Reversible engines are not well known in most of the engine world, but they are well known in the world of cargo ships. One of my forest landowners had a model of one that he showed me. He worked for an engine company and he loved talking about engines as much as he loved working in his timber.
Click this Link to watch a reversible engine in action as the engine starts, reverses, and then restarts to move the boat forward. Our Facebook friend Eric Janssen posted this, but evidently the video is not embeddable on other sites. Remember that when you post if you want your work shared on other formats. You choose your privacy level on both Facebook and YouTube.
Photo is a screenshot from Eric's video, and is also linked.
OOPS! The link works only if you are a Friend of Eric. Oh Well. Ask Eric to "Friend" you and you can enjoy his posts. Eric Janssen is an artist who lives on the good ship Valer with his Schipperke Saartje, who may have been Cleopatra in a former life, his wife Lisbeth, and their son. His posts are always a joy to see. Eric posts under his name, and also in I Love My Schipperkes on Facebook.
Link no work for me.
ReplyDeleteIt works on my computer, but we checked it on the Wife's and on her phone, and it does not work there. Evidently you have to be a Friend of Eric to see his page.
ReplyDeleteBeen seeing if there is a workaround to make this video viewable, and I am all out of ideas. Oh Well. Great sound, and great action as the Captain swings his boat around and lets the current swing the stern, then reverses to get all the boat into the channel, and then restarts forward, throwing lots of wake from the prop.
ReplyDeleteI have left a comment on Eric's post, so maybe he will make it public for us.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to how they shift the cam from forward to reverse.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebvD1RnX7LY
There are several videos of the Arthur Foss, on youtube.
A even better one of the cam shift.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhozHs7awMI