Ron Grundy: Kearney & Trecker 1H Mill Rebuild - Part 2

[@ianpendlebury3704]

Ron is a GEM of a guy. Both in terms of knowledge and personality. Thanks to both of you.

[@Scrizati]

Nothing wrong with a special guest appearing in a portrait video now and then. Not hard to get used to watching it, and excellent to hear from Ron again

[@walterplummer3808]

The tip about the demagnetizer is really interesting. Portrait didn't bother me. Thanks for posting.

[@JFirn86Q]

Awesome video. Wished I could have seen more detail on the teardown but I understand it's not easy. Really looking forward to the next video from Ron!

[@Otingocni]

Really like this guy. Thanks for showcasing his work.

[@briantaylor9266]

Two thumbs up for Ron! And a couple more for safety glasses and steel toes in the shop. I see way too many popular KZbinrs neglecting the very fundamentals of PPE use, e.g., using an angle grinder without eye protection.

[@ssmt2]

Ron, Thank you for passing on your knowledge! It is very much appreciated! Going by your hat I see that you’re a submarine vet. Same here, but I rode them in the 1980s. Also a big thank you to Kieth for posting this!

[@saschaoswald480]

Amazing....we must preserve Ron's knowledge that took a lifetime to acquire! Please teach us more!

[@MyLilMule]

Ron has been a great help to me in my rehab of my K&T 2HL. Always willing to spend some time on the phone teaching me something and walking me through the process. He keeps telling me I need to scrape all the ways, and he is not wrong, I just don't have any of the skill to do that right now. Perhaps one day I'll have the tools I need to start hand scraping and I'll work my way up to a machine rebuild.

[@shannonstratton3164]

Did Ron give you any insight on the proper wicks to use in the saddle? I'm also redoing a 2H to some extent and looking to do the oiling system right on the first go around. I have all the oil gallies cleaned out, just on the fence on what wick material to use. I've heard of using oil wick or pipe cleaners. Any insight would be helpful!

[@MyLilMule]

@@shannonstratton3164 Pipe cleaners will not work. At least not the ones I tested. They HAVE to wick the oil. I put a couple in a small container and the oil never wicked up. I used 3/16" F3 felt cord from McMaster and also some 1/8" for the passages that go from the top to the bottom. And all of those wicks are supposed to be home run. If there are any breaks in the wick, it won't wick up into where it needs to go. I also used 1/8" F3 felt sheet to make the pads for the top and bottom ways. I've been posting videos of the process on my channel. Next Sunday's video, I'll be fishing the felt cord. Yay. Lots of fun. ;)

[@shannonstratton3164]

@@MyLilMule thank you very much for the info.....going on a hunt now for your channel!

[@rongrundy5136]

@@shannonstratton3164 i think you can get wicking from mcmaster carr... to rewick is fun lol seems to me we would tie a knot on a piece of string blow it to the farthest spot pull wick through then go down oil holes pulling wick up well bette call me lol

[@charliemacrae1045]

Great video! What a great video and a wonderful resource Mr Grundy is. God bless.

[@edwickyates5374]

I enjoy listening and learning from this man, and I hope he will have more videos for us to enjoy.

[@mudnducs]

What a wonderful tour from a man with fantastic outlook! 🙂

[@chuckinwyoming8526]

It would have been wonderful to have this information 40 years ago when I rebuilt my K&T 2HL. Thanks Ron and Keith!

[@jeremycable51]

Was hoping to see more if Ron such a massively talented wealth of knowledge

[@kentuckytrapper780]

The world's most interesting man, I talked to him on the phone he saved me from making a terrible mistake on the bearings in my k&t model k head, a really nice guy...

[@deanehill9730]

Men with Ron,s experience are becoming very rare. Thanks for the video.

[@unpob]

Nice to see Ron using the hand scrapers similar to those my father left me and that I still use.

[@mark63366]

What an amazing amount of information in a video. Thanks for posting this.

[@paulkinzer7661]

If there's one thing KZbin and other archivally able sites provide, it's a way to record the knowledge of folks like Ron. Sure, CNC and other modern stuff have taken over, but the knowledge is precious nonetheless. We cannot truly know what we might want or even need to know in the future, and getting it recorded in every way we can is so important. The masters he learned his mastery from started their own careers not too far from the very beginnings of precision machining, which has led to so much of what we depend on for so much. As someone with a special interest in the history of cameras and their making, I'm saddened at the loss of knowledge about some of the big makers from the beginnings of the field. Folks who made the Great Graflex cameras are mostly gone now, and their knowledge is mostly gone, too. But what has been saved is both fascinating and important. I've repaired/refurbished well over a hundred old Speed Graphic cameras, and their elegance is just wonderful to me. Innovation, even after it's no longer cutting edge, is important to understand; not so much the innovations themselves, but who made them and how they came to be. Ron is, truly, a treasure. On a side note: I've tried to get my son to explain to me why younger folks (mostly) film in portrait mode. He doesn't have a good enough answer (for me, anyway), but it has something to do with the places they post them in. I don't get it; the human eye and mind are wired for landscape perception. But I ignore my old eye's rebellion and watch anyway!

