Keith, I had to laugh a little about your mystery package. I used to own a business and we would get deliveries of materials to be worked on that included no name, number, address or instructions. We would set it aside and a month later the client would call wondering why his project wasn't done yet.

Watched the installation of the capstan and you should be very proud....I was

holy smokes, a simple project. Watched the capstan be installed and working. I am impressed, but not surprised, the Tally Ho people were able to take it apart put it back together and put it into service with a minimum of fuss. An impressive saga of design, building, installing and skill.

I know the feeling of the mystery work. I've had people send me guitars worth tens of thousands of dollars with no note. I have gotten very good about reminding people to include a note in the case.

I sent that, didnt need it brazed, just need the 3/4" hole bored to 7/8"

Nice camera work. It was most interesting to see the close up view of the brazing process.

Hardest part of the job is finding out who the part gets shipped to. Another great episode Keith. Thanks for sharing!

Great vid as always, by the way, the capstan for Tally Ho has been installed and is working although they had to do some fettling with the gypsy as the chain supplied was very slightly wider than the one that was used to take measurements for the gypsy and some grinding was needed to make it right . Your machining was spot on without fault as expected .

Leo put the capstan on the boat and they are leaving on a trip of maybe 2 or 3 months .

Glad I had something to watch while the hurricane/tropical storm passes over!

There’s a very fine region between the temperature where the material is plastic enough to flow and when it starts flowing onto the floor. You sure made it look easy. Another excellent video.

Your great work on Leo’s capstan and it is fitted and working fine Keith 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍

Now, it's a happy Monday Georgia! 😊

🤣A mystery part from a mystery viewer

I hope the owner shares the needed info for you. Great channel.

Nice work!

Good morning Keith! Thanks for the videos and have a great week!

Great repair

easy job well done!

Great Job Keith. I love watching Fire and iron repairs.

Thank you for sharing.👍

Thank you Keith!

Thanks Keith!

As long as the part isn't too big I really like silver solder in the same style you are using here. Nice mend my friend.

Once again fine work,

Thanks Keith

Have a great week Keith. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for another video. 👍👍

thxs for sharing...

I saw the road tour to the bash is up now. I'm heading over there right away.

Thanks for sharing

Nice job Keith. 🙂👍

loves watching you braze keith!

Good job.

Good job

❤❤❤ brazing so relaxing to watch and hear

Easy trick for fixturing broken pieces back together for brazing or welding. The video of the brazing the pulley reminded me of it but this one got me to comment. Use a firebrick to hold the pieces in the position you need when they need something to hold them in alignment. They are easy to shape with a rasp or file and you can make them in any shape you need. Unlike using metal they don't pull the heat out of the parts nearly as fast and they are reusable easily.

"I dunno what this is, or who it's from, but it's broken and I can fix it, so i'll start there" :D

Have you ever welded with a coat hanger and borax? Get wire red hot then stick into borax. Works

wonderful

Nice job Keith. I hope it finds it's way home.

Some old soldiers used a BAR. Keith uses a BAV. (He never carries it though.)

Another one bites the dust

Some of the keys to a good braze is a clean surface, preheat and generally a veed gap to give enough support to provide the strength that the joint needs and slow, controlled cooling. When possible, my preference was to braze rather than arc using nickel rod. Brazing is more forgiving when in service. Make sure that all surfaces are “tinned” or wetted before filling the joint. A little reinforcement is not wrong as you can remove the “blobs” afterwards. While Keith used a flux coated rod, if available, Boraxo was an effective fluxing agent for bare rod. Believe Keith described the necessity of preheat. The important thing here was to heat the casting portion with more mass first as the smaller portion will come up to temp quickly. Do not overheat! If the casting gets “burned” you might have to start over to have clean surfaces. If you intend to reinforce the brazed joint by extending beyond the “V” then I suggest to lightly grind any surface scale to obtain good bond of the braze filler rod. Another method was using cast iron filler rod instead of brazing rod. That required rods and flux made especially for acetylene welding. However, I don’t know if that material is even produced any more. Large castings could and often were repaired by brazing. Sometimes, it was necessary to do the preparation and the construct a furnace of fire brick around the casting to allow for controlled pre and post heating and cooling of the casting. This is an overkill of explanation of Keith’s’ repair job but following the prerequisites and experience make a good for a job. Thanks Keith for all you do.

".. going to flame braze it." Sounds like a hamburger chain advertisement!

Good

Hey Keith, I think I sent that to you. It was my femur attachment for my left leg. I been wondering where that got to.

I’ve seen you do a number of these repairs. It seems like people spend a whole lot of money to have that shipped to you when maybe they could’ve just had a local welder do these bread and butter repairs? Maybe I’m not seeing something but nice job thanks.

If you ever decide to take more stabs at TIG brazing, even as learning experiences, I'd be very interested.

All of Keith's repairs come with a 5:50 warranty. Meaning that after 10 minutes to 6:00, all bets are off.

In this episode Keith is tricked into repairing a oart for a nuclear submarine.

Thanks , Keith, I have never seen broken cast iron being fixed. Is brazing as strong as a weld? Why use brazing rather than welding? We always learn something when we come here.

That's the tough part, Brazing the other side.

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Keith you was acting as if you where going to post your email address, had couple questions on lathe restoration and fixing some parts that may or may not been broken in shop/loading unloading 😅 , if Keith doesn't get this or someone else knows that email, please respond as trying to get this old machine going soonest can, thanks y'all!

Wonder what the part works?🤔

Ok, so I don't know anything more about brazing than what I have seen you and Adam Booth do. How did you flip that to the inside and not melt the outside off while reheating it?

Saw the comment that all that was needed was the hole enlarged. I wonder if that was ever done?

Whats the difference between welding and braising?

I X every seam like that, just a small v running across the broken spot

I would really like someone to show me the cherry in “cherry red”. I’ve brazed, and watched a lot of videos that refer to “cherry red”, but what I see is more “Valencia orange”. Do you mean sweet cherries that are about the color of merlot, or do you mean tart cherries that are fire engine red, or do you mean Napoleon cherries that are yellow to light orange??

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Why do they say cherry red. It's nothing like the red of a cherry.

0:50 As soon as I could I got iPhone iCloud Service .. ... Pretty sure it was with iPhone 3 .. AND HoTMail email service (... pretty sure that was Windows 3.... and therefore any time I upgrade or replace my phone ... I never lose an email or a contact (or a song or a picture) ... I think I spend just under $2 a month for that service :) I do not however make any videos :) .. So Keith has that!! :) ... ALSO it's such a good idea to put a note in EVERY package! With your address and the TO: Address and what it is (Used antique PARTS, GIFT) etc I had an international shipment years ago where ALL the packaging got lost, the box the tape the inner box etc everything. BUT I used one o these "wire tie-on tags" on it with all the info, the Post Office put it in their own packaging (albeit a thick plastic bag) and waived any customs and duty, AND sent the last leg of it's journey on "Next Day" Priority for us!! :)

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