Diresta Bandsaws Restoration 22: Pouring Babbitt Bearings on the Upper Wheel Shaft

[@jimmymckay73]

Who else was hollering ? WHOA WHOA WHOA !!! While that shaft was rolling off the table.

[@timothyreed6054]

LOL I caught myself reaching out to grab that shaft. Always enjoy your pouring videos Keith. Thanks for sharing.

[@andrewstoll4548]

I did too. Didn't work.

[@LanceMcGrew]

Red Lined the Pucker Factor

[@petert3355]

Give the OP a thumbs up if you yelled at the screen too....

[@diogenes34]

I had the same reaction.😅

[@walter2990]

Yep, I was yelling, "Keith, watch out!!"

[@mariusj8542]

I tried yell hey!!! When I saw it started to roll 😂

[@WayneCook306]

Yes me too.

[@joedowling5452]

Doesn't matter how many times it gets shown, I will always watch a babbit pouring video. There is something about molten metal.

[@tomnorman5461]

Sounds like a "Terminator 2" thingy?

[@broggyr]

I love watching babbitt pours.

[@petert3355]

@@tomnorman5461 It's just something about casting / forging metals..... (whatever metal that may be).

[@Bargle5]

Yep, always enjoy these.

[@stewkingjr]

Gotta admit, subject's pretty hot.

[@denniswhite166]

I wish I saw this video 30 years ago.

[@jasonfayock2664]

We just bought a 100 year old power shear and we took the bearing caps off and saw the poured babbitt bearings but didn't know what they were. Now we do. Just subscribed

[@bcbloc02]

Always good to get lucky !

[@horsebee1]

As an apprentice many years ago I assisted in poring two very large babbitts on a 24 ton shaft then spent the next three days blueing and scraping the bearings in. This bought back those memories.

[@lowercherty]

Been in plant maintenance for 40 years and this is the first time I've actually seen this.

[@StevenEverett7]

I was yelling at you that the shaft was going to fall, but I guess you couldn't hear me from Rhode Island! 😉😉😉I'm glad the shaft wasn't damaged.

[@lonniebrock3282]

Very fine job and seems like it would be fun

[@kurtbenner8095]

your looking GREAT Keith. And as usual a great video.

[@DowncastOdin]

Watching that shaft slowly roll off the bench kills me

[@davidotness6199]

Mighty fine, Keith. A pleasure to observe a master at work.

[@jakehanneman6956]

Love the safety shorts, they go great with that welding jacket 😂

[@brianatbtacprod1989]

Sitting here eating breakfast, and Vintage Machinery turns to horror video. Glad nothing was damaged. Great work as always.

[@johncloar1692]

Thanks Keith for another great video. I was shouting at the computer when I saw that shaft moving, glad everything turn out.

[@PhilG999]

Just now, me too! Saw it rolling and NO!

[@mdlclap]

😂

[@mdlclap]

Nice job. Brings back a lot of good memories of pouring, patching, and scrapping babbit bearings. I was lucky enough to serve an apprenticeship at a machine tool rebuilder in the early 70s before working on hydro turbines, where I worked with large babbit bearings. Sometimes taking a couple of days to scrape a single bearing. I once even was lucky enough to be part of a team that hand-scraped the bearing that an observatory sat on. If I remember correctly, that bearing segmented was 32' in diameter.

[@quantumleap359]

Great video Keith! Watching a babbitt bearing pour is so satisfying to watch.

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

I think my neighbors heard me screaming at the monitor as the shaft was rolling off the table... Good there was no damage, close one. Thanks Keith...Enjoyed

[@stevecadman137]

I found a couple of those bearing scrapers in my grandads workshop, I could never figure out what they were for....now I know.

[@mdlanor5414]

I’ve watched all of your videos. Many of your videos I consider teaching videos. I took machine shop 9th trough 12th grade. 11th and 12th grades I took double periods of machine shop. After watching all of your videos. The videos where you explain in detail what machines to use and how to fabricate parts. These videos are really easy to understand. Not that I ever will, but I’m confident that I could go to any machine shop that doesn’t use machines that aren’t CNC machines And fabricate precision parts. Right down to using a dividing head to cut gears. Becoming a Machinist was my second choice of what I was going to do with my life. My Grandfather and Dad didn’t want to hear this from me. I come from a Railroad Family. I’m a Retired 5th generation railroad Locomotive Engineer. Both of my sons are 6th generation railroad Locomotive Engineers and my oldest Grandson just recently passed the Conductor Class and is a 7th generation railroader. Your KZbin channel is one of the few that I always look forward to new videos. Thank you for all the what I consider teaching videos. P.S. Excellent job done on the belt driven planer,your horizontal boring machine and any of the other machines you’ve reconditioned to more accurate than when they were new.

