He can turn a new shaft, wire a 40,000 volt transformer, build a hydraulic press, overhaul an injection pump, and a dozen other things, but a GoPro baffles him. All is right with the world.
Hell yeah Zack! This is just what I needed right now. Always nice to watch you work on this older equipment and explain to us how it works. It's definitely relaxing for me anyways!
The reason your video files get corrupted is due to the effects of Biden radiation. A dumbing down of intellectual intelligence transmission. For right now, just use the bull headed approach of moving forward with shear determination. Lol
Coming from mining and general heavy industry, not oil industry--I can imagine oil may flow into well area from surroundings "indefinitely", under some circumstances. I'm *impressed* by this old setup.
From a loggers perspective why don't you have a service truck, nothing fancy, mine is a one ton so over loaded as to be called "the road slug" and as l age l find the luxury of the small crane on the back very agreeable with my back!
I have thought about getting one. Most of my day is spent driving around leases checking stuff and gauging tanks. A service truck would beat you to death and not get around in the mud. Most of these videos happen after that without a trip back home to get another truck anyway.
Another most excellent video! Two friendly comments: 1.) Thank you so much by not boring us with endless video facing off the work (which you didn't do anyways). 2.) Next time you are at the swap meet, there's always that guy selling assorted wrenches for two bucks each. Buy some dedicated wrenches for that lathe!
Your point #1... Exactly! That shit drives me crazy. "Regular" machinists going through the motions of stuff that is absolutely not necissary. And going for that .0001" when .001" or .01" is all that's necissary.
Gopros are crap. Almost every TH-camr that uses them has the same issue.. I actually prefer the voice over. Less work and you can better explain what youre showing.
Back in the day, I would align the belt sheaves with a long 1/2" or 3/4" fiberglass rod laid across the grooves in both sheave wheels for good quick belt alignment. I keep the rods under the seat of the service truck. I enjoy your video much!
The label on your jeans looks like the labels on my Round House jeans. If so, in my experience, these are good jeans. Made in Shawnee, Oklahoma near where I grew up.
There is no better anywhere than Texas Patch Engineering !! Thanks for the update ... and you stay in touch and we will, too ... Just keep on pumping that Texas Crude !!
that is one hell of a tail stock on that lathe. Damn son. I've seen bigger, but I don't know that I've seen bigger with that bed length. If I can find you a new wheel for your saddle would you be interested, on my dime.
Zach, that’s some good machinist work in this video. As someone who went to school for it, sure there are some speeds and feeds that could be better but overall goes to show machining isn’t rocket science by any means
Awesome job, Zach!! Love the old equipment and to see someone keeping it running and producing... Not just scrapped or sitting in a museum.. Wish I had that skill and life... Look forward to seeing future progress in your fields
I used celestial navigation to get a close approximation and then comparison of the mountains in the background I have calculated your location so I may drop by and help you with your technical difficulties in hopes that any faulty GoPro’s will be donated to my channel. I will be in the Long Beach, California area on the second Tuesday of next week…..hope to see you then. (Thanks for the content)
Nice to see ya saving big bucks doing your own machining. That's got to save absurd money and time besides getting exactly what you want. Knurling a shaft is an old timey repair so it may have been done long ago. It seems odd for an old US manufacturer to knurl an undersized part (though it lasted many decades) when it's so quick to machine another simple shaft like that one. Knurling was also a common way to make piston skirts a closer fit in worn cylinder bores and to make stock OD valve guides fit a loose guide hole in an engine cylinder head. (Do not confuse that with the much more common knurling the INSIDE of valve guide.) Knurling a bushing can improve a press fit too , like the common cheap spacer bushings pressed into riding mower idler and tension pulleys.
Hey Zach I have had issues with corrupt video from my drone. I was able to fix it by getting a higher transfer speed SD card that was specifically for video encoding.
I didn't get my 1st lathe until I was a little over 40 years old, I really wish I bought one earlier. If you've been thinking about it....just get one....thank me later.
