Post pictures of amazingly cool engineering

[Jonny671]

I still don't know how they work!

I just know that come next year, the VTS will be having one fitted

[Pesty]

Some info on the Warrior form Wiki they used it as a floating oil tanker!

"For the next fifty years, Warrior lay just offshore from an oil depot at Llanion Cove, occasionally being towed to a nearby dry dock for maintenance work. She refueled something close to 5,000 ships between 1929 and 1979. During that time Britain's surviving ironclads and their later equivalents, the battleships, were all sold for scrap. Warrior's last surviving contemporary, Agincourt, was scrapped in 1960 after fifty years' service as a coal hulk at Harwich.
"

[XJSJohn]

Paddy_n_Murphy said:

XJSJohn said:

Some more big lift stuff.... two self propelled cranes that are based just around the corner from me, although they get sent around the world for jobs.

Asian Hercules

Surely a must to include the Biggest of them All ?

Saipem S7000,

or if you prefer to go Dutch.... Heerema & the Thialf.

both lifting the thick end of 14,000Te Each ?
looking for good pics for you......

True but they are but they are Semi Subs that look more like oils Rigs, the Asian Hercules' are self propelled barges & to my eyes at least are more impressive.

[AUDIHenry]

Invisible man said:

Morningside said:

I know its a repost (I suspect) but well worth another one.

ppffft

I'll see your Merlin and raise you a Deltic

Nein!



Further:



Respect the Sput'!

[mat205125]

Jonny671 said:

I still don't know how they work!

I just know that come next year, the VTS will be having one fitted

Which do you want to know? A normal Diff, or the various kinds of limited slip diffs.

All piss taking aside, I learnt at a young age how a diff functioned thanks to Lego

[Jdavis]

mat205125 said:

Jonny671 said:

I still don't know how they work!

I just know that come next year, the VTS will be having one fitted

Which do you want to know? A normal Diff, or the various kinds of limited slip diffs.

All piss taking aside, I learnt at a young age how a diff functioned thanks to Lego

thanks for that!

[crofty1984]

Vr6er said:

This is just out of the box thinking!

Edited by Vr6er on Tuesday 17th March 15:24

I'd love to know what thought process lead to that!

[Snake the Sniper]

Swilly said:

Snake the Sniper said:

Jonny671 said:

fadeaway said:

Daston said:

Such a shame she never saw action....although I am sure most captains of the day would have run a mile.

Wasn't she never tested because her launch made every single other warship afloat at the time totally obsolete!

What is it sorry?

First of the iron clad wasn't she? If so, at the time it made every other ship obsolete as they couldn't penetrate her armour. Merely knowing it was in the water was enough to make it one of those uselessly powerful weapons. You knew it might arrive, so you stayed in doors/on land.

Nope, HMS Warrior (the one in the pic) was the first iron-hulled warship not the first ironclad, that was La Gloire (iron plate clad on wooden hull)

Well, I was nearly right! Didn't know about the breach loaded cannon and rifles though.

[Beyond Rational]

Mobile nuclear power station

[IforB]

Let me guess, designed by the Russians?

[The GMan]

XJSJohn said:

Paddy_n_Murphy said:

XJSJohn said:

Some more big lift stuff.... two self propelled cranes that are based just around the corner from me, although they get sent around the world for jobs.

Asian Hercules

Surely a must to include the Biggest of them All ?

Saipem S7000,

or if you prefer to go Dutch.... Heerema & the Thialf.

both lifting the thick end of 14,000Te Each ?
looking for good pics for you......

True but they are but they are Semi Subs that look more like oils Rigs, the Asian Hercules' are self propelled barges & to my eyes at least are more impressive.

I saw the Asian Hercules II come up Tyne a few years ago. It was there to lift modules onto The Bonga (largets vessel to ever by on the Tyne), that was being fiited out at AMEC. Had an interest as my father was working on it at the time and it was his last job on the Tyne before he fell ill.

