We need shop classes in schools doing these types of projects now more than ever. These projects taught valuable lessons that are lost now in the educational systems.
When I was in Jr College (early 1960's) in a machine shop class and taking a tool design class with the same instructor, I built a 6" bench grinder and a bench drill press from the Castings Specialties castings. Had to design and make the gigs to hold some of the parts for machining. Wonderful experience and at 78 I still remember it vividly. Hands on for machining and thought processes for designing the tooling.
Those drawings remind me of MY time in Mechanical Drawing class in junior and senior high school. We would produce 3 views of objects similar to those you've shown. That was my favorite class. A thank you to my teachers, Mr. Rigsby and Mr. Noecker. Well done, gentlemen.👍
The ending with your grandson was great. Well enjoyed. Special to see a connection with grandchildren. My daughters have a special connection with grandpa working and it’s wonderful to catch in action And they don’t know it. Thanks for that.
As always, fascinating video but the bonus was to see your grandchild playing in the shop. It reminded me about my childhood when I used to go to our workshop with my grandfather. Feeling nostalgic to see this... Thank you Sir ❤️
I built that woodworking vise in High School, ~1973-4 era. Lotta fun single point cutting the acme internal and external threads. I can still remember the sound of the fly cutter peeling that cast iron.
@@mrpete222 Now that you mention it, they may well have been square threads. I definitely recall that they were NOT 60 degree threads. It was nearly 50 years ago, and my brother broke the front face casting over torquing it over 45 years ago, so I haven't seen it in at least that time. (I haven't forgiven him!)
Whenever I make prints of anything but the simplest pieces, I always include some sort of shaded isometric view... saved my butt a few times, based on how often I visit the shop making a lot of the parts I design whenever I send somebody else's prints without such. Life isn't a trade school exam... easy to read prints make everybody happy!
Did you ever have a steam engine for a project? In 1967 when I was 17, our metal working class had one using aluminum castings for the flywheel and base. I was the only student who completed the project. I actually wound an electric stove heating coil around the boiler to heat it to make steam. Only time I ever used a shaper. Great memories of fun times. Really enjoy your videos Thanks for all your efforts! Those are super nice projects!👍👍👍🖒 Great nut cracking grand son your have there. Already working in your machine shop.😎😎😎
That was great! Especially the sweet nutcracker at the end. Maybe you could modify a small spare drill press vise into a tabletop nut cracker! That would be cool. 😁
I teach in Northern Minnesota and we have made a few of the anvils and the Allen wrench jolders that were leftover when I started teaching here 26 years ago. Wish I could get my hands on those castings again! I have an old Struck catalog in my foundry collection, I also have about 300 castings I have collected over the years. Many of them are first or last casts from mills and foundries that have gone out of business. My wife says if we move I better have some good friends with all the cast iron I have collected.
I wouldn't mind finding some of those castings to make those projects myself along with my son. I also bet that Little Henry recalls cracking pecans in Grandpa's vise 40 years from now. You're creating some great memories.
I used to work on a dairy farm. The dad went by Henry and the son went by Hank. I also had a great uncle and great aunt who’s names were Hank and Hilkie.
Henry cracking the nuts was great, especially when he moved his fingers near the open jaws, then moved them right away as if he knew instinctively that his fingers didn't belong in the area the nuts were being broken in. Kid are smart when they want to be.
Those were some mighty fine grey cast iron castings. I think that you would struggle to find any defects. Can't say the same about products today from India or China. Mark from Melbourne. Australia.
The local school system still has a few shop classes. When I was in high school (class of '60) they were already trying to direct students away from shop classes if they thought you would be college bound. When I still had my manufacturing business, I offered tours for shop teachers to bring students. Very few took advantage of it. The plant still had some manual operations but was mostly CNC.
I was in the class of 1961. I was college bound. They really did not want me to take Shop classes. Luckily my dad was the shop teacher and got me in. I took two years of Latin lots of math etc.
