You have to love the typical small British Companies keeping tradition alive. It was such as these that made the Industrial Revolution what it was. These skills must be maintained.
I served my apprenticeship in an iron foundry back in the late 80's, your video took me all the away back, nothing smells like a foundry or core-shop. Thanks for sharing.
Most exciting series of videos I've seen in years. When I've watched The Repairshop with my parents I've remarked "This guy Dom knows his shit." Then I find you remaking Ranalah wheeling machines!
When I was a kid I got to hang out in my grandfather’s foundry, where we made sand cast architectural features and souvenirs. It was glorious, hundreds of patterns hanging from the ceiling and a huge caldron of pot metal which was never allowed to cool.
Takes me back over ( don't tell anyone ) fifty years. The school I went to had extensive workshops including pattern making shop, casting shop, fettling and metal working machines woodworking and latterly electronics. Each year we spent a week in one of the shops. Set me up for life. I can empathise with your delight in your first casting.
@@markdavis2475 My old school doesn't. They knocked down the old workshops and chemistry building and replaced with a new science building. Allegedly, the workshops were used during WW2 to make parts for Spitfires.
I'm always impressed how time-served moulding toolmakers and casting pattern makers seem to think so effortlessly in terms of positive and negative space, undercuts and draft angles. I design injection moulded-parts, so am very familiar with such technicalities, but when I work with guys like these, their ability to look at a finished part and "see" the tooling* is on another level. * Or vice versa, which really ties my brain in knots.
Fascinating project!!! It's neat to see a tool like this revived. I'd double check that the metal actually is lead and not babbitt bearing material though. They look similar and melt at a low temperature. Babbitt is used to make cast-in-place bearings (a cast iron pillow block is placed around the shaft and the void space is filled with molten babbitt metal), and this seems like a very similar application.
Hundreds of casting experts up and down the country saying "yeah, that's how I thought they were going to do it "! 😂 Blimey those guys know their stuff 😯. Well done Dom. As you say the main casting will be epic! 🤗
Thank you for taking us all along to East Coast Casting. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the process! How cool would it be if you would consider putting YOUR initials 10:35 on the new nut?
That was so interesting Dom. Everything today is electronic or robotic and that is part of the reason we have become such a ‘throw away’ society. These old machines are made with simple and basic components and can be repaired and upgraded and will last many lifetimes with the proper care. Great series, i never thought I would get so engrossed in something I’d never heard of just a few months ago.
Nice one Dom. This journey should make us proud that there are still skilled people at the heart of business. Let’s hope that some of the home grown talents are supported by government in an effort to keep Britain Great! Keep it going mate. Wayne
Not only that, hopefully all those people that have been messaging saying how you've been doing it wrong have been deleting posts to save embarrassment lol. Well done everyone involved
@@petewarby7158 Here here Pete! I think it’s a brave person who puts themselves out there trying. As for those people and their comments, well, it’s better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!!
Another great video on the series. Very interesting process with the casting and East Coast Casting, great to see and understand, well explained. We did sand casting at high school using molten aluminium back in the late 70's in our metal work class. Probably would not be allowed nowadays.
Nicely explained Dom. I used to teach woodwork and metalwork back in the late seventies and eighties and used to do pattern making with the lads and riddling the green sand wetting it to the correct dampness. Making the moulds from the patterns, and casting their aluminium pieces. Great fun, don't know if the elf 'n safety gods would allow it now in high schools, I very much doubt it lol
As a teenage boy I work summers in a iron foundry. I ran the sand muller which mixes the ingredients to make the sand for the moulds. From my location I could see the entire moulding process. We also had the pattern makes which was a fascinating process. Brought back some good memories. I also wear several scars from my foundry days! Enjoy you videos.
Usually heat the mold to eradicate any moisture and gassing of the casting This can result in micro porosity which is the brain of any foundryman. Worked with so many foundries over 40 years on so many processes but it is really great to demonstrate the pattern and molding process Well done.
