Let's Build A Model Steam Engine: The Tale Of A Difficult Hole.

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This episode on Blondihacks, I have a very tricky hole to make on the steam engine! Exclusive videos, drawings, models & plans available on Patreon!
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@redoorn 4 года назад

when i was more naive in the world of machining, it was the machine that impressed me more. it's not the machine that gets my attention so much as the work holding. that's where the machinist earns their chops. IMHO.

@DavidKutzler 4 года назад

The three most important things in machining: Rigidity, rigidity and rigidity. Rigidity of holding, rigidity of the part and rigidity of the tool.

@wayne9518 4 года назад

In the 80s I worked in a R&D group. We had a model shop attached to us. Both guys were talented but one was way ahead in the thinking Dept. Give him a little time to think about it and he would figure out how to clamp it, what tool he would have to invent. The tools are only as good as the mind and hands wielding them.

@nicholashacking381 4 года назад

You can tell what a Bad Person I am from this: I'd have measured the mid-point on the base, between the two sides, scribed a line, taken the mid-point of the line, made my punch mark, drilled from the bottom and then, when the hole wasn't in quite the right place, enlarged it until it would admit the rod. Job done. This is why no-one *ever has* or *ever will* pay me to be a machinist! Thank Heaven for the day-job.

@msully65 4 года назад

Try your best and chalk the rest! LOL

@engineer_cat 4 года назад

"...on the exact centre line of the engine, or at least I hope" Nope, that's the centre line now. By definition. Everything else can adapt :P

@rockyjudson799 3 года назад

i dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know of a tool to get back into an Instagram account?? I somehow forgot my login password. I appreciate any tips you can give me

@ThomasShatter 4 года назад

"The Tale Of A Difficult Hole" I'm quite sure that I've seen that title on some old VHS in my parents house attic. Never knew they're into machining.

@Youtubeforcedmetochangemyname 4 года назад

I laughed way to hard at this

@mute8s 4 года назад

Unfortunately I think what you saw was "The Tail is a difficult hole" 🤣

@Chris-pb3se 4 года назад

mute8s you’re a bad person, a genius, but a bad person

@onestopfabshop3224 4 года назад

Haha, good one!!

@kevinwillis6707 4 года назад

a comment as predictable as a DRO...

@wi11y1960 4 года назад

Love it, the cat demanded a "me" moment. Only cat owners know this. Grin

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

STOP RECORDING AND PAY ATTENTION TO SPROCKET

@kylerandall9141 4 года назад

If I had a nickel for every time one of my shortcuts cost me more time, I could probably afford to pay someone to do the next thing I'll try to avoid with another shortcut. :)

@gregloubser4744 4 года назад

About 40 years ago one of my engineering courses was Fortran programming. We has a visiting lecturer from America. I made sure that one of my assignment programs had as variables both Zed and Zee. This lecturer appreciated the banter from the top end of the class.

@johnmcclain3887 2 года назад

I began high school in 71, our federal government bought fifty mainframe computers in the fifties, I believe, put one in a high school in ever state, my high school got the one for Illinois, and I took "Kobal and Fortran" required for our school. I was into electronics already, but that prepared me for digital electronics and I've enjoyed machine work ever since. The "Fortran" comment caught my attention, almost forgot about those years. It's really good to see another generation enjoying engine building.

@dwaynegardner6292 3 года назад

"I have to use an old C Clamp like a chump" Hilarious!

@hgbugalou 4 года назад

You rock for showing your mistakes. It happens with any project and dealing with them can teach you a lot in a way you don't forget.

@dieseldave564 4 года назад

RE: The smokey cutting oil issue. Quinn, since your machines are so small, why not install a couple of vented kitchen range hoods over them and just suck up the smoke and blow it outside. I am sure you could get them cheap from restore, or on a pinch new ones can be got for about $100.

@taranson3057 3 года назад

I am a newbie, green as green can be, and I absorb information like a wet sponge and I have to admit that I have learned more from watching your channel than what I have from any other machinist channel on RU-vid. I watch and re-watch the videos on your channel. I wait with eager anticipation for your new videos. 🤪

@johnmcclain3887 2 года назад

I was a newbie to this in the early seventies, done it ever since, on the side, primary since the nineties, along with welding and general mechanic, I follow many threads such as this, precisely because "newbies" often have problems I've forgotten about, and have "new ideas" that some of us never thought of. I worked avionics twenty years in the marines, so my machine work is influenced by that, I love motorcycles, and have wrenched all my life, and youtube has provided us a classroom that can't be bought. I learned an awful lot from "old hands" but at the same time, "never saw this corner before" perspective can even teach an old dog new tricks. I've had a few fellow machinists of the female persuasion in my life, and they often bring a perspective men don't have. I also get great insight from reading all the comments.

