Markfield Beam Engine and Museum - crankshaft and flywheel
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Markfield Beam Engine and Museum - crankshaft and flywheel
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 24 Jul 2011
This is an 1886 built 8 column Woolf compound beam engine. This is a view on the crank and flywheel. The latter is 27' (some sources say 28') diameter and weighs about 17 tons. It is built up with 10 spokes. Immediately in front of the boss are the two eccentrics to drive the piston valves. Then there are two sets of unequal bevel gears - one for the high pressure expansion gear and the other for the governor drive. On the extreme left are the two rods driving one of the sewage pumps.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.58186
Longitude
-0.061503