[Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion

Wed Oct 5 17:46:56 PDT 2005

Eric,

I thought that you dropped from the face of the earth! I still haven't 
touched that vertical bottle engine since you dropped it off to me, actually 
I sold it but the buyer hasn't picked it up and I am considering buying it 
back. We saved an Ingersoll Rand Imperial Type 10 compressor last winter and 
hopefully a nice little Ames uniflow up in New York.

We have half of the mighty Tod Engine moved to her new home, and am waiting 
for the riggers to find time to move the rest of the pieces.  We just 
recieved a nice 5k check in the mail yesterday that will pay half of the 
rigging costs.

Its quite comical to read about Jim fretting about a measley 31 yards of 
concrete.   Geez we'll probably use that much here in the sidewalks!  What 
is 3' x 30' x 50'? :-)  Lots of money.

I've assumed the role of US editor for the International Stationary Steam 
Engine Society from Bob Lindquist.  So if you have any updates on your 
engines let me know and we'll put together an article.

Good to see that you are still alive and kicking.

Rick Rowlands
Tod Engine Foundation
2261 Hubbard Road
Youngstown, OH  44505
330-728-2799
www.todengine.org

William Tod Co. 34" x 68" x 60" Cross Compound Rolling Mill Engine
Historic Mechanical and Materials Engineering Landmark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Mackessy" <jmackess at twcny.rr.com>
To: "Steam-engine mailing list" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion

> Hi Eric!
>     I should have read all the posts first! A house is a huge undertaking.
> Seems it's never done! My brother tore
> down a concrete block cape and rebuilt  a "Taj Mahal" on the original
> foundation to skirt some zoning issues. He
> started in '93. Last week they finished the master bath, and now it's time
> to start remodeling the basement bathroom.
> I reminded him "Life is like a circle", and I won't tell you what he said
> back. 8-)
>     We've been looking at concrete prices too, and it's scary. Just like
> you said, a full up foundation for the Ames
> Unaflow is about 31 yards of concrete. Ouch! We want to generate with that
> one, so we need it, but that's a lot of
> money. Keep us posted on your progress!
> Jim Mackessy
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Applegate" <eric at glassactonline.com>
> To: "Steam-engine mailing list" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion
>
>
>> Hi Jim,
>> Dang "99" seems like a million years ago.  Now there was a list that
> generated a lot of Email.  I haven't been on it since 99 and the puter 
> died
> from there we bought a piece of a farm that haden't seen light of day in
> fifty years.  If you remember the Saw mill that I was going to get about
> that time.  Well we did end up making a deal and brought it home.  It is
> here now with the foundations done and most of it set in place like most 
> of
> my rusty just it still needs a lot.  Although it is in good mechanical
> shape.  After we managed to clear the land a little we built a house.  We
> started the house from a timber frame building that we bought near Sparta
> KY.  It turned out 2 1/2 stories and about 2000 sq. ft.  very much smaller
> than the original 1859's building, but there was a lot of rot on the
> exterior beams and posts.  It was all we could get out of it.  Turns out 
> it
> was just right.  It fits us very nicely.  We wraped the outside walls with
> straw and stucko.  Warm in the winte
>>  r and cool in the summer.  Now that is coming to and end it is time to
> build engines again.  Yea!  We are hoping to start digging the addition 
> for
> the engines and work shop this spring.  I have been counting yard of
> concrete and that is scarry.  35 yards just in the one engine foundation.
>>
>> Nice to hear from you
>> Eric
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "James Mackessy" <jmackess at twcny.rr.com>
>> Reply-To: Steam-engine mailing list
> <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>> Date:  Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:00:27 -0400
>>
>> >Hi Eric!
>> > Good to see you here, I remember seeing some of your posts and pictures
>> >back in 1999 on the stationary engine
>> >mailing list. I am into stationary engines also, present personal
> projects
>> >are an 8 x 12 sidecrank engine I believe to be a
>> >Bigelow & Co. from New Haven, CT, and a 3 x 4 bottle engine built by a
> man
>> >named Nathan Jarvis in Oneida, NY. On the museum side, we have an 18 x 
>> >36
>> >Rice & Sargent Corliss Engine, 19 x 24 Ames Unaflow,  40 HP Nagle center
>> >crank,
>> >7 x 7 New York Central Iron Works vertical bottle engine, 5 x 6
> Sturtevant
>> >horizontal, and several others.
>> >   We are using a 100HP Cleaver Brooks package boiler at the museum,
>> >partially because we do not have enough members to go around, so the
>> >"automatic" type of operation leaves the fireman free enough to answer
>> >questions and talk to the public in between keeping an eye on the 
>> >boiler.
>> >Recent fuel prices have us watching for a solid fuel fired HRT, as we do
>> >have plenty of firewood. You can see our project at:
>> >http://www.eriecanalcamillus.com
>> >
>> >Regards;
>> >Jim Mackessy
>> >Camillus , New York, USA
>> >
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>> --
>> Thanks,
>>      Eric Applegate
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