Old Steam Powered Machine Shop 82 boring a steam engine cylinder
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- These are some jobs put through my 1925 replica steam powered machine shop and a little more modern engine machine work in my front shop. All comments, discussion and questions about steam power, line shaft belt drives and old machine shop theory.are always welcome here. Thanks for watching...Dave
only 2 machinists on youtube can make a boring operation exciting.
Dave and Tony.
David, I am fascinated with your channel. Have binge watched every post. You always thank us for watching but it is us that should be thanking you for posting. I would enjoy so much being your neighbor. Great to see you and Tom still at it.
Hi Jim, I had a neighbor that used to stop in to stop in now and then to see what was going on with his golf club when he was hitting a few around the back yard. He was 99 years old. His Great Uncle was the village doctor and built the big house next door in 1904. He showed up one day while I was video taping on the lathe, don't remember which video , I let the video roll.....Dave
Hi David just found your channel.
I started in the machine shop kind of by accident, hired as a welder, wasn’t enough to stay busy didn’t want to set on my but so I started learning what I could on a lathe. Then changed jobs and my boss was a tool and die guy. He gave me jobs that I was scared of, but I tried my best. After some years the plant was closing, I asked him what could I, he said, I have seen you do work that some tool/die men could not do. Then after some more years in different shops I went to work making tooling for allum. cans. This was measured in 100,000 inches, but we had the measuring devices to do it. I love to be given a blueprint and take it to completion running what ever machine needed. I really enjoyed watching you work and the equipment you have. I’ll be around for awhile binge watching you, l can’t do no more my legs don’t carry me very well. I love someone that really takes pride in his work, some many don’t just get paid. Where are you located, I’m in NC. Be safe
@@genegoodman5233 Hi Gene, I am in upstate NY and Florida during the winters. Sorry you arent able to do machine work but we all need to just do what we can, thanks for the comment.......Dave
It may not be steam powered but that sure is one very old electric motor on the boring machine. 👍😎
Matt, The brass tag on the motor reads "Pullman Car Company". to give you an idea where it's been.....Dave
Great to see you again Dave
I bet there aren't many shop owners who are looking for an OLDER machine for their business..
Keep up the good work
Mark
Love that old whistle Dave. Been missing it for a long time. Played it back half a dozen times!!
Loved seeing the shop work. Those old engines sure were simple.
Hi Brian, Guess it's just making round things round and flat things flat.....Dave
I had the privilege of learning how to use many of those machines in a old machine shop however it had all be converted to electric and no more steam engines but we did still run a lot of equipment with the flat belts.
Dave I have been here since your first video. I don't miss a one. You are on top of the top shelf of my favorites.
Love your channel Dave and the older I get the more I appreciate how things were done not that many years ago. Makes me nostalgic for things no longer seen and knowledge thats slowly being lost. Your shop is a living and exciting antique and you are an ambassador of steam. Keep up the videos.
Thanks, it seems like it's going away pretty fast....Dave
After watching Dave and some others, my second career choice would've been machine work. I've learned a lot from watching Dave work.
I so appreciate your skill, When I was young I took a job in a production shop.I was trained by an older retired machinist, you remind me of him, I had nothing but the highest respect for him . I'll be watching.
Thanks Dave love the shop the sounds are always so peaceful
Have just caught your channel, what an absolutely brilliant workshop. I've seen belt run machines before but agricultural, weaving and printing, but never in a space like this. It's a testimony to all your hard work, those engineers of days gone by who are what I call 1st generation, built things to last.
Very impressive, Lots of knowledge and equipment! More so in person. Thank you Dave. Larry from Wyoming.
i watched as Pete was disassembling that head, he said he was taking it to a machine shop and the machinist was David Richards. my first thought "oh David will fix it " lololol
Nice work as always David, enjoyed.
Dave any day is a good day when a new video comes from Old Steam Powered Machine Shop. Thanks Dave!
Hi Dave, good to see you up and running
Hi Dave, I always enjoy your videos, great work!
Mr Dave As per usual another fantastic video. It is always a pleasant surprise to watch and learn. THANK YOU
I am amazed at the precision they had back then, even when measured with todays instruments.
Yes, they had to be very creative, smart, and resourceful to accommodate backlash and slop in the equipment.
Greet to see your work again, pleasant and relaxing video to view... :) Thank You...
