You could create a "C" bracket that goes from lid to lid that clips over the ends of the cylinder to hold them in place.

Now I want to see you 3d print a steam whistle

Make a steam powered nerf gun

Wonderful project! 👏😌

How many types of engines have you now built, Joel? 😂 Great vid!

Using alcohol in a steam engine sounds like something I would suggest💣🔥

As a businessman, I respect the effort to return to the classics. However, I would recommend producing a better steam production device, to hopefully make the system more mobile.

For a next video, how about building a ramjet engine using some kind of compressor or fan to accelerate the intake air to high speed? Love your work!🤩

Video idea: create a 3d printed DC motor to use as a pump for one of your rockets, which would allow you to explain a bunch of different physics concepts, maybe a DC motor with Bell electromagnets

Video idea: Since you've never done anything that flies, why not make one of da vinci's flying machines. Tomatoes are disgusting!

Fun project! I always enjoy your videos, you always have a creative solution to thorny problems. You can get much better performance from your engine if you lubricate it. Steam engines used hydrophilic oils that would actually be carried by the steam into the cylinders. If I recall correctly, animal fats (tallow) are particularly suited. The engine will also perform poorly when cold and uninsulated. You'll lose tons of power because it's all used up when the steam condenses back into water in the cold cylinders. Harvesting more of the steam's energy as it expands gives you the most efficiency (compound engines do this using cylinders of varying bores, high pressure cylinders have smaller bores than low pressure cylinders after them).

the asdf spin off... brilliant :)

VIDEO IDEA Produce biodiesel from used cooking oil and propel a rocket loaded with tomatoes to infinity and beyond! 🍅🍅🍅

Video Idea! Steam Powered Radial Engine!! I would love to see how it would work and I know you can do it!

Your Channel/Videos is so underrated. Very fun and informative to watch!

When you said keep going my boy it made me smile. Because as a fellow engineer I understand how good it feels to succeed

Now that you have a steam engine, wouldn’t it be cool to make a little steam powered car? Or a locomotive?

Video Idea: I would love to see projects done with recicled/scrapped electronics so people like me that lives in countries where getting some products/materials is expensive or impossible can learn and do projects from your videos! :)

A future Idea - Making use of all your previous projects to do a Over the top fun video about the Destruction of the Hated Tomato . in which you use the previous projects as a way of destroying the unloved red fruit. maybe a good way to start off the 2022 period.

Video idea! Steam powered micro generator to charge a cellphone. Maybe take it one step further and make some sort of multi-cylinder version.

Hi, steam locomotive engineer here, and I noticed that while your steam engine does work, it's quite inefficient, and has some potentially fatal errors. First of all, there's water in the cylinder, and this comes from using saturated steam. You could superheat the steam if you wanted, but the most simple solution is to add what are known as drain cocks to the cylinder. Basically, they're valves that you open for the first few strokes of the cycle, to allow the water to drain out. Also, the valve and it's timing, while useful for a simple engine, could benefit from being adjustable. Something like Walschaerts valve gear or Baker valve gear, with a "cutoff" to allow variation in the valve timing, and making the engine more efficient. Also, it seems to leak steam everywhere... I don't have a solution for that one, so just go with your gut on that problem. One thing I'd definitely suggest is getting a dedicated model boiler, like a Wilesco or a Mamod unit. Hope this helps!

Maybe you could make a potato cannon with alcohol Mr Inetzga!!!😉🙈

video idea : you should make a gun and bullet with as much 3d printed part as possible.

Amazing channel! Really fond of your narration and innovation! Lots of good wishes from the Indian Himalayas!

Video idea: It'd be neat if you created a methane powered internal combustion engine, and then power it with methane derived from decomposed tomatoes/another source [as noted by Dan] or something like that.

Ive been watching you for a while now Integza, and I just wanna say its awesome to see how much the production quality of your channel has gone up! Loving it man keep it up

2:42 goddamn this takes me back. Good ol' ASDFMovie

Video idea: Build an steam engine with four or more cylinders and a crank shaft, and messure how many horsepower it makes and perhaps make a vehicle out of it ;) P. S. Keep up the good work:) love your videos:):)

Video idea: have a steam propeller engine for a model airplane(to have it portable use the hydrogen and potassium permanganate mixture, and they could get mixed using syringes injecting the mixture. You could use the same method as you did for the Devil's Toothpaste Rocket Engine that was mounted on the skateboard?)

I'd love to see a second stage to this making a compound Engine. To improve the efficiency you could try to improve the seals.

You should try and make an engine that runs off of a weight on a line attached to a gear ratio along with the steam engine idea, just to give it a little kickstart and help it run better while under load.

