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How about those graphics!?
@Tom Stanton what program did you use to generate the 3D? It's amazing!
How did you make the incredible animations @ 3:00
I think they were made in blender.
He's low-key applying to Pixar.
I think it's fusion
You just tricked me into being interested in air engines, dangit
You're not the only one surely!
He tricked me into that a long time ago
Haha same
Hey
Sam
His face when it finally continued to spin instead of going back and forth. Priceless
This is actually potentially ground breaking technology. As a mechanic... and a bit of a wannabe engineer, I'm incredibly impressed... and inspired! 👊💥
Honestly this guy should probably patent this or something. Maybe make his own air hog company.
@@matiastorres1510 I think you cannot patent anything anymore, after you publicly show it like that.
@@tenj00 like Volvo did with the 3 point seatbelt design, it is better for us to let others use new technology without worrying about patents and ownership. This speeds up the innovation process
He's only recreated some **very** old steam engine issues.. like.. the very first steam engine's issues! The Newcomen "atmospheric engine" only powered half of the stroke, just like this thing You can run a steam engine with pressurized air.. just do that lmao
@@stigmautomata Groundbreaking technology For 1881
Waiting a month for a Tom Stanton video: feels like 3 months. Watching a 10 minute Tom Stanton video: feels like 3 minutes.
Help me
Your 3D animations are great. What are you doing them in?
Wow how can you not know?
Looks like cad files that were made for printing used in fusion.
Boi
@@HaiderAli-vd5uk I think we're talking about the animations. Not the modeling software.
@@0xCAFEF00D in fusion there is an animation tool-set.
Hey Tom! Great build! Might I suggest using a pressure regulator to increase the efficiency of your engine by giving the engine a measured consistent dosage of air from the bottle? It should flatten the peak on that thrust curve into a nice long line. You already have a measured out volume, regulating the pressure will allow you to optimize every part of your design by guaranteeing a pretty steady rate of air moving through it (assuming the pressure doesn't drop so quick temperature changes are a consideration)
As an engineer i must say i am thoroughly impressed.These are the type of people who have been advancing technological innovations for centuries.
Absolutely right, I have always been impressed with this young man’s creative mind.
Beautiful! 😍
Hi
I Iike yo videos
Hello there, Cody!
Heyyy. Love your channel Cody!
Huh
Omg the graphics and your ideas are out of this world
He did them in Blender, which is pretty cool. If you know how to use blender, it's not super hard, but that's still pretty good. Looks great though, it was a nice touch. The hardest part probably was getting the diaphragm simulation to work.
Help me friends
The pure childlike happiness at 6:05 ^^
Moments like that make all the work totally worth it!
I think many people don't even appreciate the amount of work that was put into this. Been trying to get this thing to work for weeks but have been struggling quite a bit with airtightness. Really admire you for coming up with this genius concept
Now this is what I like to see. Nice job on a truly novel design. I don't think many realize how rare an accomplishment that is.
Its wild really. Never heard of anything like this. I know its a novelty, but true originality is not something you see alot of.
Came to say this as well. Certainly one of the more impressive original engineering designs I’ve seen on yt. This guy can do great things. and possibly patentable..?
@NightHawkInLight : he managed to pull off a thrust/weight ratio of >1! Yeah... that’s _extremely_ impressive when you’re working with a basic idea, a 3D printer, and a home-made thrust scale... I mean that’s incredible... It’s a crazy rare accomplishment and good onya for calling that out!
@@digus The problem with patents is you can’t take one once you made the idea public. Therefore Tom should be supported because he is in fact spreading these ideas in an open source community. I guess he will of course be pleased if you use his original ideas to also mention his name and/or channel.
I totally agree, this is very very good.
"Noisy engines don't always go faster..." The truth has been spoken! Amen to that!
Its like "fartcan" exhaust vs Magnaflow in a way, right? The former is louder, but the latter is most likely faster.
@@Avetho Magnaflow can be loud though 😅
@@Avetho IMO that's a bad example cause they're both slower than the loudest option, straight pipes. And a fartcan isn't even an exhaust, its just sticking a megaphone on your tailpipe...
@@nickopedia5669 I think my last braincell after finish a lab report wasn't doing too good when I wrote that. It tried, though, and that's what counts X'D
In some cases I don't care though. Bring back the 2013 F1 sound!
