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A. E. Karnes
Добавлен 19 окт 2006
Un-imagining the nightmare-future tomorrow everyone else seems hell bent on making.
Fresnel lens drive clock complete and running!
The 3rd/4th order drive clock is finished and back in he land of the living, ready to go back to its owner. Watch for details!
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Afternoon Jaunt with TIV 75
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Driving a French narrow gauge 0-6-0 up to a comfortable speed with one of my best friends in the whole world firing. This is a snippet from a wonderful day spent on this railway with my European railway colleagues, more videos of this to come.
Paddlesteamer Lötschberg of Lake Brienz
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One of 17 steam ships in public service in Switzerland, subsidized by the federal government for their operating and maintenance costs, due to the Citizenry not tolerating their dissappearance. The Swiss should be very proud of themselves. My only critique are the automatic electrically controlled oil fired boilers, but these could be quickly and easily done away with if the willpower exists.
Why Metric Base 10 is a terrible system.
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All my life I've detested the modern European metric system, mostly due to its use of base ten. Here is Alex Sherwood, who has been similarly fed up with base ten in mathematics generally for his entire life, and who can articulate why such a system is terrible far better than I ever could, as well as a better alternative.
Silence is Golden
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A vignette of our Merlin engine's first run of the season, shot by Elijah Jackson of@BalticFilms144 Also showing her first time driving anything in this case an old hay windlass which may or may not be used to drive an uphill sled pull line for unsuspecting families in the coming Winter. The name "Silence is Golden" seems to have stuck to this machine because she is quite literally both of thos...
Fresnel Lens drive clock repair Pt.3
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Continuing the repair and refit of a 3rd order Fresnel lens drive clock for the owner of Graves Light in Boston Harbor. This movement was seriously compormised and not fit to run when I got it.
Fresnel Lens drive clock repair Pt.2
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Maintenance gear train finished. Thank you Jon Sherwood for the wonderful machining work on this
Polaris Feedwater Pump, part 2.
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Previous parts of this project here: ruclips.net/video/yXyiQ8C-AvA/видео.html
Miniature Harris Corliss Engine troubleshooting Pt.1
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The small Harris Corliss I got from Dick Everett had most of its admission valve trip cam gear on backwards. He had never been given the time to fix it himself for William Harris III, and I got it from him shortly after Mister Harris died, so we are now putting it right. I will film the whole adventure.
The Ethics of an Industrial Society...
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4PM Thoughts from last spring on the proper place of things and priorities of a heavily industrial society. (Or post-industrial, as the case may be for the rapidly declining West...)
Abaco First Order Lens and IOV burner start
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With my friend Jeffrey Forbes of the Elbow Reef light station, firing up the Chance Brothers vertical tube IOV burner, and getting the lens turning.
Scientific American Continued
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Fully reversible bowling ball De-Gausers and non-diluted acidic Pin Shiner
Fresnel Lens drive clock repair Pt.1
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Repairing a 3rd order Fresnel lens drive clock for the owner of Graves Light in Boston Harbor
Marsh swinging boiler and trunion port gland
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Marsh swinging boiler and trunion port gland
MBTA 1: The Horrors of Porter Square
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MBTA 1: The Horrors of Porter Square
The Smallest (and perhaps first) Harris-Corliss Engine.
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The Smallest (and perhaps first) Harris-Corliss Engine.
Continued Wall Railway Adventures
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Continued Wall Railway Adventures
Details of Merryweather's Self-contained firefighting engine
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Details of Merryweather's Self-contained firefighting engine
French Compound Scotch-Marine Overtype Testrun
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French Compound Scotch-Marine Overtype Testrun
PART 2: 1887 Scotch Marine boiler and plant steam test and operation
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PART 2: 1887 Scotch Marine boiler and plant steam test and operation
Building a short-notice power plant around an 1887 Scotch Marine boiler
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Building a short-notice power plant around an 1887 Scotch Marine boiler
Cool thing do you try to put a mantle on it?
All splendid
Brilliant!!
Stuff like this really gets me going. I’ve wondered before if this is similar to how the much older lighthouses worked that had candles inside? Anyways, thanks for sharing this. I’m glad older brilliant technology is still alive and kicking in some circles. I’m always an advocate for keeping that stuff around. Great job.
Candles were before the days of the Fresnel lenses and drive clocks. By then they were using some high performance and at times very complex oil and gas burners. Look for "IOV" on my channel, this stands for Incandescent Oil Vapor and I restored such a burner to work for the same person, and videoed it here
I could listen to you talking about this stuff for HOURS.
Very cool! Beautiful piece of machinery there. 😎
Another fine restoration and the sound alone is superb! well done Mr Karnes.
What a nice project! Thanks.
Absolutely beautiful
Great rebuild, I think I have asked before but in the UK our light houses have the lenses arranged so they send a "morse code" type flash so yours was a Flash . flash . flash. but by adding a blank or even an angle to the lens stack you could have falshflash...flash .flash by knowing the code on board a ship you know which light house you was looking at.
