gas engines Bethlehem Steel
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- čas přidán 12. 03. 2013
- I actually operated everyone of these giant engines at Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem..They are monsters & were very dangerous to be around..I had to climb up on them & grease fittings with a small grease gun & my arms came within inches from being crushed by the giant valves & moving parts..Also the gas they ran on was everywhere & deadly to breathe.. very hazardous place to work..also the noise of these giants was deafening all the time.they were like having 2 house trailers alongside each other with a giant flywheel in the middle...there were many of them in this building
We used to check the basement for gas leaks and drain water from the gas lines on a daily basis. The wind tunnel in the AC side was brutal in the winter
Yes I work there when I started 1973
Amazing. Absolutely terrifying industrial-age machines. Thanks for the vid.
Wow fantastic engines!! Just a shame it was recorded with a potato!! Better than nothing I guess and thanks for posting!
who cares
@@riverposie Its embarrassingly bad!! Not worth posting actually....
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Nope this was filmed with a Russian potato. Look at those Chernobyl colors
It’s entirely possible that a “bad” camera was what was available. Better to use it than do without.
Those turbo-blowers seem to make way more noise than the old horizontals do.
It's difficult to understand what they look like. Are they similar to the Snow gas engines? They look much bigger.
The 450 PSI steam really makes these boosters whine.
Did these run on natural gas or flue gas?
i think they ran on the "blast-furnace gas" that was a by-product. mostly carbon monoxide?
what year was this filmed?
Should been recorded with 16mm analogue film. This is suppose on magnetic tape
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@@riverposie I care!
@@superadio1 Thank you!! So do I! The poster is a dick apparently....
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Oh these videos can easily be fixed now
I'm curious, what was the purpose of the flywheel?
Generation of electricity
yes this was true..
Are the engines shown in this video czcams.com/video/Eba_mUJF81I/video.html, the same ones you feature on this video? I wondered what that building must have sounded like with everything running, versus the silence of now. Must have been very poignant the day that silence started creeping across the various buildings as stuff was shut down for the last time, or possibly the only time it ever was, for things that'd been running for ever.