these are the videos that are worth watching! Thanks Mr. Peterson!. I enjoy all your Stories, new and old, especially the old ones. Makes me reminisce about being with Grand Pa and his cronies telling stories about their life experiences. Now, We is the old timers, telling the stories! LOL. I had a wonderful high school metal shop teacher in 1962, whom you remind me of. He has become a long time friend, he is 91 today! Still with stories. Again, thanks Mr. Peterson, keep the videos coming1
As an electrician who's has a South bend and a home made mill and 6 year old twin girls. I appreciate the end comments. My girls love sitting and watching with me. They come and twist the hand wheels down in the work shop. You remind me alot of my late grand father. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos.
Great Comment Glenn! My wife and I were blessed with two daughters. I treated them like I would treat anyone who was interested in what I was doing. They are now in their 40s and are extremely confident and knowledgeable. My channel is an "equal gender channel". I always great viewers with "welcome folks" and proceed from there.
Great video series. I'm also an old guy that misses the olden days. Your rants, remind me of one of mom's brothers, would start a rant, get distracted, and tell a great story. We as children loved it. We loved our uncle, and learned lots. Keep up ranting, and videoing, I'll watch them all!
Fahnestock Clips - I'm from the days of the Chesterfield smoking hardware guy. The clips were to the right of the light bulb display and the left of the knife switches with the ceramic bases. Across from the tube tester. And I could smell the light bulb display when you showed it. The bulb with the wire soldered on sure does being back memories - it's how I found my way into Electrical Engineering... I like the dynamo, and I see they have some nice other kits. I'm liking the little shaper and the 1/4hp repro steam engine. Thanks for clueing me into this neat company... I may just build a dynamo and use it to drive the shaper... The dynamo looks like a nice easy warm up to the more intricate stuff. Good series!
LOL Me too Scott. I remember well the "tube tester" in hardware stores. Folks would forget to set the filament voltage to the proper setting a it was guaranteed that they would be purchasing a new tube after they blew the filament. Sometimes (unscrupulous) shop owners would intentionally set the filament voltage high in order to boost their sales..
Scott Marshall Our local hardware store had thousands of oak drawers, and the clerk could grab the right one without looking. They had a basement storage area with specials. Like handles for a wheel hoe - several types. Axe handles - several types. Etc.
Yes from Australia, keep your rants coming. I love watching your videos, my wife watches a lot of rubbish on TV so I tune into one of your videos every night. I loved your latest comment about the man at the hardware store smoking the unfiltered Chesterfields. I too am an industrial secondary school teacher (just retired) and your experiences sound so much like mine. Thank you for your videos keep them coming, I really enjoy them and look forward to any new ones. I enjoy the auction and your comments along the way, it gives me a good insight into the country side where you live. Thank you again and God bless.
As always another great set of videos. I could listen to you talk for days. That's how I learned a lot of stuff was listening to my elderly neighbors. I miss those days and wish the kids now a days could understand how important something like that is.
Thanks, I enjoyed this series. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. As someone who is now 83, to me, the old days is a mixed bag. I do like analog meters ... however, today's products like adhesives and lubricants make a huge difference. Also, do you remember how often you had to get a lube and oil change?
Loved this series and you do a great job of keeping things the right length to maintain interest. Particularly the first segment in which you covered the considerations for the first cut on a rough casting was valuable. You're a lot friendlier than my shop teachers in middle school!
After watching all 3 parts I must congratulate you for the excellent systematics explanation and workmanship on top of the remarkably good lighting and photography. I have no patience for small stuff but you are still a young man with patience and knowledge to complete a challenging project like that one was. I enjoyed it, thanks. Bob
The clip you showed us is called a fanstock clip! I use to build crystal radios as child and I used those clips to connect the head phones and the ground and the antenna wires the the radio. I enjoyed the blast from the past in seeing your selection of lamps. Just last week I was telling my son ( a 22 year old engineering student) about being able to purchase lamps In the slide out card board holder like you have.
#2-56 screws are hard on old eyes and fingers. - COFFEE is GOOD! - Instructions? Instructions! We don't need no stinking instructions. lol - Enjoyed the rant. It reminded me , of me! - It is a pleasure to listen to a man who knows his craft! - Great build series. See you a little farther down the road.
Thank you for the final instalment of the Dynamo project. Keep on doing exactly what you do now, as I am another person that likes your way of doing things and explaining things and of course, your 'asides' about how things were and your memories of those times. Don't ever change, Please.
thank you mr pete i really enjoyed this project its fantastic when you talk about the old days .i live in the uk and my first shop teacher left teaching shop to join the mounties
Hi Morpeth,I came across you by accident never had any interest in metal work ever,skipped every high school lesson after the first ,teacher was a hateful man.but I have really got great enjoyment from you.narration dark humour fun and mooching around the boxes you buy brighten my day sir.Thank you for sharing.👍🏻
I am a 41 year old machinist with 22 years of full time "modern" style machining experience. This year, I left industry to Teach Machining at a Technical school. I love watching your videos. If someone (that would be you) doesn't show how it used to be done and all the little tips and tricks before the computers took over, those skills will be lost. You are doing a good thing. Enjoy your days and please keep making videos. Be blessed.
awesome series of videos. I was thinking as you put the spring in place to hold the magnets that I would have used the string to pull the spring through from the other side. I've always been fascinated by dynamos and motors, the engineering is much more complex than most people realize. magnet sizes,number of fields,armature diameter, no of turns per winding, length of armature , all make a dynamo work differently and are engineered to produce the highest output to input power ratio. Thanks for another great series of vids.
