MMMMMM! Cabin stove.... Very nice. I've been wanting one of those for decades. What a monster pump!!!! Wow! Nice job straightening the generator. I have some hardwood blocks(pecan from one of the trees which is VERY hard) that I drilled out to the same diameter as several different generators then cut them right down the middle so they evenly support them. I used to do it EXACTLY like you did the the vise using 3 of those blocks. I got good results as you did. Then I caught a hydraulic press on sale and it's much easier, with no fumbling to hold things while you tighten the jaws, but takes up some space. I'm currently looking for an arbor press with a significantly smaller footprint and is quicker and easier to use. Presses are really handy for this and a LOT of other things. You can make forming dies or use off the shelf steel to make nice sharp bends in metal that are repeatable. Highly recommended. Be careful with those R-55 generators. Those things are like gold! Couldn't see the detail of what broke, but hopefully is was something easy to replicate with heavy sheet metal or light bar stock. If there's enough steel left there, you can braze it with silicon bronze easily or braze a gusset over the break to at least try to save as much of the original as possible, if that's important to you. I've done it with one of those TS-4000s, but I ended up getting the TS-8000 just for this kind of work and it paid for itself the first time I used it. Silicon bronze is VERY strong and has to get bright orange hot to melt. I'd personally want it fixed to work and be durable before I worried about keeping it all original. I DO try to save the original parts though, in case a future buyer may want them. As if I've ever really sold anything....... Maybe 2 total, ever! Haha! Love those slit burners. Used my franken 413/457 to cook this weekend to keep the heat out of the kitchen(I really just wanted to fire it up). It's a beast. I need to get her cleaned up and put a coat of paint on it. It's been outside for a while and needs some TLC. Thanks for the video, it's gonna clean up NICELY. Have a super week!
You aren't lying with those R-55's being expenisve. I think Coleman is selling them for $60 or something like that. I bought 4 a couple of years back at $25/ea so I really lucked out at the time. Well, I thought something had broke, but after removing that strap and letting it sit in the electrolysis tank, I can see that the "foot" of the preheat burner had broken off at some point in the past, and there was a half-hearted attempt to weld it to the strap. That's what popped off. Your silicon bronze idea is the perfect fix I think. I was contemplating drilling/tapping for a mounting hole, but I'm not a fan of doing that in cast iron. Should be a relatively easy fix with the brazing. Might have to get a bottle of MAPP for this fix.
@@gasunderpressure9131 This is gonna sound funky, but when I braze cast parts, I set them over the main burner of a 413 or other big burner that on a not so pretty specimen stove and kick it to full blast for a few minutes and braze it with the torch with the stove burner blazing. It really makes it go much faster and you don't have to worry about unevenly heating and cracking the casting. I don't have a usable oxy acetylene rig, so ..... yeah, it works.
Oh heck yeah, that's a great idea. What rod do you use and where do you get it? Not only do I have the preheat burner to do, but one of the grates is also cracked (I believe I showed that on the vid) so it'll be nice to have that all back together. There's enough of that strap left that I can reuse the original, which will make me happy.
@@gasunderpressure9131 I got flux coated silcon bronze from a farm store, Atwoods I think but maybe Tractor Supply, Lowes or HD. Been a while. They are 3 ft long. I recommend some white flux to dip it in as well. You'll HAVE to have the flux if you don't get the coated kind.
That's cool! Just picked up a Clayton Lambert 600A blowtorch today! She should run! Also got some gens from Johnny T, he was excellent to do business with.
Yeah, I'm sorry about that. It was a zillion degrees in the shop, so the fan was buffeting my microphone. I don't (obviously) have a wind shield on it. I tried to eq it out...you should have heard it before!
Spectacular job Brother thank you for sharing I got 1 at a yard sale with pump for $15 it was dated 1924 it was fired up yep unfired
MMMMMM! Cabin stove.... Very nice. I've been wanting one of those for decades.
What a monster pump!!!! Wow! Nice job straightening the generator. I have some hardwood blocks(pecan from one of the trees which is VERY hard) that I drilled out to the same diameter as several different generators then cut them right down the middle so they evenly support them. I used to do it EXACTLY like you did the the vise using 3 of those blocks. I got good results as you did. Then I caught a hydraulic press on sale and it's much easier, with no fumbling to hold things while you tighten the jaws, but takes up some space. I'm currently looking for an arbor press with a significantly smaller footprint and is quicker and easier to use. Presses are really handy for this and a LOT of other things. You can make forming dies or use off the shelf steel to make nice sharp bends in metal that are repeatable. Highly recommended.
Be careful with those R-55 generators. Those things are like gold!
Couldn't see the detail of what broke, but hopefully is was something easy to replicate with heavy sheet metal or light bar stock. If there's enough steel left there, you can braze it with silicon bronze easily or braze a gusset over the break to at least try to save as much of the original as possible, if that's important to you. I've done it with one of those TS-4000s, but I ended up getting the TS-8000 just for this kind of work and it paid for itself the first time I used it. Silicon bronze is VERY strong and has to get bright orange hot to melt. I'd personally want it fixed to work and be durable before I worried about keeping it all original. I DO try to save the original parts though, in case a future buyer may want them. As if I've ever really sold anything....... Maybe 2 total, ever! Haha!
Love those slit burners. Used my franken 413/457 to cook this weekend to keep the heat out of the kitchen(I really just wanted to fire it up). It's a beast. I need to get her cleaned up and put a coat of paint on it. It's been outside for a while and needs some TLC.
Thanks for the video, it's gonna clean up NICELY. Have a super week!
You aren't lying with those R-55's being expenisve. I think Coleman is selling them for $60 or something like that. I bought 4 a couple of years back at $25/ea so I really lucked out at the time.
Well, I thought something had broke, but after removing that strap and letting it sit in the electrolysis tank, I can see that the "foot" of the preheat burner had broken off at some point in the past, and there was a half-hearted attempt to weld it to the strap. That's what popped off. Your silicon bronze idea is the perfect fix I think. I was contemplating drilling/tapping for a mounting hole, but I'm not a fan of doing that in cast iron. Should be a relatively easy fix with the brazing. Might have to get a bottle of MAPP for this fix.
@@gasunderpressure9131 This is gonna sound funky, but when I braze cast parts, I set them over the main burner of a 413 or other big burner that on a not so pretty specimen stove and kick it to full blast for a few minutes and braze it with the torch with the stove burner blazing. It really makes it go much faster and you don't have to worry about unevenly heating and cracking the casting. I don't have a usable oxy acetylene rig, so ..... yeah, it works.
Oh heck yeah, that's a great idea. What rod do you use and where do you get it? Not only do I have the preheat burner to do, but one of the grates is also cracked (I believe I showed that on the vid) so it'll be nice to have that all back together. There's enough of that strap left that I can reuse the original, which will make me happy.
@@gasunderpressure9131 I got flux coated silcon bronze from a farm store, Atwoods I think but maybe Tractor Supply, Lowes or HD. Been a while. They are 3 ft long. I recommend some white flux to dip it in as well. You'll HAVE to have the flux if you don't get the coated kind.
Great video thankyou
That's cool! Just picked up a Clayton Lambert 600A blowtorch today! She should run! Also got some gens from Johnny T, he was excellent to do business with.
Excellent! Glad you got the gens from Johnny, he's a great guy and is almost singlehandedly supplying rare gens to anyone who needs them.
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Yeah, I'm sorry about that. It was a zillion degrees in the shop, so the fan was buffeting my microphone. I don't (obviously) have a wind shield on it. I tried to eq it out...you should have heard it before!