Made Laminar Water Jet

[dnar]

Random link bandit once again, Hi.

This is pretty neat, I am sure he could incorporate a laser in to this somehow.

YouTube - Dave's AMAZING Under $300.00 Home Made Laminar Water Jet

 

[Xplorer877]

I've built one of those. I never though to put a laser on it though. They're pretty cool.

-Tony

 

[Gryphon]

Thats awesome, keep the random videos coming these are neat

 

[AdamCaudill]

I'm so tempted to build one of those... not that I'd have anything to do with it, but that's never stopped me before

 

[Gryphon]

^ i'm the same way, see something cool and spend several afternoons replicating it only
to find i've dumped more money into it than expected and now i've got something
thats "cool" but i don't have any real use for :crackup:

Compulsivness is bliss!

 

[Things]

I've built a laminar jet before, but had a hard time polishing the fiber to let enough light through. That and like everyone else, don't have a real use for it.

Cheers,
Dan

 

[JLSE]

I've built a laminar jet before, but had a hard time polishing the fiber to let enough light through. That and like everyone else, don't have a real use for it.

Cheers,
Dan

If the fiber is any sort of plastic, just hit it with a flame, or dip in acetone.
You get an instant polish that looks clear as glass. Ive done this with small
fiber optics pieces, found it to be the most effective methods.

 

[HumanSymphony]

That's sweet They should have used something like this in Mythbusters when they were trying to make that water pistol stun gun

 

[Xplorer877]

I wouldn't use a laser though, 3W LEDs would work much better.

-Tony

 

[snypr]

very cool.

 

[TheSaint]

Heres a cool video on laminar water jets. They use them at the Bellagio in Vegas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQDUeVg_418

 

[goninanbl00d]

Collimated water?

:crackup:

 

[mbessey]

Some dye lasers use a laminar flow jet as a lasing medium...

 

[aryntha]

A laser would likely exhibit a sort of 'triangle wave' pattern in the water column, as it reflected off of the sides, depending on how acute the angle of entry is. Like /\/\/\/\/\/ .

It wouldn't illuminate the whole column unless the laser itself was really divergent or uncollimated, but it may give a cool look in a laminar stream nonetheless. Especially if you used two at opposite points of entry...