There are lots of different ways to do this job so let me answer some common questions. I thought about adapting at the bottom of the hydraulic tank down to 70mm and just running 70 from there to the pump. Problem with that is it adds more resistance to the circuit. Probably wouldn't matter, but it does add more resistance. And I still would have had to make an adapter as well as locate 70mm hose, so I opted to use both hose sizes, keeping the larger diameter until after the turn. This minimizes the additional resistance of the 70mm pipe. The hose I found in the UK was the same stuff I got from Poland. It wasn't the original part, just lengths of 70mm and 90mm hose, and would have resulted in the same job. Many people have said that I could have used marine exhaust hose. Maybe so, but I didn't find any that were rated for oil. I wouldn't want to risk a hose that might break down and fail. If there are some that are rated for oil and also wouldn't collapse, that would have been a great solution. This rubber hose is vulcanized just like a car tire, so you cannot heat and bend it to a different shape. I could have welded hard line the whole way, and maybe that would have been easier, but I really didn't want to try and weld to that pump flange, and possibly ruin it. I'm not sure what material it is made out of. And that still would have been a lot of work. I thought about getting an exhaust shop to make me an elbow, but there's nobody close to me that does that, so I would have had to drive at least an hour each way. I'd rather just make my own. Have an awesome weekend everybody!
@farmcraft101 I know ur prob gonna hate this but I work at a Caterpillar dealership in Georgia and while watching this video I found a part number for oil suction/return hose with an I.D. Of 88.9 mm that we have in stock.
Just told my girlfriend that we would have dinner in 1 hour, 1 minute and 25 seconds, because i have to watch that farmer guy, my favorite. «Oh yeah that guy, i recognized his voice». So now i will have a beer, watch my favorite youtuber do his thing and then i’ll eat tacos. Greetings from Norway🇳🇴
I've been working in the industrial hose/hydraulic/fluid conveyance field for 10 years now. Next time you need something like that, I'd b happy to help. I'm also on the East coast.
I am from China Seals Factory. Our company produces many types of hydraulic oil seals. If you are interested in our products, we can send you free samples so that you can learn more about our products.
Don't know if it has already been mentioned, but those pins are what is used to couple certain rail wagons together to form one unit. There is a 1.5mtr X 200mm square connecting bar with two holes either end. The bar sits in a recess with a receiving hole either end of the wagon. The pins goes threw the solid steel connecting bar and sit in this recess and then a 20mm steel plate is bolted up underneath the wagon to stop the pin from falling out. When we do maintenance on these wagons we remove these pins in order to gain access and service buffers, draw gear etc of each "intermediate" section of the whole wagon (the 2 wagons put together). They're induction hardened as they receive a huge amount of force when the locomotive pulls away from a standing stop. We call them wagons in the UK but I think the US calls them cars. Hope this helps.
Dang we use that hose all the time 3 1/2 inch ID. We use it here in the oil field for top drive drilling units drilling oil Wells. You can either purchase it from Wilson supply or directly from Stewart and Stevenson one of the largest equipment companies in the world when we get it it ships right out of San Antonio we purchase it in 40 foot rolls it runs about $10 a foot. It is the exact same hose you have sitting in front of you. Red label 150 psi working return hydraulic line.
@@clubberlang5593 no it's really that cheap, you can go into any oilwell supply house in the United States and get any of that high flow low pressure line ranging from 2 1/4 all the way up to 8 1/2 inch ID. I've probably got seven or eight pieces of it out in the junk pile behind my shop that I would've just gave him. Not to mention in that same oil well supply house they have stepped down necks of every size. But I mean I've been in that business for 30 years so I know it's readily available other folks not in that business would probably have a hard time locating it.
To quote CB @ NBS welding " learn to work with what you've got and you'll always have everything you need " Jon, you just demonstrated the proof in that statement from the material to the tools and tooling. Ole large' Marge' never stops giving.
With cutting edge engineering taking a weeks break it was farm craft taking over on the lathe. First thing I did was shout out ‘it’s induction hardened ‘ … I held off the comments until the end . Great work . Thanks Jon
I was thinking the same for the same reason.. :) Going trough the comments to see if someone mentioned induction hardening while watching the video.. One can learn a lot of things on YT..
I am from China Seals Factory. Our company produces many types of hydraulic oil seals. If you are interested in our products, we can send you free samples so that you can learn more about our products.
Without your machining skills this repair would have been near impossible This is why I enjoy your videos so much. Your overall abilities in repairing, farm crafting and engineering is absolutely the best I have seen on the tube. Good work John.
If you stop paying attention when the welding starts, the parts you were making in your shop were on par with CEE Australia. But you also created a part that was EXACTLY to your customer's specifications down to the color. So great job.
Someone may have already mentioned this, but there are companies that act as a buy broker for companies that don’t ship overseas. You open an account and have your item shipped to the brokers facility in-country, then they will ship it to you anywhere in the world. I know it’s too late now, but keep it in mind if you run into this in the future. Those companies aren’t hard to find. Great video as usual so far! Had to stop and comment before I forgot
That has to be the cleanest piece of heavy equipment I've ever seen in my 55 years of operating trucks and heavy equipment. It makes it so much nicer to work on and a lot easier to see leaks or future problems.
Well.. that was challenging on many levels. It’s ironic that this channel is built on your frustration with dealing with monumental challenges and developing an economical solution. Persistence is working. 👍😁
Ya know, doing something to this extent is difficult and daunting mentally and physically and emotionally. If no one has said it, I'll say it, proud of you. Good work.
Dear Jon, I've been following you for many years now... and it happens I'm also living in France (nobody's perfect😅). Anyhow, instead of Large Marge, I would suggest "la grosse Bertha". She used to be the biggest piece of artillery during WWI... She was also rhyming with trouble 😅.
