Hello Charles, how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. Looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind thank you.
Jim, GREAT video. If I might make a couple suggestions: The shaft will be warped when you get through welding on it no matter what you do and it's probably wrought Iron anyway like most of the shafting of that era. I would recommend rep;acing the shaft if you can get the crank disc off. Just a couple keyways and you're done. That engine is valuable enough to do it really right.....Dave
Hello David, how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. Looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind thank you.
and here I just asked on Keith's channel if you were going to produce anymore videos....especially since you helped him weld up those Cane Mill rollers. Good to see you back!
That would be a good candidate for a build up with a Eutectic torch . That would give the best chance for the shaft to stay straight , but the keyway counts that one out . Looks like you will have to do the welding method . If i were doing it , i would weld it in the lathe & use a steady rest to restrain any distortion . Cheers .
That was my thinking also. Even putting in a key to spray over when building up. I learned to fire on coal and run an engine on a traction engine similar to that one. Good luck with the repair.
Nice video thanks for all the help . Clutche is at keith Ruckers now will keep you updated. Let you know when we're going to put it back together. Chuck florida flywheelers
Jim, want to thank you for a past video series you put out. The building of the bigger barrel train. My build of 9 cars made it into the Farm Show magazine. I gave you a shout out. Would like to send you the article if possible? Keep up great work.
I have worked on a few steam traction engine parts. Including a cylinder for a 100hp Case. I am all for fixing things but honestly in this case I think a new shaft is the way to go. You will end up with way more dollars worth of time and materials in trying to fix that and have it straight when you are done than making a new one would be. Besides needing a big press or puller to get the drive disk off it looks a very basic shaft to make. and even with todays crazy steel prices probably only about $600 worth of material. The time to weld, heat straighten, rough turn, heat straighten, finish turn and probably heat straighten again is going to be way more.
Glad to see you back, I've really missed your videos. I was afraid covid had gotten to you and I emailed Keith Rucker if he had heard anything from you. He said that he had been in your shop the previous week and were doing well. I'm a retired fire chief so I feel we have similar interests..
Yeah he's back!! Caught the TIG Welding Presentation from the Bash, and it was very informative. Looking forward to this project. BTW what's up with the water tower project?? Cheers
I am sure that the repairs have already been made, but could you take the tail stock off the lathe and use a steady to support the shaft while the flywheel spins off the bed of a lathe if you don't have a bed that long?
Engineering principles prevail. (Not the "wear my pajamas to class" type of students.) Good engineers not only understand materials but stresses (thermal, centripetal, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc .....
@@DoRiteFabrication I'm learning that in my "old age" (40) If you haven't seen Casey Putsch's work, some of it is amazing. He's also an Ohio engineer but basically took a Boxster and turned it into a "supercar" legend by hand (and intuition).... Neat stuff.
