Fowler 16341 Restoration Part 13 

Welding cast iron is an art and what a brilliant job they did. I had my fair share of heartache over the years welding cast, only to hear, "Ping, ping, ping" and fractures appearing!

Hello from the U.S., brilliant stuff!

This series provides such an amazing window into locomotive reconstruction. Thanks so much for posting these. I've never seen cast iron repair done like this with oxy acetylene. I generally use a MIG or TIG welder with high nickel content cast iron welding rod and a propane grill for pre-heat. Your repairs look great and it looks like you were able to do them relatively fast. Really nice work!

These videos are great! Whilst I've been watching the first video of the restoration and saw the miserable state of the Fowler engine, I thought it might be easier to build the whole loco from scratch, than repairing this wreckage. However, seeing the various techniques you guys are using to refurbish every single part of the old loco, it's amazing what one is able to achieve. These videos are not only interesting because of the restoration techniques, but also to learn how a steam engine is constructed and working. Thank you for sharing this precious know-how and I wish the whole Steam Workshop team the best of luck in reanimating the Fowler Locomotive and I'm very excited to see the outcome.

Very skilful cast iron repair 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

These are some of the best locomotive restoration videos on the www! You do a fantastic job of covering the broad gamut of skills required to perform such a restoration. I know how much time it takes to produce videos of this quality, so thank you for taking that time. In addition, the voice over is fantastic, it meets the standards of the best of which I know, Chris at Clickspring. My only regret is that there isn't even more coverage, but understand that you have a business to run. Be well & Best regards from Colorado, USA, Gottfried

I am anxiously awaiting the next video on the Fowler. I love restoring whenever I can, small projects. I would love to find a place near me where I can volunteer my services on some large restoration. I would even sweep floors, just to watch people who are experienced.

Brilliant work Simon

Fantastic work!! Yes, welding cast iron is challenging! Accidentally making cast iron brittle is easy if you don’t do it right. I’m glad to see that you did it right! Keep up the good work!!

I recall studying medieval history and specifically their redundance on arcane technology, and thinking, ''what Muppets". I see, now, the perfect appreciation of the predecessors that motivated their later brilliance. '.

Great content and narration is really professional, thank you

The cast iron soldering reminds me a lot of tin/lead spackeling for cars. Would be a nice skill to add to my collection of knowledge.

My only criticism is these videos aren’t nearly long enough for me 🙂 I’ve never seen cast welded like that before, a very interesting process and looked a superb and solid repair.

Bonjour, Tout d'abord, permettez-moi de vous souhaiter une Bonne Année 2022. Thanks to this video, I discover that casting can be repaired by welding, and I am sure you will go on surprizing me all along this adventure. You definetely deserve much more subscribers ! Amicalement, Raphaël

Quality work expertly done, nice 👍

Great work Simon and also great work on these cohesive, informative videos.

Thanks man. It was again clear and uncluttered. Seen at 11:29 (UTC +01:00)

This is good engineering that you can see and relate to ,have quite a lot of experience, fixing , m.o.t. our coaches for 50 years!

gas torch welding? how rare usually I see stick or tig for repairs on a casting, your narration is plesant, even a yanky like me can follow, not too dry not heavy accented, not too slow and your pronunciation is articulate, and detailed a before and after, its dirty and long work keeping this history living, but its very necessary least people forget where they came from, or how good they still managed to do stuff in the past even without computers or other calculating tools aside what they learned over time, and had a good grasp of which is better then what most think, its just often times the metallurgy was not there yet, or the field of thermal dynamics was not applied or could not have been calculated as accurate even though they could do the math and designing, and it shows how we got it done back then and can inspire the future, even if most of the industry is gone, the uk was where steam tech was born and first used though others contributed along the way, because someone dared to try or had an idea to explore to make something better or discovered by accident, like how penicillin was discovered or, rifling which was originally used to collect the fowling ended up making a projectile more accurate by imparting spin.

Wonderful explanations on your videos. Among the best. Looking forward to the next one.

Loving it. One job I used to do was repairing blow holes in cast iron gearbox castings. Takes me back.

Nice to see some cast iron welding, Fantastic description of whats going on and great camera shots to match, looking forward to the next update

Great videos 👌

I love your Videos, thanks for making them 🚂🚂🚂

Wow. I live only an hour away from Tully, Queensland Australia. Im amazed this loco is all the way back in the UK being restored. Well done!