Hoowee!! Given the expertise and labour involved I can see this project won't be cheap! But I'm not criticising here Dom, quite the contrary! I'm acknowledging and respecting your level of commitment! Be proud!!
Thank you! Yes I can confirm it is definitely a very expensive project, but you can’t put a price on the history wrapped up in these old machines and skills! I’m doing what I can to keep the skills alive, thank you so much for the support
Great video, that brought back some memories of my time spent as a wee sprog in a foundry. Spent most of the time digging the machines out of sand mind you!
Crickey Dom ,that's the best video I have seen for years! How interesting, I really loved seeing your part being made . You looked so chuffed mate . Can't wait for the next one Regards Frank
have just watched the salvage hunter best restorations and a metal smith in dorset mat Edley is using a Ranalah on a french copper bath repair it was a pleasure to see one in use and he was saying how they was used in ww2 as you have said before so its one more survivor to add to your list :-)
Dom, I found myself sitting in my lounge chair watching this episode and caught myself smiling right at the end, you were like a kid in a candy store and I felt your joy at this first casting. It is going to be a hell of a machine
Another great video. All the forgotten technology that got us to where we are. Amazing to see the foundry casting new Jaguar 3.8 litre blocks! Gives me hope that we will see more of this retro activity in the future!
Fabulous. It's great that you connected with Chris because it seems that some companies could get their knickers in a knot unless they have scores of parts to cast simultaneously. I had a neighbor that was a pattern maker and from having met him I am in awe of the art of the process. The interesting pattern is going to be the main body of the machine. Your spot on, that casting will be epic.
Thirty years ago, I was cameraperson when the cast iron parts for the Science Museum's build of the Babbage Difference Engine were produced at Queenhithe on the Isle of Sheppy. The SVHS camera was a shoulder mounted Panasonic which was a far cry from today's kit. The resin sand, casting boxes and the heat an sound of cast iron doesn't change! (for some jobs the foundry still used greensand)
Great video, the foundry guys really know their stuff! I used to work for an aluminium casting company, we did sand and investment castings, I worked in the machine shop (I also did a few months in final inspection and the foundry) and my dad worked in the x-ray dept. and I also managed to get my mate a job in the dip room, This video took me right back, thanks for the memories! Love the Ranalah series, I love the way you are trying to make them as close to the originals as possible, I can't wait to see these iconic tools being sold once more... Subbed
Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed it, yes Chris and his team really do know there stuff they are a clever bunch.. it’s nice knowing I’m in safe hands with the project
Well I'm not generally given to public emotional outbursts but honestly that casting process is one of the most interesting and exciting things I've ever seen. What an amazing video series, thank you Dom (and Dan).
I've done simple casting at home with aluminium but haven't quite progressed to using cores yet. It's good fun but quite an investment (no pun intended) in time to get everything setup and learn how to do it. Very rewarding though. But realistically I am still just at 'Hello World' levels of experience. The trouble with hobbies is knowing when and where to put your time as if you're not doing things professionally you only get some much time to put into things. You can't explain all of it simply but you're doing a great job trying, most entertaining thank you!
Live couple a miles away from them casting lads , what a place to look round , that is a skill that must last for ever , All The Best with your project
What a fantastic vlog this week. Happy memories. Used to do casting when I was a DT teacher many years ago, but only with aluminium and once with brass. Used to love it and the children were always enthralled by it
Wow, that brings back memories for me, I used to deal with a foundry the same as that up in Derbyshire, they would cast finials and other decorative finishing pieces for me. I also used to deal with some large foundries in France, they could cast traditional cast iron lighting columns up to 10 m high... in one pour! Great video Dom, thanks very much.
That was totally absorbing to watch. I love the beauty and elegance of castings from the smallest piece to the biggest. I don't know what half of the components are, but I'd just adorn my house with them 😂
Speaking of big engineering, I just saw this clip. Imaging doing a strip down and rebuild on that! facebook.com/885615018152283/posts/4104059782974441/
@@DominicChineas 380 KwH/tonne for melting cast iron, so your Ranalah alone (I see 750kg quoted elsewhere) used about as much electricity as I do in a month
Electric is a big factor for our business. We have a power factor correction unit and locked our prices until 2026 last June, so we did the right thing as to all the increased energy cost presently.
