, what could go wrong? [insert flashbacks to numerous explosions with questionable safety equipment] On second thought….
Here's a video idea that will probably be buried: could you combine a steam engine with a distillary? What I'm thinking of is something where you could input raw, dirty water and heat, and output both clean water and electricity. Something like this could help with humanitarian assistance in 3rd world countries (I know that's not what you're channel is normally about but it would help build a better tomorrow), perhaps it could be paired with something similar to the Gravity Light (featured in Smarter Every Day video 146) to provide electricity when no heat is available? Please give your thoughts on whether or not this is possible. P.S. Why do all the greatest engineers have a hatred of tomatoes?
Hey Integza, I think I know a way you can improve this. I think the main reason you were having trouble at low pressure was not friction, but a lack of a seal between the two sides of the piston. This is part of the reason why engines have piston rings. I think if you added these your engine would work a lot better.
One solution to sealing the piston better is to produce a narrower section of the piston, then wrap it in cotton string soaked in vegetable oil. The string, being compressible, provides a better deal, while the oil reduces the friction.
I’ve done some reading on rocket engines and I’ve found that paraffin (candle wax) could be a very good rocket fuel, a lot of people have made versions which are hybrid rockets (even nasa conducted tests with it) but I reckon it could be done as a solid engine if it were the paraffin and a class 2 oxidiser or something. Why don’t you give that a try integza?
Great video. You can use loctite - an anaerobic glue - to bind materials and release them later using acetone. I would love to see a 3d oiler can+brush design that is non magnetic and can't spill a drop if it is dropped!
VI: I read somewhere that you can mix in other materials into resin, so instead of fdm printing, use resin mixed with some sort of solid fuel to remake the solid rocket engine. It might take a little longer but I thing it would work even better with pure oxygen💥🌋
Would be interesting to see graphite infused for reduced friction!!! Maybe Nylon powder! All mechanical parts have friction, and Integza is always dealing with overcoming friction. That was the main reason he needed over 2 bars for this steam engine. If it was lower friction, he might have gotten away with 1.5bars, maybe less!
How about adapting the steam engine idea with a battery/power bank powered compressor to see if it is possible to power a bicycle? Or assisted bicycle?
Now I want to see you 3d print a steam whistle
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@@dr.klopper960 chooo-chooo train !
i think you are wining a 3d printer
You could create a "C" bracket that goes from lid to lid that clips over the ends of the cylinder to hold them in place.
My exact thought, glue isnt always the answer. :)
I would add a flange to the end of the cylinder and the rim of the cap that allows them to be clamped or bolted together.
or make at atmospheric engine, and let the vacuum suck it in place
Or a zip tie.
Every engineering problem can be fixed with duct tape, zip ties, WD-40, a hammer, and an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.
There you go ;)
How many types of engines have you now built, Joel? 😂 Great vid!
Answer: Yes
A lot , by lot I mean a lot
alot
Wait his name is Joel? I have the same name too
not enough
Thanks!
Using alcohol in a steam engine sounds like something I would suggest💣🔥
Have you heard of NAPTHA locomotives!
I would too 😂😂😂
that just sounds so ridiculously dangerous and fun at the same time, as it boils at a lower temperature does that mean you can get higher pressures?
@@Anonymouzor yeah but the temperature will increase with the pressure and ultimately lead to a spontaneous combustion because the ethanol is lighting itself up, wich would be very very dangerous. Since it is hard to controll this system so that this doesn't happen, I would not recommend to try this at home.
@@draco5991rep it was a joke dude. You didn't see that he had a bomb and fire at the end of the comment. Everyone knows that this would cause a catastrophic explosion. SMH just about every one of the comments related to this were sarcastic not serious.
Video idea: create a 3d printed DC motor to use as a pump for one of your rockets, which would allow you to explain a bunch of different physics concepts, maybe a DC motor with Bell electromagnets
Nice
That would be cool
smaller electromagnets so its more compact
Ive been watching you for a while now Integza, and I just wanna say its awesome to see how much the production quality of your channel has gone up! Loving it man keep it up
Make a steam powered nerf gun
Yeah😂
No
Petersripol?
How does that work?