Enjoying HD (even 4K !!) quality of this video! greatly adds to enjoyment (some of the previous videos were not quite as good as this one...) more please like this one :-) Thank you

great job on everything, I have found the tally ho of steam locomotive channels, thank you

Tullys is going to look amazing when she's back in steam fantastic work Simon 👍😎

Loving this, and watching cast iron welding is a first for me, I always knew it was tricky and now I know why!

Excellent progress! Thank you!

Absolutely a professional job. It is good to maintain and repair the old parts as well as possible. And only to be replaced in an emergency. Happy New Year and lots of creativity.

It’s almost two months now since this video, the last one recorded, and I have to say I’m almost over the withdrawal symptoms. When my therapist understood that I was binge watching the original set for the thirtieth time he recommended that I write to you and specifically ask you make no more videos. Wishing you all the best your loyal fan Dave. Of course I don’t have the courage to unsubscribe. He’s working on my courage index. Hope you will understand.

Great video of cast iron repairs! Hello from Wisconsin, USA .

Excellent! Wow!

Excellent explanation as usual, I like your lath/ mig combo, that's a proper putting back machine. Thanks.

It's a good idea to use grease etc in the threads of the fasteners, so that when they are opened next time after 50 years they are not rusted solid :) I use copperpaste in threads whenever i am restoring something

Happy New Year guys 👍🏻 Fantastic video 😀 Really enjoying this build and the commentary is just perfect with the illustrations 😂 Looking forward to seeing the progress through 2022 cheers Stevie 🤩

Liked the iron welding process, never used that system, I've ark welded iron using specialist rods, which seems to work ok.

Top quality work.

Thank you. Very enjoyable. Really nice relaxed narration style too.

Fantastic as usual! Fascinating to see proper cast welding, and not the ole MMA with a dissimilar welding rods, don't get me wrong it works, but the way you have done it is a proper job. I assume at the pace your going you plan to have it on its wheels very soon. Very Exciting, fantastic to follow, can't wait for more. 👍

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic again and as always (video and work). A lot of progress and true craftsmanship is shown. Congrats! I'm eagerly looking forward to watch the next video. As always Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all involved people. By the way: Happy new year!

Great videos but definitely need to be longer, more machining time etc.

Dobra robota 👍

Coming along nicely!

Clever people ! ,Fantastic work

Happy New Year people, another excellent video. Thanks

I absolutely love these videos, I can't wait for the next one.

HI LIKE THE BULD, PLEAIS KEEP THEN COMING MAKE THEM LONGER IF POSS . HAPPY NEW YEAR . REGARDS RICHARD.

I'm really impressed with the level of standards and the approach how things are done in this restoration. This locomotive will re-emerge with all tolerances as new from the factory. The part with the cast iron welding was of particular interest, I haven't seen this method with rod and torch before, but it is probably better than stick welding as less high temperatures are introduced in the welding puddle, thus lowering the amount of temperature stresses directly next to the weld, also keeping the propane torch lighted after welding is very good to allow a slow cool down of the casting. Was the whole casting heated to a dull red before welding? or is around 500°C sufficient? The setup with the MIG welder on the lathe was brilliant as well!

Nice welding technique. Cast is tricky

👍👏👏👏Fantastico

very interesting video

Special thank you to you guys for the bit with Jenny step daughter keeps being told at school she can’t like trains because she’s a girl have just replayed that but and shown her Jenny working on the loco and her face has lit up and now she’s asking about trains again

you can weld cast iron with stainless steel, a little bit at a time so it will not crack

Great videos. Are you planning any sort of open day in the future to show the progress and your other work? I think that would a dream engineers day out!

Thoroughly informative and enjoyable. The work is great - your expert sharing of the work is at least as good, maybe more important depending on your source of operating funds. I am curious how this engine was chosen for restoration.

Hello all. Will there be any more videos in the restoration?

Hi I am based it the USA on the east coast I was interested in one of the projects on your website and was wondering -do you ship to the USA -how can I better get in contact with you if I wanted to purchase it -and would I be able to get a shipping estimate before deciding to purchase the locomotive The locomotive I had in mind was the 3 1/2 inch gauge tich project

When is the 14 the video coming in fowler restoration series

Shops in Pakistan or India would easily just make a new casting...

Anything new going on with this restoration?

will it be strong enough mmmmmmm