I really enjoy the variety in your job shop,I suppose its about time for you to head south,take care and keep up your videos🤗😎🤗😎
I am in complete awe of what you have created. I was born 100 years late, I love steam. Give me a steam powered anything!
Another excellent video. You and your shop are a national treasure! Thanks for the post and keep 'em coming!
Thanks for that Art. Just stuff you and I are interested in.....Dave
Hello Dave. I just recently stumbled across your channel. I don't know how I didn't find it sooner. So for the past couple of weeks I've been watching and trying to catch up. I attended community college in the machinist trade after I retired in 1999. I spent a few years in the trade and used my income to set up a hobby shop in my garage at home. My machines are much newer than yours but by choice I have no DRO's or digital equipment. I have really enjoyed your presentation of historical machining practices and steam which are a whole new world to me. Thanks very much! Please do keep up the good work!
l guess l am late but l just got your video today.....Thanks David my friend 👍
Old Shoe🇺🇸
Always a pleasure!!!!!
As a retired US Navy Boiler Technition and all round fixer fabricator....
I'm Sooo jealous!
Hey! Made my Saturday night. Thanks for another video, Dave.
Great video, I love the diversity of the projects. The shaper worked nice on that head..
I look forward to every new episode, love your web site. Give us more content more often.
Always a pleasant surprise to see your videos pop up.... Love them all.
Russ
It’s so awesome how far technology changed in 50-60 years compared to thousands of years of human history. It’s great to see you keeping the old ways of doing things alive, we could need the steam power technology again give n the war on oil and gas.
Love the videos don't stop !
Christopher from Down Under
Gday Dave, great to see your video pop up, I throughly enjoy watching each and everyone, your last video did go extremely well, thanks for sharing mate, cheers
Always a pleasure to watch this channel 😀
Brings back a lot of memories 👍
I love your videos! I wish I had the chance to work with a master like you, especially in an awesome old shop like yours!
Thanks Dave, This great to see these old machines come back to life and actually work!!
Super Werkstatt, da macht Arbeiten noch richtig Spass. Ein schönes Video :)))
I'm glad that the collaboration with Pete gave you a bump. That was a perfect combination of skill sets.
Another great video! Never gets old .
Thank you David for posting, I love everything steam. Chris
THANK YOU DAVID
You're looking very well, Dave.
The one thing that always strikes me is the absence of steam leaking from your superb power plant. Well fitted, well maintained and I believe well loved.
Hi Brian, The rod and valve packing leaks a little water most of the time, probably because the steam is so saturated at that low pressure....Dave
Found this channel back in 2019. Had a job cutting babbitt bearings for oil gas and the mills on a manual horizontal boring mill. in an old dirty shop on the tracks down by the river with a coal fired stove. Watched every episode.
Thanks for the comment. Great user name by the way......Dave
@@davidrichards5594 haha right. Stay healthy man and keep up the good work.
David,
Another interesting and informative video. I'd love to see you shop some day. Thanks for your continuing efforts to share classical machining equipment and processes.😀
Beautiful work as usual, I don’t know what I like more, the steam engine, the belts & pulleys, or the machining operations. What a treat to see them, I love that old shaper
You hit some very impressive tolerances with your equipment. Credit to your skill
Looking good Dave...thanks!
I don't have a smart phone Dave, sorry!
The more I watch this channel, the more I wish I was born a bit earlier! Work may have been harder overall, but the reward after hard work was more satisfying! I would love to just go around that shop to lubricate every oiler to admire the machinery!
Today's vehicles are no longer fun to work on anymore! Too complicated and mostly computer controlled rather than straight mechanically controlled.
Your knowledge is so valuable nowadays!
Love that kind of work. Ran machines for a lot of years but never ran belted ones. Your ceiling must have some good timbers to hold up all that iron. I ran Sunnen hones for many years in my aerospace mfg. career. Also ran Studer od grinders. Both super accurate machines. We used laser mics. and air spindle gaging for our measurements. Good to within about 50 millionths. I have never seen aluminum rod bushings before..
Thanks for showing the honing machine. I’d not seen one before. Cylinder came out great!
Great video thank you
Fantastic, I could....and have....spend all day watching your channel.
If you ever manage to get to this side of the pond I would recommend a visit to the Kew Pumping Station and steam museum in London.....its not so much a steam pumping engine as a "Cathedral of Engineering" ...ahh the Victorians, they didn't just build awesome machines, they made them look good too.
