Frankenhealey
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Malta being over, and the sunshine dappling through the vine leaves just a fading memory, it was necessary to go pick up the turbine twins. The trip to Trowbridge was slow but uneventful but the one-way system was a nightmare. Finally we got to River Way and then fiddled the horse box in a 173 point turn in a yard full of badly parked cars to get outside the unit only to be blocked in by a delivery driver One in. Look at all the lovely straw to try and cushion the ride home. The delivery driver being found we had a problem with an asylum seeker. I am told Trowbridge is a brilliant place to come from but the little devil was most persistent. Chuck him out of the trailer and he'd go round the other side. Close the trailer door and we'd find him in the cab. Finally he disappeared and if he was hanging onto the trailer chassis we couldn't see him. The journey back was even more uneventful except the cows had been driven in for milking at the farm before the unit and our 'rat' trailer was even more 'rat' after we finished. A nice coating of liquid manure will help decorative moss and lichen growth. The turbine twins. Tweedleboom and Tweedlewhee. The uninhibited one. 1.45 hours on the clock since last overhaul but with no paperwork so could have been anything from 20-50 years. Note the corrosion but generally seems to be all there. The inhibited one. Already missing the chain drive for start but I can cannibalise the other for these non-essential parts. 7.45 hours on clock from last overhaul but this one does have papers and was last in service in 1993. A valid warning as the 50kV from the coil will fry yo' @ss and finally for today 4 x 5 gallon quick change fuel tanks. Paperwork says they but 11.6 gallons of diesel/TVO/Jet-A1/heating oil/paraffin per hour at 400 gallons per minute More Turbine Fun later.
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Not sure how 420gpm equates to the power of a Jetlev, put with Poole harbour to play in, it could be fun to find out!!!
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Nov 10, 2015 18:36:57 GMT
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Mad things. Have the plans solidified any?
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Frankenhealey
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It's January! So with a new year's resolution to get my finger out and get on; I got a few hours with the baby turbines. Plan is to strip the clunker for some practical experience and check it over. This would be the one that will be used as a motive power unit for whatever my febrile imagination dreams up or what I can find. Dangerous has been scouting and found a pre-war rigid motorbike frame with hopefully springer forks. The pump could be attached to the Countax garden tractor that I'm going to use as a pit tug for the SpridJET. This would give me another project but could open up the inhibited turbine for sale if I need the readies and what with getting the Goddess finished and the SpridJet under way it might be necessary What do we have? Simple oil/water intercooler clagged up. Oil filter in the background. Mayonnaise? Both turbines have been robbed of their air/emulsion pumps at some time It's not a big problem as they're only simple sliding vane pumps rated to approx 30psi and only used for starting. I could use a cheap tyre inflator or if I wanted to keep them self-contained then a diving buddy bottle should give tens of starts. Need a new chain for the inhibited one but the good news is the clunker turns. Trying to start one with only one person is possible but it would have to be Geoff Capes doing it. The Royal Navy sure loves grease and their equipment is in no way as good condition as the Air Force. Must be the salt. I removed the exhaust cooling water spray ring. If these units were used for firefighting in the confines of a ship then a 650 degree exhaust was a bit of a drawback so they would bleed off water from the pump and spray it into the exhaust plume presumably making lower temperature superheated steam. I'll keep it back just in case I can find a use for it. This is the clever valve system that vacuum primes the pump. The silver pipe in the middle taps pressure from the compressor side of the turbine. The pressurized air passes through the valve venturi creating the vacuum necessary to prime the pump. Drain valve and cooling ring valve Starting the pump teardown Having to use me big spanners With the outlet valve bodies off we can see the non-return flap valves. This is the uninhibited pump that was put away 13 years ago with water still in the pump body so the corrosion is not unexpected. Flap valves off. Now to attack the main pump body with its 32 locknuts. So little access to some of them that it was one flat turned at a time and that only by reversing the spanner each time, no room for the my smallest ratchet and then corrosion stopped me as the casing at the bottom of the pump body has 'welded' the aluminium to the bottom studs so I was unable to fully split the casing until I can make some drifts and get a better tapping stick. More at the weekend.
