PART #12 - STEAMING A VINTAGE WORKSHOP TYPE STEAM ENGINE 

Keith it's great to see the engine running with real steam. Thanks for sharing.

That boiler is simply beautiful! It looks really great with the view of the hot coals.

Excellent series Keith Thank you, Wish I could find something like that for a project. On your video all that is lacking (as you alluded) is that most wonderful smell of hot oil and steam which is why the steam hall a the Manchester museum is a favorite place. Fantastic

Excellent work! i have watch the 12 videos about the renovation of this steam engine and have learn some good mechanical tricks. Thank you for sharing your work.

Thank you for such a wonderful window into your brilliant talents. I very much enjoyed this series, and your articulate narration and production values was equal only to your craftsmanship. You are an artist of many mediums. Thank you again! Very Enjoyable.

Beautiful engine and superb setup. Thank you for sharing with us!

I don't have a steam engine, never have. But I just watched all 12 parts and really would love something like this. Send me one down the road to Barnsley please pal

What a beautiful sound. I love the beat and rhythm of the steam engine. Truly wonderful.

thank for posting these videos Keith! I am a young machinist with a recent vivid interest in building a steam engine. Very interesting and informative!

Great to see her running so well. Really enjoyed watching the progress throughout the restoration. I have 3 Stuart engines I have restored and its always a great feeling when you see fruit of your labor and get to open that steam valve for the first time. Also thanks for the great tips.

A fascinating series of videos, have managed to pick up a lot of helpfull tips, regards Doc Cox

Wonderful, Keith. Nice finale to the restoration sequence and that boiler is beautiful too.

i love that set uo MR Keith its so cool looking all the mechanical parts moving around its just great . i could also listen to them for ever lol thanks for all the great videos !!!

Wonderful! What a treat!

Very nice video and excellent work on the engine. I like the BFD pump, reminds me of some of the old twin cylinder steam pumps we had in the refinery. Probably an 8 or 10 inch steam cylinder and a pump cylinder of about the same size. Made a terrific sound when being operated by the 250 lb. steam header!

Nice series Keith. I have watched other machinist do similar repairs and I must say I quite prefer watching you do them. I like your explanations and comments along with your practical approach to matters. Thanks for sharing.

One of the most interesting videos I have ever seen on u tube. Thank's

Know what you mean about that wonderful smell. I play with hit'n miss engines a lot and I could swear that each one has it's own unique smell and certainly it's own sound and rhythm. Now you've got me interested in building a small steam engine! Onward and upward!

Keith, very interesting, you make it look so easy. I've watched the entire series and truly enjoyed it. Tim

Great series. Beautiful engine. Thanks so much.

I love the sound of that steam pump, awesome setup

Really enjoy watching and listing to your videos,,,nice job again,

Nice set up you have and excellent narration.

Wow, I have spent the past 2 days watching your videos. I have been a lover of steam power for years, my fathers father owned a large steam tractor and trashing machine, he used to do all the trashing for the neighborhood, so dad had all sorts of tales of those days when steam was replacing the horse on the farm. Then when I took a job in Central North Dakota, I found the town hosted a huge steam thrashers meet every year, and I became very acquainted with the old engines that were stored there in huge buildings at the steam thrashers grounds, and the meet that lasted three days in September of each year was filled with the whistles of those huge engines as they drove in a parade around the grounds, accompanied by old Oil Pull single lung tractors and ancient machines of all sorts. The queen of the bee was a HUGE steam engine that had been used to run a saw mill and was moved to the site and run once a year for just that purpose, the crew would saw up trees that had been cut down from around town and saved for just that purpose. I do miss those days and as you say, that smell man that takes you back, there is nothing like it. Thanks for the information on how those engines ran, I find it amazing indeed.

What a great steam engine. Congrats and keep up the good work! :D

Trying to find info on small steam engines. I have a mind to build a generator with a closed steam system. I don't know a lot yet, but your detailed explanations help a great deal.

Brilliant theory about wives and reversing! Respect!

Nice one Keith

thank you for sharing your skills. I like your videos.

The crosshead system is interesting I've never seen that design before also the crankshaft throws have no counter balances. Cheers and thanks for the video.

Lovely cheers Keith

beautiful work by the way!

Beautiful!

Hi Keith, I really enjoy watching your videos and learning about steam engines by watching them. I've played with cheap steam engines when I was a kid and am seriously thinking about building a Stuart No9. I may perhaps just buy the machined kit since I no longer have a lathe or a mill. I'd also like to build my own boiler since I have plenty of experience working with copper and 45% silver.