I am from China Seals Factory. Our company produces many types of hydraulic oil seals. If you are interested in our products, we can send you free samples so that you can learn more about our products.
John just a help hint for future , when testing any hyd you want pump the pumps to max strain (even though this was low pressure side) to do curl you bucket fold your arm in and boom in (will be folded and straight up in air) don't forget to reinstall the hose clamp that support the through bulkhead part of large hose
That is a very nice adapter you made. Looks like it came from the factory with it. I love the community you got going here, people from the metric side of the world sending you the hoses you need. 300$ including shipping and a tip isn't all that bad. Hose that size isn't cheap.
Just opened the video and hearing John pointing out that it was a real hassle after seeing last week's video with that manifold, it straight up gave me chills.
In fact, your Adapter is the far most suitable Solution for the leaky Hose. It should be part of the original Construction of the Pump-Suctionline. But it is like always with Customer Problems. Sometimes the best Solution comes from the Customer, not from the Manufacturer. Great job 👍😎🇩🇪
Phenomenal, Jon! Nothing can hold you back! That adapter is not ugly - it’s pure beauty. The gremlins tried to “hose” you and you were all, “here, hold my beer.” Your confidence and abilities are inspirational. Hats off to you, Sir!
You had me in tears trying to figure out the material you were using (20 years manual machining, I remember those types of days). 😂😂😂 Great video as always.
Only eleven minutes in and can tell this will be a good one. Am anticipating some work on the lathe perhaps to fashion an coupler? Way to go Jacob to help keep the repair on track!
I don't know big Jon, a trip to a fairly large truck repair shop, preferably one that's been there a while, may have produced an exhaust pipe with the sweep elbow you were thinking of. Then make a reducer to weld on it. I went online and found several suppliers for large wire reinforced hose. One said 150 psi 4 inch X 4 feet for $185. Thanks for the trip down memory lane for annealing and lathing. I've not annealed much, but I do temper things occasionally. And I used to have an old lathe with a 15" chuck from Twist Drill in Rochester, Michigan. It had flat pulleys on the spindle for belts that went up to ceiling shafts. I had a multi size pulley with a "B" belt on a reversible 3/4hp electric motor to go on the flat pulleys. It was a fun piece of equipment. I couldn't grind ball threads on it like I did in a precision machine shop called 20th Century Machining in Sterling Hts. Michigan, where I worked one summer between semesters in college. I ground 16, 40 foot long ball screws, for moving carbon piles in and out of nuclear reactors. They went to Canada I believe I heard. But on my old turret lathe I cut a lot of car brake drums and rotors as well as spin a crankshaft once in a while for polishing the journals. My work at home was crude but good enough for who it's for, me. Thanks again, work safely in all your endeavors FarmCraft Jon. ben/ michigan ok trolls have at me.
Been down that road before, but with 1-1/2" fuel line that necked down to 1" at the pump. Couldn't get replacement hose anywhere, unavailable online during 2020. I took off the flange and welded on a barb to increase the size to the same 1-1/2" on the tank. One size hose, no extra clamps or fittings to create additional points of failure. Had the machine back together the next day.
I was just thinking as I was watching this video. I started watching you back when you were making a Canon. It was a random RUclips suggestion many years ago. Thank you for the many many hours of entertainment, laughs, oh my gods, and so much more.
Thank you for including metric conversions! Although I am slowly getting some intuition for imperial, metric is still the most familiar measurement for me. Love your vids!
I had a similar problem and ended up going to a muffler shop which after a bit of coercion they made me the reducer that i needed WITH the bend also!! Still working like a charm!! Thanks for the vid J
Hi John! I commented earlier about having a closed down farm in Norway that me and my family (mostly me and my teenage son) use as a vacation home. You have inspired me so much that I have actually bought an old excavator! It’s a 78 model Schaeff HR26A, about 8 metric tons and a two cylinder Deutz engine that is very much similar to yours, only a lot shorter. Got it for about $1500 (+500 delivery), so that’s a steal. Just had it delivered this friday and a got to drive about six feet before one of the belts came off (didn’t like turning hard).. After a day and a half we finally got it on, after realizing that we had removed the wrong grease fitting for the tensioner, we just thought it had seized. We also tried pumping grease (into the wrong fitting) before picking it up to avoid this. Now I’m really looking forward to the winter staying in my shop and doing maintenance on this thing! It rattles a lot in all the right places, but the cylinders look to be in great shape. Luckily my son goes to trade/machining school and has access to a variety of equipment for fabricating metal parts. Your videos make me believe that i can manage this after learning both from your knowledge and your mistakes, thank you!
The message is that you need to get some Brits in your Patreon, so that one of them could have received the hose and passed it on. 😁 But then we wouldn't have this fun problem solving video.
John, from one Virginia boy to another, your videos are freaking awesome. You do an amazing job with editing and your work. I am recommending your videos to everyone. Thank you so much and God bless
@FarmCraft101 No, sir. Thank you. I appreciate your videos. I look forward to them. Franklin County here. If you ever need any John Deere parts, feel free to holler at me.
Always the highlight of my week. Sun shining, coffee in hand and a large marge update. Awesome fabrication work and really love the way you talk through the design decision making and order of operations
The knuckle on a locomotive (the L shaped finger that couples together when 2 cars are hooked together) is attached to the coupler. The coupler goes to the locomotive and into the draft gear. This pin comes in from the bottom to hook the coupler to the draft gear (which is attached to the locomotive). This pin is behind the snowplow.
The pins came from a bankruptcy auction of a locomotive rebuilder in SC. They would often use EMD center cab switchers for industrial rebuilds, among other models. I knew it was a coupler pin but couldn't figure out if it was part of the actual coupler or somewhere else on the loco. They were headed for scrap until I thought Jon might "need" them someday! 😂
I'll say that's 100% fixed. Great job. I really like the trick hiding the key with the note. At 71 years old I can use that a lot. Cheers from the state of Virginia.
