IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2021
- This restoration is on a ~1920s International Business Machines (IBM) cheese cutter. Several different parts of this machine were all patented between 1901-1907 by William G. Templeton. The main patent can be seen here: patents.google.com/patent/US7...
This item was brought to me by a friend for restoration, so I made sure that whatever restoration choices the needed to be made were discussed with him. The cheese cutter was most likely used for commercial purposes in a local deli, but the exact provenance is completely lost with time.
Most of the time spent restoring this tool was spent on me trying to figure out why it was so much more complicated than it needed to be. I finally figured out how the cheese cutter works, and you can skip to the end of the video for a detailed explanation by me.
Beyond the usual repainting of parts, several parts were missing and had to be completely re-fabricated from scratch. The "warp-proof" wooden board was made out of maple and walnut wood in layers with alternating grain direction. I've never made my own plywood before, so that was something I hope to never do again.
I am excited to see where this cutter goes next and I think I would be really neat to see it back in action a local deli.
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It's amazing to think that cheese computers use to be as big as a house and now they are small enough to fit in your pocket.
Also, they cut cheese 387 million times faster and using less force.
Amazing to to think IBM were already at the cutting edge of bits and bites back then. A bit cheesy I know, sorry!
Easily one of the best computing cheese cutter restos I’ve seen this week
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
you see a lot of those?
I hope (but kind of don't) this is sarcasm :D
@@OlySamRock this is the joke, man :D
This week lol
I worked for IBM for over 40 years and often passed by an IBM Cheese Cutter on display at the IBM Canada HQ Atrium but never occurred to me that this device was capable of the calculations that by mechanical means it is able to make and that brilliantly and successfully you have demonstrated to us, thanks.
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
I really love that not only did you restore a cheese cutter you also went out and bought a massive block of cheese just to enjoy it. Also your 90s sitcom intro vibes are not lost on me ✌️
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
80s
The cheese cutter knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The wedge measurement subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the turntable from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
I think you should submit that to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe. 😆
That was amazing. I agree with @David Carr.
So, it only computes on wedges of cheese, something less then a full round. Square blocks need to go to another computer.
Dammit you beat me to it 😆😆
Wow I was watching that 9 year old video a bunch of times these days before seeing this comment. What a coincidence.
I'm just glad the, "emotionally distant garbage on the floor" character hasn't been written off yet. 😂😂
1000% agree!! Easily the most relatable character!
I only recently discovered this channel and it's great. But until this video I was reading it as socially distant garbage.
@@simonrival1613 He changed the name. Lol
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
i have this routine where, after work, i watch some random restoration video and fall asleep to it while my work clothes are in the washing machiene. i doze off somewhere in the middle of the video and after i wake up again i usually abandon the video and just go about the rest of my day but this time i went back and searched for the part where i left and watched the video to the end because this video was that good. it was definetely worth it. great job.
A small suggestion that you likely already know for 14:15. If you warm up mineral oil and bees wax in a 4:1 or 3:1 ish (play around with it to find what you like, I tend to go thicker 3:1 mix) mix you get a nice paste that is food safe, does not degrade quickly, and will stay in place better than any food oil. I just a small blob of it, mash it into joints, and it will stay there or years.
It also makes a decent finish for working (cutting boards, etc) wooden surfaces.
I have a few antique food tools (For sauerkraut, canning, etc) and that mix works great for me.
Great video. Thank you.
Ive been looking for a way to waterproof my vintage Sunkist lemon squeezer, and this just may be the wax I'm looking for! Ty
It'll work well on leather and human skin too.
@@Uruz2012 well.. now I know what I'm doing for the rest of the weekend. Thanks for the tip.
@Uruz2012 does it waterproof the leather? Like could I use it for a canteen?
Not sure I agree. I mashed some into my guitar fretting joints and the pain still comes through in waves ;)
A computer that can legitimately have an "out of cheese error", Terry Pratchett's jokes always have some curious historical reality behind them...
Indeed, Hex was made that way, Sir Terry would approve.
@Alfredo B Bear-Lacis There are people who have not?
Scandalous!
Imprisonment is the only answer!
😉
@@lightningslim Vetinari stirred a single finger. "Send them to... the library."
There was a quiet, reproachful "ook".
