Thought you would enjoy the enormity of this valve, a mere 16-1/2" long and 8 pounds. I'm guessing a very large engine....
In my home town there was a factory that made soap. JB Williams co. Most known for Aqua Velva and ‘Lectric shave. They generated their own DC power with a huge Diesel engine that had 8 cylinders and was big enough to have a catwalk around it for maintenance people to walk around on. I saw it just before it it was torn down for scrap many years ago. Story goes that before this factory it powered Madison Square area of NYC. Biggest engine I ever saw. Also, maybe this piston goes with some of the parts shown above. Being down the road a bit from Pratt & Whitney, it wasn’t unusual to see these things being used as ashtrays back on the day.
I never thought I would see another one of those BIG block valves again! I used mine to make a table lamp. Mine is a defective new valve for a Deutsh (Idon't know how to spell it) diesel ship engine. This one was slated for a 4 cylinder engine used on the Great Lakes in a smaller freight ship. It only was rated at 27,000 lb-ft at 120 rpm. It was ONLY rated at 600 hp!
Crocker-Wheeler became Foster Wheeler and one of my brothers worked for them in their turbine division. He retired as a metallurgic engineer
Got a couple of these about the same size. You oughta see the piston! Had one in my store used for a stool at the counter. Took 2 good men to move with a hand truck. Weighed more than a long block, was about 3 feet tall and 2 feet in diameter, ring grooves were about inch. Guy that I got parts from said they set the ring gap with a broomstick. All work was done with chain falls and hoists. Parts came from 12 cylinder gas company compressor engine. Gave it to a scrapper when I closed because I had no place for it and way to heavy to move around but kept the valves. The gas co. has a number of these engines that transport gas through high pressure pipelines. The pipeline they are on runs 1/4 mile from my house. There are 3 lines running underground, 2 are 36" and 1 is a 48". I can actually hear them rumble at night when the house is quiet. Much more noticeable in the basement. The compressor station where they have a bunch of these is located about 20 miles away. Sounds like a semi-tractor idling. Don't know how many times I've got up in the night and gone outside to see what the hell that noise was. I live in a very rural area where nothing but the critters in the woods make noise so it would trip my security trigger and I'd have to go out and wander around the yard with my dick in one hand and a .45 in the other. Finally figured it out after some internet research. The explanation is that the sound of the engines is conducted through the pipe. It's louder in cold weather when they are packing the lines with gas being sent across the country. The guy I got this stuff from offered to give me a tour of the compressor station but we never got around to it before he retired. Security there now is so tight it's like getting into Ft. Knox.
Working around the Marine industry for as long as I have, you never know what you will find in the ship yard. This is an exhaust valve from a Worthington marine diesel engine, it stands 21 & 1/2" tall and weigh's about 11 pounds. We use it for the paper towel dispenser in the kitchen. I too have one of those big ass connecting rods, the shovel next to it gives a good measure of scale for size. Its easily 85 pounds.
The locomotive shop I worked out of had pistons, rods, etc sitting around that were mere tinker toys compared to some of this stuff. I was going to get a con-rod for a mailbox post, wish I had.
Need a cotter, pin for those giant parts? This one has a ½" shank and is 5½" over all length.... Giant Cotter Pin by TagMan, on Flickr
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