Seen on the street in Kyiv.

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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

"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, A/K/A Dolt-45,
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

Friday, April 15, 2022

Because It's Friday

A 9-hp Case steam traction engine:



It speaks to the inefficiency of those machines that such a monster generated 9 horsepower. But in the 1880s, there wasn't another option.
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5 comments:

Daffyd ap Morgen said...

"...only 9 hp" Watching this, I was thinking what a useful source of power that could used in myriad ways on a farm or homestead.

4/15/2022 11:40 AM
Eck! said...

They had the advantage of being easier to manage than teams
of horses. Steam (and electric) had the advantage of nearly
100% starting torque from startup/stalled. That and able
to provide rotary motion useful for other machines
(saws, mill work).

Efficient, maybe lower than IC but mostly due to waste heat
up the stack compared to out the tail pipe.

They are fun to watch operate. Most work on many
sources of BTUs (oils, coal, Wood, peat, dung).


Eck!

4/15/2022 12:02 PM
Ten Bears said...

Yes. Yes, there were options: ten (10) horses ... ;)

4/15/2022 2:41 PM
Thomas said...

Instant torque, and gobs of it!
It takes wild amounts of ICE horsepower to pull the loads these machines pulled without effort.
Look up Steam Tractor at Pickneyville on Utube to see one at full power

4/17/2022 8:37 PM
BadTux said...

The reason it's only nine horsepower is because it operates at very low rpm, maybe 200 rpm. Horsepower is basically torque times RPM, so if you have low RPM, it's going to have low horsepower. So: H = T x rpm/5252,

H * 5252 = T * rpm

so at 200 RPM, 9 * 5252 / 200 = 236 ft/lbs of torque.

That's a lot of grunt, even if it isn't a lot of power.

4/20/2022 9:10 PM

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