A pair of IXLs

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Mister Ed
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A pair of IXLs

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Since things are slow around here and no one really posts up project threads anymore I figured I'd prime the pump a little bit. Before the trade fair in Nebraska a couple years ago, I had purchased a couple of IXL windmills. I bought a backgeared mill from Balsick's (that they originally bought from Ivan at Kendallville), the other is a direct stroke IXL (and I believe it might be a 9') that I had purchased from Ivan.
Loaded up and heading for home:
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A shot of the backside of the back geared mill. Mostly complete, very rust ridden, and a bit fragile:
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And the front side:
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And the direct stroke mill. Much better overall condition, but missing a bunch of parts and some cobbling had been done on it:
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Its missing all of the upper guide mechanism, the fulcrum arm for the pull out:
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Fast forward nearly 2 years exactly (I don't do anything fast).

Some new parts cast from the original parts on the back geared mill.
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Drilling holes in the new parts (that iron had chilled during the pour, it was even eating carbide drill bits):
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A little more work needed on these upper guides:
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Bearing caps for the upper guides. top one is new cast (all drilled and bored), bottom one is the original that I gas welded the egged out pump rod hole with cast iron filler rod and re-bored.
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Test fitting new with old, looks good to me:
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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I'm not seeing any pictures. I've got an I.X.L. Vane like on the I.X.L. steel hanging in my shop. .
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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Well son of a gun. Trying to link the photos with google photo (from my PC), they show up for me obviously. Maybe I'll have to do it from my phone.
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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mr ed

no pics in canada EH!!!

paul
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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OK, can you see them now?
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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MR ED

i can c them now EH!!!!!!!!!!
looks nice
where do you get your castings done EH!!!!!

Paul in Canada EH
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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Nice job, as always. :) I know what you mean about not being in a hurry any more.

The pictures are great now. Thanks.

Any idea on the original color of them?

I have heard of one of those around these parts, but no luck on ever finding one. I do have mostly a wheel for one though. The head must have been really deep in the sand on that hill as I never saw a trace of it.
Call Dan Benjamin for parts. P M me for the phone number.
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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Paul - I had a guy out in Washington do the castings. He is just a high level backyard hobbyist (same guy did the Star 12 pinions). I did a bunch of prep work on the castings, filler sand-able primer, etc. There were some spots that he did have to add some extra draft to overcome negative draft situation (that bell crank for instance).

Wnidy - The only thing I can say on color is I have only ever seen them re-done in black. there is absolutely no color on my BG mill other than rust red. The DS mill was painted silver with light blue wheel and vane, LOL. I think Ivan said this came from the far east side of Mich or across the river in Paul's world ... so the joke was it was Lions colors.
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Re: A pair of IXLs

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Windy - I was just blasting the main casting on the BG mill. I did in fact find some black colored something. I think it was paint remnants, but hard to tell.
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