Hi Mr Peterson, I'm a tool designer and have a small machine shop in my basement . I am self taught and enjoy my machining hobby very much. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you so much for taking the time to teach us all with these great videos. There are not many of you guys left, so once again thank you for all of your time, efforts and great tips. Thankful in Massachussetts
Hello - thank you for sharing your skillset. I am a retired toolmaker/instructor and have been making small projects in my home shop. I have often thought that it would be fun to make a steam engine, but just didn’t want to mess with a boiler and all of the inherent hazards. until watching this first “SA” engine build, i never gave any thought about operating a small engine in air. So of course lightbulb comes on and i had to build one. I am a drawing guy though, so spent a couple of hours on AUTOCAD, then built per your design. And happy to say that you were right. It ran, first time. Thank you, am looking forward to building many more. Be well, Howard
Mr. Pete... thank you so much for ALL your videos! You remind me of my grandfather who introduced me to both woodworking and "the shop". I am 48 years old now and he taught me how to use a micrometer, band saw, table saw, file, lathe, and so many other shop tools....It's opened up a whole world of "I can make" mentality. I watch EVERY one of your videos and learn so much! I have been a Deputy Sheriff for pushing 20 years in a rural county in Texas. Working on my mini machine shop/wood shop projects gives me so much peace and pleasure it's much easier to do my "day job". You are THE teacher!
I don't think you realize how much you influence us "regular guys" out here! I envy your past shop students but you have charged boldly into the internet age with these videos and you keep sharing your knowledge with those of us with extremely curious minds!
Very nice project. My father built a steam plant for me when i was 11 years old. it too has an oscillating engine, also the exhaust steam runs to a brass condenser stack and the boiler is fed by a little hand pump from a tank. Enjoyed watching , many thanks.
Very nice project Pete. I am a machinist/mechanic by trade in the Royal Canadian Navy and have made a oscillating engine like the one you have done onboard ship while deployed overseas. I am looking forward to watching the rest of this series for ideas for my next engine project. Keep up the great work and don't let people's comments get to you down. These are people who would rather complain and ridicule rather than give compliments and positive criticism. Cheers.
Nearing 40 years old, but still remember the few auto mechanics classes in high school I was able to take. If I had a chance to go back in time for a course or two, it'd be with you sir. :) Thank you for the detail and time, you're an experienced educator and it shows.
great series! thank you for uploading it! you are my favorite shop channel on youtube! i wish i could show your videos to my grandpa, who is sadly not with us anymore. please continue doing videos. there is a lot of good knowledge in danger to get lost. i study aeronautical space engineering and really love to learn from you! thank you very much Mr. Pete! best greetings from germany!
I'm going to build this, thanks to taking the time to show it. I have a small lathe without the threading capability. so I'm happy you choose to use locktight. I do have a milling machine also. I'm just a bit light on tools for the machines. So I think I'll be in good shape for this build. thanks again. love your videos.
I enjoy seeing these little engines run ..This will be interesting to see how they are built . A good project for anyone to practice their machining skills
I've seen other people use loctite to hold flywheels to shafts. It makes a lot of sense to use it for holding the engine head on as well. That said, the engine at 17:00 minutes in is a beauty.
Hey Tubalcain. Watching from the Quad Cities. Thank you very much for sharing all of these machine shop videos and the knowledge contained in them. Can't wait to see the rest of the series and possibly some prints for the parts. This will be my first real project. I have a lathe and the material. And possibly the tool makers mill at work lol.
I would like to see you make one of your simple, bulletproof engines in a balanced design that doesn't vibrate. (I'm a fan of straight-6 ICEs because they're inherently balanced). I don't know if maybe 2 double-acting cylinders would do it, or if they would have to be inline or opposed or what, but it would be a challenging project.
Thank you tubalcain for all of the wonderful and informative videos you make, I especially like your steam engine builds and would like to see more of them, I've recently finished my own version of this engine, inspired by this series, I made some minor changes and used a somewhat unique flywheel, there is a short video of it on my channel entitled "wobbler steam engine with a unique flywheel, my first build" if you'd like to take a look. Keep up the good work and teaching the valuable skills that you do.
I'm going to build this one with you. One suggestion, or request maybe. I'd love to see how you'd add a boiler to one. I hope to dress mine up a bit to make it worthy of being on display in the house, but I don't have an air supply in the house. A small candle powered boiler would be neat.
Y,know I live in a country where we don't have basements, but it sure beats the hell out of going outside [to the shed when the weather is not so good].
It is my understanding that some shotgun makers use high strength loctite to hold the barrels and receivers together. Should be good enough for a toy, don't you think ?
