MadModder
Gallery, Projects and General => Project Logs => Topic started by: Andrew Wildman on December 20, 2016, 02:44:56 PM
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My son purchased a scooter at our local village jumble sale for £1.
On the front it has a sticker that says 'Warning: product moves when in operation. Use common sense'
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/dreeewman/jet%20scooter/015.jpg)
So I fitted a pulse jet to it.
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/dreeewman/jet%20scooter/013.jpg)
(http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y373/dreeewman/jet%20scooter/014.jpg)
I have been trialling it on propane but it is not behaving yet. I may need to redesign the valve to let more air in. Eventually the plan is that it will run on petrol. Oh and my son is 7 so it will be for daddy to ride only, but he is enjoying the build :ddb:
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Throw me for a loop. Saw the title and I thought "yes! a jet engine". Then I opened and saw the first picture... "darn, Jet must be a name brand". Then I got to the second picture. Rock On!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
Common sense is to put a jet engine on it. Right? I am not the only one who thinks that way. I know Doubleboost does too!
We need video of it going down the road.
Eric
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I will post a video when I get it going properly. So far all I have got out of it was a series of LOUD bangs which at 8:30 on a Saturday morning did not go down well with the wife!
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As Mad As A Box Of Frogs :nrocks: :nrocks: :nrocks: :nrocks:
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liking the idea of that......
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Like the idea Andrew, but where will the fuel sit. Also probably need heat protection for your feet. Personally I prefer to sit in jets! :nrocks:
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****Personally I prefer to sit in jets*****
Now you are getting ahead too far, that will be the next project :clap:
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:nrocks:
If you Haven't seen...Check out This guy Colin Furze or something like that ...Hes mad about getting things to go by jet power !
Years ago the American had a warning on A certain cup of Coffee saying "Contains Hot Liquid " Umm now we all have adopted this. I saw a sign a Couple of days ago in london that said "Cause No nuisance "
Will enjoy this thread a lot Great fun ..See you up the pod with a Parachute !
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did this project ever get finished?
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Is there a firewall intended? Or asbestos socks? :zap:
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Is there a firewall intended? Or asbestos socks? :zap:
Exactly what I was thinking too. Otherwise, it might turn out to be a mobile BBQ also.
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I made a pulse jet many years ago from the free plans that came in one of the Model magazines i think it was Aero modeller late 60's Dad and i, forgot the model was Balsa wood and the fixing straps got hotter and hotter :doh:
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I recall a Corporal Henwood who was in the Royal Air Force making a pulse jet long before this. I was at school and guess that it was about 1945 or 46. I saw a captured V1around that time.
The article was definitely in the Aeromodeller and I made one up. I recall that it had a reheat of sorts and it was not until I was also a corporal myself in 1949 that I saw reheats on Meteor 8's at Farnborough Air Show.
Where did the time go since?
Norm