Omg you guys were in my hometown , I would have loved to meet you guys and share some knowledge with you , i am retired toolmaker from General Motors , you guys should have gone on a tour of the Ford rouge plant it starts right there at the museum !! I retired in 2006 after 30 years, so I am familiar with all the tooling !!
The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village are the best museums I’ve ever been to. I watched in amazement as a man operated a beautiful vintage belt driven lathe making a brass candle stick holder. I was and still am fascinated by the men and machines that made America.
Did you notice most of the parts that made up these old machinery were castings, large and small,makes me think of the pattern & mould makers, those fellows were true craftsmen.
First, I worked most of my 31 year career as an engineer Ford Ford Motor Company in the building just north of the museum on Oakwood Blvd. The building I worked in had many names since it was built about 100 years, but has now reverted back to it's original name, Ford Engineering Laboratory. Second, you need to return to the area and go through Greenfield Village. It is an open air museum that has many historical buildings including Thomas Edison's Menlow Park and the Wright Brothers bicycle shop. It has at least one WORKING, over head line shaft machine shop. Many other things to see. This, the original Ford factory in nearby Highland Park is still there. No machinery, but some very old cars.
Those old machines are works of art created by artisans for artisans. How in the world were they able to measure the tolerances with such precision back then ? I had read that Henry Ford bought that Swedish gauge block company to make sure FMC never would run out of such a valuable resource.
Thank You for highlighting, American Engenuity and American Manufacturing. This should be on every school field trip list so kids can see how great America 🇺🇸 is. I've got to catch up with your channel, saw a video earlier of your New Flex Machine. Your growing in leaps and bounds. Great job you guys, very impressive. Thanks Mark
In oil field machine shops, I ran a thread mill that threaded the ends of drill pipe, drill collars and other components. It's asset tag was 1616 and I used to swear that was the year it was manufactured :). You could see where it had been converted from drive line to electric engine.
In the shop I work at, we have a Gray Planer that was retrofitted about 50 years ago with a Gray milling head upgrade. Still to this day is a rock solid machine. 30ft of travel. Surprisingly a very solid and still accurate machine to this day. Only other machine that old we have, that is still accurate, is a Monarch lathe with 4ft roughly of swing.
Let's Make America great again the right way! With American home land Manufacturing. (Sorry 4 the T use ya'll) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It's completely a shame how so many of us Americans have become so greedy, irresponsible and disrespectful human beings. Time for that high horse to be brought to it's knees.
@@IvanStepaniuk Yeah - the american dream is dead. Now it is the american nightmare with Brandon at the helm but sadly most prefer to keep dreaming even when they are awake.
at 41:40 - Henry Maudsley was credited with making the first practical Thread Cutting Lathe in 1800, his lathes used triangular ways, which I thought was interesting, and distinctive. He kicked off the British Industrial Revolution, and enabled the precision measurement tool industry. His micrometer could measure 1/10,000 of an inch, which was amazing at the time.
@@markgrant8771 You're right... I overlooked the pre-machine tooling part of it, thinking that it all started with the Boring machine, when in actuality it started much earlier.
The Henry Ford is best museum in the world for folks who enjoy vintage technology. If you’ve never been, put it on your list. Henry understood the value in capturing the history of the industrial revolution and the life that went with it. The museum is a testament to the inovation and hard work that made the US a world leader. We could sure use Henry today.
I mean it’s great to see all the useless ebay items they bought but do you really want to promote this socialist and communist agenda they have ? I don’t. I know the way you are talking you are probably just a representative for the company that’s quite clear.
I love the Ford museum. As a car guy, i went there for the automotive portion but then i discovered all this old equipment and i almost like that part more. My absolute favorite part is the gigantic steam engines they have which powered whole towns and factories. side note; that glass press is probably mobile so they could bring it to the furnace and get the gobs from there. its a lot harder to make a mobile furnace. Other side note, maybe that oiler project should be your first CNC project. tying the old into the new? Other other side note, its pronounces ske-NECK-ta-dee.
Wow that’s amazing place, thanks for sharing. With all those belts and open gears no wonder our grandfathers had missing fingers.. glad OSHA came along…
I just watched this video. The indexing head on the Brown and sharpe milling machine is identical to one I have. I got it from the first machine shop I worked at. They had tossed it in the scrap metal bin. I rescued it and later made a set of indexing plates for it. I wish I knew what brand it is. This shop was a spin off the one my grandfather worked in. I never thought about this until now, but this indexer could have been used in the shop my grand dad worked in. Pretty cool museum. I would love to visit sometime.
I work in this museum and knowing a79 likes old machine equipment I closed the museum the day after they left for an inventory audit. Haven't found anything missing yet - except from a pen from the check in counter and my lunch box.
Thomas Edison wasn't very nice to animals. He would travel the country doing live electocutions of dogs and other animals, even an elephant, to make the claim that the high voltage alternating current form of distribution was dangerous. Yes, it was more dangerous than low voltage DC but it was also a superior concept. Thankfully he was not rewarded for his brutality and the Westinghouse AC system prevails today,
Darn, I wish I knew you folks were up here, I would have joined you and taken you to dinner. I only live 15 min. from there. It is a world class place that even a lot of people that live here don't know about. There is so much to see that it can't be seen in one day. Especially if you take the tour of the Ford assembly plant. So glad you got to see it and sorry I missed you. ......Al C.
