Oh my god, I am actually crying at the shout out - I never thought my patent knowledge would ever be helpful outside of the office... I'm so glad I was able to help - I've been watching and following for YEARS!!

@DMalek

Ай бұрын

Well done!

8:10 a line borer could be the tool to use here. instead of moving the hammer to the mill, move the mill to the hammer! CEE has quite a few videos where he uses a line borer. edit: or horizontal boring mill, if there is a shop around that has one. way less sketchy in terms of setup.

@ToreDL87

Ай бұрын

CEE are great, and just what I was going to say. Lathe is a good makeshift too, blondihacks has been using lathe for larger castings for years now. It's been said, if/when the world just loses everything CNC because of EMP or something, manual lathes will save us.

@ElvianEmpire

Ай бұрын

@@ToreDL87 horizontal boring mill would also work. you already have a mounting surface (i.e. where it mounts to the body) and then just indicate. of course, that's stationary, so would have to be brought somewhere to be done.

@ripl0x

Ай бұрын

Came here to post exactly this and someone beat me to it. Line borers are really expensive though, but maybe a day rental would work?

@procyonia3654

Ай бұрын

I usually do Steamchesrs on a Hor Borer or a VTL A small one like that I'd probably do on my VTL. Faster to set up then do it on a HBM upto a certain size Line borer would really be not the optimal machine for a steamchest, unless you really had to do it in the field. The bores need to be perfectly straight and a line borer isn't really capable of doing that without hours and hours of set up. You can't just put taper cones and tack your supports on for something like this you need a much more thorough set up.

@nicholascrosby6438

Ай бұрын

Yep. Watch CEE. Quite quite a few videos of line boring on there

I'm so invested in this series and I have no idea why. It's critical to me that you succeed in getting this power hammer working.

@dan_dempster

Ай бұрын

What does he need another hammer for? Who knows. Let’s not get bogged down in details.

Jamie was actually correct in putting the lathe in the part: the tool that you would use to fix that bore or any precision hole in large objects is called a line borer

@Zonkotron

Ай бұрын

Not always. For mass production, stuff gets put on a boring mill, horizontal table type or vertical lathe. Just more convenient to use some giant machine when you dont have any established geometry yet and need to cut through an inch of casting shell and other filth.

You could try and flip the mill head by 90 degrees. Therefore being able to bolt the casting onto the mill table by the large flat mounting surface. You now only need to indicate the spindle axis parallel to the table in both directions and then align the bore axis to the spindle. This would avoid having to hang anything off of the table and probably give you a more rigid setup.

@rohi7412

Ай бұрын

Also doesn't have to be perfectly aligned, just well enough to bore out the sleeve

@andrewsnow7386

Ай бұрын

If, when machining, you feed the part (using table moment) and you don't feed the quill, then precise indication of the spindle axis to the table isn't necessary.* You only need to make sure the existing bore on the part is parallel to the table axis in both directions. Alternately, if you can do all the feeding with the quill (and not move the table), then you don't need the existing bore of the part parallel to the table. You can just indicate the quill to the existing bore. * The alignment needs to be close, or you get an elliptical shaped hole instead of a round one. For example, if I assume the bore size is 100 mm. and the the quill were misaligned by 1 degree, then the bore would be 100 mm in one direction and about 100.02 mm (0.0008 inches) in the other. I suspect this is still smaller than the tolerances that the machine can hold. So 1 deg misalignment wouldn't worry me at all.

@aaronsilas7024

Ай бұрын

@@andrewsnow7386 True, however I would always feed with the table and not with the quill if at all possible. Ive never understood the reflex of so many bridgeport users to use the quill for anything other than drilling. Youre sacrificing quite a lot of rigidity on not a terribly stout machine to begin with.

@cruddycornstalks

Ай бұрын

@@aaronsilas7024 don't need to use the quill. you can still feed the part with the table sideways!

