Detailed Restoration of an Antique Post Drill

The restoration of the Antique Post Drill continues. Dave's attention to detail is staggering and inspiring. Beginning of this project here: • Restoring an Early 20t...
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[@Fireballsocal]

The value this channel will have in the next several hundred years is immense. Men with skill and knowledge like this are quickly disappearing. The few coming up that have the curiosity and drive to continue this work will have this channel and others to refer to. I suspect Dave not only has his experience to draw on but does an awful lot of problem solving as he goes, choosing the best way to tackle the problem with whatever he has available. I think it's important for the next generation to know that you might not know how to do something, but you can still accomplish it by using your head.

[@psidvicious]

It is cool to see the “real” way to do a project like this. I’m afraid all of this kind of stuff will just be 3D printed in the future, which is not nearly as interesting to watch or I would imagine to perform.

[@BCVS777]

I appreciate your optimism!😊

[@bushratbeachbum]

Just beautiful work. True, true craftsmanship. My grandfather was a chief engineer and designer and stayed very well connected to and worked with machines from his apprenticeship in 1938 to his retirement 50 years later and then continuing to work with the company when required (which was often) until the week before he died at 88. He collated, restored and donated over £10000000 worth of military and broadcast equipment to museums, training facilities and colleges around the country. If i can be a tiny flash of what he was, have the passion and eye for detail he and Dave share, ill be a very happy man. Thanks for sharing this. Be well, be happy.

[@jwbeck21]

Looks so sharp, that gold lettering just pops! Congrats on a great project!!

[@charleshettrick2408]

Thank you for sharing. Very interesting and helpful. I purchased the exact same drill 46 years ago. The table "Raise and Lower Crank" handle part #54 is a short, straight, stubby, substantial crank with wooden swivel grip. My hand feed lever (#80) came with one broken arm. (3 versus 4 levers) Eventually, I will braze on the broken handle or cast a new handle. We broke the flywheel when the 4x4 cross beam in the shop where it was purchased broke while lifting the drill off the column. (Rotten beam.) Fortunately, the beam broke when the drill touched the cart. So it only tipped over. But several years ago, I purchased a basket case Western Chief #14 drill with the exact same flywheel used on the #16. I cut off the flywheel. It's a perfect match. The next year, I sold the #14 for parts for $5 more than purchase cost. Right now, the #16 drill has been on its side, on a large cart, consuming a lot of garage footprint awaiting my retirement. Hope it will turn out as good as yours.

[@nylonguitar]

Great video! Patients is a virtue,as it is proven throughout this video. Thanks for sharing!

[@ringerson4x4]

The gold on black looks incredible, I can see why it was originally done in those colors.

[@JacobPaul123]

Dave is definitely the type of craftsman that i aim to be

[@scottrhoades9056]

I really like the wedge alignment system for your forms. It looks bullet proof without having to fumble with form placement.

[@happyyardservice2914]

New here and this channel is fantastic.

[@Fearsome4some74]

This is a wonderful channel ! Your words at the end were spot on as usual 😊

[@TheToolmanTim]

Fascinating is the only word needed to describe this video.

[@noway-sk3yr]

Had bought a Buffalo Forge no. 616 post drill off of an auction for 30 bucks. All the pieces were on it just needed de rusting which i am halfway done with now. I have to thank you for publishing these videos or i would have never known what that listing was and would have glossed over it. Instead, i will now have a very good drill press for my small shop and maybe a conversation piece for anyone that comes over and looks in.

[@1956Taz]

Excellent show! glad to see the casting is being put into the blacksmithing Channel as well

[@networkengineer.online]

Artists working on a work of art. You have wonderfully documented this and I appreciate it.

[@walterplummer3808]

Looking forward to weeing it complete. Thanks for the videos.

[@mackfisher4487]

17:06 This Craftsman skills are hypnotic, in the upper right-hand corner are what look like the axle or railroad motor cars trucks. I wonder what interesting project will be made from those perhaps a vehicle for exploring abandoned railroads.

