Solar Steam Engine #7 The Valve Gear-True DIY

[@alfredharrison597]

Watching a YT video of a literal Tony Stark.

[@Red9GearHeads]

I do a fair bit of fabricating myself. Your ability to make clean accurate parts with a vise and drill press is pretty killer. Nice work!

[@bravebee1272]

I hope the next part will be uploaded quickly

[@nosaltiesandrooshere7488]

👍 Danke fürs Hochladen! 👍 Thanks for uploading! 👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you! 👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!

[@Synaps4]

I hope you'll finish this project someday!

[@keltonfoster]

It's amazing how simple but complex your projects are and you make it look easy but it's anything but simple to make. Thanks for the great videos, very educational and inspirational.👍🤙

[@tarekas522]

Good thinking and execution!

[@myounges]

I was starting to think you dropped the ball on this one. Glad to see you back!!!😄😄😄

[@aaabbb-qv4ff]

Nice! Really good project, impressive! Plz give us HHO update.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Next video! 🎉🥳🎁

[@aaabbb-qv4ff]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy Cool!

[@aaabbb-qv4ff]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy aahhh don't forget H2 lamba sensor. Checking H2 purity is VERY important. Maybe you have some thoughts about safe tanks - to safely store the pure H2.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes that will be incorporated.

[@aaabbb-qv4ff]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy I can't wait!

[@polkiipo]

I was waiting for this for so long :D !!!

[@jtrjkgfjrdtje]

nice! good welding :)

[@JanicekTrnecka]

Aaargh..wobbly anvil :) makes my ocd go to insane levels :)

[@zinckensteel]

Any plans to continue this series? Butane presents all manner of additional problems for only the advantage of the lower boiling point. I think you would have a better time sticking to ordinary water and steam, but use some sort of homemade ultra high throughput, low temperature differential heat pump to heat the boiler, using your awesome solar water heat source as the input.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

The steam engine is sitting on my workbench as we speak. It's not about the successes, but about what we can learn from the things that didn't go to plan. I never take the easy road because they have already been traveled.

[@polkiipo]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy Glad to read this :) That's great news !

[@SolarWebsite]

This channel is criminally undersubscribed. Amazing work! I work in IT, and people think my work is complex. What you do here, however, is complete magic to me!

[@bill4639]

It is not even solar powered making this video click bait. Not underrated.

[@oscarverwey]

@@bill4639 that's a sure thing he never finished this project 😅

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

But I will! This all is a hobby, hobbies take time.

[@oscarverwey]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy that's a good point! I know what you mean 😌. I really look forward to see how you deal whit sealing the engine up so it could be used in the refrigerant cycle, everything need to be air-conditioning qwantity , how dot you like the valveless Free piston steam engine?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

This is how it's going to be solar powered: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWa4lWB8eZhmqqs hope you like it!

[@PeterMischek]

Great Project. Will there be a video of the running steam engine? What do you think about a steam turbine? Could it be more efficient? Thanks.

[@chrisjackson3324]

great job, cant wait to see it

[@bill4639]

Let us know when it is actually solar powered

[@JanicekTrnecka]

It runs exceptionally smoothly considering its only test run on one cylinder!

[@YbborNetsrek]

Good thinking and execution! ( Lekker bezig!!)

[@rorypenstock1763]

This is such a cool project. Thanks for bringing us along. I would appreciate a little more narration in the videos, though.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes I agree, next video will have more of that. Thanks!

[@constantinvasile2964]

Este o parodie de motor în stea. Nu este eficient deoarece la cursă maximă ai pierdut multă presiune. Îți sugerez o idee. O conductă de plastic, faci un cerc, cu bobine pe exterior. Capetele cercului sunt legate la un robinet bilă. Înainte și după robinet faci fante de admisie și evacuare, iar în conductă introduci un magnet bilă. Este un motor, generator, compresor, pompă, convertor, LINIAR.

[@russellmacneil4058]

Hey ✌️

[@markgeurts258]

Wow, I was looking forward for this video. Very cool! I think this is this best project you have on your channel. Can't wait to see it running on butane. Or maybe use normal water under a vacuüm so it has a low boiling pont also...? Ga zo door! Groeten Mark

[@Francis-12377]

Build a solar power steam engine that generates electricity

[@6969smurfy]

Amazing, I just want to know if your piston design will hold up.lomg term?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! Well we'll have to see but I'm very confident it will.

[@mechanicalmoron2251]

cant waght for the next eposode grate work so far but can you try to get the epesodes out faster thanks

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Well I have about 4 hours a week to work on this unfortunately. I wish I could do more!

[@markgeurts258]

How is the progress on this wonderfull engine? Groetjes, Mark

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Sorry, I only now see your comments. I'm working on the steam engine as we speak! 🥳

[@markgeurts258]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy oeoe nice, can't wait! Good luck.

[@utkarshsinha1747]

make a fuel cell plz🙏🙏🙏

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes I will in the future.

[@alphaindustries5775]

That is so amazing! Your doing some great work!

