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whadda cute little crane 🙂thanx for showing !!

Are You Alice? Is this Wonderland? I thoght You was gonna use an air compressor but no- along comes a traction engine to give some proper steam! I love this shit, the little crane is awsome, I wish You and the boiler well, Kind Regards

Great bit of engineering, thanks for sharing. Didn’t realise you guys owned that Aveling Tractor - she’s a beat! If you feel inclined next time you’re taking her for a run down the pub stick the camera on board, be great to see her on the road from a drivers eye…. Keep the steam related vids coming, enjoy South Cerney!

Nice

Nice to see the steam crane working Norman👍 can you imagine back in the day when the boss man said this was what you were going to use and it’ll pick 1.5t up!?! In an age manpower would still be dominant 🤯😁

Them ol fellas certainly earned their wages working these machines probably 10 or 12 hours a day. Nice to see you keeping our heratige alive keep up the good work 👍

What nice bit of mechanical wizardry you have there. Steam cranes of any size are a bit of a rarity here in my part of the world. I assume at one point in it's life it had a house built over it. Must have been a hot job in the summer.

good to see it working interesting video

Is there a part 2 ?

Wouldn’t fancy one of those machines on my toes 😆. Handy having counterbalance forklifts to help out 👌

Pretty stout milling machine you have there. Repair work is always a challenge. Pretty sketchy center (or is it centre?) get up on the lathe. However if thats what you have to work with without spending too many hours building some custom set up for two parts and it works out. Then it is brilliant in my mind. I am really enjoying this project. Interesting two sided old spanner you have there. One side to tighten and one side to loosen? 🤣

Great work

What's great about this ship. It was built by British Craftsmen. With British Steel. Parts made in British workshops. With British built machinery. ( laithes, Presses, Milliing machines etc).

nice work on the shift forks , welding together was certainly the best option for machine work , another piece of the old girl ticked off the list :)

I want to build a modern version of the early engines to use somewhat daily. And a steam engine. To generate power to charge batteries. I want to build a gasoline/diesel engine possibly a opposed piston, or horizontally opposed engine. With possibly a 6" -8" bore, with 12"stroke. Or a small engine with 4" bore x 6"or 8" stroke, or a opposed piston engine with each piston having a 3"-4" stroke with 4"-4.5" bore. And a slide valve to reduce inlet air to effectively reduce compression to allow it to burn gasoline the pistons being similar to a modern diesel with the combustion chamber in the center of the piston(half of the chamber)with a groove to the injector, sparkplug, and heat plug. With a slide valve or sleeve valve in the intake side of the cylinder to blow off some compression in gas mode. Dropping the compression to about 10:1-11:1 from roughly 20:1 . Otherwise operating like a two stroke engine. Possibly similar to a hit and miss. By preventing the injector from firing. Over a set rpm. Store energy in a flywheel. Roughly 24"-30" with 70-80%. Of the weight in the outer 4" and both cranks having matching flywheels. And gears to connect them . I doubt a chain will work. Possibly pin a ring gear on the flywheels, made from 2" steel bar. Or use a single central crank with rockers. With 2" solid bars basically trunnions and welded 1/2" place to form the rockers and H beam rods. Hand forge and mill the rod caps and saddles from 2" sq. bar use 1/2" bolts , and seal in a crankcase. With pressurized oiling. And a simple low pressure steam engine a 6" bore x 6" stroke , hopefully capable of about 5-7 HP. Build it modular so a big bore kit can be made for it. Going to a 8"bore, and possibly a 10" stroke, if it can't produce enough power. I'm hoping I can get a higher efficiency than commonly available engines. The use of waste oils as fuel. A oil burner should make tons of steam. I was thinking about a small pot boiler with a secondary tube boiler with the steam making a final pass thru the flame to add energy and the engine being 24" or less from the boiler. And use the exhaust exiting the engine around the cylinder. To prevent it from cooling, and wrapping the exterior with header wrap as insulation. Going to a condensing system to hopefully have a sealed system. Basically only boiling a gallon or two of water at once. Sorry to ramble such craziness, have a awesome day 🎉!

a nice skill full job

I think I would have done all the turning and threading before they were split in two.

Nice one Norman 👌you’ve bigger nuts than me putting the fork in to turn the thread shaft down🫣😆impressive what you can do on a lathe!

Great stuff but that turning between centres looked a bit "flexible", don't know if you've done the other one yet? Maybe you could make a more rigid set up by turning a point on a decent sized piece of bar. Get the length right and the chuck jaw would drive the part.

I am enjoying watching your videos as I work on my Fowler road roller 16930.

great job on those shift forks. that little boring mill is slick ! looking forward to a vid with it in it. where are you in the uk ? im on the west coast of canada but have family in south wales. take care

Awesome channel to just pop up out of no where! Great vids. Thanks a lot. Keep them coming man

I didn't know there was such a tool seem like I works well

nice man injoy watching your work cheers 🍻 form ontario canada

The first time learn how to set up the welding machine

Schweissen auf einer werkzeugmaschine wäre eine fristlose kündigung in betrieben in denen die mechanik wertgeschätzt wird. Die kriechströme durch die spindellager und führungen machen dir früher oder später alles kaputt😮

Nice work, I was hoping to see the gear cutting though

It’s looking fantastic, great job

Nice video, but it does get rather mumbly every now and then. Are you using a clip-on microphone? If not, you could try that. As for soft inserts for the jaws, I have seen a good solution on the channel of CEE Australia. He has made copper strips, and gave them a 90 deg bend and a small hole. He then drilled and tapped holes in the front of the jaws so he could screw the strips on. He made something similar for when the jaws are inside out. All this is on a video, worth looking at. Good luck with the rebuild.

Great vid Norman nice to see some proper old school machining keep em coming. 👍

Cracking vid Norman!👌. Nice little bit on its history with you at the start (gets us on the right page😆😁) lathe work is something I’d love to know about but it’s still black magic to me. Oh and what’s with the steam crane!?!😍😁

good video Always interesting

if you heat the shroud a bit, when you are ready to permeantly fit it, itll drop down nicely on to the gear...

This might seem a bit weird. This is the engine I grew up on with David Oliver

does it have a monkey to alter the valve timing like a fowler

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.

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!

Stopped watching when I saw the abuse of surface table and other serious lack of care for tools.

Thanks for the interesting video. Not being "picky" but when marking the rod I would have clamped it to the bench and used engineer's marking blue to be able to see the centre line more easily. Also I would have greased the freshly machined parts like the valves and wrapped these in plastic to prevent it from rusting.Otherwise a good job and I know myself it is hard trying to do things by yourself on your owe. Always easier with two pairs of hands. Keep up the good work.

Excellent shot. Like

Before you try welding try washers lapped to different thickness diagonally opposed to creat a twist in the spacing

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?

good video

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Love these video, keep them coming!

Настоящие кузнецы , дядька Семен с колхозной кухни этим пердунам такихбы лещей надавал ...

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.

At working temp and pressure, the whole thing will twist. THE OLD GUYS that made it knew the secrets.

Nice project what did ye weld the crank with