FIXING A 1900's STEAM HAMMER! Pt. 12

[@JustaMuteCat]

Honestly, the one thing I really love about Alec’s evolution as a content creator is how he threw away the pretense of being a macho adult and gave in to the manchild he always was. The way he maniacally laughs now is so much better than the early years of his content. Keep up the good work. And Jamie, never fight again against a lawnmower.

[@kiddy1992]

Going away from the yeehaw montana lifestyle helps with that. Back to proper brittish banter

[@sparrowriver7916]

Never thought I'd be into a series about fixing a steam hammer.... yet here I am again and will continue watching till the end

[@silverspine1854]

yes me to

[@LongBean7]

It's just so fucking awesome

[@drinkmorecocacola]

remember all those people being humongous lames about the sponsor that gives us a free program to watch on youtube? they should all be flogged for their horsesh!t opinion

[@SimonBauer7]

i went from a guy fixing an old pdp 11 computer (usagi electric for anyone curious), to this, somehow completely different yet kinda the same

[@EclipseAtDusk]

@@SimonBauer7Usagi’s got some dope stuff

[@erik81subaru]

You should make your own brass plaque to go on the power hammer. Saying "Restored by ______ 2024", or something along those lines

[@joelblair8339]

Jaimee has turned from a great cameraman/editor to a great asset and friend to Alex, who is also one of the best cameraman/editors on KZbin.

[@saginawdan]

I agree...He's top notch 👌

[@piccalillipit9211]

The dirtiest grimiest editor in youtube LOL

[@Argosh]

It felt terrible when Alex moved to the US, like leaving behind family. When he started reappearing in videos I was so happy. Despite the obvious pain Alex went through, in the end it is just like the old days again.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@Argosh Can you explain that please? I stopped watching when he was in the US - it became more like a manufacturing channel than a forging channel - what did he go through?

[@Argosh]

@@piccalillipit9211 I don't believe that he ever fully explained what happened publicly. My understanding is that he tried to go big on the whole store and production thing but it failed. I assume that he and his wife decided to move to the UK after all, so he unwound the business in the US and now is back to what the channel used to be. I can only imagine the financial and personal strain that he went through. He clearly had a vision and for some reason he couldn't get it to work. I hope he is happy anyways, even if he has to do the creative equivalent to dirtywork to pay the bills for now.

[@falty6949]

Jarrow Metal Industries Ltd used their machinery to produce 500lb armour piercing bombs in WW2! There's some great imagery online of their facilities from the 40's and 50's, so cool to think of the life this thing has had.

[@jonathanschubert9052]

I'm glad to see the Lamp of Damocles still around, not that you have anywhere to offload it

[@bilijoful]

lamp of daamocles, good one dude XD

[@OperationDarkside]

This lamp should stand in Times Square for art purposes at least once. Lighting traffic for one night and one night only.

[@googleuser859]

I noticed a huge lamp like that in Durham down by the river. It's apparently called lampounette and us an art installation 🤷

[@theGolde]

If there were 158 episodes of this series, I would watch every last one of them. Keep em coming, Alec!

[@michaelanderson2166]

Very efficient at cleaning springs, must have a lot of spring cleaning practice.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

The time lapse shots of the milling of that bottom die block from a fixed perspective relative to the block were supremely satisfying to watch.

[@MeriaDuck]

8:30 with so many references to square I was expecting a square space segment, but we were already past that 😂

[@CNC-Time-Lapse]

I got all 20 of my nails! They are awesome! Thank you, Alec and Jamie!

[@piccalillipit9211]

*LOVE THIS RESTORATION* please do more of this type of content.

[@ChrisBri77on]

As a CAD Engineer, I adore the raw mechanical approach of using "whatever's on-hand" to figure a rudimentary datum. I think it's a bit messy and a bit wishy-washy because go only knows the tolerancing of "random piece of steel rod stock I had on-hand" but it got you within 2mm on a very complicated process. That's some good jury-rigging

[@tw1st3dw1ll7]

One of the top content creators on YT, watching him grow over the years has been awesome.

