Seeing things like this really makes you realize how spoiled we are with modern engines. To think that there was once a time when everything you did in this video would have been just another day in the life of a mechanic! Excellent video, well explained, and very valuable information! 😃
All real "repair" work is almost gone today. Now you only change parts. Not repairing. That is why all local machine shops are dead and all the parts is made in a far away contry. Sad, but with all the stress today anything else would not work. /Richard
My wife's grandfather lived in rural Pennsylvania, was a builder and would also fabricate parts he needed for the various machines he used. Most of his tools are gone, but I have some of them and they are wonderful relics of a bygone age. Your videos illustrate what his shop must have been like all of those years ago.
I just found your channel today, and I must say that you deserve every one and each subscriber you have, fantastic. I hope that you realise how important guys like you are in a world where the majority believe that they save the planet by driving around in electric vehicles with chinese batteries and banning everything that runs on oil. The more people that watched channels like yours, the better we stand. Keep up the good work, Richard
Good job .I like to see younger people doing this stuff..I've been doing it since I was 14 or 15.always loved doing it.my dad allways had work going on.motors transmission .rear ends...been doing. My own stuff ever since .iam 67 now.still do what I can.cant do as much on this newer stuff.old school.
Very nice! I don't think I will be making any piston rings anytime soon but it was very enjoyable to watch how carefully and creatively you did this. The value of old documents like that book cannot be overestimated
Soichiro Honda began by manufacturing piston rings. I always thought this was starting at the black magic end of the engine, but your video gives an insight into how this is not so difficult. Thank you !
When I rebuilt one of these few years back. had to make whole new piston and rings. We used well pipe to make the rings. Carbonized each ring. Then had them chrome plated after. Real hard part of that build was the thing sat 50 years and orginal piston was seized solid inside. Reborning it was a trick and a half!
In 1974, I was an engineer officer onboard SS Nevasa. Our susti pump for supplying feed water to the auxiliary boiler failed. it needed new rings and the bore was worn at midstroke. I was amazed to watch our Chinese fitter make a new piston ring and then hand scrape the bore to be parallel again.
Beautiful work. Reminds me of doing three weeks of learning to use a file in metalwork class at school. Our instructor was old school then and that was 65 years ago. Best wishes from England.
Congratulations for having a teacher like that. Our metalwork teacher just told us to cut when you push, lift when you pull. I quickly realized there had to be more to it than that, but was too timid to ask for better instructions.
Beautifully done! Great watching your engineering skills bringing these historical masterpieces back to life. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧
Great content, love to see old machines working strong after so many years, made to work reliable. Not like todays products, lasting to the end of warranty, made only for profits.
Modern engines operate far longer without fiddling with them or taking them apart. People also expect more out of them, like if you have a luxury car now you don't expect to have to employ a chauffer who goes to rolls for a course about how to keep it going for just 10 years with daily(!!) maintenance - unfortunate result though is that something that breaks and needs just 10 days of work makes the car not worth it to repair.. The old one would have been worth repair at multiples of that. Diesel generators work really long times too without fiddling and even cheap honda clone generators work astonishing times compared to a land engine from 1900 while being simple to get running again. Also their design isn't patent dodging encumbered.
So cool to see piston rings made from scratch. Always wondered what to do with an old engine that needed rings. The way you described it I feel like I could do it myself now. You are a great teacher.
I really enjoy your videos and I appreciate that they are suitable for children. There are plenty of creators of adult content not suitable for children and I think that what you share on your channel is of great value. Thanks!
Fascinating! My grandfather Herb Nickalls fled the Kaiser's call-up for World War ! - as far as he could, here to New Zealand, to Ealing mid-Canterbury. He was Diesel Factory-trained, becoming the 'go-to' man as Deisel was replacing Steam for tractors, road-rollers and fixed plant. A lot of heavy machinery passed through his workshop, so Ealing railway station (on NZ's Main Trunk line) must have been kept quite busy loading and unloading. Ealing is at the top of a cutting rising from the Rangitata river, and the rail saw little sun in winter, icing the rail and stranding travel north-bound. Herb's 'herbs' (colloquial for strength) of machines awaiting transport were often used to help (Steam at the time) trains up the cutting, a valuable service to the nation's industry and transportation both!
