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bruce
Senior Member Username: bruce
Post Number: 673 Registered: 07-2002
| Posted on Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 09:16 pm: |
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Very few posting OME topics these days. I'm having withdrawal from lack of contributors. I check this site every day multiple times.... |
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dick_briggs
Advanced Member Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 31 Registered: 02-2015
| Posted on Sunday, April 28, 2019 - 06:07 pm: |
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Bruce, I understand and feel the same way, but since I seldom post anything, I can't really complain. So here is my current project - a Palmer Q2. Most parts are there, but making lots of nuts, bolts, and shims; the intake and exhaust need a bit of welding and the timer is an odd one that needs a bit of modification.
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2510 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 - 04:18 pm: |
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I have been working on some real big steam enignes at a local museum. The biggest project has been replacing all the steam lines in the building. 2 inch screwed together black iron pipe. boiler made in 1966. The horizontal steam engine is an Erie City about 10 by 12 bore and stroke. The round thing that is running is a GE steam turbine direct connected to a DC generator. 125 volt I think. The vertical engine is a Troy Egberg. Not sure on the size.
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2511 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 - 04:34 pm: |
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We were the recipients of another large mill engine. A Rollins made in Nashua, NH. It sat undisturbed from the end of WW2 until December 2018 when we moved it from the Gurney Tack Co in Whitman, MA to the New England Wireless & Steam Museum in East Greenwich, RI. Link to more info on this engine. https://newsm.org/steam-e/rollins-engine-moved/ Also while you are there take at the rest to the museum web page. https://newsm.org/ Enjoy Ernie |
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2512 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 - 04:37 pm: |
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Here is the star of our Steam Engine Collection https://newsm.org/steam/corliss-steam-engine-1892/ |
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2513 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 - 04:40 pm: |
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Our Fitchburg engine. The donation of this engine was arranged by Dick Day. It ran a mill in Peterboro,NH. Dick spent a large part if his early years there. https://newsm.org/steam/fitchburg-steam-engine-1905/ |
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2514 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 - 04:45 pm: |
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Here is a pic of one of 4 Rollins flywheel hub bolts. There are also 10 rim bolts 5 in each side. The flywheel as you can see in the pic in the link above is in 2 halves. Each half weighs about 9300 pounds.
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2515 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Monday, April 29, 2019 - 04:49 pm: |
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Here is the Rollins the morning we started the moving process. It had been under cover till the building was removed about a month before we moved it. The flywheel is about 15 ft in dia.
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jb_castagnos
Senior Member Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 1418 Registered: 07-2002
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| Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:08 am: |
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Ernie, wish I was closer or retired, I'd be helping, looks like my kind of fun. Nice work. |
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2516 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:54 am: |
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JB Thanks it is hard work but fun and very rewarding. Ernie |
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ernie
Senior Member Username: ernie
Post Number: 2517 Registered: 01-2002
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| Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:58 am: |
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Around 3000 pounds of crankshaft. Notice the bottom half of the flywheel which is resting on timbers across the flywheel pit. It was next to remove.
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