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October 2009 - Electrical machine progress
During September 2009 RRRG were fortunate enough to secure a fully overhauled (off the shelf) class 50 exhauster from Unipart Rail at Doncaster, along with a few other minor items.
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Although the exhauster has been fully overhauled, and has been in covered store in Uniparts warehouse, given the unknown and likely to have been a considerable period of storage it was felt best to move it to Bowers to have them check it over and give it a test. As such the 23rd October 2009 saw another day of shuffling equipment around. The day started with RRRG members Steve Tripp and Mark Burrows collecting the exhauster from Doncaster and taking it to Bowers Electrical at Heanor.
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The newly purchased overhauled exhauster is seen here in the process of being unloaded and taken into Bowers workshop.
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The excellent condition of the exhauster can be seen in this and the following view.
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After delivering the exhauster, (seen above in Bowers workshop), we backtracked to Rotherham to collect a traction motor blower from Booths that we had been unable to collect earlier in the year. This was then taken to Rowsley for storage, where the opportunity was taken to load our old spare Class 50 exhauster and take that to Bowers Electrical.
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| This exhauster was obtained along with the locos back in 2002, and was externally in a poor condition at that time. The machine does however rotate freely and internally looks to be reasonable on first inspection. The plan is for Bowers to overhaul components from this machine and one of the class 37 exhausters obtained from Booths in June 2009 to make one good overhauled Class 50 exhauster. Which will give us a pair (with the exhauster obtained form Unipart) for use 50030. The exhausters currently in 50030 will be put into store for use in 50029 when her time comes. |