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Totally insane
« on: July 22, 2022, 17:28:43 »
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6SYT0upjNac&feature=share

What is so intriguing is not the ridiculous powering of a Tesla with jet engines, but all of his cool design and engineering, and his ability to make things pretty easily. What a nice set of design, cutting, and machining tools he has at his disposal!
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Re: Totally insane
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2022, 19:10:29 »
The beauty of engineering.
Thanks for sharing
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Re: Totally insane
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2022, 21:23:05 »
Hey Michael -

I call your Tesla and raise you a Radio Flyer Wagon!  ;^)

https://youtu.be/smOXezkkXow
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Re: Totally insane
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2022, 15:00:33 »
Hey Michael -

I call your Tesla and raise you a Radio Flyer Wagon!  ;^)

https://youtu.be/smOXezkkXow

I said insane. The Radio Flyer is ridiculous.
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Re: Totally insane
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2022, 15:18:53 »
Yup, totally ridiculous.  Running it at Bonneville on stock wagon wheels while steering with two strings and two boot heels for brakes is insane!  (although Fred and Barney would be proud . . .)
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Re: Totally insane
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2022, 19:46:42 »
But boy does it ever prove my theory that those little, miniature jet engines are just a solution in search of a problem.

I stopped looking at these ridiculous YouTube videos this morning involving small jet engines when somebody had adapted an APU from a BAC-111 into a beer chiller…
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