@bennydesign 4 года назад

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you so much for this series. When I was 15 and an involuntary pupil at an English Boarding School I had the privilege to have a great metal work teacher who helped me build .. almost the same steam engine you are building now. It was then when I got first introduced to mills and (Colchester) lathes and all the great (starret) stuff. Thanks for switching on the flux capacitor!

@johnmcclain3887 2 года назад

I was about fifteen when I got a semester of "machine shop class" in high school. I didn't get to build an engine, but built some tooling for motorcycle engine work, and I still have the "C" clamp that was our first project we made. That was 1973, my own shop teacher was my life long inspiration. I'm building this engine now, my third or fourth steam engine, I've worked on cars and bikes better than fifty years. I love what I do, sort of retired, but can't quit the shop.

@chrisj4570g 4 года назад

Im totally digging the trick for recutting a center. Id have faced it off (as is tradition) not knowing your nifty trick, wasting material in the process. Very well done.

@Gottenhimfella 4 года назад

I often do a variation of that with a piece of flat bar held sideways in the toolholder, pushing (thanks to a V cutout in the end) against the end of a drill to make it work like a boring tool, instead of an orbiting mess, but I never thought of doing what the esteemed machinist on this clip did, and push against the chuck when holding a centre drill. Kudos.

@Hydrogenblonde 4 года назад

I've been a machinist for 35 years and I can tell you that non of the characters that I ever worked with were as thorough as you are. Great machining!

@DavidKutzler 4 года назад

6:04 A very satisfying "click" when hole fixture snaps into place.

@alexblackburn627 4 года назад

I blinked and the video was over! What was it 5 mins long? 19 minutes!!!? Bravo blondi bravo!

@DavidPlass 4 года назад

ITA!

@FoxMacLeod2501 3 года назад

Hahahaaa that "pan" shot was pretty great

@steveallen8987 3 года назад

I know a lot of people rush to the milling machine, delegating the lathe to turning jobs only. Add a rotating vertical slide and the lathe opens up a whole new realm of machining options. First up just check your tail stock cocentricity extend the nose to full travel and bung in a dead centre, bung one in the headstock and touch the points, pop a razor blade between them and any misalignment will be obvious by the way the blade angles. Now you know any misalignment. Now mount a rotating vertical slide with the faceplate facing you. Mount the casting. You can use the trail stock as a reference point to align to any surface or point. I have an mt2 blank fitted with a quick position arm for my dial indicator. Anything aligned to the tail stock is also aligned to the headstock. Bung a centre drill into a collet and start the hole, replace with your drill and you have your hole. You can now mill the end square. If you have a headstock with a taper add your taper mounted dial indicator and you can now rotate your vertical slide to face the headstock, dial it in and you can now perform other milling actions without remounting the casting. For example Stuart castings have crank bearing that split horizontally so you could mill off the tops. I once had a very complex multi casting multi cylinder block that required steam ways, so I purchased tow rifle bore aligning lasers mounted one in tail stock and the other in headstock and after a quick alignment test( not very precise as 1mm beam width give or take. ) I could now position the cylinder block and position it in three dimensions and see not only where a drill bit would enter but also where it would exit. Lathes have lots of other cool features like chucks that can be mounted on the headstock, tail stock, rotating table, vertical slide, dividing head. And swapped around for different operations without touching the work. Hope this may be of interest to you or you viewers. Steve

@russelldold4827 4 года назад

"That hole looks really good" - just learn to control the surprise in your voice, you're a pro!

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

I’ll never stop being surprised at my own success. 😉

@Youtubeforcedmetochangemyname 4 года назад

@@Blondihacks we are never surprised though

@ErnestHughes12344322 4 года назад

Nothing wrong with finding joy in your successes

@larss337 3 года назад

I love a good looking hole 🤣

@metamorphiczeolite 4 года назад

Most importantly, the yak’s coiffure looks great.

@peterludke7646 3 года назад

An alternate approach to "stretching" a drill is to silver solder on a length of rod. A simple butt joint usually works. It won't be perfectly concentric, but with the bushing holding the necessary alignment it doesn't need to be. The shank is not usually hardened, so the heat has no adverse affect.