I assume the case hardening was even, but when you turned it with the part tilted you removed the hardened layer asymmetrically. When I saw where you were filing I knew what was up - but it's much easier to back-seat-drive the lathe from the keyboard than to be in the moment though. Thanks for taking us on the journey with you again
Granddad taught me you can cover the ends with shellac lacquer and see by the temperature the gradient of hardening when you are "heating" hardened syrface with the round cutter... Maybe that was a tale?
Good morning John, and another enjoyable video and so can't wait to see her getting her teeth into some dirt. You said that you forget things, unless you did it off camera you forgot to fasten the support bracket back onto the frame 👍
typically a frenchman would call her Grosse Bertha (literally fat Berha) a famous very large german cannon used to bombard Paris during the 1rst world war and a name often used for many big machines.
Hello Jon: If you ever half to check a pipe weld for possible leaks again. Try sprayi g the inside of the pipe/fitting with pennatrent. Let sit and check the outside of the weld. No penetrant = good weld. Good video Largee Margee is progressing.
Well, you certainly showed that hose who was the boss! Kudos to your new best friend in Poland for stepping up with the material to make it possible. Once again, I enjoyed the lesson in problem solving. Keep up the good work! 🥸👍👀👋✅
That engineering is equal to what my mechanical engineering machine design professor once said: "If one of you idiots put an M7 bolt into your design and can't write a 3-page essay on why it had to be an M7 bolt, I'm failing you on the spot". They could have either fixed the valve or the pump end relatively easily or just made the exact part you made, but no, the intern who got that assigned had to spec a custom hose with an integrated reducer. I didn't even know that was an option that could be ordered.
sstorholm , My profession required me to learn the metric system. The USA and the UK are among the very few places that doesn't use metric. What a large number of Americans don't grasp is that the metric system is much easier, especially when dealing with fractional numbers.
@@watchinit6063 Uh most Americans do know it is easier. That doesn't magically make all the tools, parts, etc sold in America change to metric. It would cost billions if not trillions of dollars to switch at this point.
Foreseeing the change from English to metric, I spent a month's pay on metric tools. I was a Brown & Sharpe Graduate. All my tools were B&S. I ordered all metric tools from Canada. Then, President R. Reagan canceled the change. My heart flipped. I again called the Canadian Supplier. Miraculously, they agreed to buy everything I ordered and pay me to ship them. Wow! I escaped unscathed, save for time and heavy breathing.
Really satisfying how you edit these & lay out your problem-solving. Thanks for another good watch! That chop saw became even more impressive in retrospect, considering that it seems to have cut through the hardened steel just fine.
Good find! I worked for Lockheed and Rolls-Royce at a Turbofan Test Engineer, and of course all of our hydraulic pipes, hoses, and fittings came from the UK, so we had to go through some of the same as you did to locate those. In fact, those hoses look like the ones we had to get.
It is the little things in life, that make it all worth while. Those five minute jobs that take 2 days and the new box of screws that are somehow bent and the shops are shut. Large Marge deserves the TLC.Thank you for excellent content and best wishes from the UK.
One suggestion. When I make adapters like this I machine In a lip at the end of the adapter so when the hose clamp is tightened it has a positive stop so it physically can’t slip off. Doesn’t have to be massive, just enough so it gives a little retention when the clamp is engaged. I see you added some grooves to add in the grip the hose has, looks like it worked. nice fix! I love how dedicated you are to solving the problems. You sure don’t give up!
I couldn't help worrying about the pipe-clamp that was still unconnected at the end, but I am confident you have it in mind. Great repair and superb visuals.
For not a welder you are quite the welder :) Awesome journey and thanks for covering for Curtis. Using the magnetic clamp as a farmers rotating table was just icing on the cake :D
Shaft was induction hardened. Hard on the outside only. Ceramic insert would have cut through it until you got to the chewy center. *edit. posted before 23:20
Thanks John, your videos and content are always interesting and informative. You don't have problems, only solutions. Man I admire and respect your patience 😊😂 Glenn in the UK.
All I can say is WOW. Your mechanical and tooling knowlege is just amazing. The shop class for the local High School should be at your farm!! I always look for your new videos. I bow to your Johnson and thanks for the great farm craft content.
My 1965 427 AC Cobra MKIII : Built Engine = $45,000 (Ford Racing Aluminum basic engine with very expensive components), 648 Flywheel HP. Not to worry, the original engine is in a crate. Now ... the resulting engine / radiator fitment had many odd angles. Resolution ... I butt-welded (TIG) light aluminum tubing sections and attached high pressure / high temperature flexible connectors at each end. Again ... this setup involves high temperature / high pressure. After 2 years of operation (and some polishing time) there are no issues. This would have been a very effective answer to Marge's low pressure / low temperature line and You could have controlled the fitment by having the tube "bent" to fit (no welding). I'm recommending You revisit the frame pass-through hole. The hose is rubbing on the bottom portion of the hole. Cut a 3" section of that Polish Hose, then again in half (length wise) and zip-tie it on each side of the frame to the bottom part of the main hose to protect it from vibration and chaffing against the metal. Based on the video, there's ample room. Also, if Marge wants to race, I'm available at Willow Springs, CA (BIG WILLOW), radar @ 156mph (not me ... I'm not stupid, but my #1 Son who takes after his Mother).
Nice job, Jon! Love the "large a marge a" Being a train guy and with the railroad here in the pacific northwest for 8 years, those pins are used to hold the knuckle couplers onto the locomotives, cars etc. I don't know what those numbers are, there probably just steel i.d. numbers or part numbers. I did check with a few railroad supply places but didn't come up with anything significant. Those pins are responsible for keeping an entire train together, they have a hard job.
