Seeing things like this really makes you realize how spoiled we are with modern engines. To think that there was once a time when everything you did in this video would have been just another day in the life of a mechanic! Excellent video, well explained, and very valuable information! 😃
All real "repair" work is almost gone today. Now you only change parts. Not repairing. That is why all local machine shops are dead and all the parts is made in a far away contry. Sad, but with all the stress today anything else would not work. /Richard
Very nice! I don't think I will be making any piston rings anytime soon but it was very enjoyable to watch how carefully and creatively you did this. The value of old documents like that book cannot be overestimated
My wife's grandfather lived in rural Pennsylvania, was a builder and would also fabricate parts he needed for the various machines he used. Most of his tools are gone, but I have some of them and they are wonderful relics of a bygone age. Your videos illustrate what his shop must have been like all of those years ago.
Beautifully done! Great watching your engineering skills bringing these historical masterpieces back to life. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧
Great content, love to see old machines working strong after so many years, made to work reliable. Not like todays products, lasting to the end of warranty, made only for profits.
Modern engines operate far longer without fiddling with them or taking them apart. People also expect more out of them, like if you have a luxury car now you don't expect to have to employ a chauffer who goes to rolls for a course about how to keep it going for just 10 years with daily(!!) maintenance - unfortunate result though is that something that breaks and needs just 10 days of work makes the car not worth it to repair.. The old one would have been worth repair at multiples of that. Diesel generators work really long times too without fiddling and even cheap honda clone generators work astonishing times compared to a land engine from 1900 while being simple to get running again. Also their design isn't patent dodging encumbered.
I just found your channel today, and I must say that you deserve every one and each subscriber you have, fantastic. I hope that you realise how important guys like you are in a world where the majority believe that they save the planet by driving around in electric vehicles with chinese batteries and banning everything that runs on oil. The more people that watched channels like yours, the better we stand. Keep up the good work, Richard
Soichiro Honda began by manufacturing piston rings. I always thought this was starting at the black magic end of the engine, but your video gives an insight into how this is not so difficult. Thank you !
This is a masterclass in technique and materials sourcing from times past. As a motorcycle mechanic I simply ordered in piston rings in whichever size I required, even at Motorcycle Technical College we weren't taught how to make our own piston rings! I found this to be absolutely fascinating, a look back into how things were done prior to the free availability of spare parts from OEM. I'm very happy to have found your channel and to have subscribed.
I love these old engines. It is wonderful watching you work. So much knowledge!!! Saving the old machines and explaining in such a way that an old guy like me can understand. You are an exceptional instructor and I so appreciate the fact that you're saving these beautiful works of art. Thank you.
Good job .I like to see younger people doing this stuff..I've been doing it since I was 14 or 15.always loved doing it.my dad allways had work going on.motors transmission .rear ends...been doing. My own stuff ever since .iam 67 now.still do what I can.cant do as much on this newer stuff.old school.
So cool to see piston rings made from scratch. Always wondered what to do with an old engine that needed rings. The way you described it I feel like I could do it myself now. You are a great teacher.
Beautiful work. Reminds me of doing three weeks of learning to use a file in metalwork class at school. Our instructor was old school then and that was 65 years ago. Best wishes from England.
Congratulations for having a teacher like that. Our metalwork teacher just told us to cut when you push, lift when you pull. I quickly realized there had to be more to it than that, but was too timid to ask for better instructions.
I really enjoy your videos and I appreciate that they are suitable for children. There are plenty of creators of adult content not suitable for children and I think that what you share on your channel is of great value. Thanks!
Such skill you have, quite amazing to watch you bringing these beautiful old machines back to life,... Thanks for sharing your experiences with us,. Greetings form Devon UK
When I rebuilt one of these few years back. had to make whole new piston and rings. We used well pipe to make the rings. Carbonized each ring. Then had them chrome plated after. Real hard part of that build was the thing sat 50 years and orginal piston was seized solid inside. Reborning it was a trick and a half!
Great! Interesting topic and nice to see I'm not the only person to squeeze the ring with my hands and press the slug into the bore. Everyone I know use ring squeezers or those tapered collars to fit the rings into the cylinders.
When you said you were going to heat it with a blowtorch I was thinking a propane or oxy-acetylene torch. I haven’t seen a real blowtorch in use for over sixty years. I am impressed.
