Making a Steam Power Hammer! Part 2
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once this is done you better make a tiny Damascus billet with this bad boy
Please do that sounds amazing
Would be amazed if he could do it.... great suggestion!
A copper damascus plate would be cool to see again.
like making a whole set of Fondue forks?
Or a tiny Swiss army style knife
Kits like this should genuinely come with enough castings to make 2 whole machines just to accommodate for the failure rate.
But all that comes in these kits is the castings, if you want 2 drtd of casting just buy 2 kits, you even get second set of drawings in case you spill oil/marking fluid/hot beverage on them
@@daniwalmsley611it’s 400€ so buying two kits is a little expensive
Man those KiwiCo kits are getting pretty complicated.
HAHAHAHAH
Is for little 25+
Please Alec, remember to mark the alignment change on your (blue)print. Gonna suggest it'll be blinking important...later. Also good to see the gray stuff being challenged like the old days..
I love this "heist movie" editing style of lining up the audio of the planning phase with the video of the execution phase
You know he’s really working when the work table has pizza on it.
11:31 for those who didn't see it!
It's like he's been watching Stay Tuned,
So it's basically technics for engineers with fully equipped workshop that have spare time and energy to make brute casts work. Great business model!
such a HUGE amount of people that meet those specs! brilliant
There will be people out there doing this all with a file.
No. I made one of the Stuart stationary steam engines in my shed. I’m neither an engineer nor have a fully equipped workshop 🙂
Not engineers, machinists. Engineers are the people who design the parts, machinists are the people who figure out how to actually machine them.
@@Kenionatus…And then there’s people who straddle both disciplines.
I know a number of Engineers who are excellent Machinists and a few Machinists who are excellent Engineers.
I started out as a Machinist and took additional courses over time to qualify as an Engineer.
In later years whenever I got a fresh young “qualified” Engineer the first assignment he or she was given was to spend as long as it took to produce a 21.5mm cube out of 25mm bright steel stock, using hand tools, all surfaces lapped to a 1200 grit stone with a tolerance of 0.05mm on all faces.
The final step was then to drill and tap M8 holes perpendicular and centred to all surfaces.
Once they’d achieved that they had the joy of repeating the exercise in Aluminium.
It was exactly the process that I went through when I got my first job out of college.
The value of it was that it kept them out of my hair and within the realms in which the toolmakers, machinists and fabricators held court….Which educated the victims handsomely, encouraged elements of rightful fear and respect for the skilled tradesmen upon whom they would rely and it gave them a far better understanding of the materials and techniques that they were largely unfamiliar with upon departure from their Universities.
They also got to hear about all of the things that really cheese off a skilled tradesman about Engineers, like being given badly dimensioned drawings of impossible to produce parts, unnecessarily specced in tricky to work materials and requiring ridiculously fine finishes and insanely tight tolerances for no fathomable reason.
They also then forever had a pair of desk ornaments with which to fiddle during those times when thinking through a problem.
It made them much better, more useful and more popular Engineers. Those that the senior toolmaker quietly let me know were worth keeping stayed with us for years.
The others were quietly and as kindly as possible let go after a reasonable period, unless they showed a spark of useful talent for writing BOM’s or compliance documentation or something of a similar nature.
We had a happy, productive and cohesive workforce from top to bottom as a result.
We also achieved truly exceptional successes in our very specialist field.
It’s an old fashioned approach, but it produces respect for skills and knowledge in both directions that is often lacking in industry these days.
Can we all recognize that Jamies editing is some of the best work on youtube!
Can we all please appreciate how flippin cute Crazy is in her sweater and snuggled up in a ball? ❤
Imagine just how much work went into making these before power tools were available. Really makes you realise how skilled engineers/blacksmiths were.
Alec really is the prime example of why we have multi year apprenticeships with a mix of school and practical education here in Germany. You can kinda somehow mostly figure things out yourself, but having the basics down perfectly makes everything so much more simple, reliable and efficient.
That's pretty standard for apprenticeship here in the States too.
Congrats on the peck broach! That is indeed one of the things you can use the bridgeport for and is the only way that you can make that feature properly.
Thank you! Phew! Glad I was on the right track 😄
When it is done bring the tiny sword maker back!
Oh Alec! I've shared this with several of my steam engineering friends and they've all been mumbling about it (which is a good thing!!) and figuring out how they'd do it. You're apparently on the right track and I agree! I'd love to send some photos of the girl I work with and her plans, but not sure how to. You are doing great and my steam friends with a LOT of knowledge behind them are impressed.
9:33 why is the behavior of the fluid lubricant here so satisfying?
No experience or time is wasted if you learned something positive and/or constructive from the process.
A fractal vise could help with holding weirdly shaped things! Could be a video series to make one?
08:40 - A 'Bobby Duke Arts' refference "Hmmm I like thayat"... EXCELLENT! 👌😉 😎🇬🇧
Helpful tip - when milling the 'mouthpiece' and clamping it in the left hand side of the table vice, use an equivalent piece of material in the right hand side of the vice to equalise the clamping pressure on the workpiece. May have been why the 'mouthpiece' shifted when you milled the first and second face.
