Posted on 04/10/2023 10:56:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Big Boy locomotives were outrageously big. They had to run on a special grade of track; otherwise, they’d smash the track’s web.
Big cylinders? Nobody said that sort of engine had to be small. Those big reciprocating engines in ships come to mind.
Uh hum...we also have ball and roller bearings now. Babbot bearings predate those confounded new-fangled things.
Nukes can produce quite a lot of force. Once.
I can’t believe roller and ball bearings are that new. I’m sure they were used plenty more than a century ago.
The cylinder is 24 inches in diameter, giving 452 square inches. It operated at 250PSI, resulting in 113097 pounds of thrust at stall. There were eight cylinders, for a total of 904779 pounds of thrust. That is 452 tons of thrust. It will get the job done.
The Titanic did not have turbines. It was strictly piston.
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Plus a bit more as well.
(And then some.)
Wanna bet?
How much?
5 grand?
I got 5 grand that says the titanic had a turbine in it.
Ball & roller bearings that can take heavy loads are a recent development.
Railway locomotives up into the 1940s still used Babbot bearings.
I just challenged OlLine Rebel that the Titanic had a turbine in it.
I will bet him 5 grand that it did have a turbine in it.
I did not realize.
There was a turbine, strictly to turn the central screw.
But yeah, the entire system was not based on turbines as the Lusitania/Mauritania were, IIRC.
:^)
“Ever seen a boiler explode?
Doesn’t take much to figure out why they disappeared.” [HamiltonJay, post 108]
In the late 19th century, an external combustion engine was developed that used naphtha as both the working fluid and the fuel, for smaller watercraft.
After a number of boiler explosions, laws were passed requiring a licensed engineer to operate conventional steamship powerplants. Finding trained personnel at affordable salaries was difficult for smaller commercial shipping operations, and recreational boat operators; some entrepreneurs got around the laws by using naphtha.
The steam I want is from LIBERAL HEADS when I drive my F350 pulling a 25 foot boat. 🤓
“But yeah, the entire system was not based on turbines as the Lusitania/Mauritania were, IIRC.”
That is true. BUT, here is the thing. They did all that back then.
BTW, did you know that it took just about 18 minutes for the Lusitania to sink? I did not know that until a few years ago.
I hate to say this but..electric will be the way to go as far as vehicles..in the future. They’ll figure it out. That is, if we dont all kill each other off first in a war.
We will see fusion reactors soon and then things will change fast.
We are to old for this shit hey? I will go with a 1929 or 30 chev or ford any day. I dont care what make of car it is, if its the late 20s or 30s I love em. 50s and 60s also.
The guy I do some work for bought a 60s cat dozer. Wont have any problem with anyone stealing it. Its got the pony motor on it and these kids these days have no idea how to start them.
It gave me goosebumps. Like seeing a time machine rolling in. I don’t know if they’ll run it this year. here is the web site for the steam locomotives.
https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/stationary-steam-engines-corliss-and-others—413979390725690191/
My dads steam engine. My brother took over the mill and ran that engine until 1985 when the mill burned down and destroyed everything.
That engine ran from 1938 till 1985 and before that it was in a canning factory in Carney Mi.
It ran two sawmills. One upstairs and one downstairs and ran two 8 hour shifts during the war years.
When my wife was a teenager, a pressure cooker did!....................
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