Mr. Pete, the way things are today, most folks don't remember a time without cell phones and computers. We're within 5 years of each other in age so the reminiscing of yesteryear doesn't bother me at all. It sure beats most other stuff I hear! Keep up the good work
Glad you were able to make use of the items I sent you. I wish I had thought about making a chuck spacer for the motor end bells. Looking forward to seeing the Stuart spin the dynamo!
I like the side rants almost as much as the careful explanations. I may not have all the fancy tools that you have, but I certainly do learn from each video.
Keep the ranting alive! It reminds some of us about our wonderful past. Before I retired, I was teaching a course to new employees who didn't know what a phone booth was. Can you imagine? Where are my Pall Mall's?
Right on Hank! One of the main reasons I have a TH-cam channel is to pass on what I know for the young and not so young folks in the future. Because when you are gone, you and all the knowledge you have go with you unless you leave it in a medium like this.... Fred
When I was much younger (I'm now almost 75) I had and elderly friend who, when asked about the good old days, replied "The only thing good about the good old days was I was young. All the conveniences we have today make life so much easier". However, I still like to hear about how things were "back in the day". Thanks for sharing.
Never fails you always make me smile mrpete no matter what the video is! You do outstanding work & the Dyno turned Great!!! I can't wait till the weather gets warmer here in NE Ohio so I can get back out to my SB lathe and try a few new ideas you gave me ( you are truly an inspiration ) As always "Two Thumbs Up" Sir!!!! Oh and Thank You too
Loved this video. I have a mini lathe and mill by the little machine shop..My son of 13 said we need to learn how to make machine parts.. So we watch your videos and hit the lathe and mill.. The best part is he is spending way less time on x box.. ty
I am new to your channel but love all the videos that leaves your presence for infinity! I can go back an watch these a million times and learn something new each time! As where my memory from high school 30+ yrs ago and tying to remember what my shop teacher taught me is very vague. So I look forward to relearning and remembering some of the age old wisdom still bestows upon the feeble minded simple hobbist!! Along with the very similar wit and methodical processes that find its way back into the reasons why you do things for specific purposes. Keep bringing your wisdom to light for us lost in old or bad self taught habits-
Douglas White I really liked your dynamo and I thank you for showing it I haven't seen any of the flash light bulbs for a long time I like your talking so keep doing your your work.
Just recently found your channel but I'm hooked!! Been watching alot of your videos and find them all extremely satisfying!! Keep doing what you do!! Love it!!
Very cool Fred. I was about to google it. I used to take them off of old batteries and screw them to my pine board base when I was making electrical projects. Fun stuff and great memories!
Built my first crystal radio in1949 using clips off of batteries. Cats whisker and galena xtal mounted in lead. The coil was wound around a Quaker oats box and a piece of a hacksaw blade to tune.
Very cool Fred! My first crystal radio was in 1956! Galena based as well. Remember sanding off the enamel off the wound coil? LOL I lived in Rochester NY and had and still have a 50KW AM radio station there (WHAM). I was able to pick that station up what that radio by touching anywhere on the crystal! LOL It got me started in a career of communications. Ya never know what will "spark" a youngsters interest! Went on to be a Radioman in the Coast Guard during the Vietnam Era, an Amateur radio operator WO2P, and worked at Xerox developing internet routers and gateways with Palo Alto Research center. All because I successfully built that first radio. Ya gotta find the spark that lights up a childs eyes then keep it glowing... All the best- Fred
Good stuff. My buddy in college let me talk to a guy in Idaho once, when a Kiwi broke in, he grabbed the mic. I was hooked. Got into AM, FM and TV broadcasting as well as two way radio. Good stuff. Light the spark and keep it glowing. That is a quote worth keeping!
If I remember correctly, those clips are called fan stock clips. I used them for building crystal radios. I also used post binders. The post binders looked much nicer. A wonderful project! I look forward to seeing it run with the little engine. One nice thing about using the little flashlight bulb is you will not have to run your engine very hard to light the lamp. All the best! Mike
So glad I found this series, I am waiting to take delivery of the PMR Dynamo which I ordered some time ago. Takes a long time to ship to Australia. I normally change out the supplied screws for BA sizes as I have a good collection of Hex Head sizes, and it does look much better.
In his younger days my Dad was an unfiltered Chesterfield man. Fortunately he quick before it ruined his lungs. And ranting is one of lifes pleasures that we have earned with so many trips around the sun.
Keep them coming mrpete. I love your videos and you can rant and side track as much as you want because I agree with you most of the time. My father was a machinist but I never got to learn from him as he died when I was only 12 years old. I have discovered As I get older I have developed an interest in machine work and may get into it in the coming years. It’s a lost art.
I enjoy the talking. I could chit chat with ya all day about the stuff you know.Thats how we learn.Pass on the education. Excellent series as always !!
Great series. I'm just finishing a PM Research #3 engine. I made the mistake of getting aluminum castings as I did not want to clean up iron dust. The 2.25" flywheel will not have much inertia. I have enjoyed this series and always look forward to more.
