Well done Dave, it has been a couple years in the making. Sort of like George Washington's axe, used to cut the cherry tree down. They may have replaced the handle three times and the head twice, but it's still a beautiful piece of history! As always thanks for all the videos, I look forward to each on. So now that you have it up and running what are your plans for it
Very well done on the Morris engine. I enjoyed seeing the rings being made for the overbored cylinder. A labour of love, with a wonderful ending. I also enjoyed the details on the flue tubes and head caulking. I cannot imagine doing this by hand, but appreciate this was done by many skilled craftsmen back in the day. Dave.
Congratulations! This is a wonderful achievement to restore a junk engine into this smooth-running example. I think not many machinist could do what you did. Your knowledge and experience with steam engines really made the difference, not to mention your patience, persistence and skill. Time to celebrate!
Hearing you tap the top of the piston on was very satisfying. Just the sound alone is testimony to the fit you achieved. Impressive work all around, you are an example of the type of machinist I aspire to be. Thank you Dave!
I just binged on this series tracking the Morris. I’m impressed. It’s gorgeous. And the restoration was a fantastic success and truly fun to watch. Is the Morris better now than when it was new?
Hello Larry, The Morris was an interesting project and being a local make, built in Baldwinsville NY it will end up in the nearby Camillus Canal Museum's steam display. They will be running it on steam, probably running something with it.....Dave
Dave really enjoy this series on the rebuild of the steam engine. I hope in the future you might be able too more like this one. Great job have enjoyed you program ever since finding it on RUclips. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on getting the Morris engine up and running Dave, all your hard work really paid off and thanks for sharing the journey with us. What a superb little engine.
Hello again Dave. Nice to see the culmination of 2 1/2 Years of diligent work come to a satisfactory conclusion. The engine runs beautifully. Another Feather in your Cap. Thanks for sharing the Restoration with us, It`s been a pleasure to watch your Expertise in action,and I am looking forward to your next Project. I love your Dads old Angle plate, You can`t have too many Holes.... Cheers for now, Have a Good Christmas.Best Regards Bob Miller. UK..
I have watched at least 5 videos in the last 3 days waiting to see the engine run. I really like your channel and wish more people would do things the old way to keep it alive. Up till a couple of years ago I help my friend chop hay and blow it in his barn.
YES! success! slowly working my way through your entire channel, Dave. Absolutely infatuated with your shop. Been waiting to see this motor run on steam for a while. Very exciting! What's the plan for this engine now?
Hi David, another superb video and fantastic to see your engine running at last. It was very interesting to see your boilermaker's tools, and great that you showed how they are used as well. Thank you very much.
Hi Dave , when I was in vokie one year we built from raw metals a Morris engine , I worked on many of its parts building it , cylinder and piston the crank . Even made the rings our shop teacher gave me a nylon material since we were running it on air for the show. Worked well but I had to make a thin spring steel to make it tighter to the bore . She was beautiful it was in the show case for many years after graduation. Thanks for reliving my youth .
Interesting video, David. I've made rings before, but approached it from the opposite direction. Turned the ring before cutting it. Cut the gap. Put a wedge in the gap and heat the ring to straw color. Let it cool overnight in warm dry sand. Remove the wedge and the ring still springs. Your method looks to be a lot easier and more efficient. Thanks for another great video!
Hey Dave and awesome video is always you are a true Craftsman on Steam Engines especially the way that thing came into your shop when you first got it that thing running into
I was living in Ireland in the '70s and the house I rented had a 50-60 gallon copper hot water tank. It was plumbed to run thru the flue of the fireplace to make hot water. It was a good arrangement because the fireplace was used about 10 months out of the year. One day I heard a noise in the hot water tank closet. Upon opening it I saw the water tank was rocking and shaking with boiling water (probably near to exploding). I ran and turned on every hot water faucet in the house to cool it down. The amount of heat going to the tank was adjustable with a slide plate in the flue which I kept a much closer eye on after that incident.
