Nowing there is some intrest on this board on some of the stuff i work with so here is a good link of some big stuff this being quite a spectacular pictures of some enormous engine bits link

enjoy

spectacular pictures of some enormous engine bits link


Sigh... but there is no real indication of scale on those pictures. For all I can tell, they are close-ups of 50cc Honda motorcycle parts.

tanstaafl.

Did you actually look at the pictures in the .pdf? That stuff is effing enormous! I can't even get our foundry to pour aluminum that holds oil, and that's 15 lbs worth. Some of those castings must weight 10's of tons. Wow.

-Zeke

Zeke's right! Check out page 18 on the PDF of that second link. In that illustration you can see the tiny little ladders on that monstrosity!

Okay page 12 two folk moving a largish crankshaft into position

and page 11 the little things next to crank shaft are people

and my own favorite very worried looking japanese block working on the piston cooling nozzles on the top of the piston rod

Looking at the output specs on p.22 - 8 cylinder at 105 rpm 23120 bhp! That's 1,156,440 ft-lbs of torque! All that from a measly 418 TON engine. Damn.

-Zeke

So, what exactly would an engine of that size be used for?

...to give even way larger boats the necessary thrust I think.

The grand daddy is one page 23 14 clyinders 108920 Bhp and torque i have no idea from a 2300 ton engine

What they are used for is for propelling the latest in superhuge container ships which are getting to about the same size as an largish sky scraper lying on their sides but about to do about 30mph for the faster ones

The latest nutty concet is for a ship using possible two of those monsters to propell it's self

Just been offered a new job on here http://www.er-ship.com/e/kobe.htm

75,000BHp and an empeg what more could you want in a ship

75,000BHp and an empeg what more could you want in a ship

That it floats?

/Michael

Just been offered a new job on here

At the time of writing, just off the coast of Vietnam.

what more could you want in a ship?

After 60 days at sea ...Women!

228 tons of fuel/day. wow.

Reefer Capacity: 500 Plugs ... i don't even wanna know...

You know those refrigerated lorries you see driving around well that means you can plug in 500 refrigerated containers.

75,000BHp and an empeg what more could you want in a ship


Hmmm, let's see.

It travels at 26.2 knots, burning 228 tons of fuel per day. That would be 629 nautical miles per day on 456,000 pounds of fuel.

Probably running heavy diesel fuel, say 7 pounds per gallon, so that's 629 miles on 65,143 gallons, or .0096 miles per gallon.

Are you telling me that thing only gets 59 feet per gallon of fuel?* And to think people complain about the fuel mileage of SUVs...

tanstaafl.

edited to convert from statute miles to nautical miles!

And to think people complain about the fuel mileage of SUVs...

But SUVs can't carry containerloads of Hello Kitty Talking Keyrings.