Few people are aware that NIMROD was a king in the Old Testament that was known as a good hunter. Being called a nimrod is actually a compliment, if you take it right.
I have been a Marine Engineer for forty five years. I had to work on a Cleveland diesel once when i was an engineering cadet back home in Germany. It was an emergency lighting generator on the ship that i was on. I did chuckle some what when you were trying to turn the engine over, and some other times when you damaged the fuel transfer valve. You really tried hard and got there in the end, which was wonderful. That sure brought back a lot of memories and some unpleasant ones as well. Please be very careful when you investigate the DC and AC generators and do not take any risks. From memory i sort of remember that the AC ran at between forty five to sixty Hertz at around four hundred volts three faze . Also i recall some problems with that exiter generator as well . Please excuse my bad gramma and words ,English is a second language for me and i am now seventy years old, and yes i was one of the very few Master Chief engineers afloat until i retired two months ago. Thank you for sharing this it was very interesting and amusing
I worked on those engines for years. The Canadian Navy used 2, 6 cylinder versions as 200KW generators in our old now retired Destroyer escorts, and our old minesweepers had 2 of those 3-268A generators (100KW ea). Also a straight 8 version of the same engine with a huge flywheel and generator used to detonate mines by running a current through a loop that trailed behind. The main engines in the Minesweepers were V12 278-A versions. Also 2 stroke. The neat thing about all those engines on the Minesweepers were that they were all made from non-magnetic components. Stainless blocks, & aluminum heads, bronze casings etc.
While this cleveland 2 stroke was challenging i rebuild a kohler k-399-2t sled engine with 440 jugs and it would just die, later i found worn oil seal was the culprit. after i ruilt it that it ran. i aslo had a 74 john deere JDX8 with ccw 440 and i tried to burn cheap tcw3 and made a bunch of soot which fouled the plugs. i cleaned it out and ran delvac 15w40 @ 40:1 and she purred. Shell rotella sae 40 is even better.
Those will run at idle for quite a while before they get hot. The amount of air blowing in cooling the cylinders, and it’s quite efficient , something above 4o percent
It probably wouldn’t work, Scrappy doesn’t have time travel capabilities. He should get with Stefan and get a flux capacitor made for his lathe, that’s a possibility.
Hey Sam, great fun. People wonder why some of us actually enjoy the struggle of getting these old things to work. The knowledge gained ( figuring shit out) is what it's all about. These machines and those like it are what made the US the leader of the world. The simple reliability of these machines is worthy of our respect and admiration. Thanks for sharing!😊
Mad respect on making the replacement stem for that fuel direction valve! Don't sell yourself short on your machining skills!! Great job getting the old beast running!
Love your work Sam and the pooches too! Great to see the younger generation keeping alive ye olde world tech skills. A credit to you my friend. Hi to all from South Australia.
My Grandpa in Remer had a big Detroit v12 generator sitting in a box truck body that he used as a power source for his walking field sprayers!! Wonder if its the same one.
Sam, THIS is why I LIVE AND BREATHE 2 STROKES!! That thing sounds SOOO GOOD!! What a SWEETHEART!! She will start firing consistently on all 3 once you have a cooling system, even if it is tank cooled, and it gets up to temperature! One exhaust valve is leaking by-will probably clean up in time as long as not rust pitted and or channeled. I would check for one that is set too tight (not enough or no clearance). You can hear compression blowing by in the exhaust on shut down. You have a National Treasure there! What a beautiful engine! Clark cycle 2 stroke. The GM diesels, all 3 lines, were the greatest diesels in world history, hands down. They will never be surpassed and it is for myriad reasons! I simply dig all of the 3 divisions’ engines dearly! If I had to rely on a diesel to survive under life and death circumstances, it would be a 2 stroke Detroit, Cleveland, or EMD, and no way would I trust my life to ANY 4 stroke. Uh-uh, NO WAY! This is an artifact to be lovingly preserved! Also, that exciter dynamo probably needs a load to build up to 125 volts. Reconnecting to the main generator field coils gives you the load. A standard incandescent bulb wired across the field wires will show when voltage is up by brightness. I recommend a 130 volt bulb over a 120 volt one here. 40-100 watts will do. I am an electrician as well, so this stuff is easy for me! And the “polarization” process is just jump starting the exciter dynamo that has lost residual permanent magnetism in the core. If it is putting 6 volts out, once loaded again, it should have enough residual magnetism to pick up. It may take a few seconds or many minutes but should pick up. Even the above mentioned bulb can load it enough to pick up. It just needs a load to do so, a volt meter is not even close to enough load. CHEERS MAN AND CONGRATS FOR ENTERING MY WORLD! 😋👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌👌👌
Although not a 2 stroke mechanic a friend in our conversations used agree with me "Too bad GM owned Dertoit as they wont do any research". Thanks for your input, brought back many memories. Good Luck Peter
Going from seeing you as the guy who Matt knows who has a proper trailer, to seeing you casually machine this beautiful piece of brass... I'm impressed and inspired!
In 1958 to 1960 I went to a diesel engine school at Lamar University in Beaumont,Tx. We had a GM 268 A 8 cylinder in our shop. The engine came out of a submarine.We started it ,and ran it.The generator on the unit was also the starter. Good show.Clarence Baumbach Crosby Tx.
I like the fairbank morse OP 2 stroke and now im thinking about a 1700 OP 2 stroke Rotax made from 2 850 Etec's. It would have to lay down in the MXZ chassis. Imagine if Fairbanks Morse made OP 2 strokes for cars, trucks outboards ans snowmobiles!
Yeah, just find a permanent location there inside, and plumb the exhaust right out through the roof like a permanent alternate power setup. Most generators of this size don't live outside anyway. 100Kw would pull the whole farm, shop, house, pumps, and a few of the neighbors.
Naah, simple fan in the eves one on each side. One smaller one blowing in and a larger one pulling to pull it all up and out. Thats how mine is, when its full of smoke i can hit the fan and all smoke is clear in less that 15-20 seconds
@@jbj27406 i wasnt talking about it running full time all day all night much less “inside the shop”, im talking about anything that he has in there including sanding or general fumes. Would take an idiot to have that running inside full time🤣
Love your style all the little details make it worth it I especially liked the fact you used a period correct lathe to build your directional valve not fully depending on a CnC. Hats off to Matt over at Diesel Creek for turning me onto your channel. It’s always good to see what have been scrapped into a running piece of history. 🍻
I don’t think watching this on TH-cam allows us to hear the engine run. Something’s just can’t be what we would like but, having said that, what a cool experience. I could hardly wait for the second video. Thanks for the quickness of the second video. SUPER!
I really hope that you find it in your heart to fully restore this great old piece of history. Also, your owning of a Monarch EE shows are a man of good taste. Please take great care of it.
The Commer two stroke supercharged diesel was I think, A German designed Dornier Bomber Aircraft engine licensed to Routes Group as War Reparations after the Second World War. Would Bark like a Mad Dog.
What a blast to see that thing running. With all three cylinders popping it sounds excellent!! I also loved you mom coming in there and starting it and her wise cracks as well! LOL!
You did good. You could power the whole farm with it. plus, a couple of neighbors. In the day of it's young life it was a beast. It still is, but, today we need to be gentle with these old awesome machines. About like me. I am over 70 YO. Have fun with it. But, be careful. There is a whole lot of compression coming out of those cylinders. God Bless Ya.
Sam, I enjoyed your explanations of the process of making the new filter valves. You were clear in your step-by-step description of your machining. Beautiful job! Great to see that running again. I love seeing how excited you and Matt get when things are running again.
Impressive machining work Sam , my dad was a precision Engineer , im sure he would relate to what you did ! Your calculations for setting up the first machine just flowed way over my head ! But dad would have understood !
The calculations are fairly simple when you have a physical part to wrap your head around. The other stuff like G-codes are a little more complicated but with a little practice it becomes second nature. G54 is to set the origin in the machine, or where you start measuring your cuts from in absolute or relative measurements.
Congratulations Sam !! You are still living my dream. The little woman thought I had lost it when it started, and I started to dance and shout. Anyone who has never had an old beast come to life, would understand.
Sam, you are first I've seen on TH-cam that knows to put a good button of weld on a broken/rusted bolt before trying to weld another bolt to it. Most just try to weld to a rusty broken stud with inadequate results.
Thank you so much for this video. Seeing you machine that part on the vintage lathe was a window into the kinds of things my grandfather must have done in his machine shop by the harbor back in the forties. He, and the shop, were gone before I came along.
My Dad was a Skilled tool and die machinist! My Uncle started his own company as Bell’s tool and die machine Company. His Grandson is running it now. I worked for him when I was a teenager. Good memories.
Hey Sam! The similar era EMD locomotive engines use a "string wound" fuel strainer with a stainless steel core. The ones we get for the train museum in San Diego are made with polypropylene cord and cost about $6 each from Oil Filter Service. You can get them with a variety of cord materials to suit the application. We ordered them to length (10" or 9.75" worked for ours) and the OFS team took good care of us. Hope this helps!
Love this video I was in the Coast Guard from 1966-1970 and GM 71 series were everywhere. In Alaska we had two 671 Generators. In Michigan the 40 foot boats ran on Two 671’s. What a sound! The 36 foot boat had a 471. In Vietnam on our patrol boat we had two Generators powered my two, 671’s. In my year in vietnam one 271 would be running constantly and we would switch one every week. Those 271’s ran without much more maintenance than changing the oil and filter regularly. In WWII the Landing Crafts the Coast Guard used to take the troops to the Beach at Normandy and in the Pacific theater were powered by the 671’s!
Funny when you tried to show your mom it stopped working. I am a software developer and anytime I'd try to show my wife an app I built it would hit a bug and stop. LOL. Making that valve was impressive. I still laugh and smile at how excited you and Matt get when you get an old beast running. I know the same feeling when debugging someone else's old junk code and getting their app running.
I knew you'd do it!!!! Now if you hadn't had that manual, then it really would have taken a long time to get the correct sequence of setting those taps! Thanks go to Dan for that manual!!! The rest is down to SAM. He is the business when it comes to not blowing his own trumpet, when it comes to skilled machining! The rest is because he had played with so many different types of equipment, that he has a built in library of "how to's" in his brain. The first time I saw a Sam video, I was hooked! That was thanks to Matt, Sam is his no1 partner in crimes against scrapping!
Finally it's running. The displacement per cylinder is somewhere between a Detroit and the EMD 567 and so does the sound. At low revs very much like a 567 and at higher revs more like a Detroit. Conical brass plug valves were a common thing on older machinery, they were relatively easy to make compared with other types of valves. When they started leaking it was easy to recondition them with valve lapping compound. A damaged housing could be repaired with a tapered reamer and then a slightly oversize plug could be made to fit the larger bore.
That is one cool engine! It will be super cool if you can get it to produce power as well. Love to see all these old forgotten engines back doin their thing. Thank you for the effort you put into your videos!
kool i was in the navy on DD839. 839 was commissioned in 1939 and it had one forward and one aft they were 268A 3 calendar 3 stroke . because of the so called saving air from the blowers, That was 1976 we rebuilt the USS Powers DD 839 .took it to sea for a year and thin it was sold to Japan and is now a historic moment some where in japan. One of the Best times of my life, I'm now 67 and retired I was a engine men and they were my station underway or one of thin, great and rear experience. Thanks a lot, i watched you bring it home. great Job, I am impressed well done. PS they didn't get much time running, just start up to keep it in the reedy state. i doubt it has 500 running HRS on it, it ran clean. you should change the oil in the governor it is separate from the engine. and mostly likely 95 years old...lol
Just started watching your channel and I have been binge watching your shows in reverse order . There are lots of channels of “ Will it start”. but none have a machinist that makes parts using a conventional lathe and CNC milling. I enjoyed the explanation of the CNC mill. The fabrication of old parts sets your channel apart. Do more of this type of will it start videos!!!
Amazing watching the technology available today to the machinist, my dad worked in the machine shop at chevy gear and axle in detroit in the 40s 50s and 60s repairing cutters and machining parts for the 100s of Gleeson machines used to cut ring and pinion gears, they did it with dial indicators, slide rules and micrometers, how things have changed for the better today.
Installed a brand new v16 Detroit with twin turbos. Derated to 1900hp with big arse alternator. On first run the electician on site tripped the emergency stop to shut it down! Flapper slammed down on the inlet with a huge BANG! Everyone immediately pooped their pants! Boy that engine sounded good at full chooch, which was the only way it ran. Emergency genset for telecommunications. Block heaters etc. From the time the contactor dropped till full power was about 6 seconds. G'day from Tasmania
Sam Very nice job 👍 I’m a machinist with almost 43 years of both Manual & CNC work. As much as I rely heavily on the speed & accuracy of CNC there still is something very fulfilling of making parts with your own hands & creativity.
Nothing like making something run from our past to make you feel connected to it.Great video to show what its like to be driven to a purpose.Really enjoyed this story thank you.
It's just awesome. it shows how reliable we use to make everything. Detroit powered go cart, definitely. I'd bet 80 years or so from now this thing could still be running if it were kept out of the weather.
Congrats!! Indeed we forget that so many had to not only run--but to repair these & make parts--while under enemy fire!! So glad you reminded us of that!!
Thank you Sam! Great to hear the giant bus motor run again. Your ingenuity, mechanic and machine shop skills are admirable. After you paint it and get the electrical issues straightened out, I would donate it to the National Pike Museum so the rest of the world can see and hear it.
Loved it Sam!! My mother could definitely identify with yours. My brother and sister would laugh at me for having all my toy taken apart shortly after getting them to see how they worked!
I love that Sam is such a good and confident son that he includes his dear mother in his will it start video. Your enthusiasm is awesome with no strings attached! Love it. Hello from Augusta GA am a MD native loved camping and riding in the Northwoods of Forest County. Love PA.
This was the most satisfying video of your You Tube career yet! Yes that Detroit is old and crusty but she still does the Detroit boogie. Everything should run like a Detroit after 90 years. Keep Scrappin'
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your ability to explain and put your visions into reality. As a retired over the road driver, I appreciate the unspoken caution you take resurrecting a two stroke (Detroit diesel style) engine. One time in all my years did I have a runaway happen, thankfully the emergency shutoff functioned as designed.
from Canada, you are an amazing young man. I'm 77 and all my lathe training was in high school. all movements were without computer aid. to dignose the engine without the specs and find out later you were right is also amazing, that is why i watch your videos. i know how to pick'em, love to see what radiator you will find.........take care. and do it soon, don't know how long I'll be here.
LOVE the sound of those old 2 strokes. Puts me in mind of the Jimmys from days gone by! Cheers mate and a job well done. Cant wait to see it making power again.
I love the machining content. Most people just skip over that part or get a shop to do it for them, very cool that you know how to do that and actually show it.
So cool Scrappy , to see it working is remarkable and so well. It's only design was for producing power. The Detroit colors would be appropriate. With lightning bolts 😅. The radiator will be Hugh. Hopefully you find the missing tachometer. Would like to see just how much she can produce. It started like it was just made. Fun to watch 😊.
I was waiting for your parents to say look at the soot line towards the top of the shed!, the shed will start looking like an old diesel shop, keep up the good work Sam
❤❤❤ you like an awesome job. Getting it running and saving it. I enjoyed your milling process, very neat to see people working with the old milling machines. Now, if you can get the power up and running, it will be a wonderful backup generator for ya
That grin on your face sys it all. Brilliant! And it runs so clean after being dormant. Well another channel I am now addicted to and look forward to seeing your uploads. Thanks.
"This kid is a nimrod and it's been painful being his mother" 😂🤣😅
Definitely a proud parent moment. 👍
Few people are aware that NIMROD was a king in the Old Testament that was known as a good hunter. Being called a nimrod is actually a compliment, if you take it right.
Nice job
This was the last episode uploaded as there was an accident when testing the generator.
Much respect for raising fine hard working man
😂😂😂😂
I have been a Marine Engineer for forty five years. I had to work on a Cleveland diesel once when i was an engineering cadet back home in Germany. It was an emergency lighting generator on the ship that i was on. I did chuckle some what when you were trying to turn the engine over, and some other times when you damaged the fuel transfer valve. You really tried hard and got there in the end, which was wonderful. That sure brought back a lot of memories and some unpleasant ones as well. Please be very careful when you investigate the DC and AC generators and do not take any risks. From memory i sort of remember that the AC ran at between forty five to sixty Hertz at around four hundred volts three faze . Also i recall some problems with that exiter generator as well . Please excuse my bad gramma and words ,English is a second language for me and i am now seventy years old, and yes i was one of the very few Master Chief engineers afloat until i retired two months ago. Thank you for sharing this it was very interesting and amusing
Taking something that badly seized and making it run is a huge achievement by itself, but with machining new parts too? Absolutely amazing!
It wasn’t badly seized.
Thanks for watching!
@@Jay-fb2lvYou must've missed the previous video huh! 🤦🏻♂️🤔
he needs to get a hold of small engine mechanic channel to get the genset working that guy is the shit when it comes to gensets
Thanks for the spoilers.
I worked on those engines for years.
The Canadian Navy used 2, 6 cylinder versions as 200KW generators in our old now retired Destroyer escorts, and our old minesweepers had 2 of those 3-268A generators (100KW ea).
Also a straight 8 version of the same engine with a huge flywheel and generator used to detonate mines by running a current through a loop that trailed behind.
The main engines in the Minesweepers were V12 278-A versions. Also 2 stroke.
The neat thing about all those engines on the Minesweepers were that they were all made from non-magnetic components. Stainless blocks, & aluminum heads, bronze casings etc.
While this cleveland 2 stroke was challenging i rebuild a kohler k-399-2t sled engine with 440 jugs and it would just die, later i found worn oil seal was the culprit. after i ruilt it that it ran. i aslo had a 74 john deere JDX8 with ccw 440 and i tried to burn cheap tcw3 and made a bunch of soot which fouled the plugs. i cleaned it out and ran delvac 15w40 @ 40:1 and she purred. Shell rotella sae 40 is even better.
I was a Torpedoman on a sub and this makes my heart happy to know you not saved that lathe but are still using it 👍🏻🤩🇺🇸😀
Thank you for your service
That’s awesome! Thank you for your service! I love that little lathe
Those will run at idle for quite a while before they get hot. The amount of air blowing in cooling the cylinders, and it’s quite efficient , something above 4o percent
Adding the machining work moves your channel into first place over Diesel Creek! Love it, thanks!
Absolutely! 💯👌🏻👍🏻
We need a Scrappy/This Old Tony crossover episode next.
It probably wouldn’t work, Scrappy doesn’t have time travel capabilities. He should get with Stefan and get a flux capacitor made for his lathe, that’s a possibility.
Hey Sam, great fun. People wonder why some of us actually enjoy the struggle of getting these old things to work. The knowledge gained ( figuring shit out) is what it's all about. These machines and those like it are what made the US the leader of the world. The simple reliability of these machines is worthy of our respect and admiration. Thanks for sharing!😊
He also lives where there's alot of old equipment and engine collectors. Probably got the old iron bug when he was young seeing what others had
I definetly know that the USA us NOT the leader of the world after what has happened with your election BS.
What do you mean by these made the US the leader europe has engines like it to.
THE MACHINING WAS REALLY INTERESTING. GOOD WORK SAM.
Mad respect on making the replacement stem for that fuel direction valve! Don't sell yourself short on your machining skills!!
Great job getting the old beast running!
Love your work Sam and the pooches too! Great to see the younger generation keeping alive ye olde world tech skills. A credit to you my friend. Hi to all from South Australia.
Howdy 🤠 from the Northwoods of Minnesota. I have a Detroit Diesel radiator off a generator. I'll donate. It's huge
Now we're talking!
Awesome!!!
@@ScrappyIndustries I sent you an email
My Grandpa in Remer had a big Detroit v12 generator sitting in a box truck body that he used as a power source for his walking field sprayers!! Wonder if its the same one.
yeah, it's probably hard to find seawater in the middle of Pennsylvania.
Sam, THIS is why I LIVE AND BREATHE 2 STROKES!! That thing sounds SOOO GOOD!! What a SWEETHEART!! She will start firing consistently on all 3 once you have a cooling system, even if it is tank cooled, and it gets up to temperature! One exhaust valve is leaking by-will probably clean up in time as long as not rust pitted and or channeled. I would check for one that is set too tight (not enough or no clearance). You can hear compression blowing by in the exhaust on shut down. You have a National Treasure there! What a beautiful engine! Clark cycle 2 stroke. The GM diesels, all 3 lines, were the greatest diesels in world history, hands down. They will never be surpassed and it is for myriad reasons! I simply dig all of the 3 divisions’ engines dearly! If I had to rely on a diesel to survive under life and death circumstances, it would be a 2 stroke Detroit, Cleveland, or EMD, and no way would I trust my life to ANY 4 stroke. Uh-uh, NO WAY! This is an artifact to be lovingly preserved! Also, that exciter dynamo probably needs a load to build up to 125 volts. Reconnecting to the main generator field coils gives you the load. A standard incandescent bulb wired across the field wires will show when voltage is up by brightness. I recommend a 130 volt bulb over a 120 volt one here. 40-100 watts will do. I am an electrician as well, so this stuff is easy for me! And the “polarization” process is just jump starting the exciter dynamo that has lost residual permanent magnetism in the core. If it is putting 6 volts out, once loaded again, it should have enough residual magnetism to pick up. It may take a few seconds or many minutes but should pick up. Even the above mentioned bulb can load it enough to pick up. It just needs a load to do so, a volt meter is not even close to enough load. CHEERS MAN AND CONGRATS FOR ENTERING MY WORLD! 😋👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌👌👌
Although not a 2 stroke mechanic a friend in our conversations used agree with me "Too bad GM owned Dertoit as they wont do any research". Thanks for your input, brought back many memories. Good Luck Peter
Klotz techniplate!
I'm just grinning ear to ear along with you. Absolutely awesome ressurection of the old girl. Enjoyed it immensely, thanks much!
Going from seeing you as the guy who Matt knows who has a proper trailer, to seeing you casually machine this beautiful piece of brass... I'm impressed and inspired!
Tesla Charging Station. Poetic justice Sam.
Thank you for your enthusiasm and excellent explanations of what you are doing.
No Tesla deserves the honor of being charged by that gem of a backup diesel generator… 🤦♂️
You guys sure are weird
OGM, got me rolling on the floor!!!
EV Rebellion!!!
Mount the generator in the back of a Tesla truck as it’s main power plant.
@@opendstudio7141the chassis would fold up on itself😂
In 1958 to 1960 I went to a diesel engine school at Lamar University in Beaumont,Tx. We had a GM 268 A 8 cylinder in our shop. The engine came out of a submarine.We started it ,and ran it.The generator on the unit was also the starter. Good show.Clarence Baumbach Crosby Tx.
That's my neck of the woods, live right up the road from Beaumont. Sure not what it use to be
I like the fairbank morse OP 2 stroke and now im thinking about a 1700 OP 2 stroke Rotax made from 2 850 Etec's. It would have to lay down in the MXZ chassis. Imagine if Fairbanks Morse made OP 2 strokes for cars, trucks outboards ans snowmobiles!
What a marvellous old machine, they made things to last, back then, (quality)
Sam my man, you definitely need an exhaust fan setup mounted in your roof😃
Yeah, just find a permanent location there inside, and plumb the exhaust right out through the roof like a permanent alternate power setup. Most generators of this size don't live outside anyway. 100Kw would pull the whole farm, shop, house, pumps, and a few of the neighbors.
Naah, simple fan in the eves one on each side. One smaller one blowing in and a larger one pulling to pull it all up and out. Thats how mine is, when its full of smoke i can hit the fan and all smoke is clear in less that 15-20 seconds
@@young11984 With a unit this size running continuously, day and night, day after day. We're not talking about the same thing.
@@jbj27406 i wasnt talking about it running full time all day all night much less “inside the shop”, im talking about anything that he has in there including sanding or general fumes. Would take an idiot to have that running inside full time🤣
Love your style all the little details make it worth it I especially liked the fact you used a period correct lathe to build your directional valve not fully depending on a CnC. Hats off to Matt over at Diesel Creek for turning me onto your channel.
It’s always good to see what have been scrapped into a running piece of history. 🍻
Suitable unrestrained glee. Personally I have never lost that joy when something, anything comes together, and this was joy after a LOT of effort.
I don’t think watching this on TH-cam allows us to hear the engine run. Something’s just can’t be what we would like but, having said that, what a cool experience. I could hardly wait for the second video. Thanks for the quickness of the second video. SUPER!
Monarch 10EE for $500! Well, glad to hear someone who appreciates these machines got one. That's a heck of a deal!
I really hope that you find it in your heart to fully restore this great old piece of history. Also, your owning of a Monarch EE shows are a man of good taste. Please take great care of it.
cut my teeth as an apprentice on gm 53s and 71s loved the sound of the commer knocker 2 stroke diesel cheers from Australia
The Commer two stroke supercharged diesel was I think, A German designed Dornier Bomber Aircraft engine licensed to Routes Group as War Reparations after the Second World War. Would Bark like a Mad Dog.
What a blast to see that thing running. With all three cylinders popping it sounds excellent!! I also loved you mom coming in there and starting it and her wise cracks as well! LOL!
Your reaction to that thing running was priceless. Put a big smile on my face. 😊. And I just love your mom and dad. Especially your mom. 😂👍
You did good. You could power the whole farm with it. plus, a couple of neighbors. In the day of it's young life it was a beast. It still is, but, today we need to be gentle with these old awesome machines. About like me. I am over 70 YO. Have fun with it. But, be careful. There is a whole lot of compression coming out of those cylinders. God Bless Ya.
By tyhe way. To me it sounds like a big butt Perkins.
Sam, I enjoyed your explanations of the process of making the new filter valves. You were clear in your step-by-step description of your machining. Beautiful job! Great to see that running again. I love seeing how excited you and Matt get when things are running again.
Impressive machining work Sam , my dad was a precision Engineer , im sure he would relate to what you did ! Your calculations for setting up the first machine just flowed way over my head ! But dad would have understood !
Same here
The calculations are fairly simple when you have a physical part to wrap your head around. The other stuff like G-codes are a little more complicated but with a little practice it becomes second nature. G54 is to set the origin in the machine, or where you start measuring your cuts from in absolute or relative measurements.
Congratulations Sam !!
You are still living my dream. The little woman thought I had lost it when it started, and I started to dance and shout. Anyone who has never had an old beast come to life, would understand.
Sam, you are first I've seen on TH-cam that knows to put a good button of weld on a broken/rusted bolt before trying to weld another bolt to it. Most just try to weld to a rusty broken stud with inadequate results.
Thank you so much for this video. Seeing you machine that part on the vintage lathe was a window into the kinds of things my grandfather must have done in his machine shop by the harbor back in the forties. He, and the shop, were gone before I came along.
I love to see old engines brought back to life. Thank You for this. Would love to see more work done on this engine. 😊
Turbo it!
I really appreciate the way you clearly yet simply explain the various machining processes.
My Dad was a Skilled tool and die machinist! My Uncle started his own company as Bell’s tool and die machine Company.
His Grandson is running it now. I worked for him when I was a teenager. Good memories.
Hey Sam! The similar era EMD locomotive engines use a "string wound" fuel strainer with a stainless steel core. The ones we get for the train museum in San Diego are made with polypropylene cord and cost about $6 each from Oil Filter Service. You can get them with a variety of cord materials to suit the application. We ordered them to length (10" or 9.75" worked for ours) and the OFS team took good care of us. Hope this helps!
Sam I love watching you make old iron run again. You are one smart man. Keep up the great work ✌️
Love this video
I was in the Coast Guard from 1966-1970 and GM 71 series were everywhere. In Alaska we had two 671 Generators. In Michigan the 40 foot boats ran on Two 671’s. What a sound! The 36 foot boat had a 471. In Vietnam on our patrol boat we had two Generators powered my two, 671’s. In my year in vietnam one 271 would be running constantly and we would switch one every week. Those 271’s ran without much more maintenance than changing the oil and filter regularly.
In WWII the Landing Crafts the Coast Guard used to take the troops to the Beach at Normandy and in the Pacific theater were powered by the 671’s!
