Thanks, the team of volunteers really know their stuff, their knowledge is very obvious when talking to them! A great place to go and run by great people.
Exellent video,you captured everything clearly. It is good to see such old engines still being kept in running order. A credit to all who look after them.
Forget the kind of engines we have in our sheds, this is more like it! This is what we really want to be in charge of, yes! My kind of place, lots of steam, oil and moving parts, making nice clickety click sounds. Brilliant!
Indeed, the workmanship is superb. I am pretty sure this type of engine is a true steam engine, it was the earlier Newcomen types that used atmosphere I think.
Do you mean the cams on the driving platform? If so, when you start a beam engine you "short stroke" it so you don't put 8 tonnes of beam through the floor, then you let the cams take over once your up to power and the engine will keep it's stroke perfectley to within inches of "the blocks" beneath each end of the beam. I'll try and get a video of the "Grand junction" 90" beam engine being "driven" next time I'm at Kew Bridge, that engine really takes some skill as the beam ways nearer 40 tonnes
I am constantly impressed by the metal finish on these machines, 200 years old and it looks like it has just been made on some CNC machine, beautiful kit. Well done on the movie making also. One question, are these beam engines true steam pressure engines or are they 'atmospherics' where steam is condensed in the cylinder and the atmosphere does the work? I have seen other videos of beam engines that are atmospheric and I was just wondering if it is a trait of this type of engine, regards. Ray
This is fabulous. I remember visiting Crofton in the early 1970s and being captivated by the place. I must go back and reacquaint myself with it.
Thanks, the team of volunteers really know their stuff, their knowledge is very obvious when talking to them! A great place to go and run by great people.
Exellent video,you captured everything clearly. It is good to see such old engines still being kept in running order. A credit to all who look after them.
Forget the kind of engines we have in our sheds, this is more like it! This is what we really want to be in charge of, yes! My kind of place, lots of steam, oil and moving parts, making nice clickety click sounds. Brilliant!
Indeed, the workmanship is superb.
I am pretty sure this type of engine is a true steam engine, it was the earlier Newcomen types that used atmosphere I think.
WOW! The history in there is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
great video, it looked like it was a great day out too!
Do you mean the cams on the driving platform? If so, when you start a beam engine you "short stroke" it so you don't put 8 tonnes of beam through the floor, then you let the cams take over once your up to power and the engine will keep it's stroke perfectley to within inches of "the blocks" beneath each end of the beam. I'll try and get a video of the "Grand junction" 90" beam engine being "driven" next time I'm at Kew Bridge, that engine really takes some skill as the beam ways nearer 40 tonnes
I am constantly impressed by the metal finish on these machines, 200 years old and it looks like it has just been made on some CNC machine, beautiful kit. Well done on the movie making also. One question, are these beam engines true steam pressure engines or are they 'atmospherics' where steam is condensed in the cylinder and the atmosphere does the work? I have seen other videos of beam engines that are atmospheric and I was just wondering if it is a trait of this type of engine, regards. Ray
it looks like a realy good place that. you know the mechanisms that inter lock and move, what they for ?
Oh yes, I'd rather have a steam pumping station than a house of my own....
I agree with Bevoin1970, but in my opinion I do like much petrol or diesel engines. Some noise of the combustion!!!
No problem!
It's much more sensible to use the fuel in the cylinder!
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