Have you thought about some type of alignment jig for those parts held in position when the molten lead is poured in? The welded locking arrows, you could add 'DC' for the new generation built by you. Fantastic at the casting shop. Top man, keep up the good work... J
Loving your progress of a real labour of love. So inspirational! I do hope that if there are improvements in metallurgy in the last 90 years you'll use them - Rannalah used the best materials available so you should too. Things like the lead collar that had been hit with a punch to make it sit better. If you can make the collar last longer, then go for it without guilt. Can't wait to see how it all works!
Dom fanbloodytastic what a foundry! jag block how great is that you’ll have no worries about a great job being done ,here’s to the making of history great 👍👨🏻🏭
I’m glad to be along for this journey. I’m also glad I know enough to know I don’t know very much and kept my mouth shut after the last video about why your mould master wasn’t going to work unlike the TH-cam casting experts that all chimed in to provide their expertise after watching professionals do metal casting.
This journey is wonderful ! best wishes!! Thanks for doing a great job showing the foundry ! My Grandfathers owned one together, never would have found out what it would have been like.
Magic Dom. Thanks for sharing your Ranala journey. My Late Dad used to use one when he was a panel beater/coach builder , and always wondered where all the bits he used to use were sent when he retired . Great memories. Thanks for bringing them back to me.
In the early 70’s I worked at Longbridge , Austin cars as a sub contractor sheet metal worker and they cast there own parts in there foundry. Brings back memories of those days. Loving these videos Dom
Thanks Dom remember going round a foundry on a careers visit with school and covering it in my apprenticeship. The use of cores takes some getting your head round. I think you have enlightened a number of people. Thanks.
great video, I'm impressed with energy of that casting shop, they are really good, doing engine blocks, I wish I had casting company near me, I'm a 40 year machinist. So I see every step, yes i'd like to make a English wheel.
You’re a great instructor Dom! Everything came out loud and clear! Cannot wait for the next video. Congrats on your new piece; you must be really excited with the direction your project is heading to.
Brilliant Dom! Were they able to modify your original pattern or did they have to remake it? Is that the Ranalah frame pattern behind you at 16:38? That molten lead technique is how they used to fix railings and hinge pins etc into stonework. No big deal really that you had to melt the lead to remove the inserts. You can make some installation jigs now and practice installing them for your new ones. Can't wait for the next instalment!
Hi Dom, looks fantastic, I have a Ranalah myself, and watching your posts has made me brush off the cobwebs and get back to shaping some metal and making things. If you need to borrow a complete lower adjuster wheel to copy let me know I’m only in Canterbury. All the best, and keep up the good work. Tim Hewitt
Brilliant video of the casting being done. There used to be a foundry up here in Scotland where I live but it's long gone now. They used to have a little truck that went to our beach and loaded up on the fine beach sand to make their mouldings from. As a time served Blacksmith I enjoyed watching the casting process. Keep the vids coming Dom.
The forge reminded me of many episodes of How It's Made. From small productions to mass-manufacture, the main difference seems to just be levels of automation.
Do you have to be a special type of nerd to get excited about a reconstruction of a seventy year old English wheel ? If so guilty as charged, love it 😄
I don’t think I would ever need a English wheel as I mainly work in wood. However your enthusiasm ?passion for recreating a classic piece of workshop equipment is fantastic
You have to love the typical small British Companies keeping tradition alive. It was such as these that made the Industrial Revolution what it was. These skills must be maintained.
I served my apprenticeship in an iron foundry back in the late 80's, your video took me all the away back, nothing smells like a foundry or core-shop. Thanks for sharing.
Most exciting series of videos I've seen in years. When I've watched The Repairshop with my parents I've remarked "This guy Dom knows his shit." Then I find you remaking Ranalah wheeling machines!
