Stuart S50 - Reconditioning project

lazyLathe

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Hi All,

I bought an old Stuart S50 engine a while ago from a retired machinist.
He built the engine 30 to 40 years ago, so it is from the 70's sometime! ;D

I stripped the whole engine down and removed all the paint.
Polished up the bits of steel, brass and phosphor bronze and gave it a lick of paint.

It came mounted on a large aluminium plate with a large propane fired boiler set up.
Not too sure what the boiler is but it has a Stuart pressure gauge on the side.
I have not yet started to clean the boiler... Not sure if i want to run it on steam or just air and keep it clean!

It also has a displacement lubricator that i still need to polish up and install.
I really like the oil cups that have the threaded tops.
They are quite neat!

I spent a bit of time tonight setting up the eccentric and the slide valve and can get it to run on breath power1
I am quite proud of this achievement! :)

Her are some pics of the reassembled engine.
Hope you like it!!
StuartS501.jpg

StuartS50-3.jpg

StuartS50-2.jpg

StuartS50-0.jpg

Andrew
 
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That a real beauty lazylathe...she's good to go for another 40 years now at least!!

Bill
 
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