OPERATING THE BEAM ENGINE retrol

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[@PaulShillair]

Great video, Mr. Pete, was on USS Midway, 73-77. Catapults and arresting gear. Steam, was very important, big boilers, down deep. Keep up the good work.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@kenhaley334]

It is a great way to look back in history viewing these little engines !

[@mrpete222]

True

[@rustymachineshop9456]

Thanks Mr Pete for your time making these videos

[@williamdavis5947]

I bought a small steam engine nearly 60 years ago while in the Navy in Hong Kong. Somewhere during some move, the little engine was lost. When I saw the first video last week, promptly ordered one. This one looks even more fun with the ball governor.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@joecolanjr.8149]

Beautiful little steam engine. Thanks for running it for us!! Take care Mr Pete!!

[@bearsrodshop7067]

As a kid, (still one at 71, hehe) I was always fascinated hearing stories from my grandfather on my dads side, about his job as boiler tender at Moddy Bible Institution there in IL. He also had 160 AC up in New Hampshire at Mt Washington that was timbred by steam powered saw mills. In 1988 when in CT working, we when up to visit his property, and the folks that lease the timber rights used a steam power saw mills. Today, that memory is one etched in mind. This is one beautiful little model, and love smile you have by sharing. Will our little Henry have the same passions as his papa later in life???

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@robert574]

Pretty cool. I have a steam engine mounted on a factory sheet tin steel base (somewhere), but I never had any of the attachments of things it could run. There are places for them though they were just missing when I got it. That beam and the governor are pretty neat to watch. Something that rolls a bunch of glass marbles around would be pretty neat... Anything that might spark some interest in a child.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@garthbutton699]

My 7th grade teacher gave me a Gilbert (I believe) steam engine with a 120v heater,the engine was stuck and the heater element was burned out with the help from my uncle Willie we got it working,gave it back to my teacher as that was the condition ,that was 64 years ago,thanks for doing what you do🤗😎🤗😎

[@adamchandler3162]

Well now I got to get one of the. Watching you videos brings me great enjoyment. Thank you Mr Pete

[@ohmbug10]

She's a beautiful li'l steam engine, Mr. Pete. Stainless and brass go together nicely.

[@tomnielsen3661]

I purchased one fro my Grandson for last Christmas, we have not put it together yet. He has watched your video on putting it together, but to me it is pretty simple. I am going to try and not do any of the work. I want him to do the work of assembly. He is 10 years old, so it should not be a problem.

[@mrpete222]

That is awesome!

[@notverycooldude]

You deserve lots of good comments Mr Pete.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@dankotos61]

Thank you for showing that. That little steam engine runs great thank you

[@dennisemme2456]

Beautiful Unit. Thank You for making this. So many have no idea about how Steam Power is still being used.

[@mrpete222]

Especially all the men in Washington DC

[@michaelmacek9433]

Mr Pete, you are awesome! Thank you so much for the videos you produce. You are a national treasure. Thanks again!

[@mrpete222]

Glad you like them!

[@danbreyfogle8486]

I logged on tonight to find notifications for about 10 videos to watch, so yours was the first one as I have been anxious to see this engine run. Thank you for sharing this Mr. Pete.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@billmckillip1561]

I tend to peter out when I run low on alcohol as well! Fun series.

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

I am 6 yrs old and have operated these steam engines numerous times

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@OldeGuido1]

Thx Mr P. I enjoy seeing how slow I can run the ones I have made. It's a mesmerizing to watch all the little part move in in slo-mo.

[@mrpete222]

Right on

[@grantstockdale9848]

I've been heating my Wilesco dampfmaschine with Esbit for almost 70 years. The great-grandchildren love it.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@lakehunter48p55]

I had a toy steam engine boat when I was a kid. I think I used some pellet that burned under boiler, Gave it away to a collector I met in breakfast restaurant last year. He said bottom of boiler was rotted out. He fixed and it still run. Anyway I am 76 and no kids to give to. I gave him all my flying models from Vietnam days. Just junk to me but he liked them for his collection.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@plainnpretty]

Thanks Mr Pete for showing this beautiful little engine

[@toolbox-gua]

Indeed a wonderful pice of machinery. Thank you for teaching us.

