RUCKER 12" STRAIGHTEDGE PROCESS (PART 1)

Hello my friends, I bring to you part 1 of the 12" Rucker straightedges. Part 1 begins with the molding process that includes two castings per mold. Watch this in it's entirety to see what I recently aquired.
These are currently in production and at a snail's pace due to the struggle to deliver superior castings. Because of issues mentioned in this video I have had my share of rejects getting to this point but with small tweaks here and there to make continuous improvements. Part 2 of this process may be out as early as next week.
Have a great weekend.
Even though the grind and cleanup are not included in part 1, I want to mention Suhner abrasive products. They are contributing abrasives and tooling to make my life much easier and I suggest you check them out.
contact Donny Terry at [phone]
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[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

Thanks for another great video. Windy Hill foundry is one of my favorites.

[@TheBookDoctor]

In college I worked in a soil testing lab, like Roy Reynolds describes, and we used that exact machine and sieves to run particle size distribution tests, to measure the fraction of a soil sample at each size. I was always amazed that the bottom sieves were fine enough to form diffraction patterns when you hold them up to the light. There was a whole different test to get the particle size distribution for stuff finer than the smallest sieve. That one involved mixing a sample with water and measuring the density of the slurry over time as different particle sizes settle out. The sieves were fast, but the wet test took a full 24 hours to run!

[@silmarian]

Always good to have a co-driver on long trips, glad Dollar was there to pitch in!

[@tobhomott]

The bullet pins are a great idea! You earned that "water"... Nice score on the sieve tester too.

[@bigthumperfoot]

I love the sense of humor!

[@davidmicheletti6292]

I’ve seen those screens used in the paper industry. When I was first employed at a paper mill right out of school, I worked in a lab in order to develop my over all skills within the company. Screens like this were there for basic testing of dry products. I really love old brass lab equipment and am on the lookout for rare brass test stuff. What is even more interesting is the basic science behind how they work and are employed .

[@outsidescrewball]

Great video production/discussion/demonstration….enjoyed, happy holidays

[@htownblue11]

“Gotcha a bath this morning……..ya still stink!” Hahahaha. Clark you’re hilarious my man. Hopefully you can get the straight edge project done asap. They look fantastic man. Dollar chained to a bucket is both comedy and genius. Hahahaha. So good. Hahahaha.

[@petegraham1458]

I love to watch you make and explain the casting process, my father born 1912 grew up in Western Canada , they had a full machine shop line driven by a 15hp Case steam engine including a forge and “ casting furnace “ ! I was always curious as a child why that corner of the Shop on the homestead farm was this odd black sand ? My Dad told me the cast parts in that area for the repair of Traction Engines . I asked my Father and his older brother , how my Grandfather knew how to do all this, he was Scottish boarder clan and was the core worker , tradesmen of the industrial revolution, he made patterns, and ran casting floors! He learned to run “ casting furnaces some where? There were lots of old odd tools I played with as a kid that I now know they were molding tools to cut fillets and make radi corners, many my grandfather clearly forged and made himself! I went on to become a successful engineer, I am one who actually understands the fundamentals graduated in 1973 , lots of bragging stuff but I will say have a wonderful woodworking shop , in retirement. I worked in my career on 5 continents in-the oil gas’s and petrochemical industries, we lived on 3 of them . I retired as a CEO . I love your channel! Nice work I say!

[@jescheffler]

Loved that melting shot!

[@fiorevitola880]

Glad to see your progress getting those Cammelbacks underway, I realize how much you have put into those for Keith. Joe who did my Camelback for me way back when you started doing those.

[@royreynolds108]

Sieves like that are used in soil testing labs to determine what percentage of each size particles are in a sample to determine the amount of support soil will give for buildings, pavement, foundations, etc. The samples are dried in an oven before being run through the sieve separator. The contents of each sieve are weighed and then divided by the total weight of the sample to get each sieve size percentage. Sieves are available in 150, 200, and over, depending on what you are testing. The largest sieve size you now have is 3/4 inch. They are available for 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, and over. For sand and gravel operations, the sieve pans would be larger and probably go to 10 to 12 inches or more. You might think about attaching an angle-iron or channel-iron piece to each cope where you brace the crucible to help extend the life of the cope.

[@jdmccorful]

I enjoyed your comment with all the info.Thanks.

[@mikeadrover8825]

I Miss cast iron gypsy very little KZbin content anymore

[@Mike61259]

I am impressed. Keep going.

[@MisterHarleyRider]

Dollar sure is a beautiful dog

[@jdmccorful]

A journey of Learning takes many steps. Always look forward to your videos and of course what's new with littl e dollar. Thanks for the look!

