Removing Bronze Bushings & Brazing a Broken Casting for Leo at Sampson Boat Co. 

Mr. Rucker, I cannot thank you enough for getting involved with this! First, there was a lot of talk on social media that the slop in the travel of this carriage was acceptable. I hope people can see from this video that it was not and it was more than just "play". When I took this piece apart, and it fell apart in my hand, and I saw just how thin those bushings were, this WAS excessive wear. This machine has DEFINITELY been used over time. While I'm sure Leo could have made it work, this repair will certainly streamline his manufacturing of the bolts he needs and help him tremendously. Also, on the two rails/rods, if you look on the end that doesn't have the threads, one has a hole, the other one should be marked with the letter F, for front. The front would be the piece you brazed back together. Thanks again! This community of makers never ceases to amaze me in its generosity.

The more I watch the Tally Ho project the more talented people I discover to subscribe to and enjoy.

Been following that restoration from the start, Thank You Keith for helping Leo out it's a pretty cool project indeed :-).

Yes thank you for helping leo keith very happy to see two of my favorite channels getting together

Leo absolutely is the best guy I’ve seen on u tube building a boat very skilled indeed followed him from the very beginning of the tally ho rebuild so glad you have the opportunity to help,,,,respect

It is wonderful you are helping Leo with this repair. He was proud to get the pipe threader and I am sure disappointed by the broken part. He will really be able to use the machine after the repair. Thank you for helping him.

I cannot completely express how much joy this video has bought me today. Two of my favorite craftspeople working together. This ability to create a community based on craft and workmanship is the positive power of social media. Thank you so much kindness and support of this community. Mr Rucker you are a special person.

Came here after Leo mentioned he sent this piece for you to repair. I'm glad I did. Yes, I know it's three years old video but I'm going through the whole story of Tally Ho. Lots of nice content in here. You have a new subscriber. 😎

Thank you very much for your support of Leo's Tally Ho project.

Thanks for helping out Leo. Enjoyed your show, will continue to watch!

Excellent start to a repair for Leo. Great to see that you have made time to do this for him as you have many projects of your own that need to be done.

Keith, Thanks for helpiing Leo with his project. The Tally Ho is a massive project for anyone to take on and he's doing it by himself on what I suspect is aa quite small budget.

You and Leo are two of my favorite RU-vidrs. Glad you’ve found each other.

Sampson boat company is awesome 😊

Thank you for helping Leo and Sampson Boat Company! :-)

Your helping Leo!! That's awesome! His channel I have been following and supporting for some time now. Thank You!

Found your channel from the Sampson Boat company. Thanks for supporting Leo and glad I found you! A lot of content to catch up on! 😁

I'm 4 months late but thanks for helping the kid out, it takes a smart man to help out a smart kid, you obviously fit the bill

As an ex marine engineer and boatbuilder I am delighted to find your channel through Leo, looking forward to seeing more now I have subscribed. Excellent work and thank you for helping Leo out.

So cool to see... and I don’t think I have ever clicked on a video so fast... two of my favourite RU-vidrs restoring old stuff... awesome

Absolutely love the community that has bound together the best of the best on RU-vid. I was watching Leo, and a comment mentioned Project Binky. It is delightful. In on of their "Howie Do It" videos they were turning something on a lathe, and sparkes flew. The voice-over says, "I hope Abom isn't watching." They pinned Abom's "Oh I'm watching," comment. Abom79 is the first channel I became a patron on. This community spirit is lifting my soul up. It is so real and show the best in us. Marshall Moneymaker (comment below) is spending his life in service to others.

Thanks for helping Leo at Sampson boat. Any friend of his is a friend of ours

Damn you RU-vidrs are as thick as thieves. I've been following Tally Ho since day one. Not the first time I've seen two of my favourite channels collaborate. Great stuff, hope it all works out, look forwards to seeing this tool back in action.

Hi Keith. Love the channel! And thanks for pointing me at Leo! Big ups!!

It was nice of you to help him Keith. His channel is a fascinating project.

Leo Sampson is terrific. Glad you two were able to cooperate.

I have been watching Leo for some time now, interesting to see fellow RU-vidrs from different skill sets connect.

I came here from Leo's channel. Now I have another subscription because I like to watch craftsman at work. Many thanks for the video.

Good to see some good ol fashion brazing. Keep it simple

Big shout-out to Leo's channel - it is really cool that these two channels are working together!

I have watch Leo's channel from the start. Thanks Keith for helping out.

I admire you to take part off the Simpson project

So glad I found you through Leo. Great work.

Between you Leo & Abom79 I should be kept happy learning engineering tips, Thanks for helping Leo!

Another excellent video and especially interesting to those of who also follow Leo regularly. I've been watching his channel since the very beginning. He is doing an amazing job. Glad you could help him out.

Thanks for helping Leo and teaching us all.

