Milling the BRONZE CRANK ARMS for the 1894 Giraffe Bike - part two // paul brodie's shop
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Just a work of art produced by an engineering artist. The sight and sound of sharp tools cutting wonderful metal is fascinating.
Thank you! Yes, I did enjoy the machining process...
You Sir are magnificent. What a great talent you have. I love the look of a hand machined item like that. There is something about the way it looks. Thank you mate.
Very kind of you, thanks. I have now been making parts out of metal for 57 years...
That bronze worked very well, that crank looks like a piece of art
Thanks Tom. And I was using my experience from making the bronze Whippet crank arms....
Remarkable skill and artistry! Looking forward to what's next on the Giraffe Bike, and all of your projects! Go Paul and Mitch, keep moving forward!
Thank you very much. Always moving forward!
Love watching an Artist applying their craft
Thanks Kevin...
Don't underestimate the abilities of Chinese made tools. Sometimes you do get what you pay for (applies to any country) but they make plenty of adequate stuff for a very fair price. I'm awfully fond of the adjustable reamers you can get from China, great for seat tubes etc.
Nice work! It would be cool if there were a flanged bobbin-shaped bit that you could run down the outside of the crank arm to go from 4-sided to 8-sided with just 2 passes ...
They are some pretty fancy cranks there Paul. They are going to look fantastic .
Thank you Michael...
Always something special. Thanks Paul and Mitch.
Best wishes, Dean.
Thank you Dean!
Gavan tools in China has good prices on tools and they're good tools. I've ordered a few taps and reamers and if you can wait on delivery, it's inexpensive and quality tools.
Thanks for the tip...
Paul, you are looking really well 😎👍
Thank you Philip. I am very fortunate that my health has returned, and I am very Thankful...
Ahhh, a Paul Brodie video!
As always brilliant work, your methods are so unique they seem so much more artistic than mathematical always inspiring!!! You and Mitch have a great weekend.
Thanks Rick. Have a great day...
Nice work Paul, wouldn't expect anything less. ✌🇦🇺
Thank you Pete!
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I've never seen a bike with golden cranks, it looks beautiful! well done! 👍
Thank you. They look good, but they are also quite heavy. Great for a Show Bike!!
Great job as always Paul , and i learned summit new today ? the trick with the Tap in the mill 😁😁🤘🤘
Thank you...
I sure would like to see some of the beautiful bronze work and retro-mod features of this Giraffe bicycle incorporated into a Paul Brodie re-designed retro-mod Penny Farthing. I think you could make the finest Penny Farthing ever made.
But no one who would ride it could afford it and those who could afford it would never ride it.
Maybe a good idea, but what would I do with a Penny Farthing? Thanks for commenting...
@@paulbrodie ..................probably stunts or trials? 🙃🤣🤣
Beautiful workmanship, thanks for sharing your videos. 👍
Thank you very much... :)
Making beautiful golden chips...what a delicious piece of machining.
Great comment! Thank you very much...
Imagine all those old odd taps in sheds that are waiting to be reborn 😮
But nothing beats a brand new tap, getting used for the very first time!
Another quality job carried out. Super nice👍
Thank you Richard. Appreciate your comments....
I can't make up my mind if i'm awed more by the expensive bronze, how nice it machines, the artistic look or how Master Brodie tackles each of the challenges and overcomes them in the elegant way.
Speaking of bronze and tapping - bronze likes sharp - like virgin sharp even, and often forgives soft tools if they are just sharp enough. The true test to those taps will be how they fare after some high grade steel. And how they keep up after once knowing it...
A Joy to watch as always
Very nice comments, thank you very much!
Not a micrometer in sight, wonderful!
But I do have micrometers! Thanks for watching...
excellent video! Thanks Paul!
Thank you William...
That’s quite a tap story, Paul. I have buying adventures like that too, if it’s any consolation. 😂
I really love your "dead reckoning" alignment methods.
Thanks. And I don't even own a sailboat....
@@paulbrodie Best eyeballs in the business
Those cranks look really good in bronze. You got a result with the taps but if you were stuck you can make taps. Years ago my dad and I made a 4" to the foot traction engine. On the actual engine the parking brake had a big square thread rod to pull the brake on. I wanted to replicate the square thread so I turned an extra long bit of square thread and used the spare bit to make a tap which actually worked to tap the female thread.
Well I have never made a tap, but my friend Harvey did make me a tap. I was making brass valve caps for my Excelsiors, and that tap is not available anywhere in this world. I did look.. I liked your story, thanks for commenting...
Good to see you looking stronger again. I watched a video the other day on the restoration of a prewar German bicycle it was fitted with a two speed gearbox at the crank, nothing new under the sun made me think of you and your present project. I have a shaft drive Bicycle sat out as the die cast gears cracked up and lock rather than turn. That bike was pretty cool when it worked very quiet out on tracks and really positive drive much better feel than a chain if it had had a six speed gear box and a back pedal brake it would have been great.
