Glad to see you're still working in the shop. I was begining to think that you never came back from Florida this year. Can't wait to see the finished pump!

Those old gears had seen better days.

Awesome! Hope all has been well with you. I've really missed your videos and look forward to your future posts.

Watching your channel is like talking to an old friend that I haven’t seen in awhile

Hi Dave, I’m Paolo from Italy, and I found (by chance) your channel some days ago; I’ve spent all my free time watching your videos, forgetting TV, my wife and my dogs. I learned a lot. Thanks! I’m 77, I’m retired, and I have a tiny shop in my garage with two lathes: a Myford Super 7, complete, and another that was scrapped by my former Technical High School where I got my Diploma more than half a century ago, but still working quite well. I also own a Bridgeport milling machine, scrapped by the previous owner (and refurbished by me, at least to working conditions) with all the tools and trimmings. I used to be a Pilot; I got my CPL/IR (A & H) license in the USA when GPS was not even invented, and pilots were not systems or PlayStation operators; navigation, especially in the West, required real piloting! Your Aeronca Chief is a Pilot’s Airplane! I lost my medical due to health problems, so I spend my free time (and I have a lot now, being retired) tinkering in my shop. I repeat again: I learned so many things from your videos that I’ll wait for your next one, checking your channel daily. I have no space for a steam engine, and my wife stubbornly refuses to let me place one in our living room, but I tell you, I’m missing one! Just for the heartbeat noise and the constant need to tend to those simple but fascinating mechanisms. Keep going, please. Never give up. All those pearls of knowledge and experience you pass to your viewers aren’t lost forever. this way. Please forget my English… It's not my mother language… Paolo from Italy

Welcome back, David. You have been missed by many. Thanks for sharing.

Really good to see you again, and your fantastic shop with those beautiful old machines, that still doing jobs, not just standing in a museum.

YOU'RE BACK!!!! Been wondering how you are doing.. Russ

Welcome back. Greetings from Friesland in the Netherlands Henk

Super to see you posting vids again.

Beautiful work as always. I don't mind saying I was starting to get more than a little concerned about your absence.

If there was ever a large scale Emp attack, or a solar flare event, this place would be worth its weight in gold.

I'm a patient man but I was getting a little concerned and was getting ready to send you an Email, thanks for the relief your obviously in good health, thanks for all you do🤗😎😎

Damn it's good to see you friend. Welcome back.

Great to see you back!! Been waiting for a new episode

Good to see you doing well!

Good to see you back!

nice to see your doing well and welcome back

Hey, Good to see you!!! I always stop everything I am doing to enjoy watching your stuff. There is a KZfaq vidio I think You will really like that recentley came out titled: Abandoned Steam Engine Brought Back to Life! - 1908 Industrial Time Capsule. It has been preserved, untuched, kept seceret & hidden in an old waterworks building for YEARS & was for the most part intact & just as good of condition as the day it stopped turning✌👍

I am still amazed at how quiet the steam engine is. It must be so relaxing working in your shop. Thanks for the video.

Nice work on beautiful old machines.

Old machines are a lot easier to work with than old computer programs. Great video as always. Thanks.

Always great to see your content hope you continue to make a lot of it

Impressive technology! Thanks for the look. BTW, good to see ya back after the summer of 2023.

Glad to see you back

It finally cooled down to where you can fire things up again. 👍

David, good to see you back.

Welcome back old friend was beginning to fear the worst 🫣

Great to see you Dave thanks for sharing with us

Bonjour David, Happy to see you back after more than 7 months ! Amicalement, Raphaël

That is the same boring bar that I had in my automotive machine shop. Brings back memories. I looked for you at Kinser this past August. If you were there I missed you.

Welcome back. Hope you're doing well. Greetings from The Netherlands

I make a living on a 1948 Bucyrus Erie 22w cable tool drilling rig. I love love to see old machinery still making it go in today's world. I'm a firm believer nothing made in our current age will out perform what our grandfather's made. Thanks

Thanks Dave! You just made my day!

Огонь да вода, пар да дрова, и не страшеш кризис, все работает, здоровья вам за то что сохранили такие станки.

Good to see that you are still alive and kickin’ Dave. You still post about the most enjoyable machining content on KZfaq. Just about everything that you do, the average guy can relate to and learn from and that’s great. Thanks

Good to see you back in action. I thought you had went to poop and the hogs ate you or something.

Great video Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

woohooo !!!! THE MAN IS BAAAAAAAAACK !

I have missed your videos, glad to see you!

Just the other day I was thinking of a number of KZfaqrs that I've haven't seen a video from in a LONG time and one of the ones I was thinking about was good ol Dave Richards !!

Dave good to see you hope all is well it is always worth the wait. Like you I am stuck in the old ways it seems simple, after all it's all in the set up. Have a good time my friend time is what's left Paul.

Ah, memories, memories, of shop and steam. many thanks from UK.

