The spoken details are one of many things that make your videos so good... never let anyone tell you there's bored! The Uni-Bit Christmas tree is also one of my favorite tools. When I travel overseas, baggage space is always a problem. I can carry ONE Uni-Bit and that takes care of multiple possible drill sizes. You can usually borrow a drill at these worksites, but they have only metric bits, and they are hard to come by. Best to bring the Christmas Tree in the small tools bag.
Thank you for doing this. I am a beginner and will soak up every detail! My 11 year old son and I will be undertaking this build. Having a teacher like you will make this fun and educational for us both.
Mr. Pete. I have been looking forward to build an engin. Was going to buy a kit, but now I have decided to follow your lead and build from your video. I find that your videos are are content rich and just right for me. I wish I could have been one of your students. Thank you.
I see you have been making these videoes for 8 years now,wow all that knowledge,thank you for sharing. Building these steam engines will be a fitting retirement plan for me i think,im 32 now so i have some years to hone my skills!
I will enjoy watching this series. Feel free to include some video of the bandsaw and sander, and likewise 'dull', tasks. Always interesting to see how different people tackle the work.
as mr. pete taught me, never underestimate yourself!!! these engines can run on simple compressed air, and can basically be made from wood - or lesser materials - if desired. all that matters are the basic principles... the rest is up to you: if you think you can do it, or you think you can't, you are correct!
Ok I'm going to build a version of the double yellow boy 2. I made the single a couple years ago using alum, steel, and brass. I want to keep this one mostly brass, and also focus on cosmetics more. Thanks for the great tutorial. One day I will be able to afford one of the online courses on the Atlas lathe. Take care!
Great video as usual! I may try this one. Also, to erase sharpie marks just go over the mark again with the marker then quickly wipe off with your finger or a towel. The solvent in the ink will allow the old mark to be wiped away before it evaporates!
es ist FASTASTISCH!!! - i discovered your channel from previous engine builds and have stayed for all the other interesting things, information, humor, wisdom... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I got into brasswork long before I got interested in proper machining. I can't even recall the specific project, but I do remember the nasty gash I got on my finger when the drill-bit dug in. I suppose it could've been a lot worse; I didn't need medical attention; but I do still have the scar. Tubal-cain is not kidding: when it catches, it is very fast and startling.
Mr. Pete - I always look forward to your next video - especially the ones on steam engines - I am a novice machinists and will attempt to build one in the near future. Thanks again!
Make a case/box out of brass for dedicated brass cutting tools and show us how you did it. I'd imagine that would be fairly simple, very educational and entertaining.
All the very best Mr.Pete for Christmas and the New Year. Over the moon to see you are doing a series of engine videos over the holidays. Again, happy Christmas to you and your family from North East England.
Mr. Pete, Thank you for another great video. Your knowledge of metal working and years of teaching make for interesting and easy to follow lessons. Watching your videos, I often feel that I'm an apprentice again. Great job on passing your skills on to others. May god continue to bless you and your family. Merry Christmas.
When marking out brass and other non-ferrous metals, I use blue marking fluid. In its absence, a spirit-marker pen works just as well. Coat the surface, mark lightly with a scriber, machine and hand work, then clean off the remaining dye with methyl alcohol. Works every time.
This will be a great series Mr Pete. The closest gauge size I found for .045 is 17 gauge at .0453 for brass. Looking forward to all the next videos in this series. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Chris (Clickspring) has a UA-cam video where he shows us how to alter a standard twist drill so it doesn't grab while drilling brass. It is a very simple process involving just a few strokes across a sharpening stone. He is building a very cool brass clock and his videos are well worth watching.
You sure keep me in projects.... I got the vert and horiz ones done and love them. I entered them in the County fair and got Blue ribbons on both. Thanks for all your efforts. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.
Hey Pete, you don't need thinner to remove marker. Use the oil from the side of your nose. It's mildly acidic and works great to remove sharpie, glue residue, etc.
Starting to watch this. :D I've been waiting for the series to pick up some mass. I'm already liking the simplistic approach to this, very accessible, very nice. edit: and so, so much to learn. I'm very grateful for this.
Thank you for yet another fantastic entertaining and instructional video.Your style reminds me so much of my wood craft and metal craft teachers back in the 1970's. Both good guys and might I say Old Skool just like you clear defined learning Thanks again and Merry Christmas
Thank you for this series. Is it ok to use aluminium for the frame? I have some 2mm plate which I use for making heat sinks which is about the right thickness, I'm just not sure how it will behave with a brass shaft going through.
