I made one back 40 plus years ago to run air to my aquariums but I used an open and close valve to push air to the filters I was using. I also use a small motor to run it. I think I was on my teens. I work 25 year in the tool room as a tool & die maker. Im injoying your builds deffinetly many Thanks for what you do.
Love that you don't photoshop your videos, for what it's worth. I'm definitely a newbie and the blemishes actually encourage me to keep learning. My work is good, but not perfect. I'm learning every day. Keep doing what you're doing, Sir.
Mr Pete... Thank you for your time and dedication to the industrial arts... I eagerly consumed each of the Yellow Boy Steam Engine videos... You remind me of one of my favorite instructors in high school... You are an EXCELLENT instructor, and I never ever mind when you get sidetracked. The stories of your experiences are a great look into how things have been done to get us to where we are now !! Thanks !!!!
Just finished watching the 10 video parts of building the Yellow Boy twin cylinder wobbler engine...Fantastic video of a beautiful work of metal art...Thank you...
I made a version of the single yellow boy this week, it is a scrap pile engine so many of the dimensions that are not critical were changed. I fired it up today and it runs like a champ. Thank you for posting these amazing tutorials for all of us to follow! Greatly appreciated Mr. Pete..Now I will be making the double cylinder version then on to some of the more complicated builds. I look forward to more of your videos , I think I may have watched them all..haha . I will be buying your LFE class on atlas lathes in the next month or so. Thanks again!
Thank you for all the videos, I have learned so much from you. I look forward to building the steam engines with the Mini Lathe and Mini Mill that I have purchased to start in learning Machining at a young age of 69. Again THANK YOU Gary W. Elmquist
Very neat, robust looking engine, sounds as though as it could be quite powerful.Enjoyed very much seeing you build this engine as I have your other builds. Thank you for sharing,very much appreciated.
I appreciate that the simpler, quicker methods of setup being demonstrated. One thing that I haven't seen anyone cover in detail is methods of centering (for example, in a 4 jaw on the lathe) when you don't have devices like dial indicators on hand. That might be something worth covering, if it hasn't been already
Very nice! The manifold really makes this one look complete and professional.Thanks again for sharing this intricate build. I really enjoyed watching it. Your final multi-engine run was a good demonstration. The left-most engine seemed to have a longer stroke than the others. It would have better torque because of the longer crank stroke and that may be why it was running most free of all the engines.
Another great series of videos!! Thanks Tubalcain. I would also like to thank Toly for sending me a copy of the plans for these engines. I had the plans with in minutes of asking for them....great work and thanks again Toly.
Hi MrPete... Quarter the cranks (90 degrees phasing) and you should have an engine perfectly in beat, delivering the maximum torque and power, and which self-starts on every occasion. A great series of programmes. Thank you for taking the time and effort. Best regards, Gordon
I am so impressed with this that I can hardly wait for the snow to fly so I have an excuse to be in my woodworking shop to make a couple electric motors. With no metal working tools I will craft a couple motors for the fun of it based on the inspiration you provided.
Great series, Mr. Pete! I watched all 10 over a few days. I repeated a few parts out of interest and a desire to commit the techniques to memory. I got the drawings from your friend Toly, who is most kind to do this for us your viewers. I may view the other engine building videos now that my interest is up. Thanks again.
Thank you Sir...I really enjoyed this series on "THE YELLOW BOY"...the twin engine came out really nice and hope to build one just like it...thumbs up for you TEACHER.
Another great series Mr pete. My wife once gave me a cartoon that showed a man holding up a small shelf the caption read " and with the completion of the shelf Fred had only 6321 more projects to complete to justify the expense of his tools"
Thank you. I look forward to trying my hand at building one of these. By the way I made a wiggler for centering parts in the lathe about 7 years ago. it's all I use.
BRAVO! WHAT AN INSPIRATION! masterful work. It's always such a joy to see your videos. Such wealth of wit, wisdom and knowledge. Can't wait to see your next video series. :-)
You did it again Mr. Pete, great series, sharing lots of knowledge and giving lots of ways to do the same thing. I love seeing the many different ways to do the same thing. I have quite a few tools, but you let me see how to do it when I don't have the exact tool.. Keep it up!!!
