Busy couple of weeks with successful engine tests, diagnostic disassembly, engine rebuilds, and more hotfires sweeping power levels and mixture ratios… it's high time for some video! #FFSC
Was that a nominal startup sequence? A slight detonation seemed to have occurred between 0:17 to 0:16 with a tinge of green flame indicating copper. I feel like that green flame could've been either the chamber itself in an off-nominal startup or residual additively manufactured [copper] powder getting dislodged by the hotfire environment.
Congrats on the successful engine tests and diagnostics! It sounds like you've been making impressive strides in your work. Looking forward to seeing the highlights!
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I hope you are already trying GRX-810 for your combustion chambers. And you can make your own NbTaTiHf! 25X better fracture toughness than 304L!
The Nb45Ta25Ti15Hf15 refractory high-entropy alloy (RHEA) was fabricated by arc melting Nb (99.95% metals basis excluding Ta), Ta (99.95% metals basis), Ti (99.95% metals basis), and 5 Hf (99.9% metals basis, excluding Zr) slugs, pieces, and wire together. The feedstock materials were purchased from Alfa Aesar (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Tewksbury, MA 01876 USA). Before melting the feedstock, they were ultrasonic cleaned for 10 minutes in an isopropyl alcohol bath. The alloy ingots were arc melted in a water-cooled copper crucible under an inert Ar atmosphere. Each alloy ingot was flipped and remelted 5 times, without opening the vacuum chamber to 10 homogenize the composition. To avoid pick-up of interstitial elements during the arc melting process, the vacuum chamber was backfilled with commercial grade argon (99.995% Ar) after achieving a vacuum of 10-5 torr. Finally, before melting the feedstock materials, a Ti Getter was melted for 2 minutes to further minimize residual gases in the chamber. The as-cast Nb45Ta25Ti15Hf15 RHEA ingots were then cold rolled into billets with ~30% reduction in thickness 15 to a final thickness of ~8 mm. The cold rolling procedure was performed in the Metals Processing Lab located at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate; this facility is operated through an onsite contract with Materials Resources LLC. The rolled billets were then cleaned and polished using 320 grits SiC paper, and annealed at 1373 K for 1 hour in a 20 stainless steel bag in air and subsequently quenched in room temperature water.
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Busy couple of weeks with successful engine tests, diagnostic disassembly, engine rebuilds, and more hotfires sweeping power levels and mixture ratios… it's high time for some video! #FFSC
NOTICE!
By every means, always determine the cause of an engine shutdown. Make necessary repairs before attempting to restart the engine.
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In the realm of engine maintenance, DEF fluids have a rich history of being utilized primarily in truck engines. However, in a more contemporary context, their utilization has extended to include smaller engines as well. Employing DEF serves as a strategic means of adhering to the rigorous standards set forth by the EPA, all while ensuring that engine performance and fuel efficiency remain uncompromised.
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3wWas that a nominal startup sequence? A slight detonation seemed to have occurred between 0:17 to 0:16 with a tinge of green flame indicating copper. I feel like that green flame could've been either the chamber itself in an off-nominal startup or residual additively manufactured [copper] powder getting dislodged by the hotfire environment.