cooling a 40 hp Bovaird and seyfang

[RHudson]

Anyone have any good ideas on how to cool a 40 hp model cj bovaird and Seyfang, maybe a wooden cooling tower? i would like to have something skid mounted. Thanks Fellows

[Doug Waggonner]

How about a whiskey barrel? If you can find a good one that hasnt been cut in half to be used as a flower pot . Thats what I'm using for the cooling tank on my 35hp Superior, seems to work fine. I had no idea how hard it would be to find a good whiskey barrel untill I started looking for one.

[Elden DuRand]

Originally Posted by Doug Waggonner

How about a whiskey barrel?

Can I come over first time you start it up so I can stick my head down in the barrel? Should be able to get a buzz from that!

Take care - Elden

[RHudson]

Yeah, well i'm in the part of the country that whishey barrels are not too much a problem...when i was a teenager, i made furnature out of them. looked pretty cool for a kids place. but the whole apartment smelt like jim bean.

i don't know, i kinda looking for something more "industrial" looking. wonder how much heat a 40 hp would reject pulling no load and running at slow speed? i saw a illustration of a cooling tower in one of my old engine engineers text books, but not sure how to make the inside baffles. i think it would add to the looks to see a cloud of mist rising out of the cooling tower.

[bimjy]

Don't know if this will help or not but I used aluminum finned copper tubing like out of a hotwater heat baseboard heater to remove heat from my engine water. I'm sure that you could hide that below the base and then whatever you make to cool the water further could be smaller and a little more portable. Just my $.02. Jim

[ListerDiesel]

Originally Posted by RHudson

Anyone have any good ideas on how to cool a 40 hp model cj bovaird and Seyfang, maybe a wooden cooling tower? i would like to have something skid mounted. Thanks Fellows

The early portable Ruston & Hornsby, Petter, Tangye and other English engines used cooling towers for the engines, and they directed the exhust up through them if I remember correctly to get more of a draught up through the slats.

The wooden slats inside are just pieces of timber that are put together in a square with alternate layers so that the water has a larger surface area exposed to cooling air in the tower. The slats have gaps between each one except at the ends where they are bolted through. The centre is hollow obviously, and the slats are 2"-3" wide and probably 18" to 24" long and 1.2" to 3/4" thick. Something that will stand immersion in hot water would be good, it doesn't have to be wood even, you could use almost any material that you could screw or bolt together like Tufnol (SRBF) or Paxolin (SRBP)

So you'd have two slates forming the top and bottom of a square on the floor, the two more on top on those first two forming the sides, then two more top and bottom and so on. I'll try and find a picture of a bundle in one of the magazines if you need more info.

Hope this is of some help.

Peter

[RHudson]

ok good information, i figured that the center had to have baffles or splash sheets or something....a picture sure would help my uncreative mind.

Thanks for info.


oh yeah grainger has the tubes with fins on them pretty cheep.

[bimjy]

Thanks Robert! I am needing 2 tubes for cooling my next project! I'll check Grainger. Jim Hunter

[RHudson]

well,,not as cheap as i remembered, the complete baseboard unit is cheaper that just the tube, grainger.com search for Hydronic