My grandfather got into antique engines after he retired about 1975. We restored back to running many engines, I have one of the first we restored. Cushman headless 1 1/4 hp with I believe the originally mated Meyers pump. Yes, it's a interesting hobby, wish I had a shop like yours!
What an amazing piece of engineering history. I wish you well with the challenge you've taken on. It's so important that there are folks like you that keep the history alive. Thanks a lot, Colin UK 🇬🇧.
Out of all your projects I'm most excited about the water pump. I don't why. Maybe because it's actually being put to work after restoration. It's really neat to put an antique piece of equipment back to work as intended in my opinion. Looking forward to future videos on that, and all your projects actually.
If you can attend an auction in person it makes finding parts easier. The trouble with old machinery auctions is the people who knew this stuff first hand are passing. One engine whose parts are scattered across several auction lots is frustrating. I bought an auction steam engine a couple years back missing the flywheel. It was on another pallet of junk. Fortunately I was able to sell most of it.
Real great find , will be great to see this one running, you have such a collection of engines , yes keep the videos coming great work! Thanks from Tasmania 🤙🤙
Love watching your video's BUT I hope you live another one hundred years with that many projects. I will be watching but I do not think I myself will long enough to see them all done. Great and interesting video;s I do enjoy.
Wow, ive seen Stickney engines before but that one is by far the weirdest looking one I have seen LOL! Looks like its gunna be quite a project so I'm excited to see you getting it going again! Also you have some really cool stuff in that other room of your shop so you should definitely do some revival videos on all of that stuff with time!
Very neat engine, I can't wait until is in the process to see every step, please keep us posted, most kind of you for sharing it with us, blessings to you and your love ones, from the endless summer paradise Puerto Rico Jesus Torres.
That Stickney engine that's about to take away much of your free time is making me jealous. There's something about the balance of "where's the rest of it" and "what I do have is not quite perfect" that leads to excitement and frustration and patience at the same time. It sounds like you have a fair share of resources but I will keep my ears to the ground and contact you if I hear of any parts that can be thrown your way. Definitely nice to have the sheet metal. Good job breaking down the facts.
I definitely feel your pain, I've been through something kind of similar. With my grandfather's tools that I knew he wanted me to have but they were split up by my uncle. That didn't know a d*** thing about tools. Yeah, leaving pieces here in there. Things up could've been great when yeah.
I now have some serious "shed envy"!!! Ha ha! Loved the walk through, too. Given that I'm Australian, I'd love to hear more about that Australian engine you have there. Very curious as to how it ended up in big ol' America? Liked & sub'd.
About 30 years ago when I was MUCH younger and chasing around and building a collection of old engines, I had a friend that I worked with that had 12 horse STICKNEY. Research at the time showed it was the only one in captivity. And what a job he did on the restoration. It took a long time but I did get to see it run and we had a big party at his place an OLD ENGINE gas up. I remember it having an external sight glass in beautiful brass with cutouts for the glass tube to view the water level because it was mounted on the outside of the water hopper. It had a beautiful c\art it was mounted on. Somewhere I think I still have pictures of it. Question? Have you ever come across UNION engines, VERTICAL. From San Francisco.Z Very rare
Best of luck with your restoration, I have never seen one or heard of the manufacturer, who I assume is American. I have had a few of the more common stationary engines found in the UK. Fascinating project!
ah I had my eye on that one. But when it went for $400 and would have to buy everything else for it I backed down. That other Stickney went for $6750!! Couldn't believe it. Good auction though.
From Indiana? Not Podunk county by any chance? - Maybe it was one of Taryl's old projects! Maybe something out of Ronnie's shed! I can hear Elkskins right now, saying "Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up!" That's a project to test even the best restorer! I have to say good luck with welding up the water jacket. Such a shame that the bits were lost, but I think you'll be able to weld and bridge the holes. Would it be fair to assume you'll be testing those internal welds for leakage? I guess a blanking plate to cover for the cylinder head, piston reinstalled, igniter in place, or capped off, and charge the cylinder with compressed air while simultaneously applying soapy water to the welds would be a good place to start? Definitely want to see the central power unit running again! But by the same token, the Australian engine is a tempter. Wouldn't mind seeing that working again.
The problem with the "crap" is having to pay for it and maybe storing it, but I love those old cast iron pieces designed to be strong and have a nice look, most modern castings are designed to do the job for a few years while using the least material possible and without any consideration for aesthetics 😓 That oil pump(?) may have a good value restored but otherwise has a lot of potential as a garden ornament too, at least for those of us who like that kind of stuff 😃
Ive got a Ten horse Otto that i need parts for. It is very old and the brrass plate with a serial number on has a serial number. Interested? I,m in Central Alberta..😊
The bidder isn't the customer, whomever consigned the items is the customer. The auction house did the right thing to make the most money for the consigner. Annoying as it is.
