Oh my god, oh myyyy god
40 Celsius 44 52 56 60 64 68
You want some?
Ah he did it!
Hey guys
I'm the Hacksmith and my team and I take fictional ideas and make real working prototypes one of our biggest projects yet has been
trying to build a system to let me fly like Iron Man.
It all started out as a joke when we cracked a hundred thousand subscribers
I tried strapping model rocket engines my wrist to see if I could hover
It almost worked - in fact if we got bigger model rocket engines
We probably could have hovered at least for a few seconds, but unfortunately that wouldn't have been very legal
So we decided to move on to a more sustainable idea using EDF's (electric ducted fans)
They're basically electric jet engines the issue however is the smaller they are the less efficient they are.
Which means you can't get very powerful EDF's. That being said I was able to hover with a counterweight system
Unfortunately, I was just too fat
I'm too fat to fly without counterweights, so we're looking into something a bit more powerful
and that's a jet engine. Now, the tricky part is jet engines are kind of hard to control not very ideal for vertical takeoff situations like this.
So our revised plan is to use EDFs to stabilize my flight and a jet engine or two to provide the majority of the thrust.
Now thanks to you guys for supporting our last video sponsor we were able to order a jet engine, and it should be coming... (doorbell rings)
I think it's here!
Get this thing open
Is this the edible kind? Ian: Only one way to find out. Oh, no, it's not the jet engine
Its the oil for the jet engine so you mix this with the jet fuel
Then how are we gonna play with the jet engine today?
Ian: It makes sense, that box seemed a little small.
All right back to being bored.
We think this is the jet engine now.
I don't think we have any more jet oil fuel coming, right?
I don't think so. Hopefully well there might be some in here. Maybe so this is what we think it is. It's the King Tech
GE 310 J or the J-310 G
Someones gonna get hurt
Purchasing this was a bad business decision... Its even got that burnished coat... do they purposely do that?
It might be just from the heat actually
Thats tiny!
It looked bigger in the picture. Hey, that's the this looks like the fuel pump
I'm surprised this is able to put out enough fuel these things guzzle diesel
Is it is this the electric motor?
Think this might be the electric motor for starting
hey, it comes with its own Lithium-Ion battery!
It's so cute
How do you charge this stuff?
Yay plugging random things in we should probably set this up properly before
Messing around with it
Its time to test the jet engine!
So the manual says to stay fifteen meters behind feet 15 feet, okay
This look like 15 feet
All right, yeah, everybody ready
So it's gonna go through three stages
First it's going to spin it up and ignite the fuels that are already in the chamber
So thats ignition it warms up the glow plug
Now it's on stage one. So what its gonna
Do it's gonna put a little bit of fuel to get the engine up to 75 degrees Celsius
Chances are it's cold outside, so it might actually fail Stage one
Because it takes it has a time limit. Heating up. It's at...
Forty degrees right now, so it's at 40 degrees is trying to get to 76 degrees
Love the smell of fresh diesel in the morning
Ignition: 74 degrees Celsius
*High pitched jet engine noises*
Just drank a liter of gas in this test a whole liter. It's gone now!
I don't wanna strap that to my body...
I bought that gas can just for you. I was like that's a cool gas can Bogdan would like that.
This is 5% turbine oil
Way it's spilling and the rest is diesel because this actually runs better with diesel than it does with jet fuel
How awesome is that?
*painfully high pitched jet engine noises*
That's a lot of fire
The neighborhood must hate us
Like how loud is this out on the street?
All right
So the purpose of that test was to actually measure the thrust output from the jet engine to make sure we were hitting the specification
from King Tech and
To do that we're using the thrust test jig that Bogdan designed
Which records all the data
From both the jet engine and the sensor to tell us how much thrust is actually being produced and as you can see the graph
Looks a lot nicer than our EDF test
The thrust and throttle pretty much stay next to each other and as you can see we actually hit a total thrust of
32 kilograms, which is pretty good because the specified thrust on King Tech is
31 kilograms, so it's actually over spec which is awesome. So now that we know that the jet engine produces enough thrust
Let's do a few safety tests
One of the issues with the jet engine is the heat of the exhaust it's really high
And you can literally burn yourself quite badly not to mention that you're supposed to stand 15 feet away from these things
And I'm planning on strapping them to my body..?
Let's see exactly how dangerous these are
This will give us about two minutes of run time.
Probably less because the startup sequence is 30 seconds.
This Ivan has seen better days
But we don't really want to wreck a brand new one
so we're gonna use this guy who survived the rebar crossbow video
I mean the back of his head didn't but his face is still pretty good so be able to see the face melting in action.
Ivan head will live to see another day... not for long
Can we screw down those pieces of bone, I'm gonna strap down maybe
40 Celsius
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52 56 60 64 68 70 hundred more butter OAH STAGE 2 spin up!
His face is gone. It's gone
Its gone!
That only got to 600 degrees! That wasn't even max temp!
Alright so for test two we're just gonna use a regular Styrofoam test in retrospect
this is probably should have been the first test we did but
Think it's like completely. Gone. Are you thinking?
See what happens?
Wow and for a final test roasting a hot dog do not try this at home
It ripped itself to pieces more than cooking... Some nicely cooked sausage
You want some?
Alright that was freaking awesome, though I am getting a bit nervous about strapping jet engines anywhere near my body
Anyways, you guys might be wondering. What exactly is our design?
Well we have this really rough mock-up that we made in SolidWorks showing the basic concept for our initial tests now
This is this is basically a platform. We're going to build to see if we can actually make a system
That works as a hybrid between jet engines and EDF's
Once we have that working is when we can start shrinking it down and hopefully end up flying like Iron Man
Anyway, we should be getting the Schubler EDF very soon
Which can put out about 24 kilograms of thrust and we'll be doing similar tests that we did with a jet engine
And then we're gonna start seeing if we can get them to work together as well as probably a few more
Sponsorships to see if we can get more jet engines
Because remember the goal here is to not need to be a really good pilot the system should do all the stabilization for you
hopefully resulting in my life continuing and not ending in a fiery ball of fire.
For ian's 3d model animation of platform, you might need some sound effects so