Wonder how much fuel it would take to spool this badboy
01-02-2006, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by EClancy
When we were there, one was offline, and they decided to start it up for us to let us see. These things were air-start, and used ALOT of air to get going. They actually fired up fairly quickly, maybe after 250 or so revs, not bad i though for an engine bigger than my apartment.
A lot of those old natural gas lift stations that "used" to be all over down here in S.Texas were started with a BIG rotary-vane air type starter plumbed into the nat-gas header thru a Fisher Big-Joe regulator to get it down to the pressure range for the air-starters. OMG! If you weren't prepared and expecting it
when they hit the starter gas valve, you made SURE you were the next time!!! 
MAN those starters were LOUD!!!K.
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