Ian, Kew is on my list if I ever get to UK....Dave
That’s really cool. I’m glad you got the rods in this video.
Thanks for sharing love you're videos
Did I actually win some things
Or are u hacked
Another great episode! Keep em coming!!!
Many Thanks for yet another interesting video David .I like that priceless old Sunnen hone !
Howdy Dave. I finally got me another lathe, so now I am turning and boring again. Great fun, and lots more projects in the near future. Watching all your videos made me miss machine shop work so much I just had to do it. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Always fascinating to watch. Thanks for sharing Dave.
It might not be steam powered but i still love that boring mill, i wish i could find one here in Australia but their extremely rare and extremely expensive if your lucky enough to even find one
Mark, Small ones are rare now...Dave
Right down Main Street is a great way of saying it.
Awsome video as usual! Thanks👍
Excellent video as always. Thanks Dave.
An interesting gather of projects. With interesting machines working to complete the job tasks. Thank you for posting the work flow. M.
Good to see you again and I have to say you are looking really well, you have lost weight and are looking 10 years younger !
Good for you man ! 👍
Another great video Dave 👍👍👍 As much as I love the steam powered machine shop it is always interesting to watch the machines in your other shop earning their keep. Never seen a honing machine like that before, fascinating to watch. Cheers, Alan.
That stuff is getting to be antique too. Most of it is around 50 years old. ...Dave
Subscribed to your channel.Excellent video.Thank you.
Always worth stopping what I am doing to watch with coffee in hand. Thanks Dave.
Have you thought about a pair of cones to aid in lining up on the boring machine?
Hi Robert, It would probably be good to get it close , but it's the last .010" that is the hard part.....Dave
Hello David,
A very interesting video as always.
I especialy loved the view at the pully and belt set up from the steam engine to the lathe s.
Very usefull for me,I have startend with my pully s and bearing setup in my oldtime machine shop.
Ik hope to have the shop running at the end of next years.
No steampower I afraid ,an old 3 phase E motor 1920 or a single cil hotbulb diesel engine 1926.
I wil make it possible to use one or the other.
I wil keep U informeren.
You are a big inspiration for me.
Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands
Henk
That's very good Henk, Keep us informed of your progress...Dave
Nice one Dave , as usual . 👍
Hi Steam guy. I like your work. It must be very nice to work in there during the winter. I've been out of the trade for 8 years( got hurt) but I do miss it. I spent 25 years machining castings and internal parts for a co. that made steam regulators, steam traps and safety valves. Before that Ispent 7 years working for a drill bit manufacturer named New York Twist Drill and they owned Bath tap. You probably have some of that stuff laying around. Any way, It's all made in China, India, and Mexico now. So again, Thanks for the cool videos. I do miss being in a real shop.- Yours, Jim
Was that Bath, NY?....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 Bath taps and gauges were made in Worcester Massachusetts. It was an old company tha was owned by new York twist drill until NYTD was sold to another corporation called Regal Beloit. Regal Baloit already had an outfit that made taps and dies so Bath got closed down with out warning. That happened in the mid 80s. A year or so later New York Twist Drill was closed down as well. If you look through your drill collection and find a drill with Sargent stripes on it, that's one of mine.
@@henkvanderwal2424 i can't imagine any one falling for that
@@henkvanderwal2424 no it's not. Thank you for thinking of us.
They're gone.....Dave
That is some brass coloured aluminium in those bushings.
The old bushings were steel with a brass liner, the new were aluminum with brass lining....Dave
Looks like a Giddings & Lewis boring Mach. I used one many years, only had a 3 digit serial #.
Hi Henry, This one is 2 1/2". I think it is the smallest ever made.....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 ok, what does 2 1/2” refer to. Thanks
@@henrytupper6959 spindle diameter, most were 3 1/2" and over and were about as big as a car....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 That’s probably the size we had too.
David I just found your channel and can't tell you how much I like what you're doing. Years ago I wanted to set up my own shop with overhead shaft a pulleys
Sorry I hit send by mistake. But continuing, I bought a shaft and pulleys and bearing hangers and I've gotten too old to take that project on. I've decided to sell it all and you or maybe your channel followers might be interested. I would like to contact you but don't know how. I'll watch for a reply.
really like these vids
Awesome shop
Would like to see video of osha Inspecter having a stroke
Hi Dave, as a retired mechanical engineer in UK, interested in your work is not the word, more like fascinated! Would love to be working with you on your projects. I always found slow speed and feed plus coolant gave the best suface finish when turning steel maybe not cast iron. Perhaps the wrought iron has poor grain structure giving you the poor finish , can't tell without running the hand over it haha. Anyway I am sure you will have it perfect in the end. Many thanks from Nr Liverpool UK.
