FIXING A 1900's STEAM HAMMER! Pt. 5
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Usual rule of thumb for cleaning a cylinder after honing it is to use Brakecleen on a paper shop towel and wipe the bore. Throw used towel away. Repeat with new towel and Brakecleen until the towel comes up clean after wiping through. Honing dust is very fine grade and air blasting will not do the job. Nice to see this coming back together and kudos to the shop who did the shaft grinding.
This is the way.
BTW brake cleaner is basically just acetone.
Brakekleen is very similar to dry cleaning fluid and can be used to remove stains from clothing.
@@quarlow1215dont forrget thst brake cleaner IS ur hand and body wash👍
I watched Rainman Ray use it on oil on upholstery!
This is such a wild ride of a series. Everything is alien in design but weirdly make sense since its mostly simple. Also, really well done getting an AeroPress sponsor, thats a quality sponsor.
its really incredible how much simpler old machines had to be, because of our relatively simple tools and materials. And the complexity that this simplicity drives.
Agreed on all counts, including the AeroPress sponsorship. I admit that watching Alec regularly for years was part of the reason I first installed SponsorBlock, because some of his choices were clearly financially pragmatic and decidedly not quality.
Nice to see that the coffee theme from his Trade sponsorships continues, though!
A tip for the ultrasonic cleaner is to roughly clean the parts first. They are great are removing small stubborn areas of grime.
Ultrasonic cleaners are good at loosening grime, not cleaning per se. Ideally, before you even put the item in the bath, you've already given everything a good scrub and performed all the prep work in cleaning it as best you could. Most people just dump stuff in and expect miracles.
Leaving aside the fact that you wouldn't get that from cheapy units (you need the 10 head industrial types for that kind of cleaning... whereas most of these have what... 2 or 4 heads at best... running off the same board) you won't get any significant cleaning without some initial setup.
wire brush first on those bolts woulda done wonders
70C and a good alkaline degreaser.
Bro, this series is killer. I love this stuff. Giving a neglected century old piece of machinery a new lease on life.
Those Crocs he is wearing are the biggest fail. Dude is neglecting PPE 100 percent. This is awful to watch...
@@Rosk03got a great idea for you. Don’t watch it then.
@@Rosk03 if you drop that thing on your foot it wont matter if you're wearing crocs or steel toes.
@@thejesusaurus6573 Following your thought process might as well take off the glasses, hearing proctection and respirator while we are at it... Makes perfect sense
@@stevenweindorfer2554 Making CZcams videos doesn't exempt you from standard safety practices. And calling him out on it is 100 legitimate.
13:50 Did not think I would ever look at another man's shaft with such admiration, Alec 🤣
Biochemist here. If you've a bunch of smaller rusted parts, try heating them up in an acidic solution for a while. You can start off cheap/gentle with either distilled white vinegar or soda that contains phosphoric acid, like Coke. If you want to be more aggressive, you can get hydrochloric acid and then try diluting it less and less with distilled water until you reach a combination of heat and time that works for you.
Evaporust for me, wash off in a parts washer first then overnight in Evaporust. Oil after removal to prevent flash rust. This is what I did when I restored my lathe.
Loving this series. Super cool project
Blessed are the long form series.
My favorite Alex! the scared to break his machine focused Alex. That man could fix the world.
Alec should call Cutting Edge Engineering for a line boring tutorial and Hand Tool Rescue for general life advice.
I am sure Curtis and Homie could give him a few tips.
How you going guys, this is Curtis from Cutting Edge Engineering.... some of my favorite words at the start of a video.
Hell yeah, MORE STEAM HAMMER
Good to see aeropress. I love mine. I've got two, one at home and one in my work locker. Definitely recommend.
There surely are worse sponsors, I like my daily aeropress ☕
Same, got one coming up on ten years old. Travel with mine all the time.
need longer videos please alec. i love these hammer rebuilds.
Massive undertaking. What a challenge. Thank you for not being intimidated and shying away from taking this tasks on. This is some interesting stuff! Keep it up, Alec!
