Antique Chuck Wagons Can Be Converted to Roller Bearings | Engels Coach Shop

[@berndhillert3585]

I was always asking myself how thus conversion can be done. Very interesting to see. Very good done i think. Many thanks for another high quality educational and entertaining video.

[@Sourdo1]

As Western actor and performer, I am familiar with wagons and other historic wheeled conveyances, so I am in awe of your quality and attention to detail. Preserving history is the name of the game. We have lost too much of it already. Posterity will appreciate what you are doing today.

[@davidrobins4025]

Craftsmanship on display. Excellent work, sir.

[@whosaidthat5236]

I have zero interest in wagons , but man I love watching your channel ! The mix between woodworking , blacksmithing , and the cool other stuff you do is just amazing sometimes. Great job keeping an older tradition alive and maybe inspiring a younger generation to not go so techy . Because when technology collapses like it must , these skills will be needed.

[@jackreeves3001]

Marvelous, I never realized a wagon was such an engineered work of art.

[@norman7179]

It's work but it looks satisfying and rewarding. Pride in your work is always reflected in the finished product. Thanks

[@HWPcville]

I like how you've combined the skills of machinist & carpenter along with a wheel wright. I've seen superb videos of all three skills but never in the same video as you have done. Excellent work!

[@bitsnpieces11]

I was wondering how a new steel axle would look, until about 9:09 when I see you cut a slot into the wood axle to accept the steel axle. Very neat, very professional, the strength of the steel and the look of the wood.

[@roydodd8717]

I really enjoy watching a true Master working at his trade

[@billmorris2613]

Good morning from SE Louisiana 28 Feb 21.

[@rickrudd]

Easily one of my top 5 fav channels. Love what you do.

[@docpedersen7582]

Superb as always. Can't imagine who would give this a thumbs down. Guess there are just twerps out there who delight in such behavior.

[@richparker7778]

What a great craftsman. If I find myself in Joliet Mt. I would love to stop in to your shop. Thanks for sharing.

[@MrChrisKnowlton]

Great video as always. Very enjoyable and educational. Please keep 'em coming!

[@LouAdzima]

Great work.You have a very creative way to make impossible repairs.

[@petefor25]

Great stuff, I wish lived closer to you. Great videos.

[@rogerdrum5936]

No music would be better. You have a great voice to discuss and explain. No need for flutter sir.

[@rtkville]

Your videos are again very interesting, you, your ways and your projects all really interest me perhaps because I also have a shop. I have a complete wood shop and do a lot of metal fabricating, welding and turning. In your videos I've seen so far are many tools mostly of which look shop made that really interest me and make me think they'd be nice in my shop also. Love your videos and your work... keep it up, please.

[@bulletbegone355]

Excellent work and excellent presentation.

[@RiddleTime]

5:40 Very nice solution for a press that allows the wheel in there like that

[@samiam7]

Great video, skill and explanation. Can't wait for the next one

[@johnbower]

Bedding those steel axles into the original wooden axles using body filler is an excellent idea.

[@bodeine454]

Very interesting to see how these can be converted! I just watched a different chuck wagon wheel greasing video and was wondering if when they use to use tallow as wheel grease did they usually have a maintenance schedule back in those days or did they wait until there was a failure? How long did the wheel spindles and hubs last in the long run when they only had tallow to use and on a long trip did a wagon wheel need to be greased more than once for the trip or did one greasing last for awhile?

[@richardw2566]

I've watched the entire video series on the Piedmont Wagon. Amazing craftsmanship on display. I have one question. The tapered roller bearing has been around since the 1890's long before rubber oil seals and high pressure Lithium grease. What did they originally use for oil seals? Leather packings? What lubrication was used with the tapered roller bearings? Thank you and God Bless.

[@stephenrice4554]

Great video 👍🇬🇧

[@tomtruesdale6901]

Outstanding work as always

[@fleastomper]

Great video, as usual.

[@thebabylon2933]

amazing nice work

[@andrewwilson8317]

Inspiring,as always.

[@shanek6582]

Is that a gap bed lathe? You've got all the cool toys.

[@andrescruzcast8981]

Gracias por tu video, es mucho lo que estoy aprendiendo, saludos desde de México Oaxaca.

[@rogerscottcathey]

is there a web site where we can read of how you came to learn all these wonderful skills? Among the very best channels on YT.

[@michaelfiller3452]

I really enjoy your videos. I was in Yellowstone last week, so close yet so far, as I had no wiggle room in my route, would have liked to stop in, just shake your hand. I do have a few Qs about the 'letting in' the new into the old. The ends of the steel axles, they do not appear to be co-axial with the old spindle. Should the cuts made with the table saw have been another 1/2" or so deep? Could you have pieced in a piece of wood on the bottom, a long piece of lath, same width as the steel square stock, to cover the new with wood all way round? Was there some other factor at work, getting all the bits to line up? Also, are the steel axles solid square, or tubing with only the hub ends solid? If solid, how deep did you have to vee out material in weld prep, does the weld penetrate all the way to the center, or is 1/4" in sufficient, given the strength of steel vs wood in these sizes (2" sq steel vs 4" sq for the wood)? Is the wood now just a decorative wrapper, and the internal steel axle is as strong or more than the old wood?

