And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Villaume had a hand in building parts for gliders for WWII. They were neighbors of mine but never knew about the company's history until I was watching a show about the war effort. https://villaume.com/history/
A double-acting steam engine driven generator. Engines such has this were also used in the lumber industry to drive overhead line shafts that could be used to run saws, precision machinery, drills, etc. Line shafts are still in common use in paper mills (I worked at two of them.)
When I first entered the idustrial trades, I was an air compressor mechanic. Ingersoll Rand had just marketed a series of doluble-acting single and two stage compressors. The coin trick is an indicator of a quality epoxy grout job and a very well balanced flyweel. The LLE as they called it featured a direct drive electric motor and 2 cylinders (one horizontal and one vertical.)
The sucker was so well balanced that one could put a coin edge, which is amazing considering the reciprical mass and relatively high speed.
Back in the '80s, I read you could balance a nickle on edge on the motors driving a submarine at full power output. I've been in awe of that ever since.
https://youtu.be/Nzv9lOFIHMo
ReplyDeleteVillaume had a hand in building parts for gliders for WWII. They were neighbors of mine but never knew about the company's history until I was watching a show about the war effort.
ReplyDeletehttps://villaume.com/history/
A double-acting steam engine driven generator. Engines such has this were
ReplyDeletealso used in the lumber industry to drive overhead line shafts that could
be used to run saws, precision machinery, drills, etc. Line shafts are
still in common use in paper mills (I worked at two of them.)
When I first entered the idustrial trades, I was an air compressor mechanic.
Ingersoll Rand had just marketed a series of doluble-acting single and two
stage compressors. The coin trick is an indicator of a quality epoxy grout
job and a very well balanced flyweel. The LLE as they called it featured
a direct drive electric motor and 2 cylinders (one horizontal and one vertical.)
The sucker was so well balanced that one could put a coin edge, which is amazing
considering the reciprical mass and relatively high speed.
https://d323w7klwy72q3.cloudfront.net/i/a/2016/20161228ve/BR9014.JPG
Back in the '80s, I read you could balance a nickle on edge on the motors driving a submarine at full power output. I've been in awe of that ever since.
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