SACANW Chapter Officers:
President: Eric Gleason 704 Case Street, The
Dalles, Oregon, 97058 email: gleason@netcnct.net Secretary/Treasurer/Editor: Pat
Farrell, 6647 Bridgewater Lane, Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 360-856-1294 e-mail
rpfarrell@wavecable.com
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The
NW Chapter of SACA newsletter is sent out the first week of each season of the
year. Cost of our hardcopy newsletter
is $5 a year. Cyberspace delivery is
free to NW region SACA members.
Our
mission is to perpetuate the use of the steam automobile and to share
information pertaining to them.
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Events:
March 5-9, 2007
Third Down under International Steam Car
Tour
Enjoy
touring in Australia’s autumn climate. The tour will be based at the lovely
rural river Murray boarder town of Echuda, (meeting of the waters), north of
Melbourne. Contact Susan May at psmay@optusnet.com.au
or by mail at 8 Roberts street, Esssendon Victoria 3040 Australia
Telephone 61 3 93372268
June
17-22, 2007
Eastern
Steam Car Tour
Wilmington,
Delaware. Sponsored by the Friends of
Auburn Heights Preserve. For more
information, visit www.auburnheights.org or call (302)239-2385
June
30 - Open House at Gordon Sullivan's, Custer, Washington. This is a NWSS event
The first steam event was
such a success that a second is planned. More details will follow. Contact: Gordon Sullivan, telephone:
360-366-3171, email: sullivan@premier1.net
July or August, 2007
SACA/NW annual business meeting and Steam Clinic
Two day event o be held at Pat and Merrily Farrell’s Unique Museum in Sedro-Woolley, WA. As to not to conflict with other events, the
date will be announced later. Telephone
360-856-1294
August
10 through 12 - NWSS Annual Meet, Seattle, Washington.
To be held at the Center for
Wooden Boats on the south end of Lake Union. Contact person is Dan Lyons, telephone: 206-546-2970,
email: danlyons1@verizon.net
2008:
Invitational Steam Car
Tour, Auburn, Grass Valley, CA.:
State Hwy 500 freeway and
N.E. Thurston Way interchange.
Christopher Roberts reports: I will be hosting an Invitational Steam Car Tour in
the Auburn, Grass Valley area in
California in 2008. I don't have any dates as of yet, but I should have
invitations going out in June/ July of 2007. I am going to try to put on a 4
day tour Thursday through Sunday. Another possibility is at Shingle
Springs, Ca.
My Cell Phone # is 916-708-6356. The shop number is
1-800-543-6566. Christopher W.
Roberts
Message From: "Myles Twete" Say, I just updated the SACA/NW web pages...still
more to do, but did improve the links and added most of the newsletters to the
site, including the latest newsletter and photos. If you have any input,
suggestions or additions, let me know, I'll add them----e.g. maybe you don't
want your contact info right there at the top...? I'll also try to get SACA and other sites to be sure their links
to us work. Right now, I know the NWSS site links to ours fine. Check it
out...:
http://home.comcast.net/~matwete/nwsaca/SACANW.html -Myles
September 14-16th, 2005 Berrien Springs Steam Meet, Symposium and 9th
Annual Great Lakes Steam Vehicle Time Trials, Berrien Springs.
South Haven, Michigan.
By
Myles Twete
This
was a fun meet, workshop, time trials and symposium. I had not been to a SACA annual meet before, but found I had no
excuse this year…just had to go.
For
me it was a whirlwind tour as I flew out from Portland, OR. on the red-eye
Friday A.M. arriving in Chicago at 5am.
Rental
car in hand, it was about a 3hr drive to Berrien Springs, where I arrived at
the fairgrounds in time to catch the days’ symposium lectures at the
fairgrounds. Great information was
shared. Later, we toured Tom Kimmel’s shop and his steam
collection, then finally, on to the time trials.
Richard Moore’s Locomobile nearly took 1st place in the
time trials as Chuk’s dragster was
effectively running on only 1 cylinder and only reached 17seconds in the 1/8th
mile…just 3 secs faster than the Loco.
Several racers did the time trials including Chuk Williams driving both the 40HP dragster and his “T-model”, Tom Kimmel driving his Strath Steam
powered steam dune buggy rail, Dick
Moore and his 1899 Loco and Tony
Grzyb and his steam bicycle. It was
a lot of fun.
Time
trial winners were awarded trophies and cash prizes as well as sponsorships for
steam vehicles which made it to the start line
Steamers for sale:
1899 Locomobile, museum quality, $40,000. telephone 360-658-6581 email Mike.Donna@McGinnis.net Mike McGinnis 7512-76th Drive NE
Marysville, WA
1900 Locomobile type 2, nice, Jim McCall, telephone 509-232-0309 email mcall@reiffmolding.com, 1905 S. Marcus
Ct., Veradale, WA99037
1900
Locomobile Locosurrey. The body came from Carl Amsley. Its a Locomobile/Stanley carriage type, very nice.