Good job Adam! Thanks to you and Abby for sharing your experience. Now that I've seen your preview, I would like to take a couple of days to visit The Henry Ford Museum, myself.
Are you aware that Ford made a gas motor while he worked for Edison. there is very little written about it. Several years back I contacted the Ford Museum about it, they told me they had herd of it but have no information on it. I have a complete set of plans and a video of it. the original did not have a mag or spark plug, it had insulated rod that ran through the head and a little hook-on top of the piston to make contact and create the spark. Contact me if you would lie more information
What an amazing museum. Thank you for taking the time to share that. However, after watching all those incredible machines and the remarkable men who invented and built them, I feel like every project I have ever done is the work of a child.
~45 yrs ago, not long after I visited my father where he had moved 15 yrs after my parents divorced, he sent me to the local machine shop to pick up a new part for a printing press, (his hobby was offset printing.) I was familiar w/ 60's era machine shops as I was into hot rodding. I lived about 100 miles south of Portland, OR; dad lived in a very small town on the southern OR coast. What I was NOT prepared for was the Port Orford machine shop. It was exactly like the model machine Abom showed us at the museum. All these friggin' leather belts coming down from drive shafts on the ceiling. To be honest, it was like an arm eating nightmare! All this stuff flapping & spinning... just waiting to eat a limb. I got to know the only & visited when I could, just to marvel at the creative & effective, relative crudeness of this machinery compared to the world of 3 phase electricity. I'd like to go see this museum; perhaps in my next life. I recommend the numerous YT videos of the American auto industry; there are some terrific depression era videos about auto manufacturing. The Works project funded some high profile people in & around the movie industry to produce them.
As I watched you progress through the time periods in the museum one thing became apparent and that was the increased complexity of the giant castings. There was obviously an unspoken competition for each foundry to demonstrate their ever increasing mastery of casting by demonstrating more and more ornate and complex castings. There was obvious pride put into the creation and construction of these machines by the master craftsmen who made them.
You were about 20 minutes from my house. It used to be called Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Both have so many treasures from the past. You really would have really liked the locomotive machine shop in the Village.
Didn't Henry coin the phrase "Built n Functional obsoleteness" ? With the idea that don't build it "Too good to last a long time" therefor keep our product in need ~ philosophy. Can't help to ponder an internal combustion engine with NO OIL PUMP. Np wonder ppl had a trunk Full of tools & spare parts and Rubber boots to WALK home "AGAIN".
I need to go see that. I've been fortunate to be around many steam locomotives. Ridden on the Norfolk and Western 1218. Looking forward to seeing the UP Big Boy soon.
I know the guy who made most of the enclosures in the museum and just about everything including Henry Ford's Violin collection was acquired by the museum on eBay and is in no way a historical artifact.
I’ve been to The Henry Ford twice. It’s a very good museum. I think it was better the second time because I wasn’t so overwhelmed. And the Greenfield Village is also very cool
I would give anything to go back in time to work side by side for just 30 days with those men on those machines. Thanks Adam & Abby for sharing that visit.
I would just like to mention that you guys are so damn cute together. Can't imagine finding a girl that would be interested in things like this. I think I would like to put this on my bucket list of places to come visit.
you need to come back and see Greenfield Village, also if possible, tour any of the plants, in the past they have had tours of the steel mill, engine assembly and truck assembly. Somewhere in the museum is the first robot that was installed in a production facility. A bus tour of the Rouge facility is also a fascinating experience.
The reason that the NEW machines were so ornate was to help people accept the machines coming into workplaces and even their homes. Singer sewing machines were one of the first to do this on there produce line. People back during the beginning of the industrial revolution were scared of the NEW machines and dressing up the appearance of the machines made them more acceptable.
I am so glad you were able to enjoy our Henry Ford. I have lived in the Detroit area all my life ( 74 yrs) and have spent many hours there. I hope you were also able to enjoy Greenfield Village as well. Enjoy all your vids, and I’m hoping to see more more stuff in your fantastic new shop. Can’t wait to see some stuff turned out on your super new CNC toys. If only I were rich ore at least earning money so I could have cool stuff like that. Some time you should look up what they went thru to get that big locomotive in there. It would have been easier to just park the train outside and build a new building around it! Thanks again, Craig
Kieth Fenner has a video on his channel, where he repairs a glass press for the Sandwich Glass Museum on Cape Cod. It has been some time since I saw the video, but in my memory, it is the identical wheel mounted machine that you saw at the Henry Ford Museum. I'm pretty sure that at the end of the video Kieth shows it in operation.
FINALLY - took my family from Atlanta up to see the museum 50 years ago and had worse luck than you had - IT WAS CLOSED TOO - but Greenfield was open - not the same thing
Everything in that museum was built to last! Not like the trash we are sold these days as it's built to be thrown away and not to last🤬.. Because of this there is no respect for anything anymore sadly.
