Preheat slowly. Weld outside. Heat, weld inside. Stuck it into warm sand to slowly cool down. Also prepare the cracks deeper and find out where the end of the crack is. grind OVER the end a bit. Maybe drill the ends out, to stop them to grow while you are welding. This material isn't pretty to weld. In fact, its a Diva😂😂 Love this Playlist! Positive thing about this: Now you have a piece that you can Break and train on how to weld that stuff. Thats a good thing. Its cool that you just try and do it!
Just started watching the channel and will finish this series and keep going. Really enjoying these. Dropping stuff, multiple use of hammers, the click click torque wrench, my kind of girl, uh, mechanic!
Interestingly, I was called upon to service a new slipway cradle as the wheels had seized on the axles, no oil or grease galleries between the axle and wheel being a bronze wheel on stainless shaft. There was a grease nipple but nowhere for the stuff to go. Great work and a good selection of hammers, nothing wrong with a bit of paint here and there too.
Good job, a friendly tip to welding cracks in casts Drill a hole at the end of the crack before welding prevents crack from spreading as you weld Cheers
When welding cast I heat the whole object up to prevent thermal cracks. If you weld in one spot only you will get cracks so its always best to heat it all up. Cast can be a right pig to weld
nice build. it would be nice to show also how you put in de bearing bushes, and placing the material on the brake band for instance. these are quite interesting steps.
Thanks for the upload Kimberly. Bit of everything. 👍 Normally when welding cast iron it pays to drill a hole each end of the crack to stop it spreading.
Always nice to see you working away, solving problems as you go 😊 you’re an inspiration to many people with your patience and sense of humor 👍 just the greatest ❤️
the bloke that used to come in to weld cast for us used to heat it it up for ages before + after welding, slowly reducing the heat afterwards, then wrapping it up in an asbestos blanket for a couple of hours we never had a bad weld out of him, he used to weld up cranes for a living
Good job. Welding cast is a pain where you sit. I found using silicon bronze with a gas torch works. At least you have a piece you can practice with. Nice to see the Ransome coming together. Thanks for sharing.
Nice try on the cast welding. It's tricky. At least you found another spare. Nice job on the transmission. Looking forward to the next one to see how this kit turns out.
I get the whole casting up to 500 Fahrenheit, drill the ends of the cracks. I like to use a good maintenance stainless rod, and peen the weld thoroughly immediately after welding. Then either throw it in the oven for an hour, or throw it in a drum of vermiculite
A valiant effort on the tig welding! The "hillbilly" way i was taught to weld cast was with nickle rod for the stick welder, weld no more than one inch, peen with a hammer for nearly a minute to aleiviate the stress, then repeat as necessary. Keeping it hot all the way through as you weld and cooling slowly and uniformly is the better way, but its all hit or miss ive found.
We restored a Ransomes MG5 from a nut and bolt restoration, luckily Neil Jarrett was only 20mins from us and is an invaluable source of knowledge and spares❤ great job keep up the good work it will all be worth it in the end
Very Cool, welding cast is a nightmare, it needs pre-heat post-heat etc, some of it is more forgiving but machined parts like that can have a lot of inbuilt stress just waiting to escape.
When we weld cast at work we heat it up slowly first in a old gas bbq then welding with a cast stick welding rod (knock the flux off first then use as tig rod) as soon as welding is finished cover entire thing with sand and leave to cool off slowley over night. I carnt help thinking you welded it up in short sleeves as your arm looked very red and sore. Maybe I'm wronge!? Great video carnt wait for the next.
Uhh sand is a good idea. I forgot about that. Never mind. I’ll have another go at some point to see if I can get better. As for my arm, that was red spray paint.
Well done Kim, to be able to turn threads qualifies you as a machinist. You have good skills and are a fantastic engineer. I keep saying to myself that I will learn how to use a lathe one day but too many other projects to finish first.
