Good morning Mr. Pete, here it is Saturday morning and as for your question at 16:23, yes this old guy out here in the civilized world is still listening to you. I took shop in high school and in our first year we were required to take woodworking . I really wanted to get into the machine shop where the big boys were working on a hot rod, but never got there. I made a really nice night stand and our shop teacher Mr. Prouty took me and another student to huge woodworking display, where other schools participated. Mr. Prouty was a great guy and donated much of his time and some money to making our lives better, a lot like you sir. Back then, I had no money to pay for the materials, so Mr. Prouty told me my materials came from the scrap pile, and not to worry about the money . Looking back, I realize that he probably paid for me. RIP Mr. Prouty . As always I enjoy watching your videos, and thanks for sharing.
Our High School Wood Shop Teacher Always Had Some Leads Of People In Our Little Town Who Wanted A Night Stand Or A Book Case Built So The Kids Who Wanted To Take Shop But Didnt Have The Money For The Projects Could Still Take Shop & Learn. He Taught Us Great Life Skills Too; Sadly Its Hard To Find Teachers Like That Any More😕!!
I used to visit Halifax (and West Yorks, generally) fairly regularly back in the 1990s on business, and became rather fond of the place and people. A bit too much like Karachi in parts, but apart from that I reckon you still qualify as civilised ;-)
yeah your nation invented slavery ,invading countless countries,killing millions of people....and all that not so long ago ,if that is civilized,then you are civilized LOL
The Americans actually invented slavery for the record, so you can't point a finger; maybe in the distant past we did colonise some backward countries. That was then but we don't do that anymore because we *are* civilised now..
Funny you should mention Art Metal classes ... I took Art Metal shop class in the 10th grade in 1949-1950. Our shop teacher was the energetic and remarkable Mr. Bender. Below the classroom clock he hung a sign which read: "Time Will Pass, Will You?" ... I loved that class.
I watched the entire video Mr. Pete and as far as Peterson Products, we care. Looking forward to that video. I fit into the age demographic you always refer to since my high school years were 1980 to 85. If my school had offered machine shop class beyond Grade 10 then I quite likely would be a machinist. As it was my Grade 10 project was a cannon like you would have seen at a military fort in 1812 all done on the lathe. I don’t remember the specifics of doing the tapered sections but I remember having to offset the tail stock to do them. I still have mine nearly 40 years later.
Lyle, I am never bored with your videos..I have enjoyed every single one and I have watched hundreds of them...my goal is to watch them all..I could listen to you reciting the New York phonebook..You voice is very pleasing to me, and with as many viewers you have, I think most fellows are in agreement with me...I never fail to learn something new from them, and I started working in a machine shop back in 1947 as a helper/apprentice usually running an old South Bend Heavy ten, but also helping the journeymen in the job shop...I still have an old South Bend 9A as well as other lathes and machines..Your videos take me back down "memory lane"...Don't ever stop!!!!!
Thank you very much for the kind words and encouragement. You caught me at a moment where I am extremely discouraged and down hearted. But you picked me up. And I think you for it. Keep watching, much more to come
Lyle, I have told so many friends about your channel and they all enjoy it..I know what it is to be discouraged, at 86yrs I have been down that road many times..but just know that you have so many guys on your side and we are all looking forward to many more years of instructional videos from you..nobody does it like you do, and I watch many other machining channels...you are the Top Gun and we depend on you to carry the torch high!
I think you're either selling yourself short or are just being modest. Out of the 933 views so far this morning, I would guess that at least 900 of us watched all of it like we always do.Looking forward to hearing about Peterson Products, too.
Hi Mr Pete. I enjoy hearing your recollections from your teaching days. During my Senior year I was caught up with many of my academic classes and convinced the faculty to give me a perpetual hall pass to spend my free periods in the machine shop. My Dad was a master woodworker, but metal working was fascinating to me & still is. I have a few machines and sometimes I even make parts that fit. Thanks for all that you share.
Mr Pete, you are hilarious. I love your super dry sense of humour (note the UK spelling because that is where I am!). Goodness, but American shop class must have been amazing and I would have loved to have done stuff like that at school. When I think back to my two years only of woodwork at secondary school in the early 70s it looks a bit pale by comparison. No wonder we lost the bubble in engineering and manufacture. Anyway, I have a small lathe and a mill in my shed and I am making up for lost time, aided and abetted by your excellent videos. Keep on keeping on, as they say.
Lyle, I watched the entire video TWICE! I volunteer in the local high school metal shop and some of your comments about students ring true. We are resurrecting the vocational program after a long decline. We have 3 old (circa 1962) Clausing 5914 lathes that I am refurbishing, a model A Southbend lathe, a 16-inch Southbend that was built for the Navy in 1943. We have a foundry capable of pouring class 25 cast iron 3 gas forges, anvils, and assorted tooling. Of course, we also have a Matsuura CNC vertical machining center, a Kasuga CNC mill, and a Polish CNC lathe the name of which I can't pronounce. When our shop teacher took on the task 18 months ago, none of the machinery ran and the shop was piled full of junk from the small engine repair class. The classroom was literally stacked 6 feet deep with old lawn mower castings! We are working hard to turn what had become a dumping ground for unmotivated slackers into a productive source of employees for local industry. It's a daunting task, but at 69 years old, what else have I got to do with my excess energy! Keep up the great videos!
