Transparent Steam Engine (3D Printed) 

You could create a "C" bracket that goes from lid to lid that clips over the ends of the cylinder to hold them in place.

Now I want to see you 3d print a steam whistle

Make a steam powered nerf gun

Wonderful project! 👏😌

How many types of engines have you now built, Joel? 😂 Great vid!

Video idea: create a 3d printed DC motor to use as a pump for one of your rockets, which would allow you to explain a bunch of different physics concepts, maybe a DC motor with Bell electromagnets

For a next video, how about building a ramjet engine using some kind of compressor or fan to accelerate the intake air to high speed? Love your work!🤩

Fun project! I always enjoy your videos, you always have a creative solution to thorny problems. You can get much better performance from your engine if you lubricate it. Steam engines used hydrophilic oils that would actually be carried by the steam into the cylinders. If I recall correctly, animal fats (tallow) are particularly suited. The engine will also perform poorly when cold and uninsulated. You'll lose tons of power because it's all used up when the steam condenses back into water in the cold cylinders. Harvesting more of the steam's energy as it expands gives you the most efficiency (compound engines do this using cylinders of varying bores, high pressure cylinders have smaller bores than low pressure cylinders after them).

Using alcohol in a steam engine sounds like something I would suggest💣🔥

Video Idea! Steam Powered Radial Engine!! I would love to see how it would work and I know you can do it!

As a businessman, I respect the effort to return to the classics. However, I would recommend producing a better steam production device, to hopefully make the system more mobile.

Your Channel/Videos is so underrated. Very fun and informative to watch!

Video idea: Since you've never done anything that flies, why not make one of da vinci's flying machines. Tomatoes are disgusting!

Video idea: It'd be neat if you created a methane powered internal combustion engine, and then power it with methane derived from decomposed tomatoes/another source [as noted by Dan] or something like that.

You should try and make an engine that runs off of a weight on a line attached to a gear ratio along with the steam engine idea, just to give it a little kickstart and help it run better while under load.

Amazing channel! Really fond of your narration and innovation! Lots of good wishes from the Indian Himalayas!

Now that you have a steam engine, wouldn’t it be cool to make a little steam powered car? Or a locomotive?

VIDEO IDEA Produce biodiesel from used cooking oil and propel a rocket loaded with tomatoes to infinity and beyond! 🍅🍅🍅

When you said keep going my boy it made me smile. Because as a fellow engineer I understand how good it feels to succeed

Video idea: Build an steam engine with four or more cylinders and a crank shaft, and messure how many horsepower it makes and perhaps make a vehicle out of it ;) P. S. Keep up the good work:) love your videos:):)

Video Idea: I would love to see projects done with recicled/scrapped electronics so people like me that lives in countries where getting some products/materials is expensive or impossible can learn and do projects from your videos! :)

Video idea: have a steam propeller engine for a model airplane(to have it portable use the hydrogen and potassium permanganate mixture, and they could get mixed using syringes injecting the mixture. You could use the same method as you did for the Devil's Toothpaste Rocket Engine that was mounted on the skateboard?)

You can get more pressure without changing the boiler. Just superheat the steam coming from the pressure pot by passing It through a coil that your heat up with a Torch, or that more generally passes through something hotter than 100°C

the asdf spin off... brilliant :)

Ive been watching you for a while now Integza, and I just wanna say its awesome to see how much the production quality of your channel has gone up! Loving it man keep it up

you can transform a fog machine to make high pressure steam. I already put instead of fog liquid, water. I've already tried this and it really works because the machine has a mini water pump that generates a considerable pressure and when the liquid goes to the heater it boils instantly which almost triples the original pressure

2:42 goddamn this takes me back. Good ol' ASDFMovie

Would love to see a second steam engine video only this time print a liquid escape valve to when the liquid cools it returns to the pot making it a closed system!

I'd love to see a second stage to this making a compound Engine. To improve the efficiency you could try to improve the seals.

I'd love to see a triple expansion steam engine, or steam turbine after this! Maybe even poweing a small boat if possible?

video idea : you should make a gun and bullet with as much 3d printed part as possible.

1:10 why did I expectated the bottle to explode

Can you 3d print sth. to genereate electricity from ocean waves (you could try it in a water container with artificial waves)

Maybe you could make a potato cannon with alcohol Mr Inetzga!!!😉🙈

To keep the caps on without glue: A c-shaped bar (3d print it) that runs lengthways the cylinder with the folded ends holding the whole thing together.

What a nice little video, much appreciated!