You are quite the good machinist, nice work cutting those threads. We know who stayed awake in math class. Looks great. I see you and the Lord made it to my beloved state of Indiana, good to see you fooling around with our pals down south. Although I was waiting for you to take a turn on the drag line, sadly it never came. Next time come on up to Indianapolis and see the Motor Speedway. The museum is worth the time. Best regards from Indiana, USA.
Hi Bill, I worked as a tool maker for four years when I left school. I had a great time in America and I did run the drag line. I might make a little video of being in America. It’s a bit late but I wanted to get this video out.
Top job there Kim! cant wait to see it finished, there has been two or three of these going through HJ Pugh auctions at Ledbury over the last few months or so
Hi Kim your attention to detail is extremely and very important to get all of those parts installed properly well done you!! Looking forward to seeing the next steps. Fenland Rob
hi Kim just found your channel and just enjoyed your gear box rebuild. just wanna say what you have done looks amazing and i am looking forward to watchiing your progress with this project. thankyou
Excellent work Kim! 😎 You always do amazing work! It's fun watching the machining and disassembly/reassembly , to see how it all works. Thanks for sharing.
Looking good, always good to make progress isn't it? Cracked cast, I have had great success Tig brazing it with Silicon Bronze filler. The Bronze is ductile enough to counter the contraction stress as the cast cools, so the cracks don't run.
I have kept them. I’m going to try replicate and have another go with some silicon bronze filler. I haven’t used my Tig welder in years up until a few weeks ago.
Havent we all dropped THAT one unobtanium piece tried to repair and the garage gods find us a new one , Well done this project is coming along superb , may be a certain lord can get some painting tips from you 😁
Shame about the repair I’ve had good results silver soldering cast iron but maybe TIG brazing might have worked. 😀 well done on getting it back together It looks really complex. Looking forward to seeing this running 😀
Think if you got the whole case part more hot it would have gone better. Maybie try to put the whole thing in the oven at 200 degrees celcius and the also heat the part your welding even more. That could have helped, but it would have also been a bad cast iron that caused it.
Great video Kim 👍 rate your going its gonna be finished before the one in our workshop 🤔 when you said you had broken a piece didn't know then if you knew about Neil Jarret. 👌 Could have been finished if you hadn't been away on your jolly holidays 🤔🤣🤣
The breaking material there that you can't remember the name of that's called asbestos and yes it's in those old brakes that were built-in the 1940s all be up through the 1970's.
Looks like you are getting alot of use out of that new dead blow hammer from Harbor Freight. I have one as well and they are so handy Keep up the great work Kim! And give Muck ALL of the attitude you can 😂
Thanks, interesting looking gearbox while the sheet metal case looks totally inadequate for any kind of real force. Cast iron likes brazing way more and almost always survives it. Also, it was hardly a critical broken piece and wouldn't have been missed except to the eye!
I'm a welder, I have done meany hundreds of cast iron repairs, please people do NOT use stainless filler rod on cast iron, use NICKLE rod, either 55%Ni 45%Fe if its a decent piece of cast iron or 99%Ni if its a piece of rubbish, don't preheat it but peen it as it cools either with a needle scalier or sharp hammer such as a chipping hammer, whichever is appropriate for the weld size. If the cast is old and/or contaminated you may have to do several welds then grinds and re-welds but it will get better each time (unlike when using stainless filler where it will get worse each time). I don't know who started this BS with using stainless filler rod on cast iron but it's been leading a lot of people astray and ruining their projects for meany years now. To the general comments section: disagree with me if you like but know this is knowledge I've gained over 30+ years experience of doing cast iron repairs. To the calamity Kim channel: Love this project thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I knew someone would. I may try and buy a few rods. I’d like to re create the crack and have another go at fixing it. I enjoyed having a go regardless. Luckily I managed to source a second but it’s a shame it broke further. Thanks again.
@@CalamityKim1 No worries at all! Love this project! thank you for sharing it! The Ni rods are very expensive unfortunately but usually cast iron repairs are few and far between in most workshops so just a small packet can last a long time. Personally I like to use the arc welder on cast as it deals with contamination better but when I do occasionally use the TIG for cast iron i just use the arc rods with the flux removed on the wire wheel.