As soon as you explained the issue John, I imagined a solution in my head immediately and it just so happened to be exactly what you did! It was fun to see you create this work of art 😂🎉
i feel for your frustration, and i absolutely identify with getting stuck on details when they don't matter. Good job getting to that solution though, it worked out real well!
You're an excellent fabricator, great job on a difficult challenge.People might critique you, but I don't see them putting out any videos like you do. Keep up the great work. I appreciate you sharing your work with us.
Great video, love to see you sorting through the issues, I love your thinking because you come up with such practical engineering solutions, I only yell at the screen briefly and then you find the answer before my eye starts twitching, I love the trouble shooting process and the way you voice your thought process for the camera. Great production, excellent comment, sense of humour and adventure, love your work Jon. I am originally from the USA now living in AUS. We use the metric system here in AUS after switching in the 70's when they passed the metric conversion law. But I never thought about all of the implications of switching, all the lathes and mills etc. SO I checked and all those tools that existed before the switch were exempt, new tools had to be metric. SO there is a lot of people who can measure in both and convert. It's funny because a lot of the mining equipment is imported from the USA so it is in inches. I worked for a company that made rubber mining hoses, it's a surprisingly simple process where different layers of material is hand wound around a mandrel, then put in an autoclave. All you need is the right size mandrel.
Welcome to the rest of the worlds joy in matching American hydraulic parts that are imperial,while we have metric....suction lines are such fun,but o so important to have right...love your work.
Nice work! I had a part time job for a rancher / heavy equipment operator in high school and college. That is very difficult but rewarding work. It motivated me to study harder and get an office job. 😂
John, ud simplemente es un maestro. Además sus razonamientos sobre la marcha hacen que uno sienta que está ahí colaborando. Espero use el traductor. Como dijo un noruego en otro comentario, acá es viernes de pizza casera. Saludos desde Argentina
I made a pvc schedule 80 pipe to replace such suction hoses using parts of original hose to splice on a huge Hydraulic Grove Crane . Never failed. Excellent channel Thank you 👍
My Dad was a cranemen in a steel mill in Warren, Ohio, from the 70s to the 2000s. At one point, he worked in the annealing shop where they took 40k lb coils of steel, stacked them 3 or 4 high, and then lifted a huge furnace over each stacked set. They heated them up and cooled them slowly, essentially like you did. I worked there for 2 summers and got to ride with him in the trolley crane, super high up in a tall building due to these tall stacks. Great memories. Just like you did, but on a huge scale! Great video, take care.
Excellent repair Jon, I would say better than new, the weakening of the steel was impressive, your culmination of skills sure make all your repairs look easy, having the knowledge makes all the difference.....Javi G.
This was a great video. Thank you for walking us through your process with the usual details you are able to discuss so well. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Love me some Large Marge. 😁 Can’t say I “want” it to break down, but these videos are awesome….maybe “we” wouldn’t have done it this way, or that way, but you figured it out and did it, that’s what counts! Keep ‘em coming!!! 😁
There are lots of different ways to do this job so let me answer some common questions. I thought about adapting at the bottom of the hydraulic tank down to 70mm and just running 70 from there to the pump. Problem with that is it adds more resistance to the circuit. Probably wouldn't matter, but it does add more resistance. And I still would have had to make an adapter as well as locate 70mm hose, so I opted to use both hose sizes, keeping the larger diameter until after the turn. This minimizes the additional resistance of the 70mm pipe.
The hose I found in the UK was the same stuff I got from Poland. It wasn't the original part, just lengths of 70mm and 90mm hose, and would have resulted in the same job.
Many people have said that I could have used marine exhaust hose. Maybe so, but I didn't find any that were rated for oil. I wouldn't want to risk a hose that might break down and fail. If there are some that are rated for oil and also wouldn't collapse, that would have been a great solution.
This rubber hose is vulcanized just like a car tire, so you cannot heat and bend it to a different shape.
I could have welded hard line the whole way, and maybe that would have been easier, but I really didn't want to try and weld to that pump flange, and possibly ruin it. I'm not sure what material it is made out of. And that still would have been a lot of work.
I thought about getting an exhaust shop to make me an elbow, but there's nobody close to me that does that, so I would have had to drive at least an hour each way. I'd rather just make my own. Have an awesome weekend everybody!
Grande Marguerite
Remember to destroy the hardened layer you don't necessarily have to heat the pin the whole way through.
Good solution 👌 👍
they make the staneless steel hose for pneumatic tanks maybe that one
That last part was my comment
Should have read your comment first 😂
Awesome video, glad I could be help in getting those hoses 😊
Le Large Marge will live on green pastures.
Yep, you saved the day, brother!
Very nice of you to help out !
Aż miło że europe's little texas udzielił wsparcia ;)
Hero! Greetings from the Netherlands.
@@infango Maly Teksas zgłasza się do pomocy 😃
@farmcraft101 I know ur prob gonna hate this but I work at a Caterpillar dealership in Georgia and while watching this video I found a part number for oil suction/return hose with an I.D. Of 88.9 mm that we have in stock.
That would have made a very boring video..... :P
What's the part number in case anyone else needs it?
Just told my girlfriend that we would have dinner in 1 hour, 1 minute and 25 seconds, because i have to watch that farmer guy, my favorite. «Oh yeah that guy, i recognized his voice». So now i will have a beer, watch my favorite youtuber do his thing and then i’ll eat tacos. Greetings from Norway🇳🇴
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Hyggelig at vi er flere nordmenn her 😄
@@Frank-Thoresen fjeldaber mener du vel :)
I've been working in the industrial hose/hydraulic/fluid conveyance field for 10 years now. Next time you need something like that, I'd b happy to help. I'm also on the East coast.
I am from China Seals Factory. Our company produces many types of hydraulic oil seals. If you are interested in our products, we can send you free samples so that you can learn more about our products.
Don't know if it has already been mentioned, but those pins are what is used to couple certain rail wagons together to form one unit.
