Metal Planer Restoration 70: Way Wipers

[Music] hello keith rucker here at vintage machinery.org guys uh today uh back to working on the metal planer yeah i know we've already made some chips with it but there's still a few things that we need to do to really finish that job upright and one of them is putting the whey wipers on the machine so basically at the end of the table where it goes down into that v groove that the waves run in there are these little cups that's bolts onto the end the table they are lined with felt and these are the original ones that came off of it these still actually have the the felt that was in them i'm going to replace this felt this stuff here is kind of hard and nasty but um the idea is is that as that table goes back and forth these will wipe the um the ways you pour oil in there it keeps them nice and moist with oil basically absorbs excess oil and also distributes new oil as it goes down the ways and it also helps to kind of keep trash from getting up underneath those waves which would then turn into something that could wear the waves down so like i mentioned these are the original ones i have not done anything to them they're in the original shape i took them off whenever we took the machine apart back two years ago and they've been sitting in a ziploc bag so we need to get these cleaned up painted the castings they all appear to be in good shape and like i said we're going to put new felt in these so first things first i'm going to get all this old felt out of these and we got a rusty nasty mess i'm going to take these over to my bead blaster a little sand blasting cabinet and uh let's just sand blast them real quick and um then we'll probably paint them let the paint dry and get the felts cut to go down into these so that one wants to be stubborn there it comes so let's go to the bead blaster and get these cleaned up i don't think i've ever really shown my this bead blaster here in any of my videos and some of my earlier videos i had a little uh red blaster that i got from tractor supply it's actually out at the museum i use it out there from time to time it's still out there but a couple of years ago i was visiting my friend al kimball who runs a machine shop up middle georgia and uh he actually had this bead blaster that he had picked up from somewhere another and asked me if i wanted it now i will say that when i got it from him it was in pretty sad shape it was completely rusted over there were no gloves the glass was missing out of it but i had the the the case and you know there was a few places where it was kind of beat up i had to hammer some things out but uh we brought this into the shop and i didn't really show it on any videos by one of my students that helps me out stripped the paint off of it we repainted it turned out looking great it actually still had the uh the foot pedal and the blasting head and all that kind of stuff in it that was original to it i didn't know if it worked uh we hooked it all up i had to change out a few little things you know put a new gauge on there i put a new water separator in here etc uh but yeah it's working now um took a good bit of work but like i said there was no videos on this unfortunately i probably should have done a video series on it but i didn't but uh i've had this ever since i've got my new air compressor going out here at the shop i now have the air capacity to run a bee blaster before i would have to go out to the museum because i just didn't have it and this bee blaster is probably twice the size of the little one i had out at the museum this was made by trenco so anyway this little bit of backstory there because i know a lot of folks haven't seen this before i've only used it a time or two but it seems to be working really good and we're going to use it to throw these parts in here that are all rusted up and uh just do a quick sandblasting on them so we'll just this one here the lid opens up so we'll just put our parts in here i'm uh running glass beads in this right now i got a five gallon bucket of glass beads and we'll shut the lid on it and we should be ready to go just fyi too i don't have a dust collector for this they really a lot of these came with a built-in dust collector i'm cheating a little bit i just got a shop vac hooked up to it over here that'll help kind of keep it clean on the inside so anyway let's uh let's do some blasting all right i got you looking kind of over my shoulder down in here don't know how much you're going to be able to see because it's going to get real dusty in here pretty quick but uh we'll try i've got all my parts in there got my sandblasting uh nozzle here that's controlled by a foot pedal and we'll just go ahead and blast these off all right i think we got them all sandblasted those look good all right just a closer up here um i think i'm gonna do a little grinding on these like i said this this one and this one have been welded this is the one that the back side is not too great but i'm going to try to just clean those up a little bit where it won't look quite so bad just get right here yeah and i'm also going to kind of use my grinder to bevel out a little area in those there where i want to lay some braids down all right we'll go braze that up in a little bit but that should strengthen that up considerably and uh not too worried about the backside of this one but i'm gonna try to grind some of that down so it doesn't look so bad all right so we are set up over here to do some tig brazing today i decided i was going to tig braze this rather than flame weld it i tend to like to tig braves when i have a fairly thin cross section uh i prefer the flame braids when i have a big mass of cast iron because i can just get more heat into the into the the whatever i'm working on but in this case just being as thin as it is i think i can get plenty of heat in here and keep it in here without any problems so we're just going to tig braise it now when tig braising uh you're not trying to melt the parent material like you are when you are welding uh braising is we're just going to put lay down a layer of this bronze down in there this is silicon bronze in this case we're just going to try to lay that down in there it will bond with the cast iron and it will make a very nice joint but if you melt the parent material you actually weaken things it it changes the structure of the cast iron in this case and we want to try to avoid that so i'm just trying to get enough heat in there to where we can melt the braze and get it to flow down in through there so let's do it i'm going to start by keeping my heat on the low side and i'm just trying to put some heat in here if i really wanted to i could get my torch out and preheat this or if i had an oven in the shop i could uh put it in the oven and just heat it up but i'm just going to use the torch here the tig torch and using some low heat just get some heat into there with braising you really want your parent material to be hot enough that the braise will flow down through it i mean i could go in there and melt it right