A Steam Fair! Pt.2 Stationary Engines

Lot's of different kinds!

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[steamwally]

Very nice, Those Lister LR1 diesels are nice (the one near the begining.) very easy to start and if you fill the oil prime, seriousley claggy, watch my friend start one in my LR1 clagging video!

I can't remember but do you have any stationary engines? If not I recomend getting one, you can get a good lister for £80 and be on the rallyfield with all you need for just a little more, entry is usualy free and a great day out, my favourite past time!

[MrMoterKid]

@steamwally Cool!

[AG3304]

Very nice that was too,5*.Enormous diesel at the end made me think of one l saw at a quarry years ago.All the machinery was electric,and it provided power for a cable car thing,and two electric shovels,as well as lighting.That one was started by electrical means,but l have heard of such things being started by compressed air...

[MrMoterKid]

@AG3304 Wow. Despite how big it was, I don't think it made a lot of power. After I had turned the camera off, I found that the engine only produced about 40 horsepower. It had a massive exhaust system too, it was like an oil drum with a paint can on the back of it!

[AG3304]

@MrMoterKid That would be about right.The old Bellis enclosed steam engines once used in factories and small power plants were huge,but only about 500/600 HP.

But l'd think that diesel had a collosal torque on it!

[MrMoterKid]

@AG3304 It was driving a massive dynamo via a belt, but because it was started with compressed air, the other end of the crankshaft would be free to drive something else as well.

[AG3304]

@MrMoterKid The Bellis engines were built especially for high speed applications,with electricity power stations very much in mind.They ran at around 400 RPM.Titanic had four of them,and as usual they were directly joined to a 400KW dynamo giving 100V DC at 4,000 A.

[MrMoterKid]

@MO3MINI I will have to look at that at some point. :)

[MO3MINI]

@MrMoterKid yep i think its on youtube somewhere, its so big that they cant turn it over so they put air which is produced by a smaller engine into the cylinder for starting it. Or at least what i can remember i may be wrong :/

[MrMoterKid]

@MO3MINI COMPRESSED AIR?!