When I worked as a mechanic I would use a length of fuel line squeezed over a spark plug to install them in tight places. Then I discovered that Champion spark plugs made one just for this purpose! I also cut up some different sizes of fuel line to install small bolts and screws that even my flex driver extensions couldn't reach. I was watching you and thought you could use some of that silicone rubber line for the same purpose!
Hi Keith, the old oil in your Rocket Loco is caster oil, it goes solid with age as it is a vegetable based oil used a lot in Speedway bikes back in the day as it works well with methanol fuel. it goes green due to the contact with the brass parts of the engine. the smell is very evocative of racing machines of yesteryear when burnt. the two most common grades are R30 light or R40 heavy. Hope this is of interest. Stay safe and keep the videos coming great stuff.
Thanks for the info, I think you are right. When I was working on the engine it smelt quite like my old glow plug engines back in the day of Methanol & Castor oil . . . Happy Days {:-)))
I wonder if the oil residue is the remnants of the original factory run in oil... it doesnt look like it was played with enough by randoms to get too much stuff in it. I wonder if they weren't using hydraulic fluid (which is also dyed)... or some other not great oil for run-in purpose expecting it to be flushed out by the user.
Hi Keith , enjoy this os rocket a lot. When your done , would you pls pls steam it up and run it in your garden and make a video of it? love this os rocket !
That looks very much like Duckhams motor oil, it's a vegetable based lubricant which will dry out if left for long periods and also is incompatible with mineral oils so does not mix or dissolve into them. Steam oil or a 'high grade' lubricating oil will not be able to break it up or flush it out but Rapeseed oil might, high temperature steam would definitely get it moving though.
Your mystery oil may be 2 cycle engine oil. I used it at one point on some of my steam engines, and it is quite green if you have the right stuff. I’m not an oil expert, just speaking from experience.
As you are currently a Patreon subscriber, please check the uploads. I uploaded TWO episodes for my Patrons yesterday - both Part #3 & Part #4 of the Stephenson's Rocket Series. Happy New Year.
give it a year or two in the new shop and you will look down at the floor and won't be able to see floor . . . then it will be time for a major cleanup . . . leaving just enough debris to give it that lived-in look.
Back in the 30s, dad had a auto garage. And the lacquer that was left in the engines, put him off Standard Oil. Atleast that is what he said it was from.
When I worked as a mechanic I would use a length of fuel line squeezed over a spark plug to install them in tight places. Then I discovered that Champion spark plugs made one just for this purpose! I also cut up some different sizes of fuel line to install small bolts and screws that even my flex driver extensions couldn't reach. I was watching you and thought you could use some of that silicone rubber line for the same purpose!
Hi Keith, the old oil in your Rocket Loco is caster oil, it goes solid with age as it is a vegetable based oil used a lot in Speedway bikes back in the day as it works well with methanol fuel. it goes green due to the contact with the brass parts of the engine. the smell is very evocative of racing machines of yesteryear when burnt. the two most common grades are R30 light or R40 heavy. Hope this is of interest. Stay safe and keep the videos coming great stuff.
Thanks for the info, I think you are right. When I was working on the engine it smelt quite like my old glow plug engines back in the day of Methanol & Castor oil . . . Happy Days {:-)))
I wonder if they used two stroke oil. It's green like that and gets super gummy over time.
That oil residue looks very like the sort of thing you got when you mixed synthetic motor oils with mineral oils
I wonder if the oil residue is the remnants of the original factory run in oil... it doesnt look like it was played with enough by randoms to get too much stuff in it. I wonder if they weren't using hydraulic fluid (which is also dyed)... or some other not great oil for run-in purpose expecting it to be flushed out by the user.
Great Work Earthling
excellent video with a perfect ending! Very funny!
Hi Keith , enjoy this os rocket a lot. When your done , would you pls pls steam it up and run it in your garden and make a video of it? love this os rocket !
only when I want to remove £2K from its value . . . . .
@@keithappleton then please reserve it properly not like the previous owner
That looks very much like Duckhams motor oil, it's a vegetable based lubricant which will dry out if left for long periods and also is incompatible with mineral oils so does not mix or dissolve into them. Steam oil or a 'high grade' lubricating oil will not be able to break it up or flush it out but Rapeseed oil might, high temperature steam would definitely get it moving though.
It could be motor oil has been used in the past.
Cool video! subscribed !
Your mystery oil may be 2 cycle engine oil. I used it at one point on some of my steam engines, and it is quite green if you have the right stuff. I’m not an oil expert, just speaking from experience.
You may be right ....
Keith, you confused me. Yesterday you released Part 2 and today Part 4. Did I miss Part 3 somewhere? Happy New Year!
As you are currently a Patreon subscriber, please check the uploads. I uploaded TWO episodes for my Patrons yesterday - both Part #3 & Part #4 of the Stephenson's Rocket Series. Happy New Year.
@@keithappleton OK, I see that now. Thanks!
I would guess the residue is vegetable oil. Cooking oil dries up with age.
@@keithappleton you are the most talented and such a good person😉❤
Makes sense. I see the same on old chainsaws
And Im the one talking about holes in my brain. Thats why I order Swiss on my breakfast sandwich
give it a year or two in the new shop and you will look down at the floor and won't be able to see floor . . . then it will be time for a major cleanup . . . leaving just enough debris to give it that lived-in look.
I am keeping this workshop floor clean, so if I drop anything I have a chance of finding it.
"And now, the insanity begins" . Reminds me of a girlfriend I once had.
At least,,, THEY ,, ring the door bell...
I believe Stephenson's Rocket is currently in York.
That stuff is like tar. Poor engine. Beautiful machine!
Morbus Valvum is the name of the disease ;-))
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I'd like to think her sudden burst into life was the excitement of finally moving after such a long time.
Aah so the piston was gummed up and un lubricated.
yes
And I found it useful too, or ... is that two. Never mind I am on the other side of the world.
That green residue looks a bit like two stroke oil. God, I hope not.
20 years of doing nothing would probably gum up most oils
Back in the 30s, dad had a auto garage. And the lacquer that was left in the engines, put him off Standard Oil.
Atleast that is what he said it was from.
Keith, you probably are OCD - Old, Cranky and Dangerous!
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