Let's Build a Model Steam Engine : Finishing Touches

[@calvinsmith9824]

I will now forever refer to wood glue as Loctite for plants.

[@willemkossen]

I loved that joke ;)

[@mikus4242]

It is Dutch, it really is!

[@RonCovell]

Quinn - Congratulations for bringing a long, great project to a close. I was amazed about how the subtle 'tweaks' of color really brought some wonderful character to the bricks. They would have looked pretty stark in their original configuration. Great that you are carrying on the 'Bob Ross' tradition!

[@traitorouskin7492]

I was going to comment very similar but I'm lazy so I'll like yours instead. Thanks for helping me Ron.

[@MrJTBolt]

I, too, appreciated the Bod Ross call back. Plus "Loctite, but for plants!"

[@DavidLindes]

@@somebodyelse6673 hah. I think you’ll be waiting a while... that hair, while lovely (I especially liked the side shot at the mill where we could see the hair clip), looks too straight and fine to be the sort that’ll give a “fro” look. :) But as long as it’s happy hair, that’s ok. 😂

[@danluther9078]

"... not to be confused with 'filibuster screws' which just seem to go on and on..." -- Hilarious!!

[@mihailobradash2439]

Love the locktite for plants. As a hybrid wood and metal worker I have found that a nice high speed and an end mill on the lathe cleans and squares up wood pretty nice if you don't have a plane.

[@roundtuitracingaz132]

To weld wood you need a stick welder.

[@Blondihacks]

Ahaha, well played. 😂

[@Andrew_Fernie]

Nice ! 👍

[@robertpearson8798]

Twig welding.

[@martinhansen2315]

Fine job, but I was surprised you did not try and use the mill to shape the wood base.

[@drawvenmusket]

yes I was expecting to see it squared to perfection with beautiful fly cutting grace. and then a properly milled drain with a shallow bit of draft to aid in flow. Quin you do know that wood can be tapped too. I wood turning we often thread wood and harden the threads with thin CA glue (AKA thin super glue)

[@LaserFur]

yea. The mill with a really sharp bit would have worked well.

[@DavidWalling]

Glad I'm not the only one that was curious about this.

[@gwheyduke]

Some machinists don't like to cut wood on their metal working tools. The sawdust can accumulate in hidden areas and the wood attracts moisture thus causing corrosion.

[@robertoswalt319]

I love that shade of red with the cast iron. This engine turned out incredibly well and you have every right to brag about it.

[@greengohm]

The pronunciation of the wood glue got me rolling on the floor! :D

[@oliverb7897]

Quinn's dutch is very good

[@paulshouse524]

As a hand-tool woodworker I have to say HAHAHAHA!!! As a fan I must tell you how much I've loved and enjoyed watching this series. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us!

[@rlm98253]

Well done, Quinn. And it was nice to see you without your headscarf.

[@neilritchie4596]

I agree a "better" look

[@iamjimgroth]

I hadn't even realised I never saw her head before. Glad to see she's human.

[@occasionalmachinist]

Without wishing to be rude, unless you comment regularly on Tom Lipton's beard or This Old Tony's manicure, is commenting on Quinn's appearance really relevant to the work she does?

[@vintyprod]

@@occasionalmachinist it's just a compliment relax

[@kelvin0mql]

@@occasionalmachinist I did see one TOT vid where he showed his face, not just his hands, which is an apt comparison. I commented that he was very pretty. Happy now?

[@warrenuecker683]

Living proof (via live steam and incredible talents) that appearance matters a lot. Oh, and filibuster screws: may you, like them, go on and on forever!

[@Abrikosmanden]

This has been a great series! I saw that base on Instagram and thought that you had actually built it out of tiny bricks! I almost can't believe that you made it out of that plastic sheet! Very impressive.

[@randynovick7972]

Holy cats, what a glorious conclusion! ... and also supervised by a real cat! Nice. So glad to have been along for the ride. Thanks Quinn!