Those Johansson Gage Blocks are so important they deserve their own section in a museum. Some would argue how important it was that Ford bought them out and moved them to the US. But that small act altered what could have been the course of manufacturing in America.
Actually, Ford bought a license from Johansson to produce the gage blocks in the USA. The company was called Dearborn Gage and Carl's son moved here to setup the operation. My father trained as a gage maker at the Johansson factory in Eskilstuna, Sweden back in the late 1930's and 1940's. Dad and Mom emigrated to the US in 1947. PS, Johansson didn't invent the Gage Blocks. There were two brothers making them and Johansson was a traveling machine tool salesman. The brothers had limited shop capacity so only produced a few sets a year. Johansson bought them out and started C.E. Johansson Gage to make them in a production line and then added many more products to the line.
* * * * It's difficult to conceive of the Emagination and engibeering genius that these inventers possesed to be able to design something that doesn't exist ~ ! Then design the tool to make the molds to cast parts for these marvelose machines
There were 68 of The Allegheny engines built the 1601 is the second one built. Out of the 68, 60 were built for the Chesapeake & Ohio, the other 8 were built for the Virginian Railway. Of the 68 only 2 remain, the 1601 at the Henry Ford and the 1604 at the B & O Museum in Baltimore Md.
Every once in awhile, there is discussion about restoring that to working order. Greenfield Village has a couple of operating steam engines and a round house to keep them running on the several miles of private track they have.
@@jackpatteeuw9244 When Norfolk Southern started their steam program, CSX sent some of their people to evaluate both Alleghenys for possible restoration, but that's about as far as it went. I've been to Greenfield Village and rode behind one of their steamers and went through the roundhouse. If I ever get the chance, I want to return to the museum and village.
The title, at first sight, didn't have much of attraction. However, starting the video, my opinion changed. Being a veteran railroad steam guy for 50 years, You know the rest. When will Your shop use a steam powered machine? Joking! Deb looks like having a lot of engineer in her blood. I'm the same lucky guy, having a female partner being quite an engineer. Sad that so few machines were running. Summing it up, a really interesting video.
Back before Covid we had a family membership to Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. I have spent a ton of time at both of them and I could still go back over and over again. Greenfield Village still has a functioning old school machine shop which is a lot of fun to go to and watch the machines in action.
I was there 40 years ago when I was 18 and have pictures of a lot of the stuff you're showing us the one thing that stuck in my head was the locomotives 🚂 at the end of your videos just incredibly awesome mind-blowing stuff the shear massive size and engineering of them what people don't understand that all the machinery in this building build our country and gave us freedom to win world Wars GODSPEED
That 6000 hp engine used to power the plant is stunning in a way that makes you question how something like that was built so long ago. It was just a different time where one off machines were common and no undertaking was to big. Oh and on a side note.... schenectady sku-neck-titty
We went to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village on vacation when I was still a kid, about 1981/1982. We spent 2 days there and still didn't get through it all. Would like to go back again some time in the future.
I love your wife's enthusiasm for your work and hobbies and her knowledge of these machines even though she doesn't do any of that herself. Taking an interest in each other's hobbies etc... makes for a great marriage!
I live about 40 minutes from "The Henry Ford". We have been there many times and have seen most of what you showed in you video, but never had so much appreciation of what we were seeing as you and Abby had. You did a great job of pointing out the wonders of that place. It truly is a place one can spend days in and still not see it all. Great video...!! Thanks. Hope you can come back again. If you do you are welcome to come and stay at our place. We have plenty of room for you RV. Then you could spend several days at "The Henry Ford". 😆
Thanks for this tour Adam! If you’re ever in the NYC area and get a chance, visit the Thomas Edison museum in West Orange N.J… It is absolutely mind blowing. The Edison Inc. campus contains his full research and development laboratories, and most beautifully, his full heavy and precision machine shops, all preserved as if men had just up and walked out yesterday. You can also tour his house which was a few blocks away, perfectly preserved as well. 10/10,
A Bomb size steam Locomotive in there. Kind of hard to miss. Went to the Military Marching songs special on July 4th all played on Brass and Drums. I'm from Michigan and glad to see the two of you really soaking it in. Thanks Abby and Adam.
I love looking at these old machines. It's worth emphasising the importance of the gauge blocks. Without them, for checking other inspection equipment, it wouldn't have been possible to make guns, sewing machines ... and automobiles with interchangeable parts, and so the production line method of assembly wouldn't have been possible (or would've been much more difficult to implement).
Historic Milford Pennsylvania is the home of the Lincoln Flag. This is the flag that his head rested on after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14, 1865. Thank you for sharing the Lincoln share with us.
This was very cool, thanks for taking the time to film and narrate it. I’m always impressed by the high quality and pride that American museums display.
I went to there twice when i was real young. That huge engine had a walkway through it, and everything was pristine. I went again in the late 80s and every gauge and glass was busted out of it. And the last time i went there you couldn't get near it. FWIW, My Walcott 16x64 was sold new to Henry Ford. He soon after bought Walcott.
