Turning Bronze Bushings and Pressing them in Place: Casting Repair for Leo at Sampson Boat Company 

Woohoo! Thanks a lot Keith! The parts arrived yesterday, and I've been putting the machine back together this morning. So far, so good! Hopefully I'll be cutting some thread after lunch. Really interesting to see how you managed this repair, your scope of knowledge is very impressive. Thanks again - Leo

Hi Keith, You do really nice work. As a 76 year old Tool & Die Maker, let me assure you I never was very good at Brazing Cast Iron. Pain in the butt to keep it from exploding. I'm very impressed with not only your work, but your extremely first class workmanship. Kudos to you for helping out the kid. I'd make him give you a ride when Tally Ho slides into the water! Best Regards, Rick

Its really funny when these seemingly disconnected channels that I watch all of a sudden do colaborations and it turns out that a lot of people do watch the same mix of channels :-). As always: Great video and a pleasure to watch.

Leo might be able to flip those guide rods end for end and get away from the worn area.

The collaborations between RU-vid craftsmen never fails to impress me. I can't think of a more hard working and deserving young man than Leo Goolden. His story and boat project is truly inspirational. Well done, Keith!

Kieth, turn your tool upside down and run the lathe in reverse when cutting brass or bronze.This will keep the chips from spraying all over you and the shop.

Came here from Leo's channel. Not disappointed.

Glad Leo linked to this channel. Subscribed.

Keith was nice to see you lending Leo a hand with his project. Great to see the collaboration! I’ve been a longtime supporter of Leo’s project and made the trip up to lend a hand a couple years back when he was tearing the boat down - we pulled old deck beams out as I recall.

You had me holding my breath when you held the emery tape so close to the chuck!

This fix is gonna be good for at least another hundred years. It was so satisfying watching Leo's team thread those critical bronze fasteners (there are hundreds) so effortlessly with the newly fixed machine. A lot more wooden ships will be built over the years using this machine, I bet!

Hi Keith, it really cheered me up to watch you doing great work for Leo's threading machine. I had no idea that building a wooden boat would need so much threaded bronze rod ! You've done a good turn for Sampson Boat Co, & I learned a lot about metal-work from your videos.

THIS, THIS is what youtube should be for. If you don't know jorge sparve made a SIL and gave it to Tod as Tods Workshop, and the wonder of collaborations was reveled. It just gives me the feels to see the amount of cross pollination between makers and repairers.

Found you through following Sampson Boat Co. Love all the old school craftsmanship. Great to see that old things can be made new and get another century of use!

Thanks for helping Leo

Keith, I saw your channel through Leo’s boat building webpage. Glad to see you are contributing and you have a new follower!😊😊

Comments was very funny. I have had the motorcycle in the living room, bushings in the freezer, heated ABS for forming and metal for normalizing in the oven. Useualy with my wifes foreknoweledge and reluctant approval. She is a good sport.

When the comments are so great that you have to watch the actual video second. What an amazing community these wooden boat projects create! Not just with Tally Ho and Leo but with so many others. Of which I’m sure so wolf the commenters on here are familiar with and a part of as well. Quite heartwarming. God bless America. 🇺🇸

I'm envious of you collection of Gerstner tool chests. I have only one but it speaks volumes about the ability of US crafts people to make some of the best products ever made. Yours look like they've found the perfect home.

Thanks for helping Leo out Keith.

A great epilogue to this project. Well done Keith and thanks for sharing!

When I watched Leo box the parts up to send out, I knew you would like the attention to detail. It makes sure everything gets there, no torn boxes with parts spread from Arizona to Mississippi.

Thanks for helping Leo. He is doing something so unique and rightfully deserves all the assistance offered. Nice job.

I've been following Leo channel and when he mentioned you I thought "Wow, what a great thing for you to do". He picked the right guy. Thank you for helping him. I live fairly close to Leo and subscribe to your channel and his also, love them both!

Great video, great craftsman, pleasure to break off my Samson Boat viewing to watch you help Leo, Keith.