Great film the workmanship out standing. Just the best thing on TH-cam 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 paul Wimbledon .
When I was a kid I got to hang out in my grandfather’s foundry, where we made sand cast architectural features and souvenirs. It was glorious, hundreds of patterns hanging from the ceiling and a huge caldron of pot metal which was never allowed to cool.
Takes me back over ( don't tell anyone ) fifty years. The school I went to had extensive workshops including pattern making shop, casting shop, fettling and metal working machines woodworking and latterly electronics. Each year we spent a week in one of the shops. Set me up for life. I can empathise with your delight in your first casting.
My old school in the 1970's had the same. QE Boy's Barnet. Wonder if they still do?!
@@markdavis2475 My old school doesn't. They knocked down the old workshops and chemistry building and replaced with a new science building.
Allegedly, the workshops were used during WW2 to make parts for Spitfires.
@@neilshep50 Well I guess a new Science building is better than nothing! Bit gutting though.
I'm always impressed how time-served moulding toolmakers and casting pattern makers seem to think so effortlessly in terms of positive and negative space, undercuts and draft angles.
I design injection moulded-parts, so am very familiar with such technicalities, but when I work with guys like these, their ability to look at a finished part and "see" the tooling* is on another level.
* Or vice versa, which really ties my brain in knots.
Yeah... what he said.... impressive
Fascinating project!!! It's neat to see a tool like this revived. I'd double check that the metal actually is lead and not babbitt bearing material though. They look similar and melt at a low temperature. Babbitt is used to make cast-in-place bearings (a cast iron pillow block is placed around the shaft and the void space is filled with molten babbitt metal), and this seems like a very similar application.
I'll wager it's babbitt or a similar alloy, as lead is too soft & would loosen under the pressure applied.
Hundreds of casting experts up and down the country saying "yeah, that's how I thought they were going to do it "! 😂
Blimey those guys know their stuff 😯.
Well done Dom. As you say the main casting will be epic! 🤗
Excellent Dom
Thank you for taking us all along to East Coast Casting. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the process! How cool would it be if you would consider putting YOUR initials 10:35 on the new nut?
Haha, a secret signature! Good idea
That was so interesting Dom. Everything today is electronic or robotic and that is part of the reason we have become such a ‘throw away’ society. These old machines are made with simple and basic components and can be repaired and upgraded and will last many lifetimes with the proper care. Great series, i never thought I would get so engrossed in something I’d never heard of just a few months ago.
Nice one Dom. This journey should make us proud that there are still skilled people at the heart of business. Let’s hope that some of the home grown talents are supported by government in an effort to keep Britain Great! Keep it going mate. Wayne
Not only that, hopefully all those people that have been messaging saying how you've been doing it wrong have been deleting posts to save embarrassment lol. Well done everyone involved
@@petewarby7158 Here here Pete! I think it’s a brave person who puts themselves out there trying. As for those people and their comments, well, it’s better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!!
Thanks Dom. I find this Ranalah journey fascinating.
Thank you! I’m glad your enjoying it, I am learning a lot!
Absolutely fantastic
Thank you! Glad your enjoying it
As always, a joy to watch. Amazing to see the secrets of the machine's construction revealed when you removed the lead.
Another great video on the series. Very interesting process with the casting and East Coast Casting, great to see and understand, well explained.
We did sand casting at high school using molten aluminium back in the late 70's in our metal work class. Probably would not be allowed nowadays.
Nicely explained Dom. I used to teach woodwork and metalwork back in the late seventies and eighties and used to do pattern making with the lads and riddling the green sand wetting it to the correct dampness. Making the moulds from the patterns, and casting their aluminium pieces. Great fun, don't know if the elf 'n safety gods would allow it now in high schools, I very much doubt it lol
As a teenage boy I work summers in a iron foundry. I ran the sand muller which mixes the ingredients to make the sand for the moulds. From my location I could see the entire moulding process. We also had the pattern makes which was a fascinating process. Brought back some good memories. I also wear several scars from my foundry days! Enjoy you videos.