There is a 1.5mtr X 200mm square connecting bar with two holes either end. The bar sits in a recess with a receiving hole either end of the wagon.
The pins goes threw the solid steel connecting bar and sit in this recess and then a 20mm steel plate is bolted up underneath the wagon to stop the pin from falling out.
When we do maintenance on these wagons we remove these pins in order to gain access and service buffers, draw gear etc of each "intermediate" section of the whole wagon (the 2 wagons put together).
They're induction hardened as they receive a huge amount of force when the locomotive pulls away from a standing stop.
We call them wagons in the UK but I think the US calls them cars.
Hope this helps.
Dang we use that hose all the time 3 1/2 inch ID.
We use it here in the oil field for top drive drilling units drilling oil Wells.
You can either purchase it from Wilson supply or directly from Stewart and Stevenson one of the largest equipment companies in the world when we get it it ships right out of San Antonio we purchase it in 40 foot rolls it runs about $10 a foot.
It is the exact same hose you have sitting in front of you. Red label 150 psi working return hydraulic line.
I figured it had to be available locally.
It's easy to get frustrated as you get older and the guy from Europe said " Hay, I can help!". Plus he just got his $5K turbo to put on.
You do understand it's cheap because the company buys in bulk and most likely has a contract right?
@@clubberlang5593 no it's really that cheap, you can go into any oilwell supply house in the United States and get any of that high flow low pressure line ranging from 2 1/4 all the way up to 8 1/2 inch ID.
I've probably got seven or eight pieces of it out in the junk pile behind my shop that I would've just gave him.
Not to mention in that same oil well supply house they have stepped down necks of every size.
But I mean I've been in that business for 30 years so I know it's readily available other folks not in that business would probably have a hard time locating it.
clubberlang5593...
Apparently.you are here to teach him? If he knows the price, he knows how it is purchased.
To quote CB @ NBS welding " learn to work with what you've got and you'll always have everything you need " Jon, you just demonstrated the proof in that statement from the material to the tools and tooling. Ole large' Marge' never stops giving.
Didn’t realize I clicked on Cutting Edge Engineering! So much lathe work! Great vid so far I’m halfway through
As a regular watcher of both channels I wasn't surprised that the pin was induction hardened. Good idea to anneal the pin.
CEE are running a video this Friday having a rest day.
I thought so, too. I wonder if Kurtis would approve of his work.
I love Fridays CEE AND FARMCRAFT 101 what more can a man need on a Friday
Love both channels, my best way to start weekends! 😎
Greetings from Poland, always happy to help if you need something
With cutting edge engineering taking a weeks break it was farm craft taking over on the lathe. First thing I did was shout out ‘it’s induction hardened ‘ … I held off the comments until the end . Great work . Thanks Jon
I was going back and forth between induction hardened or high nickel content, but the way it drilled showed the difference.
I was thinking the same for the same reason.. :) Going trough the comments to see if someone mentioned induction hardening while watching the video.. One can learn a lot of things on YT..
I am from China Seals Factory. Our company produces many types of hydraulic oil seals. If you are interested in our products, we can send you free samples so that you can learn more about our products.
Without your machining skills this repair would have been near impossible This is why I enjoy your videos so much. Your overall abilities in repairing, farm crafting and engineering is absolutely the best I have seen on the tube. Good work John.
I'm also from Poland and I watch your videos. Well done Kuba 😀
Like me, as we say: dobra robota Kuba!
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A myślałem że jestem tu sam! Podziękowania dla Kuby, dzięki któremu mamy co oglądać 👍👍👍
Kuba dobra robota !!! Brawo !!
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10 minutes in to an hour long video and he’s already removed the bad part and sourced a new one. This is gonna be fun
Commenting cause comments help the RUclips algorithm for you and I want your channel to grow so you make more of these awesome videos.
If you stop paying attention when the welding starts, the parts you were making in your shop were on par with CEE Australia. But you also created a part that was EXACTLY to your customer's specifications down to the color. So great job.
Someone may have already mentioned this, but there are companies that act as a buy broker for companies that don’t ship overseas. You open an account and have your item shipped to the brokers facility in-country, then they will ship it to you anywhere in the world. I know it’s too late now, but keep it in mind if you run into this in the future. Those companies aren’t hard to find. Great video as usual so far! Had to stop and comment before I forgot
That has to be the cleanest piece of heavy equipment I've ever seen in my 55 years of operating trucks and heavy equipment. It makes it so much nicer to work on and a lot easier to see leaks or future problems.
CEE: Sorry, no machining video this week. Jon: Enjoy the weekend Kurtis & Karen, I've got you covered!!!
Kurtis would have failed the welding, but for a farmer it's JGE.
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Thanks for using the pins, That was badass! Way cooler than using some pipe! My favorite things, Farm fixes and machining!
Thanks to your patron who sent you that hose!
nailed it! love the safety measure of wrapping keys in paper with note, great engineering and problem solving, thanks for sharing
Well.. that was challenging on many levels.
It’s ironic that this channel is built on your frustration with dealing with monumental challenges and developing an economical solution. Persistence is working. 👍😁
Ya know, doing something to this extent is difficult and daunting mentally and physically and emotionally. If no one has said it, I'll say it, proud of you. Good work.
Dear Jon,
I've been following you for many years now... and it happens I'm also living in France (nobody's perfect😅). Anyhow, instead of Large Marge, I would suggest "la grosse Bertha". She used to be the biggest piece of artillery during WWI... She was also rhyming with trouble 😅.
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John just a help hint for future , when testing any hyd you want pump the pumps to max strain (even though this was low pressure side) to do curl you bucket fold your arm in and boom in (will be folded and straight up in air)
don't forget to reinstall the hose clamp that support the through bulkhead part of large hose
That is a very nice adapter you made.
Looks like it came from the factory with it.
