There's something about watching your work, celebrating the skills developed in earlier times, not to mention the heart beat rhythm of recipocating steam from an earlier era that is very relaxing!
This weekend I'm giving thanks for people like Dave Richards who share the knowledge they have with everyone here. Dave - you're the best, I can't wait for your next one.
Thanks for posting Dave. Very enjoyable and informative! Wow you have really lost some weight. Inspires me to work a little harder on my own health. Thanks again!
Always like to watch you in this setting. Brings back memories Of the first school shop that I was a part of. Miller School of Albermarle In Virginia. It was a line shaft shop that was built in 1880 to teach young kids the trade. It was powered by a very large DC motor, belt driven to the Main center shaft in the ceiling. I only attended in my sophomore year of high school, but it has stuck with me the rest of my life. Still operate A job shop in Richmond, Va.
I gotta ask my friend, how old are you? I'm old enough (70) to have run many machines converted from line shafts, in some very inventive ways. But never a line shaft shop. I've skidded logs with a horse though, and I'm not Amish. But I would look like one if I had a straw hat. Art
My memories of when I was thirteen years old and my first trip to Detroit with my dad. He was working and I would stay in a hotel by myself. After a couple of days he said he would bring me to Henry Ford museum / green field village on his way to work. I walked in and spent the whole day wondering around the whole site. I was in heaven. About half way though the day I went into a small steam powered machine shopin the village, much like the one you have built. It was amazing. Somehow the ford foundation moved an entire building and machine shop to this location. Over fifty years later and I can still recall the moment I walked into the shop. This shop was so old they even had square shafts on some of the machines.
Thanks Dave, greetings from Australia. I am a degree qualified engineer with a background in production and jobbing machine shops. Now in my late career I have my own machine shop including a G&L 3307 horizontal borer, a 24” Bullard vertical borer & a vintage bridge planer - no identification. Love your work - good to see your high level finesse. Keep up the great work, enjoy the “winter recess” as we go into summer. All the best, Peter
You are either a single man, or have a loving, understanding wife. I got up to a $1000, bid on an old shaper. I wasn't game, ( read, could not justify) going any higher. Missed out on it. Bugger. You, mate, are another bloke that I am Jealous of.
Said this before, will say it again. Watching and listening to the old steam engine and all those old belts driving the machines, just amazing music to the ears. These machines will out last mankind if they're taking care of like yours are Dave. Awesome video as always, superb work as well. Truly enjoy watching your videos. Cheers :)
Hi Dave: So interesting to see you work with the old machines. They are as good today as whwn made. Sad to hear you will colse the shop down. Haven't seen much of you this year. Have a safe trip south, take care, stay healthy.
No "chip" shortage " in the old steam shop I would like to see some of these new CNC machines running in around 100 years,, isn't going to happen, always great to see a video clip from you Dave hope your warm down in Florida by now.
Yeah...but those damned CNC machines will have produced several thousand times the volume of work than the old machines could. Don't get me wrong...I love to see the old machinery especially the planer,😍😍😍😍 but don't diss the modern stuff, they are capable of doing things the old timers could only dream of!
@@davewilliams6172 With all due respect young feller, I need to correct you on that. You are not familiar with the old Acme Gridley six spindle screw machines . They could do 12 separate operations on a single part including threading. They loaded up with six bars of stock each 21 feet long and would run AUTOMATICALLY without any human intervention until they flat ran out of stock. They would run day after day for years and years with little or no maintenance. There were no limit switches or electrical parts whatever. Nor was there any hydraulics. Six tools come in from the side and six from the end including a tapping station. One side position was for cut off, and would automatically open the collet, feed the stock out to a precise length against a wooden stop, then reclose the collet and index the machine and go on to make the next part. As I said, with no human intervention. I ran six of these and a turret lathe and a horizontal tapper simultaneously for years. Rarely did they ever require any attention at all. Everything ran off cams and roller followers. They were used during the Civil War!! I made millions of pipe couplings this way. I have also worked around CNC machinery professionally (set up man in a large production shop). They are certainly superior machines. But they are NOT faster than a Gridley, or a Warner Swasey turret lathe or a Warner Swasey AB or AC (automatic bar or chucker). I would put the WS #3 up against anything. There are three areas where a CNC really kicks ass, freakishly consistent accuracy, high speed material removal and finish. Some of those parts look chrome plated right out of the machine. I knew then back in the late 70's that us old guys and our precious machines were heading out the back door. However, keep in mind before you get to chest thumpin'. The typical CNC machinist today couldn't make a 1/2" bolt to save his life, but a 17 year old kid back in the 1850's could!!! Still feel like braggin? Art
@@artszabo1015 Just was watching the ford and others machine videos from the early 40's building Flathead engines etc..and YES it is impressive the level of automation going on with no computers. Most people are unaware that Archimedes built a star tracking analog computer 100 years before the Jesus character was born.. Also all the old mechanical drawing robots built over 200 years ago. Automation is not new.. accurate but not when it throws a tool towards your head from glitchy computer crash!!!
