I just placed a couple pictures on the web page http://www.totallyscrewedmachineshop.com/gallery.htm if there is any interest. It was my friends family's before it was donated.
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Steve
Snow engines
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Re: Snow engines
There is one about a two hour drive from me that I visit and watch run about once a year. It's a single, not a double though.
REALLY cool to watch and listen to.
It's difficult to get a decent pic of one due to it's size!
They missed a word on the sign below, as it is a tandem double acting engine.
REALLY cool to watch and listen to.
It's difficult to get a decent pic of one due to it's size!
They missed a word on the sign below, as it is a tandem double acting engine.
Glenn
Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!
Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!
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Re: Snow engines
My understanding is that this had one as an engine and one as a compressor for pumping natural gas to the great lakes area. I could be wrong but I know that was it's purpose and I see no other way of pumping gas attached to it.
Steve
Steve
Re: Snow engines
The pumps are on the far end in your pic with the white pipes attached to them. I believe those pipes are the inlet, and the outlet faces straight out the back.
It's an in line piston type pump.
I don't have a pic of that end of the engine, but I would bet that my wife has one somewhere. She thinks that's the coolest engine on the planet! (next to a Merlin )
It's an in line piston type pump.
I don't have a pic of that end of the engine, but I would bet that my wife has one somewhere. She thinks that's the coolest engine on the planet! (next to a Merlin )
Glenn
Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!
Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!
Re: Snow engines
This one begins with a view of the pump, which says SNOW on it. It's very small in comparison to the engine.
Here's a whole herd of them running.
Here's a whole herd of them running.
Glenn
Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!
Operating machines is perfectly safe......until you forget how dangerous it really is!