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
My stomach is now registering an "out of cheese" error.
I knew the lever system was some sort of indexer for the blade but i was not prepared it to be a literal calculator as well. That is simply amazing.
Do not forget this cheese cutter was made by IBM the inventor of the personal computer.
@@horatiohornblower868 IBM did not invent the personal computer. Best to do some research before blowing your horn.
@@kindablue1959 This is the most pedantic comment, I know you have no life lol. By pretty much any metric you could consider IBM the creator of ALL computers, not just personal computers. Their technology literally started the computing industry.
I was not expecting it to ratchet advance the cheese wheel based on the position, I thought it would swing the blade, not turn the turntable
It looked like a pantograph, which are famous for doing calculus
It's actually a computer, one of the analog computers!
As you can see at 3:27, if you move the first lever clockwise, the pivot point (the slider) of the second lever gets closer to the effort point (the handle) and it makes the movement of load point (degree of rotation) larger, and vice versa.
All you need here is the input-output relation; the input is the degree of the first lever, and the output is the lever ratio (ratio of pivot-effort and pivot-load distances) of the second lever. The linkage is a little complex (I think it has trigonometric functions), so if you want one set of scales at even intervals, the other set would be not. In this case we want even intervals for how much we would cut, so the scales for the whole weight are at uneven intervals.
Thank you.
Very cool, thanks for explaining this!
Trigonomecheese.
@@infinimetrical haha
Actually he was correct in the title. The computer is what the operator would have been called.
I've been fascinated by mechanical computers like this ever since I saw a documentary where they demonstrated a model of the Difference Engine. It's amazing how you can do math with a series of levers like that, even when it's just basic geometry. And in this case, you get delicious results! (Man, I want some cheese and crackers now...)
Minor detail, but neither this nor the difference engine were computers. Babbage's Analytical Engine (which he never actually built) would have been a computer, but the Difference Engine (and this device, to a lesser extent) was just a mechanical calculator.
Wow! It is often easy to forget that "International Business Machines" meant timeclocks, scales, and cheese cutters long before it meant mainframes and desktops. Very cool.
They also made M1 Carbines in 1942-1945 for the International Business that was going on at the time.
They also made meat slicers and coffee grinders. This business, the Dayton Scale Company, was eventually sold off to Hobart.
@@coolspruta some nasty business indeed!
IBM was the name of the Canadian subsidiary of CTR Corporation (Computing, tabulating and recording company), which was a merger between a time clock company (remember IBM clocks?), recording weight scale company, and Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machine company (the guy who made punchcards for recording and tabulating the US census in the late 1800's). When Thomas Watson came over from NCR he changed the name of the whole thing to IBM because it was bigger name than just National Cash Register. :-)
@@douro20 I have a coffee grinder. It has the IBM logo and Dayton name on the tag. I retired from IBM in 2001. Started in 1968 before computers. I like mechanical things.
Now you can tell everyone that you single-handedly restored an old pre-1980 IBM computer to perfect working order!
Excellent restoration. I worked for IBM for 23 years, I think they should go back to making these. : ) First of your videos I have watched, can't wait to see more. Thanks!
Well now they'd sell them for like 10 grand a piece. Plus most of IBMs money now comes from the computing industry with their server and other business solutions if i'm not mistaken
I am amazed that someone engineered this contraption just to accurately cut cheese wedges. And then probably had to engineer the tooling and machines to make the parts for this machine all just to cut cheese. Incredible. Excellent work on the restoration. Cheers!
Well in Holland in Particular, cheese was a huge commodity, and it was bought and sold in vast Quantities, so making a device that would Accurately set the amount of a wedge of cheese would be crutial to these sellers. If you wanted to cut a 14 ounce block of Cheese and not try to "guess" how far around the "wedge" needed to be, then this device would take away all guess work. Bravo to you, and the designers of this machine.
Engineers at IBM are known to do this kind of stuff 😊
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
cutting (w)edge technology - what a work of beauty
I don't know what impressed me more, your incredible skill at restoring this or that this is a freakin cheese computer from the early 1900s. Well done.
It’s IBM…bound to be over designed and complicated even when cutting cheese lol
@@sauravnayak5927 But their stuff keeps working
Lol well, mechanical computers are hundreds years old. Nothing to wonder about here.
