Plattner Yale?

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Plattner Yale?

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I was reading the post about Big Mill - Tight Quarters and it got me to thinking about a mill in my personal pile of junk. I got this mill 10 or 12 years ago and I had forgotten about it till now. The main frame doesn't say Eclipse, but it came with an eclipse weight. The arms were painted green as well as the wheel clips. I never got any sections with it or the tail so I don't know what whoever had it had put it up as. I'll attach a couple of pictures of the main frame with the part # that is on it. It's a 12 footer though.
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Here's a couple more pics
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Several companies made an exact, or close to exact copy of the Eclipse. That mill was so popular, and well known, that after the patent ran out ( 1901 ) companies started copying it. Flint and Walling, Dempster, and Axtell are a few. Not sure who used the green (or blue) color for the arms at the moment.
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The standard had blue arms.
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Thanks Paul.
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All used the Eclipse style weight some with no name and some with. The standard would have Standard on it. They say if you wanted a Standard and all you had was an Eclipse all you needed was a Standard weight and paint it red and white.
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The only mill that had an Eclipse style weight with no name ( only a number) was the Dempster. All the others had a name. The eclipse weights all had the same number but it might be above or below the word Eclipse and a letter for the size.Some eclipse weights had the letters of the foundry that cast them. ( I don't know the particulars , but eclipse did farm out the Wood blade Eclipse to other foundries for a while)The Eclipse model number had the model number and size on the side of the main frame.The model number for all of them was TYPE P preceded by the size.

I am not certain that all of them were, but most of the Yale mills spokes were Green along with the main frame.
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Pretty sure I read that the Standard ( by Axtell) had better bearings in them.
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Windybob, Standard did furnish an option of roller bearings. It was the bearing that was long with the long rollers held together with washers on the end. There was a seperate split race that went around the rollers.
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Okay. Those are Hyatt bearings. No longer made. But....I was in the lawnmower shop buying a belt a couple weeks ago, and saw 2 of those laying on the counter, about 3 inches long, and about 1 1/2 inches across. I couldn't believe it. He said they went in a deck of some sort. I aked where he got the 'Hyatt" bearings, he said he didn't know what they were. He was a young guy. lol
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