STOKER STEAM VALVE SLEEVE
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2020
- This is a follow up video on a pattern Keith Rucker made about a month ago. To see how the pattern is made check out
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Vintage Machinery/Windy Hill collaborations are my favorite projects to follow! Thanks for the content.
I am impressed. When Kieth said you were going to cast these I couldn't imagine a hollow tube casting but you showed how it is done and now I am better informed. Thank you for sharing...
Thanks...Clark..lt's always good to watch you do your...Stuff....!
Hello Clarke, only now noticed the castings for Keith Rucker, aging I have to say it, when you watch the "Preparations" to make the moulds, then casting the moulds. It a credit to your skills as a "Foundryman". Really enjoyed watching, please keep your videos coming. Best wishes, Geoff Lewis, Wales, UK 🏴🏴🏴
Clark I really enjoy watching you videos!!!!
"Peacefully demonstrated " got you an immediate thumbs up, lol.
😁 I triggered another guy with that remark.
Fantastic pour! Another great video. Thank you.
Well sir, to be honest your channel came up on my recommendation list. Until I saw Keith's name i was gonna go on without watching. Glad I stayed. I now have three casting experts to watch, you, olfoundry man, and luckygen 1001.
New subscriber.
Thanks, Oldfoundryman is an excellant molder, well versed and I've actually used some of his techniques.
Very interesting, thanks for showing how to cast them
Amazing....... Thanks for the education.
Gary 77-Year-Old Home-Shop-Machinist
In the Beautiful Ozark Mountains of North West Arkansas
Awesome work Clark! Amazing how much work is put into just making the mold.
Wow turned out great Good looking part Keith is gonna love it thanks Clarke awesome !!
Clarke, Very nice job on this project thanks for sharing your video and I hope you are feeling better.!.!.!.
Thanks Jerry and yes, much better now 👍
Nice work Clarke. Great to be part of the Stoker rebuild its an interesting subject that Keiths working on. Regards Kevin.
Looking good.
Another great video, Clarke. I love how you take your time to make sure the casting comes out well.
That came out really nice. Well done. Lots of detailed work.
So nice to see things like risers and gates and sprue
Cool, I like that corebox machine.
Thanks Tobho, yes it sat in the corner for a long time but I will use this to make up several nominal size boxes as I can
It's wonderful, would love one, and it could keep the workplace safety nazis happily employed for years.
As always, much enjoyment ! ! !
Hopefully you and dollar are getting better because Kieth needs your help . Great presentation of your ART. Thank you SIR.....
You have a very steady hand to pull the molds out of the sand with such success every time.
Excellent!
Great job Clarke on the castings i cant wait to see Keith Machine them
Thanks appolo rob, I'm sure he will be doing a video on these.👍
Nice work Clarke. Uncle Keith will be happy!
Regards,
Mark Presling
Thanks Mark👍
Love the _"dog whistle"_ at *_15:44_**_!_* 👌
You're my kinda people! 😃
Colds. When you feel the back of your throat a little itchy. Gargle a half teaspoon of 3 volume peroxide. Tilt head back and gargle deep. Dont swallow foam. repeat 2 more times. Rinse with water. Carry a bottle of 70% rubbing alcohol in your car. Wash hands after shopping. Wash hands before drive thru. If you do drive thru's. It's amazing how many colds you wont catch.
Beautiful casting by the way. Long time Keith's viewer. Added you to my subscriptions now.
Thanks and thanks for the advise as well. I usually have these issues right after cutting grass
@@windyhillfoundry5940 cutting grass is dangerous if weed killer has been used on it.
If I watch enough of these I might someday get a feel for the mirror image (inside out?) nature of your work. It all makes sense as I watch, but then I think about it. Thanks for the video.
Beautiful castings! Can’t wait to see Keith turn them, I have always loved how cast iron machines!
Excellent show of procedure. TY
Thanks for walking us though the process. Enjoyed watching from start to finish.
Enjoyed your work and presentation.
