Few people are aware that NIMROD was a king in the Old Testament that was known as a good hunter. Being called a nimrod is actually a compliment, if you take it right.
Hey Sam, great fun. People wonder why some of us actually enjoy the struggle of getting these old things to work. The knowledge gained ( figuring shit out) is what it's all about. These machines and those like it are what made the US the leader of the world. The simple reliability of these machines is worthy of our respect and admiration. Thanks for sharing!😊
Love your style all the little details make it worth it I especially liked the fact you used a period correct lathe to build your directional valve not fully depending on a CnC. Hats off to Matt over at Diesel Creek for turning me onto your channel. It’s always good to see what have been scrapped into a running piece of history. 🍻
Impressive machining work Sam , my dad was a precision Engineer , im sure he would relate to what you did ! Your calculations for setting up the first machine just flowed way over my head ! But dad would have understood !
Mad respect on making the replacement stem for that fuel direction valve! Don't sell yourself short on your machining skills!! Great job getting the old beast running!
I don’t think watching this on RUclips allows us to hear the engine run. Something’s just can’t be what we would like but, having said that, what a cool experience. I could hardly wait for the second video. Thanks for the quickness of the second video. SUPER!
Sam, great job, Sam you go out and buy stuff and make things happen, your old buddy Matt goes out and buys junk or plumb worn-out let's call it stuff, drags it somewhere on the farm leaving it for a couple of years, and may work on it, Thank you for saving that piece of history
Yeah 100% agree, I think Matt has an auction addiction, I actually get annoyed that he buys stuff and drags it to his house just so it can keep on deteriorating in his yard instead of where it was. As you mentioned Sam buys stuff with purpose and keeps up to date and on top of it all. I think one day Sam will be the popular choice in this field
Amazing watching the technology available today to the machinist, my dad worked in the machine shop at chevy gear and axle in detroit in the 40s 50s and 60s repairing cutters and machining parts for the 100s of Gleeson machines used to cut ring and pinion gears, they did it with dial indicators, slide rules and micrometers, how things have changed for the better today.
That is one cool engine! It will be super cool if you can get it to produce power as well. Love to see all these old forgotten engines back doin their thing. Thank you for the effort you put into your videos!
I really hope that you find it in your heart to fully restore this great old piece of history. Also, your owning of a Monarch EE shows are a man of good taste. Please take great care of it.
What a blast to see that thing running. With all three cylinders popping it sounds excellent!! I also loved you mom coming in there and starting it and her wise cracks as well! LOL!
As a 45-year machinist/welder/mechanic, I approve of this video. The blue smoke on shutdown may be of concern. It could potentially run away on its own oil. You might be well to have an "oh shit" emergency shutdown block of wood or maybe a CO2 fire extinguisher on hand. Gotta have oxygen to light the fire! DEFINITELY sounds like a Detroit! 10 thumbs up! Cheers Terry
Congratulations. it can make a good cigar lighter or welder😂. You might want to check out those rod bearing clearances before they blow out. It's got a rod nock at Low RPM's.
It's just awesome. it shows how reliable we use to make everything. Detroit powered go cart, definitely. I'd bet 80 years or so from now this thing could still be running if it were kept out of the weather.
Loved it Sam!! My mother could definitely identify with yours. My brother and sister would laugh at me for having all my toy taken apart shortly after getting them to see how they worked!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your ability to explain and put your visions into reality. As a retired over the road driver, I appreciate the unspoken caution you take resurrecting a two stroke (Detroit diesel style) engine. One time in all my years did I have a runaway happen, thankfully the emergency shutoff functioned as designed.
I knew you'd do it!!!! Now if you hadn't had that manual, then it really would have taken a long time to get the correct sequence of setting those taps! Thanks go to Dan for that manual!!! The rest is down to SAM. He is the business when it comes to not blowing his own trumpet, when it comes to skilled machining! The rest is because he had played with so many different types of equipment, that he has a built in library of "how to's" in his brain. The first time I saw a Sam video, I was hooked! That was thanks to Matt, Sam is his no1 partner in crimes against scrapping!
Funny when you tried to show your mom it stopped working. I am a software developer and anytime I'd try to show my wife an app I built it would hit a bug and stop. LOL. Making that valve was impressive. I still laugh and smile at how excited you and Matt get when you get an old beast running. I know the same feeling when debugging someone else's old junk code and getting their app running.
