Last century when i had all my teeth and a full head of hair, we used pumps like that for water treatment, dosage pumps for chemicals., they would run 24 hrs. a day. Thanks for the videos
I like the fact that you take the time to clean up your machines and make them look maintained. I've seen so many shops that have pitiful looking machines and it makes you wonder if that is how they approach their work as well.
As others have said that is a metering pump. Most metering pumps are very pricey, yours is almost exactly like a Simplex Model 1760-12-SS and is capable of 30 GPH. The price for a new Simplex Model 1750-12-SS is right around $2300.
Very nice Adam. Watching you clean out the sump brings back fond memories of myself cleaning out the 4" of sludge in the sump of the huron from 35 years of use, oh the lovely stench. haha. Even the internal coolant ways in the table were 3" deep with crud. You got a good score with the shaper Adam.
We use that oil pump for pumping chemicals into high pressure boilers. I should be able to pull a manual for you if you need it. They require a real good grease job as it's what is used for sealing. We know them as a v5 simplex pump manufactured by a&f machine products.
Adam, I agree with Carl and Brian below. What we used to use on machinery when I was in a shop is heated Varsol. Maybe 80 or so deg. Hand sprayer, garden sprayer. Or you could build yourself one that uses shop air. Was great for cleaning old radial engines that dripped oil almost as fast as you could put them in. We used a simple emersion heated to heat the Varsol. I would also take it as far as using the varsol as an oil for a very short while and try and flush out the oiling system.
Love looking inside machine tools, highest quality for 24/7 production. I think the two cracks on the arm are casting faults, caused by rapid cooling of a thin section, looks to be contained, and most likely crack tested at inspection, and judged to be satisfactory. Great video, and enjoy your presentation. I spent my first 9 months of my apprenticeship on a 32" Churchill Shaper ( UK), very scary as a 16 year old, mid 70's. It used to miss indexes on the cross travel, then do a double cut, big dents in the steel floor standing guard.
Bosted Tap. Sadly, no. I've been exiled to the South of England for the past 40+ years, but I was born and brought up in Smethwick, at a time when we still had a thriving metalworking industry in Britain. My heart is still there. I know Wombourne, I have relatives there. All the best to you.
from the looks of it, the machine uses copper single wall tubing. It is nice for low pressure applications. Connections can be made with easy to buy union fittings. The outer line is probably the same just snapped off. One thing about old copper line. It tends to thin out so check all the lines you can for leaks , or since it is also easy to bend, kinks from something being tossed around. Air is a good test for system.
Nice job Adam, I think I got you beat on debris in the sump of our shapers. Got a hacksaw blade part, a couple of pounds of big curly chips and busted length of toolsteel. Interesting to see the transmission gears helix cut but the bull gear looked straight cut. Mines the other way around. Looking forward to your progress. All the best Mat
Adam: The pump works slick, I can think of a lot of grungy jobs for one like that. Also could be used the other way to put heavy lube into hard to get at places. I don't understand the purpose of the beveled iron adapter plate below the vise. There must be a great reason why that the universal table is built that way on that side. ....Dave
Great looking shaper. Hope you counted the ,,rags in,, and ,,rags out,, I left one behind in the sump of a car. OK, for about 7 months. Bit me big on the arse. I mean, I can smile now, just. edit:-
Give the shaper an internal bath with Turbine Flushing Oil. Comes in 5-gallon drums. Does a great job breaking down and carrying away deposits while still providing good lubrication. Let me know if you would like the brand/part-number I use.
Hi Adam, Did you count the number of mats you put in so it equals the number you removed? Surgeons sometimes forget surgical drapes in their patients ...
I was motivated by your positive comments on PIG MAT. I bought a roll, part number 7221. The roll is 15 inches wide and 150 feet long. (38.1 cm X 46 meters) I am in my 70s and if I stat leaking, I might throw a square in my BVDs.
While you had the pump running I would have taken a garden sprayer full of Kerosene, etc and sprayed down the interior and let the pump pull most of that sludge out. But I'm lazy like that!!!
Hi Adam, nice start on the rebuild, I wondered what was the driving force inside a shaper! Now I've seen one! You buried the lead however, at 26:17 "Abby called, she sez I'm taking her to dinner!" Nice, I think your hooked, it explains the smile!!