[@DaveVanSlyke]

Thank you for your interest. The trucks are from a 1948 Corley circular sawmill that I am restoring for our county museum. “Back in the day” we had hundreds of these old gyppo sawmills running throughout the area.

[@mackfisher4487]

@@DaveVanSlyke wow the history of old machines and the way thing were done in the day.

[@davidhazelton8327]

Nice work!!

[@americanangler94559]

Good episode

[@plalonde2]

About six months ago the exact drill fell in my lap. Now I'm doing much the same, but with different missing parts. The entire table crank assembly (shown starting at 10:43) is missing, so that will be a fun exercise in sourcing the right bevel gear and fabricating an appropriate bracket. The clutch saddle is in two pieces - looks like someone got some paint in the cone clutch and instead of cleaning it let it act like lubricant and over-tightened the assembly, breaking it. A straightforward forging and turning job for me. Thanks for the great reference resources, both your video and the links!

[@trevordavis1854]

Love this projects, turning out fantastic!!

[@royreynolds108]

Windy Hill Foundry in Mississippi would be a good source to do cast iron castings. Clarke Easterling also casts bronze and aluminum.

[@thedasroach7743]

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps in a truer sense its owner, than the listless voluptuary who enjoys its fruits…In view of this consideration, it seems as if all peasants and craftsman might be elevated into artists; that is, men who love their labour for its own sake, improve it by their own plastic genius and inventive skill, and thereby cultivate their intellect, ennoble their character, and exalt and refine their pleasures. And so humanity would be ennobled by the very things which now, though beautiful in themselves, so often serve to degrade it…But, still, freedom is undoubtedly the indispensable condition, without which even the pursuits most congenial to individual human nature, can never succeed in producing such salutary influences. Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness… …we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.”

[@stephengent9974]

Actually aluminum melts at 800C and steel 1500. Structural integrity is lost at half that. Of course the type of each will make the absolute temp slightly different

[@dirtapple1716]

We are nearing the capitalist death knell of society; craftsmanship is not sustainable, people who truly care can not afford to care. - A Non-Professional who does professional work, because he can't afford not to.

[@christopherevans195]

Were there concerns of the new casting be smaller than the original due to thermal shrinkage? This would be where the beauty of 3d scanning and printing would come in handy to get very close to the original part dimensionally.

[@thomasbrown9402]

I was surprised Dave didn't have a pressure pot for his moldmaking. Gets rid of those bubbles!

[@alfredomartinez2615]

Curious as to why you just wouldn’t machine these parts? They would come out stronger and be more precise.

[@taylorbarnes5377]

Thanks! This was one of my top 3 favorite videos I’ve ever seen on this channel.

[@clydenakashima7393]

I wonder if anybody in this generation is learning the machinist work of pouring Babbitt bearing and doing casting and any other skills a machinist had to know.

[@jefff6167]

This is a fascinating video. You have some very talented friends. 👍🇺🇸

[@StormbringerMM]

Nice. You should check out the Progress 4E i am working on.

[@saltwaterinmyveins]

This is great! I have a B.F.Barnes 20" drill press.

[@krenwregget7667]

All of my best work has been done when there's no money involved.

[@davidmosscrop2374]

Hello Scott; I am impressed by: your channel, the wide variety of content, the expert advice, tricks& tips from a pro, but most of all I am impressed by you! You speak very well and intelligently. You are a gentleman. Slowly working though your content. Be well Cheers David

[@brianpburch]

my local blacksmith club has one of these old drills, a hand crank model, and it is amazing how easy it was to drill a 3/8" hole through a piece if 1/2" bar stock. Just blew my mind. I hope to have one of these in my shop some day. Thanks for all you do for us! God bless my friends.

