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Practice makes perfect! Interesting video, thanks!

Very nice! More venting! I would have poured it sooner and faster, you are loosing a lot of the zinc which boils at 700°C! All that white smoke is Zinc vapeur, watch out for fume fever, the Zinc vapeur will give you flu like symptoms for two or three days Cheers, Matthe!

I know the pain of seeing a casting that's 95% of what it's supposed to be. I find that tilting the mould to about 10 degrees with the gate at the lowest point helps when casting plaques. The metal will fill more evenly and it prevents the brass running ahead of the main flow. I love the way you casually stick your hands in the flames. Regards, Preso

Love the use of coal.

I feel like your gating is way over complicated. I would feed the lady birds from the bottom. Try putting a necked down riser in the center of your boss and just set the sprue 1” or less from your pattern with a short direct gate. If you have issues with metal forcing into the sand make a thinner cope ( weight it ) and use a clay wash to precent metal penetration. You might use a safer set up for handling the crucible, I have seen an awful lot of sever burns from molten metal.

I watch Windy Hill Foundry his don’t always come out on the first try . I think you done good you’ve learned what you need to do to make them better next time . I find foundry work interesting. Thanks

Fair Play Chap... LadyBug Door Knockers? ... Braze The Hole Hole Up And Hand File ... peace

I can get you loads of brass cartridges if you ever need a supply of brass! No idea how that would cast.

I don't believe you used up all of your luck. You still had some left for the ladybirds. As for the plaques, next time they will be spot on. For sure.

Really good video, shame about the plaques but the ladybirds are lovely. I’d be interested to see the process behind the patterns next time you make one. Perhaps run a bit of braze in the hole?

Why not drill a hole in the fault then turn a plug of brass, solder it in and file it flush?

Shame about the name plaques. but the ladybirds look really nice. 👍

very nice well presented video, totally captivating, very enjoyable, thank you

Fantastic effort!!!!!

Hi, would it be helpful to incline the mold a bit away from the inlet when pouring it and adding a sprew at the lower half. Rich

Your crucible. Is that clay graphite or silicon carbide?

Dear Jonesy A great video. For a first time effort, I thought things went pretty well. I'm sure your modifications to the plaque mould will cure the problems. You noted in your "post pouring" discussion that the plaque will be painted. If this is the case could you use something like "J B Weld" a metal impregnated epoxy, as body filler to plug the hole? I have used it as "machinable body filler" when restoring the standard on a full sized antique vertical (launch) steam engine. Given the metal content, while the finished product is readily sand-able and can be machined, it is much more solid than any non metal containing filler material. Best wishes form Canada Paul

This is amazing.

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Nice forging. You didn’t have spend that much time fitting the key, just make sure your angles are close and machine it to fit just shy of halfway through. Most of our transfer chain sprockets at the sawmill were retained with tapered keys and we just hammered them home with no fitting.

You should start by measuring the keyway taper. The British standard should be 100:1. It’s when your geometry comes into play. Also it should have clearance on the sides. It should have constant contact all along the key. I must’ve fitted keys from 1/8” up to 8” wide over the years.

Thank you for the video - I found the forge work absolutely fascinating - first class work.

That was brilliant. For filing the key when fitting have you considered a dynofile to speed things up a bit?

Wonderful job. I hate making mistakes too, but we learn more from a mistake than from a success. By now I should be a genius! But not so.

I'm very impressed by your ability to design and great all the custom tools and fittings needed to complete the projects. Thank you for not only saving these machines but also putting them to work again and sharing it all with us!

Once upon a time, millwrights would've been going that every day... 😐🇬🇧

I very much enjoyed the video. I was taught blacksmithing, welding, and machining in my grandfather's old line shaft run shop. Mostly, I was a boy but I loved it and learned a great deal. You've brought back some great memories. I can almost smell all the smells and hear the flat belt coupling hitting the pulleys.

Well the vice is a perfect example of taking the tools to the job. I think this one job demonstates how many old time engineering skills that have been lost. At the same time it's also easy to see why we lost them, the costs of doing the required hand fitting today are too high.

I was Lucky to visit a steam driven over head belt Shop in New York owned By David Richards,I think His shop is modeled after a 1920 s shop.He is like a steam engineer.love the work you you are doing.i worked for a while in a Overhead belt shop back in the 1960s Thank you nice work. Mike

good vid,, love the vice mount, is this another workshop??? cheers👍👍👍👍👍

I find the accuracy of your"primitive" machines astounding. Thank you for sharing and God Bless to all.

Working up off the floor is never easy. Having the vice up there with you was smart. I’m looking forward to seeing that wheel spinning same as you I bet . thanks

As always, brilliant film! Amazed at the accuracy of your skill on the power hammer.... 👍👍👍 Jim.

Your film popped up and I just had to stop what I was doing, it would have taken me a lifetime to get the key that flat. Can we visit your workshop? 👍

Enjoyed the video.thanks.

*NGL - THAT WAS A BIGGER* ball ach than I expected it to be

Nice job! Your Denbigh mill must be nice and tight, it seemed to cope OK with climb milling that feather key.

How old is that hammer you use? It looks like it has some stories it could tell.

I've never given those old style keys a thought , could be a useful dodge if you don't have the kit to cut a keyway.

The vise clamped to the rim of the wheel reminded me of an old time millwright I worked with years ago. He was fitting a v belt belt pulley to the shaft on a blower that was a good 20' above the floor. It would have been a big job to remove the blower and get it down to the work bench, so he took a small vise up the ladder and secured it to a nearby I-beam. He told me if he hadn't done that it would have required at least 40 trips up and down the ladder and would have resulted in either early retirement or death from a heart attack. Nice video and I enjoyed the voice over narration of the job.

Still got my curved drift for extracting gib head keys, don't think it's been used for it's true purpose since I worked in a textile mill in the early 90's, but does get used occasionally for "easing" various items !

Well done , nice job , good idea having the vice up there with you . Those feather keys , are sometimes known as “ French “ keys , thank you .

This is the way. So many modern shops lack a forge and miss the advantages...more flexibility with material you can start with, stronger material, quick near-net shape parts wasting less material, less work for the machine tools. That little vise clamped to the wheel came in handy. Also, I did not know that your 1910 Denbigh had a vertical attachment. When did Universal machines first come in to being?

Patience on display there…🧐 Interesting! 👍

These lineshaft videos are very useful for those of us contemplating our first attempt. Thanks for your work.

Very Nice ... Fair Play Chap ... peace

Nice bit of fitting work old style, great video!

Why do you need that rack out of there anyway?

Fantastic cobbled up puller. Rube Goldberg would be proud of you!

Great project looks like your having fun