Bonjour et Bonne Année de France, As steam passionate collector of model boats, I am familiar with mini machines (my largest ones are the Stiuart D10) this is why I particularly appreciate your channel because I recognize what you do in a big way. Furthermore, for me, your Englsih accent is perfect and thanks to it, I undestand what you say 😁 Amicalement, Raphaël
👍👌👏 Extremely well done again and as always (video and work). Maaan, I would love to see more and longer videos. You are all so incredibly skilled. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all of you.
One neat trick for split bearings like this is to soft solder the two halves together. Then the two halves are machined as one unit including the bore.
You have the BEST, by a long shot, videos on TH-cam. These are easily my favorite, and I cheer for your success. Wish you and your team a healthy, and successful 2024.
Just binged through all 20 episodes in a couple of days and am looking forward to the next. Impressive use of the boring head and 90deg milling attachment!
Excellent video as always Simon, you and crew are doing a fantastic job on the rebuild. Excellent job on the 3d printed pattern, I myself have the same brand of machine to have ago myself. I assume the print took several hours to complete. Looking forward to the next video. Happy New Year. All the best, Matt 👍
A great update on progress so far, it's always reassuring to see that Engineering skills are alive and well in this country. Looking forward to the next update .
Somehow one of this series came up in recommend and I’m hooked , in the best boiler making tradition it’s absolutely riveting, count me in as subscribed .
Just watching Michael Portillo in Australia (Great Australian railway journeys ) and he visited the Tully Sugar plantation. Slightly more modern loco being used now! How about that.
We see in the taster at the end it all goes together perfectly as we have come to expect from you guys, but for my education ... 1) why did you bore out the tops and bottom journals separately (requiring very critical alignment) .. when you could have assembled everything in the pony truck casting and line bored everything in situ as a single operation, guaranteeing alignment top to bottom and left/right without multiple critical setups? 2) There is a comment @ 10:08 the squashed solder should have an equal thickness on the three faces .. seems to me the top face gap should be root 2 times the sloping faces or am i being stupid ?
I was thinking about the gaps on the top half of the bearing too and I think you're right since you don't need the distance between the mating surfaces to be identical but the difference in the z-axis
You’re right of course Dave. We actually did it correctly and Neil just misspoke on the film,……. I should have spotted it in the edit. Neil’s background is press tool machining, where the mating die surfaces are designed to have a 1mm sheet of ally between em. So in that application, his technique of getting all three surfaces to squash the solder equally to about 1mm is appropriate. But obviously if the faces actually need to touch, there’s a little maths there. I’ll rectify the narrative when we cover the main axle boxes. 🙂
Oh,….. and the line boring, we simply don’t have a line borer to do that. The Bridgeport wouldn’t have that reach, and even if we did the run out would have been excessive. This way, Neil has to be accurate and careful, but luckily he is, so it worked 😁
All your videos are great and with so much amazing content it’s hard to pick 1 thing in particular to complement. I was really impressed with how your castings came out ( you must have had a lot of bronze swarf ! )
Good stuff! Very informative and not taking too long about it. Couple of questions, what did you do with any left over molten bronze? Just pour into a container to cool and keep as an.ingot? How long did you leave it to cool.before opening?
Surely putting the oil feed hole and groves in the crown of the bearing will destroy the “oil wedge “ which in these type of bearing is standard mechanism of lubrication , feed by the spring loaded pads in the base ?
Thanks John! It certainly did. They’d obviously been missing for some time too as the axle had worn away the casting. Next episode very nearly ready to publish 😁
The soft solder - I’m sure you realise this, but it shouldn’t be the same thickness on the flat and the 45 as the gaps will close up at different rates because of the cosine of the angle
You’re right of course. We actually did it correctly and Neil just misspoke on the film,……. I should have spotted it in the edit. Neil’s background is press tool machining, where the mating die surfaces are designed to have a 1mm sheet of ally between em. So in that application, his technique of getting all three surfaces to squash the solder equally to about 1mm is appropriate. But obviously if the faces actually need to touch, there’s a little maths there. I’ll rectify the narrative when we cover the main axle boxes. 🙂
All still progressing well,…… but we’ve just been too busy to edit the videos together. The next 3 films are all half edited in my phone waiting for me to get time to finish them! I’ll try n get the next one out soon! 😭
anxious for your next episode 😊
Finished and downloading as I type
Waiting for next video
Today!