I have the PERFECT idea. What if you make some Damascus handcuffs when you're done with this series? Great content
If you're gonna do a lot of centering I'd recommend a radial dial indicator... BUY MORE THINGS! Also, if you make a broach, you can actually give it a steeper angle with multiple steps so you can take off multiple chips per stroke. You only needed 2 slots so this wasn't a big deal of course.
Love your content.
@@samgriffiths8928 Commercial broaches have more cutting edges because you usually use them on a press (which usually aren't designed for precise movement in the X and Y axis like a mill) and thus need some kind of die to hold the broach in place in order to not wander around, or have other features to align themselves in the workpiece. In order to cut down on operation and setup time, broaches are designed to cut the shape in one operation, so you only need to use a single die, or if the broach is used to get a full profile (like internal splines on a bore for power transmission for example), the previous stages of cutting edges act as the die to handle alignment.
In Alec's case, the part was firmly mounted in the vice, and the mill's quill acted as a die, and because you can precicesly adjust the relative position of the quill to the workpiece on a mill, he only needs a single cutting edge and can just shift the broach in small increments to simulate the multiple stages of cutting edges.
The metal tab of the morse taper is just there to remove and install the drill its only held with the taper. I've seen some where the taper gave out and the tap's done afterwards.
This isn't the first time hes said this, got a qutie a few drills stuck in the sleave
@@dazrich20 last time i commented aswell and even got a like from him didn't last though but thats what we're for
Ahh my bad!! Thanks for the correction!
@@AlecSteele Your Welcome! The power hammer build is an awesome series so far!
Loving the dramatic dog content, truly why we're all here!
I can't be the only one who gets a lil excited when Alec says "time to make a tool"
I fully understand the insanity of crafting something to exactly what you want and knowing it works and can't waiting until I can execute it. That was a lot of 'ands'. Either way, kudos, never stop with the utterly insane goal of completing everything for which you strive. Love the passion, keep going.
The epic puppy montage really brought this video up to top tier.
I _love_ the epic napping music. What a doggo!
Just 80.000 pieces more to prep for assembly. This is gonna be a 420 part series, strap in bois
the Crazy + Ball sub-plot...
Love the bobby duke art „i like that“ ❤
I love miniature models and diy kits but this one…at this point you could also mill everything out of raw material and use your own dimensions while saving on tools and time :D
"If that thing runs once done, Alec is a magician of chaos!"
But, I know it will run. The future has been recorded already. We got a chaos magician right here! :D
For the 7/8 hole, if you don't have a drill bit large enough you could always bore a hole with a 4 jaw chuck on the lathe. Use the DRO or a center punch to drill the center through hole, then indicate off that hole to center it in the lathe.
It's nice to see all the things I've spent this whole year studying being applied in a machinists environment, even if it is in imperial ahaha
4:22 the flat spot does not do anything for stopping spinning, its all based on friction in the Taper ;
The flat bit (TANG) is to allow the ejection of the drill.
I can easily Prove this if you wish, I have quite a few drills that have lost friction in the past and have remvoed the meat of the tang in seconds, but still function fine with a good shove.
Was wondering if anyone was gonna bring this up
My friend the tool that makes life easier when picking up a round hole or boss is a coaxial indicator. 100% worth it no breaking your neck looking around the whole mill.
I really love seeing you use the other functions on your machines. So many buttons and abilities ... I would have gotten lost for weeks just playing around and finding out what they all do.
I can't believe you broached with the Bridgeport... So cool!
In all my years of watching Alec, I think this is the first time I have ever heard him curse.
I love the amount of effort and attention to detail that went into this, for what must be an incredibly low-volume product.
i love how his humor has evolved with his audience. like 6 years ago when i was watching him make katanas there were almost no dirty jokes because he knew he had a younger audience, but now the show is half bleeps.
"UTTER MORONISM" sent me 😂
It's amazing how much work Alec gets done when his cameraman isnt there.
One thing i love about your videos is you every now and then run into some problem or challenge, and you just, *make a new tool.*
Love your musical editing. perfectly on the beat.
The milling nerdery, especially the DRO functions are really good content.
Watching Alec make a steam engine kit vs watching Quinn make a steam engine kit is like the difference between aggressive "Good Enough" and "Must be Perfect"
I, for one, appreciate the dog pics :)
man, your attention to detail, and the discipline behind your hard work are outstanding brother. as always.
Some would say that add transition was ultimate.
Great work Alec! I love the projects you take on, and not everyone is perfect, but we love your videos!
I mean.... 2 parts down! Can't wait to see what part 756 looks like, but I feel this is a long journey!
15:16 “Jamie, does this remind you of anything?”
😂😂😂😂
The high speed cutting intermixed with footage of the dog in the bed, brilliant.
