In steam locomotive restoration, babbitt metal (a soft alloy used for bearing surfaces) must be repoured into rocker shafts by melting out the old material, adding fresh babbitt, and pouring it back in; the process involves creating steel shims clamped between two halves to divide the babbitt into separate sections, ensuring proper bearing surfaces for smooth engine operation.
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What are you guys doing?
Hi, kitties.
Everybody's ready to eat.
Uh safety meeting 10 more miles.
>> I thought you love your truck.
Christopher, what's been going on, my friend?
>> We have been taking all the valve motion out to rebuild.
>> How are the tubes?
>> Just about done.
>> There we go. How many you got left?
>> Uh 100 to roll, 200 Yeah. 292 to seal weld and re-roll.
Um >> 100 to bead.
>> Yeah. 100 to bead.
>> So my friend, why do you have everything inside the shop today? Tender and everything.
>> Because we decided to challenge ourselves to put the engine back together with a spring broth with no brakes.
>> Is there anything being done to the tender?
>> Nope. It'll get fresh pads, fresh brake shoes put on it. We still have to do an internal on the tender.
Um, but there were no noted maintenance items on the tender. So, other than annual uh other than items for the 1472, it's ready to go.
>> Let's go. Let's go.
70's coming back to life, guys. 70s come back to life.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
trying to set up a way to wash parts.
Little wash plant right here.
>> Yeah. Well, considering this thing, this should be cleaned out by now being that it's been in diesel for over a year.
That's all little pieces from it.
I also know that the pump in this is dead. So, Heat.
Heat.
Too heavy. Hat.
What's been going on this last week, my friend? I've been uh taking down all the UT numbers, putting them on an Excel uh sheet, and once I did that, I come in here, clean off the back head, then paint it, and then paint all the pipes and valves, handles, and nasty Nate. It looks good, brother.
That red looks good.
Looks nice and clean.
Are you happy with it the way it came out?
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, you got some more work you have to do on it or is that pretty much finished?
>> Uh, there's still got to paint all that up in there and then all the stuff up above needs to all still be installed and if I can paint it, paint it.
>> Awesome. Awesome. Got a good jump on it though.
>> Yep.
>> Good work, Nate.
Hey Nate, is that more prep for paint?
>> Uh, this is the paint.
>> That is the paint.
>> Yep.
>> Okay. I thought that might be like a base layer, but that's the actual paint itself.
>> Yep.
Mother.
That took long enough.
Brother Chris, what what's this for, bro? What's this for you're doing here?
>> So, we have to repour the lead inside lead or proper name of Babin inside these rocker shafts.
>> Okay.
Nice thing about it is you melt it out, you add a bit more and you pour it back in.
>> Okay.
>> So, but what we have to do is so we have I have a split line to get the center mandrel out of this cuz I'm making some steel shims that'll get clamped between the two halves and give the dividing layer. Okay?
So it'll end up with two halves of babbit instead of one continuous fabbit all the way around.
>> Ah, I see what you're saying.
>> And so that's why you're cutting that out of that material right there. You're going to use that as the shims, >> right? Okay.
>> For this, it doesn't have to be anything perfect, any uh good shim stock. So using my 10,000 shim stocks have abundance around here. There we go.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Screw me, Chris.
It's out.
>> Good thing that was out cuz that was spraying back towards your face.
>> Yeah, I would have got squirted on. God.
>> And blind I love you.
Heat. Heat.
Okay. Up.
That's down.
Good. Up.
up.
Down.
That's good.
And now we pray.
So, what's this about you chucking wood at something yesterday?
>> Yeah, >> I heard it was real popular.
>> Yeah, >> like people would pay money to watch that [ย __ย ] >> Yeah, as popular as your sexuality.
Anyway, good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is Rowdy Pierce, the superintendent here at Mount Reneer Scenic Railroad. I am also a god-fearing, god-loving, gunloving Republican. And to my right is Eric, who is a probably safe to say you're a liberal Democrat.
>> Yeah.
>> Mhm.
>> I can agree with some middle views and all that, but yeah, more liberal Democrat. Anyway, in the last video, Eric was talking about how he was gay and making dick making gay jokes to me and some people.
>> I send them dickpicks all the time.
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>> Dicks.
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Dicks.
I am a Republican, as I said, and I enjoy my mouth full of dicks just as much as he likes sending me dick pics. We're American. Americans send dickpicks to each other all the time.
Whether you're a male or female, it's just what we do. If we didn't do that in this day and age, there wouldn't be any such thing as Only Fans or Fansley or Pornhub, Hamster, all those other ones. We'd still be stuck in the traditional way of just going to the strip club and feeling like [ย __ย ] Anyway, if Eric's sexuality offends anybody, you're more than welcome to unsubscribe and quit watching our videos cuz as I've said, I feel like I'm an American. And I had a World War II hero named Marian Carl that I grew up around.
He lived in Ro uh Green, not Green Glide out by where I grew up in Roseber. And one of the things he said once was where the United States has gone wrong is everybody has started to attack each other. Everyone's always on the attack.
When we went to war and went to World War II, guess what? We defended.
Americans defend. They don't attack.
That's the problem with this country right now. Everybody wants to attack one another. Red side, blue side, whatever.
I'm on the red side, he's on the blue side, and I consider him a friend. And I have absolutely no problem with him sending me pictures of dicks. No problem whatsoever. It was a joke. And apparently the joke went over a lot of people's heads. So if you can't get the joke and you don't like his sexuality, sayanora, this is where you get off the train, buddy.
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>> My vote.
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>> Warnings on everything.
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>> Yep. It helps us get the job done.
>> Yep. So, I'm comfortable with his sexuality. You should be, too.
Good day. Good day.
>> Everybody's nice and full from breakfast, huh? Everybody had good breakfast.
All right, babies.
Heat. Heat.
See you guys next week.
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