How to build a Steam Locomotive

[ford34/2]

I could watch videos like this all day, skills beyond belief, not a pair of gloves in sight, some of them with shoes on!!!
But craftsmen --- some of the very very best. 1/4 Hr viewing- ENJOY

Stan

sorry couldnt change title should be Locomotive

 

[Welderpaul]

Brilliant.

 

[Tigman]

Clever stuff !

 

[Fazerruss]

370 drawings and not a computer or CNC machine in sight , or even a calculator!

 

[rory1]

Well worth watching. Thanks for sharing

 

[doubleboost]

P.P.E. A decent flat cap lol

 

[brightspark]

P.P.E. A decent flat cap lol

only need the whippets now

 

[CRB]

Note to Maker, @59s, a scale rule being used.

@1.31 ?Is that plasma cutter being run from a template, hydraulic copy cutting?

@1.36 Now that is a shaper

P.P.E. A decent flat cap lol

...or a knotted hanky @12.20

'The Boy'@13.31, must be him, no cap.

Brilliant Stan, thanks. I found a video about the North-East in the 40s-50s last night, including some ship welding footage. I will put it up later.

 

[Keith 66]

Not a pair of goggles in sight or any other ppe for that matter. Can you imagine what it would take today? And you would need about an acre of signage!

 

[Fazerruss]

Not a pair of goggles in sight or any other ppe for that matter. Can you imagine what it would take today? And you would need about an acre of signage!

Not even in the foundry!

 

[CRB]

I liked the line of blokes sitting on the hoist to balance the saddleplate.

 

[mr migwire]

brilliant film, a lot of talent lost to time in this country now, amazing to watch them form billet steel into a connecting rod,

 

[penfold]

370 drawings and not a computer or CNC machine in sight , or even a calculator!

The template profile cutter is a predecessor of CNC.

@1.31 ?Is that plasma cutter being run from a template, hydraulic copy cutting?

It's Oxy-fuel cutting.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

What a brilliant watch!! Thanks for that

 

[CRB]

The template profile cutter is a predecessor of CNC.

It's Oxy-fuel cutting.

of course.

 

[Spark plug]

What would happen if you put today's 16 year olds to work there?

 

[mr migwire]

What would happen if you put today's 16 year olds to work there?

hahahaha yeah now if they made that a tv show i would definatley watch it, most (not all mind) would cack themselves or sit and play with there ifones or other gadgets and sod all would get done...

 

[Wendelspanswick]

They certainly wouldn't wear the flat cap!

 

[Rocketman]

What would happen if you put today's 16 year olds to work there?

Same as then die young from lack of health and safety.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

In the shipyards in the days of rivetting, the "boys" job ( at 14-15) was to catch white hot inch and a half rivets being thrown at him from the guys with the burner. Not my cup of tea and by all accounts, many , many injuries