Thanks for another nice series, Mr. Peterson! I built your spool valve steam engine recently with the help of Ali's metric drawings and of course your videos; I have seen them all and learned so much from them! You are really a great teacher and I do believe that that is one of the biggest compliments one can get! Would be nice if somebody would make metric drawings for this engine too... Thanks again, looking forward to the next video! Kind regards, Bart
Yellow Boy 2 is a good looking model and runs very well, my own first model steam engine build now almost complete and I hope to post a video of it running soon. Thanks for this entertaining and informative video series . I really enjoy watching your work.
+mrpete I have just posted two short clips of my first model steam engine build. It runs "Phew " :) The plans I used seemed to work well for a build on my tiny Lathe. Thanks for your inspiration and tuition.
I'm a new subscriber but have watched many videos. Mr. Pete you are a very talented and entertaining instructor. You are a role model for those of us just starting out and trying to learn. I enjoy your side stories and humor as well as your Lowell Thomas sign offs. Looking forward to many more. Greetings from Southern Illinois.
Your comment on the fellow editing zits from the stars' faces reminded me of an episode on TV about 50 years ago on Gary Moore's program "I've Got a Secret". The guest's secret was he removed the zits from the model's bottoms for the magazine's centerfold. All was done via airbrush and manual retouching, long before the days of digital techniques. BTW, I enjoy your series. Good presentation, photography, and all the rest.
Enjoyed this series very much. Now that you have all this power, you should make some miniture machines to be run by them. You could build a lathe or a drill press. Opps! I feel another series is comming soon. Stretch Romer
I do believe i have my inspiration for my first intricate lathe project for my baby Atlas 618. I have no milling machine, but i can work around that. Thank you!
That was incredible, I love watching your videos and the yellow boys series was very inspiring, I need to have more time to do this myself but I still work full time. Retirement is getting closer but work is where the Clausing lathe and Supermax mill are. I would have really enjoyed you as my shop teacher but I am glad to have your videos to learn from. Thanks Joe
A little trick I use so that previously soldered joints don't unsolder when I try to solder some new parts. Take a J-cloth (or any other rag) and soak it in water. Wring it out a bit and drape it around the parts that you don't want to unsolder. Proceed to solder your new parts. This makes use of some principles of physics whereby the temperature of the J-cloth (and the surrounding parts) will stay cool until the all of the water has evaporated.
thank you for this! it's my dream to have a steam car like Jay.. this helped a lot. I want mine to run around 600+ lbs like him these engines are exciting!
I have been watching all the videos, a truly inspiring series. Sir your style is very elegant, I guess once a teacher always a teacher. I should also like to pass on my thanks for so many tips and tricks in so many of your other videos. Kinds Regards Garry. United Kingdom.......I'm from the English Bit!!
Awesome series. :D You can use fiber glass rods to prevent solder to go in holes. Hobby stores have it in all manner of sizes including something like a toothpick 1 mm.
Hi Mr. Pete, have you thought about covering those finished brass parts in a thin lacquer? I think it would do wonders to keep the luster on them and keep that Yellow Boy looking fabulous! :-)
Most Enjoyable, plus it was a Fun & informative series, Mr. Pete! Thanks for all your work in passing it on to us!! If I remember correctly those valves on the aquarium manifold are needle valves...might be able to balance the system with them? Somehow I think $20k is a light number in your case...busted me up...And No croaking until You are ready! ~¿@ You're the Best! ~PJ
$20,000 worth of tools and you can make one too, lol. Like me (and others) with wood working, it can be quite the investment, but what a great pastime it is to create. I really enjoyed the series.
+mrpete222 a good quality set of files , hacksaw , drill press and enough time and effort would suffice and work just as well the real $20,000 tools are your hands!
I was amazed that the banister at his house was hand carved-I wouldn't want to mess up that project 3/4 of the way through! That powerhouse was his baby.
I've just finished the series and enjoyed it , however I'm wondering about the offset of the big end journals. On the steam locomotives the offset is 90 degrees for self starting and even on the model rail way locos. kindest regards john child
I have watched every video since you started the project. I have a facebook page of my welding shop. You have really helped me progress in my machining abilities. Josh Fehnel Welding.
Great series Mr Pete. What is the lowest air pressure that you can use to run your new engine reliably and for long periods? I presume that this is dependent on minimizing the friction between adjacent sliding parts. I would find it fascinating if you could investigate the possibilities of fine-tuning the performance of your engine on video.
