Steampunked Time Traveling Machine

Intro: Steampunked Time Traveling Machine

Hi everybody it took a long time of about some weeks to build this new project  but now I am proud to present the "Steampunked time traveling machine" to you.

Since I was  a young boy I am fascinated of the idea to create a time-machine like it was described by H.G. Wells.
Now as an old  Steampunk guy I picked up this idea again and created my own "machine" for time traveling.

This instructable is really extensive and I am sure that you will enjoy the following detailed steps beginning with an old boiler made of copper  and ending with a funky steampunked machine.

And here comes a short movie clip as a first impression:



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Yours Aeonn Junophor

STEP 1: First Draft

Some weeks ago I got an old boiler made of copper by fortune. After the first cleaning an polishing the idea of a steampunked time machine rose up in my mind.

So I went down the stairs to my steampunk labaoartory  (in german: Dampfkraftlabor) and developed a first draft in which way this funky fantasy time machine might could be constructed. 

You can see the result below.

 Some days later I made a second draft and started the project as you can see it here using a lot of other instructables  about eg copper welding, making a joule-thief, or working with a flash-module of a disposal camera.

The most fascinating aim to me was to run all these different lights  measure instruments and the sound module by using only one! 1.5 Volt battery. And it is unbelieveable it really works;-)))))))))))))

STEP 2: Modifying of the Old Steam-boiler

After all elements had been chosen the boiler needs a lot of holes to keep the fittings and controls and instruments.
A lot of fittings had to be fixed by welding. So I took this instructable to learn how to do it.


To make the big holes I first drilled small holes, then cut the middle out with metal shears and finished with a file.

STEP 3: Measure Instruments

For time travelling under time pressure you need some controls an instruments.

These are an old pressure gauge, a new working alarmclock (model "DEKAD" from ikea),and a voltmeter for pulsating direkt current.

STEP 4: Blind Flange With Integrated Speaker

I covered the bottom of the boiler with a blind flange made of red fiber and integrated a loudspeaker  for transmitting the sound effect.

STEP 5: Cooling Spirals

A time machine which works whith plasma energy and time pressure needs also a cooling system
So I created two cooling circuits.

STEP 6: The "low-pressure"-plasma Circuit

The low-pressure  plalsma circuit is constructed with a flickering bulb covered with a copper net.  The top protector is an E27 Centra bulb socket made of brass and glass.

The holder is part of an old glass holder and burner of an petrol lamp. The flickering bulb is driven by an HV-flash module of an disposal camera.

See also this instructable: HV-powersupply

STEP 7: The "high-pressure"-plasma Circuit

The high-pressure  plalsma circuit is constructed with a small neon Tube  called IN -24 (I bought them from Mr. Nixie) 

with the help of  this instructable Steampunk-Light-tube



This steampunk-light-tube is placed in a separate copper tube with 18mm in diameter. The IN-24 neontube istself is hold by two front parts of a cartridge case ; see also the detailesd pictures below.

The IN-24 tube is driven by an HV-flash module of an disposal camera with DC.

See also this instructable: HV-powersupply

STEP 8: Joule-thief Illuminated Cutouts

Another application ofthe time machine are the Joule thief illuminatet cutouts.

To build these lights I took this Instructable "Making a JouleThief"

To hide the electronic parts I screwed the cutout holder made of porcelaine into two old brass bulb holders E27 made of brass as you can see.

STEP 9: Emergency Stop Valve

Another element of the time machine is the emergency stop valve.
Therfore I took a bursted water tube and placed two  green LED inside a exactly fitting plastic tube as you can see.
Both LED´s together are driven by the third Joule Thief of this project

STEP 10: Electronic Equipment

The time machine runs with three sperate HV-powersupplies, three Joule thiefs . All these parts are energized with only one 1,5 Volt AA battery.
Th soundmodule runs with three 1.5 Vol coin cells and the IKEA alarm clock runs also with 1.5 Volt from an AA battery.

STEP 11: Controlbox

To "drive" the time machine we also need a controlbox. Two switches, one press button and the AA-battery are placed here.
The box itself is made of an old and broken The controbox can be easyhandlamp from the army

STEP 12: Carrying Straps

The carrying straps are the only part of the time machine, which I really had to buy for this project. Yu will find them at schoolbags made of leather,

STEP 13: Time Travelling

At the end of this veeeeerrrryyy long project  here are some pictures of this time machine in action.


I hope you enjoyed this instructable

 Yours Aeon Junophor

Comments

[nflpanthersfan]

it would have been cool to make the clock hands spin forward faster or backwords

[Supersonic415]

I'm looking into doing that on mine

[f426754]

hello sir junophor I am Aryan Yadav I am from India. I don't understand the theory behind its working and also in the video you posted in this instructable you just switched on all the switches of the device and lighted off the bulb of you room nothing happened. And one more question is that if this really works I have did a huge mistake in the past can I go back in time and stop that from happening how would you know that whether you are going in past or in future please help me please reply.

[Supersonic415]

Time machines should not be used for personal gain. That can be very dangerous. It's better to only use it to fix global emergencys

[nflpanthersfan]

that way it would look like its working

[deepak748]

WHERE IS JUNOPHAR?????? DID YOU JUST VANISHED?

[Aeon Junophor]

Hi deepak748

... just returned from ancient times.....stop.... next project presentation coming soon... stop.... it will be a SETAMPUNKED BAT DETECTOR... stop... keep your eyes open for it ;-)) .. stop...

greetings from northern germany... stop...

Yours Aeon Junophor ... stop!

[diy_bloke]

I dont think this will work properly. The helix for cooling yr high pressure plasma is not long enough. It might be fine now but one day you'll be getting a reflux in the main reactor and you are gonna be stuc in the pleistocene

[player2030]

Don't worry.. I thought of that and being the conscious kind of person that I am I went back in time a corrected the levels on the molecular bonds therefor the magnetics fields are not a requirement. Double layers of intracluster nucleosynthesis did the trick...thank you for your concern anyways.

[DawsonM2]

Yeah right u didn't travel though time I want to but i no if u did u wouldnt been posting that because someone might rob u and take that thank u everyone

[diy_bloke]

dude, you screwed up the time space continuum and MH370 got sucked into the vortex

[player2030]

Don't worry. ..that mistake only occurred on "your" time line. . I will fix it, by this time tomorrow all time ripples will have disappeared.

[diy_bloke]

and I probably will have forgotten it ever happened... because it that hasn't happened.
OMG I think time machines should be banned

[player2030]

Not to worry...I had already planned on that happening, it was actually my own doing and was not a vortex but a man-made-fluctuation on the nano quantum bridge to prevent two time lines from collapsing. ..

[stringstretcher]

That explains a lot of things around here!

[diy_bloke]

:-)

[deepak748]

Hi junophr.....im deepak....plz contact me back....
Im from india.....i have some question on how to make it simple ...the time machine...
[e-mail]

[player2030]

Dear deepak,
Even if I wanted to help you I couldn't. You plan on going back in time and relive a past event. Time is like vessels that can be used only once. Also, you would encounter the older version of yourself. ..

[deepak748]

Hello Junophor... I'm really confused !!if time line can only be used once then what is the relevance of a time travel....?
So that means a dimension of time can only be altered but not the human will to change...
Am I right.....or wring.....?plz specify..

[temporarychaos]

Thanks to this my hot water heater will never be the same... I really should have experimented on a old one first.