I love the community you got going here, people from the metric side of the world sending you the hoses you need.
300$ including shipping and a tip isn't all that bad. Hose that size isn't cheap.
bro's before hose.
Just opened the video and hearing John pointing out that it was a real hassle after seeing last week's video with that manifold, it straight up gave me chills.
In fact, your Adapter is the far most suitable Solution for the leaky Hose. It should be part of the original Construction of the Pump-Suctionline. But it is like always with Customer Problems. Sometimes the best Solution comes from the Customer, not from the Manufacturer. Great job 👍😎🇩🇪
Your videos are a great start to the weekend, thank you for posting
Jon, I continue to be amazed by your mechanical skills. Well done.
Hi John, you have no idea how much I enjoy all your videos and handcrafts, really amazing.
Thanks a lot for such a great effort effort.
Phenomenal, Jon! Nothing can hold you back! That adapter is not ugly - it’s pure beauty. The gremlins tried to “hose” you and you were all, “here, hold my beer.” Your confidence and abilities are inspirational. Hats off to you, Sir!
You had me in tears trying to figure out the material you were using (20 years manual machining, I remember those types of days). 😂😂😂 Great video as always.
Your networking effort to source this part is epic. You give me confidence to fix my made in USA antiquities on our farm.
Only eleven minutes in and can tell this will be a good one. Am anticipating some work on the lathe perhaps to fashion an coupler? Way to go Jacob to help keep the repair on track!
I don't know big Jon, a trip to a fairly large truck repair shop, preferably one that's been there a while, may have produced an exhaust pipe with the sweep elbow you were thinking of. Then make a reducer to weld on it. I went online and found several suppliers for large wire reinforced hose. One said 150 psi 4 inch X 4 feet for $185. Thanks for the trip down memory lane for annealing and lathing. I've not annealed much, but I do temper things occasionally. And I used to have an old lathe with a 15" chuck from Twist Drill in Rochester, Michigan. It had flat pulleys on the spindle for belts that went up to ceiling shafts. I had a multi size pulley with a "B" belt on a reversible 3/4hp electric motor to go on the flat pulleys. It was a fun piece of equipment. I couldn't grind ball threads on it like I did in a precision machine shop called 20th Century Machining in Sterling Hts. Michigan, where I worked one summer between semesters in college. I ground 16, 40 foot long ball screws, for moving carbon piles in and out of nuclear reactors. They went to Canada I believe I heard. But on my old turret lathe I cut a lot of car brake drums and rotors as well as spin a crankshaft once in a while for polishing the journals. My work at home was crude but good enough for who it's for, me. Thanks again, work safely in all your endeavors FarmCraft Jon. ben/ michigan ok trolls have at me.
Been down that road before, but with 1-1/2" fuel line that necked down to 1" at the pump. Couldn't get replacement hose anywhere, unavailable online during 2020. I took off the flange and welded on a barb to increase the size to the same 1-1/2" on the tank. One size hose, no extra clamps or fittings to create additional points of failure. Had the machine back together the next day.
I was just thinking as I was watching this video. I started watching you back when you were making a Canon. It was a random RUclips suggestion many years ago. Thank you for the many many hours of entertainment, laughs, oh my gods, and so much more.
Thank you for including metric conversions! Although I am slowly getting some intuition for imperial, metric is still the most familiar measurement for me. Love your vids!
Good dudes helpin out good dudes around the world. Great episode!!
I had a similar problem and ended up going to a muffler shop which after a bit of coercion they made me the reducer that i needed WITH the bend also!! Still working like a charm!! Thanks for the vid J
Largess Marge. The gift that keeps on giving.
Is there a major system that he has left unaddressed? I guess we'll find out.
Hi John! I commented earlier about having a closed down farm in Norway that me and my family (mostly me and my teenage son) use as a vacation home. You have inspired me so much that I have actually bought an old excavator! It’s a 78 model Schaeff HR26A, about 8 metric tons and a two cylinder Deutz engine that is very much similar to yours, only a lot shorter. Got it for about $1500 (+500 delivery), so that’s a steal. Just had it delivered this friday and a got to drive about six feet before one of the belts came off (didn’t like turning hard).. After a day and a half we finally got it on, after realizing that we had removed the wrong grease fitting for the tensioner, we just thought it had seized. We also tried pumping grease (into the wrong fitting) before picking it up to avoid this. Now I’m really looking forward to the winter staying in my shop and doing maintenance on this thing! It rattles a lot in all the right places, but the cylinders look to be in great shape. Luckily my son goes to trade/machining school and has access to a variety of equipment for fabricating metal parts. Your videos make me believe that i can manage this after learning both from your knowledge and your mistakes, thank you!
The message is that you need to get some Brits in your Patreon, so that one of them could have received the hose and passed it on. 😁 But then we wouldn't have this fun problem solving video.
Don't worry, we're here! 🇬🇧
Yup, didn't need to be on Patreon. If you'd asked on RUclips I'd have helped you out with shipping from the UK.
I’ll gladly do that for you. 🇬🇧
same - happy to help
Same!
John, from one Virginia boy to another, your videos are freaking awesome. You do an amazing job with editing and your work. I am recommending your videos to everyone. Thank you so much and God bless
Wow, thank you!
@FarmCraft101 No, sir. Thank you. I appreciate your videos. I look forward to them. Franklin County here. If you ever need any John Deere parts, feel free to holler at me.
A farmcraft video and payday! How could the day get any better?
Always the highlight of my week. Sun shining, coffee in hand and a large marge update. Awesome fabrication work and really love the way you talk through the design decision making and order of operations
Hey John, thats an EMD coupler pin, the top number is the part number.
The knuckle on a locomotive (the L shaped finger that couples together when 2 cars are hooked together) is attached to the coupler. The coupler goes to the locomotive and into the draft gear. This pin comes in from the bottom to hook the coupler to the draft gear (which is attached to the locomotive). This pin is behind the snowplow.