When working with Milling projects what is acceptable tolerance. Recently bought a Grizzly Milling machine and appears the best I'm able to get on the average is a +- 4-5 Deg. Was wondering what you desire was? Thanks Stan
Ahh the smell of rancid coolant! or even just different coolants, some have good and bad smells. ~ My last Machine shop job was at Custom Maching & let me tell you, they did not care about their coolants & or personnel. The coolant in the Miyano I used was nasty but the 2 different Okumas I used was even worse! And they wondered why we went through inserts quickly & getting bad finishes. ~~ Now I worked for 10 years machining Ford AXOD transmissions at Ryobi, 90 different operations with very high tolerances. We had a 40,000 gallon coolant tank that our company tested every day. When the coolant was refreshed and a bit of oxidot added it looked like vitamin d milk and smelled sweet. Now when you got off work the smell changed to a cat spray odor in which being around it all day you couldn't smell it but others, well they would back away from you! lol ~~~ Anyway, love your methodical work! How about a video on surface qualities? One process I did was use a 5" mill head to mill the pan of the transmission, two passes was the normal but I helped the company save time & money by changing the program, feed, speed and coolant plus a better carbide insert.( I do remember we ran the mill at 5500RPM but the feed rate, can't remember, was a 30 sec cycle & very loud!) (All aluminum, we experimented with magnesium for FORD & it didn't turn out well). My first try at it produced one of the best knurling jobs I ever did. Some adjustments & we got the proper finish to +/- .0001 " We used a "Surfometer" to read finish, which destroyed the test parts surface.Did lots of counter bores, chamfers, threaded holes of all sizes, we had trouble with a burnishing tool for months til we changed the coolant! It's all about the coolant, feed and speed! ~~~~ I've ranted enough, sorry was bored. (pun not intended) Take Care, James P.S. These transmissions we supplied FORD were for the Taurus and Windstar, we did nearly 3-5 million in my 10 years there.
When I worked for CAT, they had centralized coolant system. It was filtered, tested & bought back to its chemical basis, and then cooled if it was too warm. They were obsessed with dermatitis. But they cared about details. We were making injectors for Ford & many others.
The models you showed on this video do not appear to be scale replicas of other engines therefore I see no reason anyone should get upset with how you make them. Thanks for he vids. Oh yes, one dollar for coffee? For more than one guy? Surely you jest.
I watch videos from a guy named ghostses on youtube and he is having all kinds of problems with google+ also. Anyways, thanks for putting up with the google nonsense to bring us these great videos. We really appreciate it.
Metal smith, Tubal-Cain Mike A Drover here enjoy your site! Would you be interested in selling one of your engines? Please let me know. As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~
I'm looking forward to this series. I enjoyed the previous engine videos but couldn't set up to do casting where I am. A problem I have with Google is they make changes by surprise and with no user testing. I've stopped using Chrome because I couldn't control updates. I stopped using Google search and went to Bing for similar reasons. I use the html version of gmail because they improved the full version to the point I didn't understand it. Unfortunately, there's no real alternative to UA-cam. Please consider making dimensioned plans for this project.
All the emails go to my junkbox in email. Took me months to figure this out. In fact, it took 5 min to find this comment, so I could answer. Its all by surprise. Some comments cannot be answered because the person is not in google plus.
Mr. Pete, I will like to consult you about the combination of the idler gear and the screw gear of a Logan Late of 1957. Can you please give me your e-mail so I can send you a copy of the gear train and the screw cutting chart? I really need some help here. Thanks in advance!!! BTW love your videos.
I have just read all the comments to date and no one has mentioned that lovely little "ring gear" engine, have none of you got a soul? Does anybody know if plans were published, to save me the trouble of reverse engineering, as I prefer machining to brain work especially if someone else has already done it before me.
The man who built & gave me that engine is dead. It was from published plans, but no idea where? The gears came from boston gear. I think I show it running in one of my real old videos.
Chris Stephens It is an Elmer's Engines geared engine, plans can be found here www.john-tom.com/ElmersEngines/05_GearedA.pdf and www.john-tom.com/ElmersEngines/05_GearedB.pdf
There is not much difference between you using Loc-Tite for assembly, and GM/FoMoCo/(whoever owns Chrysler these days/Toyota/Honda/VW/etc assembling car body panels with adhesive. . .
Thank you very much. I just spent 40 bucks for my computor 'clean up' with no avail. I is not you, its all of UTUBE. It is so far out of sync, I have to turn speakers off the vidio looks animated. It was a good thing now its gone south. I absoultly enjoy your vidios but now it makes me sea sick. I have been told Utube is fiddling around using us as test subjects. why cant they leave a good thing alone. sam
Hi Mr Peterson,
I'm a tool designer and have a small machine shop in my basement . I am self taught and enjoy my machining hobby very much. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you so much for taking the time to teach us all with these great videos. There are not many of you guys left, so once again thank you for all of your time, efforts and great tips.