This was the most satisfying video of your You Tube career yet! Yes that Detroit is old and crusty but she still does the Detroit boogie. Everything should run like a Detroit after 90 years. Keep Scrappin'
Sam, you are first I've seen on RUclips that knows to put a good button of weld on a broken/rusted bolt before trying to weld another bolt to it. Most just try to weld to a rusty broken stud with inadequate results.
You did good. You could power the whole farm with it. plus, a couple of neighbors. In the day of it's young life it was a beast. It still is, but, today we need to be gentle with these old awesome machines. About like me. I am over 70 YO. Have fun with it. But, be careful. There is a whole lot of compression coming out of those cylinders. God Bless Ya.
❤❤❤ you like an awesome job. Getting it running and saving it. I enjoyed your milling process, very neat to see people working with the old milling machines. Now, if you can get the power up and running, it will be a wonderful backup generator for ya
Just started watching your channel and I have been binge watching your shows in reverse order . There are lots of channels of “ Will it start”. but none have a machinist that makes parts using a conventional lathe and CNC milling. I enjoyed the explanation of the CNC mill. The fabrication of old parts sets your channel apart. Do more of this type of will it start videos!!!
Great job. I enjoyed this and the preceding video very much. Great content. I appreciate the knowledge and explanation of of it works. Your machinist skills are top knotch. I'm a manual machinist too. These kind of of projects are great. Good stuff! Thanks
I love how it starts off impersonating a Cummins KTA and then after it warms up abit starts to go to the real sound being Detroit 2 Stroke sound! What an absolute beast of an engine! Love the vids of this monster!
Hi Sam I Watch & love your stuff you do, but this genarator has definitely blown things out of the water, I knew you would get this old machine going, Anyway great to here it pure like a cat keep up the great stuff thanks for sharing this footage 🙏🏻✌🏻
Installed a brand new v16 Detroit with twin turbos. Derated to 1900hp with big arse alternator. On first run the electician on site tripped the emergency stop to shut it down! Flapper slammed down on the inlet with a huge BANG! Everyone immediately pooped their pants! Boy that engine sounded good at full chooch, which was the only way it ran. Emergency genset for telecommunications. Block heaters etc. From the time the contactor dropped till full power was about 6 seconds. G'day from Tasmania
Mush respect 👍🏻 i have a 10EE also, one of the best manual lathes ever made and will be standing the test of time for many years to come. Love the channel.
Nothing like making something run from our past to make you feel connected to it.Great video to show what its like to be driven to a purpose.Really enjoyed this story thank you.
IH made torpedos during ww2. Maybe thats how that lathe ended up at penn states torpedo program. IH also made garands and some other stuff for the war effort.
So cool Scrappy , to see it working is remarkable and so well. It's only design was for producing power. The Detroit colors would be appropriate. With lightning bolts 😅. The radiator will be Hugh. Hopefully you find the missing tachometer. Would like to see just how much she can produce. It started like it was just made. Fun to watch 😊.
Wow what a cool ole Detroit. That many years sitting a locked up motor . Now a running motor. Sam you are the man. May I suggest you find a friend who can ck that generator out . Might save you from getting hurt. Loved this video.
Great job Sam! I had my doubts whether it would happen when I saw how stuck it was. Persistence pays off! I love the old Detroits and this sounds about the same. Hopefully I can get to see it when you get it to the show. I've got an old 6 cyl Fairbanks-Morse 2 stroke I would like to try to get running one day.
Excellent job. It's been a great journey so far. EMD is the best sound I remember that sound from the trains at home when I was a kid.. Congratulations.
When I was in high school the city had a generator plant in town and they had a 278 V16 on a generator and you could hear it running 3 blocks away, and that was the intake noise. With ear protection on standing next to it it was so loud.
Wonder if that machine played any part in the dud torpedos. Or the problem solving as time went on. American torpedos were crap for the majority of the war. I’m not sure if they ever got to a premium status… Love what you do, Sir. AweSoMe!!!!
Excellent work, young man! I'm proud of you. Another way you could have fixed that fuel valve would be to cut off the bent shaft, drill and tap a hole in the tapered end to except a new shaft.
Thats awesome Sam! I pass through pa all the time in the semi I'd love to see that! I look for things like that all the time and either cant find one or not for sale 😂 pure awesomeness to see her come back to life! Thanks for sharing
"This kid is a nimrod and it's been painful being his mother" 😂🤣😅
Definitely a proud parent moment. 👍
Few people are aware that NIMROD was a king in the Old Testament that was known as a good hunter. Being called a nimrod is actually a compliment, if you take it right.
Taking something that badly seized and making it run is a huge achievement by itself, but with machining new parts too? Absolutely amazing!
Tesla Charging Station. Poetic justice Sam.
