Sandow 4hp, Serial # 3352

Owner: Loren Etter from Minnesota.  Original equipment including the paint and the clutch pulley option.


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Serial # 2983
 

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Serial # 2189
 
DMCSC Sandow 8hp owned by Valan Vopat from Ellsworth, Kansas.  This engine was up for auction on Ebay September 20th 2008.   Serial number located on brass engine tag.

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Serial # 2205

Owner: John Davis from St. Cloud, Florida.  
   

 

DMCSC Sandow 18hp Twin with a 5-1/4 bore by 5 inch stroke, 22 inch Diameter flywheels & weighs in at 677 lbs.  Restoration has started, The two fuel feeders have been completely rebuilt including new cork floats.  Water injectors have also been rebuilt even though I don't plan on injecting water in to the cylinders. Engine had been hand painted red with a brush.
     

    


Work done as of May 11th, 2008
   

Sand blasting done, Crank case has some porosity & casting slag normal for these old engines. Crankshaft has been ground & new centrifugal lubrication ring disk machined for lower con rod journals.  All new Babbitt bearings poured for the mains & lower con rods. Cylinders have been bored & new Clevite cast iron sleeves installed. Pistons grooves faced & resized with new rings. New wrist pins & bushings for piston & upper con rods.  This engine had been worked very hard in its time most everything was worn out. However it will be better then new when my Dad and I get finished with it. More photos to come soon.

Work done May 26, 2008

All the main parts of the engine have been rebuilt and assembled. The engine turns over really smooth & easy. A lot of attention was put into the alignment & machining of the main bearings also the alignment & machining of the connecting rod bearings. 

We are now working on the governor linkage for the air intake. New valve guides were made for the air intake manifold and valve stems were trued. The brass air intake valve lift regulator on top of the manifold had to have the center hole bushed & the pin trued. A new brass governor lever shoe had to be made the old one was worn out. Governor linkage appears to have one incorrect clevis & a few worn out holes & pins that need to be fixed also. The governor linkage & the mechanical parts on the air intake manifold must all work smooth and fairly easy in order for the engine to run correct. 

Photos taken June 26, 2008

These photos were taken after we reworked the air intake governor linkage. The tie rod type ball
   joints are not original but they work excellent look good and make the linkage work so much easier  

Photos taken July 05, 2008

Before and after photos of the mechanical lubricator.
Manufactured by Detroit Lubricator Company.
                                                                         
                                                       
Photos taken Feb 22, 2009

I just finished machining and reproducing the muffler for the Detroit 18hp twin. I would have liked to have had an original Detroit muffler but they are more difficult to find then the engines. This is pretty much an exact copy of the original Detroit muffler including all the internal baffles & parts.
  

Photos taken June 18, 2009
 

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Kenneth Fish from New York reproduced the galvanized sheet metal water tank & fuel tank. As you can see Ken does excellent work.

Photos taken July 26 & August 02, 2009

Photos taken August 09, 2009
 

Above are a few parts that I reproduced on my lathe and mill. Governor time collar with phenolic ring and contact. The old governor time collar had a cracked keyway and appeared to be broached on a angle.   Brass part is the governor lever shoe. The old one was worn half into. I also reproduced the timer lever arm, the old lever was just a rod with a wooden handle someone put on it.  
                                                                           

  
Detroit buzz coils reproduced by John Regan (piewagon@gmail.com).
      

I received the tanks on August 06, 2009 with no problems.
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The engine is now complete, January - 2010,  YouTube video.

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Owner Gary Conrad from Marengo Iowa.                                                                      Owner unknown

These two photos were taken by  Peter & Rita Forbes' Engine Webpages  at the 2007 Portland Show. The engines are missing there brass name tags. The only indication that they might be DMCSC engines is the green paint.  I'm fairly sure that the engine on the left is not a Middleditch engine. Both engines have the early two peice  Peterson Automatic fuel feeder injectors manufactured Ben J. Middleditch . The engine on the left is being run by propane through the fuel reservoir.

DMCSC (Sandow) 8hp (Late model)  This engine is in need of a fuel injector & double drip oiler.
If anyone can help with the missing items please contact the owner 
Mike Dupuy, 1353 hwy 453 Marksville, Louisiana  71351.  
  Email: Skippydup50@aol.com  Ph: 318-305-3977


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The fuel reservoir-injector, air-intake valve & muffler were reproduced.

        
DMCSC  Sandow  2.5 hp hopper cooled engine.
Owner & Photographer William Schaller from Minnesota.
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DMCSC  Sandow  2.5 hp hopper cooled engines.

The two Photos on the left were taken by Steve Barr  Steve's Engine Shanty  same engine at two different shows. Sandwich Early Day Engine Club Show - Sandwich, IL - 2007 and the Franklin Grove, IL 2008.  I do not know who the owners of the two Sandows in the photos on the right. 

DMCSC  Sandow 2.5 hp.  Owner: Bill Winkler.

These two photos were taken by Travis Benner at Jason Dahm's Halloween show in Belgium Wisconsin. Nice original looking engine.

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In 1913 Detroit Motor Car Supply Company built their vertical two cycle stationary engines in size's 1.5, 2.5, 4, 6, 7.5-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-15, 16-18, 18.5-20 horse power. The 1.5 hp engine was a single cylinder single flywheel tank cooled engine. There were 2.5, 4 & 6 hp engines with single cylinder single flywheel hopper cooled with a round tapered hopper bolted to the top of the head and cylinder.  Sandow stationary Single cylinder tank cooled engines with two flywheels came in sizes 2.5, 4, 6, 8 horse power. Sandow twin cylinder tank cooled engines with two flywheels were built in 12 & 18 horse power.