I wonder if it has flippy caps and what kind of oil it takes.
No. Heavy and slowDoesn't look like it'll win any speed cutting races anytime soon, does it?
Interesting...and surprising. I once read about the maintenance schedule on aircraft turbofans, and it was NUTS how long they could go with essentially ZERO maintenance...if I recall right, the oil-change schedule was something like "every 400,000 years or 600 trillion tons of kerosene burned, whichever comes first..."...those turbine engines are extremely expensive and need very good maintenance program. I have a mate that has a turbine in a scale boat and about every 25 hours of run time it gets taken apart and checked out. The ceramic bearings can't get any play in them, and if so the turbine gets sent out to the mfg for a rebuild. Very complicated little things.
Im not an expert on them by any means and the jet I'm basing off of is in a large scale boat so that may have something to do with it as well, I do know my mate has complained a few times that it needed to be sent out and fitted with new bearings. I don't think they are in any kind of oil bath like a full sized turbine.Interesting...and surprising. I once read about the maintenance schedule on aircraft jet engines, and it was NUTS how long they could go with essentially ZERO maintenance...if I recall right, the oil-change schedule was something like "every 400,000 years or 600 trillion tons of kerosene burned, whichever comes first..."
Basically, it sounded like you could do nothing more than put fuel into them until the planet ran out of petroleum, then consider refitting them to burn a different fuel.
That's not accurate a wren mw-44 is rated at 4hp. The driven turbine looses some power transmission through it.Supposedly it generates 5.1kW(6.8 hp) at 12k RPM at the clutch, which is the same as the MS500i.
I know which one I would rather have, but the dawgs on the Jet are pretty cool.
The electric start makes sense I was wondering because I know how much it takes to start a much smaller turbine and I didn't think a pull would do it. Kerosene would be much cheaper than JP5 which is 6.00 a gallon and I figure it will consume 5-6 gals an hour but that's just a guess based on what the smaller ones use that I have experience with. The BRAGGING RIGHTS tho lolThe pull start is a novelty on it, it's electric start Like all the other turbines I've seen. I haven't seen high fuel costs, the one my mate has runs on kerosene, it is a pig though.
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