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Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 09, 2020, 09:34:27 am: Quote from: Roscoe on March 03, 2020, 07:25:13 am
Bravo Bravo 👏👏👏

Thanks for the accolades, it was all great fun!
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Roscoe on March 03, 2020, 07:25:13 am: Bravo Bravo 👏👏👏
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: RedRyder on March 03, 2020, 07:08:39 am: Another great showing...!!!

You have the most extensive Wolfgang collection I've ever seen.

Thank you, again, Daniel...!

Gil
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 02, 2020, 07:49:37 pm: You are more than welcome Charlie, I hope you enjoyed it, and thanks for the applause!

Really, it just gave me an excuse to add another turbine to the table, that otherwise would have never seen the light of day .... ;c)
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: txlabman on March 02, 2020, 05:54:23 pm: Some interesting sounds from her. An elegant little lady Wilesco.

Thanks for the encore.
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Post by: odu50 on March 02, 2020, 04:03:46 pm: magnificent
it's beautiful
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 02, 2020, 03:58:15 pm: Hey Charlie .... in response to the high speed ovation you provided (many thanks), I've talked another lady, not part of The Choir, to come on stage and perform a set of scales solo, just for you, as an encore!

She is of a different breed than the Wolfgang girls, but just as naked, or perhaps even more so, as her nudity is almost totally transparent.

I picked her up as a stand alone, sans base or boiler, and she does have a few minor flaws, as there are hairline cracks showing at the top of both of her legs. These do not seem to affect her performance however, as her stance still seems quite solid. Tangentially fed and axially exhausted through a very open front she is full shrouded around the circumference and back, where there is a reduction gear drive with a pulley. The odd thing about this girl is that she is put together from a material that most would not even consider using for a steam turbine, ie plastic, with the only metal being the two shafts, so I guess that Wilesco has no problem using the material in that application, as they also now use it for valve stems on their engines, whistles and boilers.

Please meet & greet ... Miss Wilesco T-90:

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https://youtu.be/6M06twz1cfc
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 02, 2020, 11:32:16 am: Thanks Larry ... if you weren't half deaf before (like me) then you likely are after hearing The Choir entire!
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: jkbixby on March 02, 2020, 11:27:34 am: Missed this somehow until now (must be half deaf) - that is truly an impressive collection and I love to hear them run even if I can't past a certain point (but Maggie my cat sure could). Always intended to get one or two but never did - glad you did thought as it was fun to watch and listen to them.
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 02, 2020, 09:14:45 am: Quote from: classixs on March 01, 2020, 12:34:00 pm
Impressive collection...and noise ;D

Thanks for sharing these Daniel, all of them VERY rare on this side of the pond.

Thanks for the kind words Jan .... I think they are rather rare anywhere, as I'm pretty sure Richard did not do anything like actual production. I'd be surprised if there were many more than a dozen or so of most of the models, and some were likely even less than that.
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Nick on March 02, 2020, 12:01:54 am: Really glad you figured out the video posting, that Grand Finale was great!! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 11:10:35 pm: Quote from: Woe is me on March 01, 2020, 08:26:07 pm
Quote from: AirSpyder on March 01, 2020, 03:26:34 pm
Great collection of turbines, the sound always brings the dental drill to mind.

Really, yeah come to think of it a dental drill. Free wheeling and then, INTO THE CAVITY.
Hey Daniel, that also had a "Pink Floyd" sound to it. I liked it.

Dental drills are small high speed air turbines as well, so there is an actual direct association and not just a simple similarity!

Pink Floyd ..... huh? "Several species of small turbine engines, grooving in a steam cave with a Celt .... descendent".
Don't know if I've got any Pict in me or not, but certainly have some Celt!
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Post by: txlabman on March 01, 2020, 09:24:04 pm: [attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 08:33:04 pm: Thanks to all that have happened by, and especially to those who have taken the time and considered the content enough to commented on what they have seen and heard here.

But for now .... The person of undefined stature, physique, and gender, has exhaled sonorously across their vocal cords !!!

.... unless of course there is a deafening call for an ENCORE !?!? ;c)
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Woe is me on March 01, 2020, 08:26:07 pm: Quote from: AirSpyder on March 01, 2020, 03:26:34 pm
Great collection of turbines, the sound always brings the dental drill to mind.

Really, yeah come to think of it a dental drill. Free wheeling and then, INTO THE CAVITY.
Hey Daniel, that also had a "Pink Floyd" sound to it. I liked it.
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: txlabman on March 01, 2020, 07:23:36 pm: Awesome Show Daniel!

The Grand Finale was well executed.

I really enjoyed your Table for GPU 2020. 🤠
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 06:34:05 pm: And now that they have all warmed up their voices, it is time to put it all together into what must be the most eclectic choral performance of all time. I only wish that my personal musical talents were up to the task of properly choreographing these lovely ladies, but alas I fear that I'm but a ham fisted wanna-be with a tone deaf ear. What results here may best be described as some form of synth-funk crossed with simultaneously trying to tune in three different Ham Radio receivers back during the 1960's ..... or at least that's how it sounds to me with my rather compromised hearing.