@@Catherine-tg3zdidk it winds up a plunger or something
Video Idea: I would love to see projects done with recicled/scrapped electronics so people like me that lives in countries where getting some products/materials is expensive or impossible can learn and do projects from your videos! :)
I second you on that
While we're at it, let's make this the most liked comment so this guy gets a 3d printer
No, we need the Styropyro x Integza collabo! Crazed Laser Maniac x Crazed Tomato Hating Rocket Maniac!
(No hate but)How did you hot a pc?or a Phone?
No the real collab we need is Tom Stanton, Styropyro and of course Integza! Engines, lasers, and rockets!
you can transform a fog machine to make high pressure steam. I already put instead of fog liquid, water. I've already tried this and it really works because the machine has a mini water pump that generates a considerable pressure and when the liquid goes to the heater it boils instantly which almost triples the original pressure
Just use distilled water if you do this,. Or you'll clog your boiler tube with minerals.
You are using it like a flash boiler.
Fluid doesn't flow to higher pressures. For example, in a liquid rocket the fuel pumps generate all the pressure of the exhaust, the combustion in the combustion chamber just increases volumetric flow rate.
neat
How?
Video idea: Since you've never done anything that flies, why not make one of da vinci's flying machines.
Tomatoes are disgusting!
Congratulations, you just won a 3D printer! Send me your info (Name, Address, Zip code, Phone Number) to integza@gmail.com.
@@integza Feito
congrats on ur 3d printer man.
@@integza Maybe you could try to 3D print a triple expansion engine?
@@integza you sound like a bot
For a next video, how about building a ramjet engine using some kind of compressor or fan to accelerate the intake air to high speed?
Love your work!🤩
Video Idea! Steam Powered Radial Engine!! I would love to see how it would work and I know you can do it!
and with an actual boiler this time, not just a pressure cooker lol
You mean like what I suggested two days ago??
@@edwinvanderhulst7703 ouz wq
I forsee a 3d printer in this mans future
@@duelpistolbro3175 I wish haha
When I said your channel was picking up steam, this... isn't what I meant haha.
I'm not complaining though - this is great!
Hi, steam locomotive engineer here, and I noticed that while your steam engine does work, it's quite inefficient, and has some potentially fatal errors. First of all, there's water in the cylinder, and this comes from using saturated steam. You could superheat the steam if you wanted, but the most simple solution is to add what are known as drain cocks to the cylinder. Basically, they're valves that you open for the first few strokes of the cycle, to allow the water to drain out. Also, the valve and it's timing, while useful for a simple engine, could benefit from being adjustable. Something like Walschaerts valve gear or Baker valve gear, with a "cutoff" to allow variation in the valve timing, and making the engine more efficient. Also, it seems to leak steam everywhere... I don't have a solution for that one, so just go with your gut on that problem. One thing I'd definitely suggest is getting a dedicated model boiler, like a Wilesco or a Mamod unit. Hope this helps!
I also noticed that there were no piston rings on the piston. With the heated steam, I'm wondering how much blowby he was getting with everything expanding. Though the cylinder doesn't seem to hold much pressure so rings would pose an issue. You would need to solve the issue with containing pressure or design a piston that uses a lubricant as a seal rather than a mechanical seal.
Like the rocket engine, you should try to measure useful work of this engine and then tune it as Mike G suggests.
@@DeeEhm graphite is an excenent dry lubricant, although I don't know about it's efficiency in a very wet environment. Maybe something to consider?
this comment section is filled with people I admire
I don't think he was trying to make the best one he could, he just wanted to have some fun.
@@kingsummit5310 graphite gains a lot of friction in water. It turns into a thick paste as well.
Ok so how about you build a vacuum motor for a player piano-
Ok if you don’t know what that is it’s the 5 bellow engine that converts the vacuum created by the foot petals into rotational energy to spin the roll. This roll can be programmed with different songs for the piano to play.
VIDEO IDEA
Produce biodiesel from used cooking oil and propel a rocket loaded with tomatoes to infinity and beyond! 🍅🍅🍅
Now that you have a steam engine, wouldn’t it be cool to make a little steam powered car? Or a locomotive?