[shirt]

i saw either that one or likely something similar in the north sea canal at ijmuiden, NL. i was in a conference at the holiday inn but all i did was stare out the window at them loading it up and pootling off.

fantastic bit of kit, do you work in this field p&m?

[shirt]

this was back in october 2007 so it may have been a conversion.

i ask as i'm tweaking my CV for a firm who, amongst other things, design/builds these in NL.

[Jonny671]

Vr6er said:

crofty1984 said:

Vr6er said:

This is just out of the box thinking!

Edited by Vr6er on Tuesday 17th March 15:24

I'd love to know what thought process lead to that!

I know what you mean:

Mr wankel - internal combustion engines...
Mate in pub - yeah
Mr wankel - not that great are they?
Mate in Pub - what do you mean? They are the best thing since sliced bread!!
Mr wankel - (sips pint) reckon I could do better...

Edited by Vr6er on Wednesday 18th March 15:33

You can imagine it can't you

Imagine Mazdas drawing board of putting it in the car too..

[ZeeTacoe]

Jonny671 said:

You can imagine it can't you

Imagine Mazdas drawing board of putting it in the car too..

surely they'd only need to look at a production NSU to see how to do it?

Beyond Rational said:

Mobile nuclear power station

you can't just leave us with that one picture.

Edited by ZeeTacoe on Wednesday 18th March 15:41

[The Trig]

Jonny671 said:

Vr6er said:

crofty1984 said:

Vr6er said:

This is just out of the box thinking!

Edited by Vr6er on Tuesday 17th March 15:24

I'd love to know what thought process lead to that!

I know what you mean:

Mr wankel - internal combustion engines...
Mate in pub - yeah
Mr wankel - not that great are they?
Mate in Pub - what do you mean? They are the best thing since sliced bread!!
Mr wankel - (sips pint) reckon I could do better...

Edited by Vr6er on Wednesday 18th March 15:33

You can imagine it can't you

Imagine Mazdas drawing board of putting it in the car too..

Wonderfully wacky engines, super smooth and the tax is cheaper as the 13B engine is classed as a 1.3. Pure genius.
The 26B is still the only rotary to win Le Mans 24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B 930hp @ 10,500 rpm!!

Edited by The Trig on Wednesday 18th March 15:54

[blindswelledrat]

Vr6er said:

I know what you mean:

Mr wankel - internal combustion engines...
Mate in pub - yeah
Mr wankel - not that great are they?
Mate in Pub - what do you mean? They are the best thing since sliced bread!!
Mr wankel - (sips pint) reckon I could do better...

Glad he's not my mate. Boring fker.

[The Trig]

The Trig said:

Jonny671 said:

Vr6er said:

crofty1984 said:

Vr6er said:

This is just out of the box thinking!

Edited by Vr6er on Tuesday 17th March 15:24

I'd love to know what thought process lead to that!

I know what you mean:

Mr wankel - internal combustion engines...
Mate in pub - yeah
Mr wankel - not that great are they?
Mate in Pub - what do you mean? They are the best thing since sliced bread!!
Mr wankel - (sips pint) reckon I could do better...

Edited by Vr6er on Wednesday 18th March 15:33

You can imagine it can't you

Imagine Mazdas drawing board of putting it in the car too..

Wonderfully wacky engines, super smooth and the tax is cheaper as the 13B engine is classed as a 1.3. Pure genius.
The 26B is still the only rotary to win Le Mans 24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B 930hp @ 10,500 rpm!!

[Morningside]

ZeeTacoe said:

Jonny671 said:

You can imagine it can't you

Imagine Mazdas drawing board of putting it in the car too..

surely they'd only need to look at a production NSU to see how to do it?

Beyond Rational said:

Mobile nuclear power station

you can't just leave us with that one picture.

Too right! Come on...More information.

[Jonny671]

Don't worry.. It wasn't actually about how they got it fitted