SNS 206: Cylinder Baseplate Repair, Shaper, Bronze Bushings, Large Gearbox Follow-up 

great sns. how is the lighting so good everywhere you film?! it's that smile of yours ain't it.

Scottish toolroom machinist here loving the videos. Interesting to see how you machine shafts. Learned a few things from you. The UK and US vs the world. We do it better than anyone

One of my favorite parts of your videos is the parting shot of you ,your dad and grandfather. Your grandfather is one I would have loved to sat down and talked shop with.

Hi, Adam. I'm a woodworker, not a machinist, but I've sure enjoyed watching your videos. They are informative, educational and entertaining. Very well crafted. I'm used to set up and operations of machinery, hell on a wood shaper and lathe, but certainly not to the tolerances you use. Anyhow, thanks for posting them. This old coot has learned an awful lot from you.

Hey Adam, Another great video. So happy to see that smile on Abby's face! Nice to see that Motion is so proud of the outstanding craftsmanship your crew puts out. I deal with a lot of trades people and no one is as careful and diligent in everything they do like you are.

I've been watching your vids since the off and I've gotta say this is the best you've made. Your intro has become smooth and accomplished with that brief look forward to what's coming, a snippet including Abbey, and then to a full assortment of precision work. I particularly liked the camera panning to show the machine controls which most of us have never seen, and the careful editing to keep it all moving along. I'm just an old guy running an Atlas 10" in my garage but I strive for perfection and blot up any help I can get. Your tips, working ethic and enthusiasm motivate me. Well done Adam.

That copper rose is absolutely stunning. Amazing.

You're looking better every week! Stay healthy and keep with the diet.

There is something very hypnotic about watching the shaper do its thing.

Always impressed with your videos, Abom. I love when you go in depth about what each gearbox does. Very fascinating!

Great SNS as always, definately do a video on the counterbalance valve if you have time!

Adam love watching a master at his trade very relaxing to me as fellow machinist!

Making big chips on a shaper is almost hypnotic. Makes me wish i still worked in a machine shop.

Keith thought he was cute with that toilet paper bit at his shop for you, little did he know you use twin 400hp motors just to roll your toilet paper!!! lol

Anyone else love that "ping"sound those heavy chips make coming off the shaper?

that's one hell of a gear box, its great to see the shaper doing its thing you have waited so long to get it up and running & all the hard work has payed off

That chip shooting off at the end of the stroke is awesome!

i love that you not only let her open it, but put it in the video.

Never disappointed watching your videos. Always great to see and learn.

31:00 send it to the weird cousin up north AvE. He'll release the schmoo and tell us how it's chooching

watching the Dake Press driving that bushing in was unexplainably pleasing. keep em coming

Yes! Would love to hear a bit about the counterbalance valve AKA "lock out valve". Maybe even with a hydraulic diagram of it along with the explanation. Also, they really freeze those bushings in the liquid nitrogen! I have installed many bushings in hydraulic hammers, but always just soaked them in a bucket until it stops bubbling and drop them in. Always nervous when dropping in a $1000 bushing but only had one that wasn't aligned properly and that one took just a bit of die grinder adjustment on the locking pin notch. I think it's good to be a bit nervous because it makes you look over everything to make sure it's all ready and you have done everything right. It's when you get cocky and think you don't need to check your work that things go wrong. I get the same feeling when changing timing belts on cars and go to start it.

every time i drill a small pilot for a large hole like the 1" holes you did, i get folks leaving comments telling i should just use one large drill and push it through, which i am sure works fine, but it like how the large holes go through when there is a pilot, much easier. always fun to see how easily bronze turns.

Yeah, I would love to know more about those valves. I’ve always wondered how they work.

A great mix of machining clips Adam! As always a great pleasure and joy to watch your channel. Also nice to see Abbey getting a very nice gift from your followers👍😊 Amazing results showing about your new lifestyle and diet! I am very glad for your achievement so far👍👍 Keep up with all the good things! ✌️✌️✌️👍👍

Never would have guessed that was for making tissue paper. Thank you for getting the info!

Another great video Adam. a beautiful rose for Abby, I think you found a good friend there.