I've been waiting for weeks to see this crankset come together. I enjoyed it. I really like the giraffe bike project.
Thanks Lance. Appreciate your comments....
We all need a friend like Simon!
Yes, Simone is a good friend...
Crank arms made of Bronze 😲
Admittedly, I'm a material freak too, but crank arms made of bronze??
Nice machine work too :-)
Hi Paul. Did you have an extra small block of bronze to drill & tap before you tried them on the cranks?
Looking forward to saying hi on May 4th. Glen from Alberta.
I think i have a set of Park Tool 9/16" taps, for modifying french crank arms or chasing threads. Would these work or is there a difference between the Park tool taps and "native" or "virgin" taps. Mine were not very expensive but it was 1😢0y ago ...
*looks over Mr. Brodie's shoulder* ....uh.... Its not terribly hard to make tap & die sets.Sure its a bit of work, but... waiting weeks for a tool that may not show up, or not be the correct tool? If I had machine shop? I'd be making them.
I always wonder if a lot of things like taps(no name brand) have hugely varying prices depending on where they are marketed from. They probably came out the same Factory originally!!
I've had the same problems with Chinese sellers.
Ebay agreed the listing was deliberately misleading and refunded my money.
Listings are getting better but still often imply you get a set when it's only one part of a set.
You must have made several hundred dollars of bronze chips by now?
Nice cranks,Paul👌
That grade of bronze seems to machine really sweet.
Thank you Howard. The bronze does machine nicely if your tools are Very Sharp!
@@paulbrodie I do turn a few various bronzes in my own home workshop. I find razor sharp HSS with a high Cobalt content to be very effective on bronze alloys.
Not like the Syncros cranks that Pippin was making back in the day.
I am lucky a little man in Sydney deals in second hand taps and dies and some tooling, only one time he could not supply a oddball size left-hand tap .
Kit from down under
Tap dancing...
Aha! A man with a sense of humour. Thanks for watching...
Always brilliant craftsmanship 🙏🏻🇬🇧
Thank you...
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Cheers Chris
Hey Chris, hope you are well. Thanks for watching!
Those crank arms are pure sexiness.. well done 👍
Thanks Much....
You can hear the difference between the 2 taps
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Well at least the tap was not dripping!!!
Yes, that is true...
Beaufitul work😃
Thanks Scott...
Gorgeous Engineering!
Thank you Nick...
ok for an old bloke 😁😁😁😁😁
I got LH and RH "pedal taps"from Amazon recently and they worked well on the aluminum crank arms I was shorting
Ball-end end-mills - was using these in Alumin(i)um recently on some bike fittings.
One word... Brilliant .
Thank you John...
The American tap may not be as "sharp" but I guarantee it'll last/hold it's edge a hell of a lot longer than the Chinese tap. 👍👍
Why?
odd thing that you'd make that guarantee without knowing the specifics of the materials the 2 taps are made from.
The idea that everything made in China is crap quality or they aren't capable of producing any high quality tooling is utter nonsense.
Cmon Simon! Haha
Won't tapping something from the inner side (using a right hand tap) produce a left hand thread on the outer side?
No.
@@bobskingle5762 It only required a short answer🤣
@@howardosborne8647 that made me chuckle, if only 🙂.
I was shocked how much the price is inflated over the pond for those taps, can get a 3 tap set (1st 2nd and 3rd) locally for £16. The right hand set is £1 less.
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They look amazing!
Why use a tap instead of cutting the threads on your mill or lathe?
I think the problem is that there is a big-ass brass crank arm attached to the pedal eye and that would be flying everywhere and maybe its too long for the lathe bed?
Since its brass i wonder if he could just tap a tube and braze it into the crank arm?
@@dgillies5420 At a push you can put an internal treading tool into a boring head mounted in the lathe spindle and hold the crank in the tool post to get around the issue of the swing/clearance. Basically use the lathe as a horizontal boring machine
However buying a tap is much easier.
Beautiful!
This one felt like a Quentin terintino movie watching the zen master craft his wares.
You make it look so easy Paul. Ive made up Gear shift Levers for My RC Honda 250 from Alloy and The process of what the next cut should be is the Brain Teaser in still being able to Hold the part :) Love your work Sir :) Those cranks are a work of Art
I am getting more and more excited what Giraffe Bike is looking like in the end…awesome work in detail🌟🌟🌟
Thanks! We are both excited about Giraffe Bike Progress. I just received the seat yesterday, and Greg Hunt made a beautiful job creating it...
@@paulbrodie …more and more exciting parts😃😎