flâneur

Introduction - MisterG

misterg.org.uk · 259 words · saved by 1 readers

Years ago, when the internet was still in primary school, one of the wonders that I found was that a guy called Kurt Schreckling had written a book on how to build a working model jet engine inside an empty Camping Gaz cannister. I really wanted one, but at the time I was living in a first floor flat with absolutely no workshop facilities, then life got in the way. Fast forward about 25 years and I now have a TIG welder and a lathe… and still a hankering to try and build a jet engine. So I bought a book: The design in the book is still very dated, with modest performance, but importantly (to me) it’s is one of the few I could find which is claimed to work with a home made turbine wheel. So, for the last few months, I’ve been working on turning this: Into something that looks more like this (but both halves!) I posted a build thread at the time on the excellent Mig Welding Forum. These pages are a tidied up version of those posts with a bit more explanation and some extra pictures in a

Years ago, when the internet was still in primary school, one of the wonders that I found was that a guy called Kurt Schreckling had written a book on how to build a working model jet engine inside an empty Camping Gaz cannister. I really wanted one, but at the time I was living in a first floor flat with absolutely no workshop facilities, then life got in the way. Fast forward about 25 years and I now have a TIG welder and a lathe… and still a hankering to try and build a jet engine. So I bought a book: The design in the book is still very dated, with modest performance, but importantly…

saved by

related reading