Hi Bruce,  Which hydro plants in New England?  I had relatives who worked
in some of them.  Ruth




At 11:35 AM -0500 2/24/03, Bruce Marcham wrote:
>ctb:

>
>My first job out of college involved working with small hydro in New England
>and the first job site I worked had a belt-driven mill that could be driven
>by either a Leffel turbine (about 6-8 feet of head) or an immense (to me)
>steam engine (it took up about a fifteen by thrity foot room, had about an
>eight foot diameter flywheel).  The company I worked for provided a new
>hydro-electric turbine and made the belt system obsolete (Leffel was rude to
>the owner when he visited their plant so he decided to not replace the
>original mechanical turbine).  The owner sold the shafts and belts but the
>steam engine remained (the boiler for it was about as big as the engine room
>as I recall but I think firing it up would be too dangerous).

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