Hello. You have two steam engines. What is their power? What steam pressure do they work at? How many pounds of wood do you need for one working day? Thanks for your reply.
The small one is a 5"x5" rated probably at about 6 HP. The large engine is 8x10 and would be rated somewhere around 60 HP. I burn mostly junk soft wood scrap and it takes a lot.....Dave
Miss seeing you as much. Hope you are able to have some young apprentices. If we have and EMP or a solar EMP Their new tec is done . Even the vehicles will not work. steam may need to come back .
We're gonna miss you and the shop for the winter. If you get a chance do a quick video on how that taper mechanism works as it's pulled across on the lathe, it kinda confused me as to how it could cut a taper as it's pulled. Thanks for another fun video David. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
Hi Keith, Sorry, the camera missed that clip. All that happens with a taper attachment is that the cross slide is disconnected from it's feed screw (on this old lathe a bolt is removed holding the nut) allowing it to move freely. The back end of the cross slide is tightened down on a slide that runs along the back of the lathe frame that can be pivoted at a slight angle and has the pointer layed out in inches per foot taper. So the more you angle that slide, the more the cross slide gets dragged in (or out) as the sadle moves along.....Dave
Great episode. I'll be doing this soon for my Globe air compressor rebuild. Also, thanks for reminding me I need to make a chuck key holder like your's for my lathe. Have a good holidays, AN
This is the only presentation that I look out for, I make sure that there will be nothing to interrupt, before watching. Thanks, looking forward to see you again.
Very nice. I'm sure whatever you can do from Florida will be appreciated by me and many! Go off topic if you feel like it; whatever seems interesting. It'll work. :-). But in any case, have a nice winter break!
This is so freaking cool. I hoped to my wife we were going to the central PA. To the 1900 RRMachine shop. All steam powered and fully operational. Sounds awesome to me and torture for her. 😆
Thanks Dave. Enjoy the southern clime, eat some good seafood, etc. I bailed out 15 years ago and have been living in real tropics full time. I really don't need any more of that cold and wet and dark winter. Make sure you blow out the lines to get all the water out, open the drains on the steam lines, etc.
Cheating lol. No Bridgeport mills allowed, only steam lol. Some of this old stuff I was schooled on but I will stick to electric drives and cncs myself. A vertical slotter would have been my choice. After over 30 years I must say I'm tired of being a machinist. It isn't even fun anymore.
The saw at the beginning does cut on the 'pull' stroke. One at the heritage village, electric, cuts on the push stroke. And, Yes! I am sure. :-edit:- ..and yes, this is marvellous to be seeing the old machines, turning over. Jealous as all hell.
When we moved my Chandler and Price 8 by 12 letterpress it had that type of key holding on the huge flywheel. We never got it off and moved it with flywheel on. That crown turned out perfect you made it look easy.
I'm so blade you posted a video! I was just thinking of you this morning, wondering and hoping all was well. I still enjoy everything you post and watching you rebuild that pulley is no exception. We'll look forward to the next one!
Hei David, this is Olaf from Norway. i am a mechanicer too. i wondering how this old machins was made in the old times. can you this explain? best reagards
Hallo David, A Bert food video as always I wish you a very good time and hollydays down south. Hope to see and hear from you next year. Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands Henk van der Wal
Gday Dave, the crown on the pulley turned out spot on, the planer also did a perfect job cutting the keyway in, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas mate, thanks for all the great content, I’m looking forward to seeing what you make in Florida, Cheers
This is refreshing to see. I have some old motors from the 20s with the battery ignition that are fun to work on, the interesting thing is the simplicity
Bonjour David, It is always a pleasure to see your too rare videos. Question of the day, perhaps you already answered in the video, sorry, why did you decide to refresh this pulley so accuratly ? A steam machine turns at a few hundred RPM, I guess it is not a question of balancing. For the look ? This means perhaps a varnish after your work otherwise the rust will come back quickly ? Amicalement, Raphaël
I think he machines the outside of the pulleys so that the belt tracks nicely on the crown of the pulley. It would probably worsen the balance of the pulley, as the raw casting would be of more uniform thickness prior to machining. At the end of the video Dave mentions balancing the pulley. Even at a few hundred rpm it would make a difference.
