Glad you made the comment about how we are being so dependent on steam power for most of our electric energy production. Steam throughout the past 200 years has been very important for the world. Jonathan thanks for reminding us and keeping the history alive.
Human history consists of nothing but boiling water, and discovering and refining better, more powerful, cleaner and more efficient ways of boiling water. If you, pardon the pun, _boil_ it down, nearly any process can be inferred as boiling water in some fashion, even gas engines boil water since the fuel goes in, mixes with air, and turns to carbon dioxide and water vapor, aka boiled water. In the human body energy is produced by combustion, at the end of it we take in oxygen and fuel which turns to heat, movement and carbon dioxide, like a gas engine. Our foremost and best clean power source at the moment is nuclear energy, which involves letting refined rocks get hot and bothered and boiling water, and our next-gen nigh-infinite energy source, fusion power, is using our own artificial sun-ring to boil water. Its boiling water all the way down XD
almost all power that feeds into a electrical grid is made with a steam turbine it does not matter if its coal or nuclear or even sometimes natural gas
@@randymagnum143not exactly free. Just keep in mind flooded territory and all those problems with fish and don't forget that hydroelectric powerplants cost a lot to build and maintain (especially their dams). So it's not free but it's bit cheaper and cleaner.
The Carling company was taken over by the Dresser Rand (Ingersol Rand) company who already had the Terry steam turbine group, the whole kit and kaboodle was then purchased by Siemens.
Hi Jonathon. Those small Carling turbines were made right thru the 80’s. I engineered several jobs back then that used those on generators. Last I knew they were still made. You are correct, that valve on the steam inlet is a safety over speed trip. The hand valves are used to reduce the steam consumption at partial load. Open the valves for full load, close for low load. That fitting on the exhaust outlet looks like part of a Barco flexible joint. The exhaust needs a flex joint to avoid cracking the case due to thermal expansion. A section of steam hose would be fine for your purpose.
Those valves are extra nozzles to add more steam for heavier loads to the turbine blades. The more open they are the more steam it uses and the more power it has. If it runs and carry's the load with them closed, leave them closed.
I ran wood fired for 10 years ran a Elliot that was 3,500 hp 5,400 rpm with a 2 mega watts with a deltak boiler 580 psi at 800 degrees super heat fun just easy day most of the time lol when it was wrong it was wrong I crashed the gen head on day when it broke the amateurs in it. Love to take boiler and steam and power house stuff.
I was a turbine operator in a ammonia plant... we had 3 steamers running compressors. 1. 25,000 hp. using 2000 psi steam to power a 2000 psi. hydrogen compressor 2. 9,000. hp using 500 psi steam running a 500 psi ammonia compressor 3. 9000 hp using 500 psi steam to power a 500 psi air compressor. all three ran so smooth you could stand a nickel on them. They were all in a building on a raised metal grated deck. One day i had a bearing alarm on the hydrogen compressor so i ran up there to check it and it started vibrating so bad i couldn't even stand up... had to literally crawl off the deck as control operators were shutting it down remotely... LOL
Just found your RUclips channel. I’m 76 and in my younger days I volunteered on three different steam tourist railroads. I can honestly say that I have fired and run a steam locomotive. I miss it. Nothing like the smell of the smoke and steam and lubricating oil. I used to love to crack the cylinder cocks before each run and see the crowd scurry as steam shot out to each side. Almost as much fun as blowing the whistle! Steam forever!
You did it again! More fantastic steam powered heavy iron machinery! WOW 🤩 You will not just find these everyday- so I’d keep both of them! You never know when you might need them both for something in the future.
Hi Jonathan, the yellow valves probably , in my experience, open and close steam nozzles to the turbine wheel , more jets more speed. Many thanks for everything you take the time and trouble to show here on RUclips.
You were in Fredericksburg, PA at the Redner's gas stop along I-78. Lebanon County. Home of bologna. Just a few miles from me. Worcester pronounced "wuh-ster".