I cant believe in addition to all these cool projects and videos you make, you put out the files as well. LEGEND
Holy God, that smile you made when you got the first successful run with the engine was so heartwarming
There's something magical about such an obsession resulting in such great design. I can tell you only showed a fraction of the prototypes though :P Keen for it to go on a plane!
Hey MM, cool to see you here too!
I have an idea! A dry ice powered toy helicopter with this engine No rc Controls just let it go and fly on its own. It can self stabilize with that weight thing on the blades
Had you at any point tried using a turbine? Is a reciprocating engine as efficient as a rotary one?
@@minepaperstudio5683 bonus: creates a realistic smokey exhaust
@@minepaperstudio5683 enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1272265
Your reaction when it finally starts working is priceless! Great job Tom, that design is just amazing I never heard of an engine that uses that concept.
Haha yes
Hey Integza, tomatoes are delicious. Come on at least I spelled your name correctly. Just joking, love your videos and channel.
Love your vids too integza.
look its pulsejet man i love you videos
I feel like he's throwing a slight at you with the "noisy engines don't always go faster" lol
Best part of this vid 5:46 the second he realizes it's actually working and looks back with the most priceless look on his face 5:52 , making sure the camera is recording. Hahaha!
as soon as this happened i checked comments XD
Watching KZhead videos for years, I have come to the realization that there are many more smart people in the world than I originally thought!
And many more smart people do exist that haven't had the chance to realize their own potential. I like to think I am one of them!
There are a lot of smart people in this world. But unfortunately a lot of those people waste there gift and those who are not as smart but work harder surpass them in the long run
And vise versa.
The problem is that to find a smart design, you have to wade through dozens of idiots trying to scam us into believing that perpetual motion works. The ones who really won't give up are the guys trying to run an engine on hydrogen separated by electrolysis. A 30 second calculation shows that the energy taken to generate the hydrogen is at least 10 times more than it can produce. Simply disconnecting the tube and lighting the gas produces a flame smaller than a candle and we are expected to believe that this will power a car. Some of these guys have produced amazing fuel consumption improvements, totally oblivious to the fact that they were just turning down the fuel and the hydrogen was making no difference. The result was a 70hp engine producing 30hp and the life expectancy of the engine being reduced to a matter of hours.
@@MrLifeistoobusy huio
I love how all the top comments are from other maker youtubers, its such a wholesome community
6:30 "What's in the container mate?" "Airmate"
I laughed too hard at this
Whaddya do when you see a space man? You park in it man!
Man those videos are amazing, It's really nice to see you experiment with stuff like that! Watching a different kind of plane is nice but this is where it gets really impressive!
That's an excellent build, really great seeing it go from design to working prototype and testing.
Incredible work!
Ok, so, it remains only 3D Printing Nerds to comment this video xD? This dude is fantastic!
'welcome to CNC kitchen' :)
I have my own air powered piston idea! Awesome to see some others seeing this idea nice.
Absolutely fascinating and incredible. Fantastic work, Tom!
hey Ronald ! Love your work ! Keep going, Love from France
Why are u even wasting time here, we want a fiero vídeo my friend
Love your Pontiac Fireo revival series!
impostor!
Im mean, wtf are you doing here 😃 I see so many youtubers I watch, commenting on other youtubers I watch videos.
This is so cool to watch, and really shows how simple mechanics can evolve.
Tom, I am a high pressure air enthusiast (mostly for things like air guns), I had thought about using compressed air to power engines before but never actually worked on it. This was excellent! Would love to see you do more of compressed air projects! I will be watching the rest of your videos as well and have subbed! Keep being excellent!
5:50 The Stanton Cycle was born.
I‘m without words... You‘re such a genius. Especially as research in this field has been going on for more than 100 years🤯🤯 Tom Stanton be like: „Wait a sec let me quickly invent a new engine“😂
Well, diafragma engine is actually a very old concept. I think he have this ideia independent but it is not truly a novelty. Such concept is at leat 70 years old. 😅
These videos are so damn good. How you document your thoughts through the progression of these projects is really great. Keep it up!
Try using these engines in a v formation with air tubes to transfer the air equaly to each piston
Now make 5 of it, geared them together and create a compressed air radial engine.
Or how about a rotary engine!
@@Panzercommander121 and put it in a miata
@@Panzercommander121 which rotary? Spinning Dorito version or the one that looks like a radial engine but the entire crankcase spins? (The Sopwith Camel used one.)