@handdancin 4 года назад

that fucking y-axis travel limit has bitten me so many times! this video is so great for showing all the unforeseen issues that arise. this is the kind of thing that people who dont make stuff cannot understand. its very frustrating working for people like that... "why is this hard! its just a single hole!"

@unclebobsbees4899 4 года назад

We used to call days like this Monday. Congratulations on all the edge finding practice😁. You did get the hole accomplished so that's what matters.

@ariesmars29 4 года назад

Did you check out Joe Pie last video? He gave you a lesson. Lol. Hope it was all in good fun. In any case, both of you figured out a way to do it. I would still be going crazy trying to figure out how to do it.

@craigtate5930 4 года назад

Love the tool post trick to re-center an off center spot drill

@yrorseillig2000 4 года назад

jesus,what's happening to me?i was mixing some concrete today and i'm saying tappy tap tap !!!!!!!!!!!!! i need therapy.great channel though.

@mwilliamshs 4 года назад

Gotta love the old Adam Sandler movies!

@Reach41 4 года назад

Remaking custom tooling and redoing setups to recover from supposed "oversights" is a well-known method hobbyists employ to extend fun projects. You aren't fooling us!

@johnmcclain3887 2 года назад

I swear, I cut it three times, and it's still too short! I built a similar engine, an Ajax, about fifteen years ago, I note you are following the path I followed, almost exactly. It's a pleasure to watch you finagle your way around the pitfalls and stumbling blocks, to success. Thanks for sharing this!

@allenhunt3070 3 года назад

Great tip on the off-center hole fix. And, speaking of Sulphur, it will degrade carbide, along with chlorine and chloride (from PM).

@Mr215Alive 4 года назад

I don't know ANYTHING about machining but I've been totally binging on this channel lately lol. Quinn is awesome

@alwaysbearded1 4 года назад

Some days are like this but in the end you got that hole right and we all know and applaud you. Thanks for taking us on the journey. Nice job.

@ollysworkshop 4 года назад

I'm glad it not just me... I have that same mill, I get that same ACME tattoo when tightening the y axis.

@allenhunt3070 3 года назад

Great work. When you get a bigger mill, look for a Van Norman 1RQ. With that you could drill from the back of casting.

@johngamal141 4 года назад

Your workholding skills are on another level. Great Video.

@jdsingh1670 4 года назад

12:35. One of the best life lessons that took far to long to learn

@Chris-pb3se 4 года назад

One of your best videos if you go by entertaining, informative and well shot/edited.

@MrJoeGarner 4 года назад

Like the trick about using the scale to get on the center of the part for drilling.

@johnapel2856 4 года назад

Wow, that was complicated/fun! Very clever. Well, except for the unclever bits. Pretty neat! Sprocket was very meowy this episode. Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

She had a lot of opinions on my fixturing

@ArtOfGottiKa 4 года назад

Great. Thank you very much for the inspiration. I don't build a steam engine, but your solutions are wonderfully transferable to other problems ...

@jasonboren9951 4 года назад

Holy crap that was a lot of work. Thank you so much for showing mistakes instead of "Norm Abram's-ing" everything. I had "A-ha!" moments several times in this video.

@mikewasowski1411 4 года назад

That drill bushing is really clever. Thanks for the hot tip

@joell439 4 года назад

Another Rockstar production. Thanks so much for taking us along on the discovery ride. I certainly learned a few tips. 👍👍😎👍👍

@GaryT1952 4 года назад

Great problem solving and set-ups Quinn! This series is a joy

@FredMiller 4 года назад

Brilliant setup Quin. Nicely explained and executed.. Fred

@randynovick7972 4 года назад

Fantastic! Holy Ole, what a wholly fine hole! A very pleasing result. Thank you!

@addisongardner1989 4 года назад

So great, Quinn. Love the instruction, the humor, the clarity of language. Everything.

@smellsofbikes 4 года назад

The sliding bushing is a fantastic idea. I learned to use a credit card rather than a steel rule to find the centerline of roundstock (or quickly determine if the tool in the toolpost was at the right height) as there's no risk of chipping carbide tips. I'm not sure how much accuracy that loses.

@adrianharrison5208 4 года назад

perfect timming to watch your video as I have just sat down with my coffee :)

@Packbat 4 года назад

Found the channel in my recommendations this morning, had literally finished part II exactly four minutes after this went up. :D

@adrianharrison5208 4 года назад

@@Packbat its an addictive channel

@steved8038 4 года назад

When you get a day that things keep going wrong just relax, sit down and drink a beer or six !! Thank you , as usual informative , entertaining and looking forward to the next part.