Hi, steam locomotive engineer here, and I noticed that while your steam engine does work, it's quite inefficient, and has some potentially fatal errors. First of all, there's water in the cylinder, and this comes from using saturated steam. You could superheat the steam if you wanted, but the most simple solution is to add what are known as drain cocks to the cylinder. Basically, they're valves that you open for the first few strokes of the cycle, to allow the water to drain out. Also, the valve and it's timing, while useful for a simple engine, could benefit from being adjustable. Something like Walschaerts valve gear or Baker valve gear, with a "cutoff" to allow variation in the valve timing, and making the engine more efficient. Also, it seems to leak steam everywhere... I don't have a solution for that one, so just go with your gut on that problem. One thing I'd definitely suggest is getting a dedicated model boiler, like a Wilesco or a Mamod unit. Hope this helps!

Love your videos! Technically two video ideas; First make a parabolic mirror reflector, Second use said reflector to power a solar powered heat engine (similar to your steam engine but modified in a few key ways) to go from sun to motion with very few steps!!!

Wow, that was really cool! 👍

Thank you for sharing!

When I said your channel was picking up steam, this... isn't what I meant haha. I'm not complaining though - this is great!

Video idea: seeing your interest in engines i cant help but think of a transparent gas turbine engine. Try it please.

Hey Integza, steam jet ejector for vacuum generation is one of the most interesting devices I encounter in the industry which has no rotating component but has a unique geometry that allows it to generate vacuum. Can you make a video about them. Maybe modeling and printing different geometries and comparing the vacuum generated would be interesting!

Idea: you could also make a steam generator similar to those found in doble steam cars, that way you can make more consistent and longer lasting power.

You should definitely try making a stirling engine. Almost like a steam engine but it runs on air contracting and expanding because of temperature. And you liked engines, right? Great video!

You can 3d print RC boat

Video idea! Steam powered micro generator to charge a cellphone. Maybe take it one step further and make some sort of multi-cylinder version.

now the only things your steam engine needs is a boiler(you can use a small can(really anything that doesnt melt)with a candle(again anything that is hot can be used), a good flywheel(that will make the egine run even after steam turned off) and something that uses that steam power(like a generator or something that uses circular motion)

As user C Moore mentioned, a steam turbine would be great! Just to see how much power you can harness from a particular heat source. Either run a driveshaft directly to a vehicle or turn it into electricity with a generator. Messing with the drive shaft gearing or the shape of the turbine blades could be fun trial and error.

Integza! I've spent the last 8 months trying to design the world's first 4 stroke compressed air engine, an I finally have one that works! The problem is it runs like crap and is less efficient than a 2 stroke alternative! I challenge you to improve it!

If you make the piston bigger it may help because you need less supply pressure but more volume of steam. Another great video 👍

Machined one of these in college as a project. Might have to try and print one now

Would love to see you attempt a 3D printed Ornithopter powered with a 3D printed engine of your choice!

Integza, longer videos please. Watching them is a constant reminder of how much we hate tomatoes and it's an escape from their disgusting grip.

Nice info, thank you:)

very nice mate, Merry Christmas all the best to you and your sister

You should 3D print a quasiturbine engine and make it compressor powered to see how efficient it is.

Create a Turboshaft Jet-Engine with a small Helicopter-blade, to measure how much force you can produce, or maybe take off.

Total off topic: your lighting in these vids is excellent.

Your video has really entertainment us, keep fun in the videos.

Video Idea: Take a page out of real steam engine history and attach a second, low pressure, piston to this one’s exhaust to scavenge the remaining power. Titanic used this plus a steam turbine and that worked well for 100% of it’s operational life.

I'd love to see you build/ 3D print an entire steam locomotive, incorporating your cylinder/ engine

Your really good at replicating engines, I'd like to see what engines made firstly by you would look like, like the Wright brothers.

Wonderful!

6:20 You could have made the base come up at the ends of the cylinder to hold the end caps in and still be able to dismantle it.

You need to superheat the steam as it comes out of the pressure cooker, so you get dry steam, it will also increase your pressure as well. Run it thru a copper coil with a gas flame heating it.

wonderful project

Try to generate dry air pressure ( compresor ) from air pump that moved by steam pressure ( watery ) then you'll get smooth and clean operation everytime.

Video idea: I think the natural continuation from steam engine is to build a Stirling engine. Those are much more interesting than steam engines, but quite as easy to build. Furthermore, there is at least three main types of Stirling engines to choose from.

I would suggest making a TOMATO throwing trebuchet powered by rocket engine !!! if you are able to make it ofc....