It is a noble thing that you were doing. I know well how much work it takes to get abused and neglected machinery back into service. You can do it. It sounds like a well-equipped shop
When I was in JR College, early 1960's, I built the bench grinder and the drill press from the kits. I was taking a machine shop class along with a tool design class and had the same instructor for both. It was fun designing the jigs and fixtures to hold the castings for machining in the design class , then build the same jigs in the machine shop , then actually machine the castings. A very enjoyable learning experience to me. I still remember the principles I learned. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I remember Struck and all those ads. I was somewhat tempted to buy a kit now and then but I guess just not tempted enough. Caldwell Industries was the place I wanted to purchase from the most, they had steam engine castings and they were actually in Caldwell Texas.
When I was in High School in the mid 70s I built the vice. We cast the parts from aluminum first as part of the casting lessons. We aslo cast one of the aluminum anvals. Then the shop class for the seniors was discontinued. The school allowed use to go out to the community college and take their machine class or senior year. When I was at the college I built the cast iron drill press. My friend and I had access to his dads surface grinder and we took the base and table and surface ground them at his dads shop. We got the highest grades in that class and boy did they look great. Great video and brings back a lot of memories. Thanks!
VERY COOL! Watched the whole thing, brings back many memories. I remember the ads in the magazines. I think when I was about 10 years old I got the catalog in the mail, and poured over the pages, drooling all the while. REALLY wanted to build that power hack saw kit. Never happened. Thank you so much for posting this!
OMG! I completely forgot about the candlestick holders that I cast for my parents back in '60. We cast them out of Zamac. Your videos are never to long. Keep 'em coming Mr. Pete.
Watched it all while sipping my morning coffee. A great way to start a day. Watching and remembering a almost forgotten past. Almost like an archeologist unearthing a historical relic. Thanks
Great video. Those projects would have been great when I was in school. Might have helped me greatly. Wish I could come up and see you and the rest of the guy in September. Just not able to make the trip because of my back can't ride very love without hurting. Your a great guy on here.
Mr. Pete, Enjoyed the old catalog tour. Now and then I come across old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1950's. Two thing strike me. One, the number of trade schools for a variety of vocations and the number of job openings available. Two, the volume of machinery and tools available, all USA made. I get a kick out of the ads to be a radio/ TV engineer. It was the computer vocation of it's day. I worked in the field for 40 years and very few radio stations have an engineer. TV stations only have two or three. I worked for WBBM in Chicago in the late '70's and we had over 40 techs. Times change.
I remember getting the Struck catalog and the one from these guys when I was a kid. So many cool vehicles (DIY bulldozers!) and shop projects. I think my junior high Industrial Arts teacher may have used their screwdriver kits. I also thought the lead hammer molds were kind of cool. Great memories. Thanks so much for sharing this. BTW, I loved your Peterson Products video, too.
Stayed with you to the end! I enjoy RUclips, I have watched a lot of videos. Your videos are pretty darn good!! Thank you so much! I bet you can squeeze in a couple more auctions before the snow flies :-)
This video made me think of my high school metal shop. They had a lot of tools for sheet metal work and those tools were all PEXTO. The day came when the school decided to stop offering shop classes and concentrate on computer classes instead. An auction was held to sell all the shop equipment. The buyers went home with some top shelf stuff for sure on that day.
Mr. Pete I did watch the whole video, and it was very interesting. I enjoyed seeing some of the things you could make at the time, and the prices for the times were very interesting. Unless it comes from China, I don't thing you could even come close to those prices today. We have come a long way, but just more expensive. Thank You for the time you put into the video!!!!!!
I stayed until the end. Found it fascinating even though I'm more interested in woodworking. I remember the ads for Struck in PS and PM and always wondered about them. Thanks for the additional info. Ray Valley, Eustis, FL.
Definitely listening, Mr. Pete. In later years, there was also, a little pick-up truck, based on that garden tractor. They shoved the seat as far forward as they could so that, your legs would straddle the hood and added a small box on the back. It looked like it would be very uncomfortable to use.
I was with you all the time. It is allways interesting to see back in time. Like you Mr. Pete222 I also wish that we could get some of the things you could buy in the “good old days. Thanks for taking the time to show us.
I found this very interesting. My friend David who collects vintage trucks and tractors has 2 of the dozers. I machined some replacement parts for him during the restoration. Thanks for the videos.
Loved your video, and like the format and time travel as you take us to the past in this field of shop and engineering. We are keen to know of the old companies and their products that build America. In the early 1970's, I used to read popular mechanics and it brought back memories of the catalogues and "mail order' they had. The world has changed so much!!
Mr Pete I sure wish I could have attended your classes when I was in school. My school was too small to have this kind of training. Yes I am still listening you also. Great way to spend my Saturday morning. I laffed as you were talking about the negative comments some made about the slots in your vice. And yes I still have an un used Christmas Tree stand somewhere in my storage building. LOL I haven't had a tree in over 22 years.
Thank you sir. I always enjoy your videos and your sense of humor. I like to look at old copies of Popular Mechanics for the do it yourself projects and all the ads. I really like the ads in the back of the magazines for Army /Navy surplus stuff.
I watched from beginning to end and found it very interesting. Being close to your age I clearly remember the ads in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. I look back at those ads and think to myself, those were the good old days. I can't wait for the Peterson Products video.
Here in Sweden outside of the civillized world I greatly enjoy your videos like this one, sure some times I skip parts but it's quite intresting to hear about the background of school projects and I have learned a lot for watching your videos and is putting the knowlage to use in the motorcycle restore garage I share with some of my buddy's. So please keep the videos coming and just ignore idiots leaving stupid comments. Brgds Anders
Thank you for watching. And I think Sweden is very civilized. Then we started the Swedish system of teaching shop. Called the sloyd system. I still have a sloyd knife
yes I'm watching /listening. @mrpete222 I enjoy watching your videos I remember my retired father, airforce used a drill press vice all the time witch looks much like the one your talking about. probably why I have a Bridgeport mill an bingamham lathe today. thank aging for sharing your knowledge !!!!!!