I'm eagerly awaiting part 3! Absolutely brilliant mechanic-ing and Scandinavian dry humor... I chuckled for minutes with "good for me, bad for you". Cheers from Oregon, USA ✌🏻🤙🏻
Fascinating! My grandfather Herb Nickalls fled the Kaiser's call-up for World War ! - as far as he could, here to New Zealand, to Ealing mid-Canterbury. He was Diesel Factory-trained, becoming the 'go-to' man as Deisel was replacing Steam for tractors, road-rollers and fixed plant. A lot of heavy machinery passed through his workshop, so Ealing railway station (on NZ's Main Trunk line) must have been kept quite busy loading and unloading. Ealing is at the top of a cutting rising from the Rangitata river, and the rail saw little sun in winter, icing the rail and stranding travel north-bound. Herb's 'herbs' (colloquial for strength) of machines awaiting transport were often used to help (Steam at the time) trains up the cutting, a valuable service to the nation's industry and transportation both!
At last, someone who knows how to make piston rings correctly. I have see elsewhere someone making a piston ring by making it larger and cutting a slice out of it, and as you correctly point out, that does not make it round. I was taught to sandwich the ring between thick plates of steel with a wedge to gap it. Heating it while it is like that, it will heat evenly, stay flat and cool slowly. I look forward to seeing the engine run. Excellent video, many thanks.
Hi! Yes to fix the rings in a jig and then heat them is a good way. But i can't really see that this method makes the rings less round. But the importance is to heat them up slow and even. I have seen people heting them up and when cherry red they drip them in to oil to cool instantly. I dont really know how that affects the rings. But i want them to cool slow. /Richard
Your very good! Without setting ring gap, especially if the bore is tapered from wear, you can shatter the rings! When the piston is removed later, bits and pieces will fall out the groves. Nice to see some people are continuing to use the knowledge of the past!
very amazing watching,.... you truly make these videos interesting.....theres nothing like the sound of an old machine coming back to life!...keep them coming subscriber for life
I remember in school, working on Farm Tractors. Some of them were John Deere model A and B, which were single piston and started by hand turning the flywheel. It had finger grooves in the wheel to make it easier. They started very slowly, gaining RPM at a slow rate. The sound they made was unique, so that you could hear them the other side of a hill and know what it was. I love working on engines. It is too bad I could not maintain that career.
I see that since this machine has transfer and exhaust ports, the rings are pinned to keep the open end of the rings from "falling" into the ports and destroying the engine. I used to work on double acting piston compressors which used packing glands to use both halves of the stroke. The piston rod was secured by a thread and jam nut to allow the gap to be set at each end of the piston. The use of a locating pin to keep the piston from turning in the bore is really quite clever. To lap rings to the desired thickness and flatness, we used a large circular plate with an offset ring that held the rings off center of the rotating plate and used grinding grit to cut and polish the faces. Really enjoy the content. Amazing how well the technology worked back then.
In 1974, I was an engineer officer onboard SS Nevasa. Our susti pump for supplying feed water to the auxiliary boiler failed. it needed new rings and the bore was worn at midstroke. I was amazed to watch our Chinese fitter make a new piston ring and then hand scrape the bore to be parallel again.
Cool video! Usually, in modern engines at least, you want a little larger ring gap on the secondary ring. That is because you don't want any pressure build up between the rings because that can break them.
@@YesterdaysMachinery it's actually a function of the rpm that diesels run at. The slower the rpm the tighter the gaps to prevent compression loss. The higher the rpm and the more heat generated the looser the ring end gap so the ends don't tough and jam the piston or gouge the cylinder walls
Wonderful work!! I think that because of watching you, I was directed to go watch the rock/mud falls of Illgraben, Sweden. I am in awe of what mother nature can do!
Dear Richard. I hope you and your family are well! I enjoy your videos, and hope you will make some more before too long! I especially liked your film about the Volvo BM Terrier small tractor. Best wishes from George in Herefordshire, UK.
I think that back in the days when large steam engines and hit'n miss and crude oil etc. was still used daily the local machine shops made quite a lot of rings. /Richard
You should watch the video of Mr Crispin making piston rings for a small steam engine, he used the same method like you, but he found out that the rings don't stay completely round with this method, so he used a better method to make sure the rings get perfectly round...
