Titanic steam engine - WORKING

The real one sank - but this is WORKING! from onecoolhabitat.com.

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• boiler
• movie
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[65Dart]

Bothers me how since that damned movie came out everything involving a ship or a steam engine is now somehow related to the RMS Titanic. Nice video.

[thebartman]

I guess it's called marketing - who doesn't know about the Titanic?

[generaltodd2]

 where is this ate?

[thebartman]

Located at Auckland - New Zealand.

[thebartman]

Located in the suburb of Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand

[bigkiwimike]

This is a beam engine and is totally different to titanics. She had 2 x triple expansion engines with 2 LP cylinders instead of one. HP 54'' dia; IP 84''; LP 97''. 75'' stroke. Weight 1000 tons. Engine height was about 65 feet. Each developed 15000IHP @ 75rpm. Centre engine was a Parsons turbine 16000 SHP at 165 rpm. This would push her to 21 knots. She had 29 boilers @ 215psi. Around 825 tons of coal consumed each day. Make no mistake; Titranics engine and boilers were a serious piece of plant.

[buddhafollower]

@XxUchihamistressxX who told you that? :)

[XxUchihamistressxX]

In a past life I was on the Titanic...I died cuz I was a 3rd class Irish Passenger This...excites me...*is totally serious*

[Wnoronz]

@bigkiwimike Thank you very much for that information. Good work indeed by you and your colleagues. Keep that steam expanding!

[bigkiwimike]

@Wnoronz I can assure you that the engine is running by steam. We have a coal fired, double pass, dry back economic boiler in the room next door which was the original boiler room for the engine. It is my job to fire the boiler 5 days a week. Do a search under MOTAT and you will find a video of the boiler room. Cheers

[Ermi1211]

This is a replica of a Watt steam engine as many as 100 years older as the Titanic.

[SPS148669]

That's pretty much how a standard car engine works unless it's a wankel rotary.

[Wnoronz]

Can't see much sign of any steam. Usually when we see these things "working" in a museum the motive power comes from hidden electric motor/s. The sound of "steam" is simply that of air being drawn in and pushed out of the cylinders by the movement of the pistons. Mind you it would be bit difficult to build authentic boilers into a museum what with space limitations apart from the problem of storing coal with its attendant mess!

[PalomboDylan]

@thebartman This is probably most likely a working replica of the Titanics steam engine.I doubt that this is her steam engine because it was under water for god knows how many years,water would have caroded the metal,eaten holes in the metal and made everything rusty beyond repair and it is hard to fix holes in metal,I've tried,I even tried welding my little live steam engine piston shut and the steam just leaked out I had a welder by me to show me how to do it every step of the way.

[Jakanddaxter1999]

@thebartman kind of reminds me of the expansion engine down at the museum in bluff

[thefifthteen]

@thebartman my friend knows about the ship but has never seen the movie, so he is clueless