Hi Adam, Truly looks like a fun and enjoyable project to be cleaning the old girl up, its obvious you seek to ensure the machine looks forward to another life time of work ahead. Only a fine craftsman takes on such a job, Congratulations and Thank you for sharing the detailed work. Very much look forward to your next video, cleaning and filling with new oil. Btw: i don't wish to be selfish but don't waste too much time at work, we want to see those lube lines repaired, unit filled with lube, fresh handles made and making chips. :) Thank you and all the best, you truly are living the dream dude. Calgary, Alberta Canada Craig
Thanks Craig. I'm getting ancy to get the machine running. I'm still waiting on the oil to arrive. I have some other parts on the machine I'm working on now. We'll get it all cleaned up and working like it should be again.
Looking real good Adam, really it was the same story with mine. 1/8 inch of goo at the bottom of the sump and lots of time soaking with rags. I love the pig mats, use them at work all the time. Your G&E looks like it has had a fairly easy life. That shaper will be around long after we are gone if she is cared for.. She was build to run 24/7👍
I've been thinking about this video for several days and asking myself the question, "Is it possible for anyone to make an interesting video about sucking cruddy old oil out of a machine?" Well, you did it! Amazing. You are the master.
That could be a dosing pump of some sort. We had similar pumps although smaller, for dosing water treatment chemicals for the feed water in our boiler systems.
looks like a small dosing pump, used in swimming pools, non return is usually on the discharge side? maybe wrong been away for a while memory not so good.
Kerosene works wonders for cleaning machine sumps. It tends to dissolve the sludge, it is thin enough to flush all the gears and bearings clean and you don't need to worry about water based cleaners. Monarch recommends it for flushing the headstock and apron.
Thanks buddy! The SNS videos are great, keep them coming. But I really enjoy these how to videos too, they are a great learning too since a lot of machines work the same. Again, thanks!
What year is that GE? I love the video, nothing more impressive then old iron. The bull gear is massive. The casting is something else too. Thanks for the content
you know you could probably save the fixtures you need to hang if you just rotated the lights you already have in 2 rows long-ways so the light reflects off the walls, and then a third row down the middle if need be. LEDs have that whole beam angle, and while a lot brighter they don't have the same light spread as a full tube..... just an idea that might save some cash
Cute pump, you can mount it on a box and keep pump accessories in it. The other side of that shaft could be used to drive something too, not sure what that could be.
Hi mate Don from Australia by the look of the machine I would pull the pickup for the oil off as in the older machines they put a filter to stop any large particales from blocking the lines.
Adam you are using the same tune here as Old Steam Powered Machine Shop. Another channel I watch a lot. Cool look at the shaper. the gears are a thing of beauty.
Man it would be so nice to have your own shop. A place where the only people that touch your machines are the people you allow. A place where asshats dont use a machine and leave chips, burrs, hand tools, greasy hand prints and, messes on the floor. It never fails at work. I go to use a machine and its a mess. I clean it up, then do what I need to do. Then clean up the mess I made. Leaving the machine ready for the next person to use. I go in the machine shop a day later, the machine I cleaned up is a mess. Sometimes I get spare time. Ill gonin the machine shop, just because its a place I like to be. Ill pick a machine and deep clean it in entirety. Scrub down the castings polish up anything that needs it Oil anything that needs oiled. Right down to detailing the electric motors. Ill get a tooth brush and clean between all the cooling fins. Wipe down any tuning, hoses, wires. Ill clean the floors up. Mop the floors real well. Degrease them if need be. Wipe thr walls down. Go through yool cabinets and wipe tools down. Making sure everything is in order and where its supposed to be. Then, the same thing. Ill go in there a few days later. Looks like a 200 poind oil soaked gorilla used the machine shop for a jungle gym. So disapointing. Its very discouraging. Makes me want to not care. But, I just dont have it in me. Kinda like, "anything worth doing is worth doing well". If Im going to go to work and work, then Im going to do a good job. If Im not going to do a good job at work, then I might as well not go.
Adam repairs quite a few paper mill gearboxes, so it fits. Likely brought along with one of jobs at work, and forgotten or unwanted for a long time. I hear they can be pricey.
