I took classes from Ron many moons ago in St.Pete Florida and he can do things with sheet metal that will blow your mind....he is also a great instructor and all around fun person to hand around with and talk about cars and motorcycles.....on tubing nuts...I saw a guy one time put a piece of tube in a 5C collet, put the nut on, flare the tube, turned it around and repeated the process on the other side and then stood there and tried to figure out how he was going to extract the 5C collet from the assembly....it was a riot.
My favorite thing about Ron's channel is you first say to yourself "how in the world can you make that part?" and then he shows you and you say "oh, of course that's how you do it."
Hi my names Richard, I was wondering if I could take you out for dinner, and we could talk about some of the cool stuff you make, unless you don’t want to talk about it and talk about something else, I’m very new working with lathe’s, I’m actually a pipeline welder, but I got hurt and been out of work for the past year and a half, and I’ve always been fascinated with lathes so I bought me a Taig lathe with the 5c spindle to start out with, and I’ve learned a lot from you so far, and I’ve always thought you were beautiful and I love your humor, I don’t know if any of this will get to you so I decided to try my luck
Quinn, I'm a retired electrical engineer and I have to say how impressed I am with your engineering skill-sets. What a gem of a YT channel. Your discipline & problem solving are what bring me back. Your humor is the icing on the cake. Thank you so much for sharing.
Ron's work always turns out looking more like it was grown than fabricated. He's incredible. I've done the whole "forgot the flare nuts" routine SO MANY TIMES making custom brake lines for hot rods. Nothing like finishing up a long stainless line with a ton of precise bends by throwing it in the scrap bin rather than tweaking it to make up the 1/2" of length you lost re-flaring out of sheer spite. 😾
Been there as well, silver lining is that at least now you have a guide to copy the bends on the new one so it goes faster...as long as you didn't twist up the first one in frustration lol.
@@ItsMrAssholeToYou it's been years, but I'm guessing the rolls we had around were probably 304? A bit tough to bend, but workable. Way tougher to work with than the mild steel stuff you get at your local parts house.
@@ItsMrAssholeToYou _ yes on that brake line material. It's the same thing Quinn was using in this video (she inadvertently got that instead of normal copper line, she said). Excellent stuff all around. :)
I have to say, you have some of the best technique and standard of practice that I have seen with RUclips machinists. Bravo for doing almost everything by the book.
21:40 (text overlay) - ahhhhhh, ok, now I understand the intro. :) Very cool. And thanks for the Ron link, too... that took me down a whole rabbit-hole of content (Ron stuff, bike stuff from there, etc.) before coming back to finish this. Fun stuff! Great way to start a lazy Saturday. :)
The blondi dance never gets old. That tank is stunningly beautiful, and I've just gone to watch the video on it. Thanks for introducing me to another channel!
It is satisfying to see how clearly your previous work quietly sings of Quality as you nonchalantly place it on the bench. The hard work really speaks for itself years and even decades into the future! Excellent work as usual!
Gotta say, this is my new favorite channel. You make an excellent instructor. I’m exploring hobby machining as a complete newby with no tools or experience and I can’t stop watching.
Can we give editing Quinn a round of applause? As I watched that external thread getting cut, I said to myself that it looked like a little much. Great cut of an errant cut!
Prediction: tangential tool becomes the go-to, and the expensive indexable holders start collecting dust. Very little cutting pressure, leaves a fine finish, can take a heavy cut, easily shaves very light cuts. Especially noticeable when turning run of the mill hot-roll mild steel. Great video, thx for posting
When you talked about hydrostatically testing the tank, I thought of my scuba tanks which need hydrostatic testing come the spring, and I thought to myself “I need steampunk scuba tanks“.
