How To Make A Tesla Turbine (Greenest Turbine)

Step 8 Assembly

First put one of the hard drive disks that you have not drilled onto the shank. Then layer them with a spacer from the hard drive and then put a disk with the holes drilled in it, spacer, disk, spacer, disk and so one until you end up with just a spacer on the end(After you do a dry assembly then put a few drops of superglue between each disk and spacer so they will not spin on the shank, that is not what we want them to do. After you do this put the retaining ring on and tighten up the set screw. Once this is done you can put the rest of it together. The last picture in this setting is the assembled shank and disks sorry I do not have a better picture.

After this is done then take the piece of plexi-glass without the exhaust ports in it and put the eight bolts into the hole you drilled previously. Then flip this piece over so the bolt heads are on the bench or table you are using. Then lay the pvc pipe onto the piece of plexi-glass with the assembly of the shank and disks (look at the extras section first). Then you should take the other piece of plexi-glass (the one with the exhaust ports) and slide it onto the eight bolts that should be standing strait up now. After that take the last eight washers and slip them onto the bolts. Then put the eight nuts onto the bolts. The project should now be coming together. Then once you tighten up the nuts (remember to put the bearings exactly where you want them and then center your pvc pipe around the disks before tightening the nuts) then put your piece of tubing into the previously drilled hole and put a plentiful amount of silicon sealer all around the tube and the hole so no air will leak out from this area. Then put the appropriate air fitting that you have on the other end of your tube and you are ready to run it after the glue dries of course. On to taking it further.

Comments

[Muscelz]

nice instructable, but your doc's didnt work. idk weather it waz becuse of my pc because i dont hav mircosoft word, i just used windows basic word editor but it came up with a blank doc. i am 15 to, my dad is a engineer, hydrolics fitter, fitter and turner and deseil mechanic, also does a little bit of electronics like fixing tv's, two-ways and etc. my dad had a couple of lathe's, 2 smallish lathe's which are about 4meters wide and stand about 2meters tall, and another larger lathe which is used for parting and larger work, its about 8meters across an about 3meters high, its a beast lol if i can use it in that sence. i am quite good on the lathe myself, ive made silencers, zip guns, party popper guns which fire .177cal air rile pellets and a few other things like a small rocket canister which i pack with sparkers and let off, which is quite a quick fireworks show. after i finnish making my knuckle duster im thinking about making a tesla turbine maybe, but if im going to make it ide use mainly stainless and brite steel so i can run it at 100-150 psi, that doesnt include the platters in the centre, they still will be the anodised aluminum hd platters. pretty much everything on urs that is plastic will be stanless, becuase im not to good at working acrylics and stuff. lucky i am into computer i have a few old hard drives around, i think i have about 5 or 6? but some are double patterd so i shud have a few disks. i just got to think of a way to make those plates not move about, i dont like the idea of super glue, im thinking low profile tourqe screws placed around the rim ont the platter to hold them, and ill probably arildyte them in place aswell. if ude like to talk to me more, add me on msn [e-mail]

[astro boy]

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[astro boy]

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[CrazyMachinist94]

Hey thats pretty cool but when you say you still want to use hard drives on run it at around 150 psi thats getting to the failure point of the disks. Because you could have it spinning at around 50,000 rpm's at that point and let me know if you can get it to do that but also keep in mind that your bearing may not be able to hold up to that kind of abuse. And really super glue or any strong adhesive should be fine with holding the disks from spinning on the shaft because there isn't to much force trying to keep the two parts from spinning in the same direction and in the layout it has the part that the disks will be sliding on extremely tight to the inner diameter of the disks so you almost would not need glue, I am just trying to save you some trouble but its you project you do whatever pleases you and good luck with it if you build it. I would also like to see your finish product when you get it done. And I will try to fix the documents by tonight or tomorrow so let me know if they do not work by tomorrow.

[Muscelz]

1st pic: me holding a large old harddrive disc platter my sword made out of a harvester chopper blade, I made it all by myself lol. (pulled apart in sections) .22cal zip gun 1/2 finished, just got to make the firing pin and coking latch .177cal air rifle pellet gun which uses party poppers charge as the charge in it 2nd pic: just after i finished welding my dusters 3rd pic: in the vice, die grinding the excess weld away 4th pic: after being polished in the buffer 5th pic: my .22cal supressor, it has 7 chambers made out of cupped stainless washers pushed in in the press, suppresses low velocitity round. made out of bored out hydrolic ram shaft, took my 3months 2 make (I'm pretty lazy with making things, they usually get left 1/2 finished) 6th pic: the nozzel out showing how complex it is, 8 holes around the outside to let out the escaping gas 7th pic: together and just about ready to go out shooting XD please note: i DID make all this stuff by myself with no help from my dad, and if he knew i was making all this stuff he'd probably kill me lol

[Muscelz]

I might just have to turn up some sleeve bearing or just bearings in the lathe, yea because I'm not sure either you standard ball bearing can cope with that stress. i doubt the hard drive discs would fail and if they do happen to fail their incased in 1/4" stainless casing so they can't make it out :) ahha thats sort of funny, killer disc platters lol. ahha anyway, I've just been looking at a few designs of tesla turbine's, their seems to be a few varieties, in platter hole, shape and location. I'm trying to establish which one is the most efficant at psi/torque. I've seen turbines with only a few platters that are about 3/16" thick, and that huge compared to the harddrive platters. I'm going to look into getting plates cut out at my mates work shop with his water get cutter, then i could make it all out of stainless....... that being it stainless its given me a few ideas to increase rpm and torque, maybe lpg injected? the burning lpg inside of their would expand 100x or more over its original size, but if i do that ide have to make it able to handle high temps, and the bearing would have to be different, most things would have to be different because of the steel expanding under such high temps. what has come to mind is turbo bearings, they can handle extreme temps, i could somehow incorporate the into my design which i will be getting drawn up on cad by my mate so i can start getting ready on design, I'm yet to figure out optimal plate diameter and distance apart. if I'm going to go for lpg I'm definelty going to be dealing with speeds of over 100,000rpm? maybe? ahha that means VERY high temps ill be dealing with, should be able to match the temp of a small turbo and i just tested the doc's and they were no different to the last ones, but don't worry its probably my doc reader. I'm to lazy to download a different program lol

[CrazyMachinist94]

Hey I have just uploaded PDF documents instead of all of the word docs so try those out and let me know if they work