Video idea: It'd be neat if you created a methane powered internal combustion engine, and then power it with methane derived from decomposed tomatoes/another source [as noted by Dan] or something like that.
I ran a 2 stroke off ethanol I made once, it's very posible
I suspect the acidity of tomatoes would make methane production (or any other decomposition) difficult.
@@danb4275 Yeah that may be so, but that was mostly a joke in reference to his distaste for them. Maybe he could make it from another source... or just buy some to cut some of the trouble.
You should make a 3D printed compressed air plane with a mini air engine on it
Video idea: have a steam propeller engine for a model airplane(to have it portable use the hydrogen and potassium permanganate mixture, and they could get mixed using syringes injecting the mixture. You could use the same method as you did for the Devil's Toothpaste Rocket Engine that was mounted on the skateboard?)
@integza if this person doesn't get top comment I still want to see you make something similar this.
You should build the entire train
I think that's a little ambitious
@@tambienbuscotrabajodeditor5584 yup
I'd love to see a second stage to this making a compound Engine.
To improve the efficiency you could try to improve the seals.
There's another engine that works both like combustion engine and steam engine, it's called Stirling engine, and this type an engine uses heat so that the heat pushes the pistons in the cylinders, it is also maybe better than steam engine.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^🎁🎉
I'd love to see a triple expansion steam engine, or steam turbine after this! Maybe even poweing a small boat if possible?
Wonderful project! 👏😌
Love you’re videos
Now I know why I was sent this video. Thanks Mars.
Integza, longer videos please. Watching them is a constant reminder of how much we hate tomatoes and it's an escape from their disgusting grip.
1:10 why did I expectated the bottle to explode
Maybe you could make a potato cannon with alcohol Mr Inetzga!!!😉🙈
Integza! I've spent the last 8 months trying to design the world's first 4 stroke compressed air engine, an I finally have one that works! The problem is it runs like crap and is less efficient than a 2 stroke alternative! I challenge you to improve it!
UPPPPPPPPPPPP Great idea!
How do you even do that?there’s only 2 cycles with pressured air
@@pubz2288 You have a separate camshaft with a 2:1 ratio that opens the valve every other stroke, just like a car engine
@@AxelDayton But why? No need for compression cycles in a steam engine.
You improve it by making it a two stroke - air doesn't explode, so there's no point having a compression/ignition cycle. You've invented something that automatically has half the efficiency (your 2:1 camshaft is the clue).
Love your videos! Technically two video ideas; First make a parabolic mirror reflector, Second use said reflector to power a solar powered heat engine (similar to your steam engine but modified in a few key ways) to go from sun to motion with very few steps!!!
UPPPP this one would be sweet!!!
This would be cool to learn about!
Bonus points if it's a Nitinol engine
@@LDSG_A_Team True that! hard to make but not expensive
Fun project! I always enjoy your videos, you always have a creative solution to thorny problems.
You can get much better performance from your engine if you lubricate it. Steam engines used hydrophilic oils that would actually be carried by the steam into the cylinders. If I recall correctly, animal fats (tallow) are particularly suited. The engine will also perform poorly when cold and uninsulated. You'll lose tons of power because it's all used up when the steam condenses back into water in the cold cylinders. Harvesting more of the steam's energy as it expands gives you the most efficiency (compound engines do this using cylinders of varying bores, high pressure cylinders have smaller bores than low pressure cylinders after them).
Pls build something like a steamlokomotion on rails with something like this🚂
Pls... that will be cool👍🚂
You need to superheat the steam as it comes out of the pressure cooker, so you get dry steam, it will also increase your pressure as well. Run it thru a copper coil with a gas flame heating it.
Video idea: seeing your interest in engines i cant help but think of a transparent gas turbine engine. Try it please.
hows about using a Nalgene bottle as it can sustain tonnes of pressure
the asdf spin off... brilliant :)
As user C Moore mentioned, a steam turbine would be great! Just to see how much power you can harness from a particular heat source. Either run a driveshaft directly to a vehicle or turn it into electricity with a generator. Messing with the drive shaft gearing or the shape of the turbine blades could be fun trial and error.
You should 3D print a quasiturbine engine and make it compressor powered to see how efficient it is.
