Good ,simple design has a single skirt. For fun you can change direction by leaning. It might be small enough to use for a short time on water. Balance would be critical if air pressure is high. With lower air pressure, the skirt keeps it level. Making the skirt of durable material will help it last longer.
For the next version I'm looking at a heavy-duty PVC liner that is used under shower tile, it flexible and near indestructible too. It's pretty heavy though so I'm not dead-set on it, if I can find something lighter that is just as durable I'll use that.
Real good! You can put veeery slightly higher than the asphalt skateboard wheels touching the ground when tilting and powering off so that the skirt wouldn’t wear off from rubbing the pavement!
I enjoyed so much this video and made me smile when you got impressed that it worked. Love to see people with passion! The editing got better. Not the beast but way better, keep improving.
On a future design review, improvements could be to move the air holes more towards the inside of the skirt and rivet/attach metal studs to the skirt to ground contact points. I have noticed this arrangement on some of the larger car carrying hovercraft that were based where I used to work at Lee On Solent, England.
Yes! I am slowly designing version 2 and hope to be uploading videos again soon. The skirt design will be much more efficient and a better more durable material as well.
10:53 Hovercraft has a fart problem. That is really cool! Could possibly use it to move heavy objects that can't be placed on a hand truck or too large for a platform dolly. All you need is another blower on the back for directional control.
It was a blast. I'm going to build another or revamp this one sometime. Give it some propulsion and some real power and durability. It was too much fun not to want to take it further.
Changing the Tee to a True Wye will increase the lift. (Small change - big benefit) Increasing the base size will increase the capacity. Adding a handheld blower will give directional control for level surfaces. Hearing protection should always be used with leaf blowers. Once damaged, hearing never completely recovers.
Good call, I think that T really messed with the airflow, having that much air have to stop and make abrupt 90 degree turns really made the blower work harder then it should and likely limited the pressure it could deliver as well.
Another awesome vid! Getting it going on the water was impressive! Look forward to seeing a propulsion system on this!! Also, really looking forward to all of your other future ideas!!! Fantastic!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Lol, outstanding!!! Maybe a smaller platform or rounded like you mentioned will give you that little extra lift you need? truck or car inner tubes for the skirt may hold air and make it easier to control leaks? lol...good job man! chuckled through the entire video
@@clousetechworkshop7597 lol, toss around the idea of making a drone (bathtub style) that's capable of lifting/balancing the weight of a human....on a tether of course. looking forward to your next project. Thanks
Looks like good fun. Maybe bigger fan and bigger craft, thinking PSI the bigger craft tge bigger the surface area meaning higher load carryibg capacity👍
Incredibly late comment I know. Adding three or four Caster wheels around the center area as a form of .. landing gear .. would have helped with the dismounting and mitigated ripping your skirt every time you tried to get off the thing. Weight would settle on to the Caster wheels instead of shredding your skirt.
Soon, I'm working on more content now. I will be redoing the hover craft, it will still be electric but maybe not use a leaf-blower. I will definitely be trying it on snow although I have high doubts it will work, I think it will just make a hole for itself and get stuck.
Thanks! I'm slowly coming out of hibernation and will be uploading more soon. I will be revisiting the hovercraft project at sometime too with a completely new build.