I thought I was watching da ja oops... I thought I read somewhere that the tongue was harder to bridle than many wild horses. .. God knows that it has happened to me more than I want to admit. Good catch. Good video. Good luck. Thanks..
David, What a fabulous trip from video number 12 to today on the Morris engine. It really looks great and sounds in perfect square. Congratulations!!! I really appreciated the lessons on the Bilgram diagram.
just love that old Colchester triumph lathe your using there son , Haven seen one of the sins i sold my old one . That was green to I do not know what you call them in the USA. But wear they made them they where called Colchester triumph lathe's . grate little lathes made hear in England back in the day. no longer in that stile but we still ues the name .
Good to see it running on steam again!! I wonder how many years it has been since it last did? Why did you choose to leave the spacer out? I assume so you could get more expansion adjustment on the rings?
I saw that when they rebuilt Big Boy and then run it. To keep they fire tubes clean they trow coarse sand in the fire box. The sand goes with the fumes an clean the inside of the tubes. I am not sure how that would work with vertical tubes.
Another great video Dave. May I ask about the power feed belt on the horizontal miller? It appears to have a crossed belt to reverse the direction, so you're not climb milling. Bit hard to see at the back of the machine. I've just fitted a crossed belt to my 1930s horizontal for the same reason. It took me several years to realise that was the thing to do, as the spindle and feed shaft centres are quite close together and I'm vee belt vintage. I'm surprised how happily it now runs with a crossed belt.
Such a sweet little engine you restored there Dave! How long do you run it breaking it in, and are there any precautions when doing so? Thank you so much for sharing!
No. but it is claimed that a vertical fire tube boiler like this has some "super heat" advantage from the exposed part of the tubes above the water line.....Dave
Sorry hit the wrong button too soon that steam engine run your shop is like a symphony of steam great job did you happen to catch Adams recent videos great stuff I see that favorite white stuff that you like out there LOL
Hi Dave, Another great video. You answered one of my questions about boilers, on how did they seal the riveted joints by calking. I watched how you made the rings, I was thinking there should have been a little more outward pressure? Or is the specs different for steam engines than gas engines? How do you come up with the OD of the ring stock, before you cut the ring gap and complete the finished ring? Thanks Dave
Robert, Thanks for the question. The rings do have quite a bit of compression when you get them in the cylinder. I could have measured that somehow to show it. They are pretty thick and wide and resist springing. Jushua Rose's old machinery book calls for a 2% oversize to give the spring. So I figured from that.....Dave
Congrats Dave! How does the newest engine compare with the two others in the shop in terms of horsepower? Obviously lower than the one currently running the shop, but what about the old one?
Hi Rick: The larger Richards Iron Works engine is 8"x10" and would have been rated at about 40 HP probably, The Morris is a 6x6 but of a higher speed so probably around 12HP....Dave
What is the purpose of the cylinder showing the holllow circular slotted casted opening on the bolt end at 26.0 into the video?It almost looks like a "water jacket" for an internal combustion engine.
Good question.The outside of the cylinder is hollow to allow the airspace to sort of insulate the steam cylinder to keep it hot. In some cases, waste steam was routed into it to heat the steam cylinder walls. It reduced the condensation of the in coming steam and helped the efficiency...Dave
Dave, When you had the Morris running on steam at the end of the video, I hard something of a clunk or knock on each revolution. Do you consider that about normal? I have a smaller vertical steam engine that sounds the same and I've started tearing it apart to improve that. I don't want to go too far if that's about normal. Thanks. Chris
I have watched them all to date, and have a question about cast piston rings. You parted the rings on an angle, and I assume measured ring gap between the surfaces exposed by the cut when at cylinder diameter. Another youtuber repaired grease seal rings on an electric motor from the 1920"s(or thereabout). He machined the ring, the cut at a 90 degree angle, right through the center. He then expanded the ring, heated it and cooled it so it would have some 'spring' against the cylinder wall. This to seal grease for the bearings from entering the area of the motor where the armature was rotating. Why did you not heat and expand the rings for more tension against the cylinder walls, and why not cut at a 90 to the ring circumference? Did he need to get such tension just to hold grease in place or could he have fitted them to the bore with very slight tension? Or does it matter at all?
