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Functional Paper V8 Engine
glitch0 writes "This V8 Engine made entirely out of paper with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.), is fully functional. It features many moving parts which include "a compound crankshaft, a rapid cooling fan, 8 rods, 8 pistons and a complex compound gearbox etc." The engine is powered by 2×1.5V D Batteries and weighs 2.98kg. From start to finish this model took one year to design and construct. There is even a D.I.Y. kit in the works that will be released shortly at the price of $85 USD. What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?"
A model is NOT a functional engine.
I was looking for a way to get my paper dolls around town without having to drive them myself.
Don't click on the link above; it doesn't give any more information than what's in the submission. Go to the source and get more information there.
I built a chimney coal starter out of paper this morning. It was fully functional, burned brightly, and lit the coals on fire!
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Can we please rename this a "V8 Model Engine"... simply saying it's a "V8 Engine" makes one believe it is an actual, functional engine, which got me wondering how the heck they got combustion to work without having the whole thing literally go up in flames.
Looks hard to wipe your ass with to me....
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This V8 Engine made entirely out of paper with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.) Wait wait wait! The engine is made entirely out of paper...except for the motor?!? Motor != Block. Engine == Motor. Damnit, man.
does that thing have a Hemi?
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A motor is electric, an engine uses some other sort of fuel.
Pretty Pictures!
Hrm... really makes me want to know how you could get an internal combustion chamber made of paper that doesn't burst into flames...
Oh, and check out the real source of all that material for alot more detailed information.
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I don't think a paper model of a combustion engine turned by an electric motor qualifies as a "Functional V8 Engine." But that's just me...
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When you get to the real site, it becomes clear that this is a project by someone who does paper models as a business and as an art. You don't get that impression at all from the "blog", which actually looks like something machine-generated by stealing copy from other sites.
I think something like this should be in many schools, or at least tour to schools, so that kids can see and understand the theory behind internal combustion engines. I knew until grade 10 that it had something to do with the gas exploding and pushing the piston to make something turn, but the details like the exhaust expulsion, fuel injection, and camshaft, etc, was lost on me until I saw it in pictures. Then for shop class, we tore down a two stroke engine.
It would be great for budding engineers and mechanics who don't have a parent that routinely fixes their car engine at home like they did in the good ol' days, to see something like this.
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It doesn't seem as impressive to brag about a "V8 Engine made entirely out of paper, with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.)" - that's kinda like saying, "Sushi made entirely out of rice paper, with the execption of a few parts (fish, eel, etc.)"
But it IS a cool looking model!
Not necessarily. Even in your average gas engine, the ratio of air to fuel is 14:1. Air makes up the majority of the intake charge. There would not be enough liquid fuel present to leak out. However, I doubt that a paper model engine could be built strong enough to contain the compression required to create downforce on the piston once the charge is ignited. Much less contain the explosion itself.
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so would import cars be made out of rice paper?
This is NOT a functional engine, it is a model. A functional engine made out of paper would most likely burn.
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Strictly speaking a motor is a mechanical device that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Its converse is the generator which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
An engine is a mechanical device that manipulates a thermodynamic variable (temperature, volume, pressure, or density) to result in an output of mechanical energy via a thermodynamic process. Hence, Brayton cycle engine, Rankine cycle engine, Otto cycle engine, etc.
The efficiency of a motor is expected to be above 90%. The efficiency of an engine is expected to be below 40% (except some really exceptional Brayton cycle engines or some really extreme circumstances).
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Pretty Pictures!
This guy should talk to CraftROBO.
Especially his Notre Dame is cool, the parthenon too but no friezes!
Would be nice if someone provided info on techniques so people could build anything they like, perhaps with some software.
The engine is interesting but why? (and humidity) was on my mind.
Also there in fact are 3d printers (like those using LOM method I think) that make a model by laminating many sheets of paper together. Seems to be a superior way to build an actual paper engine, since the blocks you get are actually quite hard, though you can peel sheets off if you really try.
Back in my day, we didn't have no D cell batteries or paper...why, we just turned a crank inside a containment dome made of parchment. :)
What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?"
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You want to impress me make one out of legos.
I see just a couple problems with this model.
1. I don't see the valve gear anywhere. No cam, no lifters, rockers, valves, or valve springs.
2. No induction system. Nice exhaust though.
3. Fan blades on cooling fan are facing the wrong way. the fan should draw air towards the block, not blow it away from it. (This has little do to with the block itself and more to do with the fact that the radiator is usually in front of the engine, thus the fan draws cool air towards it. Having the fan blow into it causes an overheat due to a bubble of stagnant air and high-temp engine bay air being blowin into the radiator.)
4. Title is misleading. Thought they meant a real V8 engine. It's just a 'V8 visible model" thing.
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The Paper Clock always fascinated me. I stumbled across this in an Edmund's store in Toronto several years ago, and built it; it's a large project, 160 pieces, but it actually is constructed entirely out of paper (included in the book) and a couple of paper clips (and some rocks for weight in the weights).
It has a pendulum, gears, two hands, and can wind up and keep time! The design is ingenious, and apparently comes from an old book the other found in a book store (of german origin, I believe).
Fryer's Kits also had a more simplified paper clock, with just a single dial that rotates with the time; I won't link to them, since their site redirects to a non-existant domain now. Does anybody know where I can find this plan now that Fryer's seems to be defunct??? (They also had a free plan for a paper trebuchet that could launch a grape 30 feet.)
Paper construction of kinetic models fascinates me; it's such an elegant demonstration of construction ingenuity. I would love to see other examples that people might post (other than simple dancing animals and such, which seem to be mostly what one finds when searching the 'net for moving paper models).
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