Since I retired I have made a few stationary steam engines.Your tutorials have helped me tremendously because they are put over so well.I have watched all your videos with great interest and look forward to seeing more so keep them coming as they are very much appreciated.Thank you for the many hours you have put into them.

Yes, I love this type of video. Making these small model engines and boilers is why I got into machining. Keep them coming.

Another vote for the steam related videos. Models, toys, collectibles, launch and boat, locomotives, mill engines -anything, it's all good! The machining videos are of course the highlight of your channel, but then I think your channel is one of the highlights of all of You Tube!

Please keep making the videos! They're great for people like me who are becoming very fond of old mechanical things as I get older.

I like how the last engine is reversible The boiler is something I have never seen Thanks for the Show !!!

I'm one of those three thousand.Have made some of the Stewart models as did my Dad. My Grandfather was a stationary steam engineer.Operated engines for municipal power plants and few textile mills through his carrier.

Love to see you make a double action with a reverse mechanism. As a relative newbie, its hard to fully appreciate these engines until you have watched a couple hundred videos of yours. Keep em coming. I notice there are almost 100k views, so there is definitely an audience for this. Thanks for sharing all this knowledge! Your fans truly appreciate it.

@mrpete222

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Mr. Pete, I am really enjoying this running of two steam engines with your homemade boiler. I also will be another person who thinks the model steam engine series should totally continue on! Awesome stuff! Thank you so kindly! :-)

It's kind of sad that these engines are lost in time. I find these little engines to be really cool and exciting to watch as they run.

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Jordan Berghaus Thanks for watching

I've watched many of your videos. I especially enjoy your machine shop tips series, but I first found your channel while watching videos of model and antique engines running. Thanks for making all the great videos!

There are very few people that have a passion for mechanical things it seems. You can create something that can do what man cant. You can be extremely precise yet creative at the same time. At the end youll always get a product, even if it is only knowledge.

Keep up the steam stuff, love them. As to the rest of your videos I think they are the best home machine shop videos I've seen. Certainly the best machine shop education I could wish for and they have encouraged me to get on with setting up my own home machine shop after dreaming about it since my school days. That was a long time ago. So as Keith Fenner says I,m getting it done! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Im 17 and am in the UK and love this sort of thing. I volunteer on the welsh highland railway helping to restore a full size steam engine. I'd love to get a lathe and miller in our workshop but some day I suppose we'll get one :)

There's not many Fred Dibnahs in the world anymore, it's a dying out technology unfortunately, My old man has a few of these type engines he made when I was young, along with some Sterlin's and partially build model locos, Model Engineering is what this type of hobby would be called here in England. Admittedly I have gone into electronics now being an industrial electrician, but still have an interest for things like this. Please keep these videos going, there just isn't enough of this anymore!

,,, well done, good show, i'm another one of those three or four thousand that think the model steam engine series should go on,,, very well explained, good show,,

Can't get enough of these! After watching about all of your machine shop videos and then the recent steam engine ones, I've decided to try to build one myself. I'm about halfway through building a little wobbler. I'm quickly learning just how much I still don't know about my lathe and milling machine, but having a great time!

Interesting videos. Thank you for letting us into your home to share your joy.

Count me in for more steam! I watch you vids from a general fascination with metal working techniques. I think the occasional steam engine video is a kind of capper for the great vids of stand-alone techniques. You taught me to sharpen drill bits correctly and it helps me nearly every day. Thanks.

I'm 13 and from Australia and i love these things but its hard to get a hold of them where i am but i still love these type of things.

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Darcey Fletcher Thanks for watching

I have waited too long before actually starting to build my first steam engine. I am hypnotize by your videos. You have so many to be viewed. Thank you mrpete222

Love your videos and your model steam engines. keep'em coming and keep tubel cane Jr. around when possible. Thanks. George

I would also enjoy seeing more videos of you making steam engines. I've really become fascinated with them thanks to your videos.

I think you should keep posting such videos even if 15-20 people show interest - it is worth it.

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Burc Misirlioglu Thanks for watching

Don't stop the steam/sterling/donkey engines! Love 'em!!

