what should you do with it in your next video? Put it under a friggin' load! No one seems to feel like bothering to actually properly measure the efficiency of these blasted things. I don't care how many RPMs the thing gets when it isn't doing any work. Instead, show me how efficiently it transforms pressure into rotational motion. And for that, a load is required. It has to do actual work. I would really love that.
Nah. compressed air is sufficient to put it under load. These days, only bother with steam if you're addicted to that particular world. Else, compressed air causes so many fewer headaches.
Robert Daggett aww, come on. Lee was only trying to help Terrible One understand. No need to be patronizing to someone for that. (though I must admit that using "your" instead of "you're" is good wholesome classic trollbait)
Very delicate work! Itself I am engaged the Tesla in the turbine not the first year. I want to share experience. For diameter of a rotor 20mm an optimum gap - 0,1-0,12mm. Also you have too larger height of a nozzle, with such diameter it should not exceed 1-1,5mm. And the last, you have big resistance on escaping of a rotor. If you unite the exhaust opening in oval and will increase diameter of exhaust pipes - it will be one many better. Section of exhaust pipes has to be a little more, than the cooperative section of the exhaust opening of a rotor from each party. I hope, my experience will be for you the useful. Optimum working turns of the turbine with such rotor 200000-220000 RPM. On such turns the turbine will show a maximum power. Thanks for your fine work.
+Tesla Tech Hey thanks! I was actually going to enlarge the exhaust pipes to see if it helps a little. As for the nozzle, you mean it should be 1-1,5mm in all its length, or at its end only?
+johnnyq90 Nozzle height at the end. Judging by your video, width of a nozzle is about 10-12 mm, and height is 2,5-3 mm. And so height has to exceed 1,5 mm, a maximum - 2 mm, but also it is more narrow much. The nozzle height relation to diameter of a rotor is visible on one of my turbines -www.teslatech.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=47
+johnnyq90 Today once again very attentively I revised this video. In that fragment where you show production of a nozzle, it is visible that at the exit of a nozzle the rough step, directly before an entrance to a rotor was formed. It very strongly influences efficiency, the nozzle has to be made very accurately inside, without agnail, jags, and any other obstacles. Otherwise at the exit from a nozzle there is a strong turbulence, and because of they are very big losses of kinetic energy of a current of air.
+Tesla Tech I just finished making the nozzle. After a lot of testing, I ended up narrowing it to 1mm and I have to say it has almost doubled its performance! Thank you for your advice!
You have some mad skills. Thanks for the videos. I recommend you look into the tesla valve and put it on the intake as Tesla intended, Next add a miniature glow plug at the gas inlet, and then fire it up the way Tesla intended as a (I think model engine fuel) gas powered turbine. Tesla thought once it got warmed up the glow plug ignition could be shut down. Or, be totally over the top and set up a GEET reactor feed that uses non-petrol fuels, like root-beer or pickle juice. (OK, that may take some development before you put it on your turbine. The GEET reactor may require you use all iron materials for the rotor and housing, and put a slight magnetic charge on them to keep them from being destroyed by the gas. Building a miniature GEET reactor from iron stock would be a project on its own with two concentric tubes, central rod and everything vacuum tight.) Really beautiful work. Kudos.
Your engineering skills are amazing. Working with such precision in such small scale astounds me. I follow your channel a few years now and i am happy to see you exceed 100K subscribers! The first video i saw was "How to make a Tiny Turbine Wheel" and i was immediately hooked! I haven't watched any of your work for a while and i see you have some new tools in your workshop (lathe) which is cool and will help you create more awesome projects faster and easier. Μπορώ να ρωτήσω από πού προμηθεύεσαι τον ορείχαλκο και πόσο στοιχίζει; Ευχαριστώ, συνέχισε την καλή δουλειά!
