The Amazing Vacuum Spring Car! (and make-it-yourself kit)
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Continuing our quest to build a full size wind up car, this week we're looking at vacuum springs. And what interesting things they are too..
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Perhaps you know someone who would like one? (A teacher, maybe?) And of course, if you had two, then you could race them : - )
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Tom Stanton built a similar project he called the "vacuum dragster". Very cool!
Yes, I saw that too - very cool
Nice to know your a subscribe of WOWBIB Grady
Dear Way out west blog inventor.
👍👌👏 Oh WOW! Simply fantastic! Lots and lots of brain work was invested in the design of the toy car so that it can be put together so incredibly easy. Congrats for having all those skills.
Additionally thus great little car can be used to take away the fear children (and some adults) have about syringes.
Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you (humans, animals and plants).
thank you : - )
@@WayOutWestx2
You're welcome, it's my pleasure. Praise was well deserved,
Please be so nice to give greetings to Sandra and all the animals from me (if you can spare so much time). 😁 Thx in advance.
Sincerely yours.
Fantastic job Tim...I especially like how you explain it so simply. Muse and all my children enjoyed it
Great to hear!
You could put a rubber band around the wheels for grip. Cool design!
You're right, but if I start using rubber bands perhaps they'd be better replacing the syringe : - )
Ah yes, didn't think of that!
It’s good for kids to learn about co-efficient of friction or lack of!
perhaps a bit of silicone caulking around the spiky bits for traction on smooth floors?
Amazing, if I had a kid, I'd certainly get him/ her one. Much better than the rubbish people buy in stores. 💚👍👏
brilliant idea
My weekly does of Irish rambling is here.....and I love it
thanks - my ambition is pottering, but rambling will do for now : - )
@@WayOutWestx2 or pottery?
An Irish boy and his magical air pressure toy. Sounds like a great book. Love your videos. Stay safe.
Thanks, you too!
Always so diverse and clever Tim. Maybe a Diaphragm Compressor/s For
Larger application 🤔 Multiple compressed chambers, once one is compressed, and released to turn axel, it’s motion fills air in the others. It would get complex quickly but works in my head. And as the great saying goes if you can see it in your mind you can hold it in your hand. Old gas bottles come to mind,
I might look at compressed air sometime, but I was hoping to find another way. Compressors are so noisy and I wouldn't know how to attach a horse : - )
*Oh, well done, Tim!*
That's quite a cute little toy, Tim. I bet there'd be an interesting way to convert that kid into a 3d-printable toy...
Красиво/beautiful!
Well done Tim. That's a nifty little design. I bet big boys would like those for Christmas too. Blessings to all.
Tim!
You are amazing! 🥇
Tim, I know you do call yourself an engineer but you sure think, plan and execute like one. Well done!
I love the idea; I wrestle with a seringe every day in order to feed a little dove. Sometimes it gets blocked. :) The sounds in the background made it even more interesting; music, water, water poured in a glass? Enough for a think up story of a seringe car traveling through floods and glass tubes. ":):)
I was listening to something interesting on the radio while I was filming this, so I couldn't use the soundtrack. So I had to record something or it would feel like we're in space - even though this one makes no sense at all : - )
Perfect gift and project Tim. Nice job!
Thanks!
That's brilliant Tim!
Awesome ingenuity!
Neat.
You need to keep an eye on this man Sandra! I reckon he could design me a Pooh picker for my horse!
1:03 it is indeed VERY interesting!
Brilliant
Brilliant!
Excellent Tim , well be in touch, though it's going to be tough donating to someone with more toys and vegetables than us ! 😂
Ha!
wonderful job. I've seen water pumps built using PVC water pipes and rubber washers. perhaps you could use them to make a larger model.
Thanks. Yes, o rings ordered...
"Why we make things and why it matters" is the title of a book that I never read, but the title alone is thought-provoking enough. And I can't even make a nesting box.
We live in an age when materials and tools and information are all readily available - it would be a shame not to experiment a little, surely? : - )
@@WayOutWestx2 Absolutely, which is why I love all of your ingenious experimentation. As I also love watching our carpenter/builder (he is a good friend, he doesn't mind) who can build anything from a whole house to detailed cabinetry. I have just never learned to use tools myself. Blame it partly on the fact that girls weren't supposed to learn that in my youth and on the fact that my dad couldn't even hang a painting (he could do lots of other things though), so I had no role model.
love it
It would be fun to see if you could flip the syringe around and see if air pressure, or vacuum propels the car further. You would lose the linear behavior of the vacuum spring, but it might work.
I'm sure compressed air would work better - depending on how much it's been compressed. I'll just have to experiment..