[@huckleberry5653]

Thank you for sharing. My grandfather some friends and myself how to pour babit bearings years ago. We were rebuilding a cable tool well drilling rig. He used wax paper as the spacer between the babit and the drive shaft. This allows clearance for lubricant and easily removed.

[@WalterRiggs]

8:29 How do you clean those mixing containers? or are they trash at this point? 22:35 I don’t get how you floated the rectangle in the hole to make the square hole in the handle.

[@joshwillis5893]

I don't know about the moving containers but maybe can answer your other question, he didn't show it but the two square stubs sticking out of the handle pattern where the hole should be creates a square void in the mold. After the pattern is removed a square and in this case tapered insert can be added to the mold before closing up the two mold halves which will leave the square hold in the casting.

[@Lewis-kf2pj]

I’ve never seen anyone go about casting using moulding plastics and making moulds from extant parts etc, but I really like the idea. I mean absolutely no offence here, but it takes away the crazy skill of pattern-making. Thereby making it viable to a lot more people, I would gamble. Absolutely fantastic!!

[@Quentin687]

I need a whole video dedicated to what he did at 19:27.

[@davearonow65]

Babbit called. Said he wanted his bearings back. Bob called, said he wanted his plumb back. Phillip called, said he wanted his screw driver back. Keep it going. Hint, there are thousands of these!

[@seancasey2444]

It's looking amazing especially with the gold letters. Nice work Dave

[@craigwask6098]

Started watching with the spec house. Since then you’ve continued to fascinate a guy who’s been around construction his entire life. So many different skills have been featured with your series. Thank you

[@keithviolette5870]

So cool to see old equipment repaired. I have a simpler version of a similar post drill, still in working order, right next to the CNC Bridgeport mill that I rewired.

[@bobireland1256]

Scott, everything on your channel is a Master Class!!! Pray maintain speed and course.

[@BrittCHelmsSr]

Great video on pattern making and casting and just the general process of a quality restoration.

[@hokimocus]

I wonder what the melting point of bronze is? I sold bearings for many years. There were many sintered and regular bronze bearings that required being pressed out and the new pressed in. I never thought one could pour an aluminum bearing. Fascinating stuff.

[@te01guy]

The bearings are not aluminum, but rather Babbitt. This is a primarily tin alloy usually combined with a few other elements depending on shaft speed. Alloys of Babbitt are still used in modern insert style automotive bearings today. Babbitt melts around 4-500 F, while bronze is 17-1800 F.

[@hokimocus]

@@te01guy Thanks for the feedback. Makes me wonder how they achieved the higher temperatures during Bronze Age. At a certain point, blowing on the fire, isn't enough. Creating a steel sword had to be even more of a challenge.

[@glynlockyer1546]

Love this comment to the detail

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for the awesome content and all the amazing videos!!

[@kevinhornbuckle]

Thank you for having good mics. It is nice to not have to strain to hear you.

[@coevicman3685]

Wow!!! what a project. Came out more than perfect.👍🙏

[@briangrammer898]

❤❤VIDEO ❤❤

[@psidvicious]

Very cool to watch! Casting of any kind is way out of my own skill set, so it’s very interesting to watch the thought process explained and executed.

[@psidvicious]

This reminds me of something Neil over on Pask Makes channel would attempt on one of his projects. Great channel as well. (Made this a separate comment because it might get deleted for mentioning another channel 🤷‍♂)

[@jerbear7952]

Im ao grateful to see all of this. Im working on mine now

[@tristanconnolly5675]

Nice!

[@richw9205]

Awesome awesome awesome!!!! Perfect content!!

[@GDOG520]

👍

[@keithparady2594]

That was a good one

[@hokimocus]

If it's urethane or pizza dough, it's always better to measure part A (Water) to part B (Flour) by weight. By the way, fascinating work, restoring that bit of our history when this country made all, that it needed.

[@pistool1]

These videos work better without any music : -)

[@danielsimonson3484]

I could be wrong. But won't that aluminium part rust the cast Iron?