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Swamp Rat...
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A steam cab, I suspect is not old but a new steampunk creation.
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Are you my mother?
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awwww, I loved that book
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One of the better reasons to have kids. ;)
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One of the two contenders for first steam powered bike.
Experts are arguing over whether it was built in 1867, 1868, or 1869. |
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I'd love to mow the lawn, dear, but I just polished the mower...
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That's pretty cool. When there's a tractor/farm equipment show around these parts, there is always a few old riding mowers that look like Von Dutch has went at them with a pinstriping brush. I think they're kinda cool.
Baby moons, chrome steelies, and the spats make this little mower cool. Gravdigr Approved™. |
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Mack halftrack...
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Looks like pontoons for a floating bridge?
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Looks like helmets...
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Awesome. Literally. That thing is massive.
They must have assembled the machine on site. It looks way too heavy to move in one piece. |
Yes, all those machines come from IKEA. :lol:
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Most of your larger punch presses are indeed final assembled on-site. Sometimes the base for the press would be set 5-10 feet or more deep into the concrete. I understand really big presses are sometimes set in a pad that sets on bedrock.
I used to work with Minster Piece-Maker punch presses. 100 ton and 150 ton presses, we'd run at about 150-200 strokes per minute. We/they had a 300 ton Niagara press that ran at about 40 strokes per minute most of the time, unless we were running particularly thin material. |
How does your head feel after a shift of that?
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Normal, believe it or not. The vibrations and bumping that you feel (and then get accustomed to) in your feet make you feel a little weird for a few minutes after the presses stop, though.
The 100-150 ton press noises didn't make it, but when that 300 ton Niagara press was thumping, you could hear/feel it at the front door, and it was as far from the door as you could get and still be inside the plant. It's amazing what the human body and it's systems can get used to. |
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Why can't they just cut them up and recycle them?
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They're still building their band saw.
It's a big one. |
Are they building it out of wood, using mostly scrap lumber?
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Hee!
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I need three of these made of unobtainium.
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I love that one.
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Air powered locomotive...
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From 1965 to 1982, the NYFD had the most powerful pumper in the world.
It could hook to eight hydrants, or 12 in supply, and pump 10,000 gpm at low pressure and 8,800 gpm at 350 PSI. The tender has an 8 inch cannon that could move 10,000 gpm up to 600 ft. Three satellite tenders had smaller cannons. The whole story here. |
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A water cannon that could reach the top would knock most buildings over. :lol:
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Well, you're half right, it was posted before. :p:
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Did they take it out of service to protect the humans?
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No, after 17 years it was tuckered out, and too expensive to replace.
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It's beautifully made too.
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Love the rocker feet, but it's made of wood. That makes it a traitor. :rolleyes:
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almost a cannibal, even
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nice
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Killer lawn mover...
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I would think foot foot foot might have a comment here
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Ever wonder what the inside of a 4 stroke engine looks like running? Skip the first minute.
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A guy here in town has something like that clear chamber cover on a scooter.
Like a strobe light between his legs. ETA: His may be just a light. It looks a lot brighter than this clear head. |
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Imagine a family of four traveling coast to coast on one motorcycle in 1914.
Have to be careful how they fed the kids to keep it balanced. |
I don't like riding two up. Forget this.
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Yeah, I wish there was a picture with all of them in it, just to see how awfully uncomfortable it would look.
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They deserve it. What's gonna happen.
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Always wondered how they made waaay more 'lectricity by making these kinds of things more efficient over the decades. Well there ya go, they couldn't have made a part like that when they built, say, Hoover Dam. Not with precision anyway... and not that Hoover Dam is a steam oriented -- ah you get my drift
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The biggest reasons were the precision and strength of materials allowed higher pressure steam. There are three sections in modern steam turbines, the steam goes through the high pressure section, then the medium and low before it's condensed and pumped back to the boiler. The lower the pressure the larger the blades.
EPRI(Electrical Power Research Institute) funded by all the power companies in the country, had a test turbine at PECO's Chester station running 5,000 psig steam(close to 1,000 deg F). Just to add a pressure tap or thermocouple was a major pain in the ass because the wall thickness of the pipe was over three inches of high strength steel. Drill the hole, then follow a strict procedure to weld in the tap with each layer of weld inspected. Lastly make sure there is NO chips or slag on the inside of the pipe to become missiles when restarted as they would wipe out blades at that speed. |
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I found this picture with no information. Obviously it's a manufacturing facility. Tin-eye couldn't find it. Google found it... on fucking pinterest.:mad: I just had time to grab the title before they shut me out. It said, "Elevator Flywheel".
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http://atomictoasters.com/2013/11/me...and-flywheels/ They have a digitized old brochure that says it's a "turning flywheel in pit lathe." And they found the original of the photo here. The flywheel was at Mesta Machine Co in Pittsburgh |
Excellent, so we know who made it and when, just not what it's for.
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Good find, da bof o yas.
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Great find fellas, I appreciate the effort.
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I'm putting this in machines rather than rims because I doubt it ever made the road, despite what the 1914 Mad Men claim, and the claims are whoppers.
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Shred a whole car, and I mean whole, tires, glass, interior, engine, in less than 3 minutes.:eek:
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Presumably a cubic yard (or thereabouts) of compressed metal and other stuff comes out of the other end of the machine.
I'm just wondering how it's processed for re-manufacture given the volume of material that isn't steel. |
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