The time is near that we need this mashines again . No Elektronik no high tech and we need the knowlege to Operate this mashines. Thank you for your work and your Video A very teachfull and high Level Work Take care Yours Frank Galetzka
This is a masterclass in technique and materials sourcing from times past. As a motorcycle mechanic I simply ordered in piston rings in whichever size I required, even at Motorcycle Technical College we weren't taught how to make our own piston rings! I found this to be absolutely fascinating, a look back into how things were done prior to the free availability of spare parts from OEM. I'm very happy to have found your channel and to have subscribed.
Great! Interesting topic and nice to see I'm not the only person to squeeze the ring with my hands and press the slug into the bore. Everyone I know use ring squeezers or those tapered collars to fit the rings into the cylinders.
I love these old engines. It is wonderful watching you work. So much knowledge!!! Saving the old machines and explaining in such a way that an old guy like me can understand. You are an exceptional instructor and I so appreciate the fact that you're saving these beautiful works of art. Thank you.
Such skill you have, quite amazing to watch you bringing these beautiful old machines back to life,... Thanks for sharing your experiences with us,. Greetings form Devon UK
I'm eagerly awaiting part 3! Absolutely brilliant mechanic-ing and Scandinavian dry humor... I chuckled for minutes with "good for me, bad for you". Cheers from Oregon, USA ✌🏻🤙🏻
I see that since this machine has transfer and exhaust ports, the rings are pinned to keep the open end of the rings from "falling" into the ports and destroying the engine. I used to work on double acting piston compressors which used packing glands to use both halves of the stroke. The piston rod was secured by a thread and jam nut to allow the gap to be set at each end of the piston. The use of a locating pin to keep the piston from turning in the bore is really quite clever. To lap rings to the desired thickness and flatness, we used a large circular plate with an offset ring that held the rings off center of the rotating plate and used grinding grit to cut and polish the faces. Really enjoy the content. Amazing how well the technology worked back then.
When you said you were going to heat it with a blowtorch I was thinking a propane or oxy-acetylene torch. I haven’t seen a real blowtorch in use for over sixty years. I am impressed.
I remember in school, working on Farm Tractors. Some of them were John Deere model A and B, which were single piston and started by hand turning the flywheel. It had finger grooves in the wheel to make it easier. They started very slowly, gaining RPM at a slow rate. The sound they made was unique, so that you could hear them the other side of a hill and know what it was. I love working on engines. It is too bad I could not maintain that career.
Cool video! Usually, in modern engines at least, you want a little larger ring gap on the secondary ring. That is because you don't want any pressure build up between the rings because that can break them.
@@YesterdaysMachinery it's actually a function of the rpm that diesels run at. The slower the rpm the tighter the gaps to prevent compression loss. The higher the rpm and the more heat generated the looser the ring end gap so the ends don't tough and jam the piston or gouge the cylinder walls
Dear Richard. I hope you and your family are well! I enjoy your videos, and hope you will make some more before too long! I especially liked your film about the Volvo BM Terrier small tractor. Best wishes from George in Herefordshire, UK.
Your very good! Without setting ring gap, especially if the bore is tapered from wear, you can shatter the rings! When the piston is removed later, bits and pieces will fall out the groves. Nice to see some people are continuing to use the knowledge of the past!
Wonderful work!! I think that because of watching you, I was directed to go watch the rock/mud falls of Illgraben, Sweden. I am in awe of what mother nature can do!
At last, someone who knows how to make piston rings correctly. I have see elsewhere someone making a piston ring by making it larger and cutting a slice out of it, and as you correctly point out, that does not make it round. I was taught to sandwich the ring between thick plates of steel with a wedge to gap it. Heating it while it is like that, it will heat evenly, stay flat and cool slowly. I look forward to seeing the engine run. Excellent video, many thanks.
