Good to see you teaching your son "Wiggles" :) passing your knowledge to the next generation... Started my boy in the shop at the age of seven. Welding, machining and mechanical work. Now he is in his mid 30s and is working in a shop fabricating custom parts for Petes and KW's and he buys old machines and fixes them up and flips them. You're a good Dad. GOD bless!
The job is coming along nicely. I can see your concern over the finished insert catching as it is pushed in, I don't envy you! As an electrical engineer I agree wholeheartedly with your comments regarding letting motors come to a stop before reversing. Plugging is a very harsh form of braking and not only stresses the drive train but also the motor and control gear.
Great work, i was sceptical of the brass tube but seeing it in there you are abselutly right that it will never leak past it. I think the only other reasonab,e option there was to machine out the entire step and then put a hole in you sleve, but with that you would have the same problem so a brass tube was a great idea.
I think that should get us over the hump on this project, but time will tell. I honestly never thought of machining out the entire step, that would work as long as you eliminated the bleeder hole. They do eventually work the air out without getting bled out but I didn't like the idea of no hole at all. I had considered just plugging the hole but abandoned it because of that.
@perpetualmotion1 Oh they do? i didnt know that, if you still wanted to keep the hole you could redrill it at an angle, but you might have the same problem with weeping. I bet theas must be really expensive for them to be okey with all this work in repairing it.
On the welders i repaired the fan was held on by a square head set screw , i welded two six inch long quarter inch extensions together to reach the set screw .
Good to see you teaching your son "Wiggles" :) passing your knowledge to the next generation... Started my boy in the shop at the age of seven. Welding, machining and mechanical work. Now he is in his mid 30s and is working in a shop fabricating custom parts for Petes and KW's and he buys old machines and fixes them up and flips them. You're a good Dad. GOD bless!
Thank you for stopping by. I grew up in my dad's machine shop just like my son is doing, best childhood ever 🙂
I love it that your son has an interest in making things. It's refreshing to not see some kid just exercising their thumbs on a phone.
Making good progress. Really looking forward to how it turns out.
Happy days 🎉, cool stuff as always and great to see Wiggles hard at it too ❤ Looking forward to seeing the next part buddy
Love watching, Wiggles doing his own thing. He's learning fast and definitely not afraid to try anything. That's an interesting video.
He was working on making a wooden car for his little brother 🙂
@perpetualmotion1 What a great young man. You are definitely doing a great job raising your family.
Excellent work sir! A very brave repair!
Phil, UK.
Glad you enjoyed it
The brass tube you made was really clever!
When I started this project I never realized that 6 mm hole was going to be the biggest challenge of the whole job 😆
The job is coming along nicely. I can see your concern over the finished insert catching as it is pushed in, I don't envy you! As an electrical engineer I agree wholeheartedly with your comments regarding letting motors come to a stop before reversing. Plugging is a very harsh form of braking and not only stresses the drive train but also the motor and control gear.
I will definitely be feeling a lot better about the overall project after the first one is slid in there 🙂
Nice job, and to Wiggles, too! Wow, pretty close for comfort at 14:12. 😃 at 19:42.
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Great work, i was sceptical of the brass tube but seeing it in there you are abselutly right that it will never leak past it. I think the only other reasonab,e option there was to machine out the entire step and then put a hole in you sleve, but with that you would have the same problem so a brass tube was a great idea.
I think that should get us over the hump on this project, but time will tell. I honestly never thought of machining out the entire step, that would work as long as you eliminated the bleeder hole. They do eventually work the air out without getting bled out but I didn't like the idea of no hole at all. I had considered just plugging the hole but abandoned it because of that.
@perpetualmotion1 Oh they do? i didnt know that, if you still wanted to keep the hole you could redrill it at an angle, but you might have the same problem with weeping. I bet theas must be really expensive for them to be okey with all this work in repairing it.
@@gm558 I asked them if they could buy a new one for $10k and they just laughed at me.
Kids I tell you , at that age unstoppable everything is an adventure , cool .
Weld an extension on to the tap. Nice work
I actually thought about it 🤣
On the welders i repaired the fan was held on by a square head set screw , i welded two six inch long quarter inch extensions together to reach the set screw .
Very cool
It's an adventure!