OLD STEAM POWERED MACHINE SHOP 32 Steam engine rod bearing
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- Before municipal power, in the 1920s, steam power was the standard for all industry large and small. Most first hand knowledge of this marvelous power source was lost in scarcely a generation. I set up this shop to depict what it might have been like in 1925 to run a small job machine shop under steam power. All discussion about steam, machine shop history, line shaft drives or machine work in general is always welcome here, Thanks for watching....Dave
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These videos are just amazing. There are thousands of people out there making videos on just about every subject you can imagine. Dave, your videos are among the best, maybe the best, for pace, content, and a general feeling of calmness. Thanks for never using the hyper-speed that so many people use (many of them to good effect). Your videos convey a real peaceful approach. I'm much more relaxed after watching your stuff than when I start. What a treat.
Well thanks, you move to the top for that....Dave
hey Dave I agree with the wheelbarrow , please keep up the wonderful vids.Tom
Amen! Well said wheel&barrow.
wheel&barrow yes. No high speed talking
This describes exactly what it feels like to watch Dave's videos. The sounds of the shop are a great part of the videos too.
I grew up in a machine shop that ran on line shafts. it was powered by a 1 cyl natural gas engine. the machines in your shop look like the same ones in our shop.
your videos take me back to my youth,the sounds of the slapping belts and the smells of hot metal and cutting oil. Thanks for the memories
You are a fortunate guy Blaine......Dave
I love the way you work the four jaw chuck so methodology. When in tech school doing just that and being so proud of nailing it right on. I'd call the teacher over and show him, he would hit it with a brass hammer and say "Do it again". Love what you do! God bless
Great comment Dave.....Dave
I do like the video shots where the view pulls back and gives a view of the shop.
AMAZING shop and even more amazing to watch someone understand and use it
I have always said - "Just because it is old does not mean it is bad". Your collection of vintage tools and machines do today just as well as they did over 100 years ago. Keep up the good work.
That centering alignment tool, that was so simple and nifty. Without wild indicators and trickery. So impressed with that. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for keeping a great part of our history alive! Great work, and a pleasure to watch as always.
Thanks for the interest...Dave
Love that steam engine Dave. Great demo on the governor, and great discovery on the vacuum in the boiler!
So quiet now.
I worked for a babbit bearing machine shop. Sure brings back some old memories. Thank you so much. I love the look of machined brass . Your the best .
Thank you again. Great tube channel keep em coming.
You mean a shop that did mostly babbitt bearing work? that's interesting, my neighbor's father had a big babbitt shop near Syracuse, NY and used to hang out there as a kid....Dave
David Richards Odessa rabbit bearing. Compressor bearings. Oilfield stuff.
Dave, really great videos as well as work that is being accomplished. I am a retired Boilermaker and have worked around steam and boilers in the power plants for many years. This reminds me so much of my Grandfathers time. I just wanted to say that it is just not the work that draws the views on your channel. Much of it is, that watching and listening to you brings back memories of the work ethic and nature of our forefathers and ancestors that is fading away. If I didn't have so many jobs to do in my own shop I would come and work for you for nothing, just to be around that kind of person. My hat is off to you Dave your a good guy.
Thanks for the good review, I may take you up on the offer...Dave
Excellent video Dave, thanks.
Thanks Sean for watching...Dave
I wish I could have seen the look on my own face when you said "Let's find out."
You're a brave man, Dave! Lol
Hi Dave, nice job, a good old handmade thumbs up to you.
Your attention to detail and explanation is what sets you apart from other steam channels that just have video of moving machinery. They leave out the who/why/when/where/what/how. Your inclusion of the Five "W's" makes for good teaching.
Got to thank you for showing me a wriggler. They are often used by watchmakers. Now I must make one! Wonderful channel. I lap it up.
The 'Ancient Wiggler" is an amazingly 'Simple and Obvious' answer to this problem once seen. I had to do something similar a while ago and scrapped two parts trying to eyeball the alignment as I thought to myself 'There has to be a better way!" Now I know, there IS a better way and l thank you for sharing this and all the other knowledge you have on your channel!
OLD SCHOOL ALL THE WAY ,NICE WORK.
Thanks for the talk on vacuum, David! My education continues!
Thanks for explaining the manual emergency shutdown.