Hi! This method has been used for so long time that i dought that it doesnt, but i will check that up! And if there is a problem with the roundness you can jig the ring up in the lathe again after the heat treatment in the compressed mode and then cut the roundness end shape. But all my rings have been that good so i dint really bother doin it in any other way! /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery yes, that is exactly what he did to make them round again... Here is a link to his video: th-cam.com/video/2mqdIA3SFJs/w-d-xo.html
The time is near that we need this mashines again . No Elektronik no high tech and we need the knowlege to Operate this mashines. Thank you for your work and your Video A very teachfull and high Level Work Take care Yours Frank Galetzka
I will have to try this myself one day now that I have watched you make them. I will have to find some cast Iron stock next trip to the scrap yard. It always fun to watch others keeping our mechanical history running. Greetings from USA
Marvelous job , clear information . Nice . I was watching a film from the 30s by LMS a region of the young British rail and they were making piston rings in exactly the same way . I'm enjoying your work immensely. 👍🇬🇧
An excellent tutorial video. Using the coefficient of linear expansion to calculate the ring end gap is the most accurate way. Many younger machinists today have the basic knowledge , but lack the “hands on skill” , relying on computerized machines to perform the task. 🇨🇦
Hi! Thank you. The biggest problem i see today with young people is that they done have confidence to try because they are scared to fail. They must have someone right next to them to explain every little move. Then all they gonna learn is How to make something but not Why ypu are doing this way or that way. Of course you have to be careful with machines etc. But you have to try things yourself to grow and get a mind that can think outside that famous box. I have met so many mecanics that are very good at something because they have been tought to fix that exact part. But when another thing fail on the machine that they doesn't know aboute they just stear in to the wall and doesn't even think about figure it out themselfes. /Richard
Just discovered your channel and this is awesome content! Been watching all your videos. So cool to see these old machines come back to life! Cheers from the states! and you earned a new subscriber!
Thanks for the great videos! I have a few old girls (hit and miss engines) around to play with but one needs some help. Ill keep watching. I am learning a lot about this engine. Fantastic !
As always, your skill and knowledge are most impressive. Doing the calculations from scratch is something very few machinists would do. Being a collector of antique cars and tractors I often have to modify a given newer part to fit an older application….but I can’t remember ever making one from scratch.
Thank you. That is something that i really like. That in the year of 1913 a small group of men made all of this by hand with hand tools and every bolt and nut are made there in the small workshop. The castings are not made exactly there, but the molds where. So many hours and manual labour. /Richard
In this country (USA) we would of just had a piston co. make those rings. I dought that there are many that have the knowledge and skills to do the job. Im enjoying your videos very much really interesting, very impressive skills, thanks.
Seeing things like this really makes you realize how spoiled we are with modern engines. To think that there was once a time when everything you did in this video would have been just another day in the life of a mechanic! Excellent video, well explained, and very valuable information! 😃
Yes, today we just scrap the old engines and get a new chinese one that lasts a month. This engine has a soul and quality! /Richard
This makes me feel like they were Spoiled back then. No goofy computer or smog gear and miles of wiring
@@realblakrawb no EPA regulations either that limit horsepower on diesel automobiles either.
@@johnded3874 No computer to run a fuel injection system = most semi trucks were gasoline until the 1960s.
Run away diesels anyone? Lol
First video I've seen that shows and explains how piston rings are made. Absolutely fascinating! Something I call Elegant Engineering.
Thank you! /Richard
This is amazing. I've never seen anybody calculate and then manufacture their own piston rings before. I can't wait for part two.
All real "repair" work is almost gone today. Now you only change parts. Not repairing. That is why all local machine shops are dead and all the parts is made in a far away contry. Sad, but with all the stress today anything else would not work. /Richard
The way it was done 150 years ago. Outstanding!
Yes, still works! /Richard
Very nice! I don't think I will be making any piston rings anytime soon but it was very enjoyable to watch how carefully and creatively you did this. The value of old documents like that book cannot be overestimated
Thank you! Old books are great. If i could push a button making the internet un-invented i would have done it. /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery hah! Then we would never know you.
@@Ioughtaknowbetter the question about the egg and the chicken ...🤣
Old machines, craftsmanship, engineering and experience all combined in one. Thanks for sharing this
Thank you! /Richard
My wife's grandfather lived in rural Pennsylvania, was a builder and would also fabricate parts he needed for the various machines he used. Most of his tools are gone, but I have some of them and they are wonderful relics of a bygone age. Your videos illustrate what his shop must have been like all of those years ago.