@@tennif1 I like your fancy train words train wizrd.
The pins came from a bankruptcy auction of a locomotive rebuilder in SC. They would often use EMD center cab switchers for industrial rebuilds, among other models. I knew it was a coupler pin but couldn't figure out if it was part of the actual coupler or somewhere else on the loco. They were headed for scrap until I thought Jon might "need" them someday! 😂
I'll say that's 100% fixed. Great job.
I really like the trick hiding the key with the note. At 71 years old I can use that a lot.
Cheers from the state of Virginia.
I assume the case hardening was even, but when you turned it with the part tilted you removed the hardened layer asymmetrically.
When I saw where you were filing I knew what was up - but it's much easier to back-seat-drive the lathe from the keyboard than to be in the moment though. Thanks for taking us on the journey with you again
Granddad taught me you can cover the ends with shellac lacquer and see by the temperature the gradient of hardening when you are "heating" hardened syrface with the round cutter... Maybe that was a tale?
I watched too much CEE Australia to know what was wrong the moment I saw those sparks :)
Good morning John, and another enjoyable video and so can't wait to see her getting her teeth into some dirt.
You said that you forget things, unless you did it off camera you forgot to fasten the support bracket back onto the frame 👍
typically a frenchman would call her Grosse Bertha (literally fat Berha) a famous very large german cannon used to bombard Paris during the 1rst world war and a name often used for many big machines.
Now that was some "Cutting Edge Engineering"...
Hello Jon: If you ever half to check a pipe weld for possible leaks again. Try sprayi g the inside of the pipe/fitting with pennatrent. Let sit and check the outside of the weld. No penetrant = good weld. Good video Largee Margee is progressing.
Well, you certainly showed that hose who was the boss! Kudos to your new best friend in Poland for stepping up with the material to make it possible. Once again, I enjoyed the lesson in problem solving. Keep up the good work! 🥸👍👀👋✅
That engineering is equal to what my mechanical engineering machine design professor once said: "If one of you idiots put an M7 bolt into your design and can't write a 3-page essay on why it had to be an M7 bolt, I'm failing you on the spot". They could have either fixed the valve or the pump end relatively easily or just made the exact part you made, but no, the intern who got that assigned had to spec a custom hose with an integrated reducer. I didn't even know that was an option that could be ordered.
sstorholm , My profession required me to learn the metric system. The USA and the UK are among the very few places that doesn't use metric. What a large number of Americans don't grasp is that the metric system is much easier, especially when dealing with fractional numbers.
@@watchinit6063 Uh most Americans do know it is easier. That doesn't magically make all the tools, parts, etc sold in America change to metric. It would cost billions if not trillions of dollars to switch at this point.
@@havingfun-u4g U-m-m-m, "most Americans" do not know that metric is easier, because "most Americans" don't know metric.
Haha...my Peugeot is all M7 fasteners.
@@flyingarts6765 Volkswagen group : 7mm Allen key required for the brake caliper sliding pins.
Outstanding video. Good example of problem solving, being a weldor, machinist, and mechanic. Patience always contributes to arriving at a solution.
Foreseeing the change from English to metric, I spent a month's pay on metric tools. I was a Brown & Sharpe Graduate. All my tools were B&S. I ordered all metric tools from Canada. Then, President R. Reagan canceled the change. My heart flipped. I again called the Canadian Supplier. Miraculously, they agreed to buy everything I ordered and pay me to ship them. Wow! I escaped unscathed, save for time and heavy breathing.
*Reagan
@@tutekohe1361 Yes thanks
Really satisfying how you edit these & lay out your problem-solving. Thanks for another good watch!
That chop saw became even more impressive in retrospect, considering that it seems to have cut through the hardened steel just fine.
Next time you run into a problem like that. Call oil/gas field suppliers. They use those mud line hoses all the time.
Nice work thanks for filling my Friday machining gap with no CEE video today. Oh and one of the windows on the cab is cracked.
These videos are proof that time travel exists. An hour goes by in a matter of moments!
Thanks once again Jon for taking us along for your fabrication skills. You are NOT the average farmer! Great job!!!
I am in the UK. Happy to ship something I can buy here to you, Dave
Same
Good find!
I worked for Lockheed and Rolls-Royce at a Turbofan Test Engineer, and of course all of our hydraulic pipes, hoses, and fittings came from the UK, so we had to go through some of the same as you did to locate those. In fact, those hoses look like the ones we had to get.
Looking forward to how you replace the broken glass panels in the cab. I'm guessing they won't be available off the shelf.
Correction, induction harden, shatterproof glass. 😅
@@2nickles647 🤣
Metric, ISO.
It is the little things in life, that make it all worth while. Those five minute jobs that take 2 days and the new box of screws that are somehow bent and the shops are shut. Large Marge deserves the TLC.Thank you for excellent content and best wishes from the UK.
Large Marge- the perpetual content generating machine! The fix looks better than factory. Terrific video!
One suggestion. When I make adapters like this I machine In a lip at the end of the adapter so when the hose clamp is tightened it has a positive stop so it physically can’t slip off. Doesn’t have to be massive, just enough so it gives a little retention when the clamp is engaged. I see you added some grooves to add in the grip the hose has, looks like it worked. nice fix! I love how dedicated you are to solving the problems. You sure don’t give up!
Thank you JACOB!
When is he going to replace the glass? Those cracks are driving me nuts...
Easy. Are yer femelle? Don't gone nuts. Where's yer balls. That glass is tempered. Not dangerous. It's a strange comment. Drove nut over a crack..
I couldn't help worrying about the pipe-clamp that was still unconnected at the end, but I am confident you have it in mind. Great repair and superb visuals.
I picked up 5 of those from the dollar store.