My dude, it isn't the computer.... GoPro is garbage. I watch a lot... A LOT of creators. And soooo many complain of the same issues you do. And the shutting off isn't battery related, it's overheating. Seriously, GoPro has been hot garbage for since 2017 or so, and they just keep doubling down. Anyway, great video.
its a shame to say but the chinese are starting to get things figured out in terms of machine tools 10 years ago they looked like they were made with beating rocks on the steel now they own our old factories and moved them over. shame they have zero control on their steel production so it all turns to pig iron
Thanks for keeping this piece of history working, and showing your machining skills as well. Here in Western Pa you still see some old wells randomly appearing on the hillsides of a pasture with big pvc barrel hooked up for anything that may get pumped out. Other times if youre just driving through the backwoods you may find a derelict well mostly hidden in the trees - covered in rust and moss. I also remember when I went camping to Wyoming for a few weeks back in 2008; how on the drive there I would see some of these on the plains working in rhythm .... up and down up and down. It sticks in my mind because I wasnt in a rush and wasnt driving on the interstate at the time; so I had pulled off to the side of the road to check my maps and have a quick lunch. One side of the road had this massive farm field... no idea any more if it was corn or wheat; and on the other was just regular plains with the wells.
I worked at a Oilfield Pipe & Supply in the early 80's and we put jackshafts on many single reduction pumping units (it was hard at the time to get any pumping units) We used I beam and pillow block bearings. I wonder now how long any of them lasted.
Go pro's are evil! (just like trucks) They are part of the master plan to see we stay aggravated. I don't make You Tube videos and they managed to aggregate me. Well the one I had did and it's gone now. Nevertheless great stuff as always Zack, looking forward to your next repair adventure.
I can see where the machining tools and the knowledge to operate them would be essential to running an operation like yours. I would think your long term exit plans would include finding the next generation operator who can multi-craft and is hands-on. Outstanding video!
Sometimes GoPro's will overheat and shut down if left in direct sun. Also I prefer using a usb cable vs removing the card, seems like less corruption issues that way.
What happened to peak oil? Is it a myth? Russian geologists think most crude oil is made by geological forces deep in the earth and not the result of decaying dinosaurs.
@@shanepowers7566 Russian geologists believe crude oil is made from geological forces deep in the earth. Russia is the second largest oil producer in the world so they must have gotten something right. There are moons of other planets that have methane hydrocarbons and I seriously doubt there is has been living matter on these moons.
Yes, l don't carry a lathe with me (l am afraid if I had a bigger truck I would try!) But as it is we probably handle 95percent of our brake downs in the woods.
Great video zack. I had a great time watching. Suggestion. Two damn cameras. So many other creaters complain about cam glitches.. they get different models and different memory cards just to capture the video. Two running the same vodeo😂
You inspired me to get an oil field job up here in canada. Am a painter by trade, so i got a coatings job on the new LNG plant that canadas building up north! Not quite the same as what you do but excited to get my foot in the door.
Great Job. Sorry about the Lufkin Engineering being bought out by GE and they closed it down - I believe the shaft balancing unit is in operation. Foundry gone as is engineering. Sad but the drop in business forced the issue with aging owners. No one could buy it but GE stepped up then crashed them as GE got into trouble.
Gotta love straight forward equipment. As for gopros, everybody with gopros has trouble with them, for the price you'd think they'd be less buggy. If it was any other piece of equipment people would likely call them a knock off camera with a high price tag.
Nice video like usual. Thinking about it, there probably aren't too many different size bolts on each machine. I wonder if it would make any sense to buy a lot of cheap wrenches of the most commonly needed sizes, and leave a set of wrenches at every work site which includes all the wrenches needed for that machine.