[@fredericd.8374]

My favorite project on KZbin. Very great job!!! How many time for the next episode?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Next will be about the hydrogen generator. So after that, in about 4 months. I whish I had more time!

[@MindCrime550]

10:40 why isn't the crankshaft rotationally symmetrical?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

It needs a counter weight and the thing sticking out is where I will later attache it to.

[@nathanallen6411]

What kind of welder? I’m familiar with a wire feed mig, and I also use a HF plasma cutter (absolutely love that tool) but I find my mig is not delicate enough.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

It's a TIG welder.

[@MRnostate]

That is incredibly impressive Especially without machine tools. When can we see it run with butane as the working fluid? Also how much power do you expect it to generate?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! I'm currently working on my new work space so not much time at the moment. I hope I can resume work around April.

[@adamsazaquatics3079]

Howdy :) I have loved watching this build and it has given me all sorts of inspiration- so much so that I am actually going to make a steam turbine for a school project coming up. I have one specific question that you touched on in your first video of this series with the soda bottle example: How do you physically set up the closed system recirculating pump? I’d imagine it’s output pressure has to be higher than the boiler but then that pressure would be added and therefore it stands to reason the output pressure of the pump is now the operating pressure of the entire system correct? I am also wondering how you would get it started, as the water pump cannot pump steam(at least I assume it can’t) and so in my own mind the boiler would pump in both directions of the closed loop and make no work… do you need a valve to allow the boiler time to pressurize and start producing useful work and let the condenser resubmit fill up some water before opening the whole system to be recirculating?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Hey, good question! When the liquid is pumped to the boiler, it is a very small amount compared to the amount of gas that it can become. So, the pressure buildup from pumping the liquid is very small compared to the pressure buildup from heating the liquid in the boiler. The pump will be started by a switch that measures the boiler volume. This whole system is exactly the same as with a normal steam engine. Nice that you are making a turbine! Please let me know how it goes!

[@daniel3188]

where's the rest of the solar steam generator?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

I built a new workspace, and then, because of the high energy prices, I started building a heat pump. When that is running, I will continue the steam engine project, I really miss it! There are a lot of shorts about what I did and what I am working on.

[@mikael5914]

I'm amazed by what you can do without a lathe. Imagine what you could do WITH a lathe. Then again I guess it would kinda go against your style. By the way, whats the material you're using aroun 5:15?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! It's Delrin/POM.

[@genkidama7385]

wow seriously.

[@Matrucos3]

Are you still working on this?? Any progress?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Well I've built a new workspace as you can see in the shorts that I've uploaded the past year. And yes this project will be finished but when, I'm not sure.

[@carlschwabe1397]

I like the project. I have a question. How much of your energy is used with such a complex set of mechanisms to control a valve?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! Well the valve mechanism does not have a lot of resistance, most of the friction is between the piston and the cylinder. But I don't know yet how much that is, I will determine that when the steam engine is ready. But good question 👍

[@oktogen1476]

Will you use butane to power it as in original idea?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes I will.

[@oktogen1476]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy Great!

[@iwankurniawan1081]

Mantap 👍👍👍

[@meo321]

Can you use car supercharger as steam turbine?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes you can! 🤯

[@meo321]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy I found another alternative. But I don't know if it sustain steam. Using pneumatic tool i.e. Cut-off tool as micro steam turbine. What do you think ?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes that works but they are extremely inefficient!

[@meo321]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy thanks 🌹

[@FadeToEvil]

Why to tell us it's simple, but then make it incredible complex?!

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

I said, as simple as possible to build. Sorry I disappointed you!

[@oscarverwey]

Waaw your video's ar really inspirational, you I've take great afford to get it Al really precise ! Head's of man ! , What is your minimum run pressure whit Al the Stuff attached? I've replicated this steam system Idea (cryophorous system) en it works great on warm water, (from 55ged c en up ) it's really hard to make everything vacuüm tight but it runs for me on a solar heat colector en a boiler for storige, the engine I replicated is the Tesla machanical oscillator ( free piston steam engine) this uses no valve's or Extra stuff en can be tuned from 32hz up to 60hz whit a extra spring, it don't even have a crank shaft this makes it hard to generate electricity whit it because it only have reciprocating motion en I can't get the liniaire alternator to work 😅 but the rest work's just fine even , the minimum run pressure on air is 0,2 Barr en on steam it's so low it's undetectable

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks!!! Nice, Do you have a video or something of your setup?

[@oscarverwey]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy do you know way my last comment is removed?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

What comment? I didn't delete anything. Did it have a link? KZbin sometimes blocks those because they think it's spam 🤔

[@oscarverwey]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy ow really? Strange things happening sometimes, maybe something whit the community rules, what I was saying that ik got into this system after seeing Your first video about the solar steam engine 😀 after this I keep looking for things to make it happen en water van also je used of you engine can run on extremely low pressure, you can look it up on my channel I've a bunch of video's about the (Tesla machanical oscillator replication) your idea is almost the same as the (ocean thermal energy conversion system)