Micro Tesla Turbine Mk2 | Part 1 | The Rotor 

Can we all just take the time to appreciate the amount of freaking precision, dedication and time that goes into making this stuff, and these videos.... Can't wait for part 2!

This channel is one of the best kept youtube secrets, your channel has grown so much since I first saw it.

I will say though, I’d prefer the sounds of your machining alone without the music. Always posting great videos though 👍🏻

Love The precision in this video

Very nice work but are you sure that the soldering process distributes the solder evenly enough for there to be no imbalance issues at the speed this is likely to be rotating ?

Should’ve just gone and bought shim washers, but I admire your efforts

For a long time, I've been obsessed with the idea of creating a tesla turbine with a tesla valve integrated into the discs of the turbine itself. Imagine a series of the valvular conduits, embedded inside a disco, radiating outward from the central hub, to aid in compression of gasses/liquids at the outer edge. Basically, just a tesla turbine that spins valves instead of just the discs normally used. What do you think? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

No idea what i just watched or how I got here, but I watched all of it, and now i'm watching part 2

Absolutely astounding job! I'v never seen such precise machining being done before. That's gonna hit some major RPMs with the tight spacing and number of plates. I wonder what the resonant point at which efficiency is best at will be. Usually, once a Tesla Turbine hits a certain speed, the acceleration really takes off.

Protip, make yourself some punches. That lathe will let you get it done in no time and to good tolerances, then you can punch out vanes, spacers, and other round parts in moments instead of having to hack them apart with scissors. That being said, holy crap, awesome work on this

Super smooth! O.o Very satisfying to watch.

Loving your work Johnny but did you know that an aluminum can has a thick and thin wall the thin wall is in the middle. Awesome work Johnny

Don't bite my head off but i watch all your videos over and over and and enjoy the actual sounds of you assembling things,using tools please say this backround music is not gonna stay plz

6:05 umm, those look exactly like flywheel shims on a VW 1600 engine. The 4 holes and everything.

This guy is the Leonardo Da Vinci of craftmanship! My hat off for you, mate!

If you started from the outside edge first making smaller circles inward, you would have gotten a few more of them! But when you start figure out how many could fit back to back (circle to circle) And the odd one out that won't fit, what is the measurement on that wasted space, and divide that measurement up so all circles are symmetrically spaced apart, you can figure the rest from there...? Why does no one think without thinking anymore. One half second later after seeing what your doing and this realization slapped me in the brain 🧠

Great workmanship and ingenuity on getting those small components made. Good job on the video too.

Inspiring craftsmanship, love it! Thank you.

If you used this to spin up a metal spinning top, you'd get in the record books for the fastest, longest spin. Your videos are awesome, thanks for sharing.

While I understand the reason for adding the supports further out along the disc. The noise made from the Mk1 wasn't due to disc vibration from inadequate support. Tesla turbine RPMs are supposed to reach very high rpms, before they reach the optimum level the airflow is turbulent, resulting in vibration and noise, your supports take away from surface area and create pockets that will maintain turbulent flow, not to mention a smoother disc is preferred. When the turbine is at optimum the volume drops because the airflow becomes laminar and more air contacts the disc in a spiral pattern spinning the disc faster due to more contacted surface area. You're the only channel I've found that machines their parts rather than prints them and have the greatest potential. If you need to see to believe the volume drop and switch from laminar to turbulent flow look up YTEngineer's tesla turbine, he demonstrates it, the exact RPM at which this occurs is still different per every model build and often do people stop applying airflow too quickly when RPM starts to creep, but that's not max, it's sorting the flow to change from turbulent to laminar which requires certain pressure and energy. thus Kinetic energy transfer slows before higher efficiency is gained. Even if you don't read this or listen, keep up the good work, less and less machinist today.

Nice! I just cannot wait the test of that turbine!

Muito bom, aguardando a parte 2 :)

I thought I would hate that music, but it grew on me quick and I fell right into that pocket. Groovy stuff. Reminds me of Tool.

Great job!! looks great! Really enjoyed how you made the spacers and the disks!!

Excellent video and craftsmanship. Great job!

Very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to publish this video series.

Fantastic work! Thank you for creating

I really like your building techniques, (and your progress curve looks really good too) Now, some constructive criticisms ^^ : The spacers and spacer axles are waaaay too big for such a small turbine, they are going to destroy the laminar flow, so the turbine is going to work more like an impulse turbine (working fluid pushing against something) than a boundary layer turbine. I would either make a bigger turbine with the same spacer dimensions, or use brass whire and really small spacers (yep, i know, making them would be a pain in the ass) With that said, I'm eager to see part 2!

Great machining and nice backing track. Sounds like something I would do.

Nice, I am waiting for part 2

You're a talented craftsman. Very impressive. Thank you for sharing.

Very relaxing to watch this video, maybe because the background music, because he doesn't speak, and the patience of doing so many little spacers in the lathe or combinations of all of them...

I can't believe how much I frikkin' enjoy yer vids Johnny. Really brings out my inner engineer. And now you are honoring the legacy of a true scientific hero. Thanks!!

Fascinating, well captured on video. Thank you!

Extraordinary Work And Precision .

A very firm hand, indeed! And what a patience!

Incredible work! Such precision!

Dude this is everything I've always wanted to do and more... Keep up the great vids!

