Posted 1 year ago
hotairfan
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Posted here are two steam plants made in early 1900.
Photos # 1 and #2 are of a Marklin Engine and Boiler, made in Germany, in 1909.
Photos #3 and #4 are of a Schoenner Lipsa Engine and Boiler made in Germany in 1905.
The Marklin runs excellently at both high and low speeds. The steam plant, one time in its past, had a generator mounted to the pulleys, but it was lost to time. If I find one, I will put it back on the base as it was originally. It has an oil cup by the cylinder to supply steam oil to the cylinder. There is also a water pump connecting the boiler to the engine, so you can pump water back to the cylinder when the boiler gets low on water. It is linked to the connecting rod drive to make it pump. It is an impressive looking engine when running with all the gadgets, like the valves and fly ball governor.
The other engine, shown in photos #3 and # 4 is a Schoenner Lipsa engine and boiler made in 1905.
This engine runs well, but the water level sight glass had a bad crack in it and leaked profusely. Someone in the past, attempted to repair it by smearing a nasty amount of epoxy like glue on the surface where it entered the boiler.
of course, with the boiler water pressured by steam, this won't repair the broken glass, so the water continued to leak out.
The glass tube must be bent into a u-shaped tube to fit into the boiler, so I ordered a length of 6-millimeter dia. glass tubing for a proper repair. The only thing the epoxy repair attempt did was to make it difficult to remove the old glass and the epoxy residue.
After watching a tutorial on YouTube as to how to bend glass, I decided to attempt the bending process. I ordered several extra pieces of glass tubing, because I know the first (and possibly several) attempts at the proper bends will fail.
These are GREAT!! I'd love to see these in action.
Very nice. Just got home from a long weekend of selling at the fleamarket...on the Schoenner, what is the bell or oil squirter looking thing wrapped around the tube?
They are amazing!
Hi dave2no1,
Yea, it does look like a bell the way that it is shown. In reality, it is a metal funnel that was tied to the engine when I bought it. I have it hung there with a piece of wire so I don't lose it.
Hi scott03663,
They are great little steam engines. I don't have any new Welesco or Mammond brand steam engines. I think that the modern made steam models lack the true design of steam era.
The ones that were made in the late 1800's and early 1900's combine artistry and functionality with the gadgets that they put on them. They have true oil cups, fly ball governors, water recovery pumps, and other features that I don't find in the modern made steam engines.
Don't get me wrong, todays Welesco and Mammond steam models work fine and they give a lot of interest and fun to the young and old steam enthusiast of today.
Update on the water level sight glass... I received the 6 mm. glass tubing, and like it said on u-tube, I wasn't able to be successful in the first attempt at bending the tubing to the proper angle and length. It took me three tries to make it fit correctly. I then fired the boiler up, and it runs great with no further leaks.
Nice job. Did you get us a picture?
I did Dave, I deleted the last photo of the boiler and engine so I could edit in the photo of the water level tubing. I apologize for the lousy photo, I got a little shaky when taking the shot, the shot got a little blurry and is shown on its side, I hope that you can make out the two (2) 90-degree bends to the glass tube. The bends also have to fit into the holes in the red shield and the boiler itself.
It's pretty blurry, but with the explanation I can see what's going on.