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Stitch1615 · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 5:15 pm Post subject:

18x36! WOW!!!
Ok,,, you're not gonna just toss it in the back of the truck.
So after the first photo did you have stop change your depends.

We are all anxiously looking forward to a report my brother.
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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:16 pm Post subject:

These steam engines are at Willingham Sash and Door. The company has been in the same location since the company was established in 1882. I walked through the plant, which has wooden floors, and just from the wear on the floors you can tell it is a very old building. At one time they employed 150 to 300 workers.

They are now down to 10 or 15 and what they manly do is reproduction or repair of old doors and windows. One of the workers was making new windows for a house build in 1868. Many of the machines they still use where at one time driven by line shafts and belts which where converted to electricity when the steam engine was shout down in 1959.

The main building has two floor which the upper one is not longer used but for storage. The main engine is an Allis Chalmers Corliss engine with a 18 inch bore x 36 inch stoke. Not real big but by no means small.

I was so over whelmed by every thing I for got to look for a name on the smaller engine which is the one I am really interested in but I was told that in the 20s they bought the engine for $20. It main duty was to generate electric. In the pictures of it you can see the generator still attached to it.

Both engines are kept in side a building but unfortunately the boiler house the roof has fallen in and more then likely the boiler shout. The room where the engines are do not have any lighting and is very small so I could not get a shout of the whole corliss engine.

Hope you engine the pictures of not only the steam engines but of the factory that is 130 years old. When I took the pictures the workers where on break. The pictures of the individual machines are the ones that use to be driven by the old steam engine. More then likely I will have to make many posts to get all the pictures in.

26 foot wood lathe use to be drive by the steam engine

Drive for the lathe

Part of the manufacturing shop second floor not use any more.

Some of the machines that where dive by the steam engine at one time some have been converted to electricity and some stored.

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject:

First floor where the work goes on now.

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject:

Are you ready for the good stuff or do you want to wait a little longer?

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:26 pm Post subject:

Door to the engine room.

Corliss valve box

Look at the enclosed rod end going to the crank. It is so clean it looked like they just shut the engine down.

The pit for the flywheel

What is left of the pulley system at the end of the engine.

Let shop for making repairs just off the engine room.

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:29 pm Post subject:

Not much room in the old boiler house but got a few pictures any ways.

Any one know what this is? May be a small boiler?

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject:

Now this is what I am really interested as this would fit on a small trailer what would handle a LOT of weight. I will be going back to find out more about this engine!!!!!!!!!

Next time I go I am taking a flashlight with me.

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject:

I was give an name of a place in Atlanta that is suppose to have a steam engine in it that stills runs. Will be checking on this.

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Swift Fox · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject:

That is a great find Jeff and nice to see the place as a whole, the doorway to the engine room reminded me a bit of the passageway in the basement at APS.

I guess it would take a lot of work to get that engine back to running order but it must have been a nice sight back in the days when it was working, the smaller engine looks like a bottle type to me but i may be wrong.

Thanks for sharing!

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MrDuck · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject:

Time has stopped there

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46u · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:48 pm Post subject:

benchmark · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 7:35 pm Post subject:

Wow a real live steam workshop like the models we see frozen in time.
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MrMamod · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jeff and what a day you have had the workshop is such a find it is like it has been in a time warp - I love the bottle type engine which looks to of driven the genny at one time . Thanks Jeff

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Stitch1615 · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:51 pm Post subject:

The place is a veritable museum.
Much of the machinery itself are museum pieces.
What an excellent discovery.
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Les · Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject:

What great pictures, you must have found it hard to leave there at the end of the day.
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