Jet Engine

Home made gas turbine jet engine to the design in the book by Thomas Kamps.

Combustion Chamber Outer

The outer was made conventionally by drilling / swaging the holes in the stainless steel sheet before rolling around the combustion chamber end cover and tacking the seam with the TIG. I used copper backing bar on the outside and seam welded the outer wrapper from the inside (to try and keep the back side…

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