Saving a 1965 Generator for heritage preservation.

Mark W · Dec 5, 2022

So, very long story short.......I got given a bit of a generator, free if you take it out! All sounds too good to be true and it was, they got the better deal financially but I got what I wanted in terms of my quest to save these items of the British electrical engineering past.

Just a few issues, it wont fit through the door, it weighs 37 tons, no access for a crane etc etc but whilst sat in the bath you can come up with the solutions.

[ElectriciansForums.net] Saving a 1965 Generator for heritage preservation.

The door that is has got to come through.

It wont fit, so I had to knock the front of the building down after getting a structural engineer to confirm this was safe!

At last access to the treasure to include the BVP17 11kv switch gear.

Generator now jacked up and ready to skate on to the low loader, at this point the site health and safety adviser came across and said that we were not to do any jacking until they had seen the lift plan, he said this to me whilst I was leaning up against the already jacked up generator!

Unit slowly being skated on to the low loader

Unit now fully on to the low loader

Finally on its way to y place after a full week of preperation.

Sat in its new location

Mark W · Dec 5, 2022

Lucien Nunes said:
The convenience of a skid-mounted unit is not to be sneezed at. The amount of effort required to set up multiple concrete beds, often at different heights, with correctly positioned rag bolts etc, drop the lumps onto them, align the shafts, shim them, grout them etc, can be huge. It's one of the two reasons my old horizontal oil engine plant has never run in the 15 years I've owned it. This packaged plant makes a lot of sense if one doesn't have an army of installers being paid by someone else.

Exactly Lucien, I moved the lump into place on my own with a few jacks, skates and two tirfor’s. The unit can be built in the confines of a nice clean factory, shoved on the back of a wagon and exported any where in the world . I own a 1952 4 cylinder two stroke w h Allen engine that is 16 tons and the separate 4.5 ton alternator on separate pedestal bearings. Guess what , this like your oil engine …….has not been erected or finished yet. I don’t think I have the patience or skill!!

Saving a 1965 Generator for heritage preservation.

Mark W

Mark W

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