How about using a non-contact tachometer so we can see the speed at the flywheel shaft. A real beauty. You showed anotherr's model from a Magazine article., are you going to make a series of your own similar model?
I really enjoyed watching this series and have started collecting the parts and pieces to build one. I haven't been machining for long but have always wanted to do it so these will be fun. I haven't watched all your videos yet but I noticed alot of steam engines. I was wondering if you've ever built an internal combustion engine? One of the reason I've always wanted to be able to machine metal is to work on and repair my own model airplane engines so I would definitely be interested in an IC engine build of some sort.
Hi: Nice video; really sharp what you are doing there. Two cylinder; double acting engines, usually have the cranks set on the quarter.... Right side leads... Which side is the right side? That is the question!! If you go to a "jewelry supply house", wholesaler, you can get temperature graded solder! You can start at the highest temperature...and work your way down....
Please forgive the rank amateur question, but is there a maximum diameter of flywheel that those pistons will drive? Or is there some magic proportion/ratio of piston size to flywheel? I only ask because I have material to make a 4" flywheel (and no facilities for casting one of your size) and wondered if I need to scale up the other components to suit. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing this knowledge to us beginners.
Thanks for your honesty. I will have to take the 'suck it and see' approach, and build away. It will either work or it won't. I'll let you know how my flywheel design works - you might even try the same method someday.
5:20 Hi Lyle, great series I am enjoying it very much. When showing those 45 degree settings, have you ever used a digital level for that type of setup? Thats what I used o make a 60 degree cut, zero on the vise and set the work at desired angle. It was satisfactory for what I was doing.
as always i enjoy your videos.....do kinda miss seeing you turn things, but I understand why you did a lot of that off camera; it's repeat of other videos you have....I just always find it fascinating to watch.... I've found brass difficult to solder regardless-- i found it helps if you "tin" the places you'll be connecting prior to actually attaching, then you can just heat and touch the solder and it'll connect almost immediately... would polishing the faces of the cylinders where they rub the stand help with the self-starting?(thus reducing that friction some) as for the one that you didn't have a name for...I suggest "YellowBoy 1.5"....
Around 10:30, what if you threaded the head tenon and the chamber? You would have to move the port down a bit, but how critical is compression ratio on a little steam engine? As you noted earlier, you are running it very tight on this one as it is. Just a thought...
I had previously wondered how to calculate the depth of cut needed for a specific chamfer width when cutting with the work at 45 degrees. After struggling with what I knew were two related right triangle problems, my troubles compounded by the fact that my studies of Algebra were some 50 years ago, I determined that the solution is very simple, for a chamfer length of C, the vertical cut depth is 0.5 * C. For 3/16" then cut 3/32", or 0.09375. When cutting chamfers when mounted flat, using a 90-degree point, touch the bit off and setting the side cut depth to 0.7071 * C. (the square root of 0.5).
Great little engine, runs beautifully.
+Clickspring THANKS--I know you like your brass-lol.
Would like to see you make one Chris.
Fine and precise work. It is very useful for students.
I made one back 40 plus years ago to run air to my aquariums but I used an open and close valve to push air to the filters I was using. I also use a small motor to run it. I think I was on my teens. I work 25 year in the tool room as a tool & die maker. Im injoying your builds deffinetly many Thanks for what you do.
Love that you don't photoshop your videos, for what it's worth. I'm definitely a newbie and the blemishes actually encourage me to keep learning. My work is good, but not perfect. I'm learning every day. Keep doing what you're doing, Sir.
Thanks for watching
You're a class act. If I were thirty years younger it would have been a pleasure to be in your class. Thank you!
that yellow boy 2 shure runs nice and smooth. pleasure to watch the series. thanks and cheers.
+Flip de boer Thanks for watching
Mr Pete... Thank you for your time and dedication to the industrial arts... I eagerly consumed each of the Yellow Boy Steam Engine videos...
You remind me of one of my favorite instructors in high school... You are an EXCELLENT instructor, and I never ever mind when you get sidetracked. The stories of your experiences are a great look into how things have been done to get us to where we are now !!
Thanks !!!!
+Chris Rohrer Thank you VERY much-I appreciate the comment
I second that, and very much appreciate the videos.
I knew I would but I made it through all ten parts. Thanks to you and to Toly as well.
+specialks1953 Thanks for watching!
Thanks Mr Pete, I really enjoyed this series. I'm almost sorry it had to end but it was a real treat to finally see it running !