Usually heat the mold to eradicate any moisture and gassing of the casting This can result in micro porosity which is the brain of any foundryman. Worked with so many foundries over 40 years on so many processes but it is really great to demonstrate the pattern and molding process Well done.
Hoowee!! Given the expertise and labour involved I can see this project won't be cheap! But I'm not criticising here Dom, quite the contrary! I'm acknowledging and respecting your level of commitment! Be proud!!
Thank you! Yes I can confirm it is definitely a very expensive project, but you can’t put a price on the history wrapped up in these old machines and skills!
I’m doing what I can to keep the skills alive, thank you so much for the support
What an education. These foundry guys are amazing. Thank you.
Great video, that brought back some memories of my time spent as a wee sprog in a foundry. Spent most of the time digging the machines out of sand mind you!
Crickey Dom ,that's the best video I have seen for years! How interesting, I really loved seeing your part being made .
You looked so chuffed mate .
Can't wait for the next one
Regards Frank
have just watched the salvage hunter best restorations and a metal smith in dorset mat Edley is using a Ranalah on a french copper bath repair it was a pleasure to see one in use and he was saying how they was used in ww2 as you have said before so its one more survivor to add to your list :-)
Very interesting Dom 👍
Could watch this all day
I'm really enjoying your series. What a fantastic journey you're on. And we're all along for the ride. Thankyou very much Dom. 🏴👍
Another fascinating episode!
Mike in Germany
Excellent absolute great video great to see you look so happy
superb , thanks Dom
Brilliant thank you for sharing your wonderful videos
Thank you for watching!
Dom, I found myself sitting in my lounge chair watching this episode and caught myself smiling right at the end, you were like a kid in a candy store and I felt your joy at this first casting. It is going to be a hell of a machine
Another great video. All the forgotten technology that got us to where we are. Amazing to see the foundry casting new Jaguar 3.8 litre blocks! Gives me hope that we will see more of this retro activity in the future!
Fabulous.
It's great that you connected with Chris because it seems that some companies could get their knickers in a knot unless they have scores of parts to cast simultaneously.
I had a neighbor that was a pattern maker and from having met him I am in awe of the art of the process. The interesting pattern is going to be the main body of the machine. Your spot on, that casting will be epic.
That was so interesting to see how the casting process works. What a journey you are taking us all on. So exciting. 🎉
Thanks Suzi! Hope your well
Thirty years ago, I was cameraperson when the cast iron parts for the Science Museum's build of the Babbage Difference Engine were produced at Queenhithe on the Isle of Sheppy. The SVHS camera was a shoulder mounted Panasonic which was a far cry from today's kit. The resin sand, casting boxes and the heat an sound of cast iron doesn't change! (for some jobs the foundry still used greensand)
Great video, the foundry guys really know their stuff!
I used to work for an aluminium casting company, we did sand and investment castings, I worked in the machine shop (I also did a few months in final inspection and the foundry) and my dad worked in the x-ray dept. and I also managed to get my mate a job in the dip room,
This video took me right back, thanks for the memories!
Love the Ranalah series, I love the way you are trying to make them as close to the originals as possible, I can't wait to see these iconic tools being sold once more... Subbed
Thanks for the sub!
Glad you enjoyed it, yes Chris and his team really do know there stuff they are a clever bunch..
it’s nice knowing I’m in safe hands with the project
@@DominicChineas yeah, not to mention your 3d modelling wizard🧙♂️
Great teams create great things
amazing. Well done.
Nice one Dom enjoyed that
Well I'm not generally given to public emotional outbursts but honestly that casting process is one of the most interesting and exciting things I've ever seen. What an amazing video series, thank you Dom (and Dan).
I appreciate the message thank you!