A very interesting engine! If you went to Indiana to get it, were you going there from Ohio? If so, I would be happy to take some of the junk you had to buy off your hands so you don't have it cluttering up your beautiful shop! You are my newest subscribed channel! I have a lot of catching up to do!
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities OK I am near Wooster so you would only be an hour and a half or so away. Would you really consider letting go of any of the junk that came with your parts, or are there more future projects in those piles?
I just purchased this engine as you seen it in the video. It is a project that I will be completing on the channel. I'm excited to have it since it is a pretty uncommon piece, and I wanted to share it with everyone. If you came to watch the engine run, I apologize and would suggest you take a look at some of my other videos I have of restorations! Thank you for watching!
@@Cast_Iron_CuriositiesMany thanks for your detailed reply. I've only just discovered your channel, I'll look up some of your other videos and look forward to seeing the follow ups on this engine
Hobby, I believe you've got a slightly bigger problem than a mere hobby. I'd say that you Sir are addicted to caat iron in the worst way, but then we all have our little things we can't say no to, and it's debatable whether it's relaxing or not as hobbies are supposed to be so I've been told. LOL, but it keeps us outta the public where we might embarrass certain members of the family. 😂 wouldn't know nuthin about such things as that myself. Y'all have a Great Day
I have a friend who has an old hit and miss?? He has hooked it to an old generator that had a blown motor he runs his whole house on this thing and only uses about a gallon of gas in 24 hours so 3 bucks a day for 30 days is only 90 bucks and his electric bills were way over 300 so hell i would make that exchange he is currently looking into adding a battery pack that will run his house for 10 days without charging but will be adding a small solar panel setup and will be charging the battery pack with a short 12 hours of hit and miss operation
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My grandfather got into antique engines after he retired about 1975. We restored back to running many engines, I have one of the first we restored. Cushman headless 1 1/4 hp with I believe the originally mated Meyers pump.
Yes, it's a interesting hobby, wish I had a shop like yours!
Thank you, it took me many years before I had the money and place to get the shop built!
What an amazing piece of engineering history. I wish you well with the challenge you've taken on. It's so important that there are folks like you that keep the history alive. Thanks a lot, Colin UK 🇬🇧.
Thank you. I'm just trying to preserve our past for our future.
love to see this unusual engine being brought back to life!
Out of all your projects I'm most excited about the water pump. I don't why. Maybe because it's actually being put to work after restoration. It's really neat to put an antique piece of equipment back to work as intended in my opinion. Looking forward to future videos on that, and all your projects actually.
It's neat to see this stuff work as it was originally attended!
If you can attend an auction in person it makes finding parts easier. The trouble with old machinery auctions is the people who knew this stuff first hand are passing. One engine whose parts are scattered across several auction lots is frustrating. I bought an auction steam engine a couple years back missing the flywheel. It was on another pallet of junk. Fortunately I was able to sell most of it.
Real great find , will be great to see this one running, you have such a collection of engines , yes keep the videos coming great work! Thanks from Tasmania 🤙🤙
Thank you and I sure will keep them coming!
You did a greats job to spot all the parts amongst all that other junk, nice work, can’t wait to see the process and results on this one
Thank you!
I sure like what you do and how clear you explain things so that even a Dutchie can understand it :)
Wow very cool! First time I’ve seen your channel and I love the old engines and want one some day to tinker with! I’m now a subscriber!
Welcome aboard!
Love watching your video's BUT I hope you live another one hundred years with that many projects. I will be watching but I do not think I myself will long enough to see them all done. Great and interesting video;s I do enjoy.
As I like to say. "He who dies with the most stuff, wins"!
Wow, ive seen Stickney engines before but that one is by far the weirdest looking one I have seen LOL! Looks like its gunna be quite a project so I'm excited to see you getting it going again! Also you have some really cool stuff in that other room of your shop so you should definitely do some revival videos on all of that stuff with time!
I'll definitely do videos on the stuff in the other room. Just gotta get the time to do them!
Very neat engine, I can't wait until is in the process to see every step, please keep us posted, most kind of you for sharing it with us, blessings to you and your love ones, from the endless summer paradise Puerto Rico Jesus Torres.
I've tracked down almost all the parts that I wasn't able to get with the engine. Hopefully, sometime this year can get to work on this one!
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities thanks you, would be very nice to see each step of the way, blessings to all of you gentleman.
Definitely following this build, nice score!
Thank you!
That Stickney engine that's about to take away much of your free time is making me jealous. There's something about the balance of "where's the rest of it" and "what I do have is not quite perfect" that leads to excitement and frustration and patience at the same time. It sounds like you have a fair share of resources but I will keep my ears to the ground and contact you if I hear of any parts that can be thrown your way. Definitely nice to have the sheet metal. Good job breaking down the facts.
