FIXING A 1900's STEAM HAMMER! Pt. 5
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Published 2024-04-21
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All Comments (21)
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Usual rule of thumb for cleaning a cylinder after honing it is to use Brakecleen on a paper shop towel and wipe the bore. Throw used towel away. Repeat with new towel and Brakecleen until the towel comes up clean after wiping through. Honing dust is very fine grade and air blasting will not do the job. Nice to see this coming back together and kudos to the shop who did the shaft grinding.
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A tip for the ultrasonic cleaner is to roughly clean the parts first. They are great are removing small stubborn areas of grime.
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This is such a wild ride of a series. Everything is alien in design but weirdly make sense since its mostly simple. Also, really well done getting an AeroPress sponsor, thats a quality sponsor.
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Bro, this series is killer. I love this stuff. Giving a neglected century old piece of machinery a new lease on life.
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For anyone (rightfully) wary of sponsorship products, I was surprised to see Aeropress here. I have had one for two years now, and it works as advertised. Unless they've drastically changed their manufacturing practices, it's a great product.
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Your gasket surfaces should have a 30-55 serrations per inch, in a concentric or spiral pattern, cut with a 1/16" radius, round-nosed tool. Surfaces which can not be serrated should have a surface finish with a multi-directional lay and roughness of 125-250 micro-inch RMS. Best of luck and I'll be watching. :)
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Alec should call Cutting Edge Engineering for a line boring tutorial and Hand Tool Rescue for general life advice.
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That is definitely doing it the hard way. Alec, you should try to barrow a bore gauge from an engine machine shop to measure how concentric the bore is after all that honing.
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13:50 Did not think I would ever look at another man's shaft with such admiration, Alec 🤣
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Blessed are the long form series.
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Good to see aeropress. I love mine. I've got two, one at home and one in my work locker. Definitely recommend.
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Loving this series. Super cool project
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Biochemist here. If you've a bunch of smaller rusted parts, try heating them up in an acidic solution for a while. You can start off cheap/gentle with either distilled white vinegar or soda that contains phosphoric acid, like Coke. If you want to be more aggressive, you can get hydrochloric acid and then try diluting it less and less with distilled water until you reach a combination of heat and time that works for you.
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Hell yeah, MORE STEAM HAMMER
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Massive undertaking. What a challenge. Thank you for not being intimidated and shying away from taking this tasks on. This is some interesting stuff! Keep it up, Alec!
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need longer videos please alec. i love these hammer rebuilds.
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"The surface finish left by the cutter is not brilliant" Alec, that's a dreadful finish, it looks like the soup dragon is going to fly out and munch on a clanger at any given second
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My favorite Alex! the scared to break his machine focused Alex. That man could fix the world.
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I've never found myself commenting on a channel sponsor before but I'm a huge coffee nerd and the areopress is legitimately one of the best ways to make coffee. It's so fast, efficient, and easy compared to basically anything else. 10/10 sponsorship.
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Alec, you should make a Stainless Steele Kettle and/or a Stainless Steele coffee press! I think it would be a great way to showcase a sponsor's product or just for gits and shiggles