@@mrpete222 I also took Latin, rather a waste for me. I did take all the available math, math minored in college. The best thing about the Latin class was the teacher had a sense of humor. She said she was flying to Denver, some smart ass asked if "by plane?" The insinuation was the alternative, broom, as an option.
Would love to find casting kits like that. Been making steam engine models and a universal pillar tool lately. I am addicted to this stuff now! Thanks for sharing this
Super nice work HENRY!! Gosh, If I would have known grand-kids were this much fun, I would have had them FIRST! Funny comment about vintage from the 80's(: In still waiting for that OLD stuff to become affordable , HA HA! ,(I graduated high school in 1980)
I’ve got one of the small bench vises came from Chicago and I also have one of the drill press vises but mine is on a pivoting angle base. Some one actually surface ground the whole vise and side wheel ground the fixed jaw.
Everybody watching Your videos for some time knows about Your passion for castings. Once it was the Peterson products, now days it is Tubalcain castings. I can't be alone missing one casting. The one being a, let's say 8" high, statue of You! Sometimes You can be a bit hard so cast iron is needed for that. For most of us the more soft aluminum would be desirable. Brass could be a deluxe version..... How to machine it? Don't. No bum, no wealth (bally) for rigging... Joking...
Sure wish they were still being made . Many of us like building our tools. Lol Henry would like a hammer over the vise . They sure would be crushed then. Oh nutts.
When I did mechanical drafting, I would also create a picture of the finish project in the upper right hand corner, even pencil shaded it to give it a 3D effect. Grandchildren are great aren't they?
Hi Lyle, Enjoyed the video. Had to download that Casting Specialties catalog because I noticed a morse telegraph key when you were showing the isometric drawing of the bench vise. Wish you had mentioned the date of the newspaper used for wrapping. How old is Henry? You and the family stay safe.
I wonder how many of your viewers would take a 'virtual course' from you on refining one of the castings? I've done the Chess MB on Zoom for Scouts and have had the boys/girls to have their chess board within viewing range of their home computer to demonstrate moves. You could sell them the casting as well as the virtual course. I bought your Logan Lathe course and find myself sometime wanting to ask you questions especially re-assurance that I understand what I heard and saw in your video. Keep up the good work and thanks ...
Happy Sunday Mr. Pete! I am plowing through all your videos, currently up to #546. Just jumping ahead for a non-sequitur comment. I have become interested in finding a Cole Drill, but no success. It is probably the ultimate in slow-speed drilling large holes. Do you have one? Because I would seriously consider one day casting up an aluminum one as I get a shop together. Burst I have to build a garage. . . Thank you for all these informative and entertaining videos!
I bet you hated your students to cut cast iron in the school shop. I know I'm not too fond cutting it and cleaning up the mess it makes. Have memory of the C. F. Struck catalog back in the 70's showing the different kits you could buy. I don't remember the Peterson or the one you mention here. Thanks for sharing! Ken
Henry had it easier than I did cracking nuts for my grandparents, all I was given was a small hammer and a bowl then later on when I was some what older I was given a pair of slip jaw pliers to crack them so I wouldn't make mence meat out of the nut meat. 😋
I don't think I've ever cracked open a pecan. I think the easiest way to open a walnut is to poke a large flat screw driver (like on a pocket knife) into the slot on the flat end and twist. More often than not the shell will break into two perfect halves along the seam. I wonder if that will work for pecans.
When I was in school in England in the early 80's the UK had recently changed from imperial weights & measurements to metric and my metalwork teacher worked in metric but my woodwork teacher worked in Imperial and you would be in trouble if you were caught using the wrong system, personally, I prefer metric it is much easier to get along with
A probe to Mars was lost due to mixing units. Also, in a famous case (lookup Gimli glider) an airline pilot asked for fuel in kilograms and they loaded pounds, so in the middle of the flight he ran out of fuel. Here in Argentina we are metric but many things remain imperial, for example tyre (or tire?) pressure is mostly psi, but threads are almost always Withworth. UNF and UNC are very difficult to find, and the worst thing is that shops that sell bolts can't tell the difference. The diameter and the pitch of some sizes are the same, but the shape of the thread is different. But I guess that if you are watching this video you already know that.