You "SIR", are a true craftsman. It has been a pleasure watching you work. Wouldn't it be a joy to have 20 young students in your class learning from the master. Thanks.

I LOVE the concept of a video where, instead of an unboxing, someone box's a shipment.

Thanks for supporting Leo.

Thanks for helping out Leo, I know he will appreciate it greatly. Cheers from Tokyo!

Nice job. A pleasure to see a journeyman at work.

Thanks again for helping Leo at Sampson Boat Company.

Nice job Kieth. One thing, pick one...either heat or cold for inserting bushings. If you have access to dry ice or liquid nitrogen that’s the way to go, but most people don’t have that option, so heat is most commonly used. Putting those bushings in the freezer didn’t make much difference at all because as soon as they touched the hot material they warmed up so quickly any dimensional change was lost. The heat you applied done the job, not the cooling of the bushings. Keep the videos coming.

I've been following Leo for while now. Great stuff. Had to see how the machine shop rebuilt the threader. You do have some fancy tools. Especially that double tapered mandrel and that adjustable reamer. I really enjoyed watching your video. Thanks. Press fitting .001" Wow. There is just something mesmerizing about watching a metal lathe take off shavings. Glad that are still people around who can do this.

Like you, I also follow the Sampson Boat company project, but I wanted to let you know of my appreciation of the work and projects you perform at your workshop and demonstrate in your RU-vid channel. I grew up in my Dad's welding and repair shop where he undertook farm machinery repairs, often making similar repairs as you, although never making castings like you. But he did employ his blacksmithing , turning, welding, forging, and other creative skills almost daily. Keeping aging machinery and tools alive and operating was critical to his farming and rural clients in the 1950s,, so I saw and later learned, when I got to be teenage, to braze castings repairs as you completed. He forged, turned, and welded many diverse projects for himself, and his patrons. It is nostalgic to watch your show and kudos to you for keeping your well-demonstrated skills in front of a camera and your viewing audience. I also enjoy your verbal and visual skills employed while crafting your video. It's a relief in this no-repair era, sometimes due to the product design of the manufactures' designers, whereas old machinery is most usually repairable by existing and learned skills such as yours, along with the use of the equipment you've assembled in your workshop. Thank you for your work and skill.

I was watching Leo's channel and saw the sequence about his pipe threader. Then I found your channel. Fun.

Signed up on this channel, as requested. :-) And thanks for helping Leo.

Keith, it's super cool that you worked with Leo to fix this machine!

Threading pipe is a violent action glad to see the old machines are being fixed I have my uncle's old plumbing tools

Leo sent me. I subscribed. Now I love watching you fix/restore/build things too. Amazing!

No advice to offer, just admiration sir. Rock on !

Thank you for helping Leo !!! I have watched YOU for years, but THIS is the First time I have seen your working for another UTuber that I also Follow!!! I have done Both WOOD (including a Kayak, why I am watching Leo: Water & Wood) as well as some commercial metal work. I had the honor of brazing Trombone Valves for the man who invented the First Brass Music Valve (Patented) since the late 1800’s. Mr. Ora Ed Thayer. His Trombone Valve is used Internationally, and by the FOREMOST BANDS of the World, including the Presidential Marine Corps Band! I also machined certain Brass & Bronze parts used on the valve, One weighing only 4 Grams was turned on his only lathe, a Seven Foot bed with a 12” swing: I drilled for a 4 40 brass screw! The lathe was powered by a Three Phase Converter, as his area did not have 3 phase commercially available power. I felt it such an honor that he accepted my machinists skills, I had mostly done only jewelry casting, smithing as well as hobby working on a TAIG Micro Lathe & TAIG Micro Mill.

Thanks for helping Leo out. You have a new subscriber

The heating and freezing reminded me of my own situation. Back when we were relatively newly weds I could put motorcycle sleeves in the freezer and the cylinders in the oven but now I am totally forbidden to get near the kitchen. Thanks for the video.

Keith didn't give us an unboxing video, but we got a really sweet reboxing!

