Check out these turbos...
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Check out these turbos...
Instead of using the two PT-52's like John Meaney used, I'm thinking about trying these out instead ;).
Seriously though, someone posted this picture over on the Turbobuick forum. They're so big, it's almost comical... Anyone know what these would be used for?
Seriously though, someone posted this picture over on the Turbobuick forum. They're so big, it's almost comical... Anyone know what these would be used for?
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Re: Check out these turbos... (Monty)
Monty - Big industrial diesel motors. I used to work at a large plant and they had two massive KW emergency power generators. Each motor was half the size of a train engine car.
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Re: Check out these turbos... (gkull)
Methinks that photo is either doctored (done well, I admit) or taken at such an angle that the turbos look much bigger than they really are.. those look WAY bigger than to possibly be useful..
Jim
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Re: Check out these turbos... (Monty)
Wow.. i would ask for something so that I coule figure out the size, but judging by the size of that building.. i'm guessing those things around like 15 feet tall!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
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Re: Check out these turbos... (Monty)
WHO TOOK PICTURES OF MY TURBOS :D
They are real I forget the exact use but I think it is something with a generator (like power plant) I have a freind who told me about some that size when he was in vegas area.
On a serious note do you think if I went with a big cowl hood I could fit those under my hood?
Steven
They are real I forget the exact use but I think it is something with a generator (like power plant) I have a freind who told me about some that size when he was in vegas area.
On a serious note do you think if I went with a big cowl hood I could fit those under my hood?
Steven
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Re: Check out these turbos... (Monty)
I work as a millwright for a natural gas pipeline, and back before we started to use aero-derivative gas turbines (jet engines) as prime movers for our compressors, we used large industrial reciprocating engines to drive our compressors. The Dresser-Clarke and Ingersoll-Rand V-16 engines used large turbos like those in the picture. These engines had crankcases that you could stand up in and crank shaft mains 20 inches in diameter! You could crawl through the exhaust manifolds! They ran off natural gas from the pipeline. The Clarke's were two stroke and the Ingersoll's were four stroke. The engines ran at 300 rpm. These engines would dwarf a locomotive engine.