I may order some of those as well then. I’d like to have a learn. The one I tried to repair seemed a decent casting. I had a spare one which was also bad, that was a really rough casting.
@@CalamityKim1 Definitely be worth having a go, if it doesn't work out you can always braze them but I reckon you should be able to weld them no worries with some Ni and the cold method, the nice thing about those things is you have some room on the inside to build up some reinforcement that can be left there.
Preheat slowly. Weld outside. Heat, weld inside. Stuck it into warm sand to slowly cool down. Also prepare the cracks deeper and find out where the end of the crack is. grind OVER the end a bit. Maybe drill the ends out, to stop them to grow while you are welding. This material isn't pretty to weld. In fact, its a Diva😂😂 Love this Playlist!
Positive thing about this: Now you have a piece that you can Break and train on how to weld that stuff. Thats a good thing. Its cool that you just try and do it!
I started laughing out loud when I heard "tick tick"!! Love it!
Extremely intelligent lady in the engineering department well done .🇮🇪
Just started watching the channel and will finish this series and keep going. Really enjoying these. Dropping stuff, multiple use of hammers, the click click torque wrench, my kind of girl, uh, mechanic!
Keep up the excellent work.
Best wishes from Northern Manitoba.
Cast repair: pre heat (soak) and slow cool are important. Also sometimes tapping or vibration to allow molecular alignment.
I've got one of those torque wrenches. They are such a handy piece of kit!
Interestingly, I was called upon to service a new slipway cradle as the wheels had seized on the axles, no oil or grease galleries between the axle and wheel being a bronze wheel on stainless shaft. There was a grease nipple but nowhere for the stuff to go.
Great work and a good selection of hammers, nothing wrong with a bit of paint here and there too.
Agree with you bearing number comments! You should be very proud of that renovation!
Good job, a friendly tip
to welding cracks in casts
Drill a hole at the end of the crack before welding
prevents crack from spreading as you weld
Cheers
Thanks for that but the crack went off the part on both sides. I would normally drill a crack.
Wow. What a woman !!!!!!!!!
You never cease to amaze.👍👍👏👏👌
Looking forward to seeing it in action. 😉
When welding cast I heat the whole object up to prevent thermal cracks. If you weld in one spot only you will get cracks so its always best to heat it all up. Cast can be a right pig to weld
Good to see Lord Muck is keeping you busy and out of mischief young lady, top work as usual!
No disrespect to Mucker, however it is just Kimberly who determines how "busy" she is & the task currently in progress. 💯👌
nice build. it would be nice to show also how you put in de bearing bushes, and placing the material on the brake band for instance. these are quite interesting steps.
Thanks for the upload Kimberly. Bit of everything. 👍
Normally when welding cast iron it pays to drill a hole each end of the crack to stop it spreading.
I do that normally anyway but this crack spread off the part on both sides.
I love these! When I was a kid there was always one for sale at a local vintage rally. I pestered my parents everytime to buy it for me 😂
Always nice to see you working away, solving problems as you go 😊 you’re an inspiration to many people with your patience and sense of humor 👍 just the greatest ❤️
Thank you Tony, you always write such nice comments.
The parts alonw on that machine are a thing of beauty, let alone rhe finished machine.
Brilliant job , fair play .👍👍
the bloke that used to come in to weld cast for us used to heat it it up for ages before + after welding, slowly reducing the heat afterwards, then wrapping it up in an asbestos blanket for a couple of hours
we never had a bad weld out of him, he used to weld up cranes for a living
Good job. Welding cast is a pain where you sit. I found using silicon bronze with a gas torch works. At least you have a piece you can practice with. Nice to see the Ransome coming together. Thanks for sharing.
Works well with oxygen propane
I really enjoyed watching this,well done Kim very impressive work, keep it up.
