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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    mmmm, came to the same conclusion, but its soooo so hard to point them in the right direction without providing answers.
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    Seems there is a big difference in how my country deals with uni projects like that. Not to brag, but the railway speeder won first place in the uni's diploma project contest. From my perspective, precisely 0% of the projects this year have invented anything new nor made any improvements to any...
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    I wish I'll remember to post updates in a year or two when it will start to catch some shape. I probably won't, I have horrible memory.
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    Yeah I have no idea how you could compare the stanley steamer with a project who's design and parameters you don't know.
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    The aggregates you show in the pictures have nothing to do with the size or scope of the project. Our generator will be an uniflow steam engine roughly the size of a toaster, the size was already calculated, and it will work at upwards of 250 bar, with steam at around 400-450 Celsius, in the...
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    Everyone here concerned about the actual scope or span of the project, and ignoring the main question. I didn't post this to get tips or calculations in regards to the time it will take to build the project, or the cost of the final thing. I made this post to get advice on how to help him...
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    Thanks for the reply. I have to work with myself mentally a little, because as I am right now, I keep forgetting that it is a project, and it doesn't have to be perfect.
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    You have some good points. I'll think about it. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    It's a monotube boiler, who will absolutely not be fired up without me being on site. Those don't explode, at most what can happen is a pipe ruptures and it hisses out steam inside of the boiler's enclosure. The boiler will use wood fire, so there's no gas to burn or explode.
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    How Should I Help My Cousin Succeed With His Ambitious Engineering Project Without Taking Over? (PhD supervisors please pitch in)

    Let’s take a pragmatic approach to this situation. I want to describe things as they are without sugarcoating, to better convey the challenge I'm facing and get advice. I graduated in mechanical engineering and have been passionate about technical projects since childhood. DIY projects were my...

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