@@Blondihacks I've tried bringing up self sealing stem bolts, but no one, not even trek fans at a convention, have a clue what you are talking about! So basically you just made my day 🙂
Oh hey there Quinn, being Mighty as usual I see. On the purpose of the covers, I have to believe that part of the reason was to protect the insulation lagging that was used to maintain the cylinder temperature. Wouldn’t want cold weather to be robbing your horsepower now I bet. And you also don’t need wet lagging, same principle. And having it protected from the elements, also serves to protect anyone who might come in contact with them, as steam is rumored to be rather warm. Your covers are very nice and close fitting, leaving no space for any lagging, but as it is a model, it will not be a big deal. Nice video, hi from Germany
That is gorgeous! Those cover-cover-cover-covers 'clean up' the steam chests a lot. Much more pleasing to the eye. Thanks once again for an awesome video, Quinn! 🙏
Hey Quinn! Believe it or not, all the steam chest cover-covers I can think of having worked with on locomotives have been cast; man are they heavy! Often awkward to install as well, as the central studs that retain them are rather tall and the clearance with the bottom of the smokebox can be tight... The ones I've worked with before have just been held in place by their own weight. At least around my local roundhouse, we refer to the round cylinder covers as "Bongos" for the wonderful timpani noise they make when something bonks into them. Not at all technically pertinent, but it makes us smile and hope it does you as well-- great looking progress on the locomotive!
I absolutely love the intelligent, well articulated comments on this channel. The 'jokes' are for us patient people that can pause and rub some brain cells together a moment haha.
Well, to be fair, the corner rounding bits were residing in a corner of the yellow tub they laid in, and until you opened the drawer, it was dark in there, so you did find them in a dark corner :P
The covers could also be for damages. Im a conductor and when we hit trees, rocks, cars, and wildlife the damage is surprising to say the least. Better for a cover to tske the brunt of it than the steam chest itself. But im sure all the reasons go hand in hand
Outstanding! Great tip about milling with the radius cutter, I'd never have thought of that. Hopefully I'll remember it if I ever get a radius cutter and then use it :)
i've seen some impressive stamping dies for sheet metal made on 3d printers, these covers looks like they might fall within the limits of using a 3d printed die set to press brass sheet
I keep on meaning to make myself a vice stop - watched you making one a few years ago. I never got round to it, and have instead been using other clamps etc. to get by. I noticed you're not using yours today. Is it a tool you've given up on? Was that just a magnetic indicator clamp turned backwards with the shaft used as the backstop, and if so does it work as well as your custom built one? Maybe I can take this off my outstanding projects lists!
Yah most of the time the magnetic indicator stand is just quicker to grab and set up. It also works in more situations (thin parts, parts wider than the vise, parts lower than the top of the jaws, etc).
1:10 , regarding branding Aesthetics are also more than just branding. During the industrial revolution, machine builders and owners were tremendously proud of their powerful new machines. In Arnold Pacey's book "Technology in World Civilization", he relays two different anecdotes: Page 165: machine builders added unnecessary decorative details to their machines, indicating tremendous pride in them. Water mills for grinding flour from the 1700s and 1800s were covered in decorative curves and mouldings, even on the inside of the mechanism where nobody could see them. Page 167: in 1801, a new steam engine was installed in an ironworks in Shropshire. The owner was so proud of his machine that he hired a woman to clean it more than once a day and "to keep the ironwork well-blacked." People in the industrial revolution seemed to have been more proud of the symbolism of their novel, modern, and powerful machines than modern people are (we take them for granted).
I don't know why but I assumed you were going to do tiny sheet metal forming, welding and polishing haha, those covers look exactly like some of the stainless button boxes I make for lifts
See the thing is, a slot drill *is* just a two flute centre cutting end mill cutter, but are all two flute centre cutting end mill cutters slot drills is the real question... (kinda no, depends in the centre cutting geometry, if it's like a split point I don't think it counts, has to have a cutting edge sweep the centre) Idk machinists are weird at naming things.
wouldn't a fence help keep the stock straight when you're on the bandsaw? That would reduce the amount of extra thickness you have to leave on the part.
