Hello All

Jakebob · Hello All

Hello all, my names jake and im from irwin PA. I currently have 3 steam engines and before long hopefully will have more- i have a jensen 65, jensen 75, and a PM research mill engine.
i also am into metalcasting which would be valuable for engine crafting if i had any machines

i know a few of ynz from youtube but i am very glad to find a community of similar-hobbied people.

Well, i was going to upload some engine photos but i see i dont have any on photobucket yet... i guess ill post some pictures of my blacksmith stuff for anyone interested.
My favorite picture

Here is the knife i just made

Thats all for now, ill post some pics of my engines later... wait theres one more- i used to sell these on ebay, i made about 15 of them

well i hope this does a bit to introduce myself, ill have alot more to say later.

James

Oooo a blacksmith!!!

One of my dream jobs!

Welcome to the forum mate

IndianaRog

Welcome Jakebob...another American here, hailing from Indiana.

cheers,
Roger

xlchainsaw

hello from glenn and lizzie . brisbane australia. wellcome to the forums.

SillyBilly

Welcome! That looks like somepretty cool stuff you make!

Steve_S

Welcome to the forum Jake!

rangerssteamtoys

Welcome to the forum. Now there are quite a few americans or at least north americans on the forum (Mr.o

)

Seems to be a groing thing

Making metal, thats a cool thing to do. or should I say hot

johnreid

I am in Indiana, welcome to the forum.

Sandman

A big Scottish welcome Jakebob.

I've a feeling you'll like it here.

Mamodman123

Welcome to the forums!

bessytractor

welcome, love the forge, must generate a lot of heat! What did the blower come from?

tmuir

Hi, and welcome from Australia.

I am in the process of building my workshop and one of my long term goals is to be able to cast aluminium and brass but that is a long way off yet.

TRAPPERKEEPER

Nice forge you got there Jake, cool stuff

Wallace

Great pics Jakebob and welcome to the forum

Cranko

welcome to the forum Jakebob from New zealand

barry1946

A big

frae Bonnie Sctland!

Graham-Jilly

welcome to the forum from a couple more aussies

MooseMan

Welcome from sunny Cardiff!

Graham-Jilly

Jakebob

Thanks all for the warm welcome and i do indeed think that i will like it here. ok, so here are my engines-

My jensen 65- sorry to any realist collectors, but i really had to repaint it- the paint on it was getting too bad to do anything with and it was looking very junky. i like my engines more for personal appeal, rather than antique value

and here is my brand new pm research mill engine, the board it is sitting is a very nice peice of chinese elm which will be the base. i need to find a suitable boiler for it, im thinking a jensen 25 maybe?

i dont have a picture of the 75 yet, ill have one of it later. i am currently looking into purchasing another of any make, i am currently still fuming from the 1 dollar outbid on a near mint condition jensen 45

oh, and someone asked about that blower- it was previously used for the cooling a very large air compressor, it blows a whole heck of a lot of air; so much that it will actually blow the coal out of my forge which is why that metal disk is over it.

SillyBilly

I'm liking the PM research engine maybe a little paint? The Jensen looks good with a bit of personalisation.

James

PM research!!

I have been thinking of bidding on one of them!!

Is that the kit one?

How powerful is it and how big is it/the bore?

Cheers mate

Jakebob

That one was from the pre machined kit, it took about an hour to put together, mostly because i needed to clean up the parts because some had burrs and such. i got mine off of ebay for 120$ buyitnow price. the bore is alot smaller than i thought, id say about 1.3cm or so. as for power it is a brute from what i know- at 30psi it is difficult to stop with my bare hand. and yeah, i think that ill paint the flywheel but the only suitable paint i have is the two colors i used on the jensen and i want something a little different for that one.

Jakebob

Here is a link to the one i bought, but if you have your own machines then you can machine it yourself and get the 60 dollar castings as apposed to the machined kit.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Steam-Engine-...PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem