I have to say that, at night your shop is a real time machine I just get the feeling that we are back in the 1920's burning the midnight oil. Your videos just keep on getting better and better. Thanks for sharing.
After watching you and other TH-cam machinists for a long time, this semester at my local community college I'm taking a machine shop class (at 62 years young;). Today I turned my first four pieces, flywheel weights for a little steam engine, on a standard 15" LeBlond Regal lathe. I only needed three, but on the third one I turned a section undersized. Thanks for the inspiration:)
Wise calendar you have there Dave... It was my duty in my apprentice years to sharpen various cutters and taps and dies beside my ordinary tasks. I was kept very busy in a factory with 70 craftsmen and I remember the pride I took in my work. I wish every young man could be part of a team that praise him to boost his self-esteem and at least let on he was an important cog in the works.
Ahhh yes, life when a young man scraped up enough money to buy a few "good" machinists tools and went to work in a place that was so cool that he thought he should be paying them to let him hang around.....Dave
David, I enjoy your videos immensely. I had a production precision job shop in Cleveland,OH for 50 years. Never worked for anyone but myself. It is a shame what our government did to the manufacturing industry. Thanks for keeping it alive, JIM
Another great video Dave, I just love hearing the heart-beat of your old steam engine. I know when your workingin the shop you can feel it as well. Thanks for sharing
When I woke up this morning, I saw you have put a video up, I thought too myself I will save it to enjoy Saturday night and I have just seen it and really enjoyed it 👍😊
Thank you for this season's videos. And enjoy the winter in a warmer climate. BTW, can't get over how quiet a steam-powered shop is. There's no little screaming lectric motors ....
This is really fascinating. I'm a big fan of Abom79. Your machines are something like his grandfather might have used. In the late 1940's, my dad and I visited our local, small town machine shop. It was in a plain, old wooden building with poor lighting. I remember seeing the line shafts on the ceiling and all the belts. I was too small to understand what I was looking at but that memory has lasted for decades. Old Threshers in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa have a demonstration machine shop running on steam but you are doing practical work with a variety of machines. Yours is more educational and entertaining. This is certainly a lot more relaxed and slow paced than other TH-cam machine shop operations. I am really enjoying your work and your shop.
Dave thanks for showing more about the drill press and the calendar ending. Machines and people can be old and still be productive and old sayings still have meaning.
Loved the cutter grinder footage. I have spent many hours on a #2 just like the one you have. Brings back good memories. Thank you and keep making great videos.
Terrific as ever Dave. Not sure if I've told you, but I was a precision grinder for 16 years at Napier Turbocharges. We made turbos for many trains. I know it's been 27 years since I had to stop, but now find I'm forgetting much of it....like what grinders we had etc. But pretty sure we had a Cincinnati semi automatic grinder. That shaper sure did a great job on that ally.
THANK YOU, I figured we wouldn't see any more, from New York State, until spring, when you got back from Florida. I envy you, winters in Florida!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching. You might be interested in my shop videos #1 through 5 which includes a look at everything. I should go through it again because a lot has changed in a couple years.....Dave
Florida!! Oh well, I guess you have a small shop down there, also! I am fascinated by all that old stuff including the steam engines and you too Dave. Well, I guess I fit the description, too Dave only I'm not working anymore, Greg.
the best show on the internet, and that includes anything on tv for sure. thank you dave. keep up the good work. have a safe florida trip. yes insulation on the steam pipes will make the wood last longer.
I sure don't begrudge your winter stay in Florida as I'd do the same if I could Dave. It is going to be a long wait until you get back to this shop though. And nothing wrong with old school, I've learned the bulk of what little I do know from books written long before CNC. For a few of them I guess some limited tape drive NC was available, but what worked 100 years ago works just as well today. Beautiful finish your shaper produces. I'm sure the vise on it outweighs my little South Bend shaper and the stand by a lot. Enjoy that warm sunshine and the lack of snow shovels :-)
All the safety OSHA types are wailing about reaching over the belt All the union types are saying "whoa there fella, don't be takin the oiler's job" All the lady folk are saying "you aren't putting those jeans in my washer" All the rest of the real men say "another great video! Good job...keep it up!"
Nice video again David. Liked the shaper footage, spent many hours working one similar to that. Wish I could escape to the sun to ease these old aching joints but I'm told I need to be at home for Christmas!!
Hah yeah, on this channel one get so used to see everything being powered by steam and is usually slow. Then once in a blue moon something electrical is being used which gives a “wait, hold on” feeling 😁 Nice start of a Saturday this video, as always 👍🏻
Thanks a lot for the video. Just great to see the older machines still running! Machines from a day when stuff was built right and tough. It's all plastic throw away crap nowadays.
Hi David. I'm watching your Dec.8 2017 video. I happened to notice looks like you have a pressure test station for automotive heads. I enjoy watching your old steam powered shop very much. I have for some time. I don't leave many comments because I am usually watching in the early morning hours. Thanks for what you do. Don from Oregon
I'm loving these memories, I served my apprenticeship at a company making tools and cutters in the 60s in the UK. We used to use a 4" cupped wheel on cutter grinders, setting the height of the indexing finger to alter the clearance angle. Not saying you were doing it wrong, it just looked a little awkward.
John, thanks for the input. I have no experience really with a cutter grinder, just some coaching from a retired tool room guy and some manuals (which don't usually agree on how to do things). I have some cupped wheels which I think will work better and also an end mill attachment. Tom is making up a proper tooth/ center highth gauge. ...Dave
One day I'd love to come over to exchange ideas and get my hands on with those lovely old machines but it's over 3000 miles and over an ocean, so it may be a while. :)
Love the Vid David and must say that Shaper is one hell of a beast. I just acquired a 1967 model 22" Strigon Shaper in beautiful condition from the original owner and looking forward to getting some use out of it. Mostly will be used for keyways and slotting. I'll have to post a vid soon of it.
Not very many guys have tried this but you can run a CNC mill as a shaper without turning the spindle by running it in rapid. Works better than snapping off a bunch of 3/16'" end mills. You can also index a circle that way.
Who said ya cant mix water and electricity . Great video Sir . Ran one of those cutter grinders for a while when I was in the Navy as a MR . Keep up the great videos , I really like them.
G'day Dave another great video I would like to take this opportunity in wishing you and yours a great Christmas and New Year and thank you for all the fascinating videos you have done through out the year it has been great to watch you show how it was done a long time ago. Thanks Mate looked forward to seeing you in 2018 kind regards John Kinnane Tasmania Australia
I know I keep saying this but they just keep getting better and better. See you've got the flannels on. Heading South soon, Dave? Snowing here today. Good wood heater feeder day!
Yea! another video from Dave's Awesome Steam Powered shop. Thanks, this made my day as I sit watching Rocket parts get tested at temperature in a vacuum chamber. RichB
Sure Hugh, not much to see. I made it out of an iron barn sink, a 40 Ford brake drum and driveshaft housing, and some old channel iron. The crank blower was a good flea market find.....Dave
Good clip, enjoy your winter down in Florida, I noticed you hadn't installed the steel governor pulley yet, or was this older video clips you had on hand.
Judging by the sparks, that cutter is likely high carbon steel. HSS makes a redder spark without the secondary "explosions". (My first task, many, many years ago, in the toolroom was sorting scrap using the sparks to distinguish among HSS, carbon, and mild steels.) It wasn't long enough ago that the toolroom ran on steam and line shafts, but it was over a half century ago.
Probably you are right, It was old. Usually old cutters that were HSS were marked as such, seeing as how High Speed Steel was a big deal back then. I've read that tooling salesmen had a hard time convincing the old old school machinists, like in Railroad shops, to run HSS cutters with fewer teeth and get the speed way up. Like now with CNC tooling, the speeds seem ridiculously high to me.......Dave
Thank you David you are one man who certainly knows His business. I have followed you since the first episode. And you did introduce Adam Booth on your channel. Have you ever met Him personally. thanks again, you do have a very interesting channel.
