Neat , I read both those “how things work” books as a young fellow my parents got them for a Christmas present for me to “ help fill my curiosity “, I ended up as an engineer because I loved , getting things made and problem solving. I am in my 70’s but still work in my workshop or garden every day and build things both wood and metal.

Us older guys really appreciate our kneeling pads. Can't have enough of them.

@jackgreen412

3 ай бұрын

A kneeling pad is really good for bad knees, but getting back up a real chore.😮

@mattthescrapwhisperer

3 ай бұрын

@@jackgreen412 Boy, I hear you....

@jackgreen412

3 ай бұрын

@@mattthescrapwhisperer What I need worse is something to get me back up off the ground. Getting down is easier.

Keith, those lift-up oilers are used on Model T Fords and are readily available from old car parts suppliers. There are two sizes: one for a 3/8" hole and one for a 5/16" hole. One supplier lists the larger one for $2 each.

Sounds like Keith's forge being finished and all the blacksmithing tools he just acquired we're about to get some blacksmithing content!

We like it when you share new stuff into the shop.

The amount of tooling and tools that are donated each month is great and helps make up for the little gained from YT revenue.

What a score. So much great stuff. Once again I find myself suffering from Tool Envy.

Thank you for sharing.👍

31:28 The thing about these old books is often they contain information, or instruction, that is NOT available ANYWHERE else! .. Stuff that is not found on the internet. It is so important to keep these old publications! :)

Happy Monday Keith !😊⚙️🛠🚂👍👍👍👍✌️

Keith you may well find you can use the borescope cameras on an iPhone with the Apple camera connect dongle, which has a USB-A socket.

I remember visiting an old blacksmiths shop and seeing all the pairs of tongs he had. I presume the most commonly used ones hanging on a bracket of the side of his forge but masses of others all around the shop. This was about 50 years ago and the smith was close to retiring at the time but a lifetime experience and a real craftsman. I went back a few years later and a much younger man was running the shop that was now organised differently and neater and the old skills had gone.

Glad you got the book and I think it found a good home :). Thanks for all you do.

I love that Traction Engine book. It's something I enjoy collecting with the gem being one owned by my 2nd Great Uncle.

Good morning Keith. Nice haul from the Flywheelers. Have a great week!

In regards to the tongs, you have a railroad switch timber tong (2man) and a railroad tie (one man)and timber tong, probably made by Woodings Verona. The one man set can be reversed for 2 man use, but yours has a timber point that's out of position for use.

I'm was a underground coal miner. I have a couple of the carbide lights and I have my grandpa old alcohol lamp that he used in a pony mine.

I had a Great Grandfather who was a Blacksmith in Scottsbluff Nebraska in the 1st half of the last century. He had a whole wall of hand forged tongs. He made them for specific jobs and they might have only been used a couple of times but they were there if ever needed.

@DPWingo

5 күн бұрын

The first project most apprentice blacksmiths do. Make your own tongs.

those micrometers with the "digital" display are good for youtubers because its easy to see on video.

The engineering books you displayed first were a walk down memory lane. I have all of them and took classes in which they were the text books. Also out of curiosity, do you drive a gator or pull a wheeled cart around at these shows. You must have purchased over a hundred pounds of items. That would have been a lot to tote.

That style pipe extractor works amazingly well. I used to use them to extract the broken jet nozzles in a parts cleaner. The jets always broke when we had to remove them and we wasn't so many hours trying not to break them and more wasted hours trying to extract the reminder when they did eventually break. The one day a new hire looked at what I was doing and went back to his toolbox and brought me a similar set of extractors. From that day on we just snapped them off and screwed them out with the extractor. Regular Eze-outs were too aggressive and the eze-out stubby extractors were too large and too small, at least in the set we had.

Love these kind of videos showing all the neat stuff you got

I worked in a shop for a while with a set of stakes, you might be surprised by how useful they can be, even outside of sheetwork. Very space efficient too. I would recommend you install the plate on your lowest bench.

Great score with the stake anvils, Keith. You have a great start for your collection. The pair of tongs that you could not identify are tie tongs. I have used my pair whenever I need to move a heavy timber. It is amazing how much a man can move with them. Sliding a tie under the rail, through the ballest would be an even harder task without their help. The pair I have has the name of the railroad stamped into them. Very useful, simple tool.

With the way things work volumes one and two you could probably restart civilization .

Back in the ‘70s I tried a carbide cycle lamp. It gave a great light, at least till the burner exploded. Cycling with two cow horn like flames was interesting. Astonishingly when I cleaned it up and replaced it the workshop stores had some spare original burners. I still have the lamp, but when did any one see calcium carbide for sale ?