Thank you! I'm hopeful to have it mostly complete by the end of the year.
cant wate to see more vidioes on this keep up the goood work
Thank you!
Yes we love to see a full video of the sickel restored Trev from S,Australia
It will be a little bit before it's done but I will keep everyone updated!
I definitely feel your pain, I've been through something kind of similar. With my grandfather's tools that I knew he wanted me to have but they were split up by my uncle. That didn't know a d*** thing about tools. Yeah, leaving pieces here in there. Things up could've been great when yeah.
I now have some serious "shed envy"!!! Ha ha! Loved the walk through, too. Given that I'm Australian, I'd love to hear more about that Australian engine you have there. Very curious as to how it ended up in big ol' America? Liked & sub'd.
G'day lol. The story behind the Austral to my understanding it was imported years ago by a collector here in the states and I bought it from him.
About 30 years ago when I was MUCH younger and chasing around and building a collection of old engines, I had a friend that I worked with that had 12 horse STICKNEY. Research at the time showed it was the only one in captivity. And what a job he did on the restoration. It took a long time but I did get to see it run and we had a big party at his place an OLD ENGINE gas up. I remember it having an external sight glass in beautiful brass with cutouts for the glass tube to view the water level because it was mounted on the outside of the water hopper. It had a beautiful c\art it was mounted on. Somewhere I think I still have pictures of it. Question? Have you ever come across UNION engines, VERTICAL. From San Francisco.Z Very rare
Best of luck with your restoration, I have never seen one or heard of the manufacturer, who I assume is American. I have had a few of the more common stationary engines found in the UK. Fascinating project!
Very cool really love this stuff
Thank you!
I really enjoy these kinds of videos 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you!
love seeing these running at fairs.
Wife would kill me if I started hoarding like she does 😅
good video, i like you said you are going take your time, good attitude, do it right
Love to see it run
Me too 😆
ah I had my eye on that one. But when it went for $400 and would have to buy everything else for it I backed down. That other Stickney went for $6750!! Couldn't believe it. Good auction though.
Guy in Newton Kansas had one of the biggest Stickney collections
SCORE!! Can’t wait to see this one!
Thank you!
Thanks again my friend.....
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You're welcome, thank you too!
I'm jealous! I'd love to help make those things run again.
It's a blast!
I'm looking forward to this and all of your projects. Who's doing your castings?
Thank you, normally Cattail foundry.
From Indiana? Not Podunk county by any chance? - Maybe it was one of Taryl's old projects! Maybe something out of Ronnie's shed!
I can hear Elkskins right now, saying "Fire it up, fire it up, fire it up!"
That's a project to test even the best restorer! I have to say good luck with welding up the water jacket. Such a shame that the bits were lost, but I think you'll be able to weld and bridge the holes. Would it be fair to assume you'll be testing those internal welds for leakage? I guess a blanking plate to cover for the cylinder head, piston reinstalled, igniter in place, or capped off, and charge the cylinder with compressed air while simultaneously applying soapy water to the welds would be a good place to start?
Definitely want to see the central power unit running again! But by the same token, the Australian engine is a tempter. Wouldn't mind seeing that working again.
I bought it from Indiana but it was brought up there from Texas and sold at Polks Auction.
Congrats! I knew this would make a good video once you started buying the parts. It's weird that they had things spread out over so many pallets.
Thank you!
They're not silly, they spread parts for a known seller amongst the crap no one wants to get rid of it.
For a minute I wasnt sure if it was an engine or a flour grinder.
man nice hit there I cant what to see it running again but man if you was closer to me I would love to get some of the junk small engine off from you
I can't wait to get it going!
I saw a cream separator in the back of the pickup.
Good luck with this engine..Once you got one you will get a good runner before you fix this one....good luck ..ken england...
What’s the story on the Austral? Did you import of was it an original export from Aus? I live not far from where they were built 👍🏻
To my knowledge it was exported to the US by a collector but thats all I really know of its history.
Was it designed to run on well gas ?
Just regular gasoline
id like to see some videos on all the "crap" in the truck
Maybe one day
Nice!!!!!
Dad has one of the later ones. Has some castings left from the restoration of his that might interchange.
NIce Thermoil those are getting rare.
Holland-family
Oscar
Romeo
Geronimo
You might need 3 life times with that lot.
That's no lie. Lol
are you goingto show the stick me resto running❤
Yes, it takes time to gather parts and have stuff made. Hopefully will be working on it this year!
Some day I would like to get a stickney lots of neat motion going on
They are definitely neat.
Good luck with the build. These are very uncommon.
