Making Piston Rings! In just 131 easy steps?.. 

Seeing things like this really makes you realize how spoiled we are with modern engines. To think that there was once a time when everything you did in this video would have been just another day in the life of a mechanic! Excellent video, well explained, and very valuable information! 😃

This is amazing. I've never seen anybody calculate and then manufacture their own piston rings before. I can't wait for part two.

First video I've seen that shows and explains how piston rings are made. Absolutely fascinating! Something I call Elegant Engineering.

The way it was done 150 years ago. Outstanding!

Old machines, craftsmanship, engineering and experience all combined in one. Thanks for sharing this

Your'e a true "Smålänning" who can make everything out of anything. Great video with a lot of technique talk, love it!!!

Simple but very clever. well done

That making of new piston ring is great. Thank you for the video. Take care.

Well done. I never thought about making piston rings. Thanks for the show.

My wife's grandfather lived in rural Pennsylvania, was a builder and would also fabricate parts he needed for the various machines he used. Most of his tools are gone, but I have some of them and they are wonderful relics of a bygone age. Your videos illustrate what his shop must have been like all of those years ago.

Beautifully done! Great watching your engineering skills bringing these historical masterpieces back to life. Looking forward to seeing the next instalment. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧

Very clever. That's good to find a book on it. I'm subscribed with the bell but your videos are scarce.

I don't know these engines very well, but you are a real specialist. It is exciting. I watch from this old country that is France. Very happy to have discovered your channel.

Very nice! I don't think I will be making any piston rings anytime soon but it was very enjoyable to watch how carefully and creatively you did this. The value of old documents like that book cannot be overestimated

I can't believe this only got 76k views so far. Amazing video.

Luckily I can read swedish.😆 Greetings from Finland

Wow, a hand written note on a sheet of loose leaf paper is the best explanation of calculating ring gap I've ever seen!

Enjoying you approach,I'm off to part three.

Extremely interesting! Solved a lifelong mystery for me. Thank you! Pure cast iron cut to size.

now THAT is getting into it. 100% impressed.

I think you repairing old engines is very interesting

Very impressive, can't wait to see the engine brought back to life.

So interesting! Thank you for your easy to understand demonstration. Best wishes from George

So cool to see piston rings made from scratch. Always wondered what to do with an old engine that needed rings. The way you described it I feel like I could do it myself now. You are a great teacher.

HA! Even your torch is OLD!! This is awesome.

Thanks for info.This will help me finish my first ringed engine.

Very nice that you can make your own piston rings !

Thank you for keeping this knowledge alive and sharing it. Jim Bell (Australia)

Love how easy that thing comes apart. The size of the piston is also inspiring.

It's nice to see old pieces repurposed this way. Cheers.

57 years ago I learned about coefficients of linear expansion at school. Finally it comes in useful...

"Good for me, bad for you" I love it!

Thanks for the education. Good info that I’m sure to pass it on. I had never thought to make rings that sure looked simple. Thanks & God Bless Ron

Fascinating! My grandfather Herb Nickalls fled the Kaiser's call-up for World War ! - as far as he could, here to New Zealand, to Ealing mid-Canterbury. He was Diesel Factory-trained, becoming the 'go-to' man as Deisel was replacing Steam for tractors, road-rollers and fixed plant. A lot of heavy machinery passed through his workshop, so Ealing railway station (on NZ's Main Trunk line) must have been kept quite busy loading and unloading. Ealing is at the top of a cutting rising from the Rangitata river, and the rail saw little sun in winter, icing the rail and stranding travel north-bound. Herb's 'herbs' (colloquial for strength) of machines awaiting transport were often used to help (Steam at the time) trains up the cutting, a valuable service to the nation's industry and transportation both!

I just had to teach the thermal expansion principle at my university in Germany. Great video, Tack

Modern "low tension" rings and GDI engines...nightmares from the early 2000's.....

Good job! Thanks for sharing, including the ring gap calculation.

Fascinating. Great piece of science.

It is in one hand so complicate and in the another, so simple. Need piston rings? Just make them from a piece of cast iron laying around. Fascinating.

Give me old internal combustion engines any day, over the modern machinery.. The old motors have souls and personalities, they truly are alive.

Great! Interesting topic and nice to see I'm not the only person to squeeze the ring with my hands and press the slug into the bore. Everyone I know use ring squeezers or those tapered collars to fit the rings into the cylinders.

When you said you were going to heat it with a blowtorch I was thinking a propane or oxy-acetylene torch. I haven’t seen a real blowtorch in use for over sixty years. I am impressed.

Fantastic! Really fun to watch!

Beautiful work. Reminds me of doing three weeks of learning to use a file in metalwork class at school. Our instructor was old school then and that was 65 years ago. Best wishes from England.

I really enjoy your videos and I appreciate that they are suitable for children. There are plenty of creators of adult content not suitable for children and I think that what you share on your channel is of great value. Thanks!

Great content, love to see old machines working strong after so many years, made to work reliable. Not like todays products, lasting to the end of warranty, made only for profits.