G'day,
I like it, it works very well on that scale.
When expanded to being something big enough to sit in..., then considering the diameter and length of the Vaccum-Cylinder which will fit in the Vehicle - or perhaps a parallel pair of them (!) will both limit the range, and start adding weight & complexity in the satisfaction of both Cylinder-Wall Strength, & Vaccumn-Sealing the Piston while ensuring the lowest possible sliding friction from the Pistons (Silicone-greased O-Rings, perhaps ?).
If you can build two of them perhaps, using Bicycle parts - maybe a Trike and a Quadricycle...(?), and take them to a Car-Club's Drag-Race Meeting, ideally one that's run on a standing 1/4 or 1/8th of a mile straight course....; then you'd probably only have to put on one set of demonstration Races...., pumped out via YT & FB, before Backyard Eccentrics all over the Globe start thinking of what they might do - to go faster than do you...
You might want to incorporate a geared Crank-Handle to the system, or a Lever with a Ratchet, to facilitate the re-pulling of the Plug, so to squeak.
Hand-cranking a Vaccumn-Tank like that, or winding up & compressing a Cylinder full of stacked Steel Strip-Springs..., amounts to spending a long time storing the energy required to otherwise push the Car along the Road in realtime.
To be really worthwhile, ideally the Car's Springs should be wound up or the Cylinder should have it's Plug being pulled out..., by a Windmill-driven mechanical Gearbox ; or peehaps a Water-Wheel on a Stream...
Well done in bringing the Project to Public Downloadability stage...; 3 Gold Stars & a Koala Stamp, at the very least...!
Keep on keeping on...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Exactly - a water-wheel or (in our case) horses, or a windmill..
👏👏👏 Hermoso!!!😄🙋🇦🇷
With tongue placed firmly in cheek: so make the car weigh somewhat more than the force required to create the vacuum plus wheel and linkage friction. Then only park on downhill side of road and set the brake. Then release the brake and let gravity pull the vacuum.
I always wondered if you could have a spring with a constant energy output, maybe you could make a clock out of this. I terms of energy storage the earths atmosphere is 0.1 mega pascals so the energy stored by a vacuum is 0.1MPA multiplied by the internal area of the vessel. If you were to use positive pressure then the maximum pressure difference could be much higher than that, many commercial compressors go up to 1MPA.
Thanks, David. Yes, I might get to compressed air sometime, but it has it's downsides too
You could turn it around and make it a pressured air car :-). You can get far more energy stored that way. Compressed air propelled complete coaltrains in mines. You could also check out MDI who try to build airpropelled cars (they have been working on it for many years and have been very promising for all those years :-) )
Thanks - MDI? I couldn't find anything..
This is so clever!
But why did he make a PENlS shaped car?
just use compressed air for you full sized car, pressurize the tank and hook a pneumatic took use to a gearbox, you could probably cobble something together on a ride on mower. The primary problem is an air tank probably wont be a fantastic energy/weight or volume for long range transport.
But then it wouldn't be a wind up car
What laser have you.. Looks like a k40... I'm up in North Cork bweeng near mallow... Are you far away, I would love to pop down to your magical place of things please 😁
It's a 100w machine. Bweeng? That's where I go for my sheet steel (Irishrollforming). Perhaps I could get you to deliver some for me : - )
@@WayOutWestx2 bloody hell small world 🤣 I'm about a mile from there... I got my sheet from there too to build my workshop..
100watt I dream of that 😁.. Once All this nonsense is over we must hook up.. I could be your apprentice.. I've built a little cnc too but not ásc big as yours
👍❤
now make a boat version with this "engine" :)
Tata is trying to make air powered cars in India
i it possible to ship it to New Zealand have 2 science mad 9 year old grandsons who love home experiments.
Yes, should be no problem, Pru. Covid restrictions seem to have been lifted recently
Nahhh full size pop pop boat better idea go on you no it makes sense
just reminded me to scrub my fingernails.
Yes! Sorry about that - I cut them immediately after I saw the footage
@@WayOutWestx2 Don't apologise! My hands get flithy too. These days I get to add hand sanitiser to the mix before I get to wash them properly.
Why did you make a PENlS shaped car?
aerodynamic
it's a CAR shaped car, you could ask NASA why they build penis shaped rockets too if you like.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 aerodynamic
Funny, I saw a *car* shaped car, but I guess what you see depends on what you have on your mind.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 yes if nassa put a ball sack on a rocket I would call them out too. I mean it woldn't be hard to put a fin or trunk on the car. It reminded me of the car the ambiguously gay duo drove.