The future, powered by steam, and at Maker Faire with Crabfu-
So what do you do after you’ve made a bunch of steam powered r/c tanks? Well you try making a steam turbine tank of course! Making a steam turbine r/c machine has sort of been one of my Holy Grails, but there are many issues with steam turbines, that made it difficult for me to tackle on the project.
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I can understand the noise factor being important, but what does using a turbine vs a piston give you? He talked about the difficulties but not why turbines are cool in respect to the pistons.
As with any & all of my steam projects…. the reason that I make any of it, is just trying something unusual and stupid :)
Yeah the steam turbine tank isn’t the easiest, or most efficient steam contraption compared to steam pistons. But neither is a walker compared to wheeled, or steam compared to electric etc.
-Crabfu
excelent design however the down side is the noise of the actual engine working. I work with engines and i no the principle of how they work. But what i would like to no is how motion is applied to all the wheels is it be a connecting rod?