Hi Raphael, Most of these old pulleys were run "as cast" and can be as much as 1/4" out of round and 1/4 pound out of balance. Most have no attempt to balance them. Even at 275 RPM 1/4 pound at an 8-10" radius is a lot of shaking. You could also think about several pulleys along a shaft where the "off balance" lines up together....Dave
This workplace is a unicum this should never go away.respect for Mr David to maintain this traesures.I am 73 years old and old scool mecanic so i love this sschaannel very wwell.Thank you david for showing us all this.Greetings from Belgium.
I actually changed the first taper after the first cut. It didn't seem to be following the original angle. The camera batterys were getting low and I lost a couple clips there.....Dave
My perfect day Dave is machine all day and then watch machining videos for 4-5 hours at night--I have got it bad....Its amazing what extra you can learn from watching other machinists..Keep on keeping on Dave and churning out those videos,the teaching potential is almost limitless....regards E from OZ
Hi Dave, glad to see another video from you, safe trip to Florida for the winter. I have a Racine saw just like yours, but not in the best of shape, it doesn't lift on the return stroke. I see you have your planer running nice and smooth, nice job with all the work you had to do on it. I have a 1920 South Bend lathe 16-24x8 gap bed and bridge, overhead silent chain motordrive, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, collets, center rest, and taper attachment, with quick change feeds, and lots of tooling. This is my winter project to put it back into working operation, I bought it at an auction this summer. I like old engines and machinery, now I have the time to get to the lathe.
Dear Dave I have realised I have only seen half your videos ( things take a while to register there's days ) I have court up now ! I thought Tom was a new boy , he has finished his apprenticeship done 2 years as a journeyman and we'll on the way as a millwright! I have changed my opinion on the planer the war wounds add to the character . You were right . Christopher from Down Under
Thanks, Dave, for another great video. You know that you don't have to be doing something in the vicinity of a steam engine to make a video. I, for one of many, have become personally attached to you, I feel like we are friends. When you go for extended periods without a video I miss you. Surely you go places or do things that would be of interest to us. Like Mr. Pete, my UA-cam shop teacher, he goes to auctions, other people's shops, farming, tractor pulls and road trips. I think you should too. I am sure that anything you are interested in, I would be too. Like I told Jake at 5 tractor guy, make a video of your self eating a bowl of corn flakes. I'll watch it and give it a thumbs up. We need a little dose of Dave on a more regular basis. Your friend Art in Ohio
Old recommendations for that operation call for locking down the clapper box when doing internal work like that or doing it "upside down" like that so that the clapper would not function so as not to induce chatter. I usually do it with the tool pointing down but I thought I would try it. I don't see much difference on cast iron.....Dave
I used to operate and maintain a couple skinner uniflow engines with generators on them for a hospital. Mechanically operated glycerine oilers. I loved those engines. Worthington duplex feed pumps. Something about steam engines and equipment is special. No bearing shells. Scraping babbett until the clearances were perfect.
I wondered why you didn't use block e so i rewound to review the diagram. Then i spotted the text saying block e not needed if the bug screws were near the centerline.
There's something about watching your work, celebrating the skills developed in earlier times, not to mention the heart beat rhythm of recipocating steam from an earlier era that is very relaxing!
Boy did you nail that! Are you a poet?
@@artszabo1015 In my old age maybe there is a poet in there somewhere..
I think about this every time. It's extremely relaxing to watch. It's fascinating too.
And the tick tock of the clock too.
This weekend I'm giving thanks for people like Dave Richards who share the knowledge they have with everyone here.
Dave - you're the best, I can't wait for your next one.
Thanks John, we can all use prayer....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 You speak of prayers, is it that bad for you?
Hey old man take care enjoy your winter in Florida . Keep up health and be back !!! Your one of a kind! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎🍻
Thanks for posting Dave. Very enjoyable and informative! Wow you have really lost some weight. Inspires me to work a little harder on my own health. Thanks again!
