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hi nice video, i did exakt same on my lawnmower steam but after exploring steam engine theory in years i concluded that this is not practical at all. an steam engine even homemade need a sideways actuated camshaft with different lobes for different cutoff, say 10, 20 30 and 40% intake of the stroke in other words that can be shiftet sideways. if the intake steam just expand 180 degrees for the fuul stroke until exhaust open it wont expand at all= 0 % efficiency, steam need expand AT LEAST 4/5 of the stroke so the steam should be cut off after 20% of the stroke but even 1/5 of inlet open is leading to very poor efficiency under 5%, it should only expand for 1/10s of the stroke NOT more. longer inlet with steam before cut of is only need under heavy temporary loads/startup. sure u can use only on lobe for one cutoff setting say 15 % cutoff but then u cant vary the power. Even at 1/10 cutoff reaching of efficiency is hard around 8-10 % if proper conditions with uniflow with exhaust ports not more than 1/10 of the stroke. the key is high steampressure. Then u will get good power even with minor inlet openings but the steam need to expand very much, often a compaund uniflow is needed for those that are serious. im building my own steam car in very soon. a compaund uniflow. its a rebuilt honta VTX 1800 cc chopper engine. in V-2 formationit will be a boxer cvariant, one side is high pressure cyl and the other a very big piston. tripple the with in size to let the incoming steam expand. down to vacum with a vacum pump. with a monotube boiler. it will run on wood and waste oil/cooking oil burner. with a monotube boiler steam gets up to pressure in just minuits :) but for now im also up to build a lawnmover 13hp engine converted to steam that will power a little electric grid or moped. but it will ha a camshaft actuated sideways with different cutoffs. u cant build a serious steam engine without variabel cutoff. the engine will be released here on youtube in some years

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i find valve overlap is a big problem--great vid

I’m just getting into steam power, and I’ve always wanted to make a steam powered go-kart. After seeing now big yours was it discouraged me, but this trike seem like something I could pull off.

Great job

With today's technology, i don't see why we don't have steam powered vehicles. It wouldn't be to difficult to use a rapid heating element to heat the water and produce steam, and a regular alternator to keep the car battery charged as always.

You could run it on CO2. Because CO2 can be compressed to a liquid, the range would be better than using compressed air and safer than steam.

heavier flywheel helps

Efficient one-pipe boiler. although it's easier to use my own gas engine..but I'm still interested in steam

If you drill 2 holes on the side of the cylinder at the bottom of the stroke to remove spent steam it will work better.

Yes, you can't see the car while driving, so it doesn't work in practice.

"cold" water gravity fed straight to something like a monotube boiler then straight to the engine? Im an engineer and I feel nerdy

Perhaps put some sort of jacket around cylinder to insulate it instead of all the work and unsightly appearance of removed fins....?

Looks safe

Now, take out the water and replace it with propane.

"adjusting fuel pressure for burner" never heard that term before. Can you explain what that is?

This looks pretty good, your go-cart was frightening!

can this be used as a commercial stove with some modifications? thanks much

What's a fireless boiler some kind of gas or electric boiler? Also is it a monotube?

How does throttle work. Steam inlet or burner throttle

Could we have more info? like your boiler plans, and how long it lasts?

I'll be experimenting with these very soon. I'm thinking of going with thin stainless steel tank, turned on its side. Then, using energy conversion to transfer the steam pressure in shifted gears. I may try a heating element and might use an inner plate to increase the pressure of the steam. (Carefully) For anyone reading, working with steam can be deadly under certain conditions.

Weight to horsepower ratio problem

I'd recommend replacing all bearings with sealed bearing. No moisture issues to deal with. If you could find an old turbo off a car, and hook it up to the exhaust to create a suction you'd have a better system. The old aircraft carrier uniflow steam engines used 27 lbs of suction on the exhaust, and 440 psi steam. The suction probably stopped the ring bipass by a huge amount. So your not losing power by compression of the remaining steam in the cylinder. The were running a skimmer style with compression on both sides. You can't do that with a briggs single side. You could change to a bash value design with a little machine work. Not sure it's worth the trouble, but you have less moving parts.

What's the reason for a condenser? Are you trying to make a closed system where you don't need as much new water?

ill just walk

A manual transmission would be ideal

I don't believe that's 800 psi 100 hp case tractor only runs at 150 psi

im to big fan of steam, with uniflow compaund example as yours but plus with a very huge compaund cylidner steaming down to 0.1 bar with condensing vaacum with 5-10% cut off on the high pressure first cylinder its abl to reach 20-25% efficiency, as an car engine :) thats my big future project for my steam car. 1 i know converted a 5 liter bus engine to multiple uniflow, it reached 500hp at fuull trottle and spinned the wheels av highway. so steam is the future, steam can be started on old dump oil and while uptil working temperature run on free wood, even able running only wood but will take some longer startup time :)

how did you modify the engine?

What an embarrassment to the steam world!

Wow, it took me long enough to find this channel lol, Some fun things on here lol.

The fucking jug is the best part

What material is the steam boiler coil made of?

That's amazing Great work

Fireless boiler could be used as battery power bank...also better then compressor...good job my friend.

Now you just need a larger water tank and ad a steam recovery mechanism like a condenser

Wow...impressive 👍

WD40 is good for displacing moisture once the engine is done running for the day.

Dumbest shit I've seen in a while

"Powered" might be a stretch lol. There's a steam engine on it at least

Cyberpunk 2018

Steampunk

STEAMPUNK TO THE MAX!!!!!

I guess the starter serves as the barring engine. Lol.

Nice

Too bad he never redid the boiler. He really neglected that piece of art.

This deserves a lot more love. It's takes a lot of work to do stuff like this

I honestly love this.

That's pretty cool. if you wanted you could install a charging coil and use that to put lights on your bike to make it road ready.