[@floridaflywheelersantiquee7578]

Thanks for sharing Mr Pete

[@enginediyshop6269]

Thank you！

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

A heat shield between the boiler and the belt might be a good idea. It sure is fun to watch it run.

[@1bigapple2]

Little known fact: the earliest American railroad steam engines had their boilers replenished using a 500 gallon enima syringe!

[@mrpete222]

I’ll have to look into that one.

[@nottoday62]

Brian from Ma. Great video very mesmerizing along with other little things around Thanks Besafe

[@mrpete222]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@johncloar1692]

Sweet running engine. Thanks for the video Mr. Pete, can't wait for the next.

[@angelramos-2005]

Howdy mr pete.Such a nice running beam steam engine.Thank you.

[@duron700r]

Boy, it does run really nicely, even slow!

[@100yojimbo]

Nice to see it running Mrpete 👍👍 runs so smoothly wonderful video 👍👍👍👍

[@mowermanone1621]

Thank you, I really enjoyed my shop classes and appreciate your generosity.

[@mrpete222]

Wonderful!

[@ellieprice363]

Those are known as “fly ball” governors. When the engine is running “balls out” it’s speed is limited by the governor. Some old full size steam engines used a leather belt to operate the governor. If the belt broke or jumped off the engine would run faster and faster (run away) until it blew up by centrifugal force. My dad said if that happened, “it would take a brave man to run in there and shut that thing down!”

[@robert574]

I wonder what year the shops began to use steam power, and I guess they probably used a water wheel before that. Then at some point, the electric motors took over. You can imagine that they still used the belt system for the equipment since that was how it was already driven and probably a new shop would have had the individual motors (and of course equipment would have started to come with a motor). I guess a diesel engine could have driven some shops early on, but I don't think I ever heard of it. Boy, and think of some of those really large presses we've seen. There must have been some scary days at work back then.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@robert574]

Since I made that comment about the diesel engines and belts, I've seen tons of them, a lot of farm tractors even had belt drive pulleys. I just watched a video in India where their shop is still powered by belts from a diesel engine. It's hard to replace what works sometimes (when you've already got it).@@mrpete222

[@lindsaybrown7357]

I heard the whistle, as did my German Shepherd dog. He got excited and started barking, setting off the neighbours dog, and in turn their neighbour's dogs. All the way down in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 😂

[@mrpete222]

lol

[@markgeorge3960]

Nice little engine! And, thanks for the reminder that steam is still in use!

[@garychaiken808]

Great job. Thank you 😊

[@joeborovina4769]

Thank you Professor

[@davidbramel345]

Very cool! Interested in the enginediyshop hit and miss engine as well!!

[@mrpete222]

Very cool

[@dannyl2598]

Thank you Mr Pete.

[@hbracerx]

Very nice! Thanks for the video and reminder steam still plays in our lives.

[@Stefan_Boerjesson]

Really a nice machine. It needs some load.....

[@mrpete222]

I was going to hook it up to my little generator, but the video was already too long

[@Stefan_Boerjesson]

@@mrpete222 Do like little Blondiehacks, make a second video? Joking!

[@steveparker8723]

Sweet little engine. So cool the governor actually works.

[@John_Pathfinder]

Thank you for the great instructional video! It really helped me get my own model up and running smoothly. I love all your educational videos and I always learn something new! Thank you again.

[@glennwright9747]

I had a simple steam engine back in the late 50’s. It used rectangular solid fuel pellets, that seemed to burn not quite hot enough or long enough. You only got about 1 minute of running before the fuel ran out. By the time the pan was cool enough to put another pellet in you were starting the heat up process all over again.

[@mrpete222]

I have experienced the exact same thing

[@ellieprice363]

I wonder if you could have put a little can of Sterno under it and heated it that way?

[@glennwright9747]

@@ellieprice363 I tried using sterno in the little pan. It was not very successful. The fire box opening was only about 3/4” square.

[@countrycraftsman5110]

Steam technology has changed little since its inception.

[@Radiotexas]

Very, very nice! I ordered one their fly ball governors for eventual use on a PM Research #1.

[@xit1254]

Thanks so much for this video! I've been looking for a steam engine with the fly ball governor and whistle for a long while. This looks like exactly what I was looking for. Your video has convinced me this is the one.👍

[@mrpete222]

Glad I could help!

