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Coal Bunker Slicer

Coal Bunker Slicer

Coal Bunker Slicer

(OP)
We have two slicers that we use to break up coal in our coal bunkers.  The slicer plate is dropped onto the coal in the coal bunker.  The slicer consists of a thick steel plate, roughly 24" x 18" x 4", attached to a wire rope (about 1/2" diameter).   The wire rope runs from an air operated Ingersoll Rand winch mounted on a moveable base, and then up and over a 6 foot tall A-Frame mounted to the same base.  The slicer plate is raised by the winch, and then dropped again to break up the coal.  I believe the slicers are original from circa 1950, but I can't find any company name on them.  They don't appear to be "home-made".  Do you know any company that made such a device?  

     

RE: Coal Bunker Slicer

Post this over in the Power Generating facility engineering forum.  But, I'm not sure that the geezers over there are old enough to remember something like this.  Sorry, but it sounds homemade to me.

rmw

RE: Coal Bunker Slicer

Well, not 'never', but maybe another 60 years, in which case it wouldn't be your problem...

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Coal Bunker Slicer

There is a possibility that it could be a casting. Check if it is non magnetic and let us know. You can cast it in high manganese steel and continue to use for the next half decade.(over statement)


If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.
- Andy McIntyre


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RE: Coal Bunker Slicer

(OP)
As suggested, I posted this in the Power Generating forum. I should have been clearer in what I wanted to know.  What I was actually wondering about was whether the whole device with the hoist, frame, cart, slicer, etc. was made by a slicer manufacturing company.  The slicer itself is made of layers of plate steel welded together.

RE: Coal Bunker Slicer

I think we're trying to say that we don't know who might have made it, and since they didn't put their name on it, you may have to copy it and make it yourself.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Coal Bunker Slicer

mike! briefly, reverse engineering minus IPR issues!


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- Andy McIntyre


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