Fun to watch! FYI, as you may already know, Sodium Silicate (CO2) cores are sensitive to water and when wet, the cores break down fairly quickly. Unless we were under a time crunch we would put the casting in a sink or bucket and let the water remove the core for us.
Thanks SandRammer, yes I needed to get the cores out in a hurry like everything around here. I have some core samples from a company in England I need to try that dissolve easier than the SS. I may do a video on it
Respecting the power of cutting tools, along with a appropriate amount of fear, is key to keeping all of your fingers.
Great video! Loved watching the grain structures on the core box. Thank you for sharing!
G’day Clarke, an entertaining video, thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Peter
Nice work - thanks for sharing.
Nifty core box cutter! Try adding 1/2% glucose powder to your sand before adding the sodium silicate this improves core breakdown and you can just hose the core out - needle gun won't be needed...Martin
Good tip 👌 I'm taking notes
Thanks for the tip, I'll put that down on my shopping list👌. I have boiled castings in the past but it would be nice to find a process that requires less energy. I'll give it a shot👍.
Glad to hear from you and hope you are doing well
Thanks always enjoyable
Our beagle is 16 months old and she chews everything...but she is starting to get out of the habit after destroying TV controllers pillows shoes and dog blankets. Lol, We still love her!
I friend used korean hot mustard concentrate that come in a squeeze tube like tooth paste inside a white box. Just a tiny amount brushed on the dog houses the rottweilers were eating up cured them of the habit.
Dollar is just like any other puppy. I have had several in my life and at sometime they all seemed to want to do just what Dollar did. Had one eat a cowboy boot that was in my porch.
Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you!
If you think that the method of casting is over 6000 years old… I am always impressed by the skill of people who do it.
Me too👍
Thank you very much, that was a great video!
You truly are very talented and an amazing artist!
Thank you!
Feel better. Tie whatever she is destroying to her collar and keep it short and close to her. She'll get the point when she is dragging it around everywhere. Seen it on Lucky Dog show Saturday mornings. It seems to work well. the core cutter was nice. So was your work...
Thanks for the advise, I'll give that a try👍
What a fabulous outcome.
You make that look so easy. Truely skilled tradespeople can do that :)
I’ll keep watching in the hope some of your skill rubs off.
Thanks
David
Thanks for the compliment 👍
Love your videos.
You do really good work. Keep on keeping on.
FYI about flatness - theoretically when you sand something flat by hand, you want to make a figure 8 path for the thing you're sanding. That way you eliminate the inevitable uneven pressure you put on the ends of the object when you change back and forth direction. The figure 8 path makes a more uniform pressure throughout the path, thereby achieving a 'flatter' object
Thanks for the tip, since I do a lot with hand planes in an x direction, it's kind of a hard habit to break
That stoker box is for Locomotive 576 I used to play on it as a child in Centennial park here in Nashville where she sat for i think 65 years I was so excited when they said it was going to be restored and I was watching one of keiths videos one day and he has the stoker box from it i was elated that Keith was participating in the restoration and I saw him make this pattern. I don't see how you deal with the heat in the building that would get to me for sure beautiful work clark looks like that turned out good and work for keith. I would loved to see Dollar someone needs to rake her on a good long walk in the morning and then in the evening and will help with some of that energy she doesn't know what to do with and thats what gets her trouble wee maybe not all she is a puppy and do puppy things as well.LOL but I bet the walks would help also I recommend kennel training her it is not cruel to the dog and ours always end up loving there kennels . Have a great week. Bod Bless!!!
We must have a 13 year old puppy, then -- still tears most everything soft apart.
Thanks, I usually take her down to the pond every evening and let her burn off some of that energy👍
Great video. As noted by others, please use a push stick when ripping on the table saw. Also, what do you do to avoid hard spots in your castings? Do you anneal like you would with carbon steel?
Keith I rarely ever get hard spots unless its chill from sharp corners on the pattern. This wasn't always the case but cooling the piece slowly is always good
and please drop your blade, you only need a 1/4 inch or so, above the wood.