Thank you for your enthusiasm and excellent explanations of what you are doing.
Hey Sam, great fun. People wonder why some of us actually enjoy the struggle of getting these old things to work. The knowledge gained ( figuring shit out) is what it's all about. These machines and those like it are what made the US the leader of the world. The simple reliability of these machines is worthy of our respect and admiration. Thanks for sharing!😊
Love your style all the little details make it worth it I especially liked the fact you used a period correct lathe to build your directional valve not fully depending on a CnC. Hats off to Matt over at Diesel Creek for turning me onto your channel.
It’s always good to see what have been scrapped into a running piece of history. 🍻
Impressive machining work Sam , my dad was a precision Engineer , im sure he would relate to what you did ! Your calculations for setting up the first machine just flowed way over my head ! But dad would have understood !
Same here
Mad respect on making the replacement stem for that fuel direction valve! Don't sell yourself short on your machining skills!!
Great job getting the old beast running!
I was a Torpedoman on a sub and this makes my heart happy to know you not saved that lathe but are still using it 👍🏻🤩🇺🇸😀
Dude I cannot believe how much that thing purrs. It sounds really damn good haha. Congrats on getting it going man.
I don’t think watching this on RUclips allows us to hear the engine run. Something’s just can’t be what we would like but, having said that, what a cool experience. I could hardly wait for the second video. Thanks for the quickness of the second video. SUPER!
Sam, great job, Sam you go out and buy stuff and make things happen, your old buddy Matt goes out and buys junk or plumb worn-out let's call it stuff, drags it somewhere on the farm leaving it for a couple of years, and may work on it, Thank you for saving that piece of history
Yeah 100% agree, I think Matt has an auction addiction, I actually get annoyed that he buys stuff and drags it to his house just so it can keep on deteriorating in his yard instead of where it was. As you mentioned Sam buys stuff with purpose and keeps up to date and on top of it all. I think one day Sam will be the popular choice in this field
What a marvellous old machine, they made things to last, back then, (quality)
A bowl of cereal and a new Scrappy video. My Saturday morning is complete! 😁
and diesel creek!
@Gorkness yep. Watching it now. Had to get another bowl of cereal. So much for getting any yardwork done this morning 🤣🤣
one great job. between you , Wes at 'watch wes work' and matt, you make my day.
I'm just grinning ear to ear along with you. Absolutely awesome ressurection of the old girl. Enjoyed it immensely, thanks much!
Your reaction to that thing running was priceless. Put a big smile on my face. 😊. And I just love your mom and dad. Especially your mom. 😂👍
God man I could feel your excitement, couldn’t hear it but sure felt it. What a grand old engine. You’re right, it needs to live on. Well done.
Amazing watching the technology available today to the machinist, my dad worked in the machine shop at chevy gear and axle in detroit in the 40s 50s and 60s repairing cutters and machining parts for the 100s of Gleeson machines used to cut ring and pinion gears, they did it with dial indicators, slide rules and micrometers, how things have changed for the better today.
Nice work! Super cool to see and hear that old engine come to life!
I absolutely loved the 2 videos on this engine/generator! Interesting machine as well as great video presentation! presentation 2:15 presentation
I really appreciate you showing us the steps to make that new valve, plus choosing to use a more mature lathe is even better.
Real impressive machining!
Real smart man you are!
Great engine
Great video
That is one cool engine! It will be super cool if you can get it to produce power as well. Love to see all these old forgotten engines back doin their thing. Thank you for the effort you put into your videos!
I really hope that you find it in your heart to fully restore this great old piece of history. Also, your owning of a Monarch EE shows are a man of good taste. Please take great care of it.
Awesome video. Great project. Looking forward to more videos on this beautiful old piece of machinery
What a blast to see that thing running. With all three cylinders popping it sounds excellent!! I also loved you mom coming in there and starting it and her wise cracks as well! LOL!
As a 45-year machinist/welder/mechanic, I approve of this video.
The blue smoke on shutdown may be of concern. It could potentially run away on its own oil. You might be well to have an "oh shit" emergency shutdown block of wood or maybe a CO2 fire extinguisher on hand. Gotta have oxygen to light the fire!
DEFINITELY sounds like a Detroit!
10 thumbs up!
Cheers
Terry
Congratulations. it can make a good cigar lighter or welder😂. You might want to check out those rod bearing clearances before they blow out. It's got a rod nock at Low RPM's.
Would be so cool to see this thing run and make power see how many horses are left in those big 3 pots
It's just awesome. it shows how reliable we use to make everything. Detroit powered go cart, definitely. I'd bet 80 years or so from now this thing could still be running if it were kept out of the weather.
