Model Engine Maker
General Category => Oddball => Topic started by: chuck foster on July 28, 2012, 01:41:33 AM
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well last weekend myself and two good friends of mine made the 6 hour trip to the earlton steam show, it was as always a great show.
they have old hit and miss engine,steam engines,house hold stuff and hand tools...............oh yea they have some old cars.
when i say old cars i mean old cars, hears one in the next photo.
it is a 1911 hudson it was called the mile a minute car cause it would go 60 miles an hour.
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc274/aermotor8/earlton%202012/AMBA0208.jpg)
the guys that own this car drive it around the show grounds and give people rides. they have about 5 or 6 other cars of the same vintage.
the next picture shows one of the first seadoo's
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc274/aermotor8/earlton%202012/AMBA0270.jpg)
here is a goodison steam traction engine that had a new boiler made for it sometime in the 70's
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc274/aermotor8/earlton%202012/AMBA0197.jpg)
this i a picture of a really neat hot air engine
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc274/aermotor8/earlton%202012/AMBA0074.jpg)
all in all it was a great weekend, we had allot of fun and got to meet some very nice people.
thanks for looking
chuck
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Chuck ..
Like the Stirling Engine :) I wondered what the 'pulsation chamber' was doing, never seen one on a Stirling type before. I assumed, wrongly, that the can contained cooling water for the cold end, but the engine is driving a pump. Makes sense now ..
Found a Youtube vid. of what seems to be the same engine in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBZDJn6B0cs
Usual 'musical' accompaniment, I'm afraid.
Dave BC