Tally Ho Capstan Restoration 1: Disassembly - It Fought me the Whole Way! 

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True story :D

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It’s great watching these builds that take years on YT. No where else does this happen. I watched that “Project Binky” build, that took YEARS!!! Same with the Tally Ho. It’s great.

Ditto, the title threw me off, I was expecting a tallo ho video but then it was in a machine shop.

I watch all three channels as well and was thrilled to see you all collaborating to get the Tally Ho restored. One suggestion, you may want to find someone with SolidWorks and a large 3D printer to design the pattern. Use some 21st Century technology on a century old boat/ship!!

@@eagle2019 I believe Keith uses Fusion 360.

@@artkaufman595 That would work as well! With a shape as complex it's a perfect application of the technology

I was curious to see what the third channel is. Not disappointed.

Thanks for doing the work, I was wondering myself. I can't imagine there being too many people out there with experience on a 110 year old tool.

"Keith wuz here" on the inside.

But is it a Tally Ho anymore if all the parts have been replaced with new ones?

@@koitk Thesus’ capstan.

@@koitk This is my grandfather's axe, it has had seven new handles and three new heads, but it is my grandfather's axe. Not a new question, nearly 2000 years old if not more. The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same. - Plutarch, Life of Theseus 23.1

​@koitk A wooden boat is like anything else built of wood. Even if it has to be rebuilt down to the last plank, as long as it is constructed true to the original with full reverence and adoration of the original, it is the same vessel, just given a second lifetime. Keep in mind that when tally ho was originally built, nobody expected her to be seaworthy in even 50 years let alone that some mad lad would, in 2023, have her mostly rebuilt after buying her rotten, scrap yard bound husk for a dollar years earlier.

This is not the first project for Leo - 3 years ago, Keith repaired a bolt threading machine for Tally Ho! restoration - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bro96kR42lM.html

Same here 😂

Keith that was definitely a very tough job. Nice to have a good friend like Clark to come for a visit and end up giving you some help. Most definitely a two man job. Some people may not realize when you do not have a manual, it can be a challenge to try and figure out how it went together. Thanks for sharing. Great job Keith and Clark. Take care, Ed.

NO WAY !!NESCESSARY CASUALITY B/S!! been reading all these these comments and stopped here coz my bloods boiling ...Mate when I was a apprentice I would have got my arse kicked up between my shoulder blades for busting that cover.

@@chrisquinlan3012 It was already broken.

@@chrisquinlan3012 I guess its a shame they didn't ask you to do it. cant imagine if one of the best machine restorers in the US along with a professional company cant get it apart im sure you would have had better luck. in the long run it'll be better to make new casting than to repair it. the owner knew the risk and allowed them to take it.

I was kind of surprised he didn't send it to the evaporust tank for a week.

@@philbert006 I was kind of thinking the same thing. If the tank is big enough, great. But, I would have poured some on top. If it leaked through the 2 holes he tapped, just plug them and fill that space to the top and let it sit for a couple days. I was thinking it was a tapper fit, so who knows if the fluid would seeped down, but it would have helped some.

I agree that the capstan should have been sitting in a drum filled with diesel fuel or Evaporust for a couple of years before attempting a disassembly. In this case that wasn't gong to happen. The down side of soaking in oil would have been the smoke that would have come off it when it was then heated. The taper was not going to come apart without heating so the diesel would have been ugly cooking off. Considering the fact that the cap piece was already broken and missing a part of the rim, I think Keith made the correct call on destructive removal and recasting the part. I do hope the capstan project doesn't end up like the stoker engine however. By the way, where is the stoker engine now and what is its status? (We all have a project like the stoker engine.)

Most likely, yes. After all, we're talking about a guy who cut up and recast his lead keel because he decided that a repaired one wouldn't be up to his standards.

On the positive side, we hopefully now get to see them making a wooden pattern with method , then the casting process

Another machinist here. Above the entrance of our mengineroom was a plaquette, wich said: the Impossible we'll perform difrectly, Wonders take a bit longer, Magic will only be performed on request.

It's looking like Keith has achieved the impossible 😂😂

@@trevormitson6026 I quit watching

It's like the avengers!

You know you're trying to teach granny to suck eggs, right

Just the opposite for me, but yes!

I also found Keith Rucker through the threading machine repair, been hooked ever since...

That's right! Totally forgot all about it - was it the threading machine maybe?

FYI Part 1: Removing Bronze Bushings & Brazing a Broken Casting for Leo at Sampson Boat Company ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bro96kR42lM.html ___________________ Part 2: Turning Bronze Bushings and Pressing them in Place: Casting Repair for Leo… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C5HKiKcoONc.html RL Buffalo, NY

I quite agree on the galvanising and your reasoning is spot on too. I commented it might be Simpson Lawrence, a period Scottish maker of boat hardware, but I did some hunting and I think I’m wrong, Hereshoff used designs similar so I’m wondering if the capstan is an American replacement.?

@@johnsherborne3245 I too have been following Leo since the beginning, probably a lot closer than most. He does have some good early photos of the boat, but I don't know if there are any of the Capstan, to verify if this is original. Seeing as the boat was used for fishing the the Pacific Northwest for many years, the likelihood that it was replaced at some point is high, so I tend to agree with you. My thoughts are that someone else tried to get this apart in the past, and that is why there is a big chunk missing out of it. Beat on it too hard with a hammer in one spot and that is what happens. I did put together a list of yachts that raced the fastnet a while ago, and remarkably, there are a fair number of them them form that era that still exist. Might be able to compare the capstan's to get a better idea of where it came from. If anyone is interested, this is the list I put together... docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jOV7xh-IkczdIi7EKyxo_Y77Owuy316mnWK5NLt1QN8/edit?usp=sharing

Idiot

Leo used to give rough costs before he moved the boat to the yard in Port Townsend - I kept a running total. He spent at least $99,000 on hardwood that became part of the boat, that includes most of the shipping but not the rental for the drying kiln. Not included: deck planking, bulkhead & spar timber, teak for the deckhouses, softwood lumber for scaffolding & bracing, & pattern plywood. Add $36,500 for copper rod, bronze rod & ingot, & foundry costs.

who is the 3rd? I know Leo's channel.

@@fex77k The foundry channel, maybe?

Yep, Windy Hill Foundry