Odds & Ends 128: ArnFest Goodies, Viewer Mail, Hot Shot 360 Oven

[Music] hello keith rocker here at vintagemachinery.org guys today we're going to do an odds and ends video as you probably know if you watch my channel a lot this last weekend i was at the yarn fest event and uh while i was down there got to meet a lot of viewers uh got to have a lot of fun but while i was there we brought home all kinds of goodies so today's episode we're going to have some viewer mail that's come in wasn't part of iron fest part of it's going to be some gifts that i received from some of my viewers while i was at iron fest i also got some items that i picked up from on the swap swap meet which is always a big fun part of what we do at arm fest is the swap meet on saturday morning so i found some few little things there that i brought home with me and uh anyway just got some interesting stuff you guys might want to see so without further ado let's get going so first items here are a couple of catalogs that were sent in by mike wade and uh mike had actually sent me some things a while back from this same collection he said this is uh some catalogs that were in his boss's father's collection his boss's father's name was a david strandenberg and he said that he worked for the former bureau of standards in the metrology department and also the naval research center in the washington dc area so he was doing all kinds of really high-tech measurement type things really cool stuff that us machinist guys really like and these are just a couple of the catalogs that were from his collection first one here is sheffield gauges they made all kinds of gauges that were used for doing special measurement work he had marked some pages in here there's about all the engineers and draftsman drawing stuff up but they just had all kinds of really cool things this is from probably the 1940s era i'm just guessing looking at it and just some really neat things that they were being able to produce to keep quality control up the next one over here it says millionths of an inch for sale by vinco so again uh gauge measurement stuff super high tolerances and um just some neat things in here so i will definitely add these to the library and be glad to have them it's always nice to be able to go pull it out and look at some of this old reference stuff from time to time and uh there's some really cool stuff in here so uh mike thank you very much uh for sending those along next items we got is some electrical components that were sent in by joe goring and joe i think if i remember right he told me that he had switched the machine over from three-phase to single phase take the motor off and had to do redo the electronics and the switches and all that kind of stuff and this is what was on there he had no use for it not having three phase and wouldn't know if i could use it so we got a motor starter this is a ford reverse switch and then a three-phase plug and yes absolutely you know very often when i get a new machine in the shop i have to rewire it the electrical stuff on it is often messed up and it's nice to have this kind of stuff in the inventory to just go pull off the shelf and be able to reuse so absolutely we can use this in fact i use one of these drum switches just the other week on a machine and i don't don't have another one laying around i do now so real nice when they're in this plug this happens to be the plug that i use in my shop for most of my three-phase equipment so all this will definitely be usable i'm going to put it over on my shelf and have it when we need it and joe thanks for sending it along up next comes from joel havens and joel is a long time friend of mine he actually is one of the key and people on the venice machinery.org website that helped just that's just a lot of stuff in the background helping keeping that site up to date and i greatly appreciate his efforts but he contacted me a couple weeks ago told me he had picked up some of these uh little enclosures for electrical components and uh i wonder if i could use them and when i saw them i knew exactly what they were because i happen to have a tub full of switches like this this is one that he sent me different colors different configurations that came out of a bunch of electrical cabinets that i salvaged parts out of a while back and you know i don't have much of this kind of stuff right here this is what you could put like a start stop station on a piece of machinery and i got the switches to go in them i didn't have the enclosures to put them in so this is really good this one has a you know start stop it's kind of an interesting little toggle switch there i've never seen one like that but kind of neat but yeah absolutely we can use these and these will probably end up on machines at some point in time for remote start stop stations and uh joel thank you very much for thinking i mean send them along i'll put them in the inventory we'll have them when we need them right before i left go to arm fest uh this showed up in the mail it got shipped down to me a brand spanking new hot shot 360 heat treat oven and you guys again if you watched my channel for a while you know that i i had one of these in the shop it was one of the original ones that was developed by stan zinkowski over at bars the industrial stand's got to put us on the barges summer bash every year he designed the heat treat oven and started selling them and basically what happened over time is that the demand for these things was more than he could keep up with so he made a deal with american rotary the guys that make the rotary phase converters and they started actually making these in their shops so he kind of sold them the rights to