When you test a thread while it's still set up in the lathe, do you crank down the threads or just check to make sure they fit? I would think that cranking down on the threads while it's still set up could potentially mess with alignment, correct?
This loco build of yours is like a work of art. Each part meticulously crafted like a master painter making a brush stroke on canvas…brass, aluminum and steel are your canvas and you put a lot of effort into creating each part so that it melds seamlessly with the parts that were previously made as well as with parts yet to be made. I can’t wait to see what else you have planned. Have a great weekend!
Long walk for that stem bolt joke, but what a view.
Waited my whole life to make that joke. Well, since the early 90s anyway.
@@Blondihacks I've tried bringing up self sealing stem bolts, but no one, not even trek fans at a convention, have a clue what you are talking about! So basically you just made my day 🙂
@@ollysworkshop I'm extremely surprised how well that joke went over. Judging from the comments, basically everyone got it. 😂
@@Blondihacks They're worth quite a bit . . . but only to the right buyer. :D
You've got a good audience.
Worth its weight in yamok sauce.
As a machinist for more than forty years, I call a 2 flute center cutting end mill, a 2 flute center cutting end mill.
Self sealing stem bolt. Nice reference, Lieutenant Commander Dunki. 🖖
someone explain the joke, i'm missing the reference
@@cguvn - Star Trek reference, specifically Deep Space 9.
@@ryanneumann5165 Specifically specifically, a young Ferengi's first big deal.
Yes, this place is filled with a bunch of huge nerds.
@@cguvn "Somebody has to teach you officers the difference between a warp matrix flux capacitor and a self-sealing stem bolt."
nice. The reference pops up a few times in DS9. Kind of a go-to for useless cargo.
I’m really glad you covered this part of the build.
I see what you did there ;)
I saw the self-sealing-stem-bolt joke coming, but was still unprepared for it when it landed. 🤣
She could make a bunch of them and trade them for land 😊
I feel like this fan base is a very interesting venn diagram. Who likes hobby machining, model trains, sitting around on their phone and DS9?
DS9 is very cool and Rom rules
@@nathanwright8598 who doesn't?
Good gravy, woman, you’ve captured Dr. Zarkov’s spaceship, and clear chips with it?
Quinn has such great commentary! The puns are on point.
I love your consistently steamy content!
That video made me realize just how hot some of the parts you make can get you done a great job looks good
So glad to meet up with someone who actually knows what the heck a self-sealing stem bolt is. Cheers!
I'm one minute in and I already want a cover, covers total count fro this video! l love this series!
found this channel on ytch and very nice, very soothing and soft narration and lovely video!
Thanks!
Radiusing with a mill is much nicer than hand filing if you are not an Aussie called Chris from Clickspring. Then it is the other way around.
Nice Steamy Chest Covers! Hey, you said it.
This steamy content is wonderful, thanks Quinn, helps a lot!
Yay! It's Blondihacks time!!
self-sealing stem bolts - Quinn you are a genius. you should go into business with Nog and Jake if you haven't already
Love how they look, super cool!
Oh hey there Quinn, being Mighty as usual I see. On the purpose of the covers, I have to believe that part of the reason was to protect the insulation lagging that was used to maintain the cylinder temperature. Wouldn’t want cold weather to be robbing your horsepower now I bet. And you also don’t need wet lagging, same principle. And having it protected from the elements, also serves to protect anyone who might come in contact with them, as steam is rumored to be rather warm. Your covers are very nice and close fitting, leaving no space for any lagging, but as it is a model, it will not be a big deal. Nice video, hi from Germany
a length of metal strapping folded in half make a cheap way to keep parallel bars tight against the vise jaw faces, looks good, part 49 wow!!!!!!!!!!!
A dead air space is a good insulator , and looks better . Reducing heat loss from boiler through the cylinder did become a thing .
Ooooh yess 😏 that steamy content! 🥵🚂
Well done! Really makes a big difference in appearance. Keep up the great work.
steam chest cover covers, it's a lot like duvet covers or liquid crystal display displays, brainrot gets popular.