I fully agree with your ranting. I used to buy gilette blades (had mach3) untill the made the 6 blade version and the price of mach 3 blades went up to 20$ for a pack of three blades. Then I discovered the joy of the old ways - bought a double edged razor blade and feather blades (the best ones) and now shaving costs pennies! Love it!!!
I like the side rants. While I am almost half your age oddly I can still remember and relate to most of it. Of course we still have a general store in my town the kind with nails and glass fuses next to the cheerios so we might be a little behind you Illinois guys. lol
Our local dime store not only sold the little bulbs, they also had a wooden tray with replacement glass lens for flashlights. They also had a vacuum tube tester, cardboard tubes of BB's and roll caps.
Mrpete your a patient man, and like wen you go in detail just love the way you set up your work make it look so easy, don't need background music it is peaceful that watt makes your videos so great, you must of been a well like shop teacher. Thanks mrpete #1shop teacher
Thank you for the non music and the rants you are saying. Thanks for all the joy they're bringing. Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty. What would life be?
I broke many a thumbnail on Fahnestock clips as a kid. I have a pound coffee can of galena chunks my dad got somewhere, probably before Mr. Pete was born. Better than flashlight bulbs, I loved the tube testers. It was such fun to read the chart, set up all the switches, go to all the trouble, and get a “GOOD/BAD” test of one tube. Who still remembers a 12AX7, 6L6GT, and a 5U4GB? Not many years ago, I bought an AM tuner missing all of its tubes and was able to replenish it entirely from a bag of old tubes I’d collected in the 70s. It was fun testing them all on my very own Heathkit tube tester! It’s still more satisfying than an iPhone.
Yes, I remember the tube testers. But I never owned one. I had to go to Frank's cigar store to test my tubes. And there were 10 old man in there smoking cigars and playing tip boards.
Thanks for that, I really enjoyed the dynamo build series. And now you've mentioned it, thanks for not putting music in your videos too! They may be difficult to find in the US but model engineers use a lot of tiny hex head screws. I'm sure you've mentioned BA threads at some point. We'll go metric one day, but finding M1 screws is more difficult than getting BA ones.
Love your videos and your rants are part of what I like about you as well. Very well made dynamo and can't wait to see it hooked up the Stuart engine soon.
The clips are called fahnstock clips. They are also used in crystal radio reproductions and were used in various 1920's radios. You can still buy them. As always enjoyed the video. Great work.
I picked up a Dremel for ten whole AUD just three months ago from a garage sale. Things just aren't kept these days the same way. It's complete including the original warranty and manual, I believe the receipt is still in the box along with a massive assortment of tiny burs, chucks and still some of the original buffing wheels. Sadly the front end oil lite bearing is wallowed out and the back end rabbit/hare fur vibration dampener are well worn and I'm having a great deal of trouble finding a replacement. Aside from that she's still in as new condition. Given all of this, I went out and bought a brand new "Dremel"... my god how things have changed, even in the 40 years I've been alive. Cheap plastic casings and ball bearings made of only the finest chinesium. Three dremel's later and the one I've now got is the same. Slowly speeds up so you have to keep winding it back down to maintain control. This one at least will run at a decent speed at WOT without having to apply a chinese burn to the casings. I'd wager the old one I scored with it's bakelite housings, if fitted with a new front bearing would purr along like she did out of the box. I'd be happy to donate it to a better home Mr Pete, if you'd like it for spare parts or to restore to it's former glory.
I keep finding things we have in common. I too have several displays of flashlight bulbs much like yours! Now, of course, they've been replaced with LEDs. lower power, higher brightness, longer life. Still, I like the old technology as well.
Great video. The last flashlight bulb that I bought was from Sears and it cost me twenty bucks. It was in 2010 and I wanted to try using an L.E.D bulb that they offered as a replacement for three cell flashlights. I was not disappointed. My maglight has never been brighter and eight years later it still has the very same bulb in it.
I have shot parts off into the abyss of the room never to find them as well, never thought about a leash. If I knew I was going to encounter this again, I took things apart with my hands in a box. Thank you for sharing.
When you say "I don't know why I'm telling this" it's always after an interesting background story :-) Your little stories and rants are like vocal ornamentations to your videos. Please, never stop being yourself just to please the ordinance. Genuineness is a scarce resource nowadays.
Hello Mr. Pete, you got me so interested in your Dynamo project that I visited the site PM Research INC and I purchased one of the Dynamo kits, however I don't have the equipment, skills or patience like you, so I bought the Dynamo kit machined and ready for assembly. It was indeed perfectly machined, so I painted the body and later this evening I assembled it. I looks a little different from yours with just minor differences, like the connectors where the wires attach. Once assembled, I found it difficult to turn the motor shaft. I loosened the back plate and front plate screws and that relieved the pressure, so suspect I have the bearing pressed in a bit to tight. I'll take it apart tomorrow and create a little more end play for the rotor. It turns OK now, but I think the end caps are a bit too loose. My kit came with what they call a pulley, but I need to make a buy a pulley to get it to work better. Also my kit came with an eye bolt on top to hold the magnet spacer. Tomorrow I will hook it up to my power supply and test the Dynamo part. NOW the interesting part, I paid $95.00 for the machined kit and $10.00 shipping and got it in two days. Thank you for taking the time to show how to make the kit, even though I bought the machined kit. I was fun to assemble and is very well made. Thanks again, see you on your next project...Ken Marina CA.