It always makes my day when I see that you have put out another video
David it's always a pleaser to watch when you post a video.
You'r the best, hope you have a Mary Christmas.
Always like to watch you in this setting. Brings back memories
Of the first school shop that I was a part of. Miller School of Albermarle
In Virginia. It was a line shaft shop that was built in 1880 to teach young
kids the trade. It was powered by a very large DC motor, belt driven to the
Main center shaft in the ceiling. I only attended in my sophomore year
of high school, but it has stuck with me the rest of my life. Still operate
A job shop in Richmond, Va.
I gotta ask my friend, how old are you? I'm old enough (70) to have run many machines converted from line shafts, in some very inventive ways. But never a line shaft shop. I've skidded logs with a horse though, and I'm not Amish. But I would look like one if I had a straw hat.
Art
My memories of when I was thirteen years old and my first trip to Detroit with my dad. He was working and I would stay in a hotel by myself. After a couple of days he said he would bring me to Henry Ford museum / green field village on his way to work. I walked in and spent the whole day wondering around the whole site. I was in heaven.
About half way though the day I went into a small steam powered machine shopin the village, much like the one you have built. It was amazing. Somehow the ford foundation moved an entire building and machine shop to this location. Over fifty years later and I can still recall the moment I walked into the shop. This shop was so old they even had square shafts on some of the machines.
You are so so right. I've been there twice, 69 and 78. It brands your brain for sure.
Art
Thanks Dave, greetings from Australia. I am a degree qualified engineer with a background in production and jobbing machine shops. Now in my late career I have my own machine shop including a G&L 3307 horizontal borer, a 24” Bullard vertical borer & a vintage bridge planer - no identification.
Love your work - good to see your high level finesse.
Keep up the great work, enjoy the “winter recess” as we go into summer.
All the best, Peter
You are either a single man, or have a loving, understanding wife. I got up to a $1000, bid on an old shaper. I wasn't game, ( read, could not justify) going any higher. Missed out on it. Bugger. You, mate, are another bloke that I am Jealous of.
Said this before, will say it again. Watching and listening to the old steam engine and all those old belts driving the machines, just amazing music to the ears. These machines will out last mankind if they're taking care of like yours are Dave. Awesome video as always, superb work as well. Truly enjoy watching your videos. Cheers :)
Don't forget that wonderful old shop clock ticking in the quiet background moments... never forget that sound from my youth in the shop class.
Thanks, I'm glad you are interested in this....Dave
I wish I had a job doing work like this, but nowadays, it's all about HURRY HURRY HURRY!!!!
Hi Dave: So interesting to see you work with the old machines. They are as good today as whwn made. Sad to hear you will colse the shop down. Haven't seen much of you this year. Have a safe trip south, take care, stay healthy.
Have the exact racine saw at work ours is powered by an electric motor though
No "chip" shortage " in the old steam shop I would like to see some of these new CNC machines running in around 100 years,, isn't going to happen, always great to see a video clip from you Dave hope your warm down in Florida by now.
Yeah...but those damned CNC machines will have produced several thousand times the volume of work than the old machines could. Don't get me wrong...I love to see the old machinery especially the planer,😍😍😍😍 but don't diss the modern stuff, they are capable of doing things the old timers could only dream of!
@@davewilliams6172 Several thousand times more? I doubt that. Those old machines could do some serious work in their own right.
There were many more machines used and therefore a lot more people employed with the older machines, it’s not a bad thing
@@davewilliams6172 With all due respect young feller, I need to correct you on that. You are not familiar with the old Acme Gridley six spindle screw machines . They could do 12 separate operations on a single part including threading. They loaded up with six bars of stock each 21 feet long and would run AUTOMATICALLY without any human intervention until they flat ran out of stock. They would run day after day for years and years with little or no maintenance. There were no limit switches or electrical parts whatever. Nor was there any hydraulics. Six tools come in from the side and six from the end including a tapping station. One side position was for cut off, and would automatically open the collet, feed the stock out to a precise length against a wooden stop, then reclose the collet and index the machine and go on to make the next part. As I said, with no human intervention. I ran six of these and a turret lathe and a horizontal tapper simultaneously for years. Rarely did they ever require any attention at all. Everything ran off cams and roller followers. They were used during the Civil War!! I made millions of pipe couplings this way.
