[Thursday] The sleeping giant getting ready to move to NEWSM

[Ernie]

Here is how it worked/s
1 remove the small parts, governor with linkage, main bearing caps, oilers, eccentric rods and valve links etc.
2 turn engine to a little past top dead center and unscrew the piston rod from the cross head
3 disconnect the connecting rod from the crank pin and push the cross head and piston rod out of the bed frame using a porta power
4 Move the flywheel so the halves were horizontal.  Support the bottom half with timbers across the flywheel pit and unbolt the 2 halves.
5 Unbolt the bed frame and outer main bearing from their foundations
Crane procedure
1 lift off the top half of the flywheel
2 lift out the crankshaft
3 lift the bed frame and cylinder.  Once these are away from the pit we will separate the bed frame and the cylinder.  We also need to remove the exhaust pipe from the cylinder.
All sounds easy right?????
Well it took all of us about 8 hours yesterday.  What made it easier was that all the monster wrenches that came from Rollins with the engine are still with the engine along with a 10 foot long piece of pipe. 
We also have the original universal flywheel jacking bar which will work on our other big engines when one stops in the wrong position.  It has a neat toggle link that grabs the flywheel rim on a long wooden handle. 

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On Mon, 10/22/18, Timothy Straw <steamdillo at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Thursday] The sleeping giant getting ready to move to NEWSM
 To: "David Crowell" <ka1edp at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "Ernie" <ernie176 at yahoo.com>, "Thursday Group" <thursday at newsm.org>
 Date: Monday, October 22, 2018, 6:24 PM
 
 WOW!
 On Mon, Oct 22,
 2018, 5:45 PM David Crowell via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
 wrote:
 
 Congrats
 on getting this engine for the Museum. That is one big
 flywheel and bolt! Guess we will need to put an addition on
 the steam bldg.
 
 DC
 
     
   From: Ernie via
 Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
  To: Thursday Group
 <thursday at newsm.org>
 
  Sent: Monday, October
 22, 2018 4:29 PM
  Subject: [Thursday] The
 sleeping giant getting ready to move to NEWSM
    
 All,
 
 The
 beginning of the Rollins Engine move to NEWSM
 Randy,
 Terry, One of Terry's co workers sorry I forgot his
 name, Dave, Jean, Bill and Ernie were the crew on Sunday.
 The
 engine is ready to be picked up with the crane put on a
 truck and be moved to NEWSM on Wednesday.
 In
 case you were wondering that is one the the 4 flywheel hub
 bolts hanging on the strap.
 Pics
 attached
 
 Enjoy
 Ernie
 
 
 Note these are all low res
 pics.  If you want hi res ones send me an e-mail
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