Steam Power to Remachine Steam Engine Parts 

What a treat to watch your video's. If is like going back in time and being able see how this great country was built. You showing us a part of history that played a major part in the building of this country.. Thank you for showing and sharing this lost art with us. Thank you again .

Seriously I hope your shop lives on in a young person's hands when it's your time and I hope that they continue to share the shop with the rest of the world.

I don't often watch these videos on my home computer, but I'm in love with the sound of the shop. Working with these things under steam power has to be better than procreation!

lt's always good to see you David & Tom as well👀😃....Awesome video🤗....Thanks very much👍

Mr. Richards this last week I made a compound sprocket of 12 and 36 teeth for a steamer built from a Meccano Constructor Car and a vertical Empire Steam Engine. I used my Southbend lathe, Atlas shaper, and Hardinge mill. My machines are old but not as old as yours. You are one of my heros in life and hope this finds you well. Greg.

I like watching old machines working. What I like alot about your channel is you don't spend an inordinate amount of time showing how to fixture a piece for machining. Some machining channels go into great detail on how to fixture and dial in a piece of work but I would venture to say that most folks are here not so much for the setup as they are for the doing and end results. At least that's why I'm here. Thanks for posting.

On a day like that I'm surprised you don't have every stray cat in the neighbourhood sleeping at the base of the boiler.

I see that Tom was with the 1st Calvary in Viet Nam. Much respect for your sacrifice. Thank you, sir.

What fun! But... you guys really need to be dressed in period costumes! Ties, carefully tucked in, bowler hats or caps, coveralls etc.! Great to have a bud working with you in the shop. Thanks Dave!!!

Love the videos man. It’s always a treat to see how we used to machine thing in the early days of the industrial revolution. It’s videos and channels like yours that inspired me to become a machinist myself. Just finished my schooling this summer and am working my way through a full time job running and programming cnc machines.

glad to see ya back Dave

The most beautiful machine shop anywhere!! The sounds are fantastic and the smells must be too. Stay warm.

Good to see you again Tom. It's been a while. Nice job Richard, looks like the process of making hold down hardware has started for the planer. :-D

That old planer is so happy she's working again

Get a couple more guys in there and you'll have a production machine shop. 🙂

Good to see you again Dave. As much as I like shapers, I couldn't work with the planer. It sounds exactly like my ex-wife snoring. I kid you not. Great job on the parts restoration. Thanks for sharing.

Fun to see the various shop tools all working on the same project.

Always a pleasure to watch you and your machine shop in action. I enjoyed seeing Tom again also.

So good to have you back in the shop working your magic. Thanks for sharing

Thanks Dave, good to see the Planer in action.

It's fun watching a 124 year old machine working and doing it's job.

Enjoyed this, thanks for sharing.

Hi David and Tom always a great day to watch old machines fixing old machines. Looking forward to the next video. Thanks

Down sick today...just what I needed for a little boost! Any day we get a video from Dave is a great day.

So cool reworking old machinery with old machines.

That shaper is a piece of art.

Just starting to get really worried again.....glad you're back!

Sure wished I had an old steam style machine shop that I could to tinker in and make some chips. Thanks for the video David.

It's such a joy to watch your videos. Everything goes at a calming pace, no hurry. Everything takes as long as it takes. Something the whole world should learn. Thank you, Dave, for sharing this!

Gday Dave, great see Tom in the shop enjoying some machine time, I always enjoy seeing a video from you, I love seeing history being preserved and it’s fantastic to see steam power being used to rebuild items like it would have been done all them years ago, they certainly don’t make machines to last like they used to, built in 1897 and preforming like a brand new machine, great job as always mate, thanks you for sharing, Cheers

What a great video! I love the sounds we hear in your shop. The belt joints clicking and the old bull gears hum along. Sure does bring back memories. All we miss out on is the smell of oil and steam!

Thankyou for the video,nice to see Tom working with you,looking forward to seeing the next video,look after yourselves.

Friday night with Dave!👍

Dave your videos are among the best along with Cutting edge from Austrailia! You don't stop every 5 or 10 thou to measure as others do to add time to the video. or waste time advertising. Straight honest good work! Stay well and keep posting!

i love these old machines and the way things used to be done. i have been a machinist and heavy plant guy most of my life. now retired and spread my time between my small shop and volunteering with a heritage railway

The rhythm of the machines almost puts me to sleep it is so calming.

I just binge watched all the available RU-vid episodes. This shop and Dave are my new heroes! Fantastic videos, machines, skill, and knowledge all come together here!

