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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #630 on: July 25, 2014, 04:44:09 PM »
Very Well Done :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

No fires; no crashes; but H.D has spies everywhere :lol: :lol:

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #631 on: July 25, 2014, 04:51:30 PM »
Anders, Outstanding sir! Looks like she rides and handles well. Here's to that hard earned beer!  :cheers:  :cheers:

Thank you! It handled very well actually, I expected worse from a long hardtail frame. An Austrian gas turbine guy at the JATO forum actually sent me 30 euros on Paypal for beer money after he saw the road test.  :cheers:

Very Well Done :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

No fires; no crashes; but H.D has spies everywhere :lol: :lol:

Talk to me before you get ready for an IPO on the stock market :wink:

Hope to meet on the great white dyno :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Thank you! I really look forward to meeting all you great people here at the salts one day, I won´t go before I have everything sorted out for obvious reasons but at least it doesen´t feel nearly as far away as it did a week ago. :-)

Cheers!
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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #632 on: July 25, 2014, 05:34:26 PM »
Has that great sound of the Turbinator II, we are ready for Speed Week. :cheers:
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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #633 on: July 26, 2014, 01:02:54 AM »
30 Euros!!!!. For beer money. That was nice of him and I understand why he did it,
You could get pretty wasted over here on 30 Euros. 425 bucks for beer. :-D
Enjoy it man, you really deserve it. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #634 on: July 26, 2014, 02:09:33 PM »
I ran this summers most important 1/2 marathon today, 1:27:27 in 28°C heat and a 10th place which I am very satisfied with. Improved my PB with three minutes despite the weather. Afterwards Ralphs (the austrian turbine guy) beer money rejuvenated me. :)



When I got back home I tested the temp probes against an identical one, and they showed similar enough results all the way up to 900°C. I can count temp gauge error out then.



Cheers!
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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #635 on: July 26, 2014, 03:25:01 PM »
my knowledge of turbines is of a very limited and insufficient kind, but would an intake booze bottle or water injection bring the the unwanted high temperatures down somehow?

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #636 on: July 26, 2014, 03:55:20 PM »
my knowledge of turbines is of a very limited and insufficient kind, but would an intake booze bottle or water injection bring the the unwanted high temperatures down somehow?

It would, but that would only hide the problem and not cure it. I will test water injection later to squeeze the last power out of the engine but not until I have fund out what it is capable of as it is now.

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #637 on: July 26, 2014, 08:36:41 PM »
very nice. Congrats.

good English, also.

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #638 on: July 26, 2014, 10:45:49 PM »
 :cheers:

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #639 on: July 27, 2014, 06:10:37 PM »
Thanks! :-)

I removed the gearbox and power turbine from the bike today for the upcoming test where I will run the gas producer with only a temp probe and a short section of pipe without a jet nozzle.



While I had the freepower section removed I wanted to see how the internals of the gearbox was holding together, so I removed the C20 turbine wheel and found this:



Hmm, must be oil from the bearing lubrication that has overheated. That might be the cause for the slight rubbing I could feel when turning the input shaft, it called for further investigation.



It wasn´t hard to spot the problem, the composite cage for the front hybrid bearing had melted as you can clearly see in the pic below. Good thing that I decided to check since another run with this bearing could have ended in disaster.



It wasn´t completely unexpected, I had hoped that the bleed air flow through the bearing would keep it cool enough for the cage to survive but that was clearly not the case. Before spending even more money on a full complement ceramic bearing I will try a standard steel C3 bearing and see how well it survives, if I´ll make sure not to overspeed the gearbox perhaps it can endure the stress.

Cheers!
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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #640 on: August 11, 2014, 03:16:29 PM »
I am back from a 10 day vacation trip so in a day or two I will start making a tachometer for the engine.

In my swedish build thread at a sportbike forum I was congratulated for an article in The Kneeslider that I didn´t know of, very fun to get attention without even asking for it. :-)

http://thekneeslider.com/building-a-turboshaft-powered-motorcycle-land-speed-racer/

Cheers!
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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #641 on: August 11, 2014, 08:01:45 PM »
I hope your vacation wasn't at Wendover.

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #642 on: August 12, 2014, 12:32:36 PM »
30 Euros!!!!. For beer money. That was nice of him and I understand why he did it,
You could get pretty wasted over here on 30 Euros. 425 bucks for beer. :-D
Enjoy it man, you really deserve it. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

You got me to checkup! Then I  saw you are in South Africa!
30 EUR = 40 USD
30 EUR = 426 ZAR

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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #643 on: August 12, 2014, 05:11:07 PM »
Dead right Charlie. 24 cans for $15 and don't let the price fool you. The beer is top notch. :-D

http://www.makro.co.za/liquor/beer-LB
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Re: APS/Ω Gas turbine bike build
« Reply #644 on: August 12, 2014, 11:19:28 PM »
Amazing engineering.......
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