I just can't strauss this enough, not only is that tank amazing I'm pretty sure that was also sprachet in the back ground as the tank came into view. That's one talented kitty.
ron is one of the best craftsmen i've ever seen in my life. he's simply amazing. I love what you do too and this is a fantastic project but every time i've seen his work i am in just utter awe. say hi to sprocket
Bonjour Quinn, Based on the quality of your fabrications, I am sure that this boiler will be able to make your large steam machine move, even slowly and I hope your will share with us a successful test soon 😉👍 Bon Noël 🎁 Amicalement, Raphaël
"Four little chamfers..." There's a song title if I ever heard one. And I wish you could have heard me "ooooohhhh" when you brought the tank into the picture. Holy cow! 🤩🤩🤩
I have been a fan of Ron for years! Beautiful tank, nice trick with the over-long set screws! And again, just watching you work, your simple "this is how I do it" way of demonstrating is exactly why craftsmanship always wins out over artistry. (For me anyway)
Fitting custom hand made union bits and soldering them on and forgetting the nuts is at least 4 factors worse than forming a flare and doing so. Oh and 22:15 hits me in my soul.
When making brake lines I have done the trick of making a bend in the line with the nut on the wrong side of the bend so it can no longer slide down to the flare. Trying to unbend then re-bend without kinking is not fun.
A very fine job by both of you . Think about this . I have put together the farrow and left the nut off. But I bought them . What does that mean . Back to the store Batman . You did great . !!! Thanks for the videos !!
As always, great work Quinn!! I like the new Disco Dance routine at the beginning! I've always been a fan of the the whole "Stream Punk" old school copper look long before the younger generation started calling it Steam Punk and I'm 70! I've done a lot of copper work stuff myself both machining and small part spinning. Spinning takes a lot of getting into annealing the copper properly, I've always been a fan of Ron's work too. Nice collaboration!! I do a lot of machining of Hit and Miss engine parts for collectors too, always a lot of fun. both models and the real things. Sometimes a great challenge. Keep up the great videos!
Your Amazing Quinn. The Pump turned out Great, and that Water Tank really adds some Bling to the whole System. I always admire the Boiler when you have it on a Video. Thanks for making the Videos showing your Work and your Hobbies. I’ve always wanted to make a Marine Steam Engine big enough to Power a small Skiff. I just don’t have Any Machines big enough to try to build one. 👍😁❤️
I really enjoy your model engineering. I have the same model in my “retirement stock” aging 😅. I watched your loco video and wanted to say thanks for giving a shout out to MEM. I guess I’m still one of the original members since the hiatus from HMEM( don’t ask 😅) There’s lot of great model builders in the membership and the shoutout to Kim was really appreciated, he’s a super nice guy and I have enjoyed following his progress in the modeling journey. I have taken a somewhat hiatus from modeling with artistic blacksmithing and now watch making on vintage watches, but I still follow the site. If you post on the site, just tell them Cletus or Whiskey said hey, and then don’t believe a thing they say about me 😂. Great job 👏
Nice! I liked the 2001: A Covell Odyssey music. As for forgetting to put the nut on first, yeah, I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong. HA!! Yeah, right. 🙄 Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.
I was already a Ron Covell subscriber and I think the collaboration was genius Quinn.............I'm convinced that he has a "magic dust" shaker hidden away from view. Watching two masters at their specialties has been very enjoyable................so what's next????????????
I worked electronics and, yeah I had the same issue of forgetting to make sure part 'X' that needed to be loose on the wire was loose in the pin/connector package still. As a Sailor, I can state clearly that I did NOT use 'adult language', I 'swore like a sailor' for quite a while a few times....like that time I shoved a pin extraction tool thru a connector, thru my hand and buried it into my thigh.... fun times, fun times.... :P
Those same copper pipe end fittings occur on fuel lines etc on old engines and tractors. I have put them together with ordinary solder even though they were brazed originally. It is re-assuring to know that I am not the only one to make the obvious mistake-( repeatedly). At least with solder it is easy to get them off again. Jeff
I'd just finished watching Ron's part one of the tank build, and then saw this had dropped. He is definitely a master craftsman, and makes it look so easy, but in a way that's accessible to anyone interested in following along. It looks beautiful, and the whole assembly looks tickety boo. Will you be going the whole pre-heat setup, and driving the pump from the engine too?
Great job young girl . When you really want to challenge yourself try making a steam injector . They are great fun to make . But you have to learn a bit of the theory .. I do enjoy your show . What a great thing you do to encourage the engineering trade . Thanks from down under xx
WOW, 2 craftspeople in one video . I really like both of your videos. true craftsman , both with different skills . forget the nuts? who me? never... LOL thanks for the videos
It's super easy to copper plate using a little citric acid. I've even done it accidentally while descaling a coil. If the appearance is important you can recover and no one but us will ever know. 😉 BTW, I really like how that Ni/Cu brake line forms and flares. You could probably just use a brake tool to form the ends without resorting to soldering them on.
