Frank writes...
Business had me in Pittsburgh (again) this past weekend, and of course that meant that I was (again) down at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington to darken the door of Bruce Wells and the other volunteers there. The usual progress was being made, with their dump motor in the shop for work and some ongoing maintenance chores being performed on West Penn 832.
And Artie Ellis, one of PTM's resident volunteer machinists, was working on machining armature bearings for motors from their Rio open car. These motors had been cleaned up but not totally rebuilt prior to being put into service, and this summer a strand or two of the waste got into one armature bearing and tore it up a bit. So new bearings were procured and are being machined to fit precisely onto the armature shafts. We rarely do motor work like this at IRM and it's definitely impressive to see in action.
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