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Full size mill engine in steam
« on: December 01, 2012, 09:26:24 PM »
Running today in the Science museum, excuse the crappy phone video;

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnOLpCFtZA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnOLpCFtZA</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42x5DAWw5Nk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42x5DAWw5Nk</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-SFBS85WTM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-SFBS85WTM</a>

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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2012, 09:43:00 PM »
Very nice. Thanks for posting the videos.
Wish I could be there.
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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2012, 12:40:36 AM »
How elegant - absolute poetry in motion.

Is that the museum in Kensington?  I don't remember seeing that engine but, then, that place is complete intellectual overload.
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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2012, 02:41:18 AM »
A very nice engine, looks to be a tandem. There's an awful lot of paint on that engine.

Hugh.

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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2012, 07:43:18 AM »
Not a tandem, its a cross compound with corliss valve gear, thats an air or vacuum pump behind the larger of the two cylinders.

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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2012, 08:45:37 AM »
How elegant - absolute poetry in motion.

Is that the museum in Kensington?  I don't remember seeing that engine but, then, that place is complete intellectual overload.

Yep it's the museum in South Kensington - as an exhibit you can't miss it as it's one of the biggest and pretty much the first thing you see as you walk in.  Indeed it was beautiful to watch but also to listen to - a very soothing rhythmic click / clack - obviously it wasn't running under any load.

Not captured on the video, some of the escaping steam was getting entrained in the boundary layer of the flywheel and so was getting whirled round with it.  Some of the mechanical details were interesting too - lots of tapered wedges used to lock components together - presumably easy to disassemble and compensate for wear - even the flywheel was located by wedges - you can just see them in the last video.
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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2012, 09:33:51 AM »
Marv, I can't remember seeing that either - but it was a long time ago!

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Re: Full size mill engine in steam
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2012, 12:23:49 PM »
Iitis always nice to see the full size engines so beautifully maintained and restored and working under steam!! Thanks for sharing the videos.

Bill

 

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