Brilliant video. Great explanation of the process.👌🏻
I've done simple casting at home with aluminium but haven't quite progressed to using cores yet. It's good fun but quite an investment (no pun intended) in time to get everything setup and learn how to do it. Very rewarding though. But realistically I am still just at 'Hello World' levels of experience. The trouble with hobbies is knowing when and where to put your time as if you're not doing things professionally you only get some much time to put into things. You can't explain all of it simply but you're doing a great job trying, most entertaining thank you!
I’d love to give it a go myself! Well done.. thanks for watching
Live couple a miles away from them casting lads , what a place to look round , that is a skill that must last for ever , All The Best with your project
What a fantastic vlog this week. Happy memories. Used to do casting when I was a DT teacher many years ago, but only with aluminium and once with brass. Used to love it and the children were always enthralled by it
Well done Dom Keeping the skills of the past alive is important in this world of modernization
Wow, that brings back memories for me, I used to deal with a foundry the same as that up in Derbyshire, they would cast finials and other decorative finishing pieces for me. I also used to deal with some large foundries in France, they could cast traditional cast iron lighting columns up to 10 m high... in one pour! Great video Dom, thanks very much.
That was totally absorbing to watch. I love the beauty and elegance of castings from the smallest piece to the biggest. I don't know what half of the components are, but I'd just adorn my house with them 😂
Speaking of big engineering, I just saw this clip. Imaging doing a strip down and rebuild on that!
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I hope the foundry guys are managing OK with the current insane energy costs - must be a major part of their expenditure.
I think they have a pretty hefty electric bill every month!
@@DominicChineas 380 KwH/tonne for melting cast iron, so your Ranalah alone (I see 750kg quoted elsewhere) used about as much electricity as I do in a month
Electric is a big factor for our business. We have a power factor correction unit and locked our prices until 2026 last June, so we did the right thing as to all the increased energy cost presently.
@@eastcoastcastings I bet you're relieved you picked exactly the right time to do that.
Have you thought about some type of alignment jig for those parts held in position when the molten lead is poured in?
The welded locking arrows, you could add 'DC' for the new generation built by you.
Fantastic at the casting shop.
Top man, keep up the good work... J
Totally agree about the alignment tool, awesome idea and so practical. Top suggestion
Lovely stuff 👍
Loving your progress of a real labour of love. So inspirational! I do hope that if there are improvements in metallurgy in the last 90 years you'll use them - Rannalah used the best materials available so you should too. Things like the lead collar that had been hit with a punch to make it sit better. If you can make the collar last longer, then go for it without guilt.
Can't wait to see how it all works!
Very cool and fascinating stuff, dom. Love it and can't wait for the next installment.
Thank you, won’t be long!
What a fascinating place
Dom . . . like a kid on Christmas morning or in a sweet shop!!!😮 Great insight into the process and a big up to East Coast for showing us around.👍🏻
Nice to see a working foundry. Maybe you should have made an alignment tool before melting the lead.
That was so cool, really enjoyed that, thanks so much
Very enjoyable and informative thank course 👍
Dom fanbloodytastic what a foundry! jag block how great is that you’ll have no worries about a great job being done ,here’s to the making of history great 👍👨🏻🏭
I am very excited to see the main casting done!
I am now hooked on this tale of enthusiast restoration….Nicely presented, quite enthralling in fact.
Thank you! I hope you’ll watch the rest we have come along way!
I’m glad to be along for this journey.
I’m also glad I know enough to know I don’t know very much and kept my mouth shut after the last video about why your mould master wasn’t going to work unlike the TH-cam casting experts that all chimed in to provide their expertise after watching professionals do metal casting.
Your enthusiasm is palpable👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
This journey is wonderful ! best wishes!! Thanks for doing a great job showing the foundry ! My Grandfathers owned one together, never would have found out what it would have been like.
Great video can’t wait for the next video
Magic Dom. Thanks for sharing your Ranala journey. My Late Dad used to use one when he was a panel beater/coach builder , and always wondered where all the bits he used to use were sent when he retired . Great memories. Thanks for bringing them back to me.
