All but silent in the gears - and goes like stink! I believe the regulator has a pilot valve, it's certainly silky smooth pulling away and gentle up to a point where the regulator seems to go a bit stiffer - if you push past that then you engage 'reheat'!! lol. The exhaust suddenly starts to bark loud and you feel the acceleration as it pulls away - hold on, we're taking off!!!
Thank you - did get a little repetative constantly going back and forth, especially when a number of the new ones were a 'snug' fit, but got there in the end 🙂
@@IACooper Incidentally, while I admire the many superb restorations carried out in recent years, the working rollers of my boyhood looked very much like this and it is pleasant to see one in this condition
Would love to understand why you need to do each bit? What would happen if you didn’t remove the vales? Etc? Sorry that’s probably really obvious to you
Hey I live in North Wales (Anglesey) and looking at some of your video titles, maybe you do too... If so and you ever need some extra hands let me know! I would love to help you out on your engine if you ever need it. For free of course haha. Loved steam all my life but have only ever been to a few rallies. I want to build one some day
Thank you for replying to my comment, I didn't know that steam rollers & I presume traction engines the the tubes were not beaded. That means that the new tube ends are flush with the face of the tube plate.
They're not flush, they do protude a small amount, but not too far else they'll overheat and burn back. At 3:35 you can see the protrusion being checked. You're right in essence though, the first step of extraction was to grind off that protusion so they _are_ flush with the tubeplate. At 0:46 as the tube is being pulled out you can see the ends of the surrounding tubes have been ground back to the tubeplate, before they were then heated and cooled and given a squirt of oil whilst still hot to all help get them to contract back a bit and break the seal. Once they were all out everything was cleaned up and dye-penetration tested - which is why at the 3 minute mark the tubeplate is white from the remnants of the test developer and has light rust marks on it from having all been fully degreased and cleaned for the testing done a week or so earlier.
When I got the roller it didn't come with any tools and I didn't have anything to fit either. The first couple of months were spent mooching around the stalls at steam rallies picking up large looking old spanners for a pound or two each. Over the course of the summer I ended up with a dirt cheap set of spanners for it. The older style feel much better if you need to give a little percussive persuasion as well.
Nope - like most road steam boilers in the UK, it doesn't have beaded ends. The length is positioned to only just protude past the tubeplate so they don't overheat and burn back.
Like most road steam boilers in the UK, this didn't (and still doesn't) have beaded ends (unlike rail boilers which usually do). Even so, still worth grinding flat to prevent the crusty protruding bit snagging or the end distorting and wedging. Even having done that, they're still drum tight and as I'm working alone I went around both ends of each tube with oxy-propane to heat them up to red heat to then let them cool and contract slightly to just break the seal. That probably took longer than having an assistant bonking tubes with a hammer whilst applying steady hydaulic pressure at the same time, but was a *lot* less effort, especially working solo. Having done all the prep the day before, they all effortlessly pulled out - the monotonous bit was constantly going back and forth to reload for the next tube.
Hi Ian, great video and thanks showing us how you did the tubes, I am currently restoring a Fowler road roller which you can see on my channel and I hope you have a good rally season.
Really great, very impressed that one man did this, as an engineer who has built a 3 inch scale traction engine i know how much work that is , Great people like you do this so people like me can enjoy them too.
Even from this video we can get a sense of how big a job this is. For a one person operation it looked huge. Thank you for sharing and keeping a wonderful steam roller alive.
probably 30-40mph on fairly level road. The later "S-type" model Sentinel steam waggons can trundle on nearer 50mph on fairly level roads. They all slow to a crawl up steep hills though! lol
I absolutely love seeing this beutiful piece of mechanical engineering trundling along the freeway with all the cars going by. You are one lucky owner. Much love from the States <3<3
Used to have a 6hp burrell road loco in the family.. clearly things have changed...lo loaders.? Gloves? Hi vis.. We used to take it from Northwich to Crich Derbyshire.. 3 days burrell..tender for us kids ..full length showmanship caravan and water cart on the back.. Over the tops towads matlock ..cat and fiddle..overnight at the jug and glass... pulling up to Crich tramway museum at dusk..sparks covering us kids eating pies...spark pies we used to call them! Injector water and swarfega in a steel bucket Worlds gone soft!
I recognise your surname! That's the last time the engine was steamed. It had been fairly recently sold and was off to workshops elsewhere to be stripped down for major boiler work and overhaul. As can be seen, the canopy had already been removed and it was just easier to steam it up to move to where a lorry could reach than to shift it with a push pole. Knowing the new owner and their tendancy to road their other engines, I suspect this will see some miles on the road once it returns from a comprehensive rebuild as well. Under the previous ownership I've followed it out on the road doing the journey from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury in steam.
@@IACooper peter froud was my dad..also used to have sentinel dg4 kg1123..oddly coverted to a bus...fowler roller..Aveling roller he sold to Fred Dibnah which was later converted to a tractor...all gone now.. was surrounded by amazing things as a kid.. seem to still find myself perusing RU-vid looking at stuff. Seems steam stays in the blood.... Hope my comment was recieved with the humour that was intended!
@@richardfroud3605 Don't worry, not offended. Whilst you're right that many do pram around these days, hopefully some of my videos show there's still a proportion who travel place to place on the road.
Brings back memories as I used to steam Sentinel DG 4 Callow Rock YD6587 which was sold to Walter Fearnley in the early 1980's. Does anyone know where this waggon is now?
Fred Dibnah had an engine like this I wonder what happened to it after he died? I know one of his sons has the steam roller Betsy I think it’s name is.
The steam tractor he had, along with pretty well all his belongings apart from the roller (which was retained by the two sons Jack and Roger, who take it in turns to run it) needed to be sold to pay for costs. One of his daughters was able to buy the landrover to keep that in the family as well.
@@rudycarlson8245 i believe it still is, but don't know of any specific videos that feature it. It will sometimes be at steam rallies around the manchester area, astle park, cheshire steam fair etc, so may briefly appear in people's videos taken at those events.
Best of luck with your project. This is part of a steam tractor I started 24 years ago ...and stopped working on about 21 years ago. I've spent the last couple of months re-making bits of the engine I wasn't happy with and then finishing the engine to the point of getting it to run.
Yes, a gear is keyed to the far end of the crankshaft which then drives the 2nd shaft which runs in those bearings. That has a sliding gear cluster on the end by the flywheel which drives a stub 3rd shaft, then from there it's chain drive to the rear axle. The engine forms a self-contained unit, so can be built and run independantly from everything else.
Not sure of the details, needed to visit someone else to get access to an air compressor. There were a couple of fergies and other stuff lurking in the shadows and corners.
They do them as time trials if people want to take their own Mamon along to 'race'. On occasion will run two together at opposite ends of the track - obviously if one is faster then it will gradually catch the other up. It's all great fun to watch 😃