It is kind of Hypnotik to watch a little steam engine run. Whether they are tiny like yours or a huge like the ones in England I love watching them run.
Thank you Lyle for sharing this series on the Stuart Steam Engine! I just finished watching all 10 episodes and enjoyed every one of them. Being out of commission due to health problems for 2 years, I haven't spent much time in the shop at all. I hope to get with it pretty soon and dig out some of the steam and gas models that are buried someplace in my workshop. Thanks again for sharing and keep up your great work!
Thanks Mr Pete, this was a nice bonus edition to the previous nine I watched yesterday, I must say that when the water evaporated and ran on the steam, it looked so smooth, sounded quiet too.
Thanks for this series Mr Pete. I have ordered a set of castings for a small model and this series has helped me with ideas on how to machine various parts and also shown that it takes time and patience to machine even a small model engine. I've watched many of your videos over the last couple of years and have learned a lot. Thank you for passing on your many years of experience to hobby machinists all over the world.
Great series. My hat is off to anyone with the skills and patience to machine these engines. I've seen a few model engine shows set up at antique tractor shows, and the craftsmanship is exceptional. My machining skills are better suited for full sized engines. No #1 taps for me!
That's a base for a lab stand. A vertical rod gets threaded into the hole. Then various clamps and brackets hold test tubes, flasks, distilling apparatus, and the like. I have several around here; good for positioning light objects temporarily or even semi-permanently.
Mr. Pete, that metal base looks like a laboratory stand. A threaded rod screws into the hole and you can mount beakers, etc. above a bunsen burner or alcohol lamp. There is a displacement lubricator that adds steam oil into the cylinder.
Thanks so much for running it on steam. I watched the series and thoroughly enjoyed it and was hoping you would run the little guy the way it was intended.
So this is how you look. -Been amusing myself for ages by watching your videos. I'm retiring soon and I'll be getting myself a small lathe. That has been a dream of mine for a very long time. The arctic winters are long and dark here in Northern Norway, and a lathe will keep me occupied through the wintermonths.
This series has been great - what Television should have been from the start. I could watch you build these models all day (and possibly learn something despite myself). Thanks for all that you do and share!
I am as green with envy as your little Stuart is green with that wonderful paint job. I have not way to build such an engine but wish I did. I simply love the old fashioned look. I built a small electric motor a couple years ago with the plan to make it look like it was cast iron, in actuality it was MDF painted to look like cast. I watched all of this series and think it was a wonderful piece of workmanship as well as very entertaining. I see by the date of the video that this is a past project so I suspect I am the last guy in the world to watch it, grin....
Thanks for the live steam run Mr. Pete-! Only time ive seen one run under steam, usually air. The torque wrench was a hoot-lol I have been to some live steam shows with the old tractors running sawmills etc., also very cool to see. Mr. Pete Rocks-! ;^)
Great to watch sir. You really do need to use a displacement lubricator filled with steam oil if you run the engine with steam or the insides will be rusting so fast you would not believe it. Thanks again from the otherside of the pond.
This engine runs very smooth and quiet on steam. You did a great job building it. I think you will probably need more pressure to run the dynamo on it though. Can't wait to see the build on the dynamo!
Great video series! When I run my Jensen steam engines, I catch the condensate with a chuff pot to cut-down on the mess. Search "steam chuff pot" for some ideas. Mine is just made from a few parts from the plumbing aisle and connected to the exhaust of the engine via silicone fuel line from the hobby store. The silicone fuel line is great stuff: it just slides onto the exhaust tube and seems immune to the heat. The really nice chuff pots have plumbing (basically a steam whistle) inside to enhance the sound of the escaping steam to make it sound more like a full-scale engine.
A couple hundred years ago some man with a similar type of attitude and inclination did this for the very first time in human history. I bet he was excited, I wonder if he knew he was creating a revolution. :D
Nice serie of videos, thanks! That water will lock the machine, as water will not compress easily. Then you have a hydralic lock, and it that happen could be damaged. That is not a problem on this machine, but good to know. :-) Because of the heat, you need to have thick "steam oil" the oil the cylinder. But nice to see the machine running on real steam. Thanks.
