Elvis Hargrove wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
-> Just how big was this stuff,  anyhow?
 EH> DAMN big!  They were pumping (As I remember it) 3600+
 EH> horsepower into each of the Diesel->generator sets and there
 EH> were four of them. (This was on a SMALL ship)
 EH> The generators on the Steam->turbine->generator sets were a
 EH> BUNCH bigger, (Over 8 feet tall lying on their side and were
 EH> 12-14 feet long.) 
 EH> There was a "Turning gear" gadget that plugged into the end
 EH> of the motors that were not on line, where you took a
 EH> ratchet handle and cranked a worm gear that moved the shaft.
 EH>  (To keep the bearings fron sticking .) The ratchet was five
 EH> feet long!
 EH> I expect the scrap value on this stuff makes it impossible for 
 EH> mere mortals to buy them whole. (Like the BEAUTIFUL 50 voltDC 
 EH> generators that came out of the Telephone CO when they replaced 
 EH> their standby equipment several years ago.)
I dunno,  I have some othernet stuff I carry here which deals in 
international trade,  and there was this one guy (who has unfortunately been 
absent from things for a while) who used to deal in such stuff as heavy 
equipment,  etc.  I distinctly remember seeing some messages go by in there 
some time ago about gensets and similar stuff,  so I would imagine that 
they'd be modified for the power requirements of other countries and then 
exported,  rather than simply scrapped...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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