Gizmortiser [Restoration]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ธ.ค. 2024
- This restoration is on a 1912 door lock mortising machine called the Champion Mortiser by J. Leukart Manufacturing Co. of Columbus, Ohio, USA. The original patent can be seen here: patentimages.s...
Mortising machines are among some of my favourite tools to restore as they all seem to have high levels of gizmosity. The amount of mechanically moving parts that all seem to do something and nothing at the same time makes this tool so mesmerizing to watch.
The restoration itself was fairly straight forward, except for a few broken castings and annihilated fasteners. Instead of replacing the fasteners, I decided to remake my own so they could match perfectly with the unique style of each one. I also truly thought this entire machine would be japanned, but apparently it was coated in some early form of enamel paint, which would not be too common for the time.
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The fact that he doesn't do shady things like make a piece of equipment dirtier before working on it (looking at you, rug cleaning videos) or pull any other shenanigans is very underappreciated around here. He has legit skill and talent, he is legit creative. No clickbait titles or thumbnails.
This guy is solid in my book.
He really is the best on TH-cam. I tried watching others but they fake so much. The way I see it, it's not a restoration if they did the damage themselves just to make a crappy resto video.
i would die if he did a skit with him pretending to rustify something and got busted by the forbidden nutella
Agreed! No shitty music, no "hahaha look how hard I can hit this with my hammer". Just a man doing something he does well and sharing it with the internet.
Somehow it is not easy to find items that fit, that are neither trivial to repair (and basically require a power wash), nor so far gone that you will essentially be making a new item while looking at the remains of old one.
...or wandering aimlessly along the jungle path, only to come across an extremely rusted chainsaw which has somehow pitched up in a tree. (Also of course, being followed by an equally aimless, yet propitious, cameraman.)
Let's all appreciate the fact that there is no uncessary music, just a man renovating a tool. That's all you really need.
*YES!!* The "no music" on a TH-cam channel is worth a lot!
And an odd sense of humor too.
Totally agree
Years on and you still do the best and most unusual restorations on utube.
That is no kidding. He must have large network to get ahold of some of this stuff.
I agree
I have been following HTR for years (before I discovered Jimmy Diresta or Pask Makes). HTR never fails to deliver and is one of my top 3 channels on TH-cam. I also appreciate the humor you bring to your work. It's a lot of fun to watch and I love your work!
Thank you!
I was his first subscriber, almost 15 years ago. He’s still using the same jar of Nutella
he got me with the head banging sandblasting. instant subscription.
As a former carpenter, I appreciate this tool.
looks like the mordent days equivalent for a drills is smaller,
but with more manual input when it comes to depth and side to side movements.
but I bet you could DIY portable cnc with inside of the formfactor of this tool.
but cost justification analysis, would be on personal basis
but this were cool tool for its time
Ok jesus.
Yes, he makes great videos.
As a current nobody, I also appreciate this tool.
You're never a former carpenter! 😊
Once and always.
I appreciate the naturalness of the work scene no ridiculous music drowning out the sound of the tools or dramatic innovations, just the man his tools and his project.
When I first started watching his videos, the lack of narration was jarring. Now it's preferable. I wouldn't mind it, but since I'm mechanically minded and generally don't need things explained to me, talking over the whole thing isn't necessary. His hand gestures and occasional captions (and the very occasional howl of frustration) are plenty. Oh, and the thump as his forehead hits the window on the blast cabinet.
@@floridag8rfan OH yes the forehead on the window is epic 😂.
The man, the tools, his project, and one very horny cricket.
I would have never guessed it was for making pockets in doors for knob/locks. That is amazing
Giz-mortiser. I guess you need to know what a mortise is though.
not every body no that@@kindabluejazz
Wow! All new equipment! Sand blaster, solvent washer, painting booth/area, Evaporust, new shop facilities... You deserve it!
that blowtorch welder was insane too
Aside from the amazing results of what you do, it's amazing that someone sat down and began thinking "if I put this here and if it turns this here, then this will....." All without a computer, other than maybe a slide rule.
Yeah. Slide rules got us to the moon, they're so powerful.
@@TheLegendsmithalmost too powerful….
Necessity is the mother to every invention
I think this piece is pre slide rule!
We got to the moon and built the SR-71 with a slide rule! 🤯😱
@@davidhelmuth6654slide rules have been around since the mid 1600s! 🤯
Well Shucks! When I added on to my 1920s home I mortised all the doors by hand with spade bits and chisels. Took an extraordinarily long time. While it was "fun" and fulfilling, this machine would have been the tool my grand-carpenters would have reached for! I'm happy you restored and demonstrated this beauty!
