ROAD FIELD TRIP Beverly Shear Factory pt 1 738 tubalcain

hello once again it's mr pete your youtube shop teacher and this is a two-part archaeological adventure a field trip to chicago to the beverly neighborhood on the south side and i'm going with my friend matt krug co-owner of lost creek machinery you've met him before we're going in his heavy truck he is possibly going to buy some things and we are visiting the beverly shearer company or what is left of it it closed two or three years ago every school shop in the united states if it had metal shop or welding shop had a beverly shearer every sheet metal shop in the united states had one they made tens of thousands of them so this is extremely interesting the plant has been dismantled and i'm going to show patent drawings and a lot of other still pictures at the end because this will be very poorly narrated once i get into the decrepit factory so i will probably have short blurbs like what i'm doing now to introduce various parts of the video or it may not make sense to you but we found some amazing new or amazing old patterns drawings and other things in here that i just found absolutely fascinating well this beverly building which is just it's 120 years old pretty rough shape it would not have been a nice place to work relatively small and it was purchased by miles o'malley a young man who makes french horns and other brass instruments and he's been operating out of a small garage so he's going to move everything into the beverly building and the beverly building has been partially cleaned out already and much of the heavier machinery is already gone but there's still some things left it has a basement but there isn't too much to see down there there were many shapers down there a lot of these parts were made by shaping machines years ago and like i said all of the original patterns and drawings are there so i won't show much of the trip itself we were in a heavy truck with dual wheels and we didn't have a blowout on the way home even without much of a load on it also you will notice that we are delivering to miles the big wooden cabinets with the drawers that i showed in a recent video with various self-bend lathe items that came from a school but miles bought these from from matt all right let's begin we'll be in chicago in two seconds i'm in chicago illinois with my friend matt krug co-owner of lost creek machinery i know we're bouncing around here because we're in a heavy truck but we are going to visit the beverly shear company or what is left of it and hope to get in there and see some interesting things so this is a field trip and uh here's matt driving the truck we got some shadows there i know it's not real good and we're in or near what they call the beverly neighborhood i'm not even sure which side of chicago we're on here south we're on the south side of chicago about 90 miles from home hoping we don't get shot at well there's the police department one of them there's probably a hundred of them okay we're approaching it here in the building on the corner you'll see the name on it beverly shearer and these are the cabinets that i showed in one of my videos they're being delivered here sets of drawers oak that's of the the machines that were used to make the beverly shearers yep look at those cutters my gosh yeah so on this machine they decked off the let me go grab one the top the frames right the still got the flat belt drive so they would oh i love it i've got tons of these on the big milwaukee they would deck off this surface i think they did the base too this is aluminum well now why is that aluminum it's a sample it's a sample yeah this is a b3 so that would be the biggest threat this year they made how neat is that i got wood ones too that's probably probably the b3 yeah well is the wooden one uh a foundry pattern i have both in 1969 i purchased a beverly b2 throatless shear for the school shop which served us well for all those years that i was there i owned several b1 beverly shears that i had in my home shop here i do not know why i sold them one i bought from a high school way out in western illinois well now we're entering the area in the office where they have the archives so there are hundreds and hundreds of blueprints and drawings not just of these machines that i've just shown you but they did a lot of work for other people under contract as you can imagine and then take a look at the table and there are a bunch of wooden models that they made working models that actually sheared i'm not the only one that makes wooden prototypes apparently that goes way way back and they're just proving whether or not something would work george nabel was the inventor and the patent holder of most all of these years although he didn't appear to have a partner in one of the early ones there's actual shear the wooden one for the b3 so that's from that's an original from 1931. 1939 one third 1931. yep so is that where he started making him was 1933 in 1931 he was working for a company and what's what's this one made of this is wooden plastic this is wood yeah i want it so bad i've seen the one twos and threes yeah so so [Music] that's a one this is a two this one's a one that's a one yeah this is uh this is not that old but just a sample they were working on this is aluminum and switched steel blades with with steel blades once we're finished [Music] pretty cool mahogany oh just by the grain and the color all right now lift it off slowly there we go just so they can see how that's made [Music] now take a look at the many many wooden and metal patterns that they had that were sent out to the foundry they did not make their own castings and that was typical of most factories there's an entire bin of them beautiful match plates precision made most of them hold multiple parts so i have a lot of pictures and i have a lot of footage of that because i was so fascinated by it some of the parts i recognized some i did not and here's a whole tote of match plates these are the really old ones these wooden ones that's a b3 yeah it's that's that part yeah oversized a little bit and then uh that's the lever that holds the rack that's don't actually know what that is and you know considering these would have been sent to a foundry someplace and led a very rough life oh yeah yeah banged around and they're in pretty good shape considering yeah yeah that's what i'm saying yeah these are the later ones they haven't made an aluminum probably lasting [Music] this is the inside slaughter which is this guy i have a demo sheet on it we found a really cool print for one yeah oh those are all there i don't know where the actual demo sheet is we're making cuts on the inside hold that for a second as i zoom in here these are some of the original blueprints dimension drawings let me look at the corner down here [Applause] base for the junior shearer so again this is wood with some metal blades that they worked out because this one actually has the gears and the the top blade holders a little better design gives you different rigidity on it um the frame they oh they were messing i was noticing like on the original it's the original b3 mold the frame is much more square and on the newer ones it's much more round like the that could be one it just got fancier yeah i really want to find a junior though i love the junior i love it yeah are there any bits and pieces like that oh there we go so a lot of these have that inside slaughter there's a fortune [Music] b2 blade holders super cool that again is that's not a foundry pattern or is it that's like a model i think yeah also mahogany let's see what's under more blade rollers [Music] can we see the back side of this geared one [Music] beautiful patterns [Music] [Applause] there you go oh let's see that one again this is up an inside slider i've been here for like over a week [Music] i found an article so oh that's cool are those well that concludes part one of the beverly shearer factory tour hope you enjoyed it up to this point now there'll be many many still pictures at the end of this part so stay tuned for those if you like that type of thing there'll be a lot of stills at the end of part two as well so be sure and watch part two see you then this is mr pete saying so long for now henry just came in to join me for a little bit of footage here if i promised to go to the dollar store and get him some balloons didn't i and what are we going to do with those balloons pop them or fill them with water all right so long for now save so long for now no come on now you

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Published: Sat Jun 26 2021