Hi! Yes to fix the rings in a jig and then heat them is a good way. But i can't really see that this method makes the rings less round. But the importance is to heat them up slow and even. I have seen people heting them up and when cherry red they drip them in to oil to cool instantly. I dont really know how that affects the rings. But i want them to cool slow. /Richard
very amazing watching,.... you truly make these videos interesting.....theres nothing like the sound of an old machine coming back to life!...keep them coming subscriber for life
You should watch the video of Mr Crispin making piston rings for a small steam engine, he used the same method like you, but he found out that the rings don't stay completely round with this method, so he used a better method to make sure the rings get perfectly round...
Hi! This method has been used for so long time that i dought that it doesnt, but i will check that up! And if there is a problem with the roundness you can jig the ring up in the lathe again after the heat treatment in the compressed mode and then cut the roundness end shape. But all my rings have been that good so i dint really bother doin it in any other way! /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery yes, that is exactly what he did to make them round again... Here is a link to his video: ua-cam.com/video/2mqdIA3SFJs/v-deo.html
Marvelous job , clear information . Nice . I was watching a film from the 30s by LMS a region of the young British rail and they were making piston rings in exactly the same way . I'm enjoying your work immensely. 👍🇬🇧
I will have to try this myself one day now that I have watched you make them. I will have to find some cast Iron stock next trip to the scrap yard. It always fun to watch others keeping our mechanical history running. Greetings from USA
I think that back in the days when large steam engines and hit'n miss and crude oil etc. was still used daily the local machine shops made quite a lot of rings. /Richard
Gday Richard, this was an excellent video, very informative, im really looking forward to seeing the engine run in the next video, thanks for sharing mate, cheers
I live in West Central Mississippi. Our state fair is held in the capital, Jackson,MS. in early fall. 40, even 30 years ago it was quite common to see numerous old hit and Miss engines on display outside the Agricultural & Industrial building with some of them in operation. One elderly fella had his hit and by miss running a corn grist mill and sold cornmeal made using the machine. It was quite interesting. Many of them had old flat head screwdrivers wedged into/through a portion of one of the engine’s valve springs(suspect the exhaust since it probably experienced the most heat and loss of spring tension but I never paid that much attention). I don’t know why but, for some reason I never asked. I suspect it was because the valve spring had lost some of its strength over the years and the screwdriver wedged in where it was restored enough valve spring tension for the valve spring and valve to operate well enough for the engine to run. The simplicity and durability of these engines was impressive. They could basically worked on in very adverse conditions with most any part of it taken apart and put back together with an oil can, monkey/crescent wrench, a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. Some of them had far more complex speed control Governors using centrifugal action where others to memory either did like this engine snd the Governor just interrupted a fuel injection cycle or two. I think I saw a couple that interrupted the opening or closure of the intake or exhaust valve. I don’t recall any of the gas engines using an interrupter of the magneto snd spark plug spark/ignition but don’t recall for sure. While I was interested in how they operated my hearing loss from the militaryArmy 74-77 and many years in industrial applications like power Plant maintenance caused me difficulty in hearing explanations while there was background noise. I’m 66 now and 30 to 40 years ago most of the elderly gentlemen were in their late 50’s to mid 60’s some into their 70’s that brought, transported their numerous old engines many miles to show them to the younger generation at the fair. I have not been to the fair in 10 years or so but even before that it got to where there might only be one or two elderly fellas with 1, maybe 2 hit and Miss engines. To memory the largest continuous HP rated machine was only like 10 or 11 Hp and it was physically massive compared to a modern equivalent yet differently rated Hp machine. At 66 with a long list of ailments myself, less disposable money each year and the cost of everything including fuel, food and lodging going up I can understand why the older gentlemen from 30 to 40 years ago no longer show up with their machines. I sure wish someone had picked up their slack in seeing that these interesting old workhorses of farms and homesteads continued to be displayed at least once per year at the local state fair. I sure miss seeing them operate and smelling their operating aroma of diesel or kerosene(out of sight expensive), hot lubricating oil and cooling water. To memory one fellow had a multi-fuel machine that would run on just about anything from kerosene to diesel to lighter weight engine oil. Sad to see the operation of these engines list to time but we all get older and if no one picks up the passion of keeping these old engines operating including the expense of travel, food and lodging then their place in history will be limited to pictures in history books or UA-cam videos. Thanks for sharing the resurrection of this old machine especially the making of the cast iron piston rings. Looking forward to seeing the third video showing it operating.