Regarding drawings, I stumbled across the Johnson O'Connor Foundation years ago. In 1922 a psychologist named Johnson O'Connor devised a simple test to help General Electric improve it's success in hiring people to assemble tiny gears in electric meters. It is a fascinating story and the foundation offers testing for aptitudes to this day. They have two main kinds of clients - young people who don't know what they want to do in life and middle aged workers who are unhappy in their chosen profession. Research shows everyone has certain natural abilities and they are most satisfied if their work utilizes them. Aptitudes will find an outlet in hobbies or other avenues if one's profession doesn't use them. The ability to see a two-dimensional plan on paper and know what it will look like in three dimensions is called "structural visualization", a natural aptitude that occurs in a fraction of the population. That aptitude is easily tested and predicts success in a number of occupations. Without the natural aptitude, you can do any job but it takes more effort.
So cute to see your grandson joining in. He's very cute, and lovely to see him enjoying mucking about with grandad. Thanks for including that bit.
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We need shop classes in schools doing these types of projects now more than ever. These projects taught valuable lessons that are lost now in the educational systems.
True
When I was in Jr College (early 1960's) in a machine shop class and taking a tool design class with the same instructor, I built a 6" bench grinder and a bench drill press from the Castings Specialties castings.
Had to design and make the gigs to hold some of the parts for machining.
Wonderful experience and at 78 I still remember it vividly.
Hands on for machining and thought processes for designing the tooling.
👍👍
Ah yes, the pecan didn't fall too far from the tree!!!! Proud grandpa!!!!!!
Yes
Adorable youth, still enjoying the innocence of childhood.
Henry is all boy! Fun to see him playing with his grandparents. Priceless
That may have been the best oart of the show !!!
Those drawings remind me of MY time in Mechanical Drawing class in junior and senior high school. We would produce 3 views of objects similar to those you've shown. That was my favorite class.
A thank you to my teachers, Mr. Rigsby and Mr. Noecker.
Well done, gentlemen.👍
Really enjoyed seeing those castings and hearing your descriptions. The nut cracking at the end was priceless, though!
Thanks
The ending with your grandson was great. Well enjoyed. Special to see a connection with grandchildren. My daughters have a special connection with grandpa working and it’s wonderful to catch in action And they don’t know it. Thanks for that.
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Memories Henry will never forget. Great video. Can't wait to see you machine those castings. Stay well, stay safe, stay young!!
Thank you, I just got vaccinated last night
As always, fascinating video but the bonus was to see your grandchild playing in the shop. It reminded me about my childhood when I used to go to our workshop with my grandfather. Feeling nostalgic to see this... Thank you Sir ❤️
Thanks
Wonderful to see you again Mr Pete, those castings look amazing
Thank you so much for sharing
Good morning Mr. Pete, Shop class, coffee, and comic relief of little Henry smashing nuts.
I built that woodworking vise in High School, ~1973-4 era. Lotta fun single point cutting the acme internal and external threads. I can still remember the sound of the fly cutter peeling that cast iron.
Yes, that is a neat sound. Glad you made the voice. The drawing calls for a square thread!
@@mrpete222 Now that you mention it, they may well have been square threads. I definitely recall that they were NOT 60 degree threads. It was nearly 50 years ago, and my brother broke the front face casting over torquing it over 45 years ago, so I haven't seen it in at least that time.
(I haven't forgiven him!)
Good job with Henry there Lyle. I pick up one of my two shop assistants in the morning! Best part of working in the shop
Yes
And the lovely kid is on his way of becoming “vintage” too with the best of two teachers. Oh how much I envy him.
Thanks
Thanks for bringing back memories, I had a catalog but never had the money to buy. Wish you could still get them now!
All great projects. Henry is quite the nut cracker.
lol
Whenever I make prints of anything but the simplest pieces, I always include some sort of shaded isometric view... saved my butt a few times, based on how often I visit the shop making a lot of the parts I design whenever I send somebody else's prints without such. Life isn't a trade school exam... easy to read prints make everybody happy!