What a nice little video, much appreciated!

When I said your channel was picking up steam, this... isn't what I meant haha. I'm not complaining though - this is great!

Integza! I've spent the last 8 months trying to design the world's first 4 stroke compressed air engine, an I finally have one that works! The problem is it runs like crap and is less efficient than a 2 stroke alternative! I challenge you to improve it!

1:10 why did I expectated the bottle to explode

I'd love to see you make a submersible that can dive and resurface!

you can transform a fog machine to make high pressure steam. I already put instead of fog liquid, water. I've already tried this and it really works because the machine has a mini water pump that generates a considerable pressure and when the liquid goes to the heater it boils instantly which almost triples the original pressure

I'd love to see a triple expansion steam engine, or steam turbine after this! Maybe even poweing a small boat if possible?

Nice build

Video idea : build a car that works on steam

You can 3d print RC boat

Integza, longer videos please. Watching them is a constant reminder of how much we hate tomatoes and it's an escape from their disgusting grip.

This gives me an idea to fully 3d print a functioning locomotive.

You can get more pressure without changing the boiler. Just superheat the steam coming from the pressure pot by passing It through a coil that your heat up with a Torch, or that more generally passes through something hotter than 100°C

Video Idea: Take a page out of real steam engine history and attach a second, low pressure, piston to this one’s exhaust to scavenge the remaining power. Titanic used this plus a steam turbine and that worked well for 100% of it’s operational life.

Can you 3d print sth. to genereate electricity from ocean waves (you could try it in a water container with artificial waves)

Total off topic: your lighting in these vids is excellent.

Hey Integza, steam jet ejector for vacuum generation is one of the most interesting devices I encounter in the industry which has no rotating component but has a unique geometry that allows it to generate vacuum. Can you make a video about them. Maybe modeling and printing different geometries and comparing the vacuum generated would be interesting!

You should definitely try making a stirling engine. Almost like a steam engine but it runs on air contracting and expanding because of temperature. And you liked engines, right? Great video!

Video idea: seeing your interest in engines i cant help but think of a transparent gas turbine engine. Try it please.

very nice mate, Merry Christmas all the best to you and your sister

Idea: you could also make a steam generator similar to those found in doble steam cars, that way you can make more consistent and longer lasting power.

Love your videos! Technically two video ideas; First make a parabolic mirror reflector, Second use said reflector to power a solar powered heat engine (similar to your steam engine but modified in a few key ways) to go from sun to motion with very few steps!!!

Create a Turboshaft Jet-Engine with a small Helicopter-blade, to measure how much force you can produce, or maybe take off.

If you make the piston bigger it may help because you need less supply pressure but more volume of steam. Another great video 👍

To keep the caps on without glue: A c-shaped bar (3d print it) that runs lengthways the cylinder with the folded ends holding the whole thing together.

You should 3D print a quasiturbine engine and make it compressor powered to see how efficient it is.

I would suggest making a TOMATO throwing trebuchet powered by rocket engine !!! if you are able to make it ofc....

Would love to see a second steam engine video only this time print a liquid escape valve to when the liquid cools it returns to the pot making it a closed system!

Machined one of these in college as a project. Might have to try and print one now

You should build the entire train

As user C Moore mentioned, a steam turbine would be great! Just to see how much power you can harness from a particular heat source. Either run a driveshaft directly to a vehicle or turn it into electricity with a generator. Messing with the drive shaft gearing or the shape of the turbine blades could be fun trial and error.

1:30 YUP JUST A LITTLE BIT. NO NEED TO WORRY 👍

Wow, that was really cool! 👍

I'd be interesting in a video specifically focused on how you make the pistons in these projects and the tricks you've found most effective to creating as close to air-tight 3d printed piston systems. It would be super cool to see if you could calculate their efficiencies too.

I'd love to see you build/ 3D print an entire steam locomotive, incorporating your cylinder/ engine

Video idea! 3D printed gasoline engine! I think it will be nice to watch.

Genial excelente trabajo! Gracias Esto de la impresora 3D va en serio?

Video idea: I think the natural continuation from steam engine is to build a Stirling engine. Those are much more interesting than steam engines, but quite as easy to build. Furthermore, there is at least three main types of Stirling engines to choose from.

I also would like to see this steam engine improved. As many other comments suggest, O-rings would be an automatic improvement, especially with the low pressures you're working with. Too much pressure is leaking out of both the piston chambers and the valve. At 3-4 times the pressure, waste wouldn't be such a big deal, but losing half of such a small input is kindof rough lol. Friction would be a big problem with o rings so it might necessitate looking at alternative seals... Like in modern engines, solid piston rings are a thing so 3d printing a "soft spring" could do better than a rubber ring in theory. Plus it'd center the piston up so less jiggle would be present. Another change could be to move the valve onto a lower portion of the cylinder to help evacuate condensed water while maintaining visibility for the sweet transparency effect to be maintained.