Seeing things like this really makes you realize how spoiled we are with modern engines. To think that there was once a time when everything you did in this video would have been just another day in the life of a mechanic! Excellent video, well explained, and very valuable information! 😃
Yes, today we just scrap the old engines and get a new chinese one that lasts a month. This engine has a soul and quality! /Richard
This makes me feel like they were Spoiled back then. No goofy computer or smog gear and miles of wiring
@@realblakrawb no EPA regulations either that limit horsepower on diesel automobiles either.
@@johnded3874 No computer to run a fuel injection system = most semi trucks were gasoline until the 1960s.
Run away diesels anyone? Lol
Thanks very much from an old muckanic from Australia
I hope it helped. The engine is still running very nice with these rings and probably will for 100 years. Take care! /Richard
First video I've seen that shows and explains how piston rings are made. Absolutely fascinating! Something I call Elegant Engineering.
Thank you! /Richard
Wow, a hand written note on a sheet of loose leaf paper is the best explanation of calculating ring gap I've ever seen!
Haha, i collected data from books and just wrote them down at one page insted of 20. Hope it is correct tho 😅 /Richard
The way it was done 150 years ago. Outstanding!
Yes, still works! /Richard
57 years ago I learned about coefficients of linear expansion at school. Finally it comes in useful...
This is amazing. I've never seen anybody calculate and then manufacture their own piston rings before. I can't wait for part two.
All real "repair" work is almost gone today. Now you only change parts. Not repairing. That is why all local machine shops are dead and all the parts is made in a far away contry. Sad, but with all the stress today anything else would not work. /Richard
Old machines, craftsmanship, engineering and experience all combined in one. Thanks for sharing this
Thank you! /Richard
My wife's grandfather lived in rural Pennsylvania, was a builder and would also fabricate parts he needed for the various machines he used. Most of his tools are gone, but I have some of them and they are wonderful relics of a bygone age. Your videos illustrate what his shop must have been like all of those years ago.
Beautiful. Old machine shops are really fun. I have plans of building another shop here with only flatbelt driven machines. /Richard
I just found your channel today, and I must say that you deserve every one and each subscriber you have, fantastic.
I hope that you realise how important guys like you are in a world where the majority believe that they save the planet by driving around in electric vehicles with chinese batteries and banning everything that runs on oil.
The more people that watched channels like yours, the better we stand.
Keep up the good work, Richard
Good job .I like to see younger people doing this stuff..I've been doing it since I was 14 or 15.always loved doing it.my dad allways had work going on.motors transmission .rear ends...been doing. My own stuff ever since .iam 67 now.still do what I can.cant do as much on this newer stuff.old school.
Your'e a true "Smålänning" who can make everything out of anything. Great video with a lot of technique talk, love it!!!
Thank you 😊 /Richard
Great video Richard!!! Looking forward to seeing the old girl start up!
Very nice! I don't think I will be making any piston rings anytime soon but it was very enjoyable to watch how carefully and creatively you did this. The value of old documents like that book cannot be overestimated
Thank you! Old books are great. If i could push a button making the internet un-invented i would have done it. /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery hah! Then we would never know you.
@@Ioughtaknowbetter the question about the egg and the chicken ...🤣
Simple but very clever. well done
Thanks. No need to make it harder. /Richard
Well done. I never thought about making piston rings. Thanks for the show.
Soichiro Honda began by manufacturing piston rings. I always thought this was starting at the black magic end of the engine, but your video gives an insight into how this is not so difficult. Thank you !
When I rebuilt one of these few years back. had to make whole new piston and rings. We used well pipe to make the rings. Carbonized each ring. Then had them chrome plated after. Real hard part of that build was the thing sat 50 years and orginal piston was seized solid inside. Reborning it was a trick and a half!
So interesting! Thank you for your easy to understand demonstration.
Best wishes from George
Thank you George! /Richard
7:53, I love it ...... "Good for me, bad for you"
Extremely interesting! Solved a lifelong mystery for me. Thank you! Pure cast iron cut to size.