Came here from Leo’s channel. 👍

You are a great man helping Leo! Thanks!

From the followers of Sampson Boat...THANK YOU. And you get another subscriber!

I agree with you about brazing is better than welding cast iron. I had a very old vice which had been repaired with braze.I brought my vice into work and one day a coworker broke it, but not where it was repaired before.

What a great job Keith. A pleasure to find out you had done some past work for Leo on Tally Ho. Thanks for sharing!

Thrilled you helped Leo!

Thanks for helping Leo out Keith !

Hi Keith, Leo said to say Hi, Thanks for the help!!

Hi Keith, Our Leo sent us over to say hello and add a 'like' in thanks for your help....

Keith , it may be worth mentioning to your viewers that anytime they are grinding or sanding paint off old iron , they should check for lead based paint , as it was commonly used on darn near everything back in the day . If the paint is lead based it’s best to remove it with paint stripper so the lead particles don’t become airborne and inhaled .

Thanks, Kieth , for helping Leo. Maybe he can make you some shelves or something.

Keith - its fabulous to see someone such as yourself extend your generosity to assist a fellow craftsman in need - pat yourself on the back mate :-)

Came here through Leo's channel. Glad I did. I'm not much of a metal worker but appreciate craftsmanship. Thanks for helping Leo! I'll be back.

Many thanks from a supporter of the Tally Ho project.

Thanks for helping Leo. The machine you repaired works like new.

This is fun! I'm chasing all over RU-vid, tracking down the good people! I went to Leo's channel where I found the wonderful Marshall so I could say, "YAY, MARSHALL!" And now I've found Mr Rucker. I'm a Brit, so I don't know the first thing about cheerleading, but I'll have a go anyway: 'YAY, KEITH!" :-)

Thanks for helping Leo.

Great nice to help Leo out. Just found his project and it is so good.

THANKS FOR HELPING LEO!!

Thank you for being you Keith, such skills, the level of craftsmanship that surround and are involved with Tally Ho is humbling. These men and women are so talented and skilled and it is so beautiful to watch.

Hi Keith -Hello from New Zealand - a real craftsman at work here :) nice to see things done properly on youtube

Holy crap. Coming back on my Tally Ho rewatch and this was unknown project of yours (obviously watched all the capstan videos) and man, you have lost so much weight between this and 2024! Kudos to Keith in past.

Thanks for helping Leo on this repair. Also thanks for walking up through the why and how of your decisions making process while you do that do we understand the correct way to do this. Tally Ho!

I'd like to thank both you and Leo. You for doing this project, and Leo for introducing me to your channel. +1

Replacing a _lot_ of the wood? He's replacing *_almost all_* of the wood! He's managed to repair most of the transom, adding a little bit of new wood to it, and isn't going to paint it so as to show just about the only original part of the Tally Ho. He wanted to use the original ballast keel, but sadly melted it in half trying to refurbish it with some more lead. I've been cheering him on since he went to Georgia to get some seasoned Live Oak for his frames 3 years ago. The young man definitely knows what he's doing and is basically building a new boat from the original plans. I can't wait to see him launch the boat and unfurl the rigging on it's "second maiden voyage". I'm liking and subbing to your channel for this favor that you're doing for him.

Thanks for helping out Leo.

Glad you have been helping Leo along. I can't wait to see the rest of the Capstan restore.

This is the first time I have seen your show; thanks to Leo ..........As an old machinist I have ran turret laths and big radial drill press. fun to see these old machines again. Thanks

You know an experienced fitter by the rythem of his hammer, a very fine melody you had there Keith. Thanks for helping Leo out, got yourself a new subscriber.

Im just a fix it guy but had no welding schooling. I picked up a book on welding cast iron and read. I had a broken leg on an antique stove, it was cast iron. I pulled a rod for cast iron and began to heat the metal according to the book. I ac welded the cast iron to my amazement! If brazing is your way to stay safe, they thats what you do... Nice work you do too...

Thanks for helping Leo out. Great work and fun to watch.

Literally from the keel up . An amazing young man and boatbuilder.

Thanks for helping Leo! I will be watching you as well Great video

My favorite crossover episode!

Many thanks for turning me on to Leo and his restoration project. These big projects like the sailboat and your planer and stoker engine make for hours of enjoyment and education.

Kudos for helping Leo out, and nice repair job!

Your channel and Leo's channel are among my very favorites on RU-vid.

Thanks for helping Leo, Keith. You rock.

thanks Keith to help leo , graet job , love the old-school repairs

Make a bushing chisel. Crude but very effective..Follow Leo's progress since day one..........great to see you contributing..

My two favorite channels, Keith and Leo.

Friday morning coffee watching Keith just tastes so much better.

Thanks for helping Leo, Keith! 2 great channels.

Many thanks to you for helping Leo. I enjoy watching both of your channels.