Eh. A brace and bit, chisel, and mallet are all you need to make a mortise. Heck you don't even need the brace and bit.
As a master locksmith, this is one of the coolest tools I have seen you restore. I have hand mortised my fair share of doors and when it comes to antique locking hardware, this would have been a game changer for some of my jobs.
Great video! Love it!
Hmmm.. As a master locksmith myself, I'd like to say that this would be better used as a reference tool which shows how much harder things were in the past. LOL!
There are 'modern' versions of this type of mortiser made that come with either a router or an electric motor.
@@shopshop144if its not a hammer a drill and a chisel youre as fumb as they were back in the victorian age when this monstrosity was invented.
I didn’t realize this mecha carved slots into doors for handle/lock systems. Gizmotiser; What an odd name for such a specialized device! 🤔
It's not just for doors.....I mean it's for cutting mortises...... who says it can ONLY cut mortises for locks?
It amazes me to think what the old timers came up with without the benefit of modern design technology. Machines like this that are both relatively simple and mechanical complex - somebody envisioned this machine in their head, sat down at a drafting table and drew it out, then developed casting patterns, machined it on far simpler machine tools, etc. Absolutely amazing.
And those tools were made to last a lifetime.
@peacenow42... but here we are - a bit of TLC, and this machine is still working!
Think of it this way: such as this, and things like steam locomotives, arent obsolete. They are perfectly suited for a different human environment. Its possible through some world event or social dynamic that we may go back to steam locomotives and hand tools as being the best tech that we can support.
@peacenow42 even though you’re not talking to me, steam is powered by fire, as steam is also known as water vapor.
@peacenow42uh..... before you comment, I think you should get a better understanding of how a steam engine works.
The today price of a unit with all those castings would be outrageous! Great find and condition. Nice to find something like this that wasn't stored outside.
for real. I just restored my bench vice, and someone had taken an angle grinder and a chisel to the screw cover.🤦
Not only was this an amazing restoration of an incredible tool, It is making me feel a lot better about the price of the domino tennon tool I was looking at.
I doubt it would have been cheap back then either
I love these old mechanisms. They have all the stuff you learn about in engineering, cams, cam followers, acme screws, rack and pinion, all types of bearings including babbit metal, etc.
I just smile every time I see the HTR opening 🎉
I didn't know CRC made a ONE THOUSAND LITRE jug of Evapo-Rust. I have never known such biting, acerbic envy as this. HTR is living the greaseball's dream, folks. You can't even BUY this stuff in the big bin in Canada yet, so the CRC people must really like our man here. Congrats on one million subs, duder. Women want him; men want to be him; *rust fears him.*
This is Fractal Vise level stuff
You get the coolest, and the gizmoziest tools I ever seen on TH-cam.
I can watch this this thing mortise doors for hours and hours.
The thinking it had to take to make a tool like this in 1912 is mind boggling.
Fun stuff.
Thanks HTR
Whenever I watch you restore an old piece of equipment, I’m amazed with the fact that someone thought and built this long before computers, and high tech machines to make the parts 🤔
Yeah, and somehow how those tools were cheaper to produce then some of the garbage they come up with today
I appreciate that when you dismantle something, you just take it apart normally . You don't treat every screw, pin, gear and whatnot like its a priceless artifact made out of glass. To me, that just makes it slow and boring. Keep up the good work!
I know exactly the thing you're talking about! Those channels drive me up the wall.
I remember some of my Navy shipmates doing that "everything is so fragile" crap on our gear. Me: "It's made of steel, not glass!"
Well, he does have to be careful to not break a part. Sometimes the bearings are difficult to find replacements of.... I don't know if that's true or not...@@nortyfiner
@@foxfire8284 Oh, certainly. When you're dealing with stuff that's a century old and is definitely not made anymore, by all means, exercise due caution.
no bullshit, no making things dirtier just to clean them, just Legit restorations of absolute goddamn Contraptions. unequivocal best restoration channel out there.
Very cool. You are unquestionably the world's greatest expert in Gizmology!
A veritable Gizmaster.
Is it pronounced giz-mology or jiz-mology?