Look up the Doble steam cars. They generated steam in about 90 seconds by using a containment vessel that used copper tubes that were heated up. Basically instead of boiling a large amount of water at once Doble steam cars flash boiled small amounts of water quickly. The idea was to have the water pass through the tubes and have the heat of gasoline heat up the tubes and turn the water to superheated steam. Jay Leno explains this. It’s kind of how tankless water heaters work but it’s much more powerful

Perhaps you could try and combine all of this in to a simple steam powered helicopter or plane? If you could make a radial steam engine that'd be perfect and look so awesome too!!

I would love to see how much power you could generate with that. Even if its a low efficiency of 1%, gives you something to try and beat in future versions!

I'm not 100% sure how you'd do it, but a steam or compessed air powered plane/ flying machine would be a really cool concept to try to make

You could always add a little sewing machine oil to the cylinder to reduce the friction and that would probably make it so that it's less likely to jam or blow one end of the cylinder off.

You could use this concept of printing the engine from plastic to build a steam powered piston-propeller driven airplane if you can figure out how to lighten the steam production mechanism. You could try just a metal cylinder with candles underneath maybe. I have a feeling just using a steam jet to power the plane would probably be more efficient, though.

I think you can build RC plane from 3d printer

Make a steam-engine that, runs of the smoke from one of you'r old rocket engines.

Watching this again gave me an idea. What if you had expansive balloons on a spinning wheel, and used a compressor to fill each balloon as it passed by on the wheel. The pressure of the balloon at an angle could push and produce power with a moderate psi

explains a lot, thanks for the video. i would love to have a 3D printer!!!

I'd like to see an opposed piston engine, as I've only seen a few pictures of them & want to see you explain them to everyone. I'm not sure if you could engineer a steam version, but I certainly think It'd be an interesting project.

I’m dying to know why you shouldn’t drink rose wine in Croatia! 🤔 Edit: Is that a Bowden tube you’re using to get the steam from the pressure cooker to the engine?! I would never have thought that would work. You’re really good at this.

There's another engine that works both like combustion engine and steam engine, it's called Stirling engine, and this type an engine uses heat so that the heat pushes the pistons in the cylinders, it is also maybe better than steam engine.

2:54 I like how hi is wearing like old day clothes and hi is using a drill and a 3D printer 🙂

I'd be interesting in a video specifically focused on how you make the pistons in these projects and the tricks you've found most effective to creating as close to air-tight 3d printed piston systems. It would be super cool to see if you could calculate their efficiencies too.

I think The Napier Deltic engine would be a cool 3d printing project for you! I’ve always wanted to see one built! Thanks for all your awesome content!

Your videos are so cool and I love your videos ❤

A future Idea - Making use of all your previous projects to do a Over the top fun video about the Destruction of the Hated Tomato . in which you use the previous projects as a way of destroying the unloved red fruit. maybe a good way to start off the 2022 period.

I also would like to see this steam engine improved. As many other comments suggest, O-rings would be an automatic improvement, especially with the low pressures you're working with. Too much pressure is leaking out of both the piston chambers and the valve. At 3-4 times the pressure, waste wouldn't be such a big deal, but losing half of such a small input is kindof rough lol. Friction would be a big problem with o rings so it might necessitate looking at alternative seals... Like in modern engines, solid piston rings are a thing so 3d printing a "soft spring" could do better than a rubber ring in theory. Plus it'd center the piston up so less jiggle would be present. Another change could be to move the valve onto a lower portion of the cylinder to help evacuate condensed water while maintaining visibility for the sweet transparency effect to be maintained.

Idea: make a powerfull enought steam engine to drive an rc car or so, with stearing and forvard/backwards gears and controll it via the remote. (for any improvements leave a comment)

This just reminded me that i always wanted to build an RC Steam Engine Boat es kid... i never had the materials and skills, but maybe i could do it if the engines are printable

You could print a clip to hold the caps in their place when under pressure.

You should build the entire train

Since you getting into aircrafts how about building a airship that is powered by an engine turning a propeller e.g. a two stroke engine powered by a small CO2 tank? On a airship you don´t need to worry about weight and lift as much as on a plane because you can just make the body of it bigger. And Helium is also pretty easy to get in vast quantities (the one for party balloons).

You deserve a million subscribers, and more.

I think it would be really awsome to see you make a water hammer pump I think that would make an awsome project

I'm so happy I found this channel! You've definitely earned a new subscriber here

I would love to see some type of RC vehicle with a jet or steam engine!

amazing. I cant wait to make this for my dad

Glass for a whoosh bottle. A 'working' steam engine from 3d printed parts, nice job.