@NicholasMarshall 4 года назад

I have been meaning to ask someone who know beer better than I do. Is it safe to mix drinking in one sitting, metric and imperial beers? I've been told choose one and don't mix your measurement systems.

@bbumpy4523 4 года назад

Try your "Blue Goo" in a spray bottle. On stream setting it has enough force to blow most chips out of the flutes of a drill when drilling on the lathe plus forces coolant down in the drilled hole.

@traitorouskin7492 4 года назад

Hey blondi hacks. I'm as new as a newbie can be. I watch a lot of videos but the tip about re centering your center drill was especially helpful for me. Ta.

@DonDegidio 4 года назад

Hi Quinn, Two thumbs up for a job well done. There are no machining mistakes, just a practice run. :-) Stay safe.

@kevinetheridge6153 4 года назад

That video was quite a rollercoaster of emotions!

@kevinmurrell9779 4 года назад

Just managed to catch up with my PM1. I faced the end of the casting, which will need doing anyhow, then marked up and drilled from outside in. Not having enough Z space on the mill I mounted the casting on the lathe and chuck/drill bit in the spindle. Seems to have worked well. I have also made a template (1/4" steel) with the six holes and the centre hole - much easier to do this on the mill with a clever DRO. When the transfer punches arrive, I'll mark out the hole at the end of the casting and then worry about how to mount it for drilling.

@gregfeneis609 4 года назад

Congrats on getting what you wanted, and thanks for telling us the hole story.

@ronmccabe1169 4 года назад

Recommendation - From McMaster - Luer lock stainless needle(s) Squeeze Bottles with Luer Lock Connection (I use a 1 oz bottle) Tap Free cutting/tapping fluid (1 gallon has lasted me over 10 years). Tap Free is a water soluble cutting oil, little odor, works well. I suspect most any soluble oil will work ok. Guy Lautard even has a recipe in one of his books to make your own. How do you make a water soluble?, by heating oil with sodium hydroxide (soap?) Q: what is the boiling point of oil? A: ?~400*F?, maybe more. Q: What is the boiling point of water? A: 212*F Q: what is the tempering points of tool steel? A:~400*F light straw, 62Rc, 600*F blue, 56Rc. I keep three bottles around one with TF, one with WWJD-40, one with soap water (for plastics) Now tap free is fairly low viscosity, and will gush out of a 16ga needle. So I take a 27ga needle, insert it into the end of the 16ga needle, and silver braze a big blob where they meet, and cut the 27ga needle off, and clean the hole (another (sharp 27ga needle)). I try to apply it to the top of the flutes (drill press) and let it drain down while I'm drilling. Once the hole is started, dump some into the hole, and keep drilling. In a lathe, I squirt it into the flute holes as much as practical. Really, just a few drops now and then works well. Minimal wastage, minimal cleanup.

@leeklemetti1887 4 года назад

An old saying that still is true. "All is well that ends well" A fun journey, fraught with frustration because our brains are short-sighted. LOL

@blfstk1 4 года назад

"A shortcut is the longest distance between two points". Robert Heinlien. I have found this to be true. I always learn from the mistake though. People who do stuff make mistakes. Good job.

@stefanhauser2804 4 года назад

It's interesting that you search the perfect cooling solution too. I've seen cooling with Paraffin seems to he a interesting choice, because the phase transition from solid to liquid. And it reduces the mess.

@afriedli 4 года назад

On the topic of our relationship with animals, my favourite quote is from Winston Churchill: "Dogs look up at you, cats look down on you - only pigs look at man in the eye." :-)

@rgicquaud 4 года назад

C'est toujours un plaisir de regarder tes vidéos, même lorsqu'il s'agit de percer un simple trou ! Félicitations pour ton travail et pour ta volonté de nous le faire partager !

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

Bien sûr, c’est ma plaisir!

@garagewizzard 4 года назад

I don't know if you read the comments, but I think you might have been able to hold a drill in the spindle on your lathe as it's MT4 (MT4 - MT2 adapter even), and mount the part upside down on the cross slide using a pair of packing wedges similar to how you made the drill bushing. You could also adapt your bushing into a rudimentary machinist jack, and then clamp it down using the t-slots. Otherwise, happy fixturing!

@Tribalwerewolf 4 года назад

Ah, a wonderful video yet again. Manual machining is always a joy. Keeps one's mind busy... unlike the cncs I run where it allows your mind to wonder. Keep up the good work, always a great joy watching your videos.

