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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 176
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 09:38 pm: | 
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A friend is restoring an Ellsworth Foundry engine. The photos are the remains of a grease cup that was on it. The only marking on the cup is a 1 on a wrench flat. The single distinguishing feature is the band around the lower part of the grease reservoir. He would like to find two complete grease cups like it but even a photo of one would be helpful as he may attempt to make a couple of them if all else fails.
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richardday
Senior Member
Username: richardday
Post Number: 472
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 09:19 am: |
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Seems to me it looks like the classic prop shaft grease cup with the T handle. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1449
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 10:14 am: |
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One of the paper weights on my desk--- dusty -I guess that means i've some paper work to do !!
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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 178
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 11:36 am: |
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Richard,
Thanks for responding. Yes it is a typical grease cup in type but he wants to find the original style. I have several pairs of the t handle type from different manufacturers I could give him but he really wants look alikes for this one. I have catalogs for Lunkenheimer, Fairbanks, Williamson, Powell, Crane, American Injector, etc., but I have yet to seen one with that lower band. Maybe somebody out there has one and would be able to give us a manufacturer's name or a photo of one.
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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 126
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 08:28 am: |
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it might be an Ellsworth Foundry cup. |
searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 179
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 09:56 am: |
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Bill,
You are right, it may well be a cup they made themselves. They certainly had the capability to do that work. I thought I would try as many possibilities as possible such as this site, the Smokstak ads, etc. If they were made by Ellsworth, finding one, much less a pair, is a pipe dream. |
richardday
Senior Member
Username: richardday
Post Number: 479
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 10:44 am: |
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Never give up the search. I looked for a Kermath single cylinder exhaust/intake manifold for 15 years and went to an auction and bought a NOS one for $.50. |
searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 180
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 01:52 pm: |
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Neat. I always get a kick out of stories like that. |
