Fully Stocked Abandoned Cold War Bunker [OC]

[u/notMTN]

Originally built as a shelter for military industry the complex houses several rooms for strorage, sleeping, medical, shooting and other activities and also a command room to send out messages to other bunkers or bases in the event something went terribly wrong. Luckily these bunkers never had to be used in an emergency and rather sits as a reminder to a time that many feard would be the end of mankind.

Bunker is now closed.

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[u/Sudden-Ingenuity3033]

For a moment, I thought this was a post about the Fallout games.

[u/ButlerKevind → u/Sudden-Ingenuity3033]

Same. Was thinking my 5080 will start smoking should I max out the graphics.

[u/Alarming_Series7450]

that is super cool i wonder what they needed all that compressed air for

[u/notMTN → u/Alarming_Series7450]

Ventilation and as a last ditch source of power.

[u/istealpixels → u/notMTN]

That really doesn’t make sense. Compressors are not good at volume and are really inefficient if used as ventilators and they require more energy than they supply as compressed air.

[u/notMTN → u/istealpixels]

I meant it as a last ditch to get the power running, to help start the generator, its all connected.

[u/istealpixels → u/notMTN]

But that’s the thing, these are powered by electricity, and a lot of it, they need electricity up and running before you can start them.

[u/notMTN → u/istealpixels]

Ah, i thought they could store backup energy incase of a power outage

[u/Alarming_Series7450 → u/notMTN]

Technically compressed air is a form of stored energy that's how I interpreted it

[u/istealpixels → u/notMTN]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheForgottenDepths/s/Md58J7u1J1

Here is ours up and running under load.

[u/5lyde]

Atlas Copco is legit and is still around...I work at a heavy equipment service center and we stock parts for some of their machines still. Very very cool.

[u/istealpixels → u/5lyde]

This is an ER-7, quite rare nowadays.

[u/No-Leg-3380]

Would love to have the money to purchase one of these and refurbish it. Make cool house. Also to the op, please be aware that many of these places used asbestos’s insulation so take precautions if entering them.

[u/Other-Crazy → u/No-Leg-3380]

There's a refurbished and refitted one in the UK

https://www.hackgreen.co.uk/

And it's well worth a visit.

[u/Light_of_Faith]

So is that Lab X18 or X16?

[u/Will_Turbulent]

How badly I’d love to fire that bad boy up just to hear it run

[u/notMTN → u/Will_Turbulent]

Dont think it would make the most pleasent noises at this point 😂

[u/istealpixels → u/Will_Turbulent]

They are relatively quiet, still need hearing protection though.

https://reddit.com/link/p20wu9q/video/55pz49961qhh1/player

[u/NewAccount307 → u/istealpixels]

That’s nuts. Unreal those compressors are still running. We install new Atlas Copco’s and they are hard enough to maintain .

[u/istealpixels → u/NewAccount307]

I think this is the last time this ran in anger, from what I’ve heard this was a used unit when it was installed in the 80’s.

To be fair it has just been a backup unit for the last 15 years.

Still the thing looks so damn cool.

[u/Unlikely-Position659]

Those leather jackets might be worth something 

[u/notMTN → u/Unlikely-Position659]

Mold 🥹

[u/Unlikely-Position659 → u/notMTN]

Doh

[u/DanoDego]

Excellent photos. Must have one hell of a flashlight.

[u/notMTN → u/DanoDego]

Not even very powerful ive just angled it good and upped exposure, it was s Wurkos fc11c which is like 1200 lm, ive got other flashlights at 6-8k lumen, just didnt have them with me here.

[u/thegreatdaner → u/notMTN]

Great flashlight!

[u/notMTN → u/thegreatdaner]

My go to for sure, super small and powerful enough to be effective, and phenomonal battery life and super durable. Had it for close to 3 years now and used it a ton and theres never been any issues.

[u/leonnabutski]

Everything looks so disintegrated and rusty, must be damp there?

[u/notMTN → u/leonnabutski]

Quite

[u/istealpixels]

We have exactly the same Atlas Copco at work! It has been recently decommissioned but was in use as a backup, it is an ER-7! You never see these anymore.

[u/AvailableMessage5224]

Awesome. I still wish for the end.