Brass! Bronze! COPPER! These are three of my favorite things. In order. starting from 3rd favorite. thank you. Merry Christmas. p.s You make yourself out to be an old man but I seen you putting that differential together and you, sir, are a drama queen.
mr peterson, a guy that does the clicksprings channel here on youtube eplains how to prepare your drill bits so that they won't bite into brass. I often drill brass for my guitar business and all I can say it works
great video ...theres a few of these done and prints in american machinist magazine...always good to see a video rathee than just read up on ..oh last comment being an old one too women made best inspectors didnt buy off part unless perfect no "it will be ok"
I have a bit of a challenge for you, that I think would be really helpful to beginning machinist/model makers. Do you think it would be possible to make a simple working engine without a mill? Using only a lathe and hand tools? I'd love to see your process.
And since I can't afford most machine tools myself, I'm reminded of a joke you might enjoy: There was a record lottery in the State of Illinois, and as luck would have it, three people won this 100 million dollars...a Lawyer, Doctor and a Machinist. Since the amount was so high, a local news reporter came around to interview each one amout their massive winnings. "So what are you going to do with you 33 million," she asked the Lawyer? "Well I am going to turn my practice into a free service to help the people that cannot afford to have a unbiased trial." "Wow," she said, "that is so noble of you. And what are you going to do with your money," she asked the Doctor in turn? "Well my wife and I are going to move to the African Jungle and treat the less fortunate over there, all for free of course." Again she said that was very noble and then turned to the Machinist. "And just what do you tend to do with your 33.3 million dollars?" "Well," he said after a very long pause to think, "I'll probably just keep working as a Machinist until the money runs out!!"
I fully support that. You always make everything look so easy! Your experience really shows in everything you do and its nice to see easier ways to do things. Until I can get a mill down my basement steps, small tasks on a mill seem like mountains with a file.
An idea for a flywheel would be a similarly sized cast pulley for example an a belt or b belt pulley ( available in sizes up to 6 inch diameter at least that I've seen) on a 1/2 inch shaft probably making the steam engine and boiler slightly larger scale.
Would it be possible to make these without having to cast or machine any parts. I'm sure I can find somebody to machine parts but I won't be able to cast anything (I'm only 15). I think this would be a fun project between tractors for me.
i'd like to learn how to make paterns. i have a few small pieces that i want to design/make that would work great if i could bend them out of sheet metal -- ie box magazines, box tubing. i have a hydraulic press, but not a metal brake.
Dear Sir I really enjoy watching your machining knowledge. We work often in one of the largest machine shops on earth that is owned by the US Military. They only work on aircraft. You sir are a real fart smeller...? oh I meant a real smart feller.
To remove sharpie ink on metal go over it with the pen again and then wipe it off quickly with a paper towel - the solvent that keeps the ink liquid in the reservoir in the pen lets you just wipe it off
serial box? that is my dedicated gasket material. same goes for the Amazon thick cardboard boxes :) and no, you do not talk to much, I rather hear things simplified then in a way were there is room for error by miss interpretation.
I really like watching your projects. About working with brass; UA-cam user "Clickspring" does a lot of work with brass. He has a video titled "Spare parts #7 - Modifying A Twist Drill For Drilling Brass" which might be interesting to anybody that intends to work brass regularly.
For those "young boys", here is a little video about how to modify a drill bit for brass. The result was quite satisfactory from my personal experience. ua-cam.com/video/pAngKHIZgyA/v-deo.html
Great video. I just wish you didn't keep mentioning all of these "young boys." Girls can do this sort of work too. I know you didn't mean anything by it but a girl watching this video probably feels pretty left out.
+David Pfeffer Any women watching this video/reading this comment at all? Lets see how long it takes before we get a comment..... I'm betting a long time. Honestly, it would be interesting to see a female machine shop youtube channel. No, glasslinger does not count :)
The spoken details are one of many things that make your videos so good... never let anyone tell you there's bored! The Uni-Bit Christmas tree is also one of my favorite tools. When I travel overseas, baggage space is always a problem. I can carry ONE Uni-Bit and that takes care of multiple possible drill sizes. You can usually borrow a drill at these worksites, but they have only metric bits, and they are hard to come by. Best to bring the Christmas Tree in the small tools bag.