Totally agree
From de 80’s, vintage stuff! OMG. I hope we we survive until past dinosaurs age and looking good! God bless you Mr. Pete.
Did you ever have a steam engine for a project? In 1967 when I was 17, our metal working class had one using aluminum castings for the flywheel and base. I was the only student who completed the project. I actually wound an electric stove heating coil around the boiler to heat it to make steam. Only time I ever used a shaper. Great memories of fun times. Really enjoy your videos Thanks for all your efforts! Those are super nice projects!👍👍👍🖒
Great nut cracking grand son your have there. Already working in your machine shop.😎😎😎
Thank you very much
That was great! Especially the sweet nutcracker at the end. Maybe you could modify a small spare drill press vise into a tabletop nut cracker! That would be cool. 😁
Wonderful collection of castings. Thank you Hank for providing the wherewithal for several MrPete videos to come.
THANK YOU...for sharing. Henry sure is growing fast and having fun with grandparents, watched and very much enjoyed.
Beautiful castings ,thank you so much for sharing..
I teach in Northern Minnesota and we have made a few of the anvils and the Allen wrench jolders that were leftover when I started teaching here 26 years ago. Wish I could get my hands on those castings again! I have an old Struck catalog in my foundry collection, I also have about 300 castings I have collected over the years. Many of them are first or last casts from mills and foundries that have gone out of business. My wife says if we move I better have some good friends with all the cast iron I have collected.
That is so awesome, I would like to see pictures of some of those castings
I wouldn't mind finding some of those castings to make those projects myself along with my son. I also bet that Little Henry recalls cracking pecans in Grandpa's vise 40 years from now. You're creating some great memories.
Thank you, I hope so
Thanks for sharing the castings, I'll be watching for the machining videos. Also loved the video of Henry cracking the pecans, he is priceless.
Vintage, from the 80's. Oooooof
Ooof is a spanish word?
Welcome to old age...
Looking forward to these projects Lyle.
Hi Lyle, they are incredible projects for a high school. We had nothing like that on Oz, and that was several years after I finished high school.
True
This is a really cool video. I love seeing these old projects and such nice castings.
Thanks
I used to work on a dairy farm. The dad went by Henry and the son went by Hank. I also had a great uncle and great aunt who’s names were Hank and Hilkie.
Henry is getting big. He has a mind of his own for sure. Good video.
Yes indeed, sometimes you can be a little ornery
Henry cracking the nuts was great, especially when he moved his fingers near the open jaws, then moved them right away as if he knew instinctively that his fingers didn't belong in the area the nuts were being broken in. Kid are smart when they want to be.
Brian from Ma.Kool little lapping plates what a hoot at the nut kracker had me laughing Thanks Besafe
lol
Grand Kids are so much fun to have around.
I would've loved doing that in school
What a great supply of castings for projects. WOW, Henry is getting so big. I still remember him in the tool box. HAHA
Joe
One of the few advantages of growing old-grandkids!
Yes
I remember Peterson Products and the castings that you sold. I think I have a Vise set in my storage that I've never completed. Have to look.
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Great edutainment video. I am looking forward to seeing you machine those castings.
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Great castings and lots of future projects..Henry's pecan cracking was the icing on the cake! :-)
lol
Those were some mighty fine grey cast iron castings. I think that you would struggle to find any defects. Can't say the same about products today from India or China.
Mark from Melbourne. Australia.
Great video! Everyone loves the castings and Peterson products. Lol, you told lil Henry "Wrong way Corrigan" 😂
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I really like that little drill press vice
Looks like some great stuff for future videos. Thank you for posting.
The local school system still has a few shop classes. When I was in high school (class of '60) they were already trying to direct students away from shop classes if they thought you would be college bound.
When I still had my manufacturing business, I offered tours for shop teachers to bring students. Very few took advantage of it. The plant still had some manual operations but was mostly CNC.
