1898 15 HP Palm

Coolspring Spotlight: The rare and beautiful from the Coolspring Power Museum includes the fusion of an Ajax Steam Engine and a Palm Gas Engine.

Gas Engine Magazine
February/March 2012
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The 1898 15 HP Palm is a unique steam-to-gas conversion in that it has the ability to run as both a four-cycle gas engine and a steam engine.  
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The 1898 15 HP Palm is a four-cycle gas engine that can also operate as a steam engine. The base is an Ajax steam engine that was built in Corry, Pa., and the cylinder was built by the Palm Gas Engine Co. of Butler, Pa.

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On the cylinder, you can see the steam chest and the throttle valve for steam operation on one side. On the other side of the engine is the valve chest, exhaust pushrod, mixer, intake valve, plus the ignition system – all parts for operating as a gas engine. There’s also a valve that you turn by hand to affect the conversion from one mode to the other.

Another interesting feature is that the exhaust valve is actuated not by timing gears but by a “wigwam” cam that alternately tracks on a low and high track mounted on the crankshaft, giving the every-other-revolution movement needed to operate the exhaust valve.

Read more about this engine and 38 others in the new book, Coolspring, published by Gas Engine Magazine. Order it online at Gas Engine Magazine's store. 

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