+davida1hiwaaynet Thanks for watching
Thank you for sharing the knowledge and the craft! 33 years old, beginner hobby machinist/engineer here.
👍👍👍
Thank you for doing this. I am a beginner and will soak up every detail! My 11 year old son and I will be undertaking this build. Having a teacher like you will make this fun and educational for us both.
+Scott Mackey Thank you VERY much
Mr. Pete. I have been looking forward to build an engin. Was going to buy a kit, but now I have decided to follow your lead and build from your video. I find that your videos are are content rich and just right for me. I wish I could have been one of your students. Thank you.
+Roy Lucas Thank you for watching.
I see you have been making these videoes for 8 years now,wow all that knowledge,thank you for sharing.
Building these steam engines will be a fitting retirement plan for me i think,im 32 now so i have some years to hone my skills!
Thanks for watching
Grate info for young builders. Wish your videos were around 30 years ago.
+ddf414 Thank you for watching.
Being only 43 years old i think i can consider myself one of the young boys watching. I love steam engines, i'll be watching this series!
+Willem Kossen Thanks for watching
I will enjoy watching this series. Feel free to include some video of the bandsaw and sander, and likewise 'dull', tasks. Always interesting to see how different people tackle the work.
+Marty Backe Thanks for watching
Merry Christmas Mr. Pete I was able to make my son a really nice plumb bob as a present because of your help.
+Josaljo Won Thank you for watching.
I probably will never build one ...But I enjoy watching the builds and have learn alot cutting the brass ,making a pattern etc.
as mr. pete taught me, never underestimate yourself!!!
these engines can run on simple compressed air, and can basically be made from wood - or lesser materials - if desired.
all that matters are the basic principles... the rest is up to you: if you think you can do it, or you think you can't, you are correct!
Ok I'm going to build a version of the double yellow boy 2.
I made the single a couple years ago using alum, steel, and brass.
I want to keep this one mostly brass, and also focus on cosmetics more.
Thanks for the great tutorial.
One day I will be able to afford one of the online courses on the Atlas lathe.
Take care!
👍👍👍
Great video as usual! I may try this one. Also, to erase sharpie marks just go over the mark again with the marker then quickly wipe off with your finger or a towel. The solvent in the ink will allow the old mark to be wiped away before it evaporates!
+kandkmotorsports I'll try that with sahrpies
es ist FASTASTISCH!!! - i discovered your channel from previous engine builds and have stayed for all the other interesting things, information, humor, wisdom... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Awesome series tubalcain! Just started watching. I am a kid and will attempt to make this once I get material. Great tips BTW!
Thanks for watching--yes, give it a try
I got into brasswork long before I got interested in proper machining. I can't even recall the specific project, but I do remember the nasty gash I got on my finger when the drill-bit dug in. I suppose it could've been a lot worse; I didn't need medical attention; but I do still have the scar. Tubal-cain is not kidding: when it catches, it is very fast and startling.
I really like this video. There are a lot of good nuggets on technique, and safety considerations peppered throughout this video. Chris
+shadowdog500 Thanks for watching
Just wanted to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas Mr.Pete.Thanks again for all of the great videos!
+Mr Frog Thanks-MERRY CHRISTMAS
Mr. Pete - I always look forward to your next video - especially the ones on steam engines - I am a novice machinists and will attempt to build one in the near future. Thanks again!
+Barry Naviaux Thanks for watching
Make a case/box out of brass for dedicated brass cutting tools and show us how you did it. I'd imagine that would be fairly simple, very educational and entertaining.
thank you, and i like the all the extra info and the lengt of your videos
+morgan Malmberg Thank you for watching.
It's been quite a few moons sine I was a young boy, but I still think this is a great project; looking forward to the next 9 videos. :)
+ShysterLawyer Thank you for watching.
All the very best Mr.Pete for Christmas and the New Year. Over the moon to see you are doing a series of engine videos over the holidays. Again, happy Christmas to you and your family from North East England.
Mr. Pete, Thank you for another great video. Your knowledge of metal working and years of teaching make for interesting and easy to follow lessons. Watching your videos, I often feel that I'm an apprentice again. Great job on passing your skills on to others. May god continue to bless you and your family. Merry Christmas.
+William Mills Thank you for watching.
Merry Christmas, Mr Pete.
Thanks,
John
+John Bazaar Thank you for watching.