[@kennethomeara9848]

That is so cool! Thank you

[@TheSiriusProject]

Sold!!! Just bought one of these with your code. I’m planning to give it to my 26yr old mechanical engineer son. He loves Lego and I think he will like this too.

[@mrpete222]

That is so awesome, I’m sure he will love it

[@chuckfischer7202]

Great engine and video. Having watched it saved me $hundreds. I won't need to buy one. There is something bugging me though. It sure looks like the governor belt lines up with the other pulley groove. It also seems odd that the PTO groove would be behind the governor groove. The larger pulley would drive the governor faster, making it more sensitive. Might make the engine run too slow. It just looks wrong to my eyes. Maybe the pulley was installed backward? It would be interesting to Tee in a manometer, see how it reacts to speed and load. As ever, thank you for the edutainment.

[@rickkyriakopoulos1103]

Love it !! I wonder if they have a steam powered saw mill that would attach to the extra pulley ? That would be awesome. Or a drill press ? Thanks buddy fun video 👍

[@chrisbrady-t1u]

Brings back dem ol' memories of when I was a fireman in the merchant marine 40 year ago tending dem big ol' 600 lb Babcock & Wilcox boilers but we burn dat ol' Bunker C,not denatured.If'n a ship be build on de west coast it be having Foster Wheelers 600 psi as well dem too yasuh!But B&W they build Three Mile Island plant too no good

[@rdsattube]

Love it. Always wanted one.

[@Blazefork]

I've got a mamod steam tractor....not nearly this intricate, it operates like your little wiggler engines. It's a lot of fun.

[@PeterWMeek]

It looks like the governor should be driven by the larger of the two output pulleys. It would make the engine run slower, which might make it more fun to watch since you would be better able to see what is happening. (I'm judging by the alignment of the pulleys.) Either way, it's a really nice-looking engine.

[@AaronDe808]

I have the same model. Very nice indeed. The site glass cracked during the second run, not sure why. Thankfully, the vendor is sending a free replacement.

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

That's a sweet little engine Mr Pete!

[@RonHelton]

Nice craftsmanship. I enjoy watching steam engines as well. 👍👍👍👍♨♨🚂🚂

[@edl5074]

Great video Mr pete !! Nice steam engine runs so nice .

[@rexmyers991]

Beautiful engine

[@gabewhisen3446]

Nice steamer

[@josephburbage1852]

A beautiful looking engine that is incredibly well machined. I bought one. It runs extremely well. I will probably convert it over to solid fuel for safety. I don't like running it on alcohol.

[@mrpete222]

I was thinking the exact same thing, I have a box of those fuel tablets.

[@frankward709]

That is a beautiful little engine thanks for the video steam and hot water boilers are better ways to heat homes More efficient heat pumps just make a is it cold heat you never can get warm

[@christurley391]

Thanks for the video

[@1musicsearcher]

That’s just too cool.

[@yomama5785]

Neat unit.

[@kevinkoepke8311]

My Grandfather Luther Burkett ran a steamshovel in a lime quarry in Gibsonburg, Ohio. Just ask Jay Leno how dangerous lighting up a steam boiler can be. Thanks, Mr Pete!

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@superrodder2002]

I was talking with a young man who had started working at the plant I worked at.(recently retired) and this person, perhaps 20 years old mentioned old steam locomotives and how steam was an obsolete form of power. I pointed to the lighting in the room and asked what powered the electric system. He said coal and nuclear. But had no idea that they were only fuels to create steam. WHAT are they teaching kids in school now days.

[@mrpete222]

Diversity

[@ellieprice363]

I believe that all electricity except solar wind and hydro is produced by steam.

[@rodcroan6304]

I bought a model similar to this one back in the1960's. Quite a dangerous toy for a 10 year old .

[@mrpete222]

It’s all part of the fun.

[@componenx]

I got a chemistry set in fourth grade, played with alcohol burners a lot. My parents said "don't start any fires", and I never did- accidentally, at least! Today's kids are so shielded by laws and rules (and lack of dangerous toys), how will they ever learn or have fun? Glad I'm not a kid now!

[@mrpete222]

👍👍👍

[@martinswiney2192]

It would be cool to see this powering one of the Manson micro lathes.

[@Unrivaledanime]

So much fun

[@57WillysCJ]

Piece of working art.

