Starting the Strip Down - The Locomotive Diaries Episode 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Hello everyone,
Today we're making a long overdue return to the locomotive diaries to see the progress on the Rustons saved from Scrap!
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A video featuring:
Lawrie - Multiple engine owner,
Jay - fellow Ruston 48 owner,
Alfie - Disassembler extraordinaire,
Charles - Cameraman, amused by it all.
A video edited by Lawrie
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Nothing beats restoring machines with the lads
Hello Lawrie,
I am a member of a museum railway myself, and we also have small shunting locomotives (diesel). When we overhaul the brakes, we use, among other things, graphite grease for the moving parts.
So if you disassemble the brake system and overhaul it, it would be a suggestion to treat the moving parts with graphite grease when assembling it.
greetings from Germany
Matthias
P.S. You're doing well with the two locomotives. I think it's great to see something like that.
Graphite grease is also fantastically useful in cases where you want to lubricate and encourage conductivity, like say when mounting a BMW E21 steering wheel in a 2002 and wanting to get the horn to work just by a little fiddling with one of the horn rings and a spring. It works wonderfully.
"Who's life would be so simple" but simple is boring. All the best Lawrie
Lawrie is gonna have a whole fleet of rustons by the end of the year I'm calling it now
Excited for the pressure washing episode! That'll be satisfying. Would love to see all the little bits and bobs get an ultrasonic bath too.
I already _know_ the engine, gearbox transmission, and any separate final drive will need to be removed from the frame, *_COMPLETELY_* disassembled, and I just hope Black Stag Engineering can cut new helical gears and possibly a crankshaft...
...if you can get the engine and transmission into a heated shop, it could be a good winter project.
Awesome to see everything going and hopfully, later, get together.
Love it. A good start for the LLM Railway Empire.
The LLM Railway Empire ! I like that ❤❤
Ruston
Ruston
With hope in your heart
And you'll never rust alone
You'll never rust alone
It's astounding to see how much locomotive is still in that pile'o'rust that was dragged out of the scrapheap. Unlike a truck, most of the important bits are inside the sturdy frame, of course, so it makes sense in hindsight.
Hope the engine comes out all right at the other side of the disassembly. So far water intrusion doesn't seem to be too bad, though some of the cylinders may need honing if they're not too far gone. Looking forward to the next parts :)
The intro always makes me laugh, especially that part where it says it was rescued by a man with a problem.😂
Keep up the good work. Also if you visit the Severn Valley Railway our LNER coach is now fully restored and back in service.
You should name this locomotive Lady Judith Mcalpine to go with your other Ruston 48.
I can't wait to see the other ruston 48 when it's restored, the both of them are going to have to double head a train.
Hi Laurie russ with yellow ZR here we talked at Doncaster exhibition. If you need radiator or tank work there is a superb company not far from Reepham, P and M radiators in Marsham. Didca fantastic job on my maestro tank
The LLM RAILWAY RUSTON EMPIRE is starting here❤❤❤
Can’t wait till this thing is shiny British racing green, and racing on the track again.
"racing"🤭
I think it would be better kept in a careworn cosmetic state. L already has a nice shiny green one.
Lincoln Green, surely?
@@fussyboy2000 Not a great fan of this "patinated" look that some people like personally, but then it's not my engine.
Can't beat British Rail racing colours! ;)
Started my apprenticeship in 1968 at the age of 15 1/2 in the repair of heavy earthmoving plant...after basic engine phase we were let loose on the Ruston diesels..there were five of them all set up in static frames all but one running with different methods of cooling and the last one had a standard radiator ..we had to completely strip measure bores crankshaft journals record the information and work out the cc of the engine then rebuild them leaving them all running before we could go onto the next phase...they were great engines and i still love thrm..
That fan lives to be the antithesis, in terms of condition, to the rest of the engine XD this series is such wonderful fun
Very nice video. Glad to see some more progress and a general update 👍🤩👍
Learned a fair bit watching that - and how lovely not to have my earholes assailed by impact wrenches! Just good old spannering, and plenty of PlusGas :)
Not to forget a bit of heat as well! Always a good first go-to in my experience for seized nuts and bolts, to allow them to come apart without shearing. I've never known plus-gas to make any useful contribution to helping ease a rusted fastener, but just a bit of warming from a blowtorch or "gas-axe" will release any fastener no matter how badly rusted.
When putting things like this back together on our process plant we always use a product called "Ferro-Slip" anti-seize compound made by Moly-Slip. It really works extremely well to aid future dis-assembly.
Copa-Slip is ok for things that get hot but I find it doesn't prevent seizure if you have stainless steel parts. For things that get serious and regular exposure to water eg being out in the rain, but do not get hot, a product called "Wax-Oyl" is best as it completely keeps water out of the mating surfaces. Any of these are vastly superior to using grease or oil.
Can't wait to see this beauty restored!
This is what I subscribed to the channel for, glad you're keeping going. How you manage to find the time, I have no idea!
You could have sold that rust to the fans!
There's loads more - it's finding the time to edit this series together!
Thank You Lawrie
Been looking forward to this one. Not dissapointed.
24:35 - I want one of those little engines! :) :)
I love watching these. Im glad to see the progress & once its finished itd be rather funny to see it painted BR blue with bright yellow ends. I know its not propper, but itd be funny.
Great to see some progress with the Ruston.
