On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:53:49 -0500, Sunworshipper SW@GWNTUNDRA
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:54:16 -0500, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:02:10 -0400, dav1936531 wrote:

Guy builds a steam powered whatever it is.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a15_1318636799

Very useful for.....well....nothing as far as I can tell, with the
exception that it could make some personal injury attorney alot of
money.

Of course, if you looked and thought while you were looking, you'd see
that it's an antique four-stroke gas engine (started by another antique
four-stroke gas engine). Probably all of 10 horsepower, but it's a
_steady_ 10 horsepower.

The only steam involved is cooling the engines.

I believe it is a hit an miss. Only fires when the fly wheel slows
down, would be great around here with the frequent power outages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihnpL...eature=related


SW
And it was NOT started by the little 4 stroke engine. It was started
by "rocking" the huge flywheel on the big engine past top dead center
a few times to draw the fuel into the cyl and get it lit. That 10HP
engine likely has a top speed of 120 or 180 RPM. At 120RPM 10 HP is a
whopping 437 ft lbs of torque!!!!! The huge flywheel is required to
carry the load between firings - which under no load can be as few as
one every 10 seconds or so, and under full load 0ne every second.