Thanks for the trip down memery lane. I built the power hacksaw in High school. I also built the small drill press, and a jigsaw that they had in their catalog.
I enjoyed the heck out of it. I have always wanted one of the dozers, they just looked so cool! Thank for the video, and am looking forward to the one on your items.
Watched the whole video I remember reading that popular mechanics issue, my dad had a subscription. And I wanted him to buy the mini-dozer but instead he bought a used Ford Ferguson tractor for $50.00 at an auction. thanks for posting.
Loved the video! Great stuff! I really like going through those old catalogs and I wish that stuff was still available! As a telegraph key collector, I would love to find one of those straight telegraph key kits unbuilt!
Another interesting video. I think you have identified a market for someone to produce castings for the hobbyist and schools to complete. As they used to but for a different market. I know that I would buy raw castings and blueprints to make the powered hacksaw and the tilting vice and possibly a lot more tools. Even if you could take 3D print patterns and get them cast at foundries or through a mail order casting service. It teaches skills and workmanship that cannot be learnt using a CNC. Also a catalogue of blueprints to choose a project from.
Thank You for showing this catalogue. I found it very interesting and I certainly watched the whole thing from start to finish. I still have one or two of those American magazines', - like "Popular Science", Popular Mechanics", as well as a locally produced magazine called, "Radio and Hobbies", which as well as valve (or tube) radios as you Americans call them, featured different hobbies for boys. It seems most boys back then had a hobby and were actively encouraged to have a hobby, but I don't think that's the case now?. I look forward to the video on Peterson Products.
I wish I had you for Industrial Arts. I grew up in a little town that it only had woodworking, electrical and welding. Don't get me wrong I use all 3 but the only way to machining and Mig and Tig was to go to Illinois Valley Vocational school every morning. In those years I was going to Iowa City with my dad for his cancer treatments so I would miss and then I couldn't get into the machinist class as a senior. People kept saying go to college and don't work in industry. I went to work in a factory became a machinist and more. Never looked back. Funny I learned to use a Vernier caliper, micrometer and sliderule from a female Physics teacher. Other than math, it was the best learned thing in high school.
I not only learned to read a vernier in a science class (British style school in Uganda, about 8th grade) but they had us make one. First by 'eyeballing' the line spacing and THEN the teacher showed a geometric construction method with slanted lines to get exact spacing. I was annoyed at the time by his holding out the easy way but I guess seeing how hard it was to do by hand made the construction method more memorable.
I have had for over thirty-five years a set of stake and hammer castings; and no, I have never finished them; that I believe were made by Castings Specialties. They were purchased from a wonderful place in downtown Chicago that supplied jewelry makers and metal crafters.
I read somewhere that people who did finish and use these tools had some trouble with them chipping and cracking, but I do not know that for certain. I believe that the tools were straight castings and not forged so they were intended for working sheet metal and not meant for blacksmithing. I had gotten them because I wanted to work copper. Of course, I bought the tools before finding anything out much about what can be involved in hammering copper. Like in some cases annealing with acid! As always, I enjoyed this video and thank you very much for continuing to make them.
Hello Mr Pete, I finally broke down and hit the subscribe button after many months of watching. Your videos are an inspiration. So much so that I purchased an Atlas lathe a few weeks back after many years of wanting to get a lathe. Like all your videos, I watched to the "bitter end." lol :)
Yes I watched every page and listened to every word very interesting. Here in UK its a great pity that practical workshops don't seem to exist in schools anymore. One has to learn by calling up an item on your smart phone finding how it's made then you know??? no hands on they don't even know what a file is or how it should be used, maybe for fingernails! This makes me wonder. I wish I could come to your open house event we could then really catch up on the way of the world today. Regards, Ted.
THANK YOU...for sharing. I have the power hacksaw that someone machined a long time ago and I have to say they did a very nice job. The saw has the drive gears but it is missing the vise, perhaps this winter I will make one since you showed the drawing. Thanks for showing this video.
Mr. Pete, I graduated high school in 2003 and because Me and a couple class mates were actually interested in casting our teacher let us cast a few things from pop cans, they had a nice set up, the machine shop was in a Quonset but across the football field from the school, definitely during WWII that little shop was pumping out some sort of munitions. Anyway since then they have remodeled the school and torn town the shops, I wonder if they saved any of the tooling.
I always wanted to build one of the bull dozers. So it in an gardening magazine my grandfather subscribed to. I have one of those drill presses that you hook a drill to under my work bench but I think it was sold by Sears or Wards although it could have been Gambles or Coast to Coast. I see some of those wood lathes on Craigslist. Bare bones machine with no name. Buy the that tap was $136 plus change.
mrpete222 I have never used it. I think it was my stepfather's or I picked it up at an auction. My son wanted me to keep it. I have a standing drill press from Delta and a couple of bench top ones I picked up from an auction. One is an older Harbor Freight drill press and I can guarantee it would do a better job than the drill mount. I don't want to dig it out to try.