Get to feeling better Clarke . My Best Tighe
Thanks Tighe!
GREAT VIDEO!! SUBSCRIBED.
Impressive.
very nice job as always
Thanks Emma😁
Impressive work. Thanks for sharing. Any of your videos shows how to cast ductile iron? Some people told me cast iron is very brittle and easy to break apart--not the case of ductile iron. I am really interested in watching homemade ductile iron and that's why I asked the question.
Hi Lukman, I don't do ductile at this point. Next year's plan is to have a cupola and once we get that going we will be introducing ductile👍
The boring machine that you made the core box with, looks like it could be used to machine white metal bearing halves when we re-metal the bearings on our train carriages. I belong to a railway restoration society, here in South Australia. We were sending out the bearing shells to have them re-cast, but are now doing that ourselves. We set them up on a mill, but getting the tool adjusted is not easy. The final fit on the axle is by scraping.
I can imagine that would be difficult to get set up on the first piece. The design of this is ideal for wood but I would think it would chatter and grab on a chunk of metal
@@windyhillfoundry5940 perhaps ACME screw feed instead of hnd pushing it through.. and on the softer metals like aluminium, brass or tin
Get well soon
Sure came out nice Clarke.
Thanks Randy👍
I want to learn to cast iron as you do, what books do you recommend reading to learn how to do it, I already found aluminum as a job but your work has inspired me to dedicate myself to casting iron too, this job is a beautiful art that is extremely rewarding, Thank you so much for everything!!!
Thanks for the compliment. As for books, most of my material can be found on Google books. I appologize but I can't remember titles and authors any more than I can recall my anniversery. Keep in mind most of this literature is from the early 1900's but it hasn't changed much as for grey iron.
Would be a nice winter time project only.
If only I lived in Iceland
Sir please don’t take this wrong,but you are a A teacher on your UA-cam page. You have young kids watching your video and learning. But my question is sir is it really wise to stick your fingers between the blade and the blade guard ? Please use a push block please
He`s concerned about you!
Thanks for your concern, I addressed this in my comment above but I always practice safety when I can👌
@@windyhillfoundry5940 Push sticks?
An older gentleman who used an open bladed anytool who has all of his digits is to be learned from not talked down to. And please don't use children as excuses. If your scared say scared.
@@Cws351 anotherwords hes gotten lucky, familiarity breeds contempt, and contempt for your power tools will bite you in the azz! smearing glue all over his rusty table saw tells me everything I need to know.
Clarke, If you get tired of spreading glue with your finger, try welding a piece of a coarse hacksaw blade to a "handle" in the shape of a T. The teeth spread and level the glue similar to the toothed trowels that Masons use. Also, will you explain the flaked graphite you used on the core, either here or in a future video?
Thanks for the tip, the graphite serves as a refractory to help prevent core sand from fusing to the inside
hey clarke, I was looking into this machine of yours trying to find more info on it and I found it, since other people were asking about it, I figured I'd let you know. It was made by the Glover Manufacturing Co., commonly labeled as the Del Bro shaper. Vintagemachinery has the patent document for it on the Glover Manufacturing Co page under patents, which shows how everything works and a detailed description of it. The spindle of it has a left hand thread for a custom tool that holds two tool blanks for doing larger diameter core boxes, patent document for that tool head and other attachments for that machine is under US2777486. If you want the links and other documents I have on that machine, just let me know.
Thanks Chirpy, what's funny is Keith Rucker gave this to me and said he knew nothing about it. There is no identification to be seen anywhere on it. No numbers or tags or where a tag may have been so I appreciate this
@@windyhillfoundry5940 lol, yea, there really is no info on those things out there. I had just gotten lucky and found one pic of one when looking up your machine and tracked it down from that. Keith's site really has no info on the machine, or the company except for that patent document, and it was a bit of a search to find that much on it, so I know that keith wouldnt have really found it either unless he had known exactly what he was looking for.
