1,466 Comments Posted by autoguy

Why didn't this mall just go with the flow? Sell murder and kidnapping services. "Drugs R Us". Booze Brothers Brothel. Hoopti Oldsmobile. Capone's Liquor. Stormy's Strip Joint and Coin Laundry. Tommy's Guns and Chicago Typewriter Repair. Is there a hospital ER room nearby?

And now, stray dogs pee on it.

Clouds of asbestos blowing across the nearby elementary school playground would not be unusual.

I have two pairs of these shoes. Not bad quality and I got them at a Walmart clearance dumped for $5 a pair.

This slag business was keeping me up at night. Oh the humanity! So a quick look reveals that the slag is tapped through a different port higher up in the furnace. There's the main tap hole and separate slag hole. https://secondaryscien...-iron-extraction.png

In the slag dumping video I linked, they were banging hard on those wrecker-ball style to get the slag plugs to dump. Slag makes an excellent sand blast medium and can also be used for driveway roadbed. We should also use the word slag as often as possible. Better lives through slag.

How did I mess this one? :) I'll guess to haul them shafts that were on the rack. Interesting set of fan blades there. I'll guess those did the blowing.

YW, certainly. Temp was Fahrenheit. Temps of 1600 to 2000 degrees Celsius can be in these furnaces. One helluva wienie roast. The product is seen being channeled to the torpedoes, but I didn't see how they direct the slag to those cars with cones. This shows why the cone shape is needed. Dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJF_hTJ2Rw

@Motts- Thnx for the great link! Says 12 Tod engines are there and then lists engine 17? Yow! William Tod company made these giant steam engines for heavy industry. The monsters ran the rolling mills also. This many of them in one spot is incredible. One listed on factory invoices had a LP cylinder diameter of 6'. I think the largest could deliver up to 16,000 HP, with half that stored in the spinning 25' flywheels for load surges. Sadly, interest in preserving them is limited, and their size requires a lot of expensive resources to deal with them.

Excellent shot. Many different elements draw the eye around nicely. Thanx for sharing the great shoot! Maybe do what I do this coming December? I see the good things in my life, see that it could be a lot worse, and think how we all can have a good life if we work together. No theology needed to see the good there.

Oh no! That's it for this engine house? Pesky flatfoots! I could look at every nut and bolt on those things. This image has incredible stuff in it. The massive flywheels are awesome. Those double-acting pistons are for these giant steam engines. Doubles I'll guess. Small piston is the high pressure and that giant one was the low pressure cylinder. These things are incredible museum pieces in my book.

Damn that monster is awesome! Show the cylinder and all the parts!

I want to all those valve trains and the mechanical details. Awesome monsters!

This is some seriously awesome stuff here! I'd get lost in there. I want some of those to play with! Can fill a few car tires and pool toys with them babies, you betcha.

Those are little mini license plates out of a box of Captain Crunch.