The 4 corner holes beneath the cylinder allow condensation and water to drain back into the boiler ofcourse. This prevents corrosion and cracks due to frost.
Those extra holes Norman allow any water gathered between the barrel and cylinder to drain back into the boiler, otherwise it would just sit there and eventually corrode the top of the barrel away, my engine has the same but the cylinder mounts onto a pressing riveted to the barrel.
Just stumbled across this your channel and absolutely brilliant I’m a carpenter by trade but alway loved steam from a young age especially traction engines and these types of videos are excellent great work bud really nice to watch cheers
Keep up the good work ! My understanding of the gear wheel with the flat plate is that it is known as a shroud. Its purpose is to add strength to the gear teeth. As a cast gear wheel, teeth without shrouds were prone to snap off. My preference with new machine cut gears is not to have it, steel teeth will not snap off. It does look authentic if you make one though.
Thank you never heard it called a shroud. We will be doing exactly that. Will be welding a plate on once all the gear teeth have been cut, Just so it replicates the originals. I won’t be welding each tooth to it.
Evening Norman. Just come across your channel, proper interesting 👌👍. Any chance of a bit of the back story to the engine? And yourself? It just gives us an idea of what’s happening 😆. Don’t worry about filming the “boring” stuff, I’ve never seen a lathe drilling that size hole!
Evening mate. The engine is my dad’s he bought it 20 years ago. Was a bit of a bag of bolts and thrown together when it was sold. Did have a new boiler which is why he bought it. We have been doing bits to it over the years but it was time to get some new gears made and it’s escalated from there. We aren’t engineers by any means and just learning as we go. Figured it may be of interest to document the process of rebuilding it as there wasn’t many restoring videos on full size steam. I’ve looked!! We are doing it in our spare time so will do updates where and when we can. Trying to get on with the restoration so don’t have time for fancy video making and editing but will film what we can. 👍
@@VintageIronuk you’re definitely different being a non professional filming the process 👌 there’s no rush on the filming post either, just try and get as much as poss on camera. I think you’ll get a fair few following… it’ll take time but it’ll come!
Looking forward to seeing how you're going to hold that fork for turning/threading. Is it worth including a sacrificial piece across the prongs to hold onto?
@@VintageIronuk Oh yes of course, I see. Any mileage in having them cut out as one part, ie a circle with a prong each side? Then you could chuck it in a 4 jaw and also finish the inside diameter of the forks, then cut it in half - assuming the forks are the same size of course.
@@WilliamChitham not a bad idea at all. We could definitely go that route. Going to see how they come in but would work for turning to thickness. May even be a better idea to do the whole job that way.
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The 4 corner holes beneath the cylinder allow condensation and water to drain back into the boiler ofcourse. This prevents corrosion and cracks due to frost.
Those extra holes Norman allow any water gathered between the barrel and cylinder to drain back into the boiler, otherwise it would just sit there and eventually corrode the top of the barrel away, my engine has the same but the cylinder mounts onto a pressing riveted to the barrel.
Thanks that makes sense. Never gave trapped water a thought. Alone that seam was the only small amount of pitting I could see so that would check out.
Will be great to see another Wallis back out 🎉
@@Cezaelizabeth Thanks. Hopefully look as good as panther at some point.
@@VintageIronuk Thank you, I'm sure it will look fantastic 🙌
Just stumbled across this your channel and absolutely brilliant I’m a carpenter by trade but alway loved steam from a young age especially traction engines and these types of videos are excellent great work bud really nice to watch cheers
@@deanstone8170 cheers!! Hopefully we can keep up making them. Lots to get on with anyway, thanks for watching 👍
@@VintageIronuk sorry mate got to ask where are you from trying to figure out the accent I’m down in bournemouth do you head that way for any shows?
@@deanstone8170 Bristol way
Keep up the good work ! My understanding of the gear wheel with the flat plate is that it is known as a shroud. Its purpose is to add strength to the gear teeth. As a cast gear wheel, teeth without shrouds were prone to snap off. My preference with new machine cut gears is not to have it, steel teeth will not snap off. It does look authentic if you make one though.
Thank you never heard it called a shroud.
We will be doing exactly that. Will be welding a plate on once all the gear teeth have been cut, Just so it replicates the originals. I won’t be welding each tooth to it.
good job
Evening Norman. Just come across your channel, proper interesting 👌👍. Any chance of a bit of the back story to the engine? And yourself? It just gives us an idea of what’s happening 😆. Don’t worry about filming the “boring” stuff, I’ve never seen a lathe drilling that size hole!
Evening mate. The engine is my dad’s he bought it 20 years ago. Was a bit of a bag of bolts and thrown together when it was sold. Did have a new boiler which is why he bought it. We have been doing bits to it over the years but it was time to get some new gears made and it’s escalated from there. We aren’t engineers by any means and just learning as we go. Figured it may be of interest to document the process of rebuilding it as there wasn’t many restoring videos on full size steam. I’ve looked!! We are doing it in our spare time so will do updates where and when we can. Trying to get on with the restoration so don’t have time for fancy video making and editing but will film what we can. 👍
@@VintageIronuk you’re definitely different being a non professional filming the process 👌 there’s no rush on the filming post either, just try and get as much as poss on camera. I think you’ll get a fair few following… it’ll take time but it’ll come!
Love these video, keep them coming!
Thanks!! Will be buying a new camera so technical issues should be sorted in future.
good video
Looking forward to seeing how you're going to hold that fork for turning/threading. Is it worth including a sacrificial piece across the prongs to hold onto?
Originally would have been turned between centers with a drive dog. I’ll likely just go down that route
@@VintageIronuk Oh yes of course, I see. Any mileage in having them cut out as one part, ie a circle with a prong each side? Then you could chuck it in a 4 jaw and also finish the inside diameter of the forks, then cut it in half - assuming the forks are the same size of course.
@@WilliamChitham not a bad idea at all. We could definitely go that route. Going to see how they come in but would work for turning to thickness. May even be a better idea to do the whole job that way.