+Ian Clarke Thank you for watching.
Just finished watching the 10 video parts of building the Yellow Boy twin cylinder wobbler engine...Fantastic video of a beautiful work of metal art...Thank you...
I made a version of the single yellow boy this week, it is a scrap pile engine so many of the dimensions that are not critical were changed. I fired it up today and it runs like a champ. Thank you for posting these amazing tutorials for all of us to follow! Greatly appreciated Mr. Pete..Now I will be making the double cylinder version then on to some of the more complicated builds. I look forward to more of your videos , I think I may have watched them all..haha . I will be buying your LFE class on atlas lathes in the next month or so. Thanks again!
+Thomas Batchelor Thanks for watching--glad you had success with the engine.
Beautiful builds Mr Pete! Thanks for sharing them with us! Enjoyed this series very much.
+ShysterLawyer Thanks for watching
Thank you for all the videos, I have learned so much from you. I look forward to building the steam engines with the Mini Lathe and Mini Mill that I have purchased to start in learning Machining at a young age of 69. Again THANK YOU Gary W. Elmquist
+Gary Elmquist Thanks for watching!--Glad you are getting machinery--never too late
Very neat, robust looking engine, sounds as though as it could be quite powerful.Enjoyed very much seeing you build this engine as I have your other builds.
Thank you for sharing,very much appreciated.
+Nodrog Awson Thanks for watching
sir may i say i have thoroughly enjoyed this series.. thank you very very much for sharing..
+Kevin Willis Thanks for watching
Thank you very much for this series, I greatly appreciate it
Glad you enjoy it!
It is a beautiful engine, it deserves a practical use such as driving a fan.
I found the series most interesting. I enjoy building things similar to what you built, it's fun. I'll continue watching to see what's next.
+James Bridges Thank you for watching.
Thank you Lyle, that was a great series. ENJOYED
+Tom Bellus Thank you VERY much
I appreciate that the simpler, quicker methods of setup being demonstrated.
One thing that I haven't seen anyone cover in detail is methods of centering (for example, in a 4 jaw on the lathe) when you don't have devices like dial indicators on hand. That might be something worth covering, if it hasn't been already
+diggerop Good idea--although there is no real good way to do it
Very nice! The manifold really makes this one look complete and professional.Thanks again for sharing this intricate build. I really enjoyed watching it.
Your final multi-engine run was a good demonstration. The left-most engine seemed to have a longer stroke than the others. It would have better torque because of the longer crank stroke and that may be why it was running most free of all the engines.
+davida1hiwaaynet Thanks
Another great series of videos!! Thanks Tubalcain. I would also like to thank Toly for sending me a copy of the plans for these engines. I had the plans with in minutes of asking for them....great work and thanks again Toly.
Lyle you have inspired me I am gathering material to build the yellow boy being a 71 year-old youngster it will be fun
+Raymond Horvatin Great--I'm 72. Thank you VERY much
Thanks for sharing this series! Watched all 10 today!
Thanks
Beautiful engines. Great series, very fun to watch. Sure beats the hell out of watching tv. Thanks Mr. Pete!
+MrGoosePit Thanks for watching!
Thank You. Always look forward to your videos
Congratulations Mr. Pete and thanks for showing
Regards
+Robert Patoine Thanks for watching
Excellent video indeed as are all your videos. Thanks. Cheers.
Hi MrPete... Quarter the cranks (90 degrees phasing) and you should have an engine perfectly in beat, delivering the maximum torque and power, and which self-starts on every occasion.
A great series of programmes. Thank you for taking the time and effort. Best regards, Gordon
I am so impressed with this that I can hardly wait for the snow to fly so I have an excuse to be in my woodworking shop to make a couple electric motors. With no metal working tools I will craft a couple motors for the fun of it based on the inspiration you provided.
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Your sense of humor is superb!
+1OlBull Thank you VERY much
Great series, Mr. Pete! I watched all 10 over a few days. I repeated a few parts out of interest and a desire to commit the techniques to memory. I got the drawings from your friend Toly, who is most kind to do this for us your viewers. I may view the other engine building videos now that my interest is up. Thanks again.
Thanks for watching. Glad you liked
Thank you Sir...I really enjoyed this series on "THE YELLOW BOY"...the twin engine came out really nice and hope to build one just like it...thumbs up for you TEACHER.