Hi Lyle, I was just reading up on the History of the Clausing Lathe Co. and noticed one of the ladies who joined the company in 1948 was named ''Ruth Peterson''. I thought you might find it an interesting read (if you haven't read it already). The Paragraph which mentions Ruth is above Fig.8 on that page. Here's the link: www.lathes.co.uk/clausing/page11.html All the best Aryan
I enjoyed the series, I have no immediate need for a dynamo but when I finally work on and Finnish my webster engine I would love to power something. I think I will build one and enjoy the process at the very least :)
Nice work as always! On larger DC machines the brush gear is adjustable this allows the brushes to be moved to reduce any sparking of the brushes, the direction of the motor/generator could have an affect the amount of sparking so adjustment would be made to find the ideal position.
Thanks Sir! I'll be building one of these soon and will be re-visiting this series for sure. I like the rants and humor... especially the snippets of humor. Blink and you miss it ;)
If nobody has mentioned it , that little clip is a "Fahnestock" clip. They were used on old radios for antenna/ground connections as well. You used to be able to find a neat "pigtail" with these clips on either end that could be laid in a double hung window sash to allow your portable to connect to a larger antenna, without drilling holes in the wall. Also, that little generator just needs some tiny little oilers on the endbells to make it perfect.
i like it very much when you rant about the old days.. Thanks for sharing sir...
Kevin Willis damn straight and random tidbits are not bad I like learning about the old days and my dad and others I know do it too.
Same here because I'm 66 years old and miss those days.
some of the things he says or shows remind me of when i was a kid. keep ranting and showing old stuff please mr pete....
elijah williams.. yes sir totally agree..
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Old day rants are the best :) i'm young by your standards, but i still miss simpler things, better things, i grew up with.
aserta, Just wait. It gets worse :)
LOL I find myself ranting the old days in my videos as well.
aserta I think after a certain age we all do the old day rants, lol
I love your “rants” and I think it’s important for us younger folk to know how (and in which direction) things have changed. Keep it up old man! Lol.
I know I am pretty randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to stream new tv shows online ?
these are the videos that are worth watching! Thanks Mr. Peterson!. I enjoy all your Stories, new and old, especially the old ones. Makes me reminisce about being with Grand Pa and his cronies telling stories about their life experiences. Now, We is the old timers, telling the stories! LOL. I had a wonderful high school metal shop teacher in 1962, whom you remind me of. He has become a long time friend, he is 91 today! Still with stories. Again, thanks Mr. Peterson, keep the videos coming1
I think they were really great old shop teachers years ago. They never got any credit. All the credit went to the coaches. Lol
As an electrician who's has a South bend and a home made mill and 6 year old twin girls. I appreciate the end comments. My girls love sitting and watching with me. They come and twist the hand wheels down in the work shop. You remind me alot of my late grand father. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos.
Great Comment Glenn! My wife and I were blessed with two daughters. I treated them like I would treat anyone who was interested in what I was doing. They are now in their 40s and are extremely confident and knowledgeable. My channel is an "equal gender channel". I always great viewers with "welcome folks" and proceed from there.
Great video series. I'm also an old guy that misses the olden days. Your rants, remind me of one of mom's brothers, would start a rant, get distracted, and tell a great story. We as children loved it. We loved our uncle, and learned lots. Keep up ranting, and videoing, I'll watch them all!
lol thanks
Fahnestock Clips - I'm from the days of the Chesterfield smoking hardware guy.
The clips were to the right of the light bulb display and the left of the knife switches with the ceramic bases. Across from the tube tester. And I could smell the light bulb display when you showed it. The bulb with the wire soldered on sure does being back memories - it's how I found my way into Electrical Engineering...
I like the dynamo, and I see they have some nice other kits. I'm liking the little shaper and the 1/4hp repro steam engine. Thanks for clueing me into this neat company...
I may just build a dynamo and use it to drive the shaper... The dynamo looks like a nice easy warm up to the more intricate stuff.
Good series!
LOL Me too Scott. I remember well the "tube tester" in hardware stores. Folks would forget to set the filament voltage to the proper setting a it was guaranteed that they would be purchasing a new tube after they blew the filament. Sometimes (unscrupulous) shop owners would intentionally set the filament voltage high in order to boost their sales..
Scott Marshall Our local hardware store had thousands of oak drawers, and the clerk could grab the right one without looking. They had a basement storage area with specials. Like handles for a wheel hoe - several types. Axe handles - several types. Etc.
With wood plank floors. The 'feed & seed' was in the back, What I'd pay for an air freshener with the smell...
Yes from Australia, keep your rants coming. I love watching your videos, my wife watches a lot of rubbish on TV so I tune into one of your videos every night. I loved your latest comment about the man at the hardware store smoking the unfiltered Chesterfields.
I too am an industrial secondary school teacher (just retired) and your experiences sound so much like mine. Thank you for your videos keep them coming, I really enjoy them and look forward to any new ones. I enjoy the auction and your comments along the way, it gives me a good insight into the country side where you live. Thank you again and God bless.
I agree Graham! His rants are a large percentage of charm of his channel! The issue is though I remember a LOT of what he is ranting about.... LOL
As always another great set of videos. I could listen to you talk for days. That's how I learned a lot of stuff was listening to my elderly neighbors. I miss those days and wish the kids now a days could understand how important something like that is.
