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A bucket conveyor will be used to lift aggregate from timber bunkers to the top of the new Bureau of Reclamation mixing plant, where a chute will direct the flow into any one of three compartments of a storage bin.
1942-11-19
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The new Bureau of Reclamation mixing plant, erected near the large waste-sand pile on the east side of the river to supersede the contractor's plant. A two-yard, double-cone, tilting-type mixer will discharge batches through the floor into trucks...
1942-11-19
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Copy of photo taken for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Mr. Berkley (Westinghouse erecting engineer) at busses inside L-2 generator shell. The current coils shown are parts of relay circuits which protect the generator stator...
1942-01-05
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A six-foot Niles radial drill press, in the machine shop of the left powerhouse, was used to bore a re-babbited wear-ring in the stuffing-box of turbine L-3.
1942-11-25
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Generator L-3 in operation and L-2 nearing completion in the west powerhouse. The base for generator L-1 is shown.
1942-01-02
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Generators L-3 and L-2 in operation in the west powerhouse, and L-1 nearly ready for service.
1942-03-17
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Stator of Westinghouse 108,000-kw. generator L-1 being set in place over finished steel blocks and anchor bolts embedded in concrete, concentric with the axis of the turbine.
1942-01-16
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Crane hooking on to the 24-foot intermediate shaft of generating unit L-1. Hinged fixtures facilitate bringing the shaft into a vertical position, with the fixture at the left uppermost.
1942-01-29
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The 24-foot intermediate section of the shaft of unit L-1 being lowered into position for coupling with the turbine shaft. Bill Miller, master mechanic, inspects the surface of the shaft flange; Don Reeder, machinist foreman, at the right;"Doc"...
1942-01-29
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Lowering the 537-ton rotor of Westinghouse 108,000-kw. generator L-1 into place.
1942-02-02
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Workmen tightening nuts on the thrust bearing runner of unit L-1. An insulator bushing of a General Electric 36,000-kv.-a. transformer at the left.
1942-02-11
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For the purpose of improving the operation of turbine L-1, the trailing edges of the runner blades were reduced in thickness by chipping and grinding.
1942-12-02
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The guide bearings on the 150,000 horsepower Newport News turbines are lubricated with oil circulated by lower-pressure pumps driven by alternating current motors. Each turbine is provided with a standby pump, which is driven by direct current...
1942-12-24
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Setting on the powerhouse floor at El. 991, between generators L-2 and L-3, steel plates on which to assemble the stator of Shasta generator.
1942-06-26
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Placing and leveling a base-plate on which to construct the rotor of one of the Shasta generators.
1942-06-26
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Shasta generator (G.E. stator. Stator parts arrived on cars, lying flat. Crane is here turning the part upright, for placement on the temporary erection platform, between L-2 and L-3 units.
1942-07-07
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A Shasta generator shaft in an upright position, preparatory to the construction of the rotor.
1942-07-15
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Assembling the structural steel spider of a Shasta generator.
1942-07-20
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Installing coils and making connections at the junctions of the four sections of a Shasta stator, and testing the insulation of coils.
1942-08-21
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Attaching pole pieces and field coils to the rim of a Shasta generator rotor.
1942-09-17
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West Powerhouse: Building the rotor for the Shasta, Unit B, generator. The magnetic circuit for the field poles is built up of thin steel plates, forming a cylinder around the spider and shaft.
1942-09-18
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Lowering the bearing bracket for the lower guide bearing of a Shasta unit.
1942-10-22
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Lifting the 245-ton Shasta stator and thrust bearing bracket from the erection base between Grand Coulee units L-2 and L-3, in the left powerhouse, to their seat above the turbine in pit No. 7.
1942-10-28
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A tight fit. The clearance between the huge 25-foot rotors and the stators of the two 75,000-kilowatt Shasta Dam generators, being installed at Grand Coulee Dam to make additional power available for war industries, is only 5/8 inch. In lowering...
1942-11-28
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The 13,800-volt bus structure for one of the two 75,000 kilowatt Shasta units. The thrust bearing for the machine has been placed. An exciter remains to be placed on top of the unit.
1942-12-28
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