Say Zach, A thought on your video / audio loss issues……. 👁️👁️. Clean (not oily) hands may be your culprit. 👁️ A slight oil film will attract dust (I’m sure you work in a dust free environment). 🌞 Oil and dust = intermittent connection issues 🌞 I grew up in Odessa and have worked in the field as far as Michigan. Worked in Production/Operations, liquid/gas measurement. Stories I could tell. 😎
The centre drill has another function , even if the job is slightly eccentric the centre drill will always cut a hole thats in the centre because it cuts the furthest from the centre the hole just ends up slightly larger , thats why there is no flex in the drill
All that machine work you did was pretty darn Amazing to watch Zach. Funny how some of the oldest tools in the shop tend to be the best. Great work sure enjoy your content
,, URGENT!!! John 3:16 For God loved the world, so He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Realize you're a SINNER! You CANNOT earn your way into heaven! JESUS is the ONLY way! REPENT and CALL upon JESUS to SAVE you now! BELIEVE that JESUS is the Son of God, that He came in the flesh, lived a sinless life and then died on a CROSS for you! TRUST that God raised JESUS from the dead! By FAITH accept the shed BLOOD of JESUS ALONE as payment for YOUR sins! Almighty God is about to pour out JUDGEMENT on this world! Only Christians born again in the SPIRIT are about to VANISH! Dear LORD, please soften hearts now to accept the GOSPEL - the Good News of JESUS CHRIST!
The corrupted files could be magnetic disruption maybe the device or card is getting too close to metal, or an electric motor, or some type of coil. I really enjoy these videos!
He can turn a new shaft, wire a 40,000 volt transformer, build a hydraulic press, overhaul an injection pump, and a dozen other things, but a GoPro baffles him. All is right with the world.
Hahaha
😅
Hey sometimes electrodigicals are confusing
Just continues to show which kinds of skills actually matter in the real world
Yea, but I am in the same boat, if God had intended us to use electrons he never would of invented ballpene hammers and double jacks!!
Hell yeah Zack! This is just what I needed right now. Always nice to watch you work on this older equipment and explain to us how it works. It's definitely relaxing for me anyways!
Hahaha thanks for watching
Nice job, 102 years old well still producing, run by an antique pump jack. Way cool Zach, thanks again for sharing.
The reason your video files get corrupted is due to the effects of Biden radiation. A dumbing down of intellectual intelligence transmission. For right now, just use the bull headed approach of moving forward with shear determination. Lol
Coming from mining and general heavy industry, not oil industry--I can imagine oil may flow into well area from surroundings "indefinitely", under some circumstances.
I'm *impressed* by this old setup.
These unit repairs and work-overs are a favorite of mine. Thanks for bringing us along Zach. Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
Thanks.
From a loggers perspective why don't you have a service truck, nothing fancy, mine is a one ton so over loaded as to be called "the road slug" and as l age l find the luxury of the small crane on the back very agreeable with my back!
I was wondering the same thing.
I service heavy equipment in the field, 3/4 ton 2wd chevy, with a service bed. It serves a purpose.
I have thought about getting one. Most of my day is spent driving around leases checking stuff and gauging tanks. A service truck would beat you to death and not get around in the mud. Most of these videos happen after that without a trip back home to get another truck anyway.
Very neat to see a horizontal mill in action.
Good for another hundred years!
Zach, you are one heck of a machinist!
Thanks.
Great video. Like seeing videos like this. My dad was a pumper for Chevron for 30 years. Watched him for years doing maintenance like this.👍
Thanks.
everyone knew yer dad was a pumper.
Another most excellent video! Two friendly comments: 1.) Thank you so much by not boring us with endless video facing off the work (which you didn't do anyways). 2.) Next time you are at the swap meet, there's always that guy selling assorted wrenches for two bucks each. Buy some dedicated wrenches for that lathe!
Your point #1... Exactly! That shit drives me crazy. "Regular" machinists going through the motions of stuff that is absolutely not necissary. And going for that .0001" when .001" or .01" is all that's necissary.
Gopros are crap. Almost every TH-camr that uses them has the same issue..
I actually prefer the voice over. Less work and you can better explain what youre showing.
Back in the day, I would align the belt sheaves with a long 1/2" or 3/4" fiberglass rod laid across the grooves in both sheave wheels for good quick belt alignment. I keep the rods under the seat of the service truck. I enjoy your video much!