@@d00dEEEthe gizmeister
Which makes him a Gizmologist lol
the foremost expert in gismotology! @@iTeerRex
The engineers that made this marvellous contraption would be very proud of you
Seeing it in action quickly explains the complexity of the whole mechanism. The large mickey mouse eared wing bolts are exquisite
That is what I like about your show: none of the endless, want to be cute or showing off chitter chatter. You just get down to business and fix whatever you are working on. Nor do you try to see how many videos you can put out you choose quality over quantity. Keep up the good work.
This mechanism seemed to need far less restoration than the ones I've watched in the past, but watching you disassemble and reassemble it allowed me to see into the mind of the person that created it. It's truly amazing what is possible in the analog world with the right combination of gears and levers.
Among the top TH-cam channels in history.
I'm always impressed with your brazing
Every other repair or restoration channel I have to play at 2x speed to watch, but never on this one. He has perfect pacing.
Just goes to show that even way back then, there's a tool for that. Nice work Eric
amazing tool, my dad would have loved this, he was a brillient joiner, miss him loads , he past away when he was 38 years old , i am 53 years old and wish i had taken more notice of is skills
I always look forward to your videos and the humor you inject into them!
Interesting watching all the movements and gears on this. I guess routers took its place.
Amazing resto as always!
Glad to see CRC on board as a sponsor, hope they hang around a while.
They make so much good stuff, Weld Aid, Sta Lube and of course EvapoRust.
Not to mention all the great products made under the CRC brand like everyone's favorite open wound detector, Brakleen!
I often wonder how this and other contraptions (gizmo's ) you restore were received back in the day. I keep imagining some salesman demonstrating and touting these gizmo's as the latest time and labour saving device while perspective buyers looked on in amazement and wonder and possibly fear. Oh the stories. Cheers from Sussex, NB.
Ive always loved the 80/90's tool time intro reference. Cheers mate. Hope everyone is taking care.
Thank god you thudded your head against the sandblaster plexiglas (was worried for a minute when it wasn't you normal blaster). That has always brought a smile to my face in the older videos where you went all out ^^
I remember the first time I saw him do that. I had to rewind 5x to be sure that’s what I saw. I look for it every time! Cracks me up!
@suzil7687 haha, yeah. Also the time he worked on the "flame thrower", him testing it out always leaves me in stitches!
Machine is quite remarkable. Designed, built and manufactured without computers or CNC of any kind.
Need more people like that today.
All the engineering and time that went into this is amazing, to think, this is how they sharpened pencils 100 years ago, incredible.
I ain't too gonna lie, I had to fast forward to the end to see what this contraption does. It's awesome. Growing up, we lived in a couple of houses with that style of door locks. Ok, it's time to go back to the beginning to watch the whole video. 😁
What a clever machine. You tackle the most complex restorations, on you tube. The production quality of this video is so much better than previous ones.
The sandblaster bit absolutely killed me!
Love your trade, my friend!! Your videos are one of the few I click "like" before I watch it. It was great to see another project from Ohio. Much love and respect for your channel!!
for the next introduction of the sandblaster, in triple jump or fosbury-flop. This could make my day!!!
About damned time. I've been trying to figure out how to restore my mortiser for YEARS. At last, I have something to go on.
I had NO CLUE that this thing was until you started cutting wood..... and then I knew it was a wood cutting thing, that cut slots in wood.... but then when you said 'the door look would go here' I figure it all out!!! It was a DOOR LOCK HOLE SLOT CUTTER'!!!! Just what I ALWAYS wanted!!!!
LOL no seriously, I really do love that you find these super complicated, ultra specialized pieces of single use, unheard of niche machines that are MESMERIZING to see in action - ESPECIALLY when they are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to figure out what they do.... And seeing all the different movements smoothly going through their actions, when then were just a few minutes ago (in TV time) single pieces being cleaned, shaped, filed, brazed, and twisted into their proper form... it really does make you appreciate the engineers and inventors that were able to put their thoughts onto paper that then become the individuals parts, completely separate from each other all throughout previous eternity, and then they are fitted and matched together, squeezed, turned, hammered, and greased all in a specific place and relation to one another until an exact moment that before which they could have never become more than the sum of each part together and finally become one new object. And in this case a Gizmortiser (if you say so lol) 0 I don't know if I was able to express exactly what I was thinking.... I think that tossing in part of the old adage "more than the sum of it's part" kind of threw it off..... I guess an easy way to say what I was thinking would be 'if you take away (almost)any single piece it's just a pile of parts. each part (or each object if you will) only fits together in one way, (yes I know that's not completely true, but you can't use ALL the parts and get another working object... it becomes junk again) and when it does then it is finally a whole new object....
