Below is a 9hp Sattley, Dave Rotigel, and myself. We met through the Stationary Engine List. That's a group of world wide engine enthusiasts that exchange e-mail about old engines. During the 2000 Portland, Indiana show he showed my wife and I a picture of this engine and asked if we were interested in buying it. Well who wouldn't be!?! The engine and trailer was in Missouri, Dave in Pennsylvania, and I in Michigan. Dave picked up the trailer and engine in Missouri and my wife and I met him in Indiana on his way back to Pennsylvania. These pictures were taken at a truck stop where we transferred the engine from his trailer to our rented one.

In both of these pictures it shows Dave and I checking out the running Sattley before transferring it from trailer to trailer.

All grins J

Shirley and I watching the Sattley run. She was a big help in moving this beast. It would have taken twice as long without her.

 This picture shows the engine on the rented trailer.

We were to involved and having to much fun to think of stopping to take a picture while transferring the engine to the rented trailer.

The next two pictures are after the wife and I unloaded the engine at home and put some skids under it.

 This Sattley burns kerosene. It originally came out of a Blacksmith/Machine Shop, in Williamsville, Missouri, which was owned by Gerald Gregory. It was then sold to Lucien Finch in the 30's when the Blacksmith/Machine Shop was torn down. John Daggett purchased it from Lucien and I bought it from John through Dave Rotigel.

 

We wanted to haul the 9hp Sattley to the shows this coming season and didn't have a trailer. I wanted a small dedicated trailer and basically copied Dave Rotigel's design because I liked the look of it. It's made out of 2 inch x 4 inch x 1/4 inch box steel. I got the steel from a steel supplier in Grand Rapids. I had to get two 24 foot pieces because 24 foot was the shortest length they sold. It weighed 423 pounds total. I had no way to haul these home so........ I met my buddy at the steel supplier, he pulled his truck inside the building and they lowered the two pieces on the rickidy old rack on top of his work truck. I wouldn't have trusted two little wooden 2 x 4's on top of there! He pulled out of the building right into the parking lot where we slid the two pieces off and proceeded to cut them with a battery powered sawzall. One got cut in half and the other was cut twice. We loaded the pieces up in the back of my truck and went our seperate ways. The steel sat in the garage for a couple days and started to get surface rust so I figured I should atleast prime it a little. Below shows the pieces primed and cut to size.

 

The trailer is going to be 8 foot long by 5 foot wide. The 8 foot pieces will run the full length of the trailer. The 5 foot pieces will set inside the 8 foot pieces. This would leave an open tube and leave an area for wasps to get in. I hate wasps! When I cut the 45's I had a small scrap piece left over. I trimmed the scrap up on the chop saw and used those for the caps on the ends of the tubes. My buddy Dave did all the tacking and welding since I've never welded. It's still cold outside and we had the garage door down. It got a little smokey in there and that's why the last two pictures didn't come out that good.

 

The box is all welded up and now we laid out the tongue part. It's actually starting to look like a trailer!

 

This shows the lifting frame I made to lift the Sattley from.

 

Note c-clamps holding on axle for easy adjustment of proper tongue weight. Last picture shows setup for welding on support tubes and axle.

 

This shows the trailer painted and Shirley working on the polyurethane for the boards. Note the cat litter on the floor. She had a little accident with the can of polyurethane :-)) Also shows the trailer with the boards, lights, jack, and safety chains on.

 

A shot of the almost finished product. Just need fix the paint on the engine and put the crank guard on.

 

I had to make a new roller and pin for the push rod. The old one wasn't rotating and the cam created a flat spot on the roller.

Removal of fuel tank from sub-base and eliminating 80 years of crud from the inside of the fuel tank. Enough rust chunks came out to fill a quart jar.

 

The finished product.

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