Beautiful. Old machine shops are really fun. I have plans of building another shop here with only flatbelt driven machines. /Richard
Beautifully done! Great watching your engineering skills bringing these historical masterpieces back to life. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧
Hi! Thank you very much! Next one is great! /Richard
Your'e a true "Smålänning" who can make everything out of anything. Great video with a lot of technique talk, love it!!!
Thank you 😊 /Richard
Well done. I never thought about making piston rings. Thanks for the show.
Wow, a hand written note on a sheet of loose leaf paper is the best explanation of calculating ring gap I've ever seen!
Haha, i collected data from books and just wrote them down at one page insted of 20. Hope it is correct tho 😅 /Richard
Great content, love to see old machines working strong after so many years, made to work reliable. Not like todays products, lasting to the end of warranty, made only for profits.
Exacly. This is made to last as long as someone wants it to last. /Richard
Modern engines operate far longer without fiddling with them or taking them apart.
People also expect more out of them, like if you have a luxury car now you don't expect to have to employ a chauffer who goes to rolls for a course about how to keep it going for just 10 years with daily(!!) maintenance - unfortunate result though is that something that breaks and needs just 10 days of work makes the car not worth it to repair.. The old one would have been worth repair at multiples of that.
Diesel generators work really long times too without fiddling and even cheap honda clone generators work astonishing times compared to a land engine from 1900 while being simple to get running again. Also their design isn't patent dodging encumbered.
I just found your channel today, and I must say that you deserve every one and each subscriber you have, fantastic.
I hope that you realise how important guys like you are in a world where the majority believe that they save the planet by driving around in electric vehicles with chinese batteries and banning everything that runs on oil.
The more people that watched channels like yours, the better we stand.
Keep up the good work, Richard
Soichiro Honda began by manufacturing piston rings. I always thought this was starting at the black magic end of the engine, but your video gives an insight into how this is not so difficult. Thank you !
Extremely interesting! Solved a lifelong mystery for me. Thank you! Pure cast iron cut to size.
This is a masterclass in technique and materials sourcing from times past.
As a motorcycle mechanic I simply ordered in piston rings in whichever size I required, even at Motorcycle Technical College we weren't taught how to make our own piston rings!
I found this to be absolutely fascinating, a look back into how things were done prior to the free availability of spare parts from OEM.
I'm very happy to have found your channel and to have subscribed.
Hi! Nice to hear that. Wish you all well! /Richard
"Good for me, bad for you" I love it!
I love these old engines. It is wonderful watching you work. So much knowledge!!! Saving the old machines and explaining in such a way that an old guy like me can understand. You are an exceptional instructor and I so appreciate the fact that you're saving these beautiful works of art. Thank you.
Good job .I like to see younger people doing this stuff..I've been doing it since I was 14 or 15.always loved doing it.my dad allways had work going on.motors transmission .rear ends...been doing. My own stuff ever since .iam 67 now.still do what I can.cant do as much on this newer stuff.old school.
So cool to see piston rings made from scratch. Always wondered what to do with an old engine that needed rings. The way you described it I feel like I could do it myself now. You are a great teacher.
Beautiful work. Reminds me of doing three weeks of learning to use a file in metalwork class at school. Our instructor was old school then and that was 65 years ago. Best wishes from England.
I remember hours at the vice with a file , and woe betide if it was wonky work . A whole raft of memories you uncovered 👍
I think it is a very great skill to master a file. You can use it very often in daily work. /Richard
Congratulations for having a teacher like that. Our metalwork teacher just told us to cut when you push, lift when you pull. I quickly realized there had to be more to it than that, but was too timid to ask for better instructions.
So interesting! Thank you for your easy to understand demonstration.
Best wishes from George
Thank you George! /Richard
Simple but very clever. well done
Thanks. No need to make it harder. /Richard
Very impressive, can't wait to see the engine brought back to life.
7:53, I love it ...... "Good for me, bad for you"
I really enjoy your videos and I appreciate that they are suitable for children. There are plenty of creators of adult content not suitable for children and I think that what you share on your channel is of great value. Thanks!