I did it this way because it's the way rings are usually manufactured. Cast iron does not like to be reshaped, heat to the point of yielding effects the hardness, and ductility of it...Dave
OUTSTANDING...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS....YOU DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@21:48 he removed the sound when 'cussing running the cross slide into the ring. Happen to the best of us. *lol* He did the right thing so he wouldn't get flagged for it!
Yeah, it took me about 10 seconds for me to register it. I was still wincing over what happened to that ring... blink-blink... did he say what I think he said, or was I thinking it so loud that it seemed to come from the video??? Yeah, I've got a few choice words for Bozo hanging out in my archives also
You moved to Minnesota? Really? That explains the cold winter. Lake Wobegon? Say HI to Garrison K. 33-34 minutes in, I don't think there is a sweeter mechanical sound, than a properly running steam engine! steve
Well done Dave, it has been a couple years in the making. Sort of like George Washington's axe, used to cut the cherry tree down. They may have replaced the handle three times and the head twice, but it's still a beautiful piece of history!
As always thanks for all the videos, I look forward to each on.
So now that you have it up and running what are your plans for it
It was a very emotional moment Mr Dave like being there when my first kid was born thank you very much
Very well done on the Morris engine. I enjoyed seeing the rings being made for the overbored cylinder. A labour of love, with a wonderful ending.
I also enjoyed the details on the flue tubes and head caulking. I cannot imagine doing this by hand, but appreciate this was done by many skilled craftsmen back in the day.
Dave.
Congratulations! This is a wonderful achievement to restore a junk engine into this smooth-running example. I think not many machinist could do what you did. Your knowledge and experience with steam engines really made the difference, not to mention your patience, persistence and skill. Time to celebrate!
I remember the pile of rusty metal you started with, and now its a shiny working engine. Well done and thank you for sharing via youtube.
Hearing you tap the top of the piston on was very satisfying. Just the sound alone is testimony to the fit you achieved. Impressive work all around, you are an example of the type of machinist I aspire to be. Thank you Dave!
Awesome! It's great to see the old girl running. Great job, Dave!
What a great series. I love how you show these fine old machines doing actual work. You are the only one to do that.Thanks and please keep going.
I just binged on this series tracking the Morris.
I’m impressed. It’s gorgeous. And the restoration was a fantastic success and truly fun to watch.
Is the Morris better now than when it was new?
Hello Larry, The Morris was an interesting project and being a local make, built in Baldwinsville NY it will end up in the nearby Camillus Canal Museum's steam display. They will be running it on steam, probably running something with it.....Dave
Fantastic !! I remember when you brought that steam engine into the shop, and now look at it. The engine looks and runs beautifully!!
I do too. Tom said "what are you going to do with this".....Dave
been here from the start and its so cool she finaly ran again on steam great job
Dave really enjoy this series on the rebuild of the steam engine. I hope in the future you might be able too more like this one. Great job have enjoyed you program ever since finding it on RUclips. Keep up the good work.
Gary, Next is a 5"x5" horizontal Lilly engine made in Erie, PA....Dave
Excellent seeing it running!
Thanks for sharing. Hard to believe you found it rusting in the woods.
I wish old Albert was still around to see it run....Dave
Congratulations on getting the Morris engine up and running Dave, all your hard work really paid off and thanks for sharing the journey with us. What a superb little engine.
Dave I could see the joy in your face when you put the air on!! Excellent job! Enjoyed watching the whole job thanks for sharing
Great job, good to see/hear it breathing again, thanks for showing. Brian from UK.
Those rings are beautiful. This is really exciting. Somehow I miss seeing the valve body set up.