Unusual running gear but nicely done.
Some assembly required. He has the engine and boiler also some other
parts. He also has the seat. He is
asking $20K but will take an offer. He is hard to get a hold of but you can
leave a message at the following two # Bill
Cooke 55 Prospect Street North Brookfield MA 015351, 508-867-7864 MA & VT 802-253-3092 bacooke@pshift.net
1909 Stanley model R, 4 passenger 20 hp. Needs
assembly. $127,500, Sue Davis,
Kingfield Maine,.
1909 Stanley Model R, 4 passenger, Running condition,
$175K, Jerry Farnsworth,
Fayetteville, Ny
1910 Stanley model 61, 4 passenger touring, exceptionally
original, $120K, Chris Figge,
Westerville, Ohio
1914 Stanley Model 607, 4 passenger 10 hp touring, new
restoration, $140K, Bill Roberts,
Bainbridge, Island, WA
1922 Stanley 740B, Good restorable car in Texas, Donald
Hoke, email donhoke@comcast.net
1922 Stanley model 735 7 passenger sedan. Equipped
with 26” 30 hp boiler. Fully restored. $59,000. Contact Herman
Bayendorffer tel.: 772-595-3678 or 207-997-3625 (after June 1). email:
hermanb@numberall.com
Stanley
steamer 735 rolling chassis, good condition. Engine runs on air, includes frame, engine,
differential, good wheels, front end, pumps, and drives, etc, assembled,
$12,500. Dave, 530-200-2576 CA
Auction
results in Hemmings Motor News: 1907 Stanley model F #2 condition. If you blinked, you missed the Stanley’s
turn across the block. When no one was
willing to make an opening bid of $60,000, the car was declared no sale, and the
auction went on. This was evidently an
older restoration, with some cracks beginning to show in the paint work and a
good bit of patina to the leather upholstery.
The first question is to ask with a car like this whether it has been
stationary for decades in a museum; if so, a good bit of work by an expert will
be needed to restore it to running condition.
For Sale:
“Steam Power Quarterly” and “Light Steam Power” back issues. $5 each plus postage. Contact editor Pat Farrell with your needs. 360-856-1294 or email rpfarrell@wavecable.com
Jim Keith writes: If you like this water pump
packing as much as I think you will, I suggest you order a similar material:
DARCOID Co. Style #921 0.125” Telephone 616 931-5900 Hicksville, N.Y. This is more heavily saturated with beeswax
which will in it’s beginning use sometimes imbed itself on ball checks and or
seats. It is therefore suggested that
you use another harder packing ring at each end of the packing space to wipe
pistons and keep excess beeswax away from checks. Maybe, too, you would be able to scrape the excess beeswax off
that packing before installation?
Never over tighten this product.
Sometimes pumps will leak a little at the beginning of a run, but after
a little run in time, packing may swell enough to limit same. Remember a small amount of leaking is
desired. Best, Jim.
Brake Lining By Pat Farrell
60% of the stopping power on a
vehicle equipped with four wheel brakes comes from the front axle. That leaves a car equipped with only two
wheel brakes, having only 40% of the stopping power of a car with 4 wheel
brakes. If your brake lining is wet,
worn out, oil soaked, or just out of adjustment, your braking ability just got
worse. There are a lot of jokes made
about the old two wheel brakes not stopping, but when you need to stop, bad
braking is no joke.
There is a multitude of brake lining
available for our old cars. Each one
has different properties than the other.
What is needed is an oil resistant lining with a high coefficient of
friction using a low brake pedal pressure and giving us smoother controlled
stops. After having tried many
different types of brake lining for our Stanley steamers, I have found one
lining that has out shined all others in these requirements. Many of the users have referred to it at the
“Green Gripper”. McMaster-Carr refers
to it as their “Semi-metallic woven strips”.
This green lining can be riveted or bonded. These Semi-metallic woven strips have brass wire woven into the
material which adds strength and improves heat dissipation. It also has the
highest coefficient of friction using the lowest pedal pressure required for
any of their brake lining material offered.
This lining can be purchased through McMaster-Carr or through many other
national hardware suppliers. McMaster-Carr’s
website is http://www.mcmaster.com/ and when there, type in “brake lining” for
product search.
For bonding the lining onto
non-flexing brake shoes, an epoxy made by J-B Weld Company found at most auto
suppliers costs about $10.00 for two kits that has enough epoxy to bond all the
lining on one axle. Personally, I have
been using a commercial high temperature brake shoe bonding cement that costs
much more than that. Brake shoes that
flex while in use, should have their lining riveted to the shoes. While riveting your brake lining, never use
a rivet any harder than brass to prevent brake drum damage,.
In using your brakes, always apply
them gently and well ahead of your impending stop. Do not let them get over heated as the outside paint will quickly
get burnt off of your brake drums, and lining damage can occur from too high of
heat build up. When possible, shift
down, or in the case of the Stanley steamers, carefully use your reversing
pedal to aid in your stopping.
