Wonderful series Mr Pete, I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos, it's a lovely way to relax on my Sunday morning, Thank you for sharing, and best wishes to you and yours
Absolutely amazing demo from the perspective of an admirer of shop craft was only a 1 X/month (!) public school w/ a shop about a mile + from our ""parochial neighborhood". The poor teacher's job was to expose us to "the hammer, screwdriver, saw, and some wood " trying to teach the basics ! What a shame we didn't have a Mr. Pete 222 & shop curricula to prepare us for the real world of mechanics, electricity & the new transistor! Now 75 y.o., made it this far & am " using" a computer ... or being used by it! Thanks, John P.S. I hope to enroll in one of your BASIC courses to build an engine to demo principles of power to me & maybe even a grandson. Of course, their mind is already ahead of me & mostly into computers w/ no appreciation of how far we have come technologically in such a short time span in this life.
Having the engine painted green and the dynamo painted grey is a nice contrast. In the big boys world, generators are rarely the same colour as the engine anyway. Well done, me Pete.
Mr. Pete, thanks so much for this series on the PMR Dynamo! I have machined many Stuart and PMR steam engines over the years. I have been on the fence for many years regarding this dynamo kit, I am now sold on it and will be ordering one today!
Mr. Pete too me it's a miniature of what the real world electrical power plants works, great work. Only thing I loose is my mind all the time. Still great work Mr. Pete, keep it coming.
Just a neat little model. You should loan it to schools to stimulate kids curiosity to learn about steam, electrical, machinist and other trades. Go job Lyle.
Hi Mr Pete. You have inspired me to complete my Stuart Progress Steam Engine that I purchased not long after you completed yours. Apart from your shop instructional videos the model builds IMHO are my favourites. Feel free to embark on another 10 part build. lol Cheers and thank you for sharing.
Like it! As for the 3/4 horse compressor and efficiency, remember that much of that power is being converted into fun, not just electricity. We all convert money into fun, but also electricity into pneumatic pressure into fun.
A month or so back I purchased a ready built one, from the uk importer, at 3600 rpm in produces maybe 2 volts, the terminals are as you first built yours. Tomorrow I will try to turn the end bell 90 degrees. I will report back, and thanks for showing the mistake 👍 (oh, and mine won't motor at all at 6 volts, not even trying) EDIT: Sorry couldn't wait, midnight here and end bell now turned 90 degrees, motors at a couple thousand rpm now on six volts 😎 Thanks very much for this video, most useful even 4 years later 🍻
Just an awesome project! If I was to be allowed to get one of thoes as a kid I'd be the happiest. Sadly I only had LEGO. But I guess I was lucky to have anything at all as a kid. Very nice!
Many thanks for this and all your other work Lyle, it is a nice little project as presented and your other videos cover a wide band of interest, from metalwork and machining in particular, to your great road trips around your country. I greatly enjoy it all from my home in Australia. Best wishes and thanks again, Rob.
What a neat little pair of steam engine and dynamo. Great for explaining the kids about conversion of energy from one form to another.Thanks for sharing. Love from Pakistan
Thanks for the projects that brought the dynamo to this video. That is neat! You could use a capacitor to smooth out the light (load) on this set up, also. Great teaching series, Greg.
Mr Pete, As always, an excellent video. I hope one day to be able to make my own castings and machine them, to make the engines and dynamos, like you can. Thanks for the videos and commentary ( rants ), love them all! GOOD TIMES!!!
Great video, Mr. Pete! Now you have a source of light for when the power goes out. The only problem is you will need a gas-operated air compressor! Thanks again!
Love your videos & have watched for years now. You are my favorite TH-cam shop teacher. I sure do wish you would build, hook-up & lite a real boiler to your steam engines. There is always something missing when you just pump air through a "steam" engine. God bless you for your good works.
