Down to my local fire shed for a working bee at 7.00am this morning. We put up 3 roller doors and had a good yarn.
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Got back home and spent the afternoon welding up the new jet. (As always it takes 3 times longer, to get everything aligned properly before welding it fully).

I went to a mate's workshop on Friday and used his sheet metal “slip rollers” to roll up the bigger truncated cones. It still took me 1 1/2 hours to roll the intake, combustion chamber and tail pipe out of 1.6mm sheet.
It was a "Chook" powered machine.
The hire cost , was a relaxing counter lunch at the local pub. Had to replenish the fluid levels too. Thanks a heap Phil.

The jet is all tapers and curves, so assembling it, has kept me on my toes.

I still have to,
Spin up a sparkplug mounting bush on the lathe and weld it onto the combustion chamber.
Sort out a fuel supply system (LPG) and injector nozzle.
Work out how to build up some tabs to actually mount it.

All good fun................
Stay tuned.

Bit more done today.

Machined up the mounting for the sparkplug on the lathe and started on the radial LPG inductor.
It will be adjustable to get it to the best position inside the intake cone and near to the transition cone into the combustion chamber.
(Intake is at the bottom.)

I've read that they can be fussy where the fuel is delivered.

I'm still smiling, so you can guess from that, it wasn't my wife that took this shot. [}:)]

You are all sworn to secretiveness!!!!

Now back to the shed.

BEJASUSANALL! Yer after for remindin' me o' me brother-in-law. I just hope the temper is a little milder..

Mind you the PJ looks good and I'm looking forward to some Noisy Footage..
Ron

PS:::: HEY MISSUS CHOOK HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT MR CHOOK IS UP TO??

^^^ Yeah. Me too because it is not mine.

.Such a urge from the God of Land Yachting?? Surely you could rain down some Hell Fire and Brimstone or perhaps a small Earthquake to shake everything off the walls??[}:)]
Ron

aus230 said...

I hate that work shop Chook

Most tool boards i've seen are shadow boards with just the
shadows and the odd tool left on it in the wrong place

Yo! John,
Post us a pic' "Off Das Gut Vagon unt Hund"[}:)]
Ron

Ahhh... not enough hours in each day.

I've spent some more time on the fuel system.
The brass radial fuel injector (on the short dummy 10mm copper tube) took some time to make. 12 x 1.5mm holes spraying forward at 15 degrees, for a full fan pattern.
Plug mounting tapped for the plug and the gas taps sorted to regulate the noise.
.

?????????????

Awesome cisco, should be some good footage.

One more sleep and I'm off to Lake Lefroy.

Will meet up with the "Kalgoorlie bunch" for 4 days of yachting on the glass surface.
The lake report is, just a little water right over by St Ives. PERFECT!!!![}:)]

Yachts to fine tune, kites to sort out and maybe a prawn or two on the barby.
Might even have to suffer a cold bevarage or two each evening, to keep the cold out.

There should be more long weekends eh

Yeah! Paul don't "Forget your Stones" Gawd Strewth! I don't know how you can drink that Muck?? A bottle of "The Nant or Bowmore" will do nicely thank you..
Ron

Another way of dealing with no wind. Go on the Choobe.

The Yanks have made an art form out of this and their yachts are just superb.

I really like the green one with the sliding canopy.

I was "hurry up and waiting" at the gate to FMG-Cloudbreak yesterday morning, tried to call Chook to see whats happening at Lefroy.
Couldnt get through.
Got a missed call message on the way home so called from MT Magnet at 9.30pmish,
Chook answered with lots of wind noise, fumbling and a bit of colourful language.
Turns out that Lefroy is perfect, wind is great, and all the crew were out night sailing and having a "phat time".

I'm not jealous (much)

hope the mug drops his phone.......

Stephen

Really too cold today (for me anyway it's 12 degrees C.)

With the "War Lord" overseas, I've been able to do some fuel flow testing on my small 12 pound thrust valveless pulse jet. Just to get more of a handle on the starting and running of it.

Today's conditions are probably the worst case situation, with the LPG cylinder being so cool.
I found that my fittings that connect to the flex line (both ends) are too restrictive with only a 3mm hole through the brass, as in the cold conditions, I couldn't get to full throttle.
Even with the cylinder valve fully on. I'm guessing it was only at 80% power.

It was also very reluctant to restart when hot as well. I reckon there was some icing problems in the brass fittings. If I left it for 15 mins it would instantly restart.
By the time I had the fittings undone, it had thawed, but the moisture was still visible.
I drilled them out and it made a huge difference. Spark on, gas on and a 120 psi sniff of air from my air lance and it was away each time.
After a few runs it warmed up the shed nicely, but it was a bit hard on the eyes with the fumes.

You will be pleased to know “Landyacht” that it shook some of my ring spanners off their nails. [}:)]

I got the engine mountings cut out and drilled for the bigger “Lockwood”.
I just have to weld them up now.
The local hydraulic shop is getting me some 10mm steel tube for its fuel system. It's been delayed by end of financial year stocktakes in Perth.
Still much to do.

Nikrum said...

Chook,
Why don't you use Raw Dump. You have to be careful but it works fine on my Biscuit Tim Furnace and it will take down a Kilo of Bronze quickly.
Ron

What's a Biscuit Tim