[@IM-qq3jf]

Hello from Australia. Well I just absolutely Love your videos. You are a legend, such a knowledged person for someone so young. You have a nice medative voice and manner that allows us to absorb such techinical and difficult tasks, which inspires me to indulge in model engineering. So great to have a lady showing how it can be done, good on you. I like the way you are honest with your mistakes and not hiding them. I have corrected my own mistakes or learnt from watching others make them. I will continue to lap up your wonderful videos. Thank you. Ian T.

[@BrianMcQ]

Quinn...I have absolutely no interest in machining. But, my father-in-law DOES and recommended I watch you. So, I have been watching your channel for about three or four months now and I have to tell you, I still have no interest whatsoever in machining but your process -- and especially your humor -- keep me coming back. The thing that separates you from most is your willingness to not only admit 'mistrakes' but you show how you recover. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you're a jewel, Quinn. Keep doing that voodoo that you do so well. B

[@hotplatelabs]

Thank you again for this series. Every episode has really been something to look forward to. I wish more people were able to make such well produced documentaries about their skills and passions.

[@robertsteinwandel6658]

The shots with you in them are actually really useful and interesting, for those of us just learning its super helpful to see what someone experienced is actually doing with their body during these operations. Thanks for the great vid!

[@bostedtap8399]

Some excellent finishing touches to an excellent build, colour scheme was perfect. Thanks for sharing. Best regards from the UK. John

[@Guineh76]

Kind of like Locktite but for plants cracked me up. 😂

[@matthackman5429]

I enjoy the detailed description of the steps when you are working them. You have become the #1 Machinest show I watch. For the boiler that you’re going to make for the just completed steam engine I hope that it will be a vertical boiler. I learn from every episode. Thanks. “Old Salt 65-85”

[@francismcarthur5496]

Beautiful Job on completion, including a Calico. Laugh & 1/2 for comments! Keep posting. You are an inspiration!

[@nicholashacking381]

"Only been run half-a-dozen times" ? You mean that you've been playing with it while we weren't there? I think we're all feeling a little bit left-out now.

[@FredMiller]

Spectacular result Quinn, congrats on your workmanship! A quick tip for plowing out that center groove in the wood base. A sharp end mill running "balls out" will cut that wood like butter. You can even use it to square up the wood base. Keep up the great work!

[@nadieselgirl]

I could watch that engine run for hours. Amazing work and I learned a bunch here again!

[@earnierosenow9834]

wow i just binge watched the entire process building this , very impressive, you have a wonderful talent

[@davfew]

Loved the colour, and the way the bricks turned out. No disputing studs beat slot head screws!

[@evanbarnes9984]

What an excellent series! Totally not something I would have expected to watch every minute of when I first started.

[@JonPearsall]

That is some fine brick weathering.

[@MeatSim5]

I cant beleive its all done! ive been addicted to this series ever since the first ep. Its amazing how an overwhelming number of castings and stock can turn into a beautiful machine with sweat tears time and more tears.

[@danbreyfogle8486]

Fantastic finish. I liked the brick treatment with various colors.

[@JimWhitaker]

That brickwork painting is just stunning.

[@jdspeed99z]

There’s a neat little company that makes mini materials, they have red bricks, cinder blocks and all kinds of miniature construction materials that would be cool to build something out of.... love the series. Thanks for sharing!

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

Nice work! Like the way that rug ties the room together...

[@Blondihacks]

The dude abides.

[@rogerbehrens4879]

Beautiful end result Quinn. Loved watching all the weekly videos of this build. I will definitely have one on my wish list to build in the future. Thank you for your very informative and interesting commentary along the way. ❤️❤️

[@rickmellor]

That shot of you with no do-rag was shocking! 😃

[@Blondihacks]

It keeps my hair safe, but with my hair longer, the welding cap is only useful for keeping my intros consistent. 😬

[@fladder1]

@@Blondihacks but inconsistency is so much more fun for those of us with OCD!