Thank you, I'm glad you like my videos
Thanks, mrpete, I'm 71 years old, and can remember the old days, a little bit,
I am 74
I enjoy your random rants and thoughts. You seem to put enough in to make it interesting but not have too much in. I love your videos.
🤙🤙thank you very much
Thanks, I enjoyed this series.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. As someone who is now 83, to me, the old days is a mixed bag. I do like analog meters ... however, today's products like adhesives and lubricants make a huge difference. Also, do you remember how often you had to get a lube and oil change?
Yes, I do remember using a grease gun on those ball joints
Loved this series and you do a great job of keeping things the right length to maintain interest. Particularly the first segment in which you covered the considerations for the first cut on a rough casting was valuable. You're a lot friendlier than my shop teachers in middle school!
Thank you, I'm glad you like it
After watching all 3 parts I must congratulate you for the excellent systematics explanation and workmanship on top of the remarkably good lighting and photography. I have no patience for small stuff but you are still a young man with patience and knowledge to complete a challenging project like that one was. I enjoyed it, thanks. Bob
I am glad you liked it. And you are the only one to ever comment on the photography, thanks
The clip you showed us is called a fanstock clip! I use to build crystal radios as child and I used those clips to connect the head phones and the ground and the antenna wires the the radio.
I enjoyed the blast from the past in seeing your selection of lamps.
Just last week I was telling my son ( a 22 year old engineering student) about being able to purchase lamps
In the slide out card board holder like you have.
I remember them from my crystal radio, just did not know the name
#2-56 screws are hard on old eyes and fingers. - COFFEE is GOOD! - Instructions? Instructions! We don't need no stinking instructions. lol - Enjoyed the rant. It reminded me , of me! - It is a pleasure to listen to a man who knows his craft! - Great build series. See you a little farther down the road.
lol
Thank you for the final instalment of the Dynamo project.
Keep on doing exactly what you do now, as I am another person that likes your way of doing things and explaining things and of course, your 'asides' about how things were and your memories of those times.
Don't ever change, Please.
Thank you, I am too old to change anyway
thank you mr pete i really enjoyed this project its fantastic when you talk about the old days
.i live in the uk and my first shop teacher left teaching shop to join the mounties
his name was mr filey all true my dad used to have ha beer with him odd times
Keep your rants coming! 👍🏻
I will
Thank you for another fine production Mr. Pete! I await the engine powering the dynamo
Thanks
Rant all you would like sir. I enjoy it
Anthony Peace same here.
Hi Morpeth,I came across you by accident never had any interest in metal work ever,skipped every high school lesson after the first ,teacher was a hateful man.but I have really got great enjoyment from you.narration dark humour fun and mooching around the boxes you buy brighten my day sir.Thank you for sharing.👍🏻
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed the videos. Sorry you had a bad teacher in school
I am a 41 year old machinist with 22 years of full time "modern" style machining experience. This year, I left industry to Teach Machining at a Technical school. I love watching your videos. If someone (that would be you) doesn't show how it used to be done and all the little tips and tricks before the computers took over, those skills will be lost. You are doing a good thing. Enjoy your days and please keep making videos. Be blessed.
awesome series of videos. I was thinking as you put the spring in place to hold the magnets that I would have used the string to pull the spring through from the other side. I've always been fascinated by dynamos and motors, the engineering is much more complex than most people realize. magnet sizes,number of fields,armature diameter, no of turns per winding, length of armature , all make a dynamo work differently and are engineered to produce the highest output to input power ratio.
Thanks for another great series of vids.
You are right, there is a lot of engineering that goes into generators, I worked in a motor shop where they rewound motors
Mr. Pete, the way things are today, most folks don't remember a time without cell phones and computers. We're within 5 years of each other in age so the reminiscing of yesteryear doesn't bother me at all. It sure beats most other stuff I hear! Keep up the good work
Thank you for watching
Glad you were able to make use of the items I sent you. I wish I had thought about making a chuck spacer for the motor end bells.
Looking forward to seeing the Stuart spin the dynamo!
Thank you, those pulleys sure worked great
I like the side rants almost as much as the careful explanations. I may not have all the fancy tools that you have, but I certainly do learn from each video.
I'm glad you like my style
Keep the ranting alive! It reminds some of us about our wonderful past. Before I retired, I was teaching a course to new employees who didn't know what a phone booth was. Can you imagine? Where are my Pall Mall's?
lol
Rant all you wish Mr. Pete. I am not as old as you (59) but I too miss the old days.
I am almost as old as Mr Pete and have to restrain from sliding back into the "good ole days" in my videos LOL
Let fly with the memories Fred, all too soon we'll be gone and whose to know what it was really like back then.☺
Right on Hank! One of the main reasons I have a TH-cam channel is to pass on what I know for the young and not so young folks in the future. Because when you are gone, you and all the knowledge you have go with you unless you leave it in a medium like this.... Fred
Thanks
15:40 Those are called "Fahnstock" clips...those were the good old days.
Thank you, now I remember
When I was much younger (I'm now almost 75) I had and elderly friend who, when asked about the good old days, replied "The only thing good about the good old days was I was young. All the conveniences we have today make life so much easier".
However, I still like to hear about how things were "back in the day". Thanks for sharing.