Thanks for the bonus gear box explanation... ! Very interesting to know more what your work is used for. And as you mentioned explaining how the valve works, I do think sharing your knowledge about how things work would make good content. Just so enjoy your channel. And I think it’s great you tribute your family at the end. Thank You!

Yes, please do a shop talk on that safety valve.

I love seeing the work you do at your job running all these large parts. I come from a place that a 20lb work piece is considered big and it's all CNC, it's nice to see some old school manual work once in a while.

Without peeking ahead in your content timeline, im really digging your new shaper. Was just talking to someone about machining at work today and had a guy mention shapers cant machine a tight tolerance... had to refer him to you! But yeah i really dig the rhythm of the new G&E plucking those chips off, especially when you sped the cut up. Cant wait to see more. Catching up to yall by continuing to binge watch, though!

Great video as always, Adam! It was nice to see Abby's response to opening the rose. Thanks for including that in the video.

Boy, after seeing the rose you know the pressure is on!

Some big hot chips flying off the shaper !

Very interesting video. I spent a minute examining the card in the book up-close using a graphics program. The last time the book was checked-out was in 1962.

Good people deserve good things , nice work Kevin

Yeah, learning about that counter balance valve would be interesting. Thanks for the awesome content

Glad you all got that gearbox built we don't want to run out of toilet paper that's for sure.

The shaper sounds and smoke dancing as the chips fly through is like a zen metronome.

Thanks for this, I liked your intro with the Birmingham tour. I used to get to a lot of places like that when I was a Field Rep for Falk and Philadelphia Gear.

Loved the way the shaper was peeling off that metal! Great tip on turning down that bushing to get it started. I would be interested in hearing more about the counterbalance valve if the opportunity arises. Thanks for another great video!

Really enjoyed this episodes variety. Enjoy the weekend Adam!

Audio is only on right side of headphones.

I'm really love this kind of books. Old, very sharp black & white pictures, paper -- yellow a little.

Nice mix of content Adam, I like this style video. Something for everyone Thumbs up

I don't know why but, watching the pilot drill break through on those ears was so cool.

Another fabulous S N S lots of variety, and that rose for your Lady Abby

Also only having audio on the right channel :(

Loved seeing video of the final products and hearing what they're used for. Definitely do something on the cylinder valve. The shaper looks and sounds great - loved those chips! And Mcmaster-Carr!

14:00 etc: not that often us amateurs get to watch a twist drill break through like that. :D

hey, as a young engineer I worked on Tannehill Park. Having camped there as a boy in 50's I was priveledged to have a primary responsibility later, ink still wet of license. The truss bridge there was redesigned for modern loads and it was 100 yrs old then. There is a plaque stating its origin. Glad u enjoyed furnace trip. Tannehill is about 30 min from Bham on I 59 South. google it.

Hey Adam Apparently in the "old days" shaper salesmen would claim that their machines had "the fast back stroke for improved production. Of course it is mechanical effect of most all shapers.

Do a session on that hydraulic check valve please!

That Falk gearbox is used to drive what is known as a Yankee Dryer. They are very large steam cans that are, as was stated in the video, used to dry light tissues between the press section and winder on a paper machine.

Auto-generated captions says the shaper sound is "music". I can't argue with that.

Man, I really enjoy you're updates. Thank you!

Seems like you need a chip tray for the shaper.. on the other side of the shop! There is something that I love about shapers but I can't quite put my finger on it, maybe its the rythmic sound, or maybe it just is that they are just so dang satisfying to watch. My favourite machine, hands down, you have converted me!

I like the fact that you're replacing the slot heads with something more modern and easier to use... even though you might not have planned to do so ;) I've always had quite a passionate hate towards slot-headed screws so I try to replace them with Phillips, Torx or hex when ever I can in my devices. :D

Thanks for another great video !

It would be very very cool to see something like this installed and working.

Very neat welds on that first build. Liquid nitrogen is always fun too! Bronze certainly has a unique, and not altogether pleasant sound, when being tooled - kinda like nails on a chalkboard. And yeah, that finished gearbox is money; 800HP for TP!!!

great stuff Adom

I think it's cool that your employer recognizes your contribution to the industry. I know we do.