As a chemical/mechanical engineer, I'd just add my 2 cents here: The "correct" way to install a slip-on flange (which I think resembles the piece you made) is it need to be welded in 2 places. The pipe end goes into the hole of the flange, and the tip of the pipe is welded to the inside of the hole in the flange, and the second weld goes around the stem of the pipe as it meets the base of the flange (like you did here). Because when pressure is added to the system, both the flange and the pipe will try and expand, but because the flange is much thicker in the radial direction, it will give a lot less. So, there will be an expansion differential between the pipe and the flange, which will create tension and torque. If the end of the pipe simply meets the surface of the flange, and it's held on by the corner weld, the shearing force produced by the expansion differential will be picked up by the weld. If you push the pipe through, it will be picked up by the pipe wall and the two welds. This solution you did here will probably work for low cycle times and low pressures, but I'd absolutely recommend buying some ready-made flanges and installing those. Although if it worked with that swiss cheese atrocity, it'll run with your setup, but maybe I could add something valuable to the conversation here. (Also, I'm not quite sure how well I managed to translate the explanation to English, I don't know any of the terminology im English, because I graduated in Hungary)

@Thundermuffin93

Ай бұрын

Your English was excellent!

@jaredlancaster4137

Ай бұрын

Always the people with the most perfect English apologizing for their english

@machineshopatthebottomofth3213

Ай бұрын

Standard flanges normally have a raised face and gramophone grooves for better gasket seating.

Trying to fix a 1900's steam hammer is like trying to convince a cat that water is fun - challenging, messy, and entertaining to watch!

Thank you, Jamie, for not saying "Gruyère cheese" here 4:06! Your trip to Chamonix has been very useful...🧀

Great to see more of the steam hammer rebuild. 14:15 ... you would have made the end an R8 taper or what ever your mill is. Looking forward to seeing your mill set up on this one.

Alec I could watch two hours plus of you just fiddling with stuff in the shop, seeing you get over every single barrier that’s thrown in front of you is truly inspiring

I wonder how far back in our evolution we started to develop a satisfaction for things being released from a very tight space. Seems like such a primal pleasure.

Guy made his hobby a career. Admirable.

@blackoak4978

Ай бұрын

That's pretty much what YT is... at least the good part of it.

@alexpeartree2019

Ай бұрын

​@@blackoak4978and the bad bit is reaction videos and cryptobollocks.

Aw man! We could've had an Alec Steele and CEE Australia crossover.

@DJlegionuk

Ай бұрын

i would love to see that.

@imrotinom

Ай бұрын

I was just saying he needs to call Curtis from Cutting Edge Engineering. Too bad he’s in AUS..

@nycsox987

Ай бұрын

CEE walks all over Alec in machining skills...

@DJlegionuk

Ай бұрын

@@nycsox987 why be so negative ? we all know this Alex is a blacksmith.

Alec, renting a line-bore solution might be easier to clean-up the bore. Dismantling the hammer was not needed.

@blackoak4978

Ай бұрын

Unless he needs to bore out more than the one. And taking it apart allows him to clean it up properly.

@rileybri

Ай бұрын

Oh but it was if for no other reason than content.. lol😂

Use dry ice to cool the liner and press it out (or pull it) Works very well. It just needs time to get cold and shrink. Couple of hours packed full of ice (inside the sleave) and it should do the trick

@1pcfred

Ай бұрын

If you really wanted to get that sleeve out you'd cut it in half and bang the two halves out. Cut it in half very carefully. Really you could stop before you were all the way through then just beat the snot out of it. It's called divide and conquer.

Alec always talks about “need a tool, make a tool,” and making a wrench may be the best example I can remember.

Oh no, the video is over... Listen guys, you have to increase the length of your videos to 25-30 minutes

@johnewarren

Ай бұрын

My exact thoughts.

@jnorm18

Ай бұрын

Better yet, 1-2 hours

@caedmonswanson2378

Ай бұрын

Not good for watch time sadly, they’re probably trying to make them not so long to improve video performance.

@ErikPelyukhno

Ай бұрын

Inheritance Machining does videos around 30 minutes long, those minutes fly by very quickly too. I completely understand Alec Steele prioritizing bite size videos for viewer retention since this is what he does for a living! Fair enough

@JoeAmericanLiberty

Ай бұрын

Nord VPN and Squarespace said no.