Hi! Thank you. Yes i want to keep the videos nice and without all that bad langue and high volume hard rock that often ruins a good video. /Richard
Such skill you have, quite amazing to watch you bringing these beautiful old machines back to life,... Thanks for sharing your experiences with us,. Greetings form Devon UK
Hi! Thank you so much! /Richard
Great video Richard!!! Looking forward to seeing the old girl start up!
When I rebuilt one of these few years back. had to make whole new piston and rings. We used well pipe to make the rings. Carbonized each ring. Then had them chrome plated after. Real hard part of that build was the thing sat 50 years and orginal piston was seized solid inside. Reborning it was a trick and a half!
I have only one comment to make....I want this engine. Thanks
57 years ago I learned about coefficients of linear expansion at school. Finally it comes in useful...
Great! Interesting topic and nice to see I'm not the only person to squeeze the ring with my hands and press the slug into the bore. Everyone I know use ring squeezers or those tapered collars to fit the rings into the cylinders.
Your a true old time mechanic and with your explanation with the ring expansion a professor too. Well done. 👏👏😁🇦🇺
When you said you were going to heat it with a blowtorch I was thinking a propane or oxy-acetylene torch. I haven’t seen a real blowtorch in use for over sixty years. I am impressed.
Those Sievert petrol torches is extremly reliable and fast, lots cheaper than propane. Always using them. /Richard
I'm eagerly awaiting part 3! Absolutely brilliant mechanic-ing and Scandinavian dry humor... I chuckled for minutes with "good for me, bad for you".
Cheers from Oregon, USA ✌🏻🤙🏻
Fascinating! My grandfather Herb Nickalls fled the Kaiser's call-up for World War ! - as far as he could, here to New Zealand, to Ealing mid-Canterbury. He was Diesel Factory-trained, becoming the 'go-to' man as Deisel was replacing Steam for tractors, road-rollers and fixed plant. A lot of heavy machinery passed through his workshop, so Ealing railway station (on NZ's Main Trunk line) must have been kept quite busy loading and unloading.
Ealing is at the top of a cutting rising from the Rangitata river, and the rail saw little sun in winter, icing the rail and stranding travel north-bound. Herb's 'herbs' (colloquial for strength) of machines awaiting transport were often used to help (Steam at the time) trains up the cutting, a valuable service to the nation's industry and transportation both!
Hi! Thanks for sharing this! Very interesting! /Richard
The mystery behind piston rings explained! solid info, thanks.
Thanks! /R
At last, someone who knows how to make piston rings correctly. I have see elsewhere someone making a piston ring by making it larger and cutting a slice out of it, and as you correctly point out, that does not make it round. I was taught to sandwich the ring between thick plates of steel with a wedge to gap it. Heating it while it is like that, it will heat evenly, stay flat and cool slowly. I look forward to seeing the engine run. Excellent video, many thanks.
Hi! Yes to fix the rings in a jig and then heat them is a good way. But i can't really see that this method makes the rings less round. But the importance is to heat them up slow and even. I have seen people heting them up and when cherry red they drip them in to oil to cool instantly. I dont really know how that affects the rings. But i want them to cool slow. /Richard
Your very good!
Without setting ring gap, especially if the bore is tapered from wear, you can shatter the rings! When the piston is removed later, bits and pieces will fall out the groves.
Nice to see some people are continuing to use the knowledge of the past!
Thanks very much from an old muckanic from Australia
I hope it helped. The engine is still running very nice with these rings and probably will for 100 years. Take care! /Richard
very amazing watching,.... you truly make these videos interesting.....theres nothing like the sound of an old machine coming back to life!...keep them coming subscriber for life
Thanks! Yes the start up is comming up soon! We also gonna run a quite interesting machine with the engine. /Richard
I remember in school, working on Farm Tractors. Some of them were John Deere model A and B, which were single piston and started by hand turning the flywheel. It had finger grooves in the wheel to make it easier. They started very slowly, gaining RPM at a slow rate. The sound they made was unique, so that you could hear them the other side of a hill and know what it was. I love working on engines. It is too bad I could not maintain that career.
Sorry to correct you A and bs were twin cylinders
@@mikewarpula911 I mis-remember things. What was my name again? I was remembering the sound.
Superb...quite hypnotic....wonderful commentary!
Thank you! /Richard
Simple motor and so easy to maintain, a file, hammer and a vice to rebuild these beautiful machines.