I was in the class of 1961. I was college bound. They really did not want me to take Shop classes. Luckily my dad was the shop teacher and got me in. I took two years of Latin lots of math etc.
@@mrpete222 I also took Latin, rather a waste for me. I did take all the available math, math minored in college. The best thing about the Latin class was the teacher had a sense of humor. She said she was flying to Denver, some smart ass asked if "by plane?" The insinuation was the alternative, broom, as an option.
Grand kids are a blessing.
Although I don't know that
personally.........yet
Have a Jesus filled day everyone
Greg in Michigan
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Would love to find casting kits like that. Been making steam engine models and a universal pillar tool lately. I am addicted to this stuff now! Thanks for sharing this
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Fun to watch Henry!
Henry is helping grandma and grandpa with cracking their walnuts! Lol. Good times! He will remember that forever
Yes
Super nice work HENRY!!
Gosh, If I would have known grand-kids were this much fun, I would have had them FIRST!
Funny comment about vintage from the 80's(: In still waiting for that OLD stuff to become affordable , HA HA! ,(I graduated high school in 1980)
Yes, I would have gone straight for grandkids forget the regular kids
I looked in Target but could not find one of those nut crackers. lol
Glad that I hung around for the extra credit 😊
This is terrific! Thank you for sharing.
Fantastic pecan stomping.
Dang!those are some really cool project kits!
Henry’s a real character! I remember when you presented him in the top of a toolbox.
Yes.
Mr. Pete, long time viewer request to see a grandson collaboration with the casting project.
Fantastic history lesson thanks for sharing
Wow those do look nice
Hi Mr Pete, I always knew there was a better use for a milling vice.
lol
The wood vise was our project in college but we did the casting of the parts ourself . that was in 1974 and still have and use it
Awesome
I took my shop classes in the late 80's in Forest Lake, Minnesota.
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Good times with Henry
Yes
I’ve got one of the small bench vises came from Chicago and I also have one of the drill press vises but mine is on a pivoting angle base. Some one actually surface ground the whole vise and side wheel ground the fixed jaw.
Thank you for the information. I meant to show the picture in the catalog of the angle base version.
Ahhhhhhhhh... You saved the best for last.
When he said watch this, I knew a boot stomp was coming.
The nut cracker is awesome !
lol
Everybody watching Your videos for some time knows about Your passion for castings. Once it was the Peterson products, now days it is Tubalcain castings.
I can't be alone missing one casting. The one being a, let's say 8" high, statue of You! Sometimes You can be a bit hard so cast iron is needed for that. For most of us the more soft aluminum would be desirable. Brass could be a deluxe version.....
How to machine it? Don't. No bum, no wealth (bally) for rigging... Joking...
👍👍👍
Amazing work
Henry is going to be good on foot operated machines .lol
Shout-out Cedarburg, WI. Just a bit north of Milwaukee - nice town 👍
If I had a time machine, I would go back to high school (1968-1972) and take shop classes !
Yes
I love the idea behind this, does anybody know if kits like this are still sold ?
Sure wish they were still being made . Many of us like building our tools. Lol Henry would like a hammer over the vise . They sure would be crushed then. Oh nutts.
Did you ever thing about maybe a video about cutting splines on the shaper ? Enjoy the videos keep up the good work.
When I did mechanical drafting, I would also create a picture of the finish project in the upper right hand corner, even pencil shaded it to give it a 3D effect. Grandchildren are great aren't they?
Awesome, we think alike
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lyle,
Enjoyed the video. Had to download that Casting Specialties catalog because I noticed a morse telegraph key when you were showing the isometric drawing of the bench vise. Wish you had mentioned the date of the newspaper used for wrapping. How old is Henry? You and the family stay safe.
I think I did, 1980
Thanks for sharing
I wonder how many of your viewers would take a 'virtual course' from you on refining one of the castings? I've done the Chess MB on Zoom for Scouts and have had the boys/girls to have their chess board within viewing range of their home computer to demonstrate moves. You could sell them the casting as well as the virtual course. I bought your Logan Lathe course and find myself sometime wanting to ask you questions especially re-assurance that I understand what I heard and saw in your video. Keep up the good work and thanks ...