Friend of mine was setting himself up to manufacture and re manufacture the hydraulic switches on the old school Mercedes Benz 600s. I think your attention to detail puts you in a great position to make a go of it. He gave up due to health reasons. There is some serious money to be made there.
If you distil your water, or buy distilled water, prior to using it as feedwater you will greatly reduce the amount of scale buildup in your boiler. If you are looking to make the system more efficient, I have found that using a computer water cooling system with a 12v fan and heat exchanger works really well for condensing steam. I made a home water distilling system using a 3-fan setup and it works very well. You could also consider using Morpholine as a scale preventative and hydrazine as an oxygen scavenger for prevention of corrosion.
To find the tap drill size or bore size for a 60 Deg thread you subtract the thread pitch from the major diameter. Example. Metric m10 x 1.5 . subtract pitch of 1.5 from the OD. of 10mm leaves 8.5mm which is the tap hole size. So 1/2- 13 thread. The pitch 13 is 1 divided by 13 = .0769 . Now subtract .0769 from the major thread size which is .5 - .0769 = .423 hole size. This works for any 60 degree thread . No need for thread chart.
I doubt I'll ever get into the model engineering aspect of home machining, but man do I love watching you do it ! All these parts are beautiful, that tank by Ron is amazing and seeing them all work together is so satisfying! I'll have to watch Ron's part later but it looks pretty cool from the clips!
I think an upgrade I would make to the pump would be to add a nice round knob to the tip of the handle. It just being a bare flat bar doesn't look like it would be too comfortable to hold.
Hearing that your tool holder is Australian it reminded me of a great Australian machining channel you might like . Cutting Edge Engineering is the name .
I avoid the miracle man. He does things that us mere mortals can't even pick up our jaws over and the slobbering swamps the room... He is such a master its like magic without precedent.
Quinn , you always do such nice work ( I have learned so much) Ron has been such and Inspiration to me he always comes across as a perfect gentlemen . Ron is truly one of only a hand full of men .....
I was making Christmas icicle lights, where the wires in and out had to pass through holes in the cap BEFORE soldering, I think I forgot to do that, and ended up having to desolder and resolder, more than half the time, Even managed to do it twice on one light.
@@Blackcountrysteam oh, I have no doubt that she could given enough time and materials. Given time and materials, I bet she could replicate a C&O H8 Allegheny 😁😎.
Even worse than leaving a union nut off a piece of perfectly bent tubing is to put the nut on backwards. The self-administered kick in the pants hurts worse because you are so proud of yourself for remembering to put it on and later discover that it's still screwed up. Not that I've ever done that, of course. /* insert pause here */ Sure, Wilbur.
Beautiful work, once again! In regards to the copper tubing; got caught off guard by what I thought was copper tubing while making a water tube boiler. Turns out it was copper coated steel... Only realized that after cutting and bending nealy the whole set of tubes.🤬
Did Sprocket go crazy on your hands? Don't think I've ever seen your fingers sporting battle wounds before. No matter the cause, Hope you and those you love, have a Merry Christmas!
Diamond tool holder question. I have one in the box from when I had a 9” Southbend. Now that I have a 14” is there a lot of benefit to moving up to a larger size, or not enough to justify the cost? Thanks
Did you know that an edge finder (wiggler) can be used on the outside diameter of a boss, as well as the inside of a bore to find the centers using the 1/2 feature of your DRO? Works just as well as with straight features.
The captive nuts remind me of forgetting the dust covers when wiring up CAT5 patch cables. Definitely annoying, but ultimately a much more forgiving fix than plumbing fixtures. Edit: just got to the part where you forgot the nut. Priceless. I mean, sorry, but...
I wonder ... if you feel inclined, that a driven wheel set up to actuate the pump you just made automatically might be a good bonus video in the series
I took classes from Ron many moons ago in St.Pete Florida and he can do things with sheet metal that will blow your mind....he is also a great instructor and all around fun person to hand around with and talk about cars and motorcycles.....on tubing nuts...I saw a guy one time put a piece of tube in a 5C collet, put the nut on, flare the tube, turned it around and repeated the process on the other side and then stood there and tried to figure out how he was going to extract the 5C collet from the assembly....it was a riot.
