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"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, January 1, 2016

Because It's Friday

Ozzie steam:


Garratts look weird to my eye.

Posted by on or about 10:30
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3 comments:

CenterPuke88 said...

Never even heard of this style before. Seems an unnecessary complication to have to provide steam to two motive sections from a central boiler, but...

And,,yes, it don't look "right".

1/01/2016 11:31 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

I would have thought it simpler, on at least the Aussie one, to have the cylinders closer to the boiler. Less piping and it might have made the blastpipe more efficient.

1/02/2016 7:14 AM
Eck! said...

heh! The cylinders closer to the boiler were tried. The crew were
not happy about the heat.

Yes they do look misshapen.

Turns out that Garretts were still in the optimization stage even
late in the game. For all the other styles there were critical
dimensions (height, width, length, and weight) that were maximum
performance limiting. Garratts has a little room for expansion.
Example despite the size of the firebox at one end if the boiler
is long because it can't be made a greater diameter the amount
of heat extracted at the stack end is low. Its an efficiency
battle.

Unlike the Mallet which swing out and makes for balance issues at
speed in a curve the Garratts straddle in, a better direction for
balance. Both cases have issues with tight turns and clearances.

Look at all the large engines be they Decapods, Triplex, Shay,
Mallets, or Garratts complexity is a standing matter of fact.
Even the modern oil burners still have the same challenge of
greatest possible tractive effort for the gallon of fuel or
lump of coal.

Eck!

1/02/2016 11:46 AM

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