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Oil Field Engine News

By Russell L. Farmer

1231 Banta's Creek Road, Eaton, Ohio 45320

This month we have a couple of nice photos; the first is of a very nicely restored half-breed engine built by the Wise Machine Company and restored by Dean and Jeff Kelly of Geneva, Indiana. For those who may not be familiar with engines commonly known as half-breeds: they are engines which were originally steam powered. Usually the bed plate is the original steam equipment, and at one point, the owner has purchased a conversion kit from one of the many builders of these conversions. (See the illustration of the Bessemer version, half-breed). The steam cylinder would be removed, and the new gas engine block attached to the existing bed-plate, rods, journals and flywheel. Sometimes a heavier flywheel would be installed on one side to give the extra momentum, which is beneficial to an internal combustion engine.

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