Im glad that I could have been some help, I was thinking about making something like a desktop model of that machine since it would make things so much faster than the mold and plaster method Ive been using for years, lol.
@@ChirpysTinkerings yes, its definitely a handy machine to have. It doesn't get used every day but when its needed you can't beat it
A question out of ignorance on casting for the bevel gear for Keith Rucker and the metal planer restoration. He mentioned that you had trouble getting metal to flow to the high edge of the piece. Would it work better if the piece was cast with a vertical orientation and the mold separation line was at or slightly above the shoulder of the piece? Or is it not possible to cast the piece in that orientation?
Get a pusher stick for cutting small items on the table saw. You need all 10 of your fingers!
Came out great think I need some drawlings of the core box machine. And who is your new help ?
It's a neat little machine for sure.
That's Brii, a student at USM with the arts and has a foundry background so she will be helping me here.
Just found Your channel, subscribed. You are clearly very skilled in Your art.
Did You build the diesel furnace Yourself?
Thanks and yes, this is furnace #6 or 7 for me
I always enjoy your videos. Way more to it than seems obvious at first. BTW, that oddball machine Keith gave you? I wonder of that was used to make wooden gutters for houses. The house I grew up in had them and This Old House actually showed some new ones a few years ago. It looks to be about the right size, although, it seemed awfully slow going for production work. Just a thought. Take care, stay well, pet the dog.
Thanks, I would think making gutters with this machine would take a very long time.
Judging by how long it took you to buzz through that pine, I agree. I was wondering if they had bigger, more heavy duty cutters for it. Anyway, it’s just a guess.
Looks pretty good clarke, Im going to have to make myself one of those core making machines, lol. What RPM does that spindle spin at? I hope you get over your cold soon and get to feeling better.
Me too churp . If we can swindle some measurements and a detailed look at the machine I'm game to help with the patterns.
Thanks Chirpy, not sure what the rpm is. The pulleys are 1:1 so I'm assuming it may be 1800
@@windyhillfoundry5940 oh, ok, thanks man, and Ill defenitely have to look into building a small version of that thing, lol.
I was shown a technique as an apprentice were you set the circular saw blade stick out to the radius of the core box bore then take the fence off and clamp a wooden guide to the table at such an angle that when you sight down the guide the blade forms a half round silhouette - ie the difference in distance from the guide to the leading tip of the blade and to the trailing blade tip equals the diameter (well less a bit for minimal cleanup).
It was a long 6 segment lag construction corebox, so not a lot to come off.
I like this borer better though
@@Dug6666666 Woodworkers do that to get groves or inside rounds
What is the limit to your casting size? I may have a project or two in mind.😎
Brian I think its 60 pounds tops
It’s kinda scary when Brian asks how big you can make something. He’d use up your entire stash of brake drums and rotors plus a lot more on the size of jobs he does!
Did you make your tapered sprue cutters? Would love to see a how-to on that!
The tapered sprue cutter is actually a gift from Mr.Pete( Tubalcain). I thought about making some in different sizes. If I do I'll be sure to share it👍
Clark AKA Picasso 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🤣 I sometimes feel as troubled as Picasso
Do you add anything to your iron in addition to the scrap brake rotors? How does it machine?
I add ferro silicon and it machines great👌
@@windyhillfoundry5940 thank you. Working on some cylinder patterns for a Semple steam engine and building a foundry at the moment.
What is the heaviest piece you can cast in one pour?
At this time 60 pounds max. The plan for 2021 is to have a cupola going for larger pours
How do you have the time is all this just super easy
Time is a big issue for me. I get very little sleep. I am planning to take early retirement from day job next year in order to keep up. Right now I am so far behind on orders I can't see daylight😞
What was the finish on the inside of the core box? Nice video.
Thanks, actually the core box has a smooth surface
your voice with a cold sounds like Lindsey Graham
I'll take that as a compliment👍
Anyone know what that machine is called or who made it? Cool.