@TheSteamWorkshop yey..
Looking forward to updates soon?🙏
Today! 😁
C'mon man!! What been happening? You're leaving us hanging!
Ha ha, sorry. We’ve had no time, but hopefully back to it now!
Thanks for the update video on the restoration of Tully fantastic work well done Simon 👍
Bonjour et Bonne Année de France,
As steam passionate collector of model boats, I am familiar with mini machines (my largest ones are the Stiuart D10) this is why I particularly appreciate your channel because I recognize what you do in a big way.
Furthermore, for me, your Englsih accent is perfect and thanks to it, I undestand what you say 😁
Amicalement, Raphaël
Thanks Raphael! I often think I talk a little fast, trying to get a lot of information across! Really pleased it’s accessible over the water! 🙂
Watching these videos really puts into perspective the staggering industrial capacity we used to have to churn out as many locomotives as we did.
Good use of the gunmetal and bronze swarf!
I see you like your tea with bronze filelings too😄. Your work is fascinating and impressive to watch. Thank you.
Nice basic primer on how to cast bronze! Fascinating processes involved in this restoration clearly and concisely explained. Thanks for posting!
👍👌👏 Extremely well done again and as always (video and work). Maaan, I would love to see more and longer videos. You are all so incredibly skilled.
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and especially health to all of you.
One neat trick for split bearings like this is to soft solder the two halves together. Then the two halves are machined as one unit including the bore.
Really great update! Was very interesting seeing how the pattern was made and how it was cast!
It is always a pleasure to see how much craftsmanship is available.
I'm going to watch it again.
Now just wait for the next episode.
20 great videos now! Thank you for sharing this restoration. It's much appreciated.
Thanks for the latest episode , I could watch these videoes all day long. ,facinating.
Another fantastic update. i got the notification at work and couldn't wait to get home!! Great Job Simon and team!
You have the BEST, by a long shot, videos on TH-cam. These are easily my favorite, and I cheer for your success. Wish you and your team a healthy, and successful 2024.
Ha,…. Really appreciate your lovey feedback! Thank you for that. 🙂
Brilliant - I look forward to the next vid!!
Nice work , some old school engineering
I found this very interesting ...please keep them coming .👍👍
Just binged through all 20 episodes in a couple of days and am looking forward to the next.
Impressive use of the boring head and 90deg milling attachment!
Part 21 uploading now! 🙂
I’m envious of your fantastic collection of tools and machine tools😟
Thank you so much....from a non engineer.... absolutely fascinating to see your skills in action....oh...and Happy New year to all !! 🙂
Very interesting video, always a joy to watch.
A belated Christmas present thanks for the video its good to see the progress being made.
I am really enjoying watching this. My thanks.
I visited your workshop today, absolutely fascinating seeing the stuff you do and chat about the fowler loco,
Excellent video as always Simon, you and crew are doing a fantastic job on the rebuild. Excellent job on the 3d printed pattern, I myself have the same brand of machine to have ago myself. I assume the print took several hours to complete. Looking forward to the next video. Happy New Year. All the best, Matt 👍
Great to see you on here Matt, I love your tinkerbell videos also!
Absolutely outstanding... many thanks
New video's when?
Today! 🙂
Awesome work!
Great stuff lads.
A great update on progress so far, it's always reassuring to see that Engineering skills are alive and well in this country. Looking forward to the next update .
Finally finished and uploading now.
When will there be more updates please?
Today!
Somehow one of this series came up in recommend and I’m hooked , in the best boiler making tradition it’s absolutely riveting, count me in as subscribed .
Happy new year to your workshop, great job
Any time now..
Hope all is ok. It's been a while.
We’ve just had no time to edit one. Part 21 is now finished though and uploading now. 🙂
Just watching Michael Portillo in Australia (Great Australian railway journeys ) and he visited the Tully Sugar plantation. Slightly more modern loco being used now!
How about that.
