Re: WW&F launches boiler campaign (riveter pics)
| May 17, 2016 11:52PM |
As i posted earlier the Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum just finished restoring an 1880 vintage Allan Portable Pneumatic Riveter. The riveter was donated to the museum by Jim Heuber of Mack Brothers Boiler and Sheet Iron Works of Syracuse, New York. Mack Brother's was the original purchaser of the riveter. The museum used the riveter on Monday 5/16/16 for the first time to rivet locomotive number 9's original smokebox and boiler back together for display purposes. The riveter will be used to build a new boiler for locomotive number 10 and a boiler for new build locomotive 11. The museum is currently conducting a capital campaign to fund the two new boilers. Please see the links below.
[wwfry.org]
[fundrazr.com]
Youtube link below of the riveter in action. This was the shop's first practical use of the riveter. The valve packing in the hammer was a little stiff when we started but by the time we were done the hammer was working without manual assistance. Everyone who was present and who had previous riveting experience with hand held air hammers commented how nice and easy it was to use this riveter over the handheld hammers.
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[wwfry.org]
[fundrazr.com]
Youtube link below of the riveter in action. This was the shop's first practical use of the riveter. The valve packing in the hammer was a little stiff when we started but by the time we were done the hammer was working without manual assistance. Everyone who was present and who had previous riveting experience with hand held air hammers commented how nice and easy it was to use this riveter over the handheld hammers.
[youtu.be]
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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