When I went to highschool we made ours out of steel cut them out of square bar stock cut Acme threads for the feed.. I look forward to it every day going in there to work on my vice I think I got like a B+
Another great viedo I enjoy looking at the old popular science and mechanic books I get the flyer from struck from time to time where I asked about the mini beep for my son I whish they still made the tractor and some more of the and especially the castings like the power hack saw and the vice's .I Just want to say I whish you had been my shop teacher in high school I was in metal shop and all we done was make a close hanger and a wooden co2 powered string car he couldn't use the rest of the equipment he said we would break it it wouldn't even let us use the casting tables or anything I took welding and some machine shop in trade school but had top stop machine shop because I had to work more I had my oldest on the way. Thank you for your great viedo's sir
I joined the class to the end, found it interesting and would like to see the Peterson range of products. Not that I am into casting anything as I have enough on my plate with being involved in Electronics, Woodwork (fine joinery) and Fitting and Turning. Keep up the good work.
man, i wish we had that stuff when i was in highschool. we didnt even have a metal shop, just wood. id of loved to make that power hacksaw or even that little vise you made in your other videos. But i guess im not of the sane world because i watched the whole thing and then got on google and tried to find a copy of that print.
MrPete, I watched the enitre video start to finish. It makes me a little sad that by the time I was old enough to start taking shop classes in the late 90's and early 2000's, the metal shop classes were all basically gone. My high school had a woodshop and I learned some welding and ag mechanics in our ag shop. No machine shops though.
Those dozers would have been an interesting platform to create lawn and garden tools from. I am gonna have to look that up later. Tired of renting heavy equipment.
I have the small wood lathe and the grinder just gave my daughter the wood lathe to turn some large rolling pins. The grinder I should get out and rebuild it as I see what the gaurd looked like as mine is gone
Yes I watched it all. Yes I’m interested even more in Peterson Products. And, you ought to make a comedy video of the silly comments you get from people-names redacted, of course. News commentators do it; you can too.
As one of the last "Warner & Swasey apprenticed machinists" in the civilized world, I'm still listening to you Mr Pete. That would be great if Kieth Rucker can put those drawings on Vintage Mchinery! I'd like to make a steel weldment version of the of the power hacksaw.
If you worked at the Warner and Swasey machine tool sight I would love any info and stories you might like to document. I try to collect and preserve some of that industrial heritage before it is lost to the ages.
This video was very interesting. I lament for the old days. People think i am crazy for this telling me how bad it was then with people dying from disease and famine. Well that will never change. I am not a fan of change rarely is it for the better at least in my little mind.
Good morning Mr. Pete, here it is Saturday morning and as for your question at 16:23, yes this old guy out here in the civilized world is still listening to you. I took shop in high school and in our first year we were required to take woodworking . I really wanted to get into the machine shop where the big boys were working on a hot rod, but never got there. I made a really nice night stand and our shop teacher Mr. Prouty took me and another student to huge woodworking display, where other schools participated. Mr. Prouty was a great guy and donated much of his time and some money to making our lives better, a lot like you sir. Back then, I had no money to pay for the materials, so Mr. Prouty told me my materials came from the scrap pile, and not to worry about the money . Looking back, I realize that he probably paid for me. RIP Mr. Prouty . As always I enjoy watching your videos, and thanks for sharing.
Kenneth Bartlett
My Mr. Prouty went by the name of Mr. Persinger. He was a great teacher.
Sounds like a great dedicated teacher
I am still listening!
You brought a tear to my eye as I love to be encouraged by stories of good and decent people who help their fellow man.
Our High School Wood Shop Teacher Always Had Some Leads Of People In Our Little Town Who Wanted A Night Stand Or A Book Case Built So The Kids Who Wanted To Take Shop But Didnt Have The Money For The Projects Could Still Take Shop & Learn. He Taught Us Great Life Skills Too; Sadly Its Hard To Find Teachers Like That Any More😕!!
16:24 "Is there anyone at all in the civilised world still listening to me?"
Yup! Hi from Coventry in England - still pretty civilised, mostly :-)
Still listening from Halifax, England. Whether were civilised or not depends on who you ask :)
I used to visit Halifax (and West Yorks, generally) fairly regularly back in the 1990s on business, and became rather fond of the place and people. A bit too much like Karachi in parts, but apart from that I reckon you still qualify as civilised ;-)
Still listening and through to the end In Falkirk, Scotland. Very interesting video, thanks.
yeah your nation invented slavery ,invading countless countries,killing millions of people....and all that not so long ago ,if that is civilized,then you are civilized LOL
The Americans actually invented slavery for the record, so you can't point a finger; maybe in the distant past we did colonise some backward countries. That was then but we don't do that anymore because we *are* civilised now..
Funny you should mention Art Metal classes ... I took Art Metal shop class in the 10th grade in 1949-1950. Our shop teacher was the energetic and remarkable Mr. Bender. Below the classroom clock he hung a sign which read: "Time Will Pass, Will You?" ... I loved that class.
Sounds like a great teacher
Kudos to Glen for reaching out to you with the catalog. I can't wait for the Peterson Products installment. Thanks.
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I watched the entire video Mr. Pete and as far as Peterson Products, we care.
Looking forward to that video.
I fit into the age demographic you always refer to since my high school years were 1980 to 85. If my school had offered machine shop class beyond Grade 10 then I quite likely would be a machinist. As it was my Grade 10 project was a cannon like you would have seen at a military fort in 1812 all done on the lathe. I don’t remember the specifics of doing the tapered sections but I remember having to offset the tail stock to do them.
I still have mine nearly 40 years later.
Yes, they made a lot of cannons in the school shops
Sir...Every project you make, you teach us, more and more. Keep on educating us, your student. Thank you, Mr. Pete.
