BoatBuilding - Bending Beams / Pipe-threader Repair (EP68) 

*Q&A ANSWERS BELOW!* Remember to leave your question in the first 2 hours of each new video, and I'll answer as many as I can *Are you going to attempt to make your own sails too?* No, I am talking to a couple of sailmakers about that currently - but I might be able to help out with parts of the process! *Why not wet / steam the beam before you twist?* The timber is so green that I was able to get away without steaming it. Steaming timber can be stressful and it’s good to have a lot of people to handle it. Having said that, it might have been quicker if I had just steamed it . *Unrelated to this video, but how are you planning to fair the lead keel?* Lead can be easily and safely trimmed with a power-plane (although it can be controversial on RU-vid!) *Couldn't you have made the beam with the turns and twists built into it like you did the frames, rather than forcing it.* I could have, but to get a finished piece of the same dimensions I would have had to start with a much bigger piece. Also, it would be more work to make it like that! *Can beam shelves be installed as separate pieces, or does it have to be one solid piece of lumber? Is there a point where the length of the boat allows for a split beam shelf?* It generally has to be one solid piece, although scarfs or other joints are acceptable. Some boats however do not have beam shelves, in this case they would need individual brackets on each frame and thicker planks at the top of the hull. *It appears that the beam shelves, once bolted together, are not on centerline to the bow blocks. Is the current position within tolerance? If so, what is that tolerance? If not, I suppose the beam shelves and ribs must be adjusted for final fitment and fastening. What is the path forward?* You are right, they are nearly 1/4” off the centreline right now. But I will pull them onto the centreline before the next step. Shouldn’t be too hard. In the worst case, this would have to be taken into account when fairing the frames. *What tools will you take onboard Tally Ho? Will there be a dedicated workshop / locker on Tally Ho? We know you love your wood working, and as you said, “a boat is never really finished.” * Mostly hand tools, and a few battery tools. Chisels, Mallets, Planes, Caulking Irons, saws, measuring and marking tools, rigging tools, leather-working tools, sail-repair tools, bolt cutters, a cordless drill with a few batteries, and plenty of fastenings and scrap timber! It will definitely be hard to decide what to take, considering the limited space. *What did you end up doing with the ship's original numbers and you plan on incorporating them somehow into the finished project.* They are on a deck beam, which is unfortunately very rotten. They will be copied onto one of the new deck beams. *Leo? Did You grease that big chuck bearing? It looked dry to me.* It has oil fittings on top of the castings - I will keep it well lubricated with those! *Have you considered a hot riveter? My dad had one with a 5/8 die. A pneumatic riveter might be the thing you need.* Yes, I am working on faster and more efficient ways to make rivet-heads! I like to start with the most low-tech method, so that I properly understand the process and can go back to it if neccessary. But I have far too many rivets to make them all by hand. *Are you going to fit her with her original rig or the Fastnet race rig?* At the moment the plan is to replicate the Fastnet race rig with the enlarged sail plan.

After all that has happened in the last two weeks of never ending bad news 24 hours a day Leo gave me 25 minutes of peace in a world of sadness. Thank you Leo from a retired pensioner

Never underestimate a man with a dream and a big ass mallet!

Keith is certainly a master machinist and a stand-up guy for your project.

It is valuable to me as an onlooker, how Leo solve many difficult mechanical problems working by himself.

You, sir, are a one man boatbuilding ARMY!

With all the painful news in the world today, I can't exaggerate what a balm it is to see a master craftsman calmly going about his job. Thanks, Leo.

How does one guy have such an amazing combination of determination, knowledge, skill and creativity?

Humility is only exceeded by work ethic. An exceptional man

Leo's ingenuity and tenacity is mind boggling.

2:02 that's the same hammer Wiley Coyote used on the Roadrunner.

Nice work on that 3/8" die set up Leo. There's a thousand way to skin a cat!!!

So cool to warp back and see the threading housing that was repair by Keith Rucker from Vintage Machinery in action. Leo your solo work back during this period of the Tally Ho rebuild was amazing to watch. You sir have come a very long way. Thanks for sharing,

There is really no need to replace the rails as the dies will self center onto the work piece that is chucked in the threader, they are mostly an anti-twist mechanism once the thread dies are engaged on the work piece to prevent the die head from spinning. I've used pipe machines in far greater states of disrepair and they worked just fine. The bushing replacement should have this machine lasting another 50 years.