Leo is the man for sure.

My father worked at a Phosphate mine in Florida, they used pumps to move the rock/clay/water slurry around the plant driven by 1,000 hp electric motors. The pumps were cast iron, in four parts, then machined and bolted together. Sometimes they would develop a crack in the volute, so they would take them apart re-bolt them to hold pieces in place. Then grind a v-groove on outside and inside of crack. With several people heating it with rosebuds they would braze the crack up with plenty of rod then put them back together and back in service. They would run just fine until the metal in the volute wore out completely.

Sweet! Love Leo, Love Keith! ... I live about a 3 hour drive from Leo's boat and have wondered what I could do to participate. Although the threading machine won't be it, The thought that went through my mind when Leo presented on his channel was that I would love to be the guy who restored it for him. Don't they say "Crack on!" across the pond?? lol

Thank you for this work for him. 🤓

Great job 👏👏👏👍🇬🇧 thanks for helping Leo 👍

Beautiful brazing job! I have repaired cast iron with brass for more years than I want to admit to. My last job of ten years involved repairing many large structural frame parts for carpet looms. I considered myself pretty darned good until one of my shop hands took me by the ear and showed me some stuff I didn't know. The best was not to grind out and leave sharp edges where you fill. They get hot too fast and burn up. Round off those spots and your heat will transfer a lot better. We used a bare rod with powdered flux in a can. Heat the rod, dip it in the powder, ready to go! The powdered flux is handy to pour a bit on your ground area while you are heating. Also you can flux the melted off end of your covered rod. We never used nickle arc rod to weld cast. Most of our looms were at least 100 years old and unfortunately all in the scrap now. The plant closed down and they were redundant and obsolete. We had a shop you would have loved. A Lodge and Shipley lathe 18 feet long with a 60 inch swing, 2 Gemco shapers, a Fay planer that had a 17 foot cut by 4 foot. A Monarch lathe that was made in 1942 and came from a battleship and a lot more. But alas it's all gone now, most of the machines from the shop survived by being split up between two other plants. There wasn t much we couldn't do. Good memories. Cheers!

Having a lathe and bits steel enables you to make tools to do anything 😊🎉🎉🎉🎉

Brazing by torch is an excellent way to repair cast iron damage, bronze is much more ductile than cast iron filler rod, and works well on high shock, low operational temp items like this part. If it was a black iron pot, I would have welded it. Nice to see machines being repaired properly. 👍🏼

i worked at a shop , and we did some casting repair . one tool that helped alot was an old refrigerator some what striped down, with a heating element inside. lined inside with insulating blanket. put all pieces to be welded or brazed in, warm up to about 500F . then weld. then back in to cool slow. you are doing agreat show, thank you!

Brazing is the tried and true method of repairing cast iron, I have worked Belgian made presses that were brazed back together before WW2 according to the oldest men in the Press Shop ! If it’s done right it stays done. I was taught to braze using a borax-water paste in the joint and big square rods of spelter , once it’s ready to run, it damn well runs !

Hey Keith and Leo --- Great to see You both keeping History alive . I know Cheaply Made Crap is the Normal Today , So it is good to see great "Old Time" things preserved . Two Thumbs Up !!!! Steve Cross akaSuperAX

Some people don't think brazing with a torch is strong....If it is done correctly, it is very strong.. Try to break a brazing rod and see how much effort it takes.. I learned the correct procedure almost 50 years ago and still think even with the modern methods that oxy acet brazing is a good method... Grind a nice bevel, keep oxides from the surface by limiting heat and using the proper flux .. I have brazed old machine parts for years with good results.. Cheers; Mike in Louisiana

Keith, You are a special person. Have been watching you for a few now and your work is right up there, along with Leo's. Two special craftsmen working in different materials but with the same purpose - Excellence. Thanks you for helping Leo out. As others have said I am sure this is paying it forward and you Sir will receive much Kudos for doing this. Salute ~

Thank you for helping Leo and the Tally Ho project!

Tip I learned in a Hot Rod magazine. Use the smoke wrench, then dab some wax on the hot part. The heat will wick the wax between the surfaces/threads. I disassembled an entire Olds Rocket 350 using this trick, and only broke one bolt. This part should have been put in an oven and heated, brazed then cooled in the oven slowly. Cherry red in one spot as the only heat source isn’t the ideal situation.

What a pleasant enjoyable surprise to see and hear in the first 30 seconds of this video. Thanks to both of you creators for the amazing skills you give us a chance to be a witness of.

I one of Leo's fans. I look forward to viewing your work.

Leo sent me. Thanks so much for helping him out. I'm excited to check out your videos!

Thanks Keith for a clear explanation & camera view of your work. Great video of a craftsman using his experience & skill, always rewarding to watch.

Love it when my favorite YT'ers collaborate to help each other... great work, looking for the bushing install!