FIXING A 1900's STEAM HAMMER! pt.1 

That moment will live in my brain forever. Heart breaking

​@@afg122602when was this?

Yeah… that scream scarred my soul forever

@Artiick when will was moving out of the Montana shop.

@@afg122602 Damn i must've missed it... I swear I can't remember it

Always excited to see comments crossing over between two channels I follow.

It would've been easier to just build a pulley-puller with a bottlejack to convince that pin to gtfo. Man got the tools to make that happen. Unless... well, unless he felt a tad masochistic or just had to let go of some anger. *shrug*

Something not even Evapo-rust can fix

I absolutely love every single one of your videos! I’m quadriplegic and I have been for 12 years since I was 21 and I vicariously live through you! Can I get a piece of autographed anything from you? I’ll take trash lol.

In a similar situation I went through a few cycles of heating and cooling with a torch and a candle.

I was gonna say the same thing. I wouldn't even touch those gaskets with bare hands.

how does he not know this?

And please do not wear those clothes home and take possible asbestos home

I think it's highly likely they are asbestos given how old they look and probably installed in the 1960s-80s? I'd either get them tested for relatively cheap or wear proper ppe and be extremely careful.

Please don’t overreact to the possibility that there might be asbestos gaskets. The real problem with asbestos is breathing airborne particles as would be contacted from asbestos insulation. Yes handle these safely but it’s no reason to panic and call 911.

@@patbullard9276 problems will only arise in about 20 years or so.

@@patbullard9276Still, the warning is 100% warranted !!!! Simple reason. Old steam flanges etc tend to be really fouled up. Often a wirewheel is a good cure for that. Except if the caked on mud is half asbestos.......ooopsie.

@@Zonkotron It is, but just like with lead people make a horse out of it when just being aware is enough, i think this scaremongering is doing ore harm than good, especially with hard headed people who will not want to hear about this warning. And in this day and age, of people who did not grow up with iron lungs and children dead from lead poisoning... trying to warn them in a oppressive manner is going to make them even more entrenched. It's not radioactive, which honestly is a bigger foul-c@ck to deal with and every once in a while pops its ugly head when dealing with old things. There's old markets where you can walk with a counter in hand and see the ticks go louder and louder, in some places the organizers walk the market "floor" with a detector before the market starts, because the odds of finding these things is high or higher than they'd want to deal with. Rambles aside, any gasket on that machine will be soaked up in oil (because of the steam-oil used). It's only dangerous if you start actively sniffing that gasket as you chop it apart. The biggest danger with asbestos comes from 3 big and very well defined instances. 1. working with the stuff in a factory. Be it actively making asbestos based stuff or dealing with asbestos insulation particulates in the air. 2. breaking up asbestos panels. Not to be confused with asbestos laden cement panels (corrugated or not). Those are inert. This is about the white puffy hex or rhombus pressed (think like toilet paper patterns) panels that were used in things like ovens or even sold as insulators between an oven and other cabinets or overhead fireproof panels for offices. - Quite frankly, in today's world, the most dangerous contact one can get with asbestos, you could easily confuse it with cardboard if it's dusty or dirty. 3. asbestos filling. Rare. You almost never see the stuff anymore, i've only seen it in 5 houses, all from the 1960 to late 1970's period. You can see how it looks if you look up "vermiculite". There's also (and i've only seen those once) a "board" like panel, tho panel is loosely named, thick made from compacted asbestos fibers. I don't know its brand name tho, so not easy to point towards. If you've ever played with the felt tip of a marker pen as a kid, pulling it apart and you saw the fibers, it's kinda like that, but white-ish and shaped like a panel. In this category, this is the most dangerous. If you pull on one of those, and you don't have a mask... you're f-kd. That stuff is like cattail.

Every Skyrim player feels that...

@@Seelenschmiede I heard of a guy who built a sailboat in his garage. It was on a cradle and built to the precise dimensions that would let it out of the garage. He couldn't put it on a jack so he slid it out on bacon grease.

I was thinking the same thing. Like how aerodynamic experts show where the air goes over the model cars and planes and such you can see where it goes through the machine holes.

It just use a cigarette

Or use "smoke in a can", which is typically used to test smoke detectors.

100 years of quick and dirty "fixes"

We've all got collective PTSD

I was just thinking there must be a reason for the second hole...they wouldn't've gone to the trouble of making a second if it didn't have a use.

Totally agree! I hope he figures that out before inhaling that garbage.

Guessing that any slight sideways play in the linkage coupled with potentially uneven packing material being forced into place could cause stress on the valve piston and shaft if it didn't spin.

Definitely looks like it make sure any of them are well soaked in oil or water to keep down the fibres. Wax can also be used to hold the fibres down longer

Came here to say the same. Take care, keep 'em wet while you get rid of them, maybe use a mask and clear up well afterwards.

@@paulsymons562maybe? MAYBE! DEFINITELY use a mask with proper filters, and dispose of it safely

Have to taste it to authenticate the material.

Would the forces keep sloughing off the material into air or is it fully enclosed? Only watched for 30 seconds so far

Id have drilled and tapped a hole, then threaded bar and puller. Load it up and get some heat on. Doesn't look to be a hardened pin

I don't think it's that silly of an idea at all. Two heads are better than one to keep it from getting buggered up.

Agreed, it gets lonely

Eh, heating and quench the pin should work fine, I don't know why he kept the heat on the whole face.

No, he shut the Montana company down and sold everything off

GREAT project, very much looking forward to this, and your can totally do it! PLEASE no more “be careful of the asbestos gaskets” comments!! There’s like a million of them! Sometimes right in a row too, don’t people read the comments before posting??!!