Ah, the fine British art of bodging. Excellent stuff.

Honestly Leo, if there was a single video to watch and become addicted to Tally Ho… THIS is that video! Incredible use of tools and imagination to complete projects.

That threading jig was fabulous. Junkyard fabrication is a lost art.

I found that whacking things withe giant cartoon size hammer entertaining. Do more of that, please.

"Don't judge you?" you must be joking, you are the smartest, most creative person on the internet. I would sail the world with you knowing all problems will be solved and all things were possible. Amazing in every way. Great job Leo.

Great to see old tools refurbished rather than hauled to the scrap yard. This old equipment was often overbuilt by today's standards and with some tender-loving-care will provide many more years of service...........Cheers

I did not believe that there is that much really great timber in the world left. Those beams are beautiful. Nice lumber. Oh, I hope my wife finds out that I am talking pretty about someone else’s wood

Properly giggled when you cut the washer to fit past the clamp!

Your feathered assistant is fun to watch!

💯 best videos I have ever found for falling asleep

Brilliant Leo. A tour de force of rigging and ingenuity singlehandedly manoeuvring those massive beam shelf timbers into position.

This has made my Saturday! Time to get coffee and relax.

Brilliant work on the cutting die and dome heads for the 3/8 threads! Also loved the effort and ingenuity in bending/twisting the deck beams! You’re years ahead of most shipwrights your age 👍✌️😊🙏🏼⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️

"I have no idea what I was going on about here, probably just some rubbish about how I sharpened these". It's moments like this that make you like Leo so much, and make these videos so watchable (addictive?).

Thanks to you, a person like me who never had a clue about building ships or yachts, today I find myself watching every new video of you, and watching it with great interest, thank you very much!

No "special wire" needed Leo. That weld will stand anything you can throw at it. I have lost count of the number of sockets,spanners etc.that I have welded for one-off jobs over the years.

If you need new cutting die's send me a personal message with the numbers, that should be stamped on the sides. My father owns Worthey Screw Machine Products in Alabama. He may be able to help you.

Thank you Leo for another great video. With Keith cleaning up the rails and fitting the bushings to rails I'm betting you'll get about another 50 years out of that threading machine. As long as the rails don't deflect when you're cutting threads and the bushings stay tight you're good to go. Take care, stay well and looking forward meeting the new shipwright.

A very new sub here and thoroughly enjoying everything. I first started watching because I saw the violin being made with Tally Ho Woods. That violin is ultra stunning ❤ and the sound superb!!! Whatever you choose to do whether it be related to Tally Ho or any other adventure, seafaring or not, please continue to document and upload videos. So many here love and appreciate your spirit and attitude and we sure need your beautiful and inspiring videos. They truly help us in many ways you probably don't realize.

Leo, you are the McGyver of boat builders - amazing :)

Just a pirate building his pirate ship! Your awesome dude, the channel is great. Thanks for documenting all your hard work.

We are where we are today because we can make something that will make something. Great bit of wood wrangling too.

Now that's a mallet!. Need is always the mother of invention, your die threader looks ok and works so that's a bonus.

A great start to my day. I'm also grateful to Keith for introducing me to your channel. It's been a wonderful thing to binge watch the last couple of weeks.

That 3/8 thread plate worked great. Awesome job Leo!

Impressed with your ingenuity on making your 3/8 threading die set up. Well done.

Pretty sure I’ll be dead before you sail her but its real pleasure watching you and your help work. Thanks.

Only downside of this vlog was the absence of Francesca... Keep up the good work!

I watched Keith's video on how he made his repairs, and he is someone whose channel I've subscribed to!

I love the music you choose. Appalachian, Irish, Scottish (I guess) fiddling drones, borrowed from the bagpipes long ago. It's truly relaxing and in a way meditative and hypnotic. Good stuff!

Your workmanship on this vessel is just amazing. Can't wait to see it take to the oceans.