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

That "Dollar" bucket works pretty good!

[@remko1238]

New to the channel,, lots of work to make the videos by itself: much appreciated,, greeting from Amsterdam / the Netherlands

[@erich9244]

I've been watching you work on these for some time now, and WOW do those look good after you pull the patterns, almost no dust anywhere that I could see and man they look AWESOME.

[@robertconklin3322]

I genuinely enjoy your video style, thank you for sharing your work, travel & thoughts with us. Big fan from Rocket City.

[@CothranMike]

Also here in Huntsville Alabama go NASA!

[@TomChame]

Excellent vid Clarke, enjoyed every minute. Thank you

[@daver425]

Enjoyed the video, Clarke. And it was great to meet you and your bride. Thanks for taking time out of your trip to have lunch with us.

[@ohhpaul7364]

Nice to see you, Clark. I was thinking about those sieves right before you showed the ones you bought. I made a new friend once by helping a man straighten his shop up and a set of those sieves was somewhere in the myriad of tools I had no idea what to use them for. hope y'all are doing well, thanks for the videos.

[@bretflickinger1868]

Great video as always Clarke. I used to work in a sand pit and we used the sieves to check the gradation of the sand we were pumping to set the classification tank for the desired output. But anyway small world. I live close to cedar rapids and have a cabin in guttenberg, so if you get up this way again would love to meet you and pick your brain for tips I can use in my hobby foundry.

[@calvinjutila8270]

That is one nerve wracking job you have there. Very enjoyable. We had one those sieve sets at the concrete ready mix plant where I worked back in the 70's. That would tell us the 'gradation' of the sand we used in the concrete. Mix designs for different strengths of concrete depended on known gradations of materials used in concrete.

[@mikenixon9164]

Good video

[@fiorevitola880]

Dollar, Fannie May says HI!!

[@SRMWorkshop]

It's nice to see where this project is going, sure has been a long road getting here.

[@Bigredkarl]

I like the funnel idea for the facing sand. Thanks

[@Toolman22364]

Looking Good

[@__austrianoldboy_9861]

Thank you for sharing!

[@Throughthebulkhead]

Nice work Clark

[@henrikstenlund5385]

Good job, thanks for sharing

[@arnoldsmachinetool4632]

Great video Yes the highway department uses that setup. I apologize for thinking that you can use that. They make a bigger setup for rock quarries. I will see if I can get one. For my mortgage job, that's the industry I work in.

[@grizcuz]

Those sieve pans take me back to being a kid. My grandma used something almost identical when she was baking, to sieve flour. I expect my grandfather gave her it as he was originally a Sheffield pattern maker and later worked in a foundry's lab. I can still see her making scones (which I think are similar to what you'd call biscuits, but scones are sweet with currants in them) with it in the 70's.

[@gvet47]

I remember using a set of brass sieves when testing the size of sand or anthracite used for municipal water filters.

[@kimber1958]

KEEP IT COMING. THANKS

[@TheDestroyer1250]

Awesome to see how the patterns for these are done. If I'd have known you were coming through St. Louis, I'd have pestered you for those Clausing parts.

[@Daniel_cheems]

Awesome!

[@endemiller5463]

20.10 awesome shot of melting iron!

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@eliduttman315]

Clarke, that nest of screens brings back 1963 memories of Industrial Chemistry class at Brooklyn Technical H.S. The machine the school had was called a "Rotap", which both shook and rapped the screen stack. Would you believe we processed pieces of brick through 3 successive machines and measured/graphed the results.

[@txhogdoggn]

Iv seen the sieves used at a steel and iron foundry i and my dad and father in law worked at for testing the quality of the sand brought in by the rail cars. As for the red color in the dirt. We were flying over a section of colorado on a ferry flight one day, and same across some red rock formations in the middle of a dark brown, to blackish landscape. I asked a coworker that was flying that day, and which he had a bachelors in geology, why the red rocks and he said iron in the aggregate during the turmoil and formation and the rock and the many thousands of years of moisture seeping into the rocks, caused the red tint in rock, and dirt being just fine ground large rocks

[@steveshoemaker6347]

lt's good to see you Clark....Thanks for the fun video....l just casting stuff and watching you work with HOT IRON casting stuff....LOL 🐕‍🦺Dollar tied to a bucket lol lol....!👍‍

[@dustinbrosmer6164]

I work in a lab in a gypsum plant. I use them sieves every day and also own some myself there nice to have

[@danbreyfogle8486]

I thought that was you and Dollar driving through Iowa where we live! Not really, we are in North Central Iowa on I-35. Now the weather, although much colder than were you live, has been very mild for November and December. We typically have snow by this early November but so far just one little skiff that has melted. We'll pay for this mild weather come January!! Great video and love Dollar's bucket tether.