Thank you very much
Lyle, I am never bored with your videos..I have enjoyed every single one and I have watched hundreds of them...my goal is to watch them all..I could listen to you reciting the New York phonebook..You voice is very pleasing to me, and with as many viewers you have, I think most fellows are in agreement with me...I never fail to learn something new from them, and I started working in a machine shop back in 1947 as a helper/apprentice usually running an old South Bend Heavy ten, but also helping the journeymen in the job shop...I still have an old South Bend 9A as well as other lathes and machines..Your videos take me back down "memory lane"...Don't ever stop!!!!!
Thank you very much for the kind words and encouragement. You caught me at a moment where I am extremely discouraged and down hearted. But you picked me up. And I think you for it. Keep watching, much more to come
Lyle, I have told so many friends about your channel and they all enjoy it..I know what it is to be discouraged, at 86yrs I have been down that road many times..but just know that you have so many guys on your side and we are all looking forward to many more years of instructional videos from you..nobody does it like you do, and I watch many other machining channels...you are the Top Gun and we depend on you to carry the torch high!
I think you're either selling yourself short or are just being modest. Out of the 933 views so far this morning, I would guess that at least 900 of us watched all of it like we always do.Looking forward to hearing about Peterson Products, too.
Thank you for the encouragement. I hope you are right. Watch for that video tomorrow
Thanks for showing us this catalog. Very fun to see what they offered. Looking forward to seeing the Peterson Products video Mr. Pete!
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Hi Mr Pete. I enjoy hearing your recollections from your teaching days. During my Senior year I was caught up with many of my academic classes and convinced the faculty to give me a perpetual hall pass to spend my free periods in the machine shop. My Dad was a master woodworker, but metal working was fascinating to me & still is. I have a few machines and sometimes I even make parts that fit. Thanks for all that you share.
That's awesome
Watched the whole vid with interest! Looking forward to seeing Peterson products.
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Mr Pete, you are hilarious. I love your super dry sense of humour (note the UK spelling because that is where I am!). Goodness, but American shop class must have been amazing and I would have loved to have done stuff like that at school. When I think back to my two years only of woodwork at secondary school in the early 70s it looks a bit pale by comparison. No wonder we lost the bubble in engineering and manufacture. Anyway, I have a small lathe and a mill in my shed and I am making up for lost time, aided and abetted by your excellent videos. Keep on keeping on, as they say.
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Lyle, I watched the entire video TWICE! I volunteer in the local high school metal shop and some of your comments about students ring true. We are resurrecting the vocational program after a long decline. We have 3 old (circa 1962) Clausing 5914 lathes that I am refurbishing, a model A Southbend lathe, a 16-inch Southbend that was built for the Navy in 1943. We have a foundry capable of pouring class 25 cast iron 3 gas forges, anvils, and assorted tooling. Of course, we also have a Matsuura CNC vertical machining center, a Kasuga CNC mill, and a Polish CNC lathe the name of which I can't pronounce. When our shop teacher took on the task 18 months ago, none of the machinery ran and the shop was piled full of junk from the small engine repair class. The classroom was literally stacked 6 feet deep with old lawn mower castings! We are working hard to turn what had become a dumping ground for unmotivated slackers into a productive source of employees for local industry. It's a daunting task, but at 69 years old, what else have I got to do with my excess energy! Keep up the great videos!
It is a noble thing that you were doing. I know well how much work it takes to get abused and neglected machinery back into service. You can do it. It sounds like a well-equipped shop
When I was in JR College, early 1960's, I built the bench grinder and the drill press from the kits.
I was taking a machine shop class along with a tool design class and had the same instructor for both.
It was fun designing the jigs and fixtures to hold the castings for machining in the design class , then build the same jigs in the machine shop , then actually machine the castings. A very enjoyable learning experience to me. I still remember the principles I learned.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Sounds like you had a great teacher and experience
Definitely
I remember Struck and all those ads. I was somewhat tempted to buy a kit now and then but I guess just not tempted enough. Caldwell Industries was the place I wanted to purchase from the most, they had steam engine castings and they were actually in Caldwell Texas.
Yes, I remember caldwell
When I was in High School in the mid 70s I built the vice. We cast the parts from aluminum first as part of the casting lessons. We aslo cast one of the aluminum anvals. Then the shop class for the seniors was discontinued. The school allowed use to go out to the community college and take their machine class or senior year. When I was at the college I built the cast iron drill press. My friend and I had access to his dads surface grinder and we took the base and table and surface ground them at his dads shop. We got the highest grades in that class and boy did they look great. Great video and brings back a lot of memories. Thanks!
Thank you, I found that quite interesting. I bet you did a nice job
Yes Mr Pete I always watch to the end Mark
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Stayed till the bell rang at the end of the class (even payed attention)
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Watch each and everyone of mrpetes videos. Thoroughly enjoy them start to finish. Cheers mrpete Australia
engine building machinist ...well, you must have flunked spelling: the word is spelled: "paid"
VERY COOL! Watched the whole thing, brings back many memories. I remember the ads in the magazines. I think when I was about 10 years old I got the catalog in the mail, and poured over the pages, drooling all the while. REALLY wanted to build that power hack saw kit. Never happened. Thank you so much for posting this!
I remember sending away for catalogs when I was a boy. And dreaming about things I could never afford. But it was fun
OMG! I completely forgot about the candlestick holders that I cast for my parents back in '60. We cast them out of Zamac. Your videos are never to long. Keep 'em coming Mr. Pete.
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Watched it all while sipping my morning coffee. A great way to start a day. Watching and remembering a almost forgotten past. Almost like an archeologist unearthing a historical relic. Thanks
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Very great to see the old catalogue and will check out that site also Thanks Mr. Pete 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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Yes I'm listening and enjoying another tudalcain video In West Australia
...tie me kangaroo down...sport...tie me kangaroo down...
