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Pedras Blancas Light Station - 1910

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Hornsby-Ackroyd horizontal 4-cyc. 13 1/4" bore 16" stroke, 20 hp, Shop No. 3040; equipped with Meese-Gottfried Co. Whitman #4 friction clutch, 26" dia. 13" face; crankpin oiler Mich. Lubricant Co., DGV No. 5 cyl. oiler belt-driven automatic,built on engine. Other bearings packed oil wells.

 

Bury compressor, 10" x 10" horizontal double acting Class BB,  no shop number visible; belt pulley, 48" x 10.5" & std. split hub fly-wheel; air discharge 2.5"; Compressed Air Mach. Co. unloader, acting on discharge valves; Mich. Lubricator Co. 1/2 pt. cyl. oiler on air cyl.; 2" sight feed oil cups; 3/8" pipe thread shank; water jacket inlet & outlet 3/4" increased to 1 1/4" near machine; cast iron oil guard; Degen belt, 10" wide 13' 5" centers.

Detailed Description of South Fog Signal Plant

Detailed Description of North Fog Signal Plant

 

Mietz-Weiss 2-cycle horizontal 12" bore x 15" stroke engine, 25 hp; shop # 5483, 270 rpm, fitted with Western Gas Engine Co. wood cone friction clutch 24" dia, 12" face; Dodge oiler, belt drive, 6 feeds; exhaust 5" at cylinder thru 5" to 6" reducer nipple 2 - 45 deg. ells, 6" horizontal pipe under floor to outside of wall where 6" pipe extends to roof; 1/4" water feed to cylinder jacket.

 

10" x 10" horizontal double acting Bury Class BB; shop # 862; std Bury unloader on inlet valve; 2.5" air discharge; 3/4" water inlet & outlet to cyl. jacket; belt pulley 10.5" face, 48" dia., std fly wheel 48" sia., 6" face, split hub; belt, 10" Degen stretched water proof cement; Mich. lubricator 1/2 pt. on air cyl., 2" sight feed oil cups 3/8"    pipe thread shanks; Crosby cyl. 3" x 6" Nos. 7 & 8.

 

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