Hi Adam, I'm surprised you used the mats so soon. I would have sprayed the inside down with solvent while thee pump was running. Kerosene/diesel are my favorites. Looks like a fun and rewarding job, have fun.
Here's a suggestion for those oil lines - tygon tubing, very flexible and lasts a long time with fuel or oil. McMaster has some here: www.mcmaster.com/#=1bdg1oc but you might find some cheaper locally.
Check the set screws on the link from the crank arm to the ram, mine where loose. The oil in my G&E was the filthiest thing I've ever seen. It took many hours to get as clean as yours started. For the finale pass I used brake kleen. One cool thing is every time you pull the clutch lever it auto cleans the oil filter.
Those peace's of bad hoses that he got out of the machine.... I seen What they connected... what does that box with the sight glass do???? And the sight glass is that there so one can just visually see that the oil is pumping????HELP ME... I need Knowledge.....
That pump is made by A&F Machine in Ohio, I use them as chemical feed pumps on boilers. I saw you had those checks valves wrong at first and thought he's gonna be there a while
I remember when I did the sump in my Rockford 24" shaper . This is not a fun job but nessecery . I need to do it again so I can fix a leaking oil seal on the motor shaft . The G & E is shaping up nicely
Mucking out oil, no better way to get in touch with your machinery :). Soliciting recommendations from the oil manufacturer is always a good idea. I found a manual on the Vintage Machinery website and it states 7-1/2 gallons for that size shaper. At any rate probably couldn't overfill with that type oil fill system. Keep up the very interesting videos.
I guess the sump is going to be the worst area since it's designed to collect all that gunk and flakes of god knows what, the bearings and oil lines etc are probably no where near as scary as that looked. When it ran it sound very nice and smooth. It will be interesting to see the effects of having the proper amount of clean oil flowing around it, although it'l take awhile I daresay for the oil fully to reach every surface and work it's healing magic? Seeing you doing this cleanup/renovation gives me a happy feeling bro, I can't explain it all, but it's like your honouring and respecting the old ways, the old wisdoms; it's good to see someone with the courage of their convictions! It makes me feel secure... Hah, anyway :)
Adam is that a crack in the casting inside the shaper? Just above the main pivot shaft on the whatchamacallit 22:40 Or is that a positive seam from the mold
I watch your vids all the time. Ive owned a machine shop for 35 yrs. We mostly run production but I am AWAYS fixing something or making a repair on mine or someone else stuff. And sometimes making tooling or fixtures... I do everything on CNC machines. It is soooo much easier doing all that kind of stuff with just numbers and a button.. I think of you every time I am doing that sort of thing.. I like your vids.. nerve racking though... for me...
No dead mice and spiders? How boring ;-) Actually quite clean, for a shaper. Had a lot more chips and dirt in the sump of my shaper. Most probably gets in from the oil return ramp on the back.
Great video Adam! I can almost smell the old oil and grease inside the machine. Neat little pump you've got there. I can also recommend a water-vacuum cleaner, works very good to get the small grit and flakes and residue of oil out of every corner of such a sump. However these pig-mats are also really helpful. Keep up the good work and the videos. Mark
I know it´s a little late now, but to dissolve oily residues and sludge, diesel fuel works quite well. What I like about diesel over cleaners/degreasers: Everything keeps an oily film and stays protected against moisture, at least for some time.
Nice and clean, could hosing the inside with non-chlorinated break cleaner wash the crud off the walls down into the sump, or is that too caustic for the gears?
Last century when i had all my teeth and a full head of hair, we used pumps like that for water treatment, dosage pumps for chemicals., they would run 24 hrs. a day. Thanks for the videos
I like the fact that you take the time to clean up your machines and make them look maintained. I've seen so many shops that have pitiful looking machines and it makes you wonder if that is how they approach their work as well.
As others have said that is a metering pump. Most metering pumps are very pricey, yours is almost exactly like a Simplex Model 1760-12-SS and is capable of 30 GPH. The price for a new Simplex Model 1750-12-SS is right around $2300.
Yes I remember us talking about it being a metering pump. I have some papers with it that shows how it's used.
Very nice Adam. Watching you clean out the sump brings back fond memories of myself cleaning out the 4" of sludge in the sump of the huron from 35 years of use, oh the lovely stench. haha. Even the internal coolant ways in the table were 3" deep with crud. You got a good score with the shaper Adam.