Thank you for watching
Dale Burrell I’m Australian, and I have never seen anyone tie a kangaroo down. It wouldn’t be easy.
@@matttradie1341 ...and I don't suppose it would be easy to "keep a cockatoo cool", either...
Dale Burrell it would probably bite you if you attempted to stuff it in the fridge...
Love it, That you can show things that was once done in school, but now only done on computers now days. I miss the old shop classes from the past..
I do too
Still watching tubal, another old guy still watching and listening.
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I'd love to see Peterson speciality's I love history and yes I watched till the end.
I would also like to see Peterson's product line!!!!
Great video. Those projects would have been great when I was in school. Might have helped me greatly. Wish I could come up and see you and the rest of the guy in September. Just not able to make the trip because of my back can't ride very love without hurting. Your a great guy on here.
Thanks. Sorry about your back
mrpete222 thank you that's what a hydraulic press and a cnc spindle flying 9ut will do to it.
As always Mr Pete thanks for posting this and especially for taking the time to go through the catalogue, fascinating to see all those projects.
I'm glad you liked it
Mr. Pete,
Enjoyed the old catalog tour. Now and then I come across old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1950's. Two thing strike me. One, the number of trade schools for a variety of vocations and the number of job openings available. Two, the volume of machinery and tools available, all USA made.
I get a kick out of the ads to be a radio/ TV engineer. It was the computer vocation of it's day. I worked in the field for 40 years and very few radio stations have an engineer. TV stations only have two or three. I worked for WBBM in Chicago in the late '70's and we had over 40 techs. Times change.
Yes, that is interesting. Coyne school was a popular one
I remember getting the Struck catalog and the one from these guys when I was a kid. So many cool vehicles (DIY bulldozers!) and shop projects. I think my junior high Industrial Arts teacher may have used their screwdriver kits. I also thought the lead hammer molds were kind of cool. Great memories. Thanks so much for sharing this. BTW, I loved your Peterson Products video, too.
Yes, I bought the lead hammer mold at the high school from them
Stayed with you to the end! I enjoy RUclips, I have watched a lot of videos. Your videos are pretty darn good!! Thank you so much! I bet you can squeeze in a couple more auctions before the snow flies :-)
Thanks for watching. There has been no auctions lately
The thing I enjoyed about those vise videos was how proud you were of the finished product! It really came out nice.
I hope I did not show pride one of the 7 deadly sins
mrpete222 you’re done for!! Greed as well!
It’s going to be eternity at the best ever tool auction where you always get outbid for Mr Peterson!
This video made me think of my high school metal shop. They had a lot of tools for sheet metal work and those tools were all PEXTO. The day came when the school decided to stop offering shop classes and concentrate on computer classes instead. An auction was held to sell all the shop equipment. The buyers went home with some top shelf stuff for sure on that day.
All of the schools had pexto
Mr. Pete
I did watch the whole video, and it was very interesting. I enjoyed seeing some of the things you could make at the time, and the prices for the times were very interesting. Unless it comes from China, I don't thing you could even come close to those prices today. We have come a long way, but just more expensive.
Thank You for the time you put into the video!!!!!!
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I stayed until the end. Found it fascinating even though I'm more interested in woodworking. I remember the ads for Struck in PS and PM and always wondered about them. Thanks for the additional info. Ray Valley, Eustis, FL.
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Definitely listening, Mr. Pete. In later years, there was also, a little pick-up truck, based on that garden tractor. They shoved the seat as far forward as they could so that, your legs would straddle the hood and added a small box on the back. It looked like it would be very uncomfortable to use.
Thank you, I do not remember that one
That was a walk back in time loved it. I remember see those ads in the magazines
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I was with you all the time. It is allways interesting to see back in time. Like you Mr. Pete222 I also wish that we could get some of the things you could buy in the “good old days. Thanks for taking the time to show us.
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When you asked if anybody was still watching, I answered yes!
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I found this very interesting. My friend David who collects vintage trucks and tractors has 2 of the dozers. I machined some replacement parts for him during the restoration. Thanks for the videos.
I have only seen one of the dozers. And it was unfinished
Loved your video, and like the format and time travel as you take us to the past in this field of shop and engineering. We are keen to know of the old companies and their products that build America.
In the early 1970's, I used to read popular mechanics and it brought back memories of the catalogues and "mail order' they had. The world has changed so much!!
Yes it sure has changed, and not for the better
You should get that catalog to Kieth Rucker so he can get it up in VintageMachinery.org
Great place for it!
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Very interesting. Thank you Mr. Pete
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Love you’re videos, cannot always wait for the next one!
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Watched in its entirety. I completed many projects in junior high metal shop. I wish I had been able to do some of these projects.
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Watched it all the way through! Now I want a mini dozer, thanks a lot! As always, very enjoyable and informative.
I'd like to have a dozer myself
Mr Pete I sure wish I could have attended your classes when I was in school. My school was too small to have this kind of training. Yes I am still listening you also. Great way to spend my Saturday morning. I laffed as you were talking about the negative comments some made about the slots in your vice. And yes I still have an un used Christmas Tree stand somewhere in my storage building. LOL I haven't had a tree in over 22 years.
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Thank you sir. I always enjoy your videos and your sense of humor. I like to look at old copies of Popular Mechanics for the do it yourself projects and all the ads. I really like the ads in the back of the magazines for Army /Navy surplus stuff.
I like those Ads also. I used too Buy from a surplus company called Palleys.
I watched from beginning to end and found it very interesting. Being close to your age I clearly remember the ads in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. I look back at those ads and think to myself, those were the good old days. I can't wait for the Peterson Products video.
