WORKING AT THE STEAM WORKSHOP #16 - RUNNING BOARDS AND LUBRICATOR
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Working At The Steam Workshop - Part #16 - fitting the Running Boards and the Mechanical Cylinder Lubricator. This small 5 inch gauge "Chub" steam locomotive is starting to take shape now. Fitting the running boards was a challenge as was the routing of the copper piping to the steam chest from the position that it needed to be in to accept the mechanical Lubricator. With some patience I got there in the end..... IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BECOME A PATRON OF MY TH-cam CHANNEL VIA "PATREON", OR IF YOU WISH TO SUPPORT ME VIA 'PAYPAL" IN ORDER TO HELP ME FUND THE PRODUCTION OF MANY MORE OF THESE SPECIALIST MODEL STEAM ENGINE TUTORIAL VIDEOS - MAINLY TO HELP BEGINNERS IN THIS FASCINATING HOBBY - PLEASE GO TO:
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It's a rare moment when I would venture to offer a tip but here goes. Watching you trying to squeeze the running board into position and getting marks or scratches on the paint, I was thinking you could slide a piece of paper or thin card between the contact surfaces to protect the paint then just slide the paper away once the parts are in place.
Wow, that traction engine at the end!!! *in love* :)
A kind gentleman linked your videos from reddit, how joyful to see such beautiful engineering!
That miniature traction engine is incredibly cool! I could imagine a very eccenrtic man out in the country using something similar to mow the grass. Wonderful stuff. Thanks, Keith.
Loved the steaming traction engine at the end. Nice also to see the little locomotive getting closer to completion. Thanks, Keith.
I'm getting excited now. Better get along with that CNC mill design in my notebook.
Thanks for the very useful video. I enjoyed it while having lunch.
Great lesson with a sweet little traction engine as a bonus. Thanks Keith!
Fantastic I really would love that traction engine what a fantastic thing. Great job on the little loco , boy what a difference to how you first got it, good one Keith regards John
a friend of mine has a traction engine too, an Allchin engine which is in 1/2 the size of the original one
Another nice video Keith.
That is a very interesting wrench you showed, never seen anything like it.
I have just bought one via Ebay {:-)))
That traction engine needs to pull a grass cutter attachment behind it, would be the coolest riding lawn mower in the hemisphere. Certainly more interesting than my Troy-Bilt, and probably a lot quieter too.
Gee, that isn't a model steam engine. That is a lawn tractor that just happens to be steam powered. :) I believe you could plow your garden and mow your grass with that, as well as haul the occasional load of mulch.
I think it would have been extremely useful to have shown how you 'adjusted' the lubricator in order to make it work
in my own time ..... in my own time .... I am dancing as fast as I can ..... }:-)))
With regards to preventing damage to the paintwork, would giving it a coat of lacquer/acrylic varnish help protect it? I don't have the experience you have, so there's probably a good reason why you don't do that, but it's something that seems like a good idea to me.
I have a 4 inch Burrell like that and my dad has a full size Burrell shomons call magret bilt in 1922
Thank you for all your videos you share,an the humor also.Can you suggest any good available books for beginners to help with all the names of the various parts?.I know watch all your video's an you explain all the parts.Lol.I have been watching your videos for years,an want to buy a Model steam engine but want to work,restore an maintain myself.Im a turbine engine mechanic ,An have worked on most aircraft engines since 1983.Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge an videos once again. Jack.
I learned a lot by reading the work of LBSC - try his book called "Shop, Shed & Road"
Yes superheated steam can be lethal, whenever I was operating near Kew's Lancashire boiler you had a white stick which you waved in front of you as superheated steam is invisible and could quite easily slice off limbs whilst cauterising 'em if a flange was letting loose. I did enjoy helping out at Kew, think the best laugh I had there was inside that monster boiler with a needlegun and the artificer was in there cutting old flange nuts out from the inner water feed lines and unbeknown to us, the acetylene line was leaking quite badly and the first we knew about it was the air around us was popping like little fireworks... the manhole in a Lancashire isn't the most generous but you never seen two burly chaps get out that tiny oval so quickly, quicker than a nun running for the lav after her first curry hehe When me and my mate spent the weekend there, used to put our sleeping bags out on the 90 inchers cylinder top face, talk about toasty warm all night and very pleasant and woken in the morning to the smell of the stoker lighting the fires in the traction engines and getting some shovel eggs n bacon on the go and thick engine drivers tea.
Those deep sockets, I just get out the dremel and chop em down. If I want to hold a bolt/nut into a socket, axle grease does the trick (it's way stickier than oil of any kind).
but ....... if you do that, then you completely ruin the socket as it will be impossible to use it to fit nuts onto bolts if the bolt thread sticks out a bit ...... and you also get axle grease all over the head of the bolt which goes everywhere and makes it difficult to "touch in" the bolt head with paint.
Well you don't glob the grease all over everything. A tiny dab does the trick. If the bits are that useful for multiple applications and you cannot find them in a shallower depth, well buy 2 and cut one set. Of course you clean off the grease to paint, using exactly the same method to clean off oil before painting (you did say that you use oil to help it stick, do you paint the oil?).
Again as I've stated before (in other videos), I'm not telling you what to do, nor am I advocating that you cut up your only set of tools. You are going to do what works for you. There are tons of alternatives to working on anything, I'm just throwing in my $0.02, I apologize if I am not coming across properly. Please take my comment for what it is, just.... "what I do".
A lot depends on the tools as well. If I have a set of tools that I can modify, I don't hesitate to do so; unless I can get a suitable tool easily/cheaply. That particular deep-well tool that you were using is SUPER cheap in my area. I'd cut it in half without even caring because a set is less than a fiver (well perhaps a bit over 5 with tax).
You seemed to be going a little faster and with a little less levity today Keith. Is the pressure on?
The only pressure I do is steam pressure }:))) I voice over the videos quite early in the morning so the levity usually depends on how much sleep I have had . . . .
Pun was intended.
Thanks for the reply.
I use Blue Tack instead of Tissue but, yeah, good call . . . .
You also like steam locomotives. I think this are very expencive to buy.
You get what you pay for ...... expensive is a relative term .....
It certainly is relative. If you enjoy it and it occupies you productively, then it is not so expensive. A good hobby can help with the stresses of life.
My sentiments exactly - I agree with you 100% {:-)))