As a businessman, I respect the effort to return to the classics. However, I would recommend producing a better steam production device, to hopefully make the system more mobile.
You’d better never drink à red wine with this color. A frenchman advice.
6:20 You could have made the base come up at the ends of the cylinder to hold the end caps in and still be able to dismantle it.
Would love to see you attempt a 3D printed Ornithopter powered with a 3D printed engine of your choice!
Video idea: I think the natural continuation from steam engine is to build a Stirling engine. Those are much more interesting than steam engines, but quite as easy to build. Furthermore, there is at least three main types of Stirling engines to choose from.
for anyone who really wants to find out about how steam engines work heres some differences between this engiene and a normal stream engine:
1. normally a steam engine has a much thinner piston
2. that design of piston is designed to be used with a o-ring
3. most steam engine will not use the flywheel for the valve timing. early steam engines used a round peice with and eccentric hole. later engienes used complicated systems that would take far too Long to explain in a comment.
4. most stream engines will use a slide valve and a steam chest. the steam chest is filled with steam/air and the slide valve moves to allow steam/air to flow into one port that is uncovered and connects the other Port to the exhaust hole.
5. alot of engienes use crossheads and crosshead guides to keep the piston rod from bending
ofcourse there are exceptions however this is true for the majority of engienes
You should definitely try making a stirling engine. Almost like a steam engine but it runs on air contracting and expanding because of temperature. And you liked engines, right? Great video!
I'm pretty sure he already has... But good idea anyways!
He has already done it
He kind of did but I meant like the ones you can just put on a cup of warm water and they start turning.
You should try redesigning and building or just making your own version entirely of Nikola Tesla’s peace ray or death ray to melt a tomato. That would be super awesome to see what you could do with that! For anyone that doesn’t know Nikola Tesla tried designing a defense weapon that directed charged particle beams.
Love your videos!
Create a Turboshaft Jet-Engine with a small Helicopter-blade, to measure how much force you can produce, or maybe take off.
Look up the Doble steam cars. They generated steam in about 90 seconds by using a containment vessel that used copper tubes that were heated up. Basically instead of boiling a large amount of water at once Doble steam cars flash boiled small amounts of water quickly. The idea was to have the water pass through the tubes and have the heat of gasoline heat up the tubes and turn the water to superheated steam. Jay Leno explains this. It’s kind of how tankless water heaters work but it’s much more powerful
Can you 3d print sth. to genereate electricity from ocean waves (you could try it in a water container with artificial waves)
I'd love to see you build/ 3D print an entire steam locomotive, incorporating your cylinder/ engine
Video idea: Build an steam engine with four or more cylinders and a crank shaft, and messure how many horsepower it makes and perhaps make a vehicle out of it ;)
P. S. Keep up the good work:) love your videos:):)
never knew a person could fit so many '':)'' in one comment.
maybe the real problem of steam cars is efficiency and water recovery. so i presume they'd need high steam pressure at first. it's better to have a steam air-compressor etc... compressed air'd be good to recover water also.
@enriqueamaya3883 it isn't religion. it's a science question.
Still waiting for the day my car will have a one-stroke engine like a steam engine
I also would like to see this steam engine improved. As many other comments suggest, O-rings would be an automatic improvement, especially with the low pressures you're working with. Too much pressure is leaking out of both the piston chambers and the valve. At 3-4 times the pressure, waste wouldn't be such a big deal, but losing half of such a small input is kindof rough lol.
Friction would be a big problem with o rings so it might necessitate looking at alternative seals... Like in modern engines, solid piston rings are a thing so 3d printing a "soft spring" could do better than a rubber ring in theory. Plus it'd center the piston up so less jiggle would be present.
Another change could be to move the valve onto a lower portion of the cylinder to help evacuate condensed water while maintaining visibility for the sweet transparency effect to be maintained.
I'd like to see an opposed piston engine, as I've only seen a few pictures of them & want to see you explain them to everyone. I'm not sure if you could engineer a steam version, but I certainly think It'd be an interesting project.
Cool idea :)
Good idea. I too have seen them where it looks like the pistons will collide in the centre of the block. Good idea.