I have also worked around CNC machinery professionally (set up man in a large production shop). They are certainly superior machines. But they are NOT faster than a Gridley, or a Warner Swasey turret lathe or a Warner Swasey AB or AC (automatic bar or chucker). I would put the WS #3 up against anything.
There are three areas where a CNC really kicks ass, freakishly consistent accuracy, high speed material removal and finish. Some of those parts look chrome plated right out of the machine. I knew then back in the late 70's that us old guys and our precious machines were heading out the back door.
However, keep in mind before you get to chest thumpin'. The typical CNC machinist today couldn't make a 1/2" bolt to save his life, but a 17 year old kid back in the 1850's could!!! Still feel like braggin?
Art
@@artszabo1015 Just was watching the ford and others machine videos from the early 40's building Flathead engines etc..and YES it is impressive the level of automation going on with no computers. Most people are unaware that Archimedes built a star tracking analog computer 100 years before the Jesus character was born.. Also all the old mechanical drawing robots built over 200 years ago. Automation is not new.. accurate but not when it throws a tool towards your head from glitchy computer crash!!!
You use your equipment creatively, very interesting.
Happy Holidays Dave! Always good to see your old steam machine shop in action. Thanks
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome fun video. Love seeing the machines in action. This is what I learned on.
Another enjoyable video! Thanks David, I'm going outside right now and getting busy. We all need the motivation and I thank you for that sir.
Great video. Can't wait for more next season!
This is the time of the year I get a little weepy (like a worn seal) as I know it's down to Florida with you and shop kind of gets some cobwebs.
The way things are going Old Steam-powered machine shops might become New Steam-powered machine shops.
I enjoy your videos as much as ever . Enjoy Florida. We will look forward for new videos when you have time. Thanks Phil.
Hello. You have two steam engines. What is their power? What steam pressure do they work at? How many pounds of wood do you need for one working day? Thanks for your reply.
The small one is a 5"x5" rated probably at about 6 HP. The large engine is 8x10 and would be rated somewhere around 60 HP. I burn mostly junk soft wood scrap and it takes a lot.....Dave
Best of luck in Florida Dave.
You're one of the most entertaining channels on this platform. Have a great winter
Nice work David, I could watch those planer chips come off all day. Love it, enjoy the winter in a warm place.
Miss seeing you as much. Hope you are able to have some young apprentices. If we have and EMP or a solar EMP Their new tec is done . Even the vehicles will not work. steam may need to come back .
At that point the green new deal and carbon thing goes south on them big time!!
Pulley looks like new money compared to when you started.
very good
We're gonna miss you and the shop for the winter. If you get a chance do a quick video on how that taper mechanism works as it's pulled across on the lathe, it kinda confused me as to how it could cut a taper as it's pulled. Thanks for another fun video David. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
Hi Keith, Sorry, the camera missed that clip. All that happens with a taper attachment is that the cross slide is disconnected from it's feed screw (on this old lathe a bolt is removed holding the nut) allowing it to move freely. The back end of the cross slide is tightened down on a slide that runs along the back of the lathe frame that can be pivoted at a slight angle and has the pointer layed out in inches per foot taper. So the more you angle that slide, the more the cross slide gets dragged in (or out) as the sadle moves along.....Dave
Thanks Dave, always enjoy watching your videos and learning something too.Enjoy Florida, hope to see more videos soon.
Another great one Dave! Loved the chips flying off the planer.
I love your channel. Lots of great work from a beautiful shop. Looking forward to your next one!
Great episode. I'll be doing this soon for my Globe air compressor rebuild. Also, thanks for reminding me I need to make a chuck key holder like your's for my lathe.
Have a good holidays,
AN
Aaron, I've got to admit, I stole that idea from Adam Booth.....Dave
Bravo....great call...... on key square .....square bolts......why don't we have square bolts......? ......cheers
I always salivate when I see your equipment in operation 😉👍
This is the only presentation that I look out for, I make sure that there will be nothing to interrupt, before watching. Thanks, looking forward to see you again.
Florida!? That's no place for a machinist! Just kidding. ENJOY/Thanks!
Very nice. I'm sure whatever you can do from Florida will be appreciated by me and many! Go off topic if you feel like it; whatever seems interesting. It'll work. :-). But in any case, have a nice winter break!