I'm 51 and I remember my grandpa calling me "Wrongway Corrigan" because I didn't know my right from my left yet. I hadn't thought of that in decades.
lol
Happy Sunday Mr. Pete! I am plowing through all your videos, currently up to #546. Just jumping ahead for a non-sequitur comment. I have become interested in finding a Cole Drill, but no success. It is probably the ultimate in slow-speed drilling large holes. Do you have one? Because I would seriously consider one day casting up an aluminum one as I get a shop together. Burst I have to build a garage. . .
Thank you for all these informative and entertaining videos!
I am not sure what a cole drill is??
That anvil could be a jewellers size
nice problem solving by corrigan :P
Well, that was fun.
Wow i like the bench vice . Are they still make them? i would like one
No
I bet you hated your students to cut cast iron in the school shop. I know I'm not too fond cutting it and cleaning up the mess it makes. Have memory of the C. F. Struck catalog back in the 70's showing the different kits you could buy. I don't remember the Peterson or the one you mention here. Thanks for sharing! Ken
Henry had it easier than I did cracking nuts for my grandparents, all I was given was a small hammer and a bowl then later on when I was some what older I was given a pair of slip jaw pliers to crack them so I wouldn't make mence meat out of the nut meat. 😋
That’s a good way to shell pecans! (As in, get someone else to do it for ya!)
I don't think I've ever cracked open a pecan. I think the easiest way to open a walnut is to poke a large flat screw driver (like on a pocket knife) into the slot on the flat end and twist. More often than not the shell will break into two perfect halves along the seam. I wonder if that will work for pecans.
Pecans do not have that nice little seem, like a walnut
The nut cracker is the best part.
that darn cup of spilt coffee still showing its face I see LOL
When I was in school in England in the early 80's the UK had recently changed from imperial weights & measurements to metric and my metalwork teacher worked in metric but my woodwork teacher worked in Imperial and you would be in trouble if you were caught using the wrong system, personally, I prefer metric it is much easier to get along with
A probe to Mars was lost due to mixing units. Also, in a famous case (lookup Gimli glider) an airline pilot asked for fuel in kilograms and they loaded pounds, so in the middle of the flight he ran out of fuel. Here in Argentina we are metric but many things remain imperial, for example tyre (or tire?) pressure is mostly psi, but threads are almost always Withworth. UNF and UNC are very difficult to find, and the worst thing is that shops that sell bolts can't tell the difference. The diameter and the pitch of some sizes are the same, but the shape of the thread is different. But I guess that if you are watching this video you already know that.
I see a lot of machining in your future. Are you going to make patterns from the cast-iron parts? Or just machine down?
Machine them down
Cool video! Do you still have that bandsaw/hacksaw project that you built in high school?
No
Regarding drawings, I stumbled across the Johnson O'Connor Foundation years ago. In 1922 a psychologist named Johnson O'Connor devised a simple test to help General Electric improve it's success in hiring people to assemble tiny gears in electric meters. It is a fascinating story and the foundation offers testing for aptitudes to this day. They have two main kinds of clients - young people who don't know what they want to do in life and middle aged workers who are unhappy in their chosen profession.
Research shows everyone has certain natural abilities and they are most satisfied if their work utilizes them. Aptitudes will find an outlet in hobbies or other avenues if one's profession doesn't use them.
The ability to see a two-dimensional plan on paper and know what it will look like in three dimensions is called "structural visualization", a natural aptitude that occurs in a fraction of the population. That aptitude is easily tested and predicts success in a number of occupations. Without the natural aptitude, you can do any job but it takes more effort.
Nice video, thanks. Too bad somebody like windy hill foundry doesn't pick up the ball and start producing the castings for those kits again.....
You know what? I was thinking exactly the same thing. But I am afraid the price would be way way too high. You just cannot do it cheap