[@akaHarvesteR]

Holy cow that was an amazing amount of effort into the last push to completion. My usual level of finishing is what you could call a ‘tool marks and sharpie’ style... Your final result blows me away.

[@boylard]

What do I watch now? By far the best thing on youtube. Sorry TOT, you are more amusing but Quinn has made a fantastic model engine.

[@danpettersson4671]

Those bricks... Wow! Also thank you for entertainment in the entire series.

[@Unrivaledanime]

Girllllll. You knocked it out of the park I love it....

[@brainsironically]

@5:56 : Wow! What an amazing project. I'm weird: I find machinery beautiful, and your creation is absolutely wonderful. Thanks for sharing the build with us!

[@stevedelmore2277]

“ locktite for plants”!! Gold!! Thanks Quinn for this series and congratulations on beautiful project very well done!

[@BlackSunCompany]

Nice to see this finally come together as a finished piece. Great job! The brick weathering and recoloring definitely looks good as well as the mortar darkening.

[@johnapel2856]

Your pronunciation of "wood glue" brought to mind "Fra-gee-lay" from A Christmas Story. Great project! Thanks, and Meow to Sprocket.

[@rpavlik1]

Just awesome. Thanks for letting us feel like we're part of it.

[@RandomEskimo42]

So satisfying to finally see the finished engine!

[@15rats]

I know I'm commenting on an older video, but I just finished this series after discovering your channel and I've absolutely loved it. One important safety tip from a former professional carpenter: when using a powered miter saw (chop saw), please don't ever cross your arms in front of the blade like at 2:40ish. It's super super easy to do and I see it all the time, but as silly as it sounds you run a very real risk of cutting into your forearm. Much safer as a rule to either flip the work to the other side of the blade, or to switch hands and cut other-handed. It's one of those things that work out just fine 99 times out of 100, but if you keep that habit, the 100th time will bite you. Congrats on a beautiful finished project! It looks great!

[@christopher9156]

Great job Quinn. Looks and sounds Great.

[@jeffreysmith9369]

I like the rounded corner effect on the bricks. Goes well with the castings.

[@EngineersWorkshop]

Awesome job on the bricks, they look very realistic! Years and years and years ago I was into model railroading myself so I appreciate the talents and skills for that. All in all I would say the engine came out looking exceptional!

[@rgorojovsky]

I'm going to miss this little engine

[@Blondihacks]

It’ll be back quite a bit. 😁

[@richardrutkowski9835]

Exceptional work, plus you are entertaining us at the same time, made me laugh when you mentioned Bob Ross, i thought of him before you said his name. You do have a very clear way of explaining everthing to do with metal work. Love the videos. Cheers rickster.

[@Steviegtr52]

Here in the UK the model shops used to sell miniature bricks. Great to see it finished.

[@jrkorman]

Very well done. The timing on the engine sounds quite nice, the color is great, and the comedy was excellent!

[@rhavrane]

Bonjour Quinn, Bravo ! The result is just perfect and your attention to detail is commensurate with the skills you have shown to build this machine. Even if I had a workshop, I would not be patient enough to do the same quality of work. I will go on following your videos with a great interest, Amicalement, Raphaël

[@dondotson4604]

Quinn, I am so impressed with your steam engine. I made a lot of models as a youngster. Mostly planes , ships and such. I was also an N gauge railroader. ( I worked on real railroad locomotives for 41 yrs .) your technique for making the brick work is great. I did re-machine auto engines as a hobby, and used hi temp paints. That color you picked is beutiful for that sweet steamer. Thank you for sharing.

[@assessor1276]

Excellent work on the base and the cap Quinn - very nice indeed. It is amazing the wash works to “dirtify” the brisk.

[@ned711]

So well done! Congratulations.

[@dalefvictor123]

Just found your youtube channel a couple of days ago. I am a woodworker and I have used a mill to cut wood and the lathe to turn wood and they work great. Metal tools work well for wood.