it stan still sells them he's a dealer retailer for these but when american rotary got it they started a new new company that they call american kiln and oven i think is what i remember right but um they did some redesign on a few things improvements probably a better better way of putting it and while it's still basically the same oven that's sand design they did do some improvements in here so number one it's got a much nicer latch on the side that's a little bit easier to to deal with it's got a actually clamps up on there it's got some little pins to align it to get it lined up just right um another improvement that they did was they basically got the oven like stan had but they put it inside of another shell so there's an air gap all the way around this thing there's a fan in the back and this outside shell stays remarkably cool considering that you can get this oven up to over 2000 degrees between the insulation here and the air gap you can really you can just about put your hand on this thing while it's running and it's completely safe stands was actually not bad but this is a great improvement over that another thing that i really like is it uses the same controller that stan had in his and the neat thing about this controller was is you could actually pull it out and there was a usb port on it and you could take it to your computer plug it up and program it using your computer within a little app that they got rather than having to go through all the menus and the buttons on here american rotary or american kiln i guess actually put a usb port in the side over here so you can take your laptop to this thing plug it right in and leave all this stuff together you don't have to pull that out and risk damaging your controller so another nice little feature there so anyway we got a brand new oven and uh you know i do uh some heat treating i don't do a whole lot of it but i've used my old hot shot probably five or six times over the last year or two and i'm sure that we'll be using this coming up i've actually got some heat treating that i need to do at some point in time and we'll give it a good workout whenever we do that if you're interested in one of these ovens stan zinkowski at barge industrial is still a retailer for these you can check them out at hotshotovens.com they have a website you can get all the information find out how to order them i think it has a link to stan and there may be some other retailers out there who are selling them so next item's not really viewer gifts or mail this is actually something that's sent off but i had some some measurement tools here they were needed a little bit of tlc and i sent them to my friend mark rutowski over at mr tool repair mark has done quite a few uh repairs and fixing up measuring equipment for me in the past and this is some stuff that had been kind of stacking up he lives up in the area where arm fest is at and usually comes out to the swap meet so knowing that i sent a box up to him a couple of weeks ahead of time and he had this stuff ready for me he actually met me at arm fest where i could bring it home and save a little bit of shipping return shipping on there but he worked on all this stuff really fixed it up had a pair of uh sterit dial calipers this is a pair i've been using for a long time and the crystal on it was kind of messed up it just needed to be cleaned and serviced and everything really good all these indicators here he went in again clean service them and put new crystals on all of them and got all these working really good i'd sent him this bore micrometer unfortunately it was not repairable not everything can be fixed so when he took it apart he said the inside of it had was just full of rust and the spindle in there was was really pitted real bad he said he probably could have got it working but he wasn't confident that it would be able to give a the precision that i would be wanting out of it so i opted to just not do anything with that and i'll be looking for a new one of these this is when i an ebay find and you know usually when i buy stuff off ebay i have pretty good luck this one here yeah unfortunately it was beyond repair yeah i'll just have to chunk that one and find a new one i guess so well but anyway if you're interested in sending some stuff off to mark i've got his contact information on his card his email address is mrtool2010 at hotmail.com i would send him an email before you send him anything uh you know let him know what he you're sending to him he'll give you instructions and he can usually give you an you know rough estimate on what something's going to cost to fix up of course you never know until you get in there and find out exactly what's going on but uh if you he can usually give you a a ballpark idea of what it might cost to fix some of this stuff and uh he does a real good job and in my opinion he does it very economically so i use them quite frequently i've got another stack of stuff over there i've already put together and at some time in your future i'll be sending them some more stuff so now i'm going to cover some items that we picked up at iron fest that were actually viewer gifts where i got to meet some of the guys and they had some things they wanted to give to me which is always nice don't ever expect that but still nice for people to do that and up first comes a couple items that ron brown gave me i actually met ron at iron fest a couple of years ago but um this is really really neat these indicators in my opinion now you might lose just a federal indicator but what's cool about them is both of these have uh some branding on them from the company that they were made for this one here was made for the bone it