I was going to comment that I liked the bulb socket before you said it. I thought no thats a foolish thing to say he wouldn’t care. All the blub sockets I have like that are plastic, so I really enjoyed the porcelain bulb socket you have also. Cheers! 😁
Great stuff Mr Pete! Glad to help a tiny bit. Looking forward to your next model engine build. There are several different types of E10 bulbs with various voltage and current ratings, so by swapping bulbs and moving belts you can usually find the one that provides steady light while giving the engine a working load. Your Stuart seems to be spinning the dynamo quite happily.
Very impressive Mr. Pete. I am a sucker for this sort of thing, makes me wish I was a machinist since I can't build either project with woodworking tools.
I just really enjoy your videos and commentary. I wish I could spend some shop time with you, but realistically I'll be lucky if I get all your videos watched. Highest regards to you.
I'm hooked, I assembled the PM Dynamo from a machined kit . After watching you work so hard to make your kit, I decided to go with the machined assembly needed kit. I recently made another kit from PM that used fuel to power the device and it too was a from a kit where assembly only is needed. I enjoyed watching you present your machines and sure wish this would continue. Where can I purchase those little light bulb holders. Thanks for sharing these wonderful videos....Ken PS the wife loves these videos too, she says it keeps me active.
Very Fun and enjoyable Mr. Pete, Thanks for showing us all the builds. I have an old (57-58) German Wilesco my dad gave me as a kid while we were there and need some of those spring belts, so I can pass it on to my Gkids...Thanks to you and Doug for tips to find them. Did you Rant¿ Nah!
Sir would you ever consider doing a talk video about your childhood and all the things you got up to?.. Would make a great video i think. Thanks for sharing...
I have enjoyed every video of yours i have watched. Granted i have only watched a couple of hundred of them. I am working overtime to try and catch up on them because i know i am missing out on quality material.
I don't know if you've tried it with other engines but I think replacing the coil spring that secures the cylinder with a Belleville spring would allow it to be much shorter. On such a small engine, it kind of sticks out and messes with the proportions. With the generator setup you have it seems like it's crowding in on the belt.
When I was a kid, I had a 100-in-one electronics project kit that was sold by Radio Shack. It used electrical terminals which were coil springs which were smaller at one end. When I screwed them all together, I thought that was a new idea for a type of drive belt. I see now that it wasn't a new idea at all.
Thanks Prof. Peterson, It might be interesting if you used the other two pulleys and made a double reduction to increase the dynamo speed with less air from your compressor.
The ceramic light socket is a nice touch. Also, I suspect in real life that unless the dynamo and main drive came from the same maker they would have been different colours.
I actually like the 2-pole dynamo a bit better, at least as a pedagogical tool; it demonstrates the principle of the thing much more clearly, I think. Nifty stuff!
Just my opinion, I would paint the dynamo same as the engine. I don't think the frankenstein switch would have been overkill, but rather a neat looking addition.
Nice looking combination there. I know you don't much like finishing and painting, but it sure adds to the visual appeal. When the spring belt slips, it is because the belt-to-pulley friction (times the diameter) does not make enough torque. If there is room, you can get more torque from the same amount of friction by increasing the diameter of the pulleys (keeping them in proportion). For instance, if the pulleys you have there are 3/4" and 3/8" (guesstimated from the video) then a 1-1/2" and 3/4" would give the same speed with twice the torque. (Same friction, but twice the FPM belt speed.) Of course any combination which keeps the same size ratio will do the same and increase the driven torque by the increase in pulley sizes.
John Strange ...THAT'S KIND OF LIKE WONDERING: "IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY, OR IS IT HALF FULL", OR WONDERING: "WHICH CAME FIRST- THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG"....!!
Looks great Mr. Pete! That set is a nice combination! "It's crazy, but I'm having fun" That's why we do it! :) You know, your light post with the pulsing leds looks like it's from the War of the Worlds; just need to color the leds and add the strange sound effects.
