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Ball Valves High Pressure : Quick Exhaust Valve Smc. Ball Valves High Pressure
Marshall Engine This engine is in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. The description reads: "This engine was built in England by Marshall , Sons and Co. Ltd and imported to Australia in 1909. For many years it drove a gold dredge on the Ovens River in Victoria. It later worked a sawmill in the Victorian town of Stawell. The Engine is a cross compound engine which means it has two cylinders laid side by side. The steam works first in the small, high pressure cylinder and then passed to the larger, low pressure cylinder. Between 1850 and 1950, engines like this provided power in factories around the world." High Pressure Cylinder: Bore 229mm (9 in) Stroke 406mm (16 in) Low Pressure Cylinder: Bore 356mm (14 in) Stroke 406mm (16 in) Steam pressure: 1.03MPa (150 psi) Speed: 150rpm Power: 62.6kW (84 indicated horsepower) Valves: high pressure: slide valve with expansion valve working on back of main valve under control of governor low pressure: plain slide valve with variable expansion on eccentric Valve gear: automatic expansion gear controlled by Hartnella centrifugal ball-type governor Natural Spaghetti
Started the shot with raw natural spaghetti. Here is one shot. I also had some fun in the garage re-purposing an old Burning Man project. If you set up an air chamber through a lawn sprinkler valve, you can dump a lot of pressure very fast. The original project was to blast a liter of flammable liquid into the air and ignite it to form a large fire ball. I never found a good place to try it out, but kept the parts. Now I want to blast a water filled ping pong ball into a target. I got the parts together today and tried a stock ping pong ball. At 20psi, the ball bounced of a half inch thick piece of gator board. At 40psi, it left a good dent. At 60psi it went through the Gator board. At this point, I need to get a better backdrop, see what pressure I can go to with my air chamber and try a water filled ping pong ball. See also: auto top off float valve spring loaded gate valve three way valve symbol actuated butterfly valves leaky water valve kingston safety valve pool pump check valve solenoid hydraulic valve surge relief valve |