Hi Chris, Problem is, it has no grain structure at all. Early (before 1900) Wrought Iron has hard slag inclusions. One piece claimed a nearly new band saw blade a couple days ago. Tom and I decided to scrap any stock in the shop that we could identify as Wrought.
I’m a ‘ Old Dog’ but you keep teaching me new tricks. Can you help me with my Smartphone? Ha
Another great video, over -bore is great, but I think it needs a stroker crank for a few more inches, and some nitrous in the steam could help too. I don't think anyone will protest you.
Dave, I have to say you have a great taste in music choice for the channel. It's my kind of music. 👍
Dave I was thinking a viewer sent you a portable crank grinder in a big wooden box a few years a go or maybe it was Keith Rucker if not may be the viewers would recall. It sure would be nice to true up that rod throw. You just hook the pan rail adaptor to your lathe cross feed, I did it a lot in my shop in Alaska I didn't have a crank grinder and the closest one was down in the world. If Kith is the one or whom ever my be Abom 79 you could pick on your way north next year. That is if they would lend it to you as it is probably the most used tool in the shop or probably still in the box it came in. Just a thought. Its all in the setup. Paul
Set up a working steam gen set to run the horizontal mill and some lights.
retired , now , with mother-in-law in your backyard , i hafta stop by and say "hey" . my hope is rudimentary crack repairs . hope to grow from there . yup , die with a wrench in my hand .....same way as a little toddler i screwed up our former farm tractors and earned the "Hand of knowldge being applied to the seat of education" as well , wrench in hand.......
Thats not a hairline crack at 11:18 is it? Im watching on a small cel phone so maybe not. Awesome shop. The way its laid out with the steam powering everthing is amazing. Machines ive never seen before. I would pay for a shop tour.
muy buenos trabajos hace usted también práctico yo el oficio cómo Jovi no entiendo el inglés pero lo sigo mirando como usa las máquinas saludos desde España
Gracias por su contestación desde niño practique la mecánica en aquellos años 80 amante de los motores a vapor con los años aprendí y ahora he comprado una fresadora troquel y serrucho mecanico para tiempos de Jovi un saludo desde Galicia España
Damn, Dave, that was a fast 33 minutes.
I never heard of the releaf cut at the end of steam cylinders. Thanks.
Dean, It's a steam engine thing.....Dave
Hiya Dave
It looks like the wrist pin bushings were brass or bronze after all. That silver color that we saw when you pressed them in must have been a protective coating? Tin perhaps?
Dave, great video. Feel free to vocalize things that might be second nature to you. I found myself wondering why you chose the angle of your bit, as well as why you chose to cut with that particular cutter. I'm new to machining and always like to learn the "why" behind the method.
Hi David. Just discovered your very interesting channel. I'm looking forward to watching many more of your videos. Just FYI - your discoveries of (and comments about) the wrought iron drive shaft (presumably on the basis of those linear carbon inclusions we could see) were unfortunately inaudible because you were standing too close to the machine. I would have liked to have heard more about the problems of using this particular material in high load applications. Is it possible to include captions/text on the really noisy bits of your videos? Anyway, best wishes from over here in the UK.
On those small steam engine cylinders, are the head bolt holes concentric enough to set up line-boring equipment?
Estoy justamente armando un aserradero y carpintería a vapor de estás características. Molino museo Nant Fach
Are you going to make CZcams videos? I'm not a fan of dead tree carcass but it'd still be interesting to see
I'd put a steam engine in my shop for no other reason then to have a whistle!
Nice shaper what make is it
Hi. How many wheelbarrow of wood do you burn by day ? Regards
It depends some on how good the wood is, but usually about 3 to get some steam and another to run it up to operating pressure. Takes me about an hour and 15 minutes, Tom can do it in less than an hour....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 Thanks !
I'm in southeastern Massachusetts any thought on how I can keep my machines from rusting. My workshop isn't heated constantly so it's causing condensation on everything I own.
when you come up with something, let me know.....Dave