Nice video. I worked in a factory in the 1980s. We had an end mill that we used to cut keywys in shafts. It was similar to the end mill at 18 minutes but more enclosed. An employee was running it, and he had leather gloves on and was brushing out millings from the cutter. His glove got caught in the cutter. It drug his arm in and split his arm in two up to his elbw. He ended up healing and losing some use of his arm. To this day, he still wears a compression sleave on his arm most of the time. Lesson learned, I guess.

fascinating !!! Thanks for this upload and explanations

just found your channel and i'm speechless- hats off to you sirs!

Awesome a new video. Been looking forward to another one Keep well Dave!

Glad to hear from you again Mr Richards!!

It's good to see you back David, thanks for sharing.

Nice to see you tweking in that beautiful steam shop !!

Hi Dave. Thanks for posting another job. Always learn something and it's much appreciated.

Gday Dave, fantastic to see you again in the workshop and it’s good to see Tom is there as well, I’ve missed seeing your videos, the 3 pinion gears turned out great, the new over arm support made a big difference to the rigidity, brilliant work as always, cheers

Cool editing trick to make the indicator fade away - Nicely done!

Wow awesome shop and your skills and knowledge are amazing it’s amazing what the old days were like and those guys built some amazing things with primitive technology compared with today’s stuff thanks for sharing and keeping this old machines alive

Hi Dave, great video, look forward to seeing you at the Florida hideout soon. Regards from Catskill New York

Cool old machine shop, that would be the place to work when it's 40 below zero outside.

Happy to see you back.😊

I am very glad to see you back in your shop!!!!! ❤

Very nice David, enjoyed.

Nice work Dave, job shops are hard to find.

Glad to see you are alive and well! Thanks for posting another video.

Sure was nice to see you lighting the boiler! I am now over 80 and don't need glasses. I just take it straight from the bottle! Keep going, Dave! Mike down in Virginia

Good to see you back in the shop Dave great work as always.

Glad to see you back Dave

The last production job done on my grandfather’s 1892 F.E. Reed 18x72 lathe was 9,500 pieces circa 1970. When I inherited it I found a good fit- I donated it to a museum that has a machine shop of steam-powered, flat belt driven machines between 1890-1910.

A Dave Richards video! ...dropped everything - can't leave until I hear everything Dave has to say.

It is fascinating watching a Master at his craft.

Welcome back. It always brightens my day to see another video from the line-powered machine shop.

Thanks. That was the most understandable explanation of a dividing head. I’ll never use one but it won’t be a mystery.

Boy The Same tools today are No Match for The Genius of Yesterday's!

Welcome back! We sure missed the Old Steam Powered Machine Shop!

Thanks Dave , great to see you back ! Hope all is well ..........

David, Good to see you back. You have been much missed. I grew up in a similar shop that my dad had. Wasn't steam powered but machines of the same vintage. It was sold to protect my Mom in her older years. I'm 80 now and still machine in a shop I've put together, about half the size of yours. Filled with wwII era machines.Thank you for the fine videos.

Hi Dave and Tom great job on the gears.

Good seeing you Dave, always looking forward to seeing your video. Take care of yourself.

So glad to see you're back! :)

Great see you back working in the shop keeping that history alive amazing what could be done 100 years ago with precision and steam power thanks again Dave for sharing with us

I love seeing these old tools with the old texts and beautiful posts coming out. Thank you for keeping the light alive and the beautiful machine tools.

Steam engine free energi, Good job sir..👍👍

So satisfying to see a replacement part come to life..

This is so cool to see you guys working old school. Im a conventional turner / miller. When i went to school there where no cnc machines. But conventionals on electric machines you guys do it with steam driven machines. I love the sound of the old machines and steam. Keep it up guys Greetings from the Netherlands.

Wish I could LIKE this more than once!!!!

Great to see you back

Love the early indicator - one step up from the scribing block. What a great channel. Cheers

Really glad to see You back with Your videos David .You have been missed by many I'm sure . Thanks very much .

This new video made my day! I love watching you work, listening to the machinery run, and reliving found memories. I'm truly happy to see a new video!

Glad to see you,thanks for the video.

Hello sir! Nice to see a post! Thank you !!! Hope all is well as can be in this Idiocracy of this world today!! We need people like yourself ! It will be people like you that will instrumental in rebuilding society and they blow it all up! Burn it all down!!!! As long as we can survive!

Great to have you back. Quite a difference between the old and new gears LOL.

Glad to se you again!

Glad to see you back, Dave, keep up the good work, Jim

I hope you charge a fair amount for the shop time. You deserve it! Great job! Thanks for sharing, Dave

Always nice to see steam shop hasn't seized up.

It’s Sunday,new video,you are in the shop,life’s great,thankyou.

That looks great , nice to see the shop running.

I'm thrilled to see you back and looking good. A real improvement with the addition of the braces. I can see it's really added to the rigidity of the machine. Fabulous job on the gears.

nic job and glad to see Ya. been a while.

As always, the cleanest shop.

Always a pleasure to see an upload from you, Dave. Thanks!

Good one Dave . Great to see you back . 👍