Pedro843cc
11-15-2007, 10:46 AM
Hello everibody. I'm a 36 years old spanish engineer, and I like everything related with machinery, engines, steam, ships...
Since I was a child there is at home a small steam stationary engine, brass-made, but partially dismantled with several critical parts missing.
My father told me it came from his father, and it was part of a model hand-made in the shipyard where he worked, and where I work nowadays. May be it belonged from a ship model, may be from a workshop model, because it looks to be made to work horizontally.
In fact, from this machine we had got only the cylinder, the valve and the inlet & exhaust pipes, no more.
From this, we made a boiler with copper pipe, a flywheel, the supports, the connecting rod, the valve actuator... and fixed everything in a plywood frame.
It works, not really well, but it works. We put water on the boiler, put alcohol on a tray below it, and after some minutes, it starts to move. It moves fast, but suddenly it stops and starts reverse itself...
I shall do some pictures to show you this machine, so you can get a good idea of what my father and me did two decades ago.
Now I'm bidding in ebay for some items, like a Mamod SP1 stationary engine and a Mamod TE1A steam tractor, both in a very nice condition, another Mamod steam tractor partially dismantled, to restore, and a Wilesco D106stationary engine. I'll see what I get, but I would appreciate comments about the Mamod & Wilesco live steam items.
Best regards:
Pedro
Since I was a child there is at home a small steam stationary engine, brass-made, but partially dismantled with several critical parts missing.
My father told me it came from his father, and it was part of a model hand-made in the shipyard where he worked, and where I work nowadays. May be it belonged from a ship model, may be from a workshop model, because it looks to be made to work horizontally.
In fact, from this machine we had got only the cylinder, the valve and the inlet & exhaust pipes, no more.
From this, we made a boiler with copper pipe, a flywheel, the supports, the connecting rod, the valve actuator... and fixed everything in a plywood frame.
It works, not really well, but it works. We put water on the boiler, put alcohol on a tray below it, and after some minutes, it starts to move. It moves fast, but suddenly it stops and starts reverse itself...
I shall do some pictures to show you this machine, so you can get a good idea of what my father and me did two decades ago.
Now I'm bidding in ebay for some items, like a Mamod SP1 stationary engine and a Mamod TE1A steam tractor, both in a very nice condition, another Mamod steam tractor partially dismantled, to restore, and a Wilesco D106stationary engine. I'll see what I get, but I would appreciate comments about the Mamod & Wilesco live steam items.
Best regards:
Pedro