What is the cheapest way to build an Argus (water) Jet Engine, using river water for a hydraulic medium?
Jan/110
I’m aiming to use no more than $20 building it. I’m aiming for an equivalent force generated to replace a 2 hp motor (the canoe is Ramex plastic and only rated for a 2 hp. motor). I have : old cans including several sizes of olive oil cans for a boiler, a map gas welder, some brass and the means to found this, but not the means to forge anything, some bearing silver, a very small dab of epoxy, several old shoes for leather reed valves, a Coleman stove. Some lengths of copper wire for winding around and soldering up to reinforce any home made low pressure boiler as per a Stanly Steamer.
Presently, I’m thinking the water would go into a series of cans welded or soldered together, past a leather reed valve, and thus have momentum. It would be forced in by a low pressure steam implosion as the steam cools, as in a New-comb (sic) steam engine. There would be another valve on the reverse side to form a barrier for water entering that side.
If someone has plans to a similar engine as I describe, I would appreciate this very much.
I’m considered “mentally ill”, after severe brain injury in State service and made fun of nearly constantly and denied needed medical attention. I have medical records in Augusta and I’d like to politely confront the records keepers there and gain as much help in recovering lost funds as I can by proving that I’m not nuts. The engine will be used to power a boat. If I can prove this is a reliable means of transport I’ll be less likely to be literally put away for being too audacious.
OK. How is a low pressure boiler (by the various definitions between no more than 35PSI and no more than 80 PSI), depending on the definative authority cited, to ever be considered a bomb?
For a new comb (sic) steam engine, the pressure needed is, in fact, “just over atmosphereic”, or tea kettle temperature water. The drive after all, is provided by the atmosphere itself, and it’s abhorance of a vacuum (sic).
THIS ENGINE “SUCKS” water, and thus works by “water hammer”; the water once moving will not simply stop after the implosion of the steam, it must continue to move untill acted upon by an equal and opposite force (Newton’s first law). If the water cannot reach the imploding steam from one direction (because the reed valves are so arranged ~ or in the case of a pure argus due to the differential in weight of the two opposing collumns ~ one being longer ~ causing one to move more quickly and thus “start a chain reaction”) then that moving water, in having overtaken and absorbed the steam, must continue out the outlet at “some certain speed”.
The physics is irrefutable.
But of course, on a spaceship powered by this, it cannot work forever. The effect of Bose-Einstein condensates are to deplete the materials in question and cause a general decay. It must break.
But in a river in Maine, operating over much shorter periods between replacement or repair, this might do nicely.
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‘Vulcan Stove’ – Medium Size Portable Regulator Stove for Outdoors – Hiking, Backpacking and More!
‘Vulcan Stove’ – Medium Size Portable Regulator Stove for Outdoors – Hiking, Backpacking and More!
