I visited your workshop today, absolutely fascinating seeing the stuff you do and chat about the fowler loco,

Just binged through all 20 episodes in a couple of days and am looking forward to the next. Impressive use of the boring head and 90deg milling attachment!

Watching these videos really puts into perspective the staggering industrial capacity we used to have to churn out as many locomotives as we did.

anxious for your next episode 😊

All your videos are great and with so much amazing content it’s hard to pick 1 thing in particular to complement. I was really impressed with how your castings came out ( you must have had a lot of bronze swarf ! )

Just watching Michael Portillo in Australia (Great Australian railway journeys ) and he visited the Tully Sugar plantation. Slightly more modern loco being used now! How about that.

Thanks for the update video on the restoration of Tully fantastic work well done Simon 👍

It is always a pleasure to see how much craftsmanship is available. I'm going to watch it again. Now just wait for the next episode.

Nice basic primer on how to cast bronze! Fascinating processes involved in this restoration clearly and concisely explained. Thanks for posting!

Good use of the gunmetal and bronze swarf!

One neat trick for split bearings like this is to soft solder the two halves together. Then the two halves are machined as one unit including the bore.

I see you like your tea with bronze filelings too😄. Your work is fascinating and impressive to watch. Thank you.

I’m envious of your fantastic collection of tools and machine tools😟

Really great update! Was very interesting seeing how the pattern was made and how it was cast!

Nice work , some old school engineering

Thanks for the latest episode , I could watch these videoes all day long. ,facinating.

You have the BEST, by a long shot, videos on KZread. These are easily my favorite, and I cheer for your success. Wish you and your team a healthy, and successful 2024.

@TheSteamWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

Ha,…. Really appreciate your lovey feedback! Thank you for that. 🙂

20 great videos now! Thank you for sharing this restoration. It's much appreciated.

Waiting for next video

I found this very interesting ...please keep them coming .👍👍

Brilliant - I look forward to the next vid!!

Another fantastic update. i got the notification at work and couldn't wait to get home!! Great Job Simon and team!

Bonjour et Bonne Année de France, As steam passionate collector of model boats, I am familiar with mini machines (my largest ones are the Stiuart D10) this is why I particularly appreciate your channel because I recognize what you do in a big way. Furthermore, for me, your Englsih accent is perfect and thanks to it, I undestand what you say 😁 Amicalement, Raphaël

@TheSteamWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Raphael! I often think I talk a little fast, trying to get a lot of information across! Really pleased it’s accessible over the water! 🙂

Very interesting video, always a joy to watch.

Absolutely outstanding... many thanks

I am really enjoying watching this. My thanks.

👍👌👏 Extremely well done again and as always (video and work). Maaan, I would love to see more and longer videos. You are all so incredibly skilled. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all of you.

lovely absolutely 😊 lovely what is the estimated time of completion? 1 or 2 more years?

Thank you so much....from a non engineer.... absolutely fascinating to see your skills in action....oh...and Happy New year to all !! 🙂

A belated Christmas present thanks for the video its good to see the progress being made.

Excellent video as always Simon, you and crew are doing a fantastic job on the rebuild. Excellent job on the 3d printed pattern, I myself have the same brand of machine to have ago myself. I assume the print took several hours to complete. Looking forward to the next video. Happy New Year. All the best, Matt 👍

@maxsimons8305

6 ай бұрын

Great to see you on here Matt, I love your tinkerbell videos also!

A great update on progress so far, it's always reassuring to see that Engineering skills are alive and well in this country. Looking forward to the next update .

Awesome work!

Somehow one of this series came up in recommend and I’m hooked , in the best boiler making tradition it’s absolutely riveting, count me in as subscribed .

Great stuff lads.

Surely putting the oil feed hole and groves in the crown of the bearing will destroy the “oil wedge “ which in these type of bearing is standard mechanism of lubrication , feed by the spring loaded pads in the base ?

Happy new year guys 👍🏻 Fantastic seeing casting from scratch to a beautiful wheel bearing 😀

👍👏💪

Happy new year to your workshop, great job

Great video! Was there a particular reason that the top keep and bottom shell for each side weren't machined and honed as a matched pair?

Excellent, thanks for the update!

The soft solder - I’m sure you realise this, but it shouldn’t be the same thickness on the flat and the 45 as the gaps will close up at different rates because of the cosine of the angle

@TheSteamWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

You’re right of course. We actually did it correctly and Neil just misspoke on the film,……. I should have spotted it in the edit. Neil’s background is press tool machining, where the mating die surfaces are designed to have a 1mm sheet of ally between em. So in that application, his technique of getting all three surfaces to squash the solder equally to about 1mm is appropriate. But obviously if the faces actually need to touch, there’s a little maths there. I’ll rectify the narrative when we cover the main axle boxes. 🙂

When will there be more updates please?

You guys are the best happy new year to you all .

Great to see the casting of bearing shells using all the recycled brass. What did you put in the sand to make it hold its shape.

Great video, Simon. Did the loco arrive missing the axleboxes on the trailing truck?

@TheSteamWorkshop

3 ай бұрын

Thanks John! It certainly did. They’d obviously been missing for some time too as the axle had worn away the casting. Next episode very nearly ready to publish 😁

We see in the taster at the end it all goes together perfectly as we have come to expect from you guys, but for my education ... 1) why did you bore out the tops and bottom journals separately (requiring very critical alignment) .. when you could have assembled everything in the pony truck casting and line bored everything in situ as a single operation, guaranteeing alignment top to bottom and left/right without multiple critical setups? 2) There is a comment @ 10:08 the squashed solder should have an equal thickness on the three faces .. seems to me the top face gap should be root 2 times the sloping faces or am i being stupid ?

@fabiansawilla7911

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking about the gaps on the top half of the bearing too and I think you're right since you don't need the distance between the mating surfaces to be identical but the difference in the z-axis

@TheSteamWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

You’re right of course Dave. We actually did it correctly and Neil just misspoke on the film,……. I should have spotted it in the edit. Neil’s background is press tool machining, where the mating die surfaces are designed to have a 1mm sheet of ally between em. So in that application, his technique of getting all three surfaces to squash the solder equally to about 1mm is appropriate. But obviously if the faces actually need to touch, there’s a little maths there. I’ll rectify the narrative when we cover the main axle boxes. 🙂

@TheSteamWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

Oh,….. and the line boring, we simply don’t have a line borer to do that. The Bridgeport wouldn’t have that reach, and even if we did the run out would have been excessive. This way, Neil has to be accurate and careful, but luckily he is, so it worked 😁

still waiting for a new video

Good stuff! Very informative and not taking too long about it. Couple of questions, what did you do with any left over molten bronze? Just pour into a container to cool and keep as an.ingot? How long did you leave it to cool.before opening?

@TheSteamWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

Exactly that. Poured it into muffin tins so we had little ingots which we used in the next pour. And only about 10 minutes before de-moulding. 🙂

The updates have slowed dramatically and we're out of the loop. Has the restoration stalled?

@TheSteamWorkshop

2 ай бұрын

All still progressing well,…… but we’ve just been too busy to edit the videos together. The next 3 films are all half edited in my phone waiting for me to get time to finish them! I’ll try n get the next one out soon! 😭

Any update on the project?