It was a great movie. I remember watching that with my folks as a boy; that part with the couple hiding in that burned out building with the probe looking around for them, very spooky. Like so many things today they don't make them like that anymore.
Another great project. I've been wanting to build a steam engine / dynamo combination to charge my cell phone. That seems wildly impractical, except when I'm without power for a few weeks after a hurricane blows through. :-)
The Dynamo reminds me of a old GE generator powered by a Big 3 cylinder diesel I saw from back in the 30's or 40's at a old gunnery station battery on the coast of either North or South Carolina. It was 30 years ago.
Wonderful series Mr Pete, I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos, it's a lovely way to relax on my Sunday morning,
Thank you for sharing, and best wishes to you and yours
Absolutely amazing demo from the perspective of an admirer of shop craft was only a 1 X/month (!) public school w/ a shop about a mile + from our ""parochial neighborhood". The poor teacher's job was to expose us to "the hammer, screwdriver, saw, and some wood " trying to teach the basics ! What a shame we didn't have a Mr. Pete 222 & shop curricula to prepare us for the real world of mechanics, electricity & the new transistor! Now 75 y.o., made it this far & am " using" a computer ... or being used by it! Thanks, John
P.S. I hope to enroll in one of your BASIC courses to build an engine to demo principles of power to me & maybe even a grandson. Of course, their mind is already ahead of me & mostly into computers w/ no appreciation of how far we have come technologically in such a short time span in this life.
I'm glad you liked it. Too bad you did not have a proper shop class
Having the engine painted green and the dynamo painted grey is a nice contrast. In the big boys world, generators are rarely the same colour as the engine anyway.
Well done, me Pete.
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Mr. Pete, thanks so much for this series on the PMR Dynamo! I have machined many Stuart and PMR steam engines over the years. I have been on the fence for many years regarding this dynamo kit, I am now sold on it and will be ordering one today!
Well done mrpete allways interesting to see what your doing
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Pete,
Your awesome. I have been building this little dynamo while I watch your videos.
Thanks for all that you do for us new guys.
Mike
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What I like is the ( care and thought) that goes into the projects. Lovely . Chris Gray Yeovil Somerset UK.
Thank you very much
Mr. Pete too me it's a miniature of what the real world electrical power plants works, great work. Only thing I loose is my mind all the time. Still great work Mr. Pete, keep it coming.
Thank you for watching
Just a neat little model. You should loan it to schools to stimulate kids curiosity to learn about steam, electrical, machinist and other trades. Go job Lyle.
They wouldn't be interested. After all they won't watch this video.
Wonderful. The dream of all right thinking Boys, of any age. Thank You from the UK
I'm glad you liked it
Hi Mr Pete. You have inspired me to complete my Stuart Progress Steam Engine that I purchased not long after you completed yours. Apart from your shop instructional videos the model builds IMHO are my favourites. Feel free to embark on another 10 part build. lol Cheers and thank you for sharing.
Yes, finish your engine
The dynamo and engine look great together. I also like that old ceramic bulb socket. Fun project. Thanks Mr. Pete!
Thanks
Like it! As for the 3/4 horse compressor and efficiency, remember that much of that power is being converted into fun, not just electricity. We all convert money into fun, but also electricity into pneumatic pressure into fun.
That's a good analysis, and so true
A month or so back I purchased a ready built one, from the uk importer, at 3600 rpm in produces maybe 2 volts, the terminals are as you first built yours.
Tomorrow I will try to turn the end bell 90 degrees. I will report back, and thanks for showing the mistake 👍
(oh, and mine won't motor at all at 6 volts, not even trying)
EDIT: Sorry couldn't wait, midnight here and end bell now turned 90 degrees, motors at a couple thousand rpm now on six volts 😎
Thanks very much for this video, most useful even 4 years later 🍻
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Just an awesome project! If I was to be allowed to get one of thoes as a kid I'd be the happiest. Sadly I only had LEGO. But I guess I was lucky to have anything at all as a kid. Very nice!