[@jussihamalainen6920]

yeah almost looks like adult now, how the time flies

[@drinkmorecocacola]

it would be funny if you were one of the people commenting about the sponsor being "bad"

[@MeriaDuck]

Until the better halp sponsorshipsl last week.

[@BasedBidoof]

So nice to see it coming together. That ocean of chips is incredible

[@joshuanicolai4776]

I don't think Alec give himself enough credit the drawings, his mechanical understanding, and ability to visualize how something works and make it in the really world takes a lot of intelligence

[@nicholasviney5975]

I think a certain cameraman and editor deserves a bonus, he's an asset to the shop

[@tilkka_]

To be honest, I love this content and watched it fully. Way more than fast 10min condensed clips yt recommends ppl to make. These series were the thing that got me hooked to your channel and I love that we get to enjoy them again. Hope you will find a good damascus project, maybe a set of blades, that you can make from all the left overs!

[@Roo2398]

I know nothing about a power hammer, let alone a steam hammer. I've never even seen a machine like this. Yet I'm finding this series so interesting. Keep it coming. Looking forward to next Sunday already.

[@markustorma4210]

My engineers heart is totally hammering for this series. Looking forward to see more solvable problems. Once you get the thing working, please make a separate video on hove it was built 100-years ago. How the different steam shafts make the thing to work... would be fascinating to understand

[@Blackend16.61]

I'm always really impressed with how good you are with problem solving and just the usage of your knowledge. You may not think you're smart enough at times but you're sure the hell a lot smarter than most

[@acyour]

I sure miss the Sword Builds that took months to finish

[@TechnicalGamingChannel]

The amount of precision required to properly restore the hammer really explains a lot about how messed up it was thanks to all the repair jobs it's had over the years.

[@helplmchoking]

Yeah it's been around long enough that all the little repairs, which were probably all fine on their own, add up to a bit of a mess

[@DasGanon]

The definition of "Square" will turn you insane or a machinist. There are no other options.

[@caitlinomalley80]

thing is, I know that even alec has used power hammers where they weren't perfectly square on all surfaces of the dies, so why it suddenly needs to be now is baffling to me.

[@TechnicalGamingChannel]

@@caitlinomalley80 If you're going to go through this much effort to restore a machine, you might as well do it properly at the start so you don't have to fix it later...

[@The_Keeper]

@@TechnicalGamingChannel Indeed. If you're gonna do something, might as well do it right.

[@Mrgigagooga]

6:26 "Actually worked!" The feeling of your own invention to do something perfectly! Something you thrive to experience! It feels so good no matter what it was!

[@jasonward4480]

I look forward to these videos every Sunday, they're the perfect cap to the weekend and start to the work week. Thanks and keep up the great work

[@sarchlalaith8836]

IT'S SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL I don't even forge wave I want this hammer... It's just such a thing of beauty and elegance

[@BigDoink666]

Look at Alec becoming a real machining boy. I've been a machinist for most of my life and a few years back I was really cringing at some of the ideas you came up with. But now it looks really professional and the results are impressive. Keep on keeping on.

[@Uberfoxbob]

You know, the Spiffing Brit has worked with both Linus Tech Tips and local computer shop. Might be worth reaching out and seeing if you can get a computer built for CAD with all of the fabrication you're doing.

Very jazzy indeed...

[@Bro-trust-me]

OnShape is probably also an option, since it's browser-based.

[@therealsourc3]

@@Bro-trust-me OnShape is very limited and the pricing model is the worst of all the paid CAD softwares I've seen, if you don't want your designs publicly viewable you have to pay $1500 a year per user, which is 3 times more than a standard hobby Fusion 360 license, which not only has CAD, but also CAM and simulation. Best on the list is Solidworks, which has the Maker subscription for $150 a year.

[@JackNormalMemes]

He could get a CAD capable PC for like £300 if he was savvy about it. Which im sure he could afford.

[@mehmehmehmeh]

Bro i use OnShape (and fusion 360) on a 15 year old cpu with 6gb of ram. There isn't any "CAD PC" anymore. Any secondhand pc you can buy is a cad pc.

[@kschleic9053]

Alec needs to do an Onshape sponsorship... I do CAD professionally and Onshape runs on my 10yr old laptop just fine. Cloud based CAD is the way to go if you don't want to buy a pro workstation.

[@andypughtube]

I tend to draw dovetails in CAD, let the PC work out all the hard sums. If you dimension to the pins, and put that and the pin diameter as a measurement it can work out the imaginary meeting points. Also, I have used pins of different diameters to calculate the dovetain angle too. (my milling machine overarm turned out to be on a 55 degree dovetail. Very Whitworth)

[@neverm0re915]

That laugh hunting me till this day 😂

[@roBLINDhood]

Absolutely love these machinery restoration projects you do! I’ve watched them all multiple times and will watch every one you do! Keep em coming!

[@c0nn3]

Why does slapping a (finished) work piece feel so satisfying?

[@seanryder5450]

I’m in the states, and I just started a tool and die apprenticeship, I’m in die repair, so watching this is really cool and intriguing

[@TheArmase]

Make a suit of armor out of the shavings ... always love watching you make armor. We have seen so many swords, blades, and tools (and they are awesome too).. but only a few things of armor. I absoloutly love seeing all the steps, and little things that go into armor making.

[@Benjamin-rq1fi]

Dude... Making those chips into a bar then into sheet steel would take absolutely freaking ages.... Please go for it Alec! I've always wanted to know middle age techniques for making sheet steel.. most of the armor making content I've seen starts with modern sheet

[@TheArmase]

@@Benjamin-rq1fi exactly!!!!! It would be an amazing series.

[@trentgay3437]

Canister Damascus?

[@TheArmase]

@trentgay3437 interesting... how does one design a pattern for Damascus from shavings, and then have it translate to the final form? Going from shavings to billet to bar .. then it has to be flattened, AND THEN it can finally be shaped into armor!?!? And imagine the gilding he could do. The engraving, the gold inlays, and jewels .. lol .. I would watch every second if I could.

[@Benjamin-rq1fi]

@@TheArmase not sure you really design the pattern (at least not initially) from the shavings. You get the canister Damascus, then you can pattern it further from there. Alec has done some long time ago from nails and other things.

[@joekessinger731]

Love Alec's drive to overcome and keep at it till it's done, really miss the old "blue Dyyyykum" bits, keep up the good work, can't wait to see it working in the shop

[@rhyswilliams9138]

Excited for episode 439!

[@granitesand78]

i am so into watching you do this stuff. These machinist projects are lights out the coolest stuff you've done. I hope you've got more ideas once you're done with this one.

[@kupaN9]

A second block of steel? Your juggling practice must be going well! When does the third arrive?

[@jones7399]

11:08 was a little suggestive wouldnt you say 🤣🤣

[@MasterCrander]

ayo…AYO??

[@joepiejaapie]

Love the "Jamie rubbing his coil" POV footage!

[@thomaseskelsen1362]

It's been so fun and educational, watching the restoration on this power hammer. Just wanted to say I loved the musical choices this episode ❤ and the laugh at the beginning really made my day. Thanks and cheers 🎉

[@wootzmilitaria]

Amazing effort going into this hammer, will be very exciting to see the hammer running again

[@SteveTamasi]

I would like to see in your Milling Timelapse if you could include feed speed and rpm? Just a suggestion (I’m learning my new mill; more info the better for me :P) cheers 🍻

[@Freeman-Dl70]

As long as you make videos, and I draw a breath, you've got a lifetime viewer. I guess it's the aspiring blacksmith and the trained machinist in me that'll keep me coming back.

[@matheighway]

12:06 Jarrow Metal Industries: according to a quick bit of interwebbage, they were founded in 1937 by Sir John Jarvis, and by 1953 had become part of Armstrong Whitworth.