I love these old engines. It is wonderful watching you work. So much knowledge!!! Saving the old machines and explaining in such a way that an old guy like me can understand. You are an exceptional instructor and I so appreciate the fact that you're saving these beautiful works of art. Thank you.

So much good information here. Thank you.

Thanks for the great videos! I have a few old girls (hit and miss engines) around to play with but one needs some help. Ill keep watching. I am learning a lot about this engine. Fantastic !

Your videos are truly fascinating.

Thanks for sharing your skills, nice to see artisan skills in action and the equipment you use

Nice! Love old school stuff!

I'm eagerly awaiting part 3! Absolutely brilliant mechanic-ing and Scandinavian dry humor... I chuckled for minutes with "good for me, bad for you". Cheers from Oregon, USA ✌🏻🤙🏻

Your a true old time mechanic and with your explanation with the ring expansion a professor too. Well done. 👏👏😁🇦🇺

Excellent description of your manufacturing methods. Your math is excellent too!

That was a great explanation of piston rings. Love how you explained the formula for heat expansion too.

Thank you for posting these videos. As a former "shade tree mechanic" I find these quite educational.

Very handy information in a post apocalyptic life. Thanks!

"A piston ring should be round as a pretty good feature." You killed me with that remark.

Awesome work. So relaxing to watch. 👍🏼

Great episode, some great information. As you say part of the fun is making the bits you need 😎👍

Very cool! Love all the explanations.

Beautiful work!!!

Very educational. Thank you

very amazing watching,.... you truly make these videos interesting.....theres nothing like the sound of an old machine coming back to life!...keep them coming subscriber for life

Lots of knowledge thank you very much looking forward to seeing it running

You are such a talented and smart man.

Man, the things you do is so steampunk and your look is badass!

The mystery behind piston rings explained! solid info, thanks.

Great video Richard!!! Looking forward to seeing the old girl start up!

Dear Richard. I hope you and your family are well! I enjoy your videos, and hope you will make some more before too long! I especially liked your film about the Volvo BM Terrier small tractor. Best wishes from George in Herefordshire, UK.

I have only one comment to make....I want this engine. Thanks

Wah! Great Man. Your workmanship simply extradinary. Hats off❤❤

Videos are fantastic and your AG skills are top notch.

Good information. Thanks!

Very nice work, Richard.

That's really cool, can't wait to see it run

Superb...quite hypnotic....wonderful commentary!

Perfect circle piston rings 😉👍

Absolutely fascinating, thank you.

When I rebuilt one of these few years back. had to make whole new piston and rings. We used well pipe to make the rings. Carbonized each ring. Then had them chrome plated after. Real hard part of that build was the thing sat 50 years and orginal piston was seized solid inside. Reborning it was a trick and a half!

Well done Sir !!

Good job on those rings nice engine thanks for sharing

Excellent description and video!

In 1974, I was an engineer officer onboard SS Nevasa. Our susti pump for supplying feed water to the auxiliary boiler failed. it needed new rings and the bore was worn at midstroke. I was amazed to watch our Chinese fitter make a new piston ring and then hand scrape the bore to be parallel again.

Just discovered your channel and this is awesome content! Been watching all your videos. So cool to see these old machines come back to life! Cheers from the states! and you earned a new subscriber!

Great channel. I'ts nice to see you saving that old machinery.

Beautiful work, as always mate. Nice one

Hose worm clamps really do a nice job as ring compressors especially for the old engines.

Such skill you have, quite amazing to watch you bringing these beautiful old machines back to life,... Thanks for sharing your experiences with us,. Greetings form Devon UK

Good job .I like to see younger people doing this stuff..I've been doing it since I was 14 or 15.always loved doing it.my dad allways had work going on.motors transmission .rear ends...been doing. My own stuff ever since .iam 67 now.still do what I can.cant do as much on this newer stuff.old school.

4:45 A stove eye (burner) works great. I quenched mine in water also worked great. It's all on my channel under big engine.

This is a masterclass in technique and materials sourcing from times past. As a motorcycle mechanic I simply ordered in piston rings in whichever size I required, even at Motorcycle Technical College we weren't taught how to make our own piston rings! I found this to be absolutely fascinating, a look back into how things were done prior to the free availability of spare parts from OEM. I'm very happy to have found your channel and to have subscribed.

Great engineering, well done. Again...

Love your work!

Well done sir. Great explanations of the whys and wherefores of the entire process.

really enjoyed watching this process and ll your videos in general

Great video, I enjoyed watching you make these piston rings!

I just found your channel today, and I must say that you deserve every one and each subscriber you have, fantastic. I hope that you realise how important guys like you are in a world where the majority believe that they save the planet by driving around in electric vehicles with chinese batteries and banning everything that runs on oil. The more people that watched channels like yours, the better we stand. Keep up the good work, Richard

I will have to try this myself one day now that I have watched you make them. I will have to find some cast Iron stock next trip to the scrap yard. It always fun to watch others keeping our mechanical history running. Greetings from USA