I'm working on a Parkersburg 114 saddle bearing, the grease worms ate the hell out of it, looks like I will have to make one from scratch.
Excellent repair! I enjoy your videos, in the field very much.
Love watching you working the wells
Thank you, Zach, for taking the time and trouble to share this. Really appreciate and enjoy it!
24:40 I like how it uses a ratchet strap for a belt.
and she said, Zach, give me one inch less.......18:40
lol
I love these videos! I have oil and grease for guts.
The label on your jeans looks like the labels on my Round House jeans. If so, in my experience, these are good jeans. Made in Shawnee, Oklahoma near where I grew up.
100% USA roundhouse.
hi Zach, cheers from Orlando, FL...Paul
This is what its about. Keeping them running. Stay safe my friend.
You need to move to use DJI instead of GoPro, far easier to use and better quality
There is no better anywhere than Texas Patch Engineering !! Thanks for the update ... and you stay in touch and we will, too ... Just keep on pumping that Texas Crude !!
Except for California Patch
that is one hell of a tail stock on that lathe. Damn son. I've seen bigger, but I don't know that I've seen bigger with that bed length. If I can find you a new wheel for your saddle would you be interested, on my dime.
Its a stout little machine. Ive actually got the broke piece i need to weld it back together.
How much is one of them shafts from the supply store?
Hahah
As a fellow Texan trying to learn 3D modeling and such, I wish I knew what you forgot.
Zach was born in an oil field and raised in a machine shop. ❤❤❤
Awesome.
I'm wording the answers to your questions out loud, and guess what? My girlfriend thinks I'm smart😋🥰. Thanks, Zach!
Zach you are amazing 😊
another cool video
Thanjs
Zach, that’s some good machinist work in this video. As someone who went to school for it, sure there are some speeds and feeds that could be better but overall goes to show machining isn’t rocket science by any means
10:25 A mystery guest! You know she must be pretty good looking because she can stop him mid-sentence when she enters the room.
Awesome job, Zach!! Love the old equipment and to see someone keeping it running and producing... Not just scrapped or sitting in a museum.. Wish I had that skill and life... Look forward to seeing future progress in your fields
Thanks!
I used celestial navigation to get a close approximation and then comparison of the mountains in the background I have calculated your location so I may drop by and help you with your technical difficulties in hopes that any faulty GoPro’s will be donated to my channel. I will be in the Long Beach, California area on the second Tuesday of next week…..hope to see you then. (Thanks for the content)
Nice to see ya saving big bucks doing your own machining. That's got to save absurd money and time besides getting exactly what you want.
Knurling a shaft is an old timey repair so it may have been done long ago. It seems odd for an old US manufacturer to knurl an undersized part (though it lasted many decades) when it's so quick to machine another simple shaft like that one. Knurling was also a common way to make piston skirts a closer fit in worn cylinder bores and to make stock OD valve guides fit a loose guide hole in an engine cylinder head. (Do not confuse that with the much more common knurling the INSIDE of valve guide.) Knurling a bushing can improve a press fit too , like the common cheap spacer bushings pressed into riding mower idler and tension pulleys.
Adding a snap ring groove on open keyway shafts helps
Enjoyed the Heck out of this video, thanks Zach....PB
Thanks
Hey Zach I have had issues with corrupt video from my drone. I was able to fix it by getting a higher transfer speed SD card that was specifically for video encoding.
No wrench and Harbor Freight disposable tools? That well can't be much good. Stay safe.
1921...
Amazing year in history if you follow American Coins.
I really like your logic for just make a whole new shaft. No pun intended job WELL done.
I didn't get my 1st lathe until I was a little over 40 years old, I really wish I bought one earlier. If you've been thinking about it....just get one....thank me later.
My dude, it isn't the computer.... GoPro is garbage. I watch a lot... A LOT of creators. And soooo many complain of the same issues you do. And the shutting off isn't battery related, it's overheating. Seriously, GoPro has been hot garbage for since 2017 or so, and they just keep doubling down.
Anyway, great video.
Thanks. It was actually pretty cool.