I'm a boiler guy from a tourist railroad and I have a couple hints on that boiler. Yes, by putting a coil in the steam delivery line and exposing it to the hot gases you have a "super heater" and super heated steam. Then your gauge. You need to put a loop in the line to the gauge. reason is you get better accuracy if there is water in the line between the gauge and the steam. You want to keep the steam out of the gauge. We will prime the loop on locomotives but condensate will work.

Keep them coming I love this stuff. And I just wanted to add that you are a great teacher.

A lot of water under the bridge since this video was produced and it has held up very well. I find this most interesting. I was telling my wife today that I remember seeing the steam engines in old Christmas catalogs as a boy but never asked for one. I wish I had as they are so interesting to watch.

@mrpete222

4 жыл бұрын

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Really enjoy watch these. Thanks for putting them out for us to watch. Hope to see more in the future.

You will always have me as a fan for any kind of model boiler or engine! Love your channel! Thank you for all your efforts!

What a cute machines! Thanks a lot for show the explanation and show both engines working! Best regards from Chile

I like the simplicity of the automatic reversing valve. I'll have to make use of that someday.

Keepem comin Mr Pete, I haven't seen a bad video from you yet and I've watched them all. By the way, you have a couple of Aussies that enjoy your steam show and tells as well. Thanks.

thanks again mr pete!!! love all your vids!!

I love these videos!!! I think even these little well used engines are a wonderful work of art

More please! I intend to make one with my daughter. She's 3 now, so I still have a little time to think about it before I let her operate a lathe. Your videos help me think about it.

supersaturated or "dry" steam is the term. Makes for more energy, but the dry steam tends to wreak havoc on slide type valves. Nice job on the boiler!

I'm sorry you're disappointed you don't have more viewers, but please keep making these videos. Maybe there aren't a lot of people interested in this subject, but for those of us who are, we value what you produce. As long as you like making these videos, there will be those of us who like to watch them. For example, I'd love to do what you're doing, but it's not likely I'll ever get to do it, so I get to enjoy your hobby vicariously, and that makes me very happy. Now, I'm off to find your Stirling videos. Steam is my favorite, but I love all the weird and wild variations of engines.

Nice. I'd enjoy more videos on the building of these wonderful gadgets.

Another excellent video. Please make more. I always look forward to seeing your latest projects and productions on here. I have not yet gotten into steam engines, but I think I may attempt one in the near future. I am in the process of working on an old Southbend Heavy 10 that I picked up. Soon as that’s done I may try my hand at casting a steam engine. Don’t get discouraged at the number of viewers, it’s the ones you have that matters.

Great video!!! I love these toy steam engines. Hope to see many more of them in the future. The reverse mechanisme was also used bij Fleischmann (Germany) in the sixties

Greetings from Sweden. I think the steam engine running vids are a good complement to the building vids. So a good mix and a well balanced running time (:

Great video,, as always, keep steam alive and keep up your wonderful job of educating so many of us, I wish I had the tools and lathe etc. to build a model live steam engine but I don't. So im trying to build a model beam engine out of scrap and bits and bobs and hope to get it running of the exhaust from a vacuum cleaner, im sure your videos inspire many many people to have a go,,,, Many Thanks.

I've been watching your videos for a long time. I do enjoy the steam engine videos. But I would like to see more of the castings videos. I think you explain very well. Thanks.

Thanks shopdog. I have been wondering for years as to who made it. I added an annotation to the video with that info. Also a plug for you. Keep up the good work.

As always a great video and keep up your inspirational work from another of your fans here in Australia

keep up the good work I enjoyed your videos and at 53 have become interested in steam engines and the only way I can learn is when talented people like share their knowledge on utube John

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+John Coyne Thanks for watching

I love all your videos I try to learn all I can about steam engines I think we will be going back to them someday

Please keep making the steam engine videos!

I love steam .Please ceep them coming .

A lot of people are just ignorant of the steam power idea. Its a concept that most people have never seen in action. I'd venture to say its a hidden interest.

