AC still running strong!
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Topic: AC still running strong!
Posted By: Rltool
Subject: AC still running strong!
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 6:21am
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I looked at a job for work over the weekend. The customer I was at let me take a couple pics of the power turbines they use. Was proud to see the name on them. Still going strong & producing power. Ray W. http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/rltool/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FC0C89F0-4D84-457D-9448-7951BDEC7442_zpsdmc6vupf.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://s1334.photobucket.com/user/rltool/media/Mobile%20Uploads/9D822E01-FD30-4686-87A4-B86D098AAC40_zpsfqhdoxe9.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  |
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 7:13am
Very cool Ray!!  ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 7:55am
| Cool X 10 |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 8:35am
| That's awesome. You should give the guy your number and have him call you and if they ever replace them, strip the nameplates for you, you never know. |
Posted By: Dave (Mid-MI)
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 8:47am
| Location? |
Posted By: Rltool
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:00am
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Yeah, I would LOVE to get my hands on any of those name plates. It is surprising how much AC electrical equipment is still out there. A friend of mine in electrical generation & maintenance over in NH. Has seen a lot of AC equipment over there also. On the west side of the state Dave. We do work over in Essexville also. Ray W. |
Posted By: peterh
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:05am
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Thank you for posting!! ------------- 1947 C, 1949 B, 195? CA 60 series cultivator fertilizer side dresser 2 bottom snap coupler plow 1 bottom plow, Cole planter |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:24am
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Any idea of when they were put in service? Great pictures!!! ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: macvette
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 11:43am
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Thanks for posting. Last year we were at the decommissioned Titan Missile Museum near Tuscon, AZ, and quite a few of the breaker panels and switch gear that was in the complex underground was AC. Never tire of seeing the AC name in use.
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Posted By: Bob-Maine
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:04pm
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Several years AGO, I had a meeting at the soon-to-be decommissioned Maine Yankee nuclear power plant in Wiscasset, Maine. I was involved as they were going to be shipping hundreds of railroad carloads of low level nuclear contaminated material from the plant. I was a track safety inspector for the Federal Railroad Administration. Somehow, in a lighter part of the meeting, my AC hobby came up. One of the reps. from the Stone and Webster engineering firm said that there were two AC generators on site, used to supply emergency power. Would I like to have the name plates? Of course I had to refuse acct. the potential of a conflict of interest. I wish I had been in a position to say "yes". Bob@allisdowneast ------------- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure. |
Posted By: 79fordblake
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:27pm
| Wow thats great!! |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:38pm
| Bob,you should've told him to send him to your wife! |
Posted By: ACjack
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:54pm
The Harvey engine plant built the emergency generator sets for the Minute Man Missile sites.
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macvette wrote:Posted By: clintr
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 3:46pm
| Thank you very much for sharing the photos! |
Posted By: caledonian
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 7:11pm
| I remember when our local hospital had an emergency generator that was Allis Chalmers. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 8:20pm
| When I worked at the town we had sewer pump stations with allis pumps electric motors and gen sets. It was cool to see, wish I took pictures before they were taken out of service and filled in place. I was lucky to score a few pumps for my AC collection though lol |
Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:13pm
| Nice! Frame the pictures and sell them as art work! |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 5:05am
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Bagnell Dam , Lake of the Ozarks has several AC water turbine generators in it. You can take a tour. I've seen them twice. Once about 1964 and 1980. Made me feel pretty proud!!! ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: Rltool
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 5:34am
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Unit 3, I will have to ask next time I'm over there when they were put into service. Bob-Maine, your a much stronger man than I.  Ray W. |
Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 6:02am
| I work for the local power company and I noticed that quite a few of our sub station transformers have AC name plates. |
Posted By: Ben (MI)
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 6:02am
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What plant are these in? ------------- Part time farming with a 1980 7060 and 1984 F3 hydro. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 2:40pm
 \This looks like something similar.
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Posted By: Rltool
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 5:34pm
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Ben, they are in West Olive. Yeah they look the same Creston! Ray W. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 7:52pm
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I think the turbines at Hoover Dam are AC's too.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 8:03pm
| Surprised no one mentioned "Big Allis", the Ravenswood generating station in NYC. There is a lot of internet info on it. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2016 at 3:57am
| Big Allis is awesome, but a lot of negative info on it too! It's still going I think |
Posted By: WD45Diesel57
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2016 at 7:31am
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a number of years ago we took a tour of our local water treatment plant and in one room had three giant water pump and two of them still running strong were badged Allis. Dad and I thought that was cool. ------------- 1-B's, 2-C, 2-CA's,2-WF, 1-WC,1-G, 3-WD's, 2-WD45, 1-RC, 1-D17 Diesel, 1-D14, 2-D15,1-D17 row crop,1-D19 gas and All Crop 40,60,66,72,90 and 100 |