[modeleng] Re: Visit to Houston, now Steam turbines

For what it's worth, I remember Kosaku Wada of Wada Works once showing  
me one of his CNC milled turbines when I visited his workshop in  
Yokohama a while back (10 years?)-  I don't know if he ever marketed  
it, but it was a thing of beauty, with the fan/blades milled from a  
solid disk of metal (stainless?) about 4" in diameter.   He claimed it  
could pull an adult or two around if set up in a 5" gauge sized loco...  
  He was pretty pleased with it and planned to make a Ga. 1 model of the  
LMS turbine pacific  
(http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/turbom/turbom.htm), but  
don't think it ever happened...  Probably would have taken the scale  
land speed record if he had.

Bede in chilly Brooklyn (another "upper and downer", the ER of which  
can be seen here:
http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/det/4a10000/4a14000/4a14000/ 
4a14057u.tif
Looks like Jack has a big end disconnected from the shaft drive!)

On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Allen Messer wrote:

> Yes, those two ships are powered by turbines, and in
> comparison with the "uppers-and-downers", are quite
> petite.  In fact, if I remember correctly, the
> reduction gears were actually larger than the turbines
> themselves.  I have always wanted to do a scale model
> turbine, but I have never felt that I had the skill to
> do a job like that.
>
> Al Messer
>
> --- Jesse Livingston <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  Glad you have enjoyed your visit, John.  Wish you
>>  could stick around longer, at least long enough to
>> pop
>>  over to Wilmington, North Carolina and see a REAL
>>  battleship, that is, one that has 16 inch guns--the
>>  USS North Carolina.
>>
>>  Al Messer, the transplanted Tarheel
>>
>> Yeah Al, that ragged rustbucket of an old ship at
>> Wilmington has a lil' old
>> turbine in it I betcha.  Nothing near as nice to
>> look at as those big 4
>> cylinder triples in the TEXAS.  Looking at a turbine
>> is sort of like
>> watching "diesels" run around the rails at MSLS! The
>> USS Alabama has a
>> turbine also or so I have been told and if Auntie
>> Fern hadn't got hot
>> walking the Alabama's deck one summer day,  I would
>> have wasted my time
>> going down in there to see a big round steel barrel.
>>
>> I am happy that John found some nice things to look
>> at out in Houston.  BTW:
>> Fred Rorex is the one that provided me with the HALS
>> site to send to John.
>>
>> Jesse the REDNECK
>>
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