STUART NUMBER ONE STEAM ENGINE REPAIR - PART #4
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2017
- Stuart Number One Steam Engine Repair - Part #4 - The Final Episode in this series about repairing a Stuart Models Number One Steam Engine. IF ANYONE WISHES TO MAKE A SMALL DONATION TO HELP WITH THE COST AND TIME THAT IT TAKES ME TO MAKE THESE VIDEO TUTORIALS PLEASE USE THESE LINKS: www.paypal.me/keithappleton
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Memories of tapping out a gasket for an old police noddy bike velocette LE mk3 at the side of the road using a spanner as a hammer and a Swiss army knife ! !😅
The ink pad method of transferring patterns is pure genius. I've used this several times in the past few days to transfer the locations of printed-circuit-board stand-offs to their mountings in order to locate the matching holes to be drilled. Thank you for showing it!
The attention to detail, The humor and the pure joy in working on these steam engines add up to wonderfully entertaining videos.
Again, thank you.
Wow, WAY more stable with the flat base!! Nice work. Loved all the engine running at the end, thanks so much :)
That was a great explination for several different repairs. Keep up the great work.
Hello from Ontario Canada! Even after watching so many of your videos I always find myself impressed and a little envious. Once again very well done sir.
Thanks so much for all the hard work you do making the videos...I recognize how much effort it takes...
I watched a program about the flying Scotsman the other night (on RUclips of course), and the engineer was cranking away madly at the handle right next to the main steam valve lever...I couldn't imagine what he was doing, but had a feeling it had something to do with speed and power. Your wonderful explanation of "notching up" cleared all that up for me. Thank you so much.
I have been watching for a few months now, and have seen enough to appreciate the intricacies of steam engines at a fairly high level , thanks to you. Bless you for doing that. Wish I could send you a pile of money to help out, but I'm on the dole myself now, ... only reason I have time to watch so much telly...
Good job Keith. Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Bloody good job Keith! Another satisfied customer I'm sure.
Very enjoyable and informative series. Thank You
I no longer have the tooling nor the ability to do this stuff but I find it very interesting ...having been a machinist and steam enthusiast all my years...which are now many...thanks for the info and entertainment
These No.1's have a 2 inch cylinder bore! Thats more than most 5 inch gauge locos.
I never realised that - I thought that they had a 1 1/2 inch bore . . .
Thanks for the nice explanation concerning the more CO2 neutral usage of a steam engine ;-))) The lever out of its maximal position, shortening the movement of the valve and thereby reducing the steamflow... I will use this trick in routine on my steamboat AMPHORA...
I was told by an old fireman that a lot of engines had supposed "safety valves" on the cylinders so that if you didn't open the cocks the valve would blow before the covers would blow off. However, they were quite unreliable, as he found out when he was driving one day and heard a loud bang and found the cover to have blown off!
very nice job and thanks for explaining notching up.
Very nicely done, great work.
I am always amazed on how you make your own nuts and things. if I ever was to try and make a steam engine my OCD would kick it and would take me years.
Love watching your videos. I knew I should have bought that lathe. 😞
Sweet. Just absolutely sweet!...
Well done. Since you thanked me for watching ... You're welcome?
Splendid!
I believe it's called gunmetal as they used to use that alloy for cannons for the Royal Navy (and for the army and others)
Keith
Please don’t take this the wrong way it’s not a criticism but a puzzlement, I do appreciate that your videos are mainly aimed at beginners.
With regard to not having a BSW die why not just single point screw cut it in your lathe ?
Notching up also uses the steam (not air ) expansively
Another well produced and informative video
Stuart
Not many beginners that I have met own a lathe that will screw cut or even know how to do it. I always try to keep it as simple as I can. Before I voiceover the videos, I try and offer as simple an explanation as possible.
Keith Appleton
Thanks for the reply
I understand your position
06:38 You got me curious so I looked it up: water [compressability] is roughly 40 times softer than cast iron and 70 times softer than steel. Perhaps a better comparison is air... roughly 20,000 times softer than water. Hope this helps.
Machine God be praised!
I have read somewhere that steam is far better than compressed air, because its far more elastic. Obvious, really. Anyway, if they run so well on compressed air, just imagine how much better still, they will, on steam...!!! (And SMELL lovely, too.)
Eee Bye eck, Lad, That sounds Raight grand ! -and a perfect soporific at 22.40 ! Nighty night………….
sounds like a clock when running slow. :)
When you run the engine slow and its just putting along is the best... You can really hear each admission and it sounds awesome. A question, you don't think having the inlet and exhaust pipe so long will get damaged?
That is what the customer specified.
nice!
Very good running engine,with lots of power!
Keith I would like to ask you for your opinion about a good choice of engine for a first time builder with limited machining abilities thank you for your time and efforts
I recommend a Stuart Models "Victoria" - the parts are a bit larger than the number 10 type and therefore easier to make - less fiddly.
Check the history of the word “brass”. Prior to the invention of modern brass, “brass” meant “bronze”.
Did you replace the bottom cylinder gasket? That might take a lot of work. Great work.
No, it was after all a repair - not a rebuild . . . .
Sounds so nice ! Like me mums '72 singer sewing machine :) Oh! a steam powered sewing machine! how interesting would THAT be ?
Wasn't talking commercial/industrial...
Oooohh , Gotcha, Bits... WOuldn't it still be a neat thing?? LOL betcha a stuart #1 belted to an old treadle sewing machine would do the trick :) couldn't ruin it inside , though :)
@@mysticvirgo9318 I know this is a three-year-old comment, but, related... ever since I found out Husqvarna sewing machines exist, I've wanted to put a chainsaw motor on one.
Did you replace the bottom cylinder gasket?
I can't remember .... probably if it was defective.
Is their a gasket material that works better than others?
Not that I am aware of . . .
Where do you buy the tools and fittings required for this hobby?
Amazon, Ebay, or Blackgates Engineering (www.blackgates.co.uk)
A quite random question: how are covers sealed in real world steam machines? Also via similar(ish) gasket material or in some other way?
Gaskets - similar but bigger :-))))
FrankyBoy- some use gaskets, some use labyrinth rings machined/chiseled into the cylinder/cover with no gaskets. On very large engines the land between cylinder wall and outside diameter means that this method is highly successful, and also means that gasket failure is a non-entity, no bad thing when a cylinder cover might weigh upwards of half a ton.
How do I find one of these steam engines I looked on eBay and all they have are tiny little ones
Just keep looking - I have bought stuart 5A engines in the past via Ebay.
Have you ever tried making gaskets with a ballpeen hammer?
No, I don't like the idea of hitting the castings with a hammer . . . .
Is there a model you would recommend?
I recommend building a Stuart "Victoria"
Night and day from the heap she was... Ticking nicely..
How about a before and after video?
Part #1 of the series is "before" and this final episode is "after"
Keith, here across the sea, we call
gunmetal, red brass.
(Aren't England and America 2 nations
separated by the same language?)
steve
:-))))