I’ve not seen brazing filmed this clearly before. I could clearly see the interaction between the flame and the rod. This should be a standard for technical schools.

In 1962 just out of high school I worked at a farm machinery repair shop in Wrens, Ga. My first job at the shop was to make long brazing rod out of short ones.

My dad was a certified welder with a degree from Ferris. He told me the torch never stops moving in brazing, and your to use a near elliptical pattern across the weld to draw the braze into the joint by moving the heat across it. With this method i have never failed to braze anything properly, still use his old torch set.

Adam, I'm a licenced forklift driver (although it's not how I put food on the table at the moment) and I always operate on the principle of "how I would I like to receive this if I'd ordered it for myself?" and behave accordingly, I work in a supermarket doing the home delivery but sometimes I also do shopping and I use the same idea, "would I buy this for myself?" it doesn't take much effort, physical or mental, to do things properly, some people are just lazy. My father used to work with safes and they were always coming in damaged and having to be returned, because fork jockeys and truck drivers see a safe and think "oh it's metal, it'll be fine" or "it's metal, it's heavy and doesn't need to be secured as much as the manufacturer specifies" not realising that a lot of the time the skin is relatively thin and the interior material, which provides the fire resistance, breaks from shocks and big impacts which compromises that aspect of it, making the safe worthless and unable to be sold.

The close-up camera work is just incredible! Many thanks for bringing us in close, from all of us who will likely never experience this firsthand!

Wow. Abby sure got some great close-ups of that brazing. Some of the best I've seen. Many thanks to both of you!!!

Adam, nice weld job. Nothing against your new shop, but I always like watching you work in the old shop. Must be the older equipment and the way the shop is set up. I like old stuff.... Quincy, Massachusetts

Adam, this is the best brazing job I have seen you do. When Abby grabbed the camera she followed the torch so closely. It was like "Blazing Saddles" and "Ring of Fire all at once"!

I remember learning to braze with Oxy-acetylene in the 6th grade,... in the 70's when things were cool and kids could be curious! ( a small hammer that I still have in my tool box.)... It is so sad that kids do not have shop classes these days in school. I developed a love for tools and craftsman skills in my 6th and 7th grade shop classes.. Woodshop and metal shop... We cast belt buckles, spot welded, bent steel and used machinery for candle holders, and in woodshop made family signs for our houses and learned the tools and the methods of building from wood..... I have all my items from shop class... They are very cherished items... I hope one day kids can once again learn to manufacture and build... It is a skill very much lacking in our kids education!!

I've used the techniques and processes you've demonstrated on your channel to sucessfully repair several damaged or broken castings. Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate and share your knowledge. I also enjoy you taking the time to share your desire to expand your knowledge and experience in your new shop, despite those that may not be as into it as the rest, even to the point of being rude. Again, thank you for shairing on YT.

Great camera work Abby !!!

Nothing beats a bit of Abom79 after a long day at work! keep up the great work!

AMAZING! You sir are a master at your craft. I went to university of Miami with a scholarship but working with my hands was what I really enjoyed, so I left the university, tried other jobs and became an electrician, so for 45 years that's what I did and never looked back. Best decision of my life. Was never happier. Once you find yor niche in life it gets easier.

3:10 You're right the cog and pawl are part of the downfeed. As you crank the handle to rotate the drill there's a cam that engages the pawl's arm and it advances the downfeed screw a couple notches to put pressure on the drillbit. It works sort of like the table crossfeed on your shaper.

The best close ups of brazing cast iron I've ever seen. Assuming Abby gets the credit there :) I like your new shop, but always feels like coming home when you're here.

Best video brazing I have ever seen. I am not even a welding/brazing apprentice, but I love learning something I have no clue about. Most videos are just a bright 2" blinding light. This was good. Thanks.

I just inherited my father's shop full of tools, some of which I have no idea how to use. Watching you has taught me a great deal. I look forward to learning more about how to use some of his equipment, some of which I remember from my single digit childhood. Thank you for your clear, easy to follow descriptions of what you're doing.

I'm not a religious man but as far as I'm concerned that is gods work😊 so good to see the prep work, attention to detail and professionalism.

