To Death Valley
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:29 pm
It was merely scorching hot outside of Hawthorne Nevada:
. . . . when I spied this nutty contraption in the desert. It looked like the ADHD Refinery Engineers Remedial Training Company:
So I pulled off the road and drove up to the gate. Up the hill was this:
. . . . and rather more hilarious, this:
Those cabovers are a bit spooky, there is nothing in front of you and you are several feet up. This was a Chevy Titan:
. . . . way back from whence I came, my own little pocito Titanette:
In the other direction was a beautifully enigmatic:
We had been talking about the 2 cycle engines over in Williams CA, and here are your intake ports along the cylinder walls that blow the fresh air in and shove the old exhaust out (through the four little valves in the bus example):
The exhaust manifold is huge.
. . . . Connecting rods are not just a VW problem:
This whole big old engine just runs a generator (used to) :
(oh alright, this is the data plate off of its service generator, the main one is more like 800 volts and 3,000 amps!)
. . . . with some pretty big brushes that run a diesel locomotive's wheel motors.
Then I had a thought, here at the ADHD Refinery Engineers Remedial Training Company:
Maybe they were hoping to install the diesel locomotive engine in this:
They were upgrading the brakes:
. . . and putting in the "Big Train" JC Whitney air horns:
. . . . but then again, maybe not:
Later, I visited the Post-Apocalypse Motel:
. . . . with the recent Extreme Makeover treatment:
The only guest there spake "Nevermore":
. . . so I bid "fare thee well" to the raven and drove back into the hot desert:
. . . . when I spied this nutty contraption in the desert. It looked like the ADHD Refinery Engineers Remedial Training Company:
So I pulled off the road and drove up to the gate. Up the hill was this:
. . . . and rather more hilarious, this:
Those cabovers are a bit spooky, there is nothing in front of you and you are several feet up. This was a Chevy Titan:
. . . . way back from whence I came, my own little pocito Titanette:
In the other direction was a beautifully enigmatic:
We had been talking about the 2 cycle engines over in Williams CA, and here are your intake ports along the cylinder walls that blow the fresh air in and shove the old exhaust out (through the four little valves in the bus example):
The exhaust manifold is huge.
. . . . Connecting rods are not just a VW problem:
This whole big old engine just runs a generator (used to) :
(oh alright, this is the data plate off of its service generator, the main one is more like 800 volts and 3,000 amps!)
. . . . with some pretty big brushes that run a diesel locomotive's wheel motors.
Then I had a thought, here at the ADHD Refinery Engineers Remedial Training Company:
Maybe they were hoping to install the diesel locomotive engine in this:
They were upgrading the brakes:
. . . and putting in the "Big Train" JC Whitney air horns:
. . . . but then again, maybe not:
Later, I visited the Post-Apocalypse Motel:
. . . . with the recent Extreme Makeover treatment:
The only guest there spake "Nevermore":
. . . so I bid "fare thee well" to the raven and drove back into the hot desert:
