Breaking the Law - Completely Illegal Steam Engine from EngineDIY Shop!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2023
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In today's video Lawrie got sent a Steam Engine from his friends over at @enginediyshop6269 @enginediyshop6269 built by Enjomor, but this little engine has Lawrie gravely concerned...
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Those “guards” are designed to produce a nice grid pattern as you leave your skin on them😂
They've now included this video on the product page, not the direction I'd go to make my product look good but it's a strong move
I feel like someone made a semi-decent compressed air engine and they said, "Lets make it steam powered instead". And now we have this ... thing
crazy! my grandad built model steam engines in his garage using copper and brass. this looked way more technical than what he did but he seemed to have ticked much more boxes than this company. what's crazy is he passed not too long ago and this gets recommended to me! oh ill also add the copper and brass was often donated to him from pubs that were refurbished, they would donate the metals from pumps or plates that wrapped around the bar. true genius was my grandad, rip, miss n love you loads.
I don't know why YT suggested this video for me, and I wouldn't have bought a steam engine model if it
I love how Lawrie has full knowledge of the fact that so many corners where cut it would be a circle.
Tested on your desktop, no hood, no safety goggles, reaching over the bomb. Good lad! Safety squint!
I remember building a watts dual piston steam engine from scrap, no kit all I had was 2 pages of design drawings. Took me nearly a year to finish, spent just about every night in my old mans machine workshop. Won first place when I entered it into the end of the year science project, not bad for a 12y old even the teachers were amazed. Great skills to learn as a kid, machining & metal fabrication became handy for me later in life.😁😁
All the more reason I try to steer beginners towards makes like Mamod, Wilesco, and Jensen. They're safety-tested, fitted with proper safety valves and other "don't melt your face off and/or blow yourself up" features, and they're made with materials that you don't have to worry about letting go all of a sudden.
I love how the sales page has this very video embedded on it, so you go to the page to buy the engine, and there's a TH-cam video with the thumbnail reading "Dangerous and Illegal!" emblazoned across it 🤣
I’m amazed you ran this indoors, on a desk practically in your face! But props for the yellow car transporter on your desk, haven’t seen one of those in years. 👍
Aluminum is perfectly fine for a tiny boiler of that size! I’m guessing, it could operate at 400 to 600 psi with no issues at all. (Depending on the thickness of the aluminum and the type of aluminum used.) The safety valve sure, the boiler strength not a problem
As a little suggestion, the next time you are going to tap threads try holding the piece upside down so you don't get filings into the vessel.
When I first started collecting (and restoring) vintage steam engines I found this out the hard way. The vintage Bing plant I purchased did indeed have a pressure release valve but it was corroded to the point of being locked up, fortunately I ran it on air pressure first but did not monitor the pressure on my compressor and blew the boiler cap off the top of the boiler,
Since you added the much needed safety valve, you could bypass their safety system. If you would plug the the hole to atmosphere on the control valve block you would use less steam and have possibly have better speed control. This will use less water and help insure you do not run out of water before fuel.
Nice review. I have a Mammod Steam Roller still in the garage I have had for probably 45 years
My grandfather built the house for his family. In the basement he had a boiler and the house had steam heat. I learned a lot about boilers from my grandfather and one of the things was the importance of a slight glass so you would know the level of the water in the boiler.
Someone definitely put a lot of thought and time into the design. It's to bad they stopped a couple steps short of a good model.
What an absolutely spiffing review!!! So bloody amusing and quite frankly, terrifying too!!! Thank you so much.
Many thanks for this review - What is your recommended model steam engine instead?