I had an erector set when I was a little
Great Video Lyle.
Love the mini power plant lol
Love watching all your videos. Takes me back many years to when my grandfather would build experiments with my cousins and I.
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I like it. Well done Mr. Pete. Looking forward to your next video.
Thank you
Many thanks for this and all your other work Lyle, it is a nice little project as presented and your other videos cover a wide band of interest, from metalwork and machining in particular, to your great road trips around your country. I greatly enjoy it all from my home in Australia. Best wishes and thanks again,
Rob.
Thank you very much Rob. I'm glad you like my channel
Excellent job Mr. Pete. Thanks for bringing us along.
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What a neat little pair of steam engine and dynamo. Great for explaining the kids about conversion of energy from one form to another.Thanks for sharing. Love from Pakistan
Thank you, love from the good old USA
Thanks mrpete222, Sure is enjoyable watching your cool projects come to life, and hear the satisfying tone of your voice.. M.K.S.
Thank you very much for watching
Great project, a fantastic way to interest the young grandchildren
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Nice job! Interesting that you can see that the dynamo has a load on it by looking at the belt as it leaves the dynamo pulley at the bottom.
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I see this was a SHOCKING experience for you. thanks Mr. Pete
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Thanks for the projects that brought the dynamo to this video. That is neat! You could use a capacitor to smooth out the light (load) on this set up, also. Great teaching series, Greg.
Thank you for watching
I love it! Beautiful little permanent magnet dynamo, and it sure works like a champ!
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Using an LED on a steam-driven dynamo is such an aesthetically displeasing choice, I'm glad you used an incandescent bulb.
I think you are right
Mr Pete,
As always, an excellent video. I hope one day to be able to make my own castings and machine them,
to make the engines and dynamos, like you can. Thanks for the videos and commentary ( rants ),
love them all!
GOOD TIMES!!!
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Great video, Mr. Pete! Now you have a source of light for when the power goes out. The only problem is you will need a gas-operated air compressor! Thanks again!
lol
Love your videos & have watched for years now. You are my favorite TH-cam shop teacher. I sure do wish you would build, hook-up & lite a real boiler to your steam engines. There is always something missing when you just pump air through a "steam" engine. God bless you for your good works.
Thank you for watching. I have use the boiler and several different videos
Glad to see it all come together!
Thank you
I was going to comment that I liked the bulb socket before you said it. I thought no thats a foolish thing to say he wouldn’t care. All the blub sockets I have like that are plastic, so I really enjoyed the porcelain bulb socket you have also. Cheers! 😁
Yes, I did like that little porcelain socket. I have had it for years
Great stuff Mr Pete! Glad to help a tiny bit. Looking forward to your next model engine build.
There are several different types of E10 bulbs with various voltage and current ratings, so by swapping bulbs and moving belts you can usually find the one that provides steady light while giving the engine a working load. Your Stuart seems to be spinning the dynamo quite happily.
Thank you Doug. You helped more than a tiny bit. I probably would not have done this video without those Pullys
Mr. Pete that is amazing! Fantastic video. Many blessings to you!
Thank you
Love your comment "Knife switch would be overkill"... thanks for what you do
Thank you
That's great, I'm a maintenance technician by trade and would so enjoy making something like this.
Always enjoy watching, Thank you
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Great job, replace the wires with bare copper for that industrial look.
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Very nice work!! Was as fun to watch, as I'm sure it was to build!!
It's always nice when a plan comes together!!
Have a Good DAY!!!
Michael
Thank you for watching
Very impressive Mr. Pete. I am a sucker for this sort of thing, makes me wish I was a machinist since I can't build either project with woodworking tools.
I just really enjoy your videos and commentary. I wish I could spend some shop time with you, but realistically I'll be lucky if I get all your videos watched. Highest regards to you.
