Mad Machinist
Cast Iron
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- Sharon, PA
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Mad Machinist
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2006
- Location
- Sharon, PA
2 50 HP head Planer Mill. It was put in new at Fairbanks Morse diesel locomotive engine plant in 1967. Then in went to Monarch Lathe in Sideny Ohio. A guy in Mi bought it and never put it in. I moved it in 2005 and am still working on it. Monarch really treated it badly. Some ot the things they did are hard to believe for a machine tool builder. They must have been out of money and not cared at the end.
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dalmatiangirl61
Diamond
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- Jan 31, 2011
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- BFE Nevada/San Marcos Tx
WOW! That thing is crazy big, I'm glad there are people like you, they make me look sane!
sfriedberg
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2010
- Location
- Oregon, USA
Oh, wonderful! If you get it fixed up, this will be one of those machines where you need a crew of guys with pushbrooms shoving 4oz chips off the work, and the brooms will be on fire.
Elwood1968
Cast Iron
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- Jul 30, 2017
Excellent.
Since F-M built their last new locomotive around 1963, I wonder what they used it for?
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Cast Iron
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2006
- Location
- Sharon, PA
Excellent.
Since F-M built their last new locomotive around 1963, I wonder what they used it for?
Good question. I'm not a locomotive guy. That's the only thing we could think they would have used it for. GE had one same vintage in Erie PA but it had 2 150 HP motors. I know that's where it went new, I have the documents from Ingersoll. I'd love to know what it was for now.
Elwood1968
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2017
F-M continued to build opposed piston diesel prime movers at Beloit both before and long after locomotive production ended (and still does today, I think), so maybe the planer was used for finishing the large weldments that make up the crankcase?
I don't know when (or if?) General Electric began machining the FDL prime movers at Erie - these originated from Cooper-Bessemer in Grove City, PA - but perhaps by the late '60s they were doing the same sort of engine work at Erie as F-M was doing at Beloit.
I don't know when (or if?) General Electric began machining the FDL prime movers at Erie - these originated from Cooper-Bessemer in Grove City, PA - but perhaps by the late '60s they were doing the same sort of engine work at Erie as F-M was doing at Beloit.
