Not a follow-up video, but done around two years earlier whilst optimising the starting procedure. Run indoors as it was threatening to rain, but only to 30% as the neighbours were in. Turn up your volume for best effect.
Nothing screams eccentric more than a man running a jet engine in his living room. Nothing cleared down. Objects loose all over to be sucked in. Cat terrified claws buried deep into the carpet. Insurance company asking…can you just repeat that…I thought you said a jet engine.
Oh how I laughed at the comment @Bencar34 😂 You sir have made my Day 👍👍👍👍👍. But I cannot but love the excentricity of British people and good luck to em. 😁😁😁😁. P S . Gonna post this video far and wide, along with the comments. It's just great ❤
You do realise, his house and back yard is now half way down the street?! So that's where the money for the potting shed went !! "All we need now, is a fuselage, a cockpit, a pair of wings and a tailplane, an undercarriage - or a large skateboard and some blu-tac😎👍
I bet your missis loves you having a jet engine in your dining room !!! My bloody neighbours moan at me for having a sports exhaust on me car......it's nowt compared to this. Looking forward to the next one.
Just one question. How on earth did you get it in there? I live not far from the old Armstrong Siddely factory. They used to have an amazing museum there, manned by retired employees. A wonderful selection of jet engines. Sadly now closed, and all exhibits moved to Rolls Royce Derby.
Just saw this video! I have a 102 that I have been working on. Machined an adaptor to fit a large truck starter to the inlet gear case. Controlling it through an aftermarket golf cart motor controller. This lets me control the torque application. Now I just need to built a control box and do a test run! A couple questions: can I just blank off the bleed air connections? What are you using for ignitor exciter? I have a couple but the leads seem to be the most difficult thing to find.
Hi, the bleed air connections can be blanked off. I made my own ignitor and connectors. Think that you can see the box beneath the engine in the video. It operates off an integral 11volt Lithium battery. The starter motor is a 24volt, 5.6kW Bosch, drawing around 400,500,700 Amps in three stages. I use car starter relays to handle the currents. Oh, ignitor units do come up on ebay. Bought one to play with from rays-teksurplus.com a while ago for £58. Made by Plessey. Pete
Pete, I'm curious where someone can buy jet engines like this and how much one costs. Also, what did this (yours in particular) come out of? Very cool.
Hi John, there are a couple on ebay at present (£2800) Bear in mind that there are different marks of Viper. This particular one is a 1960 Mk10201 and originally fitted in a Jet Provost T3.
Love it, would love to know what the people around you think. Pete, do you have a contact i can reach you on. Id love to just ask some questions to potencially help my build if you don't mind
Hi PyroLuke, tricky one that, as RU-vid blocks contact details like emails and numbers. You're not the first to ask. It's all to protect peoples' privacy. Anyway, thanks for watching.