Beautiful restoration. Beautiful engine. Meticulously restored. Love it!
absolutely worth the wait . Dave you are a legend mate . I’m always waiting for your next video and it’s always worth waiting for. Thank you
Awesome job David!!!! Another old steam engine restored and ready to put to work. I appreciate all of your skills and great videos,
Hello again Dave. Nice to see the culmination of 2 1/2 Years of diligent work come to a satisfactory conclusion. The engine runs beautifully. Another Feather in your Cap. Thanks for sharing the Restoration with us, It`s been a pleasure to watch your Expertise in action,and I am looking forward to your next Project. I love your Dads old Angle plate, You can`t have too many Holes.... Cheers for now, Have a Good Christmas.Best Regards Bob Miller. UK..
I have watched at least 5 videos in the last 3 days waiting to see the engine run. I really like your channel and wish more people would do things the old way to keep it alive. Up till a couple of years ago I help my friend chop hay and blow it in his barn.
Loose hay is quite a chore, as is any kind of haying...Dave
YES! success! slowly working my way through your entire channel, Dave. Absolutely infatuated with your shop. Been waiting to see this motor run on steam for a while. Very exciting! What's the plan for this engine now?
Well done Dave. Its runs verry nice.
Hi David, another superb video and fantastic to see your engine running at last. It was very interesting to see your boilermaker's tools, and great that you showed how they are used as well. Thank you very much.
Great to see an old piece of machinery brought back to life!
Great work. She's a thing of beauty.
Hi Dave , when I was in vokie one year we built from raw metals a Morris engine , I worked on many of its parts building it , cylinder and piston the crank . Even made the rings our shop teacher gave me a nylon material since we were running it on air for the show. Worked well but I had to make a thin spring steel to make it tighter to the bore . She was beautiful it was in the show case for many years after graduation. Thanks for reliving my youth .
Great story...Dave
Interesting video, David. I've made rings before, but approached it from the opposite direction. Turned the ring before cutting it. Cut the gap. Put a wedge in the gap and heat the ring to straw color. Let it cool overnight in warm dry sand. Remove the wedge and the ring still springs. Your method looks to be a lot easier and more efficient. Thanks for another great video!
Hi John, Lots of ways to do things, that would work too....Dave
Awesome job Dave, well done. Later and thanks for sharing.
Hey Dave and awesome video is always you are a true Craftsman on Steam Engines especially the way that thing came into your shop when you first got it that thing running into
It sounded good on compressed air and even better on steam. Congratulations on the excellant job.
I was living in Ireland in the '70s and the house I rented had a 50-60 gallon copper hot water tank. It was plumbed to run thru the flue of the fireplace to make hot water. It was a good arrangement because the fireplace was used about 10 months out of the year. One day I heard a noise in the hot water tank closet. Upon opening it I saw the water tank was rocking and shaking with boiling water (probably near to exploding). I ran and turned on every hot water faucet in the house to cool it down. The amount of heat going to the tank was adjustable with a slide plate in the flue which I kept a much closer eye on after that incident.
Very interesting, I have a short coil in my automatic feeding coal furnace that will do the same....Dave
Thank You for sharing. Wonderful as always. I will be building a model Stuart #1 which is the same design as this one. Playing is Good.
surprised you don't have your air compressor running from the line shaft. love the videos, thank you
I thought I was watching da ja oops...
I thought I read somewhere that the tongue was harder to bridle than many wild horses. .. God knows that it has happened to me more than I want to admit.
Good catch.
Good video.
Good luck.
Thanks..
A job well done indeed! Thanks for the videos.
The engine runs well , top job . cheers .
Looking at all that metal dust coming off those piston rings as you machined the expansion slot was sure making me wish you had a dust mask on!
Great job,enjoyed the watching the rebuilding,thanks
Beautiful work .
Sincere congratulations.
You have all my respect and consideration
Beautiful! My compliments on a job well done.
David, What a fabulous trip from video number 12 to today on the Morris engine. It really looks great and sounds in perfect square. Congratulations!!! I really appreciated the lessons on the Bilgram diagram.