+ELSDP-45 Thanks for watching
Another great series Mr pete. My wife once gave me a cartoon that showed a man holding up a small shelf the caption read " and with the completion of the shelf Fred had only 6321 more projects to complete to justify the expense of his tools"
+Myron Marcotte Thanks for watching!
Thank you. I look forward to trying my hand at building one of these. By the way I made a wiggler for centering parts in the lathe about 7 years ago. it's all I use.
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Watched all 10 parts , Enjoyed the fun of the builds !
+ShawnMrFixitlee Thanks for watching
Wonderful series, can't wait for your next one!
+Shane K Thanks for watching!
BRAVO! WHAT AN INSPIRATION! masterful work. It's always such a joy to see your videos. Such wealth of wit, wisdom and knowledge. Can't wait to see your next video series. :-)
+Angel Moreno THANK you so much. I appreciate the comment--keep watching
What a beauty,Sir.Thank you.
Thanks
You did it again Mr. Pete, great series, sharing lots of knowledge and giving lots of ways to do the same thing. I love seeing the many different ways to do the same thing. I have quite a few tools, but you let me see how to do it when I don't have the exact tool.. Keep it up!!!
+stefanoworx Thank you for watching.
Excellent series mrpete, very enjoyable and informative. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the next series. regards from the UK
+Gary C Thanks for watching
excellent build series! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Thanks for another nice series, Mr. Peterson! I built your spool valve steam engine recently with the help of Ali's metric drawings and of course your videos; I have seen them all and learned so much from them! You are really a great teacher and I do believe that that is one of the biggest compliments one can get! Would be nice if somebody would make metric drawings for this engine too... Thanks again, looking forward to the next video! Kind regards, Bart
+Bart De Bruyne Thank you for watching. and building.
Yellow Boy 2 is a good looking model and runs very well, my own first model steam engine build now almost complete and I hope to post a video of it running soon. Thanks for this entertaining and informative video series . I really enjoy watching your work.
+SteamerEdge Yes-I want to see it
+mrpete I have just posted two short clips of my first model steam engine build. It runs "Phew " :) The plans I used seemed to work well for a build on my tiny Lathe. Thanks for your inspiration and tuition.
+SteamerEdge Your little engine runs beautifully. Good job!
Thanks again for another great series!
+Eric Hodson thanks for watching
Thanks Mr. Pete.
I'm a new subscriber but have watched many videos. Mr. Pete you are a very talented and entertaining instructor. You are a role model for those of us just starting out and trying to learn. I enjoy your side stories and humor as well as your Lowell Thomas sign offs. Looking forward to many more. Greetings from Southern Illinois.
+D Jaco Welcome & Thank you for watching.. You are only the second one to ever recognize my sign off. Keep watching
Loved the series!
+tomswonderfulworld Thanks for watching
beginnings of a power station there! Quite "steamulating" yes haha
Thanks for the videos.
+SameoldSameold LOL-Thank you for watching.
Great series Lyle -- most enjoyable. :) Lovely little engines.
+ChrisB257 Thanks for watching
A wonderful series and wonderful ending. Thank you again sir for all you have taught and may we have many more years under your tutelage!
Your comment on the fellow editing zits from the stars' faces reminded me of an episode on TV about 50 years ago on Gary Moore's program "I've Got a Secret". The guest's secret was he removed the zits from the model's bottoms for the magazine's centerfold. All was done via airbrush and manual retouching, long before the days of digital techniques.
BTW, I enjoy your series. Good presentation, photography, and all the rest.
Thank you. I liked Gary Moore
Enjoyed watching the series.... ;)
+pierre beaudry Thanks-it was a long one
Nice job, enjoyed watching the series and thanks.
+Jimmy Myers Thank you VERY much
Enjoyed this series very much. Now that you have all this power, you should make some miniture machines to be run by them. You could build a lathe or a drill press. Opps! I feel another series is comming soon. Stretch Romer
great job in my seat.love this thank you
+Lewis Mcclain Stay seated for much more!
GREAT JOB THANKS MR. PETE
+ROBERT HORNER Thank you for watching.
Another lovely series. Enjoyed every minute. Thanks again Mr. Pete. 😊👍🏻
I do believe i have my inspiration for my first intricate lathe project for my baby Atlas 618. I have no milling machine, but i can work around that. Thank you!
I'm no machinist but I really enjoyed the series mrpete.