Your gasket surfaces should have a 30-55 serrations per inch, in a concentric or spiral pattern, cut with a 1/16" radius, round-nosed tool. Surfaces which can not be serrated should have a surface finish with a multi-directional lay and roughness of 125-250 micro-inch RMS. Best of luck and I'll be watching. :)
I love this series so much, Im hyped to see the new bronze bushings!
That is definitely doing it the hard way. Alec, you should try to barrow a bore gauge from an engine machine shop to measure how concentric the bore is after all that honing.
I love your videos, man. It’s awesome how you’re using all these tools to fix the steam hammer.
Finally back to interesting content. Love this series and all other actual blacksmithing videos
Loving this series, looking forward to seeing the brass machined.
Just love these re-hab videos. So much fun. Thanks Alex & Jamie
Thanks for the entertaining videos. Lots of different ways to go about getting things accomplished, sometimes what you do is not the best of easiest way but if you get it done and learn along the way that is what its all about. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Loving the resto series on this hammer. Good work guys.
This has been one of my favorite series in a while! Keep up the great work I’ve been watching since 2016 and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon!
8.1K likes, but 2.43 million subscribers. come on peeps, help Alec out here! i love watching your videos and seeing things brought back from the brink of death. cant wait to see this machine up and running again!
Yessir more of this. So eager to watch the next episode for the whole process
Loving this series!!
Absolutely loving these! I gotta get out and restore my old horizontal bandsaw one of these days!
Awesome series, can't wait to see it back in action.
"The surface finish left by the cutter is not brilliant" Alec, that's a dreadful finish, it looks like the soup dragon is going to fly out and munch on a clanger at any given second
best series yet - been watching you for years keep up the good work Alec!
Nice work on the mill Alec, looking forward to seeing you make the new bearings.
I've never found myself commenting on a channel sponsor before but I'm a huge coffee nerd and the areopress is legitimately one of the best ways to make coffee. It's so fast, efficient, and easy compared to basically anything else. 10/10 sponsorship.
I found your video very entertaining because it has the most charming, cute and fun personality on camera.
YES!!! was waiting for this one!
What I find most impressive is time, and time again, you dive into the massive and scary unknown with such bravery. You have no fear and it is so inspiring.
That was fantastically interesting. Love the old engineering on this hammer. Keep it up
This is going almost too well. Love all the puns and funny antics. Well done fellas. Im glad that everything went well with the boring part. Im excited to see this bad boy work.
Legit been using an aeropress for over 10 years. Great product. ALso loving this series
Thanks for the wonderful content that started in your first till now I have love every minute over the years ❤🎉
Alec, you should make a Stainless Steele Kettle and/or a Stainless Steele coffee press! I think it would be a great way to showcase a sponsor's product or just for gits and shiggles
Never has being so boring been so entertaining.
Great job Alec you've been doing an amazing job love seeing the progress
This is one of my favourite series you've ever made
love both my aero press and your vid
i know you want to get paid, but please make these episodes longer, i am so invested in these
Found your channel with the ice axe video.
Love the pace of your videos! Keep it up brother 🙌
Thanks for filming again Alec & Jamie. 😁👍🏼
Alec, a co-axial indicator is what (professional) machinists use to align bores for things like this.
I feel like what you might want to do when taking down those bronze bushings is see how much you can slice off with a portaband before going in and making chips. You might be able to get off some nice big chunks before putting it in the lathe, without taking it down too far.
Aeropress is such a good sponsor! Have used them for years, might have to make use of the 20% off and get another
Very boring episode in the series, great job! Always a FANTASTIC time when your videos pop up!
The bronze stuffing box bore doesn't need to be a close fit to the ram , it's just to squeeze the graphite fibre packing out against the ram to make a seal, I think there were about 4 coils of packing. there is a smaller one on that valve shaft which will also need packings.
Really cool series
I use a brass bristle brush attached to one of my bench grinders to clean fasteners ... makes them look brand new. Heck of a lot better than using a nail to clean the threads, that's for sure.
Love this man, almost there 💪
Oh Yeah!!! Thanks Alec!!!
Try going to a machine shop in Boring, Oregon! There's an annual convention with my church in various places in each state and country. However, the two my friend and I have the most fun with is being able to say he's been to Boring convention and Happy convention (in Happy, Texas).