Clearly it was in need of some love, glad it is getting it! Gasoline in a hand sprayer makes an awesome cleaner for those hard to reach places.
I like to use kerosene, not quite so volatile. We use to keep a gasoline bucket in the shop for parts cleaning. The fire marshal loved that.
We use that oil pump for pumping chemicals into high pressure boilers. I should be able to pull a manual for you if you need it. They require a real good grease job as it's what is used for sealing. We know them as a v5 simplex pump manufactured by a&f machine products.
Adam, I agree with Carl and Brian below. What we used to use on machinery when I was in a shop is heated Varsol. Maybe 80 or so deg. Hand sprayer, garden sprayer. Or you could build yourself one that uses shop air. Was great for cleaning old radial engines that dripped oil almost as fast as you could put them in. We used a simple emersion heated to heat the Varsol. I would also take it as far as using the varsol as an oil for a very short while and try and flush out the oiling system.
Looking healthier every time we see you, Adam! Keep it up! Great video too. I'm looking forward to seeing the G&E cut some chips soon ;)
Love looking inside machine tools, highest quality for 24/7 production. I think the two cracks on the arm are casting faults, caused by rapid cooling of a thin section, looks to be contained, and most likely crack tested at inspection, and judged to be satisfactory. Great video, and enjoy your presentation. I spent my first 9 months of my apprenticeship on a 32" Churchill Shaper ( UK), very scary as a 16 year old, mid 70's. It used to miss indexes on the cross travel, then do a double cut, big dents in the steel floor standing guard.
"Bosted Tap" ? Any chance you're from the Black Country, aer kid?
Gospelman . Ar Bist me Mon, yow ay saft. Most definitely, grew up in Coseley, now in Wombourne. Are you near Sedgley perchance.
Bosted Tap. Sadly, no. I've been exiled to the South of England for the past 40+ years, but I was born and brought up in Smethwick, at a time when we still had a thriving metalworking industry in Britain. My heart is still there. I know Wombourne, I have relatives there. All the best to you.
Reciprocated.
The 30rpm / 36rpm is what you would get for the same motor run on 50Hz or 60Hz.
50Hz = 30rpm
60Hz = 36rpm.
An old-fashioned Wednesday night oil change... outstanding! 👍
from the looks of it, the machine uses copper single wall tubing. It is nice for low pressure applications. Connections can be made with easy to buy union fittings. The outer line is probably the same just snapped off. One thing about old copper line. It tends to thin out so check all the lines you can for leaks , or since it is also easy to bend, kinks from something being tossed around. Air is a good test for system.
Jacilynn S but it also work hardens so you can bend it to much
I'm not sure what practical use that shaper, is but it sure is interesting to see you clean it up. Great job on cleaning that thing up .
Nice job Adam, I think I got you beat on debris in the sump of our shapers. Got a hacksaw blade part, a couple of pounds of big curly chips and busted length of toolsteel. Interesting to see the transmission gears helix cut but the bull gear looked straight cut. Mines the other way around. Looking forward to your progress. All the best Mat
Beautiful job looks like a real nice scraper.
Adam: The pump works slick, I can think of a lot of grungy jobs for one like that. Also could be used the other way to put heavy lube into hard to get at places. I don't understand the purpose of the beveled iron adapter plate below the vise. There must be a great reason why that the universal table is built that way on that side. ....Dave
Dave I’m not quite sure what part your referring to.
Damn, thats one piece ofmachine there. I can only imagine the work and math someone had to do to design such a thing
You can get Mobil DTE Extra Heavy oil at Grainger, if there is one near you. I used that on a printing press I used to run.
May-be that filling plug is also intended as a "level" plug? So fill up up to that level?
How much weight have you lost so far? It's really noticeable on your videos.
Keep up the good work 😁👍🏻😁
Thanks. Don’t know till I go back to my doctors later this month.
Great looking shaper. Hope you counted the ,,rags in,, and ,,rags out,,
I left one behind in the sump of a car. OK, for about 7 months. Bit me big on the arse. I mean, I can smile now, just. edit:-
Give the shaper an internal bath with Turbine Flushing Oil. Comes in 5-gallon drums. Does a great job breaking down and carrying away deposits while still providing good lubrication. Let me know if you would like the brand/part-number I use.