..okay I can feel I'm making people's brains hurt... oh w3ait... that just people smashing their screens in anger about how dumb I just went with this philosophical thought process about a 20th century door lock tool that is useless in today's world... BUTI HAD FUN!!! GREAT VIDEO!!! THANK YOU!
What an incredible invention for the time!!
This mortiser could be used not only for installing lock assemblies but would be great for just about any mortise joint especially for furniture.Great job on restoring it!!
Thanks!!
That is an incredible amount of complexity to avoid having to chop a mortise with a chisel!
it seems the strangest gizmos always come to you. great like ever.
It's one of those mechanisms I could sit and watch for HOURS.
Incroyable, toujours aussi patient et talentueux. Et puis, cette petite dose d'humour qui ne gâte rien.
The engineering that went into this thingamabob is insane
A hand cranked milling machine. This took one smart cookie to think of this and design it. Simply brilliant mechanical artwork. ❤
On a side not I love the shop upgrades especially the sandblasting apartment you've acquired. 😎👍
"sandblasting apartment" I LOL'd at that. It is the biggest cabinet I've ever seen :)
These old devices are fantastic! What amazing inventiveness humans have, and what a boundless capacity for overengineering!
So nice to see them doing their thing again.
I was literally just about to go to bed and you have to drop a new vid? I guess I'll go to bed later, it's only 7am here
Same!! LOL
7 AM no sleep gang!
Been working night and just needed to pee after sleeping 5 hours, must see this before sleeping again
Florida? 7am here
@@talbertuhlir9370 Nah, Michigan
So pleasant to see someone repairing cracks in cast iron correctly. Thank you.
I was worried that the "Smart Washer" would wash away some of the gizmosity. Glad to see it is Gizmo safe. 😊 Great video thanks!
I'll bet Mr Chickadee would love to own that. He loves old woodworking tools.
I always enjoy your projects, you produce brilliantly edited videos of each rebuild/resto., but I’m often amazed at how overly complicated or unnecessarily engineered objects find their way to your workbench. Regardless: thank you, as always, for sharing.
What a mechanical marvel! It reduces the labor of cutting a lock mortise from dozens of minutes to a handful! So simple, even an Irishman can use it!
I find it incredible how many parts went into making a tool such as this. I wonder how many were actually sold. Great to see you restoring this one.
That is such a spectacular example of ingenuity, over engineering, and madness lol. I love it.
Lovely restoration of a very interesting old tool.
I also noticed you have a few workshop upgrades.
it looks like a completely new shop to me.
@@panaphobic1 Yes, he moved. This is a new shop.
New workshop, new tools... congratulations!
Best sound editing to date. Fantastic.
My jaw literally dropped when I saw the mechanism working, that's genius!
Fascinated that you did the Evapo-Rust before the parts cleaner - I would have thought you would want to get the dried grease and grot off first so the Evapo-Rust can get to the metal.
Maybe he can’t get the solvents from the parts washer into the evapor-rust? Idk actually just a guess.
I always Evapo-Rust first since any washing might remove some delicate features like pin-striping.
@@HandToolRescue interesting. Then again, does it make sense to use the evaporust on parts that get sand blasted anyway?
@@HandToolRescue Thank you! That makes perfect sense.
I have restored many beautiful old doors retrieved from the side of the road on “big garbage day” to re-use in our house, and I’ve always wondered why the mortises for the locksets have rounded ends. Mystery solved! Thank you HTR 🎉 and bravo once again on a beautiful job 🙌🏼✨
That's such a beautiful machine, one of your best ones!
The amazing imagination of people coming up with a machine like this.
That thing was way more complicated than I would have thought.
I’d have gotten it apart and probably would have stayed that way 😁
Pretty sure that's half the reason he makes these videos.
@@jandrewmoreI asked him that a really long time ago. He said that is why he started recording, it was so he could go back to remember how to put it all back together again.
Even with the video to help........
All through this I was going: "Yeah, aha. okay I got it ", I thought I was on top of this. Then you actually used it and my bottom jaw dropped and an audible "wow" escaped my lips. The fact someone designed such a elegantly simple beautiful machine that does what it's supposed to amazes me. Thank you for an enlightening restoration.
This is a very interesting and practical machine. Nicely done.
