[Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion
Eric Applegate
eric at glassactonline.com
Wed Oct 5 19:29:57 PDT 2005
Holy crap man it is good to hear from you. You are right I feel like I have been off the face of the earth. We built the house with a generator and didn't get the electric on till after we moved in. It make you feel very isolated. If you sit down on my front porch I think I could convince you it was 1850 because there just isn't anything around to say otherwise. Glad to see you guys are still here. "and glad they did get around to turning my electric on"
What do you mean you haven't work on that little bottle engine she just as cute as can be. Kidding of course I know how those things go. If you end up with ownership of her again and don't want her let me know I will give you your money back. I need something for the living room anyway.
Glad to see you have been makeing progress with the Tod. You are the undisputed James Brown of steamengine restoration. Man that pup is a lot of work. It eats a lot too. We all feel a little punie next to the demands of the Tod. That thing is bound to suck up the concrete. I am up to 300 yard for the addition out back and that is giving me heart failer. Congrats on the check keep um comming your gona need a few more.
Eric
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From: "Rick Rowlands" <jrrowlands at neo.rr.com>
Reply-To: Steam-engine mailing list <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:46:56 -0400
>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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>>> Eric Applegate
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