Jet Engine

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

Machining the NGV

Behind the combustion chamber is the ‘nozzle / guide vane assembly’ – NGV. The hot gasses from the combustion chamber get funnelled through this and are sent corkscrewing into the turbine wheel. It’s made of an inner and outer ring with curved vanes slotted into them. M-Machine came up trumps with some thick wall 304…

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