This being said:
That engine of yours really runs like a Swiss watch. A big, oily, hot Swiss watch. Great job and great video!
Very nice job , as usual Dave I love that old machinery. I think I was born about 50 years too late.
maybe 75 Ed....Dave
That's fantastic ! A delight to watch ... big thanks for sharing ! 👍🏻
You are a true craftsman!
Nice work Dave. Interesting to see the vintage centering tool in use.
Jeff
Yes, it was awesome, and a closer look at the mechanism in the future would be greatly appreciated too!
Thanks for another great video.
It's always nice to see these old machines being put to good use as originally intended.
A pleasure to watch -as ever David .
Great watching these old machines run and make parts! Just imagine the people that bought these machines when they were new top of the line machines for business.
Yeah, or standing around looking at it in the crate just moved in all shiny and new....Dave
I have to agree with some of the other commenters here. These videos are fascinating. I think it's because I enjoyed metal shop classes in high school. When I was growing up in the 50's and 60's , my dad and uncles worked in all the big machine shops in Worcester, MA. Dad worked at Reed and Prince, Reed and Prentice, and Wyman Gordon- Grafton, one uncle worked at Wyman in Worcester, another at Heald Machine, and the last at Norton.
Those were (and are) "heavy hitters" in the industrial world. Thanks Jim...........Dave
Thanks Dave for another excellent video,I really enjoyed seeing the four jaw chuck set up with that simple but very useful centering device..brilliant.
Thanks Dave for making the videos I enjoy watching them
22.18 best picture ever
How beautiful those machine are especially the milling and the press drill all round all around
those where the job of a master mold maker
thank to bring back some beautiful into our square and concrete life
yea ! that was what I want to mean but I am a French Canadian so sometime it is harder to express myself in English
Great video Dave ! The demo on the governor was great as was the vacuum on the boiler . Learn something every time I watch your videos. Thanks Dave
Watching these old machines is like magic.
I look forward to these videos almost as much as my social security check. Excellent stuff! Got a few of my buddies hooked as well. One of the best channels going.
Love the shop and the work you do in it!
Another great video from Dave. A job well done, clearly explained, and nicely illustrated. Along with a little tidbit about running a steam powered shop. Thanks Dave.
The safety officer at my old company as well as Worksafe would close this plant down within 3 seconds, citing extreme danger from unguarded equipment. Great to see something so functional.
Bruce: It's their job to close down plants....Dave
Love the explanations and this channel is a treasure. Please keep up the great work.
Love the way the water refills.
Jim
That's not only a con rod, that is a work of art!
Love your video's shop, all of it. good to you sir
I just love to see you work with these old machinery and your explanations of the details in the parts and produced spare parts.
And how well it all works in your hand and with your knowledge, it is, as always, a true pleasure to watch.
Thank you Dave, for sharing!
One of your best. Thank you!
Great video as usual. Repairing old steam engines with old machinery has got to be very rewarding. Thanks
You have quickly become my favorite channel, thank you sincerely for all that you do!!!!
Great, as always....Thanks
Very good videos , it must be a very relaxing time in your shop with the sound of the engine and belts running in the back ground
Good on you David! Thanks for another great informative video. Great info on the boiler and steam engine. The views of the line shafts are mesmerizing. The machine work is fun. Love it all. Larry
I love to see your work
Great video, I'm very jealous of this shop and I love steam power. Its always amazing how quiet the equipment is compared to the newer electric stuff. Well done.
Hi Andrew, Yeah especially the big engine, if I get busy it's easy to forget it's running....Dave
Great job on the bearings, Dave. The heat and steam around the shop would be a welcome relief on those cold mornings.
A lot of tips in this one!
I really liked the center finder (wiggler), never seen one of those before but it's a great idea!
Another Great video Dave, thank you.
Another great video Dave.
Great stuff. Thanks for the video.
Nice job thank you for shering
very nice job and thanks for the info on the steam vacuum.
Such a pleasure watching your channel Dave. Into just genius and to watch a PROPER machinist at work....thanks for doing this :)
Thanks again Malc...Dave
Your knowledge, skill and craftsmanship are a pleasure to watch, David. Watching you so much reminds me of watching my dad on occasion at work in the USCG machine shop, doing similar work. Your shop is amazing.
