I always wondered what type solder you use. I'm pretty sure it isn't acid core or resin core. Is it silver solder?

Your years of experience have great value. Thank you for your insight. I would to learn it.

I came here after seeing you on Dave’s video. I hope you can find time to keep up making even a few videos for us, of what you’re doing as you move forward through your retirement. I think your audience appreciates you and the perspective that you offer and it would be a shame to not share that with us. I’ve subscribed and I wish you the best in your retirement. I’m at that point as well and am busier now than ever before, although I don’t get much done.

My favorite cart..

good video

thanks rick

Thanks Rick, Thanks for documenting your Trade, a dying art.

Amazing craftsmanship by you and Dave. Looking forward to your entire library and you're off to a great start...even though this was 4 years ago...I will catch up.

Thanks to Dave, I have found a new channel to follow...a bit late to the game since you are retiring, and glad to be here. Thanks for sharing your amazing trade.

"D" Everz here, I just discovered your channel. this was very interesting to watch. Thanks for the glimpse into your shop. I miss Joliet

so enjoyable!!

beautiful work!!!👍

Rick after you retire it will be a big pair of shoes to fill !

Never realized how intricately made these lamps are till watching you take them apart for rebuild. Wonderful work here..also glad to hear you are going yo contribute to the Joliet museum.

I’m glad I paid attention to the Engle Coach Station and I’m very impressed

I have looked through most of your great videos, but I wish I could have found one about what soldering material, flux agents, gas etc that goes with what. My problem is soldering all the different metals together and obviously without damaging the glass from heat or the silver plating on the inside copper? You make it look so easy, but without the right materials, it's not, even though I consider myself handy. When I go and buy soldering material, there's 20-30 different from just one brand all with different percentage of this and that and no one seems to be able to tell me what to use where??? All answers are appreciated.

Wow spectacular job Brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your brite adventures with coach light

Spectacular job Brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise I am a new subscriber I can't wait to see all of your videos thank you again brother im working on 2 1907 deitz Union driving lamp i need help with the burner I was able to seal up the holes in the bottom of the reservoir, but on both burners, the wicks do not want to go up. I put a bread bag twist. Tie through the Wick to assist in raising the work it works. But it don't work very well. I would appreciate any assistance, or if you have a video. Rebuilding a burner, thank you again. God bless

Prima Ergänzung zu Engels Videos leider ist mein Englisch nicht besser geworden, aber macht nichts! Weiter so Grüße aus Bayern

G'day, Yay Team ! Thankyou for pointing Dave at the Wheelwrighting business ; I found you via him, and I found him via the YT Algorithm... I posted a video of my grandfather's Spoke-Pointing & Tennon-Cutting Bits, which I was about to use to make some rustic outdoor furniture - cantilevered & with dowelled joints...; the Workbench I made that way 25 years ago (with the ancestral Bits...) being still in-service... In 1976, when I was 15, I helped my father (52 when I was born...) to shape & fit a pair of (square-sawn Spotted-Gum) Shafts onto a "Racing Spyder" (lightweight Sulky, in Oz - I dunno what you'd call it in the US ?)..., and in '77 he had me in the team when he set the second of a pair of Steel Tyres, onto their (2, Steam-Bent) Wooden Felloes of the Wheels for a Horse-drawn Harvester which was under restoration. The Shafts were from among 6 pairs which my grandfather took into Stock in 1936, there were 3 pairs still in the Rafters of the old Paint Shop...; the other 2 pairs then being readily on-sold to the people who owned the Spyder. I've charged Batteries with Wind-Turbine Rotors that I carved with my grandfather's Wheelwrighting Tools..., & I've flown behind 2 different Ultralight Motorglider Propellers that I made the same way...; and I didn't realise it until (binge) watching Dave's Videos - but I've somehow wound up with pretty much my grandfather's entire Journeyman's Wheelwrighting Toolkit - enough so that I could put my hands on enough rare, old, and specialised Gadgets to Make a Wheel with if I wanted to try... (and I have one old & never-used Hub to start with, too !). As I've told Dave in the Comments..., I have a long mouldering ambition to build an Electric Wooden WindWheel, for the fun of it, a Permanent-Magnet Alternator with a Bridge-Diode Rectifier to produce DC Current... I visualise Helically-pitched Wind-Turbine Blade-Sections, carved onto the Spokes...(I'm practiced at that, it's the theoretically "hardest" part, but it's the only bit that I've actually already kind of mastered...) and Neodymium Magnets in the Felloes (which will be weirdly-Sectioned, too - to harness a little bit of "Thrustrum Effect", as well as using the Felloes as a tip-sealed, rotating Duct...), so it would be quite Aerodynamically very efficient (!). The idea is to build a Triangulated Wooden "Airframe" for the Windmill, with a pair of C-shaped Iron-Cored Pickup-Coils with the Magnetised faces of the Fellows passing between the ends of the Cs, with close attention to the Spacing, to ensure that as the Wheel turns there is always the same Area of Magnets between the Iron Faces, as the Magnets go past the Coils - to prevent "Cogging". I forsee no actual advantage over what's readily commercially available in the shops, and Solar Panels beat the Tripes out of Windmills for making reliable off-grid Electricity, say for Houselighting (I've been off-grid for 35 years)...; but I think that for sheer whimsy and quaint eccentricity it might be quite difficult to beat - if I can make it work...(?) ! Anyway, until I encountered Dave's Videos I had had more experience at Wheelwrighting, and done more of it than anyone else in the local Postcode (2370, Glen Innes, NSW, Oz...), but - I knew that I actually knew almost nothing about it... Mere ancestral smatterings picked up along the way, as a kid, hearing and remembering things said... But, now, I'm aware of at least a thousand mistakes to try not to make - which would have probably conspired to stump me entirely... And if Dave's in the business now, because you started him in that direction - then I owe you as much thanks as I owe to him... Yesterday, I left a long comment under his most recent upload, inviting him to check out my "The SunFoil Project..." Playlist, Therein to collect his Reward within the Gift-Economy, for having taught me so very much ; which I've wanted to know for 60 years...(!). You, too, deserve my gratitude ; so pretty please, if you feel like it, check out my SunFoil Project Playlist. The long-winded explanation is posted in the Thread under Dave's video posted at the end of Feb. 2024...(yesterday was my 29th of Feb, when it appeared in my Feed - but in Montanna, when Dave posted it, it was still the 28th !). I hope you enjoy the idea of SunFoils as much as I'm enjoying the Wheelwrighting...; and the Lampwork. I lived on Kerosene Lamps & Candles from 1985 to 2000..., so you, too, appear to me have the status of an actual GuRu...; Gu meaning Darkness..., & Ru meaning Light - so a GuRu leads people from the Darkness into the Light...(!). So a Hare-Krsna told me once... Which is a pretty fair description of a Manufacturing Luminary (!), is it not ? Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

I love to restore lights. I am not at your level of finish. My question is, what do you use for flux and solder. I clean thoroughly but still have issues with flow. Any suggestions?

Thank You

Where did you get your hand notcher from ? Thank you for the content. From a copper smith.

These are just like the ones in the John Wayne movie 'The Quiet Man'. Fabulous!! 👌👏👍

Your work is very impressive!! My husband and I enjoy your videos. From Great Falls 👍

🤗❤️👍

WOW. Beautiful

What a WONDERFUL craftsman you are Sir. I’ve done some repoussé work and I love this English roller you have. Not sure which is more tedious. Thank you for sharing. BTW love that bench shear you have.

Hi there Rick, I am so glad I found your channel. I am in awe of your skill and workshop set up. Especially the tube roller. I purchased an old brass carriage lamp not knowing what it was, I just liked it. I am a jewelry metalsmith and just love all Metals. It’s seems that I am missing the spring coil for my lamp. It’s in pretty rough condition. Not really looking to restore it more than just be a decorative item in my house. But thank you, love the historical info.

Thank You!

The craftsmanship

Watching your channel after linking off Engels shop. Nice work thanks for sharing. Would you ever consider using mdf for the chucks? It’s hard, has no grain, and cheap.

Tin knocker!

Hi Iv just come across your vidio channels what great and very interresting work you do with those lamps. just a query on your soldering flux do you have a brand for it or do you make it up your self as the flux I used to buy has gone off the market witch was very good. The flux I use now is not all that good. Just wandering if you had a recipe on how to make it.Cheers from New Zealand.

Hi Rick, The Sandhill Cranes you saw in Arizona fly through Delta County Colorado every spring. They land at Harts Basson Reasavor not far from my Home her in Eckert. Thy Fly over my Home in the Mornings circling up and heading North for their Sumner Grounds! They are a noisy bunch of Birds! Harts Basson is also called Fruit Growers Reasavor and provides Irrigation Water to Local Farmers and Ranchers. From atop Antelop Hill to the South of the Reasavore it looks something Like a Whale to me. Jim Hulteem like me is a 3 or 4 Generation Local. He has an Orchard on top of Antelope Hill and sell a variety of Fresh Frut to the Public as well as truckers.

So I retired 3 years ago at the age of 58 everybody says to me why so young. I always come back with young how many years you think I have left? And they give me a puzzled look and I say to them about their look yeah you can't figure it out either how much time do we have left? How much time do we have left...I don't know but I want to enjoy it a little bit so remember every night is Friday night and every day is Saturday and one other thing to remember you're not on vacation. Vacations cost too much Good luck! I hope this comment finds you well whit a great look on life.

Guess there is a science and an art to most everything...

I just re-watched this episode Rick. I hope and pray you are doing well and I miss your presence here.

I have a simmilar square carriage oil lamp with no wick adjustment knob. There are two holes where it could have gone. Im not sure if its missing or if its possible some lamps dont have them

Lindo. Isto lembra-me a minha infância quando vinha de férias à aldeia onde a minha mãe nasceu antes de haver eletricidade publica e águas canalizada. Usávamos candeeiros a petróleo e um balde para tirar água do poço. Só havia um TV na aldeia, era no café que tinha um pequeno gerador para alimentar uma lâmpada e a TV, à noite. A máquina de café expresso era a gás de botija.

Thank you so much. Found an old lantern and could not figure out the spring mechanism. Somebody had converted it to hold a tealight. Will try to restore it work with candles.

Are the red glass lenses available to purchase online or do you know of a shop in London UK.

Sure miss ya Rick. 🌴👍👍😎🌴

Hi , I recently purchased a pair of lamps similar to yours for the princely sum of £10 🇬🇧. I was unsure how to restore them . Watching your video , the penny dropped in the final 30 seconds . Upon dismantling I found a spring loaded piece of covered cotton in the handle . Your video demonstrates it pushes the candle upwards . Simple . On my lamps I have 2 open windows and a red disc covering the third , the fourth being blanked off . Clearly , to be mounted on the left and right side of the vehicle . I'm unsure if they were used for horse drawn or motorised vehicles . I will restore them to working condition , I hope , but will keep the original patina .

How fortunate someone would be to have a pair of carriage lamps restored by you. Thanks for sharing your dedication to this craft. Your mastery of the trade really shows.

I am wondering what Rick is up to in retirement….

Good shop assistants

Wow

Watching this I now understand why the bottom of the lamps are so long.

I like this little light of mine playing in the background 😊