William Tod Engine Project
Youngstown, Ohio
On December 18th and 19th, 1996, 5 members of the
"stationary engine List" gathered in Youngstown, Ohio to help a fellow named
Rick Rowlands dismantel some parts on a 2 cylinder William Tod Steam engine.
The following are some pictures from the event.
The wrecking crew
Matt Picaro, Arnie Fero, DJ and Dave Rotigel, and Craig Prucha
Our foreman was Rick Rowlands
For more pictures and specs, see these other William Tod Engine Homepages.
Dave & DJ's Tod Engine Page
Youngstown's Steel Heritage by Rick Rolands
click on the thumbnail for a larger image
Below are some sceens from around the area where the Tod Engine resides.
Our first look at the Tod Engine....
Those huge 5 3/4 inch nuts....
Some archiving going on....
DJ gets up high on the flywheel to get leverage on the pipe....
Still working on the 24 flywheel nuts...
Some of the nuts & bolts where in tight spots....
The 3 1/8 inch socket and one of the bolts....
Half of the 5 3/4 inch nuts are off....
The 10 ton crane arrives....
We rotated the flywheel with the crane to get at the next 12 flywheel nuts....
On January 8th & 9th Dave Rotigel and myself went to Youngstown to help Rick Rolands
accomplish some more work on the Tod Engine. The following are some pictures from the event.....
We used a 10 ton port-a-power to push out a couple of the 5 3/4 inch flywheel bolts and also to
loosen the last nut holding the high pressure cylinder on...
One of the 5 3/4 inch bolts is pushed out about 7 inches, and finally one is out. Also there
is a shot looking in one of the flywheel bolt holes....
It was so cold that we had to thaw out our handi-wipes....
The huge cross-head, high pressure side....
The William Tod name-plate, working hard to get it off. Finally she slips off....
A look down the high pressure cylinder side....
This is a view looking down the 6 drive-shaft support bearings....
We also monitored the flywheel temp., It stayed right at 25 deg. F. on the 8th and dropped to 22 deg.
F. on the 9th....
For information on the Tod Engine Project, contact Rick Rowlands