I'm 74. And yes I like modern things, such as Novacaine
Never fails you always make me smile mrpete no matter what the video is! You do outstanding work & the Dyno turned Great!!! I can't wait till the weather gets warmer here in NE Ohio so I can get back out to my SB lathe and try a few new ideas you gave me ( you are truly an inspiration ) As always "Two Thumbs Up" Sir!!!! Oh and Thank You too
Thank you for watching
Loved this video. I have a mini lathe and mill by the little machine shop..My son of 13 said we need to learn how to make machine parts.. So we watch your videos and hit the lathe and mill.. The best part is he is spending way less time on x box.. ty
Yes, start machining with your boy. Good to get them away from those games
Don't lose the the rant's Mr Pete. I think they are mostly spot on, and it reminds me of my grandfather who I miss greatly.
Thank you for watching
I'm glad kits like this are still made. Was very fun watching you build and test it. Thanks Mr. Pete!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it
I am new to your channel but love all the videos that leaves your presence for infinity! I can go back an watch these a million times and learn something new each time! As where my memory from high school 30+ yrs ago and tying to remember what my shop teacher taught me is very vague. So I look forward to relearning and remembering some of the age old wisdom still bestows upon the feeble minded simple hobbist!! Along with the very similar wit and methodical processes that find its way back into the reasons why you do things for specific purposes. Keep bringing your wisdom to light for us lost in old or bad self taught habits-
Thank you, keep watching my videos
Douglas White
I really liked your dynamo and I thank you for showing it I haven't seen any of the flash light bulbs for a long time I like your talking
so keep doing your your work.
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I find all the rambling commentary comforting for some reason. :D
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Just recently found your channel but I'm hooked!! Been watching alot of your videos and find them all extremely satisfying!! Keep doing what you do!! Love it!!
I'm glad you found me, keep watching
Joe, you have a LOT of catching up to do... Make sure you watch all his videos. They are ART!
Fahnestock clip is the name you seek Sir. Thanks for all you do and God Bless.
Very cool Fred. I was about to google it. I used to take them off of old batteries and screw them to my pine board base when I was making electrical projects. Fun stuff and great memories!
Built my first crystal radio in1949 using clips off of batteries. Cats whisker and galena xtal mounted in lead. The coil was wound around a Quaker oats box and a piece of a hacksaw blade to tune.
Very cool Fred! My first crystal radio was in 1956! Galena based as well. Remember sanding off the enamel off the wound coil? LOL I lived in Rochester NY and had and still have a 50KW AM radio station there (WHAM). I was able to pick that station up what that radio by touching anywhere on the crystal! LOL It got me started in a career of communications. Ya never know what will "spark" a youngsters interest! Went on to be a Radioman in the Coast Guard during the Vietnam Era, an Amateur radio operator WO2P, and worked at Xerox developing internet routers and gateways with Palo Alto Research center. All because I successfully built that first radio. Ya gotta find the spark that lights up a childs eyes then keep it glowing... All the best- Fred
W4JLE here
Good stuff. My buddy in college let me talk to a guy in Idaho once, when a Kiwi broke in, he grabbed the mic. I was hooked. Got into AM, FM and TV broadcasting as well as two way radio. Good stuff. Light the spark and keep it glowing. That is a quote worth keeping!
If I remember correctly, those clips are called fan stock clips. I used them for building crystal radios. I also used post binders. The post binders looked much nicer.
A wonderful project! I look forward to seeing it run with the little engine. One nice thing about using the little flashlight bulb is you will not have to run your engine very hard to light the lamp.
All the best!
Mike
Thank you, my crystal Radiohead them also
Close. Actually, they're Fahnestock clips.
So glad I found this series, I am waiting to take delivery of the PMR Dynamo which I ordered some time ago. Takes a long time to ship to Australia. I normally change out the supplied screws for BA sizes as I have a good collection of Hex Head sizes, and it does look much better.
In his younger days my Dad was an unfiltered Chesterfield man. Fortunately he quick before it ruined his lungs. And ranting is one of lifes pleasures that we have earned with so many trips around the sun.
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When men were men and beer was tuppence a loaf! Lovely to hear you talk of a time when things were very different.
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Keep them coming mrpete. I love your videos and you can rant and side track as much as you want because I agree with you most of the time. My father was a machinist but I never got to learn from him as he died when I was only 12 years old. I have discovered As I get older I have developed an interest in machine work and may get into it in the coming years. It’s a lost art.
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you were interested in machine work. Keep watching
I enjoy the talking. I could chit chat with ya all day about the stuff you know.Thats how we learn.Pass on the education.
Excellent series as always !!
Thank you
The trick of the magnet spring was great. And reminds me all the springs flown away in my basement shop. Thanks mr Pete to share.
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Very smart idea putting a leash on the spring , I would not had thought of that 😀
And I liked the justification of why it did not eject itself. Because he did put it on a leash! LOL
Great series. I'm just finishing a PM Research #3 engine. I made the mistake of getting aluminum castings as I did not want to clean up iron dust. The 2.25" flywheel will not have much inertia. I have enjoyed this series and always look forward to more.
G'day Kevin here from Australia.
You can rant about the old days anytime. 👍
Bless you Mr. Pete for all your interesting stories.
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I enjoy your "ranting" about the good old days also. Hard to find a good hardware store anymore. Keep up the great work and rants!