Yeah, kinda like it. /Richard
Fantastic, you have one of the best channels on the you tube! Be well.
Hi! Thanks a lot! Always nice to get feed back! /Richard
Excellent description of your manufacturing methods. Your math is excellent too!
4:45 A stove eye (burner) works great. I quenched mine in water also worked great. It's all on my channel under big engine.
I see that since this machine has transfer and exhaust ports, the rings are pinned to keep the open end of the rings from "falling" into the ports and destroying the engine. I used to work on double acting piston compressors which used packing glands to use both halves of the stroke. The piston rod was secured by a thread and jam nut to allow the gap to be set at each end of the piston. The use of a locating pin to keep the piston from turning in the bore is really quite clever. To lap rings to the desired thickness and flatness, we used a large circular plate with an offset ring that held the rings off center of the rotating plate and used grinding grit to cut and polish the faces. Really enjoy the content. Amazing how well the technology worked back then.
HA! Even your torch is OLD!! This is awesome.
In 1974, I was an engineer officer onboard SS Nevasa. Our susti pump for supplying feed water to the auxiliary boiler failed. it needed new rings and the bore was worn at midstroke. I was amazed to watch our Chinese fitter make a new piston ring and then hand scrape the bore to be parallel again.
Great channel. I'ts nice to see you saving that old machinery.
Thank you! /Richard
Thank you for keeping this knowledge alive and sharing it. Jim Bell (Australia)
Cool video!
Usually, in modern engines at least, you want a little larger ring gap on the secondary ring. That is because you don't want any pressure build up between the rings because that can break them.
Hi! Never heard of actually. Probably somthing to due to modern diesels high pressures. /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery it's actually a function of the rpm that diesels run at. The slower the rpm the tighter the gaps to prevent compression loss. The higher the rpm and the more heat generated the looser the ring end gap so the ends don't tough and jam the piston or gouge the cylinder walls
now THAT is getting into it. 100% impressed.
Great episode, some great information. As you say part of the fun is making the bits you need 😎👍
Yes, i think so! /Richard
That making of new piston ring is great.
Thank you for the video. Take care.
absolutely can't wait to see it running again.
Thank's! /Richard
Hose worm clamps really do a nice job as ring compressors especially for the old engines.
I usually use those plastic tyeRaps. One for every ring. Works good.
@@YesterdaysMachinery Whatever works and is handy is the trick. Also, everyone has their own preference. Peace
Wonderful work!! I think that because of watching you, I was directed to go watch the rock/mud falls of Illgraben, Sweden. I am in awe of what mother nature can do!
Hi! Cool that my videos makes the algorithm show more of Sweden! Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery Have you ever been to witness the rock slides? I understand that they're somewhat predictable at least in timing.
Man, the things you do is so steampunk and your look is badass!
It's nice to see old pieces repurposed this way. Cheers.
Dear Richard.
I hope you and your family are well!
I enjoy your videos, and hope you will make some more before too long!
I especially liked your film about the Volvo BM Terrier small tractor.
Best wishes from George in Herefordshire, UK.
Love how easy that thing comes apart. The size of the piston is also inspiring.
I just had to teach the thermal expansion principle at my university in Germany. Great video, Tack
Modern "low tension" rings and GDI engines...nightmares from the early 2000's.....
I Live in the 1950's so i don't really know what you are talking about! 😁 /Richard
I wish my Dad could see this! I thought he was an old school metal worker. But, I'd be surprised if he ever made his own piston rings!
I think that back in the days when large steam engines and hit'n miss and crude oil etc. was still used daily the local machine shops made quite a lot of rings. /Richard
Thank you for posting these videos. As a former "shade tree mechanic" I find these quite educational.
You should watch the video of Mr Crispin making piston rings for a small steam engine, he used the same method like you, but he found out that the rings don't stay completely round with this method, so he used a better method to make sure the rings get perfectly round...
Hi! This method has been used for so long time that i dought that it doesnt, but i will check that up! And if there is a problem with the roundness you can jig the ring up in the lathe again after the heat treatment in the compressed mode and then cut the roundness end shape. But all my rings have been that good so i dint really bother doin it in any other way! /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery yes, that is exactly what he did to make them round again...
Here is a link to his video:
th-cam.com/video/2mqdIA3SFJs/w-d-xo.html
I was always told that it took 133 steps to make piston rings. Efficiency is great!