Hey Adam, Nice to see the big shaper cutting, excellent video as usual, Keep up the great work! -Tom

800 hp for tissue paper. Paper that you break with your thumb, or less... Very cool Adam!

Before you back for your course on casting, think about what parts for the shaper you might want to make from cast iron. Even if it doesn't work out the way you wish, it's invaluable experience.

the noise that scraper makes is very satisfying

Very cool Adam! Love the mix of content you have on this weeks SNS!

Intimidating package for the copper rose. Looked like a pipe bomb ... Glad it was a cool copper rose.

Yes please for the hydraulic safety valve, I've often wondered what would happen if a ram hose failed when I was 100 feet up in a cherry picker !

My father worked at Gould & Eberhardt from about 1941 to 1960 at the Irvington location. He enlisted in the Navy during WWII even though his job at G&E made him exempt.

It’s nice to know that old U.S. made machinery is not only working, but still relevant (to manual machinists, anyway)! And to have all that nice documentation as well is a huge bonus. If you ever have children, I hope your machine shop gets passed down to the next generation; not to mention the skills to operate it. If not, pass it on to Keith Rucker over at the Vintage Machinery museum, or someone who can give it a good home (and TLC), once you retire and take up grilling up good BBQ stuff instead. 😋

what a smoothie Kevin is,..,.. the Rose is really smart..

I'd like to see a shop talk on the safety valve, if Paul would be so kind to educate us. I've got to know, how far are the first shaper chips flying? They sound like they are breaking off with some authority! I also just can't seem to get enough of the Kearns HBM. That machine is awesome! Keep up the great work brother! Thanks for the great content!

Awe, aren't you 2 the cutest. Say hello to the misses from The Great White North. Lol hope all is well and I've just found your channel and I love it. Subscribed right here boi.

Thanks for the tour of the gearbox, it still seems a little odd on how it is coupled to the roll, but it is an impressive piece of design and well 800 HP is a pretty good grunt in my book. Also a nice millwright challenge to line up dual motor couplings as well. Great video Adam!Oh yeah, thanks for those monster chips off the shaper, I could imagine one flying across the shop and sticking on my neck! that would leave a mark!

Nice job 👍

So...used on the Yankee Dryers...some big stuff there...wife works in paper...those old paper machines keep you in business to be sure...everything is custom on those things now! Good stuff.

Ah. Steam-heated drying roll. Steam goes in/out through the end of the roll, thus the need for the big hole in the main drive gear - to connect the steam-plumbing in the big roll and still be able to spin.

That is a very important gear box!

Another vote for learning about the safety valve on the cylinder.

before i retired i operated large cranes. people would say your outrigger is leaking this thing is going to tip over and i told them about the safety built into the system to avoid that issue, but all leake should be corrected quickly. i thing you should say more about that since you work on so many cylinders.

The old steel works at Redcar over here in the UK are something to behold too, they had 3 blast furnaces at one point but it's all done with now, closed down...... the rolling mills too, such a shame

That press is so nice. I wish I had one in my shop.

those gear boxes are so cool! insane!

There's going to be one hell of a fine on that library book.

When I went to tech school they used "Machine Tools Operations" part 1 and 2 as text books for the machine shop class. Part 1 was the 5th edition copyrighted in 1959, and part 2 was the 4th edition copyrighted in 1960.

Great vids Adam and looks like the weight loss is going well. A little tip I was told as an apprentice was to turn the vice 90degs so that the cutting force is taken by the jaw of the vice giving less chance of the work slipping, But we didn't have Abomb torque......well done.

anyone else missing left side audio?

Another vote for how the safety valve works!

Yes please talk about counter balance valve.

beautyful jobb Adam !

Enjoyed Adam! ATB, Robin

I don't know why but I always enjoyed watching large drills make chips

All the shows that I have watch I really like I like to shirt you have and all the cool stuff that you do and your shop I would like to come down and see you someday just shake your hand I'll let you know you're doing an excellent

Nice job Adam, great mix.

Wow. A copper rose. Awesome!

Is that Ms. Abomb? Perty lady ya got there.

Very impressed with the content of this video, thanks for sharing.!.!.!.

Right on schedule Adam !