I enjoy model steam engines and sterling engines too. I have made about five Sterling's. I have become interested in making my own steam engine and boiler. I was looking for information when I ran across your channel. enjoying it. Thanks. And by the way... You sound almost like Jimi Stewart. Awesome actor.

Well maybe it will boost your spirit to know that you had at least one viewer from the Netherlands. I try to watch all your videos as they are always educational in some way. I love the videos where you build things and show techniques but I also like this one as it is very good to see the end result of building thing in action. Learning about that the pool of water in the beginning is normal. I have plans to build my own steam engine and the water would have scared me so thank you for posting!

I enjoy all your videos and find them interesting, I've personally never seen a reversible engine like the one you demonstrated. Also pressure cooker safety valves here [UK] are weighted with three increasingly larger weights which to screw to the cap. Excess pressure lifts the cap and weight to release steam.

Please keep the steam engine videos coming!. I'm saving for a lathe, and one my first projects will be a small steam engine following your steam engine tutorials

good series keep up the good work !

Great video, Greetings from the Netherlands!

Don`t know about in th US but over here in the UK there is a huge interest in steam and the like. I watch all your videos and look forward to each new upload.

I'm interested in steam engines and since I was a young boy. Congratulations very well done.

@mrpete222

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, there does not seem to be very many viewers that care about the engines. I think it is a thing of the past. In fact I know it is a thing of the past

keep posting, i enjoy this.

Enjoyed your video. I will watch some others of yours, this is the first of yours on Steam Engines I have seen.

As Always Thanks MrPete.

I really enjoy this series of videos, keep them coming! I am restoring a model steam engine at the moment. I posted it as a video response, I Hope you find it interesting!

Oh, Mr Pete, there are still interested folks. Please DO keep making videos. I'll have to see about making a video of my Grandfather's toy engine. Might be nice to see the reactions to it. Heck, I'm gonna go dig it out now and make sure it's still OK.

Great Video Mr Tubalcain ! I love seeing vids like this, so don't stop makin em. Matter of fact, a how to build a simple one would be appropriate, I think :D

I love the steam engines.

nice engines you got there, you must have a nice collection

There used to be such cool toys!

good vid great little models i want one .

I like it Mr Pete

I am expecting to get a combo Lathe/ mill tomorrow. Expecting Cause I ordered it 11 months ago and was supposed to receive it 9 months ago. Even now it was supposed to be in the city today but supposedly the truck got held up so it will only be here tomorrow. Maybe. While I've never used a metal lathe or mill before nor do I have any of the tools I plan on building steam engines in my spare time. It's simply mind blowing power. I look at Big Bud the biggest most powerful field tractor ever built can pull 80 feet of deep tillage. Then you compare that to the old single cylinder double acting Case 150 stem road tractor and that can pull 44 feet of 14" plough shares. My God for torque. Only about 180 dyno horses but 5000ft lbs of TORQUE? I mean is there anything cooler than watching a steam engine starting off in the winter. There simply isn't anything more interesting to watch. I often wish I would have been born a generation or 2 earlier. It would have been much more interesting. AND someone in this country would have built the lathe and mill I wanted besides.

@mrpete222

2 жыл бұрын

We were born too late

Fascinating stuff ! I think there is an old Mamod engine somewhere in the loft above the garage, I'm going to have to dig it out and see what it will take to fix it up !

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Clarke Thanks for watching

I'm perfectly happy to watch your steam engine videos. I see there are still only just over 350 views for this video, though.

The videos are great, I enjoy them very much. For your superheater drys and heats the steam, I changes your steam from wet steam to dry steam and it does add additional heat. It is not good for Aluminum or gun metal steam engines.

Please keep your steam engine videos coming and your machine shop videos .

cool stuff

cool little engine. I'd love to see a tear-down (or diagrams at least) on the reversible timing mechanism. :D

I've really been enjoying these as well. I've watched all of your pattern making videos, as well as the 10 part series on making the large oscillating engine. I've been so impressed with these videos that I to am getting ready to start on my first steam engine. I found a design I liked for an oscillating engine at jon-tom.com and I decided to scale it up a little. The article also detailed making a boiler along with how to make the pressure release valve. Please keep posting more of these.