[@mattomon1045]

cool BEAM ENGINE

[@mattclark9090]

I can’t keep mine running. It will turn over a few times then stop. I even tried it with a propane torch and it does the same thing. I have oiled everything and tried different alcohols. When I put 5psi from my air compressor through the blow off valve, everything works perfectly. Just won’t keep going on steam pressure. Any ideas?

[@mrpete222]

Try using a small quantity of water

[@myfordboy]

Model beam engines always run way too fast. Real ones run very slowly.

[@stevebosun7410]

Hi Mr Pete, excellent, what more to say?

[@curlew1000]

Lovely model. Would be great to see a gas burner version.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@TheTyremanuk]

What grade oil are you using for this model

[@mrpete222]

Don’t remember, but it’s very thin and it is mobile one

[@donhall8551]

Quite interesting ..

[@upcoming]

is an enema syringe supposed to be a common household item? its the first time ive heard about it

[@nickbruni8041]

So .. when I was a kid in the early 1970’s … Mom always had an enema bag in the bathroom just in case someone wasn’t having regular bowel movements … I was weirded out about it then … Still am .. Luckily I never needed it!!!🤣

[@ellieprice363]

Check it out on Google to learn why enema syringes are sometimes necessary.

[@danflemmer1999]

Did you notice the belt alignment? May want to look closely at that. Governor should slow the engine more than it appears to, imho.

[@lthome5]

The description says the dimensions of the engine are 3.5X4.1 inches. That is considerably smaller than the model that you are showing. Can you clarify?

[@Teammizera]

I see a miniature lathe on the bench,!? More please

[@rickryan157]

Can this engine run on gel alcohol ( Sterno)?

[@bestfriendhank1424]

Now I know why I can’t ever find distilled water on the shelf at Walmart. I buy it for my Bunn coffee maker.

[@k4106dt]

Denatured alcohol was banned by the California air resources board a few years ago. CARB more recently banned 99 percent isopropyl alcohol in 2023. Only 91 percent and under are now all that is available. I wouldn't be surprised if steam engines with external combustion are banned in CA and only electric boilers are legal.

[@mrpete222]

😂😂

[@jameslaurencesmith]

we are all just kids at heart ! stream facinates me ! i was on the foot plate untill they stopped running them . then they bought in the diesel ,,,, a lot of the drivers loved them . nice and cosy almost silent compaired to the steam but some fell asleep... untill they fitted the dead mans handle.. if you lifted your hand of it for more than 5 seconds the brakes would seep on and after a few seconds more a total brake would be applied.. so they started to put heavy objects on the handle. ! and with the nice cosy warm cab they drifted off to sleep,,, some sadly never to waken again !the a w s [automatic warning system] was tampered with so it was inefective.. if one passed a signal at amber ,, a bell would sound in the cab, the clapper in the bell was then twisted so the striker could not contact the bell itself obviously. tha alarm for the red signal was left alone as far as i know.. pete i have seen some horrible sights ..and nine times out of ten it was the drivers fault.. and still is today 50 years later... look after your self pete.... regards laurence

[@mrpete222]

Wow, those are some horrible stories. I know that some people will do just about anything to bypass safety. Thanks.

[@bocody]

I want one! And I ordered it!!!!

[@mrpete222]

😄😄

[@TravisSteamburns]

I really Hope that enema syringe wasn’t used before using it to fill the boiler.

[@braddobson2060]

Very nice engine but the burner looks like a after thought

[@binbashbuddy]

Put some wheels on it and take her for a drive. Your first car was a Stanley Steamer wasn't it?

[@bheckel1]

you always deserve it.

[@keithschwartz7318]

In my second year of teaching, some of my students drank denatured alcohol. One dies and another had brain damage.

[@mrpete222]

Wow. Thank you, uncle Sam. I had a friend that drank alcohol antifreeze in eighth grade, killed him.

[@paulbonser5892]

Re: the mug. As I look at it, he who dies with the most tools... is still dead.

[@mrpete222]

True

[@RonHelton]

👍👍👍👍👍👍♨🚂🚂

[@MrAvjones]

Not for small boys, have you looked into the mirror?

[@joedonovan3820]

Mine didn't work! I think just too many leaks here and there!

[@mrpete222]

😂😂