Check out the channel Kurzey he made a compressed air opposed piston engine and his videos are great.
3d printed car
I’m dying to know why you shouldn’t drink rose wine in Croatia! 🤔
Edit: Is that a Bowden tube you’re using to get the steam from the pressure cooker to the engine?! I would never have thought that would work. You’re really good at this.
I want to know as well.
I would love to know as well.
As a Croat, I really want to know what's up with rose wine in Croatia!
I never knew that Severus Snape was a physicist.
You can 3d print RC boat
I'd be interesting in a video specifically focused on how you make the pistons in these projects and the tricks you've found most effective to creating as close to air-tight 3d printed piston systems. It would be super cool to see if you could calculate their efficiencies too.
Now that you’re working with steam engines. One of the main things I have noticed is that steam engines have a drawback that they run out of water/fluid to produce steam.
What if you could make a condenser chamber to collect the vapors and “refuel” the engine
This would be cool
Ships and some steam locomotives did just that.
@@hollywood1340 oh nice
You should create an air plane that runs using your turbojet engine
video idea : you should make a gun and bullet with as much 3d printed part as possible.
2:42 goddamn this takes me back.
Good ol' ASDFMovie
Since you getting into aircrafts how about building a airship that is powered by an engine turning a propeller e.g. a two stroke engine powered by a small CO2 tank?
On a airship you don´t need to worry about weight and lift as much as on a plane because you can just make the body of it bigger.
And Helium is also pretty easy to get in vast quantities (the one for party balloons).
Of course you could also use hydrogen that you produce by electrolysis but that is a little security risk...
so it would be perfect for you.
5:56 for some reason this had me laughing!
Video Idea: I would love to see a working hydrogen engine.
0:19 as a german, i agree.
Video idea: Build one of your jet engines to go with your future glider video.
I spent a long while looking at explanations of the steam engine but this psych major couldn't quite grasp until this video. Thank you sir!
Video idea! Steam powered micro generator to charge a cellphone. Maybe take it one step further and make some sort of multi-cylinder version.
Glad to see it worked! If I may make a few small suggestions, some O-rings, grease, and a O-ring on the piston rod and the cylinder head (packing gland). That's where this engine is likely losing efficiency. Also some cylinder cocks (valves to drain condensed steam from the cylinder) may help, as you can see the water start to build up in the steam test.
I was wondering what the valves were called that drained the water, thanks
Make a steam-engine that, runs of the smoke from one of you'r old rocket engines.
a *smoke* engine!
@@bluesillybeard haha yeah
using a microwave to generate plasma from tinfoil and see how much of the tinfoil was consumed as fuel
I would suggest making a TOMATO throwing trebuchet powered by rocket engine !!! if you are able to make it ofc....
In the next video, you could make a boiler that produces more pressure with a heating element from a water heater. Then you would have more flexibility in future steam related projects
You should try and make an engine that runs off of a weight on a line attached to a gear ratio along with the steam engine idea, just to give it a little kickstart and help it run better while under load.
Wonderful!
Idea: make a powerfull enought steam engine to drive an rc car or so, with stearing and forvard/backwards gears and controll it via the remote. (for any improvements leave a comment)
Candle powered RC car :O
@@aurimasb1732 I don't think a candle can generate enought heat, but some electrical heater could do the job.
Increase amount of candles hehe
Video idea: It will be cool to see Quadcopter with jet engines instead of propellers :D. Even some single jet with variable thrust will be good option.
Idea: I think it would be awesome trying to make the steam engine go super fast with heating wires or creating a closed steam engine so that there is no water wasted. It would also be cool putting a propeller on a steam engine and making that the engine of a plane (or just keeping the glider idea :p). (Using some type of pressuarised container can be helpful then XD)
The only steam powered airplane to successfully fly, IIRC, was a Travel-Aire modified by the Bessler brothers in 1933. The engine is on display in the Smithsonian.
There is at least one UA-cam video about it.
Sterling engines (which Integza has made before) are the main example I can think of where they have a closed loop of the heat transfer fluid. Trying to build a closed loop which can cool off steam to enough efficiency to run an engine sounds INCREDIBLY difficult, I would guess that is more cooling than most cutting-edge VGA cards require, even for the steam engine in this video
@@gregw1076 Yes, that is a really good point XD. It would really be cool, even if not having the best efficiency, to see how to overcome the challange of it!
