Post by frankenhealey on Nov 18, 2015 6:07:02 GMT -5
I thought I'd start their own thread here
As they were bought
The inhibited one
Plaque (I'm hoping it's brass underneath)
Side and front
Control panel
So having given them the once over what have I learned?
1) Royal Navy either doesn't look after their kit as well as the Air Force or salt corrosion on ships is worse than I thought.
2) The ininhibited/worse one of the two turns with the cranking handles but the chain has gone on the inhibited one so I can't try that. Luckily my company does chain so it will have a nice new chain tonight.
3) The Royal Navy loves grease as the chain cases are full of semi-hard grease
4) Both turbines have had a part stripped from the base of the units. Without tracing all the piping I think that it's possibly an oil scavenge pump as the units both have simple water/oil intercoolers fitted see pics below.
Intercooler
Bits missing on both
Any clues from this august company?
So if I can get them running what to do with them
The Inhibited Pump Set
Restoration and three potential uses.
The first (the sensible one) being as an emergency pump for the local flood warden who just happens to be my wife. When we have a combined high tide, heavy rain and a south westerly gale you can find us, inevitably at night, handing out sandbags to threatened properties. It never fails to amaze me about the selfishness of some people at these times. While the flood is bearing down on us across the causeway we're inundated with complaints that the sandbags across the road have stopped them going into town in there 4x4's (there is the bypass but "that's awfully inconvenient, don'tcherknow"). Last time we had a bus go straight through the sandbag wall, the driver swearing he had never seen the 'Road Closed' sign which just happened to be stuck under the bus. So come the next deluge I hope to be able to fire up the Rover/Trinity to mop up the water that gets over/under/by the new flood defences and keep all those people in the 'dry' properties awake and hopefully counting their blessings.
Secondly it came to me that by slinging the 300 gallon fire tank back on my Goddess Transporter along with the pump and making up a simple pintle mount that I would have the only UK water cannon in private hands
. Now 300 gallons divided by 400 gpm gives nearly 7 gallons a second and 45 seconds duration. What use that, you might say? I'm sure I could find one 
Thirdly that when I am further into my dotage I can get free entry to the local shows by exhibiting it and upset the local Stationary Engine boys with my nasty, noisy contraption.
The Worse Pump Set
Not fully sure what state this is in BUT I won't need two pumps so I may have a working 60shp turbine that is only 24 inches high and 19 inches wide. The output speed is 4,600 rpm and it burns 6 or 11 (depending on source) gallons an hour whatever you're doing with it.
This is where your imagination comes in as ours (my mate, Dangerous and me) has so far stretched to the short list below.
1) It would be a hoot in a 2CV and Dangerous just happens to have one.
2) I live right by Poole Harbour and have always hankered after an unusual means of aquatic transport. This gives two options, either use the good pumpset as a jet drive or stick a propellor on the worse turbine and build an air boat a la the Florida swamps.
3) Post-apocalyptic stylee motorbike. A real wasteland machine would need a motor that would burn any distillate fuel and have lots of room for supplies and the necessary fuel so an old-skool Panther sloper combination would be an ideal stepping off point.
Needless to say it's all very speculative due to the TMFP (too many flippin' projects) syndrome because I've got to get the Cummins diesel engine and box into the Goddess and the SpridJET under way. I've also been given an old Countax garden tractor to use as a pit tug/starter/fuel bowser for the SpridJET and that needs fettling.
If you know of the Trumpton Fire Brigade have a look at the video below. It's all very interesting (to me) but if you want to directly check out Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub then 5:20 minutes in is your time.
Cheers,
Ian
As they were bought
The inhibited one
Plaque (I'm hoping it's brass underneath)
Side and front
Control panel
So having given them the once over what have I learned?
1) Royal Navy either doesn't look after their kit as well as the Air Force or salt corrosion on ships is worse than I thought.
2) The ininhibited/worse one of the two turns with the cranking handles but the chain has gone on the inhibited one so I can't try that. Luckily my company does chain so it will have a nice new chain tonight.
3) The Royal Navy loves grease as the chain cases are full of semi-hard grease
4) Both turbines have had a part stripped from the base of the units. Without tracing all the piping I think that it's possibly an oil scavenge pump as the units both have simple water/oil intercoolers fitted see pics below.
Intercooler
Bits missing on both
Any clues from this august company?
So if I can get them running what to do with them
The Inhibited Pump Set
Restoration and three potential uses.
The first (the sensible one) being as an emergency pump for the local flood warden who just happens to be my wife. When we have a combined high tide, heavy rain and a south westerly gale you can find us, inevitably at night, handing out sandbags to threatened properties. It never fails to amaze me about the selfishness of some people at these times. While the flood is bearing down on us across the causeway we're inundated with complaints that the sandbags across the road have stopped them going into town in there 4x4's (there is the bypass but "that's awfully inconvenient, don'tcherknow"). Last time we had a bus go straight through the sandbag wall, the driver swearing he had never seen the 'Road Closed' sign which just happened to be stuck under the bus. So come the next deluge I hope to be able to fire up the Rover/Trinity to mop up the water that gets over/under/by the new flood defences and keep all those people in the 'dry' properties awake and hopefully counting their blessings.
Secondly it came to me that by slinging the 300 gallon fire tank back on my Goddess Transporter along with the pump and making up a simple pintle mount that I would have the only UK water cannon in private hands
. Now 300 gallons divided by 400 gpm gives nearly 7 gallons a second and 45 seconds duration. What use that, you might say? I'm sure I could find one 
Thirdly that when I am further into my dotage I can get free entry to the local shows by exhibiting it and upset the local Stationary Engine boys with my nasty, noisy contraption.
The Worse Pump Set
Not fully sure what state this is in BUT I won't need two pumps so I may have a working 60shp turbine that is only 24 inches high and 19 inches wide. The output speed is 4,600 rpm and it burns 6 or 11 (depending on source) gallons an hour whatever you're doing with it.
This is where your imagination comes in as ours (my mate, Dangerous and me) has so far stretched to the short list below.
1) It would be a hoot in a 2CV and Dangerous just happens to have one.
2) I live right by Poole Harbour and have always hankered after an unusual means of aquatic transport. This gives two options, either use the good pumpset as a jet drive or stick a propellor on the worse turbine and build an air boat a la the Florida swamps.
3) Post-apocalyptic stylee motorbike. A real wasteland machine would need a motor that would burn any distillate fuel and have lots of room for supplies and the necessary fuel so an old-skool Panther sloper combination would be an ideal stepping off point.
Needless to say it's all very speculative due to the TMFP (too many flippin' projects) syndrome because I've got to get the Cummins diesel engine and box into the Goddess and the SpridJET under way. I've also been given an old Countax garden tractor to use as a pit tug/starter/fuel bowser for the SpridJET and that needs fettling.
If you know of the Trumpton Fire Brigade have a look at the video below. It's all very interesting (to me) but if you want to directly check out Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub then 5:20 minutes in is your time.
Cheers,
Ian