Years ago a supplier I dealt with in Waukesha, WI. had an open house to show off their new machining & inspection building, company was called Wisconsin Centrifugal Casting at the time. Son & I both went to the open house, He would have been about 15-17 yrs old at the time. They made the SOLAR turbine engine turbine housings for SOLAR then, now owned by CAT. Little rough casting maybe 15-18 inches in dia. and maybe two feet long weighed close to 200#. Next to it they had several turbine housings they make & machine for General Electric for commercial jet engines. They were about 3-1/2 to 4 ft long and over two feet in diameter but only weighed sixty pounds. Same type of metal, an Inconel alloy if I remember right but the GE's housing was as thin as .060" some places and SOLAR's was two inches.
Anyhow, to get this back on topic, Wisc. Centrifugal was only a couple miles away from IH's own Waukesha Foundry where they cast ductile iron castings & machined them.
KRAIG - one of the last times I talked to Wyatt he mentioned He still had the Capri but it's in storage too far away to work on.
Anyhow, to get this back on topic, Wisc. Centrifugal was only a couple miles away from IH's own Waukesha Foundry where they cast ductile iron castings & machined them.
KRAIG - one of the last times I talked to Wyatt he mentioned He still had the Capri but it's in storage too far away to work on.