@DavidLindes 4 года назад

3:55 - as a long-time photographer, who does a lot of long exposure and some time-lapse stuff, this really made me laugh. :) 9:25 - haha, nice. :) 10:38 - ooh, I think you showed this in an earlier video, too, but I didn't quite get how/why the technique worked. This time, I get it! Thanks! 12:34 - there's a whole book about this phenomenon! _Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior_ by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman. 13:56 - I don't know when this started (I know this isn't the first), but I love that you've started overloading that phrase for multiple kinds of tapping. :) 15:08 - You just broke my brain. :-o "Poop has knuckles?" [knuckles = bends, right?] "oh... Uhhhhhhhh......." 17:43 - lest the poop knuckles come out? :-o Yeah, broken. :D 18:44 - yay!! ok, the last 4 minutes will now be forgotten for all time. You know, other than me leaving a record of it for all eternity on a RU-vid comment that the Internet will never forget. Ah well. Anyway, good work!

@stevenstandley1241 4 года назад

I am glad the fits and starts are suffered by someone else beside me. Plus side is you seem to take it a lot better than I do. ;)

@vendter 4 года назад

You can also use a 2 flute end mill in the tale stock to straighten a wobbly hole .

@Gottenhimfella 4 года назад

When I used to make extensions to twist drills (when long series drills were out of my financial reach or when I didn't want to wait for a delivery) I would use a shrink fit (slightly undersize hole in the extension shaft, heat the shaft, drop the drill in and let it cool) - just a different way to skin the cat - oops! --saves a bit of time provided you don't want to get the drill back out! It does mean you can use thinner walls, which might have saved your first clamping fixture from the trash! Now I have other choices (low or high temperature silver solder, or three tiny TIG tacks) but another reason to prefer any of these is that in some cases it's hard to drive enough torque through a grub-screw connection (set screw for US), even with thick walls. Great video BTW - you really have a great deal to offer, and a wonderful manner to seal the deal. ON EDIT (after watching to the end) Just a thought: grub (set) screws at 180 degrees make no sense unless they engage with dimples. The best angle between them is 45 or 60 degrees, but 90 is OK.

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

Hey everyone- this week’s “amazing idea I have that Quinn obviously didn’t think of” is making a bushing that wraps around to drill from the other side. My mill is too short to do that, and setting that up on the lathe would be a lot more work than what I did. I answered the first person who suggested this, since it wasn’t clear from the video why I didn’t do that. The other hundred people who asked it either get a brief answer or none. Do me a favor and read each other’s comments if you’re genuinely interested in the answer to something (and not just armchair machining), because I do answer questions here, but I won’t answer them 50 times.

@masonellett3158 4 года назад

Hey just a thought: did you ever think of making a bushing that wraps around 1.5 times so you could drill from the same side that you drilled from?

@sailingitlldo1109 4 года назад

First ya have to catch the Yak. lol

@howardosborne8647 4 года назад

@@sailingitlldo1109 I've often wondered is it best to shave one wet or dry???

@fuzzyvideo69 4 года назад

Apologies, I read a few comments but tend not to read every one. I didn't suggest it as a criticism, just didn't notice it mentioned in your vid. I appreciate and enjoy what you do and I've learned a lot about machining. Thanks, now back to my armchair. :)

@howardosborne8647 4 года назад

A point about 'armchair machining'. No matter what type of cutter or coolant I try I always find the stuffing in the cushions gets wrapped around the quill...just saying.😨

@dudleycornman1624 4 года назад

If your drill bushing extended up and over the lip to the back side.. you could drill it from that side with a short drill...

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

Nope mill is too short

@maximwannabepro3021 4 года назад

How to easily drill (and fuck up) a hole: drill from the other side Quinn: that's illegal D:

@lowguidoschopshop 4 года назад

Yak shaving! I love that term.

@csimeonides 4 года назад

Love your presentation, the way you explain what y doing and all your ideas to better the project, the work and the hole well being of everything in the video. Saw you drinking from your cool beverage cup, liked it and ordered one. Thanks for all.

@brianmoore1164 4 года назад

Love this series and I hope to have a steam engine in my future before too long. On reduced smoke cutting oil, I have fallen in love with Rigid Nu-clear. Not 100% smoke free in all situations, but it is vastly reduced. Its performance is outstanding and it has become my favorite cutting oil for most jobs. Chlorine free and it has the performance to handle the toughest jobs.

