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FRL History

Hydrolec Disassembly

Hydrolec Rebuild

Key Personnel

Machine Shop

News Page

Previous Pictures

Projects

For Sale

HYDROELECTRIC SITES:

Anasagunticook Lake Dam Replacement-    C.Fay & W.Fay

Appleton HEP-     Jim Lichoulas

Badger Pond Dam Removal

Senor Bonifettis' sites in Chile

Buttermilk Hydro

Chittendon Falls

Claytor Dam

Collins Bascule Dam

ESAC WORKS      July 1985

Fiske Mill

1852 Fourneyron

Golden Pond Hydro

Hunts Pond

Jaffery Fire Protection

Lake May Pelton Wheel Removal

Livermore Falls

Martinsville Hydro

OSV

Silk Knitters- Ron Macleod

South Village Dam

Shaker Mill Dam

Tannery Pond

Valatie Falls

Ware River Power's Hydrostations

 

USEFUL ENGINEERING:

The Banki Water Turbine Mockmoore and Merryfield

Bishops Method- STABGM Program

Blade Design-Nechleba

Chain Turbine by: Nguyen Minh Duy

Chain Turbine Mechanics- Discussions with Duy

Design of Small Water Turbines for Farm and Small Communities

Draft Tube Design

Draft Tube Tests

Ejection into Tailraces of Hydropower Plants: S. M. Slisskii

Fall Increaser- Henry Ford

Fall Increaser Herschel Venturi Tube

Fall Increaser Moody Ejector Turbine

Fall Increaser Hydraulic Jump Apron

Flashboard Pins

Gatecase Design- Kovalev

Gatecase Design- Nechleba

Hydraulic Turbines by Arnold Pfau

Hydrostatic Beam Analysis

Impulse Turbines  by Ely Hutchinson

Kaplan Blade Design NACA Air Foil- Report No. 460

Kaplan Blade Design NACA Air Foil- Report No. 628

Kaplan Design- Kovalev

A Laboratory Study to Improve the Efficiency of Crossflow Turbines- N. Aziz & V. Desai

Meggering Generators

Meggering      Earth Resistance

Out Gassing

Parallel Operation of Turbines Analysis

Pelton Design- Daugherty

Pelton Design- Nechleba

Powerhouse Design- Miniwatt Hydro

Powerhouse Design- Natick Dam

Power Plant Inspection

Rake-Leonard

Rake-Newport News

Rack Design-Chicopee-Olav Hotvedt

Rack Design- PHI- Bill Fay

Rack Design-PHI-Brian French

Rack Design-PHI-Ken Smith

Rack Design-ASCE

Rack Design- Hydraulic Institue of Munich

Rack Design-Flow Induced Vibrations

Selecting Hydraulic Reaction Turbines BUREC

Stress Analysis of Hydraulic Turbine Parts, BUREC- F.O. Ruud

Some Fluid Flow Characteristics of a Cross Flow Type Hydraulic Turbine- Durgin & Fay

Tests on a Kaplan Hydraulic Turbine

Theoretical Conditions Related to an Open Channel Flow Linear Turbine- Ishida & Service

Turgo, A High Speed Impulse Turbine- Paul Wilson

Vortices at Intakes

Water Hammer-Lorenzo Allievi-Text

Water Hammer-Lorenzo Allievi-Figures

Water Hammer-ASME Symposium 1933

Water Hammer _ Norman Gibson

Water Hammer-E.B.Strowger

Water Wheel Design- Ken Smith

Weights

Wooden Penstocks

TRADE CATALOUGES:

Bradway Turbine

Brook Waterwheel

Charmilles Turbines

Dayton Globe

Electric Machinery Company (EM)

English Pelton

ESAC

Essex Turbines

GE WW Vert Gen

GE Springbed Brg

Gilkes Turbines

GilkesWaterpower

Holyoke Hercules

Hunt Cat 29 A&B

Hunt cylinder

Kingsbury  Brg

Leffel Bulletin 38

Leffel Bulletin 54

Leffel Hoppes Unit

Leffel Laboratory Unit

Leffel Miscellaneous

Lombard Governor

Pelton Wheel (1909)

Pelton Wheel (1925)

Rodney Hunt

Samson PamK

Smith Power Tables

Smith Kaplan

Smith Power

Smith Pelton

Smith Develop

Smith Turbines: Bulletin 105

Swain Turbine

Tyler Turbine

Vertical Shaft Water Wheel Driven Generators- General Electric

Wellman Seaver Morgan

Westinghouse Small Vertical Waterwheel-Driven A-C Generators, July 1944

Westinghouse WW Generators

Woodward Governor

 

Links:

Swiftriverhydro.com

damengineers.com

 

Smith Kaplan Web Page

 I am a great fan of S. Morgan Smith turbines. Davis, Ken and I have made extensive repairs  to six of these units. We fabricated new blades (aluminum bronze) and new wicket gates and totally rebuilt the 60 inch unit at Valley  Paper in Holyoke, we removed and reinstalled the 51 inch unit that was installed at the Hagley Museum in Delaware. This was one of Paul Smiths Units and was originally installed to power the first Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York in 1934. We brought it back to Thorndike, rebuilt it and installed it in Thorndike. We have made extensive repairs to the Centennial Island 60 inch unit. We have rebuilt the bearings at the 60 inch unit located at L P Athol Corporation, in Athol. MA. I have worked on the 36 inch unit at Littleton, NH. We worked on the 51 inch unit at American Optical in Southbridge, MA. Both AO and LP Athol were electric Kaplans with the blades driven by selsyn motors.

The Kingsbury thrust collar was loose on the generator shaft at Centennial Island's Kaplan Turbine. Jerry Olsen did not want to pull the generator rotor. The Wizard bored out the collar and repaired it by making an insert. We pressed the insert into the collar and bored it undersize. We fabricated a hand turning device from an old cast iron pulley. Warren installed a carbide cutting, tip that he could adjust, on the inside bore. We had Ronnie Johnson, Marshall Smith, Justin and Matt turn it by hand while Warren supervised. The finish was excellent. We reassembled the unit. You could stand a penny on edge when the unit started up. Jerry Olsen said it was the smoothest the unit had operated since it was installed!

Bill Pulling the Generator.jpg (14212 bytes)            Pulling the Turbine.jpg (18868 bytes)

 I am rigging the bearing chamber cover that closes off the General Electric spring bed bearing. Pulling the runner at Centennial Island.

Balancing New Kaplan Blades.jpg (26904 bytes)

Davis inspects the new aluminum bronze blades we had cast and machined for Valley Paper

Rigging Nose Cone into Valley Paper.jpg (33830 bytes)

The valley Paper Kaplan being lowered into its throat ring.

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