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Post by junebug on Mar 30, 2021 10:01:22 GMT -5
Always remember that guy Murphy is alive and well and LOVES power tools!
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Post by potatojudge on Mar 30, 2021 15:12:51 GMT -5
I ended up with a commercial grade pressure washer. I have verified it will cut flesh.
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WARDOG
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Post by WARDOG on Apr 10, 2021 22:26:48 GMT -5
I used to maintain an old generator in the high Sierra Nevada mountains between California and Nevada. It was a 1952 Witte single lunger diesel generator with two 5oo pound flywheels. The piston was about 6" diameter. It provided the electricity for a sportsmens club full of a bunch of drunk fishermen/hunters. We snagged it off of an oil field in Midas Nevada in the 1980's. It was hand start with a 3 ft crank. Once you spun some energy into the flywheels you had to release the crank and pull just right or it would remain attached to the flywheel becoming the spinning crank of death. It was old school without any of the silly safety equipment. It took considerable effort trying to start so you didn't get wrapped up in the spokes of the flywheels and get dismembered in a millisecond. It had levers and switches and okie-doked hooks for the oil pressure over-ride so it would start and a compression release lever. The monstrosity was straight out of a horror movie. When we had to stop the thing we cut off the fuel and opened the compression release. The energy in those flywheels would continue to spin them for about ten minutes. The thing spooked the hell outta me.
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Post by leftysixgun on Apr 10, 2021 22:46:34 GMT -5
I used to maintain an old generator in the high Sierra Nevada mountains between California and Nevada. It was a 1952 Witte single lunger diesel generator with two 5oo pound flywheels. The piston was about 6" diameter. It provided the electricity for a sportsmens club full of a bunch of drunk fishermen/hunters. We snagged it off of an oil field in Midas Nevada in the 1980's. It was hand start with a 3 ft crank. Once you spun some energy into the flywheels you had to release the crank and pull just right or it would remain attached to the flywheel becoming the spinning crank of death. It was old school without any of the silly safety equipment. It took considerable effort trying to start so you didn't get wrapped up in the spokes of the flywheels and get dismembered in a millisecond. It had levers and switches and okie-doked hooks for the oil pressure over-ride so it would start and a compression release lever. The monstrosity was straight out of a horror movie. When we had to stop the thing we cut off the fuel and opened the compression release. The energy in those flywheels would continue to spin them for about ten minutes. The thing spooked the hell outta me. I have NO experience like that but your description is just too funny! I Like It!
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Post by junebug on Apr 11, 2021 18:35:23 GMT -5
We had to hand crank our old Farmall tractor most times. You learned the technique fast, or you payed the price.
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Post by lockhart on Apr 15, 2021 19:13:31 GMT -5
Electric motors have the highest torque of about any kind of rotary motor, and when you hit the button, that torque is INSTANT! It's why they are used to power diesel locomotive wheels.
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Post by lockhart on Apr 15, 2021 19:13:41 GMT -5
Electric motors have the highest torque of about any kind of rotary motor, and when you hit the button, that torque is INSTANT! It's why they are used to power diesel locomotive wheels.
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Post by lockhart on Apr 15, 2021 19:15:07 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post.
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Post by aciera on Apr 19, 2021 3:34:27 GMT -5
There is Murphy’s Law. The worst possible thing will happen at the worst possible time....... Then there is Aciera’s corollary on that law..... Murphy was an optimist......
A large(won’t get to big yet) drill putting a 7/8” hole in a trailer bed. Catches and now broken ribs........I now have a 3rd bar that screws into the frame.
Right angle air wrench.....made for production.....set the torque....tighten the bolts. About 18” long 1/2 drive. What I didn’t know was that the torque setting only worked for tightening........
It could fit on one bolt we had to take out with a wrench. Air impacts couldn’t get to it so I thought it would work great. It did work great. If you were trying to hurt your self.......at 200 lbs it THREW me around when it hit my gut. Luckily it threw me away from the structure and didn’t pin me.
No here is a tool I’m willing to sell. An air drill. Got two of them. Will drill a 1” hole in steel NO problem. Don’t know max size. But Harbor freight compressors need not apply. I got them in an action in the company because they took them out of service. Too dangerous.
But if ya had a use.
We do big stuff. 2500 hp motors to test pumps. 12’ vertical turning center. 18,000 lb 2 1/2” hydraulic torque wrench. I mean. Tie it down and check everything twice and stand back.
Thanks for listening.......I’ve been lucky. But not always. If you learn from your mistakes.....I must be a genius.
We dropped a vertical pump one night. 26,000 lb .....it was horizontal and about to move to another area. 29 foot drop test.
The company does make big air drills. Called Heavy Duty. 3” in steel. You chain them down. Drill thru 2’ of steel. It’s what it does. Used for mounting the elevators to the USS Ford Aircraft carrier.
Then IR makes a VERY HD drill. 3 1/2” drill......uses 190cfm.........
Stay safe out there.
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WARDOG
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Post by WARDOG on Apr 19, 2021 7:57:41 GMT -5
... 12’ vertical turning center. 18,000 lb 2 1/2” hydraulic torque wrench. I mean. Tie it down and check everything twice and stand back. A 12' vertical turning center is no joke. That's big!
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Post by jack on Apr 19, 2021 21:32:55 GMT -5
YES - I have had a tool like that for a looonnngg time.
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aciera
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Post by aciera on Apr 20, 2021 5:14:31 GMT -5
... 12’ vertical turning center. 18,000 lb 2 1/2” hydraulic torque wrench. I mean. Tie it down and check everything twice and stand back. A 12' vertical turning center is no joke. That's big! We just call it “The 12 foot” crazy machine to run. Especially small holes where you got to crank up the rpm. I guess we do it a lot come to think of it. The 48......48”. Vertical The 54.......54” Vertical 6’&7’ are Carlton Radial Arm Drills. Was strange for me because before I’d have to bore .033” holes.....and make the boring tools to do it. Had a complete set of mics.....0-6’.......that is a frickin dance for 3 guys to use.
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