Thankful in Massachussetts
Thanks for watching & THANKS for the encouragement. Much more to come.
I'm taking a course in school that includes machining. It's not a complete machine corse but we do spend lots of time back there
P0tat0_craft
Thanks for watching
Hello - thank you for sharing your skillset. I am a retired toolmaker/instructor and have been making small projects in my home shop. I have often thought that it would be fun to make a steam engine, but just didn’t want to mess with a boiler and all of the inherent hazards. until watching this first “SA” engine build, i never gave any thought about operating a small engine in air. So of course lightbulb comes on and i had to build one. I am a drawing guy though, so spent a couple of hours on AUTOCAD, then built per your design. And happy to say that you were right. It ran, first time. Thank you, am looking forward to building many more. Be well, Howard
Awesome👍👍👍👍👍
Mr. Pete... thank you so much for ALL your videos! You remind me of my grandfather who introduced me to both woodworking and "the shop". I am 48 years old now and he taught me how to use a micrometer, band saw, table saw, file, lathe, and so many other shop tools....It's opened up a whole world of "I can make" mentality. I watch EVERY one of your videos and learn so much! I have been a Deputy Sheriff for pushing 20 years in a rural county in Texas. Working on my mini machine shop/wood shop projects gives me so much peace and pleasure it's much easier to do my "day job". You are THE teacher!
I don't think you realize how much you influence us "regular guys" out here! I envy your past shop students but you have charged boldly into the internet age with these videos and you keep sharing your knowledge with those of us with extremely curious minds!
Thank you so MUCH for that encouraging comment!!
John Wayne, Jack Webb, and Mr. Pete (Lyle Peterson)...... the three people in history I would like to meet.
Look up Sam Malloof... You are to metal what he is to wood!
Love these little steam engine builds. I watch them over and over. I know what he's going to say before he say's it. So pleasant!
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Oh boy! Thank you very much, Mr. Pete! :) There's nothing better than opening UA-cam and seeing a new series from you :)
I agree! I look so forward to checking daily for his videos!
Very nice project. My father built a steam plant for me when i was 11 years old. it too has an oscillating engine, also the exhaust steam runs to a brass condenser stack and the boiler is fed by a little hand pump from a tank. Enjoyed watching , many thanks.
Very nice project Pete. I am a machinist/mechanic by trade in the Royal Canadian Navy and have made a oscillating engine like the one you have done onboard ship while deployed overseas. I am looking forward to watching the rest of this series for ideas for my next engine project. Keep up the great work and don't let people's comments get to you down. These are people who would rather complain and ridicule rather than give compliments and positive criticism. Cheers.
Thanks for watching & serving your country. And thanks for the encouragement. Keep up your engine building.
I plan to keep up my engine building. I am hoping to find some more complex steam engines to build in the near future. Any ideas?
Mike S
Build a stuart engine. You might find one on feebay. Also, checkout PM RESEARCH
Nearing 40 years old, but still remember the few auto mechanics classes in high school I was able to take. If I had a chance to go back in time for a course or two, it'd be with you sir. :) Thank you for the detail and time, you're an experienced educator and it shows.
I hope that when I get to be a senior I'm as interesting as you are.
Parabéns Sr.Pete!
Aprendi detalhes importantes no processo. O Sr. explica muito bem. Comecei a fazer um.
Obrigado professor!
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great series! thank you for uploading it! you are my favorite shop channel on youtube! i wish i could show your videos to my grandpa, who is sadly not with us anymore.
please continue doing videos. there is a lot of good knowledge in danger to get lost. i study aeronautical space engineering and really love to learn from you!
thank you very much Mr. Pete!
best greetings from germany!
I'm going to build this, thanks to taking the time to show it. I have a small lathe without the threading capability. so I'm happy you choose to use locktight. I do have a milling machine also. I'm just a bit light on tools for the machines. So I think I'll be in good shape for this build.
thanks again. love your videos.
I enjoy seeing these little engines run ..This will be interesting to see how they are built . A good project for anyone to practice their machining skills
I LOVE your videos!!!!!!!! I can't stop watching! Thank you so much, I never had shop in school, Im so glad you a making these videos!!!!