+Roger Lamb Thanks for watching
That was incredible, I love watching your videos and the yellow boys series was very inspiring, I need to have more time to do this myself but I still work full time. Retirement is getting closer but work is where the Clausing lathe and Supermax mill are. I would have really enjoyed you as my shop teacher but I am glad to have your videos to learn from. Thanks Joe
Even though you said this was a long series, I enjoyed every second of it. Please keep it up.
+carver3419 Thank you for watching.
A little trick I use so that previously soldered joints don't unsolder when I try to solder some new parts. Take a J-cloth (or any other rag) and soak it in water. Wring it out a bit and drape it around the parts that you don't want to unsolder. Proceed to solder your new parts.
This makes use of some principles of physics whereby the temperature of the J-cloth (and the surrounding parts) will stay cool until the all of the water has evaporated.
+Robert A Moore Good idea-Thank you for watching.
thank you for this! it's my dream to have a steam car like Jay.. this helped a lot. I want mine to run around 600+ lbs like him these engines are exciting!
I have been watching all the videos, a truly inspiring series. Sir your style is very elegant, I guess once a teacher always a teacher. I should also like to pass on my thanks for so many tips and tricks in so many of your other videos. Kinds Regards Garry. United Kingdom.......I'm from the English Bit!!
+garry hammond thanks for watching--thats a very nice complement
Awesome series. :D
You can use fiber glass rods to prevent solder to go in holes. Hobby stores have it in all manner of sizes including something like a toothpick 1 mm.
+aserta Thank you for watching.
They look great!
+Ernie Noa ThANKS eRNIE
,,, hey, mrpete,,, go ahead and pencil in an A+ on this series,,, very good,,,,
+shopdogsam Thank you Sam--can I use ink?
Thanks mrpete222, I enjoyed every minute of your videos!!!! M.K.S.
+Kelly Sampson Thank you VERY much
Hi Mr. Pete, have you thought about covering those finished brass parts in a thin lacquer? I think it would do wonders to keep the luster on them and keep that Yellow Boy looking fabulous! :-)
+NGinuity Good idea
Great videos as always. Look forward to next ones. Cheers from Bo'ness in Scotland!
+Alan Riddell thanks for watching
Most Enjoyable, plus it was a Fun & informative series, Mr. Pete! Thanks for all your work in passing it on to us!! If I remember correctly those valves on the aquarium manifold are needle valves...might be able to balance the system with them? Somehow I think $20k is a light number in your case...busted me up...And No croaking until You are ready! ~¿@ You're the Best! ~PJ
+pjsalchemy Yes-I think they are needle valves. Maybe 25K, but remember, everything is used.
I loved this series. Maybe one day i will be able to make on myself. Thank you!
+Willem Kossen Thanks for watching
nice job I like those engines
+toddlfrank Thank you for watching.
very nice work.love your vidios.
+Robert Kuipers thanks for watching
$20,000 worth of tools and you can make one too, lol. Like me (and others) with wood working, it can be quite the investment, but what a great pastime it is to create. I really enjoyed the series.
+Marty Backe You got that right-thanks for watching
+mrpete222 a good quality set of files , hacksaw , drill press and enough time and effort would suffice and work just as well the real $20,000 tools are your hands!
Good stuff as always Mr.Pete.Now you need to build your own powerhouse like Uncle Henry did at Fairlane in Dearborn. :)
+Mr Frog I've been there. Saw the Edison cornerstone-Thank you VERY much
I was amazed that the banister at his house was hand carved-I wouldn't want to mess up that project 3/4 of the way through! That powerhouse was his baby.
Thank you... watched the full series. Wondering if a 90 degree offset between two crank pins will be more reliable?
+rrangana11 Good idea-thanks for watching
great video, great series -- great engines -- thank you!!!
more great show and tell.....
Thanks
I've just finished the series and enjoyed it , however I'm wondering about the offset of the big end journals. On the steam locomotives the offset is 90 degrees for self starting and even on the model rail way locos.
kindest regards john child
Thank you Sir,
+crackerjax27526 Thanks for watching
I have watched every video since you started the project. I have a facebook page of my welding shop. You have really helped me progress in my machining abilities.
Josh Fehnel Welding.
Great series Mr Pete. What is the lowest air pressure that you can use to run your new engine reliably and for long periods? I presume that this is dependent on minimizing the friction between adjacent sliding parts. I would find it fascinating if you could investigate the possibilities of fine-tuning the performance of your engine on video.