This is so freaking cool. I hoped to my wife we were going to the central PA. To the 1900 RRMachine shop. All steam powered and fully operational. Sounds awesome to me and torture for her. 😆
👍👍👍💯🤝🤝🤝🇺🇦 привіт з України.
Thanks!....Dave
Thanks Dave. Enjoy the southern clime, eat some good seafood, etc. I bailed out 15 years ago and have been living in real tropics full time. I really don't need any more of that cold and wet and dark winter. Make sure you blow out the lines to get all the water out, open the drains on the steam lines, etc.
sounds like you lived in NY....Dave
Cheating lol. No Bridgeport mills allowed, only steam lol. Some of this old stuff I was schooled on but I will stick to electric drives and cncs myself. A vertical slotter would have been my choice. After over 30 years I must say I'm tired of being a machinist. It isn't even fun anymore.
The saw at the beginning does cut on the 'pull' stroke. One at the heritage village, electric, cuts on the push stroke. And, Yes! I am sure. :-edit:- ..and yes, this is marvellous to be seeing the old machines, turning over. Jealous as all hell.
Thanks for another interesting video, I always enjoy your videos.😀🇬🇧
When we moved my Chandler and Price 8 by 12 letterpress it had that type of key holding on the huge flywheel. We never got it off and moved it with flywheel on. That crown turned out perfect you made it look easy.
I'm so blade you posted a video! I was just thinking of you this morning, wondering and hoping all was well. I still enjoy everything you post and watching you rebuild that pulley is no exception. We'll look forward to the next one!
You do fine work Mr Richards. Keep it up, I really appreciate what you do and how you do it!
Hei David, this is Olaf from Norway. i am a mechanicer too. i wondering how this old machins was made in the old times. can you this explain? best reagards
Have a great winter David. It's enjoyable to watch your machines running.
I like the way you have all your Drills,MT arbors on the wall shelf!.
Very spiffy set up!
Total lay person here: what is the reason / advantage to have a taper on the pulley ? Beautiful shop, beautiful video, beautiful you !
Hallo David,
A Bert food video as always
I wish you a very good time and hollydays down south.
Hope to see and hear from you next year.
Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands
Henk van der Wal
Gday Dave, the crown on the pulley turned out spot on, the planer also did a perfect job cutting the keyway in, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas mate, thanks for all the great content, I’m looking forward to seeing what you make in Florida, Cheers
Hi Dave great video, what is the title and author of the book you showed us many thanks Simon
This is refreshing to see. I have some old motors from the 20s with the battery ignition that are fun to work on, the interesting thing is the simplicity
Interesting stuff. I suggest you create a channel on odysee, youtube censors comments and all.
Thanks Dave! Have a good trip south!
This season was too short, way too short.
Bless you and have safe travels and enjoy Florida.
Thank you Dave a privilege watching a man at one with his Trade Namaste
Nice one David, another great bit of engineering.
Thank you Dave the privilege of watching a man at one with his trade Namaste
wow that plainer surface is amazing it looks brand new
Wonderful accurate work as usual, that’s a beautiful old lathe.
Nice to see old days
I want to bring back because energy crisis in Pakistan
It is a great pleasure to watch some one who knows what they're dong . Stay well.
Thank you, dang I would love to be by your side to help, work, clean all :)
Hello Dave nice work hope you have a fine winter in Florida best wishes
Have a good time in FL. I can’t wait for the next video
Very enjoyable....thanks for sharing
Nice work
Have a great winter David.
Best wishes from the far North.
Great video still can’t believe how quiet that big engine is 👍
Thanks Dave! have a good time in Florida.
Thank you for your time and skills.
Dave, I’ve got a steam engine here I’d like for you to see if you have an email I can send the pictures to you.
Joe, You can always reach me at enginedrdave@gmail.com Dave
Are you coming to Flywheelers this winter
i would like to see the balancing process
Thanks very much David ,enjoy the sun down in Florida
Travel safe.
Thanks for the vids
What's the engine running in the background? sounds a bit like a diesel generator?
Because you are machining upwards, the clapper box doesn't work. Problem?
Hi Martin, It works well that way and seems to eliminate most of the chatter with a wide edge tool and long overhang
Bonjour David,
It is always a pleasure to see your too rare videos. Question of the day, perhaps you already answered in the video, sorry, why did you decide to refresh this pulley so accuratly ? A steam machine turns at a few hundred RPM, I guess it is not a question of balancing. For the look ? This means perhaps a varnish after your work otherwise the rust will come back quickly ?