[@robjohnson1138]

Awesome work! Just FYI, when cutting polystyrene, if you cut with the back of the blade, it tends to score the styrene and send that little curl of plastic up, and has less of a tendency to raise the plastic along the edge of the cut. (The sharp side tends to push the plastic apart, leaving the raised edge that could affect fit. The back side tends to carve out that tiny ridge of styrene to make more of a score). I’ve really enjoyed this series.

[@rickfazzini22]

Quinn, This was a great video series thanks for sharing. With that cast iron top plate, you can take a razor knife to the edge of a piece of Styrene to create thin shavings, then take all the shavings dump them into you disposable shotglass and add some Styrene glue (plastruct) this will turn into a melted past that you can spread very easily along the edges of the top plate, let dry then sand to a uniform edge.

[@kylebell5129]

The brick work and paint was perfect Quinn, verry impressive 👏

[@sambrose1]

If you happen to be in South West Missouri this September and just happen have this great little engine with you I run the big boiler at the Steam O Rama and would be happy to you tie on to our steam lines and run this with all the other stationary engines and models. Good work and thanks for letting us follow along.

[@anthonycourte1384]

Astounding. Great series of trials, tribulations, adventure and final success. Well done Quin.

[@Richard-gh1gv]

Quinn, the steam engine looks great, nice work. Little known Canadian secret, to weld wood, grab your stick welder and put small dowels in it. If the species of wood is incompatible with your sticks, the “loctite for plants” you must use is ‘Weldbond’ Signed, I love Math

[@ImolaS3]

By the way, your channel is the reason my Chinese mini-lathe has been sold and I have essentially purchased the same lathe as you but under a different brand name in the UK - I carefully watched your videos and it definitely did what I needed, so I went for it :) Very pleased with it. You are such an influence : )

[@paulp96275]

Fantastic nicely designed and finished ,your one clever girl 👧 and nice to see you without your cap 🧢 thanks great vid 👍👨🏻‍🏭🇬🇧

[@totally_not_a_bot]

A little tip for glue-ups. You can sprinkle a little common table salt onto the glue to keep things from slipping around. The salt bites into the wood a little and dissolves into the glue as it dries.

[@jameshodgson1609]

Thank you for such an entertaining series. It’s a great looking engine and the timing sounds spot on. I was thinking about engine beds, having spent my misspent early adult hood at various stationary engines in the UK as well as with more mobile forms of steam driven machinery. Your right in saying that the cast iron beds were mostly bolted direct to masonry ( not brick ) and the fly wheel would be in a pit . Where there was often fancy brick work it was on the walls of the engine house. Eg. If you look for photos Cold harbour woollen mill in Devon ( which has a lovely 1910 Pollit and Wigzell Cross compound horizontal engine by the way) it has a lower part of the engine house in shiny glazed red bricks with shiny white bricks above. My other knowledge is of far older beam engines at Crofton Pumping station ( 1812 for the Bolton and Watt Engine) and others and again the bed of the cylinder was fixed direct to masonry as far as i can recall. However your brick looks great and I like the custom variations.

[@mumblbeebee6546]

Congratulations to you and Sprocket for this pleasing conclusion of a big project!

[@terminalpsychosis8022]

Awesome series. Enjoyed that start to finish. And what a finish! The engine looks amazing. The bricks really add a sense of scale and look great.

[@cptmilius5561]

So many great lines in that video; and a beautiful engine.

[@dass1333]

Top notch video Quinn. Humor level was excellent. Informational content was excellent. Love the Knipex portable hand vise.

[@Blondihacks]

Knipex pliers are amazing! Recent acquisition.

[@comictrio]

Excellent job on the engine. Love the paint color. A very enjoyable series to watch.

[@daniel_bohrer]

Sprocket Content 😻

[@donmeyers7832]

Great paint job ,much better than spray cans, I painted my old Clayton steam wagon ,frame ,axles , this cheap way will keep from rusting , and sand blasted the steel parts & frame before spraying .

