a hundred years ago

[Michael S.]

100 years ago today, on February 15, 1924, my steam engine was delivered from the factory to a sawmill.
In 2009 I picked up the engine and restored it.

A little tour of the garage.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iw_MTo3Icg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iw_MTo3Icg</a>

Michael

[crueby]

What a wonderful museum/garage you have!  A great collection of old engines, tools, etc, great that you were able to save and restore so much.  Being used in a sawmill, that first engine's boiler was set up to run on wood? 

[Michael S.]

The fire grate was extended outwards. This is then intended for wood or brown coal. There were also step grating furnaces for sawdust.
Back then, they built the right firebox for every type of combustion material.

Michael

[mnay]

Wonderful collection and beautifully displayed.
Thanks for the tour.
Mike

[Kim]

Nice tour of your garage/museum!  You have a lot of beautifully restored engines there and many other interesting old items.  I especially loved the bell!

Thanks for the tour, Michael!

Kim

[Michael S.]

I received the bell as a gift from a former representative from the local diesel engine factory.
As a promotional gift, a ship's bell was included with every large ship's diesel engine purchased. But the factory hasn't existed for a long time.

Michael

[Chipswitheverything]

Thanks for presenting this interesting tour of your very fine private collection and museum. Fascinating range of fine engineering and industrial objects in lovely condition and beautifully displayed.  Dave

[gerritv]

An amazing collection and well presented.

gerrit

[Michael S.]

Thank you,

A lot has accumulated in the last few years. Actually, I don't have any more space. Maybe for something small...................

Michael

[Michael S.]

Today I did some tidying up and cleaning in the shed. I think there are more spiders living here than people in the entire city.
It was the opportunity to push the steam engine that once powered a steam excavator into the daylight. I immediately took a few photos. Maybe I'll build a model of it sometime. I think I don't have room for any more engines.

Michael

[crueby]

Lovely  engine Michael,  that would make a great model! 

[Michael S.]

Yes, Chris.
Only three parts need to be constructed as a “cast part” in brass.

Michael

[crueby]

Very interesting  looking reverse gear arrangement  on that engine. Do you know what that type is called?  I see the name Ardelt on the plate, they made huge railroad  steam cranes as I recall.

[Michael S.]

It must be a Hackworth or Marshall-Hackworth control.
Yes, it was built in 1942 by ARDELT in Eberswalde near Berlin. These engines were also available in the Krupp-Ardelt railway cranes. It has around 48 HP and the cylinder bore is 165 mm.
With this control the motor cannot rotate really slowly. Always the same from 0 to one hundred percent. It runs quite well with compressed air but uses a lot of compressed air. What I'm not allowed to do is start the engine with the lever in the stop position. When the pressure in the slide box is full, the 800 kg jump 10 centimeters into the air.

Michael

[Michael S.]

a few drawings

[crueby]

Great find!  When do you start the model?   

[Michael S.]

Yes, I would like to build it, but I don't know when I'll do it yet.
There are so many other projects.
Finally, two more pictures of the engine when it came to me.

Michael

[crueby]

Amazing restoration!

[Charles Lamont]

Great restoration. I am surprised the lugs on the cylinder casting survived the bending of the support columns. I would call that Marshall valve gear. Hackworth has a slide and die-block, while Marshall* uses a swinging link, which makes for a more durable and quieter gear.

*There are other Marshall valve gears and quite a bit of confusion around them. One was used on later Marshall traction engines and does have a big cylindrical die block that the eccentric rod passes through.