😅mistake Vietnam was 271
Turn it into a margarita maker
Thanks for your service, Welcome home brother! 🇺🇸
I love your enthusiasm getting that running. Iove to see old stuff renewed and made to run. Very talented turning that new valve. Im impressed.
Funny when you tried to show your mom it stopped working. I am a software developer and anytime I'd try to show my wife an app I built it would hit a bug and stop. LOL. Making that valve was impressive. I still laugh and smile at how excited you and Matt get when you get an old beast running. I know the same feeling when debugging someone else's old junk code and getting their app running.
Scrappy, what a great episode I envy your shop.
Good Morning Sam..Have a great day...!!
nice to see its running, this old engines is eternal with litle bit of maitenance and love
Awesome video. Great project. Looking forward to more videos on this beautiful old piece of machinery
You’re right Sam. It IS a seriously cool Detroit. Can’t wait to see this progress!
I knew you'd do it!!!! Now if you hadn't had that manual, then it really would have taken a long time to get the correct sequence of setting those taps! Thanks go to Dan for that manual!!! The rest is down to SAM. He is the business when it comes to not blowing his own trumpet, when it comes to skilled machining! The rest is because he had played with so many different types of equipment, that he has a built in library of "how to's" in his brain. The first time I saw a Sam video, I was hooked! That was thanks to Matt, Sam is his no1 partner in crimes against scrapping!
Your accomplishments and your joyous reactions at getting that monster to work are a true joy to watch!!! Well done
Glad your not gonna scrap her. So good to see the workmanship in the old stuff.
Finally it's running. The displacement per cylinder is somewhere between a Detroit and the EMD 567 and so does the sound. At low revs very much like a 567 and at higher revs more like a Detroit.
Conical brass plug valves were a common thing on older machinery, they were relatively easy to make compared with other types of valves.
When they started leaking it was easy to recondition them with valve lapping compound. A damaged housing could be repaired with a tapered reamer and then a slightly oversize plug could be made to fit the larger bore.
Real impressive machining!
Real smart man you are!
Great engine
Great video
I really enjoy watching your machine skills on the manual lathe and your excitement bringing the old beast back to life.👍
Thanks for watching! Love the lab puppy!
That is one cool engine! It will be super cool if you can get it to produce power as well. Love to see all these old forgotten engines back doin their thing. Thank you for the effort you put into your videos!
kool i was in the navy on DD839. 839 was commissioned in 1939 and it had one forward and one aft they were 268A 3 calendar 3 stroke . because of the so called saving air from the blowers, That was 1976 we rebuilt the USS Powers DD 839 .took it to sea for a year and thin it was sold to Japan and is now a historic moment some where in japan. One of the Best times of my life, I'm now 67 and retired I was a engine men and they were my station underway or one of thin, great and rear experience. Thanks a lot, i watched you bring it home. great Job, I am impressed well done. PS they didn't get much time running, just start up to keep it in the reedy state. i doubt it has 500 running HRS on it, it ran clean. you should change the oil in the governor it is separate from the engine. and mostly likely 95 years old...lol
A 3 stroke?
God man I could feel your excitement, couldn’t hear it but sure felt it. What a grand old engine. You’re right, it needs to live on. Well done.
I think this is one of your best videos. Great old military engine, and great mechanicing! It would be great to see it generate power. AWESOME!!
Dude I cannot believe how much that thing purrs. It sounds really damn good haha. Congrats on getting it going man.
It kinda have that Rotax 850 Etec at idle vibe to itI
Wow, I'm excited, too. You make it look easy, man, Thank you for all the fun and enjoyable times.
Just started watching your channel and I have been binge watching your shows in reverse order . There are lots of channels of “ Will it start”. but none have a machinist that makes parts using a conventional lathe and CNC milling. I enjoyed the explanation of the CNC mill. The fabrication of old parts sets your channel apart. Do more of this type of will it start videos!!!
I love that engine. It’s super neat. Glad you saved it.
Amazing watching the technology available today to the machinist, my dad worked in the machine shop at chevy gear and axle in detroit in the 40s 50s and 60s repairing cutters and machining parts for the 100s of Gleeson machines used to cut ring and pinion gears, they did it with dial indicators, slide rules and micrometers, how things have changed for the better today.
What an incredibly thorough knowledge of the whole process. Very entertaining. Thank you
Installed a brand new v16 Detroit with twin turbos. Derated to 1900hp with big arse alternator. On first run the electician on site tripped the emergency stop to shut it down! Flapper slammed down on the inlet with a huge BANG! Everyone immediately pooped their pants! Boy that engine sounded good at full chooch, which was the only way it ran. Emergency genset for telecommunications. Block heaters etc. From the time the contactor dropped till full power was about 6 seconds. G'day from Tasmania
Old iron , ya gotta love seeing it brought back to life . Thanks Sam for sharing with us the journey of seeing life breathing again in this relic .