Mighty job Kimberly, fair play, very well done💯👌👍🙏🙂
Nice try on the cast welding. It's tricky. At least you found another spare. Nice job on the transmission. Looking forward to the next one to see how this kit turns out.
It's good to see all those parts back in their little swimming pool of gear lube. Always a treat when you post a new video.
Excellent work and a pleasure to watch, well done.
Looking good. Be a lovely little restored machine when finished. Good job 👍
I get the whole casting up to 500 Fahrenheit, drill the ends of the cracks. I like to use a good maintenance stainless rod, and peen the weld thoroughly immediately after welding. Then either throw it in the oven for an hour, or throw it in a drum of vermiculite
Great work. Enjoyed the video. Thanks.👍
I was gonna say heat that thing up with the torch first until it's almost glowing then put your weld in there and that should keep it from warping
A valiant effort on the tig welding!
The "hillbilly" way i was taught to weld cast was with nickle rod for the stick welder, weld no more than one inch, peen with a hammer for nearly a minute to aleiviate the stress, then repeat as necessary.
Keeping it hot all the way through as you weld and cooling slowly and uniformly is the better way, but its all hit or miss ive found.
Can't wait to see that machine when its done!!
Great job Kim.
Thank you 😊
We restored a Ransomes MG5 from a nut and bolt restoration, luckily Neil Jarrett was only 20mins from us and is an invaluable source of knowledge and spares❤ great job keep up the good work it will all be worth it in the end
That is so lucky. He’s a really nice guy and so helpful. I’m really pleased he’s willing to help.
Great video again and Happy Christmas.
What a great job Kim, the Ransomes is coming on well. 👍
Isn’t it just. I’m deep into the next instalment already 😬
Very Cool, welding cast is a nightmare, it needs pre-heat post-heat etc, some of it is more forgiving but machined parts like that can have a lot of inbuilt stress just waiting to escape.
When we weld cast at work we heat it up slowly first in a old gas bbq then welding with a cast stick welding rod (knock the flux off first then use as tig rod) as soon as welding is finished cover entire thing with sand and leave to cool off slowley over night. I carnt help thinking you welded it up in short sleeves as your arm looked very red and sore. Maybe I'm wronge!? Great video carnt wait for the next.
Uhh sand is a good idea. I forgot about that. Never mind. I’ll have another go at some point to see if I can get better.
As for my arm, that was red spray paint.
Well done Kim, to be able to turn threads qualifies you as a machinist.
You have good skills and are a fantastic engineer.
I keep saying to myself that I will learn how to use a lathe one day but too many other projects to finish first.
Thank you Matthew. I was a toolmaker for four years when I left school. I’m a bit rusty now. I’m getting old 😭
You are quite the good machinist, nice work cutting those threads. We know who stayed awake in math class. Looks great.
I see you and the Lord made it to my beloved state of Indiana, good to see you fooling around with our pals down south. Although I was waiting for you to take a turn on the drag line, sadly it never came. Next time come on up to Indianapolis and see the Motor Speedway. The museum is worth the time.
Best regards from Indiana, USA.
Hi Bill, I worked as a tool maker for four years when I left school.
I had a great time in America and I did run the drag line. I might make a little video of being in America. It’s a bit late but I wanted to get this video out.
We will be out again so maybe one of the next times I can get down to the museum.
@@CalamityKim1 I and I'd bet a few others, would love to see that trip from your eyes. You're always welcome here.
Okay I’ll try get a video together. I have loads to post so I best get on with it!
Great video, I never realized how different the mg2 is to the mg40 I restored. Great work.
Well done Kim , great bit of lathe work . The project is coming along a treat 👍🔧🚜
Thank you ☺️
Bless you Girl.😎
You are talented keep it up.
Hi kimberley great video channel 😊thanks for showing Lord muck how to do it or not 😊 take care kimberley, looking forward to the next video.
Thanks!
Nice work kid! That lil,crawler will look sweet all done NICE!!! One question how do you keep it quiet without that yappy Lord guy bugging you 🤔😂😂😂😂
Lovely job on that Kim . That crawler is going to look amazing . Looking forward to your next video.
