Monster Size Blower

[SILVERADOSC540]

Came through work today. Biggest freakin blower I've ever seen. Threw my extra large glove on top for reference. Blower weighed in at 490lbs. What is this monster off of?

 

[sams819]

Railroad engine?

[kstruckcountry]

Maybe a big boat?

[SILVERADOSC540]

That was my guess. Looks to be a three lobe design, it was on the way to a rebuild place in Canada. Actually moved freely by hand when I checked. Maybe I should swap mine out. I wonder if it'll fit under the hood...

[hidefmike]

Came through work today. Biggest freakin blower I've ever seen. Threw my extra large glove on top for reference. Blower weighed in at 490lbs. What is this monster off of?

 

 

Curious, what do you do for work?

[SILVERADOSC540]

 

Curious, what do you do for work?

Dockworker for a freight company.

[Carder09]

Maybe it can double as a meat grind too lol.

[SILVERADOSC540]

You could toss a cow in that thing.

[06_GMC]

I used to work for a company called The Blower Shop. That thing is probably from an old Diesel engine in a big deep sea boat of some sorts.

[dsmmace]

I've worked on some diesel dump trucks that had blowers about that size on them.

[desrtrat]

we used to use blowers that small at a titanium manufacturer i worked for years ago, some were larger about 18-24" longer than that one, with 50 hp electric motors spinning them on top of vacuum pumps. they were set up to draw air and off gasses out of the electric arc vacuum furnace when we melted titanium electrodes into 9000+ lb ingots. we had 6, 3 for melting, and 3 for backup. with all 6 running we could draw down to less than 10 microns of atmosphere in 30 min..boy was it LOUD in the in my shop..

[SILVERADOSC540]

Between the dumptrucks and locomotive engines and deep sea engines and now titanium manufacturing applications, I'm feeling a little, well, little. At least my little 1900 is shiny.

[Chris]

Drop a 2300 on it

[SILVERADOSC540]

Nah. It sounds good but I'm pretty happy with what I've got. For now.

[Chris]

Pulley down to a 3.0"