says made exclusively for bone aluminum and brass company they were a foundry that did aluminum and brass work back during world war ii and then after i know they did a lot of work for the automotive industry after the war a really big outfit kind of a cool to have something from them and this one over here is probably even cooler it says packard motor car company on it of course packard made automobiles they're long out of business but this indicator was more than likely used in their factory you know at some point in time and it survived and ron ended up with it and he's passed it along to me he actually had sent these to mark rutowski and had them redone so they're in great condition as you can see and my plan is is i'm gonna probably put these in the display case because i think these are neat these ones that have the different company names on them i've got probably another four or five or six of these that have that kind of stuff on them and yeah i don't think i'm going to use them i think i'm just going to put them up and put them on display because they are just a cool piece of history ron also gave me this little emergency stop button uh we'll put this over my electrical stuff i'm sure we'll find a need for that that's a nice one you can put on something you just kind of bump into it with your knee or something and shut a machine off in an emergency situation he also gave me some just some miscellaneous some gave me a can full of nuts and bolts and that were brand new stuff he gave me some scrap metal that i've already put up in my scrap pile but i'm not going to show you that but anyway this is two nice items that i got from ron and ron thank you very much up next again from the yarn fest event uh viewer tom kleinschmidt came up to me and brought me some little clamping system stuff some t-slot stuff he said uh this stuff wouldn't fit any machines he had he picked it up somewhere and wanted to pass it along this is all definitely stuff that i can use i'll get these cleaned up looks like they were using them to do a job in aluminum they got a bunch of aluminum all over them but i get them cleaned up i got a drawer over there where i keep miscellaneous stuff like this in and man it comes in handy all the time for that weird stuff you run into so you can't have too much of this kind of stuff laying around the shop so tom thank you very much another viewer gift this comes from fred widman and he met me out there and handed me this little cigar box that was full of uh inserts so mostly a little triangular type inserts and i have a cutter that holds those so uh these will get used i'm sure so anyway fred thank you very much i can always can use carbide so that's that's very nice for you to think i'm in and bring those to me another very nice viewer gift that i picked up at arm fest from larry pajalski and he had actually contacted me ahead of time asked me if i wanted this and told me he was coming and could bring it and this is a five horsepower releasing uh electrical motor uh he told me that i think it i remember that was a brand new motor it was bought back in the 1970s i think he said where he worked at they never used it uh he ended up bringing it home or something like that somewhere along the way and it's been sitting in his garage for years he's been tripping over it has no use for a three-phase motor and i thought i could use it so absolutely again like we talked about before with the electrical components i'm always getting machines in sometimes we have to replace motors or put a motor on something that doesn't have a motor so it's always nice to have some stuff like this laying around to use and i am quite confident that this will end up uh being used on a project somewhere along the way and i greatly greatly greatly appreciate bringing that in uh he had it in the trunk of his car and and and we got it transferred over uh the the screws on the shroud were kind of messed up and he told me when i got him i ended up having to do a little bit of work to fix those but no big deal at all and this this motor other than having some um wear on the outside where it's been and been being tripped over for years uh this thing is in brand spanking new conditions so very nice uh very nice addition to the shop thank you very much uh for bringing that along larry so up next here are a bunch of grinding wheels that fit my new to me thompson grinder back there this is a 12 inch diameter wheel 3 inch inside circle and when i got that grinder my old landis grinder had the same inside diameter three inches but it took a i think it was a ten inch wheel and uh my land or my new one is designed to either run a seven inch wheel or a 12 inch wheel you can run this the motor at two different rpms that are designed for those diameters i've been using my 10 inch wheels on them but because it's really designed for a 12 inch wheel i really wasn't getting the surface speed on the wheel itself that you really need so i've been on the lookout for some wheels and my buddy jeff clow uh up in the atlanta area he had a bunch of grinding wheels that he had got at an auction and he went through him and found a bunch that would fit my machine and we did a little horse trading actually he was down at my shop some time back and he had uh picked out a few things that he wanted for his shop from my little i had some stuff with just some duplicate tooling and i said just take them jeff i said we'll swap later on i know because we're always horse trading with one another so he brought me up some wheels so the one on top here's a really nice norton wheel that's designed for uh you know doing like tool steel and stuff like that brand spanking new hasn't been used and