[SEL] My Homepage--cooling towers

John Hall jthall at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jan 22 18:27:20 PST 2008


 My 2hp IHC vertical has a waterwheel for a cooling tower. The guy that 
built it did an excellent job on the woodworking. However they mounted it on 
bearings so you really have to keep the water supply turned down or it will 
drain the tank in short order. One of these days I'll either switch it over 
to bushings or rig up some sort of friction disc to keep the speed down.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Ernst" <shop at cccomm.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] My Homepage


> I'm right in the middle of restoring 2 JD model H's, sold one and am 
> keeping
> the other. I moved the 2HP Fairbanks T into the shop office and have been
> looking at it for the past couple of months. It is/was a Jack with no 
> tank,
> so I'm going to put an old small brass gear pump on the skid, drive it 
> with
> a flat belt off a a pully inside the flywheel.  Been watching the 
> different
> styles of screen cooled engines such as the IHC verticals, but don't want 
> to
> be a copy cat. I've got an idea of making a "cooling tower" style with
> wooden removable slats staggered and stacked atop the others. Will have to
> get creative and make some sort of valve on the intake side of the pump to
> control temperature and volume.
> Gotta stop being a FATG and get to work on it if I'm gonna lug it to 
> Tulare.
> Dave




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