Those hardware stores are gone for good
I fully agree with your ranting. I used to buy gilette blades (had mach3) untill the made the 6 blade version and the price of mach 3 blades went up to 20$ for a pack of three blades. Then I discovered the joy of the old ways - bought a double edged razor blade and feather blades (the best ones) and now shaving costs pennies! Love it!!!
Are use the throwaway razors from the dollar store. They shave every bit as well as the expensive ones
Thanks Mr Pete for another fantastic video! I enjoy every bit of a talking you do, it’s interesting, and when it’s not, it’s funny and enjoyable.
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I like the side rants. While I am almost half your age oddly I can still remember and relate to most of it. Of course we still have a general store in my town the kind with nails and glass fuses next to the cheerios so we might be a little behind you Illinois guys. lol
bcbloc02: Yeah but they were " Lucky Strikes " not Chesterfield. Most of those guys got hooked on them when they were in the military.
Craig L. Young:
I knew a kid that got tagged with the nickname "Lucky Strike." He matched the slogan well. "So Round, So firm, So Fully Packed"
Our local dime store not only sold the little bulbs, they also had a wooden tray with replacement glass lens for flashlights. They also had a vacuum tube tester, cardboard tubes of BB's and roll caps.
Yes, I remember the little rack of replacement glass. And it was a glass, not plastic
Mrpete your a patient man, and like wen you go in detail just love the way you set up your work make it look so easy, don't need background music it is peaceful that watt makes your videos so great, you must of been a well like shop teacher. Thanks mrpete #1shop teacher
Thank you for watching. No one would hate to the music more than I
Thank you for the non music and the rants you are saying. Thanks for all the joy they're bringing. Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty. What would life be?
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Mr Pete I like the way you talk its fantastic when you talk about the old days love your videos.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you, I'm glad you like them
Great Series eagerly waiting the completion using steam keep the rants coming
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Love what you do and teach Mr Pete. I have learned so much, and I have applied a lot to what I do in my own little shop.
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I broke many a thumbnail on Fahnestock clips as a kid. I have a pound coffee can of galena chunks my dad got somewhere, probably before Mr. Pete was born.
Better than flashlight bulbs, I loved the tube testers. It was such fun to read the chart, set up all the switches, go to all the trouble, and get a “GOOD/BAD” test of one tube. Who still remembers a 12AX7, 6L6GT, and a 5U4GB? Not many years ago, I bought an AM tuner missing all of its tubes and was able to replenish it entirely from a bag of old tubes I’d collected in the 70s. It was fun testing them all on my very own Heathkit tube tester! It’s still more satisfying than an iPhone.
Yes, I remember the tube testers. But I never owned one. I had to go to Frank's cigar store to test my tubes. And there were 10 old man in there smoking cigars and playing tip boards.
Thanks for that, I really enjoyed the dynamo build series. And now you've mentioned it, thanks for not putting music in your videos too! They may be difficult to find in the US but model engineers use a lot of tiny hex head screws. I'm sure you've mentioned BA threads at some point. We'll go metric one day, but finding M1 screws is more difficult than getting BA ones.
I'm glad you like no music. The little hexagon screws are very hard to fine
I always appreciate your high level of precision you apply to all that you build! Thank you!
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Thanks for this series. It's a very nice build and seeing the end product actually work was very rewarding, especially for you I'm sure. :)
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Love your videos and your rants are part of what I like about you as well.
Very well made dynamo and can't wait to see it hooked up the Stuart engine soon.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it
Mr. Pete, really enjoyed the dynamo series. I’m not a machinist, buy mechanical things catch my interest. Keep on showing your experience.
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THANK YOU...for sharing. Wonderful series. Keep up the rants, it brings back a lot of good memories of the good days.
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The clips are called fahnstock clips. They are also used in crystal radio reproductions and were used in various 1920's radios. You can still buy them. As always enjoyed the video. Great work.
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I picked up a Dremel for ten whole AUD just three months ago from a garage sale. Things just aren't kept these days the same way. It's complete including the original warranty and manual, I believe the receipt is still in the box along with a massive assortment of tiny burs, chucks and still some of the original buffing wheels. Sadly the front end oil lite bearing is wallowed out and the back end rabbit/hare fur vibration dampener are well worn and I'm having a great deal of trouble finding a replacement. Aside from that she's still in as new condition.
Given all of this, I went out and bought a brand new "Dremel"... my god how things have changed, even in the 40 years I've been alive. Cheap plastic casings and ball bearings made of only the finest chinesium. Three dremel's later and the one I've now got is the same. Slowly speeds up so you have to keep winding it back down to maintain control. This one at least will run at a decent speed at WOT without having to apply a chinese burn to the casings. I'd wager the old one I scored with it's bakelite housings, if fitted with a new front bearing would purr along like she did out of the box.
I'd be happy to donate it to a better home Mr Pete, if you'd like it for spare parts or to restore to it's former glory.
I keep finding things we have in common. I too have several displays of flashlight bulbs much like yours! Now, of course, they've been replaced with LEDs. lower power, higher brightness, longer life. Still, I like the old technology as well.
Great video. The last flashlight bulb that I bought was from Sears and it cost me twenty bucks. It was in 2010 and I wanted to try using an L.E.D bulb that they offered as a replacement for three cell flashlights. I was not disappointed. My maglight has never been brighter and eight years later it still has the very same bulb in it.