Nice info, thank you:)

Yes, it's pretty d*mn cool. I would like to see the exhaust vented.

I'm not 100% sure how you'd do it, but a steam or compessed air powered plane/ flying machine would be a really cool concept to try to make

Would love to see you attempt a 3D printed Ornithopter powered with a 3D printed engine of your choice!

wonderful project

Look up the Doble steam cars. They generated steam in about 90 seconds by using a containment vessel that used copper tubes that were heated up. Basically instead of boiling a large amount of water at once Doble steam cars flash boiled small amounts of water quickly. The idea was to have the water pass through the tubes and have the heat of gasoline heat up the tubes and turn the water to superheated steam. Jay Leno explains this. It’s kind of how tankless water heaters work but it’s much more powerful

6:20 You could have made the base come up at the ends of the cylinder to hold the end caps in and still be able to dismantle it.

You need to superheat the steam as it comes out of the pressure cooker, so you get dry steam, it will also increase your pressure as well. Run it thru a copper coil with a gas flame heating it.

Thank you for sharing!

make a 3D printed hydraulic pump that could be a lot of fun

You should try redesigning and building or just making your own version entirely of Nikola Tesla’s peace ray or death ray to melt a tomato. That would be super awesome to see what you could do with that! For anyone that doesn’t know Nikola Tesla tried designing a defense weapon that directed charged particle beams. Love your videos!

I would love to see how much power you could generate with that. Even if its a low efficiency of 1%, gives you something to try and beat in future versions!

Put a 3D Printed Starter Motor (designed by you) so that you don’t have to spin the flywheel by yourself.

I used to have a hard time with the acted-up "don't care about understanding the phenomena, I'm only in it for burning things" attitude that I seem to perceive in your videos, but you really do a great job. If yoou had explained a bit more the equation you showed I think I would have subscribed :P

Idea: make a powerfull enought steam engine to drive an rc car or so, with stearing and forvard/backwards gears and controll it via the remote. (for any improvements leave a comment)

Video Idea: I would love to see a working hydrogen engine.

I think it would be really awsome to see you make a water hammer pump I think that would make an awsome project

Glass for a whoosh bottle. A 'working' steam engine from 3d printed parts, nice job.

0:19 as a german, i agree.

Glad to see it worked! If I may make a few small suggestions, some O-rings, grease, and a O-ring on the piston rod and the cylinder head (packing gland). That's where this engine is likely losing efficiency. Also some cylinder cocks (valves to drain condensed steam from the cylinder) may help, as you can see the water start to build up in the steam test.

video idea: you should 3d print an arm that freezes tomatoes, throws them at a backboard, and falls into a 3d printed truck bed that drives off of a table and into a trash can.

3d print some threaded end caps for the cylinder to keep them in place at higher pressures

I’m dying to know why you shouldn’t drink rose wine in Croatia! 🤔 Edit: Is that a Bowden tube you’re using to get the steam from the pressure cooker to the engine?! I would never have thought that would work. You’re really good at this.

I'm so happy I found this channel! You've definitely earned a new subscriber here

amazing. I cant wait to make this for my dad

for anyone who really wants to find out about how steam engines work heres some differences between this engiene and a normal stream engine: 1. normally a steam engine has a much thinner piston 2. that design of piston is designed to be used with a o-ring 3. most steam engine will not use the flywheel for the valve timing. early steam engines used a round peice with and eccentric hole. later engienes used complicated systems that would take far too Long to explain in a comment. 4. most stream engines will use a slide valve and a steam chest. the steam chest is filled with steam/air and the slide valve moves to allow steam/air to flow into one port that is uncovered and connects the other Port to the exhaust hole. 5. alot of engienes use crossheads and crosshead guides to keep the piston rod from bending ofcourse there are exceptions however this is true for the majority of engienes

I'd like to see an opposed piston engine, as I've only seen a few pictures of them & want to see you explain them to everyone. I'm not sure if you could engineer a steam version, but I certainly think It'd be an interesting project.

I think The Napier Deltic engine would be a cool 3d printing project for you! I’ve always wanted to see one built! Thanks for all your awesome content!

Your really good at replicating engines, I'd like to see what engines made firstly by you would look like, like the Wright brothers.

A CNC and a 3D printer. That's really cool/useful, profitable