[@jakebleach137]

Yea. It then became a subsidiary of Davy Ashmore. Renamed to Davy Ashmore International Ltd. It has gone through many iterations under a few business names but is now a company called kvaerner engineering and construction UK Ltd, however it seems to be in liquidation now so won't be round for much longer.

[@swampcritterisbackbaby1740]

Turn the ram back around. It is made to be rotated as part of periodic maintenance to even out wear. That is why it moves easily one way and not the other. You need to run it on the stiff side for a while.

[@ninjmaster5609]

The more I watch the more I appreciate your work and the work that went into this a hundred years ago

[@BluestedSRT4]

11:26 Ain't nobody dope as me, parts so fresh, so fresh and so clean, clean.

[@TikiTDO]

It's not episode 438. I'm pretty sure it's at least episode 2,095. Here's to 2,000 more! Also, I recently got a 3D scanner that actually feels like it would be amazing for this task. A acquaintance's company called Matter and Form released the THREE scanner, and it's absolutely the piece that was missing from my shop (along with a 5-axis CNC... Someday).

[@andrewt9773]

It makes me happy to see this project didnt flop. I wouldnt have been mad at you either if you had tossed in the towel. Excited to see you finish this big boy!

[@vollbot]

Greeting from Germany. I am a Tool Mechanic myself. Love ur Work and Videos. U are a OneManMachine.

[@manythingslefttobuild]

Nice work Alec and Jamie, looking forward to part 13.

[@memorycl]

2mm. Two. Do you not hear the applause?! That's stunningly impressive given the spaghetti hand you've been dealt here.

[@imaginationingrained]

I happened to be watching this in 2x speed and the part where Alec started explaining the math of the dovetail on the bottom block was hilarious!! 😂😂😂

[@elisabethcitta5450]

Missing the blue Dycem! And liking because I love seeing the enormous growth Alec!!!

[@virtual_masters2839]

This certainly is feeling like it’s becoming a more traditional Steele Series that will end with 50 odd episodes. And I’m here for it! 😂😍

[@jackstrutz]

This series has been such a pleasure to watch! You're a mad man and I love it!

[@Kaelygon]

Can't believe this series has made to 438! At weekly uploads it has been 8 years but it feels like it has been just few months Edit: correction. 8 years, not 36 years.That'd be at monthly upload rate

[@bilijoful]

What

[@larswilms8275]

Yes, I grew up with this series. And now my children are watching it. It has been a blast.

[@michaelterrill4950]

This proves Alec and Jamie are immortal.

[@alexnosheds]

“It’s been 84 years…”

[@gauseb]

It's literally part 12 of this series. What are you talking about.

[@thenotoriuosbg7372]

0:26 Alec's Spongebob Square Pants laugh is gold

[@bfg1637]

I want an epoxy table filled with those beautiful metal chips. Great video guys

[@toddsmash]

You guys have done a bang up job. That beautiful hammer looks loved again.

[@DjDolHaus86]

As someone who has to make a lot of non square things align I always find the easiest way is to first make the parts fit in their respective slots but leave the two mating surfaces (the bits that need to be square to each other) oversized. Once the bits are fitted, then decide which piece is going to be your datum surface and match them from there. Trying to do it all in one hit without laser scanning is all but impossible because you're constantly changing the surface angles trying to get it to fit

[@fabianstetzler7801]

Hey Alec and Jamie, loving the series! I thought it would be a good methode to 3D Scan the body first to get the measurement and alignment then in CAD. You are probably already nicely fitted up but maybe this helps somebody :)

[@Sam-pw6vi]

Jamie should get a job polishing springs, looks really good at it

[@Kopa_Malphas]

Bro, watching this rebuild has been amazing. I cannot wait until it's complete!

[@Homemadeknivesreal]

Great video to watch while on a plane

[@Spikeydelic]

0:25 i just love that giggle you make.. its amazing

[@michaeltalaganis6518]

Can’t wait to see episode 500! Keep up the great work Alec!

[@A1BASE]

Mate, you need a contour gauge. Quicksmart. Super useful for transferring curves from one medium to another.