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Cool power hacksaw and vice.
Can't wait for the Peterson Products video.
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Here in Sweden outside of the civillized world I greatly enjoy your videos like this one, sure some times I skip parts but it's quite intresting to hear about the background of school projects and I have learned a lot for watching your videos and is putting the knowlage to use in the motorcycle restore garage I share with some of my buddy's. So please keep the videos coming and just ignore idiots leaving stupid comments. Brgds Anders
Thank you for watching. And I think Sweden is very civilized. Then we started the Swedish system of teaching shop. Called the sloyd system. I still have a sloyd knife
yes I'm watching /listening. @mrpete222 I enjoy watching your videos I remember my retired father, airforce used a drill press vice all the time witch looks much like the one your talking about. probably why I have a Bridgeport mill an bingamham lathe today. thank aging for sharing your knowledge !!!!!!
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Thanks for the trip down memery lane. I built the power hacksaw in High school. I also built the small drill press, and a jigsaw that they had in their catalog.
Wow, then you know all about that company
Watched till the end. Never dis satisfied with your videos.
Thank you very much
I got to the hobby a bit late, so this is really appreciated! I love this stuff!!!
Thanks for Mr Pete's History Corner!! I mean it!!!
It's never too late
I appreciate that. Thank you.
I enjoyed the heck out of it. I have always wanted one of the dozers, they just looked so cool!
Thank for the video, and am looking forward to the one on your items.
Yes, I wanted one also
Watched the whole video I remember reading that popular mechanics issue, my dad had a subscription. And I wanted him to buy the mini-dozer but instead he bought a used Ford Ferguson tractor for $50.00 at an auction.
thanks for posting.
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One of the few auctions Mr. Pete hasn't gone to.......:-)
That's funny. But I think the Ferguson was the better bet
i watched to 24:17 and thats all i could stand lol. Great Video Lyle. Id love to have a PDF copy of that catalog .
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We just got back from an old tractor event at Antique Acres in Iowa. Someone there had a Magnatrac that they had restored.
I watched until the end! Great! Love to see the content you produce...
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Loved the video! Great stuff! I really like going through those old catalogs and I wish that stuff was still available! As a telegraph key collector, I would love to find one of those straight telegraph key kits unbuilt!
Yes, that would be quite a nice find
Another interesting video. I think you have identified a market for someone to produce castings for the hobbyist and schools to complete. As they used to but for a different market. I know that I would buy raw castings and blueprints to make the powered hacksaw and the tilting vice and possibly a lot more tools. Even if you could take 3D print patterns and get them cast at foundries or through a mail order casting service. It teaches skills and workmanship that cannot be learnt using a CNC. Also a catalogue of blueprints to choose a project from.
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Thank You for showing this catalogue.
I found it very interesting and I certainly watched the whole thing from start to finish.
I still have one or two of those American magazines', - like "Popular Science", Popular Mechanics", as well as a locally produced magazine called, "Radio and Hobbies", which as well as valve (or tube) radios as you Americans call them, featured different hobbies for boys.
It seems most boys back then had a hobby and were actively encouraged to have a hobby, but I don't think that's the case now?.
I look forward to the video on Peterson Products.
Their hobby is playing with the phone
Lyle, watched it to the end, very interesting (70 year old). I'm keen to watch you Peterson's products one when it comes out.
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Yes watched the whole lot. Thanks. Looking forward to the Peterson Products catalog !
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As a high school student in the late 70's, I made that first wood working vise in my machine shop class.
That is awesome
I wish I had you for Industrial Arts. I grew up in a little town that it only had woodworking, electrical and welding. Don't get me wrong I use all 3 but the only way to machining and Mig and Tig was to go to Illinois Valley Vocational school every morning. In those years I was going to Iowa City with my dad for his cancer treatments so I would miss and then I couldn't get into the machinist class as a senior. People kept saying go to college and don't work in industry. I went to work in a factory became a machinist and more. Never looked back. Funny I learned to use a Vernier caliper, micrometer and sliderule from a female Physics teacher. Other than math, it was the best learned thing in high school.
Thank you. I learned to read the vernier in the science class also
I not only learned to read a vernier in a science class (British style school in Uganda, about 8th grade) but they had us make one.
First by 'eyeballing' the line spacing and THEN the teacher showed a geometric construction method with slanted lines to get exact spacing.
I was annoyed at the time by his holding out the easy way but I guess seeing how hard it was to do by hand made the construction method more memorable.
I have had for over thirty-five years a set of stake and hammer castings; and no, I have never finished them; that I believe were made by Castings Specialties. They were purchased from a wonderful place in downtown Chicago that supplied jewelry makers and metal crafters.
That is amazing. I was thinking they probably never sold a single set
I read somewhere that people who did finish and use these tools had some trouble with them chipping and cracking, but I do not know that for certain. I believe that the tools were straight castings and not forged so they were intended for working sheet metal and not meant for blacksmithing. I had gotten them because I wanted to work copper. Of course, I bought the tools before finding anything out much about what can be involved in hammering copper. Like in some cases annealing with acid! As always, I enjoyed this video and thank you very much for continuing to make them.
Hello Mr Pete, I finally broke down and hit the subscribe button after many months of watching. Your videos are an inspiration. So much so that I purchased an Atlas lathe a few weeks back after many years of wanting to get a lathe. Like all your videos, I watched to the "bitter end." lol :)
Thank you for watching and I'm glad you bought that machine
Yes I watched every page and listened to every word very interesting. Here in UK its a great pity that practical workshops don't seem to exist in schools anymore. One has to learn by calling up an item on your smart phone finding how it's made then you know??? no hands on they don't even know what a file is or how it should be used, maybe for fingernails! This makes me wonder. I wish I could come to your open house event we could then really catch up on the way of the world today. Regards, Ted.