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Much more complex than I realised! But good to see progress again Ian, thanks for the update.
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Frankenhealey
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Phil,
It's a much hackneyed phrase but anything to do with 1950's turbines was rocket science for the time. They rather scream 'Fallout' for those who recognise the reference.
Cheers,
Ian
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Phil, It's a much hackneyed phrase but anything to do with 1950's turbines was rocket science for the time. They rather scream 'Fallout' for those who recognise the reference. Cheers, Ian Indeed the 50's - 60's were scary times with the "Cold War", we do live in less paranoid times now - I think/hope?
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Frankenhealey
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Phil, It's a much hackneyed phrase but anything to do with 1950's turbines was rocket science for the time. They rather scream 'Fallout' for those who recognise the reference. Cheers, Ian Indeed the 50's - 60's were scary times with the "Cold War", we do live in less paranoid times now - I think/hope? Sorry I meant 'Fallout 1/2/3/4' but was too vague. Let's see who gets it.
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PHUQ
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I don't want to set the world on fire...
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Frankenhealey
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Dangerous has been scouting and found a pre-war rigid motorbike frame with hopefully springer forks. Secret spy shot of the bike frame stash Let the negotiations commence
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Nice - a water cooled single cylinder with the ultra low compression non head!
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Suggestions for the cooling ring, pump fuel through it as an afterburner/flamethrower or as the Australians called it, dump and burn or find out what the red arrows use so you can fire out red, white or blue smoke. www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=44361.0Ttfn Glenn
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Frankenhealey
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Mar 17, 2016 13:11:02 GMT
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Watercannon? Oh yes Jetbike? Sounds reasonable to me There's a movie called "Priest" you might want to watch sometime ( plot & acting rates 6/10, jetbike scenes 9/10 ?) Hollywood flim-flam on the jet bike front as there's a Kawasaki Gladius 650 underneath. The turbine rotor at the front is just a prop which is lucky because had it been real then we would have seen the FOD = COD equation in action. With the turbine intake unshielded then FOD (Foreign Objects, Debris) = COD (Cone of Destruction) as the turbine wheel/blades exit the casing at ca. 50krpm and Paul Bettany has serious/terminal head and torso injuries. Nice bike concept though
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Frankenhealey
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Mar 17, 2016 13:14:57 GMT
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Suggestions for the cooling ring, pump fuel through it as an afterburner/flamethrower or as the Australians called it, dump and burn or find out what the red arrows use so you can fire out red, white or blue smoke. www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=44361.0Ttfn Glenn Trouble is that on a bike the output shaft would be at the back and the exhaust is straight out the front. Riding into a flamethrower should be left to Hollywood I think. Did think of the coloured smoke for the SpridJET but you'd never be able to tell whether I was being flash or was on fire. It's one of those things I'd really like people to be certain of
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Mar 17, 2016 16:54:49 GMT
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Don't think it would be too ambiguous if it was a bright colour - seen a few vids of engine failures in jets, none of them emitted bright green smoke... However, I get that the lime green & pink smoke trail might be obscuring other, more dastardly smoke. What do you mean you weren't going to have lime green or pink smoke? Bah, you mg drivers are all the same... No sense of adventure!
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Mar 25, 2016 22:15:32 GMT
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I used to work with a guy who was a fitter for the Red Arrows when they had Gnats, he said that the smoke was made by them filling the tanks with a mix of kerosene and Bic biro ink!
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Mar 27, 2016 21:35:58 GMT
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any more updates on the stripdown? Love these little things
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You're like a crazy backyard genius!
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Frankenhealey
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Mar 27, 2016 21:59:53 GMT
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Mr, Chairchild, thanks for the interest. At the moment we're concentrating on getting the SpridJET shell stripped and finding Penelope Pitstop a 2CV. Once the shell is sent off to be blasted I'll start on the turbines again. On a side note Pete Sparrow (2CV guru) is dropping round next week to give his opinion on whether dropping one of the pump turbines into the 2CV Dolly we already have would be a goer
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