then the rest of these wheels these are all slightly different thicknesses and configurations but all basically the same type wheel and this wheel is a it's a softer material i did a little bit of research on it it's also designed for grinding really hard stuff but this wheel breaks down fairly fairly rapidly i know that these came out of the lockheed plant in atlanta i'm not sure what they were actually using these for but there's a whole bunch of these different some of these are different thicknesses and different configurations but they're all basically the same grade wheel so anyway nice to have a couple of wheels that are the right wheels for my machine and i need to probably pick up a few more grades for doing specific materials uh but this will be a great help so jeff thank you very much for bringing those along so next one here this is actually a purchase and this i guess you could well it wasn't really an arm fest purchase this is something i actually made a deal on before i went up i picked it up while i was at iron fest from my friend ron grundy you guys met him in a video interview we did a week or so ago ron was a long-term employee at kearney and trekker and uh this vice that i bought from him picked it up while i was up there visiting with him but this is actually a kerning trekker vice it says kearney trekker on there it was made by knt for use on their machines but even better than that this one was actually used in the curry trekker factory uh it has stamped on here department 53 he couldn't remember what exactly department 53 was but it was one of the departments at knt where they were basically building milling machines so on so on so in my mind this is a piece of history i'm a k t fan i really like their machines but to have an original k t vice that was actually used at knt to build machines it's really kind of cool i mean there's there's a chance that this vice may have held something that is in one of my machines when it was being built and i think that's just really cool so anyway i really appreciate mr grundy uh offering this up to me and giving me the opportunity to purchase it in a very nice addition to the shop so thought i'd share that in talking about vices i got to show you this and this is another one that i picked up at iron fest made a deal on it before i went up there peter cott who is a longtime viewer of mine he's actually been to one of the scraping classes that we had here at my shop i've actually been up to his place in arkansas as well when lance bosty and i went up picked up some machinery a couple years ago but uh peter had found this somewhere up there close to him and asked me if i had any interest in it absolutely this is a 10 inch jaw vise it's actually badged wilton over on the side but i am almost 100 certain that this device was made by curt it is identical to a curt vite vice in every single possible way um and like i said i'm pretty sure that that kurt made these and wilton just branded them as wiltons i've got an eight inch version of this same vice it's also badged wilton uh so it's actually on my middle machine right now and of course a typical kurt vice is six inches so this just gives me some added capacity uh this this thing is huge i mean this thing is gigantic this device weighs 300 pounds but i thought i could use it potentially over on my horizontal milling machine or even over on my new metal planer for some particular jobs so anyway really really nice to have a really big piece of work holding here in the shop and uh just excited to have it and peter thank you for uh thinking of me when you saw it and he actually uh hauled it all the way up to arm fest and uh when when he was up there him and his wife went up and uh gave it to me while i was there and uh it was so big and heavy we had to get a forklift unloaded out of his truck so now let's change gears and look at some of the swap meet purchases and cut this first one here i got from doug broberg who's a again a good friend of mine i've been knowing for a long time at iron fest he always brings some good stuff down for swap meet and lo and behold over in his truck he had a bunch of jaws for curt vices and several of these actually fit that 10 inch curt vice i just picked i think this set actually fits my eight inch i have an eight inch one as well but for what he wanted for him i said i'm just going to buy them and bring them home don't know that i needed them but uh yeah you can't ever go you can't ever have too many vice jobs so i think these are originals these are obviously homemade ones that were probably made for doing a specific job of course these are wider than the normal ones there's some aluminum soft jaws down here i think those fit the eight inch vise as well but still a very nice addition to the shop very nice very nice to have these and doug appreciate you giving me the opportunity to buy them and give me a good deal on them i'll put them up and have them if we ever need them another swap meet find here this is something i had absolutely no use in buying or no need in buying but just i thought it was neat had to get it i've seen these before it's a little anvil vise so you got an anvil on one side and a vise on the end of it here um guy had it for sale out on his truck and i thought it was a decent price so i bought it it's cute like i said i have no need for this thing i think at some point in time what i'll probably do is uh take it apart maybe do a restoration on it and i don't know if i'll keep it or sell it or whatever but uh anyway just just a neat little vice and i just thought it was cute and had to have it next items uh these actually came off of another youtuber's uh table out there that came