That turbine is smooth. Thanks for reminding us of how steam is still important nowadays. It works really nice. That would be nice to belt up to a generator. It would certainly be a lot quieter than the piston engine. Lots of luck with it. Nana really loves you. She just wants to remind you of it. Great to see a video from you. Any topic you make a video of is going to be interesting.
Never even thought about older steam turbines in non-marine applications. Seeing how smooth running it is, must be good for steady power generation and quick to power up.
Steam locomotives (non-marine) had turbines for the power for electric headlamps and the light over the footplate. But that would take a lot less power than what the turbines featured here could put out.
What a cool engine! Smooth as silk! I wonder what the steam nozzle and the vanes on the turbine wheel look like on the inside. Awesome find! Thanks for your channel!
Siemens Corp makes steam turbines for Industry today.Your little Carling 10 hp is a real working beauty!"Graphite and string makes good valve packing----
Every video you do whatever the subject may be is intressting. I like that you always throw in a little explanation about how sttuff works were its from and why and how. I have no knowlege about steam stuff but when ever you do a video about it I always go "man I want one of those". I love the work you do. Thank you from Sweden.
Our place runs on a 15KW system with a modern (big) battery. Been using it since April and love it. The numbers finally worked out to make the switch, although I do send excess power to the grid and can draw when I need it. (A second battery would have made us stand alone, but this is our first swing at the technology).
I've often thought of running a refrigeration compressor by a steam engine like these coupled with an ice machine so on a hot summer day it would make ice from fire just a crazy idea which is par for the course around here
Excellent finds , even better , it runs quite smoothly . I would venture a guess that those valves are for load adjustment , to match your supply to your demand . I've worked in manufacturing long enough to know NOTHING is created equal . Not even on an assembly line . But all the same , I am surprised it was efficient enough to not run you out of steam ! Lol , " A 15 HP boiler , should run a 10 HP steam turbine ." Yup , it did . Nice !
This is the main reason why I subscribe to Jonathan's Channel right away. This guy is amazing and he comes up with some of the coolest antique equipment, shit you'll never see again, air-cooled fan-cooled cars from the 20s, antique drag cars, homemade motorcycle bicycles, chopped out hot rods, steam engines, big huge Motors way out in the woods, I love this guy. Keep it up my friend, and I'll tell a friend about your Channel.
Crazy that those came from Youngstown! Likely came from one of the many mills that are all gone now. We were once the second largest producer of steel in the United States, second only to Pittsburgh.
5:39 If you're curious, that is pronounced "Wooster" by the local Massachusetts folks. Edit: where I work we have 3,000 ton chillers that are driven by steam turbines. Believe it or not, it is cheaper for us to buy steam from the city than electricity during the summer.
English inventor Charles Parsons 1887. 1897 Fastest ship in the world made our Royal Navy look like idiots as they had turned him down, so he built one himself.
I would be incredibly interested to see the interior of this thing. How amazing would it be if we could reverse engineer and have drawings for people to manufacture their own.
A new steamengine is not that expensive, a 5 hp is 4000 $, don t know what transport is, a 10 hp is 6.600, plus boiler if you don t have one allready or build it yourself.
@@sandrapoyner1353 Great to ponder for sure. The Stanley absolutely had a small light gauge boiler. The advantage was it had a piston steam engine, which made 100% torque at zero RPM. A steam turbine has a very small amount of torque at zero RPM. How it makes it's power, is to take that small bit of torque, and repeat that output 1800 times per minute. That is where you get the horsepower. It is about matching the power curve output of the driving device to the power consumption curve of the machine. A turbine in a car would work well, if it had a shifting transmission, like an internal combustion engine typically is paired with. A steam engine does not need an transmission, because of it's low end torque. So it is situational dependent. As for power to weight, 300 pounds to 10 horsepower output is not very impressive. (Not even counting the boiler.) Just think of the weight of a 10 hp Briggs or Honda engine. Probably 30 pounds instead of 300+ pounds. All that said, this is why the Internal Combustion engine won out over the Steam engine. Lighter weight for the power output and greater efficiency for the fuel burned for the power output. About the only advantage of steam is torque straight out of the engine. All other things make it cost and weight/space prohibitive in the modern world. --Doozer
I'm still letting the commercials play.....this one is about hydrogen power...Now I'm really wondering what is coming up in the video. Have a great week everyone!