That's worth the wait. Very cool.
Bonjour David,
Again many thanks for this great steam adventure, I will be happy to see the lubricator ;+)
Amicalement, Raphaël
Great work Master David! It’s been a long haul and an amazing job. Thank you for sharing.
This is my dream I love these kind of things
Nice work.You've got a lot of knowledge....and share it too
Outstanding! Beautiful job. I swear I was born fifty years too late
Me too, about 75....Dave
Well worth the wait! Great work!
Good luck finding a planer that you want. That would make some great videos.
Have a good winter.
Congratulations! Job well done!
"Phoooy" sounds a lot better in print Dave! lol For a family show.
The engine runs real nice. Congratulations, Dave!
As always very enjoyable to watch the progress and see it turnout so well. Is the timing where you want it or will you be fine tuning it later?
The beauty of steam. Thanks for sharing Dave.
very nice job on the morris engine.
just love that old Colchester triumph lathe your using there son , Haven seen one of the sins i sold my old one . That was green to I do not know what you call them in the USA. But wear they made them they where called Colchester triumph lathe's . grate little lathes made hear in England back in the day. no longer in that stile but we still ues the name .
Les, The larger lathe is a 1925 American Machine Tool, Cincinnati, OH. The smaller lathe is a 1925 9" South Bend Jr.
......Dave
Good to see it running on steam again!! I wonder how many years it has been since it last did? Why did you choose to leave the spacer out? I assume so you could get more expansion adjustment on the rings?
Hi david i am watching your video and doing my homework at the same time ha ha
I had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to finish watching this video! G'nite!
Most Excellent
Pretty sure 'phoooy' is exactly what I heard you say the first time around. :-)
Sweet engine!
Great job! Its beautiful>
I saw that when they rebuilt Big Boy and then run it.
To keep they fire tubes clean they trow coarse sand in the fire box.
The sand goes with the fumes an clean the inside of the tubes.
I am not sure how that would work with vertical tubes.
I assume when the cross slide hit the ring you muted the audio to “censor” some very choice vocabulary.
Purrs like a kitten. Sometimes things need to be talked to. Or yelled at. Runs great.
David,it seems to me that you need a steam powered drill motor
congrats man! purrs like a kitten on the first start!
Another great video Dave. May I ask about the power feed belt on the horizontal miller? It appears to have a crossed belt to reverse the direction, so you're not climb milling. Bit hard to see at the back of the machine. I've just fitted a crossed belt to my 1930s horizontal for the same reason. It took me several years to realise that was the thing to do, as the spindle and feed shaft centres are quite close together and I'm vee belt vintage. I'm surprised how happily it now runs with a crossed belt.
fantastic
Such a sweet little engine you restored there Dave!
How long do you run it breaking it in, and are there any precautions when doing so?
Thank you so much for sharing!
Beautiful job - Thank you. Does the boiler have any super-heater elements?
No. but it is claimed that a vertical fire tube boiler like this has some "super heat" advantage from the exposed part of the tubes above the water line.....Dave
Sorry hit the wrong button too soon that steam engine run your shop is like a symphony of steam great job did you happen to catch Adams recent videos great stuff I see that favorite white stuff that you like out there LOL
That Soule shop and foundry is a great place I would like to visit....Dave
Brilliant
very cool
great job as ALLWAYS
Did you cut out the good part? It was the only 2 seconds I could relate to perfectly. Did someone complain?
At long last she breathes! Sure is nice to look back at the pile of iron trapped in the weeds and see it brought back to it's proper glory. Now what?
SWEET!!! Happy Thanksgiving
Hi Dave, Another great video. You answered one of my questions about boilers, on how did they seal the riveted joints by calking.
I watched how you made the rings, I was thinking there should have been a little more outward pressure? Or is the specs different for steam engines than gas engines? How do you come up with the OD of the ring stock, before you cut the ring gap and complete the finished ring?
