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PulseJet, BMX, Rope, Crane = ColinFurze Jet-Swing

Feb 22, 2020
No, it needs more... like jets! So we can improve the old

swing

. Well, I already made a 360

swing

in the garden. It was a huge hook, it was turned upside down, it was brilliant, but I think we want to feel like we're flying. So we need a little more freedom, instead of just this and this, we want to be able to do this, this or that. Like the

rope

swing but with power. Yes, now, of course, you've seen the thumbnail. You know where this is going. We're going to get a pulse jet and then we'll have one of the bikes that were never chosen for the electric drift trike project.
pulsejet bmx rope crane colinfurze jet swing
So we'll get on it, on a big

crane

, and then we'll ride it. It's a very good idea. Let's start cutting out the bike and attack it, attack it, attach it to said jet. Very nice, look at this, plus the jet and you can do a little bunny hop on it. Now, I fixed the hairpins; I wasn't going to do that because I was going to use it as a kind of steering system, potentially having a sheet of metal back here, and a little bit of a rudder in the back, so that it can direct the forces of the jet in that direction, but I thought, wait a minute, I might be getting ahead of myself there, let's try it without that first.
pulsejet bmx rope crane colinfurze jet swing

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pulsejet bmx rope crane colinfurze jet swing...

Now what we need to do now is suspend this from a

rope

. I don't want a rope in front of my face, wah! Sweep here, and then go up over my head, so I'm kind of in, hanging like a big C for Colin. How warm will my feet be, ha, I don't know. If I start having problems, I'll do this... yeah, keep going, Colin. Well, for the center of gravity, we have this highly adjustable swing pivot! I have no idea if any of these will be in the right place, because it's all guesswork. Ok, gas bottles mounted, very good, next I need some controls for the gas, so I'm thinking of mounting some valves down here and using the brake lever as a throttle, and then do a test.
pulsejet bmx rope crane colinfurze jet swing
Okay, it's ready! I have a wonderful little look at the acceleration system. So we don't have any direction, but I'm going to go and do a preliminary test just to get an idea and see how it feels. You never know you may not need direction; In fact, you may need a lot of direction, yes! argh! It's not very light! We have everything, well Tom has it! Us, haha! We need some fire protection! This is a great example of our emotion override feature, because I know pulse jets like the back of my hand, I know they get hot, and I know that if you give them too much gas they turn into huge flamethrowers.
pulsejet bmx rope crane colinfurze jet swing
I just wanted to try it! Well, this is Burnt Colin's machine, so I'm thinking we need some kind of heat shield to keep it from burning my feet and then while we use this with gas, not liquid gas, we could just have a solenoid valve on. the gas, so if everything goes horribly wrong I'll just flip a switch and hopefully the flames will stop. Well, we'll have another test. Belt full of gasoline, no good! There is not enough power. It seems like the solenoid is too restrictive, so we'll try a bottle of liquid gas and see if that helps.
No, this is just as problematic, we have an erratic flow and it's trying to set me on fire again. Ok I removed the solenoid valve, now this worked brilliantly as a kill switch but you just can't get the gas to flow through it so it's causing me too much trouble so I added this simple little fix. Come on, take three! Don't set me on fire and work! I think it would help if I had a little direction with the steering, but you still get momentum, so I think we'll pull away, put a little direction on it, and then go up. with the JCB, as far as we can go. and also do it at night because this thing glows red hot, woohoo!
Yeah! Next video, SUBSCRIBE, see you there, boom! I bet I'm screaming, aren't I? I have hearing protectors on!

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