Watching you oil the machine bearings reminded me to ask you-- what arrangement do you have for oiling the line shaft bearings and the loose pulleys. Is it daily and are they wick fed or gravity? I used to look after some vintage machinery and the bearings were ring fed from an oil bath.
Video after video , I just love them all. David how many valves are on your boiler alone. It reminds me when I was working on offshore drilling platforms the were valves all over the place
Hi Dave. When you showed the boiler Injectors I was wondering how the injectors work, or how they push the water into the Boiler. I'm really new to them and steam altogether, like a lot of us. I've learned a lot from you about steam engines. Could you explain the Injectors and some of the boiler in and outs. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Dave! In the clip on the big shaper you gave us a glimpse of a small air-cooled radial aircraft engine leaning up against a wall - WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? Does it run? I thought you had the coolest equipment even before I saw that, but now I'm just amazed. J.S.
John: It is a Jacobs 7 cylinder radial engine from a Cesna 195 (about 1940) It had a blown rod and crank. A couple weeks ago I gave it to a friend to clutter up his shop for awhile, So that was the last glimpse of it in my shop.....Dave
Wondering about the triangular guides/slides on which the shaper slides back and forth during its cuts? Is that just steel that is very smooth and lubricated or is there some type of sacrificial metal such as brass etc ?
No Ed, it's cast iron against cast iron with tapered "gibs" to take up wear. The larger shaper has a circulating automatic oiling system that keeps it covered, the smaller shaper requires a shot of "way" oil every now and then in the oil cups......Dave
Actually it's not good water, it would have cylinder oil from the lubricator in it that would really mess up the boiler steaming without an oil separator of some kind. A true condenser (that pulls a slight vacuum on the exhaust) also requires a water source and an air pump and would not lend itself to light loads and stopping and starting occasionally. Not worth the trouble......Dave
Great video as usual! I love the way that you explain how yor tools work, but don't recall the specific brand of your drill press. The power feed gives you a chance to walk around and oil the various machines, which is a great component in itself! .... seeing all of the raw metal machine parts (not rusty) is a full time job and fascinating in itself! .... loved seeing the tool cutter grinder, and hope to see it more. I have the larger KO Lee model which doesn't compare to the Cinci, and hope to get it up and running soon. I have collected a multitude of parts, and different workheads, including the air bearing fixture, and all the necessary arbors, collets, and other misc items. The only one missing is the tap grinding workhead, and don't really want it! ...was wondering if you had a powered workhead ?? I think I may have a Cinci model around if interested. Thanks for all your great work!
rreally interesting ..i am a steam nut myself . in my early days i was on the foot plate a fireman after two weeks my beer belly vanished we in england still have over 1.000 steam loco motives of all sorts what do you think of our burrell scenic showmans engines. a thing of beauty.. regards laurence
I have to say that, at night your shop is a real time machine I just get the feeling that we are back in the 1920's burning the midnight oil. Your videos just keep on getting better and better. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for coming along....Dave
The lighting was poor, but they would have been finishing up things as the sun went down.....Dave
Watching your channel is like meditation. All is right in the universe when that opening music starts up.
After watching you and other TH-cam machinists for a long time, this semester at my local community college I'm taking a machine shop class (at 62 years young;). Today I turned my first four pieces, flywheel weights for a little steam engine, on a standard 15" LeBlond Regal lathe. I only needed three, but on the third one I turned a section undersized. Thanks for the inspiration:)
That's great Pat, You just discovered an old timer machining rule: Leave some "screw up" room.....Dave
All around a great job. Thanks for the history.
Wise calendar you have there Dave... It was my duty in my apprentice years to sharpen various cutters and taps and dies beside my ordinary tasks. I was kept very busy in a factory with 70 craftsmen and I remember the pride I took in my work. I wish every young man could be part of a team that praise him to boost his self-esteem and at least let on he was an important cog in the works.