[@jpackard2723]

Happy Birthday Ron !!

[@rongrundy5136]

thanks

[@jpackard2723]

@@rongrundy5136 I thought it was interesting that this came available/posted on your actual birthday. Really appreciate your sharing your knowledge on these. And for those that fussed about the format, really ? There simply is no better source anywhere on these, I'm thankful that Ron is willing to share and Kieth is willing to get these posted/formated what ever the process is called and then out to us. A+A+A+ guys

[@Daniel_cheems]

What a great guy!

[@nashguy207]

Thanks for sharing this Ron. You should make more videos as you restore the Mill.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Wow Very nice Keith Ron is a great guy !

[@w6aav]

Great content! I spoke with Ron on the phone about my 2HL and he gave me some pointers. He was and is a great help and a basket of knowledge.

[@mr.mrscreations]

i love what you do i wish you were my teacher in the workshop 25 years ago

[@redmorphius]

I have the identical mill… this is very relevant to my interests. Thank you so much for sharing this!!!!

[@jpitties]

Great content... gotta learn from those who know... who cares about the format of knowledge.

[@silverbullet7434]

Ron THANK YOU so very much for sharing your wealth of knowledge. God bless you with many healthy years more. As you know our nations not the industrial leader we were.

[@mhansl]

Hey Ron, thanks for a great vid. My Uncle, Warren Mollenhauer, was a machinist in Milwaukee about the same time as you. Not sure which firm, though. Also, my Grandfather, Walter Mollenhauer, was head of the Allen Bradley prototyping shop back mid-century ish. Bit before your time.

[@warrenjones744]

Awsome Ron. Demagnizing the Gib while using a iron plate is a great idea! never thought of that!

[@bradthayer6782]

The demagnetize tip was interesting. I thought it was to keep swarf off, but that it relieves stress was fascinating.

[@ChrisFiggatt]

What a great video with an enormous amount of valuable information! Thanks for sharing!

[@johneverson2433]

Just like the machine that he’s working on a “Classic”

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.👍

[@floridaflywheelersantiquee7578]

Great video enjoyed thanks for sharing

[@cutlerf2194]

Would love to see a video on inspecting and bringing a model H back into service. I have a 2h circa 1946 I hope to revive and am slowly acquiring things for it. I managed to find a low lead gear box, I just need the worm gear sets for it, or specs to have them made.

[@KG-yn9qi]

Thank you sir !

[@petegraham1458]

Thanks for sharing this !

[@outsidescrewball]

Thanks for sharing…awesome

[@DavidHerscher]

Excellent information, well worth getting used to a minor formatting snafu.

[@TheTkiller9999]

Hey Keith, Please ask Ron What Boats he was on.. or worked on.... I was on the USS Nevada and worked on the Simon lake over in holylock scotland. the Simon Lake is a Sub Tender and has a great many Navy folks that run Heavy machinery.

[@rongrundy5136]

uss runner 476....old timer 1961 to 63

[@arthurjacobs9330]

USS Proteus AS-19 out of Guam, 81-82

[@TheTkiller9999]

@@rongrundy5136 Well you absolutely got me on that... since I was not born until 62 :) well from one bubblehead to another looking great!

[@wino4340]

What years in Holy Loch...was on the Kamehameha and G.W. Carver...both out of Holy Loch...love them Dunoon Dollies

[@TheTkiller9999]

@@wino4340 was in Dunoon Scotland from 89 to 91... and I did work on the Kamehameha and the Carver I was in the missle shop

[@tomroskell403]

Great information.i had been hoping ron would make more videos. Would like more information on the wicks and oiler systems. 👍

[@Martina_Vintage_Motorcycles]

I hope to live a lot longer still, but when I do go, I hope to go to milling machine heaven as well 😅

[@dougpark1025]

I liked the hand scraping part of this video. I've seen power scaping some. If I ever do any scraping, which is unlikely as I'm not a machinist. I probably would gravitate toward doing it by hand.

[@billr8667]

Is that a new shop dog checking out your quarters? It looks like a part Jack Russell terrier mix.

[@alphadog6970]

Keith i know you have an old go pro kicking around just send him one. Cant wait for the next episode 👍👍

[@rustbeltmachine]

Keith, Ron, this was a fantastic video. One question I had was about how to ensure the X,Y, and Z axis are square to each other. Seems like Ron was going for flat (and parallel with the dovetails). Is there some sort of easy adjustment to adjust squareness, like on a BP? Thanks.

[@johnkries8189]

Thanks

[@glennmoreland6457]

Good video

[@yasirwazir567]

Such useful information, thank you for making the video. Also, plz make more :)

[@garrettrice7598]

More I need more.

[@k4x4map46]

good stuff!!