+Makis Makiavelis Σ'ευχαριστώ πολύ για τα καλά σου λόγια! Τα ακατέργαστα μέταλλα τα προμηθεύομαι από τον Ρέντα στον Πειραιά. Για τιμές δεν ξέρω πως πάει ακριβώς γιατί μπορεί να παίζει ρόλο και σε τι διάμετρο είναι το κομμάτι. Παράδειγμα, για ένα κομμάτι ορείχαλκο Φ50 x100mm, που αν θυμάμαι καλά ήταν στα 600gr, μου κόστισε €17.
!OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Amazing man, This microturbine is the most powerful I and never seen!! Imagine this micro-turbine in a micro-plane. !! It's delicius!! Even the sound is deafening, it is perfect.
Exquisite. Well well done....and I am so happy to see someone working with externally powered devices. External combustion is the answer going forward...until battery's improve or until we gain the use of efficient solar power capture.....
Beautiful design and workmanship. Particularly enjoyed the slot milling set up, good thinking out of the box! Watched you progress for a long time now and highly appreciate the way you make do with bits and scraps so creatively! Glad you got your Optimum!!! Will consider a Patreon contribution! Thanks for all you share! ~PJ
Nice work! I love seeing the lathe--Queen of Machine Tools--being used for a full project. There are so many things that a lathe can do that folks who have access to a milling machine don't appreciate.
1) Why more small center exhaust holes instead of fewer larger exhaust holes in the turbine discs? 2) Have you tested its efficiency yet? 3) Have you tested it beyond 20psi / 80K RPM? Looks great!
Heh, that's actually a pretty neat setup to make precision bushings out of spec stock sheet metal. :) . If you screw a cutter blade on to a piece of wood 1 cm high, then score the drink can on the sides top and bottom, lightly pressing in the score will separate the top and bottom from a perfectly cut cylinder. You could do this to get a really nice housing for example. If you remove the brass nipple at the end of the antenna, all the sections come off in one piece. Then you just need to chuck it in the lathe and lightly score it with a cutter as it spins.
Congrats on a beautiful demonstration of quality lathe work and a demonstrably superior product. I'm jealous as hell. Heck, even the video itself was quality. Well done. Maybe a Stirling engine next?
very sophisticated rotary tool you have -- when i look at the machine doing its soft its so satisfying...but please make the motor run on free source of energy instead of using air compressor
Finally, self-made turbines! That's why I subscribed to the channel. Still it's a bit sad that now you're using your lathe instead of widely available tools :(
Looks like you spent some time making quality arbors. With just a bit more time you could probably make some dies for the discs and spacers out of A-2 steel so you could quickly reproduce them with a small press.
Hey dude, I reckon it'd be awesome to see this hooked up to a couple of CO2 cartridges and have a propeller on the end of a connected shaft, then put in a model boat or airplane. Thanks for the vids
Do you think you would be able to show us how to turn a dremel tool into a mini-lathe? That would be incredibly useful, at least for small scale projects when you're on a budget.
Great craftsmanship! I can imagine such turbine in a car, it sounds amazing! It would be fun to see it in an Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe 1973 "V8 Interceptor".
Another challenge would be to make a lily propeller, fit it to the turbine and then power it underwater with air. It could be interesting as the propeller at that speed will suck down a tornado of air in a water tank, and if your exhaust goes towards the propeller will create a lot of turbulence, if not, then you will see an amazing pattern of air flow that follows that torus of water cycling (if your tank is circular).
you should open a shop, a website and sell those things for like $50 up. I'd buy it straight away because I'm a car fan and it reminds me if a turbo blow off valve. :) preps for the work.
Mate, this is brilliant. I have tried to make small discs in the past and not been quite happy with the results but not anymore! Thanks again... One quite question though what can a tesla turbine be used for?
Keep the video's coming this is what our world needs the clock is ticking... T minus 150 years of fossil fuel ... then it's back to the dark ages, we need to solve this issue once and for all and look beyond our planet ...
What I would like to see that this turbine is combined with a double core spherical reactor. Filed with 2 different liquid plasmas. This turbine will not magnetically interfere with the reactor core. So it will allow to let the fields buildup in the cores.
