Pm Research #1 Mill Engine Modified slightly

[pirmin kogleck]

Hy Guys, i have been absent from this forum long time , so i want to show you what can be done from a Pm Research # 1 Mill engine with some slight modifications

I made a built up crankshaft instead using the cast iron one, the acces material was not enough so that it would clean up.
The Oilers did not suit the nice elegant design of the engine, so i leaned my Oiler Design strong on Find Hansens Oilers .
The Crosshead Guides from Bronze where not to bad, but i didnt want the engine to look like a model, so i had to remove them and make cast iron slides and i then scraped in the corsshead, it moves like on butter.
Studs and nuts instead of the PMR supplied Hardware , they have supplied the kit with cheesehead slot screws , realy good quality but it just looks plain stupid on a eleggant model.
the piston and glands are sealed with traditional homemade graphite yarn ( just grind 2mm graphite sticks down to dust and soak the yarn in a mixture of dust and oil )
the Last step was to make a nice pulley wheel, in the end i ordered a very true running investment steel casting from Bengs in germany that also suits the 1880s design of this engine .

i attach some pics here

 

[Tug40]

Very nice PM1.
Does the engine run more smoothly with the extra weight of the new pully, also with the more balanced weight on both sides of engine?

 

[pirmin kogleck]

it runs buttersmooth !

 

[Steamchick]

Very Victorian. Rough castings where it suits and complimented by some parts overly decorative - because you can - to show off manufacturing capability.
You do it very well and I like it!
K2

 

[pirmin kogleck]

Thanks K2, yes some would say very victorian, The Engine is leaned on a Design from the traditional Mill engines from Pensylvanian Oil Fields. But since i am from Austria , and i saw a couple nice machines in the Technical Museum in Vienna i tried to repplicate the European style a bit into this machine. to this day, i am still uncertain if this model will ever get a paint job

 

[Steamchick]

It looks beautiful in "steel". But you could keep it with just a coat of rust-preventative Wax or lacquer? (My preference, but that is irrelevant). Or paint the surfaces that would have been "as Cast" on the original engine in service, in a matt black, or dark grey, and simply leave proper working machined surfaces (slideways etc.) in "oiled" steel finish? Or - if you like painting and can do a proper job, consider a decorative coach-lining on a gloss black?
You clearly like the "original" parts but also the European style, so how about a compromise between "original working" and decorative European on the appropriate parts? I think the compromise is true to the way individual engines were painted by owners, and not as they left the factory. Some owners wanted pure function, but others wanted a showpiece.
I see you have cats in 2 different "colour schemes"... which shows that you enjoy variety!
K2

 

[pirmin kogleck]

It looks beautiful in "steel". But you could keep it with just a coat of rust-preventative Wax or lacquer? (My preference, but that is irrelevant). Or paint the surfaces that would have been "as Cast" on the original engine in service, in a matt black, or dark grey, and simply leave proper working machined surfaces (slideways etc.) in "oiled" steel finish? Or - if you like painting and can do a proper job, consider a decorative coach-lining on a gloss black?
You clearly like the "original" parts but also the European style, so how about a compromise between "original working" and decorative European on the appropriate parts? I think the compromise is true to the way individual engines were painted by owners, and not as they left the factory. Some owners wanted pure function, but others wanted a showpiece.
I see you have cats in 2 different "colour schemes"... which shows that you enjoy variety!
K2

no need for a rust preventive measure, the steam oil coating and the slight surface oxidation make it actualy look very nice. if so , i would paint it black