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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on Today at 11:01:41 AM »
Hi Folks,
Another short week as the local council closed the road for two days to resurface it, and I could not get to the workshop! The Peavey amp is a see if you can fix it job! and it turned out very well indeed! Got some more D type done, and apart from the exhaust, the chassis is finished!    It has been very hot here, and hard to work, certainly working outdoors was not an option, but it will soon be cooler, and then I will be moaning about that too!
Phil In the East Yorkshire desert!
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on August 01, 2026, 11:02:23 AM »
Hi Folks,
A short week but a long video! Only two days in the Workshop, a long day of antique repairs with camera shy Andy, an analysis of what went wrong whilst trying to concentrate in 27 degree heat in the workshop, and fitting a rebuild kit to my Rothenburger blowlamp which TBH has never lit reliably since being new, all will be revealed!
Phil in superscorchio dry East Yorkshire.
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Good job.  :clap: Is there any tendency for the 'teeth' on the pullies to damage your rubber drives?
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Here's some pics of pulleys I have hobbed -

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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on July 25, 2026, 02:21:39 PM »
Hi Folks,
It has been so hot! Almost as hot as the seventies!! Last week we did  some field work, but I have not included that in this video as when I looked over it, it was same old, so it was going to be Andy's antiques Repairs, but when I got back and sat down at the computer, it had quit! long story short, it was actually the monitor, but it's all in the video, including antique repairs on a global scale!
Phil, in still scorchio East Yorkshire!
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I've posted up photos before of hobbed pulley drives. It's a process that works very well and gives a professional result (very similar to what Wilesco does on their drive pulleys). I've done well over a hundred brass and aluminium drive pulleys now.

Here's a vid I did a few years ago of the process -

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Project Logs / Re: Duender build
« Last post by shipto on July 22, 2026, 01:15:49 PM »
Cracking on this is what I came up with for belt tensioners.
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Member Videos / TTB V2 with some mods driving a Baker Fan
« Last post by Jim Dobson on July 21, 2026, 07:59:30 PM »
Running one of Trev's delightful TTB V2 engines with some mods and driving a Baker fan and putting the engine under load.

Trev was an absolutely prolific maker of a range of beautiful brass and copper engines and accessories in his small backyard country shed.

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