In the early 70’s I worked at Longbridge , Austin cars as a sub contractor sheet metal worker and they cast there own parts in there foundry. Brings back memories of those days. Loving these videos Dom
Thanks Dom remember going round a foundry on a careers visit with school and covering it in my apprenticeship. The use of cores takes some getting your head round. I think you have enlightened a number of people. Thanks.
great video, I'm impressed with energy of that casting shop, they are really good, doing engine blocks, I wish I had casting company near me, I'm a 40 year machinist. So I see every step, yes i'd like to make a English wheel.
Thanks for the message! The foundry was amazing, glad your enjoying the videos thanks for watching
You’re a great instructor Dom! Everything came out loud and clear! Cannot wait for the next video. Congrats on your new piece; you must be really excited with the direction your project is heading to.
Hello Dom,
Congratulations on getting the first new piece... and well done on explaining the whole process... Thank you.
Take care.
Paul,,
Well done Dom, that's fantastic. Here's hoping the rest goes as smoothly. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
Brilliant Dom!
Were they able to modify your original pattern or did they have to remake it? Is that the Ranalah frame pattern behind you at 16:38?
That molten lead technique is how they used to fix railings and hinge pins etc into stonework.
No big deal really that you had to melt the lead to remove the inserts. You can make some installation jigs now and practice installing them for your new ones.
Can't wait for the next instalment!
Looks like the Ranalah pattern - well spotted!
I think you could be right!
Actually, I think it's this - th-cam.com/video/kWCC4WGrwMo/w-d-xo.html
Another cracking video, great to see skilled men in action. Looking forward to future developments.
Brilliant!
I remember doing a very small bit of casting whilst I was at school. Nothing compared to how impressive you video looked.
Hi Dom, looks fantastic, I have a Ranalah myself, and watching your posts has made me brush off the cobwebs and get back to shaping some metal and making things. If you need to borrow a complete lower adjuster wheel to copy let me know I’m only in Canterbury. All the best, and keep up the good work. Tim Hewitt
Brilliant! Would you send me a message on Instagram if you have it?
Thank you!
WOW!!! 👏👏👏
Love your excitement seeing your new baby start to come to life. Long way to go though Dom.
Thanks!
Excellent! Looking forward to seeing the main frame of the Ranalah go through the same processes.
Fab video, so interesting to see the process. Loved it!
Dom, your love and enthusiasm for this project is just wonderful to watch!
Brilliant video of the casting being done. There used to be a foundry up here in Scotland where I live but it's long gone now. They used to have a little truck that went to our beach and loaded up on the fine beach sand to make their mouldings from. As a time served Blacksmith I enjoyed watching the casting process. Keep the vids coming Dom.
I'm as chuffed as you, somebody's Jag engine block will have shared a casting pot with your machine part. History in cast iron, brilliant.
Dom Thanks for taking us all along. Its very interesting
Excellent video thanks Dom 👍🇬🇧🛵🛠
What a fantastic project ! Not a metal worker but it is fascinating...
Brilliant video Dom getting better and better great content all the best
The forge reminded me of many episodes of How It's Made. From small productions to mass-manufacture, the main difference seems to just be levels of automation.
Do you have to be a special type of nerd to get excited about a reconstruction of a seventy year old English wheel ? If so guilty as charged, love it 😄
I am really so pleased for you, everything you've done so far shows in your passion to keep these old skills alive.
Truly fantastic to see it coming together
Hi Dom, Yes it's a journey of a lifetime, all very excited , can't wait for the big one, All the Best Brian 🤗
Brilliant absolutely Brilliant!
That was an amazing video. I loved seeing the whole process. Well done and thank you, Dom. I can't wait to see the rest of the project.
Fascinating! You looked like a kid in a sweet shop 😀
Dom that was one fascinating video to watch. Well done. Looking forward to the next one,.
I don’t think I would ever need a English wheel as I mainly work in wood. However your enthusiasm ?passion for recreating a classic piece of workshop equipment is fantastic
Great video very interesting can’t wait the see the main casting .