In my line of work I have routinely used air tolls like Gison and other that can hit 100 K rpm and maintain it reliably, these are just simple air grinders and the like...
You should add various weighted loads to the shaft and see how long it takes to spin up and what rpm it reaches with each. I'm interested to see what RPM you get with a 1 kilo disc attached and how fast it spins up.
your work is very impressive, you have a lot of skill and wit. I have in mind the idea of building an airbrush and an air compressor. I wonder if the tesla turbine can be used to build a mini compressor of 30 or 35 psi impulsed by one small dc motor?
what should you do with it in your next video? Put it under a friggin' load! No one seems to feel like bothering to actually properly measure the efficiency of these blasted things. I don't care how many RPMs the thing gets when it isn't doing any work. Instead, show me how efficiently it transforms pressure into rotational motion. And for that, a load is required. It has to do actual work. I would really love that.
+verdatum
Need steam for load
Nah. compressed air is sufficient to put it under load. These days, only bother with steam if you're addicted to that particular world. Else, compressed air causes so many fewer headaches.
By load, he means mechanical load on the output shaft, not the driving fluid( ie air, steam, water, etc)
Robert Daggett
aww, come on. Lee was only trying to help Terrible One understand. No need to be patronizing to someone for that. (though I must admit that using "your" instead of "you're" is good wholesome classic trollbait)
Or you could look and see that johnnyq kindly put it under a load in his next video as I requested :)
omg the sound of that turbine is beautiful!!!!!!
SO TRUE, BLOW OFF VALVE...
Micheal Brown xD
Car guys bro
Micheal Brown so true :D
+justas drigotas love the valve live the valve
I love the sound of those Tesla Turbines.
Dude honestly the craftsmanship is awe inspiring
I must say this is the best designed turbine you have made
+stanley carter And as things look so far, one of the most powerful ones I've ever made, if not the most powerful on that scale.
The skill and craftsmanship of people like you makes America Great! Thanks for sharing!
Very delicate work!
Itself I am engaged the Tesla in the turbine not the first year. I want to share experience. For diameter of a rotor 20mm an optimum gap - 0,1-0,12mm. Also you have too larger height of a nozzle, with such diameter it should not exceed 1-1,5mm. And the last, you have big resistance on escaping of a rotor. If you unite the exhaust opening in oval and will increase diameter of exhaust pipes - it will be one many better. Section of exhaust pipes has to be a little more, than the cooperative section of the exhaust opening of a rotor from each party. I hope, my experience will be for you the useful. Optimum working turns of the turbine with such rotor 200000-220000 RPM. On such turns the turbine will show a maximum power.
Thanks for your fine work.
+Tesla Tech Hey thanks! I was actually going to enlarge the exhaust pipes to see if it helps a little. As for the nozzle, you mean it should be 1-1,5mm in all its length, or at its end only?
+johnnyq90 Nozzle height at the end. Judging by your video, width of a nozzle is about 10-12 mm, and height is 2,5-3 mm. And so height has to exceed 1,5 mm, a maximum - 2 mm, but also it is more narrow much.
The nozzle height relation to diameter of a rotor is visible on one of my turbines -www.teslatech.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=47
+Tesla Tech Thank you for your quick response. The nozzle is actually 6mm in diameter.
+johnnyq90 Today once again very attentively I revised this video. In that fragment where you show production of a nozzle, it is visible that at the exit of a nozzle the rough step, directly before an entrance to a rotor was formed. It very strongly influences efficiency, the nozzle has to be made very accurately inside, without agnail, jags, and any other obstacles. Otherwise at the exit from a nozzle there is a strong turbulence, and because of they are very big losses of kinetic energy of a current of air.
+Tesla Tech I just finished making the nozzle. After a lot of testing, I ended up narrowing it to 1mm and I have to say it has almost doubled its performance! Thank you for your advice!