I have only one comment to make....I want this engine. Thanks
In 1974, I was an engineer officer onboard SS Nevasa. Our susti pump for supplying feed water to the auxiliary boiler failed. it needed new rings and the bore was worn at midstroke. I was amazed to watch our Chinese fitter make a new piston ring and then hand scrape the bore to be parallel again.
Fantastic, you have one of the best channels on the you tube! Be well.
Hi! Thanks a lot! Always nice to get feed back! /Richard
Beautiful work. Reminds me of doing three weeks of learning to use a file in metalwork class at school. Our instructor was old school then and that was 65 years ago. Best wishes from England.
I remember hours at the vice with a file , and woe betide if it was wonky work . A whole raft of memories you uncovered 👍
I think it is a very great skill to master a file. You can use it very often in daily work. /Richard
Congratulations for having a teacher like that. Our metalwork teacher just told us to cut when you push, lift when you pull. I quickly realized there had to be more to it than that, but was too timid to ask for better instructions.
"Good for me, bad for you" I love it!
Beautifully done! Great watching your engineering skills bringing these historical masterpieces back to life. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧
Hi! Thank you very much! Next one is great! /Richard
Great content, love to see old machines working strong after so many years, made to work reliable. Not like todays products, lasting to the end of warranty, made only for profits.
Exacly. This is made to last as long as someone wants it to last. /Richard
Modern engines operate far longer without fiddling with them or taking them apart.
People also expect more out of them, like if you have a luxury car now you don't expect to have to employ a chauffer who goes to rolls for a course about how to keep it going for just 10 years with daily(!!) maintenance - unfortunate result though is that something that breaks and needs just 10 days of work makes the car not worth it to repair.. The old one would have been worth repair at multiples of that.
Diesel generators work really long times too without fiddling and even cheap honda clone generators work astonishing times compared to a land engine from 1900 while being simple to get running again. Also their design isn't patent dodging encumbered.
So cool to see piston rings made from scratch. Always wondered what to do with an old engine that needed rings. The way you described it I feel like I could do it myself now. You are a great teacher.
4:45 A stove eye (burner) works great. I quenched mine in water also worked great. It's all on my channel under big engine.
Very impressive, can't wait to see the engine brought back to life.
I really enjoy your videos and I appreciate that they are suitable for children. There are plenty of creators of adult content not suitable for children and I think that what you share on your channel is of great value. Thanks!
Hi! Thank you. Yes i want to keep the videos nice and without all that bad langue and high volume hard rock that often ruins a good video. /Richard
Fascinating! My grandfather Herb Nickalls fled the Kaiser's call-up for World War ! - as far as he could, here to New Zealand, to Ealing mid-Canterbury. He was Diesel Factory-trained, becoming the 'go-to' man as Deisel was replacing Steam for tractors, road-rollers and fixed plant. A lot of heavy machinery passed through his workshop, so Ealing railway station (on NZ's Main Trunk line) must have been kept quite busy loading and unloading.
Ealing is at the top of a cutting rising from the Rangitata river, and the rail saw little sun in winter, icing the rail and stranding travel north-bound. Herb's 'herbs' (colloquial for strength) of machines awaiting transport were often used to help (Steam at the time) trains up the cutting, a valuable service to the nation's industry and transportation both!
Hi! Thanks for sharing this! Very interesting! /Richard
Simple motor and so easy to maintain, a file, hammer and a vice to rebuild these beautiful machines.
Yeah, kinda like it. /Richard
The time is near that we need this mashines again .
No Elektronik no high tech and we need the knowlege to Operate this mashines.
Thank you for your work and your Video
A very teachfull and high Level Work
Take care
Yours Frank Galetzka
Yes, it is a good sorce of power. And when they are in good contition they always start emediatly and runs well. /Richard
This is a masterclass in technique and materials sourcing from times past.
As a motorcycle mechanic I simply ordered in piston rings in whichever size I required, even at Motorcycle Technical College we weren't taught how to make our own piston rings!