Going old steam powered machine shop again?
Just brought home a G&E shaper and cleaning out all the old oil and gunk too.
Hi Adam,
Did you count the number of mats you put in so it equals the number you removed? Surgeons sometimes forget surgical drapes in their patients ...
Too funny..."Abby said I'm taken her to dinner tonight".... that's love...LOL
I was motivated by your positive comments on PIG MAT. I bought a roll, part number 7221. The roll is 15 inches wide and 150 feet long. (38.1 cm X 46 meters)
I am in my 70s and if I stat leaking, I might throw a square in my BVDs.
While you had the pump running I would have taken a garden sprayer full of Kerosene, etc and sprayed down the interior and let the pump pull most of that sludge out.
But I'm lazy like that!!!
Wild Turkey work smarter not harder
Consider a big magnet in the sump near the pickup to catch sludge
wow, amazing job, love the care you give to your machines, these will be around for generations to come!!
Man i hope for your sake that those toweles were not Abbie's sunday best.. lol thanks for the update
A maintenance video :) I wouldn't mind seeing more.
Hi Adam, nice start on the rebuild, I wondered what was the driving force inside a shaper! Now I've seen one! You buried the lead however, at 26:17 "Abby called, she sez I'm taking her to dinner!" Nice, I think your hooked, it explains the smile!!
Hi Adam,
Truly looks like a fun and enjoyable project to be cleaning the old girl up, its obvious you seek to ensure the machine looks forward to another life time of work ahead. Only a fine craftsman takes on such a job, Congratulations and Thank you for sharing the detailed work.
Very much look forward to your next video, cleaning and filling with new oil.
Btw: i don't wish to be selfish but don't waste too much time at work, we want to see those lube lines repaired, unit filled with lube, fresh handles made and making chips. :)
Thank you and all the best, you truly are living the dream dude.
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Craig
Thanks Craig. I'm getting ancy to get the machine running. I'm still waiting on the oil to arrive. I have some other parts on the machine I'm working on now. We'll get it all cleaned up and working like it should be again.
Looking real good Adam, really it was the same story with mine. 1/8 inch of goo at the bottom of the sump and lots of time soaking with rags. I love the pig mats, use them at work all the time. Your G&E looks like it has had a fairly easy life. That shaper will be around long after we are gone if she is cared for..
She was build to run 24/7👍
Thanks Steve!
I've been thinking about this video for several days and asking myself the question, "Is it possible for anyone to make an interesting video about sucking cruddy old oil out of a machine?" Well, you did it! Amazing. You are the master.
I’ve even made videos about shoveling chips and cleaning up the Monarch and people loved it! 😆👍🏻
Mike Rowe would be proud.
Choochin at 36 rippums.
I'm surprised you would use a water based solvent in there rather than diesel or kerosene.
That is a fascinating machine inside. It always amazes me the things that humans can create.
Thanks for the update! That machine is going to look like new soon. Good to get all the old oil and sludge out of there!
Very impressive clean-up considering your starting point! Thanks for the video.
That could be a dosing pump of some sort. We had similar pumps although smaller, for dosing water treatment chemicals for the feed water in our boiler systems.
man o man that's quite a machine. Can't wait to see how you use it.
If the pump motor was run on 50Hz instead of 60Hz, the 30 RPM would be spot on. Also, you need an apprentice for the sludge shoveling... :)
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That's what i was going to say. 😏
Most likely rpm is specified under load, but yes compare 50 to 60 Hertz/cycles = 20% difference.
You can hide from the police inside that thing lol
looks like a small dosing pump, used in swimming pools, non return is usually on the discharge side? maybe wrong been away for a while memory not so good.
These old machines built to a very high standard in my opinion far better than machines of this era we are in today
Love this channel! I found your channel about 6 months ago, and can't get enough of it. Keep the videos rolling.
Kerosene works wonders for cleaning machine sumps. It tends to dissolve the sludge, it is thin enough to flush all the gears and bearings clean and you don't need to worry about water based cleaners. Monarch recommends it for flushing the headstock and apron.
I agree as it evaporates and leaves no residue.
Yea! Mid-week video.....fun one too. Can't wait for the first chips!
Thanks buddy! The SNS videos are great, keep them coming. But I really enjoy these how to videos too, they are a great learning too since a lot of machines work the same. Again, thanks!