Another great achievement. You inspired me years ago to build a Stuart S50 mill engine and some scratch built oscillators. One worth a mention is Dr Elmer Verburg's tiny, a smart little bumble bee affair. The plan for it is free and it's a great size to keep in your pocket to show what you're all about. Mine came in handy to prove my engineering skills at an interview and I would have got my dream job, but was sadly blocked by someone in our HR department because I was under qualified. You know when you know you've ace'd the interview, thanks to "tiny" I had a chance!
Excellent mrpete. Not much beats a steam run. You do like to live dangerously by borrowing mrspete's household items. One of these days she is going to catch you, then you will be for it. :-) Thanks for sharing. regards from the UK
Really enjoyed this and all of your videos. Thanks for showing it. Incidentally, I grew up about 2 miles (as the crow flies) from the site of the "Wreck of the Old 97" in Danville, VA. Interesting that you should mention it.
from start to finish this was an interesting process to watch. i think the steam oil proper would have made a lot more mess though. :-) would love to see the generator done also. would look good on the glassware stand. a flat belt like those used in vcr's would make a nice substitute for a leather belt instead of using an "0" ring like i have seen others use. MCM electronics and others stock them in various and sundry sizes. again....thanks for your efforts. very nice to watch
That Sturtevant torque wrench is supposed to have a ball on the end of the attached chain. It is used to avoid applying an undesired moment to the beam with the hand when a torque is applied to a fastener.
i just completed the PM research dynamo. it works great. it dose pull the E\engine ( a PNR #5 ) down significantly when I attach an LED harvested from a cheap flashlight. Wish I had the patients to make videos so I could also share projects. A teacher I am not.
Great video. Just for the fun of it, I will yank your chain about the torque wrench. I think you are supposed to pull on the chain to get the most accurate reading, LOL. I will look for torque specs for BA fasteners. I need to build a boiler for my little engines as they only get fed compressed air. I think your engine should run the dynamo but you will need more than 10 psi.
Did you say the valve was Babcock & Wilson, I think that perhaps should have been Babcock & Wilcox. They were a boiler maker from Renfrew, Scotland. My grandpa was an Iron Turner with them.
Brilliant series of videos. So brilliant that they kept me up until 3 am watching them. I first built a Stuart steam engine in 1975, when I was a toolroom apprentice. It was a Stuart's No 1 Beam Engine - a bit larger than this and although I missed out on the pain of an oscillating cylinder, I made up for it with the mental agony of making Watt's Parallel linkage from flat bar with a file. You took around three weeks to make this, I took three years to finish mine. And I think larger engines are actually easier to build than small ones - don't know how you'd feel about this? Certainly for me the hallmark of how good a steam engine is not how quickly it will run, but how slowly, and I think (as a fellow engineer) that you've done a brilliant job with this one. Just a thought - and no way a criticism - I notice the geometry of the piston in the original drawing called for a very deep wide groove, which you replaced with a shallow oil groove. I think the reason for this may be that as the coefficient of expansion of brass is much greater than that of cast iron, the piston may tend to bind if the cylinder heats up.
I couldn't find a specification for the Progress engine but by rough calculation I think it will produce about 8 in-oz of torque at 10 PSI. If that is correct, I don't think you have any hope of driving the generator with this engine. You will probably need to use an engine with a bore in the 1.5 to 2 inch range to run the generator on low pressure air or steam. It looks to me like the Progress is only meant to overcome it's own friction and it looked like that when you were running it on 10 PSI. Maybe someone else can check my calculation since I am an electrical engineer and not used to estimating the power output of steam engines. A really nice looking engine and I enjoyed watching you build it.
10psi was what seems a safe requirement for him. I'm sure the little piston could handle 12-15psi but oscillating engines aren't very efficient. I hadn't found much on resources for output of similar engines, but guessing one like this can produce about 25-30 watts only. I'm sure there is a function of piston bore, stroke and PSI that can estimate steam power output values. I don't yet have any steam engines to measure or test.
I just finished making this nice little engine. I bought the kit over a year ago and starte4de looking on TH-cam for any info on building it since the instructions that came with it were rather skimpy. I found your channel and the series on building it. It was just what the doctor ordered. Great series, great channel. I shot a video of it running, now if I could just figure out how to put it up where you could see it?
@@mrpete222 I'm a neophyte at this TH-cam stuff but I now have a channel and have posted the video. I'm planning on doing the Stuart 10V next. Thanks again for these great videos.
