[Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion

[Andy glines]

Your suggestion is noted.  Here is what I am working
on.  http://groups.msn.com/Racerpics/huber.msnw  What
you see is a 1905 Huber 16 that I purchased from Brice
Adams.  I have been taking lots of photos of the
restoration and I need to get my act together and post
them.  I actually met Brice through the ATIS network
and visited him when I lived in a nearby town.  The
engine was operable as you see it in the pictures. 
When I got it home in Nov 02 I started diassembly for
restoration.  Looks like it will be running again
after 3.5 years but not finished.  I don't expect that
a project like this is ever "finished".  Now the
engine sits in Dad's shop completely disassembled. 
Many of the parts have been refurbished, repaired, or
replaced and assembly will start soon.  I ultrasounded
the boiler and am satisified with it.  The throttle is
at a family friend's house for a new shaft.  The
governor is Wayne Metzger (Boonville, IN) for
machining.  I have gotten help from a SIAM club member
and his employer has machined the valve seat on the
cylinder.  I have to cut out the ring ridges in the
cylinder and JB weld the pits on the crosshead and the
cylinder will be ready to mount on the boiler. 
Another SIAM member is a toolmaker and he ground the D
valve flat for me.  I have attended two Pawnee steam
schools where I learned alot and found out that it is
not the same content year after year.  The firebox
door has been cast from a door on Francis Lindauer's
engine and I have had pieces cast so that I can
reproduce the missing "shocks" that connect the bull
gear to the wheel.  Dupilcast in Indianapolis did the
casting work and I'm quite happy with the results. 
The boiler, rear wheels, and some misc have been
painted.  I am about 2/3 through the painting that
needs to be done.  New soft plugs, water glass
washers, and hand-hole gaskets were obtained from Cici
Engineering.  Currently, I'm getting the countershaft
ready to pour babbitt so that it and the compensating
gear can be mounted under the boiler again.  When the
counter shaft is installed the rear wheels will go
back on.  With the rear wheels on the front axle can
come out for restoration.  I am also trying to get the
crankshaft ready for assembly ASAP.  We will be
pouring nre crank bearings which looks to be tricky on
this engine.  The Huber has a Woolf valve gear.  With
a woolf the relationship between the crank and the
slide block guide is critical to proper timing.  Most
engines with a Woolf gear have a means to adjust the
didtance between the block guide and the crank.  My
Huber has no adjustment so the valve must be
completely assembled and set to allow proper
positioning of the crank shaft.  When I get the engine
running I will start on building a canopy, toolbox,
and coal bunker.  Sorry for the long post but you
wanted to know what I am working on.

--- Eric Applegate <eric at glassactonline.com> wrote:

> When I subscribed I wondered if I had done it right
> because nothing happened so I am glad to see that
> there are people here and it did work the way it is
> supose to.  Anyway maybe there are more new people
> here than just me and we don't know what y'all are
> working on.  Maybe some of you could let us know.  I
> have a few bigger stationary engines and have
> finally moved them home.  All done except for a
> could of feed water pumps.  That was a big enough
> job for this year.  Maybe next spring we can start
> digging foundations.  That ought to be a big enough
> job for next year.
> 
> Eric


Andy Glines
Evansville, IN


		
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