[@mchboss]

0:25 that Laugh😂😂😂

[@TranceMechanic7]

AAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!! The suspense is killing me! Seeing this hammer run is going to be the highlight of my year at this point! 😆

[@grumpyoldguy4817]

I wish I lived near you. That block would have been the perfect job for the 3d scanner. Keep ip the great work!

[@snake2261]

Can't wait for the "Chip Damascus" video!!

[@BB_Chaptsick]

Thumbs up given. Buy Jaime a bar of soap. Great job on this power hammer. Looking forward to seeing this come together.

[@marcus8851]

I've been subscribed to this channel so long that I remember when MTV played music videos, Michael Jackson was black, Madona was a virgin and Alec used to forge things as a blacksmith!!!

[@nanaki-seto]

Using cord is quite a easy way to set piston rings and get a piston in the bore. Use to use fishing line and even threat for small engines to do it

[@nunyabizness4354]

After the steam hammer is completed - use a bunch of those 4140 chips to make cannister Damascus for a really cool, large, blade project.

[@ChrisShipway]

This project feels like the old zweihander or other 5 million episode series

[@erikcourtney1834]

I definitely would have used CAD for the dovetails. “Cardboard Assisted Design.” I’m not a machinist. I’m a fabricator/ welder

[@bjmgeek]

5:30 Yes, we can imagine. I remember the massive scoring from previous videos.

[@8pplexd]

me and the boys get so hype when a new Alec Steele steam hammer video drops

[@tannerbobanner9453]

11:08 is crazy LMAO

[@wigger69]

i was was just going to comment how much i like how he polishes that! like hes had alot of practice :D

[@johngermain3535]

Loosen the right side frame bolts and shim the square up

[@umpalumpia723]

Hey Alec! I know a lot of your projects have you going BIG. But what if you went SMALL? Maybe you can see what it takes to make a watch! And you can buy all the cool tools involved with making a watch, like a watchmaker"s lathe

[@-Kreger-]

Looking great. Look forward to seeing this bad boy in action.

[@zport1853]

i can't help but wish we got a bit more progress this ep. we got the dovetail in the lower block, and that's about it. but from the amount he stressed the accuracy ig it's good he took his time.

[@diegocalabria2272]

so cool, this is way better than netflix ! can´t wait for the next episode witch i will like before it starts ! thank you for the content, Alec and Jaimee

[@Brian-mp2mv]

Great video editing, I could watch you throw chips all day! Now you just need a crucible to melt all the chips and make cool stuff. Maybe pour into some sand molds?

[@miguelalmeida1213]

11:08 That was one rusty spring. But with around a century of not being used it needed some good scrubbing.

[@RobertGracie]

HAHA episode 438 xD you really trolling us there Alec!

[@Anonymouzor]

canister damasksus from all those chips would be really cool. Make a butchers cleaver or something!

[@Cappucini]

Weird Solution to the problem with the block fitting "Just Right" but in my head I was thinking you could've gotten a giant block of floral foam, you know like the dark green foam for flowers and shoved it into where the die went and then traced the fit onto your block of steel and machined it for a perfect fit. I've got absolutely no basis for this as I have not dealt with forging in my entire life but its just something that came to mind.

[@d3adlyz3bra]

Jamie knew exactly what he was doing with those springs

[@penngwinn]

Love your enthusiasm, bro.

[@73emmtee]

It's from where I live! Jarrow metal industries was the steelworks in my town Jarrow. North east UK (near Newcastle upon Tyne)

[@MrPheys]

Your comment about your 12 year old computer brought an idea back to me. I used a virtual machine from shadow tech. Might be wroth a consideration. Printing is the only issue and that can be resolved with using PDF files to get the printouts back to your local machine. A good solution to your issue without the cost of a new machine.

[@GoldmansGarage]

I was literally making a comment about leaving it dirty and as I start “more wirewheeling” good job

[@s3b_Leney]

1:15 did he just hang up on that guy😂

[@shadowmancer7040]

I think you should consider 3d printing and also machining cheap composits like delren or even wood for prototyping