Is that a crack on casting at 16.02 on video
Casting flash
Oil cools, cleans, cushions and clearances The four C's.
That's a chemical feed pump used to meter chemicals into boilers etc. looks brand new.
What year is that GE? I love the video, nothing more impressive then old iron. The bull gear is massive. The casting is something else too. Thanks for the content
Thanks Adam for the view of the internals. That is one hell of a machine! Matt C
you know you could probably save the fixtures you need to hang if you just rotated the lights you already have in 2 rows long-ways so the light reflects off the walls, and then a third row down the middle if need be. LEDs have that whole beam angle, and while a lot brighter they don't have the same light spread as a full tube..... just an idea that might save some cash
What a pleasent surprise, an Abom vid in the middle of the week! See what a vacation can do for you!
Jeez, wish my work would throw away things like that for me to scavenge
Cute pump, you can mount it on a box and keep pump accessories in it. The other side of that shaft could be used to drive something too, not sure what that could be.
Hi mate Don from Australia by the look of the machine I would pull the pickup for the oil off as in the older machines they put a filter to stop any large particales from blocking the lines.
i purchased my big shaper from a technical college, when I drained the oil I found pens pencils rules and all sorts of junk in the sump!
Bonus Wednesday Night Abom video, thanks Adam!
Adam you are using the same tune here as Old Steam Powered Machine Shop. Another channel I watch a lot. Cool look at the shaper. the gears are a thing of beauty.
When you pull out the pig Matt is that a crack in the bottom of that arm in approximately middle right of the screen
I wondered that, too, but decided it's merely a ridge from casting.
I've always referred to that gear drive as "Worm & Sector".
pouring some diesel in would sure clean it out
What a nice mid-week treat. I can't wait to see her making chips ....
Man it would be so nice to have your own shop. A place where the only people that touch your machines are the people you allow. A place where asshats dont use a machine and leave chips, burrs, hand tools, greasy hand prints and, messes on the floor. It never fails at work. I go to use a machine and its a mess. I clean it up, then do what I need to do. Then clean up the mess I made. Leaving the machine ready for the next person to use. I go in the machine shop a day later, the machine I cleaned up is a mess. Sometimes I get spare time. Ill gonin the machine shop, just because its a place I like to be. Ill pick a machine and deep clean it in entirety. Scrub down the castings polish up anything that needs it
Oil anything that needs oiled. Right down to detailing the electric motors. Ill get a tooth brush and clean between all the cooling fins. Wipe down any tuning, hoses, wires. Ill clean the floors up. Mop the floors real well. Degrease them if need be. Wipe thr walls down. Go through yool cabinets and wipe tools down. Making sure everything is in order and where its supposed to be. Then, the same thing. Ill go in there a few days later. Looks like a 200 poind oil soaked gorilla used the machine shop for a jungle gym. So disapointing. Its very discouraging. Makes me want to not care. But, I just dont have it in me. Kinda like, "anything worth doing is worth doing well". If Im going to go to work and work, then Im going to do a good job. If Im not going to do a good job at work, then I might as well not go.
The pump is a metering pump for chemical injection into a prosses. I see a lot in paper mills.
Adam repairs quite a few paper mill gearboxes, so it fits. Likely brought along with one of jobs at work, and forgotten or unwanted for a long time. I hear they can be pricey.
Hi Adam, I'm surprised you used the mats so soon.
I would have sprayed the inside down with solvent while thee pump was running.
Kerosene/diesel are my favorites. Looks like a fun and rewarding job, have fun.
Here's a suggestion for those oil lines - tygon tubing, very flexible and lasts a long time with fuel or oil. McMaster has some here: www.mcmaster.com/#=1bdg1oc but you might find some cheaper locally.
Sure looks like that thing has a whole bunch of gravity in it. They don't make stuff like that anymore.
_Nope good point, I hadn't thought about that. The stuff's almost too expensive as is.
Check the set screws on the link from the crank arm to the ram, mine where loose.
The oil in my G&E was the filthiest thing I've ever seen. It took many hours to get as clean as yours started. For the finale pass I used brake kleen. One cool thing is every time you pull the clutch lever it auto cleans the oil filter.
