My Week this Week, My workshop videos

[hermetic]

just checked my manual, no warning in there either but that is what I will do when I get the new element in, it is costing £61 inc vat and delivery, but it is just the wire coil, not the chamber as well! Not cheap , but it you split the cost by the number of heats you get, it could be ok !It was the fastest pour ever! up to temp in 30 minutes from cold, and poured and shut off in 40! I was so pleased with it, and so pissed when it quit!
Phil

 

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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!

 

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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

 

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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]

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]

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.

 

[hermetic]

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]

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

 

[hermetic]

Sorry guys. no video this week, the Covid got me! I am recovering slowly!
Phil

 

[kinggt4]

Very good point!! and more to the point, I think I have one!
Phil

What has happened to Phil Whitley (hermetic)? I enjoyed his Workshop videos but he hasn't posted for a while. Sure hope he is OK/

George

 

[hermetic]

Hi all, I have been down with Covid, which left me with a sinus infection(again) and now have an occasional nagging cough, but other than that I am fine, I have been posting sporadically, but realise now that I have been forgetting to append my posts to the web forums that I am a member of, I shall put that right today!!
Phil (cough cough!)

 

[hermetic]

Hi all, I get back to the workshop on the Thursday of this week, was going to do friday as well, but circumstances overtook me and I never got there. As winter approaches fast I decided to crack on with the heating, and find the fan which is most suitable has knackered bearings, more on order as we speak. I have other fans I could use, but they are predomantly plastic, and although they would work, not really suitable for a burner! I also have a few gas boiler flue fans, but all have a 2" outlet! I will prevail! I will try to get back Monday and see how it goes, the fishermans freinds are a usefull anti cough!
Phil

 

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There are also THREE others that I forgot to add to forums, please go to
https://www.youtube.com/@philhermetic/videosto watch them!
Thanking you all for your continued support as I recover from the dread virus!!
Phil

 

[ShopShoe]

Phil,

I'm glad to hear that you are doing better. Looking forward to the missed videos and, I hope, more in the future.

--ShopShoe

 

[hermetic]

Hi all, Just a short video to bring the 2022 fun and games to a close! I am not a great christmas fan, mainly because of the cold weather, the rampant consumerism and the cynical exploitation used to extract peoples cash! BAH HUMBUG!! Having said that it is a good excuse to do nothing with lots of good food and glasses of port and brandy, to aid the digestion and keep out the cold you understand, and strictly NOT to be enjoyed in any other way! Hope you all have a good time and don't over indulge too much!
A merry Yule to one and all!!
Phil, It's flippin freezin in East Yorkshire

 

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Hi all, I set off to Langtoft on Monday, feeling more positive and healthier, and actually got a few little jobs done, then the weather closed down again, and towards the end of the week a freeze set in, and reports of cars sliding down Tigh Hoe hill ended my weeks optimism, I will have another go next week, weather forecast is better!
Phil, Still freezing ower't wawd Tops.

 

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Hi all, another short video on some very interesting repairs to some metal antiques, preceded by a view of our freshly decorated front room ceiling wrecked by a pesky leak!! These things are sent to try us! I have been looking through my past (go pro) videos, and I am going to shoot some footage with it and do sound overdub because the wide angle effect on the go pro gives a farmore immersive experience! Feeling much better now as spring approaches and raring to get back in the shop full time!
Phil, in damp but warmer east Yorkshire

 

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Hi all, Repairing a broken hinge on a pair of sunglasses hardly seems like a worthwhile task, but the are the wifes favourite pair of Foster Grants from back in the day, So off I go! then we pick up where we left off on the Holbrook, and start wprking towards the reassembly of the saddle and apron, and there is the small problem of the knock off rod that puts the screcutting feed out of gear, which is ever so slightly bent in more than one place, and needs to be straight!!
hil, in rapidly warming East Yorkshire

 

[hermetic]

Hi all,
Do you ever have one of those weeks when you start out with the best intentions, but somehow get derailed by the wants and needs of others? It's called life! I did much more than this, including house calls to fix various electrical problems(which I couldn't film) Sorting my water pump on the workshop rainwater system, which is a tedious fault which refuses to show up in testing, but manages to trip the RCD after the pump has run for a few seconds! I have now a workaround, connect it to a non RCD connected supply for a few moments, and it cures itself! This happens if I am away from the shop for more than a couple of weeks, but at all other times, used regularly, no problems! Anyway, I get the dowel pins bored for the Holbrook, and slowly we are staggering forward into spring!
Phil, in alternately sunny and dull East Yorkshire!

 

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Hi All, Volvo V70 mot work, fitting new steering column U/J which everyone seems to think you need to lower the subframe to get the lower U/J bolt out, you don't, it is just accesible from under the wheel arch but you will need a good fitting 10mm socket and two 12" extension bars! Having not worked on cars since I was in my twenties this weeks work left me with aches in places I never new I had! Conclusion and back onto the Holbrook next week! Welcome aboard to all the new subs, and thanks to all the old ones!
Phil, in almost springlike East Yorkshire