Ahhh yes, life when a young man scraped up enough money to buy a few "good" machinists tools and went to work in a place that was so cool that he thought he should be paying them to let him hang around.....Dave
This is great. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
Thanks again ,It's like coming home when I watch your Shop at work....!
Awesome stuff Dave , Thanks for sharing !
The big engine sounds good! The cutter grinder is a neat tool. Thanks for showing it's operation.
I really enjoy seeing your shop in action. Love the quotes on the old calendar! Merry Christmas!
David, I enjoy your videos immensely. I had a production precision job shop in Cleveland,OH for 50 years. Never worked for anyone but myself. It is a shame what our government did to the manufacturing industry.
Thanks for keeping it alive, JIM
Hi JIM, sounds like you,ve "been there, done that". All that job shop work went away when the bigger industries moved out...Dave
Another great video Dave, I just love hearing the heart-beat of your old steam engine. I know when your workingin the shop you can feel it as well. Thanks for sharing
What a nice mix of topics in this video, Dave.
It's interesting to see all the variety.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see the beast get used once in a while .
When I woke up this morning, I saw you have put a video up, I thought too myself I will save it to enjoy Saturday night and I have just seen it and really enjoyed it 👍😊
Thank you for this season's videos. And enjoy the winter in a warmer climate.
BTW, can't get over how quiet a steam-powered shop is.
There's no little screaming lectric motors ....
I enjoy watching your videos. Keep it up David!!!
This is really fascinating. I'm a big fan of Abom79. Your machines are something like his grandfather might have used. In the late 1940's, my dad and I visited our local, small town machine shop. It was in a plain, old wooden building with poor lighting. I remember seeing the line shafts on the ceiling and all the belts. I was too small to understand what I was looking at but that memory has lasted for decades. Old Threshers in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa have a demonstration machine shop running on steam but you are doing practical work with a variety of machines. Yours is more educational and entertaining. This is certainly a lot more relaxed and slow paced than other TH-cam machine shop operations. I am really enjoying your work and your shop.
you do a real nice job, the machinery is the sound track. I like that.
Great presentation Dave. Enjoy your winter in Florida.
Dave thanks for showing more about the drill press and the calendar ending. Machines and people can be old and still be productive and old sayings still have meaning.
Liked the chips coming out of that large drill. Thanks Dave.
A wonderful way to preserve knowledge .... thank you for your time.
Your videos are put together very professionally. Keep up the great work.
Loved the cutter grinder footage. I have spent many hours on a #2 just like the one you have. Brings back good memories. Thank you and keep making great videos.
Great looking old shaper & cutter grinder ! I really miss toolroom work.
Hey Dave, I would like to see more of what’s in the front shop sometime!
Thank you for continuing your videos. They are incredibly informative and interesting. Merry Christmas!!
Terrific as ever Dave. Not sure if I've told you, but I was a precision grinder for 16 years at Napier Turbocharges. We made turbos for many trains. I know it's been 27 years since I had to stop, but now find I'm forgetting much of it....like what grinders we had etc. But pretty sure we had a Cincinnati semi automatic grinder. That shaper sure did a great job on that ally.
Another great video, Dave. I really liked those shots of the drill press with the engine in the background. Really says it all!
Hi Paul, Guess the engine is just sitting in the middle of things....Dave
Simply excellent. Keep up the great work Dave💪
THANK YOU, I figured we wouldn't see any more, from New York State, until spring, when you got back from Florida.
I envy you, winters in Florida!!!!!!!!
Another great video Dave. I would love to see a tour of your entire shop. And I hope im not the only one. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching. You might be interested in my shop videos #1 through 5 which includes a look at everything. I should go through it again because a lot has changed in a couple years.....Dave
I thank you for sharing Adam's channel.......I watch his machining, also......