I absolutely loved the 2 videos on this engine/generator! Interesting machine as well as great video presentation! presentation 2:15 presentation
By doggies, you know your stuff...good work👍🏽
HEY! Good morning Sam and thumbs UP!!
Sam
Very nice job 👍
I’m a machinist with almost 43 years of both Manual & CNC work. As much as I rely heavily on the speed & accuracy of CNC there still is something very fulfilling of making parts with your own hands & creativity.
Nothing like making something run from our past to make you feel connected to it.Great video to show what its like to be driven to a purpose.Really enjoyed this story thank you.
It's great to see this engine still running after 80 years. Excellent work!
It's just awesome. it shows how reliable we use to make everything. Detroit powered go cart, definitely. I'd bet 80 years or so from now this thing could still be running if it were kept out of the weather.
35:38 where he totally missed the creek of diesel coming from the filter 🤣
I was watching that and saying shut it down, shut it down.
This is cool! Excited to see this thing cleaned up.
Congrats!! Indeed we forget that so many had to not only run--but to repair these & make parts--while under enemy fire!! So glad you reminded us of that!!
Jolly good job Sam…. Just love your… yes we can fix this attitude….well done🚜🚜🚜🚜
Thank you Sam! Great to hear the giant bus motor run again. Your ingenuity, mechanic and machine shop skills are admirable. After you paint it and get the electrical issues straightened out, I would donate it to the National Pike Museum so the rest of the world can see and hear it.
I really appreciate you showing us the steps to make that new valve, plus choosing to use a more mature lathe is even better.
Great video Just love people trying to restore old Abandoned equipment.
Loved it Sam!! My mother could definitely identify with yours. My brother and sister would laugh at me for having all my toy taken apart shortly after getting them to see how they worked!
I love that Sam is such a good and confident son that he includes his dear mother in his will it start video. Your enthusiasm is awesome with no strings attached! Love it. Hello from Augusta GA am a MD native loved camping and riding in the Northwoods of Forest County. Love PA.
This was the most satisfying video of your You Tube career yet! Yes that Detroit is old and crusty but she still does the Detroit boogie. Everything should run like a Detroit after 90 years. Keep Scrappin'
Just great. All that's missing is a massive boat to go around it now and you are sorted!! Well done. The sound of history.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your ability to explain and put your visions into reality. As a retired over the road driver, I appreciate the unspoken caution you take resurrecting a two stroke (Detroit diesel style) engine. One time in all my years did I have a runaway happen, thankfully the emergency shutoff functioned as designed.
from Canada, you are an amazing young man. I'm 77 and all my lathe training was in high school. all movements were without computer aid. to dignose the engine without the specs and find out later you were right is also amazing, that is why i watch your videos. i know how to pick'em, love to see what radiator you will find.........take care. and do it soon, don't know how long I'll be here.
I’m so glad you didn’t get that manual in time…Otherwise we wouldn’t have seen the magnificent job you did rebuilding that valve 🤩👍🏻😀
Enjoyed watching you getting the big engine working from Start to finish
Sam I really like how you always have a smile and you complete projects!
LOVE the sound of those old 2 strokes. Puts me in mind of the Jimmys from days gone by! Cheers mate and a job well done. Cant wait to see it making power again.
Nice work! Super cool to see and hear that old engine come to life!
I love the machining content. Most people just skip over that part or get a shop to do it for them, very cool that you know how to do that and actually show it.
So cool Scrappy , to see it working is remarkable and so well. It's only design was for producing power. The Detroit colors would be appropriate. With lightning bolts 😅. The radiator will be Hugh. Hopefully you find the missing tachometer. Would like to see just how much she can produce. It started like it was just made. Fun to watch 😊.
I was waiting for your parents to say look at the soot line towards the top of the shed!, the shed will start looking like an old diesel shop, keep up the good work Sam
Outstanding! I can completely understand now how you have a masters in mechanical engineering.
Great video. I love watching old machines come back to life, please do more like this!
❤❤❤ you like an awesome job. Getting it running and saving it. I enjoyed your milling process, very neat to see people working with the old milling machines. Now, if you can get the power up and running, it will be a wonderful backup generator for ya
Brilliant! Fantastic to see something like that rescued, and it was quite a rescue. Back from the brink. Well done!
Watching that baby fire up finally was amazing.can’t wait to see her generate power,and I have no doubt she will.😊☮️
Put a silber turbo with into cooler on it!
That grin on your face sys it all. Brilliant! And it runs so clean after being dormant. Well another channel I am now addicted to and look forward to seeing your uploads. Thanks.
Awesome sam painting that would be nice and I would take all the brass and polish them and clear coat to make it pop😊
You gotta admire a guy who loves his work.
Nice to see it run. Looking forward to more videos on the generator side.
probably makes 480v
Thanks for sharing and taking us along.Awesome and outstanding content as always.