BEST INTRO EVER!!!
My favorite thing about Ron's channel is you first say to yourself "how in the world can you make that part?" and then he shows you and you say "oh, of course that's how you do it."
He definitely makes it look simple/easy.
Hi my names Richard, I was wondering if I could take you out for dinner, and we could talk about some of the cool stuff you make, unless you don’t want to talk about it and talk about something else, I’m very new working with lathe’s, I’m actually a pipeline welder, but I got hurt and been out of work for the past year and a half, and I’ve always been fascinated with lathes so I bought me a Taig lathe with the 5c spindle to start out with, and I’ve learned a lot from you so far, and I’ve always thought you were beautiful and I love your humor, I don’t know if any of this will get to you so I decided to try my luck
And then you say, "oh right, with a lot of work."
Quinn, I'm a retired electrical engineer and I have to say how impressed I am with your engineering skill-sets. What a gem of a YT channel. Your discipline & problem solving are what bring me back. Your humor is the icing on the cake. Thank you so much for sharing.
Ron's work always turns out looking more like it was grown than fabricated. He's incredible.
I've done the whole "forgot the flare nuts" routine SO MANY TIMES making custom brake lines for hot rods. Nothing like finishing up a long stainless line with a ton of precise bends by throwing it in the scrap bin rather than tweaking it to make up the 1/2" of length you lost re-flaring out of sheer spite. 😾
@@PhilG999 anyone who says they've never done it had better be about to say "yet" 😄
Been there as well, silver lining is that at least now you have a guide to copy the bends on the new one so it goes faster...as long as you didn't twist up the first one in frustration lol.
@@jeremycaylor9151 for sure. Made a lot of "patterns" for brake lines, fuel lines, and exhaust pipes in my days. 😆
@@ItsMrAssholeToYou it's been years, but I'm guessing the rolls we had around were probably 304? A bit tough to bend, but workable. Way tougher to work with than the mild steel stuff you get at your local parts house.
@@ItsMrAssholeToYou _ yes on that brake line material. It's the same thing Quinn was using in this video (she inadvertently got that instead of normal copper line, she said). Excellent stuff all around. :)
I have to say, you have some of the best technique and standard of practice that I have seen with RUclips machinists. Bravo for doing almost everything by the book.
21:40 (text overlay) - ahhhhhh, ok, now I understand the intro. :)
Very cool. And thanks for the Ron link, too... that took me down a whole rabbit-hole of content (Ron stuff, bike stuff from there, etc.) before coming back to finish this. Fun stuff! Great way to start a lazy Saturday. :)
The other trick, of course, is to put the nuts on backwards before soldering the ferrels on.😁
Saaaaaame "tricks" work with Swagelok fittings!
🙄🙄😉
That water tank is literally a work of art. Ron is truly a gifted artist, a true master of metal working.
The blondi dance never gets old. That tank is stunningly beautiful, and I've just gone to watch the video on it. Thanks for introducing me to another channel!
It is satisfying to see how clearly your previous work quietly sings of Quality as you nonchalantly place it on the bench. The hard work really speaks for itself years and even decades into the future!
Excellent work as usual!
Gotta say, this is my new favorite channel. You make an excellent instructor. I’m exploring hobby machining as a complete newby with no tools or experience and I can’t stop watching.
Can we give editing Quinn a round of applause? As I watched that external thread getting cut, I said to myself that it looked like a little much. Great cut of an errant cut!
Loved the entrance of the alien landing craft.
You sure choose your friends wisely!
A beautiful tank and pump for a beautiful boiler.
Prediction: tangential tool becomes the go-to, and the expensive indexable holders start collecting dust. Very little cutting pressure, leaves a fine finish, can take a heavy cut, easily shaves very light cuts. Especially noticeable when turning run of the mill hot-roll mild steel. Great video, thx for posting
When you talked about hydrostatically testing the tank, I thought of my scuba tanks which need hydrostatic testing come the spring, and I thought to myself “I need steampunk scuba tanks“.
You are going to save me so much pain on my pump/boiler build! Congratulations on being complimented by Covell. Well deserved.
