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motor w/alternator vs. generator with charger vs.?
"Shaun Van Poecke" wrote in
: They have some dinky other inventions there too, I saw a setup on another boat (maybe a crab boat?) which had most of the driveline of a car on it; engine, gearbox, driveshaft, rear axle (im guessing the spider gears on the diff were welded) and a rim on each axle. These were used to pull lines in. When I was a kid, long ago I'm sorry to say, a neighbor of my grandfather built a pontoon barge about 16' wide and 32' long. He tried an outboard motor of-the-day, but it was too small to power it, especially into the wind or current. In his yard sat a rusted out old late 40's Chevy pickup truck with a good engine/transmission/rear end. He mounted the whole drivetrain into the center of the deck of the big pontoon barge and added two more pontoons for more bouyancy. (Made from 55 gallon oil drums for free) The rear axle was bolted to the deck with motor mounts for vibration control under it. Extending shafts were welded to both sides to bring the power for the home made paddle wheels out over the edges and paddle wheels inside splash pans were made, a total guess but pretty correct in size. Twin rudders were added to the stern to provide steering, but later brake bands over drums that were welded onto the drive shafts were added, which provided really neat power control to the paddle wheels. You could apply the port brake, lowering the port paddle power while the differential added power to the stbd paddle. Lock a brake and she'd turn around nearly in her own length! We kids spent many a great weekend camping out on that barge powered by Chevrolet. As upstate NY hardly ever gets "warm" for more than a week in summer, the radiator heat was redirected into the little cabin to keep us warm from the waste heat. Fishing from it was a disaster underway. The slapping of the paddle wheels entering the water scared away the fish for miles!....(c; -- http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/verichip.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriChip http://www.verichipcorp.com/ Tracked like a dog, every license/product/tax. Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name... |
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