You can get more pressure without changing the boiler. Just superheat the steam coming from the pressure pot by passing It through a coil that your heat up with a Torch, or that more generally passes through something hotter than 100°C
Video idea: Maybe you could build a train using the steam engine when you have finished it!
🤖Please Integza, make a documentary about rocket's engine or maybe about first 3d printers(like something about its patent ).You have made videos with some really funny animation in the past, so I would love a video like this.Hope I'm not the only one .
Love your videos , thank you.🤖❤
“Water is not flammable” sounded like a challenge to me. How about creating an 3D printed electrolysis based engine?
This sounds so wacky that I officially support this idea.
@@PieterRottiers 3D printing and hydrogen combustion, what could go wrong?
[insert flashbacks to numerous explosions with questionable safety equipment]
On second thought….
2:54
I like how hi is wearing like old day clothes and hi is using a drill and a 3D printer 🙂
It's always nice to see when
You build an engine that works pretty much as expected.
Here's a video idea that will probably be buried: could you combine a steam engine with a distillary? What I'm thinking of is something where you could input raw, dirty water and heat, and output both clean water and electricity. Something like this could help with humanitarian assistance in 3rd world countries (I know that's not what you're channel is normally about but it would help build a better tomorrow), perhaps it could be paired with something similar to the Gravity Light (featured in Smarter Every Day video 146) to provide electricity when no heat is available? Please give your thoughts on whether or not this is possible.
P.S. Why do all the greatest engineers have a hatred of tomatoes?
I would love to see some type of RC vehicle with a jet or steam engine!
Amazing channel! Really fond of your narration and innovation! Lots of good wishes from the Indian Himalayas!
Integza always giving us another high quality video.
Hey Integza, I think I know a way you can improve this.
I think the main reason you were having trouble at low pressure was not friction, but a lack of a seal between the two sides of the piston. This is part of the reason why engines have piston rings. I think if you added these your engine would work a lot better.
Nice point, Wish to see a version 2.0 of this engine
yea lid better seals would help. but then friction would be the issue. like with his Wankel engine
One solution to sealing the piston better is to produce a narrower section of the piston, then wrap it in cotton string soaked in vegetable oil. The string, being compressible, provides a better deal, while the oil reduces the friction.
video idea: could you try and use the jet steam turbine to make a boat that is powered by it or maybe a rocket-powered boat?
Your Channel/Videos is so underrated. Very fun and informative to watch!
I’ve done some reading on rocket engines and I’ve found that paraffin (candle wax) could be a very good rocket fuel, a lot of people have made versions which are hybrid rockets (even nasa conducted tests with it) but I reckon it could be done as a solid engine if it were the paraffin and a class 2 oxidiser or something. Why don’t you give that a try integza?
Great video. You can use loctite - an anaerobic glue - to bind materials and release them later using acetone. I would love to see a 3d oiler can+brush design that is non magnetic and can't spill a drop if it is dropped!
I’d like to see a working rc steam car or maybe a train
You should make a ionic thruster combined with a wing.
Have you tried making a internal combustion engine or the piston rings for one? That could be pretty interesting
i cant imagine 3d printed piston rings would last more than 10 seconds
I still think you should use "cold steam' CO2 from dry ice. Just mske sure you have a relief valve to keep the pressure from getting too high.
VI: I read somewhere that you can mix in other materials into resin, so instead of fdm printing, use resin mixed with some sort of solid fuel to remake the solid rocket engine. It might take a little longer but I thing it would work even better with pure oxygen💥🌋
He already did
Would be interesting to see graphite infused for reduced friction!!! Maybe Nylon powder!
All mechanical parts have friction, and Integza is always dealing with overcoming friction. That was the main reason he needed over 2 bars for this steam engine. If it was lower friction, he might have gotten away with 1.5bars, maybe less!
@@tobiashegemann1811 not with resin printing
How about adapting the steam engine idea with a battery/power bank powered compressor to see if it is possible to power a bicycle? Or assisted bicycle?