The time is near that we need this mashines again .
No Elektronik no high tech and we need the knowlege to Operate this mashines.
Thank you for your work and your Video
A very teachfull and high Level Work
Take care
Yours Frank Galetzka
Yes, it is a good sorce of power. And when they are in good contition they always start emediatly and runs well. /Richard
Very nice work, Richard.
Mycket bra jobbat 👍🏻
Wah! Great Man. Your workmanship simply extradinary. Hats off❤❤
I will have to try this myself one day now that I have watched you make them. I will have to find some cast Iron stock next trip to the scrap yard. It always fun to watch others keeping our mechanical history running. Greetings from USA
Please let me know how your rings turned out! /Richard
Marvelous job , clear information . Nice . I was watching a film from the 30s by LMS a region of the young British rail and they were making piston rings in exactly the same way . I'm enjoying your work immensely. 👍🇬🇧
Hi! Thanks! Interesting, could you link that video? /Richard
LMS General repair
Bennet Brooke Railways
Tremendous skills on your part. This was a very interesting process to watch. Great stuff as usual Richard.
Thank's mate! /Richard
Great engineering, well done. Again...
Very handy information in a post apocalyptic life. Thanks!
An excellent tutorial video. Using the coefficient of linear expansion to calculate the ring end gap is the most accurate way. Many younger machinists today have the basic knowledge , but lack the “hands on skill” , relying on computerized machines to perform the task. 🇨🇦
Hi! Thank you. The biggest problem i see today with young people is that they done have confidence to try because they are scared to fail. They must have someone right next to them to explain every little move. Then all they gonna learn is How to make something but not Why ypu are doing this way or that way. Of course you have to be careful with machines etc. But you have to try things yourself to grow and get a mind that can think outside that famous box. I have met so many mecanics that are very good at something because they have been tought to fix that exact part. But when another thing fail on the machine that they doesn't know aboute they just stear in to the wall and doesn't even think about figure it out themselfes. /Richard
Videos are fantastic and your AG skills are top notch.
Enjoying you approach,I'm off to part three.
Thanks for the education. Good info that I’m sure to pass it on. I had never thought to make rings that sure looked simple. Thanks & God Bless Ron
That was a great explanation of piston rings. Love how you explained the formula for heat expansion too.
Thank's! Hopefully this helps out. /Richard
Lots of knowledge thank you very much looking forward to seeing it running
Thanks. I bet! /Richard
I can't believe this only got 76k views so far. Amazing video.
Luckily I can read swedish.😆
Greetings from Finland
Haha 😁 /Richard
@@YesterdaysMachinery Those old mechanics books are exellent! Easy to read and good images. I have similar books too.
That was very interesting to watch!
Thank you! /Richard
Just discovered your channel and this is awesome content! Been watching all your videos. So cool to see these old machines come back to life! Cheers from the states! and you earned a new subscriber!
Your videos are truly fascinating.
It is in one hand so complicate and in the another, so simple. Need piston rings? Just make them from a piece of cast iron laying around. Fascinating.
Thanks for info.This will help me finish my first ringed engine.
Beautiful work, as always mate.
Nice one
So nice video, greetings from your fan in Argentina!!!
So much good information here. Thank you.
Thanks for the great videos! I have a few old girls (hit and miss engines) around to play with but one needs some help. Ill keep watching. I am learning a lot about this engine. Fantastic !
Very nice that you can make your own piston rings !
As always, your skill and knowledge are most impressive. Doing the calculations from scratch is something very few machinists would do. Being a collector of antique cars and tractors I often have to modify a given newer part to fit an older application….but I can’t remember ever making one from scratch.
Thank you. That is something that i really like. That in the year of 1913 a small group of men made all of this by hand with hand tools and every bolt and nut are made there in the small workshop. The castings are not made exactly there, but the molds where. So many hours and manual labour. /Richard
Never have seen piston rings being hand made. Very ineresting!
In this country (USA) we would of just had a piston co. make those rings. I dought that there are many that have the knowledge and skills to do the job. Im enjoying your videos very much really interesting, very impressive skills, thanks.
Piston company's make pistons, it's a ring company you want. Don't recall any that do both, might not even make their own gudgeon/wrist pins!
Fascinating. Great piece of science.