Engine timing and running direction is achieved by the use of a slip-eccentric. This is a VERY COMMON feature of toy steam engines (and has been for well over 100 years or so). Still used today by Wilesco.

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Henry A Thank you

,,, and the second engine with missing boiler and base is a Weeden Mfg Co, electric steam engine #670

Nooo please carry on love these steam videos I'm only 15 but I'm intrigued by steam engines and I have driven a few full size traction engines but steam is no longer interesting in my generation but I love it I've even been a steam apprentice

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+stanley carter Thanks for watching

You wouldnt have to worry very much about the water level when using propane right?.......I mean if melting silver solder takes about 860 degrees you dont really need much of a waterglass. And that boiler is pretty cool with the small super heater and the proper term is "Superheated Steam" and in canada its even less in our population theres prolly only about 1000 people and I happily make up 1 of those :D Love your videos very much they keep me company at work.

Awesome

Videos on steam engines are important, or certainly will be. I know it's tempting to be influenced by the number of present viewers, but more important, in my opinion, is recording the historical aspect for posterity. This seems all the more sensible since we now have high-quality videos that are manageable for one person to make and of course, since we have KZread. Thank you for your efforts to share your practical knowledge. Could you say something about spool valves sometime? Or have you?

Well said.

I LOVE THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@mrpete222

9 жыл бұрын

+Nick Jackson Thanks for watching

@jeepwrangled79

8 жыл бұрын

+mrpete222 Your welcome. please tell me if you have your own .com (website)

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Jackson yes-- www mrpete222 dotcom

send a picture--never heard of it

I for open the valve, turn up the burner for more steam vids....

Well, it would certainly be a very simplified version, but the fact that it uses an eccentric must make it related. It didn't look like it had the two eccentric rods that the Stephenson gear has, but the fact that it is "auto-reversing" may make the rods unnecessary.

How many steam engines do you have do have a video were you should all of them. To bad about the whistle that would of been so cool.

I think one reason for lack of interest might be that they dont actually do something. Put a fan on it and see how much it can blow. Can it pump water? Can it charge a mobile battery?

I enjoyed the video. I saw another video on u tube that uses browns gas to operate a torch which will burn just about anything. After the heat energy is extracted the Hydrogen combines back with the Oxygen to form water. I was thinking if it is possible to run a steam engine using browns gas and to turn a generator for electricity which would make more browns gas and then more steam etc. What do you think?

@ch300fnqi

10 жыл бұрын

Can't do that... You're trying to produce more energy than you're consuming, which equates to perpetual motion. Unfortunate but it does not exist.

I enjoy your steam engine videos. The valve gear on the 2nd engine is called a slip eccentric.

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+bullthrush Thanks for watching

greetings from Sri lanka.

@mrpete222

8 жыл бұрын

+Gayan senavirathne Thanks for watching

Keep going with the steam engine vids! Do you have any that are more so models rather than toys

I like it. Please make more vids. Do you go to the NAMES convention?

i noticed that your homemade engine had alot of vibrations due to your counterweight being a little oversized :)

The second one on the fancy base is made by Empire

My too Keep em comming, another shame I am within reason of Edaville RR which went about bankrupt couple yrs ago. They sold everything (some museum) nice 5m ride real wood cars steam heated what a Christmas site, the smell of coal, Model Ts around. especially when its snowing. Well they came back trains now diesel , cars with elec heat and lights, plastic seats. And lighting was kerosine. What a shame.

I am 14 years pld and have been interested in engines since i can remember, but just today i built a very simple compressed air engine with just parts lying around. So please keep making videos like this! If you feel so inclined please see my engine that i built on my channel and tell me what you think. I would value your opinion greatly!

@mrpete222

9 жыл бұрын

a s I'll take a look

MrPete, Jnr needs to learn your stuff... all of it... including the steam pressure bits, otherwise who will be left to teach our descendants? Just a thought!