I like its straight into build and no talking straight to point well done serious skills involved there
Amazing
The noise it makes when spinning up is glorious, good job!
Excellent craftsmanship, with great tools.
Suggestion: add a propeller and a small compressed air tank and see if it generates enough lift to fly!
You have some mad skills. Thanks for the videos. I recommend you look into the tesla valve and put it on the intake as Tesla intended, Next add a miniature glow plug at the gas inlet, and then fire it up the way Tesla intended as a (I think model engine fuel) gas powered turbine. Tesla thought once it got warmed up the glow plug ignition could be shut down. Or, be totally over the top and set up a GEET reactor feed that uses non-petrol fuels, like root-beer or pickle juice. (OK, that may take some development before you put it on your turbine. The GEET reactor may require you use all iron materials for the rotor and housing, and put a slight magnetic charge on them to keep them from being destroyed by the gas. Building a miniature GEET reactor from iron stock would be a project on its own with two concentric tubes, central rod and everything vacuum tight.) Really beautiful work. Kudos.
incredible precision and craftsmanship , Thank you
What a beautiful well made little thing.
You sir are an artist.
So beautiful and precise - Science ART...
Awesome work!
+Scrap wood City Ευχαριστώ! Κι εσύ από Ελλάδα βλέπω!
+johnnyq90 ναι, δεν ελιχα καταλάβει ότι κι εσύ! :)
A pleasure to watch!
+zigmundslv Thank you!
Subscriber for life! Keep them coming because we love it.
Your engineering skills are amazing. Working with such precision in such small scale astounds me. I follow your channel a few years now and i am happy to see you exceed 100K subscribers! The first video i saw was "How to make a Tiny Turbine Wheel" and i was immediately hooked! I haven't watched any of your work for a while and i see you have some new tools in your workshop (lathe) which is cool and will help you create more awesome projects faster and easier.
Μπορώ να ρωτήσω από πού προμηθεύεσαι τον ορείχαλκο και πόσο στοιχίζει;
Ευχαριστώ, συνέχισε την καλή δουλειά!
+Makis Makiavelis Σ'ευχαριστώ πολύ για τα καλά σου λόγια! Τα ακατέργαστα μέταλλα τα προμηθεύομαι από τον Ρέντα στον Πειραιά. Για τιμές δεν ξέρω πως πάει ακριβώς γιατί μπορεί να παίζει ρόλο και σε τι διάμετρο είναι το κομμάτι. Παράδειγμα, για ένα κομμάτι ορείχαλκο Φ50 x100mm, που αν θυμάμαι καλά ήταν στα 600gr, μου κόστισε €17.
I have seen these tesla turbines act aas water pumps, so i suggest u make another one and use the first one to power the second one as a pump
!OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Amazing man, This microturbine is the most powerful I
and never seen!! Imagine this micro-turbine in a micro-plane. !! It's delicius!! Even the sound is deafening, it is perfect.
Beautiful job John
I could watch this all day, beautiful work mate.
Exquisite. Well well done....and I am so happy to see someone working with externally powered devices. External combustion is the answer going forward...until battery's improve or until we gain the use of efficient solar power capture.....
Wow that was the coolest thing in a long time. I never thought of machining solder . Awesome video
So cool...amazing craftsmanship.
Incredible... Fantastic machining...Excellent video...Thanks,Frank
I'd love to see torque tests with it and know how efficient it is.
Great job, this channel is awesome!
Torque drop low.
Beautiful design and workmanship. Particularly enjoyed the slot milling set up, good thinking out of the box! Watched you progress for a long time now and highly appreciate the way you make do with bits and scraps so creatively! Glad you got your Optimum!!! Will consider a Patreon contribution! Thanks for all you share! ~PJ
+pjsalchemy Hey thank you for your nice comment. This is pure motivation fo me ;)
I believe it's safe to say "johnnyq loves his lathe.....................That's some beautiful work Sir..................