I followed you since you were in your first workshop. To see how far you've come and gone. I love that you've inevitably come back to your roots in england. With Jamie who you've now made a huge part of the channel. I just love everything about your channel. Keep up the good work Alec

Have you considered cylinder liners? Machine a thin cylinder to fit tightly inside the existing cylinder. It slightly decreases the diameter, but gives you a nice new shiny surface, and can be easily replaced if damaged.

@markfergerson2145

Ай бұрын

The cylinder already has a liner. A liner inside a liner doesn’t sound like a good idea.

@Leonn_.

Ай бұрын

​@@markfergerson2145 he can weld the old liner to the casting, but i dont think it is necessary.

I just want to say Alec, I've been watching for a while, and I don't do any blacksmithing or any of the things you do so well. But you somehow make such enjoyable content I just want to watch anyway. You've made me a fan just because you are so enjoyable to watch and real with how you approach new situations. Anyway, thanks for all you do!

And this was the day Alec learned that Line Boring is a thing

@ElvianEmpire

Ай бұрын

or a horizontal mill

Loving this series, something very satisfying about restorations.

@rasmis

Ай бұрын

I also love the learning-as-we-go-along. I don't know how to fix it either, so I'm sharing the wonderment and confuzzling journey.

Watching you work your way through the snags with the steam hammer is excellent entertainment and all in the worthiest cause of bringing a beautiful piece of old industrial machinery back to life. As an old engineer it makes my heart feel good to know that the next generation is learning from the giants upon who’s shoulders we stand, as I did too. If I might offer a tip, I hope you’ll not be offended…Next time you want to remove studs, rather than chewing them up with a pair of pump pliers, simply thread two nuts onto the stud, tighten them against each other and unscrew the stud using a spanner on the lower nut. If it’s particularly stubborn and the nuts are tending to turn on the stud, you may find it helpful to use a pair of spanners (one on each nut) arranged so that you can grip them with one hand, tightening them together, whilst again unscrewing the stud using the lower nut. Hope that helps, it’ll certainly keep your studs in good nick rather than damaging/weakening them and turning them into scrap. As any chap knows, a pair of nuts can often make the difference between success and failure. One other thing, East Anglia did have quite a bit of industrial heritage but it’s true that little now remains. One of the not inconsiderable names of note was William Crane of Great Fransham, near Dereham, who started out as a blacksmith and built a business that manufactured things from bicycles to tank transporters. It later merged with Freuhauf to become the huge multinational corporation of Crane Freuhauf that produces heavy machinery that’s used all over the world. There’s also Ransomes down in Ipswich that has grown and prospered from small beginnings over the last 100 years or so, but there were numerous others that began during the industrial revolution, now sadly consigned to the pages of history. Cheers ol’buck, you’re doing a good job there. R.

4:11 😂 outstanding punning!

WELCOME BACK TO PART 4 EVERYONE! OKAY...... THAT NORDVPN add was hands down the best one lol

ya know, I have to say When I ever see youtubers, even ones I love, do any video with their camera guy or a colab with someone it somehow always comes across as slightly awkward at best. But I LOVE your relationship Jamie and absolutely everyone you ever do a video with. Its always absolutely genuine and personable and entertaining.....and with Jamie absolutely hilarious how you both play off each other. Cheers and always keep up the good work. Love your videos.

@MediocreHexPeddler

Ай бұрын

Chemistry!

The unending optimism of these two to try and remove jammed components without wd40 or heat again and again is really inspiring.

The easiest way is to get a hooning tool the will clean the surface,like they use for cylinder for piston and rings, then you can use a drill to spin it.

@Axel_Andersen

Ай бұрын

That sounds a like a great idea.

@bman2827

Ай бұрын

Hooning is what you do after honing the piston cylinders😆

This has to be one of the best Nord VPN adds I’ve ever seen

4:11 "not very goudah" 😂

5:27 Jamie gnawing at a pipe 😂😂😂

Jamie gnawing at the pipe was gold. I hope they paid extra for that!

You and jamie get little brother big brother energy and im here for it

Every time you say "my neighbor Steve", my brain plays Gold Shaw Farm's 🎵Myyyyyyyy buddy Alfred ...🎶

this one was extra fun with all your interactions! Also, always impressed by the fact that you manage to do a fun and visual ad for your sponsor everytime!