Thanks Dave
Robert, Thanks for the question. The rings do have quite a bit of compression when you get them in the cylinder. I could have measured that somehow to show it. They are pretty thick and wide and resist springing. Jushua Rose's old machinery book calls for a 2% oversize to give the spring. So I figured from that.....Dave
Dave, sometimes there is no substitute for an appropriate expletive when some bad #$%&!! happens.
Congrats Dave! How does the newest engine compare with the two others in the shop in terms of horsepower? Obviously lower than the one currently running the shop, but what about the old one?
Hi Rick: The larger Richards Iron Works engine is 8"x10" and would have been rated at about 40 HP probably, The Morris is a 6x6 but of a higher speed so probably around 12HP....Dave
What is the purpose of the cylinder showing the holllow circular slotted casted opening on the bolt end at 26.0 into the video?It almost looks like a "water jacket" for an internal combustion engine.
Good question.The outside of the cylinder is hollow to allow the airspace to sort of insulate the steam cylinder to keep it hot. In some cases, waste steam was routed into it to heat the steam cylinder walls. It reduced the condensation of the in coming steam and helped the efficiency...Dave
It is wanderfil !!!
Dave, When you had the Morris running on steam at the end of the video, I hard something of a clunk or knock on each revolution. Do you consider that about normal? I have a smaller vertical steam engine that sounds the same and I've started tearing it apart to improve that. I don't want to go too far if that's about normal. Thanks. Chris
I,ve run it now for about 2 1/2 hours and have gotten some of that out. I think it might be from the cross head slide adjustment.
You may have mentioned this before but what did you do before retiring? Great video!
I was a censor for a major network.......Dave
@@davidrichards5594 I see that the old work habits are hard to break then, censoring yourself on your own video?
Priceless.
Ty for the vids
I have watched them all to date, and have a question about cast piston rings.
You parted the rings on an angle, and I assume measured ring gap between the surfaces exposed by the cut when at cylinder diameter. Another youtuber repaired grease seal rings on an electric motor from the 1920"s(or thereabout). He machined the ring, the cut at a 90 degree angle, right through the center. He then expanded the ring, heated it and cooled it so it would have some 'spring' against the cylinder wall. This to seal grease for the bearings from entering the area of the motor where the armature was rotating.
Why did you not heat and expand the rings for more tension against the cylinder walls, and why not cut at a 90 to the ring circumference? Did he need to get such tension just to hold grease in place or could he have fitted them to the bore with very slight tension? Or does it matter at all?
I did it this way because it's the way rings are usually manufactured. Cast iron does not like to be reshaped, heat to the point of yielding effects the hardness, and ductility of it...Dave
OUTSTANDING...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS....YOU DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is there a reason for not staggering the gaps of the rings?
And that is really neat restoration
Actually, I moved them around until they were 180 degrees apart before I dropped the piston in. I guess it wasn't shown clearly on the video....Dave
dam a fire tube waterheater you know it is not high pressure untill you can hold 50 psi
Are you saving the 'choice' bits to make some 'Out take' video's - same as Doubleboost? ha
Twice is nice!
thanks!!!
I'm guessing one small cut and re-post.
He fixed something.
@21:48 he removed the sound when 'cussing running the cross slide into the ring. Happen to the best of us. *lol*
He did the right thing so he wouldn't get flagged for it!
Yep, minor edit when the ring hit and the text pops up.......
Yeah, it took me about 10 seconds for me to register it. I was still wincing over what happened to that ring... blink-blink... did he say what I think he said, or was I thinking it so loud that it seemed to come from the video???
Yeah, I've got a few choice words for Bozo hanging out in my archives also
You moved to Minnesota?
Really?
That explains the cold winter.
Lake Wobegon? Say HI to
Garrison K.
33-34 minutes in, I don't think there
is a sweeter mechanical sound, than
a properly running steam engine!
steve
Ever heard of a steam operated cannon that fired a one ton shell? ruclips.net/video/aKmi0PN7LxM/видео.html
Reboot ?