Hi John! Isn't Lyle one of the greatest? Wish I would have had him for a shop teacher in the day, our teacher was brilliant, but he'd spend half the class session taking roll and telling strories, really cut down on the shop time :)
Great video and excellent project. I noticed that when the engine is running on steam considerable steam leaks from around the connecting rod where you chose to leave out that packing. I wonder whether it might not run faster on 10 PSI if that packing had been included or would the additional friction of the packing kept things about the same?
Great videos. I recently subbed so I'm new to your content. I love these steam engine videos. All your videos are great really 👌. I always wanted to learn to machine parts but never had the $$$. So I watch with jealousy lol. I just bought a wood lathe, maybe ill have to start saving my pennies for a mill. Do you have more info on building your steam generator? Great job sir.
you mentioned not knowing the pressure going into the engine because of the valve with a b on it. you are regulating flow with that valve, not pressure. whatever your gauge reads is what the engine is getting. if you want to regulate pressure you need a regulator, either external or internal venting, though internal would on be better since steam is the fuel or commodity in this system. also, metering in versus metering out, you get more accurate adjustability with metering on the exhaust.
You do NOT need the full 5000 RPM unless you want the full voltage/amperage out of the generator, and then you need a much more powerful engine. You only need a fraction of the RPM for a low volt / low amp load like a LED or a flashlight bulb.
perhaps one day we will have the technology to use a power source which will be safe enough to make steam in the household so we can generate our own electricity and run our own engines. Maybe fusion if it can be perfected.
HI from Australian retired shop teacher. Have you given any thought tp a project of building a model dynamometer for testing the output from your models. I have some ideas if your interested from my days as a systems teacher.
It is kind of Hypnotik to watch a little steam engine run. Whether they are tiny like yours or a huge like the ones in England I love watching them run.
This is the nicest looking little engine I have ever seen. The proportions are excellent and the color scheme is terrific. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Lyle for sharing this series on the Stuart Steam Engine!
I just finished watching all 10 episodes and enjoyed every one of them. Being out of commission due to health problems for 2 years, I haven't spent much time in the shop at all. I hope to get with it pretty soon and dig out some of the steam and gas models that are buried someplace in my workshop.
Thanks again for sharing and keep up your great work!
Thank you for watching, yes get busy on those engines
Thanks Mr Pete, this was a nice bonus edition to the previous nine I watched yesterday, I must say that when the water evaporated and ran on the steam, it looked so smooth, sounded quiet too.
Thanks for this series Mr Pete. I have ordered a set of castings for a small model and this series has helped me with ideas on how to machine various parts and also shown that it takes time and patience to machine even a small model engine. I've watched many of your videos over the last couple of years and have learned a lot. Thank you for passing on your many years of experience to hobby machinists all over the world.
Thank you for watching I am glad to see you start on a model
Great series. My hat is off to anyone with the skills and patience to machine these engines. I've seen a few model engine shows set up at antique tractor shows, and the craftsmanship is exceptional.
My machining skills are better suited for full sized engines. No #1 taps for me!
That's a base for a lab stand. A vertical rod gets threaded into the hole. Then various clamps and brackets hold test tubes, flasks, distilling apparatus, and the like. I have several around here; good for positioning light objects temporarily or even semi-permanently.
Mr. Pete, that metal base looks like a laboratory stand. A threaded rod screws into the hole and you can mount beakers, etc. above a bunsen burner or alcohol lamp. There is a displacement lubricator that adds steam oil into the cylinder.
Thanks so much for running it on steam. I watched the series and thoroughly enjoyed it and was hoping you would run the little guy the way it was intended.
So this is how you look. -Been amusing myself for ages by watching your videos.
I'm retiring soon and I'll be getting myself a small lathe. That has been a dream of mine for a very long time. The arctic winters are long and dark here in Northern Norway, and a lathe will keep me occupied through the wintermonths.
This series has been great - what Television should have been from the start. I could watch you build these models all day (and possibly learn something despite myself). Thanks for all that you do and share!
I am as green with envy as your little Stuart is green with that wonderful paint job. I have not way to build such an engine but wish I did. I simply love the old fashioned look. I built a small electric motor a couple years ago with the plan to make it look like it was cast iron, in actuality it was MDF painted to look like cast. I watched all of this series and think it was a wonderful piece of workmanship as well as very entertaining. I see by the date of the video that this is a past project so I suspect I am the last guy in the world to watch it, grin....