@@spamcan9208 An actual rotary engine, not a wankel engine. So yes, the WWI fighter style one.
make a rotary so you can have DORITO POWER
These animations are amazzzzzing! I have no idea how long it would take to create something like this but I'd like to have a play with the software and learn the basics. Props on another amazing video.
Agreed, which software is it that the animations is made in?
Looks like the cad files from fusion 360 stuck in blender or some such.
@@erecxx No matter the true answer to this question, Fusion360 is free and a very good way to kickstart your 3D modelling career.
@@braytonlarson1860 thanks for the tip.
@@SpaceMissile Blender is also a free, amazing way of getting into 3D (and 2D!) animation
Well done Tom. I've watched a good few of your video projects and many are just plain bonkers! But this is truly innovative. Nice one.
I've been recommended this video 5 times now and I've watched it every time. This is such an elegant design.
"But we all know that noisy engines don't always go faster" -Honda civic owners: what
Hallo friend
That's funny.
no its not true that nosiy engien does not go faster
Lmao
@@riyasharma9082 well
Tom is the kind of guy every one wants in their team.
I love your engineering skills. The modeling, the graphics, the equipment, the loadcell and all the 3D printed parts to make it work. How about the graph that I'm guessing you record automatically. Keep up the great work. You are an inspiration to millions.
Congratulations on the new engine design. Impressive work!
Ah yes, the SI unit for specific impulse, the Stanton: 1 second of thrust per 2L bottle at 60PSI
>SI unit >based on psi
for me it's the kirk
LMAO severely underrated comment
@@ZaHandle Don’t worry, the pound and the inch are based off of the kilogram and the meter respectively (the pound is defined as 0.45359237 kg and the inch is 1/12 of a foot, which is defined as 0.3048 meters), making this a legitimate SI unit. I’m still waiting for a call back from the CGPM.
@@you_just i almost wrote a short comment explaining why you are wrong and warning you not to use inches in test when they specifically for the answers to be in SI units. then i read the last sentence and looked up what CGPM is lol i was this | | close to get whoosed
Yep, some guy is already typing out a Hackaday article about this.
Would you prefer they don't? Tom deserves every bit of publicity
Tom Stanton I really enjoyed your videos just earlier today I thought I was the only one that thought of a air engine but you beat me too it. I made a design for my own version on paper but haven’t actually made it, it involves two pistons but I’ll be rooting for you when you successfully change the world man.
This animation and explanation, the whole video is *chef's kiss* I'm gobsmacked on how well this is done and you are somewhat underrated, i hope you get far more subs man! :D Awesome stuff!!
That smooth sponsor transition. What the heck was the animation made in. I was impressed at first, but then I saw the diaphragm moving too and I was 😮. I imagine we are getting an engine flight.
The models were made in Fusion 360, then the textures and animations were done in Blender.
Stop for a moment and appreciate the fact that such a youtube channel exists
Or indeed, that such a young man exists. The future looks rosy with brains like Tom's.
Absolutely! The true true.
Buuuuuut...its basically a turbo without a engine and is the engine soon....awesomeness hopefully with a flutter
Honestly, this is what I come to KZhead for. People making stuff not just for likes and subscribers, but because they wanted to. And now it makes me want to try.
@@inutaro C
Really appreciate your animations. They are top notch and really helped me understand this design.
Awesome example of iterative design and engineering, not to mention dedication. Well done !!!
Wicked illustrations! I loved the original air hogs, this is so cool. Do you think a high pressure engine may be possible using threaded co2 cartridges?
I have been looking at videos of miniature air engines, and have been thinking what performance or run-time can be achieved by using a small amount of liquid nitrogen that boils and comes up to pressure, still allowing the use of a lightweight tank
@@ianlehman8342 Use liquid hydrogen, if you can. Yes, it's flammable, but it's really light (14 times lighter than water) in comparison. Also you could probably use it's flame to heat a vaporization coil that sits between a liquid feed from the bottle, and the engine.
@@namibjDerEchte All these people who are way smarter than me...
@@namibjDerEchte or use that gas as an afterburner😆
@@Pascal_Robert--Rc_Creations that's what I was thinking, air piston engine at the fron, jet at the rear 😂
6:44 "but we all know that noisy engines don't always go faster." Tell that to the guys who play with their mufflerless cars outside my house at 5am. Anyway, love the videos man. Keep it up!
yeah, or h-d's without mufflers that have like 40 hp.