Not just the UK, everywhere in the world! And not just flash length or code but also color. There are flashes, group flashes, color changes, occultations, morse code letters/numbers, etcetera....
I'm a shipbuilder and the ONLY unit for me is the millimeter. My car is 4175 millimeters long! I'll have my metric ruler with me in the coffin when the time comes...Btw, I'm 1780 mm high, not 10 feet and 5/64 inches or is it 80 Orios stacked times 3?....😊
I would love to sit next you whist dining, the conversation would be so interesting. Great video
Knocked another out of the park.
Beautiful! Looks and sounds fantastic! Great job!
Bonjour Alexander, Great job ! At what time intervals should the mechanism be wound to obtain continuous movement, I am thinking of the lighthouse keeper who will have to get up at night...? Amicalement, Raphaël
Rapahael, that depends entirely on the height of the tower available or length of he weight column and cable. In some short lighthouses, the weight column was drilled in a shaft into the tower foundation to extend its run. Typical wind times were every 2 to 4 hours. Also depends on how fast the clock is designed to run the lens, faster lens meant more torque needed and shorter weights to bottom time elapsed
It flashed me...
How often would it need to be wound? It looks like weight was dropping fairly fast
In a lighthouse you have plenty of height! Fairly certain the wound chain drops, like a cuckoo clock... the higher you are, the more time you have. Here there's not much.
Shes purring like a kitten now. Amazing work, thanks Alex.
It should be running silent, but sadly I had to do a lot with damaged gears and bad allignment
Absolutely amazing
Great work Alex!! Rich would have loved this!
What a gorgeous little movement. Absolutely fascinated by all thimgs of this nature. Your passion and dedication for restoration is admirable.
Hey Karnes, I'm a 3D Computer Animator/Modeler, what's one of the nicest steam engines in terms of looks n whatnot??? I want to model, shade, render out one for a project....
Alfred De Glehn's 221 for the NORD railway, or the Austrian class 310, Bavarian P4 or S 2/6.
@AEKarnes thank you sir!!!
You my freind... are a national treasure...
Thank you, it means a lot to me. I've called a couple of my mentors that....
It even sounds french... imagine that. lol
Amazing... truly living the dream.
Hey Alex, coming from the waterworks video from properpeople, Absolutely love your passion for these, it us a lost art/skill, if there is a solar flair and all the worlds transformers blow, you are the guy that will get us going again!!!!
To do that I would need to build a power plant of at least 500 megawatts capacity to exactly my own design, with entirely steam driven auxiliaries and boilers capable of starting on natural draft the way we used to have in all of them.
I love your passion for these steam engines and your lost and found friends. Your knowledge is amazing.
Thank you, and there is so much work to do. You are welcome to come help some time...
Love it!
That must have been a very special moment for you and I'd like to thank you for sharing it. He must have been so proud to have someone as passionate and knowledgeable as yourself to pass his expertise onto. May he rest in well deserved peace.
How amazingly cool.
I loved doing this with you, Alex
I loved it equally, Hugo. Next we need to do it on a mainline compound.
@@AEKarnes not mainline compound but i really now think that we should have filmed a "tour" of the engine with all of her features :(
I found you though that Proper People Water Works video and I just loved hearing you talk about esoteric and extant pieces of technology. Looking forward to your content in the future!
Thank you, but nothing esoteric about anything I show!
Wooo wooooo indeed.
😎
This is great clip, where was it taken? More please, good luck from Spain!!
MTVS, Crèvecoeur le Grand, Oise, France!
Awesome thank you for sharing
So, this is your backyard huh? I wondered as much 😂
Northern France to be exact :D
Awesome!
HELL YEA!!
I am ignorant to this sub-culture. I am wondering, where do you get the track for this? I assume you can’t just occupy an old slice of track and rip steam engines on them. Looks fun.
You can in fact do just that.
@@AEKarnes crazy
That is what we are actually doing!
If you aren't careful, you will get sucked into this subculture. You would enjoy it.
❤😊 Woohoo ! 😅
Can we see you as an idol Karnes? :)
Not a good idea, unlike most of the loathesome people in my position or better I heavily discourage that kind of thing, I'd prefer colleague or mentor if need be, I've served in that capacity many hundreds of times by now
:)
Corpet-Louvet? Lovely little machines, and quite elegant ones, too.
Yes! It is Corpet-Louvet N°1234, built in 1909 for the TIV in Britanny. A lovely machine that i think Alex loved too.
One of the prettiest french narrow gauge machines built ever
@@AEKarnes It is my pleasure to have introduced you to her 😄
That had to be pretty cool getting to do that.
lovely!
Tell Eric that James said hello!
wellcome in switzerland ;-)
So the pressure meters reading water you are pumping , or the supply is hooked to new pumping station. The chart meters have been running since 1959 or did you bring them back up ?
I tried finding a web site , do you commission drawings? It will be of water powered mill , in your style ?let me know how to go about this. . Love your channel , going to next local steam school
I do commissioned work yes. Redhawk759@msn.com is my email
Thank You Alex. A beautiful boat and equally beautiful engine room. I am assuming the curved "guards" are to keep oil from the walls?