Thank you for watching, that was a fun engine to build
Thanks for the live steam run Mr. Pete-! Only time ive seen one run under steam, usually air. The torque wrench was a hoot-lol I have been to some live steam shows with the old tractors running sawmills etc., also very cool to see. Mr. Pete Rocks-! ;^)
WOW, I love it. It's a hydraulic water powered engine at the start then turns into a cute little steamer. Thanks Mr. Pete.
Turned out beautifully, Mr. Pete. A Stuart double-acting reciprocating hot beverage dispenser!
Great to watch sir. You really do need to use a displacement lubricator filled with steam oil if you run the engine with steam or the insides will be rusting so fast you would not believe it. Thanks again from the otherside of the pond.
Very Cool Mr Pete! So nice to see your engine run on steam power... Thing of beauty!
So good you can watch some of it twice. 😊
I had a moment of déjà vué.
Great fun! ya, I've watched it a time or two...
This engine runs very smooth and quiet on steam. You did a great job building it. I think you will probably need more pressure to run the dynamo on it though. Can't wait to see the build on the dynamo!
Maybe now is the time to add the lagging and the stuffing box.
Great video series!
When I run my Jensen steam engines, I catch the condensate with a chuff pot to cut-down on the mess. Search "steam chuff pot" for some ideas.
Mine is just made from a few parts from the plumbing aisle and connected to the exhaust of the engine via silicone fuel line from the hobby store. The silicone fuel line is great stuff: it just slides onto the exhaust tube and seems immune to the heat.
The really nice chuff pots have plumbing (basically a steam whistle) inside to enhance the sound of the escaping steam to make it sound more like a full-scale engine.
A couple hundred years ago some man with a similar type of attitude and
inclination did this for the very first time in human history. I bet he was excited, I wonder if he knew he was creating a revolution. :D
mr Pete that was a great finish to the series !
Lyle Peterson you earned that A+! What a real spitfire you created with your time and talents! I dare say therapeutic . . . Class dismissed :~)
Nice serie of videos, thanks!
That water will lock the machine, as water will not compress easily. Then you have a hydralic lock, and it that happen could be damaged.
That is not a problem on this machine, but good to know. :-)
Because of the heat, you need to have thick "steam oil" the oil the cylinder.
But nice to see the machine running on real steam. Thanks.
LOVE that torque wrench!
Fantastic Sir, I enjoyed all the ten parts of the project. Thankyou so much.
Babcock - Wilcox made many a boiler for power plants and ships. Yes you made a superheater. Nice run session
of the little engine.
itd be really cool if you crowned the flywheel and ran a little flat belt to the generator. i think that would make a nice vintage look.
Another great achievement. You inspired me years ago to build a Stuart S50 mill engine and some scratch built oscillators. One worth a mention is Dr Elmer Verburg's tiny, a smart little bumble bee affair. The plan for it is free and it's a great size to keep in your pocket to show what you're all about. Mine came in handy to prove my engineering skills at an interview and I would have got my dream job, but was sadly blocked by someone in our HR department because I was under qualified. You know when you know you've ace'd the interview, thanks to "tiny" I had a chance!
Yes-I have made several of elmers engines.
too bad about the job
Excellent mrpete. Not much beats a steam run. You do like to live dangerously by borrowing mrspete's household items. One of these days she is going to catch you, then you will be for it. :-) Thanks for sharing. regards from the UK
Thank you Mr. Pete. I enjoyed the entire series. Cheers, Mike
Ive never worked on timber or metal. But find these vids so interesting.. Especially what makes it work vids
Really enjoyed this and all of your videos. Thanks for showing it. Incidentally, I grew up about 2 miles (as the crow flies) from the site of the "Wreck of the Old 97" in Danville, VA. Interesting that you should mention it.
from start to finish this was an interesting process to watch. i think the steam oil proper would have made a lot more mess though. :-) would love to see the generator done also. would look good on the glassware stand. a flat belt like those used in vcr's would make a nice substitute for a leather belt instead of using an "0" ring like i have seen others use.