I have really missed these multi-part long-form projects on the channel. It's what originally got me to sub and I've been sorely missing them, ever since you moved back to the UK. More of them, please! 😁

Alec Steele and a CEE Colab is what we need! Shame their on different ends of the earth!

Holy crap Alec haha I cannot wait to see how you set this operation up 👏🤣

Alec if you wanna learn by watching someone who knows what he's doing at work, then I'd recommend Cutting Edge Engineering Australia. It's a small business with a youtube on the side, they primarily work on mining equipment so line booring and sleeves are things Curtis has done a million times. I don't remember what video, but he removes a press fit sleeve using a acetylene torch by heating a narrow band on the inside of the sleeve. Making it contract and effectively reducing the circumference, letting you pop it out with a hammer.

You've come a very long way since the ~8000 or so subs you had when I started watching, Alec. Pretty incredible, honestly. Never stop being curious, never stop learning, and always push what you think you can do further!

Do you guys not have anyone who can come and line bore this? Hell , you have the tools in YOUR SHOP, to cut out the old press fit sleeve and manufacture a new one. Mind you putting it in would be tricky. But you guys are making so much more work for yourself.

@HootMaRoot

Ай бұрын

Putting a new liner in shouldn't be too hard as long as they can get liquid nitrogen to put the liner to shrink it and heat the hole. The hardest part is usually the removal of the old liner

@Vetbuilt

Ай бұрын

@@HootMaRoot RIGHT!!! But a few passes with a line boring machine and the old sleeve would be paper thin.

@HootMaRoot

Ай бұрын

@@Vetbuilt not to mention the valve will then need to be reworked to fit the bigger bore

I love how the giant lamp is just in the background 😂

As others have mentioned, line borers are the way to go for this. However, if you’re stuck on using the bridgeport, you could almost certainly rotate the milling head, and use the ram to get the mill head stuck out far enough that you could mount the cylinder vertically on the mill table.

The knowledge expertise and fun continues its great to see you grow a little more with every project you do

it is crazy how much i dont care about steam power hammers but i keep coming back to watch because you are so entertaining

What a beautiful dog ! Thank you for taking us on this journey as you restore this piece of history

If Alec were to, say spend a summer with Curtis at Cutting Edge Engineering in Australia, he would be a great deal farther down his path toward eventually becoming a monster of a machinist/technician/blacksmith/welder/fabricator/repairer of all things. And it would make for some STUNNING content.

4:15 - I was expecting a Squarespace ad, and then you chose Nord VPN instead, lol. Love the hose shenanigans :P 14:53 - 90 degwees and pefectwy awigned! X'D

Jaime taking the piss out of Alec is what I'm here for.

Looking good! Might want to consider line-boring that though. Super simple to make one, just a smooth round bar (think turned ground polished) and a set of flange bearings. For a drive, a mag drill works great. You could even bore out the cylinder this way. I've done lower wicket gate bearings on hydroelectric stations this way and got a 6 in bore on location within a few tenths. Over 8 feet away from the other side of the bearing....

I usually do steamchests on either or a Horizontal boring mill, vertical borer or a lathe when i rebuild hammers I bored out one recently for a Niles 1000 Weight hammer.

We need longer videos man I'd very happily sit down for a 20-30 minute video

I love how they're just like, "what if we tried this?"

...and it was all done by three mates in a shed. The story of British engineering at its finest.

Man, I can't be waiting to watch the next episode for so long! Let us binge!

I must say, even the advertisements in Alec's videos are fun to watch! 😂

Fun to watch a machinists' method vs a pipe fitter(myself). Great series, you've always got such interesting stuff going on. Thanks for sharing from winnipeg Canada

This project is slowly becoming the The Steam Hammer of Theseus

I love this, I could watch it all day, makes me wanna fix something too.

Gonna be honest, it is time to take up some wood working. Build a platform that can hold that massive thing out of 2x4, then decide if that is going to be sturdy enough for what you need or just the shape you need for making a holder out of metal. Then you need some way of keeping everything still while it is milling, which the weight should help with. So ratchet straps would probably work.