Elkskins would say "fire it up, fire it up, fire it up! Nice looking project Quinn.
I just can't strauss this enough, not only is that tank amazing I'm pretty sure that was also sprachet in the back ground as the tank came into view. That's one talented kitty.
She really does everything around here
@@Blondihacks I'll keep it between us.
Watching Ron’s video and I’m certain he’s either a wizard or an alien. It could go either way. 🧙♂️👽
ron is one of the best craftsmen i've ever seen in my life. he's simply amazing. I love what you do too and this is a fantastic project but every time i've seen his work i am in just utter awe. say hi to sprocket
The water tank is beautiful. It would make a great art deco ice bucket as well. I can see William Powell dropping ice in his drink now,
Bonjour Quinn,
Based on the quality of your fabrications, I am sure that this boiler will be able to make your large steam machine move, even slowly and I hope your will share with us a successful test soon 😉👍
Bon Noël 🎁
Amicalement, Raphaël
"Four little chamfers..." There's a song title if I ever heard one.
And I wish you could have heard me "ooooohhhh" when you brought the tank into the picture. Holy cow! 🤩🤩🤩
I have been a fan of Ron for years! Beautiful tank, nice trick with the over-long set screws!
And again, just watching you work, your simple "this is how I do it" way of demonstrating is exactly why craftsmanship always wins out over artistry. (For me anyway)
With you and Ron, That was awesomeness extreme. Way to go.
Fantastic effort on the boiler feed pump, Ron sure did a nice job on the tank. Thanks so much for sharing Cheers.
Fitting custom hand made union bits and soldering them on and forgetting the nuts is at least 4 factors worse than forming a flare and doing so. Oh and 22:15 hits me in my soul.
That tank looks awesome with sort of a Spaceage Batch' pad VS Tea Kettle appearance.
Hey Quinn, I saw my sticker, yay! Yours arrived in the mail yesterday and it will make the reveal soon.
Awesome thank you!
I found Ron's channel from This Old Tony. I love his approach to fabrication. Very cool to see the collab here.
Glad to see that our favorite makers have some sick dance moves! Hahaha
When making brake lines I have done the trick of making a bend in the line with the nut on the wrong side of the bend so it can no longer slide down to the flare. Trying to unbend then re-bend without kinking is not fun.
A very fine job by both of you . Think about this . I have put together the farrow and left the nut off. But I bought them . What does that mean . Back to the store Batman . You did great . !!! Thanks for the videos !!
I came from Ron's channel. Glad to see your videos! I'm in! :D
As always, great work Quinn!! I like the new Disco Dance routine at the beginning! I've always been a fan of the the whole "Stream Punk" old school copper look long before the younger generation started calling it Steam Punk and I'm 70! I've done a lot of copper work stuff myself both machining and small part spinning. Spinning takes a lot of getting into annealing the copper properly, I've always been a fan of Ron's work too. Nice collaboration!! I do a lot of machining of Hit and Miss engine parts for collectors too, always a lot of fun. both models and the real things. Sometimes a great challenge. Keep up the great videos!
A steam condenser to feed back the water would be a great addition!
😂
Great job and collaboration!
👍👍👍
I thought the intro was an ad xD
I skipped back to watch it again and appreciate the little details 💀
Me too
Worst lap dancing club ever
@@grilnam9945 meh, I’ve had worse……
Thank you very much for doing this for us. Always nice to watch, superbly presented and the product well made 👍👍👍
Your Amazing Quinn. The Pump turned out Great, and that Water Tank really adds some Bling to the whole System. I always admire the Boiler when you have it on a Video. Thanks for making the Videos showing your Work and your Hobbies. I’ve always wanted to make a Marine Steam Engine big enough to Power a small Skiff. I just don’t have Any Machines big enough to try to build one. 👍😁❤️
So I went and had a look at Ron’s channel. Wow! Very impressed and subbed of course. Thanks Quinn!
Nice to see you and Ron collaborating on something. Both of you are very talented individuals.