But the show must go on .... so on it will go!

Here then is the long awaited and much dreaded performance of .... ta, ta ta, ta: THE NAKED SIRENS CHOIR

.... performing the wonderfully disclaimed _(s) hit single .... "There Must be an Air Leak Somewhere/Jupiter Gas Music/The Dental Office Blues" Medley:

https://youtu.be/GDX6FKZmApY
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 04:53:30 pm: And now finally on to the last, and by far the smallest, but certainly not the least as concerning voice, the little sister of the previous turbine, and the Princess of the Choir, capable of hitting the highest notes, being somehow mysteriously rated at 100,000 rpm, and easily singing on very little air being tangentially fed and axially exhausted out the back. She has a unique spider mount with four arms that attaches by threads around the front shaft bearing boss, but remains unmounted (vestal virgin perhaps?) thus far.

There is an interesting aside for this turbine, in that shortly after acquiring her, I wound her up and broke her, being that the turbine wheels position was only held in place by a piece of neoprene tubing on the output shaft, which simply wasn't up to the task at hand, such that as I wound her up, the shaft walked back, slipping through the neoprene, until the blades contacted the back wall of the chamber and sheared one of the vanes off. Because of the exhaust design, that sheared off vane immediately exited the exhaust thus keeping it from wiping out the rest of the turbine. I contacted Richard and explained the situation, and he humbly accepted all blame, and immediately replaced the turbine fan assembly, and threw in a couple of spare bearings as well in case they had been damaged by the seriously out of balance condition that existed during the wind down. I replaced the neoprene tubing with a Dubro shaft collar on the new assembly, and all has been fine ever since!

Old broken turbine wheel shown in photos.

Now meet the little gal with a voice bigger than she is ... tiny Miss AM-10:

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https://youtu.be/3CgZJlfLBYc
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 03:45:05 pm: Next to last we have a compact, though not really small, lady that was built for Air only operations. Many, but not all of Wolfgang Engineering's fleet of turbines, were built to be steam capable, but these last two sisters were not. Tangentially fed up front and tangentially exhausted to the rear after 270^o of rotation, she is capable of hitting some really high notes if provided with enough volume and pressure, as she is rated at 60,000 rpm, though just how that rating was derived is outside my knowledge base.

Now meet ... AM-15:

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https://youtu.be/jt1hUvSGrQo
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: AirSpyder on March 01, 2020, 03:26:34 pm: Great collection of turbines, the sound always brings the dental drill to mind.
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Dan-c on March 01, 2020, 03:18:28 pm: Great show of turbines 😁 something I need to add to my collection 👍🏻
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 03:07:17 pm: Next on the docket is another heavy breather, but she needs to be as she carries a built in load that does do a bit to limit her range and sustain, especially at the top end. As you may note, this is the only turbine in my collection to sport the suffix G for generator, but I believe this basic model came in three versions. The base unit sans suffix with no add-ons ... the one I have which is the G model .... and also a model designated G/L for generator/light, that included an attached light bar to give the generator something to do. While she is somewhat demanding of volumes of air to breathe, she does produce effectively on what I can provide her, and sings well for all that. Fully housed, tangentially fed and axially exhausted, she definitely lights my lamp!

Here now is the .... TS-315 G:

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https://youtu.be/7r75IUaRT_U
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Dr.Rev.DelmarMacReady on March 01, 2020, 02:29:43 pm: These are super cool, and make quite interesting sounds. I've never seen these. Thanks for posting! Any more? I love the first and the last most.
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 02:04:13 pm: Here now, let me introduce another one of the outstanding voices in the choir. Possessing a large diameter open housing and spoked wheel with shallowly cupped fins, surrounded by a tight fitting circumferential frame, this tangentially fed singer is well matched by the Noise Maker in volume, range and sustain, thus it is a near toss up which is the better singer.

Please greet the attractive .... JK-250:

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https://youtu.be/9TnXs3wkP0Y
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Maxwell on March 01, 2020, 01:31:55 pm: Daniel, I love these turbines. And the sound is awesome 8)
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 01:19:23 pm: Next, on to the rather diminutive little sister of the prior offering, that actually has quite a voice considering the small diameter of her wheel, which provided but little sustain. She is axially fed from the rear and tangentially exhausted up front which is somewhat unique in this lineup, but she performs well with little volume on only moderate pressure, so works well for me and my limited capabilities.

Here then .... the ST-10:

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https://youtu.be/vJ4F311ds1M
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 12:55:31 pm: Next up is another one that wants a whole lot of air to perform properly, but is seemingly just within my capability to provide for it. No doubt it could do much better with more volume and pressure, but at least it does offer a suitable range of "voice" with what I'm able to supply. Tangentially fed up front and axially exhausted to the rear, it is nicely presented in a variety of natural metal colors, and has a fairly unique side clamping mount system to hold the wholly cylindrical body in place.