Have a warm and productive winter season !

Another dandy video. Gratefully appreciated

Evenin Dave

I absolutely loved the introductory camera views.

Always enjoy your videos that you put out Dave! I swear it’s like stepping back in time!

I do hope you know Jonathan w, loves to save old American steam history. Epic work shop just brilliant x

Dave, great to see you back. Hope you are doing well.

Awesome episode I enjoyed seeing someone else in the shop enjoying the tools well done fellas

I can fall asleep to your belts in your machines I'm going back and forth I love it thank you for making the videos.

Thank you for publishing these videos! It’s a great public service.

All I can add to all these great accolades to you Dave is thank you I appreciate the hard work you make into the videos and I enjoy each and everyone of them my contribution to comments thank you

Excellent, thanks.

Its bad that a steam workshop is cleaner than my shop... or house.

It sound like a clock work everything in perfect time, simply amazing!! I'm a CNC guy that would love to have a shop like this it's so peaceful and calming. It calls to my soul.

Just made my day! Thanks for sharing 👍

I just love the shaper you are using. Single point tool makes for a real flat surface Very nice work also fella. You have a real nice shop too. Peace

Great video as always, you're looking good Dave. You've lost weight! I had to do a double take

Hallo David, Perfect video as always. Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands

Thanks for watching--phooey to that - thanks for making them--regards E I love manual machining..

Great stuff as always Dave.

thank you for sharing. i had an enjoyable start to the day watching.

Wonderful video! Thank you

Hi Dave & Tom: Its really nice to see you again! I love to hear and see these machines work and do the jobs they were designed to do! Setting these machines and work pieces up takes a lot of time and thought! You guy's are master machinists, and if you can't fix it,... it isn't broken! FANTASTIC video, and really look forward to your next one! Best Wishes, AND GOD BLESS! Gary

That's great! I'm a journeyman machinist and work predominantly with cnc machining centers. I've worked with manual machines but not steam running. I believe it takes more skill to set up and operate those machines. History is awesome!

Dave - Thanks for another great video, keep 'em coming!

Another great video Dave 👍👍👍 Always a treat to see the planer in action and very nice to see your young apprentice, Tom at work 🙂 Cheers, Alan.

Hello David what a joy it is to watch you and your machines work always very interesting content

Ooh i enjoy your films they are great this is the first time i am reacting and it is when i se someone running the lathe whith gloves thats a big nono othervice your workmanship is a state of the art

Nice to see you Dave

I really get a kick out of watching you guys work with the belts flying all around you and the steem engine running in the background. Like how it must have been back when they still made steem engines. Another enjoyable video..

Look forward to each & every new video, Dave. Nothing cooler than watching these machines in action. - a big fan from Texas

Another good one Dave

glad you 're back, I've missed your videos

You are definitely one of a kind l love your work.

Great segment Dave. The shop is looking great and the sounds are like music. Thanks for sharing! Fred

Man I love this channel. It's so interesting! I would love to spend some time in that shop learning and watching. I haven't used anything like these machines before.

Nice work, alot of precission must go into maintaining an operation such as you have there. Thanks for the look and listen!

Thanks for sharing

Bonjour David, It is always a pleasure for me to watch your videos, especially if steam works for steam :+) I am happy to see a friend with you but where is the next generation? I would have liked to see a youngster with you :+) Amicalement, Raphaël

Howdy Dave. Another excellent video. Looks like the planer is working quite well. Thank you again for taking the time and effort of posting. Thank You

I was on a WW 2 destroyer. I used to work on the boilers , unbelievable power steam has! 😃🇺🇸

Great to watch! My son uses a 100 year old lathe regularly that I restored and like your gear it can produce some great work, keep it up.

OUTSTANDING I really enjoy your videos, thanks for all your efforts we appreciate them🤗😎🤗😎

Great to see your workshop sir here in the uk 🇬🇧 we had this great man called Fred Didnah a great steam man and he had a steam workshop too he did a lot of tv programs about steam love watching this great man just like you sir 👏👏

Have you seen Keith Rucker's videos about how he repaired and resurrected his New Haven metal planer? He modified it to run off an electric motor powering the drive pulleys which preserved the nostalgia of it being belt driven.

Dave - Beautiful shop. The pulleys, belts and steam engine. Feels as though you stepped back in time. The shop is a great history lesson. Is your video camera also steam powered? !!!! Is the camera also correct for the time period?