@k9foru2

3 ай бұрын

US geo supply 1 pound for 45 us

@ellieprice363

3 ай бұрын

Union Carbide was a big supplier of carbide. Don’t know if they’re still in business.

I Do the same thing with tapes and razor knives. My work truck had them all over, once a week i would go thru and gather them up out of different work buckets and door storage etc..

Enjoyed the presentation, as always. Thank you Sir.

It was fun hearing the announcement at the Flywheelers show that you were at the show. Sadly, I was at the other end of the 40 acres hunting for treasures. How is that things follow you home like that? I found a complete 1940s Arnolt marine engine and it followed me home...all 281 pounds of it. Grand day the swap meet. It was enjoyable to see what jumped in your basket for the trip home. Great video.

Wow Keith. You sure picked up and were gifted some very nice items. A great video. Thanks for sharing.

Wow, it’s like Christmas. What a great bunch of presents! Thanks for sharing this with us.

I remember visiting a Rolls Royce shop where I lived when my Grandfather was having work done on his Cadillac and they were using similiar stakes and forming tools to fix fender bender type crashes. They did an excellent job and held the correct contours. Also, Mike if you ever want to sell one of the old books; I would purchase one or two.

Thanks for sharing 👍 You need to clean up the lamp. Once cleaned and polished, even the wife will let it in the house.

Thanks Keith. Lots of nice goodies. Mr Pete is a big fan of those old school digital micrometers, I like them too.

'It followed me home'. Funny how that happens. My shop is full -- too full -- of inanimate objects that somehow managed to follow me home.

Those inside pipe wrenches are great for installing and removing short nipples. They saved me when I had to remove and install boiler pipes when I could not get a pipe wrench on the pipes due to other piping being in the way. We used carbide lamps when raccoon hunting. Today just getting carbide is hard. The first time I used an Oxy-Acetylene torch the acetylene was generated using a carbide generator.

Thanks for sharing all yer finds.

Thank you Keith!

If the jaws on that pipe wrench are bad or if they like to slip you can buy replacement jaws for Rigid brand wrenches that should fit. They were the go-to brand for oilfield pipe wrenches for many years. They bite in and don’t slip.

Those two bigger tongs are RR tie tongs. The one is a two man carry and the other is a duplex tongs. They can be used by one man, or reversed so the short prongs grip the tie for a two man carry.

Thank you for another great video. Cheers

GREAT JOB...

My Grandpa used the stake anvil (18:30) to repair pot, pan and metal buckets. The hammer out dents and hammer down folded seams. He Called it a "Tinkers iron or anvil". Round end for dents mainly and other end to close seams.

Your new book, "The Way Things Work" is a gem! Keep your eye out for a copy of Volume 1. I "borrowed" Volume 1 of this series from my dad when I was in elementary school in the 1960's and I still have it after reading it many times. I credit that book as the gateway leading me into a 40+ year engineering career. All things considered, I don't think he was too disappointed that he never got it back. I wasn't able to acquire Volume 2 until I was well into college, but I have cherished the pair in my library ever since. Volume 2 is a great snapshot of 1970's engineering technology. I haven't been successful in getting my kids or grandkids to read either of these, but maybe someday they will feel curiously nostalgic and read an actual hard-bound book before they pitch them. 🤓

Those knee pads are available at Home Depot. I saw them in the tile department.

A lot of unusual things and some very nice red boxes.

Good for you,good video 😎😎😎👍👍👍

Keith, your audio sounds great.

I'll take one of those bore cameras

I studied Timoshenko’s Mechanics of Materials text, Summer 1969, U. Of MO-Rolla, the engineering campus (aka, Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy.) it was so hot and humid that summer I hung out studying in a swimming pool, with the text elevated out of the water!

The vise you show will accept a rectangular shank in the slot to reach down and dispurse the energy of the hammer blow if what I see is a slot to fit one!

9:03 never knew those existed... man, i would've needed those a month or so ago. I was cleaning my radiators and i snapped the 1/2 inch cast iron fitting inside. I had to dig it out by hand piece by piece. Painful. :))

I'll admit, I'm a sucker for those tiny bench vises too. I pick them up whenever I see then for sale

With that green paint on the pipe wrench, looks like it might have been owned by Stan Zinkosky

I have a nice assortment of Pexto stakes and a bench plate that I acquired from a school sale when they discontinued a metal shop class. The bench plate was the only one I had ever seen that wasn't cracked. The plates and stakes these days are pricy and often have problems with cracks and repairs.

The machined chevron at the jaw of that pipe wrench usually designated PROTO. Each manufacturer had a distinct design, but most were made under contract by Ridgid, Reed, etc. Sometimes the chevron surface will have the brand name stamped into it if the handle casting does not specify.

