both my folks were from your area, I can remember watching the lightning storms roll through. your accent reminds me of listening to them, they are long passed on. I don't have a question so that's one less you have to answer, I just love what you get to do for a living and appreciate you taking the time to share it with us. thank you.
You're going down a path of no return, before you know it you'll be designing parts in fusion, printing lost casts in PLA, pouring your own parts, or having china CNC machine your own designs for 1/4 what they cost retail. I recently learned how to make gears in Fusion for 3D printing for my machines (not oil related so they can stay plastic) and it's so satisfying.
1045 is medium. In the Lincoln book, it's high enough that you need to manage heat-treat effects. A really big hit weld is sometimes enough but the preheat is better. I'm not a metalergist either but I think stress relieving is basically heating to the point that carbon is able to move around in the crystal lattice. As the carbon makes clumps, it leaves behind wide open spaces of uniform iron lattice, which is where you get nice ductile behavior. Anyway, I had always heard 1 thou interference per inch of diameter. So the original dimensions may have been OK but the replacement was wrong. Thanks for the RU-vid recommendations, too
Zach, this episode is a good example of why many folks couldn’t comprehend the work of running a blue collar business. Equipment failures, money, time, etc. 9 to 5 is a pipe dream for us. Keep up the good work. -Tyler from Michigan
Hobo Shoestring was one of my favorites I subscribed to his channel. I feared the worst when there were not videos for two plus weeks. I too think he had a rough life but he never complained except a little bit about the VA. He lived it the way he wanted riding trains. He knew every yard, every track and every crew change point in the United States. RIP Shoestring!
Nice catch on that crack, painful to watch the trek to the scrap trailer. R.I.P. Shoestring, many YT creaters followed his channel I've learned in the past week.
I think we watch a lot of the same stuff! RIP Hobo Shoestring... I hope he knew how many people felt pretty close to him. And Mr. Carlson's channel is pretty darned interesting.
Really interesting. I’m interested in metallurgy, and particularly how they did metallurgy years ago. It’s not rocket science,, but probably more like metal magic,, but it is interesting and they did some amazing things without many of the tools we take for granted. If the repair worked, it would be great and next one might.
You're a cool dude, man! I love your content. I too am a fan of smaller, niche youtubers. There's some absolute gems hiding behind these low view counts. I had no clue hobo shoestring had passed, RIP.
Just watched Pauls video on the inverter today . As an Electronics engineer Paul is quite interesting to me. I watched hobo Shoestring a few times .Sad to hear he died . Been raining and blowing like hell here in Southern Oklahoma like it has there . Great video
Hey Zach, sorry that fix didn't work out, but you sure do a great job of explaining your work, and I like the way you think it out. You are a gifted oil field machinist. Your experience is priceless. I am sure that you are the envy of every pumper in Texas and Oklahoma and then some. I know the pumpers up here in the Illinois Basin would drool with envy watching you work. Thanks for all you do, I know its a lot of work. Know that it is appreciated by many. Hey, thanks for the RU-vid channel suggestions. I just discovered Hobo Shoestring, been watching his videos...awesome. So sorry that he has passed. What a legacy he has left.
It's crazy but as I also love smaller niche type channels I was literally thinking that while watching this video that I'm so glad that your channel was recommended and I was hooked immediately.
I'm subscribed to over 500 channels but there's a handful of channels that make me smile when there's a new post and I always enjoy watching. Yours is one of the small handful. I learn things from you and I enjoy getting the knowledge you've shared with your viewers. Thanks for sharing.
A channel I really like is allistair123 from Ireland. He may be boring for some, but his“ 10 ton welding repair” vid reminded me of your pre-heat experience. Haven’t seen any new vids from him in about six months though. Love your vid’s as well 👍🏻
Loving your channel and like you I enjoy the niche channels. It's heartwarming to hear youtubers from all across the different types of channels pay respect to Hobo.
Zach I enjoy watching you doing all this equipment repair and building things it's all very interesting. I've been a fix every thing myself type all my life and there have been some doozies, keep up the good work. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida. We all gonna miss "SHOESTRING"
Zack, I find all of your random videos interesting. I fix shit in an industrial building, primarily electrical with hydraulics, mechanical, building services and AC plant. You’re in a totally different environment to me but everything breaks just the same. Just like yourself we try to improve and modify stuff to keep it running and always against the clock. I feel your pain. All the best mate.
Appreciate the Channel recommendations. I also tend to look around for fun, food, people like you, and just doing interesting stuff. People whose company I would generally enjoy when I run into them. Keep it up.
Your content is great, your videos are just fine, no need to change a thing. I am 60yrs young, and don’t know jack squat about most of what you do here, but it is damn interesting. Thank you sir.