Happy new year guys 👍🏻 Fantastic seeing casting from scratch to a beautiful wheel bearing 😀
lovely absolutely 😊 lovely what is the estimated time of completion? 1 or 2 more years?
We are hoping that 2025, the 100th anniversary of their arrival at Tully will see her back in steam. 🙂
We see in the taster at the end it all goes together perfectly as we have come to expect from you guys, but for my education ...
1) why did you bore out the tops and bottom journals separately (requiring very critical alignment) .. when you could have assembled everything in the pony truck casting and line bored everything in situ as a single operation, guaranteeing alignment top to bottom and left/right without multiple critical setups?
2) There is a comment @ 10:08 the squashed solder should have an equal thickness on the three faces .. seems to me the top face gap should be root 2 times the sloping faces or am i being stupid ?
I was thinking about the gaps on the top half of the bearing too and I think you're right since you don't need the distance between the mating surfaces to be identical but the difference in the z-axis
You’re right of course Dave. We actually did it correctly and Neil just misspoke on the film,……. I should have spotted it in the edit. Neil’s background is press tool machining, where the mating die surfaces are designed to have a 1mm sheet of ally between em. So in that application, his technique of getting all three surfaces to squash the solder equally to about 1mm is appropriate. But obviously if the faces actually need to touch, there’s a little maths there. I’ll rectify the narrative when we cover the main axle boxes. 🙂
Oh,….. and the line boring, we simply don’t have a line borer to do that. The Bridgeport wouldn’t have that reach, and even if we did the run out would have been excessive. This way, Neil has to be accurate and careful, but luckily he is, so it worked 😁
All your videos are great and with so much amazing content it’s hard to pick 1 thing in particular to complement.
I was really impressed with how your castings came out
( you must have had a lot of bronze swarf ! )
Great to see the casting of bearing shells using all the recycled brass. What did you put in the sand to make it hold its shape.
Great video! Was there a particular reason that the top keep and bottom shell for each side weren't machined and honed as a matched pair?
You guys are the best happy new year to you all .
👍👏💪
Excellent, thanks for the update!
Good stuff! Very informative and not taking too long about it.
Couple of questions, what did you do with any left over molten bronze? Just pour into a container to cool and keep as an.ingot?
How long did you leave it to cool.before opening?
Exactly that. Poured it into muffin tins so we had little ingots which we used in the next pour. And only about 10 minutes before de-moulding. 🙂
Surely putting the oil feed hole and groves in the crown of the bearing will destroy the “oil wedge “ which in these type of bearing is standard mechanism of lubrication , feed by the spring loaded pads in the base ?
Great video, Simon. Did the loco arrive missing the axleboxes on the trailing truck?
Thanks John! It certainly did. They’d obviously been missing for some time too as the axle had worn away the casting. Next episode very nearly ready to publish 😁
still waiting for a new video
Finally edited and uploading now.
When's the next instalment due, please ?
Today! 😁
Any update on the project?
Uploading right now.
The soft solder - I’m sure you realise this, but it shouldn’t be the same thickness on the flat and the 45 as the gaps will close up at different rates because of the cosine of the angle
You’re right of course. We actually did it correctly and Neil just misspoke on the film,……. I should have spotted it in the edit. Neil’s background is press tool machining, where the mating die surfaces are designed to have a 1mm sheet of ally between em. So in that application, his technique of getting all three surfaces to squash the solder equally to about 1mm is appropriate. But obviously if the faces actually need to touch, there’s a little maths there. I’ll rectify the narrative when we cover the main axle boxes. 🙂
Are you still working on the next video, it's been a long wait
It has! But hopefully we can get back on top of the films now!
The updates have slowed dramatically and we're out of the loop. Has the restoration stalled?
All still progressing well,…… but we’ve just been too busy to edit the videos together. The next 3 films are all half edited in my phone waiting for me to get time to finish them! I’ll try n get the next one out soon! 😭
@@TheSteamWorkshopwe are in no position to complain, just to say we really miss these fantastic videos.
where are you?????😢
Here! Next film uploading as I type.
Are there any news?
Just, finally uploading part 21!
SO YOU STOPPED MAKING RESTORATION VIDEOS?
We’ve just not had time. They take a great deal of time to make and edit. Part 21 is finally uploading now. 🙂