Fun TO watch as always, being from Massachusetts (I know I know) Worcester is pronounced Wista, Carlton also made some industrial equipment as well such as screw Jacks drillpress and some other things. Their older products were outstanding.
To put some prospective on the balance of the turbine rotor - If it was done in accordance with ISO 1940, it would of been balanced to grade G2.5 . If we take a nominal operating speed of 2,000 rpm the max residual unbalance for the rotor would be about 12g mm/kg. Now comparing that to the wheels on your car, their requirement is G40. Using the same operating speed of 2,000 rpm for direct comparison, the max residual unbalance would be 200g mm/kg
That is a very unique steam turbine, I would greatly like to purchase one if your price is right, as I have been fascinated with steam engines and equipment ever since I was stationed in England for a year and that is where it all began. Keep up the great work and videos.
Hello Johnathan thanks for getting back as you have been really been busy posting quite great videos of relic machines and equipment. Hopefully you may set a price on one of those turbine units 😉 and maybe I could get with u on possibly purchasing a steam engine or maybe assisting me with a future purchase of a large steam engine. I am a young machinist and engineer. Cheers
For some reason, I missed this on my notifications, so I'm late to the party. How neat is that turbine!?! Smooth, quiet, very neat! Looking forward to seeing this crank something interesting. Thanks, and Meow to Ninja Catscan.
What a neat little steam turbine. With that engine being from Youngstown I thought of 3 uses, your first use as a blast furnace blower, a second use as an engine to drive a cream separator or other machinery at our two Ice Cream plants we had in Youngstown (Good humor and Isaly's), and a third thought was to generate power for one of our radio station's studios/transmitter when it was downtown in the early 30's since all buildings downtown were tied into a steam supply system from what is now Youngstown Thermal(Who's lines sill go to the YMCA building where WKBN radio was located in the 30's, as well as the Tyler History Museum which was the Good Humor building).
I am very interested in buying the 2nd turbine you have. I have dreamed of setting up a small generator with a steam turbine, and was looking around for a turbine in the 1800 rpm and 5 hp range. This is a little large than what I was thinking but totally doable. Is there some way I can stay in the loop for when it is ready to go up for sale? I live north of Pittsburgh PA but I also have family in Maryland. Thanks for all the fun videos. I grew up going to Tuckahoe steam and gas show, and have always wanted to own a little piece of working steam history.
Those yellow handles are extra nozzles. It looks like this turbine has two fixed nozzles and 2 extras with handles to open or close. I'm assuming the 10 hp is with all open. If you close two, I'd say you have a 5 hp unit.
Excellent Video Johnathan W :) so cool and amazing to most certainly! Like how Steam setup and very good for Videos on RUclips too ! Plus all year age of Machinery going excellent too and thank you show each time too! Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow awesome to see one of these things running, the steam purists often shun these turbines as they don't show moving parts like a reciprocating steam engine so are therefore boring, but that sound is great. I am trying to get a 100hp version of one of these at the moment, much more recent built in the 60's and has a two stage turbine, physically the same size as this unit in the video with the one major difference being it has a reduction gearbox 3-1 and the turbine shaft is single side supported not a through axle like this one. Time to chuck some kind of load on this and see how it goes.
I knew someone that had a couple of steam turbines simular or the same as your's. I'm going back 40 plus years as I remember those valves on the case are secondary nozzles for the impeller to increase startup torque when under load. He was running a generator off-grid in Eastern Washington at the time. He used the wast heat to heat the house and shop in the cold weather.