Top job there Kim! cant wait to see it finished, there has been two or three of these going through HJ Pugh auctions at Ledbury over the last few months or so
Hi Kim your attention to detail is extremely and very important to get all of those parts installed properly well done you!! Looking forward to seeing the next steps. Fenland Rob
hi Kim just found your channel and just enjoyed your gear box rebuild.
just wanna say what you have done looks amazing and i am looking forward to watchiing your progress with this project.
thankyou
Very nice work, Kim
Fantastic job, well done Kim.
Good job 👍🏻 love it ❤
Excellent work Kim! 😎 You always do amazing work! It's fun watching the machining and disassembly/reassembly , to see how it all works. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks David, it’s fun at a faster speed. It makes it all seem so effortless 😅
Looks good!
Nice job. Worth the wait. Thank you.
And '' Run those gears IN ''
Looking good, always good to make progress isn't it? Cracked cast, I have had great success Tig brazing it with Silicon Bronze filler. The Bronze is ductile enough to counter the contraction stress as the cast cools, so the cracks don't run.
I have kept them. I’m going to try replicate and have another go with some silicon bronze filler. I haven’t used my Tig welder in years up until a few weeks ago.
@@CalamityKim1 it seems it would be easier to cast a new piece, or have one cast, you wouldn't have a problem machining it.
Its VERY difficult to weld cast. TIG brazing works in most cases. Use Sif No8 filler rod.
Great video , Glad to the crawler getting back together .
Awesome job Kim, I'm glad you had a spare drum 🔧🔩 Cast iron is never fun to weld on
Great job. This is a fantastic refirb series. Thanks.
Oil seals if double lip, (or single lip with wiper lip, should be grease filled between the lips, so the outer lip does not burn. Cheers.
Havent we all dropped THAT one unobtanium piece tried to repair and the garage gods find us a new one , Well done this project is coming along superb , may be a certain lord can get some painting tips from you 😁
Really good work great vid.
Looking great
Nice work Kim, well done.👍👍
Shame about the repair I’ve had good results silver soldering cast iron but maybe TIG brazing might have worked. 😀 well done on getting it back together It looks really complex. Looking forward to seeing this running 😀
Think if you got the whole case part more hot it would have gone better. Maybie try to put the whole thing in the oven at 200 degrees celcius and the also heat the part your welding even more. That could have helped, but it would have also been a bad cast iron that caused it.
hola Calamity, estan geniales tus proyectos, me podrias explicar como funciona la caja de velocidades de Ransomes Crawler ?
Is there nothing you can’t do ,love your videos X
Hey Kim. I wonder do you have the option to give a super thanks. The videos have helped me greatly in the past in alot of mechanical area ❤
Hi John. Yes it is available, thanks very much and I’m glad I could be of help to you.
Proper job Kim. Well done.
Excellent progress, looks great!
Thanks Charles ☺️
Excellent work as usual. It's always good watching stuff that i have no clue about, like setting up the lathe.
Keep up the good work
Great video Kim 👍 rate your going its gonna be finished before the one in our workshop 🤔 when you said you had broken a piece didn't know then if you knew about Neil Jarret. 👌 Could have been finished if you hadn't been away on your jolly holidays 🤔🤣🤣
That’s the plan 😂 the race is on Bob.
All I can say is 😇 great job 👍
cool project kim comein on nice.....🚜🚜🚜
Thanks Andrew 😁
The breaking material there that you can't remember the name of that's called asbestos and yes it's in those old brakes that were built-in the 1940s all be up through the 1970's.
totally agree with Borat ' great success ' ....... so which one of Diesel Creek's fleet would Kim like to have smuggled back with her ????
That’s a good question. Probably the Ventrac. That was seriously impressive. I may put a video up of that.
Looks like you are getting alot of use out of that new dead blow hammer from Harbor Freight. I have one as well and they are so handy
Keep up the great work Kim! And give Muck ALL of the attitude you can 😂
Oh I will and do 🤣
Great work you should be proud of what you have achieved.
