MAKING FLY WHEELS WHF 31

Yes, my friends, we also do cast iron flywheels. This video covers the molding, pouring, and grind process to complete two 12" flywheels for a customer in Tennessee. From there I take you to the Soule Steam Festival and introduce you to some of my subscribers and then there is Rusty and his margarita machine.

[@tosselton291]

Friends helping Friends that is rule #1 of having a rich life and it was touching to see the plaque honoring his friend.

[@davidc6510]

Beautiful work Clarke. I enjoyed the video and the commentary on the nuances of making these castings. Thanks for sharing!

[@rustysteed8414]

Thanks to you and Josie for a great weekend, and for the kind words! The trailer has two new springs, and the paint will be a story to tell. Soule was great, and something everyone needs to see at least once.

[@mhansl]

The world needs more Rustys.

[@hersch_tool]

Holy smokes, the skill and patience required to get a pattern out of that flywheel is just unreal.

[@darrenalmeida1382]

What makes me sad is the fact that there are so many younger people that excuse the need for ALL trades and crafts such as yours. Your craft can be used when, and if, there are no computers or if there is no electricity available. I do hope to see more molding and pouring sequences in the same video. Thank you for sharing!

[@larrywalker7759]

Yeah well I was trying to think up some kind of "cute" comment to make about something. But after meeting Rusty and Alex I am just going to offer my respect (and respects) to the entire team for this video. Thank you all.

[@nashguy207]

That was great story. Glad you was able to help him get going again. I hope he had a safe trip back to Texas!

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thanks Clark for taking us along with you and it is very nice to meet Rusty 👍 Shoe🇺🇸

[@jamest.5001]

32:30. That is an awesome friend, awesome person, both of you are awesome people, I feel honored to even know you exist. I wish I knew people more like you!

[@KeefyKat]

I wanted to come to Soule this year, but had a conflict. It's already on my calendar for next year! Nice to hear about Rusty and see the remains of Alex! That's a nice way to bring him along. I may have to do that with my dad's ashes.

[@matspatpc]

Nice to see Rusty is still around. I remember him from the Good of the Land fest in 2019. I hope to make it back to Soule at some point.

[@paulbragg7618]

I'm impressed to see you innovating there. You can see in the fast play the rubber mallet causes less disturbance to the surrounding area, looks like good compaction 👍

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Good one Clark! 👍 Enjoyed ATB.....

[@unpob]

Thank you Rusty!

[@markthompson4885]

I just have to get to Soule soon. am living in Wisconsin going to be working in Kentucky all winter so maybe in the spring.

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@jaybailey3518]

Very nice video !

[@glennmoreland6457]

Great video

[@emeltea33]

Great fix. Seems if you didn't tie in the top, y'all have had a long wooden spring. Time to look into a torsion axle.

[@TgWags69]

Well Clark, I'm glad to see you're coping better 😉👍

[@brianmorris9085]

I had plan to come down last weekend and forgot planed something else! Sure missed the the ice cream Rusty made in the spring. Great stuff and a even greater fellow!

[@scottwooster4102]

That looks like a lot of hard work to make one flywheel.

[@mdouglaswray]

Thanks Clarke! Another great video, as always!

[@kimber1958]

Nicely done

[@jrkorman]

Some good "field engineering" on that fix. About all I saw missing was some baling wire! Assuming he took it slow and got home ok!

[@dizzolve]

nice

[@dlstanf2]

Your comment about not preparing the sand before adding additional sand can be bad. I've watched many a person lay dirt on top of dirt without preparing the bottom laying first only to have it wash away. Happened often at beaches where sand was washed away because of not preparing the bottom layer for adhesion. A must to mix the layers together for proper binding. 100lbs? You're tough, back maybe not so much. Enjoy your videos even though I have no clue about foundry work.

[@ohhpaul7364]

I was wondering if you could use the crane to lift the molds/forms and all once you have rammed the sand and at the various other times you need to move it around. That got me to thinking and, as we all know, thinking can be dangerous, helpful or worthless, so you decide one way or the other. Alright so here goes, and maybe some of these youtube machinists could offer to help you make it or you could if you want to try. It needs to be adjustable for each size of form, so the arms need to slide in and out, maybe make a lifting beam type of spreader of force with two arms that hang down and can pivot independently top and bottom (maybe, otherwise a chain/screw adjuster might be necessary to keep it level on the lifting eye(an engine leveler comes to mind here)) At the bottom of each of those arms you have a round disc that can rotate 360 degrees inside of the arm like a bearing, formed inside of the disc would be two slots that interact with the side handles on the outside of the form boxes, using a pin of some kind to keep at least one side of the mold box locked into the rotating assembly (that would have to go outside all the way through the block, at both ends, to allow it to continue rotating freely while pinning the box mold in place, I reckon). Okay, so that covers when you have both halves together but what about the first half? well- the trick to it, I guess, would be to make the form molds all large enough so that the side blocks would stand far enough off the surface of your ramming board that you can reach down in there and slap the disc around it when it is just a single part of box on there. I don't know, just an idea Clarke. I was thinking a spit like a car body holder might do, but that is weak in with the weight in the center and takes much room, just like having lifting arms in the sand tub would plus sand in teh tub makes the arms hard to move for the size of mold......... Thanks for the videos. y'all have a good one.

[@paulcorn6114]

Clark, I am curious why you don’t use metal copes and drags instead of wooden ones that you have to keep replacing

[@ronnybe7994]

It would seem you need some form of lifting device above your workbench...

[@guessmyhandle]

i am confused. why use wedges? we started with half an inch already packed before we put the object in.

[@joewboe]

That looked really hard to get that pattern out. Could you not put drafts on it? It'd probably be pretty difficult to put draft on that part though.

[@aceroadholder2185]

The pattern was the old flywheel itself.

[@jdmccorful]

Clarke, you are one special person! Your friends are quite unique and good people. Thankyou for what you and the family do for us out in video land. Give dollar a scratch for me. Thanks again!!