Come on Guys leftie loosie Righty tightly Keep up the great work many steps in a long walk.
great introduction of the video - very well done how come up with the story board and editing
I think, on 266, it recieved brand new spare brake blocks and hangers at County School as, IIRC, the old blocks had worn tapered and twisted the hangers....
Lawrie, is this more fun than restoring your MR2 ?
266 is a 165DS? The shape of the locomotive, the donkey engine which you have to hand crank and engine sound reminds me very much of a locomotive on a preserved railway in Belgium where I volunteered in the 1990s.
Your imitation of the light sabre sounds was sterling!
281266 is a 165ds
294266 is a 48ds
I think there are some Rustons in Belgium!
How many Rustons do you plan on colecting Lawrie?
As many as we, the viewers, pay for.
All of them. All 150. The whole thing.
@@MyFabian94 Yes, and he still doesn't have the middle sized 88 in his collection yet! 😂😂😂
@@matt_acton-varianAnd then there is narrow gauge...
"Can't be tight if it's a liquid!"
cool vid keep up the good vid you do on channel thanks lee
Really puts the “rust” in “Ruston”
Fantastic..... Only Lawrie can have 3 locomotives all in one of the 3 phases of restoration. Normally one loco does all three but nope.... A new first Lawrie has three, one in scrapyard rescue begining of restoration, one running but needs tinkering and a repaint then McAlpine all sorted and hauling. Did the radiator go back from the switch completed on the gala fail incident?
"It ain't got no gas in it."
I used to make light sabers too!!! I was an 'EN-GIN-EER!!!'
Wonderful stuff, but bite the bullet pull everything apart check everything new seals, overhaul the heads and injection system and nothing will come and bite you on the arse later, this is what we do with all our restorations of similar size and bigger and document and bag everything lots of pics of all the detail there a life saver.
Some Ruston double heading would be fun when she is done
Restoring machines that should no longer have a life is pure therapy
It's great
I'd pay to have a drive of your lovely red machine...
There was enough coal in that silencer to fire a power plant. 😂 Ya'll should have saved it for a bonfire and beer night. Is she only a four cylinder? I figure a locomotive would have six or eight, but then again, she's kinda small, so she doesn't need to be too powerful, I guess. How much can she push/pull on flat track?
Unrelated note: who was that purty little steam loco in the background?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with playing with lightsabers!
That said, it's always a good day when there's a new LMM video, especially this one!
I guess you need many tools to repair an old engine, but a trowel wasn't one I'd have thought of.
Was the socket that needed recovery a 10mm?😊
Almost without doubt
One thing I never knew before I saw the 165 in your videos is that they had a donkey engine!!
I know a little bit about stationery engines, not much but enough to ask by whom it is made? My guess is a lister or a Bamford?
Going back over the footage it appears I did not have my figurative glasses on as it clearly says ruston 😅 but on that note, were they ever manufactured as a stand alone stationery engine?
@@jacksnorth4074 I hope they were - I want one! :D
You got it working yet!!?!?!?!? :D :D :D
Getting closer!
@@lmm Haha great :)
Do you have to be over 18 to do the driver for a tenner on the 10th ?
I'm afraid so yes.
You can come for a footplate ride if 16 or over
6:38: Rather than towing it outside the environment, you are casting the environment outside of the locomotive!
Do you have to be over 18 to do driver for a tenner
A year younger than me!!!😂😂😂
Lawrie, For your safety, and for us to see this project complete, PLEASE take care when swinging on levers. At 3m45s if that lever had broken or suddenly moved you would have gone base over apex on to the ground. Nagging over!
21:25 What's chugging in the background?
Interesting….
Who's yellow ruston is in the background?
Owned by member of the railway - it's the last Ruston 88 built!
13:35: I mean, it generally is considered a good thing if none of the rods have left the block 😂 Spontaneously created additional crankcase ventilation is rarely considered a good thing. In that case a collaboration with the famous Indian or Pakistani shop that welds lorry blocks in the dirt in front of their building using acetylene generated in an old oil drum, a household fan and a fire fuelled with cow patties might have been in order.
That was intel a man with a series problem showed up 😂
Ooo, 30 Seconds Ago
Why not just power wash the whole locomotive. Surely that would've saved some time.
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Most guys have vices some drink some Gamble some chase women but you still play with trains
And make a moderately successful TH-cam channel
WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU?!?!?
To 303?
Hey look, I'm famous now :P
Yoink I'm the first dude here!!
brudda I wad
im not sure why I see alot of guys using acetone and transmission fluid blend to sit in machines like this over night or for a few days to help break loose rusted up parts like gear boxes and cylinders
In Dom Chinea's latest video (Liberty V12 & Austin J40), a mechanic with 25+ years' experience recommended 50:50 paint thinners and ATF over any commercial product as great for penetrating rusted bolts etc. Why? No idea!
Coolant's never good. That means you have a crack in the block somewhere, and with how much cool it's probably in it.Well you probably have a hole
Next series: Lawrie saves and restores a steam engine from scrap.
And a few more down the line, Lawrie restores a locomotive from the number plate.
@@BrooksMoses from the number plate? Like he finds a number plate and rebuilds it from there? My locomotive lingo isn't very good.
@@MrToothpickgamer : That was what I meant, yeah.
(It's more car lingo than locomotive; there are claims that some high-value rare cars are "restored from the VIN plate" -- when you have a crashed rusted-out shell of some rare engine-and-options variant, and restore it by replacing everything but the vehicle identification number plate. Not entirely legal, of course.)
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