Adam is the professional machinist of the "lot"....Dave
Very interesting. I wondered how they ground those cutters but had not dug into it yet. Thanks!
Great Video Dave,the Shaper was one of my favorite Machine Tools. See you soon
when will you be in town?....Dave
Florida!! Oh well, I guess you have a small shop down there, also! I am fascinated by all that old stuff including the steam engines and you too Dave. Well, I guess I fit the description, too Dave only I'm not working anymore, Greg.
Always something interesting, thanks Dave.
Thank you for your reply.I learned something new. Merry Christmas and Have a good New year.
the best show on the internet, and that includes anything on tv for sure. thank you dave. keep up the good work. have a safe florida trip. yes insulation on the steam pipes will make the wood last longer.
I sure don't begrudge your winter stay in Florida as I'd do the same if I could Dave. It is going to be a long wait until you get back to this shop though. And nothing wrong with old school, I've learned the bulk of what little I do know from books written long before CNC. For a few of them I guess some limited tape drive NC was available, but what worked 100 years ago works just as well today. Beautiful finish your shaper produces. I'm sure the vise on it outweighs my little South Bend shaper and the stand by a lot. Enjoy that warm sunshine and the lack of snow shovels :-)
"What worked 100 years ago, works just as well today"...how true....Dave
All the safety OSHA types are wailing about reaching over the belt
All the union types are saying "whoa there fella, don't be takin the oiler's job"
All the lady folk are saying "you aren't putting those jeans in my washer"
All the rest of the real men say "another great video! Good job...keep it up!"
Dave another great video waiting for the next one is just like waiting for the new tool that I ordered
Keep up the good work and thanks Phil
Nice video again David. Liked the shaper footage, spent many hours working one similar to that. Wish I could escape to the sun to ease these old aching joints but I'm told I need to be at home for Christmas!!
I always look forward to the next video from you. Thank You
thankyou very much for your great videos ,they are very interesting and enjoyable,
Hah yeah, on this channel one get so used to see everything being powered by steam and is usually slow.
Then once in a blue moon something electrical is being used which gives a “wait, hold on” feeling 😁
Nice start of a Saturday this video, as always 👍🏻
Thanks a lot for the video. Just great to see the older machines still running! Machines from a day when stuff was built right and tough. It's all plastic throw away crap nowadays.
Hi David. I'm watching your Dec.8 2017 video. I happened to notice looks like you have a pressure test station for automotive heads. I enjoy watching your old steam powered shop very much. I have for some time. I don't leave many comments because I am usually watching in the early morning hours. Thanks for what you do. Don from Oregon
Don, I'm retiring from the automotive engine business, that pressure tester just went to Kansas someplace....Dave
Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge and your video and want to wish you a merry Christmas and look forward to the next video
Thanks Mark, Merry Christmas to you also....Dave
I'm loving these memories,
I served my apprenticeship at a company making tools and cutters in the 60s in the UK. We used to use a 4" cupped wheel on cutter grinders, setting the height of the indexing finger to alter the clearance angle. Not saying you were doing it wrong, it just looked a little awkward.
John, thanks for the input. I have no experience really with a cutter grinder, just some coaching from a retired tool room guy and some manuals (which don't usually agree on how to do things). I have some cupped wheels which I think will work better and also an end mill attachment. Tom is making up a proper tooth/ center highth gauge. ...Dave
One day I'd love to come over to exchange ideas and get my hands on with those lovely old machines but it's over 3000 miles and over an ocean, so it may be a while. :)
Love the Vid David and must say that Shaper is one hell of a beast. I just acquired a 1967 model 22" Strigon Shaper in beautiful condition from the original owner and looking forward to getting some use out of it. Mostly will be used for keyways and slotting. I'll have to post a vid soon of it.
They do a nice job with internal keyways. The next one I do, I'm going to try upside down like a lot of old manuals suggest....Dave
that you for the old way they did it I real like this I would like to do my shop like this
Thanks,
Thanks Jack, hope you can do it.........Dave
Like that calendar They need to bring them back into the work place
Absolutly AMAZING !