"I want to warn you guys, my metal working is not very good... yet. Im still learning" Translation: Leo is probably better than 98% of the welders in the World today .... When Leo someday says... "I seem to be getting the hang of this metal working"... it will mean he's a Master metal worker... as he is in all his other boat building skills... Dude is mind numbingly humble, and talented!!!

I found this channel from Kieth's and I have binged every episode and finished on Thursday. Now I wan't more episodes. You are doing a great job young man. Keep up the great work.

These videos are still amazing

And so it is that Necessity is the Mother of Invention!

Really impressive Leo , working through problem after problem , well done to Keith for helping out .

Adapting the threading die to the machine was genius based strictly on results. Excellent solution!

Leo or should I say Thor, the man with the big hammer who restores old boats...you are amazing dude. I love how you use common devices in unique ways to bend and fit the wood precisely. I am thrilled that none of your 100 foot beams gave way under the pressure and twisting that you applied to them. An amazing result. I also love your genius in jury-rigging the threading machine to create three-quarter inch bolts. What a craftsman.

excellent episode. I love how you are able to fix and use old machinery to work on Tally Ho.

I'm immensely impressed by your work. You work accurately, with the attention to perfection that a cabinet maker uses, but you also show great ingenuity in problem solving and getting things done and working. I know there used to be lots of people like this in 'the old days' but I had feared that the breed had died out. You are evidence that there are still people who can turn their hand to whatever needs doing, solve problems imaginatively and effectively, and produce excellent results. Jack of all trades, master of them all!

How nice would it be to have Tips From Shipwright come and help ya.

It appears your feathered friend would enjoy a bigger bathtub.

Great to see Leo's thread cutter fixed. People who can make metal things are worth their weight in gold if you're doing something non-standard. Back in the late 1970s, there was a retired guy who lived in the hills above our sailing club. He'd made many fittings for Australia's C-Class catamaran (Little America's Cup) boats and he was happy to make stuff for our A-Class catamarans. e.g. I needed some long 5/16th marine grade stainless steel bolts with a Whitworth thread. Not manufactured and impossible to buy. He made them for me. He also made fittings to my design. Vale Clarrie Medhurst. He made good things.

if and when you've had enough boat-builing you can fall back on your considerable talent as a film-maker. tally-ho! and another thing.... it was surprising the amount of satisfaction i got from watching you slam those beam whatchamacallits into place. i suspect you knew it would.

Leo and Everybody , Really Awesome to see all the Progress on Yacht Tally Ho !! For Me seeing the shots of the Southern Live Oak was Also Awesome. One thing that has always amazed Me is how well The Live Oak Mallets are holding Up !!! I have seen them being used in several of The Yacht Tally Ho videos . It looks like You are "Beating The Crap Out Of Them" !! Steve Cross akaSuperAx

Another problem solved! Your “can-do” approach is inspirational. “Never say ‘die’”!!

30ft in the air on flymsy scaffolding using a carnival hammer with no parachute..what a guy!!

"Not got much done!" JeeZus! This video was excellent. Constantly moving and achieving. Very impressive. I very much enjoyed Keith's videos. As an "English American" I love the way he says "AAAWL". Which I assume means "Oil". God and Coronavirus permitting, if I ever make it back to see my friends in the UK, I will be sure to put a sentence in the conversation with the word "Aaawl" in it, and see if they figure it out.

This made my Quarantine better!

Very cool fix, it works better than a 3 handed pipe threader..Just be assured Leo, all your doing is not in vain, I doubt in the long run you'll regret any of it because it's all working so well. Thanks Keith for a fantastic fix on the threader and Leo the tool for forming the head on the bolts is pretty cool. Rock-N-Roll !!

Thanks again for introducing me to Keith Rucker's site. I have learned an awful lot about metalwork there, and have to say that machining and welding is equally as fascinating as working with wood - only different! If I had my time again and had the chance to become an expert in one or the other, like you and Keith, I could not say which one I would choose.

im Leo, I am horrible at metal work - proceeds to lay down a weld like a boss and makes a tool that works.

Early again cheers Leo, hello from the SouthWest of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. To everyone stay safe.

Keith’s repair videos were great to watch.