Thank you Marc, I hope you will drop by now and then....Dave
what a great workshop all steam power you must love the place I would love to work there ever day.
Discovered your channel the other day, I am loving it, thanks.
I'm glad you enjoy it, welcome aboard....Dave
Thanks David this channel is beautiful
The big steam engine is yelling at you to PAINT ME PLEASE!!! SO GET TO IT. LET US KNOW WHAT COLORS YOU WILL USE!!! VERY FUN WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS....
Hello there,
There is no need for any paint.
Keep the patina.
To much nice stuff is ruined with paint.
There in not hing wrong in seeing the history and years of use.
Keep up the good work Dave.
This was very good again .
Greetings Henk
Old stuff is supposed to look,,, old! It has survived all the decades of use and abuse and poor storage and survived. Let it show its honest wear with pride. Some machines should be prettied up and some should not, and it is a wise caretaker who knows the difference. The default is to leave it alone. When the old patina is gone, it is gone.
I voted with a thumbs up. But you really need a mic on you to hear you over the machinery. Your knowledge is gold.
Man I just love how "soft" steam sounds out of a nozzle vs compressed air.
good one. I have been trying to be patient waiting, well worth it. thanks for another good show. 9 deg. home is in Maine so I know your pain. the shop must be nice it the winter after the steam is up.
Good work!!!
Amazing and educational. Great channel.
Very good work.
Bonjour Dave
In a 1925 instalation like yours, you have to synchronize the boiler and the work to do, nothing to automate .... it takes the brain divided into two ahaha! but it's beautiful to see. Good explanations on the blowdown, the lower part has purged is in pressurized liquid form and as its temperature is higher than that normal to the atmospheric pressure, this flash water immediately has its exit. At 70-75 psi water is about 320 F which does not exist in our world. That's what you showed outside the garage. Again thank you for making these beautiful videos, I wait for the next .... yogi
ABSOLUTELY beautiful job, Dave. I can't even imagine how much that would cost to have a modern job shop do it, Yikes :--)))))))))))))))))
I am learning a lot about steam so keep the videos coming. As a challenge, I hope you build some kind of steam shut off so that wonderful engine never runs away and over speeds. Maybe an old sad iron connected to your emergency pull cord and setting on a shelf near the governor balls. If the balls fly too high, they knock the sad iron off the shelf which pulls the emergency pull cord. :-)
Another great video Dave! ...the old rocker type toolholders with the bits that protrude straight out, are the holders that were made for carbide bits. If you search for Armstrong or Williams T-2S , that should get you the correct size ... 1/2" x 1-1/2" I think. I pick them up for my shaper.
Great wiggler!
Dave that 1/4 turn shutoff valve is supposed to be held open by an tension pulley for the drive belt to the governor, so that is the belt breaks or comes off the quarter turn valve closes and engine stops. You have a possible run away engine there. Great videos. Thanks
I thought it was interesting that you twisted the power feed drive belt to feed the mill table in the opposite direction between the facing cut and the grooving cuts. Always enjoy your videos and like others have said there is something relaxing about the sound of that steam engine.
When I worked at Edaville railroad as a locomotive fireman we would turn the injectors on until the filled the boiler to its limit. The next morning the water level would be between two and three gauges of water before we fired them up using one slabs and a little diesel fuel with an old rag soaked in fuel and continued to fire pine slabs until we had steam for the blower then started adding soft coal. That was back in the 60's during the Christmas season.
Another great video, I need to make a new rod bearing for my engine and you have shown me how to go about it, thanks, also I had the top of a pickering govinor come apart while sawing and the engine run up fast, luckily I was right there to shut it down. Keep up the good work
I'm really glad that you got some help from the video. wow, a pickering failure is unusual....Dave
I love seeing the grease cups ln these machines, I wish we could see a close up shot of them; I remember these grease fittings on ammonia refrigerant compressors when I was a child- lived at a remote fur farm here in Alaska. The cold storage plant froze flounders and ground fish for feed for the fur animals.
NOW THAT WAS EPIC COOL ! ..thanks dave ..on to 33 for me ... I am watch'en them all from the start !!
That engine sure sounds quiet now. You must have a lot invested in pulleys and hangers alone in that shop. That place is really something
10/4 about Ebay. I have zero success with anything else. Looking forward to the fitting up. Good job Dave and 8 degrees is getting on down there!
lol. Ebay never ceases to amaze me.