[@davidhudson5452]

Looking good

[@fdegeorge2000]

Thanks

[@mikeking7470]

A big thanks for including the video of the "whoopsie". And your calm at that moment was inspiring.

[@edwickyates5374]

So very interesting.

[@michaelgian2649]

Keith, you need to add this to the playlist.

[@edsmachine93]

Very nice work Keith. The pore came out good. Nice fit on the shaft. Thanks for sharing the process. Take care, Ed.

[@walter2990]

Learning a new way to do things in the shop, Smarter Everyday"! Thanks Keith! That was fun and educational, for an old machinist.

[@rontrabbic8827]

I love your machine work

[@geraldharkness8830]

love the babbit pouring

[@joewhitney4097]

Oh Keith, I hollard when I seen the shaft rolling off. 😐 Glad and hope nothing was damaged. And glad you are ok. I love watching babbitt bearing pours and scraping. It's becoming a lost art of the crafts. As always, thanks for sharing.

[@WillyBemis]

This is great! Thank you Keith!

[@kennethsiler9503]

Thank you for teaching me how to for Babbid I’ve seen Babbid engines in my lifetime is the first day and you know overhauled was a Babbitt engine and we sent it to a machine shop to have the Babbage poured

[@rexmyers991]

You are a National Treasure! I am amazed at how vast your knowledge and skill range is.

[@dwaynelambert2944]

Love seeing these Babbitt pouring still being used and the Restoration of the Old Machinery.

[@billmckillip1561]

Nearly spilled my coffee!

[@petegraham1458]

That pour tuned out very nicely!

[@paulputnam2305]

Thank You for sharing your wonderful life with us. That was a very informative video.

[@richardsurber8226]

marvelous job on the video. good babbitt pour

[@alanjackson4397]

I was hollering, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

[@scottm5425]

Amazing, this was a complete mystery to me before and is easier than I expected. Great video, Thanks.

[@billjohnson5793]

Awesome thanks

[@standintallish5223]

Fire, turning, great host, what’s not to love!

[@shubus]

I think we all yelled "Keith" as the shaft started rolling off the table. Always enjoy Babbitt Bearing pours.

[@mattbogner9870]

Love your videos!

[@garethhoward3995]

Liked your machining of the collars as a way to align the shaft and provide proper bearing thickness and also a dam. I will catalog that in my memory for future use for who knows what.

[@mdouglaswray]

Beautiful technique Keith! Thanks for keeping this method alive!!

[@paulanderson7259]

Thank you for what you do.

[@matthiasgopfert7970]

2 thumbs up on this great video! Only very few people out there beeing able to "feel" a bearing seat :-D It simply has to feel right, smooth, light, no play

[@paulkinzer7661]

I'm pretty sure my first video viewing at Vintage Machinery was a babbit pour. So cool to watch a really hot process!

[@garydumoulin6318]

Nice video. It was common to cut grooves in the shaft so that there was no side to side movement in the shaft. While it didn't serve as a thrust bearing, it did prevent the shaft from walking out of the bearing.

[@wazzazone]

Wonderful videos as always Keith.

[@rustyshackleford928]

I knew you would get away with that double pour. Nice work.

[@bobweiram6321]

Pour John Babbit! His shaft is finally repaired!

[@beelerfamilyfarm]

That was a great pour! Recently rebuilt a grain mill that had babbit in it. I will confess I cleaned up the housing and used oil impregnated bronze bushings when I put it back together. 😂

[@bmwbob51]

My father was in the Merchant Marines on a Liberty ship during WWII and the ship used babbitt bearing and was always curious about them. My father volunteered on the Jeremiah O'Brian on San Francisco Bay during retirement and took the the ship to Normandy for the 50th anniversary. the Jeremiah O'Brian was at Normandy during the invasion.

[@shamrock56gargan96]

Always a great interesting video, sure learned a lot.😊

[@cbhirsch]

How would the manufactures poured the Babbitt bearings back when the saw was made during production?

[@bigjohn2520]

Fun to watch. I remember doing one on an old commercial washing machine 50 years ago. The washer was 45 years old at the time we fixed it.

[@doscucharas]

That’s a masterclass in the technique right there.

[@keepcalmandfarmon5401]

I enjoy and I learn from your videos!!! Thanks for taking the time to make them. I will be pouring babbitt in a pump jack restoration I am working on--everything I know about pouring babbitt I learned from you!!!

