[TheForge] Tire Hammer

Fri Jul 21 14:58:44 EDT 2017

That's easy Dave, build a tall tower with a horizontal turbine like the ones
you see on spinning on roof ventilation ducts only much larger. 

There are several strategies for storing energy till you need it. You can
hook it to a torque converter drive like a snow machine and spin up a large
flywheel, the torque converter will change ratios automatically like
shifting gears so the faster the flywheel spins the higher the gear the wind
turbine pushes.

Another I like if you have a stream or pod available is to pump water into a
tower tank or uphill to a reservoir and drive your line shop with a water
wheel. This strategy is or was used when only small streams were around,
they'd power pumps with a pelton wheel and store the water uphill.

A similar thought is to use the wind turbine to power an air compressor and
store the air for later use or windless days. This is the system I was going
to use but the accident took me out of the fancy home built game. <sigh> If
I'd moved faster I could've  brought home about 900' of 4" steel pipe in 20'
lengths. My plan was to bury them in a grid under the shop floor. The grid
needs to have a slope and drain point to remove condensation, easy to do by
connecting the drain cock to a piece of tubing that ends at the bottom of
the drain reservoir.

I'm sure we all know what happens when we run the compressor, the tank gets
hot, I'm to going to explain why, it's enough to know it does. With a pipe
grid under the shop floor as a compressed air tank the shop would have in
floor heating. The shop of course would've had a couple thousand gallon air
tank.

Summer might get a tad warm though wouldn't it? HAH, got that covered, I'd
collected a bunch of natural gas tanks from the period the State tried
running the vehicle fleet on natural gas instead of gasoline. What a bust,
it took almost an hour to fill the gas tank at the ONE fuel station in
Anchorage. Anyway, the tanks were removed and tossed, the metal recyclers
didn't want them they were wrapped in carbon fiber composite shells to
reinforce them in case of accident. They tried running over one with a
loader, lifted the front end off the ground on the bucket edge, then took
the yard's D8 to it, lifted the front on the blade and then lifted the
entire dozer off the ground with the ripper tooth resting on the tank they'd
been trying to destroy. All that's extraneous to the point, I get rambling.

The point was over heated shop in summer, I brought home 8 of the old NG
tanks and was going to connect them with a manifold for summer compressed
air. Then if I rigged the right kind of valving releasing HP air into the
sub floor grid would chill the floor for air (floor?) conditioning. 

That aspect wouldn't be so big a deal here, we get excited if it hits 70f.
but down south a nice cool floor might be a nice thing.

In the end I installed PEX, hydronic tubing in the floor and maybe some day
I'll be able to hook it up.

Anyway, that's today's Frosty voyage of the imagination and ramble.

Want to hear how to heat your house, shop, etc. with a composter?

Frosty

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave Smucker
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:12 PM
To: mspencer at tallships.ca; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Tire Hammer

Cool Mike,  Now how do you add a sail so it is wind powered.  I too love the
tall ships.  We visited Portsmouth, England a few weeks ago and got to see
the Mary Rose Museum.  Very special.

Dave Smucker
Brasstown,NC

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 6:34 PM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Tire Hammer

I trust y'all remember my run at a tire hammer.

   http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/shop/AO-power.html

Doesn't have the refinement of the efforts of Clay Spencer et al. but
another proof of concept. :-)

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
                                                           /V\ 
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^

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