Thank you!
I'd buy those little engines off of you lol, you know what they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
That for sure!
I've had a couple engines that had open heart surgery on the jacket to repair cylinder issues too.. Never fun lol.
This will be a interesting fix for sure lol
Wow that’s one beautiful stikney is it 7hp?,cant wait to see it running
6hp I believe
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities ohh thank you
And if you can't find a head for it it becomes a paperweight
What you can't find, you make.
Patton bros engine is my choice bud, nice
Sounds like he really figured out how to sell stuff....buy all different lots to get needed parts ....genius..
You got that right!
A vapor fueled propane forklift? Those things are almost always liquid fueled.
This one should be, but I made my own little conversion to have it run on gas grill tanks.
The problem with the "crap" is having to pay for it and maybe storing it, but I love those old cast iron pieces designed to be strong and have a nice look, most modern castings are designed to do the job for a few years while using the least material possible and without any consideration for aesthetics 😓
That oil pump(?) may have a good value restored but otherwise has a lot of potential as a garden ornament too, at least for those of us who like that kind of stuff 😃
How could I contact you I'm interested in some of the small engines you bought
look me up on Instagram and DM me.
Ive got a Ten horse Otto that i need parts for. It is very old and the brrass plate with a serial number on has a serial number. Interested? I,m in Central Alberta..😊
Don, I would be interested! Are you wanting to find parts for it or looking to sell it?
Good luck
Thank you!
Gimme a shout I can fix the water jacket on that engine
Maybe... I see you have an old electric wind turbine. Is it a zenith? I always thought they were cool! 😁
It's a Wincharger, but it would be the same as a zenith. Wincharger made the zenith ones.
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities Thank you for the info! I thought it looked like the zenith I have seen.
How obnoxious for the auction house to split the pieces into separate lots. They really don't respect their customers.
The bidder isn't the customer, whomever consigned the items is the customer. The auction house did the right thing to make the most money for the consigner. Annoying as it is.
how on earth did you know which bits went with it?
Years of looking at these things!
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities I know the feeling.
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A very interesting engine! If you went to Indiana to get it, were you going there from Ohio? If so, I would be happy to take some of the junk you had to buy off your hands so you don't have it cluttering up your beautiful shop! You are my newest subscribed channel! I have a lot of catching up to do!
Wonderful! And yes I'm in Ohio.
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities Are you anywhere near Cleveland or Columbus?
@@timeflysintheshop I'm east of Columbus
@@Cast_Iron_Curiosities OK I am near Wooster so you would only be an hour and a half or so away. Would you really consider letting go of any of the junk that came with your parts, or are there more future projects in those piles?
Wow they sure know how to rip you off
I was told you can use a 400 small block Chevy bearing for the crank main journal middle block
Everything that you showed us was a project being worked on. Have you actually finished anything? Maybe you just like collecting bits of engines?
I just purchased this engine as you seen it in the video. It is a project that I will be completing on the channel. I'm excited to have it since it is a pretty uncommon piece, and I wanted to share it with everyone. If you came to watch the engine run, I apologize and would suggest you take a look at some of my other videos I have of restorations!
Thank you for watching!
@@Cast_Iron_CuriositiesMany thanks for your detailed reply. I've only just discovered your channel, I'll look up some of your other videos and look forward to seeing the follow ups on this engine
I have a meco motor hit,mis
Hobby, I believe you've got a slightly bigger problem than a mere hobby.
I'd say that you Sir are addicted to caat iron in the worst way, but then we all have our little things we can't say no to, and it's debatable whether it's relaxing or not as hobbies are supposed to be so I've been told.
LOL, but it keeps us outta the public where we might embarrass certain members of the family.
😂 wouldn't know nuthin about such things as that myself.
Y'all have a Great Day
No truer words have been said!
The good stuff looks like crap too!
Right now it basically is crap lol. It's all going to need some work done to it!
you got scruuuuuuuuuuuuuuud royaly
Talk, talk, talk, show us how you repaired it and show it running. Not all this jaw-jacking. We have politicians for that
Hello, I just purchased this project, and it has not undergone the restoration process yet.
Thanks for your reply and explanation. Hope to see your video when your actually working on it and it running
I have a friend who has an old hit and miss?? He has hooked it to an old generator that had a blown motor he runs his whole house on this thing and only uses about a gallon of gas in 24 hours so 3 bucks a day for 30 days is only 90 bucks and his electric bills were way over 300 so hell i would make that exchange he is currently looking into adding a battery pack that will run his house for 10 days without charging but will be adding a small solar panel setup and will be charging the battery pack with a short 12 hours of hit and miss operation
the piston looks way bigger that the bore
The bore is larger then than the hole you see at the end of the cylinder. Kind of a weird design.