[@howder1951]

Great job on the entire engine Quinn, and a lovely finishing effort. The brick treatment was nothing short of amazing. Terrific work-person-ship, cheers!

[@mattiegriffiths]

Love this little engine!! Colours great! Also loctite for plants 😂

[@mbainrot]

**pauses video to try out the glove trick with his full face respirator** **succeeds and makes TF2 Pyro noises**

[@ultratorrent]

Silly tip for working with small things that you're painting or soldering (work holding that is simple enough for the task).... Using sticky tack to hold things in place! The reusable glue of our childhoods finally has a home in hobbies of today!

[@bobvines00]

Quinn, for future glue-ups, try making a glue spreader out of a piece of saw blade with a handle welded(?) in the center (a T-shape). It evenly & quickly spreads the glue similar to the trowels that are used when laying ceramic tile.

[@davedunn4285]

Love to see your boiler construction Quinn

[@greatevil-one-too]

Thanks for so many enjoyable hours watching this series

[@johnkinnane547]

G'day Quinn and greetings from Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺 that engine looks terrific something to be proud of the colour is very nice , John

[@a62chv]

Love the videos!, and the ‘humor?’ is an added bonus!! Cheers

[@MyAvitech]

That really looks fantastic in that color! As a painter, I love that you brush painted the engine rather than spraying it. Brushing it allows for a thicker paint layer which gives the casting a smoother look I tend to associate with older painted cast iron. Also, R.I.P M.E.K 😢 I used M.E.K to thin down aircraft paint for spraying. The M.E.K substitute doesn't play well with it.

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

Great project series! I've watched it all. That painted brick base really does set it off. Beautiful work!

[@GaryT1952]

Really impressive brick work Quinn! Loved it when you channeled Bob Rossi...overall an extremely enjoyable and entertaining series...thanks for all your effort

[@markh2005]

Looking forward to more steam Quinn. Glad to see that Sprocket finally lent a paw! 😍

[@gregorycross612]

Is the cat's name sprocket?

[@markh2005]

@@gregorycross612 Yup, and shes a cutie!

[@Blondihacks]

More like a disapproving eye. She’s a tough room.

[@BrianSmith-le6uy]

Love the engine color! Looking forward to the steam plant series.

[@MrNigel1340]

Hi Quinn, another excellent video, nice finishing block for the engine, one little trick for paper gaskets is put some grease on them, this soaks into the gasket paper and makes it waterproof plus flexible and helps to seal, used to do this with car waterpump gaskets and never had any leaks, Kind regards Doc Cox.

[@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_you]

Between loctite for plants and the Bob Ross impersonation you had me in fits of laughter 🤣

[@mitsukowalker5831]

...and, you do really nice work on the cosmetic end of the project. Good for you!

[@LaddGardner4]

Never known a machinist with such artistic flair, Quinn, let alone a talent for making instruction fun. That model engine ranks right up there with the best I've seen. Fantastic series from start to finish.

[@robertmalis4493]

Final product looked amazing Quinn

[@glennwright9747]

I have used the mill and a fly cutter on wood. Sharp tool and lots of rake. Aluminum insert also works. Adjust so cutter is more along the grain than cross grain. ☺

[@evr4921]

Love the Burgundy and Brass!! Great job on your build. Might try one myself

[@sofiatgarcia3970]

I'm a Canadian cabinetmaker. The first thing we do when we open any foreign hardware is pull out all the Phillips screws and replace them with Robertson head screws. Slotted screws are considered an abomination. :)

[@Blondihacks]

Phillips screws are monstrous. They’ll pry the Robertson screws from this Canadian’s cold dead hands.

[@colincunningham1902]

Hi, greetings from Townsville, Australia. Love your channel, you, and Sprocket. Hope you're all well and fighting fit. Best and kindest regards, Col Cunningham.

[@Nf6xNet]

This has been a great series. I half expected this to be a video about firing tiny little red bricks.

[@d.graydraftinganddesign361]

Great series Quinn. Thanks so much for all your efforts