Dad showing his son how to do a skill in this case welding a shaft to a drum. I remember my father showing me how to do something and then letting me try it. This is how our world worked in the past. Glad to see it happening again. Another great video!
He’s one good little helper you got there! Teach him all you know you’re one very skilled man and this country needs guys like you and your boy-good looking jeep too!
Flats on shaft end are for us maintenance technicians to place a wrench to turn the shaft. Unlike the wrench turning gorillas that use pipe wrench on the shaft itself. That always made disassembly of equipment that much more fun.
Stumbled on your channel and was not disappointed. When I seen the little guy helping, I had instant flashbacks of my old man teaching me to MIG for the first time at 6. Awesome!
Awesome. Teach our children the skills they need to survive in this world. Well Done dad. Like father like son. Love to see it. Good JOB young man way to stand in there and get er done.
Good on you bud! There's gonna be a day he'll look back and be happy to share a good memory. I always like to see stuff like that because I never had that and I wish I did. Anyway hopefully you will have many more of good memories.
Watching the young boy welding with his Dad brought back fond memories of working with my Son many years ago. That experience will stay with him for life. Well done job there, it turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. Great video. 😀😀👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
Enjoyed the video very much. Thank you for all your hard work to make this content for us. We’re lucky to have folks out there setting the bar so high. Many of aspire to have your skills.
You and your son are lucky to have each other. I also try to teach my boy every thing that I know, although I haven’t brought him to my shop yet to work because we have tons of brake dust airborne most of the time but I love seeing how you teach your kid. Happy father’s day brotha
Fun fact about the shafting diameters. Ive been in industrial sales for 9 years now and learned this from a late mentor. The shafting industry generally did 2" dia shafts, however their extruders eerent grewt back then. So they would do TGP (turn/ground/polish) the shafts and that woulf make the new diameter 1-15/16" and true enough to slide your bearing onto there. Just trying to answer your question on the "weird" shaft diameters. This is also repeated for 1-7/16", 1-15/16", 2-7/16", and so forth until about 6-15/16" for all sorts of applications.
Any man can be a “father”…but a DAD…will take the time out of his day to put the stinger in his boy’s hands just to see that smile…on BOTH their faces! Thanks Dad!
Good tip, dimple the shaft with a drill bit where the grub screws lock onto. In my experience stops them coming loose. Cheers Greg, newish sub just binge watching your videos. I fit roller doors here in UK and the dimple method works for us.
I dont if they could even get access to it - but that register on the end might be so they can put a big spanner on it and manually turn the drum backwards if something gets stuck. I was also hoping you put the shaft in the right way around, as the drum probably has to turn in one direction :)
Maybe a future investment in a 'Spray metal torch' could be considered? that way you can rebuild the diameter of the worn shaft, rather than replacing the entire shaft. You'd probably need a bigger lathe though to turn the diameter back to 1 and 15/16ths. But it could be an option for repairing some shafts with the lathe you have?
Dammit, you just had to say loogies and tobacco spit while I was eating. At least it was chips and salsa and not guacamole.😆 Little man did a great job too. That’s special brother, no wonder you work so hard.🤘🏼
It is 1 and 15/16 because it is ground shaft that is a standard (1/16 under) for any ground shafts because they start with a 2 inch (or appropriate size) bar to harden and grind. Makes it a lot easier to get a nice bearing fit at any point on the bar. I would probably have welded that shaft up and turned it without taking the drum off as it looks like they have already balanced it. I did one very similar to that last week and the machine shop charged me 70 dollars to turn it. Took them less than a half hour after I had it welded up.
In industrial machinery, shaft sizes run on the 16ths, motors and gearboxes run on the 8ths or 1", 1 1/2", 2" etc. most of the time, but there is always that one guy that has to be different.
Look for the Hypertherm "HyAccess" attachments. They're great for getting into tight places with your torch tip. More precise, too. Baker's Gas sells the kits.
There are two schools of thought on equipment maintenance, run it till it fails then fix it, or fix it before it fails. I’ve worked in places that had both and there are good reasons for both methodologies. Preventive maintenance where you’re changing out a lot of parts prior to failure is what airlines do and it’s very expensive. Whereas with a can crusher no one’s life is on the line when the machine goes down and you have a one off cost for the failure. Horses for courses.
