Machines | Steam Locomotive Cylinder Head Repair
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The 1917 Vulcan Iron Works steam locomotive at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture developed a steam leak on the front left cylinder. In this video, we take the head off to determine the location of the steam leak and then do a fix to the head - repairing a tapped hole for they cylinder drain cock in the museums machine shop by using the Wells Index vertical milling machine to mill a pocket out above the old hole and replacing it with a cast iron plug that was turned to size on a Lodge and Shipley metal lathe and then tapped properly. This was then brazed and locked in place with some set screws. With this repair, we can get our narrow gauge train back on track! Support VintageMachinery.org on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vintagemachinery Please Visit: http://www.vintagemachinery.org Sponsored by: American Rotary Phase Converters http://www.americanrotary.com Use checkout code "Vintage10" for a 10% discount on all AD, ADX and AI converters!
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Keith great vids, the border set screws are known as scotch keys, common in machine tools. Your reference to ground surfaces on the heads for no gasket is known as steam tight scraping, it's how I got Into hand scraping, learned it from an old timer whos long gone, and it's a true art form, scraping to fit and zero clearance, it's the epitome of fine scraping, no doubt 100 years of warp will have skewed the original surface. I've defaulted to copper kote in aerosol form for many such applications, I enjoy your videos, wish I had the patience and time to teach like you do. Keep up the good work!
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Venus had lots of water, it was water world, these machines/trains were there, your recreating what it was, the planets are falling into the sun
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I just got 5 rolls of silver solder and 11 sticks of 15 silver. Which I don't know what there used for, i just revover precious metals ie silver gold palladium platinum and rhodium. A plumber was renting a house in the court and left a bunch of copper and solder for many different things. I many recover metals from computers!
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Did you get some never seize on those head nuts? Do that and the next time you take it off it can be at blazing pit stop speed if you use that deep socket!
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Stainless steel nipple?
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18:05 Didn't love how that bit wasn't centered. You can see it tip up a bit on entry into the pilot hole. I'm sure everything works out in the end, though. Nice work! :-)
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I have a question: How does the lubrication of the piston and cylinder work? is there oil sprayed or something?
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please let me work for you! I'd fit right in with yall!
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Thanks for conversing about the details of what you were doing, it meant a lot to me. I see you appreciate your trade and repaired the whole situation, in the manner of a professional.
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The only thing I see that will be a problem in the future is when you milled off the set screws, that will make the plug extremely hard to remove if the pipe threads get eat up and it would need replace again. Just a observation.
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Ah.....ah.......ah........ahhhhh
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What man with red blood running through their veins and arteries wouldn't like to do the same as you do. I love trains and to repaired them is just Epic.
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I love to see people like this guy who made the USA a great country, but, I hate to see politicians who sold their souls to the devil for profit and left all these wonderful workers out of work.
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Great workmanship and it's great to see someone working on an old steam engine!
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How do you prevent rust in the clyinders?
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those gloves you have on at 3 minutes are the best
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What do you mean by a Vulcan Iron Works loco?
I live close to the former Vulcan Foundry in the north of England, and I hadn't realised that everyone called their locomotive works 'Vulcan.'
It played it's part in history, but it's long gone now.
The name still exists as a village, or I wouldn't have know it was ever there.
Nice work you're doing there.
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awe. I was hoping to see it work. that's the real payoff!
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Enjoyed the video and the repairs. My only minor concern would be the lack of full thread engagement on a few of the nuts when you put the cylinder head back on the studs.