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check that out.

@phillipyannone3195 4 года назад

That was most excellent. Congratulations on achieving your goal. A very tricky hole to locate indeed. Thank goodness for your patience and vast knowledge base. Looking forward to more.

@Just1GuyMetalworks 4 года назад

Great video! The drill guide coupled with the extension was a great plan to get to that super, hard to reach spot 😊. There are tons of applications that method could be used... minus the yak shaving of course (still get a kick outta that 🤣). Thanks for sharing! Cheers 👍😁👍

@jeffreysmith9369 4 года назад

Number one problem in machine shop job estimates: Fixture time grossly under estimated ! Another great object lesson well done.

@Suinsap 4 года назад

Does the drill bit need a recess to better hold the screws? maybe is not relevant

@ego73 4 года назад

Careful with that deburring tool. I've opened up a thumb with one of those. Great video, Quinn.

@augustvonmackensen9785 3 года назад

Call me crazy, but this is what I like about machining - hours of setting up just to do one small operation. It is almost like building a Rube-Goldberg machine 😁

@DavidPlass 4 года назад

I always knew that cat toothbrush fixture would come in handy some day.

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

It wasn’t much good for milling toothbrushes, in the end. Heck of a fancy wedge though.

@ChristopherTate 4 года назад

I see that you gave it ... a *hole* episode unto itself.

@DavoShed 4 года назад

I think you did a great job on this with the amount of travel your machines have. Also that’s a great way to quickly find the centre of a shaft on the mill. I have been using that trick to get a lathe tool on centre for years (and years) Why have I never thought to do the same thing on my mill? I don’t have a DRO so every little trick is a good one. Thanks!

@HighCaliberCraftsman 4 года назад

Way to work it out! Nice job and I learned a few things! Thanks!

@WalterEGough 4 года назад

Loving the steam engine series!

@11zekim 4 года назад

Brilliant, covered like 11 cool tricks for 1 hole! You will still want to match-drill your crosshead to meet that hole, perfection being the truest enemy of good. Also your toolholder set screws should be at 90*, never opposed (bad kinematics). Finally, your cat needs a window IN the closet.

@OriginalHuchang 4 года назад

This is fantastic, thanks for the awesome explanations throughout this journey.

@theamateurmachineshop2150 4 года назад

Very well done. Lots of great tips along the way. Thanks

@rickr8469 4 года назад

Hi Quinn. My Grizzly G0759 mill appears to be 90 percent the same as yours. I also sport the “black tat” on the thumb. Either that or we are long lost siblings with matching birthmarks. Loving the steam series. And pretty much everything you post.

@coiledspringofapathy 4 года назад

You are the RU-vid University of hobby machining. Own it.

@davescreations7793 4 года назад

Wow what a great job it took a lot to do it but awesome job

@LV2XPLR 4 года назад

Poop Knuckles (15:05) I love creative PG curse words. Great job on the engine build. So many of us are drawn into the romance of a steam engine.

@Moose_Hawkins 4 года назад

*sees the title* *takes several deep breaths* No, no. I am not going to make THAT joke, this channel is far too wholesome to deserve that.

@Blondihacks 4 года назад

🤭🤫

@christopherlease 4 года назад

"There's a million ways to skin a cat" figuratively speaking, I like cats, but there are possibly many ways to achieve the same hole using different set-ups on different machines but none as entertaining and possibly as accurate as this. Fantastic skilful entertainment. I look forward to the next episode.

@elsdp-4560 4 года назад

THANK YOU...for sharing. Fantastic job.

@TheKnacklersWorkshop 4 года назад

Hi Quinn, I fully subscribe to the thought that shortcuts often lead to extra work... Nice progress on the build... Take care Paul,,

@TheKnacklersWorkshop 4 года назад

@Monty Spatchcock Hi Monty, I like that saying... I am sure i will use it in the future... Thank you. Paul,,

@lorenb667 4 года назад

@Monty Spatchcock People haven't heard that phrase? Discovering that the colloquialisms I grew up with are outside the norm strikes again!

@graveneyshipright 4 года назад

I am guessing there are two teeny tiny holes to be drilled and tapped to go either side of that hole for the packing gland? I guess you are going to attack those from the other face... if you do make an extension drill for a 8BA tapping drill please warn us:) You were right about the crazy set ups my Grandfather only had a treadle lathe and a home made vertical slide for any kind of milling! happy tap tapping away! yes you have me saying it now!