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Reflections

A BRIEF WORD

By C. H. Wendel

In late October the Reflector was most happy to be part of a team which removed a nice old diesel engine from a power plant for eventual installation at Midwest Old Threshers in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The engine is a Fairbanks-Morse vertical diesel and was installed at the electric power plant in George, Iowa in October 1924 (this was the same autumn that Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes were elected President and Vice President).

This particular engine is of three cylinder design and carries three separate external fuel pumps. The original blowtorch hot plugs have been replaced with electric heaters, and these are required for starting, since the combustion chamber design of the early verticals is somewhat different than was used on later models. Chances are that the engine will be mounted on heavy steel beams for the present time, and as budgets a...

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