Why the hell dont you use safety gear as gloves. Ibet you dont Even wear a respiratory
Mask
Great restoration, amazing machine. Not what I thought I'd be watching on TH-cam today, but very enjoyable. I've been in various traditional cheese factories in Germany but have never seen anything remotely similar to this machine
This was not a waste of 46 minutes and 56 seconds of my time. I never knew such a computing device existed. Fascinating to see it restored and operating. You got my sub. Thank you.
Fascinating technology. The words "IBM" and "Cheese Cutter" threw me for a loop until you went into detail as to how it worked, then it made more sense. Elegant and effective, I can imagine this saving time in a busy General Store back in the day...
So, without something like this, how would you cut the weight of cheese the customer wanted? Just guess, and charge them for whatever you managed to cut off the wheel?
@@snaplash I suspect it went by a mix of rule of thumb (for a cheese type and wheel size) and expertise. A store might precut certain sizes at the start of the day as well. So, you can see how a tool like this (which could be operated by a kid) might save time (quickly and precisely lop off the correct size when the customer purchases) and money (no wastage) for a business.
@@snaplash Same way a butcher cuts meat, by estimation. You can tell a store has a good butcher by how closely the same cuts of meat are in weight. If you needed precisely a pound of steak, you'd just look for the one closest to a pound because that's good enough. Some stores that sold cheese simply had a guide that would cut the cheese into specific degrees that correlated to a specific weight. If that weight was 8oz and a customer needed 16oz, well, just give the customer two slices.
@@snaplash In those days, you'd only charge for what was ordered. If somebody ordered 8 oz of cheese, you'd have to guess slightly large. You'd use a balance with an 8 oz weight and just check that it was over 8 oz. It was also courtesy to give a little extra for free, you can see this in old films where after weighing, they'd give an additional tilt of the scoop. This goes back to Biblical times and Jewish law as to not steal by shortchanging.
@@snaplash believe me after you've cut a few slices of, a quarter, a half or three quarters or a pound you can do it by eye often as not. Then you put it on the scale and calculate the price from there based on the price per pound... in your head! 😂 If you didn't think you'd get an accurate cut you'd ask the customer: "under or over madam/sir?" and cut generously or modestly depending on their preference. Crikey, that takes me back!
40:15 "It knows.... in the sense that math, exists... in this universe" best explanation of calculating cheese weight I've ever heard in my life lmao
From Cheese to the Moon. Who'd a thunk it.
@@icemanhunter1 Tell that to Mortimer Snerd!
@@mdbigman You're sure showing your age with that comment Mr. Bergen. Have you hear any good Herbert Hoover jokes lately?
@@yellowstonejim Sure,... Hoover sucks!
Real time stamp is 44:10.
So I like these restoration vids, but lemme say, this one blew my mind! Stumbled on this channel from more "serious" appearing ones and was ready to scroll past. Oh boy am I glad I didn't! This guy is a real master.
He demonstrates a swath of skills. Not only restoring and recreating parts, but full sections of missing simple machines. And even freehanding some of the tooling, and all on a machine he did not understand untill after he rebuilt it.
The true beauty of this one wasn't just watching and listening to the restoration, but in seeing just how much skill, knowlage, and effort go into even the smallest "simple" mechanisms that we take for granted every day.
I highly recommend sharing this one just for the logical and problem solving perspective, let alone the enjoyment.
Liked & Subscribed before I even finished the vid.
Wheels of cheese come in different diameters, so a set of printed off-set circles would help to eyeball it better at the center together with a center point mark (for smaller already cut pieces). I reckon
A piece of art!
Definitely would help for an uncut wheel. If the wheel has already been started you could just bring the blade down and align the center of the wheel with the end of the blade. And if less than half a wheel it wouldn't matter where you put it.
If we're talking modifications, I would also like the blade to have a curve on the inner corner to better cut the cheese.
I really enjoyed seeing how the mechanism worked, especially how accurate it is. I couldn’t stop smiling at the end seeing it in action, bravo!
Really interesting to see the different techniques used by various skilled craftsmen
I want to see him refurbish something like Burroughs adding machine.
Just like calculator that prints except it has no computer.
