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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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What would use this engine?
 
Nayural ga generator engine. Our city(delta Colorado) had a series of those for generateing electricity. Several,from a 3 cylinder,to one like that being pictured,being the last installed in the 1950s.In later years,the power plant wa kept on line as emergency power,should the main 'grid' fail. A couple of years ago the plant was decommissioned because the big engines would not meet EPA emmision standards. There is a lot of controversy about what to do with them. Some folks want to scrap them,others want make the facility into a museum. A few commercial outfits are looking at the building for a variety uf uses. One is a 'themed' restraunt.Sad to scrap the stuff. My vote is to turn it into a city/county museum.Beautiful old brick building with LOTS of windows.The facility is clean,well kept. One could eat off the floor,the side of the building has a huge historical mural.Be interesting to see what happenes
 
(quoted from post at 08:47:25 04/13/21) I would think California rather than India.

Dean
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California, you may be right, I couldn't read the data plate hence I had no idea the engine was set up to run on fairy dust and Unicorn pizz.
 
We have a place in Cleveland called Fluid Mechanics that rebuilds injectors and turbos for engines like that. Imagine a Detroit style injector about 4 feet tall. Turbochargers that wouldnt fit in a bathtub. They had an exhaust valve in the showroom that could have been used as a coat rack. I didnt even know what it was until he pointed it out to me . That stuff is on a grand scale, thats for sure.
 
A little on the small side but I have been in natural gas transfer stations and have seen the motors that power the compressors. The time I was there the head was off of one cylinder assembly and a tall guy could have fit in the cylinder chamber with room to spare.
 
One of the Pioneer show and museums nearby has some big Fairbanks generator engines, I was admiring them a couple of years ago and the operator asked me if I wanted to start one. They started a little hit-and-miss that was running a air compressor, and once the tank was charged, he directed me to flip a couple of levers and the big brute started right up! I can cross that off my bucket list!
 
> A 9 cylinder. Kinda hard on us guys with OCD! Couldn't they make it an even number?

Engines whose cylinder counts are multiples of three tend to be better-balanced and smoother than those that are not. Nine-cylinder radial aircraft engines are very common. The torque from an inline-six engine is very smooth compared to an inline-four or inline-eight; an inline-nine would be even smoother.
 
Dean ..... am I safe in assuming that you have an old girlfriend who dumped you for maybe a blond surfer guy from California?
 
(quoted from post at 11:45:40 04/13/21) .... and the operator asked me if I wanted to start one. They started a little hit-and-miss that was running a air ..... he directed me to flip a couple of levers and the big brute started right up!
I can cross that off my bucket list!
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Way Cool Russ!
I'm impressed!
Not so much that they let you start it, or that it did start right up.....
Just in the fact is was actually on your Bucket List! lol
 
When in HS, I worked part time at a local auto parts store/shop as delivery driver and machine shop helper.

Nearby was a Texas Gas pumping station. Station is still there and has been NG turbine powered for decades but was powered by Ingersoll Rand reciprocating engines in the day.

Occasionally, Texas Gas folks would bring in engine valves which we would reface using our crankshaft grinder.

Valve heads were pie plate sized and stems were about three feet long.

Dean
 
Snowmobile. But can not be used on any lakes unless the ice thickness reaches the bottom of the lake.
 
Mark,
The big commercial air conditioner compressor have an odd number one cylinders. If I recall they would turn 2 cylinders at a time if the load decreased so they still were running on odd number of cylinders. Said it had something to do with vibrations.

My car is v 6 cylinder and sometimes turns off 2 cylinders,,v4, while driving in town. I can't tell the difference unless I look at display.
George
 
(quoted from post at 09:26:59 04/13/21) Nayural ga generator engine. Our city(delta Colorado) had a series of those for generateing electricity. Several,from a 3 cylinder,to one like that being pictured,being the last installed in the 1950s.In later years,the power plant wa kept on line as emergency power,should the main 'grid' fail. A couple of years ago the plant was decommissioned because the big engines would not meet EPA emmision standards. There is a lot of controversy about what to do with them. Some folks want to scrap them,others want make the facility into a museum. A few commercial outfits are looking at the building for a variety uf uses. One is a 'themed' restraunt.Sad to scrap the stuff. My vote is to turn it into a city/county museum.Beautiful old brick building with LOTS of windows.The facility is clean,well kept. One could eat off the floor,the side of the building has a huge historical mural.Be interesting to see what happenes
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May have been some ulterior
Motives or clueless people . Existing Stationary Standby generator engines are in a different set of regulations than new 2021 engines on wheels .
 
No it's called the Lake Itasca Pioneer Farmers Show, it's located by the N entrance of Itasca State park, nice little show. Not nearly as big as Rollag, nice grounds, lots of engines, and a really big sawmill. It's on the members map, number 30.
 
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