1905 Reid 15hp oilfield stationary engine
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- This is a 1905 Reid 15 hp engine that my Dad just rebuilt/restored. The cart it sits on, He built himself from pictures. The rear wheels are made from 30" pipe, and the fronts are 16". The frame is some left over I beam and the steering is his own design.
The fuel is propane with a needle valve to regulate flow. The ignition is some old military coil with a sparkplug screwed into an adapter in the head that he made and a micro switch mounted on the base with a trigger mounted to a disc bolted to the crank. The flyball gov. isn't connected yet, but it will be soon to help control rpm. 
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Wish I could find an older guy with a machine like this!
Damn son, this baby is gorgeous!
I'd love to share this with my grandpas :)
Sweet engine. I could listen to that all day.
Most people run the old machines slow and easy. I prefer this.
Thanks for sharing the whole process of starting this critter. I love to learn more about these old engines. First time I've run across a 2-stroke with a charging cylinder.
Fantastic! What a beautiful sound the old beast makes!
When the engine runs and gets up to speed the hitting and vortex sound in between hits it sounds like industrial Rock music to me, like a nine inch nails song sort of..I downloaded it in my mp3 music playing list for that .. thanks for posting 😊
I am glad you enjoy these beasts! To answer your question, Yes, the "carb" is a needle valve on the propane and there is a 2" ball valve on the air intake. If the air valve is opened up even close to full, the speed of the engine goes WAY to fast! It also uses alot more propane.
The next step is to get the flyball govenor hooked up and working to control the speed. It seemed to run in the vid at about 340 rpm, which is still a little fast. But it is my Dad's first stationary engine!
Very nice video, GREAT job on the restoration. Always fun to see old engines brought back to life.
What an old darling......love these old engines,they've got a style and sound all of there own........
Your dad is awesome!! You guys did good that engine is a beauty
a nice sweet engine and a good video and thank you for your time
I love this engine! Having been a mechanic all my life the Engineering is fascinating
I can almost feel the ground vibrate when that baby fires! Cool engine and thanks for posting this!!
its amazing the engineering the old timers came up with.. I bet someone was even more proud of that thing then you folks are now when they bought that engine to use.
Great restoration on the 'ole girl , Kudos Sir ! .
This is awesome! Reminds me of me and my Dad figuring things out. VERY cool engine
Nice!
Congratulations for that that amazing work! That machine is amazing.
Your father is obviously an "old-schooled" man including the best knowledge and mechanical capabilities. Keep it up!
Thanks for the upload and with the best wishes and greetings from Germany.
Awesome Rebuild !!! Beautiful Machine !!! Thank You for sharing with us !!!! ***cheers*** =)
love those engines, those and the hit and miss types. thanks for sharing.
That is such a special sound. I love it. I can't help but smile.
What an amazing engine!!
What a sound!!!!
BRILLIANT!
Boy you sit here in anticipation then it slowly starts up... That was cool!
You guys need a set of those blue rubber gloves they will protect your hands and give you great grip when your cold cranking those flywheels. I use them at work all the time and cant do without them. Very cool collector engine! I would love to own that, break it down and fully restore it like new, engine like this can draw some big bucks from the collectors... Good old USA !!
What a nice video. Beautiful engine . Nice sound.
That just looks dangerous as hell. I love it!
Love that throat-y sound. That's some raw power, right there.
I do try! I have learned so much from him.
It is actually a 2 stroke engine. It fires every time the piston comes up. It may sound like a hit -miss because we were still kinda workin the "bugs" out!
Iwork in the oilfield on all types of engines, point is, its a great looking engine, sounds dam good and you both get a long....
Top or max rpm is "supposed" to be about 150rpm. It was basically flying du to the fact we had it running on propane and it had no governor to regulate the speed.
I remember these on pump jacks set up to run off the gas from the oil well or tailings as they used to say made use of a lot of the gas that was flared off .
Definitely a father and son
Sounds like my house when my wife makes beans for dinner..! Cool engine.
nicely done guys hope it comes together.
Very rare engine, the conception is very nice and inteligent. Two strokes, air supplyed by second cylinder... for the slow runing it is very just... Moteur deux temps à balayage par piston annexe, très rationnel et de fonctionnement tout à fait correct. Il n'a rien à envier avec les machines modernes... Excellent pour usage à poste fixe... Bravo
Sweet sound👍
i remember seeing these in Mississippi long time ago
now that's a proper mechanic, oily rag at the ready, thankyou
Thanks, Phil. We are about 30 miles north of detroit,mi
make another hole in the head and start it with compress air you wil be stress relieved also find the way to change the ignition timing at will for the start up procedure,, great piece ,,congratss. both you guys.
Usually you can't see the pistons of the engine. Now you know every engine is a gross tarantula!
Great sound off it
Worth the wait...
That’s a real relationship
Awesome engine
Sweet engine!!
It's called a charging cylinder. It pulls in the air -fuel mixture and then it pushes it into the main cylinder, which has an ignition source. Originally they had what was called a hot tube ignition. This 1 is retrofitted with a crude spark plug and coil.