+Adam Ward 5 psi--Thank you for watching.
Wonderfull..
That's real nice
+John R Pannell thanks for watching
How about using a non-contact tachometer so we can see the
speed at the flywheel shaft.
A real beauty.
You showed anotherr's model from a Magazine article., are you going
to make a series of your own similar model?
Do you ever introduce any kind of load to the engine? Maybe just some finger friction on the flywheel
How about some oiling ports in the manifold? They could be drilled diagonally to lube the plate and manifold.
Thank you!
+tzkelley Thanks for watching!
Wow! Those are just great. How about winding a dynamo to run a lamp with a little flat belt?!
+1musicsearcher Thanks for watching--believe it or not, I just complete a prototyp dynamo--harder than I thought
Please don't worry about your video being too long!
+Clayton Firth Thank you VERY much
I really enjoyed watching this series and have started collecting the parts and pieces to build one. I haven't been machining for long but have always wanted to do it so these will be fun. I haven't watched all your videos yet but I noticed alot of steam engines. I was wondering if you've ever built an internal combustion engine? One of the reason I've always wanted to be able to machine metal is to work on and repair my own model airplane engines so I would definitely be interested in an IC engine build of some sort.
+CryhavocMike thanks for watching-never made an IC
Hi:
Nice video; really sharp what you are doing there.
Two cylinder; double acting engines, usually have the cranks set on the quarter....
Right side leads... Which side is the right side? That is the question!!
If you go to a "jewelry supply house", wholesaler, you can get temperature graded solder!
You can start at the highest temperature...and work your way down....
Please forgive the rank amateur question, but is there a maximum diameter of flywheel that those pistons will drive? Or is there some magic proportion/ratio of piston size to flywheel? I only ask because I have material to make a 4" flywheel (and no facilities for casting one of your size) and wondered if I need to scale up the other components to suit. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing this knowledge to us beginners.
There is a max--there are formulas & books written about it. I just guess
Thanks for your honesty. I will have to take the 'suck it and see' approach, and build away. It will either work or it won't. I'll let you know how my flywheel design works - you might even try the same method someday.
Another comment, Lyle... why cut chamfers? Why not use a rounding cutter to mill a radius?
Just a thought, sir.
Really good series. Does it get hot during use?
+Jon Giddings NO-Thank you for watching.
What do you use for video editing? Your videos have a lot of blurriness during motion, looks to be from video interlacing.
I believe that's caused by the cameras sensor.
5:20 Hi Lyle, great series I am enjoying it very much. When showing those 45 degree settings, have you ever used a digital level for that type of setup? Thats what I used o make a 60 degree cut, zero on the vise and set the work at desired angle. It was satisfactory for what I was doing.
+howder1951 Good idea--I need to get one
Thank you VERY much
as always i enjoy your videos.....do kinda miss seeing you turn things, but I understand why you did a lot of that off camera; it's repeat of other videos you have....I just always find it fascinating to watch....
I've found brass difficult to solder regardless-- i found it helps if you "tin" the places you'll be connecting prior to actually attaching, then you can just heat and touch the solder and it'll connect almost immediately...
would polishing the faces of the cylinders where they rub the stand help with the self-starting?(thus reducing that friction some)
as for the one that you didn't have a name for...I suggest "YellowBoy 1.5"....
+Tim Hyatt Some good ideas- Thanks for watching
Around 10:30, what if you threaded the head tenon and the chamber? You would have to move the port down a bit, but how critical is compression ratio on a little steam engine? As you noted earlier, you are running it very tight on this one as it is. Just a thought...
+Tenspeed TheBikeHanger Might work?-- Thanks for watching
I had previously wondered how to calculate the depth of cut needed for a specific chamfer width when cutting with the work at 45 degrees. After struggling with what I knew were two related right triangle problems, my troubles compounded by the fact that my studies of Algebra were some 50 years ago, I determined that the solution is very simple, for a chamfer length of C, the vertical cut depth is 0.5 * C. For 3/16" then cut 3/32", or 0.09375.
When cutting chamfers when mounted flat, using a 90-degree point, touch the bit off and setting the side cut depth to 0.7071 * C. (the square root of 0.5).
+weshowe Sounds like a good solution-thanks
I believe if you time the cranks 90 degrees apart it will always self start. Nice work as useless sir.