Posted by z on October 24, 2007, 6:05 pm
This is a pretty curious thing
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a83093&pn=2
I guess you could hook hamster wheels to it and make some juice!
Posted by Don Young on October 24, 2007, 9:43 pm
> This is a pretty curious thing
> http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a83093&pn=2
> I guess you could hook hamster wheels to it and make some juice!
The US Army used hand cranked generators to power radio sets during WW2. I
visited some soldiers on maneuvers and they let me crank one. It cranked
pretty easily until he pressed the mike button to transmit!!
Don Young
Posted by Arnold Walker on October 25, 2007, 2:06 am
>> This is a pretty curious thing
>>
>>
>> http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a83093&pn=2
>>
>> I guess you could hook hamster wheels to it and make some juice!
> The US Army used hand cranked generators to power radio sets during WW2. I
> visited some soldiers on maneuvers and they let me crank one. It cranked
> pretty easily until he pressed the mike button to transmit!!
> Don Young
Part of the reason Many of the American radioman were happy to be near a
Brit radio team.
Who used something like this....www.preston.co.uk/generator.htm
Instead of cranking......... they would gather burnable debris from around
the area.
And once steamed up ran full radio power running off of old
bandages,leaves,sticks,broken lumber,alcohol ,
etc. Used them the whole time for radio from start until the 1960's.
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Posted by z on October 25, 2007, 2:16 am
>
>>
>>> This is a pretty curious thing
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a83093&pn=2
>>>
>>> I guess you could hook hamster wheels to it and make some juice!
>> The US Army used hand cranked generators to power radio sets during
>> WW2. I visited some soldiers on maneuvers and they let me crank one.
>> It cranked pretty easily until he pressed the mike button to
>> transmit!!
>>
>> Don Young
> Part of the reason Many of the American radioman were happy to be near
> a Brit radio team.
> Who used something like this....www.preston.co.uk/generator.htm
> Instead of cranking......... they would gather burnable debris from
> around the area.
> And once steamed up ran full radio power running off of old
> bandages,leaves,sticks,broken lumber,alcohol ,
> etc. Used them the whole time for radio from start until the 1960's.
>
That sounds very cool. Can you check the link, it didn't work for me.
Posted by Arnold Walker on October 25, 2007, 5:11 am
Preston steam
>>
>>>
>>>> This is a pretty curious thing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a83093&pn=2
>>>>
>>>> I guess you could hook hamster wheels to it and make some juice!
>>> The US Army used hand cranked generators to power radio sets during
>>> WW2. I visited some soldiers on maneuvers and they let me crank one.
>>> It cranked pretty easily until he pressed the mike button to
>>> transmit!!
>>>
>>> Don Young
>> Part of the reason Many of the American radioman were happy to be near
>> a Brit radio team.
>> Who used something like this....www.preston.co.uk/generator.htm
oops.......
www.prestonservices.co.uk/generator.htm
6v 500w tabletop steamelectric powerplant....sometimes called a Ricardo.
Had to be a man of strong to handcrank 500watts 24/7 as long as a Ricardo.
They are shown half way down in the small steampowered generators.
Both setup on table and packed up in it footlocker.
>> Instead of cranking......... they would gather burnable debris from
>> around the area.
>> And once steamed up ran full radio power running off of old
>> bandages,leaves,sticks,broken lumber,alcohol ,
>> etc. Used them the whole time for radio from start until the 1960's.
>>
> That sounds very cool. Can you check the link, it didn't work for me.
>
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> I guess you could hook hamster wheels to it and make some juice!