What a cool ass tool!!! I was so confused as to what it did, but after the demonstration, which is what I love about this channel, I knew exactly what it was for! So freaking cool! Best Restoration Channel on TH-cam.
Just noticed you went over the 1 million mark. Fully deserved. Congrats.
Sure glad you demonstrated the machine in action, at the end. For the lifec of me, I had no idea how it
functioned, up to that point. Pretty amazing contraption, for its time.
Nice work!!! it amazes me how incredibly detailed that was.
I love these old hand driven wood working machines they’re absolute genius. Great job as always.
Honestly I was surprised at how functional it was before you started working on it. Normally the stuff you get is either completely seized up or broken in some manner that prevents it from moving, but this was pretty gizmunctional right at the start.
Well that thing is an absolute marvel of engineering design...So many moving parts to do exactly one specific task to perfection.
I’m amazed at how intricate this thing is.way ahead of its time. Great restoration of course.you put some work into it.great video as always.just continue doing what your doing and on to the next project.👍👍👍😎😎😎
I love your touches of humor scattered through the videos.
I always enjoy them, the ones in this video just particularly got me laughing out loud.
This is an amazing tool. I knew Festool had to get their idea for the Domino from somewhere. Lol. Amazing job as always. Question have you ever been asked to restore a piece for a museum. If not they should
You beat me to it. As soon as I saw what this thing I thought of a festool domino. I've seen somebody make one out of an angle grinder.
You're rapidly gearing up for one of the weirdest industrial museums in Saskatchewan! I'll visit for sure!
Amazing job, absolutely beautiful
There is some real gizmo stuff here. I'm enjoying the journey.
Another awesome project 💪👍
Thank you!!👏
Every time I see the sand blaster I know something funny is gonna happen every time and it still makes me smile and laugh. Don't ever change your style, keep being you.
Your advice on step 69 is unclear. My gizmortizer doesn't work after following your instructional video. Now my wife left me and my dog has cancer. Thanks a lot HTR, you ruined my life!
sounds like a you problem😅
@@krazyredheadso true 😂
A swift tap or two with a hammer should work well. It'll work on your Gizmortiser too!
Please could you come collect yr wife ,she keeps digging up my daffodils 😡
You forgot to account for the gas clouds on uranus, and neglected to stand on your head. That's what gave poor doggo cancer...
That device is almost clockwork precision ! i know now we have routers jigs and precise machines,but that is incredible for the time,nothing built today would last half as long as that did also !
@mikethedigitaldoctorjarvis
A truly amazing job, from a true master of his craft.
However, here in the UK, anything that is antique and been cleaned, is considered to be of lesser value should it go to sale or auction.
I have a problem with this issue. Cleaning and repairing surely does NOT lower the value of an antique piece of equipment, I mean, really?
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
@@ninaevans4501 Number one i live in the UK I'm commenting on the skill of the person,i don't care how much it is worth at an auction ! well if you you want pieces of history go to rust,restoration is more important than auction !
@@mikethedigitaldoctorjarvis
Am sorry if I have offended you sir. We go along with hand tool rescue. Indeed, we try to preserve history ourselves. I cannot understand your hostility to what we have said? Sorry if we have offended you sir 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒
The turntable scratch got me.
I don’t understand how washing yourself would help you understand how to take something apart but I guess it worked. You truly are amazing.
And there goes Festool's patent on the Domino.
I have to ask, where do you find these beyond accident machines? I've never seen such a machine and how it works... Pretty interesting for sure.
Expert level 9.8+ achieved.
If you try to imagine the prototype development process and the decision-making mechanisms and control structures that must have been behind the development of such a device, for what quantities, for what profit target, for what price... It's absolutely crazy.
Remember to put nipple clamps on Christmas list. 1:52
Remarkable restoration of a remarkable gizmo. I could never figure out this amazing tool, let alone invent it.
Nice job. I suspect the cutting tool is sub-optimal and may be a replacement . The original would surely have been sharpened to cut on the sides - something that typical twist-drills do not.
I wonder if a simple HSS center cutting end mill meant for aluminum would work.
Amazing restoration such a beautiful old gear driven hand crank drill press 31:39 @Hand Tool Rescue
Go Go Gadget Gizmortiser! 🕵🏻♂
Can we take a moment to appreciate HTR's dedication to keep working, even inside a cathedral
I was trying to figure out the "temporary" workshop.
I thought it was a blimp hangar.
The new shop is pretty sweet sir you deserve it, proof that hard work pays off