Hey, Dave, liked every minute. Realize you're a machinist and working without a micrometer or caliper is a challenge. Glad you got the valve chest sorted out. Look forward to more. Get's cold there.
Very interesting!! Our high speed engine that drives the mechanical stoker system on our 1930s boilers needs the crank machining down , building up and re machining because the key way was in very bad shape. So that’s this weekends job ! . My mate in the workshop is makin a new valve rod for the Vernon and guest engine in there (green one on the video on my channel) AND our 2 boilers need washing out and some maintenance. It’s going to be a busy winter!!!!!
Always something isn't there.....Dave
Just found your channel. Very interesting stuff. Thanks.
I guess you will be heading for Florida soon------will miss your shows.
Enjoy being out of the snow.
Can't wait !!
Art work.,by an artist
Enjoy watching the way things were done. It is best that we not forget the old ways. We need to know how to do it with a stubby pencil an a scarp of paper. We put man into space with a slide rule.
Thank you good job great work your doing was wondering if was ever going to see that engine run
It was interesting to hear you talk about condensing steam. Most of the big preserved mill engines around here (Manchester UK, which was big in cotton) use a condenser cylinder; they're usually (but not always) cross-compound engines to begin with, and the condenser is vertical and usually runs off big bell cranks on the LP cross head. Surprising how much efficiency the last 15psi can add. We just lost the last steam-powered weaving shed in the UK, which was a museum (Queen St Mill, Burnley) which lost its funding. Still hope someone finds the wherewithal to re-open it.
Very true Mark, I hope someday our homeland industries will be doing better and appreciate their history enough to support or totally underwrite working museums like that....I'm dreamin...Dave
Always wondered about the fascination with steam having been born just as the era was ending. Now I understand.
G'day Dave that was interesting watching you machine that part. Every time that I watch your videos it's a great lesson of going back in time and seeing how things were done, it's a live working museum and I find it always fascinating to watch. That centre "gauge" is a little work art! Thanks for this one Dave and on a job well done thank you John
Thanks John, as always, down in Tasmania....Dave
David Richards thanks mate John
These videos are really awesome. It's amazing to see how machining has changed over the years, but for the better, I'm not so sure. Anyways thanks for making these videos
I gotta tell you this. My friend and I got our private pilot licenses years ago in a Piper Cherokee ( pretty modern airplane at the time). I felt a little cheated because I had no experience with older conventional, tail wheeled configuration type airplanes. I really found out what I didn't know when I first flew one. You have to actually "fly" it, and give it every input it needs to land and take off. Sort of like manual machine work....Dave
I got a few of the holders with no rake for my shaper the other day, I feel lucky to have them. Not as common as the others.
Thanks for the great video. I enjoyed Steve Summers
Hi Steve, I think they were actually made for carbide tools which didn't need rake, but about the time carbide started getting popular, the "lantern" type posts went away so the holders are rare. ...Dave
David Richards Yeah they almost always say carbide tool holder on the side. That makes since why they are harder to find. Thanks. I enjoyed the video.
It sounds like a good project for a build to me.
What a great video. I'm hooked on your channel. Something about the sound of the machines and watching the pulleys go around while you're working. I Love it. I always learn something as well. Cheers!
Thanks Dale, glad you are along....Dave
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Amazing video!!! I just love your work. People sometimes think old machining can't compete with modern technology and isn't good enough when it come to accuracy. The steam powering is just fined and machining solutions are sometimes eyeopener to this generation. I would love to see more of your machining - there is no steam shop running I know of in my country Sweden.
Hi Sture, Great to hear from Sweden. The shop is described in some detail in some of the earlier channel videos, Let me know if you can't find them. I will be putting up more videos this month....Dave
u do outstanding work,my dad's sprite is all ways with me.
Nice!!!!!
Dave - thanks for the content and quality. On your recommendation, I was able to save a two-volume set of the Rose books on modern machine-shop practice. The books were being discarded and now they will live again. All the best .....
Discarded!.?.....Dave
Thanks again for another great video. I was going to ask last video about a runaway if the belt came off your governor, thanks for reading my mind and providing the answer. I am sure you will come up with a period safety shutdown system.
Thanks David for the best channel on youtube! How about a video of you building and riding a steam powered skateboard?