Yes we have lost a lot along the way
I see what you're saying. I hear all visually. Of course I'm still on board. This old boat creaks and leaks, but I haven't sunk yet! 9:22 🕵
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I enjoyed the tour! I remember the mini beep, but don't recall the mini skat. That looks like it would've been fum!
I don't recall either
THANK YOU...for sharing. I have the power hacksaw that someone machined a long time ago and I have to say they did a very nice job. The saw has the drive gears but it is missing the vise, perhaps this winter I will make one since you showed the drawing. Thanks for showing this video.
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Yes we watched all of it cheers Lyle
Mr. Pete, I graduated high school in 2003 and because Me and a couple class mates were actually interested in casting our teacher let us cast a few things from pop cans, they had a nice set up, the machine shop was in a Quonset but across the football field from the school, definitely during WWII that little shop was pumping out some sort of munitions. Anyway since then they have remodeled the school and torn town the shops, I wonder if they saved any of the tooling.
I bet it was all sold at auction
Thank you for posting this. I would be very interested in the video on Peterson projects. ...and yes I watched all the way through :-)
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I watch in my phone and was able to read the small text, also nice casting kits, I also wish it was still available.
I always wanted to build one of the bull dozers. So it in an gardening magazine my grandfather subscribed to. I have one of those drill presses that you hook a drill to under my work bench but I think it was sold by Sears or Wards although it could have been Gambles or Coast to Coast. I see some of those wood lathes on Craigslist. Bare bones machine with no name. Buy the that tap was $136 plus change.
I never liked those drill presses that hooked to a hand drll
mrpete222 I have never used it. I think it was my stepfather's or I picked it up at an auction. My son wanted me to keep it. I have a standing drill press from Delta and a couple of bench top ones I picked up from an auction. One is an older Harbor Freight drill press and I can guarantee it would do a better job than the drill mount. I don't want to dig it out to try.
Enjoyed very much and looking forward to learning more about Peterson Products! Thanks, Mr. Pete! :-)
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When I went to highschool we made ours out of steel cut them out of square bar stock cut Acme threads for the feed.. I look forward to it every day going in there to work on my vice I think I got like a B+
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Another great viedo I enjoy looking at the old popular science and mechanic books I get the flyer from struck from time to time where I asked about the mini beep for my son I whish they still made the tractor and some more of the and especially the castings like the power hack saw and the vice's .I Just want to say I whish you had been my shop teacher in high school I was in metal shop and all we done was make a close hanger and a wooden co2 powered string car he couldn't use the rest of the equipment he said we would break it it wouldn't even let us use the casting tables or anything I took welding and some machine shop in trade school but had top stop machine shop because I had to work more I had my oldest on the way. Thank you for your great viedo's sir
It is sad that your teacher would not let you use the tools
I joined the class to the end, found it interesting and would like to see the Peterson range of products. Not that I am into casting anything as I have enough on my plate with being involved in Electronics, Woodwork (fine joinery) and Fitting and Turning. Keep up the good work.
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You should do a video on what you learned running your own business, and what you would do if you started out today.
That would be too boring
Watched the whole thing. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you liked it
Thanks,great video, never boring and always enjoyed.
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man, i wish we had that stuff when i was in highschool. we didnt even have a metal shop, just wood. id of loved to make that power hacksaw or even that little vise you made in your other videos. But i guess im not of the sane world because i watched the whole thing and then got on google and tried to find a copy of that print.
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I wish they offered those kits to us. We made all kinds of shop tools without having kits. Our oven wasn't that great, but we did the best we could.
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MrPete, I watched the enitre video start to finish. It makes me a little sad that by the time I was old enough to start taking shop classes in the late 90's and early 2000's, the metal shop classes were all basically gone. My high school had a woodshop and I learned some welding and ag mechanics in our ag shop. No machine shops though.
That's too bad
Those dozers would have been an interesting platform to create lawn and garden tools from. I am gonna have to look that up later. Tired of renting heavy equipment.
I have the small wood lathe and the grinder just gave my daughter the wood lathe to turn some large rolling pins. The grinder I should get out and rebuild it as I see what the gaurd looked like as mine is gone
It is interesting to see the people have some of those castings
Yes I watched it all. Yes I’m interested even more in Peterson Products. And, you ought to make a comedy video of the silly comments you get from people-names redacted, of course. News commentators do it; you can too.
Start to finish. Excellent! Thank you!
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very interesting. I for one would be keen on 3d printed patterns to make some projects. keep the videos coming
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Thanks for sharing. I am not in the civilized world but still listened to the bell.
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Yes mrpete @ 16:26 I'm still with you.
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As one of the last "Warner & Swasey apprenticed machinists" in the civilized world, I'm still listening to you Mr Pete. That would be great if Kieth Rucker can put those drawings on Vintage Mchinery! I'd like to make a steel weldment version of the of the power hacksaw.
Yes, that would be good
If you worked at the Warner and Swasey machine tool sight I would love any info and stories you might like to document. I try to collect and preserve some of that industrial heritage before it is lost to the ages.
Thanks for sharing sir..
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A tubal I don't know if you read these or not but they advertise struck tractors on RFD-TV quite often
I did not know that, and it surprises me
This video was very interesting. I lament for the old days. People think i am crazy for this telling me how bad it was then with people dying from disease and famine. Well that will never change. I am not a fan of change rarely is it for the better at least in my little mind.
I agree