Thanks! You should restore one of these sometime...
REPLICATE IT, please...
I really would like one of those for when our computers die for some far-fetched reason!
Awesome find by your client!
That explains that cheesy grin in the intro!
You really like these extremely complicated machines that does simple tasks, don't you?
Well if you work in a dairy or a deli it is quite handy to have. You could get an electric one but This is so much cooler lol.
Cheese calculations are not a joke, Erivan!
@@alexhb12333 Indeed, one must cut the cheese with precision and delicacy.
Complicated machines that do simple tasks well.
I wouldn’t even say complicated just well designed
It's truly amazing that this guy hasn't been sponsored by a tool company yet.
I have to say what an interesting mechanical device but what's more spectacular is the genius who invented it. Bravo
I am not paying near enough attention to housewares when I go to auctions and estate sales. What a fascinating piece of history. And the context of IBM, just amazing! Great job
Theoretically speaking this would likely be used in a dairy or grocery rather than your common household. Not to say there weren't people that used cheese enough to need it in their house, just not commonly for household specific use.
@@lucassolomon1079 Estate sales are still where you find this stuff.
Old man remembers they used to use one of these at his local grocery so he buys one for next to nothing and collects it.
@@lucassolomon1079 Excuse me as a proud Wisconsinite I would've used this every day if I could
I'm pretty sure this isn't the IBM you think it is; that one was founded over 100 years after the date on this machine.
@@fungeneer Is there an IBM other than International Business Machines Corporation?
I felt the pain of that milling cutter breaking, pain-peko moment right there if there ever was one.
Next video he will restore the broken end mill
this was fascinating. I never imagined IBM made cheese wheel cutting calculators. Brass is a finicky material to work with, and you did well with only one broken tool. Job very well done!
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
@@greatestevar I have no other account. You have mistaken me for someone else.
19:00 Never direct the direction of force on the movable jaw of the vice when milling. It is particularly difficult with brass, as it tends to pull the cutting edge into itself. You learn something like this in the 1st year for skilled metal workers! But also good that you show this ... so thumbs up.
A little tip for milling brass next time: D15mm finishing cutter (2000rpm) in counter-rotation, hand-guided feed and the infeed no more than 3mm laterally. (depth no more than 5mm). Protects your tools and the machine.
STEM is good but America needs people with the working knowledge of things that provide the everyday standards of living, blue collar jobs, to keep things going. And little comments like yours Maxis, help too!
I grew up in a tool and die shop. As he was doing this, I was remembering some obscure lesson my Dad taught me about this (60 years ago - a dim memory), and I thought to myself *he's taking awfully deep cuts* and a few seconds later it happened.
Also, appears he's in the habit of clamping the work at one end of a vise's jaws or the other. Likely because it's easier to capture what's being done on video. On the beautiful worn out vises that he uses, the moveable jaw easily gets out of parallel with the fixed jaw when the work isn't clamped in the center. This tends to limit the clamping force to a small spot on the work and it easily pops up. If it's necessary to clamp work at one end of an old vise's jaws, it's a good idea to clamp something of near thickness to the work at the opposite end of the jaws to help keep the moveable jaw parallel with the fixed jaw as the vise is tightened.
@@sb5838 why the but? Machining is definitely STEM
@@gregfeneis609 I saw a "Fractal Vise" restored on this channel if I recall would something like that be better for this situation?
"It knows.... in the sense that math, exists... in this universe" and jokes about cutting the cheese. Somewhere, Hawking is laughing.
Sheogorath is having a field day.
As a former Bimmer employee, I really dig seeing the pre-electronic stuff they used to make. We used to have an ancient time clock recorder in the lobby of our old building that was probably a bit newer than this but still around a hundred years old. Cheers on the awesome resto!
Still a Bimmer here. The original company that invented this cheese calculator was one of the companies combined to create IBM.
I feel so privileged knowing that the "thunk" as the camera approached the sand blasting box was an inside joke between "the insiders" and you as your forehead bonked the viewing window!
The thunk was the camera hitting the box.
@@jamesbizs Maybe, but he's shown his head hitting the window on camera so many times that kind of seems like the default here. When we see the camera actually hitting the box then I'll agree. It doesn't appear in the video that the camera actually ever gets close enough to the box that it would have hit it.