I usually set my torch lower when brazing with bronze so that bronze only melts on the nail pattern of flame at the tip of your torch, that helps me keeping the torch at a same closer distance (not moving back and forth) without melting anything else than the bronze rod. I'm sure your method works fine too, but it's what I learn from my dad who is great at brazing with bronze. Thanks a lot for your awesome content!

You need some Cleco Clamps for that. Originally developed for the aircraft industry. They are used across many industries now. There are many different formats of the Cleco clamps from hole type to hold sheetmetal aligned for assembly or jaw style clamps. I have collected a large supply of these and found they to extremely useful in all types of situations. Always amazed at the quality of brazing you can accomplish. Thanks for sharing. P.S. Glad to see you back in the original shop. You seem more comfortable here.

I can remember the early SNS days when you were planning that side extension, now you have another shop and over half a million subs. What a journey.

Adam, Abbey is not only a beautiful woman but an excellent camera lady too, well done both of you. Joe.

A very difficult job done with great skill and excellent camera work by Abby. My hats off to Adam for brazing those cracks successfully from both sides without the filler falling out.

Nice to see you back in your old shop.

My Dad worked as a blacksmith when he was young. This upload brought back memories as his brazing was absolutely beautiful. I loved watching him weld/braze.......he couldn't see why I was so intrigued.

I would highly suggest looking at Instapack bags for these expensive parts. You do the mix procedure, put them in the area/box your trying to protect. Will save you a great deal of time packing, and when you choose the right densities, its hard to get wrong.

Keep up the great work, we appreciate you.

Same way my dad taught me to fix cast. Also enjoyed the video from the home shop for a change. Thanks

Great job filming the brazing process!

I love the look of brazing. It's like that japanese art of repairing ceramics with gold.

Great job, and super camera work. Was that Abby? Such a difficult thing to film with such huge differences in brightness. Cuts of this would make a great tutorial video with an explaining voiceover.

I like the old shop!

Love the new shop, but really good to see the home shop.

I've watched you for a long time Adam, but that's off the scale control and pure talent.

I love Brazing! At work one time many years ago the shipping guys knocked a Toledo scale off the counter shattering the cast iron cover on the base! The scale still worked fine but the boss asked if I could fix it. Must have been 20 or so pieces. Now fit them all back together. I got it done but it took a while! And @1:54 Forklift "Squirrels" really piss me off! They go running around full throttle like it's some kind of game instead of a job! I have two certs, regular and all-terrain, and I did NOT EVER try to rush the machine! My job was as an Engineer so I had to be certified for everything we used, from Bobcats to small Cranes! Just to move around the parts for things we were building! 😆😆

Never seen anything like this before. Fascinating. Brilliant camera work. Thanks for sharing.

Love the camera work up close... First time I've ever seen brazing. Looks a lot like soldering, which I've done a lot of, just a LOT hotter.

Always love to see cast iron repairs. Different jobs & different people call for different methods, but just the reputation it’s got for being tricky to repair always gets me interested. It’s another one of those jobs I’d love to get into, but just don’t have the time, not since I started rebuilding vintage magnetos & other old vehicle electrical components.

Exquisite camera work watching Adam tip toe along the brazing work , great focus and colour temperature , probably among the best camera work I have appreciated on this excellent channel!

Absolutely, the worst that I've ever had to deal with was a maritime satellite antenna assembly that got forked. It was on a beautiful skid and boxed with 1/2 or maybe 3/4 plywood. But at some point in shipment or storage at our site. There was a fork blade punched through the box that left a gouge in the gel coat and glass mat. We got a decent repair of the dome using a repair kit from West Marine, and with the dome in place, you can't see the repair. Honestly, after it was repaired I had trouble seeing the repair from 4'.

I believe that is well done enough to qualify as Art.

a perfect example of the fact that no one ever had too many tools. experience and understanding what is needed good work. looks like you are having fun life.

Brazing is a skill set on its own. Great work Adam.

I'll be honest, brazing is usually about as fun to watch as watching paint dry, but the way you filmed this was fantastic. It was cool to see the braze flow in the joint, and definitely made it more interesting to watch. Keep serving up different perspectives on everything you do! I look forward to every Saturday when a new video drops!

Looks like machining is problem-solving. The more skills, knowledge, and experience you have the more problems can be solved. Thanks Abby for the killer filming!

Good to see you back in the real world workshop.

Abby killing it with the camera today!! 👏👏👍👍 Might want to put him in touch with Clarke over at Windy Hill and see if he can get another one cast, bc I have a feeling as old as it is that more cracks are going to develop, not on where you brazed but in other sections just bc of its age. 👍👍

Awesome! Love the old shop stuff. I miss the big projects you used to do at Motion. Been following you for a long time.

Love seeing the old shop again…..

The camera work was just as good as the repair.

What a great video. Loved watching you working to control the puddle, loved the camera work that allowed me to watch you working the puddle. Most excellent team work.

That thing was smashed, literally, into pieces!!! Amazing brazing job, man. Much respect from Texas.

Gas welding is how I lerned to weld as a teen , way before Mig or Tig , nice repair .

Outstanding camera work! Great job Adam.

Somewhere Rucker is smiling! XO

As Justin over on the Fab Series keeps chanting, your mantra in TIG is "time is temperature", so holding the arc just a fraction too long will melt the base, which is what makes TIG brazing so hard. A TIG arc is also up to 11000 F whereas an oxyacetylene flame is anywhere from 1500F up to 5700F depending on your gas setting, so the heat transfer can really fly with TIG.. I personally find TIG welding and TIG brazing to be very different feeling processes even though they are both done on the same kit.. In TIG brazing you really have to be modulating your foot control carefully and paying attention to where you're pointing that tungsten to not overheat, whereas in welding, if you overheat the pool a bit, the weld looks a bit uglier there, but no real consequences, and it's very different feeling vs just briefly pulling the flame away to solidify the filler and regain control of the procedure in gas brazing. I personally would have MIG brazed the part having had lots of success with that process with various broken castings..

Looks good,Adam.Hampty Dumpty sat on a wall,Hampty Dumpty had a great fall and Adam put it together again.Thank you.

Great close-up footage of the brazing! Thank You!

I wonder how well the hub is aligned with the gear after the repair - the newly formed crack was awfully wide. I'd probably clamp the wheel upside down so it registers on the gear teeth to make sure the setup is in plane, and indicated the whole thing on the mill for concentricity.

am farmer so repair stuff all the time. this vid really helpful. thanks

You did an awesome job on this repair and an excellent video! The camera work really captured every step of your process. Well done, Sir!

Nice seeing the old shop in action again.

If I remember correctly, for cast iron, Jody recommended aluminum bronze with ac and preheat. As always, good video!

fantastic camera work!!!

That was interesting seen the actual molten metal during brazing!

Looking good and strong Adam, be great when its all done and cleaned up.

Nice camera work!

Fork lift drivers take pride in their work too- I was often chosen for ticklish, expensive work. You don't get good work for minimum wage. But if you saw how some folks pack their stuff...

Adam, the great closeup camera work (Abby) on your brazing should even aid you, perfecting your own skill as you watch this video playback!

Instant foam packaging is the absolute best invention for shipping irregular shapes and delicate items. I send instrumentation and pump equipment across the country and overseas with zero issues.

1:30 About building a wooden box: Just make sure you have the proper soft but firm padding _inside_ the box. Simply building a wooden box around what you are shipping may not be enough protection. I once bought a piece of stereo equipment that came in a nice handmade wooden box with rope handles - but no padding/insulation was provided on the inside. It was still damaged....

Great camera work Abby.

Absolutly fascinating video. I'm no metalworker, but I'm constantly repairing stuff and your method of dealing with complex shapes is super helpful.

Fantastic brazing tutorial. Thank you, Adam!

Great work, as always. It's nice to see your decisions on the best way to make a repair come to fruition. And I always love seeing the picture, at the end, of what I assume is you, your father and your grandfather; so great to see a family business handed down. Thank you again for the work recording, editing and publishing your videos!

Really nice camera work by Abby. Got some great shots of the brazing!

Hey Adam, your use of the TIG welding equipment begs the question, why don't you fusion weld cast iron repairs with nickel filler.. I have been doing TIG/Nirod cast restoration work for many years. A TIG/NiRod repair gives a good color match for restoration work and i've had 0 failures Just a thought, thanks for the great content

this gear looks like the main drive gear for the post drill, I have a similar drill and if I remember correctly, this part is the part the handle connects to in order to drive it, and you were correct, the lever and paul are part of the depth adjustment mechanism, and work like a ratchet for another toothed wheel that controls the height of the main shaft.

Thanks Adam. Great Video. We appreciate your hard work on these.