What a great turbine. Well done on getting it up and running. Worcester in England is pronounced "wuster". Worcestershire's is pronounced "wuster-shire". Top video as usual young man!
Who knows what the future holds in advancements in solar and green power hold, but I do know we can't continue being dependent on Saudi Arabia, and clean air is essential as well. We can't all burn wood or coal to power/heat our homes either. Perhaps the answer is a combination of all technologies ..
Great find Jonathan. I would not couple it to a generator - I can see belts , line shaft to an old lathe and BD drill press and with the governor you can adjust the speed. Must be some fine old bearings in it.
Glad you made the comment about how we are being so dependent on steam power for most of our electric energy production. Steam throughout the past 200 years has been very important for the world. Jonathan thanks for reminding us and keeping the history alive.
right, all they did was change the heat source!
Human history consists of nothing but boiling water, and discovering and refining better, more powerful, cleaner and more efficient ways of boiling water. If you, pardon the pun, _boil_ it down, nearly any process can be inferred as boiling water in some fashion, even gas engines boil water since the fuel goes in, mixes with air, and turns to carbon dioxide and water vapor, aka boiled water. In the human body energy is produced by combustion, at the end of it we take in oxygen and fuel which turns to heat, movement and carbon dioxide, like a gas engine. Our foremost and best clean power source at the moment is nuclear energy, which involves letting refined rocks get hot and bothered and boiling water, and our next-gen nigh-infinite energy source, fusion power, is using our own artificial sun-ring to boil water. Its boiling water all the way down XD
almost all power that feeds into a electrical grid is made with a steam turbine it does not matter if its coal or nuclear or even sometimes natural gas
Meanwhile, we remove every dam from our waterways, wasting countless mega watts of potential free energy.
@@randymagnum143not exactly free. Just keep in mind flooded territory and all those problems with fish and don't forget that hydroelectric powerplants cost a lot to build and maintain (especially their dams). So it's not free but it's bit cheaper and cleaner.
I love the dirty hands. Grandpa always said "dirty hands clean money." Jonathan w is a rare breed these days
The Carling company was taken over by the Dresser Rand (Ingersol Rand) company who already had the Terry steam turbine group, the whole kit and kaboodle was then purchased by Siemens.
Hi Jonathon. Those small Carling turbines were made right thru the 80’s. I engineered several jobs back then that used those on generators. Last I knew they were still made.
You are correct, that valve on the steam inlet is a safety over speed trip. The hand valves are used to reduce the steam consumption at partial load. Open the valves for full load, close for low load.
That fitting on the exhaust outlet looks like part of a Barco flexible joint. The exhaust needs a flex joint to avoid cracking the case due to thermal expansion. A section of steam hose would be fine for your purpose.
Those valves are extra nozzles to add more steam for heavier loads to the turbine blades. The more open they are the more steam it uses and the more power it has. If it runs and carry's the load with them closed, leave them closed.
yup
I was just fixing to write the same thing ran turbine for years in a powerhouse
@@jwbigbaddodge540hp yep same here. Turbines, engines, and coal fired boilers. I miss it. Now I have a boring gas plant I work at.
I ran wood fired for 10 years ran a Elliot that was 3,500 hp 5,400 rpm with a 2 mega watts with a deltak boiler 580 psi at 800 degrees super heat fun just easy day most of the time lol when it was wrong it was wrong I crashed the gen head on day when it broke the amateurs in it. Love to take boiler and steam and power house stuff.
@@jwbigbaddodge540hp nice. Yep, when things go south, they really go south. But most of the time it is a good job to have. :)
I was a turbine operator in a ammonia plant... we had 3 steamers running compressors. 1. 25,000 hp. using 2000 psi steam to power a 2000 psi. hydrogen compressor 2. 9,000. hp using 500 psi steam running a 500 psi ammonia compressor 3. 9000 hp using 500 psi steam to power a 500 psi air compressor. all three ran so smooth you could stand a nickel on them. They were all in a building on a raised metal grated deck. One day i had a bearing alarm on the hydrogen compressor so i ran up there to check it and it started vibrating so bad i couldn't even stand up... had to literally crawl off the deck as control operators were shutting it down remotely... LOL
So that was just the most economical way to power the compressors?
