The Recycled Jet Engine

Step 3 Beginning Construction

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It was dark, in the late hours of a school night when I first began to construct my machine. I began dremmeling ever-so precise shapes into the cans. As the cans shrieked and sparked my vision was slowly taking shape into the engine I had imagined. The horrible sound filled my ears and the fumes of teh dissipating metal filled my nostrils. I could feel a fine dust of metal lightly coat my skin as the metal wore away from the can.

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The first thing we need to do is form the front, main part of the engine that will house the flametube and the fan shaft. This is the orange section in the diagram. We will refer to this as the "main housing".

To do this I took a peach can, which has a wider diameter than most cans, from what I have seen, and cut a hole in the lid as close to the center as I could get.
I placed the lid near the back of the can to mark a spot for a whole inthe back. The holes will need to be slightly wider than the diameter of your coat hanger. These holes will serve to support our shaft and fans.
I used a ruler to mark an "X" shape on the lid of the can. we will need the front of the engine to be open to allow for air intake. I then cut the triangle-looking piecesformed by the "X" shape out of the lid. This piece will be called the "lid", and we won't need it until the very end.

Comments

[n108bg]

Have you tried to condense the front of the rotor holder? These jets are based on the compression of incoming air, so i would imagine a giant crossbar could retard air flow.