My week this week, my workshop videos.

hermetic · Jul 30, 2022

The furnace comes out for the first time, and works superbly well, the mould is made and the copper is poured, and a very good casting is made! I change the tractor engine oil, and find there is no oil filter in the cannister, just iike there was no fuel filter either!! well it has one now, and with new oil we have gained about 10 psi oil pressure, even though the oil pressure was good before. I have gone for the sae40 non detergent oil which is reccomended for working tractors. We round off the week with a day of antique metalwork repairs for my dealer friend, but only cover that briefly because we already have about an hour of vid this week, don't fall asleep!
Phil, in Cool and wet East Yorkshire. Wot heat wave?

hermetic · Aug 6, 2022

A varied week of highs, lows, and a poo run! I earned some money doing lots of very enjoyable little repairs to antique metalware, and it was all downhill from there! All I can say is it was a good thing that the weather was warm and sunny, or it would have been a lot worse! Join me in Yorkshire for a real rollercoaster of a week!
Phil, in getting warmer East Yorkshire, the harvest is coming in!

hermetic · Aug 20, 2022

I put the small pulley in the lathe and widen it for the A profile belt on the tractor, and then fit it, and now we are charging all the time! I Bore the copper disc casting to almost the correct diameter for the shaft to press fit, and then on to field work to get ready for the 2022 Wicani Jamboree, which involves tidying up and pressure washing everything, because once you have started with a pressure wash you just can't stop! Back to the workshop next week for the start on the Holbrook, and other fairy stories! Or is it? Phil, Riding the heatwave in glorious East Yorkshire!

hermetic · Aug 20, 2022

I finish the copper work on the "thing" sort the tractor charging, and then get on with a massive tidy up so I can get the Holbrook bed out from its hiding place to start the rebuild! Much else happens along the way!
Phil, Warm and sunny in east yorkshire

hermetic · Aug 27, 2022

Yet another week of interuptions and "odd" jobs, but I get stuck into cleaning and paint removal, and by Friday the results are beginning to speak for themselves, But it was really dirty work!!
Phil, Basking in the late summer sunshine in East Yorkshire!

CBlair · Aug 30, 2022

Phil, in one of your earlier videos did you ever say why you wanted to rebuild this particular machine? Or was it just close at hand? Enjoy the nice weather.

Charles

hermetic · Aug 31, 2022

Hi Charles, I had always fancied a Holbrook, but I already have two lathes, so as they were generally all at the other end of the country and expensive and VERY heavy, I didn't bother much! Then this one came up locally on FB marketplace and was also immediately on the Holbrook group, so seing as it was less than 1/2 mile from my front door, I went for a look, and fell in love with it! It was small enough for My cousin and I to strip and move in his trailer, the six miles to my workshop! It then languished in the back of the shop till a window in my busy calendar came up, and nows the time. I now have a small, medium and large lathe, and I have decided that perhaps I have enough, for now anyway!
Phil

hermetic · Sep 3, 2022

Only a three day week, But a lot gets done! I get the headstock stripped and repainted in primer, and also after a couple of hours sanding, and needle gunning the base whilst in goggles and dust mask, I get that masked up and sprayed in red lead primer. There is a slight reaction with the original Holbrook casting filler primer, but nothing I can't cope with!! I get most of the headstock parts cleaned up, and polish the spindle and the gears and pulleys in the lathe Video will be out saturday, 4PM as usual, but I may sneak out saturday and see if I can sort the paint problems and get some black on!
Phil, in officially autumnal but still hot East Yorkshire!

hermetic · Sep 17, 2022

Last weeks video, which I didn't seem to have posted properly?
A long video with a lot in it! I get down to the nitty gritty of some repairs on the SC box and selectors, quite a lot of lathecam on the covmac, but had to go to the colchester for knurling due to centre height! and get some paint on, Lots of polishing and washing goes on, and I realise the value of scotchbrite for polishing metals! I almost got 5 days in!
Phil, a wet week followed by a Friday scorcher in East Yorkshire!

CBlair · Sep 21, 2022

I look forward to checking it out, have a great day.

Charles

hermetic · Sep 24, 2022

A shorter vid this week which starts with gratuitous tumble dryer repairs, same dryer, different fault! cracked drum pivot (caused by stretch belt?) and then on to the Holbrook and a week of stripping, cleaning and repairing. One cannot fail to be impressed by the build quality of this machine. 92 years after its construction, and after quite a tough life, it is still in amazing condition!
Phil, in sunny but slightly autumnal East Yorkshire

hermetic · Sep 24, 2022

A short week, but I have turned the corner and started on the rebuild! new bearing felts, making a new bull pin, and the slightly fiddly task of assembling it all by myself without damaging anything, or scratching the bearings! It actually turned out easier than I thought once I got it all fitted up on the bench, then on to the bed, a couple of hours, and a revelation later I got the cams adjusted, and it all went together a treat! Phil, Back to summer in East Yorkshire!

hermetic · Oct 1, 2022

A good week with a lot of progress, the headstock bearings get adjuster correctly after some sage advice from the Holbrook Sage! Various broken bits get fixed, and various bodges are exposed! I remove the old pin from the back gear shaft, repair it and drill and fit a new one, I strip and clean the top slide and the cross slide, and eventually repair the missing pin from the topslide nut plus lots of other bits cleaned and fitted
Phil, A fair week and a Friday storm in East Yorkshire!

hermetic · Oct 8, 2022

Another good week of fettling and eliminating some of the bad repairs and abuses this machine has suffered over the years. I spend much time degreasing the saddle to get the Belzona to stick, and hope I suceeded! I repair the broken Gear cover casting with MIG which is far from impossible, and sus out a scheme of repairing the rest!
Phil, in Cool and wet autumnal East Yorkshire.

CBlair · Oct 9, 2022

Well done, thanks for sharing, Charles

hermetic · Oct 15, 2022

A very trying week being Mr Pedantic and trying to get the gear cover repair EXACTLY right which tried my patience to the point where I took a midweek break and started work on building a waste oil burning insert for the wood stove! That will be continued, and I hope completed, next week. It is (or at least was) getting colder, and as I have about 75 litres of waste oil from the tractor rebuild and a regular source of expired chip oil, it would save a lot of woodcutting. I get back on the Holbrook on Friday, and it turns out really well! Sometimes it pays to take a break!
Phil, an indian summer in East Yorkshire

hermetic · Oct 22, 2022

To continue from last weeks blurb, sometimes being pedantic pays off! I get the shaper and the mill fully back into commission, make a new vice jaw to replace the missing one on the shaper vice mill the weld off the new section for the gear cover, it falls apart and I settle on a new strategy fot order of assembly! With milling and shaping, tidying up and 3 foot long dreadlocks, its all in my week this week!
Phil, In exceedingly wet East Yorkshire

CBlair · Oct 28, 2022

Been busy the last few weeks, I hope to get a chance to catch up on the last two or three I missed. Thanks for sharing. Charles

hermetic · Oct 29, 2022

Hi Guys, sorry, no video this week, the covid got me, I am slowly recovering!
Phil

CBlair · Oct 30, 2022

Take care and get well soon.

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