I found this to be absolutely fascinating, a look back into how things were done prior to the free availability of spare parts from OEM.
I'm very happy to have found your channel and to have subscribed.
Hi! Nice to hear that. Wish you all well! /Richard
Great! Interesting topic and nice to see I'm not the only person to squeeze the ring with my hands and press the slug into the bore. Everyone I know use ring squeezers or those tapered collars to fit the rings into the cylinders.
I love these old engines. It is wonderful watching you work. So much knowledge!!! Saving the old machines and explaining in such a way that an old guy like me can understand. You are an exceptional instructor and I so appreciate the fact that you're saving these beautiful works of art. Thank you.
Your a true old time mechanic and with your explanation with the ring expansion a professor too. Well done. 👏👏😁🇦🇺
I was always told that it took 133 steps to make piston rings. Efficiency is great!
Hose worm clamps really do a nice job as ring compressors especially for the old engines.
I usually use those plastic tyeRaps. One for every ring. Works good.
@@YesterdaysMachinery Whatever works and is handy is the trick. Also, everyone has their own preference. Peace
Such skill you have, quite amazing to watch you bringing these beautiful old machines back to life,... Thanks for sharing your experiences with us,. Greetings form Devon UK
Hi! Thank you so much! /Richard
Excellent description of your manufacturing methods. Your math is excellent too!
I just had to teach the thermal expansion principle at my university in Germany. Great video, Tack
I'm eagerly awaiting part 3! Absolutely brilliant mechanic-ing and Scandinavian dry humor... I chuckled for minutes with "good for me, bad for you".
Cheers from Oregon, USA ✌🏻🤙🏻
It is in one hand so complicate and in the another, so simple. Need piston rings? Just make them from a piece of cast iron laying around. Fascinating.
Very nice work, Richard.
I see that since this machine has transfer and exhaust ports, the rings are pinned to keep the open end of the rings from "falling" into the ports and destroying the engine. I used to work on double acting piston compressors which used packing glands to use both halves of the stroke. The piston rod was secured by a thread and jam nut to allow the gap to be set at each end of the piston. The use of a locating pin to keep the piston from turning in the bore is really quite clever. To lap rings to the desired thickness and flatness, we used a large circular plate with an offset ring that held the rings off center of the rotating plate and used grinding grit to cut and polish the faces. Really enjoy the content. Amazing how well the technology worked back then.
When you said you were going to heat it with a blowtorch I was thinking a propane or oxy-acetylene torch. I haven’t seen a real blowtorch in use for over sixty years. I am impressed.
Those Sievert petrol torches is extremly reliable and fast, lots cheaper than propane. Always using them. /Richard
The mystery behind piston rings explained! solid info, thanks.
Thanks! /R
Modern "low tension" rings and GDI engines...nightmares from the early 2000's.....
I Live in the 1950's so i don't really know what you are talking about! 😁 /Richard
8:50 if your ring is thicker then it also should expand more, so I would have expected to go more loose than with thinner rings. I am wrong?
Superb...quite hypnotic....wonderful commentary!
Thank you! /Richard
I remember in school, working on Farm Tractors. Some of them were John Deere model A and B, which were single piston and started by hand turning the flywheel. It had finger grooves in the wheel to make it easier. They started very slowly, gaining RPM at a slow rate. The sound they made was unique, so that you could hear them the other side of a hill and know what it was. I love working on engines. It is too bad I could not maintain that career.
Sorry to correct you A and bs were twin cylinders
@@mikewarpula911 I mis-remember things. What was my name again? I was remembering the sound.
Cool video!
Usually, in modern engines at least, you want a little larger ring gap on the secondary ring. That is because you don't want any pressure build up between the rings because that can break them.
Hi! Never heard of actually. Probably somthing to due to modern diesels high pressures. /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery it's actually a function of the rpm that diesels run at. The slower the rpm the tighter the gaps to prevent compression loss. The higher the rpm and the more heat generated the looser the ring end gap so the ends don't tough and jam the piston or gouge the cylinder walls
Dear Richard.
I hope you and your family are well!
I enjoy your videos, and hope you will make some more before too long!