WOW! Smooth as glass! What a totally awesome motor! Thanks, Jonathan!
Just found your RUclips channel. I’m 76 and in my younger days I volunteered on three different steam tourist railroads. I can honestly say that I have fired and run a steam locomotive.
I miss it. Nothing like the smell of the smoke and steam and lubricating oil. I used to love to crack the cylinder cocks before each run and see the crowd scurry as steam shot out to each side. Almost as much fun as blowing the whistle! Steam forever!
You did it again! More fantastic steam powered heavy iron machinery! WOW 🤩
You will not just find these everyday- so I’d keep both of them! You never know when you might need them both for something in the future.
Hi Jonathan, the yellow valves probably , in my experience, open and close steam nozzles to the turbine wheel , more jets more speed. Many thanks for everything you take the time and trouble to show here on RUclips.
Since it is governed, the nozzles would add torque, not speed.
@@kooldoozer For load compensation?
Jonathan stopped smoking but started steaming😂 so cool
You were in Fredericksburg, PA at the Redner's gas stop along I-78. Lebanon County. Home of bologna. Just a few miles from me. Worcester pronounced "wuh-ster".
nice "foot" brake, good video nice turbines
That turbine is smooth. Thanks for reminding us of how steam is still important nowadays. It works really nice. That would be nice to belt up to a generator. It would certainly be a lot quieter than the piston engine. Lots of luck with it. Nana really loves you. She just wants to remind you of it. Great to see a video from you. Any topic you make a video of is going to be interesting.
Never even thought about older steam turbines in non-marine applications. Seeing how smooth running it is, must be good for steady power generation and quick to power up.
Steam locomotives (non-marine) had turbines for the power for electric headlamps and the light over the footplate. But that would take a lot less power than what the turbines featured here could put out.
What a cool engine! Smooth as silk! I wonder what the steam nozzle and the vanes on the turbine wheel look like on the inside.
Awesome find!
Thanks for your channel!
thumbs up for invaluable content, xtra hug to the one eyed tiger,she's lovely
It is certainly well balanced. Good seeing it running. Thanks for the video.
Siemens Corp makes steam turbines for Industry today.Your little Carling 10 hp is a real working beauty!"Graphite and string makes good valve packing----
It's amazing how smooth it runs. Really cool. Thanks Jonathan 👍🇺🇲
A ballerina couldn't balance better. Great find, Jonathan. See you soon.
That’s how I saw Worcester MA also, I live near there in CT but it’s pronounced Wooster, because Massachusetts 😂 for no apparent reason
Every video you do whatever the subject may be is intressting. I like that you always throw in a little explanation about how sttuff works were its from and why and how. I have no knowlege about steam stuff but when ever you do a video about it I always go "man I want one of those". I love the work you do. Thank you from Sweden.
I didn't know that they made a steam turbine that small l. Thanks for educating us.
Always something cool follows you home.
Best regards from Indiana.
Unbelievable how precisely things were made back then!
Solar is the future, sure it’s not perfect, yet. The wind doesn’t blow everywhere either, but it sure blows like hell here in western Okla..
Our place runs on a 15KW system with a modern (big) battery. Been using it since April and love it. The numbers finally worked out to make the switch, although I do send excess power to the grid and can draw when I need it. (A second battery would have made us stand alone, but this is our first swing at the technology).
Very impressed on how smooth the engine ran, great show👍
I've heard it as "Woos ster Mass." or" War Chester, Mass." A 4 pole generator connected one to one will work.
