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Slow Speed Diesel Engines => Other Slow Speed Diesels => Topic started by: mikenash on January 02, 2018, 09:16:09 PM

Title: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: mikenash on January 02, 2018, 09:16:09 PM

Can't call it a barn find - maybe a "paddock find" lol

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: Willw on January 03, 2018, 12:26:41 AM

Is it yours? Are you going to take a stab at getting it going?
It sure looks interesting.

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: mikenash on January 03, 2018, 03:49:05 AM

Just saw it in a paddock

Think I have at least a half-dozen too many unfinished projects already

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: Tom on January 03, 2018, 04:41:26 AM

It looks like a steam engine.

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: dax021 on January 03, 2018, 07:47:45 AM

Scuse if this is a silly question, but is it not perhaps a water pump, to be driven by a tractor PTO?

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: mikenash on January 03, 2018, 07:50:20 AM

I think it's internal combustion.  Certainly has a right-angle drive to a "camshaft" kinda arrangement ("sideshaft) but valves etc are mostly gone.  I don't know if it was a diesel or a petrol

The serial number will mean something to some train-spotter or rivet-counter in the ranks :)

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: mikenash on January 03, 2018, 08:03:31 AM

Best guess . . .

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: mikenash on January 03, 2018, 08:10:41 AM

further

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: 38ac on January 03, 2018, 02:13:11 PM

Definitely an internal combustion engine and I believe a valuable one at that.
 Cannot believe such things have survived out by the road where anyone can see them. Here it would have been snatched up by a collector or scrap guy a long time ago. 

Title: Re: TANGYE - not a barn find, a field find
Post by: Willw on January 03, 2018, 06:31:11 PM

If it's what I consider old, antique, historic or whatever excuse my mind comes up with at the time, it comes home with me.
I have passed on too much "junk" in my time, only to regret it later (e.g OM617 Benz Diesel with tranny, 327 Chevy V8 with TH400, etc.)
My present philosophy is "I can always get rid of it later, but I will probably never come across another one".

Present case in point https://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=174533 (https://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=174533)