I Built a WORKING LEGO "Steam" Engine! 

Should I make more steam/air engines? (P.S. I do have some fun ideas!)

steam engine simulator in real life, very cool

You should add another section to the valve so it pulls and pushes the piston. Basically turn it into a single stroke engine, which is how steam engines work in real life (there are probably some exceptions, though)

I'd say make a double acting one instead. Here you're putting a lot of pressure on the valve, because it's closed for half the revolution of the flywheel, give or take, but a double acting one is only closed very shortly, and it's more efficient. Great work though, I'm impressed with what you achieved here.

I think I might build one my self!

I have a friend who lives on a farm and they have an industrial air compresser, I tried using it and it blew up my Lego engine

Put some lithium grease on the moving parts, there will be less friction resistance and should work better on lower pressure

My RU-vid homepage once again satisfying my obsession with pneumatic engines and LEGO? Splendid

nice work. Now make a working steam locomotive wheel model

true act of art

Cool! You're so underrated

Double the points for looks and functionality! Once again, impressive work bro!

Remember to drain the water from the compressor tank if you find it doesn't hold as much air as it used too

I feel like Pneumatic would be really cool for a design similar. Great job! 👊👍🎉

Wow!😮 so cool

Was building a similar System but using the Pistons and valves from pneumatic Sets. Perfectly timed, I was also able to build a twi piston Engine. Unfortunately I don't habe the parts anymore. Funfact to this, due to missing air compressors, I built my own from Lego Pistons and a Motor too. [no free energy!!!]

You should make a double-acting cylinder like a real steam engine. You won't have to jump start it. The trickiest thing to deal with is going to be the "gland" where the piston rod exits the block, as a cross-axle will leak terribly, you want a smooth sided axle for the job.

That’s not a “Working Lego steam engine,” it’s a working Lego PNEUMATIC engine.

I'd redo the valve differently. I think the main design problem of the valve is how the valve is built. If you built it "vertically" rather than horizontally, the valve wouldn't get pulled apart by the forces.

I have an air compressor but I just don't have enough parts

Amazing vid as always!

I watched your hand in the beginning, when the nozzle was more centred in the gap it shot off the bricks, but when the compressor nozzle was pointing more towards the wheel then it worked. Might have been a parallax error but that’s my observation. As of now I’m yet to see the rest of the video lol

you should make a reverse direction engine ive made one with pneumatics in past instead of the 90 degree offset i did 0 degrees tubes done like normal i like your design here its well done and compact

That's the thing with steam engines like that, they were meant to be run with high torque, not quickly. Actually, one type of that steam mechanism was known to actually shake itself to death at high speeds.

First I thought it was a vacuum engine but no, its the opposite lol. Great video btw. Hope you improve on this concept

The Lego locomotion!

Really great stuff! Now make it "double acting" :)

first time you said SVS i thought you said HVSS as in the ww2 tank suspension

Woah how!!!

1 day before the first particle accelerator powered Lego Engine

I use the exact same valve designs for my engines, it’s quite a clever one Could you also build a James watt engine

i would like to see how much torque it produces relative to like, a powered up motor or something

Lego already have a piece for this

Make more sir engine

Btw u cab prob run it on a vacuum, but it ll spin in the opeosite direction

Nice🔥

Make the Titanic engines

This is a good start. However, I think you'll find centering the rods easier if you keep the valve stem 1x1 instead of 1x2. Also, you can easily find the parts needed to make a round 2x2 piston cylinder. Circles have less friction than squares. I would also build a second cylinder on the other side of the flywheel (90° offset to maximize power). And another thing. I understand wanting to keep your channel funded, but charging money to get the pdf feels wrong to me.

I think you're onto something here.... Btw, SVS stands for Single Valve System, to distinguish it from the previously common, but now pretty much extinct, 2 valve setup.

I dont know what i did wrong, i made the svs and the cylinder so that when the cylinder comes down the valve opens and it should work and when it comes up the valve closes, but it just doesnt want to run

Can you make a video on how to build this?

Nice! now try it with pneumatic cylinders and switches!

You need to actually make the engine work be air pushing from the other side of the piston this is what makes the piston go the other direction to push the wheel back Kind of train mechanism Ish, This would also make it work in reverse

see if you can make a piston engine with compressed air :D

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Glue that valve and your ready to go!

hey its cool

can you make one with a boiler attached to it?

Great! Now make a *steam* engine

I think a heavier flywheel would also have been better at first. That might have been part of the problem.

You should have lubricated the valves and piston then i t would run faster

Now build an actual steam engine (I do allow you to use an electric heater tho)

interesting

try to build a "Steamship" that runs only with a Lego Compressor (that is actually a thing) and a Steam Engine designed by you... Let's see how will it run.

Can you make some instrucsioons

Sadly😢, I can’t get mine to run so ima go back through the steps to improve!

It needs a bigger flywheel

What kind of RPMs are you turning? Looks pretty fast.

When i heard steam engine i thought of the video game uploading site and when I heard valve i thought of the game studio that owns steam

Try making a working steam locomotive out of Lego.

why not try making a cylinder and sum wheels and make the rods and wheels of a trqin but only wheels rods and cylinders

how many torque can it handle

make a turbine engine that runs it's easy

What happens if you use real steam from water and fire 😮

Made a car for this engine

PLEASE SHOW A TUTORIAL

make a v8 engine

Do tutorial pls

Can you make it work on steam ,but not air

Tutorial?

Im going to make a steem engine... (Makes a air engine)

Oil

That’s a pneumatic engine, not steam

bro theres lego pumps that exist, they can use air, theyre called pneumatic pumps i think.