As always well done and thank you.
Hello David,
Very good as always.
Greetings from the Netherlands
Great Video! :-) Nice Shaper and Cutter Grinder!
Loved the calendar!
Not very many guys have tried this but you can run a CNC mill as a shaper without turning the spindle by running it in rapid. Works better than snapping off a bunch of 3/16'" end mills. You can also index a circle that way.
Love this stuff!! Thanks for posting!
Glad you are with us here....Dave
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
4 WAY FEED DRILL PRESS = TOOO COOOL !!
That's one big shaper. I hope we get to see the lathe adapter plate made before you fly south for the winter. 8-). Regards, Jeff
Nice video Dave. You and your family have a Happy Holiday
Who said ya cant mix water and electricity . Great video Sir . Ran one of those cutter grinders for a while when I was in the Navy as a MR . Keep up the great videos , I really like them.
Great video.Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year to you and yours Dave.Be well ,enjoy life.
Thanks Norm, hope yours is a great one too....Dave
G'day Dave another great video I would like to take this opportunity in wishing you and yours a great Christmas and New Year and thank you for all the fascinating videos you have done through out the year it has been great to watch you show how it was done a long time ago. Thanks Mate looked forward to seeing you in 2018 kind regards John Kinnane Tasmania Australia
Thanks John, best wishes to you too. Do the new years go in descending order "down under"? always wondered about that.....Dave
David Richards yes Dave we have New Years before you do thanks for the reply John
Thanks Till now I have always wondered how they grind the milling cutters.
Still figuring this out....more to come...Dave
Nice big shaper action!
Hi Brian, Once in awhile I get a good job for it....Dave
Love the big Shaper also. Thanks for sharing
I know I keep saying this but they just keep getting better and better. See you've got the flannels on. Heading South soon, Dave? Snowing here today. Good wood heater feeder day!
Really interesting Dave, thanks.
Yea! another video from Dave's Awesome Steam Powered shop.
Thanks, this made my day as I sit watching Rocket parts get tested at temperature in a vacuum chamber.
RichB
Honored to be viewed by a Rocket Scientist......Dave
It's time to come up with a logo. A sticker even. I'd proudly add 1 to the side of my mill!
Thanks for another great video.
If you ever run short of ideas for filming I wouldn't mind a peek at your forge. Thanks Dave and Merry Christmas.
Sure Hugh, not much to see. I made it out of an iron barn sink, a 40 Ford brake drum and driveshaft housing, and some old channel iron. The crank blower was a good flea market find.....Dave
That 50s shaper gives a much nicer finish than the steam powered one could
Loved the quote by George Washington on the 1928 calendar. M.
Good clip, enjoy your winter down in Florida, I noticed you hadn't installed the steel governor pulley yet, or was this older video clips you had on hand.
Awesome as always Dave. Merry Christmas. keep up the great videos. 👍
Enjoyed as always Dave, thanks. Currently freezing our asses off in Wa. Enjoy fla.
You would think you'de get used to it...NY isn't much better.....Dave
Judging by the sparks, that cutter is likely high carbon steel. HSS makes a redder spark without the secondary "explosions". (My first task, many, many years ago, in the toolroom was sorting scrap using the sparks to distinguish among HSS, carbon, and mild steels.) It wasn't long enough ago that the toolroom ran on steam and line shafts, but it was over a half century ago.
Probably you are right, It was old. Usually old cutters that were HSS were marked as such, seeing as how High Speed Steel was a big deal back then. I've read that tooling salesmen had a hard time convincing the old old school machinists, like in Railroad shops, to run HSS cutters with fewer teeth and get the speed way up. Like now with CNC tooling, the speeds seem ridiculously high to me.......Dave
Love the video. Keep them coming.
David, good video and Merry Christmas!
