A spin-off from our channel 'Way Out West with Sandra and Tim', this one is all about what goes on in Tim's workshop... We live in the south west of Ireland, a few miles from Bantry in West Cork. (For those who don't know, Ireland is a Republic - we're still in the EU, and we're really not in Britain!)
Very nice I love it! Great idea you got there sir! How about designing it with a flywheel(s)? Perhaps friction would increase with the addition of Magnets?
Once again, tim. It seems you are embarking on a seemingly mad quest, but one that you'll undoubtedly succeed in billiantly, as the mad scientist you are!!! How I would love to come and lend a hand!!!
Heat pump is a great idea. Also the commenter was right about the efficiency. It's calculated by energy used vs energy moved so it can be above 100%. The steel friction plate idea just creates too much particles and wear. Have you looked into the torque converters? Converters can generate tons of heat with mostly torque not rpm. The stall is greatly variable. Like your videos I will keep watching.
Hello Tim, Well Bantry has sure changed since I was there about 40 years ago! Thank you for showing us the beauuful Bantry Bay. I'm not sure your viewers are aware just how far West you live. That's the Atlantic Ocean, no wonder the sunsets are so good. Good to see the red Mott on the weighbridge and hear of possible progress with manufacturing millions of MottsI I notice the king pin mounts on the car have been reinforced. Is that an accident repair or a reccommended modification? I'd better get out some 6mm metal and my trusty jigsaw!
Little jhon wanted to build his own railway system ,he made a track using GALVANIZED round STEEL and ecofriendly wood veneers and pegs that he borrowed from his aunt. Lovely video the sentence above is an internet meme from nowadays
Denouncing efficiency has let our human civilization accept advancements of highly debatable finalization throughout many years, especially notable when the environment is considered of importance. Solar panels are truly a great example of this misconception of innovation for our benefit, in truth 30% efficiency should have at the time of development been seen as minimally equitable for market release until far higher efficiency had been achievable. Though as per usual we are garnered into believing & accepting such products as break through innovation applicable of celebrating such amazing development & showcasing inherently true human potential. Quite bewildering how we hath succumb to such falsification in existing & progressing as an intelligent species isn't it??
Very nice indeed. I will need to make similar drawer sets for my new machine shop. A couple of ideas come to mind about the curved fit between the finger joints, where the CNC machine can do all the work, on the stock, as it lies flat. Being lazy, I like to let the machines do all the work ;) .
i was helping a friend fix their hot tub... i was surprised to find that there was no heating element.. it used a turbulence inducer on the pump discharge... friction. A more complicated but more efficient way would be a carnot heat pump...
You could distill your own diesel from discarded plastic, waste oil, or used cooking oil to greatly reduce the fuel cost. I hear those plastic bags from the shops are a plague over there. You could also run and electric generator during a power outage.
the biggest advantage of friction, or solely converting your wind power to heat, is that brakes can be applied HARDER as required. the power in the wind increases on the cube of the velocity. twice the windspeed is FOUR TIMES THE POWER. with a pump, compressor, generator... there is a certain windspeed required to produce sufficient torque to drive the device... and thats it. any higher, you have to apply BRAKES, and any slower, it simply doesnt work at all. take a water pump, it lifts 1 litre of water 1 metre on every stroke, say. it takes so many watts to do that. it doesnt matter how fast it runs, its always lifting 1 litre 1 metre, its always placing the same load on the wind turbine. the only options are to reduce the TURBINE efficiency, feather blades, point out of wind, apply brakes, whereas if one works towards simply converting wind power to heat, it can extract ALL the power... ALL the time. the sensible approach to storing wind power would be as thermal energy. you can extract all teh power, all the time, and always have somewhere to DUMP it. you cant fill a bucket fuller than what it can hold... a steam turbine doesnt care if you use solar, wind, coal, gas, or nukes... it just wants hot water and steam!
I think you are just trying to replicate multiton railroads while for small cargo rail track you can make it with rammed earth, and a bit of geopolymer concrete on top and use only a 1cm wide metal string as rail contact or just screwed stone profile and using wooden wheels instead steel Granite tram tracks where built in britain and you can read about it, and i think its the future of road transport because is free and available everywhere and can create a revolution of pedal powered vehicles with little resources and no need for dirt road infrastructure
Do you know what cavatation is? Well that is how you can quickly heat water take a think metal disk drill holes in it put it on a shaft put that in a drum of water spin the disk and in a minute you have boiling hot water.
Trouble is, this mechanism will move the center of mass of your vane and cause imbalance. There is a more clever design working on the principle of centrifugal governors - weights mounted on extension rods, connected to the blades and tensioned by springs. When the centrifugal forces start pulling the weights out, they rotate the blades, changing their pitch angle. Alternatively, you can make blades that are pitching by the frontal pressure caused by the wind pressing against them. That is measuring the wind speed by the pressure, not by the RPM. This design could even protect the vane during very abrupt gusts of the wind ... I once saw a design where the turbine is mounted offset from the vertical axis, so when the wind starts pressing too much, the vane just starts pointing away from the wind and thus slowing down. To enhance the reaction, the tail was on a hinge and springed to loosen the directional authority during strong winds.
What if you used oil instead of water and actually add a lot of fine metal filings to it. Having a substance with a lot of tiny particles being moved around would increase the total amount materials colliding and perhaps increase the friction. That way as your plates grind down they would just add to the particles in the oil. Would be a very easy experiment to test with the setup and materials that you have now.
Hi Tim, you are on to something for sure, cheapest way I see would be lattice towers. A galvanised triangular lattice mast structure ~380mm is common for Metmasts. I used to fit them up in wind farms to fit class one instruments at the height of the middle of blade to verify wind speed. 3 of these towers, 9 lengths (3metre a length, can be bolted together maybe a bit of guyed support and tension between each would work. Keep them around 3 metres apart.
We have been to that area of Ireland it’s just so beautiful we just loved your journey so so wonderful you should be so proud Tim the sun was shining as well makes all the difference.Just great 👍.
30kg light could boost the battery bank as a 100kg max 🥸🤓optional upgrade, koodos from Canada .been a long time since i been too Bantry bay .hope too go back some day , especially if sun a shining ,
Hi...I was thinking aloud if this system of narrow gauge railway will solve my problem of transporting materials up a 50 meter 45 degrees slope. The cart could be towed by a hoist
The pedal care looks lovely, job well done and a lovely relaxing car ride. Warm greetings from the Netherlands, if you ever come here i would highly advise you to bring it. Seeing how Ireland is also EU it should be alright.