Loved it Sam!! My mother could definitely identify with yours. My brother and sister would laugh at me for having all my toy taken apart shortly after getting them to see how they worked!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your ability to explain and put your visions into reality. As a retired over the road driver, I appreciate the unspoken caution you take resurrecting a two stroke (Detroit diesel style) engine. One time in all my years did I have a runaway happen, thankfully the emergency shutoff functioned as designed.
If you never need an alternative power source for the building you got one
Good Morning Sam..Have a great day...!!
This is one of the neatest things I've seen you do! Nice work! 👍 Glad to hear you're going to pain it! What a trip!! 😀
I knew you'd do it!!!! Now if you hadn't had that manual, then it really would have taken a long time to get the correct sequence of setting those taps! Thanks go to Dan for that manual!!! The rest is down to SAM. He is the business when it comes to not blowing his own trumpet, when it comes to skilled machining! The rest is because he had played with so many different types of equipment, that he has a built in library of "how to's" in his brain. The first time I saw a Sam video, I was hooked! That was thanks to Matt, Sam is his no1 partner in crimes against scrapping!
Funny when you tried to show your mom it stopped working. I am a software developer and anytime I'd try to show my wife an app I built it would hit a bug and stop. LOL. Making that valve was impressive. I still laugh and smile at how excited you and Matt get when you get an old beast running. I know the same feeling when debugging someone else's old junk code and getting their app running.
This was the most satisfying video of your You Tube career yet! Yes that Detroit is old and crusty but she still does the Detroit boogie. Everything should run like a Detroit after 90 years. Keep Scrappin'
Sam, you are first I've seen on RUclips that knows to put a good button of weld on a broken/rusted bolt before trying to weld another bolt to it. Most just try to weld to a rusty broken stud with inadequate results.
AWSOME job Sam! Now you can generate power for the farm and shops.👍
You did good. You could power the whole farm with it. plus, a couple of neighbors. In the day of it's young life it was a beast. It still is, but, today we need to be gentle with these old awesome machines. About like me. I am over 70 YO. Have fun with it. But, be careful. There is a whole lot of compression coming out of those cylinders. God Bless Ya.
By tyhe way. To me it sounds like a big butt Perkins.
❤❤❤ you like an awesome job. Getting it running and saving it. I enjoyed your milling process, very neat to see people working with the old milling machines. Now, if you can get the power up and running, it will be a wonderful backup generator for ya
I’m so glad you didn’t get that manual in time…Otherwise we wouldn’t have seen the magnificent job you did rebuilding that valve 🤩👍🏻😀
Good morning! This was a wonderful thing to watch! Great job! I love your enthusiasm.
I love to see old engines brought back to life. Thank You for this. Would love to see more work done on this engine. 😊
Jolly good job Sam…. Just love your… yes we can fix this attitude….well done🚜🚜🚜🚜
Just started watching your channel and I have been binge watching your shows in reverse order . There are lots of channels of “ Will it start”. but none have a machinist that makes parts using a conventional lathe and CNC milling. I enjoyed the explanation of the CNC mill. The fabrication of old parts sets your channel apart. Do more of this type of will it start videos!!!
The best way to clean this fantastic machine is using aqua blast I can't Wait to see that 😍
This is cool! Excited to see this thing cleaned up.
Great job. I enjoyed this and the preceding video very much. Great content. I appreciate the knowledge and explanation of of it works. Your machinist skills are top knotch. I'm a manual machinist too. These kind of of projects are great. Good stuff! Thanks
I love how it starts off impersonating a Cummins KTA and then after it warms up abit starts to go to the real sound being Detroit 2 Stroke sound!
What an absolute beast of an engine!
Love the vids of this monster!
Awesome sam painting that would be nice and I would take all the brass and polish them and clear coat to make it pop😊
Howdy 🤠 from the Northwoods of Minnesota. I have a Detroit Diesel radiator off a generator. I'll donate. It's huge
You could have been a little excited to get it started. Well done dude, that thing was LOUD!
Very good engine will run forever had 2 gen sets like on our ocean going tug. Happy like a kid that you got it going.
