What can you say? Absolutely amazing attention to detail, full credit to builder! Would love to see it in operation. Two questions, how much did it cost? Did your wife leave you when she found out?
MY grandfather (and i'm 63) was a stoker for many years now that was hard work as anybody will tell you and they commanded great respect for the very hard work they had to do to keep the boilers fired and up to steam.
Dakota.This why each watch had at least one or two greasers,depending on the complexity of the engine room-I believe the americans call them oilers-whose work it was to squirt oil on all visible moving parts,keep an eye on the tallow blocks on the bearings and generally keep everything well greased.As they were all volunteers it cannot have been as arduous as you make it out to be.
I see predestination in the movement of a steam engine.Just as Rudyard Kipling did in MacAndrew's Hymn-well worth reading for those with an interest in the steam reciprocating engine.
Yes I can see that. I have my grandfathers service record which inc all the RN ships he served on as a stoker class 1 and 2. He served in the RN from 1901 to 1919 when he was first demobbed. He then went into the merchant navy before re-joining the RN during the 2nd world war.
"Amazing model steam engine" there's at least a dozen other engines for many purposes, but still their should be an "s" on the end of the title. Also hope that engine room has a good oiler system or I'd hate to be the guy who has to oil all those engines during sea voyages.
yu couldn't be more right and with today's tech and superchargers feeding air into the boiler fires alot cleaner air than a century ago even with coal yes its possible my friend!
No, it's a 6 cylinder Quadruple Expansion Engine with the HP cylinders running in tandem with the LP's. The two HP's exhaust into the high intermediate at the forward end of the engine, which exhausts into the low intermediate at the aft end of the engine, which then exhausts into the two LP's in the middle below the HP's which share a common piston rod (hence Tandem). The two LP's then dump into the condenser on the Port Side of the Engine. This Engine is actually far more sophisticated than Titanic's, and ran on Superheated Steam instead of Saturated.
+welshpete12 this is the model of the 3 way expansion steam engine of the German line ships of the Deutschland Klasse (14.000 metric tons) providing 17.000 hp.
@@wessel21 Correction, it's a Quadruple Expansion Engine. 2 High pressure cylinders, 1 high intermediate, 1 low intermediate, and 2 Low Pressure making it a 6 cylinder Quad. The High Pressure Cylinders run in tandem with the low pressures.
This plant 9s a work of art. Probably took 20 years to machine and build. All Stuart castings and many customer machined pieces. Astonishing.
What can you say? Absolutely amazing attention to detail, full credit to builder! Would love to see it in operation. Two questions, how much did it cost? Did your wife leave you when she found out?
That is by far the most complex model I have seen,absolutey beautiful
MY grandfather (and i'm 63) was a stoker for many years now that was hard work as anybody will tell you and they commanded great respect for the very hard work they had to do to keep the boilers fired and up to steam.
True,I have experience only on oil-burning ships.These ships had no stokers as such,merely firemen/greasers
Dakota.This why each watch had at least one or two greasers,depending on the complexity of the engine room-I believe the americans call them oilers-whose work it was to squirt oil on all visible moving parts,keep an eye on the tallow blocks on the bearings and generally keep everything well greased.As they were all volunteers it cannot have been as arduous as you make it out to be.
What a model!Even down to the generator.Was this modelled on a ship's engine room I wonder?
It looks like one of the titanics resibracating engines
I see predestination in the movement of a steam engine.Just as Rudyard Kipling did in MacAndrew's Hymn-well worth reading for those with an interest in the steam reciprocating engine.
Yes I can see that. I have my grandfathers service record which inc all the RN ships he served on as a stoker class 1 and 2. He served in the RN from 1901 to 1919 when he was first demobbed. He then went into the merchant navy before re-joining the RN during the 2nd world war.
That is some serious precission engineering...
Holy crap!!!!! were is this at????????
I would love to see it run!
I don't understand anything on this model
All I see is Awesome
is this a model of the Titanic engine, and is it operable, and who made it
"Amazing model steam engine" there's at least a dozen other engines for many purposes, but still their should be an "s" on the end of the title. Also hope that engine room has a good oiler system or I'd hate to be the guy who has to oil all those engines during sea voyages.
This must be Germany. The Germans would build something like this.
@IFlick Genius who do you think has built that if its in the Maritime Museum in Hamburg?
spectacular!
thats no model, thats my home generator.
Its only amazing if it runs. Lets see it run.
yu couldn't be more right and with today's tech and superchargers feeding air into the boiler fires alot cleaner air than a century ago even with coal yes its possible my friend!
That's alot of pipes
@offspringfanman96 no like what state or country?
awsome engine
Isn’t this a triple expansion engine? if so, there were two of these on the R.M.S Titanic
No, it's a 6 cylinder Quadruple Expansion Engine with the HP cylinders running in tandem with the LP's. The two HP's exhaust into the high intermediate at the forward end of the engine, which exhausts into the low intermediate at the aft end of the engine, which then exhausts into the two LP's in the middle below the HP's which share a common piston rod (hence Tandem). The two LP's then dump into the condenser on the Port Side of the Engine. This Engine is actually far more sophisticated than Titanic's, and ran on Superheated Steam instead of Saturated.
A beautiful model , does anyone know what ship it is from ?
+welshpete12
this is the model of the 3 way expansion steam engine of the German line ships of the Deutschland Klasse (14.000 metric tons) providing 17.000 hp.
+wessel21 Thank you for the info !
@@wessel21 Correction, it's a Quadruple Expansion Engine. 2 High pressure cylinders, 1 high intermediate, 1 low intermediate, and 2 Low Pressure making it a 6 cylinder Quad. The High Pressure Cylinders run in tandem with the low pressures.
make run,or its just s big paper weight.
I think it runs, they just don't run it.
this is no less than awsome reminds me of mini titanic engine
we shoulda stuck with steam
wow........