I feel like that must be one of the best things about being a machinist, if you don't have a tool you can just make it.

Getting a new generation interested in milling and welding

My favorite series so far

I like watching along as the videos come out on these large projects but I also like binge watching them after. I don't know why....

hey Alec, lil tip next time you need to bend tubing. Use some welding rod and bend where you need, then match the tube or pipe to match the bends of the welding rod.

I feel like I could watch you guys work for hours:)

Other channels: an entire video dedicated to just making a custom boring bar Alec: less than 30 seconds of a video allotted to montage making a custom boring bar in a series about restoring a completely unrelated tool XD

Tip for making bend templates, take a pice of tig welding filler rod and use it for mockup. Saves you a lot of materials. Looking forward to seeing this thing working again.

that lamp you built in the background is so cool!

Ten days getting a shaft ground ☺ Interesting episode 2x👍

the editing on this video and every video is amazing great job!

This guy needs to watch Curtis at cutting edge engineering (Australia) - he'd get things sorted for you in no time, plus would sort any shop made tools for you too 👌🏼

@1pcfred

Ай бұрын

No this job would take anyone some time. It's a lot of heavy work.

05:00 Alec at peak efficiency ;D

Here in the States you can typically rent a diamond hone for engine cylinders from auto parts stores. The hones fit in a drill chuck and you simply need oil the bore hole while you hone. It's not quite as accurate as a good machine shop but it is good enough for a DYI.

I am amazed to see the progress, this project had such a rough start but it is really looking up!

I think that lathe idea was a good one too - good luck with this challenging setup!

10:13 why not bore the whole thing out and re-sleeve it like you would a gun barrel. The bore doesn’t need to be perfect. It can be a little sloppy, so long as the new sleeve is perfect. We do this from everything from a .22 LR ( even smaller on some cases ) to tank , artillery and even naval cannons . Even better, the sleeve can be made of newer steels that are more corrosion resistant and have higher pressure tolerance than the original iron/steel it is made of .

you could get a cylinder honing tool

@1pcfred

Ай бұрын

That bore needs a bit more than a hone.

this is one of the coolest Projects ever

Don't know if it would be good enough, but, Cylinder Hone? Love your interplay with Jamie, and your problem solving.

Keith Fenner has an excellent series on line boring using a lathe to make the tooling, or mounting the part on the cross-slide of the lathe.

Olá impressionante o trabalho!!! Acompanhando sempre que possível! Boa sorte sempre!!!!

Love this series

I love this series

Great video as always, I do like these restoration and problem solving videos :)

Such a good video! Thanks Alec

14:53 Proof that alec got bearing degrees and temperature degrees mixed up: "90 Degwees"

Crikey Alec when you cut that thing out with the plasma cutter, it looked like the dog had chewed it out, rougher than a Polar Bears arse 😂 did make me giggle more than it should.

This is a great project to watch!

@1pcfred

Ай бұрын

Yeah I hope he gets it going. Anything could be a show stopper though.

these need to be longer!

Love to see the interactions between both of you!

"Not very Gouda..." I got that pun!

For finishing, how about those honing stones used for polishing engine cylinders? I think you can just spin them with a hand held power drill...

Next one is gonna be a good one. What’s the Bridgeport equivalent of the Pallet Jack crew?

Can you tilt the head to 90° then mount the face that mounted to the body of the hammer to the table of the mill. I do it quite often on my bridgeport.

Alec, Love the Nord bit!! :) Cheers!

I kept thinking for the later part, that they would just want to use a Flex Hone on a drill for cleaning and smoothing the hole and just checking measurements regularly.

I know absolutely nothing about steam hammers, but if that bore isn't too bad, may be you could try running an automotive cylinder hone through it. Then no dismantling required. Just a thought. Keep up the good work. 😊

You can absolutely remove that sleeve...just have to run a few beads of weld down inside it, it would shrink, then slide right out [saw it on YT...lol] Then you can machine a replacement that you did all the machining on, shrink it [get to play with liquid nitrogen..yay] and put the new one in Or get a line borer machine for heavy equipment... Either way...gonna be interesting to see your solution Keep em coming!!!!

I love the words “Send It”! :)