Great video.

Wow! You could hook that up to a vehicle type generator and recharge a battery. Very awesome!

Excellent work and narration. And you cost me £24 buying the loctites. Thanks for all the info.Regards

Nothing compares to the smell of hot steam and coal smoke. Not to mention the sound of an engine working steam!

pretty neat to see the old generation of steam engines my grandfather owned a tugboat in Burlington Vermont that ran by Steam it was a pretty massive engine and it was a brick hauler and I remember head oil chamber I think resonator that would hold the oil when it spills and catching oil.the pump itself remember how stinky messy it was. I help my grandfather took it for a ride haven't heard anything of it about it in somebody's backyard rotting away or somebody has it in the garage somewhere never knew what happened to it it's quite a Steamboat. my grandfather's learn me how to run the clutch well without getting in a snare when you kick it in fast could blow the whole thing but it was special timing when you Prime the clutch to get it propel. I can still remember the oil smell in the water mixed together. I was once told there's a lot of those engines hidden around in dark secret places. it was fun to help my grandfather realign the burning chamber with ceramic brickliners in cement it was delicate work I remember how they go in got filthy out of it. I would definitely love to do it again that was a lifetime memory hoping there's a lot of these engines out there hidden and be found again. i help my grandfather make piston Reed valves that was pretty cool. he also had to fabricate lot of the parts

hi great video to light my fire I use dried teabags then socked but not dripping in white spirit, it's cheap as my wife drinks lots of tea.

You can make charcoal at home. It is really easy and fun.

Funny you mention hitting the weir pump - I worked on a steam ship and we had great difficulty with the vacuum pump. the chief could often be seen tapping away at it during the first steam up

at 6:35 that reminds me of the African Queen were bogart always kicks the boiler when the valve sticks hahaha

i have to say keith aswome video as usual

Can you imagine how much power this little engine would have if it was a compound engine instead of a simple engine design? I mean to recycle some of that exhausted steam into a low pressure cylinder..........like the "White" steam cars used......impressive.

I just found you on RU-vid and have enjoyed your videos; beautiful work. However, it seems that there is a lot of steam escaping through the exhaust. Shouldn't you only see steam exhausting at the end of each stroke? Is the valve seating properly?

I once saw a guy with his skin and boiler suit mixed together in curled up flecks all over his body, a bit of dark filipino skin with orange boiler suit mixed in, the guy died that night, I was 12. He'd been in the room where the expansion bellows for the forward steam line is, going to the anchor winch. Yeah high pressure steam is nasty stuff. Love your work and videos, can u make them longer ?

Great videos, now I'm hooked. Do you ever use water treatment in the boilers? What do you do when preparing steam engines for storage?

Is the glass half full or half empty

would a boiler like this be able to sustain an engine like this running under load? if not what sort of size would? great video as always

Is there a one way valve on the boiler side of the water pumps? How does the pressure not come back through the water feed side?

Thanks for showing this machine running on steam. Any idea of the power of it, hp or kWh?

I've got a flat belt driven lathe I need a power source for. Do you think it would be powerful enough for that?

Keith your wife must be an angel.

I wonder how much more horsepower I get if I put that in my Civic.

Looks like that crank needs some balance weights! I know it's sitting on tyres but it could be a lot less shaky than that if it was more in balance.

Keith, is this the stainless steal boiler that cannot be used?

That must be the wobbliest table in the entire United Kingdom!

LOL wife backing into things, I know you're not making that up!

what if perhaps i were to connect a sewing machine to this set up??? would it work?

Looking like it had 2 weels

I love steam engines but I know nothing about steam engines other than basic concepts. So I have to ask a dumb question. The steam coming out of the engine is wasted. Is it supposed to be run to a condenser, and from that back to the boiler. or to some other engine to use the secondary steam? My wish would be to have a small engine to run a paddle wheel on the back of a small pleasure boat, or a larger engine to run a steam powered replica that I could take a few friends on. My crazy wish would be to have an iron clad replica, but I need to win the lottery first.

Hi Nice steam engine. Why is It So shaking? Take a sturdy table preferably an arrangement of metals

Aside from the steam, what is that coming from the exhaust at 4:40?

What would a steam engine like this be used for?

Keith. I was wondering if you could send me some drawings for this engine, if not that's fine as you have no obligation to. I would like to build a steam engine of this design but don't know where to start. Thank you.

Do you have a Land Rover then?

Can't hear the steam engine working on Many of your videos, and please get a rigid table.