How much abuse can a slip clutch take?

[BrokenTrack]

I saw your thread; seems more the opposite of a PTO generator thread LOL. I have two of the mondo generator heads. My other one is waiting patiently for eventual marriage to a propane forklift engine that is also patiently waiting, just a few yards away. I say patiently, maybe not; I haven't checked either for rust in nearly 2 years.

I'm a doer too, in fits & starts. More starts than finishes. I have enough projects started right now to keep me occupied for probably 5 years if I retired right now. But I have a few decades left before retirement. This is the one I've I've committed to finishing next. I started a couple of years ago and made a build thread. It's been collecting dust since then.

It is a pretty big project, and involved, so for 10 pages, it is dedicated to getting the engine rebuilt, but consider too, it has been sitting for 32 years! It is going to take a bit to get running again.

But it really is a project in stages. I have to do it this way, in these stages, because right now my PTO generator does work, so if the power goes out, I can use my tractor to power the house.

Stage 1: Get the engine running on its own
Stage 2: Get the transmission line run to the house
Stage 3: Marry the PTO Generator to the engine
Stage 4: Connect the coolant system to the houses radiant floor heat for cogeneration
Stage 5: Make secondary PTO shaft so my tractor's pto can be the back up, to the back up, of my back up power.
Stage 6: Install coal/firewood boiler in series to radiant floor heating loop

 

[strantor]

I wrote off a torque converter early, maybe prematurely. Truth is I don't fully grasp how they work. My understanding is that they always have some amount of slip. More slip at low RPM, less slip at high RPM, but still slip at high RPM, and that slip might change depending on load. Which would most likely make it unsuitable for getting a steady 60Hz out of my generator. If I were using a complete automotive drivetrain with cruise control I could set the cruise and it would compensate for slip, but in this case the slip would not be compensated.

But I am remembering some term about torture converter that once upon a time I understood: lock-up torque or stall torque or was it stall RPM? I don't remember. Is there some point at which a torque converter stops slipping and becomes 1:1? I'll investigate.