That is gorgeous! Those cover-cover-cover-covers 'clean up' the steam chests a lot. Much more pleasing to the eye. Thanks once again for an awesome video, Quinn! 🙏
Man what a beautiful project. I cannot wait to see the first chuffs :D
A great video. Once again you’ve done a great job covering the work.
I watch every week for my "steamy" fix.
4:21 Doohickey. Everything in a machine shop can be called a doohickey.
I love those covers you made! That collet chuck is just the job.
Self Sealing Stem Bolts 😀
Outstanding machine work. You are one of the best!
Great job. Thank you 😊
Hey Quinn! Believe it or not, all the steam chest cover-covers I can think of having worked with on locomotives have been cast; man are they heavy! Often awkward to install as well, as the central studs that retain them are rather tall and the clearance with the bottom of the smokebox can be tight... The ones I've worked with before have just been held in place by their own weight.
At least around my local roundhouse, we refer to the round cylinder covers as "Bongos" for the wonderful timpani noise they make when something bonks into them. Not at all technically pertinent, but it makes us smile and hope it does you as well-- great looking progress on the locomotive!
I always enjoy your steamy content 🙂
Beautiful work!
Those covers look fantastic! Such great work as always.
That chuck is a nice tool.
I absolutely love the intelligent, well articulated comments on this channel. The 'jokes' are for us patient people that can pause and rub some brain cells together a moment haha.
nice love the radius in the mill tip..
Thanks for the round-over tip.
All is good in the world …(well, it isn’t but you know what I mean, meaning what I know, if you know, you know…?)❤
At least you got that covered...
Self sealing stem bolt.🖖🤣 always wanted to know what they looked like
Not steamy yet but getting closer
I call it a 4 - 2 end flute 👍
Wow, that hair fine brass circlet at 11:45 is impressive. Of course you meant to make that. Please tell us you kept it.
Always makes my day!
Awesomeness Extreme
Well, to be fair, the corner rounding bits were residing in a corner of the yellow tub they laid in, and until you opened the drawer, it was dark in there, so you did find them in a dark corner :P
The covers could also be for damages. Im a conductor and when we hit trees, rocks, cars, and wildlife the damage is surprising to say the least. Better for a cover to tske the brunt of it than the steam chest itself. But im sure all the reasons go hand in hand
With a few gross of those self-sealing stem bolts you could trade for some gold-pressed latinum, assuming you have the lobes for such a trade.
I don't call it a slot drill cause I live in Vegas, I call it a removety grovety.
I would not have expected those covers to make that much of a difference, but they really do!
Thank you for sharing. 👍👍
Thumb up for the star trek reference....
I wonder how much gold pressed Latium those self sealing stem bolts are these days?
Looks awesome!!!
another great video. thank you
_These are the jokes_ . oh yes they are 😍
did you get the stem bolts from the nojay consortium?
I always say that if you screw something up and it won't hurt functionality, always make sure to do it again symmetrically.
Outstanding! Great tip about milling with the radius cutter, I'd never have thought of that. Hopefully I'll remember it if I ever get a radius cutter and then use it :)
How many self sealing stem bots does anyone need?
Sure, trepanning is fun and all, but don't let it go to your head! 🤣
i've seen some impressive stamping dies for sheet metal made on 3d printers, these covers looks like they might fall within the limits of using a 3d printed die set to press brass sheet
That intro; Ms. Hacks, do you smell burnt toast?
Here i am at 4am on a Sunday morning just after this download. Am i mad or keen?😊😊
Addicted!😉🖖
You are madly keen!
Big Lebowski reference.
Heard there was alot of steamy content on this channel so I had to take a peep. I'm hooked👍
Those chamfers 😍
Those all turned out (yes yes, I know) very nicely.
Really makes a difference. They just make it look...finished.
Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.
I keep on meaning to make myself a vice stop - watched you making one a few years ago. I never got round to it, and have instead been using other clamps etc. to get by.