I have never seen someone make plywood as part of a restoration. You may want to invest in (or restore) a drum sander if you make more plywood. It makes that process so much easier. Your dedication to detail is incredible, and your work is amazing!
This one made an old man cry somewhere remembering watching his grandpa cutting cheese at the deli below the apartments the whole family lived in.
Back when a family could still find great success. Now families are separated and scattered. The overwhelming vast majority of people are completely alone; in a situation where failure is certain doom; with no chance of coming back; and nobody to lean on for help. The only families that are great are the ones that stick together. This is usually found in the wealthiest neighborhoods. You think that is a coincidence?
@@danielduncan6806 Wholesome
@@danielduncan6806 If you're implying that poor people are poor because their families are in some way fundamentally lesser... No. Buzz off. If you're implying that the rich stay happy and rich - sure. Not a coincidence.
@@danielduncan6806 Rich people do not report being much happier than people with enough to get by
As ,uch as I adore the 1920s gas powered laundry machine, this might be my new favorite machine you've restored. It feels like the right deli might actually use this, like it could still belong today.
Sure. I'll bet there is a scale in there that, if read in dollars instead of the original cents, might do the trick!
@@brianhaygood183 can you explain what you mean? I saw a scale for "size of cheese wheel" and a scale for "size slice".
Where do dollars and cents play into it?
@@JasonRSpenny The changeable bars were the cost per slice, which one would select. It would not take much to update, just a new sticker (like the one he made) with a proper degree to dollar ratio for today's prices
Out of the many, many computing cheese cutting platforms available, this one is my absolute favourite.
Greetings from Holland
Pure enjoyment to watch. Applause.
Mount a cheap little BBQ rotisserie motor of 2-3rpm in your paint booth. Hang small to medium size parts from it to rotate them as you spray. Works a charm. Thanks for your videos.
I never realized cutting the cheese was once so elegant and precise.
Back in the day currency was tight for everyone. Precision and accuracy was everything. Today, and for a long time now, currency is so ridiculously inflated that people literally throw money on the ground and walk away. It is entirely likely you have never known a single day in your entire life where a penny was worth as much as a penny. I am 42, as of this last August, and I have never known a day, in all 42 of those years, where pennies could not just be found lying about, because people don't care too much.
The way to achieve a perfect bond between water decal and paint is to aply them when the paint is not quite dry but almost touch dry. The paint thus fuses with the decal and it will withstand pressure washers and the like.
I wish I had a way to store and recall on demand the thousands of these useful facts I’ll never use or only use once
Clear lacquer on top - every kit model nerd knows this 😁
@@22KaTsh And decal setting solution!
@@spinningchurro I use my brain to do that.
I like to watch these vids at .75 speed so they last longer. I fall asleep to them and dream about dipping things in Evapo-Rust. Best ASMR on TH-cam, hands down.
Stumbled on this, no idea how but enjoyed watching, Got to say though when you were using the Bandsaw to cut the brass I could not watch , I really thought you were going to loose fingers
Anyway great restore , great work :)
The fact you used it on a baby bell is just the most perfect ending!
Don't you just love these over complicated strudy tools made to last thousands of years !!! This looks like a useful tool AND for 12 inch deep dish pizzas too. Great job !!
Great restoration.
Anyone who thinks / says old technology is useless should see this.
No plastic or electronics.
It's not likely to break or wear out any time soon.
I'm a newbie and I must confess the opening you have is freaking epic my man. I mean (insert your generic emotional family sitcom here) nostalgia had me in my happy place so thank you for that 👍
You can’t know how happy it makes me that you haven’t changed your intro. 🙏 Arigato Handtoolsan
Huh... I knew IBM did mechanical calculators before the digital revolution, I had no idea that extended to cheese cutters. What a weird little gadget! I love it. Excellent restoration as always! I love watching your videos, they're very satisfying, and make the anxiety gremlins shut up for a bit.
"So I hope to never do again." ROFL! what a quiet way to describe frustration! Marvelous video, and you are very talented. Thanks for sharing! and kudos to the engineer(s) who thought this up.