[@melgross]

I’ve seen Dave. Been subscribing to Fine Woodworking for close to 40 years, I believe. The sieve pans are always both mm and inch. One thing, if you’re measuring abrasive material, after some time, the wear on the wire causes the sieve openings to increase slightly.

[@MrChevelle83]

You mention your temp nearing 3000 deg, that's up near steel making temperature! Have you checked the calibration of your temperature sensors to make sure they are accurate? Fantastic vids, I found your channel because of Keith Rucker.

[@donniebrown2896]

I used to work in a steel foundry, when we tapped out our arc furnace, depending on the alloy, was between 2800 and 3000 deg.

[@Digital-Dan]

The length of daylight varies by up to 5 hours from summer to winter, depending on where you are. The time change, if you can't accommodate it by shifting your schedule, adds only an hour to that process. Anyway, earliest sunset is only 6 days away, so things will start to improve.

[@davidstreeter9426]

At the Dddge foundry they used the identical sieves to classify rheir sand and the last one was a pan.

[@copperhead2534]

Same, same...mesh classifier sieves we used for gold in Fairbanks.

[@Farm_fab]

Clark, I work for a maintenance contractor, and the company we work at has those sieve for testing certain foods/ mixes. I have seen them used in their lab, but it's not likely they are for sale.

[@BedsitBob]

Lovely dog.

[@BBB-vb2fn]

Gptsss Man thats some good water😄🥰

[@tomeyssen9674]

Great video...Dollar is a "hoot"!

[@RobertWilliams-mk8pl]

Nice

[@PaulPavlinovich]

I have a set of those I bought for scrap value. I did not know they came with a shaker device though. I use them for model railway ballast. I buy 20kg of fines from a quarry then I run it through the stack of sieves and the different sizes are used for different things on the railway. The shaker device would make this process so much easier!

[@robbomet9495]

The red colour of your Mississippi dirt is caused by oxidized iron, it is essentially rusty dirt. Others here have described the correct process for using the Gilson "Rotap" to measure and report the gradation of the sand.

[@coenvanwyk1]

Man, you are good. My dentist is looking for a new job!

[@jsteifel]

good video.. Dollar yawning might be a sign of stress with the bucket. Liked the trip with her in the passenger seat. You might have read the sieves wrong. The last sieve that passed through all of your sand is the one you want to read, not the sieve that stopped the sand. Since it already passed through your sieve, all the sand should have passed, the first one with partial was already too restrictive... So it's the one above it. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@amazonianm8876]

I live in Redruth, Cornwall, UK and its name derives from the red colour of the river that runs through it called, believe it or not "the red river". The colour comes from iron oxide dissolved the water which comes from tin mine workings in the area. When I lived in the Birmingham area of the UK when I was a child in the early 50's you could see a lot of large lorries marked on the side with "foundry moulding sand" with the familiar red colour load. Regards from Redruth Arnold

[@Farm_fab]

Clark, I've seen stainless steel mesh at the scrap yard, that is similar to what is used for spark arrestors on chainsaws. From time to time I see it there. If ever you are looking for some, let me know. It's much fiber than window screen.

[@scottjones7279]

Give the wooden sand packing tool to Dollar and see where she hides it and you might find your missing part

[@OuroborosArmory]

I would love to get one of these…

[@johnvaluk1401]

I believed those sieves are still manufactured in north east Ohio. Nice job on Ruckers pieces. How about some sort of circular puller that hooks onto the grooves of the pins?? Almost like a shell holder for reloading that hold the cases.

[@karm65]

I use to use those working drilling fluid recovery tanks

[@bcbloc02]

I had a border collie I kept tied to a truck tire. It was the only way to slow him down.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

McMaster Carr offers screens down to 0.0011". I'd bet it's barely 2 days shipping to where you are from Atlanta.

[@nashguy207]

Wow you have really had issues with those 12" Straight edges it sounds like. Glad to see you had safe travels. Poor dollar is something else. lol Would running more than one furnace help you with production? Or is the mold making process the slowest. Do you still have the girl or anyone else helping you besides your wife? Please let me know if you are ever coming to or through Nashville. Have a great week.

[@DamacusSquared]

Interesting thought if you hadn't considered it already, you could use the separator to get finer grades of your sand for the intricate details on parts.

[@rudddude5294]

6:30 oh sure, blame the doggo!