I especially liked your film about the Volvo BM Terrier small tractor.
Best wishes from George in Herefordshire, UK.
Your very good!
Without setting ring gap, especially if the bore is tapered from wear, you can shatter the rings! When the piston is removed later, bits and pieces will fall out the groves.
Nice to see some people are continuing to use the knowledge of the past!
HA! Even your torch is OLD!! This is awesome.
It's nice to see old pieces repurposed this way. Cheers.
absolutely can't wait to see it running again.
Thank's! /Richard
Great channel. I'ts nice to see you saving that old machinery.
Thank you! /Richard
now THAT is getting into it. 100% impressed.
Thank you for keeping this knowledge alive and sharing it. Jim Bell (Australia)
Man, the things you do is so steampunk and your look is badass!
That making of new piston ring is great.
Thank you for the video. Take care.
Coolest blowtorch I've ever seen I need one of those I'm always needing heat but little torches barely cut it
Wonderful work!! I think that because of watching you, I was directed to go watch the rock/mud falls of Illgraben, Sweden. I am in awe of what mother nature can do!
Hi! Cool that my videos makes the algorithm show more of Sweden! Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery Have you ever been to witness the rock slides? I understand that they're somewhat predictable at least in timing.
At last, someone who knows how to make piston rings correctly. I have see elsewhere someone making a piston ring by making it larger and cutting a slice out of it, and as you correctly point out, that does not make it round. I was taught to sandwich the ring between thick plates of steel with a wedge to gap it. Heating it while it is like that, it will heat evenly, stay flat and cool slowly. I look forward to seeing the engine run. Excellent video, many thanks.
Hi! Yes to fix the rings in a jig and then heat them is a good way. But i can't really see that this method makes the rings less round. But the importance is to heat them up slow and even. I have seen people heting them up and when cherry red they drip them in to oil to cool instantly. I dont really know how that affects the rings. But i want them to cool slow. /Richard
Very clever. That's good to find a book on it. I'm subscribed with the bell but your videos are scarce.
very amazing watching,.... you truly make these videos interesting.....theres nothing like the sound of an old machine coming back to life!...keep them coming subscriber for life
Thanks! Yes the start up is comming up soon! We also gonna run a quite interesting machine with the engine. /Richard
Great episode, some great information. As you say part of the fun is making the bits you need 😎👍
Yes, i think so! /Richard
Very handy information in a post apocalyptic life. Thanks!
You should watch the video of Mr Crispin making piston rings for a small steam engine, he used the same method like you, but he found out that the rings don't stay completely round with this method, so he used a better method to make sure the rings get perfectly round...
Hi! This method has been used for so long time that i dought that it doesnt, but i will check that up! And if there is a problem with the roundness you can jig the ring up in the lathe again after the heat treatment in the compressed mode and then cut the roundness end shape. But all my rings have been that good so i dint really bother doin it in any other way! /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery yes, that is exactly what he did to make them round again...
Here is a link to his video:
ua-cam.com/video/2mqdIA3SFJs/v-deo.html
Thanks for info.This will help me finish my first ringed engine.
Mycket bra jobbat 👍🏻
I'd have drilled a hole, to just less than 6mm, then split the ring..
It would give you a more accurate radius on the bore.
Never have seen piston rings being hand made. Very ineresting!
Thank you for posting these videos. As a former "shade tree mechanic" I find these quite educational.
Marvelous job , clear information . Nice . I was watching a film from the 30s by LMS a region of the young British rail and they were making piston rings in exactly the same way . I'm enjoying your work immensely. 👍🇬🇧
Hi! Thanks! Interesting, could you link that video? /Richard
LMS General repair
Bennet Brooke Railways
Very clever to use an old pulley
I will have to try this myself one day now that I have watched you make them. I will have to find some cast Iron stock next trip to the scrap yard. It always fun to watch others keeping our mechanical history running. Greetings from USA
Please let me know how your rings turned out! /Richard
Great engineering, well done. Again...
"A piston ring should be round as a pretty good feature." You killed me with that remark.
Love how easy that thing comes apart. The size of the piston is also inspiring.
Beautiful work, as always mate.