I noticed you're not using yours today. Is it a tool you've given up on? Was that just a magnetic indicator clamp turned backwards with the shaft used as the backstop, and if so does it work as well as your custom built one? Maybe I can take this off my outstanding projects lists!
Yah most of the time the magnetic indicator stand is just quicker to grab and set up. It also works in more situations (thin parts, parts wider than the vise, parts lower than the top of the jaws, etc).
1:10 , regarding branding
Aesthetics are also more than just branding. During the industrial revolution, machine builders and owners were tremendously proud of their powerful new machines.
In Arnold Pacey's book "Technology in World Civilization", he relays two different anecdotes:
Page 165: machine builders added unnecessary decorative details to their machines, indicating tremendous pride in them. Water mills for grinding flour from the 1700s and 1800s were covered in decorative curves and mouldings, even on the inside of the mechanism where nobody could see them.
Page 167: in 1801, a new steam engine was installed in an ironworks in Shropshire. The owner was so proud of his machine that he hired a woman to clean it more than once a day and "to keep the ironwork well-blacked."
People in the industrial revolution seemed to have been more proud of the symbolism of their novel, modern, and powerful machines than modern people are (we take them for granted).
Yes. Like the proud owner of a car maintaining it's appearance. I would love to have 'this' car she is building a model of. Or a completed model :)
So you're saying steam locomotives would have had tempered glass side panels and loads of RGB LEDs if they'd been available in the 1800s?
@@AaronJohnsonSTL without a doubt
Wow!
Steamy Streaming. That about Covers it.
When your allowable tolerance on square is, "eh, looks square"
I don't know why but I assumed you were going to do tiny sheet metal forming, welding and polishing haha, those covers look exactly like some of the stainless button boxes I make for lifts
Definitely looking like a boat now...
What else would it look like, that's what she's building, isn't it?
I know it's on the prototype, but I really prefer the looks of the "bare" cylinder heads. Especially with studs and nuts.
See the thing is, a slot drill *is* just a two flute centre cutting end mill cutter, but are all two flute centre cutting end mill cutters slot drills is the real question... (kinda no, depends in the centre cutting geometry, if it's like a split point I don't think it counts, has to have a cutting edge sweep the centre) Idk machinists are weird at naming things.
Chef John - "round the outside, round the outside, round the outside."
I love this channel so much. I always learn something. Thank you for all the hard work you put in to editing and teaching us! Its not wasted.
Good video Blondihacks
Your fancy nut looks like the lug nuts on my 66 Chevelle mag (aluminum) wheels!
Do think you'd put some Quinn branding on that top cover? Seems a nice place for some stamped letters.
So the covers covers covers covers got covered in oil?
I really love that Dewalt bandsaw wall mount! Are they available and where can I get one?!?!?
I'm not sure when spinning of metal parts started, but those round end caps could have been spun to form the shape.
Beautiful work on all of the cover-covers! They look great. And that self-sealing stem bolt work around was excellent! As always, well done!
wouldn't a fence help keep the stock straight when you're on the bandsaw? That would reduce the amount of extra thickness you have to leave on the part.
More steamy content! More steamy content!
Hello.Tell me the height of the rails in cm?
Yay!
When you test a thread while it's still set up in the lathe, do you crank down the threads or just check to make sure they fit? I would think that cranking down on the threads while it's still set up could potentially mess with alignment, correct?
That's a lot of yamok sauce.
I call my two-flute center-cutting endmill Robert…thats common in Ireland 🇮🇪❤
Hence the expression two-flue center-cutting endmill's your uncle.
@@ryandrew-tv7bg 🤣👍
This loco build of yours is like a work of art. Each part meticulously crafted like a master painter making a brush stroke on canvas…brass, aluminum and steel are your canvas and you put a lot of effort into creating each part so that it melds seamlessly with the parts that were previously made as well as with parts yet to be made. I can’t wait to see what else you have planned. Have a great weekend!
Would love to see those plated in Gold-Pressed Latinum
If you need more of those Self Sealing Stem Bolts, I know some guys who have 100 gross. Only 5 bars of Gold Pressed Latinum!