Great booty there Keith. Love the way you're saving the past.

Very interesting treasures , have to show how the tin anvils are used. When your done with the tally ho capstan.

Tape measures are a standing joke in our house. I've had hundreds over the years, but can never find one when I need one!

34:27 .. We had some of these on a big construction job I worked on. and they are great time savers and for working in low light areas. The only problem we had was if an employee SPUN the thimble very quickly (like on their arm) the number would jump out of calibration, if this happens they were easily repaired, but I don't know how.

Keith, the very best way for not loosing knee pads is to buy a pair of Snickers workwear trousers, along with their XTR D3O kneepads. I cannot recommend these highly enough, they are always there ready in the pockets in the knees of the trousers and you quite frankly don't know that you have them there, until you kneel down.

18:00 I think that's a stump anvil that would have been used for sharpening Scythes by hammering..

The young guys at work are amazed at my Zeus book.

REX is HSS - Colbalt and Molly maybe.

11:45 Some modern Cavers still use Carbide lamps. I'd cheek to be sure as I am NOT an expert, but I think the Lamps reflector surface, was faced with Tin, and would be refaced periodically.

12:00 was it the French Henry Mine? I've been down that mine and it was one dark walk out of there with no light 😂

Speaking of upcoming events, how about the Stoker Engine?

Mr Rucker It a pain in the Knee to get old, I do know the fleeing .

@Hoaxer51

3 ай бұрын

I got a joke the other day that said “One way to find out if you’re old is to fall down in front of a lot of people. If they laugh, you’re still young. If they panic and start running towards you, you’re old”. I hope you have a sense of humor, I’m in pretty rough shape but still got a laugh out of it, so I hope you enjoy it.

@mattomon1045

3 ай бұрын

@@Hoaxer51 the difference between young and old , is this you go out ot your yard and yell at that weed you are young !! you are old when you are dead. so be like me.and try to be to good to everyone. and have a party every day and laugh and enjoy life.

@Hoaxer51

3 ай бұрын

@@mattomon1045,Sounds like good advice, thanks!

@mattomon1045

3 ай бұрын

@@Hoaxer51 Your welcome And party on!

Please tell me you’re gonna soak those tongs in a 24hr evaprorust solution and bring them back. Even if you don’t use them they look and work so much better when soaked in Evaporust.

I could use one of those bore scopes for USB C or a mini USB

It would be interesting to know the difference between the "English" version of the Cincinnati 2, 3 and 4 Dial Type Milling Machine and the "American" version of the book. The spelling would be somewhat different. Likely some of the paragraphs are structurally different.

Keith, what happened with the Steam Stoker Engine Restoration? It has been two years since the last video was posted. I am now getting worried I will not live to see the engine finished, so I am getting curious.

So what restaurant do I go to to order some of these steaks?

If nothing else, you can clean them up for "shop art" !!!

I have quite a few of those miners lamps, but only 1 working nozzle. Does anyone know of any source for the nozzles for the carbide lamps? Are these nozzles something that can be replicated?

Did they have any rules marked in cubits? Or are you gonna stick with inches.

@ellieprice363

3 ай бұрын

According to my Bible a cubit is 18 inches so he doesn’t have to switch. Just an old unit of measurement used in the old days.

Does anyone make a LIGHT duty 36" pipe wrench?

@markpeterson5479

3 ай бұрын

Or a LITTLE 36" pipe wrench?

The Carbide lamps were not used in coal mines. There would have been an earth shattering kaboom!

keith, I am looking forward to seeing you use the K&T 2D on a real job; instead of just testing the parts and pieces. TM Long time viewer.

Those internal wrenches work well on chromed nipples as well to keep from marring the chrome

you can never have too many tongs,

That first DA tool holder appears to be a boring bar holder. No apparent taper.

First!

Can't have too many knee pads when you're a man of a certain age. I have a "Stanley" utility knife at every workstation in my garage and shop, plus my kitchen. p.s. I have terrible case Starrett envy.😧

Always begging for money. You need to step back and take a look around. you have more tools Is And machinery than any other shop on KZread Other than maybe a bomb.

@ellieprice363

3 ай бұрын

It’s completely voluntary in case you missed it. Keith’s channel and the knowledge and learning it provides is very valuable to many viewers. I’ll soon be upping my monthly contribution to the channel.

@JCS1069

3 ай бұрын

Well you could start your own channel and see what the real cost is. Just enjoy the video don’t complain about free content.

@billdoodson4232

3 ай бұрын

There's always one.

Happy Monday Keith !😊⚙️🛠🚂👍👍👍👍✌️