Engineering videos

Hi

Would like to reccomend the following site for anyone interested in machining, welding and general metalwork.

It's on You Tube, search for, Keith Fenner.

I have been watching his stuff for a while now and would second this as being interesting viewing.

The best part of his videos, for me, are that he shows how he sets things up - centering, indicating, adjusting. These are the pieces that most videos take for granted and that us beginners really need to see.

He is a very versatile builder and it is inspiring to watch him work.

RobC

Hi All

Yes one of the best video series on the net. Keith Fenner runs a jobbing shop on Cape Cod USA. there are over 200 videos.

He uses conventional machines, Lathe's and Mills mostly from the fifties, The work is mainly repairing and rebuilding bits of other machinery, boats and heavy vehicles. Have a look at some of the welding videos mostly with Tig... real skill. I wish I had Tig facilities. The only high tech is a small CNC plasma cutter. I think he built it himself.

"Get Err Done"

Cheers
John

Edited By John McNamara on 12/05/2013 14:37:39

Hi S.

If you like Keith's videos you might also like the ones that a young lad in one of the former soviet republics has posted on YT. He goes by the nom de video of FactoryDragon87 and if you want to see some real engineering start with his latest series **LINK**.

If you think Keith has a "get'er done" attitude, you will be delighted by FD87's attitude to work and hopefully delighted that there is somewhere in the world where a youngster is getting into proper engineering not just "mouse wrangling" like they want to do here.

Enjoy

chriStephens

PS I wish my son had a similar attitude to enterprise, but then even if he did he would not have the H&S freedoms that seem to prevail in that part of the world, what a shame!

Youtube is full of good and interesting stuff for education and ideas for engineering electronics solar stuff model planes hot air engines etc etc

Well worth a scoot about on a quiet evening

Hi Ady,

You tube is often better than a nights TV, but there is also some awful dross. There are lots of videos put up to show off to the world their new found skill at some simple task that unfortunately is not yet fully understood by the presenter. A typical example is someone who has learnt, or so he thinks, to screw thread but sets the top slide at completely the wrong angle, there are at least two showing this faux pas. One of them even puts a line on the screen to guide others(since corrected I believe) to follow his lead!!

Still, we can't all be perfect, can we?

chriStephens

Hello all, what fantastic videos from FactoryDragon87 !. Brings back memories for me, because a few years ago I had to do a similar job , ie, split a Valmet forwarder in half, incidently a Valmet 860 which was a bigger beast altogether with similar bearing damage. Two 8 inch bearings had broken. However, the machining work was carried expertly out by someone else, on a massive DSG lathe. I just had the job of fitting it all back together !. I believe the forwarder was sold a few years later to someone in the Soviet Union, with a cracked crane base to boot. Oh happy days !!. Cheers.

Another good one if you are into hobby style gear cutting is by a guy called Shorty Leatherwood who goes by the Youtube name of Hobbynut.

**LINK**

I really rate this guy, far better than those overpriced crap DVD's sold by Jose Rodregas who can't even get the value of Pi right.

Take a look at "Doubleboost" on you tube. A down to earth guy, doing some great work.

Hi All

I have only watched this mans heat treatment videos so far....Easy to understand and clearly presented. Highly recommended if you have not seen them.

There is a lot of other topics covered by this man.

One on chip formation caught my eye among many others.

"The Lazy Machinist"

Mr. Marc L'ecuyer

Regards
John

**LINK**

Hi guys,

thanks for all the links, many interesting videos, I will be busy for some time.

Thor

mrpete222 and Keith Rucker also post very interesting video's, Keith spends a lot of his time refurbishing/repairing old machinery both also worth a look.

Here's another good one.

Tom Griffin / Toms Techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Figbash3/featured.

Roy.

I can't get the link to work, the instructions say "in youtube click on share.

where the hell is share.

Edited By wheeltapper on 31/05/2014 10:41:59

Another couple that I watch are:

abom79

oxtools

you will find the above two on Keith Fenners site as well because they made a few videos called face off where they took turns designing , grinding and testing lathe tools to take some unbelievable cuts on their lathe.

andybythesea - he did a video on turbocad that I found usefull.

another is myfordboy he does a lot of videos about casting metal .

Ian.

oops!

the correct name for the turbocad video is paultracy

andydaviesbythesea did some electronics videos also worth a look.

Ian

I have started posting the odd video or two on You Tube, they may be of interest.

Search for Stephen Deakin

Edited By S Deakin on 14/09/2014 01:51:06

some very good YouTube videos on model locomotive building by MrCrispin96. Search

Home Workshop Engineering - Assembling the Chassis Part 1

My particular favourite is 'Doubleboost' based in Newcastle on Tyne... He has a VG video series called 'Sunday night nightcap' uploaded every Sunday night; he has so far produce 97 of them & last week he was wondering how to celebrate his 100th posting, I think he's putting together a video on a lot of his outtakes in which his commentary, & language, is quite colourful & often hilarious, he covers a lot of stuff, lathe work, milling work, welding & casting, all self taught, A vehicle mechanic by trade he has / does some excellent work, I watch him every week.

George.

Can't find anything on Youtube when I search for Hobbynut and that link says it's private. Can you post another link?

CNC Technology - techno p4wn

NYC CNC - interesting

Colin Furze - amusement

Autodesk Fusion 360 - Fusion 360 tutorials

CADD Edge - Solidworks tutorials

CADimensions - various CAD tutorials, quite a bit of Soidworks

iRepairFast - how to repair iPhones, iPads etc

Aussie50 - all sorts of tinkering

Stefan Gotteswinter - various workshop vids

The Tool and Die Guy - toolmaking and EDM

Edited By Muzzer on 07/11/2015 19:33:24