Love watching your vidoes , it's so coll seeing how things wer done back in the day , might need your help in the near future to fix some gears for me , I'm restorying a old 1920s rock ford lathe that has some chipped gears

As late summer came I chanced to trade a day of work wage for a South Bend 9. And, am happily planning the full install to my shop. I had the clean and lubricate bench just at the shop doorway, where I managed all operation to restored precision. I think I matched a 1938 serial number, as found stamped to the bed. And wear is modest to the ways. Why I enjoy the posts in part is to see exactly how shop work areas are laid out to advantage in particular machine functions. That blend of best use of space and tool compartment, holders, and bench. Very natural to that job production as full care of tooling and lubrication of components. As to each job, the best quality of finish and thoughtful selection of tools to reach best fit. In my view, a domain of machinist that simply is fundamental and so is actual to these line driven tools that match modern electrical drives. I watch, listen and learn. And I thank you for the time and effort to the posts, where I so enjoy the perspective and finish as found to steam. *M.

that planer sound like a snoring old man ! Lol !

Someone I know rather well makes noises like that planer when asleep... :-)

It's almost time to go back to Florida!

I remember when I was young I worked at a paper mill that was steam driven via line shafts. In this case these were steam turbine with electric motor assist on one of the machines. A third machine was converted to electric drive at some point in time. This old paper mill,was tore down a few years back but was replaced by a huge new mill near by. One older paper Machine had cast iron spoke and hubs but the drive gears had teeth made originally of wood segments. By the time I started there a replacement plastic nylon type material was being used in place of the wood. That particular machine was in use for ninety years. It was driven by one five hundred hp steam turbine. The turbine was extremely small, maybe three feet at the most and was located in the basement line-shaft tunnel. The largest of the three machines had a 1500 hp turbine and several electric drive motors that served as assist drives. In the case of these drives a line shaft drove six separate gear box drives that could be controlled via a snowmobile type clutch drive bands. It was a wonder of mechanical clutch and gear box. I had to help rebuild and replace one of these units. The gear box was about four or five feet square and had many input and output shafts. It took five of us all day to remove and open this gear box. The rebuild took days to extract wore out parts and replace some of them from a donor gear box. We tracked down a gear box from a supplier who had salvaged it from another company. It think it cost something like 250000 and we’re glad we found it. The other parts were made in our machine shop. I wanted to save these machine parts when the mill was being tore down but because of they were being written off for taxes they not only could not be saved but had to be cut open so no one could salvage them for parts as we once had done many years before. We did manage to save one water driven stone wheel grinder used for pulp production. It dated from the 1890s or so and was driven by water wheel and then later by electric motor. It had four pockets that were feed by hand with 25 inch long logs. A water driven ram would push a pocket full of logs into a grind stone. A couple of times a day the stone had to be sharpened to obtain the desired pulp needed. This is now setup on public display in a park like setting. There were four other things I wanted to salvage but could not. A friend of mine did salvage a steam driven fire backup pump in perfect like new condition. It was never used for anything other than as a backup pump and was tested weekly for something like ninety years or longer. My friend found a museum a hundred miles away to take it. I wanted to keep it in our community but was glad someone got it to save from the smelter. I salvaged as many brass inspection port holes from old generators and steams gauges that I could gather. In time they will find a safe home to protect them. Not sure if other people would find this sort of thing of interest. I really liked designing systems and have several manufacturing processes to my name. The old process were crude yet were very interesting in the simplistic and complex way of doing things, there was always a real danger that someone would be killed by these machines. I’ve had to treat many people, recover bodies, feet and whole arms from machines. I’ve also treated so many heart attacks I lost count. The jobs were very hard , hot and could be dangerous.

Very nice to see You back again David.No douby You'll be off to Florida soon now that the weather is turning colder ?

...Wondering just how much of the intricate, precision-machined parts found within the engine rooms of the old Transatlantic liners such as the _Titanic_ were done this way?

your video's are always my watch list are you going to Florida soon ?

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What a great treat. Really enjoy your video's. Why did you use the planner instead of the jointer? I'm partial to a jointer but really enjoyed watching both in work. Thank you.

It would be cool to Steam power that Bridgeport!! lol

Hi Mr. Richards Will you drill & tap them tool holders underneath as well to make em truly universal....? We all love your videos...🇬🇧🙂

incredible shop - can't believe how dry everything is running are you on a 'no-oi-diet' ?

Glad to see you Dave , are you staying up North for the winter ?

17min 30sec sounds just like my chest when I have a chest infection and breathing is a little odd to difficult!

Great video as ever, David! How do you stop everything rusting while you’re away in Florida for the winter? Everything in my shop rusts but I’m in wet Scotland..