When marking out brass and other non-ferrous metals, I use blue marking fluid. In its absence, a spirit-marker pen works just as well. Coat the surface, mark lightly with a scriber, machine and hand work, then clean off the remaining dye with methyl alcohol. Works every time.
Thank you for all the videos....Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and your family.
+rrangana11 Thank you for watching.
This will be a great series Mr Pete. The closest gauge size I found for .045 is 17 gauge at .0453 for brass. Looking forward to all the next videos in this series. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
+Edward David Thank you for watching.
Thanks for this latest series Mr. Pete! I couldn't ask for a better Christmas gift. All the best to you and yours!
+Paul Culbert Thank you for watching.
Chris (Clickspring) has a UA-cam video where he shows us how to alter a standard twist drill so it doesn't grab while drilling brass. It is a very simple process involving just a few strokes across a sharpening stone. He is building a very cool brass clock and his videos are well worth watching.
You sure keep me in projects.... I got the vert and horiz ones done and love them. I entered them in the County fair and got Blue ribbons on both. Thanks for all your efforts.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours.
+muscatine_biker I hope u enjoy this one too. I am so pleased that you got blue ribbons!!!! Merry Christmas
Hey Pete, you don't need thinner to remove marker. Use the oil from the side of your nose. It's mildly acidic and works great to remove sharpie, glue residue, etc.
then again, nothing removes sharpie like the solvent *in* a sharpie - apply more sharpie and wipe clean!
Awesome and informative video sir! I look forward to watching the rest!
Starting to watch this. :D I've been waiting for the series to pick up some mass.
I'm already liking the simplistic approach to this, very accessible, very nice.
edit: and so, so much to learn. I'm very grateful for this.
I like the extra detail.
+Brian Taylor Thank you for watching.
Thank you for yet another fantastic entertaining and instructional video.Your style reminds me so much of my wood craft and metal craft teachers back in the 1970's. Both good guys and might I say Old Skool just like you clear defined learning Thanks again and Merry Christmas
+trapper23ful Thank you for watching.
Happy Holidays to you AND Toly,he hooked me up,Thanks!
+Bowtie41 Thank you for watching.
Great looking forward to the next part, you said you hope there's some youngsters watching so I'll tell you I'm 14.👍
+#01DF01Seba Abdur-Rehmaan Thanks for watching
looking forward to the next video.. thanks for sharing sir...
+Kevin Willis Is that an Alfa in your profile picture?
+Andre Gross No, that's an automobile.
+Andre Gross it's a RS 2000 MK1 Ford Escort.. made in the late 60s early 70s..
+ShysterLawyer yes, I see that. I was referring to the automotive manufacturer Alfa Romeo.
+Kevin Willis Ah, thank you. hard to tell what it was from such a small picture. Nice car by the way.
I will be watching and building with you, thank you:)
+ELSDP-45 Thank you for watching.
Thank you for this series. Is it ok to use aluminium for the frame? I have some 2mm plate which I use for making heat sinks which is about the right thickness, I'm just not sure how it will behave with a brass shaft going through.
+Brian Norris Sure--but of course you cannot solder alum
Merry Christmas, Mr. Pete.
+John Strange Thanks for watching
Where did you get the fly wheel and the materials?
Brass! Bronze! COPPER!
These are three of my favorite things. In order. starting from 3rd favorite.
thank you.
Merry Christmas.
p.s You make yourself out to be an old man but I seen you putting that differential together and you, sir, are a drama queen.
+MrJgstoner Thank you for watching.
mr peterson, a guy that does the clicksprings channel here on youtube eplains how to prepare your drill bits so that they won't bite into brass. I often drill brass for my guitar business and all I can say it works
+seasonedtoker thanks-will check it out
great video ...theres a few of these done and prints in american machinist magazine...always good to see a video rathee than just read up on ..oh last comment being an old one too women made best inspectors didnt buy off part unless perfect no "it will be ok"
I have a bit of a challenge for you, that I think would be really helpful to beginning machinist/model makers. Do you think it would be possible to make a simple working engine without a mill? Using only a lathe and hand tools? I'd love to see your process.
And since I can't afford most machine tools myself, I'm reminded of a joke you might enjoy:
There was a record lottery in the State of Illinois, and as luck would have it, three people won this 100 million dollars...a Lawyer, Doctor and a Machinist.