Things like this is why I tell people if you can think it, if you can dream it then it's possible. A simple machine over 100 years old, with a little TLC still does exactly what it's intended to do, how it's intended to do it with as much accuracy as the day it was made. This is why I'm CONSTANTLY stressing to people that if you take care of your equipment it will take care of you.
Love the slightly mad bloke in the basement ambience, with scatterings of mess style restoration. It makes me smile.
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
Hi my mechanics,I love your channel!!!
Now you know how we all feel waiting for your masterpieces!
IT WILL KEEL.
Shit, I just missed ‘Hand Tool Rescue’ by minutes!
This comment is like God waiting for a miracle.
Always interesting watching another person that loves working with old school machines and tools. Love the hand crafted look that forms in the result. Beautiful work my friend. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
Very cool, I've worked with IBM computers and devices for over 50 years and have always been impressed by the innovation and quality embedded in the products.
"Evapo-rated"
Dude, I about died
Too awesome. IBM spent a long time in the business of machines doing calculation from a cheese cutter, to adding machines, to CNC and computers, love or hate them they've certainly stuck with it.
Well....it's a Lenovo cheese cutter now. 😂
@@bogdanvasile535 Indeed
They made the Hollerith tabulating machine and leased it to Germany in the 1930s and 40s. It's okay to have way more hate than love for them.
Your intro gets me every time 😂 thank you for taking the time to do that and the time you take with your projects.
That is beautiful. I had one of those I used for a decoration in my kitchen, but sold it when I moved. I am now regretting it after seeing your amazing restoration and demonstration. I had no idea how it worked.
I wished this were live so i could tell him about the levers and what they were for. My mother had one from her father. She kept it in great shape. It was mostly for decoration. But, it was cool to see how it worked
Awesome this must have been revolutionary in its day!!
Finally!! I was waiting for this one
Well, ffs why don't you tell us what the levers are for?! Lol
What are they for? Genuinely curious as they dont look to serve much use to me
@@jasonmurawski5877 Did you not watch the video? He explains what they are for.
I wonder if modern times IBM come apart that easily. Stunning, Mr. HTR. Thanks!
The mini wedge out of the Babybel killed me, thanks always for the laughs too.
Legitimately one of the coolest devices I've seen you restore. Very cool, thanks HTR!
Of all the steps involved, I truly appreciate the milling portion as you showed the mistake exactly as it happened. I wish more people woudl show the mishaps as part of the process, and not as an 'blooper reel' or just pretend it didn't' happen at all....
That end mill looked expensive too!
You always find the coolest shit. I’m always impressed by, not only the refurb, but the quality of mfr and ingenuity from the past. We def don’t give enough credit for our previous generations cleverness
Any time I see or hear ‘It should have been impossible back then…” I send them to this channel lol
Few things reach the coolness level of a cheese-cutting device made by IBM of all things
The irony is, were it not for the inaccuracies of manufacture, the "old" versions should be more accurate than the digital approximations of today.
Machinists were building gear driven computers in 100 BC, using technologies that weren’t rediscovered until the 1500’s. I’ll give you one guess what caused 1600+ years of stupid
@@alakani Religion
@@derschwartzadder Incorrect.
Digital "approximations" are not approximations at all, they're literal perfect representations of mathematical certainty, based on the unchanging speed of light in a known medium, through the unchanging electronic pulses of a quartz crystal, to the PERFECTLY measured, based on the speed of light, sub-micron level gearing systems of today which allow you to make variations in movement SO SMALL, you can literally move ATOMS to make a movie
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You LITERALLY said the most backward thing possible in this way.
"If not for the inability to make accurate things, it would be more accurate than today"
that's like saying "I would've won if you didn't win"
If they were more accurate, they would've been.
There are still tools, untouched from that time, without a day of age on them due to sitting an a protected, dry, low circulation environment; and those tools are not anywhere near as accurate as today's digital tools.
You wanna know 1 hobby that disproves your theory entirely? FIREARMS. Firearms throughout history have been the pinnacle of engineering, due to their exceptionally carefully measured parts.
How does this disprove your point?
NONE OF THE PARTS OF ANY GUN FROM THOSE TIMES CAN BE INTERCHANGED, BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE AND MEASURED BY PEOPLE, AND CONSEQUENTLY NONE OF THEM MATCH.