Nice one
Enjoying you approach,I'm off to part three.
Give me old internal combustion engines any day, over the modern machinery.. The old motors have souls and personalities, they truly are alive.
I think you repairing old engines is very interesting
Very nice that you can make your own piston rings !
That was a great explanation of piston rings. Love how you explained the formula for heat expansion too.
Thank's! Hopefully this helps out. /Richard
I can't believe this only got 76k views so far. Amazing video.
Thanks for the education. Good info that I’m sure to pass it on. I had never thought to make rings that sure looked simple. Thanks & God Bless Ron
Wah! Great Man. Your workmanship simply extradinary. Hats off❤❤
I wish my Dad could see this! I thought he was an old school metal worker. But, I'd be surprised if he ever made his own piston rings!
I think that back in the days when large steam engines and hit'n miss and crude oil etc. was still used daily the local machine shops made quite a lot of rings. /Richard
Gday Richard, this was an excellent video, very informative, im really looking forward to seeing the engine run in the next video, thanks for sharing mate, cheers
Thank you Matty! Yes the startup video going to be a good one. And we are going to run a quite interesting machine with the engine. /Richard
Videos are fantastic and your AG skills are top notch.
That was very interesting to watch!
Thank you! /Richard
It’s amazing how simple the made the machine
I live in West Central Mississippi. Our state fair is held in the capital, Jackson,MS. in early fall. 40, even 30 years ago it was quite common to see numerous old hit and Miss engines on display outside the Agricultural & Industrial building with some of them in operation. One elderly fella had his hit and by miss running a corn grist mill and sold cornmeal made using the machine. It was quite interesting. Many of them had old flat head screwdrivers wedged into/through a portion of one of the engine’s valve springs(suspect the exhaust since it probably experienced the most heat and loss of spring tension but I never paid that much attention). I don’t know why but, for some reason I never asked. I suspect it was because the valve spring had lost some of its strength over the years and the screwdriver wedged in where it was restored enough valve spring tension for the valve spring and valve to operate well enough for the engine to run. The simplicity and durability of these engines was impressive. They could basically worked on in very adverse conditions with most any part of it taken apart and put back together with an oil can, monkey/crescent wrench, a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. Some of them had far more complex speed control Governors using centrifugal action where others to memory either did like this engine snd the Governor just interrupted a fuel injection cycle or two. I think I saw a couple that interrupted the opening or closure of the intake or exhaust valve. I don’t recall any of the gas engines using an interrupter of the magneto snd spark plug spark/ignition but don’t recall for sure. While I was interested in how they operated my hearing loss from the militaryArmy 74-77 and many years in industrial applications like power
Plant maintenance caused me difficulty in hearing explanations while there was background noise. I’m 66 now and 30 to 40 years ago most of the elderly gentlemen were in their late 50’s to mid 60’s some into their 70’s that brought, transported their numerous old engines many miles to show them to the younger generation at the fair. I have not been to the fair in 10 years or so but even before that it got to where there might only be one or two elderly fellas with 1, maybe 2 hit and Miss engines. To memory the largest continuous HP rated machine was only like 10 or 11 Hp and it was physically massive compared to a modern equivalent yet differently rated Hp machine. At 66 with a long list of ailments myself, less disposable money each year and the cost of everything including fuel, food and lodging going up I can understand why the older gentlemen from 30 to 40 years ago no longer show up with their machines. I sure wish someone had picked up their slack in seeing that these interesting old workhorses of farms and homesteads continued to be displayed at least once per year at the local state fair. I sure miss seeing them operate and smelling their operating aroma of diesel or kerosene(out of sight expensive), hot lubricating oil and cooling water. To memory one fellow had a multi-fuel machine that would run on just about anything from kerosene to diesel to lighter weight engine oil. Sad to see the operation of these engines list to time but we all get older and if no one picks up the passion of keeping these old engines operating including the expense of travel, food and lodging then their place in history will be limited to pictures in history books or UA-cam videos. Thanks for sharing the resurrection of this old machine especially the making of the cast iron piston rings. Looking forward to seeing the third video showing it operating.
You are such a talented and smart man.