Hi Sam I Watch & love your stuff you do, but this genarator has definitely blown things out of the water, I knew you would get this old machine going, Anyway great to here it pure like a cat keep up the great stuff thanks for sharing this footage 🙏🏻✌🏻
Installed a brand new v16 Detroit with twin turbos. Derated to 1900hp with big arse alternator. On first run the electician on site tripped the emergency stop to shut it down! Flapper slammed down on the inlet with a huge BANG! Everyone immediately pooped their pants! Boy that engine sounded good at full chooch, which was the only way it ran. Emergency genset for telecommunications. Block heaters etc. From the time the contactor dropped till full power was about 6 seconds. G'day from Tasmania
i knew you would get it going! now we need to make an electric shovel
Glad your not gonna scrap her. So good to see the workmanship in the old stuff.
You are awesome Sam great job and video thanks
Mush respect 👍🏻 i have a 10EE also, one of the best manual lathes ever made and will be standing the test of time for many years to come. Love the channel.
I am always amazed how these old diesels will come back to life.
Nothing like making something run from our past to make you feel connected to it.Great video to show what its like to be driven to a purpose.Really enjoyed this story thank you.
I love that engine. It’s super neat. Glad you saved it.
👌👌👍👍 Machinist Mate First Class - good work! Thank you for your service. They needed someone like you on the Dali a few months ago.
Now you can hook it up as a backup for your workshop or home 👍👍👍👍👍
I had to LOL when you started whooping and hollering and dancing when it started. Love your enthusiasm!
Awesome project !
What an incredibly thorough knowledge of the whole process. Very entertaining. Thank you
Genial..
Buen trabajo..👍💪👏👏
Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷
The new farm backup power!
IH made torpedos during ww2. Maybe thats how that lathe ended up at penn states torpedo program. IH also made garands and some other stuff for the war effort.
You are appreciated for your service that keep this country free! God Bless you!
I can see you teaching as Chief Petty officer to younger sailors 👍🏻🤩🇺🇸🤔😀
Nice to see it run. Looking forward to more videos on the generator side.
Sam’s celebration once it ran for the first time got me laughing so hard definitely the best part of the video!
Thanks for sharing and taking us along.Awesome and outstanding content as always.
Nice job. Look good at old shovel place y’all go. Fire it run something with it. Enjoyed
Dude you are amazing. I love your channel. Your channel and Diesel Creek are my favorite channels to watch.
So cool Scrappy , to see it working is remarkable and so well. It's only design was for producing power. The Detroit colors would be appropriate. With lightning bolts 😅. The radiator will be Hugh. Hopefully you find the missing tachometer. Would like to see just how much she can produce. It started like it was just made. Fun to watch 😊.
Wow what a cool ole Detroit. That many years sitting a locked up motor . Now a running motor. Sam you are the man. May I suggest you find a friend who can ck that generator out . Might save you from getting hurt. Loved this video.
HEY! Good morning Sam and thumbs UP!!
That engine is exactly as old as me, suspect it is in better nick though! Well done Sam, enjoyed it immensely Regards David UK England
Great job Sam! I had my doubts whether it would happen when I saw how stuck it was. Persistence pays off! I love the old Detroits and this sounds about the same. Hopefully I can get to see it when you get it to the show. I've got an old 6 cyl Fairbanks-Morse 2 stroke I would like to try to get running one day.
Getting Rudolph vibes from the Haas touch off! Tis the season! ❤
Excellent job. It's been a great journey so far. EMD is the best sound
I remember that sound from the trains at home when I was a kid..
Congratulations.
When I was in high school the city had a generator plant in town and they had a 278 V16 on a generator and you could hear it running 3 blocks away, and that was the intake noise. With ear protection on standing next to it it was so loud.
Keep this series coming!😀
That's awesome!!! I get just as excited as you just watching your success!!! Congratulations!!!
Wonder if that machine played any part in the dud torpedos. Or the problem solving as time went on. American torpedos were crap for the majority of the war. I’m not sure if they ever got to a premium status… Love what you do, Sir. AweSoMe!!!!
You da man Sam. Awesome.
Excellent work, young man! I'm proud of you. Another way you could have fixed that fuel valve would be to cut off the bent shaft, drill and tap a hole in the tapered end to except a new shaft.
Great to see how happy you are when it runs. Greets from Poland
That little lathe reminds me of metal work at school in the 1970's
Yeaah Man!! Totally loving seeing this coming alive :)
Sounds great.You can hear the Roots scavenging blower spooling down
Thats awesome Sam! I pass through pa all the time in the semi I'd love to see that! I look for things like that all the time and either cant find one or not for sale 😂 pure awesomeness to see her come back to life! Thanks for sharing
Love your viedos,,your excitement is great.😊
That is too cool..great job! Love that excitement!
You make rebuilding/refurbishing look like so much fun.
Glad you got it to run. No need for a Bridgeport when you have a CNC.