Darn! I didn't think to check there!! ;-)
Our Piggly Wiggly carries them too. Inch and Metric. Between the beer and frozen food isles. He should have said something...
For not a welder you are quite the welder :)
Awesome journey and thanks for covering for Curtis.
Using the magnetic clamp as a farmers rotating table was just icing on the cake :D
Shaft was induction hardened. Hard on the outside only. Ceramic insert would have cut through it until you got to the chewy center.
*edit. posted before 23:20
Thanks John, your videos and content are always interesting and informative. You don't have problems, only solutions. Man I admire and respect your patience 😊😂
Glenn in the UK.
Large Marge is turning out to be the Elizabeth Taylor of Excavators.
High Maintenance. 😂
All I can say is WOW. Your mechanical and tooling knowlege is just amazing. The shop class for the local High School should be at your farm!! I always look for your new videos.
I bow to your Johnson and thanks for the great farm craft content.
My 1965 427 AC Cobra MKIII : Built Engine = $45,000 (Ford Racing Aluminum basic engine with very expensive components), 648 Flywheel HP. Not to worry, the original engine is in a crate. Now ... the resulting engine / radiator fitment had many odd angles. Resolution ... I butt-welded (TIG) light aluminum tubing sections and attached high pressure / high temperature flexible connectors at each end. Again ... this setup involves high temperature / high pressure. After 2 years of operation (and some polishing time) there are no issues. This would have been a very effective answer to Marge's low pressure / low temperature line and You could have controlled the fitment by having the tube "bent" to fit (no welding). I'm recommending You revisit the frame pass-through hole. The hose is rubbing on the bottom portion of the hole. Cut a 3" section of that Polish Hose, then again in half (length wise) and zip-tie it on each side of the frame to the bottom part of the main hose to protect it from vibration and chaffing against the metal. Based on the video, there's ample room. Also, if Marge wants to race, I'm available at Willow Springs, CA (BIG WILLOW), radar @ 156mph (not me ... I'm not stupid, but my #1 Son who takes after his Mother).
Nice job, Jon! Love the "large a marge a" Being a train guy and with the railroad here in the pacific northwest for 8 years, those pins are used to hold the knuckle couplers onto the locomotives, cars etc. I don't know what those numbers are, there probably just steel i.d. numbers or part numbers. I did check with a few railroad supply places but didn't come up with anything significant. Those pins are responsible for keeping an entire train together, they have a hard job.
As soon as you explained the issue John, I imagined a solution in my head immediately and it just so happened to be exactly what you did! It was fun to see you create this work of art 😂🎉
i feel for your frustration, and i absolutely identify with getting stuck on details when they don't matter. Good job getting to that solution though, it worked out real well!
You're an excellent fabricator, great job on a difficult challenge.People might critique you, but I don't see them putting out any videos like you do. Keep up the great work. I appreciate you sharing your work with us.
Nice! I like the elbow idea. It makes reinstalling easier and will make replacement of the hoses in the future that much simpler.
This is easily one of the best channels on RUclips.
Great video, love to see you sorting through the issues, I love your thinking because you come up with such practical engineering solutions, I only yell at the screen briefly and then you find the answer before my eye starts twitching, I love the trouble shooting process and the way you voice your thought process for the camera. Great production, excellent comment, sense of humour and adventure, love your work Jon.
I am originally from the USA now living in AUS. We use the metric system here in AUS after switching in the 70's when they passed the metric conversion law. But I never thought about all of the implications of switching, all the lathes and mills etc. SO I checked and all those tools that existed before the switch were exempt, new tools had to be metric. SO there is a lot of people who can measure in both and convert. It's funny because a lot of the mining equipment is imported from the USA so it is in inches.
I worked for a company that made rubber mining hoses, it's a surprisingly simple process where different layers of material is hand wound around a mandrel, then put in an autoclave. All you need is the right size mandrel.
Welcome to the rest of the worlds joy in matching American hydraulic parts that are imperial,while we have metric....suction lines are such fun,but o so important to have right...love your work.
Nice work! I had a part time job for a rancher / heavy equipment operator in high school and college. That is very difficult but rewarding work. It motivated me to study harder and get an office job. 😂
John, ud simplemente es un maestro.
Además sus razonamientos sobre la marcha hacen que uno sienta que está ahí colaborando. Espero use el traductor. Como dijo un noruego en otro comentario, acá es viernes de pizza casera. Saludos desde Argentina
Oh yeah a helper from Poland. It's nice to hear the name of my country in your video :)) Waitin' for the next one
I made a pvc schedule 80 pipe to replace such suction hoses using parts of original hose to splice on a huge Hydraulic Grove Crane .
Never failed.
Excellent channel Thank you 👍
My Dad was a cranemen in a steel mill in Warren, Ohio, from the 70s to the 2000s. At one point, he worked in the annealing shop where they took 40k lb coils of steel, stacked them 3 or 4 high, and then lifted a huge furnace over each stacked set. They heated them up and cooled them slowly, essentially like you did.
I worked there for 2 summers and got to ride with him in the trolley crane, super high up in a tall building due to these tall stacks. Great memories.
Just like you did, but on a huge scale! Great video, take care.
Im not surprised that a subscriber in Poland came to your rescue, when all was thought lost. The poles got a history of doin that.
That was amazing. Difficulty 10/10 but you still did it and once again, I learned so much.
Excellent repair Jon, I would say better than new, the weakening of the steel was impressive, your culmination of skills sure make all your repairs look easy, having the knowledge makes all the difference.....Javi G.
Exceptional design and machining work, John! Love seeing the process and learning new tricks.
This was a great video. Thank you for walking us through your process with the usual details you are able to discuss so well. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Love me some Large Marge. 😁
Can’t say I “want” it to break down, but these videos are awesome….maybe “we” wouldn’t have done it this way, or that way, but you figured it out and did it, that’s what counts!
Keep ‘em coming!!! 😁