I had a Briggs & Stratton lawn motor that was 4 stroke. I hopped it up from 3 1/2 hp to 10 hp about 40 years ago. The exhaust was like a expansion chamber on a 2 stroke. It really loud at low rpm due to the extra long intake valves! At just off idle it made 5 hp. The ringing of the exhaust could be heard at a 1/4 mile away.
Well done sir! I'm quite impressed by your tenacity and diligence in prototyping. Keep on sciencing :D
Thanks for sticking with it such that we saw your challenges and related problem solving. Well done!
6:27 The sound alone makes the whole video worth the watch
"it does't need gas, just pump it with air!" uuhm, these toy companies will discover free energy someday BTW. Cool engine and Cool graphics
Cool thing is it can be refuled mid air easily :-) who knows, perhaps a solar panel would do it.
@@katzda interesting idea. However you would have to limit your flight to sunny days only
@@thecommenter578 its still always sunny above the clouds.
@@katzda Why waste power using a solar panel to pump air into the air tank of a compressed air engine, when you could just hook up that solar panel directly to an electric motor?
Old air hogs actually had air powered engines, hence the brand name
This brilliant engineering went way over my head. This dude is pretty ingenious with his unconventional engines and compressed air inventions
I like designs like this. They're so much more appealing because people spend the time to investigate troubleshoot and learn as they go. Brings out the creator in them
"Yes I really did use Metric and Imperial in the same sentence" Laughs in Canadian/Scottish, tell me about it.
Do you want the 12mm socket or the half inch? ;)
Yeah. In Canada, we use 3 systems: USCS, SI and Imperial. Luckily, an imperial inch is the same as an American inch.
Can we call it "the stanton engine"?
Oh that’s good!
Briggs and Stanton
Tom, very, very cool! 3D printing is is just amazing, especially when used by bright, young engineers like you.
You just explained seconds of impulse in such a simple way... Area on the graph. Makes sense to me now. Awesome things you are doing. I've always been amazed at how much pressure a PE 2 liter bottle can hold, no doubt with a carbon fiber wrapped bottle you can hold many thousands PSI and run this engine for potentially hours at a time. Bravo 👏
That was awesome mate, love the sound it made! Great work on the animations too!
Even KZhead's best civil engineer is impressed
Damn thats some civil engineering right there
An RCE sighting outside his habitat, we're lucky
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RCE what are you doing here go build some bridges and upload it 💕
"We all know that noisier engines don't always go faster." That statement just militarized the honda driving motorheads in my podunk town.
Hi
Bahahahaha!!!! Better sleep with one eye open! Never mind you’ll hear them coming
Hi!
@@Rick-the-Swift water under the fridge
All the thumbs-downers are Harley bikies.
Actually see this type of engine in my old Highschool science comp few years back, dunno if its the same concept using a diaphragm but it is using pressurised air. Fascinating stuff, almost like magic since I'm more of a social studies person.
This Chanel is so underrated
A channel with half a million subscribers is underrated?
Perfume is very underrated indeed
@@jospi2 yes, he needs more than half a million
@@jospi2 yes
@@jospi2 I don't know anyone IRL who watches his videos
"Thrust time per 2l bottle at 60psi" must be imperial, isn't it?
its better than imperial measurements. I propose its called 1 stanton. "how many stantons can that stanton cycle based air engine produce ? " is a question i want to hear eventually at a mechanical engineering lecture XD
It's worse, it's a mixture of Metric and imperial so noone understands what's happening
Lol
In this case the SI derived unit would be: N^2*m*s Or in SI base units: kg^2*m^3/s^3. Not very useful unless someone has a better way to represent the unit.
Liter is metric, and PSI is imperial... so...
so cool. the design is EXCELLENT i cant give enough props to you for it.
Tom your definitely the man to follow. Keep it up when gas runs out. Your motor may be the aviation power plant.
Awesome, just wondering if people at air hogs see this and be like, “Man! Why didn’t we think of that!”
They probably had access to better springs and piston rings
his face when the engine runs is priceless
I could see the excitement and relief in your face when it finally worked. Nice job 😁
Thanks for this video! I've been trying to find ways to pass energy from one machine to another and this video showed some things I had not thought of before. Thankyou!
Is this the start of a new air engine series? This was the reason I fell in love with this channel and similar to Wintergatan's Marble Machine, I feel that I could watch endless videos of new air engine prototypes, tweaks, tests etc...