A project like this is why you need a small boring head rather than buying an expensive set of imperial morse taper drills just to get one 7/8" that's likely to drill a hole slightly over 7/8".
God I love this project it’s so cool seeing all the machining knowledge you have
Alec, its been 5 and a half years! Is there any opportunity that you would re-create a classic "Forged in Fire" challenge? Love the videos!! ❤ ❤ ❤
It's a shame that you are no longer in North America. I'm sure Quinn from BlondieHacks would have loved to play with the big machines and she could have helped you with your setups and reading the drawing. She builds these casted models all the time and is a tremendous machinist.
Doggos story arc of getting the ball was definitely Oscar worthy
The Bobby Duke Arts reference at 8:40 was legendary. I want to see a collab.
you need a coaxial indicator. these things are sooo useful on the mill
Glad to see you remove the 2nd parallel on the second milling operation, you obviously heard me!
Great to see so many tools and techniques being learnt. Just don't forget it is rotated!!! Maybe draw the correction on the drawings.
Love these project series
That whole PCD discovery/learning was really satisfying.
Alec you should make a Infill hand plane after this project is done
Really enjoying this project. I do like watching a bit of engineering.
Cool and complicated project, keep at it!
I'm really digging the purple diacom
Hey Alec, I have been watching your videos since you were in your first little shop. I enjoy the work that you do, and the success that you have earned. Keep up the good work and thank you for your videos
Hey, Alec! I recommend The "inheritance machining" channel so you can improve your machining skills.
Gotta say, i enjoy your machining content almost more than your blacksmithing one.
I like a good puzzle when somebody else got to think to solve it.
Wow! Rock On Steam Punk Guy! Steam rocks, and to see a young guy machining steam things... Excellent! You should visit Keith Rucker of Vintage Machinery in Georgia in the U.S..
Silver and demming drills can be used in the milling machine in a r8 collet
awesome episode! I like how your outros are short, I can see your video 'til the end
While this video is a cool project in and of itself, is also an amazing example of a perfect example of an answer to, "why does x cost so much? You could make it yourself?"
"Yes, but you spend a ton of time and buy a ton of supplies and tools to do so" lol
you reminded me of a younger version of Adam Savage from the mythbuster's at the end, been watching a bit of his CZcams channel recently with him playing about with mini lathes and milling machines and the way you got excited was exactly like him
I remember doing similar projects in high school metal shop in Kalamazoo Michigan 1970.
Loving the build Alec!
The sequence with the dog looking at the ball, and then having the ball was fantastic.
IIRC there's one company that makes casting kits like these that will do free exchanges of parts if you break or screw up on a piece. You ship them back the boogered bit to toss back into their foundry and they send you a new rough casting to start over on.
Cast iron is great to machine, easy, low stress (on the machines!), and fast. It's also easy and fast to hog off too much metal in the wrong direction...
U should have had that hole wire or spark eroded. It would have also made another awesome video on the insights of other metal working machines 👍
Brilliant work on that broach 👌🏼
The most important part about this project isn't the project itself. It's the fact that once you'll be finished, you'll have done several ops you've never done before. You should buy other kits as well and make those too. One kit that would strike your fancy AND give you a useful tool in the shop would be the one that Adam Savage did (actually, there's two). Either his vertical file machine or his adjustable jeweler's vise (he details where he got the plans in his videos). Both are staples of young machinists (and by young, i mean inexperienced, you can start this journey at any age).
Both of those kits are very well made and the final item is very useful in both instances. I have the vise and it's basically my go to with any fiddly project that needs nutty angles to work on, including electronics (a good mod for it is teflon jaws).
I finally fitted a DRO to my lathe 2 weeks ago ... can't believe i've gone 20+ years without one
Oh Yeah!!! Thanks Alec!!!
I love this series! Keep it up
I was really surprised at the end there with the lack of innuendos... then Alec said " Jamie does this remind you of anything?"
I would love to see you make or upgrade a fractal vice like Adam Savage did. Love your stuff mate!
Let’s hope nothing gets dropped this episode
I love this new project
This is awesome and i cant wait to see it run. I just wish the episodes were just a little bit longer lol. I do like the episodes are more often
Y'know, it seems like Alec could've just machined this thing from scratch with the same amount of effort.
It’s coming along nicely
The maligator clips are the best
the tang on a taper drills only purpose is to help eject the drill from the sleeve. the tang will just twist off with enough torque.
It would be a great oppourtunity to put plates on the outside of the steam hammer with engraved decoration similar to what you would find on a top of the range shotgun, so its not only built by you, but engraved by you,
Man, you gotta make some videos with "Shadiversity"! They will love your content and they can Really test a sword! Would be amazing
Big 'ol Alec with another banger
1:59 When surfacing to make sure it’s all square, try scribing ink over the surface after the first cut, that way when it’s all removed you’ll know it’s flat and not angled.
That ‘kit’ looks like a real challenge, thanks for the heads up 😮