On your advice, I watched all of his videos over a weekend and I am very impressed with his devotion to the craft and I am also looking forward to his first voyage.

As always another great video and thank you for sharing with us.

Very nice.... nice to see someone who know what they are doing.... did machine shop in high school (in the 60's) so it's been awhile since I have thought about how to do these things.... great job..

Fantastic to see such an amazing collaboration! Well done Keith!

Great video. Excellent machining. Thanks.

Really enjoy watching the machinist videos on RU-vid. I don't miss a video that yourself and Abom (another RU-vidr) put out. It really demonstrates the importance the trades still are in todays society. We can have all of the university educated individuals, but if there is no one to actually do the work, society will be at a stand still. Keep up the great work.

Bravo! What a great thing to do - supporting Leo and his project!

Thank you for your video and also supporting Leo! Well done.

Great job helping Leo.

Fantastic work, so generous. A true legend.

Nice work Keith. Have a blessed weekend

Love Leo's channel and your's.

What a nice thing you've done, Keith. Cheers!

Thank you Keith! Great work.

Enjoyed watching the restoration and repair work! Subbed!

Great to see you two working together been following both of you for years

Great job keith i love watching your work buddy

Great work man - thank you so much for supporting Leo.

Two of my favorite RU-vidr's ... It's a good day.

EXCELLENT...Keith....Very well done sir....Thanks very much...!

Keith, same story, caught the Capstan refurbishing and posted to the Tally Ho page so others could watch a craftsman at work. As with Leo's page, I'll mention 'tool envy', with a dribble running out of the corner of my mouth. It's a Pavlovian thing I suffer from.

Look forward to watching Leo putting it back together great job Keith

OUTSTANDING, I wish I was there to put it back together. Hey Leo, I want my sticker, wink wink! lol

Keith, I’ve watched dozens of your videos, and Leo sent me from Sampson Boat Works…..

Thank you very much for contributing your time and talent to Leo's project.

I watch the rebuild of the sailboat and came here from there. Very cool channel

Nicely done sir.

Great work. Nice fit on bushings. Great project. Worked out well. Thank you for sharing.

Wonderful to watch pure skill at work.

If you fancy another collaboration project, I think the Tally Ho capstan could do with some loving care. If Leo is right with his time scale he will need it in about two years time, so no hurry!

I admire your precision metal work.

Thank you sir for the support of the Tally-Ho and the great video. Very educational and very well made. Please take care and stay well.

love the way you and Leo show us people are the clever people just determined people

Amazing skills and knowledge, congratulations, sir. Thank you for the videos.

I loved watching this. Such passion and lovely to see craftsmen helping each other. Subscribed .

Love your Work! Thanks for fixing Leos Boat !

Enjoyed the packing of the stuff more than I should have 😁😄👍

A pleasure watching a true craftsman at work! Thanks Keith!

Great work Keith, quality work with great respect for the craft. I admire your work.

Nice work, Keith. Great vid too.

Beautiful work Keith!! Great video too!

Nice job for Leo - a deserving guy! Thank you for helping him out!

I really enjoyed seeing this work! Keep up the good work! I'm also a follower of Leo's.

You sir are a joy to watch. I have been watching Leo on his adventure and happened to catch you and your channel doing the capstan rehab. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more awesome content.

Great work!

Good to see how these things get prepared for shipping. 👍

Leo's channel is incredible..... he is an amazing craftsman.

sweet ,nice video Keith,thanks for sharing.

Nice repair Keith...

I am watching from Bangkokะ nice surprise to see Keiths video pop up, Thai's have a single word to describe all kinds of pleasure, it is Sanuk, Watching this with a fresh coffee is sanuk

Thanks Keith

Again, thanks for the fine work!

Nice work finishing off the bushings for the threading machine. A BIG thanks for helping Leo out with the repair. Jeff

Excellent Video.

Nice job. I enjoyed watching this set of videos. Yes, Leo's channel is very interesting. Thanks for helping him out.

honestly, I was most impressed by the shipping box!