[@Shreyam_io]

19:52 these are some cool shots...(i mean hot no I mean kOol in ...hot)

[@davidsellars646]

Good evening Clarke, When you break your iron, what sizes do you prefer? Do you use all the iron, even the smaller pieces? Are the finer pieces put into the furnace first or do you have to add them to liquid iron? Wishing you and everyone out there the best in this holiday season.

[@floridaflywheelersantiquee7578]

Interesting

[@dalebmartin]

They make sieves in all sorts of sizes. They are used in quality control of many construction materials including soils, aggregates, cement, etc. A no. 30 sieve is a standard size. Generally a No. 30 sieve has 30 openings/holes per linear inch.

[@nabob14]

Very nice product! A very interesting process. Listening to you talk about the casting issues in the thin corners, made me wonder if the issue could be solved or reduced by making the molds in a slight to moderate inverted 'V' so the thin parts are lower than the rest of the mold... (you currently lay them completely flat). Would this allow the iron to flow faster into the thin corners? Maybe to allow air to escape faster, increase the size of the pour hole or maybe putting the pour hole at an angle? The angle will accelerate the metal into the cavity (no 90⁰ turn at the bottom of the hole) and because it's being poured on one side of the hole, air can escape faster as well.

[@tonyn3123]

I have to just guess, but it appears similar to a #200 sieve. Used this type of shaker and sieves in labs for years working around rock quarries. A #200 sieve grades the passing material to almost dust. Water has a difficult time passing a #200.

[@miken3260]

Just to let you know, winter was late up here in Minnesota. It's been warmer that normal. Guttenberg Iowa! I know people there!

[@10lauset]

...Cheers...

[@randywooten3358]

There has been a set of them at a flea market in Tulsa.

[@excitedbox5705]

It is 400 micron/mesh most likely because that is the closest standard size that everything went through. Those devices are also called classifiers because they split material into different grades.

[@kf5tqnkf5tqn36]

+1 for great pours! I you found a big black thermos from Manna on it at the Soule steam fest, let me know & I'll send you the spare parts.

[@bknesheim]

Red clay is mostly caused by the iron oxide mineral, hematite.

[@DavidVerch]

Those sieves are used in the power plant industry to determine fineness of things that are ground such as coal. The coal needs to be ground to a certain fineness so it burns efficiently in the boiler. There are pulverizers that grind the coal and fans blow combustion air through the pulverizers which entrains the coal fines. Coal particles that are too coarse fall back down to get reground. Particles that are small enough flow to the burners. The coal is very hard and wears out the pulverizers. Too fine a coal grind and you use too much electricity to grind it and cause too much wear in the pulverizers. Not enough fineness and you end up with too much carbon that does not burn because coal was too coarse. It is also used in flue gas desulferization systems. Limestone is ground in ball mills (think giant cylinder with hundreds of fist size ball bearings. The limestone rock and ball bearings hit against each other in the rotating horizontal cylinder grinding the limestone rock. The limestone needs to be a certain fineness so it will react properly with the sulphur in the flue gas.

[@justinduffey9237]

In NE TX the dirt is red because of the high iron content

[@brandontscheschlog]

When testing sieve screen size, what is the purpose? To determine grain size?

[@samuraidriver4x4]

I would love to come and clean up the "paint" shaker but it's a bit far from Europe.

[@C4RV3]

Quality takes time. Please don't apologise for that.

[@jeffanderson1773]

I used to live in Guttenburg, you went up there for the festival?

[@johnwilliamson467]

Could it be iron there in the good west of Georgia clay you got there ?

[@TheTkiller9999]

The Sieve that you used (the old one you want to replace) is likely .017 Inch since some made it into the .016 screen

[@badxxxmonkey5541]

The fines are clay and silt. There is a hydrology test to go further down.

[@mealex303]

Try a heavy marble rolling pin for packing the sand?

[@davidquirk8097]

I think the the sieve number refers to the number of squares per inch.

[@cfraz47]

When you shake sand around the small, inaccessible elements of the mold would vibration help to distribute the sand? Does the 3/4" plywood base yield when you tamp? if so the sand around the mold might displace or change density.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Yes, yes, and yes.

[@olivier2553]

And if nobody mentioned it, the number is the gauge, so you can use the opening in millimetre, imperial or the gauge, it is all the same.

[@stephenhart8981]

gilson global still exists and still sells all that equipment, if you want used screens you might be able to buy them from a testing lab.

[@Farm_fab]

Dollar with a drag "chute."😀

[@charleslake8231]

How do you make the casting sand

[@chrispeters6944]

A number 30 sieve is 0.0234" / 600 micron (0.600 mm) opening