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That's an incredible shot, Motts! WOW!
Junkyardave
Fri 11-05-2010
beautiful!! Amazing how much inertia power could be held by these massive flywheels
Andy
Sat 11-06-2010
Great shot, I can picture the blurring motion as the wheel turns.
A D Nilsen
Sat 11-06-2010
Warning... keep arms away from the wheel...
Canada
Sat 11-06-2010
another..GREAT angle!
ginberry
Tue 11-09-2010
If would be interesting to know how many rpm's these engines ran at....
1079
Tue 11-09-2010
Slow. IIRC, the large flywheels on most of the old monsters never went over 500 RPM, if that. Many much slower. It was the heavy weight that stored the power, not the speed so much.
autoguy
Wed 11-17-2010

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