Yep mine has the auto self cleaning oil filter. Pretty cool little guy
Those peace's of bad hoses that he
got out of the machine.... I seen
What they connected... what does
that box with the sight glass do????
And the sight glass is that there
so one can just visually see that the oil
is pumping????HELP ME... I need
Knowledge.....
Put a magnet in the bottom to collect any shavings or metal so it doesn’t damage ur pump or gears
They do something similar in cows
A removable oil pan, like a car engine, would have made the life a lot easier. This mini pump is real nice....
Adam, Great Video I have enjoyed every video I have watched, really looking forward to the next video on your K&E, Thank you for sharing.!.!.!.
That pump is made by A&F Machine in Ohio, I use them as chemical feed pumps on boilers. I saw you had those checks valves wrong at first and thought he's gonna be there a while
well done. a shop like yours is an accumulation of large and small accomplishments that are built day by day thanks for taking us along for the ride
question? to remove the sludge could you have used Diesel?
and just pumped it out?
I remember when I did the sump in my Rockford 24" shaper . This is not a fun job but nessecery . I need to do it again so I can fix a leaking oil seal on the motor shaft . The G & E is shaping up nicely
Mucking out oil, no better way to get in touch with your machinery :). Soliciting recommendations from the oil manufacturer is always a good idea. I found a manual on the Vintage Machinery website and it states 7-1/2 gallons for that size shaper. At any rate probably couldn't overfill with that type oil fill system. Keep up the very interesting videos.
I guess the sump is going to be the worst area since it's designed to collect all that gunk and flakes of god knows what, the bearings and oil lines etc are probably no where near as scary as that looked. When it ran it sound very nice and smooth. It will be interesting to see the effects of having the proper amount of clean oil flowing around it, although it'l take awhile I daresay for the oil fully to reach every surface and work it's healing magic? Seeing you doing this cleanup/renovation gives me a happy feeling bro, I can't explain it all, but it's like your honouring and respecting the old ways, the old wisdoms; it's good to see someone with the courage of their convictions! It makes me feel secure... Hah, anyway :)
Adam is that a crack in the casting inside the shaper? Just above the main pivot shaft on the whatchamacallit 22:40 Or is that a positive seam from the mold
It's not a crack. Someone else thinks it is too.
30 gph. Let her run over night I guess...
I watch your vids all the time. Ive owned a machine shop for 35 yrs. We mostly run production but I am AWAYS fixing something or making a repair on mine or someone else stuff. And sometimes making tooling or fixtures... I do everything on CNC machines. It is soooo much easier doing all that kind of stuff with just numbers and a button.. I think of you every time I am doing that sort of thing.. I like your vids.. nerve racking though... for me...
Harbor Freight has a $5.99 hand pump but cool little machine
Adam are you going to clean the pick-up filter? it has been sitting in that sludge for a lifetime.
No dead mice and spiders? How boring ;-)
Actually quite clean, for a shaper. Had a lot more chips and dirt in the sump of my shaper. Most probably gets in from the oil return ramp on the back.
Seems to me like you'll have enough lights in the shop to do rocket surgery. ;-)
"take this and shove it up in there. oh ya. pretty good little pocket down inside there. wow!" best line in the vid.
Great video Adam! I can almost smell the old oil and grease inside the machine. Neat little pump you've got there.
I can also recommend a water-vacuum cleaner, works very good to get the small grit and flakes and residue of oil out of every corner of such a sump. However these pig-mats are also really helpful.
Keep up the good work and the videos.
Mark
I know it´s a little late now, but to dissolve oily residues and sludge, diesel fuel works quite well.
What I like about diesel over cleaners/degreasers: Everything keeps an oily film and stays protected against moisture, at least for some time.
Perhaps try the full length LED Fluro's as these pump out so much light and are very economical to run.
Nice and clean, could hosing the inside with non-chlorinated break cleaner wash the crud off the walls down into the sump, or is that too caustic for the gears?
We have a pump similar to that at work we use on our boilers to inject chemicals to overcome the pressure inside the boiler during operating.
Another great vid!
Well Adam, 'factory fresh'. Can you, or indeed do you need to, clean out the oil tubes and passages?
Leave those lights on inside the machine. The heat they put out will help expel any moisture.
I’ve left that lamp on since last week inside the machine. It’s nice and dry in there now.