Amicalement, Raphaël
I think he machines the outside of the pulleys so that the belt tracks nicely on the crown of the pulley.
It would probably worsen the balance of the pulley, as the raw casting would be of more uniform thickness prior to machining.
At the end of the video Dave mentions balancing the pulley. Even at a few hundred rpm it would make a difference.
Hi Raphael, Most of these old pulleys were run "as cast" and can be as much as 1/4" out of round and 1/4 pound out of balance. Most have no attempt to balance them. Even at 275 RPM 1/4 pound at an 8-10" radius is a lot of shaking. You could also think about several pulleys along a shaft where the "off balance" lines up together....Dave
This workplace is a unicum this should never go away.respect for Mr David to maintain this traesures.I am 73 years old and old scool mecanic so i love this sschaannel very wwell.Thank you david for showing us all this.Greetings from Belgium.
Enjoy your southern winter and a huge thank you for producing these videos for us. Brian from the UK
Looks like your having fun with your Planer !
I do, and I have a lot of small things I want to do to it next year.....Dave
When you were doing the crown of the pulley, why did you switch from 0.5 inch on one side to 0.75 on the other?
I actually changed the first taper after the first cut. It didn't seem to be following the original angle. The camera batterys were getting low and I lost a couple clips there.....Dave
My perfect day Dave is machine all day and then watch machining videos for 4-5 hours at night--I have got it bad....Its amazing what extra you can learn from watching other machinists..Keep on keeping on Dave and churning out those videos,the teaching potential is almost limitless....regards E from OZ
Hi Dave, glad to see another video from you, safe trip to Florida for the winter.
I have a Racine saw just like yours, but not in the best of shape, it doesn't lift on the return stroke. I see you have your planer running nice and smooth, nice job with all the work you had to do on it.
I have a 1920 South Bend lathe 16-24x8 gap bed and bridge, overhead silent chain motordrive, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, collets, center rest, and taper attachment, with quick change feeds, and lots of tooling. This is my winter project to put it back into working operation, I bought it at an auction this summer. I like old engines and machinery, now I have the time to get to the lathe.
Dear Dave
I have realised I have only seen half your videos ( things take a while to register there's days ) I have court up now !
I thought Tom was a new boy , he has finished his apprenticeship done 2 years as a journeyman and we'll on the way as a millwright!
I have changed my opinion on the planer the war wounds add to the character . You were right .
Christopher from Down Under
Happy Holidays ,take care and enjoy your Florida trip for the winter.🎅in Finland
Thanks Ralf, good to hear from Finland....Dave
lt's always good to see you working on stuff David.....Have a great warm winter my friend.....Thanks David....!
Thanks, Dave, for another great video. You know that you don't have to be doing something in the vicinity of a steam engine to make a video. I, for one of many, have become personally attached to you, I feel like we are friends. When you go for extended periods without a video I miss you. Surely you go places or do things that would be of interest to us. Like Mr. Pete, my UA-cam shop teacher, he goes to auctions, other people's shops, farming, tractor pulls and road trips. I think you should too. I am sure that anything you are interested in, I would be too. Like I told Jake at 5 tractor guy, make a video of your self eating a bowl of corn flakes. I'll watch it and give it a thumbs up. We need a little dose of Dave on a more regular basis.
Your friend Art in Ohio
Hi David, why did the keyway in the pully have to be set at the top in the shaper instead of the bottom where the clapper box could work safely
Old recommendations for that operation call for locking down the clapper box when doing internal work like that or doing it "upside down" like that so that the clapper would not function so as not to induce chatter. I usually do it with the tool pointing down but I thought I would try it. I don't see much difference on cast iron.....Dave
I used to operate and maintain a couple skinner uniflow engines with generators on them for a hospital. Mechanically operated glycerine oilers. I loved those engines. Worthington duplex feed pumps. Something about steam engines and equipment is special. No bearing shells. Scraping babbett until the clearances were perfect.
Always the best and I look forward to the next video. Thanks.
My favourite machine channel. Keep up the good work.
Always great to see a new video from you! Wish I had a boiler to power my steam hammer!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I always enjoy your videos, David, and look forward to the next.
I wondered why you didn't use block e so i rewound to review the diagram. Then i spotted the text saying block e not needed if the bug screws were near the centerline.