If you go to Keith's videos on the stoker engine, he fully explains this👍
I appreciate everyone's concern on the push stick. I have used a table saw most of my life and produced several tons of saw dust from them without a single injury. I always practice safety and to be honest the table saw is by far the safest thing I have around here. If I have to rip anything under 1.5" wide, I do use a push stick. It's common practice for me to always keep hand pressure to the fence if in the event a board gets kicked back so my hand would automatically fly right, away from the blade. Again, thanks for the concern but the real danger here is the 2900° of molten iron.
Indeed I do the same thing and on my saw I can hook my ring and pinky over the fence as I go. I probably go a bit wider than 1 1/2" though but I don't jugel lava as a pastime eather
"gain, thanks for the concern but the real danger here is the 2900° of molten iron." Until you lose that finger on the tablesaw. I am one of those who has had a thumb dance with the blade on a table saw. Please listen, despite the saying, you can always teach an old dog new tricks.
You know those rich New Yorkers would pay to come down to your shop to sweat off a few pounds.
I would gladly take them up on that offer😁
Not rich but I'm from Upstate NY, where we actually work off the extra weight... LOL
I couldnt handle that heat.
It requires drinking a lot of Gatorade and gallons of water😞
Bugger...I went to subscribe but I musta dun it before!
👍
What kind of gas are you using
Chris, I use diesel
On the molds ???
@@chriscromer2308 Carbon dioxide is used to harden those silica sand/sodium silicate (AKA water glass) cores.
Doesn't the core end up very slightly elliptical?
Not too bad, I check it with calipers and try to get a diagonal measurement in 4 directions holding it as close to .001" as possible. Keep in mind I'm measuring wood with calipers so there will be accumulation for error. These will be bored anyway
@@windyhillfoundry5940 I definitely like that gadget. That's more circular than I thought it would be.
Several of the foundries I do work for in the UK have an incremental range of stock core boxes. The cores produced are cut to length as required.
manly man skill #306: cutting wood on a open table saw without chopping of your fingers!
What is your source of CO2? Commercial CO2 cylinder?
Yes it's a regular bottle ( airgas), if we could quit leaving the main valve on it would last longer😞
That fly cutter tool is amazing but I'll bet every OSHA person watching was cringing! Lots of opportunity for finger damage!
Folks, anybody out there who thinks they can convince him to use a pusher stick? Didn't think so.
🤣 there were so many remarks on that I just addressed it in the above comment
Windy Hill Foundry, I think everyone is concerned for you, might have been one in there that was kinda nasty. It’s hard to be a foundry man with no thumbs!
Dear Sir, I am terrified of seeing you handling the saw. Please use a pushing rod to save your valuable hands. Thanks for this one.
The table saw is the safest tool I use around here👍
Wouldn’t have been easier just to use a steel sleeve that was ready made?
Keith said the originals were cast iron and cast iron has better wearability along with lubricating abilities due to the graphitization
Nice job but I gave a thumbs down for no push stick and the neglected rusty table saw.
So you're the culprit🤣
You wear all the protective clothing when pouring metal,why be so careless when using table saw.no one is fast enough to move out of the way of rotating saw blade.it's not how but when your luck runs out.
I'm never careless my friend. I know what I'm doing👍
I cringe, when I see someone using an unguarded, un-rived, table saw, for ripping and crosscutting.
I do appreciate your concern but that saw is the least of my concern. The sand Muller will rip and grind a human into dust if caught in it, the furnace will vaporize one if they were to trip and fall towards it and all the exposed wires from the heat cooking the insulation off will fry someone. I have a hydralic brake crusher that isn't osha approved either.
I have produced several tons of saw dust with a table saw over my lifetime and still have all 10 fingers. The only cut I have received from a table saw was when trying to break the nut loose to change that blade and the cut was from a jagged sharp edge of the table not the blade
@@windyhillfoundry5940 Have you never witnessed kick-back?
@@BedsitBob yes and I always keep pressure not only in the forward position but side ways away from blades just as a precaution.