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Very nice. They go together as a set very well.
I'm glad you liked it
Great video, and great to see it all running together.
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Another excellent video. Thanks, Mr. Pete.
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I like this set up very much.
You have done a great job, - as always.
Thank you
Excellent model Mr. Pete... Your just full of great knowledge..
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I'm hooked, I assembled the PM Dynamo from a machined kit . After watching you work so hard to make your kit, I decided to go with the machined assembly needed kit. I recently made another kit from PM that used fuel to power the device and it too was a from a kit where assembly only is needed. I enjoyed watching you present your machines and sure wish this would continue. Where can I purchase those little light bulb holders. Thanks for sharing these wonderful videos....Ken PS the wife loves these videos too, she says it keeps me active.
That's great, I bet it was fun even just assembling it
Very Fun and enjoyable Mr. Pete, Thanks for showing us all the builds. I have an old (57-58) German Wilesco my dad gave me as a kid while we were there and need some of those spring belts, so I can pass it on to my Gkids...Thanks to you and Doug for tips to find them. Did you Rant¿ Nah!
Thank you for watching, I love those old German engines
Sir would you ever consider doing a talk video about your childhood and all the things you got up to?.. Would make a great video i think. Thanks for sharing...
I doubt very much that anyone would watch that
mrpete I would sir..
I would enjoy them as well.
I have enjoyed every video of yours i have watched. Granted i have only watched a couple of hundred of them. I am working overtime to try and catch up on them because i know i am missing out on quality material.
Thank you sir for making this instructional and entertainment video my kids enjoy these so much as I also do
Thank you, and it pleases me that your children like that
Saturday morning video, pretty neat.
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very nice, Mr Pete. love the look of that. well done.
Thanks Emma
I don't know if you've tried it with other engines but I think replacing the coil spring that secures the cylinder with a Belleville spring would allow it to be much shorter. On such a small engine, it kind of sticks out and messes with the proportions. With the generator setup you have it seems like it's crowding in on the belt.
I tried that on the 3-D printed and Jean. It was way too much pressure
Thumbs up Mr. Pete. Remember silence is golden , but duct tape is silver
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The dynamo and engine looks great 👍
Thank you
Great model. I have never made one. They look fun to do. Thanks for sharing.
They are. A Sunday project for rainy days.
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I have the same problem, I can lose something, and not get out of the chair. Grate project!!
lol
When I was a kid, I had a 100-in-one electronics project kit that was sold by Radio Shack. It used electrical terminals which were coil springs which were smaller at one end. When I screwed them all together, I thought that was a new idea for a type of drive belt. I see now that it wasn't a new idea at all.
I remember those little Springs
Thanks Mr Pete, another great video. Please do not cut out your so called 'unnecessary' rants, they are all part of the fun.
OK, I shall rant on
fantastic! thank you, mr. pete - beautiful work!
Thank you
Thanks Prof. Peterson, It might be interesting if you used the other two pulleys and made a double reduction to increase the dynamo speed with less air from your compressor.
Good idea, but the job is done
The ceramic light socket is a nice touch. Also, I suspect in real life that unless the dynamo and main drive came from the same maker they would have been different colours.
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I actually like the 2-pole dynamo a bit better, at least as a pedagogical tool; it demonstrates the principle of the thing much more clearly, I think. Nifty stuff!
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Interesting concept... Converting compressed air into light.
lol
Just my opinion, I would paint the dynamo same as the engine. I don't think the frankenstein switch would have been overkill, but rather a neat looking addition.
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Very nice electrical plant. Wouldn't be MrPete/Tubalcain without the rants. LOL Great video, always nice to wake up to a new MrPete video.
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Nice looking combination there. I know you don't much like finishing and painting, but it sure adds to the visual appeal.