I think this is the most sophisticated and mature design you've made yet, and those 3D print textured renders are fabulous. My only request is that you put that 3D printer on a table, that thing is going to melt your carpet!
Awesome Engin. Hats off to the efforts and innovative design.
I wonder how this would look if it was a multi-cylinder radial engine or even just a multi-cylinder engine and how you would sync the cylinders. Truly genius work man
That's such an impressive design. I would love to see this as a well lubed, CNC milled metal version!
If you have a well lubed cnc milled metal version you might as well ditch the diaphragm because then its probably airtight anyway.
might as well search for air-drills
dude your animations looked siiiiiiick! even the 3D-printed look, keep that going! ;D
What a brilliant engine well done on the design
I've seen this video at least five times and i love it hahaha! It's awesome how much the motor has progressed! Greetings from Argentina! 👍👏🥳
5:52 that look of surprise after tons of hours of work and failure is priceless inspiration. Love this
Love this too
Run the exhaust vents out the back and you’ll get a tiny bit more thrust! ;P
Would be negligible compare to the weight of redirecting pipes to rear
@@olistanley5790 the diagram at 3:28 has the holes exiting orthoganlly to the drive shaft- so it maybe wouldn’t be too hard just to angle the holes 45 deg to the back and then open them up a little to allow for more pressure- of course the energy losses of redirecting the flow that direction probably reduce any noticeable thrust. But would be a fun little addition
The final version does vent rearwards.
@@Leadvest ahhh you’re right! Ignore me
@@OrionAerospace It just means that Tom though it was a good idea too (even before you thought of it)
That’s incredible you literally made a new more efficient air engine! Very cool man!
You may also consider using brass tubing around the inner and outer walls of the piston to reduce wear from friction and produce a better seal all around.
6:04 it's adorable how excited you look when it starts working.
Now put 3 or 4 of those together and you should have a pretty smooth engine.
Given the design of the engine that might be possible, though a 2 cylinder version first might be good
Holy hell, your finest video and I've seen them all. I think you found what could Finance a portion of your future. Kudos man great video, great mind!
Listening to this engine when it finally gets into the proper range is amazing.
Not only are all of the concepts here quite clever, I like how the renderings show print lines. Nobody does that. I love it.
This is excellent Tom! Really well made and explained!
Barnabydixon!! Omg. But yeah this was an awesome vid
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Hi friends
You sir are one of the reasons I started studying mechanical engineering. And I really need to thank you for that as it was one of the best decisions ever for me.
excellent engineering. Great design process, super results.
If you pursue this design further - a small suggestion for prototyping that makes finding the correct length of the brass-insert and the push-rod a lot easier: Use screws. instead of just a random created brass-insert get a ~6mm brass threaded rod, make the fron smooth, and for the pushrod drill a hole and insert another screw/threaded rod into that hole. Like that you can just screw the part to a different position instead of having to make a new one every time. And for the gears - use some lego-gears (or any similar like Cobi, BlueBrix, Cada). The gears are cheap, easy to use, made from ABS and with the cross-shaft also easy to connect to other printed parts.
This is very good advice! Modular, easy-to-modify designs are wonderful for prototyping! Especially if you can use off the shelf parts. Then when you know the final designs, you can customize, make to measure and make any small improvements/refinements you feel are necessary
2:30 When your CAD is accurate down to the layer lines! Seriously though, how'd you do that?
Right!
I do the texturing in Blender, which has a way of adding waves to a model. So I scale the wave lines way down haha. Someone has since suggested that it's possible to export a layer line model from Prusa slicer.
@@TomStantonEngineering Very nice. I guess it is an accumulation of small details like this that makes it even more enjoyable to watch.
I like your look when the engine turns for the first time.
Man, so many memories of the OG Air hogs planes from this. I wonder why they faded away, air powered engines are so fun
Wow, these new renderings are absolutely beautiful Tom!
5:53 look at his face... What a heartwarming face that you will do after a lot of effort that you spend and then see the result that you want
That is a brilliant feat of engineering! Never would have thought of that for a potential candidate for a propetual rotor engine. Using an air tight seeled diaphragm to keep the motors spinning could help eliminate a lot of waste for energy and resources.
Glad such a channel exists
it is fascinating to see how he does final year research projects every couple of weeks or so.
Hi friends
Part of that is he doesn't need to write a hundred page essay detailing the prototypes and decisions and just shows some of them with one or two lines of text.