[@brianbutler3954]

Do you sharpen your carbide scraper at 20 degrees, like you do for the steel? I only ask because in a scraping class I took we were told 5 degrees for scraping cast iron and 15 for scraping steel, I certainly can try 20 degrees if that is best in your experience

[@rongrundy5136]

yes i do all my scrapers at 15 to 20 by hand and on carbide only use diamond wheel i have seldom scraped anything steel most is cast

[@simsapot]

To be able to bottle Ron’s years of experience and knowledge……

[@TMxl-w5t]

I was wondering, what the noise was, running/going on in the background 👍👌

[@Histandard2011]

Sounded like an air compressor cycling on and of with an unloader valve operating

[@rongrundy5136]

@@Histandard2011 did a lot of work to get background nois out i still have a operating shop had to get job out on a hass cnc that was the noise

[@WilliamTMusil]

Hiya Keith

[@patmcbride9853]

Great! Hope he teaches that young man important things, like using landscape mode for You Tube videos.

[@therealme613]

I’d love to just hang out in his shop and learn

[@componenx]

Ron is great; lots of useful info in a short video. Occasional portrait mode isn't too bad, but I try not to watch things oriented like that. I don't know why people insist on filming that way. Laziness, I guess.

[@liamkelly8684]

Fair play Ron wat a man 👍👍

[@AdrianPardini]

Very useful content. Keith / Ron, sometimes English is not my strong. What's the spelling of the blue-ish tapes you glued to the gibs? Thanks

[@jerryh4983]

Turcite

[@AdrianPardini]

Thanks @@jerryh4983 !

[@rongrundy5136]

i call it turcite way lock google it ...thanks

[@redmorphius]

Do you know if he has any footage of how to take the gearbox out of the knee? No one anywhere has any info on that

[@rongrundy5136]

give me a call

[@samrodian919]

I think you will find that Steve Summers had footage of taking the box out and I certainly remember him putting something back on long dowels like Mr Grundy has coming out of the side of his mill.

[@jsteifel]

Does he have a channel?

[@timothyrients1685]

And a Submariner to boot!!!

[@rongrundy5136]

yes 476 uss runner 61 to 63

[@jimmydm3]

Kearney and Trecker Mill, Brown and Sharpe Screw machine. Bridgepoirt mill, and South Bend lathe. The machines that won World War II. And the machinists who operated them.

[@johnsherborne3245]

800 to 1000 a month! No wonder there are so many surviving.

[@NeilABliss]

Love Ron...hate portrait mode.

[@alstonofalltrades3142]

800 to a 1000 a month... yikes. And Ron if it helps, don't worry about when the Grim Reaper gets you, know one knows when and he's not worried about getting any of us either lol.

[@wino4340]

Submarines once...submarines twice..!!!!

[@christophercullen4889]

Tell that young fellow that type of Filming is useless for this type of video. Kit from Down Under

[@DaleDix]

I hope there aren't too many sissies here that are missing all the good stuff.

[@WoLpH]

I'll never get why some people film in vertical mode... For photos it's sometimes acceptable, for videos it's always a bad idea. Unless your only audience is Tiktok... but you've got another issue in that case

[@rongrundy5136]

sorry will do better next time i have made very few u tube so learning curv thanks for the input

[@WoLpH]

@@rongrundy5136 Don't take it personal, the video itself was really great! The vertical videos are just a gripe of mine

[@wb8nbs]

The vertical format is annoying.

[@TEDodd]

The annoying part is the stupid blurred crap on the sides instead of just pillar boxing. I've hated it since TV news started doing it with cellphone videos.

[@neilpuckett359]

He came up in an America that manufactured.

[@tonyc.4528]

I can't watch verticam, catch you next time!!

[@crocketteerden6240]

Jumping anacondas !

[@SkylersRants]

Oh lord, more scraping. But at least it’s a new method without reciprocating tools. Interesting for a few seconds and now I’m out. Love your channel, but scraping . . .

[@jounijarvinen8323]

Not these please material IS awesome but filming IS piece of ......

[@willybeeish]

Such a shame this was videoed in portrait mode. Must be just me but couldn't watch it. The side shadow movements make me disorientated. A bit like sea-sickness after a while. Oh well. Look forward to your next one Keith.

[@rongrundy5136]

will do better next time

[@kenthesparky178]

Sorry Keith cannot watch portrait style but did give it an up vote.👍

[@mhansl]

It’s not my favorite, either, but it’s not terrible. The kid did a good job other than the camera orientation Give it a shot.

[@kenthesparky178]

@@mhansl I did try but it was really annoying.I cannot watch any video content in this format.I really cannot get my head around anyone filming this way, it just is not a practical way of thinking.

[@ElectraFlarefire]

Good content, awful, awful format. The edges cut off and with all the moving around it just makes everything too hard to watch. Sorry to put a dint in your stats, but this is one of the only videos you put on the channel I just can't watch.

[@incy55]

portrait is unacceptable. sorry

[@cameronmccreary4758]

I agree it is hard to see. Also, scraping is nice but it is hard to beat hardened and ground ways.

[@DaleDix]

Ist world problems.

[@MyLilMule]

@@cameronmccreary4758 There's always a wear surface that needs to be scraped and flaked for oil retention. If the ways are hardened or chromed (like my BR mill), the mating surface still needs to be flat and flaked for oil retention.

[@johanea]

Filmed by a potato and unwatchable.