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mv_lotus
New member
Username: mv_lotus
Post Number: 1
Registered: 06-2017
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2017 - 07:11 pm: | 
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I was wondering if I could get some help on identifying the engine in this ship along with the equipment mounted on the walls. I know it's an early globe distalite engine with 80hp. It is diesel and the ship was launched in 1909. Any information is useful. I am trying to find the model so I can get plans to 3D model it off of. Does anyone know what the circles are and the boxes on the walls are? Ang plans are great. I have a feeling the circles are spare belts but I'm not sure.
Thanks!
Brady Guzik
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robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 887
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 05:33 pm: |
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Based on the typical house window in the background, I doubt this is a shipboard scene unless it was some sort of houseboat. |
bpineo
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Username: bpineo
Post Number: 29
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 06:30 am: |
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The circles are AC collector rings for generator/dynamo use. The box is a load center for the exciter and for circuit control. The switches are all throw type switches and only on in the lower right is regulated in the form of an early circuit breaker. |
mv_lotus
New member
Username: mv_lotus
Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2017
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 07:54 pm: |
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Thanks to you both! Yes, this is an old houseboat called the MV Lotus docked in Seattle. Thanks for the help! bpineo, do you think you have any diagrams or plans of equipment similar these for modeling purposes? The question remains  what's the engine? It may be to hard to tell...
Thank you,
Brady Guzik |
robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 888
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 01:23 pm: |
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I thought you said in the first post that you "know it's an early Globe distillate engine with 80hp"?
So what is the question regarding the engine?
Myself I'm curious about what appears to be four pairs of typical steam engine oilers, as opposed to typical drip oilers, along the left top side of the engine.
Do you have other photos of the vessel or engine and does the vessel still exist? |
mv_lotus
Member
Username: mv_lotus
Post Number: 4
Registered: 06-2017
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 06:02 pm: |
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Yes, the vessel still does exist, however the engine was replaced in the 1950s and entire aft galley section was redone. What I am trying to find are plans of really anything to 3D model off of. I know the engine type but it does no good without plans etc.. for the circuit boards I understand that they would be harder to find plans of so really anything to the period or similar is good. I can get some photos of it on Monday but it's entirely different now with a surplus WWII engine. |
65buckaroo
New member
Username: 65buckaroo
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2017
| | Posted on Saturday, July 01, 2017 - 11:54 am: |
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Nice engine room/galley combo.
Quite sure the "oilers" are not for steam, no condensing bulb. They do look a lot like Powell "Middy", drip oilers with drip sight glass and adjustable feed, no oil level glass as the Powell "Boson" has. Both have ball check valves for use with air compressors or internal explosion engine.
POWELL Catalog No.11, 1956, Fig. 732, pg. 313
Lunkenheimer made something similar, might even be Lunkies. |