Thank you for watching
Same here. If my school had shop and a teacher like mr pet i woood or probably stayed longer then the 7th grade
have already bought one for my standard modern lathe , and will be wiring it up shortly .
thanks enjoyed watching your vidio
I've seen other people use loctite to hold flywheels to shafts. It makes a lot of sense to use it for holding the engine head on as well. That said, the engine at 17:00 minutes in is a beauty.
Great series Mr Pete. I made one from wood. Thanks for the infotainment!
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Should be a great series looking forward to this. Thanks
+one4stevo Thanks for watching
Hey Tubalcain. Watching from the Quad Cities. Thank you very much for sharing all of these machine shop videos and the knowledge contained in them. Can't wait to see the rest of the series and possibly some prints for the parts. This will be my first real project. I have a lathe and the material. And possibly the tool makers mill at work lol.
That piece at 17:00 IS pretty hypnotic to watch!
I would like to see you make one of your simple, bulletproof engines in a balanced design that doesn't vibrate. (I'm a fan of straight-6 ICEs because they're inherently balanced). I don't know if maybe 2 double-acting cylinders would do it, or if they would have to be inline or opposed or what, but it would be a challenging project.
I think you are psychic. I was just planning to make one at my school.
FANTASTIC! I am going to build one right along with you.. Thanks! Fred
great education thank you. regards
I'm with you on the Loctite. Keep using it.
Great video
I saw one of these at the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion made out of a big bolt.
Thank you tubalcain for all of the wonderful and informative videos you make, I especially like your steam engine builds and would like to see more of them, I've recently finished my own version of this engine, inspired by this series, I made some minor changes and used a somewhat unique flywheel, there is a short video of it on my channel entitled "wobbler steam engine with a unique flywheel, my first build" if you'd like to take a look. Keep up the good work and teaching the valuable skills that you do.
I'm going to build this one with you. One suggestion, or request maybe. I'd love to see how you'd add a boiler to one. I hope to dress mine up a bit to make it worthy of being on display in the house, but I don't have an air supply in the house. A small candle powered boiler would be neat.
Part 5 has the boiler. But you won't fire one with a candle.
Y,know I live in a country where we don't have basements, but it sure beats the hell out of going outside [to the shed when the weather is not so good].
Yes
It is my understanding that some shotgun makers use high strength loctite to hold the barrels and receivers together. Should be good enough for a toy, don't you think ?
Have you tried casting a lead hammerhead on a wrench as a variation on the NutBuddy?
When working with Milling projects what is acceptable tolerance. Recently bought a Grizzly Milling machine and appears the best I'm able to get on the average is a +- 4-5 Deg.
Was wondering what you desire was?
Thanks
Stan
Alright, Mr Pete I cant resist any longer - I'll subscribe :D
Ahh the smell of rancid coolant!
or even just different coolants, some have good and bad smells.
~
My last Machine shop job was at Custom Maching & let me tell you, they did not care about their coolants & or personnel. The coolant in the Miyano I used was nasty but the 2 different Okumas I used was even worse! And they wondered why we went through inserts quickly & getting bad finishes.
~~
Now I worked for 10 years machining Ford AXOD transmissions at Ryobi, 90 different operations with very high tolerances. We had a 40,000 gallon coolant tank that our company tested every day. When the coolant was refreshed and a bit of oxidot added it looked like vitamin d milk and smelled sweet. Now when you got off work the smell changed to a cat spray odor in which being around it all day you couldn't smell it but others, well they would back away from you!
lol
~~~
Anyway, love your methodical work!
How about a video on surface qualities?
One process I did was use a 5" mill head to mill the pan of the transmission, two passes was the normal but I helped the company save time & money by changing the program, feed, speed and coolant plus a better carbide insert.( I do remember we ran the mill at 5500RPM but the feed rate, can't remember, was a 30 sec cycle & very loud!) (All aluminum, we experimented with magnesium for FORD & it didn't turn out well).
My first try at it produced one of the best knurling jobs I ever did. Some adjustments & we got the proper finish to +/- .0001 "
We used a "Surfometer" to read finish, which destroyed the test parts surface.Did lots of counter bores, chamfers, threaded holes of all sizes, we had trouble with a burnishing tool for months til we changed the coolant!
It's all about the coolant, feed and speed!
~~~~
I've ranted enough, sorry was bored. (pun not intended)
Take Care,
James
P.S. These transmissions we supplied FORD were for the Taurus and Windstar, we did nearly 3-5 million in my 10 years there.
When I worked for CAT, they had centralized coolant system. It was filtered, tested & bought back to its chemical basis, and then cooled if it was too warm. They were obsessed with dermatitis. But they cared about details. We were making injectors for Ford & many others.
Thanks for sharing sir..
