Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum
Melton's RUDE [reusers of unloved discarded excess] Boy from Facebook @ruderepair visits Maldon to see a Lintotype 78 at the town's vintage Machinery Museum.
RUDE Boy is a former Intertype mechanic and posts at
47 Maldon Trip 2019 Maldon Museum
My son (Spencer) and l Explore the Maldon area over a week from 2 to 9 Jan 2019. We look at every thing we can find historical including Mines.
Now we are looking at the Maldon Machinery Museum.Well worth a visit and we were lucky enough to have a guided tour. Thanks Rodger.
Steam Engine's Letting off some Steam
Steam Engine's Letting off some Steam,
at Vintage Machinery Rally at Hayfield 2010
Club: Heyfield & district Vintage Machinery Group
Cooper Corliss Steam Engine V 2 P1050071.MOV
The Cooper Corliss engine served The Matthiesen-Hegeler Zinc Company of Lasalle, Illinois from 1914 to 1965. One of six large engines, it powered a rolling mill and a line shaft that powered other equipment.
In 1981, Fred and Cynthia Carus of Lasalle, Illinois donated the engine to the Stephenson County Antique Engine Club. The club dismantled and moved the engine to Freeport. All labor and trucking were donated. Parts were stored until 1988 when the club acquired the former Stephenson County Nursing Home building, which now houses the museum.
In the yard behind the museum, a foundation was made for the 130-ton engine. Seven vertical holes 25 feet deep by two feet in diameter were drilled in the ground and filled with reinforced concrete to support a base containing nearly 100 yards of concrete and 4000 feet of 1-inch diameter steel reinforcement bars. The total cost was $16,000.
In 1989, the engine was then assembled by club volunteers. The 25-foot, 4-inch flywheel consistes of twelve 5-ton sections connected by 24 bolts, three inches in diameter, and 96 dog-bone shaped keys 2.5 inches square by thirty inches long. It is supported by a 25-ton crankshaft. Assembly of the engine required 12 hours.
In 1990, a 60 by 60 foot metal building was built over the engine at a cost of $30,000.
In 1991, the club located and purchased a used gas-fired boiler and installed it in the building with the engine. The engine was test run on July 13, 1991 at six rotations per minute. It is capable of 45 RPM.
In 1992 the engine was painted. This required 16 gallons of paint.
The engine is the largest flywheel steam engine within 500 miles of Freeport. The flywheel weighs 60 tons and stores a quarter million foot pounds of torque.
Silver Creek Museum
2954 S. Walnut Rd
Freeport, IL 61032
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Website here:
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See blackthornclassiccarshow.co.uk for details
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We go to this pretty much every year so in the end all vids could end up much the same. So to avoid that I kind of focused on the new bits of gear that I saw as much as possible. Highlights include a 1911 oil engine, a 1 MW dummy load (yes, one megawatt!!) & a 2/3 size full working replica *steam truck*. Plus the usual traction engine steering and them powering other bits with their power take-off wheels.
The Steam Fair is pretty much always held around the time of the Autumnal Equinox. This year it fell right on the Eve & the Day.
M4 and Y4 double on the Melba Line - TAS STEAM ALIVE PRODUCTION
Old Steam Train
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Tour of railway
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Canfield fair excavator model 4 steam shovel
Farm clearance sale 200811
Bought more shit....
31 Hay Avenue, Wangaratta - Clearing Sale