Since the amount was so high, a local news reporter came around to interview each one amout their massive winnings.
"So what are you going to do with you 33 million," she asked the Lawyer?
"Well I am going to turn my practice into a free service to help the people that cannot afford to have a unbiased trial."
"Wow," she said, "that is so noble of you. And what are you going to do with your money," she asked the Doctor in turn?
"Well my wife and I are going to move to the African Jungle and treat the less fortunate over there, all for free of course."
Again she said that was very noble and then turned to the Machinist. "And just what do you tend to do with your 33.3 million dollars?"
"Well," he said after a very long pause to think, "I'll probably just keep working as a Machinist until the money runs out!!"
good one
It would--but since I have a completeshop , I intend to use all resources
I fully support that. You always make everything look so easy! Your experience really shows in everything you do and its nice to see easier ways to do things. Until I can get a mill down my basement steps, small tasks on a mill seem like mountains with a file.
An idea for a flywheel would be a similarly sized cast pulley for example an a belt or b belt pulley ( available in sizes up to 6 inch diameter at least that I've seen) on a 1/2 inch shaft probably making the steam engine and boiler slightly larger scale.
Brass is fun and easy to work with it
Make a box or case out of brass for the dedicated brass cutting tools.
Would it be possible to make these without having to cast or machine any parts. I'm sure I can find somebody to machine parts but I won't be able to cast anything (I'm only 15). I think this would be a fun project between tractors for me.
+STUBBY TRACTOR THANKS FOR WATCHING--there are no castings needed for this engine
i'd like to learn how to make paterns. i have a few small pieces that i want to design/make that would work great if i could bend them out of sheet metal -- ie box magazines, box tubing. i have a hydraulic press, but not a metal brake.
+Munky332 Thank you for watching.
Dear Sir I really enjoy watching your machining knowledge. We work often in one of the largest machine shops on earth that is owned by the US Military. They only work on aircraft. You sir are a real fart smeller...? oh I meant a real smart feller.
+Robert Lee Thank you for watching.
To remove sharpie ink on metal go over it with the pen again and then wipe it off quickly with a paper towel - the solvent that keeps the ink liquid in the reservoir in the pen lets you just wipe it off
+A2ZGAMEGUIDESX Thanks
Thumbs up
+Robert Perrigo Thank you for watching.
serial box? that is my dedicated gasket material. same goes for the Amazon thick cardboard boxes :) and no, you do not talk to much, I rather hear things simplified then in a way were there is room for error by miss interpretation.
I'm a young boy. I am 9 and i love steam engines...just saying
I would have loved steam engines when I was 9yo, if they were around back then! O,.O Just kidding!
I really like watching your projects. About working with brass; UA-cam user "Clickspring" does a lot of work with brass. He has a video titled "Spare parts #7 - Modifying A Twist Drill For Drilling Brass" which might be interesting to anybody that intends to work brass regularly.
+Abraham Barker I've watched him-he is very good
Thank you, ~M~
+Mike A Drover Thank you for watching.
Hm! Does 56 count as a young boy I sure hope so..
+aslimline S Thank you for watching.
age does not mean anything. be a young man for as long as you can.
I may grow old but I refuse to grow UP :-) (1960 model, you do the math)
your a youngster.....I am just starting out at 76 and don't feel a day over 30.
IF you do get time to show us a twin flywheel and centre piston model,this would be much appreciated
thanks a young 60 year old !
+SteveD Thank you for watching.
Good job I in class
I'm 28, I'm the young boy watching lol jk
For those "young boys", here is a little video about how to modify a drill bit for brass. The result was quite satisfactory from my personal experience.
ua-cam.com/video/pAngKHIZgyA/v-deo.html
+Simon P Thank you for watching.
Hey, I'm 74. :)
+Daniel Moerman Thank you for watching.
Great video. I just wish you didn't keep mentioning all of these "young boys." Girls can do this sort of work too. I know you didn't mean anything by it but a girl watching this video probably feels pretty left out.
+David Pfeffer Any women watching this video/reading this comment at all? Lets see how long it takes before we get a comment..... I'm betting a long time.
Honestly, it would be interesting to see a female machine shop youtube channel. No, glasslinger does not count :)
+Colin Salter "Enough of this pc crap allready ." Amen!
It's because generally it's boys who are interested, my mother certainly isn't, though I have seen some who are.
sage
+Albion Laster Thank you for watching.