[@ralphpavero7760]

Thank you for showing how to pour bappit bearings I always wondered how it was done my dad always talked about it

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing.👍

[@smaggies]

Great work, can't wait to see the machine running.... Thank Keith :)

[@lecnac855]

You never fail to impress. Well done.👍⭐

[@mrfarmall-vk4gw]

Babbitt is always stressful for me, i am always second guessing things after i pour something, nice job!👍

[@williamdavis7094]

love what you do it gives me great satisfaction when you do a good job I wish I could do what you do but I can't thank you very much

[@mudnducs]

Another job completed! Love watching how you do things around the shop, always a pleasure watching a master craftsman. Thanks Keith!

[@metalslingr]

Very nice, Keith. Thanks for the lesson.

[@floridaflywheelersantiquee7578]

Thanks for sharing Keith

[@chisdalton9652]

Really cool stuff

[@MrArtVendelay]

I took machine shop in HS in 1968. My teacher would have killed me if I used the scale as a trimming tool.

[@dermotkelly2971]

good old-fashioned workmanship.

[@waynephillips2777]

I was amazed at how well pouring the top bearings went. Another job well done

[@paulcopeland9035]

You need to review his past videos. He has poured a lot of successful bearings.

[@bobflores]

Watching that shaft roll off your bench I had a flashback to Andy Rawls pattern makers vise fall off his bench. Luckily with different results. Thanks for the video.

[@WayneCook306]

Great job Keith well done.👍👍👍👍

[@russtuff]

I love watching this process. Have you considered making a heater table like @TopperMachineLLC uses? Basically a steel grate table top with propane burners under it. It looks convenient.

[@johnfithian-franks8276]

Hi Keith I have one of those scrappers and I have always wondered what it was used for, now I know

[@user3141592635]

I like your videos much. I also like your pronounciation of the word "Oil". It sounds like "Ål" [Ool] in Swedish, for this is an enlongerated fish called Anguilla Anguilla, known as common Eel:) The Germans calls it "Öl", wich translates directly to beer, in Swedish, haha. But that is not the same thing, it is a so called "false friend". In Sweden it is called "olja", wich translates neatly into "oil" Nice video.

[@garys9694]

My wife and I used to vacation on the beautiful island of Anguilla.

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@argee55]

Bravo! Another job well done.

[@johnnyholland8765]

Good pour. Speaking of Wilton vices I was at my local farm sale in Hazlehurst Ga last week and a 6 inch well used Wilton vice bolted to a very well used metal shop table brought a healthy price of 400 dollars. I wanted the vice but stopped bidding at 250. Great job on the shaft refurbishment...

[@MrChevelle83]

I bought an NOS wilton 6inch (old usa made one) I paid $750 and had to drive to milner Ga whew heck of a ride from north ga.

[@ton146]

I made a rule only to wear shoes and not slippers in my shop. Also yelled ‘watch out’ when I saw the shaft roll but I am on a different continent so there was no way! Thats exactly the reason I made a rule about shoes but it might make good sense to up that to steel toed shoes? Tony

[@andrewhorsburgh2549]

Great job. You still dropping the kilo's? Looking good.

[@peebee143]

I have been watching the bandsaw process out of sync, but it's all just so fascinating!

[@SciPunk215]

Various individual parts are now an assembly!

[@eastcoastwatch672]

Keith, where are you, I can hardly see you anymore, you’re disappearing! I hope all is well!!!

[@transmundanium]

Is that centre section of exposed shaft okay in a dusty work environment? Won't that allow contamination to get into the bearings? And just like everyone else, I yelled NO when I saw that shaft rolling off the bench.

[@markprice1984]

I almost broke my screen reaching in to stop that shaft from rolling off the bench when you turned away. Of course, I would have some nice 2nd degree burns but it turned out OK for both of us😂

[@robertbamford8266]

Looking forward! (Oh, the agony of watching that shaft roll.)

[@davidsellars646]

Should those top pieces have more room for oil storage? Will there be an oil wick in there? Glad nobody was around to hear me yell when the shaft started rolling.

[@johnb6763]

Thanks!!!!

[@MAACotton]

28:40 yeah good thing you got it a little hotter on the preheat

[@marvinpybus4599]

I am sure that someone has already offered this tip, but weld spatter spray, sold at welding supplies stores, will also work instead of soot.

[@P61guy61]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing

[@retrostylemachanic2662]

Is this method all so work as a linear bearing or bronze will work. Can you please do any video about linear bearing typ and how can we build easy and low budget linear bearing

[@user3141592635]

I have one of those bearing scraping tools, but I never realized what they might be good for :)

[@Blazer02LS]

I remember folks saying that solder was Babbitt. With the modern lead free stuff that is getting closer to true. For anyone who doesn't think a babbitt bearing is any good, they have never seen the bearing in most engines. They are no longer poured in place but modern insert bearing still have a babbitt layer on them.

[@haydnjenkins7607]

Very similar to Lead Ball/Bullet casting mold needs to be hottish before pouring you don't want Wrinkly Balls.😜