Thank you David you are one man who certainly knows His business. I have followed you since the first episode. And you did introduce Adam Booth on your channel. Have you ever met Him personally. thanks again, you do have a very interesting channel.
I have had some conversations with Adam, he's a very busy guy. Hope to visit his shop some day....Dave
Thanks David
+1
Nice video Dave.
Thanks Dave, glad you're following the channel....Dave
Watching you oil the machine bearings reminded me to ask you-- what arrangement do you have for oiling the line shaft bearings and the loose pulleys. Is it daily and are they wick fed or gravity? I used to look after some vintage machinery and the bearings were ring fed from an oil bath.
Nice shaper!
Very enjoyable. Thank you. It was interesting to see the shop at night. What is the smaller of your two lathes?
Thanks John, It's a 10" South Bend "Junior" of 1925....Dave
Thanks :)
Very nice 👍
Video after video , I just love them all.
David how many valves are on your boiler alone.
It reminds me when I was working on offshore drilling platforms the were valves all over the place
Old man for old men (me included) about old machines....
Hi Dave. When you showed the boiler Injectors I was wondering how the injectors work, or how they push the water into the Boiler. I'm really new to them and steam altogether, like a lot of us. I've learned a lot from you about steam engines. Could you explain the Injectors and some of the boiler in and outs. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Hi Kieth, check my video #1 or 2 for the injectors....Dave
Dave! In the clip on the big shaper you gave us a glimpse of a small air-cooled radial aircraft engine leaning up against a wall - WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? Does it run?
I thought you had the coolest equipment even before I saw that, but now I'm just amazed.
J.S.
John: It is a Jacobs 7 cylinder radial engine from a Cesna 195 (about 1940) It had a blown rod and crank. A couple weeks ago I gave it to a friend to clutter up his shop for awhile, So that was the last glimpse of it in my shop.....Dave
Wondering about the triangular guides/slides on which the shaper slides back and forth during its cuts? Is that just steel that is very smooth and lubricated or is there some type of sacrificial metal such as brass etc ?
No Ed, it's cast iron against cast iron with tapered "gibs" to take up wear. The larger shaper has a circulating automatic oiling system that keeps it covered, the smaller shaper requires a shot of "way" oil every now and then in the oil cups......Dave
David, Have you thought much about a condenser on your Engine Exhaust, save some good water???
Actually it's not good water, it would have cylinder oil from the lubricator in it that would really mess up the boiler steaming without an oil separator of some kind. A true condenser (that pulls a slight vacuum on the exhaust) also requires a water source and an air pump and would not lend itself to light loads and stopping and starting occasionally. Not worth the trouble......Dave
Great video as usual! I love the way that you explain how yor tools work, but don't recall the specific brand of your drill press. The power feed gives you a chance to walk around and oil the various machines, which is a great component in itself! .... seeing all of the raw metal machine parts (not rusty) is a full time job and fascinating in itself! .... loved seeing the tool cutter grinder, and hope to see it more. I have the larger KO Lee model which doesn't compare to the Cinci, and hope to get it up and running soon. I have collected a multitude of parts, and different workheads, including the air bearing fixture, and all the necessary arbors, collets, and other misc items. The only one missing is the tap grinding workhead, and don't really want it! ...was wondering if you had a powered workhead ?? I think I may have a Cinci model around if interested. Thanks for all your great work!
Thanks Jim, I don't have a powered work head for it which would be nice for doing lathe centers and such....Dave
I'll dig around a bit and see what I can find.
rreally interesting ..i am a steam nut myself . in my early days i was on the foot plate a fireman after two weeks my beer belly vanished we in england still have over 1.000 steam loco motives of all sorts what do you think of our burrell scenic showmans engines. a thing of beauty.. regards laurence
Special whale oil? Is that hard to get now or can it be replaced? If replaced, do you have to clean ALL the old stuff out before replacing?
Wish I could get my campfires to start that easily... Did you use any Scout water to help you out?
Yup, medium grade scout water....Dave