“Unique Museum” Report
by Pat
Farrell
Our 5 Stanleys are bedded down for
the winter with car covers carefully tucked in around them to keep them warm
and dust free. Since our Unique
Museum is well insullated for even temperatures, freeze up isn’t much
of a problem for the cars and the running steamers are still watered up, ready
for a run at a moments notice.
Around our shop we are working on
our 1911 Stanley model 85, 30 hp 7 passenger touring. We are just putting the final touches to the rear axle and then
the body will come into the shop for painting and having the axles fitted. After that, we will be putting modern main
bearings in it’s engine.
The axles were built from scratch
using available castings from Carl
Amsley’s and Alan Kelso. The axle shafts and gears came from a model
735 Stanley rear axle.
We just received our new brass
windshield frame from Speedway Motors
in Lincoln, Nebraska. When vintage
windshields are selling for over $600 and still needing restoration, Speedway’s
new brass windshield frame built to my larger specifications is a bargain at
$460.
George Nutz writes: Steam friends,
Just to let you know that I just talked with Brent Campbell and he is home and recovering from his terrible
accident. The doctors consider him very fortunate that he did not require
any surgery and will recover from a neck injury, broken foot and a few others
within a few months. He described the accident and it is a miracle that
he escaped with his life.
He was driving home on Interstate 95 in his 1928 Buick chopped hotrod
when the left rear tire blew out(a big hotrod 30" tire) doing 70mph in the
right lane when this tire blew and the car was thrust over into the left lane
and then into the median---he was told the car flipped 4-5 times with him in
it. Luckily when the metal chopped roof was put on it was also braced and
he also had three point seat belts in it, he was still on the car laying on its
left side and they had to cut him out of it. He has no memory of this nor
his first number of days in the hospital, but his memory is very sharp and
intact. He feels so blessed that it wasn't one of his Stanleys---that is
the wonderful way Brent looks upon such matters.
So he is at home, his voice sounds quite weak and is in a physical
therapy program for a few months. He says to wish you all thanks for your
concerns and that he will be at the historic Tom Marshall event in June 17th that will be the last time Tom will
have it there as he has given the property over to a historical group or
whatever.
For those wanting to send him cars/he says no need to!/ his address is:
Brent G. Campbell
2465 Riverview Drive NE
Palm Bay FL 32905-2515
telephone # 321-728-1426
I do not think he is up to a lot of calls at this time and I was very
fortunate that he took the time to tell us the true story and wished it passed
on to all of you.
Best to all, George Nutz
Stanley Museum has cancelled their June 2007
Stanley Steam Cars and Parts Consignment Auction that was going to be held in
Kingfield, Maine. It will be
rescheduled for a later date in a year or so. With their new staff getting the
feel of their new shoes, they are going to take a little more time before they
launch an event.
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Packing Installation Guide |
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The importance of packing
glands correctly cannot be over-emphasized. Many packing failures are due to
incorrect installation of the packing. The following steps have been devised
to ensure effective installation of packings on pumps and valves. Packing The Pump
Correctly
Hold
the packing tightly on the mandrel, but do not stretch excessively. Cut the
ring and insert it into the stuffing box, making certain it fits the packing
space properly. Each additional ring can be cut in the same manner, or the
first ring can be used as a master from which the balance of the rings are
cut.
If
the butt cut rings are cut on a flat surface, be certain that the side of the
rings, and not the OD or ID surface, is laid on the rings to be cut. This is
necessary so that the end of the rings can be reproduced. When
cutting diagonal joints, use a miter board so that each successive ring can
be cut at the correct angle. It
is necessary that the rings be cut to the correct size, otherwise, service
life is reduced. This is where die cut rings are of great advantage, as they
give you the exact size ring for the ID of the shaft and the OD of the
stuffing box. There is no waste due to incorrectly cut rings.
Seat
rings firmly (except PTFE filament and graphite yarn packings, which should
be snugged up very gently, then tightened gradually after the pump is on
stream). Joints of successive rings should be staggered and kept at least 90
degrees apart. Each individual ring should be firmly seated with a tamping
tool. When enough rings have been individually seated so that the nose of the
gland will reach them, individual tamping should be supplemented by the
gland.
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NEVER TRY TO STOP A LEAKAGE ENTIRELY ***
The
mechanical pressure curve above shows eight packing rings. THe first five
rings do the majority of the sealing. The bottom three rings do little
sealing, but are needed to fill the available space. The advantage of using
fewer rings is less rod wear. Also, the stuffing box design is simpler and
takes less material. But wear isn't the only problem. With high temperatures,
high pressures, corrosive chemicals, or abrasive particles in the fluid, more
rings may be the only solution for some services. In such cases, the bottom
ring contacting the fluid may have the most wear from these severe service
conditions. Packing Valves Correctly
As with pump packing, the first step in getting the most
out of a valve packing is correct installation. Here is the correct way to
pack valves.
Information
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