I WOULDNT GO NEAR THAT WHEN SHES GOIN GOD DANM'
It is to draw in air &gas,and then push the air gas mixture into the main cylinder which exhausts the burned charge and at the same time pushing in a new load. It is a type of 2 stroke engine. Firing every time the piston comes up.
Really nice interesting engine
WOOOOOOW 0_o ...I love that sound
That might leave a BIG mark!
Well done!
That thing is terrifying, haha. Hellish sound.
Nice job though!
There have been a few racing motorbikes built like this. The smaller piston is a scavenge or supercharging piston. A good examle was the chamberlain racing car built in Australia in the 1930's.
Just remember the Old guy did teach young guy everything he knows!
dafunk3: ...and then he forgot everything he ever taught his son.
These engines have as many ways of starting them, as there are people starting them...
Прекрасный звук, устойчивая работа
Some new ones are getting even smaller, yet!
awesome!
Thar she blows! Good stuff, love it!
"The flyball gov. isn't connected yet, but it will be soon to help control rpm."
yeah thats a good idea, firing up an engine without the governer hooked up
When they found oil in the area, natural gas was always present also. It originally would have run on that. Propane is just easier to supply and keep "Mobile".
Father and son bonding? Lol
What's the cylinder off to the side do compress air?
good job guy's
The engine is water cooled. We had a hose going into the water jacket, and then just dumped it onto the ground. That is the pipe out the rear.
Now I know where they got the sound effects for Willy Wonka's bubble mobiles.. nice engine.
Respekt!
I would guess it was designed as a 2 stroke because of the power benefit. The double piston is sort of the "valves" of the engine. The small cylinder sucks in both air and fuel and when the large cylinder is coming to the bottom of its stroke, the smaller piston then "pushes" the mixture of air and fuel into the larger one, both pushing out the exhaust gases and pushing in a new mixture to fire when the large cylinder comes up to the top of its stroke.
It is a strange design, but very simple!
Abbott & Costello discuss starting an engine!
i love your comment i read it to my dad and he agrees
congratoulation..
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Remember:age brings wisdom!
yeah excellent
Nice Job have you gotten the governor hooked up and working
It isn't a hit and miss engine. It is technically a 2 stroke because it does ( or is supposed to ) fire every time the main piston come up on the stroke.
Just wondering how the engine is cooled? I would think it would overheat with no fins on the cylinder. Pretty cool old engine.
Wow sounds like a beast. What's the other piston on the side for?
run, she's gonna break apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OSHA probably loves u 2 for running this thing! I think she runs a little fast.... but that's just me;)
it's started like my friend's Witte Headless. spin the flywheels back a little, then throw them up against compression. trips the mag, and she fires right off!
Cool
that is awsome i was wondering how much torque it makes and what they were used for????
correct me if im wrong because i dont know a whole lot about these hit and miss engines, but isnt it running backwards from what it should be?
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they used that double set up so they could run on very poor quality fuel , It sorta pre compressed the fuel charge making it denser , basically so it would have the same effects of high compression like a diesel , but yet not have the extreem effort to start that it would with very high compression , hard to explain , but they were mostly ran on cull oil (kerosene) but it was far different than it is today from what it once was ...
glub,glub,glubl,glub,puffpuffpuffpuffpuff,glub,lub,puffpuffpuff lol
@RatherEggy Just think of all the places you see electric motors on a modern farm. Before everything was electrified you would likely use a stationary engine to do the work. One of my stationary engines ran a cement mixer and the other was a washing machine engine.
Looks like a lost art.
What is the function of the second "piston" on the side of the engine?
That old man is the tin woodsman from "Wizard of Oz"
the sound is nice and funny ;D Good work!
I wonder what that side cylinder is for? The main crank is between bearings, and that additional is driven from the side-wheel. Must be a pump for cooling water?
It compresses intake air. An early 'supercharger'.
Good to hear&watch it from other old motor enthusiasts! Heat driven machines were in roots of human civiliation. Electricity gradually defeats them in many fields, yet those ingenious men with their exploding devices never be forgotten.
most two strokes were designed to run either direction. There are some exceptions to that but that always has to do with the mechanicals of the governor.
@dafunk43 I wonder... why set it up as a 2-stroke? Very interesting though, I've never seen an engine like this one firing on every stroke before. Also, what's with the weird double-piston cycle?
@dafunk43 Youngster says"Dad you never had computers, video games or TV when you were a kid, did you?"
Old man says "No son, thats why we invented those things for you."
Loads of new technology would not have been possible if not for the ground work done by the older generation.
Biggerbadwolf This never gets said enough.
Thanks for sharing, it never really crossed my mind.
And yet we just throw these amazing machines away to rot and be forgotten.
how big of a bore stroke does that thing have?
are you able to run one of these in either direction?
whats the cylinder on the side for?
Oh you, pretty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang we love you.. lol.. that's what this made me think of.