MCM electronics and others stock them in various and sundry sizes.
again....thanks for your efforts. very nice to watch
Great video Mr. Pete! Thanks for sharing! Little guy runs great on steam! Looked like just the right speed too.
In part nine you mentioned Paladin. I have record of TV western theme songs. As soon as you mentioned it the song began playing in my head. Sheeesh!
Absolutely fantastic! Loved every minute. Super build. Thank you!
Thank you very much
Awesome work. Looks great and works even better.
Thank you for showing it run on steam.
So nice to see good old tech... :D
9:55. im not sure if its youtube but the video jumps back several minutes tk an earlier segment here
Yes, an early clip is repeated here.
Great video Mr Pete! Can't wait for you to start on the generator...
Lovely job. When I built my little progress I put the little drain cocks on it.
That Sturtevant torque wrench is supposed to have a ball on the end of the attached chain. It is used to avoid applying an undesired moment to the beam with the hand when a torque is applied to a fastener.
Thanks really enjoyed this series!
Nice build. Makes one wonder how many of these engines actually got completed.
Thank you sir! New subscriber that loved all 10 episodes.
Thank you, and welcome.
Very handsome colour scheme.
i just completed the PM research dynamo. it works great. it dose pull the E\engine ( a PNR #5 ) down significantly when I attach an LED harvested from a cheap flashlight. Wish I had the patients to make videos so I could also share projects. A teacher I am not.
Thanks
Very COOL! I will build one someday.
Great video. Just for the fun of it, I will yank your chain about the torque wrench. I think you are supposed to pull on the chain to get the most accurate reading, LOL. I will look for torque specs for BA fasteners. I need to build a boiler for my little engines as they only get fed compressed air. I think your engine should run the dynamo but you will need more than 10 psi.
Thanks again. Love watching your videos
Did you say the valve was Babcock & Wilson, I think that perhaps should have been Babcock & Wilcox. They were a boiler maker from Renfrew, Scotland. My grandpa was an Iron Turner with them.
Wow so cool engine 👌
That base you showed is from a laboratory stand. Enjoyed your build!
Hasn't this turned out to be lovely little engine? A credit to you Lyle.
that (at time index 1:09) is the base of a laboratory apparatus stand.
Looks nice all painted up. Get some steam oil for the lub.
Brilliant series of videos. So brilliant that they kept me up until 3 am watching them. I first built a Stuart steam engine in 1975, when I was a toolroom apprentice. It was a Stuart's No 1 Beam Engine - a bit larger than this and although I missed out on the pain of an oscillating cylinder, I made up for it with the mental agony of making Watt's Parallel linkage from flat bar with a file. You took around three weeks to make this, I took three years to finish mine. And I think larger engines are actually easier to build than small ones - don't know how you'd feel about this? Certainly for me the hallmark of how good a steam engine is not how quickly it will run, but how slowly, and I think (as a fellow engineer) that you've done a brilliant job with this one. Just a thought - and no way a criticism - I notice the geometry of the piston in the original drawing called for a very deep wide groove, which you replaced with a shallow oil groove. I think the reason for this may be that as the coefficient of expansion of brass is much greater than that of cast iron, the piston may tend to bind if the cylinder heats up.
Thank you very much. Yes, that watts parallel motion would be quite a project.
I couldn't find a specification for the Progress engine but by rough calculation I think it will produce about 8 in-oz of torque at 10 PSI. If that is correct, I don't think you have any hope of driving the generator with this engine. You will probably need to use an engine with a bore in the 1.5 to 2 inch range to run the generator on low pressure air or steam. It looks to me like the Progress is only meant to overcome it's own friction and it looked like that when you were running it on 10 PSI. Maybe someone else can check my calculation since I am an electrical engineer and not used to estimating the power output of steam engines.
A really nice looking engine and I enjoyed watching you build it.
10psi was what seems a safe requirement for him. I'm sure the little piston could handle 12-15psi but oscillating engines aren't very efficient. I hadn't found much on resources for output of similar engines, but guessing one like this can produce about 25-30 watts only.
I'm sure there is a function of piston bore, stroke and PSI that can estimate steam power output values. I don't yet have any steam engines to measure or test.
looking good Mr pete
I just finished making this nice little engine. I bought the kit over a year ago and starte4de looking on TH-cam for any info on building it since the instructions that came with it were rather skimpy. I found your channel and the series on building it. It was just what the doctor ordered. Great series, great channel. I shot a video of it running, now if I could just figure out how to put it up where you could see it?
