Very interesting video! We are currently restoring our William Tod Co. 34" x 68" x 60" cross compound engine to operation and working out issues such as bearing lubrication, steam supply and electric drive. Since we will be running a rolling mill with it and will not have sufficient steam to do it alone, an auxiliary 100 HP electric motor drive is being installed inline with the crankshaft to provide additional power as necessary. We plan to run between 30 to 40 rpm. One of the things that we learned in this process is hydrodynamic lubrication of the main journals. The shaft has to rotate a minimum speed in order for the shaft to get up on a layer of oil. When it does that there is very little wear on the bearings. Some of these big engines running in this video are going way too slow for that to happen, resulting in excessive bearing wear. A way to combat that would be to add a high pressure oil feed to the bottom of the main bearings. This serves to "float" the journal on oil even before it starts moving. We are making that modification to the Tod.
Thank you! Wow that is a very interesting project. You've made some incredibly interesting and valid points so thank you very much. I've been watching some of your videos on your channel showing your engine. I wish you all the best of luck with your rolling mill!!
Great pictures! You visited a lot of steam engines this year and made videos for them. Thanks 🙂 (I could still put one of the small steam engines in my collection 😁)
@teescottageguyproductions I know that a LOT of work goes into making these but rest assured that all your effort is much appreciated so please keep going!
Thanks!! I wish J Evans stood for James but sadly it doesn’t, it’s Joseph Evans. A winding engine is a steam engine (or often an electric motor) which is built to haul goods. So in the video I show 4,, the Weatherhill winding engine was built to haul wagons of coal and goods up a railway incline via ropes, engines like this were very common in the early days of the railways when the locomotive wasn’t developed enough. The other kind of winding engine (like F Pit, Bestwood & Astley Green) were built to haul coal & miners up and down the pit shaft from a mine underground. Hope this helps!
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CHAPTERS OF ENGINES:
0:00 Intro
0:24 MASSONS MILL
2:55 BESTWOOD COLLIERY
3:55 WEATHERHILL WINDING ENGINE
5:48 MARKHAM GRANGE STEAM MUSEUM
8:14 TOWER BRIDGE ENGINES
10:58 MIDDLETON TOP ENGINE
12:08 ELSECAR NEWCOMEN ENGINE
13:04 ASTLEY GREEN COLLIERY
14:16 GRANE MILL
18:44 F PIT ENGINE
20:28 END
6:59 & 7:15 I’m aware these aren’t J. Evans steam pumps, I forgot to change the name on the text box 😂
Very interesting video! We are currently restoring our William Tod Co. 34" x 68" x 60" cross compound engine to operation and working out issues such as bearing lubrication, steam supply and electric drive. Since we will be running a rolling mill with it and will not have sufficient steam to do it alone, an auxiliary 100 HP electric motor drive is being installed inline with the crankshaft to provide additional power as necessary. We plan to run between 30 to 40 rpm.
One of the things that we learned in this process is hydrodynamic lubrication of the main journals. The shaft has to rotate a minimum speed in order for the shaft to get up on a layer of oil. When it does that there is very little wear on the bearings. Some of these big engines running in this video are going way too slow for that to happen, resulting in excessive bearing wear. A way to combat that would be to add a high pressure oil feed to the bottom of the main bearings. This serves to "float" the journal on oil even before it starts moving. We are making that modification to the Tod.
Thank you! Wow that is a very interesting project. You've made some incredibly interesting and valid points so thank you very much. I've been watching some of your videos on your channel showing your engine. I wish you all the best of luck with your rolling mill!!
Great pictures!
You visited a lot of steam engines this year and made videos for them. Thanks 🙂
(I could still put one of the small steam engines in my collection 😁)
Thank you very much!! I hope to visit more next year!!
Very enjoyable James! A Happy New Year to you mate - Cheers Jim
Thanks! Happy new year
Well done with this video! Keep doing them, they help me satisfy my need for a "fix" of steam engines!
Thank you very much!! Glad you enjoy them!! I’ve got another one in the making now
@teescottageguyproductions I know that a LOT of work goes into making these but rest assured that all your effort is much appreciated so please keep going!
@officialbritishtaxpayer5609 thank you for your kind words! I really enjoy making them
Another great video James.
I noticed a J Evans Steam Pump and I knew that you had built it.
Oh by the way what is a winding engine?
Thanks!! I wish J Evans stood for James but sadly it doesn’t, it’s Joseph Evans. A winding engine is a steam engine (or often an electric motor) which is built to haul goods. So in the video I show 4,, the Weatherhill winding engine was built to haul wagons of coal and goods up a railway incline via ropes, engines like this were very common in the early days of the railways when the locomotive wasn’t developed enough. The other kind of winding engine (like F Pit, Bestwood & Astley Green) were built to haul coal & miners up and down the pit shaft from a mine underground. Hope this helps!
@teescottageguyproductions Thanks James