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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Your turbine is home. "Honey, I'm home." These things sound like an APU when they're under load.

    I think the Solar Turbine factory was in San Diego in 1978. Can you confirm this?

    You could make a cool animation using the crane lift photos in this group.

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Solar Turbines was located in San Diego and made turbines for standy power used by telephone utilties in the 1970s and 1980s. Many were about 250 kilowatt ratings. I have a 1950s firefighting film showing a man-portable turbine pump which never became popular. It may have been made by Solar.

    my memory is that they sounded like an aircraft APU. That's what they are.

    That odd looking pipe at the left of the image is probably the underground fuel tank vent.

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    A manifold to remove soil hydrocarbons?