This spring the Kentucky boys brought up the water pump that this engine ran. It was used to pump water out of an under ground mine. This was used by Peabody Coal in Kentucky. It has not been run in a long time so I figured I better take it apart and clean it up.
I can not remember if I have posted anything about this. It is turned at 2000 rpm and is a six inch pump, 1000 gallons per minute and can pump that up 175 feet of head.
This is the pump as I found it at Bill Rudicill's
when Jane and I went to visit him last spring.
Josh showed up this weekend and wanted something to do. I was busy putting up new lights in the shop so I told him he could start taking it apart. Here I was up on the ladder working on the lights as he got started.
It didn't come apart too hard as here he is getting the top cover removed.
From time to time I would have to shut the power off while I was working on the lights. It would get quite dark in the shop, one time when I turned the power back on I caught him red handed on what he was doing when I could not see him. Now that I have had time to think about it, I realize why he was in a goofy mood. The evidence was right there next to him.
Sorry Josh, but there is the evidence.
By the time I finished the lights he had the bearing caps removed and the packing glands all loosen and removed. It looks to be in good shape and has not had to many rocks run through it
Here he is removing the drive coupling, will need to get all cleaned up and then check the babbitt on all the bearings and put it together. The bearings on the pump all have oil reservoirs for them. The drive end has sealed greaseable bearings.