I really like these Blackgates boiler kits making videos, it shows your patronage to them in letting you video and share them. As with adding to your teachings in the beginners in the steam arts. I will be building a marine boiler when my Stuart 5a is done and will watch this video as many times as I have the first. I have found it very useful.
When I was an apprentice in the 60s, I used to love watching the lead burner, who also worked copper. I got into trouble more than once for watching him instead of working. For some obscure reason I love those Thor hammers. I bought one just to own it, and hardly dare use it in case I damage it. :).
Those hammers cry out to be used, get some copper and a torch, even a camp stove will do and play around with it. buy or download K.N Harris's book Model Boilers and Boilermaking. Read it cover to cover a couple of times then build a pot boiler. It will not make you a Duncan, but it is very satisfiing. I spent most of my working career working with mills, lathes and other manufacturing equipment and there were times I would come home very frustrated and wound up and beating a piece of copper into an endplate was very relaxing, almost like watching an unpainting video.
Nice one, thanks. I'd love to see the forming of endplates for a belpaire firebox. Having just done it not so neatly I'd like to see how the pros do it.
Mr. Appleton is there any way you could be super kind and give us a tour of Blakgates Engineering. I live in the States but it is my dream to make it over there one day. I would love to see the whole store pluss the workshop. Please Sir.?
I find that it's not good policy to show inside the business because it could pose a security risk. But I will be making more intersting videos featuring Blackgates Engineering and the things that they do.
Quenching doesnt makes the copper softer, its the heating wich makes copper soft again. They are quenching it to cool it down, so that work can continue asap.
I have mentioned this in other videos, the quenching cools the copper quickly and removes the scale by thermal shock, but the red heat generally does the softening ....
The hardening of steel by raising the temperature to the appropriate bright red heat and quenching it involves the interaction of the iron, carbon and sometimes alloying elements and is unique to the iron-carbon system. Hardening copper by working it is a very different, but more common phenomenon. I would have to discuss things like microstructure to further explain it, but almost all metals will "work harden" (even steels). The cooling rate (quenching or not) after annealing will have different effects in some situations. Iron alloys (such as steel) generally need to cool slowly to get softer.
That's what Heather said as I was leaving, but in reality I don't think that she would actually want to appear in one of my videos wearing a bikini .... [:-)))))
I don't understand why, but I could sit and watch your videos all day long - and sometimes ... I DO!!!!
Love these Blackgates videos -- please let us see more!
I love seeing true craftsman, perfectionists, creating with their craft. I could watch this stuff all day. I wish I possessed this type of skill.
I really like these Blackgates boiler kits making videos, it shows your patronage to them in letting you video and share them. As with adding to your teachings in the beginners in the steam arts. I will be building a marine boiler when my Stuart 5a is done and will watch this video as many times as I have the first. I have found it very useful.
Lovely videos, never know such place of craftsmanship was so near to me. Thank you for the lovely video showing hidden delights
Pattern making is a real art. They must be very precise and exceptionally durable.
Hurry up and get on the next episode!!
This is really satisfying stuff. Thanks for capturing this!
AS a foundry worker who makes cores for casting i can see that its not the simplest of cores used in it, but i can see its fully possible!
When I was an apprentice in the 60s, I used to love watching the lead burner, who also worked copper. I got into trouble more than once for watching him instead of working. For some obscure reason I love those Thor hammers. I bought one just to own it, and hardly dare use it in case I damage it. :).
Those hammers cry out to be used, get some copper and a torch, even a camp stove will do and play around with it. buy or download
K.N Harris's book Model Boilers and Boilermaking.
Read it cover to cover a couple of times then build a pot boiler. It will not make you a Duncan, but it is very satisfiing. I spent most of my working career working with mills, lathes and other manufacturing equipment and there were times I would come home very frustrated and wound up and beating a piece of copper into an endplate was very relaxing, almost like watching an unpainting video.
Nice one, thanks. I'd love to see the forming of endplates for a belpaire firebox. Having just done it not so neatly I'd like to see how the pros do it.
I cannot wait for the next episode!
really neat! would enjoy seeing more.
Yay Heather!
Excellent video
All that work. I think I'll get my boiler made by a specialist.
that's what I always do ......
Now I know why I would never even think of making a boiler!
The process is called 'flow forming'.
So, Keith, are you gonna take Phil up on his wardrobe suggestion? And will he be pouring molten metal into a mold?
Next episode: How to escape Heather chasing you with an axe?
Looks like there would be benefits to using two hammers and both hands - left right, left right. Ideal for a keyboard player :).
could the plates be cast instead of being beated?
Mr. Appleton is there any way you could be super kind and give us a tour of Blakgates Engineering. I live in the States but it is my dream to make it over there one day. I would love to see the whole store pluss the workshop. Please Sir.?
There are various snippets of Blackgates engineering in my videos - here is one of them . . . ruclips.net/video/l915l5xjk_k/видео.html
I find that it's not good policy to show inside the business because it could pose a security risk. But I will be making more intersting videos featuring Blackgates Engineering and the things that they do.
I’ve always wondered, Quenching aluminum and copper make it softer but quenching steel makes it harder. Do you have any idea why?
Quenching doesnt makes the copper softer, its the heating wich makes copper soft again.
They are quenching it to cool it down, so that work can continue asap.
I have mentioned this in other videos, the quenching cools the copper quickly and removes the scale by thermal shock, but the red heat generally does the softening ....
With steel, it depends on the amount of carbon,
.18% carbon will not harden much at all.
.95% carbon can get glass hard
The hardening of steel by raising the temperature to the appropriate bright red heat and quenching it involves the interaction of the iron, carbon and sometimes alloying elements and is unique to the iron-carbon system. Hardening copper by working it is a very different, but more common phenomenon. I would have to discuss things like microstructure to further explain it, but almost all metals will "work harden" (even steels). The cooling rate (quenching or not) after annealing will have different effects in some situations. Iron alloys (such as steel) generally need to cool slowly to get softer.
Would full sized boilers have be made from Copper?
Only the inner fireboxes were made form copper as far as I know.
Time to take my medication... :)
Keith? Do we want to see the lovely Heather in a bikini? ... You were baiting for comments with that. ;)
That's what Heather said as I was leaving, but in reality I don't think that she would actually want to appear in one of my videos wearing a bikini .... [:-)))))
Making the videos more steamy with bikinis, are we?
No, I don't think Heather will wear one - it was just a joke ..... Duncan might though ....... {:-)))