[SEL] How not to load and engine....Flywheel needed.

[Orrin Iseminger]

Keith, I feel your pain.

I'm not advocating it, only reporting what I saw.  At the Oscar's Dreamland
auction of a decade ago, there was an engine up for sale that had suffered
the same fate.  The rim of the flywheel remained intact, so someone welded
the spokes back in with nickel-based arc-welding rod.  In contrast to the
gray and rust colors of cast iron, those twelve shiny repairs stuck out like
a sore thumb.  

Orrin

Orrin Iseminger
Colton, Washington, USA
http://users.moscow.com/oiseming/lc_ant_p/menu.htm
So many projects.  So little time.   

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Keith Kinney
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 3:23 PM
To: ofes at lists.stationary-engine.com; stationary-engine at oldengine.org;
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Subject: [SEL] How not to load and engine....Flywheel needed.

Back in July we were loading our Oil City/South Penn Half-breed 
engine to take to our county fair.  The engine is on skids and when 
we take it to a show we just back our flat bead trailer up to the 
engine and hook a winch to the skids.  It normally just comes right 
up on the trailer no big deal.  Well, this time it didn't work too 
well.  The engine was sitting on wood blocks to keep it off the 
ground.  When the front of the engine slid off the block it caused 
the engine to tip over.  When it tipped over the left flywheel landed 
on the skid of the 15 HP Reid sitting next to it.  You guessed it, 
all the spokes broke out of the flywheel.  We were just sick.  So, if 
you have any leads on were we might be able to pick up another 
flywheel please let me know.  For all the gruesome details I've 
posted before and after pictures here:
http://www.herculesengines.com/Oil%20City/default.htm

Learn from our miss fortune and be extra careful when loading those engines
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