@@TheZachLife It's really what's going on inside the camera.
I'm a oilfield pumper I like your videos great videos Zach where at in oklahoma you live?
GoPros have become junk. I don't know what happened to them, but their last few camera models have been crap.
The problem is most likely your GoPro. They used to be great but I don’t know anyone that doesn’t have issues with them now.
I was taught to use what I got. Cannot buy every tool, though I have tried. You are good enough at the machining.
its a shame to say but the chinese are starting to get things figured out in terms of machine tools 10 years ago they looked like they were made with beating rocks on the steel now they own our old factories and moved them over. shame they have zero control on their steel production so it all turns to pig iron
You brock the shiv ?
Thanks for keeping this piece of history working, and showing your machining skills as well. Here in Western Pa you still see some old wells randomly appearing on the hillsides of a pasture with big pvc barrel hooked up for anything that may get pumped out. Other times if youre just driving through the backwoods you may find a derelict well mostly hidden in the trees - covered in rust and moss.
I also remember when I went camping to Wyoming for a few weeks back in 2008; how on the drive there I would see some of these on the plains working in rhythm .... up and down up and down. It sticks in my mind because I wasnt in a rush and wasnt driving on the interstate at the time; so I had pulled off to the side of the road to check my maps and have a quick lunch. One side of the road had this massive farm field... no idea any more if it was corn or wheat; and on the other was just regular plains with the wells.
bet you don't have trouble falling asleep at night .keep up the great work
What'd you use for shaft material?
1018 Cold roll.
those long stringer chips the material looks like 1018, C's and sixes
Thank you Zack. I wonder If the electrical fields around your machines mess up the cameras. Old machines are not shielded.😊
GoPro cameras do not like heat. Try using something to keep it out of direct sunlight.
I worked at a Oilfield Pipe & Supply in the early 80's and we put jackshafts on many single reduction pumping units (it was hard at the time to get any pumping units)
We used I beam and pillow block bearings.
I wonder now how long any of them lasted.
How often do you have to replace belts on these? It seems like they might last longer with a guard to shield them from sunlight.
Go pro's are evil! (just like trucks) They are part of the master plan to see we stay aggravated. I don't make You Tube videos and they managed to aggregate me. Well the one I had did and it's gone now. Nevertheless great stuff as always Zack, looking forward to your next repair adventure.
Hahaha Thanks.
The center drill is sixty degrees, otherwise known as a Morse taper Zach.
You are better machinist than I expected. Well done.
BTW, the problem with your GoPro is that it is a GoPro. They pretty much suck these days.
You should give a sony action camera a go, they might be better.
Good job Zack, love your videos, and you say it how it is. I worked in the Oil Field for 40 years and know where you are coming from.
Keep up the good content, that was pretty cool to watch
If you can't put an oil seal in or bearing race or bearing what is the hammer and a race bunch you shouldn't be a mechanic
gopro file corruption is common issue. i been using sony action cam because of it
GoPros are notorious for overheating and malfunctioning.
there is no oil shortage.
Watching you do your work is kool don't know why but is kool to see you do your thing. Thanks for the video
Really interesting thanks.
Howdy Zach
That video working on this well from 5 years ago got me to sub to your channel
Awesome.
I can see where the machining tools and the knowledge to operate them would be essential to running an operation like yours. I would think your long term exit plans would include finding the next generation operator who can multi-craft and is hands-on.
Outstanding video!
Impressive how precise old machine shop equipment is.
Zack a lot of tubers are trying the DJI equipment. And for the bearing , couldn't you put it in a oven and heat it to get a interference fit ? 😊
I just bought one and im going to give it a shot.
Don't force it...use a bigger hammer.
Nice job
I'd feel at home in your shop.
Excellent work ,
I hope I am still producing at 102
GREAT JOB KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDEOS 😊
Sometimes GoPro's will overheat and shut down if left in direct sun. Also I prefer using a usb cable vs removing the card, seems like less corruption issues that way.
What happened to peak oil? Is it a myth? Russian geologists think most crude oil is made by geological forces deep in the earth and not the result of decaying dinosaurs.
