Snow engine running video

[wierdscience]

Youtube is getting better daily-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcjt0uQDbxw

[PolskiFran]

Leave it to Harry to post the good stuff, I think he attends all the shows in the country. I've seen the model. but never the real thing... until now.

Frank

[halac]

Back when I lived in Florida, I saw one run in person at the Florida Flywheelers show ground just outside of Ft. Mead. If I remember correctly, it ran somewhat quieter.

[Fasttrack]

ok dumb question - i don't have audio so maybe i missed it, but...

Whats it for? I mean its really sweet, but what were these used for orginally?

[wierdscience]

Engines to power factories and mills.Back in the days of lineshaft equipment one big engine would run the entire plant through a series of overhead shafts with each machine belting off of those shafts.

At 600hp and 39,000 lbf of torque a Snow could run one heck of a plant.

[wierdscience]

Leave it to Harry to post the good stuff, I think he attends all the shows in the country. I've seen the model. but never the real thing... until now.

Frank

I am jealous then,I haven't been to one good show in the past two years.I missed the live steam show back on the 1st ad our one big tractor and engine show has shutdown because some drunk got his foot run over by a golf cart:(

I'm having withdrawls.

[torker]

Darin, thanks for that! What an incredible machine! Makes my heart yearn for the good ol' days. All the cool little oilers that would need tending daily...someone fussing over the old girl all day...wasn't that back when there where jobs for everyone?
39,000 foot pounds of torque!!! Hard to even imagine.
Russ

[Spin Doctor]

Though we have seen this here before I won't complain about seeing it again. I used to work on Worthington two stage air compressors that where very similar to the Snow in tems of the piston shafts, crossheads etc although they were laid out a little diferently. Some where set up as opposed twins while others where also set up as inline twins. The flywheel was actually a large diameter electric motor and being air compressors the valving was reed rather than poppet.

[Fasttrack]

Engines to power factories and mills.Back in the days of lineshaft equipment one big engine would run the entire plant through a series of overhead shafts with each machine belting off of those shafts.

At 600hp and 39,000 lbf of torque a Snow could run one heck of a plant.


:eek: Wow! That is awsome! I'd like to see that in person.

[Alistair Hosie]

The old boys were much more clever than we ever really realise they were.Even back in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the workmanship in carpentry ,woodcarving, general building was second to none beautiful.I am six feet tall and a big guy but I get a lump in my throat when I see some of the cabinetry in those days.I saw a programme on tv about locksmiths boy were they clever too .I am awestruck sometimes.Alistair

[IOWOLF]

Cool But Noisy.

[JRouche]

Great video!! I thought I enjoyed the shaper clunking along. That baby was a shaper on some serious roids. And the sound was great too. Something right outta Willy Wonkas plant.. Burrrppp,, whistle, sneeze, clank, groan, fizz and spurt.. Then do it all over again... Really makes me happy to know there are still machines and guys like that around. JRouche

[wierdscience]

The old boys were much more clever than we ever really realise they were.Even back in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the workmanship in carpentry ,woodcarving, general building was second to none beautiful.I am six feet tall and a big guy but I get a lump in my throat when I see some of the cabinetry in those days.I saw a programme on tv about locksmiths boy were they clever too .I am awestruck sometimes.Alistair

Alistair,have you ever seen any of the carvings done by Grinling Gibbons?I got the chance to see two of his works in a traveling exhibit a few years back.The detail was awe inspiring.One part of the panel featured a cluster of grapes about the size of a man's hand.Each grape,leaf and stem was carved in exact 3d detail,simply amazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinling_Gibbons

[halac]

ok dumb question - i don't have audio so maybe i missed it, but...

Whats it for? I mean its really sweet, but what were these used for orginally?

The Snow engines that I'm aware of were used the pump natural gas. It's kind of complicated to explain, but on the one con rod are two pistons in the middle of to very long cylinders. One set of piston/cylinder are used as an internal combustion engine while the other set are used as a compressor.

At the moment I can't remember if the engine is a two or four cycle.