Wow , I got to stop the video and comment. You are the master of doing things all alone. just can't get over how you handle such hard and complicated situations by yourself.You always seem to have a trick up your sleeve when it comes to tasks that require more than one person. The master of ingenuity .

Just a hint. Never leave a chuck key in the chuck. Get in to the habit of always removing and save a disaster happening

Hi, I’m from Singapore. A country with no wooden ship or boat industry, or hobby for that matter.:) Been watching Leo’s channel for a long time and am patron too. Love what Leo’s doing and can’t wait for the next video every time. I just want to know how many here are from other parts of the world. By the way, stay safe everyone.

Nice job with the 3/8" die in the jig!

Pancho always seems to be hamming it up for the camera! lol I doubt I'd get very much work done at all, distracted by such an entertaining character!

Great Video! I am always impressed and fascinated when you use ropes, knots, pulley's and clamps to do things. The problem solving you do is really fun to watch. You make it look super easy! Cheers! (pint raised)

Collabs between two of my favorite RU-vid content creators, tickle my fancy. ;) Excellent work, both of you, yet another machine brought back.

Welcome change of subject. Thanks Leo. May have to stop supporting ya soon. But, so long as I have my job I'll keep throwing you a few bucks.

Bloody 'mazing. Thought the 3/8" thread would be drunk as.....Nope, nice 'n straight. Well done.

Great solution for threading the 3/8 rod!

“Otis you crazy mother!” Haven’t heard that one in a while, took me back a few years to when nearly every video used it 😂👌

Always look for your rebuilding wooden sailboat ⛵️ videos! 😀⛵️😘 Mike from Missouri

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Nice job.

Great community here on RU-vid

Dang lots of fun. Great video

I'm here for the great woodworking... but making those bolts was REALLY satisfying to watch too!

I'm doing a rewatch as a await your next episode, and I didn't realize how long it took for Pete to show up.

My dad who was a professional fitter always says having the right tool for the job makes things sooo much easier. Is it possible you could update your Amazon wish list with some smaller items we could perhaps get for you?

I think you can now change your introduction part with My name is Leo i am a ship builder and a sailor and a jig and tool maker that was a good idea with the thread die

In awe of your project. Hello to the parrot!

The woodworking is great, but the macaw is genius!

Man if they had you on Gilligan's island instead of the professor

Brilliant detail, great video, it does bother me a tiny bit that there is a drain somewhere on the Olympic peninsula that is missing it's cover. :D

So we are enablers are we? Sorry it just struck my sense of humor. You are doing a great job and I love the updates as well as your ability to find solutions. The moment I saw the success of your threading I gave a literal thumbs up. Yes I was truly excited for your success as if I was there in person. Thank you Leo.

Thankfully you explained about your lack of audio - I was already going to restart the video because I thought the audio-video sync was off :D

Heat the bronze heads since hammering stiffens the metal. You can work with the metal cold, it doesn't have to be hot while you hammer. Reheat as needed.

Great Leo! You made may day. Impressive skills and out of the box approach on all your problem solving. So happy to watch you as we are in lockdown and therefor even more eager to watch the next step. Could you put a webcam for us just for the time of lockdown?

I so love your can do attitude. After all, most modern day techniques stem from Victorian principles.

NO question, just admiration at your "on the move and make do" skills including cobbling together that die. I would have to guess that these are the very skills it takes to be a sea and keep her in wind. As always, this broken old old guy imagines adventure through you! Thank you Neil and cheers!

I agree with the guys below, though I live on a farm in the sticks, so being "confined" doesn't mean as much as someone living in a town or city...Hope it doesn't effect you with your people coming to do the planking Leo....Stay safe...cheers...rr Normandy, France

Dude, you could have made about four episodes out of the material for this film. It’s my favourite since you built the boat shed all by yourself.

I went over to Keith Rucker's channel to watch the thread machine repair. I discovered Keith is near me in Tifton Georgia and he is just down the road a piece from Steve Cross whose sawmill cut your live oak slabs. Though I don't know him I will try to visit Keith as I noticed he is friends with many of my FB friends. Been following you since the beginning. Much respect. Small world.