Adam, the gun barrel rifling machine pulls a broach through the drilled barrel. The broach is rotated as it is pulled through by a cam and follower in the frame on the barrel’s axis. Instead of a broach, some rifling machines used a single cutter, like a shaper tool, drawn through in a spiral and then indexed to cut the next groove. There used to be a gun shop with a small museum in the Mount Dora / Eustis area north of Lake Apopka. The museum had an early, hand powered rifling bench. I was last there over twenty-five years ago so I can’t say if it still exists. The gunsmith’s shop at Colonial Williamsburg forges barrels on a mandrel to make hex or octagonal rifling.
Awesome tour Adam! Every time I see one of these I'm reminded how much in love I am with Abby. 🙂You are a lucky man indeed to have her by your side - seeing her excited by this stuff as well makes me smile!
Does anyone know if the "gas/steam" engine from the Ford plant ran both gas and steam at the same time? If so, that's a surprisingly modern concept. The reason modern gas-powered electric plants are so efficient is they run "combined cycle turbines," where the waste heat from a gas turbine is used to generate steam for a steam turbine.
Definitely come back to Greenfield Village. They have the machine shops set up and you can operate them. Not just look at models. One of our visits there they told us the Lincoln chair was housed in the courthouse Lincoln practiced law at and guests could sit in it. That's how it got stained. They eventually realized it needed to be preserved better than that
Pretty cool. 💪 Did my machinist apprenticeship in the NAVY late 60's. Later worked for "Grove Valve and regulator Co. HUGE machines .....Made Valves so big......you can drive a tractor trailer rig through the main hole in the valve.
Wow that is a lot of machinery. I don't remember see that the last time I was there about 5 yrs ago. I am also glad that they fixed the glass on the "Kennedy Lincoln", The glass was all clouded over and they were not sure if they were going to change the glass because they wanted to keep it original. I agree that you need 2 days to see the Museum alone. Great video.
@@jackpatteeuw9244 that's awesome to know that. We have a old waxer from 1935 and nobody understand how to work on it. Been upgraded a few times 1942 and 1980's. I was shocked to find electrical parts with copper dated 1942. Not sure what it did for the war but they got parts with copper that year. Most of the old documentation is missing and damaged but I love that machine and always enjoy the 3 hour drive to work on it when the maintenance team for it can't fix it. We had to replace a bearing and weld up one of the driven roller. Had a key way cut on a scraper not a mill. 2"x2"x12" key way. Machine runs at 800 feet per minute. Been waxing starburst candy wrappers since 1966 and the candy came out in 1967. It was in a old Henry Ford tractor plant in Memphis with so many awesome story too. Love vintage steel.
Wow that is some museum. I have never been to the US but one day,,,, there are so many places I would love to see and this is one of them. Thank you for taking the time to video your visit.
Omg you guys were in my hometown , I would have loved to meet you guys and share some knowledge with you , i am retired toolmaker from General Motors , you guys should have gone on a tour of the Ford rouge plant it starts right there at the museum !! I retired in 2006 after 30 years, so I am familiar with all the tooling !!
The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village are the best museums I’ve ever been to. I watched in amazement as a man operated a beautiful vintage belt driven lathe making a brass candle stick holder. I was and still am fascinated by the men and machines that made America.
Did you notice most of the parts that made up these old machinery were castings, large and small,makes me think of the pattern & mould makers, those fellows were true craftsmen.
First, I worked most of my 31 year career as an engineer Ford Ford Motor Company in the building just north of the museum on Oakwood Blvd. The building I worked in had many names since it was built about 100 years, but has now reverted back to it's original name, Ford Engineering Laboratory.
Second, you need to return to the area and go through Greenfield Village. It is an open air museum that has many historical buildings including Thomas Edison's Menlow Park and the Wright Brothers bicycle shop. It has at least one WORKING, over head line shaft machine shop. Many other things to see.
This, the original Ford factory in nearby Highland Park is still there. No machinery, but some very old cars.
I live less than an hour away and I have not been there in 30 years. I guess its time to go back. Thanks for sharing.
It's pronounced Skin-neck-teddy. Accent on the middle syllable. Greetings from a former upstate New Yorker! Keep up the great videos.
Those old machines are works of art created by artisans for artisans. How in the world were they able to measure the tolerances with such precision back then ? I had read that Henry Ford bought that Swedish gauge block company to make sure FMC never would run out of such a valuable resource.
Thank You for highlighting, American Engenuity and American Manufacturing. This should be on every school field trip list so kids can see how great America 🇺🇸 is. I've got to catch up with your channel, saw a video earlier of your New Flex Machine. Your growing in leaps and bounds. Great job you guys, very impressive. Thanks Mark
This is a very nice video, Adam. Funny thing is, I just bought a 1930 Ford Model A Roadster. Thanks for sharing.
When I was in high school you could buy running model A's for $25! 1959
In oil field machine shops, I ran a thread mill that threaded the ends of drill pipe, drill collars and other components. It's asset tag was 1616 and I used to swear that was the year it was manufactured :). You could see where it had been converted from drive line to electric engine.
In the shop I work at, we have a Gray Planer that was retrofitted about 50 years ago with a Gray milling head upgrade. Still to this day is a rock solid machine. 30ft of travel. Surprisingly a very solid and still accurate machine to this day. Only other machine that old we have, that is still accurate, is a Monarch lathe with 4ft roughly of swing.
Let's Make America great again the right way! With American home land Manufacturing. (Sorry 4 the T use ya'll) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It's completely a shame how so many of us Americans have become so greedy, irresponsible and disrespectful human beings. Time for that high horse to be brought to it's knees.
But if we produce things in asia china will be dirty again.
You are being nostalgic about times when your country was actually doing even worse than now. 🤷♂️
@@IvanStepaniuk Yeah - the american dream is dead. Now it is the american nightmare with Brandon at the helm but sadly most prefer to keep dreaming even when they are awake.
@@IvanStepaniuk where are you from?
at 41:40 - Henry Maudsley was credited with making the first practical Thread Cutting Lathe in 1800, his lathes used triangular ways, which I thought was interesting, and distinctive.
He kicked off the British Industrial Revolution, and enabled the precision measurement tool industry. His micrometer could measure 1/10,000 of an inch, which was amazing at the time.
the british industrial revolution was already well underway by the time maudsley built his lathes
@@markgrant8771 You're right... I overlooked the pre-machine tooling part of it, thinking that it all started with the Boring machine, when in actuality it started much earlier.
The Henry Ford is best museum in the world for folks who enjoy vintage technology. If you’ve never been, put it on your list. Henry understood the value in capturing the history of the industrial revolution and the life that went with it. The museum is a testament to the inovation and hard work that made the US a world leader. We could sure use Henry today.
Absolutely!!
I live 10 min away 😊
I mean it’s great to see all the useless ebay items they bought but do you really want to promote this socialist and communist agenda they have ? I don’t. I know the way you are talking you are probably just a representative for the company that’s quite clear.
@@annabean1150 What are you talking about?
@@annabean1150 what is your point
Schenectady is pronounced Sken-ek-ta-dee
I love the Ford museum. As a car guy, i went there for the automotive portion but then i discovered all this old equipment and i almost like that part more. My absolute favorite part is the gigantic steam engines they have which powered whole towns and factories.
side note; that glass press is probably mobile so they could bring it to the furnace and get the gobs from there. its a lot harder to make a mobile furnace.
Other side note, maybe that oiler project should be your first CNC project. tying the old into the new?
Other other side note, its pronounces ske-NECK-ta-dee.
Wow that’s amazing place, thanks for sharing.
With all those belts and open gears no wonder our grandfathers had missing fingers.. glad OSHA came along…
I met a couple machinists who retired from GM. I could have stood there for a month and listened to their stories!
I just watched this video. The indexing head on the Brown and sharpe milling machine is identical to one I have. I got it from the first machine shop I worked at. They had tossed it in the scrap metal bin. I rescued it and later made a set of indexing plates for it. I wish I knew what brand it is. This shop was a spin off the one my grandfather worked in. I never thought about this until now, but this indexer could have been used in the shop my grand dad worked in. Pretty cool museum. I would love to visit sometime.
Adam, Abby, great video of a wonderful and difficult subject to present!! Thank you!
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The beauty of machinery
I work in this museum and knowing a79 likes old machine equipment I closed the museum the day after they left for an inventory audit. Haven't found anything missing yet - except from a pen from the check in counter and my lunch box.
Thomas Edison wasn't very nice to animals. He would travel the country doing live electocutions of dogs and other animals, even an elephant, to make the claim that the high voltage alternating current form of distribution was dangerous. Yes, it was more dangerous than low voltage DC but it was also a superior concept. Thankfully he was not rewarded for his brutality and the Westinghouse AC system prevails today,
Darn, I wish I knew you folks were up here, I would have joined you and taken you to dinner. I only live 15 min. from there. It is a world class place
that even a lot of people that live here don't know about. There is so much to see that it can't be seen in one day. Especially if you take the tour of
the Ford assembly plant. So glad you got to see it and sorry I missed you. ......Al C.
I would have joined you !
Good job Adam! Thanks to you and Abby for sharing your experience. Now that I've seen your preview, I would like to take a couple of days to visit The Henry Ford Museum, myself.
absolutely beautiful Adam thanks.
Are you aware that Ford made a gas motor while he worked for Edison. there is very little written about it. Several years back I contacted the Ford Museum about it, they told me they had herd of it but have no information on it. I have a complete set of plans and a video of it. the original did not have a mag or spark plug, it had insulated rod that ran through the head and a little hook-on top of the piston to make contact and create the spark. Contact me if you would lie more information
What an amazing museum. Thank you for taking the time to share that. However, after watching all those incredible machines and the remarkable men who invented and built them, I feel like every project I have ever done is the work of a child.
Did you know that Colin Furze mentioned you (ABOM79) in his most recent video!
Babez, in my mind Adam Booth is world famous!
Just came from that video to say the same thing lol
Great video Adam, back when made in America meant something,
~45 yrs ago, not long after I visited my father where he had moved 15 yrs after my parents divorced, he sent me to the local machine shop to pick up a new part for a printing press, (his hobby was offset printing.)
I was familiar w/ 60's era machine shops as I was into hot rodding. I lived about 100 miles south of Portland, OR; dad lived in a very small town on the southern OR coast.
What I was NOT prepared for was the Port Orford machine shop. It was exactly like the model machine Abom showed us at the museum. All these friggin' leather belts coming down from drive shafts on the ceiling.
To be honest, it was like an arm eating nightmare! All this stuff flapping & spinning... just waiting to eat a limb.
I got to know the only & visited when I could, just to marvel at the creative & effective, relative crudeness of this machinery compared to the world of 3 phase electricity.
I'd like to go see this museum; perhaps in my next life.
I recommend the numerous YT videos of the American auto industry; there are some terrific depression era videos about auto manufacturing. The Works project funded some high profile people in & around the movie industry to produce them.
A planer and a mill are essentially the same machine with different cutters, because planing is a type of milling.
One of our favorite museums to visit. We went over 5 days along with Greenfield village and still didn't see everything. Great video as usual.
As I watched you progress through the time periods in the museum one thing became apparent and that was the increased complexity of the giant castings. There was obviously an unspoken competition for each foundry to demonstrate their ever increasing mastery of casting by demonstrating more and more ornate and complex castings. There was obvious pride put into the creation and construction of these machines by the master craftsmen who made them.
You were about 20 minutes from my house. It used to be called Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Both have so many treasures from the past. You really would have really liked the locomotive machine shop in the Village.
Didn't Henry coin the phrase "Built n Functional obsoleteness" ?
With the idea that don't build it "Too good to last a long time" therefor keep our product in need ~ philosophy.
Can't help to ponder an internal combustion engine with NO OIL PUMP.
Np wonder ppl had a trunk Full of tools & spare parts and Rubber boots to WALK home "AGAIN".
I need to go see that. I've been fortunate to be around many steam locomotives. Ridden on the Norfolk and Western 1218. Looking forward to seeing the UP Big Boy soon.
6,000hp at 80RPM would be nearly 400,000lbft of torque. 😲😲
Just thinking of the pattern makers of those huge cast machines. Amazing men back then making and using these machines.
Excellent video. Many thanks for taking us along on your journey.
Great video guys, many thanks for sharing
This museum reflect the intelligence and stoicism of a laborious people living in freedom and guaranteed for "We The People". America the beautiful.
That milling machine looks like your cnc flex machine
I know the guy who made most of the enclosures in the museum and just about everything including Henry Ford's Violin collection was acquired by the museum on eBay and is in no way a historical artifact.
That guy must have been one hell of a enclosure builder given the miles of them there! I was there in the '60s, didn't even know eBay existed then!
America's capacity for mass production was the major reason for victory in the world wars.
I’ve been to The Henry Ford twice. It’s a very good museum. I think it was better the second time because I wasn’t so overwhelmed. And the Greenfield Village is also very cool
I am glad you made it to The Henry Ford. I think it is the best Muesume in the Country! Glad you enjoyed your visit to Michigan.
Abby looks like she was skipping around the displays. Best wife ever.
I would give anything to go back in time to work side by side for just 30 days with those men on those machines. Thanks Adam & Abby for sharing that visit.
Aye! Glad you made it up!
I would just like to mention that you guys are so damn cute together. Can't imagine finding a girl that would be interested in things like this. I think I would like to put this on my bucket list of places to come visit.
Been there three or four times, the displays are constantly changing, such an amazing place!
you need to come back and see Greenfield Village, also if possible, tour any of the plants, in the past they have had tours of the steel mill, engine assembly and truck assembly. Somewhere in the museum is the first robot that was installed in a production facility. A bus tour of the Rouge facility is also a fascinating experience.
I have a flat belt driven plano-mill with a vertical head from around 1895-1910...
Wm. Muir, Manchester, England
Probably a unique survivor...
Exactly what made this county a world power, setting the standard for manufacturing.
The reason that the NEW machines were so ornate was to help people accept the machines coming into workplaces and even their homes. Singer sewing machines were one of the first to do this on there produce line. People back during the beginning of the industrial revolution were scared of the NEW machines and dressing up the appearance of the machines made them more acceptable.
I am so glad you were able to enjoy our Henry Ford. I have lived in the Detroit area all my life ( 74 yrs) and have spent many hours there. I hope you were also able to enjoy Greenfield Village as well. Enjoy all your vids, and I’m hoping to see more more stuff in your fantastic new shop. Can’t wait to see some stuff turned out on your super new CNC toys. If only I were rich ore at least earning money so I could have cool stuff like that.
Some time you should look up what they went thru to get that big locomotive in there. It would have been easier to just park the train outside and build a new building around it!
Thanks again, Craig
Kieth Fenner has a video on his channel, where he repairs a glass press for the Sandwich Glass Museum on Cape Cod. It has been some time since I saw the video, but in my memory, it is the identical wheel mounted machine that you saw at the Henry Ford Museum. I'm pretty sure that at the end of the video Kieth shows it in operation.
Great video Adam.
Schenectady - Skan-ek-ta-dee
Hope this helps. We have a lot of Native American names in NY. Check out this one - Skaneateles!
FINALLY - took my family from Atlanta up to see the museum 50 years ago and had worse luck than you had - IT WAS CLOSED TOO - but Greenfield was open - not the same thing
Joe Pie is building a miniature shaper on his u tube .
Came here to say that
Everything in that museum was built to last! Not like the trash we are sold these days as it's built to be thrown away and not to last🤬.. Because of this there is no respect for anything anymore sadly.
Disagree, there are many superb things made. Some people are just too cheap to buy them.
"Portable steam engine..." I'll remember that and not curse as much next time I'm rolling around a portable generator.
Those Johansson Gage Blocks are so important they deserve their own section in a museum. Some would argue how important it was that Ford bought them out and moved them to the US. But that small act altered what could have been the course of manufacturing in America.
Actually, Ford bought a license from Johansson to produce the gage blocks in the USA. The company was called Dearborn Gage and Carl's son moved here to setup the operation.
My father trained as a gage maker at the Johansson factory in Eskilstuna, Sweden back in the late 1930's and 1940's. Dad and Mom emigrated to the US in 1947.
PS, Johansson didn't invent the Gage Blocks. There were two brothers making them and Johansson was a traveling machine tool salesman. The brothers had limited shop capacity so only produced a few sets a year. Johansson bought them out and started C.E. Johansson Gage to make them in a production line and then added many more products to the line.
That was jaw dropping of all that museum contained, fantastic. Pity the UK hasn't anything like this.👍
* * * * It's difficult to conceive of the Emagination and engibeering genius that these inventers possesed to be able to design something that doesn't exist ~ ! Then design the tool to make the molds to cast parts for these marvelose machines
I just marked this up on places to visit!! Very cool.
It would take days to see the entire place.
There were 68 of The Allegheny engines built the 1601 is the second one built. Out of the 68, 60 were built for the Chesapeake & Ohio, the other 8 were built for the Virginian Railway. Of the 68 only 2 remain, the 1601 at the Henry Ford and the 1604 at the B & O Museum in Baltimore Md.
Every once in awhile, there is discussion about restoring that to working order. Greenfield Village has a couple of operating steam engines and a round house to keep them running on the several miles of private track they have.
@@jackpatteeuw9244 When Norfolk Southern started their steam program, CSX sent some of their people to evaluate both Alleghenys for possible restoration, but that's about as far as it went. I've been to Greenfield Village and rode behind one of their steamers and went through the roundhouse. If I ever get the chance, I want to return to the museum and village.
Henry built the museum in 1927 my school field trips in the 60s were the best
I graduated from cedar springs in 05, I remember my 5th grade field trip there. I need to go back.
45:05 I will go with Adam 😁. This is a museum for Keith Rucker.
and you didn't even do the village, which has historic machine shops that they use and have demo's Bill
Closed for the season.
10:17 That oiler would make for a great addition to the shaper to just have a slow drip of cutting oil onto the top of the cutter.
The title, at first sight, didn't have much of attraction. However, starting the video, my opinion changed. Being a veteran railroad steam guy for 50 years, You know the rest.
When will Your shop use a steam powered machine? Joking!
Deb looks like having a lot of engineer in her blood. I'm the same lucky guy, having a female partner being quite an engineer.
Sad that so few machines were running.
Summing it up, a really interesting video.
Back before Covid we had a family membership to Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. I have spent a ton of time at both of them and I could still go back over and over again. Greenfield Village still has a functioning old school machine shop which is a lot of fun to go to and watch the machines in action.
I was there 40 years ago when I was 18 and have pictures of a lot of the stuff you're showing us the one thing that stuck in my head was the locomotives 🚂 at the end of your videos just incredibly awesome mind-blowing stuff the shear massive size and engineering of them what people don't understand that all the machinery in this building build our country and gave us freedom to win world Wars GODSPEED
Very good museum and very nice thank you for your help
That 6000 hp engine used to power the plant is stunning in a way that makes you question how something like that was built so long ago. It was just a different time where one off machines were common and no undertaking was to big. Oh and on a side note.... schenectady sku-neck-titty
We went to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village on vacation when I was still a kid, about 1981/1982. We spent 2 days there and still didn't get through it all. Would like to go back again some time in the future.
I love your wife's enthusiasm for your work and hobbies and her knowledge of these machines even though she doesn't do any of that herself. Taking an interest in each other's hobbies etc... makes for a great marriage!
Excellent video of the highlights. Thanks.
I live about 40 minutes from "The Henry Ford". We have been there many times and have seen most of what you showed in you video, but never had so much appreciation of what we were seeing as you and Abby had. You did a great job of pointing out the wonders of that place. It truly is a place one can spend days in and still not see it all. Great video...!! Thanks. Hope you can come back again. If you do you are welcome to come and stay at our place. We have plenty of room for you RV. Then you could spend several days at "The Henry Ford". 😆
Thanks for this tour Adam! If you’re ever in the NYC area and get a chance, visit the Thomas Edison museum in West Orange N.J… It is absolutely mind blowing. The Edison Inc. campus contains his full research and development laboratories, and most beautifully, his full heavy and precision machine shops, all preserved as if men had just up and walked out yesterday. You can also tour his house which was a few blocks away, perfectly preserved as well. 10/10,
Boy that was an amazing place to visit. Designed very well. I’m so glad you guys had a chance to go there and share your experience.
A Bomb size steam Locomotive in there.
Kind of hard to miss.
Went to the Military Marching songs special on July 4th all played on Brass and Drums.
I'm from Michigan and glad to see the two of you really soaking it in.
Thanks Abby and Adam.
I love looking at these old machines. It's worth emphasising the importance of the gauge blocks. Without them, for checking other inspection equipment, it wouldn't have been possible to make guns, sewing machines ... and automobiles with interchangeable parts, and so the production line method of assembly wouldn't have been possible (or would've been much more difficult to implement).
Historic Milford Pennsylvania is the home of the Lincoln Flag. This is the flag that his head rested on after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14, 1865. Thank you for sharing the Lincoln share with us.
This was very cool, thanks for taking the time to film and narrate it. I’m always impressed by the high quality and pride that American museums display.
I went to there twice when i was real young. That huge engine had a walkway through it, and everything was pristine. I went again in the late 80s and every gauge and glass was busted out of it. And the last time i went there you couldn't get near it. FWIW, My Walcott 16x64 was sold new to Henry Ford. He soon after bought Walcott.
Adam, the gun barrel rifling machine pulls a broach through the drilled barrel. The broach is rotated as it is pulled through by a cam and follower in the frame on the barrel’s axis. Instead of a broach, some rifling machines used a single cutter, like a shaper tool, drawn through in a spiral and then indexed to cut the next groove. There used to be a gun shop with a small museum in the Mount Dora / Eustis area north of Lake Apopka. The museum had an early, hand powered rifling bench. I was last there over twenty-five years ago so I can’t say if it still exists.
The gunsmith’s shop at Colonial Williamsburg forges barrels on a mandrel to make hex or octagonal rifling.
I love the old school machinary. Sadly I have to be content with smaller (and lighter) stuff for my own collection.
Awesome tour Adam! Every time I see one of these I'm reminded how much in love I am with Abby. 🙂You are a lucky man indeed to have her by your side - seeing her excited by this stuff as well makes me smile!
Does anyone know if the "gas/steam" engine from the Ford plant ran both gas and steam at the same time? If so, that's a surprisingly modern concept. The reason modern gas-powered electric plants are so efficient is they run "combined cycle turbines," where the waste heat from a gas turbine is used to generate steam for a steam turbine.
Definitely come back to Greenfield Village. They have the machine shops set up and you can operate them. Not just look at models. One of our visits there they told us the Lincoln chair was housed in the courthouse Lincoln practiced law at and guests could sit in it. That's how it got stained. They eventually realized it needed to be preserved better than that
Pretty cool. 💪
Did my machinist apprenticeship in the NAVY late 60's. Later worked for "Grove Valve and regulator Co. HUGE machines .....Made Valves so big......you can drive a tractor trailer rig through the main hole in the valve.
And I thought we made big valves 😅 (AVK Valves), the biggest we make is DN2600, so almost 104'' internal diameter.
I can't fathom how people were able to make these extraordinary huge machines, 100 years ago.
It's incredible.
Wow that is a lot of machinery. I don't remember see that the last time I was there about 5 yrs ago. I am also glad that they fixed the glass on the "Kennedy Lincoln", The glass was all clouded over and they were not sure if they were going to change the glass because they wanted to keep it original.
I agree that you need 2 days to see the Museum alone. Great video.
One thing to think about. Had Henry Ford not preserved all of the industrial equipment not much of in would have survived WW2.
That place looks so awesome!!! Now if I could get my wife to go 😂 I could stay in there for a week! Only bad part is they don't let you play with them
There are a few hands on or at least working machines in next door Greenfield Village.
@@jackpatteeuw9244 that's awesome to know that. We have a old waxer from 1935 and nobody understand how to work on it. Been upgraded a few times 1942 and 1980's. I was shocked to find electrical parts with copper dated 1942. Not sure what it did for the war but they got parts with copper that year. Most of the old documentation is missing and damaged but I love that machine and always enjoy the 3 hour drive to work on it when the maintenance team for it can't fix it. We had to replace a bearing and weld up one of the driven roller. Had a key way cut on a scraper not a mill. 2"x2"x12" key way. Machine runs at 800 feet per minute. Been waxing starburst candy wrappers since 1966 and the candy came out in 1967. It was in a old Henry Ford tractor plant in Memphis with so many awesome story too. Love vintage steel.
Henry Ford was big on collecting and the preservation of this industrial equipment. I absolutely love the finish on these machines.
Wow that is some museum. I have never been to the US but one day,,,, there are so many places I would love to see and this is one of them. Thank you for taking the time to video your visit.