Wow, 20 bucks for a bulb
I have shot parts off into the abyss of the room never to find them as well, never thought about a leash. If I knew I was going to encounter this again, I took things apart with my hands in a box.
Thank you for sharing.
You never will find them
I am of an age to appriciate most of your rants, please keep them coming.
Thank you very much
Rant all ya want, it's one part of what makes your channel so good!
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I forgot about the lamp display. Nice.
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When you say "I don't know why I'm telling this" it's always after an interesting background story :-) Your little stories and rants are like vocal ornamentations to your videos. Please, never stop being yourself just to please the ordinance. Genuineness is a scarce resource nowadays.
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like my videos
Excellent as always sir. From the UK
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Great videos, finally got to see a new video published today and not 4 yrs ago, happy your still going strong from the looks of it
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As long as you are talking, I am more than happy to listen.
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Hello Mr. Pete, you got me so interested in your Dynamo project that I visited the site PM Research INC and I purchased one of the Dynamo kits, however I don't have the equipment, skills or patience like you, so I bought the Dynamo kit machined and ready for assembly. It was indeed perfectly machined, so I painted the body and later this evening I assembled it. I looks a little different from yours with just minor differences, like the connectors where the wires attach. Once assembled, I found it difficult to turn the motor shaft. I loosened the back plate and front plate screws and that relieved the pressure, so suspect I have the bearing pressed in a bit to tight. I'll take it apart tomorrow and create a little more end play for the rotor. It turns OK now, but I think the end caps are a bit too loose. My kit came with what they call a pulley, but I need to make a buy a pulley to get it to work better. Also my kit came with an eye bolt on top to hold the magnet spacer. Tomorrow I will hook it up to my power supply and test the Dynamo part. NOW the interesting part, I paid $95.00 for the machined kit and $10.00 shipping and got it in two days. Thank you for taking the time to show how to make the kit, even though I bought the machined kit. I was fun to assemble and is very well made. Thanks again, see you on your next project...Ken Marina CA.
I'm 19 and I still enjoy your rants. IGNORE the nutcases and rant away!!
Thank you, and there is no shortage of nut cases
Hi Lyle,
I was just reading up on the History of the Clausing Lathe Co. and noticed one of the ladies who joined the company in 1948 was named ''Ruth Peterson''. I thought you might find it an interesting read (if you haven't read it already). The Paragraph which mentions Ruth is above Fig.8 on that page.
Here's the link: www.lathes.co.uk/clausing/page11.html
All the best
Aryan
Enjoy your rantings Mr. Pete and how I miss local hardware stores and the old Allied electronics catalog
Thank you, I love those allied radio catalogs
I enjoyed the series, I have no immediate need for a dynamo but when I finally work on and Finnish my webster engine I would love to power something. I think I will build one and enjoy the process at the very least :)
Yes, build one
I love it when you rant about the old days they we’re the best I miss them too
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fahnestock clips-- i built my first chrystal set when i was 12, took electric shop in jr high. lots of fun. great teacher too.
Yes, my crystal set had them also. I just did not know the name
Nice work as always! On larger DC machines the brush gear is adjustable this allows the brushes to be moved to reduce any sparking of the brushes, the direction of the motor/generator could have an affect the amount of sparking so adjustment would be made to find the ideal position.
Yes, I remember noticing that when I saw the large D.C. machines in the Edison laboratory
Another great series of videos thank you. I like the contents of you videos especially your comments of times in the past, keep em coming.
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I came for the rants.
The rest of the information is pretty darn good too. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
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The Fillister-Head screws look good. Makes the whole thing look sturdier.
Rant on! Excellent Sunday-morning viewing! Thanks, Mr. Pete! :-)
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Love the stories and rants. Nice build. Also called a Universal Motor.
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I am glad too see 'ole Mr Pete still has some kid in 'em and wants to blow things up!
Oh yes!
A very nicely done, project. I don't mind the tangents, I'm stuck in the olden days myself. I prefer them.
Thank you for watching
Thanks Sir! I'll be building one of these soon and will be re-visiting this series for sure. I like the rants and humor... especially the snippets of humor. Blink and you miss it ;)
Thank you, I'm glad you like my style
Mr Pete is up very late or risen and (always) shines very very early to have gotten this out just a little while ago. But thank you sir!
Very early
If nobody has mentioned it , that little clip is a "Fahnestock" clip. They were used on old radios for antenna/ground connections as well.
You used to be able to find a neat "pigtail" with these clips on either end that could be laid in a double hung window sash to allow your portable to connect to a larger antenna, without drilling holes in the wall.
Also, that little generator just needs some tiny little oilers on the endbells to make it perfect.
Thank you
9:50 Where I work, we use stainless steel 4-40 hex head screws.
That's exactly what I needed for this model
mrpete222 I'll see if I can get you some.
mrpete222 I haven't forgotten...I have the screws- and I FINALLY found the address. I'll see about sending them this week.
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mrpete222 It's taken care of-!!
Rant all you want to, give me the old days. Now day there is always a iphone between you and them. Great work Mr Pete.
Hate those iPhones
Well done I watched all 3. All the best from John in Texas
Mr Pete TH-cam Historian / Shop Teacher, rant on we all love it. Great video keep them coming.
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