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Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 104 Location: Switzerland
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: Very old vertical Bing steam engine
This "thing" is considered to be guilty for my steam illness :
Its an over 100 years old Bing steam engine.
(it belonged to my grandfather; he already owned it at the age of 12 and he got it from his father (his father didn't buy it for his son, he also owned it for a certain time before my grandfather got it.)
This steam engine has been misused and i once saw a wilesco catalog with the shiny brass boilers. It was at the age of ten years when i decided to remove the black finishing because i liked the shiny brass look. But today i am quite angry about my earlier decision and i whish i hadn't done dis.
Well anyway, i one day decided to improve its condition:
Now here's a list of what i have attached or exchanged:
- a new water level gauge (the old one didn't work properly anymore)
-new whistle-valve (the silvery whistle body is original, all the other things are new)
- a feed check valve has been installed to where there was a blow down valve (is that expression correct? it was a valve to remove the water from the boiler)
-feed pump with water tank
-working steam valve (one of my first homemade valves)
-new cylinder cover
-new firetube with 2 boiling pipes (and a bigger diameter compared to the old one; the boiler was a poor steamer and most of the flames didn't go through the firetube)
-attachable chimney extension
-new piston rod (its a hardened one from an old floppy drive)
-new safety valve
-boiler isolation with cork-mat and a brass sheet for the look
-tensioning belts to keep the isolation in position (i fixed the emblem on one of them; before it was directly soldered on the boiler)
-pressure gauge (that one acutally is to big but there was no other gauge around)
Florian
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Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 14074 Location: Western Australia
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject:
Lovely job you've done there.
I must say I'm a sucker for an engine with lots of levers and pipes and valves hanging off it and I do like the pump you made for it. _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/ozsteam/index.htm http://members.iinet.net.au/~tmuir1/
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Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 6165 Location: Indiana, USA
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:
Florian, not sure I welcomed you to the forum...but here's a delayed Hello!!! Lovely Bing there...it runs like a clock, beautiful. Thanks for the video, really helps one appreciate how good an engine Bing made.
cheers,
Roger _________________ Visit IndianaRog and The Temple of Steam: www.indianarog.com
You did good engineering on this engine.
Runs very good, and all the additions are made very well and do look good.
I think I can just see this engine as an re-built, completely different steam engine.
If i try to see the original Bing engine i would get sick
So i do not even try to see this engine as an restoration project. _________________ ....."Remember: It's Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con".....
Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 104 Location: Switzerland
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:
Well id call it a restauration/modification project.
Fact is, that i have never seen any photograph from an engine looking exactly like the one it was before restaurating it. _________________ Florian
Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 1049 Location: Portland Oregon
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:
That is a very pretty piece- to have family history in your hands is special- your grandfather is / should be proud to see something of his life - alive and well.
That is a lot of plumbing !! _________________ regards,
Mo
This week I are His Most Noble Lord Mo, the Apocalyptic of Old Tonbridge Wafers
Well id call it a restauration/modification project.
Fact is, that i have never seen any photograph from an engine looking exactly like the one it was before restaurating it.
Scroll down to the bottom..one of those three engine.
Your's should have looked like similar.
In a good original condition it would have been worth something around 400,- euro's _________________ ....."Remember: It's Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con".....
Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 104 Location: Switzerland
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject:
Dampfzauberer wrote:
Scroll down to the bottom..one of those three engine.
Your's should have looked like similar.
In a good original condition it would have been worth something around 400,- euro's
I know how it looked like long time ago. But like you can read earlier on this topic i was so stupid to remove the black finishing at the age of 10. Today i wouldn't have done this...
And if it was 400 Euros or so, i wouldn't have sold it...
regrettably my grandfather does not live anymore and he also does not know anything about my steam engine-works. But i know he would have enjoyed looking at these... _________________ Florian
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