Thanks for the teachings
The models you showed on this video do not appear to be scale replicas of other engines therefore I see no reason anyone should get upset with how you make them. Thanks for he vids. Oh yes, one dollar for coffee? For more than one guy? Surely you jest.
I watch videos from a guy named ghostses on youtube and he is having all kinds of problems with google+ also.
Anyways, thanks for putting up with the google nonsense to bring us these great videos. We really appreciate it.
It was recomended to go back to Adobe flash player 10 and do away with
this new foolishness utube is doing.
Pete,
I’d like to see plans for this steam engine
Thanks
Doug
The famous Tubal Cain of British Model Engineer magazine wrote many articles on these sort of engines
+Dick Damian Thanks for watching
Just to prove your videos are still being watched and used, I've just uploaded my first ever UA-cam videos of my builds of three of your engines.
Thank you, send me the link
@@mrpete222 did you see my three videos of your engines I made?
Have you ever built a steam or compressed air whistle?
Oh my god this channel is amazing
+Swiitchs Thanks-tell your friends
will do
hey mrpete...enjoyed your build of this engine. I have subscribed to your channel. Could I make this out of plywood?
Great video as usual. Can't locate the other four parts. Have they been published yet.
they're coming
Metal smith, Tubal-Cain Mike A Drover here enjoy your site! Would you be interested in selling one of your engines? Please let me know. As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~
As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~
Is there any video of you machining magnesium?
Im currently building one in school!
STEAM ENGINE wobbler-How the Valving Works
just for ease of others :)
I'm looking forward to this series. I enjoyed the previous engine videos but couldn't set up to do casting where I am.
A problem I have with Google is they make changes by surprise and with no user testing. I've stopped using Chrome because I couldn't control updates. I stopped using Google search and went to Bing for similar reasons. I use the html version of gmail because they improved the full version to the point I didn't understand it. Unfortunately, there's no real alternative to UA-cam.
Please consider making dimensioned plans for this project.
All the emails go to my junkbox in email. Took me months to figure this out. In fact, it took 5 min to find this comment, so I could answer. Its all by surprise. Some comments cannot be answered because the person is not in google plus.
What is that crankshaft called that maintains parallel with the base?
Yes please, make plans!
Google+ is working fine for me.
What video is it where you modify the mill wrench?
That was is not finished or on youtube yet.
Do you have any plans other than the vertical steam engine
Zander M Yes-look at this video.
SHOP TIPS #204 1/2 Tubalcain project drawings by toly
Do you have plans for this engine
mr. Pete . i like' . please wiring in steam engine
Mr. Pete, I will like to consult you about the combination of the idler gear and the screw gear of a Logan Late of 1957. Can you please give me your e-mail so I can send you a copy of the gear train and the screw cutting chart? I really need some help here. Thanks in advance!!! BTW love your videos.
You can comfortably watch this at x2 speed
yes I would like to buy plans for the double acting engine that uses bar stock.
sir, long time model builder here and am curious if you would sell me a set of those plans
Sorry, there are no plans
I have just read all the comments to date and no one has mentioned that lovely little "ring gear" engine, have none of you got a soul?
Does anybody know if plans were published, to save me the trouble of reverse engineering, as I prefer machining to brain work especially if someone else has already done it before me.
The man who built & gave me that engine is dead. It was from published plans, but no idea where? The gears came from boston gear. I think I show it running in one of my real old videos.
Thanks for that
Chris Stephens It is an Elmer's Engines geared engine, plans can be found here www.john-tom.com/ElmersEngines/05_GearedA.pdf
and
www.john-tom.com/ElmersEngines/05_GearedB.pdf
Thanks for that Ben, I shall look it up.
chris
Price in banladash
Hello Tubalcain!! I have a video of a copy of one of your engines on my channel if you would like to take a look. I hope you like it :)
+9amac Thanks for watching-I do
I email you some pics of mine
You have probably seen this, but if you have not check out this Manson engine.
ua-cam.com/video/Ala-SnftXqs/v-deo.html
MrJoeGarner Thanks for watching--I like that engine
There is not much difference between you using Loc-Tite for assembly, and GM/FoMoCo/(whoever owns Chrysler these days/Toyota/Honda/VW/etc assembling car body panels with adhesive. . .
True
what the point in wasting my time making something that doesn't do anything, what does it do????
lewis stannard idiot
Thank you very much. I just spent 40 bucks for my computor 'clean up' with no
avail. I is not you, its all of UTUBE. It is so far out of sync, I have to turn speakers
off the vidio looks animated. It was a good thing now its gone south. I absoultly
enjoy your vidios but now it makes me sea sick. I have been told Utube is fiddling
around using us as test subjects. why cant they leave a good thing alone.
sam