now but it's just not going to stick unless i have some heat in it so that's what we're doing right now i gradually increase my heat so so so [Music] all right i think i have done it we'll let that cool down nice and slow and probably grind some of that off the back so it's not uh sticking up so high but uh looks like a successful braze job well there you go there is our braised up piece i went ahead and kind of ground it down and ran it back through the sandblaster one little tip when you do some grinding on a project on cast iron and you want to just kind of get that those grind marks out if you run it through a bead blaster that sand will kind of put a texture in there that looks a little bit better when you paint it so anyway on raw castings i often do that so these are now ready to be painted and let that paint dry and maybe we get them installed back on the machine we got our way wipers all cleaned up sandblasted painted and ready to go back on the machine except we need the felt to go inside so if you remember this is the felt that was in them originally this is a obviously uh very old and not in great shape so we're gonna replace it uh with new felt and looks like originally they had used some thinner stuff i opted to go a little bit of a thicker material here and i'm going to try to cut it so that it kind of fits through the holes in the bottom so we get a some that's kind of poking out in there that really does a good job of wiping those ways so here's my game plan um i got this block of felt from mcmaster carr and it's already the right height it's one inch thick basically i need two inches so two pieces in there i'm just gonna okay i think i'm gonna do is i'm gonna take a marker and this would be kind of give us the outside dimensions and let's see if we can just take a razor now and see if i can kind of cut these out [Music] all right got one piece partially cut out here okay so i know we're gonna have to um kind of shorten up the sides here just to fit down the inside i think once i get one cut and i have a template i can make the other ones a little bit easier so there we go that's got one piece kind of picked out there i need to [Music] so it looks like i'm going to need something about this um size and shape to kind of fit down in here i need to have a mirror of that to kind of go behind it here and you can see that that sticks out so that'll wipe those ways i think that'll work i just need to make another one to go on the other side and it's going to be kind of tight fitting down in there but i think it'll go yeah and get another one down there right beside it all right my work's cut out for me i'm going to be making these for a while so i think i got my first set of uh felts here made and um you can see it's kind of an unusual shape this little step uh kind of fits into this little groove here so i'm gonna put the first one in like such and then the second one the steps go out and fits in like such and we've got a nice little whey wiper there that felt will help wick the oil and absorb oil on there as these things go back and forth these cups will just kind of stay saturated with oil and that'll kind of help wipe those ways keep them clean as well as keep them lubricated so one down three more to go i'll do those off camera well that took about an hour and my arthritic hands are hurting a little bit but but i think we got a those felts all in there they're sticking out these bottoms and uh should do a nice job so now we just need to go mount these on the machine so i've got the oil cups and way wipers mounted over on the planer now and i just went ahead there's basically just two screws on there holding these on put them all in try them out and everything looks great so let me zoom in here and kind of show you these things and explain to you how they work and we'll give it a try let you see it so here they are mounted as you can see i just used a couple of screws these are actually the original screw holes and everything we just went right back in where they came out and uh if you look closely these way wipers they're not quite touching the waves up underneath them there's a little gap in there but when you get out here to the felt the felt is coming in contact with the way so it's actually the felt that is wiping it and not this piece of metal itself so these serve a couple of purposes i think we've already talked about this before but in case we haven't here we go again these are going to wipe the waves clean they'll keep any trash out so if you get a chip that falls over in here this way wiper will push it out to the end and it just kind of goes away we want to avoid getting trash in between the ways on the top and the bottom because that's just going to wear any grit or anything that gets in there so and the other thing is is uh these these felts are oiled we just come here a little squirt of oil every now and then whenever you're using it and that will wick the oil up against these waves and if it'll pick up any excess oil that's on them it'll absorb into this it just serves as a reservoir and then as needed it puts down a new layer oil so when this thing comes back and forth it's putting a thin layer oil on and wiping it each time so that's that's all good that helps keep the machine lubricated as well so they'll just go off the end of the table and come right back on no big deal let's fire it up and show it in action i've extended the travel so that the table goes off of both the ends just so we can make sure everything's going to work right here we go it is wiping those clean [Applause] there's our piece of trash pushes it right out of the way comes back in everything's nice and clean [Applause] and we got the same thing on the back side as well i'm not going to show those but they're set up exactly the same way [Applause] well there we go guys we are one step closer to being pretty much totally finished with this restoration like i mentioned in previous videos i've got a couple little small odds and ends that really aren't that big of a deal to the total operation but before i get through with this i want to finish it and not have anything that's still laying out over my head so i got one or two more little things to do and uh we're gonna call this machine 100 restored uh it's usable as it is right now and uh also i want to get a chance to play around with it some more i've got a couple of jobs lined up for this that we'll be doing soon that's my game plan anyway to put this machine to work but all in all very happy with how it's turned out and continue to just uh be super excited to have this project nearly finished up so there you go guys that is a wrap as always thank you so much for watching please subscribe to the channel if you haven't already thumbs up comments appreciated as always hit that bell icon to get notification when new videos are posted and yeah thanks for watching we'll catch you on the next video [Music] you

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Length: 20min 31sec (1231 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 08 2021