Parts from 1930s and 1940s lugers aren't always interchangeable, often they're not at all. Many guns from the time do not have parts, because they don't make them anymore, and often they have to be custom produced; because that's how they were made in the past; from a blueprint or a rough draft of what the end result should be.
If their measurement tools were so accurate, HOW did that happen?
As a cheese lover who watches vids like these before bed, now I’m hungry and I want one of these. A fascinating machine!
3rd cheese cutter restoration vid in a row... not my most weirdly specific binge but definitely in the top 5
That will be my explanation to my older family members with regards to anything computing. "It just knows in the sense that math exists, in this universe." Thank you Hand Tool Rescue!
An amazing machine. Imagine all the calibration measurements that must have gone in to figuring the angles of the original weight of the wheels to get the right amounts at a final cut. beautiful to watch it all!
First thought this was one of those fake restoration videos, Glad I watched the whole thing through and saw the craftsmanship in creating the missing parts along with the explaination at the end of how it works. It surprised me at how intricate and accurate the machine acturally worked seeing the demonstration. Kuddos for the effort put into this restoration and I hope it's found a good home in a deli being used daily.
Thanks for all this, but especially the explanation at the ending; I'm equally amazed, so glad you could bring this to us.
Watching you make that piece - shoving it into the bandsaw - made me hold my breath. Thankfully it appears that all digits escaped injury!
That part got me too, but we must remember that there is some element of "spoiler alert" in just the fact that the video got uploaded. It certainly would have been more tense if this was a live feed of him doing work in real time.
when you cut the cheese and it weighed correctly i was honestly surprised, such a cool piece of cheese cutting history.
Thanks for the narrative at the end. I see you bridged that fine line between unnecessarily complex and computing.
That is such an awesome machine. I'm absolutely fascinated by older... "Smart devices"..for lack of a better word lol. Seeing how accurate these old gear, cog and lever machines can be. From a proper automata to a cheese cutter, it's always awesome.
My entire life, I've felt something missing and now I know what it is: I've lacked the proper tools to precisely and cleanly cut the cheese. This model would be great for cutting the cheese at home or in the office, but sometimes I want to cut the cheese in other places, like in elevators, movie theaters, and sometimes even during weddings and funerals. I hope you'll help identify what tools I can use to cut the cheese wherever I am. I'm tired of the dirty looks and occasional giggles that result in cutting the cheese, presumably because I lack the proper gear.
I prefer the lost art of cutting the cheese with no tools at all.
You have to become one with the cheese before you can truly own cutting the cheese.
If you want nice clean slices the most practical would be a wire cutter, look for a portable one with adjustable thickness, it's reasonably cheap (10-15$), easy to use and easy to clean as well.
But I'd rather use something like Bowie knife or small machete, it's not appropriate whatsoever but people tend to stay very quiet when somebody pulls out a blade like that 😈
A TRUE cheese cutter needs no toss at all.
@@johncoolberg Well, old folks used to cut fresh/softer cheese with a hand held string (a simple piece of cotton or wool thread, not a metal wire), takes a bit of practice but it's pretty effective once you figure out how to keep it well stretched between your hands. But even if you're serious about the parole thing, there are tool knives that nobody can object to, like those folding multi-tools that include a 2-3" rounded tip blade with no locking mechanism.
i bet a can of fart spray would go along great with this thread of the conversation. yes, yes, i know, 51 year old 12 year old.
Few times in my life have I seen any cheese cutting done with such care and precision. Truly mathematically correct cheese cutting, thank you for bringing our ancestors analog cheese cutting skills back so that generations of the future can appreciate what master cheese cutters they were. I applaud you sir.
The brass working is just great!! That knurled knob was artwork!
What an incredible design! I have no idea how you can determine all the details you need to know to properly restore these, but it's amazing! 💗
What a bizarre device. Thanks for letting us share your bafflement. I was so stoked when the cheese weighed 8oz
Havent stopped by for a while so i didnt know the intro. "Emotionally distant Garbage on the floor" really killed me. Thanks for your awesome videos! Greetings from Germany.
Earlier in the pandemic it was "socially distant garbage on the floor."
