He also helped Leo's bolt threading machine to make his bronze bolts to make the framework.

Nope!

@@davidyisrael007 Agreed!

Watch CEE Australia.

Well, mine's a shop! (I'm a yank.)

So many master craftspeople involved in the project. It is absolutely amazing.

It's a wonder project that lots of people contribute to in many ways, even just to like the videos and related videos. He couldn't have done it alone.

I just saw the Kieth, capstian video series now!! .. I have not been die hard but have watched serval videos of the Tally H rebuild in the past!! Glad they got Kieth On Board (pun intended) now we know the capstan rebuild will go as well as possible!!!

Ginger, named before they knew it was male.

@@bentforkGinger is a perfectly appropriate name for a male ginger cat, too. Very common in the UK.

@@bentfork 95% of ginger/ orange cats are male. Because cat genetics....

Yep, I have a VERY similar cat, name of Sam.

@@fredygump5578 It's the same set of gene variants that give us tortoiseshell cats (sometimes called calamanco in UK). If you see three colours in their coat, it's almost a dead cert that it's a female (or a male with XXY genotype). Colours are main defined on X chromosomes in cats.

We had several Monarch lathes in the machine shop I worked at in the 70's. They were all WW2 vintage, and worked good 3 shifts a day, 6 days a week.

Yeah Brian, I remember in my rich high school in Newport Beach (Class of '73) California how we looked down on the trade classes. That just for the losers! What a shame! I've since spent a lot of time in construction and still do lots of work with design, wood, steel, etc. Have a bird lodge and forest preserve in Western Colombia and we do it all here. Even set up a heavy anvil and am experimenting with a forge for tools, knife projects and repairs. With 4 km of trails, dozens of benches & bridges, a corral & cage & clinic and 5 houses well, we've always got something to fabricate or fix. Long and short of it is that despite a rewarding teaching career and some academics, my work outside and in the shop may give me the most satisfaction. BTW: I've always thought the European style was appropriate. Kids choose "tracks" fairly early on and that seems to make sense.

Now I wish that I had paid attention during trade school days. I never bothered to learn much about lathes. I could have been quite content to mess about in my shed nowadays doing good works.

You are absolutely correct. College is not for everyone. I wish that more 16 to 18 year olds would realize that a good trade is a valuable skill and much needed.

Same here

hehe me too

I follow both channels as well!

Likewise

My thought as well. If for no other reason than to not have voids where corrosion can get going.

I think Keith would have the surface spray welded and then remachined before he’d ever consider epoxy for the job. But it’s likely the engineer who is doing the motorization won’t need that perfect a surface for such a simple, brute force machine as a capstan.

@@PristineTX spray welding would be total overkill, the only thing epoxy would be preventing would be pockets where corrosion could form, bearing in mind this will be used in a marine environment. Epoxy would be a perfectly adequate repair with that in mind.

Is there not a risk that the epoxy could fail at some point in the future and jam/damage the gears?

Spray welding a steel part can work well but not so with cast iron that old. Too much heat can cause a lot of stress, warping and cracks. As for metal filled epoxy, it has been used to successfully repair cylinder walls and pistons without failing. In this application it would work fine.

"...nice jester of assistance..." Jester - a professional joker or fool. Are you sure that's what you meant?

Dang spell-checkers. Gesture.

@@buckhorncortez Dang auto correct 😣

I thought this was what windy hill was pouring? is this just a different piece of the capstan than what windy hill is working on?