Beautiful work. I also made a couple of Tesla turbines, but I think I need to have another go at it having seen this inspiring video.

Great job. Perfect detail.

Cracking video, can't wait for part II :)

It was so satisfying seeing those being trimmed by the lathe

Very satisfying watch. Love it!

Great craftmanship, as usual. It is always a pleasure to see you work. But still, i'd like to get some light on designing criteria. I find quite surprising how you move away from usual tesla turbine design. Why a bigger and single exhaust radius? Won't those 4 tubes with their respective spacers disrupt the spiral flow around each disc?

the "enlarging holes" sand drill gave Me chills

I´ve watched the whole video with opened mouth, because I like such crafting. Great job! But one question remains: What is it for ? I rly don´t know.

For optimal performance decrease distance to 0.4mm so that no free flow cannot pass through the gaps in which the barrier particles can spin at higher speeds

You should make a tour on your work Area. it will be nice

JonnyQ90. MIIK Platinum Medal.

Jhonny te felicito, eres el mejor! Congratulations! you are the best!! (sorry for my english) saludos desde Uruguay!

Im interested to see how this performs in comparison to the Mk1. Youve thought of a very interesting way to vent the exhaust to one side!

Excellent work! Have you ever thought of putting a valve phase plate, interleaved with the exit ports? I know you understand the compliance/compression principal because I watched your pulse jet video... think "rotary valve" pulsejet. You would need different material for your disks though. Can't wait to see what you do next. Again, excellent work.

This is very creative !!!Anxiously waiting for Part2.Thanks Johnnyq90.

Love when you upload long videos like this and am thinking of getting a lathe keep up the good work johnny! ;)

Been watching you way before NightHawkInLight shouted you out and you started booming. Keep up the entertaining videos man!

Great job.I like that your video did not have super cheesy music in the back ground.I approve of the heavy Pink Floyd style jam.Sounds good.

Beautiful work!

Righteous work!

Nice build but the disks are too close together to take advantage of the boundary effect. When they are that close together the medium fricts on both sides of the disk. You need a wiper gap so it only fricts on on side of the disk while leaving a gap between disks otherwise the faster it turns the more force is exerted in the wrong direction

Awsome precision work

Pepsi! You heathen! This was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for the video.

Nice craftsmanship

Patiently waiting for part 2.

Mechanical engineer is always fascinated how easy task for few minutes can be realized in incredibly complicated way...

for mk5, cut the discs from the metal plate with a knife instead of scissors, glue them on a bigger arbor (like last time) that you machine with it, then drill the 4 holes using an electronic lathe index attachment, at 90 degrees of eachother, heat the discs to get them of, then wet sand all discs, then reattach (without glue, just pressure) on a bigger arbor, and machine, and sand edges

I noticed the bandaid after removing those fine circular blades! :)

Amazing work!

You have done a great work

I loved that video!! im ipresoned by you! i hope the second part is very soon! hello from Mexico!

I have a question: you use superglue to hold them in place on the mandrel, but when you are done they seem to just pop right off. How does this work? If the glue is actually holding them, shouldn't they be harder to remove?

Time always stops, when I'm watching your videos...

This is amazing skill right here.

Funny how you started the video without a band-aid. LOL. I love your work i must subscribe.

Nice Video, I hope that the turbine works as intended, the solderings are a bit stronger if you first hear the material and then add the soldering material instead of first adding the soldering material and then applying heat.

Great vid. Just curious, would a hole saw bit not have been way more efficient and time saving for cutting the large discs?

Nice, hope to whatch the next part soon!

more enjoyable than a blockbuster movie

Salutes to human achievements in science and technology.

When cutting a sheet I heard transformers metallic sound, nice work bro.. 👍

Great idea bro

el diseño en el disco azul con el compas es igual ala flor de la vida buen video saludos

Very nice, excellent work..and music is awesome

wonderful work! when will be part two? by the way, will this rotor work also with fluid?

Very good work. Impressive .. Congratulations! We can learn from you ...

7:04 - thinking: there's going to be some more elastoplast appearing soon! :) Superb video.

Great work

I hope this man is never let near to a dremel tool ever again

Seems like a die/punch tool would have been a good way to make all those pieces. But your attention to detail and brute force approach is to be commended! Great determination getting all that tedious work done...

That's either an amazing little cnc lathe or you are one hell of an editor!! Fabulous workmanship!!

NICE! keep up to AMAZING work!

Wow! You are a genius!

YES , come on and get more suppressed TESLA technology out there, we need it ...

Wouldn't hole saws save a lot of time when cutting out the disks and spacers? What is the optimum separation for blades on a Tesla turbine, and do they work better when rough or smooth?

Wow amazing work

pure genius !

Somebody's probably already said this but you should've just gone to Harbor Freight and bought a big pack of cheapo rotary tool sanding / grinding discs!

I loved this video! I just need to point out that the moment you chose to add the four posts to secure the fins, you have added a contact point for the water to hit and thus push. This is closer to a turbine design. The Tesla design was about surface contact and your posts would interrupt the waters path to keep viscus tension at speed. Wonderful job though! Keep up the great work! Amazing...

Interesting job good explain by practical. Very nice thank you🌹❤🙏

awesome man!

thats some fine craftsmanship right there, cheers!