I am, it’s been many hours of labour to get to this point. It’s starting to finally come together though. That’s really satisfying for me.
I don't have a clue what you're doing but I'm very impressed by your skills, Kimberly. Great video 💪🏼❤
Neither do I 🤣
Her: *Points at bushing* This is the best bush out of them all
Me: HA THATS WHAT SHE SAID
Lol sorry i had to
Lord muck has got his own in house engineer and he's bitchin about a split ram on a digger with an extended boom.Kim could own that' situation.
Hope you had a great time in USA
It was fantastic thank you. 😁
I see you visited harbor freight in the United States do you have any stores like that in Great Britain?. Have an excellent day
Yeah we have machine mart it’s quite like harbour freight. Most people seem to shop online for tools these days over here.
Thanks, interesting looking gearbox while the sheet metal case looks totally inadequate for any kind of real force. Cast iron likes brazing way more and almost always survives it. Also, it was hardly a critical broken piece and wouldn't have been missed except to the eye!
It’s pretty stout to be fair. Once everything is bolted up it’s solid.
Also, it is a crucial part. Without it I can’t turn it.
Any one with a ransomes crawler can think outside the box cool.
I'm a welder, I have done meany hundreds of cast iron repairs, please people do NOT use stainless filler rod on cast iron, use NICKLE rod, either 55%Ni 45%Fe if its a decent piece of cast iron or 99%Ni if its a piece of rubbish, don't preheat it but peen it as it cools either with a needle scalier or sharp hammer such as a chipping hammer, whichever is appropriate for the weld size.
If the cast is old and/or contaminated you may have to do several welds then grinds and re-welds but it will get better each time (unlike when using stainless filler where it will get worse each time).
I don't know who started this BS with using stainless filler rod on cast iron but it's been leading a lot of people astray and ruining their projects for meany years now.
To the general comments section: disagree with me if you like but know this is knowledge I've gained over 30+ years experience of doing cast iron repairs.
To the calamity Kim channel: Love this project thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I knew someone would. I may try and buy a few rods. I’d like to re create the crack and have another go at fixing it. I enjoyed having a go regardless. Luckily I managed to source a second but it’s a shame it broke further.
Thanks again.
@@CalamityKim1 No worries at all! Love this project! thank you for sharing it!
The Ni rods are very expensive unfortunately but usually cast iron repairs are few and far between in most workshops so just a small packet can last a long time. Personally I like to use the arc welder on cast as it deals with contamination better but when I do occasionally use the TIG for cast iron i just use the arc rods with the flux removed on the wire wheel.
I may order some of those as well then. I’d like to have a learn. The one I tried to repair seemed a decent casting. I had a spare one which was also bad, that was a really rough casting.
@@CalamityKim1 Definitely be worth having a go, if it doesn't work out you can always braze them but I reckon you should be able to weld them no worries with some Ni and the cold method, the nice thing about those things is you have some room on the inside to build up some reinforcement that can be left there.
Nice work. Is it me or do you have a slightly dutch accent
Theres nothing more alluring than the smell of soluable cutting oil on a lady. 😮
Awesome! :-)
Cast you need to heat it up before wielding.
If you're inexperienced welding on cast it's always best to hire somebody who is Experienced in doing that
braze cast iron, its a lot less hassle than trying to weld
Yes, I think because brazing need lot of heating, it naturally is better than welding which heat small area only and cause that cracking
Wish my tig welding was as good as urs mine (bird shit)
did you have some sound issues?
No why.
@@CalamityKim1 couple moments there i couldn't hear you speaking? now im wondering if it was my end now
There was maybe a couple points where I let the music go over me talking because I was waffling on 😁 I have a habit of that!
@@CalamityKim1 its all good i really loved the video! even tho ive got a stuart tank im restoring ive always wanted a ransomes crawler
Thanks you. That sounds like a really interesting project. How’re you getting on with it?
Try brazing it
Click click 😂😂😂