I really enjoy your model engineering. I have the same model in my “retirement stock” aging 😅. I watched your loco video and wanted to say thanks for giving a shout out to MEM. I guess I’m still one of the original members since the hiatus from HMEM( don’t ask 😅) There’s lot of great model builders in the membership and the shoutout to Kim was really appreciated, he’s a super nice guy and I have enjoyed following his progress in the modeling journey. I have taken a somewhat hiatus from modeling with artistic blacksmithing and now watch making on vintage watches, but I still follow the site. If you post on the site, just tell them Cletus or Whiskey said hey, and then don’t believe a thing they say about me 😂. Great job 👏
Nice!
I liked the 2001: A Covell Odyssey music.
As for forgetting to put the nut on first, yeah, I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong. HA!! Yeah, right. 🙄
Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.
The pump turned out great Quinn. Now off to check out Ron's tank build.
I was already a Ron Covell subscriber and I think the collaboration was genius Quinn.............I'm convinced that he has a "magic dust" shaker hidden away from view. Watching two masters at their specialties has been very enjoyable................so what's next????????????
You are a must watch channel for me. Thanks for your hard work. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Nice job 👍👍👍 that is one sweet looking setup !!! Ron is a master I've got a couple of his books and videos
You know it's going to be a good video when it starts with Quinn "Disco" Dunki dancing away.
I worked electronics and, yeah I had the same issue of forgetting to make sure part 'X' that needed to be loose on the wire was loose in the pin/connector package still. As a Sailor, I can state clearly that I did NOT use 'adult language', I 'swore like a sailor' for quite a while a few times....like that time I shoved a pin extraction tool thru a connector, thru my hand and buried it into my thigh.... fun times, fun times.... :P
18:48 you can always adjust that linkage for more leverage to overcome boiler pressure.
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Always enjoy your build videos, amazing stuff.
Thankyou Quin, also for the links & details of what you use in your shop👍
Those same copper pipe end fittings occur on fuel lines etc on old engines and tractors. I have put them together with ordinary solder even though they were brazed originally. It is re-assuring to know that I am not the only one to make the obvious mistake-( repeatedly). At least with solder it is easy to get them off again. Jeff
Merry Christmas Quinn
Hi Quinn hope your safe and sound in the chilly snap your having loved the video,.. have a great Xmas
That surface finish is just awesome 👍
Too bad Ron hasn't finished the tank yet...
I'd just finished watching Ron's part one of the tank build, and then saw this had dropped. He is definitely a master craftsman, and makes it look so easy, but in a way that's accessible to anyone interested in following along. It looks beautiful, and the whole assembly looks tickety boo.
Will you be going the whole pre-heat setup, and driving the pump from the engine too?
Like the fixture for the chamfering operation 😀 and the cross drilling was neat too.
Great job young girl . When you really want to challenge yourself try making a steam injector . They are great fun to make . But you have to learn a bit of the theory .. I do enjoy your show . What a great thing you do to encourage the engineering trade . Thanks from down under xx
Loool at the intro! First post!
WOW, 2 craftspeople in one video . I really like both of your videos. true craftsman , both with different skills . forget the nuts? who me? never... LOL thanks for the videos
It's super easy to copper plate using a little citric acid. I've even done it accidentally while descaling a coil.
If the appearance is important you can recover and no one but us will ever know. 😉
BTW, I really like how that Ni/Cu brake line forms and flares. You could probably just use a brake tool to form the ends without resorting to soldering them on.
Collaboration with Fabrication Santa - great idea!
Friend of mine was setting himself up to manufacture and re manufacture the hydraulic switches on the old school Mercedes Benz 600s. I think your attention to detail puts you in a great position to make a go of it. He gave up due to health reasons. There is some serious money to be made there.
If you distil your water, or buy distilled water, prior to using it as feedwater you will greatly reduce the amount of scale buildup in your boiler. If you are looking to make the system more efficient, I have found that using a computer water cooling system with a 12v fan and heat exchanger works really well for condensing steam. I made a home water distilling system using a 3-fan setup and it works very well. You could also consider using Morpholine as a scale preventative and hydrazine as an oxygen scavenger for prevention of corrosion.
That’s one sweet tank that Ron made
To find the tap drill size or bore size for a 60 Deg thread you subtract the thread pitch from the major diameter. Example. Metric m10 x 1.5 . subtract pitch of 1.5 from the OD. of 10mm leaves 8.5mm which is the tap hole size.