Love those hones, I've got a b18b1 in my diningroom that I'll be doing a hone with one that looks very close to the same as the one you've perchesed for your project👌🤙
Apparently the best solution for the ultrasonic bath is dishwasher tabs, 2 or 3 of them, haven't got around to trying it myself yet 🤪
I would love to be a fly on the wall if the local OH&S inspector ever visits Alec's workshop... It wasn't pretty, nor particularly safe...but that is why we tune in... 🙂
Alex. Get a coaxial indicator. Designed for lining up on bores / holes. So much easier and faster.
I love the thomnaile!!
Enjoying the series. I prefer to watch bladesnithing, but your offerings let me see a lot of interesting things.
"That worked so much better in my head." Is the quote of the year. I mean, who HASN'T said that? I mean, I say it a lot. Way too much.
Love the random microtrax!
I've never been so bored😉
Really like this kind of stuff. I wasn't a huge fan of when you were just making random stuff you could buy at the store because you felt like it, but I can see your passion here and you seem to be enjoying this kind of project. Also, kudos for the tom foolery of getting that part in the mill!!
Love my Aeropress. Makes the best coffee anywhere.
For future reference, the quill power downfeed would be a better option to use than raising the table with such a large part. Then you can lock the Z axis in place, and the quill will feed downwards which should keep things more rigid.
The vibration made sense , you were dealing with runout on the table moves up on that so it was closing the gap the tool was hanging as it cut . The way that was machined originally was likely a line boring machine
Gotta build a boiler next, for testing this beast~
If I didn’t already have an aeropress I would definitely be buying one for 20% off. Best coffee ever.
The first job in this video makes you realise just how valuable a line boring machine is to people who do jobs like that on machine's, day in and day out, if the part is too big to fit in any machine? You bolt the machine to the part and go from there 😂😂
Can we just take a second to observe the fact that jamie has had a serious haircut. Almost unrecognisable. Love it.
This is when a coaxial centering indicator saves immense amounts of time...
you need 30min. videos, 16min. is just not enough i need more!
Great vid!
Love this series so far ❤
Never been so happily bored ever.
Can't wait to see the feeling of the Bronx
It feels like I’ve gone to be in heaven to be in my shop, AND this early to a video drop
Bench grinder with a wire wheel is the best thing to clean bolts up and clean the grime off the threads
No matter if you use evaporust or ultrasonic with various chemicals, you really need to mechanically clean the stuff first with a wirewheel etc. You use an excavator to dig a big hole, and a shovel to make it perfect.
love it !
Alec, there's also a ball home one that has a bunch of balls and stuff that also cleans the sound of so you can use that first and then use the scraper too. You can use both of them to do a lot of thing in the center of all
Good call taking it out of the mill for honing. The cylinder Hone will leave behind an abrasive slurry of oil. Nasty stuff to get on the mill
Evaporust would be a good investment for this series!
The reason for the amount of chatter being different was because of how you mounted to bore that point. We think of metal as being 'solid' when it (doing fine machinery and such) is not, it vibrates, all of that unsupported weight hanging off the one side accentuated the vibration that was occurring, if it had been all supported (rubber mats on the outside balance point to absorb vibration and reduce it) there would have been a lot less chatter effect. Think of it like a spring mounted where you were boring the top of the spring has lots of room to vibrate, and the bottom is anchored so less room to vibrate. Best basic description I could give.
Love it 😊
the bore came out good, i would have run the hone in and out faster to get a wider cross hatch but over all it will do the job. well done
That is a great looking haft you have there Alec 👌
Alec, I have never been so enthralled about something so boring.
Am I the only one who misses the Alex/Will duo? Great times, as well as some pretty AWESOME projects!
I was so not bored, watching this boring episode.. I kinda wish you were still in the US, but I believe the short time you were here, you grew more, by being so far from home and out of your element.. Thank you for sharing...
I think a revisiting of the Sword Cane would be a great video series but having gold inlay and gems with mammoth ivory handle and fine pattern Damascus for the blase and brass or bronze guards maybe even a Kris style blade
Love my Aeropress!
I have to admit, I do like seeing cruddy looking machines cleaned up and polished.
longer episodes would be awesome!
Love your content