Air Powered Lego Engine Experiments

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20 Tests with different Lego pneumatic engines. Pneumatic motors are essentially steam engines powered with compressed air. Air motors have many characteristics of combustion engines.

Chapters:

00:00 Faster Engine
00:45 Power Sources
01:00 Firing Order
02:03 Underwater
03:26 Reversing
04:09 Gearbox
04:57 2 Stroke
06:50 Water Pump
07:13 i5
08:10 Valve Timing
08:24 Long Cylinders
09:18 Propeller
09:24 Flywheel
09:46 Electric Valves
10:11 Engine Sounds
10:27 Compressor
11:07 2 Engines
11:15 Failed Pistons
11:42 Generating Electricity
12:00 Adjustable V-Angle

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Music: NEFFEX - Go Down Swinging ( Instrumental)

Engine designs inspired by @ludicrousbrickstudio, @DrDudeNL, @GreenGeckoLegoTechnicWorkshop

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[BrickTechnology]

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I hope you enjoy my compilation of crazy Lego Pneumatic engines. If you want to build your own engine you can find individual Lego Parts on bricklink.com.



Check out the following channels for more videos about Lego Pneumatic engines:

[jimcrawford]

Something these model engines show really well is how the rotation of an engine isn't constant in it's speed; the crank rotates faster when the crank is at 90degrees to the connecting rod, and slowest when it's perfectly in line with the connecting rod. That's why heavy flywheels are used in a lot of 4 cylinder engines, and why engines with more than 4 cylinders are so smooth.

[nicowaferr]

this guy's gonna end up building a whole rocket ship made out of legos and fly to the moon with it

[willyarma_uk]

I tried making lego pneumatic engines when I was much younger, the old single acting cylinders moved much easier and so did the switches although the switches were still too stiff really (also theyre off in the middle). I like the pinched tube idea, Id like to see more of that.

[thomaslouis]

Thank you for inspiring me to build my own model engine!

[lachlanparker]

The 120⁰ for the Inline-3 and V6 was easy (albeit still very clever), but the Inline-5... You made a custom 72⁰ component. And here I was thinking that you couldn't get any more devoted and ground-breaking (other than finding a way to mass-produce and sell Lego sets of these while gaining a decent profit). I am forever impressed.

[Notgzus]

It’s amazing seeing the I6 engine’s fixing the firing orders, from an unbalanced to a balanced version, solve vibration completely!

[theautodrone]

The production value on your videos seems to have just jumped up considerably, this was really pleasing to just sit and watch (not that they weren’t already) and very interesting as always congrats

[TheJohtunnBandit]

I love that I can hear the different engine sounds and compare them to ones I've heard around me out and about, the 135 degree v8 sounded more like a muscle car and the 45 degree v8 more like a truck engine to me. Thanks for making these!

[zecharjatheunisse]

Man what a huge amount of engines you designed for this video! This is exactly why I’m subscribed. Keep it up man, stay safe.

[ralexcraft]

The one time he talks, it’s for a sponsor ad.

[dsihacker]

I feel like these engines would be a lot cooler with colored smoke and clear tubes so we can kind of see how they work

[eswnpze]

now that you've got an ender 5, you should try to print some shorter crankshaft pieces to get a stroke length shorter than 3 bricks. I would love to see what kind of speed you can get with a shorter stroke length. Those pistons seem to have some decent power; I could imagine maybe a stroke length as low as one brick could work.

[ghostpeel]

Brick technology starts getting sponsors and not one negative comment about it. I love it, you keep the lego community satisfied with brilliant content and deserve the payroll. Congrats!

[musclechicken]

9:20 I find this but funny because you are using air pressure to make rotational energy to then turn back into air pressure to power the car!

[billlucas]

I love how all of the "messing around with lego" type channels have cats who come and investigate the builds. definitely a crossover in demographics going on here.

[revus]

Have you considered dry ice and water as an alternative power source?
Put it in a metal container to hold the pressure

[KewneRain]

Your cat assistants are so cute!

This is really ingenious, I would have never thought this was possible with Lego!

[theyande]

2:00 thats a hard one... uhhhh hmmm aaaa is it 1?

[Alireza_MG]

Please tell us how you've mastered mechanics and engineering. mention the books or any other source that have had great impact on your journey.