Here then is the ST-215:

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https://youtu.be/ToJmnwaeaaU
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: classixs on March 01, 2020, 12:34:00 pm: Impressive collection...and noise ;D

Thanks for sharing these Daniel, all of them VERY rare on this side of the pond.
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 12:32:24 pm: Next up, let me introduce the greatest air hog of the bunch, one that my compressor and air tank may not be quite up to giving it a full performance, and most certainly my valve tree with its diminutive valve orifice is quite incapable of doing it justice, as large volumes are needed just to get it spinning at a decent speed. I picked this one up second hand, and late in the acquisition cycle, which is good as had I got it early, I may not have gotten any more. I suspect that this one is a very early offering, and Richard's design and construction rapidly improved shortly after the release of this rather blocky, shall we say less than attractive, turbine. Tangentially fed off-center, in a totally enclose square block of a housing, while dual exhausting nearly 90^o to flow, makes me think that this might not be a very efficient design to start with. Be that as it may, it does produce a bit of audible base, and would certainly perform better given adequate air.

Here then .... the T-15:

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https://youtu.be/Hoev4EdWRK4
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: RedRyder on March 01, 2020, 12:20:47 pm: Awesome show, Daniel...!!!

Thanks for the great display!

Gil
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Post by: txlabman on March 01, 2020, 12:16:59 pm: Awesome range of sounds!

Keep them coming! 🤠
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 11:56:14 am: Hey now hey ... that worked so let's try another one shall we?

Next up I'll introduce you to a singer that needs little in the way of introduction, as it may well be the best known and most produced of the Wolfgang Turbines .... the Noise Maker.

This large wheeled turbine, is feed tangentially at a significant off axis angle, while the blades are capped around the outer circumference by a brass ring that is either interference pressed on, or heat shrunk into place atop the blades, which seem almost triangular in cross section. The shaft hub on one side has a circumferential flat, that would seem likely to throw the wheel out of balance a bit, but perhaps that is done to give it more "voice", I really don't know. Whatever the case, it does not seem to cause any serious balance issue, and she is quite a singer.

Here then .... the Noise Maker:

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https://youtu.be/R7hTUQVP9Ms
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: txlabman on March 01, 2020, 11:42:13 am: Love the sound.

Keep them coming,
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Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 11:32:31 am: Hoping for the best here, let's see if I can in fact upload video content to the Forum successfully, I will attempt to introduce you all to the members of "The Choir" individually, and let you get a listen to each as they warm up and go through their individual range of scales.

Let's start with one of my personal favorites ... the Mini-Pelton, which while rather small, has a powerful voice and an impressive range, though a somewhat limited sustain. Powered by a tangential input impacting double side by side semi-circular depressions in the face of each blade, which in cross section looks like the numeral 3, such that the airflow is split in the center and caused to follow around the circumference of each chamber exhausting out both sides of the open wheel, thus reversing and exiting in the opposite direction, and thereby imparting nearly twice the force of that produced by a simple flat blade.

Here then ... the Mini-Pelton:

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https://youtu.be/DUzLTheUJo8
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 08:37:34 am: Here's hoping I can get the videos to upload onto the Forum properly from my no longer supported operating system. At least the still photos seem to be cooperating at this point.

Wish me luck .... here goes!
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: oilfield_steam on March 01, 2020, 08:07:26 am: Quote from: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 12:13:10 am

And so without further ado ...... let me introduce you to The Naked Sirens Choir in all their glory

This'll make great "click bait" for the Forum ;)

Great collection Daniel!
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Post by: Junkologist on March 01, 2020, 08:04:54 am: Nice collection! I always wanted to snag one of those, but never pulled the trigger.
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Post by: txlabman on March 01, 2020, 08:04:28 am: An awesome collection Daniel.

I have me ear plugs on stand by. 🤠
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: St Paul Steam on March 01, 2020, 06:39:43 am: Quote from: Nuvolari on March 01, 2020, 02:31:21 am
A nice set of mini turbines
Agreed, very nice Daniel !
Title: Re: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Nuvolari on March 01, 2020, 02:31:21 am: A nice set of mini turbines
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Post by: Nick on March 01, 2020, 01:05:24 am: I think you have the largest collection of these Daniel, probably even more than the builder has 8)

Glad I got his "noisemaker" when they were available.
Title: Stoker's Table: featuring "The Naked Sirens Choir"
Post by: Stoker on March 01, 2020, 12:13:10 am: An audio and visual production, presenting material crafted by Richard "Wolfgang" Stethem, and performed by yours truly, on compressor and valves.

But first a bit of prelude:

Greek Mythology describes "The Sirens" as being beautiful maidens whose songs resonate in the ears of the listener so sweetly as to enchant and totally captivate their hearts, minds and souls. The Sirens have also been described as evil and horrid creatures whose shrieks and screams, far from melodic, strike paralyzing fear and dread into the very core of those who hear them. The Choir presented here will hopefully do neither ..... but you've been warned!

As a disclaimer, the use of the term "naked" references a condition that is lacking any outer covering, sans pigment if you will, and thus the members of this choir are in fact completely bare, and exposed in their elemental condition. Please avert your eyes if you are easily offended by such immodesty!

And so without further ado ...... let me introduce you to The Naked Sirens Choir in all their glory:

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