[@vernonland5987]

Were the original boxings steel on steel with a heavy grease? Great videos, you are a true craftsman and I love watching you work.

[@philipwalters7705]

thanks for all your vids. why did the client want roller bearings?

[@MorseB]

What a boring video.... Get it... Boring... Hehehe.. Thanks for the video, it's always fun to see a master at work.

[@corndogmcgee6073]

I've been interested in the boxings of original wagons. What is the history of boxings and wheel bearings? How did wheels originally spin smoothly before wheel bearings?

[@schrottmax5099]

Herr Engel sollte junge Leute für diesen Beruf gewinnen bzw.als Lehrlinge einstellen.

[@arkansas1336]

Super educational and entertaining! ....13

[@rriquelmy3522]

Such good English, thanks.

[@cliffp.8396]

Always enjoyable

[@yolandaburchell8819]

I have a wooden gypsy wagon.one of my back wheels has travelled towards the wooden bit on the middle of the back axle.the wheel stub metal round bit you see from the side is protruding about an inch more than the other stubs.... so the wooden part of the wheel has shifted from where it should be.any advice on how to fix it please?

[@gilbertodiaz-castro626]

Nice job.

[@Ward00]

Watching your videos of the different wheels from widely different locations, do you know just how many wheelwrights and wagonwrights are in business?

[@cyrilhudak4568]

How do Studebaker steel axles differ from these axles?

[@cyrilhudak4568]

Thanks for the response.

[@bigredc222]

Do the axles flex when under load and going over bumps, it really puzzles me that you cut them to fit, rather than waiting to order them till you have an exact measurement, I would think those welds would eventually crack if the wagon was used a lot?

[@genegoodman5233]

Mr Smith I was interested in your question, cause I'm a machinist by trade since 67. I've worked with metal and welded a lot, although I don't claim to be an expert welder, I have done my share. You consider equipment being built, it take considerable amount of welding to hold the metal together depending on the weld being done correctly it will be stronger than the metal. After cutting he probably ground the end of each shaft to a 45 degree angle, about 1/2" deep to give him an area for the weld. After welding, grinding to clean up the shaft, he heated the area to anneal it so it would not break. I hope I have explained this in a way that you understand. At least I tried.

[@myeflatley1150]

In very, very old, or very primitive wagons or carts did they ever use hardwood rollers as roller bearings?

[@myeflatley1150]

I have some ebony, and rosewood, claves that look very suspicious to me.

[@catranger01]

Nice work. Too bad you didn't show the cutting and welding of the axle when you shortened it.

[@deezynar]

I would have liked to have seen the steel axle get cut and welded. But I really miss not seeing the wheels go onto the bearings on the axles.

[@Mishn0]

Is the vertical plane of the new axles still in line with the original? It looks lower. Would letting the steel in further weakened the wood too much?

[@Mishn0]

Thank you for your response. I enjoy your videos, I've seen every one by now. It seems to me that you have your dream job; you put so much care and effort into the work!

[@Landrew0]

The squeaky sound of wood bearings on old wagons hasn't been heard for over a century, so I wonder how the magpies learned to mimic that exact sound. I can't think of anything in the environment that could make a similar sound.

[@sarahvaughn1623]

Can you post a place or address to where we can buy these parts to build the hubs and axles

[@ulyssesrosenzweig6907]

what are those brass caps from? do you make them as well.?

[@gopikrishnakakani5010]

Super sir

[@wiscgaloot]

I came here to find out what the original wagon wheel bearing was--what type, and what materials. This video didn't tell me that, unfortunately.

[@Renville80]

I wonder... have you ever been asked to fix a Red River cart?

[@classicamericangunsmith2131]

Where do you get the mechanical pencils (blue pencil, writes white)?

[@ShainAndrews]

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[@alhodge4051]

briilliant. thanks

[@jenniferendres7122]

How do you hang it

[@davidschneider6666]

I'm glad he went with the string music on later videos, the R&B just does not quite set the vibe.

[@amascia8327]

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[@rogeriocelestepadilhahoffm1586]

Qual a medida dos raios e cambotas

[@joshdrexler8773]

Ouch. If this wagon is for regular use ... and why else make the bearing conversion? ... the join between the steel axle and the wood fake axle looks temporary at best. Two years on, how is this repair holding up? Also, the protocol of making the hub bore concentric with the tire rather than the hub seems at first glance to make sense. But the distance from the center of rotation to the tire now varies around the wheel, and with it the stress on each if the spokes. I predict that the spoke located at the point of greatest radius will fail first under hard use. Which just got a *whole lot* harder now that a flexible wood axle has been replaced by a heavier, inflexible ateel axle.

[@СинемаТограф-щ3р]

Сальник подшипника??.. Нет, не слышал...

[@thatoldbob7956]

Mr. Engel’s, since I found your channel I watched every video. They are all great, no exception. Introduction of the background hammering noise (music if you say so) extremely disturbing. Those music gave me a constant ear running so I stop watching any and all videos which are using background CRUTCHES.

[@ANonymous-nd4et]

Now imagine trying to teach this craft to a millenial.

[@duanelundgren7985]

Steel Axles with roller bearings... Can you now Approve a Vehicle Gross Weight Increase??!?! :-) :-) :-)

[@vinodk6597]

Could i get yor mail id brother?