I've often thought of running a refrigeration compressor by a steam engine like these coupled with an ice machine so on a hot summer day it would make ice from fire just a crazy idea which is par for the course around here
Check out RV refrigerators they cool by heat. I think your idea is a good one, keep us updated.
Propane refrigerators have been around for a long time.
@@farmerbill6855 this is true I was thinking of a way to use fire wood as the main energy source
Haha, I get it. However I think now you're getting into Rube Goldberg's area.
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THANKS fer postin lad. It's ALWAYS great to see wut yer McGiverin !!
WAVIN a hand EH !!
Next time I am in your neck of the woods, I hope to stop by and visit the World Famous Winans Steam Exhibit
This is really neat! I’ve been a bit leery of dabbling in steam power myself, but watching this sure makes it tempting!
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Love this machine! Very impressed with how little steam it seems to use. After all those years it still runs smooth as glass.
Excellent finds , even better , it runs quite smoothly . I would venture a guess that those valves are for load adjustment , to match your supply to your demand . I've worked in manufacturing long enough to know NOTHING is created equal . Not even on an assembly line . But all the same , I am surprised it was efficient enough to not run you out of steam ! Lol , " A 15 HP boiler , should run a 10 HP steam turbine ." Yup , it did . Nice !
Be well Jonathan!!! Thank You Sir for the Video, keep warm Brother!!!!
This is the main reason why I subscribe to Jonathan's Channel right away. This guy is amazing and he comes up with some of the coolest antique equipment, shit you'll never see again, air-cooled fan-cooled cars from the 20s, antique drag cars, homemade motorcycle bicycles, chopped out hot rods, steam engines, big huge Motors way out in the woods, I love this guy. Keep it up my friend, and I'll tell a friend about your Channel.
That city is pronounced WOOSTER, in Massachusetts. My Yankee grandparents told me long ago.
I sure was glad to see this posting today. Been watching for a new one for a while and was afraid you'd gotten hurt.
I'd really like to see you integrate the rat rod skills with your steam power knowledge!
Crazy that those came from Youngstown! Likely came from one of the many mills that are all gone now. We were once the second largest producer of steel in the United States, second only to Pittsburgh.
So Cool that you save and bring this stuff back to life so that the younger Folks can see the Machines that Built America .Built the World .
Who woulda thought that building a winch attachment for a skid steer would lead to all of this???
Won’t be long before you’re completely off grid. Feed the fire and let the turbine spin the generator. Very cool.
great videos, i love the fact that you are not afraid to tackle all these different things!! keep the videos coming.
👍👌👏 That's definitely an extremely impressive old steam turbine! Congrats for purchasing them.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Thanks for the video, really great stuff
Very cool, thanks Johnathan.
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What a way to start a Monday morning, Jonathan with Nana Cat!
5:39 If you're curious, that is pronounced "Wooster" by the local Massachusetts folks. Edit: where I work we have 3,000 ton chillers that are driven by steam turbines. Believe it or not, it is cheaper for us to buy steam from the city than electricity during the summer.
That's really small and quiet to be 10 hp. Thanks Jonathan!
English inventor Charles Parsons 1887. 1897 Fastest ship in the world made our Royal Navy look like idiots as they had turned him down, so he built one himself.
Another good find keep up the good work enjoy it
I really appreciate you going through explaining and puting all of your hard work to make these videos have a great day
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That’s awesome Johnathan very interesting
I would be incredibly interested to see the interior of this thing. How amazing would it be if we could reverse engineer and have drawings for people to manufacture their own.
Steam turbine design is pretty basic engineering. There are a ton of books on this. No need to reverse engineer anything.
@@kooldoozer That is a good point. Although seeing the working parts of a clearly reliable and efficient unit couldn’t hurt the process.
A new steamengine is not that expensive, a 5 hp is 4000 $, don t know what transport is, a 10 hp is 6.600, plus boiler if you don t have one allready or build it yourself.
