Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

It is never good when two aircraft carriers go anywhere together, unless that place is "back to port for refitting".

Went to a job site and took some pictures today:

Lets play a game...What is it?

Why, it's obviously a Big Spinny Thing.

It looks similar to the Dyno we had at SJSU

Brett_Murphy wrote: I have too little energy for that at my advanced age.

Likewise, here. I also stay out of the political threads for the same reason.

Hotlink:

Guilty as charged. I was trying to be funny. It clearly didn't work.

neon4891 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Why, it's obviously a Big Spinny Thing.

JoeyM wrote:

neon4891 wrote:

RossD wrote: Went to a job site and took some pictures today: Lets play a game...What is it?

Coal burner/crusher? I think I've seen those at local power plant

RossD wrote: Went to a job site and took some pictures today: Lets play a game...What is it?

It's a late '40s, early '50s GE Steam turbine. It's connected to a generator. I think it's pretty neat.

NEW HOT LINK!: -The prison that it's at.

fastEddie wrote:

Heh....they ain't heading to port. Alert birds are set on both. You can bet the air crews are butts in seats or damn close by. I also wouldn't be surprised if they were at a modified condition Zebra. That's how we rolled every time we went through there (Straights of Whoremooze).

It's intimidating enough (for anyone sane) to see just one carrier battle group show up on your doorstep....two can be downright bedwetting. Also of note....there's what you don't see in the photo

64chrysler300 wrote:

fastEddie wrote:

It's intimidating enough (for anyone sane) to see just one carrier battle group show up on your doorstep....two can be downright bedwetting. Also of note....there's what you don't see in the photo

RossD wrote:

RossD wrote: Went to a job site and took some pictures today: Lets play a game...What is it?

It's a late '40s, early '50s GE Steam turbine. It's connected to a generator. I think it's pretty neat. NEW HOT LINK!: -The prison that it's at.

Daaaang. Never seen the chitlins of a steam turbine before. That's pretty cool. I figured they all looked like this inside:

RossD wrote: -The prison that it's at.

In reply to Curmudgeon:

That one appears that it maybe a blade style turbine. The one I took pictures of was a bucket style, and it's also a lot smaller than most of the google images of a steam turbines.

Here's someone else's hotlink of buckets. There would be stationary 'blades' to direct the steam into the buckets making the rotor turn (not visible in any of the pictures)

oh, that guy from dead or alive, pete burns? yeah, here's a before and after:

In reply to AngryCorvair:

Is that his death mask?

Abe's death mask:

Duke wrote:

Don't berkeley with the engineer.

FlightService wrote: Don't berkeley with the engineer.

Love 96s.