You should make a space ship next!! Man I love your videos! Your attention to detail is absolutely immense!!
genius craftsmanship, neat, nice to watch from fellow machinist.
INteresting! that weld was awesome!! ωραιο!!
+Cactus! workshop Ευχαριστώ!
Nice work! I love seeing the lathe--Queen of Machine Tools--being used for a full project. There are so many things that a lathe can do that folks who have access to a milling machine don't appreciate.
the machining is incredulous
keep it going
good work!!!
A load, torque, efficiency test would be awesome. Very very nice build.
Have you thought of trying a combustion version with Tesla Valvular Conduit? Couldn't solder anything on that though.
Beautiful work! but there's no love button. awesome video.
Jewelry work, well done !
congrats on 100,000 subs
+Bloo Jay he deserve 1,000,000 subs
(he is the best)
Could you show us how to make a turbine out of household things and a jet wash or something to power it please
Oh and not using a lathe .... Like common tools....I think u could use a dremel tho?
And by turbine I mean turbine motor ... And like it would be even better if you could use an electric pump or even a normal bike pump to power it
+D.j.Y GAMING5 Dude, watch the videos in his channel. There are tons of turbines made using just basic tools.
Please, do your research before talking
+D.j.Y GAMING5 Check this th-cam.com/video/wkxvODMYiDo/w-d-xo.html
82000 RPM at 30psi? Damn, congrats for the amazing job you do with those turbines
1) Why more small center exhaust holes instead of fewer larger exhaust holes in the turbine discs?
2) Have you tested its efficiency yet?
3) Have you tested it beyond 20psi / 80K RPM?
Looks great!
Please put a few of these in series to increase efficiency and power!
Perfect, you are a Genius. Please make build more powerful Turbines & Motors and share with us. We are greatfull for your great work.
that's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. u got mad skillz bro...
That thing is SO cool!!!! You should try hooking a prop on the shaft and making a steam boat!!! That would be awesome!
Great Stuff 😎
That brass ring housing is beautiful by the way.
Can you make a radial jet engine? That'd be wicked cool! I'm trying to build one myself but I just can't find a turbo compressor....
+Oli4vn Btw, beautiful turbine!
+Oli4vn I would love to, maybe a jet engine from a turbo. It'd be a nice start to the jet world I guess...
You can remove the turbo impeller and machine a compressed to fit it
+johnnyq90 I'm doing that myself at the moment, there's a few different ways you can do it
if you look at the burner cans in the axial flow, it is basically a radial. they just all fire at the same time. heh heh heh
this guy is a expert
dude this was awesome
totally amazed of both the work and the principle -
I will go to the Nicola Tesla museum in Beograd on my next visit!
Heh, that's actually a pretty neat setup to make precision bushings out of spec stock sheet metal. :)
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If you screw a cutter blade on to a piece of wood 1 cm high, then score the drink can on the sides top and bottom, lightly pressing in the score will separate the top and bottom from a perfectly cut cylinder. You could do this to get a really nice housing for example.
If you remove the brass nipple at the end of the antenna, all the sections come off in one piece. Then you just need to chuck it in the lathe and lightly score it with a cutter as it spins.
+aserta Yes it really helps! Thanks for the advices :)
Amazing, it was the feast for the eyes :)
Good design, congratulation.
Congrats on a beautiful demonstration of quality lathe work and a demonstrably superior product. I'm jealous as hell. Heck, even the video itself was quality. Well done.
Maybe a Stirling engine next?
very sophisticated rotary tool you have -- when i look at the machine doing its soft its so satisfying...but please make the motor run on free source of energy instead of using air compressor
very ingenious machining
+manu de hanoi Thanks man!
That sound like a siren and it’s soo cool by the sound of a motor
Finally, self-made turbines! That's why I subscribed to the channel. Still it's a bit sad that now you're using your lathe instead of widely available tools :(
Every single time I see one of your videos I want a metal lathe more and more.