Great video! I can sure relate to a failed repair. Seems I’m always working on stuff you can’t get parts for, or not worth fixing in the first place. You learn by failing, too. I followed Hobo Shoestring also…sad to learn of his passing, and good of you to mention him.
thats why i watch your videos i grew up in southern oklahoma so guess where we all start thats right oilfield thats where the money is. so watching these videos just hits home.
on top of that i worked in a machine shop and done some of the things you show in the videos we also done roustabout and guy i worked for ran one rig which at the time was 16 hr floor and back in the 90s early 2000s that was great pay
One of the best videos yet , worked it fully out , what should have worked but tested and failed , what might have worked tested and failed , and what works , being transparent true Texan , thanks Zach , good legacy for those might work in the oil fields . Cheers 🍻.
Hey Zach. Answer videos is a good idea, when you have time. We can wait. I have no connection at all with the oil business, but I find your content fascinating.
Next time you run into that problem try knurling the shaft rather than welding it, then add locktite and see what happens. Great videos, Keep up the good work.
Absolutely love Mr.Carlsons lab! But equally love your videos too Zach! Used to watch hobo shoestring, he surely seemed like quite the interesting guy too, so sad that he’s left us. Looking forward to whatever interesting content you put out next! No matter what it is, it’s interesting & absolutely worth watching bud!
I really enjoy your cool content. Your homebrewed style of camera usage and editing really peaks my interest and hits me in the right spot in my brain to keep coming back for more. Thanks for sharing your talents and adventures!!!
Great video! A lot of gears are made with a Rockwell Hardness of 60 or more. The fact that you could drill that gear out makes me think the gear that broke is quite a bit less than that.
Thanks for sharing, Sometimes I learn a bit. I was working on a hose and the barbed fitting was just not going to, fit then I remembered you heating up pipe in the field to make it easier. I charred the hose a bit but the fitting slid in like a hot fitting through butter. I always use solid brass fittings when I repair a hose. Yeah I could have just chunked the hose but what's the fun in that besides other than the smashed end it's a decent hose. And I have a box of good hose fittings.
I've watched hobo shoestring and before him even hobo Stobe. Riding trains is a hard life. I didn't know that they found Shoestring yet, now I have to look up to see. I know he had lots of medical problems. Hopefully he went out doing what he wanted. Repairing gear boxes is way beyond me. Luckily, I've always been able to just replace my gears, but I just have normal reducers and nothing like the double output gears you have.
Bummer about that shaft breaking. Despite that as a machinist I thought you did alright on it considering. I commented on that repair vid that I thought it was going to get loctited on. I don’t know if it would work for you (I expect it would) but here in mining often if the shaft is worn and you need to get it running now a new bearing gets loctited on. It is good stuff and good for a clearance up to .010”. The only thing it can’t do is a hot environment, can’t recall the temp but a gearbox would be fine. When pulling apart you use heat to release it.
I'm amazed at how many channels that are not rail fan related know of or personally knew Shoestring. I've followed him here on the tube for a little over 3 years now. He had been riding the rails for 32 years and a bit shy of 3 million miles and 49 states.
Hey , Zach. When I want to anneal or cool something I have a metal box of vermiculite put it in that cover it up and let sit till cool . I made a hammer head once . It was in the hot box for a week and Damm near burned my fingers on it . Try it yourself you'll like it . Take care my friend Terry
I like to watch cool people on RU-vid also. The production quality is always appreciated, but the people are more important. There are thousands of click bait, algorithm chasing, bikini clad creators, with fancy cameras and loads of sponsors, but I only watch genuine people. Before Shoestring I watched hobestobe, another train rider that passed away.
I worked for a quartz glass company in central Florida and the same process you described in annealing steal is identical to quartz glass. Hard to believe that glass and steal have the identical heating process. Check out Scientific Glass of Florida. Pretty cool.
i like to see the fails when people get out of their comfort zones. ive pissed away more time and money failing than i care to admit and ill keep doing it because thats how you learn
rip shoestring he actually has a tag under one of the rail bridges I fish around it was weird after finding his channel making the connection of him to a tag I have seen since I was a kid
Shoestring was a very down to earth interesting Catbird , Much like yourself there Z man. My question is when are you gonna get a Sherman M4 and drop a whipple blown chevy big block in it 😅
So what was a better way to go? We learned the flexing of an overly hard shaft propagated the crack. Would it have been better to try to weld inside the hole and rebore? To be honest I would have tried the same things. Maybe heating the center of the gear hot hot and smashing with the press and maybe it will close up enough to recut?
Henkel Loctite makes "Retaining Compound" for loose fitting cylindrical parts such as your gears. Henkel has gobs of specs for their different formulas. I've yet to try it, but my next wobbly shaft will get a dose.