Still love the old workshop

I really liked the tight shots of the braising around 39:00. I don’t think you’ve caught that kind of action with braising specifically. Great work as always.

Of all the welding/ brazing types, I think I like torch brazing best. The satisfaction when it flows is special. I have figured a way to watch your videos while confined getting a pacemaker. EDIT: Around 40:00 - Very nice fill.

Nice repair, Adam. Always learn something watching you!

Chasing all your brass out of the joint. I always make circles with the torch chasing all the brass in to the joint.

Camera woman doing a great job there!!

The internal stresses will make this repair crack on its own. The entire part must be raised to the red temp.

Hi Adam. I have done a lot of oxy acetalene welding in my time. Well done , great job. Regards. Steve.

Interesting video, as always. Too bad that undetected crack didn't get tacked with the rest. The gap grew kinda large. Hopefully the final brazing didn't pull the gear out of round.

Great work, I noticed that one of little nobs on the protrusion was broken off. I hope we’re able to replace it. Again I must say great work.

Appreciate your videos, always educational. Just a note (seen this in quite a few videos over the last year or so) - the audio for the intro is at a significantly lower level than the rest of the video once the main content starts. Thanks for your work 🙂

Good day noble Adam. Excellent repair work. Oxyacetylene Oxygen is still a wonderful repair weapon for all welds. I have some extremely fine oxy-fuel torches in my arsenal. Also try a Dillon MK3 / Henrob Torch. It takes a little getting used to in handling, but it is a very special device. With such a burner you can save a lot of gas / oxygen. He has a very soft flame etc. I also weld lamellar (lamellar graphite) cast iron mainly with Castolin / Eutectic / Eutalloy welding consumables. It is one of the best welding consumables with the longest & best experience in metallurgy. I always have very good experiences with welding additives of the same kind, for example = Castolin 14 or with = UTP 5 in hot welding. They are of the same species - cast iron welding rods in 4.00 mm or 5.00 mm. This is then no longer brazing, but welding. I really like your old workshop. That's how I've been working for over 42 years. Warm regards from Lake Constance / Switzerland :walter

Homer Simpson: The word unblowupable is tossed around a lot these days... The same could be said on Abom's brazing.... it it textbook. I learned a lot just watching this video.

Darn good job Adam! You are a pretty talented machinist! It is always a pleasure to watch a man do a good job. Your customer will be highly pleased with the end result. REMEMBER, box it up right when returning it to your customer! 🙂

I like it when you 'brazenly'repair castings(sorry for silly pun,LOL) these types of videos are my favorite!

You did a great job. You did have a little hic-up but that’s welding. I’ve been a certified welder for 45 years and you name it, I’ve welded it. Cast iron is the most unpredictable metal to weld out there. Trust me, I know. I’ve tigg welded cast iron many times but gas welding it on pieces like you have is the ticket. I really enjoyed this video and glad to see somebody has not forgot a dying art. Just my opinion but when you dealing with cast iron, while you are welding it, keep a constant source of heat on the piece. I know it will be hot, but it might, and most of the time it will, keep you from having to deal with extra cracks. I’ve watched that junk crack right beside my weld before. If you heat it up and keep that heat constant while you weld, it has already expanded as much as it can and makes it less likely to crack. Just a suggestion and this has been my experience.

Great clip and excellent commentary, makes it understandable to anyone

Abom, I have watched your videos for years. This is incredible footage. The things you have done to capture this at the level you did are priceless. Thank you for all your hard work.

Love this video. One of the things I've learned so much about watching your channel is how to fixture and support oddly shaped parts, and some of the tools and techniques you can use to help achieve this. I think this knowledge, combined with an advancing age and experience, has led me to doing much more fixturing and preparation on projects of all types.

You have the shippers pegged. I used to work at a farm chemical distributions center and we normally received 188 gallon pallets with 2.5 gallon jugs and a couple times a month, a pallet came in leaking. Most of the chemicals fare regulated with Haz Mat regulations but at a loading dock, it means absolutely nothing. BTW, some of the chemicals are oxidizers. That would be fun if it caused a truck to burn down.

I like your advice on shipping. Protect the part you’re shipping by making a custom wooden support. I wanted to sell a pram but wouldn’t ship it because the shippers would wreck it. I did find someone local who bought it.