It’s decaying trees & plants.
@@shanepowers7566 How can oil be found deeper than any organism can survive? Evidently, not all oil is formed by decaying plants or animals.
Oils made from what? Rocks? Undersea vegetation?
@@shanepowers7566 Russian geologists believe crude oil is made from geological forces deep in the earth. Russia is the second largest oil producer in the world so they must have gotten something right. There are moons of other planets that have methane hydrocarbons and I seriously doubt there is has been living matter on these moons.
Yes there is no way dead dinosaurs made all this oil.
Yes, l don't carry a lathe with me (l am afraid if I had a bigger truck I would try!) But as it is we probably handle 95percent of our brake downs in the woods.
Great video zack. I had a great time watching. Suggestion. Two damn cameras. So many other creaters complain about cam glitches.. they get different models and different memory cards just to capture the video. Two running the same vodeo😂
You inspired me to get an oil field job up here in canada. Am a painter by trade, so i got a coatings job on the new LNG plant that canadas building up north! Not quite the same as what you do but excited to get my foot in the door.
Awesome.
Great Job. Sorry about the Lufkin Engineering being bought out by GE and they closed it down - I believe the shaft balancing unit is in operation. Foundry gone as is engineering. Sad but the drop in business forced the issue with aging owners. No one could buy it but GE stepped up then crashed them as GE got into trouble.
My son being next generation can figure out things that sometimes baffle me, and I had a Dell i had Apple software on and was running linux.
Nice job im sure you know but you can buy stepped keys to go 3/4 to 1/2. Mcmaster prob has them
Gotta love straight forward equipment. As for gopros, everybody with gopros has trouble with them, for the price you'd think they'd be less buggy. If it was any other piece of equipment people would likely call them a knock off camera with a high price tag.
You can actually buy key way stock 3/4x1/2 for the odd ball key ways from MSC.
Nice video like usual. Thinking about it, there probably aren't too many different size bolts on each machine. I wonder if it would make any sense to buy a lot of cheap wrenches of the most commonly needed sizes, and leave a set of wrenches at every work site which includes all the wrenches needed for that machine.
Say Zach, A thought on your video / audio loss issues……. 👁️👁️. Clean (not oily) hands may be your culprit. 👁️ A slight oil film will attract dust (I’m sure you work in a dust free environment). 🌞 Oil and dust = intermittent connection issues 🌞 I grew up in Odessa and have worked in the field as far as Michigan. Worked in Production/Operations, liquid/gas measurement. Stories I could tell. 😎
Thanks for the educational vid! Outstanding!!!!
You ain't lazy 👍🏻
The centre drill has another function , even if the job is slightly eccentric the centre drill will always cut a hole thats in the centre because it cuts the furthest from the centre the hole just ends up slightly larger , thats why there is no flex in the drill
The next time take the proper equipment with you Zach, you know ... enjoyed, thanks.
All that machine work you did was pretty darn Amazing to watch Zach.
Funny how some of the oldest tools in the shop tend to be the best. Great work sure enjoy your content
,, URGENT!!! John 3:16 For God loved the world, so He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Realize you're a SINNER! You CANNOT earn your way into heaven! JESUS is the ONLY way! REPENT and CALL upon JESUS to SAVE you now! BELIEVE that JESUS is the Son of God, that He came in the flesh, lived a sinless life and then died on a CROSS for you! TRUST that God raised JESUS from the dead! By FAITH accept the shed BLOOD of JESUS ALONE as payment for YOUR sins! Almighty God is about to pour out JUDGEMENT on this world! Only Christians born again in the SPIRIT are about to VANISH! Dear LORD, please soften hearts now to accept the GOSPEL - the Good News of JESUS CHRIST!
The corrupted files could be magnetic disruption maybe the device or card is getting too close to metal, or an electric motor, or some type of coil. I really enjoy these videos!
I've worked on a bunch of old Hit & Miss well engines and stationary engines doing machining and restoration for guys, never a dull moment!!