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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Stationary Engine ListRepairing CrankshaftsBy Helen Frenchhttp://www.atis.net This morning dawned bright and sunny; a clear-blue, cloudless sky and just a hint of frost. According to the weather man, it's just a pause between two lots of bad weather, but it couldn't occur at a better time because today is the last show of the season. The show itself is simply an afternoon at the Victorian-era steam sewage pumping station in our local town, but it's a good excuse to get the engines out one last time. Four beam engines sit inside the station, one of which will be in steam for the afternoon while the stationary engines run outside. It gets dark by around 3:30 p.m., so people usually bring lighting displays, either engine-powered or oil and acetylene lamps. A brass band sets up at the top of the engine house between the beams and plays Christmas carols, and... 806 of 5983 characters shown.
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