over mr pete lyle peterson usually comes out for the swap meet at iron fest and he was there again this year i always enjoy seeing mr pete getting a chance to chat with him but he had a couple items really what i purchased from him was this box of shims so this is a set of c-sized shims and they're sorted in here by thickness they come basically from a thousandth of an inch up to 125 thousandths of an inch and these are really handy working on machines they're just shims and different thicknesses that you can put in this is made for up to an inch and a quarter size bolt i've got sets of these i've got the double a the a the b and then the c set now i actually had a few in this c size and uh actually this the shims that are in here is a combination of the ones that were already in it it actually had i think all the sizes but i put more of them in here because i had some that i had just over in a drawer but i didn't have a big case like this so anyway really neat to have in fact i thought was kind of funny when i went up to mr pete he says i kind of thought you might want that i brought that for you so i just happened to be the first one to grab it he also gave me this little steam valve here to take out to the museum so this little coil in here on the bottom this is for using in steam basically what happened is the steam will condense and you'll have water down here in the bottom so you actually have a slug of water that goes up and hits into the uh the valve rather than having live steam up in there so that's the reason for this little curlicue that's real common on steam engines and steam boilers when you have a gauge to have one of those those in there so again you don't have the hot steam actually hitting the gauge you've got a slug of water that's hitting it so anyway i'll take that out to the museum and i'm sure it'll get used at some point in time we always are needing that kind of stuff so these items i picked up again from long time art and fest friend mark leadbuyer mark is one of the few guys like myself there's only a handful of us left that have been to every single one of the iron fest events so i've been seeing him this was our 16th time of getting together at arn fest and always good to see mark he had over on his table a couple labs i picked up number one he just had some spanner wrenches these spanner wrenches i whenever i see them on a swap meets and stuff if they're reasonably priced i just buy them because i'm always needing them there's a million different sizes i don't even know what sizes i usually have but he had several of them so i picked them up and actually um these two are basically the same but the other ones i didn't have so these are actually something i didn't have so i'm gonna put them in my drawer spanner wrenches and he also had some of these uh little bronze hammers that were in really good shape uh all things considered so they can't have too many of these things laying around so i picked up a couple of those as well so next thing i found this little carbide grinder this is actually a baldor um looks like it's been repainted obviously i'm not sure that that channel iron stand that it's on is original but uh the guy i got this from told me it worked and this is something i actually don't have in the shop and it had two really good green wheels a coarse and more of a medium grit or fine grit there yeah this will be something that we'll definitely be able to use around here so had a really good price on it i couldn't turn it down and i brought it home with me i'll need to probably redo the electrical cord on there i'm not crazy about the way that's done and put a switch on it and so forth but uh that would be a real nice addition to the shop and another little item picked up a gallon jug full of basically this is a spindle oil um really good high grade quality oil i think the guy told me he had bought like a 55 gallon drum of this stuff and he poured it up in these one gallon jugs and he was selling these for like 10 bucks a jug which is a bargain all day long so anyway i brought some of that home with me as well and with that i think we've uh worked through all these items uh my table that was full over there is getting empty i need to put everything up and uh clean off some space so always good really enjoyed iron fest this year for everybody i saw up there great to see people again uh it's just always a fun event i've been going to that event for so long i've developed so many friendships over the years from people all over the country even the world that have attended iron fest and as always get to see new folks up there every year and really really enjoy uh that event every year so always look forward if we hopefully we'll have some more opportunities for some events like that where people can come out and meet up with you know myself and some other youtubers as well i think we're going to try to do something now in the florida flywheelers uh in february so be listening out for some more information on that as well and with that guys uh that is going to be a wrap on this episode as always thank you for watching please subscribe if you haven't already uh comments are appreciated thumbs up please hit that thumbs up button if you like what you see that really helps me out with the algorithms over on youtube and hit that bell icon up there to get notifications when new videos are posted because uh otherwise youtube may not let you know it's just the way they are so with that guys that's it thanks again for watching we'll talk to everybody later [Music] you

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Length: 28min 33sec (1713 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 04 2021