Looks like you spent some time making quality arbors. With just a bit more time you could probably make some dies for the discs and spacers out of A-2 steel so you could quickly reproduce them with a small press.
+Everybody Lies If I were to make a number of these, then yes, it would be very useful.
Amazing work! Thanks for the great video!
Break fluid works better for the super glue plus it cleands the part well.
Wow, I am really impressed!
Very impressive brother lol amazing works
Hey dude, I reckon it'd be awesome to see this hooked up to a couple of CO2 cartridges and have a propeller on the end of a connected shaft, then put in a model boat or airplane. Thanks for the vids
very good job! very nice work. it looks perfect :)
Do you think you would be able to show us how to turn a dremel tool into a mini-lathe? That would be incredibly useful, at least for small scale projects when you're on a budget.
Great craftsmanship! I can imagine such turbine in a car, it sounds amazing! It would be fun to see it in an Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe 1973 "V8 Interceptor".
Another challenge would be to make a lily propeller, fit it to the turbine and then power it underwater with air. It could be interesting as the propeller at that speed will suck down a tornado of air in a water tank, and if your exhaust goes towards the propeller will create a lot of turbulence, if not, then you will see an amazing pattern of air flow that follows that torus of water cycling (if your tank is circular).
what is it used for
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Absolutely, defiantly amazing fine metal work, like your video.
wonderful nice work
wooow dude its an amazing job that you made.
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very beautifully making the hobby motor...
very skill talent handmake
Build an air compressor next!
They way you can create the item need to run all the tools you create.
*That way
you should open a shop, a website and sell those things for like $50 up. I'd buy it straight away because I'm a car fan and it reminds me if a turbo blow off valve. :) preps for the work.
lol nice way to use the lathe as a milling machine.
Statement: Very enjoyable watch, good job meatbag.
very well u have done
nice work! but you could have cut the discs first with a slightly larger diameter hole drill bit, then lathe them as you did
Dillhema, raise volume for the awesome music or keep it low and save your ears? xD
Love the vid very nice work!
Excellent! Using a refrigerant as a medium, one may be able to drive the micro turbine to create electricity for a renewable microgrid??
Mate, this is brilliant. I have tried to make small discs in the past and not been quite happy with the results but not anymore! Thanks again... One quite question though what can a tesla turbine be used for?
Man, you're perfect!
good turbine
Keep the video's coming this is what our world needs the clock is ticking... T minus 150 years of fossil fuel ... then it's back to the dark ages, we need to solve this issue once and for all and look beyond our planet ...
good suggestion is to measure power output of turbine. and in future scale up your creations and use them to power bigger machines
cheers
What I would like to see that this turbine is combined with a double core spherical reactor. Filed with 2 different liquid plasmas. This turbine will not magnetically interfere with the reactor core. So it will allow to let the fields buildup in the cores.
if this is NOT awesome ...
then it must be ... VERY awesome ..
In my line of work I have routinely used air tolls like Gison and other that can hit 100 K rpm and maintain it reliably, these are just simple air grinders and the like...
Two questions:
(1) Are you using miniature dental bearings? (ie: ceramic balls, steel races)
(2) Are you doing any rotor balancing?
1. Regular steel ball bearings 2. I wish I could.
That's a lot of work
You should add various weighted loads to the shaft and see how long it takes to spin up and what rpm it reaches with each. I'm interested to see what RPM you get with a 1 kilo disc attached and how fast it spins up.
Wow, your pretty fast with an allen wrench, your little turbine is pretty fast too...
Beautiful work Johnnyq90
+mwakelin Thank you!
your work is very impressive, you have a lot of skill and wit. I have in mind the idea of building an airbrush and an air compressor. I wonder if the tesla turbine can be used to build a mini compressor of 30 or 35 psi impulsed by one small dc motor?
:-) Shiny! ...I'm really impressed by the Cyanoacrylate fixturing for the discs---that's a useful trick!
+Tristan Morrow Yeap. It really does help. Seen it in a lot of videos here on youtube.