[SEL] The Rice & Sargent Lives!

[Richard Strobel]

Very nice Jim..Congrat's to you and the gang!  Hopefully this coming spring 
and summer, I can get some time on a somewhat local Corliss style.  This one 
is hooked to a refer compressor and was used to cool shimstock.  It 
definetly needs some respect :-)

  Would like to see the boiler that baby uses.

RickinMt.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Mackessy" <jmackess at twcny.rr.com>
To: "The SEL email list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: [SEL] The Rice & Sargent Lives!


Some of you will remember posts dating back into the late '90's of a corliss 
steam engine rescue from the old L.C. Smith Typewriter plant in Syracuse, 
New York, when that building was demolished. It was through this list that 
we learned of the Tod engine, and learned that we really could rescue a 
comparatively small engine. Many times when we hit a snag, the folks on this 
list gave suggestions, explanations and encouragement, and kept us headed in 
the right direction.
Well, after 8 years of work, we finally got to a point where we could test 
her on compressed air. We only have enough air for about 3 power strokes on 
this 18 x 36" cylinder, but to see her under power for the first time in 
over 56 years was, well, ....AWESOME! For those who don't know, 450 
horsepower @ 150 RPM on 145 PSI steam, 7 ton 11' flywheel. We have a lot of 
small details to attend to, such as a leaky packing on the piston rod, oiler 
line piping, indicator pipes, etc., but we're almost there. The boiler is 
about 85% complete, and we hope to be done by spring. We took a few videos, 
less than 15 seconds each so they should not be too much to download. Here 
are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/v/YkmoWjqsCwo
http://www.youtube.com/v/6mio1Ub_2q4
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZXGH5fcjlXQ
To see the project web pages, a little out of date now, go to:
http://www.eriecanalcamillus.com
and click on "steam engine".
Thanks to all of you who helped, some indirectly by sharing your restoration 
and recovery knowledge in discussing other projects here, and some who took 
the time to answer our many questions. I don't think we would have had the 
nerve to try this without your inspiration!
Best Regards;
Jim Mackessy
Camillus Canal Society Steam Engine Project

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