When the spring belt slips, it is because the belt-to-pulley friction (times the diameter) does not make enough torque. If there is room, you can get more torque from the same amount of friction by increasing the diameter of the pulleys (keeping them in proportion). For instance, if the pulleys you have there are 3/4" and 3/8" (guesstimated from the video) then a 1-1/2" and 3/4" would give the same speed with twice the torque. (Same friction, but twice the FPM belt speed.) Of course any combination which keeps the same size ratio will do the same and increase the driven torque by the increase in pulley sizes.
Well I'm gonna be honest I really enjoyed watching this video. I really like miniature mechanics
Thank you very much
Love your videos Mr Pete.
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Interesting demonstration, Mr. Pete. It would interesting to see how much the RPMs would increase if the bulb was switched off.
That would be a neat experiment. But I would think I would need a greater load
Is it being young at heart that keeps us forever playing with toys, or is it playing with toys that keeps us forever young at heart?
John Strange ...THAT'S KIND OF LIKE WONDERING: "IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY, OR IS IT HALF FULL", OR WONDERING: "WHICH CAME FIRST- THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG"....!!
Yes, I still like my toys
mrpete222 YOU BETCHER LIFESAVERS-!!!
Yes. It's a rhetorical, or perhaps philosophical question. Thanks.
John Strange It all depends on your point of view- sometimes there is no wrong answer.
Got my PM dynamo on order, built a bar stock wobbler back when you did, trying to catch up :)
Great
I like to see what you going to come up with next
I never actually know myself what is coming next
Great video, the rants are what make you you. I love em!
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Looks great Mr. Pete! That set is a nice combination!
"It's crazy, but I'm having fun" That's why we do it! :)
You know, your light post with the pulsing leds looks like it's from the War of the Worlds; just need to color the leds and add the strange sound effects.
That was one of my favorite movies. And yes, come to think of it, there is a similarity
It was a great movie. I remember watching that with my folks as a boy; that part with the couple hiding in that burned out building with the probe looking around for them, very spooky.
Like so many things today they don't make them like that anymore.
Another great project. I've been wanting to build a steam engine / dynamo combination to charge my cell phone. That seems wildly impractical, except when I'm without power for a few weeks after a hurricane blows through. :-)
I would want to use it for my refrigerator
@@mrpete222 - I'd need a much bigger steam engine and alternator for that. :-)
Reminds me of science class back in jr. high. We’d do projects like that for lab. I think that’s how I became fixated with machinery in general.
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I like it! I intend to make the dynamo. I could use help sourcing the pulleys and belts.
Buy long o rings From any hardware store
Nice, perhaps if you find an old needle type voltmeter gauge off a car or something you could mount that on it.
It would have to be a tiny one
Cool video mr pete
Could that power some small model
tools like water pumps,grinders,mills etc?
Possibly
Proper job Pard.
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Turned out excellent
Thank you
Fun! Just plain old Fun! Thank you!
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Nice job. I really like it. Thanks for the lesson.
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The Dynamo reminds me of a old GE generator powered by a Big 3 cylinder diesel I saw from back in the 30's or 40's at a old gunnery station battery on the coast of either North or South Carolina.
It was 30 years ago.
I would like to have seen that engine
You make my day! Thanks!!!!
Thank you very much
cool great model. well done. A switch would have been nice to demonstrate the load on that engine.
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Very nice! I love this stuff.
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Thanks for the good laugh, love the spring leash.
You should add the hex screws and the "Frankenstein" knife switch. I am looking forward to see it how they will look.
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Love it,Great job..
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Throughly enjoyable video .... Thanks.
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I love it! Thanks, Mr. Pete! :-)
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How long would it take to build the dynamo with files, drills, angle grinders, belt sanders, and drill presses, sand paper, and center punches only?
Just one question Mr Pete
Have you ever built a steam boiler ?
Yes, It shown in several videos
Thank you for another interesting video.
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I do so enjoy you're video's
Thank you so much
THANK YOU...for sharing. Very nice.
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