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Anyone got an alignment test sheet?
I just had a quick look and there seem to be plenty of PDFs on the internet if you have trouble getting hold of the real thing.- billmac
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Anyone got an alignment test sheet?
I don't have a test report for a Deckel mill, but you may find what you want indirectly in the book 'Testing Machine Tools' by Georg Schlesinger . This certainly used to be the standard reference for machine tool testing and gives the tests that you should perform for various different types of...- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
I would agree that the engine man would normally be on hand - barring engines require physical intervention to engage them, and would normally be closely observed. The only exception I can think of is a very large engine where the main steam valve is a long way away from the barring engine but...- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
We have a collection of orphan barring engines at the museum. The Hick Hargreaves example (and all the rest of the barring engines) can be seen running (by request) on our steam days. We have two Musgrave barring engines. One of them is a twin cylinder 'boxer' unifow design. This is a most...- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
Our Musgrave 'Non Dead Centre' (NDC) engine has the barring teeth in the middle of the flywheel but there are no additional teeth on the inside of the rim. I expect this was because this is a relatively small engine with no real need for a barring engine. The teeth that are provided are ideally...- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
I think I can see some little lumps on the top of the goalpost frame that could be jets. On the right hand side there appear to be linked pipes going off into the background. Of course this might just be imagination on my part, but Tyrones's idea may well be correct. The flywheel is being...- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
One of our volunteer team carried out 'outside' work like this for Hick Hargreaves. He fitted Titanium tubes to condensers all over UK, mostly in power generation. You may well have run into him. He has a lot of stories to tell about these jobs.- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
Scrapped in 1971? - that is quite a good life for a designed in haste wartime built cargo ship. Great research to find the ship and photos!- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
For Tyrone - I think the lubricators are on the other side!- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
I think this is the last of the marine engines in the photo collection. I can't quite make out what is going on on the tops of the cylinders. It could be just shadows from the rather dramatic lighting used by the photographer. I don't know why it was photographed in this way - perhaps in the...- billmac
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- Forum: Antique Machinery and History
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Hicks E846
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
Yes - the lack of blackout is well spotted. Maybe WW1 - 1920s is more likely? The company made recoil gear for guns in WW1 as well as engines. They were bombed in WW1 by Zeppelins but the bombs missed the works. I don't think that industrial blackout was common in that period, but then again air...- billmac
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
Here are some photos that (to me) have a bit of a marine engine look. The clues to me are the crankshaft couplings, the barring gear and the condenser? The general size and scale is appropriate for marine use and I am sure the engines are much later than 1850. This one just fits under the...- billmac
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Hicks E866
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Hicks E891
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Hicks E868
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
Some more photos from the collection. I have saved these until now because I am not really sure what the engines are or what is happening. Please comment and hopefully clarify. The first photo is yet another crankshaft set up between centres. This time it has three throws so less likely to be a...- billmac
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Hicks E814
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Hicks 22.718.5.3
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Hick Hargreaves Engines
I have a book somewhere about the last days of Cole, Marchent & Morley. I will try to find it. (no small task).- billmac
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