So 1/2- 13 thread. The pitch 13 is 1 divided by 13 = .0769 . Now subtract .0769 from the major thread size which is .5 - .0769 = .423 hole size. This works for any 60 degree thread . No need for thread chart.
I doubt I'll ever get into the model engineering aspect of home machining, but man do I love watching you do it ! All these parts are beautiful, that tank by Ron is amazing and seeing them all work together is so satisfying!
I'll have to watch Ron's part later but it looks pretty cool from the clips!
I think an upgrade I would make to the pump would be to add a nice round knob to the tip of the handle. It just being a bare flat bar doesn't look like it would be too comfortable to hold.
It's like making an extension cable. After you installed the plug, you realise that you forgot to put on the cover first :)
Hearing that your tool holder is Australian it reminded me of a great Australian machining channel you might like . Cutting Edge Engineering is the name .
I avoid the miracle man. He does things that us mere mortals can't even pick up our jaws over and the slobbering swamps the room... He is such a master its like magic without precedent.
Quinn , you always do such nice work ( I have learned so much) Ron has been such and Inspiration to me he always comes across as a perfect gentlemen . Ron is truly one of only a hand full of men .....
very cool.. Ron makes metal working look as easy as buttering toast
I was making Christmas icicle lights, where the wires in and out had to pass through holes in the cap BEFORE soldering, I think I forgot to do that, and ended up having to desolder and resolder, more than half the time, Even managed to do it twice on one light.
Excellent production! Well done on the pump. Just a thought. Can one of your smaller engines be hooked up to power the pump for you?
@@Blackcountrysteam oh, I have no doubt that she could given enough time and materials. Given time and materials, I bet she could replicate a C&O H8 Allegheny 😁😎.
Even worse than leaving a union nut off a piece of perfectly bent tubing is to put the nut on backwards. The self-administered kick in the pants hurts worse because you are so proud of yourself for remembering to put it on and later discover that it's still screwed up. Not that I've ever done that, of course. /* insert pause here */ Sure, Wilbur.
20:14 -- That is pretty!! looks like a very expensive kitchen utensil.
Beautiful work, once again! In regards to the copper tubing; got caught off guard by what I thought was copper tubing while making a water tube boiler. Turns out it was copper coated steel... Only realized that after cutting and bending nealy the whole set of tubes.🤬
Thanks for showing your work. Best wishes.
If you haven't forgotten to put nuts on fabricated lines, you haven't done it more than once.
Another great video!
Immediate LOL before a word is spoken. Thank you so much!
WHOA! (5:34) 5micron - that's a 1/10th dia of a hair! 🤯 Y'all throw those numbers around like it ain't no thang!
That tank got you a new sub too.
Beautiful collab!
Very nice work and that tank great work.
Put a high polish on the nickel tubing and call it stainless steel. :-) You and Ron make a great team.
Good job Quinn.👍👍
Lovely work Quinn! Great fun as always!
Thank you for all the great content!
Would it be possible to include where available, Amazon Canada affiliate links.
Did Sprocket go crazy on your hands? Don't think I've ever seen your fingers sporting battle wounds before. No matter the cause, Hope you and those you love, have a Merry Christmas!
That setup would make a very nice samovar.
Thanks Ron, helped a lot!
Very nice tank , the pump works great.
Diamond tool holder question. I have one in the box from when I had a 9” Southbend. Now that I have a 14” is there a lot of benefit to moving up to a larger size, or not enough to justify the cost? Thanks
Dumb question... if you're keen on the copper look... is it worth electroplating? Or is that too much effort?
You don't even need electricity.
But she says at the end that the lines will be remade when the tank/pump/ boiler configuration is finalized.
Did you know that an edge finder (wiggler) can be used on the outside diameter of a boss, as well as the inside of a bore to find the centers using the 1/2 feature of your DRO? Works just as well as with straight features.
The captive nuts remind me of forgetting the dust covers when wiring up CAT5 patch cables. Definitely annoying, but ultimately a much more forgiving fix than plumbing fixtures. Edit: just got to the part where you forgot the nut. Priceless. I mean, sorry, but...
I wonder ... if you feel inclined, that a driven wheel set up to actuate the pump you just made automatically might be a good bonus video in the series