In the conveyors at the quarry I used to work at we had 1 15/16 and 2 15/16 shafts on quite a few drive drums and tail pulleys. It does seem like an odd size
I drive end dump & lowboy, I do my pretrip inspection & post trip, I've found things in both . A simple walk around inspection & give it a pump of grease would & does wonders.
I believe the flats are for when it gets over loaded or something in it not aluminum so u can spin it backwards with a wrench to free it up and remove the blockage
Parenting done right! Teach him a trade and that it's ok to get your hands dirty. Poor maintenance kills more equipment than anything. Stay safe and God bless
I did a can shredder years ago. And hard coat. Nice job! I retired in 2019 after 46 years. I did keep 1 welding truck. And I tinker in my shop here on and off. Keep up the good work! And videos! I watch them all the time. It’s gets on your blood it does fixing. And I’m still learning watching you young guys! Kent Smith Welding
I think the 1 15/16" shafting is common for Turned ,Ground and Polished 1045 shafting , thinking they start with 2" and TGP it.....a few years ago, I bought 2 sticks each [20'] of 1 15/16, 2. 15/16m and 3 15/16 , at a scrap yard, beautiful material.....was wondering why it was a .062 smaller.....I was learning to use a lathe and wanted some material.....made all types of stuff from that material.....the 3 15/16 was 42 lbs a foot.....good thing my buddy had a 2 ton flat bed to help me get it home......let me know if this makes sense.....Paul
This reminds me of our Ransomes mower. The shafts for the blades have 1" diameter where the belt wheels are sitting, but the rest where the bearings are have metric 25mm.
I wonder if the slot on the end of the shaft opposite the key might be used for breaking loose the drum when it gets stuck? It seems about the right size for something like a pipe wrench or a spud wrench.
Nice work, again! I bought my little guy a mig welder for his 9th bday. He loves welding! I found a lot of pins are 1 15/16" O.D. and are used with 2" I.D. D.O.M. bushing stock. One application I can think of off hand are the draft arms on Hilbilt dump trailers. So I'm guessing it is just a popular size when used with a 2" hole. (a nice 1/32" clearance all around) You mentioned that drum spins at high speed. How did you find EXACT center? And did you have to balance it? I would think even the slightest C hair off center would make a lot of vibration???
I did not balance it. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do that. It doesn’t spin super fast maybe 150 rpm. I watched it spin and I didn’t see or feel any vibration. To find center I measured from the shaft out to the edge of the drum.
Asking a question for a friend , how did you center the new shaft in the drum? Would like to have seen it run to see if it’s in tolerance or wobbles like a chicken with its head chopped off. Probably good enough for half of the cans. Great videos and job watching for more.
I measured from the shaft to the outside of the drum in multiple spots and got the same measurement. It seems to run very smooth. I would have shown that but the machines saftey features won’t allow it.
I would of put the bearings on then chalk them up on stands,then you COULD spin it to make sure it is centered. I seen you have used a gauge on repairing pins on buckets.
A lot of companies saw reducing Mntc as an immediate/instant savings in operating costs including being able to layoff/fire/early retirement offerings to senior high earning Mntc & engineering employees/workforce reduction programs because retirement pay money came out of a different pot/fund. Often they did not understand that it often meant more likely/more frequent unplanned downtime(loss of production & income) more expensive and longer down times as spare parts were sold off and no longer immediately available in reducing their warehouse inventory and taxes on that inventory and more expensive Mntc like having to hire a knowledgeable contractor to come in and work on it because the equipment experts took the early out/retirement packages. Even electric utilities went through it. A lot suffered worse impact than expected because there was not as wide of an overlap in reviews by really knowledgeable personnel like different departments(operations, Mntc, chemistry, engineering) including how near the equipment was to the end of its reliable performance and feasible Mntc/rebuild expectations and benefits to the plant to allow some things to run to failure and perform an equipment upgrade during a planned shutdown when materials and workers would already be onsite but surprises still happened when bean counters over rode the decision of the people most familiar with the equipment and it’s impact on plant operations and turn around time like Mntc and operations and the bean counter’s(financial fellas/gals) decision was often seen as more important.
Cute kiddo. Pretty excellent you take the time to encourage and show him. Nice work with the fix! How would you center the shaft if the hole was oversized?
Weld in taper lock hubs, that way shaft replacement is easy. Because it will need it again. Use eccentric lock bearings they do not work loose as easy.
I thought when you were gouging that you could have used a different make because that 90 handle just didn't have the flexibility for that tight of a cut but, it worked out in the end.
