THE LIQUID PISTON ENGINE

In this video, I get an up-close look at a real-life LiquidPiston engine in action, and adapt it to run in a scooter. In a first ever – we even got it to run on Vodka!

#engine #rotary #engineering

[JoelCreates]

It makes such a cool sound, glad you got to play with one

[jonp]

I remember seeing a lot of very sales-pitchy videos from these guys like 10-ish years ago. Cool to see that they're still around, and cool to see that they're a more down-to-earth bunch of folks than those videos back then let on.

[FilosophicalPharmer]

“Physicists tend to dream of theoretical solutions but the people who actually solve the problems are engineers.” 2:37 Reminds me of a quote I love… “In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice but in practice, there is.” 👍🏼

[everythingexe]

I was lucky enough to intern for these guys as a mechanical engineering student a few summers ago. I moved out to Connecticut for a few months from Illinois because I am fascinated with the rotary engine. I helped design some brackets and test fixtures and exhaust headers and just generally absorbed as much as I could and asked as many questions as possible. Can attest that they were such a great welcoming group of people. I heard so many stories and man they were really trying to move at a break neck pace. Some weekends I had nothing going on seeing that I knew nobody in CT and Gary actually let me come in and bother him and he let me help him run the machines etc. Will absolutely look back on that period fondly.

[jakekellow]

I volunteered with a museum who has a Humphrey pump. An absolute amazing machine. Our pump was primarily used to pump water to irrigate the surrounding districts at the time before electricity took over. It had the potential to pump out a mega litre per hour.

[TheWhiteDragon]

I've been waiting for a while for this company to actually mount the motor on something to give a more practical demonstration of what it can do, and wouldn't ya know it, they finally did it. Thanks Integza

[Dorpz]

I'd love to see you have a go at making your own electrical motors. I imagine you could come up with something quite interesting and educational!
edit: tomatoes are disgusting.

[bpurple]

"Yokisamiw: the way of the tomato-less" is a hell of a line, one of which I'll repeat for about a decade

[kenju]

Its always a good day when we get to see Integza making things

[kelp]

Seeing that your area of interest is predominantly in propulsion methods, I would quite like to see you mount some kind of lightweight air breathing engine to an airframe that would allow it to fly under its own propulsion, maybe something like the old V1s?

[TheSkytherMod]

How about you try to build different types of engines and see how much electricity you can generate / how efficient they are. Great stuff as usual!

[mfitze]

Would be wild to see a bigger version of one of these motors in a race bike

[harrisonmc]

Just a bit worrying hearing “investing” and “15% discount” in the same sentence

[ArmyK]

Holy cow, the engine itself was cool and blew me away, the fact it can run on moonshine was exhilarating!

[zbigniewpopielecki]

Spirytus made by Polmos, a small Polish accent. Please do not mislead people by saying vodka was used. Vodka contains up to 50% ethanol, while you have used a spirit that is 96% pure ethanol.

[RobR]

Would love to see this in a model plane, how much more flight time you'd get if it's smaller and lighter

[McTroyd]

Stack 2 or 3 of those and you've got your Go-Kart engine! Just have to mind the timing to get best torque. Glad to see a working prototype. I hope they're successful.

[helloyt]

i would be interested to see how the power stacks up against a rotaty engine of the same size

[antonpersson]

I have always been interested in seeing how a Stirling engine would work if you use a manual CVT gearbox as a throttle control, so there's an idea for you to try.

[itmeducky]

It's been great watching how your channel has grown, going from doing sketchy 3d printed engines to here.

And as always, this video was a great watch. Looking forward to the next one