For if you haven't seen the extended intro yet:
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@@jessevanmierle5752 Thank you! Really enjoyed the extended version. As another user said: "Nothing says quality content like a 90´s montage intro" :-)
of all the cheese cutters i've seen restored, this one by far has the most computing power
Amazing to me that I watched a 45-minute video about restoring a cheese cutter. Awesome work, great restoration!
As soon as this video started, I said “He’s going to cut a tiny wheel of cheese.”
I gotta stop here and say, this is hands down the best intro PERIOD. Ever. Anywhere.
Ok... gotta stop again at the forcing the work into the band saw blade. How much blood is on your shop floor?! LOL
I Love the videos man. Keep them coming!
Blood tempers the metal.
the amount of bits he must go through too, hurts my soul to see you taking those massive chunks of metal off with each pass on the lathe and milling machines
IBM, the most trusted name in Cheese! Your work is well aged and succulent!
Perfect video! After explaining the mechanism I wa hoping you'd cut some cheese and verify the accuracy and you did not disappoint! Awesome vid as always!
He has a voice! It really MUST be amazing for you to speak to us.
The Babybel at the end was just perfect! :-D
Honestly, he sounds exactly as I expected his voice to be
The moment I saw that the two handles were connected by the sliding pin I figured it was an analog computer. I love these old computing devices. I wouldn't give up the modern day for them, but the way we can take advantage of angles and distance to instantly calculate things is impressive.
All the four-bar linkage does is offer a way to vary the angle that the output ratchet moves through. Look at the scale for the total weight of the cheese wheel, it is non-linear. That is because this isn't a truly ingenious linkage, just one that gets the job done. So it's a beautifully practical mechanism.
I’ve been on a hand tool rescue binge. It’s 2 am and now I really want cheese. What a cool machine! the geometry of the levers is fantastic
It's an incredibly beautiful piece of art.. thank you for giving back to it its original beauty!
Because the blade comes down in an arc, it seems to me the back edge of the blade should have been sharpened as well as the bottom. At least the first inch or two, for a smoother experience when cutting the cheese.
Yes, I'm sure the original had a sharp vertical edge too. Modern cheese cutter's similar to this also have more than one sharp edge 👌
46:00 pretty sure you need to align the (former) center of the wheel to the center of the plywood base to get full accuracy, since it uses circle sectors to do its math. The hole in the original wooden base going to the top might have been intentional for this purpose too…
Then the blade would need to be longer as to reach the center. Aligning it to the blade will do the job.
@@fyfaenihelvete No it won't. Consider when the cheese is significantly off center.
@@straightpipediesel the back edge of the blade is at the center, aligning the center of the wheel of cheese to the back blade edge will center it
I was thinking the same thing. I want to see a dial indicator trueing up my cheese before they slice it lol
@@ghillieinthemist593 How are you going to do that with a new wheel of cheese? Once you misalign the wheel, it stays misaligned.
A fantastic piece of historical equipment! Beautiful resto on this as usual too Eric!
I love how you use the key to the forest for the slotted screws. Nice touch
“It knows in the sense that math exists in this universe”
LMAO
I would specify geometry, but yea lol/
That moment the cutter and the part destroyed each other on the milling machine broke my engineering heart. That right there happens to the best, and all they can do is swear profoundly and fix their booboo any which way but lose. Which you handled like a pro, chapeau! This is not in the theory books, it's called winging it.. ..and you winged it in a very good way I must add..
..other than that, a very interesting and awesome restoration of something I didn't even know existed. I need a stack of hats to take off for this one...
The technical 1337 speak term for a resto like this is called; "Nailing it like a boss"!
It is a Replication, not a Restoration. He totally destroyed this as an antique.
As someone who spent a few years in a machining apprenticeship, I /physically/ jumped at that ( 18:55 ) mishap. I've broken more endmills than I can count in doing stuff like that. I've learned a few things since.
@@VidarrKerr it wasn't an antique anymore, it was a pile of rust and rot. There was no restoring it, and it had zero value how it was. This may no longer be a genuine original but at least it works again.
I was genuinely happy for the "I need to restore a hand plane" comment. Watching you fight with that one was giving me anxiety. But I didn't want to be an asshole about it because I love your mixed shop skill, and can't hate on what you do in the slightest.
Essa máquina é formidável, incrível e muito bonita!
Excelente trabalho, Eric!
👏👏👏👏