Abandoned power station

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• Dec 28, 2013

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ipf said:

Intresting stuff, never know what you're gonna find in them pennine moors.

Like the gennys. A factory I used to work in had a stand by...WW2 german e-boat engine...never knew of it being needed but used to fire it up every couple of months for a run, noisy but nice.

ps. Wish I could have filmed it with my mobile, trouble is it's best part of 40 years ago. Goodness knows what became of it.

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theres this on youtube...its a uboat engine from the first world war (1917) powering a generator...it was never fitted to a uboat....the war ended before it could be installed into a u-boat...its in holland...

check it:

MAN F6V35 World War 1 U-boat diesel engine load run - YouTube

M.A.N. U-boat diesel engine Running - YouTube

M A N Motor. U-boat diesel engine. Duikboot motor. - YouTube

M.A.N. U-boat diesel engine Start up - YouTube

 

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• Dec 28, 2013

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SPARTYKUS said:

Thanks Glenn enjoyed that. Would love a rummage around there!

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i wouldn`t mind a rummage about in this..

but each to their own...its whatever excites you i suppose....

 

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• Dec 28, 2013

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Good video...


I love all that, abandoned places especially linked to electrikery...

Had a walk around an abandoned large industrial site switch room (More of a building than a room) and boiler house once. Some of of the switch room had suffered a fire at one point, been re-stored and re-instated. You could see all the evidence of it. Just find it all interesting poking around and having a wander. Its a rare these days to see places exactly how they where left many years ago as the pikeys have usually been round and stripped the place...

 

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• Dec 28, 2013

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GLENNSPARK said:

i wouldn`t mind a rummage about in this..

but each to their own...its whatever excites you i suppose....

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• Dec 28, 2013

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haha. 'er indoors goes mad at me if i'm out the back for a smoke and need a pee so use the grid.

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hasnt she got enough on her mind ...watching over them pans....

sounds to me like she has too much spare time on her hands Tel.....

get her graftin....

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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Shame on you,me poor old mum only went to morecambe bay to flog a few winkles,and some deviant snaps her sortin' out her hair...

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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I feel sick.
Looks like a great place to look around, shame some idiot decided it was a good place to try out his new camcorder.

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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yeah I would have loved to see some of the old gear like that restored

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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Weston Point was built and run by ICI. It was a ---- up to whether it should have been nuclear.

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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Just noticed in the video, the breakers are the same as our main crusher. It gave me the willies isolating it, a 3.3KV knife switch. No interlocks to the OCB, you could operate it under load. It would be the last thing you ever did!
We added an on load isolator close to the motor. It lasted a month before blowing up. The original breaker and knife switch was installed in 1948.

RoB will confirm if you close a DMO (Dependant Manual Operation) OCB on to load, they fight back. You really have to go for it otherwise you’re toast.

If anyone’s interested there is a HSE document on DMO switchgear. Makes interesting reading, made me think I must have been bloody mad! But it was what we were brought up with from being an apprentice.

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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Intresting, shame it's now off the bar!!,how many more?.

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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and from weston point, on a clear day, you can see most of liverpool. makes one homesick.

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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and from weston point, on a clear day, you can see most of liverpool. makes one homesick.

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just spotted a mistake in your post tel...

here..i`v highlighted it for you...

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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??????

 

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• Dec 29, 2013

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telectrix said:

??????

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take a joke Tel...

 

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