Would be a great power plant in a small car 👍👍👍🤔🇦🇺
The boiler would necessitate a large truck.
@@kooldoozer 👍 I was thinking more. about kiddie ride size around the property , Stanley steamer only had smell boiler? 👍👍🤔🇦🇺
@@sandrapoyner1353 Great to ponder for sure. The Stanley absolutely had a small light gauge boiler. The advantage was it had a piston steam engine, which made 100% torque at zero RPM. A steam turbine has a very small amount of torque at zero RPM. How it makes it's power, is to take that small bit of torque, and repeat that output 1800 times per minute. That is where you get the horsepower. It is about matching the power curve output of the driving device to the power consumption curve of the machine. A turbine in a car would work well, if it had a shifting transmission, like an internal combustion engine typically is paired with. A steam engine does not need an transmission, because of it's low end torque. So it is situational dependent. As for power to weight, 300 pounds to 10 horsepower output is not very impressive. (Not even counting the boiler.) Just think of the weight of a 10 hp Briggs or Honda engine. Probably 30 pounds instead of 300+ pounds. All that said, this is why the Internal Combustion engine won out over the Steam engine. Lighter weight for the power output and greater efficiency for the fuel burned for the power output. About the only advantage of steam is torque straight out of the engine. All other things make it cost and weight/space prohibitive in the modern world. --Doozer
I'm still letting the commercials play.....this one is about hydrogen power...Now I'm really wondering what is coming up in the video. Have a great week everyone!
Thanks Johnathon! I’m waiting for you to put one of those small engines in a car! I know you could do it. Thanks for the video!
Incredible balance! Very interesting and informative. Thank you for your time today.
I like it, the best one yet.
Fun TO watch as always, being from Massachusetts (I know I know) Worcester is pronounced Wista, Carlton also made some industrial equipment as well such as screw Jacks drillpress and some other things. Their older products were outstanding.
She's smooth as a cat's climbing gear. What a neat machine.
Jonathan you have to convert some truck to run on a wood gasifier 😁
that is AMAZING balance!
Those are super cool! My dad used to work on this type of stuff in a paper mill that used to be in Rittman Ohio...
To put some prospective on the balance of the turbine rotor - If it was done in accordance with ISO 1940, it would of been balanced to grade G2.5 . If we take a nominal operating speed of 2,000 rpm the max residual unbalance for the rotor would be about 12g mm/kg. Now comparing that to the wheels on your car, their requirement is G40. Using the same operating speed of 2,000 rpm for direct comparison, the max residual unbalance would be 200g mm/kg
My cats breath smells like cat food🙃
Thanks JW.
That is a very unique steam turbine, I would greatly like to purchase one if your price is right, as I have been fascinated with steam engines and equipment ever since I was stationed in England for a year and that is where it all began. Keep up the great work and videos.
Hello Johnathan thanks for getting back as you have been really been busy posting quite great videos of relic machines and equipment. Hopefully you may set a price on one of those turbine units 😉 and maybe I could get with u on possibly purchasing a steam engine or maybe assisting me with a future purchase of a large steam engine. I am a young machinist and engineer. Cheers
What kind of starting torque does it have, it will be interesting to see it under load.
Not much at all. Turbines are all about horsepower. You could probably hold the shaft with your hand at zero rpm.
For some reason, I missed this on my notifications, so I'm late to the party.
How neat is that turbine!?! Smooth, quiet, very neat!
Looking forward to seeing this crank something interesting.
Thanks, and Meow to Ninja Catscan.
@Retired Bore true, but I was writing in the vernacular rather than formally.
What a neat little steam turbine. With that engine being from Youngstown I thought of 3 uses, your first use as a blast furnace blower, a second use as an engine to drive a cream separator or other machinery at our two Ice Cream plants we had in Youngstown (Good humor and Isaly's), and a third thought was to generate power for one of our radio station's studios/transmitter when it was downtown in the early 30's since all buildings downtown were tied into a steam supply system from what is now Youngstown Thermal(Who's lines sill go to the YMCA building where WKBN radio was located in the 30's, as well as the Tyler History Museum which was the Good Humor building).
