Incredible video of tiny 32 cylinder engine

[Mystic]

Wow, I just now saw this incredible video at Fox News about this tiny 32 cylinder engine that actually runs! But when I went back to try to get a link for it the video was gone. The engine is called the W 32 and it is so smooth four pennies can be balanced on top of the engine.

The video is supposed to be available at YouTube.

 

[DBMaster]

 

[Mystic]

Thank you very much for finding this video! I found it at YouTube-the video is called Motor W-32 Miniatura W-32. This is an incredible video with great music too! It is awesome!

 

[Mystic]

I can't stop watching this video! It is great!

 

[JetStar]

I don't think its actually running on internal combustion. I suspect compressed air. I spite of that it's still fascinating.

 

[Mystic]

I could hardly even believe this video when I first saw it. I thought that guys at bobistheoilguy.com would like to see it. Thanks to DBMaster that is possible. I have already watched this video at least ten times.

I think of a lot of things when I see this video. I think of my father. He was a really good mechanic but he never built anything like this. I think of all the skilled workers who built so many things.

Something like this is SO, SO MUCH better than having to fight with trolls or goofy arguments. And even the music is really good for this video. I just really like it.

That engine goes beyond just mechanics and design. That engine is a work of art.

 

[Mystic]

This video makes you want to build. I have seen some incredible things-incredible things workers did, like at the steel mill, etc.

 

[hattaresguy]

Very cool, its built like an old aircraft motor with the separate cylinder heads.

 

[Mystic]

Did anybody ever build a full size 32 cylinder engine? For an automobile or an aircraft. I would guess there may have been such engines for ships or something like that.

I have seen a 12 cylinder Merlin engine, and a 16 cylinder engine for a Cadillac. At the aircraft museum where I saw the 12 cylinder Merlin engine they said that the really good engines were installed in aircraft, like the Spitfire and the Mustang, with a supercharger, and the poorer quality Merlin engines were put into tanks.

 

[Merkava_4]

I'm just wondering how it's being lubricated. On a normal car engine with the rocker arm covers off, there'd be oil splashing everywhere, running down the sides of the cylinder heads and onto the exhaust manifolds.

 

[Mystic]

Yes, I was wondering about that also. Maybe there is some sort of dry lubricant being used. Especially with the engine revved up there should be a lot of oil splash.

If compressed air is running this engine, could some sort of thin lubricant be fed in with the compressed air?

 

[Mystic]

So cool. I wonder what the entire story behind this engine is. Did this guy design this engine completely by himself? And is this what is called a radical engine?

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
I'm just wondering how it's being lubricated. On a normal car engine with the rocker arm covers off, there'd be oil splashing everywhere, running down the sides of the cylinder heads and onto the exhaust manifolds.


Would be all boundary lubed.

The brass cylinders could (not stating for sure) be made of an impregnated bronze, or just oil in the fuel (not sure on that either, as I didn't see any sort of firing mechanism).

A fatty/tacky steam train type lube would be all that's needed for the spinny bits, given that you aren't lugging or driving a marathon with it.

 

[DBMaster]

Since this is a model, running on compressed air, real world issues (i.e. lubrication and cooling) need not apply.

 

[mrsilv04]

Of course it runs smoothly. Is it creating any compression? No. Is it firing? No.

It is just going through the motions.

 

[DBMaster]

Originally Posted By: mrsilv04
Of course it runs smoothly. Is it creating any compression? No. Is it firing? No.

It is just going through the motions.


And, is it spinning at anything close to actual running RPM's? Nope. It is a very detailed, sophisticated, and beautiful MODEL.

 

[Mystic]

It is a great achievement by the guy who built it. A work of art. This video makes me feel like building things. They should make a video like this for the thousands of workers who built the steel mill.

 

[Mystic]

I still like this. It makes me feel like building. It makes me think of all of the workers who built so much.

 

[Cujet]

I want to see something like this actually run and produce power, fueled with regular old gasoline. No funny fuels, no air, etc. Just a conventional miniature engine.

 

[datech]

check out those model plane radial engines that really work.