Congratulations on building the model, nice job. And I'm glad my videos help you thanks for watching. Post it on TH-cam
@@mrpete222 I'm a neophyte at this TH-cam stuff but I now have a channel and have posted the video. I'm planning on doing the Stuart 10V next. Thanks again for these great videos.
that cast iron base is from a ring stand used in chemistry lab...I used one like it in th 90's
Beautiful little engine. It would be most likely Babcock and Wilcox if it's boiler related, not Wilson.
Great job , thanks for the videos
Lovely little engine
Hi John! Isn't Lyle one of the greatest? Wish I would have had him for a shop teacher in the day, our teacher was brilliant, but he'd spend half the class session taking roll and telling strories, really cut down on the shop time :)
Bill Kibby hi Bill! My shop teacher threw my first lathe project clear across the shop into the bin and told me to start again!
Wow! Hmm, maybe it worked somehow? You do extremely nice work (says the man wearing the pen you created clipped to his t-shirt neck) :~)
Thanks
Cute little torque wrench
I wonder if there was restriction in the hose. Sometimes the inside of the hose ravels. Greg
You got me with the torque wrench, haha
Great video and excellent project. I noticed that when the engine is running on steam considerable steam leaks from around the connecting rod where you chose to leave out that packing. I wonder whether it might not run faster on 10 PSI if that packing had been included or would the additional friction of the packing kept things about the same?
Great videos. I recently subbed so I'm new to your content. I love these steam engine videos. All your videos are great really 👌. I always wanted to learn to machine parts but never had the $$$. So I watch with jealousy lol. I just bought a wood lathe, maybe ill have to start saving my pennies for a mill. Do you have more info on building your steam generator? Great job sir.
Thanks for joining me I'm glad you like the videos. There is a whole series on the Dynamo
slow @ ~ 240 rpm looks fantastic!!
I like your videos!!
if you insulated the pipe would that eliminate some condensate. its working like a still.
My dentist has a smaller torque wrench- he uses it to seat implant teeth into their sockets.
you mentioned not knowing the pressure going into the engine because of the valve with a b on it. you are regulating flow with that valve, not pressure. whatever your gauge reads is what the engine is getting. if you want to regulate pressure you need a regulator, either external or internal venting, though internal would on be better since steam is the fuel or commodity in this system. also, metering in versus metering out, you get more accurate adjustability with metering on the exhaust.
THANK YOU...for sharing.
your wife is understanding, using guest towels in your shop, heh
You do NOT need the full 5000 RPM unless you want the full voltage/amperage out of the generator, and then you need a much more powerful engine. You only need a fraction of the RPM for a low volt / low amp load like a LED or a flashlight bulb.
Looks good under live steam :-)
Another great video. It was nice to see you get "all steamed up". =(;-)
Thank you! Nice, very impressive.
I notice these model steam engines eject a lot of water. Is it hard to make a model steam engine that can reuse or use less water?
any plans on building a steam boiler for model engines?
I saw someone that looked just like you in meridian Idaho yesterday
That was me! lol
perhaps one day we will have the technology to use a power source which will be safe enough to make steam in the household so we can generate our own electricity and run our own engines. Maybe fusion if it can be perfected.
Do you have a video on winding an armature?
Lanolin? Like sheep's wool?
cant wait for the next one! what kind of ford do you drive?
LOVED IT!
Sorry for the possibly stupid question, but why does it have to be distilled water? Steam is steam; it contains no minerals.
You'll get scale on the inside of the boiler. That makes it less efficient.
Excellent, thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing sir....
careful, its going to get up to 88mph and the flux capacitor is going to kick in!!!!! LOL
I've heard it a million times: never let a steam engine run out of water. What happens? If the tank is empty, what's there to "explode"?
HI from Australian retired shop teacher. Have you given any thought tp a project of building a model dynamometer for testing the output from your models. I have some ideas if your interested from my days as a systems teacher.
No
I did that with a hit & miss engine & no one watched it
That is so cool thanks
When it's on steam it's properly alive
The engines are adult toys i would say
Live steam, dead steam, sleepy steam.😜👍
Nice build but i think a young boy would have more fun with a spud gun