Breaking the Yoke of Dependence; CAD CD; 4.5" Tesla Turbine oiling system details, Phoenix Turbine Builders Club

First Quarter 2006

Politics: Breaking the Yoke of Dependence; CAD file CD; 4.5" Tesla Turbine Oiling System Details

Political Section

Government-Industry Cartel: How to break free

Well, I guess the jury is finally in; Bush refuses to do anything about the oil price gouging perpetrated by his buddies in the oil industry. Few people realize that there are laws on the books empowering the government to protect the public against unfair and illegal pricing -- but as the white house hillbilly says, "I hayna-gonna innerfer wit biznez".

So much for our pseudo-democratic society -- of the oil boys, by the oil boys, for the oil boys. It shows what has been working behind the scenes for a couple of decades. King Bush I went to war against Iraq over secret Bush family oil deals with Kuwait, and in the process used illegal dirty nukes in southern Iraq.

It's also a known, documented fact that the U.S. oil cartel approached little Bush years before the 2000 election and offered to make him king if he would do one little thing - invade Iraq and steal the oil wells, handing them over to the oil industry, as shown on the map laid out on his living room coffee table.

Now we know for a fact that King Bush II did not win either election legally or fairly, so what is the real reason he was appointed to power -- to make war on oil rich nations and steal their reserves. Little Bush is guilty of the same war crimes as the old man: using dirty nukes in Baghdad just like the old man did in the desert! This tyrannical regime will stop at nothing to empower the rich, subjugate the poor and illegally undermine the U.S. Constitution by militarizing all civilian functions of government.

Hang onto your hats -- you ain't seen nothing yet!

Since Bush and the feds are facilitating, rather than regulating, gluttonous oil-rich friends, you can forget about them working for you. It's up to you to take your life and destiny in your own hands and create your own better world.

The first step is to get off-grid and provide your own electrical power. From there you can progress to home heating and eventually to transportation. The goal is to cut off the "money fix" from the energy and government boys. By providing your own indigenous power, you become more secure, you save money in the process, and you gain freedom from ever-increasing energy bills.

Ultimately we should all become self-sufficient & self-reliant in order to cure the most pervasive of societal diseases -- dependence on the industrial-government cartel. Eisenhower warned against the cartel when he was about to leave office, and more recently, the economist responsible for drafting & running the U.S. economy -- from Roosevelt to Carter -- admitted that the big corporations had finally taken over and are now running the government.

It's quite evident what is going on when the rich no longer pay their fair share of taxes, the lion's share of tax rebates goes to the rich, and all of the largest corporations not only do not pay taxes, but are paid tax dollars to exist. This is the true status of the U.S. welfare system. As Bush and the republicans are busy eliminating 140 social programs and destroying the foundation of Social Security, welfare checks to the richest individuals & corporations skyrocket through the heavens.

For God's sake -- am I the only one on the planet who sees through the sleaze of the republicans and half-hearted democrats who are in a grand collusion with big biz against the cattle of the "united states"?

Activism Section

Tools to Set the Captives Free

This year we are going to show both club members and the rest of the world how to cut the ties with the gluttonous beasts of the system. We plan on finishing the Experimenter's Tesla Turbine details articles within the first two quarters.

We are also busy on the turbine CAD files and should have our CD ready to ship by the end of the second quarter. For those of you who have not started on building a turbine yet, this is a great source of info, drawings and files that can be used with CNC machinery to mill finished parts for your own 4.5" home power turbine. This is a very low-cost avenue for all of our club members to instantly gain access to engineering details of a working unit.

We expect this first CD to be a big success and plan to create and publish follow-on CD's loaded with working details on boiler systems, solar turbo-generators, etc. So now is the time to declare your independence and start living your own life of liberty and freedom!

Technical Section

4.5-inch Experimenter's Tesla Turbine Oiling System

Our focus in this article is on the 4.5" turbine oiling system. We'll start out by showing photos of a turbine we designed and built for a university several years back. In Photo 1 we see the framework for a typical "overhung" 10-inch turbine. From the bottom of the bearing block you notice clear plastic tubing running from a couple of brass hose barbs to a black metal container. Oil drains from the bottom of the bearing case to the rectangular reservoir, where it is eventually fed through a pump and back to the top oil jets.
In Photo 2 you can see the complete oil system. Oil is drawn from the reservoir into the oil pump intake and forced upward through a small "gasoline" filter and onward to the two oil jets - one for each bearing.
Photos 3 & 4 show two more views of the closed loop oiling system. The clear plastic tubing running from the top of the reservoir to the center of the bearing block is both a fill tube/vent, and a "sight glass" to maintain oil levels.
Photo 5 shows how the oil jets were fabricated for this project. Garden variety brass fittings from a local hardware store were modified by soldering copper tubing extensions with end plugs, and drilling small diameter oil jet holes aimed toward the ball bearings when mounted in place.
Photo 6 shows our new oil jet designed for the 4.5" turbine. Notice how oil (water) sprays in two directions to cool both bearings simultaneously. It is important to orient the oil jet holes facing the bearings. Dimple marks have been drilled into the hex nut faces to indicate oil jet direction.
For a quick and easy oil reservoir we have used a small olive jar with holes drilled in the lid to accept plastic tubing (Photo 7). Usually the inlet tubing is shorter than the outlet or pickup tube. This allows the hotter oil to enter the reservoir at the top and give off its heat before migrating to the cooler bottom region, where it is siphoned off by the oil pump.
Photos 8 & 9 show the "little giant" centrifugal pump we recommend -- supplied by Surplus Center for around $40 plus shipping. The second view shows the pump with brass fittings picked up at the local hardware -- which simply screw into the pump -- no tapping required.
Photos 10 & 11 show a couple views of our 4.5" turbine with a few of the brass fittings installed. In the first (top) view we see the two angled hose barbs for the air seals (to the right). As mentioned in previous articles, air seals are necessary to eliminate drag from conventional nitrile shaft seals. The hose barb to the left is the oil drain fitting. Photo 11 shows another view of the oil drain line barb.
In Photos 12 & 13 we see the complete closed-loop oiling system ready to go. Oil drains from the bearing block into the olive jar reservoir, is drawn from the bottom of the jar into the oil pump intake and forced under pressure upward to the centrally located oil jet. One thing to keep in mind -- these centrifugal oil pumps are not self-priming. Oil must fill the tubing between the reservoir and pump, and the pump case before the pump will operate. If you want to regulate the oil flow, use an aquarium air flow needle valve between the pump and oil jet.

Well, that's it for now. We're doing all we can to set the world free from the cartel -- now it's up to the rest of you to get a hold of this information and "buy your stairway to heaven". You must invest your own time and resources to set yourselves free!

And remember to get your CD in June of this year -- it's packed full of technical info on construction of our 4.5" Experimenter's Tesla Turbine -- plus a complete set of our Phoenix Turbine Builders Club articles.

Also, remember to come see us in August if you plan on vacationing this year in our neck of Michigan's great outdoors.

Ken Rieli