I am very interested in buying the 2nd turbine you have. I have dreamed of setting up a small generator with a steam turbine, and was looking around for a turbine in the 1800 rpm and 5 hp range. This is a little large than what I was thinking but totally doable. Is there some way I can stay in the loop for when it is ready to go up for sale? I live north of Pittsburgh PA but I also have family in Maryland.
Thanks for all the fun videos. I grew up going to Tuckahoe steam and gas show, and have always wanted to own a little piece of working steam history.
Those yellow handles are extra nozzles. It looks like this turbine has two fixed nozzles and 2 extras with handles to open or close. I'm assuming the 10 hp is with all open. If you close two, I'd say you have a 5 hp unit.
What a cool little machine! Thanks for sharing..R.
Wow!! Really enjoyed this episode. That steam turbine was fantastic!! I'm going to watch this video again!!
oh damn. Wish I knew you were around. I should have known though...
Hey Johnathan..... Next time your in the Allentown area....let me know...I live near there and would like to have a cup of coffee with you....
Worcester, wooster! LOL Make a nice engine for that sawmill of yours.
Excellent Video Johnathan W :) so cool and amazing to most certainly! Like how Steam setup and very good for Videos on RUclips too ! Plus all year age of Machinery going excellent too and thank you show each time too! Happy Thanksgiving!
You can say "wooster, mass" and you would be correct.
Thanks for the video Jonathan! Mighty impressive how smoothly it runs !😎
It's a great little engine! It would definitely be a good power source for a generator. It would sit there and run silently forever!
Wow awesome to see one of these things running, the steam purists often shun these turbines as they don't show moving parts like a reciprocating steam engine so are therefore boring, but that sound is great. I am trying to get a 100hp version of one of these at the moment, much more recent built in the 60's and has a two stage turbine, physically the same size as this unit in the video with the one major difference being it has a reduction gearbox 3-1 and the turbine shaft is single side supported not a through axle like this one. Time to chuck some kind of load on this and see how it goes.
You guys were right in my area at that auction. Great finds!
I knew someone that had a couple of steam turbines simular or the same as your's. I'm going back 40 plus years as I remember those valves on the case are secondary nozzles for the impeller to increase startup torque when under load. He was running a generator off-grid in Eastern Washington at the time. He used the wast heat to heat the house and shop in the cold weather.
That is an awsome piece of equipment I'd like to see more thanks for posting it up.👍
It's a shame they cut the shaft for the water pump would have been nice to have the water pump with the turbines
I really enjoy these videos buddy thank you for sharing your knowledge
Are you thinking of making a steam powered vehicle soon ?
Steam turbine is a good addition to your collection. Hook this up to your generator when you lose power. Your good to go!
another great video
Running just like a rolls royce fantastic 👍
You find the coolest stuff thanks for sharing it with us.
If you are within 50 miles of Boston, Worcester is pronounce Woosta lol.
The only thing you still need is a paddleboat, heh heh. Cool finds.
What a great turbine. Well done on getting it up and running.
Worcester in England is pronounced "wuster".
Worcestershire's is pronounced "wuster-shire".
Top video as usual young man!
Wooster, Mass
Who knows what the future holds in advancements in solar and green power hold, but I do know we can't continue being dependent on Saudi Arabia, and clean air is essential as well. We can't all burn wood or coal to power/heat our homes either. Perhaps the answer is a combination of all technologies ..
It's a combination of several techniques, plus reducing birth rate.
There’s only one thing wrong with this steam engine, it doesn’t go chuff chuff like a steam engine 😉
great video
Great find Jonathan. I would not couple it to a generator - I can see belts , line shaft to an old lathe and BD drill press and with the governor you can adjust the speed. Must be some fine old bearings in it.