New Haven Metal Planer Restoration - Part 1: Disassembling the Monster!

The time has finally come - I am starting the long awaited New Haven Metal Planer Restoration! In this first part, we will take the machine completely apart to prepare it for cleaning, inspection, and a total functional restoration. Some heavy lifting of a heavy machine is required!

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[ohhpaul]

An idea for a tank to soak those parts in: Take some pallets and build a crate minus the top and line it with pond liner. Fairly quick, easy and you can disassemble it.
It was nice to see Mike, I don't know why he stopped making videos, but it is nice to see it was not for the worst of reasons.

[scottpecora]

Keith for some of those large parts what about a commercial firm that has dipping tanks. Years ago I had a 1922 Durrant frame that was caked in grease and rust. I took it to one of those electrolysis degreasing, derusting places. It came back so cleaned you could see the hammer marks where they bucked the rivets. The time savings was enormous and allowed us to immediately begin restoration. I encourage you to look into it. No scrubbing, no mess!

[geneard]

I'm always amazed when I find another bit of Connecticut history out there. Bridgeport Tool & Die, New Haven Tool, even UTC used to make industrial tools. But considering this state is the birthplace of America's industry. Heck, I live in an old mill building. Bridgeport was the birthplace of Americas locomotive, automotive, aviation industries, New Haven ships and ships gear, Waterbury brass all the metals...right now zinc is huge, Naugatuck is known for Rubber and Naugahyde and the list goes on and on and on and on.

[clydebalcom]

These are the machines I love to see restored.

[Watchyn_Yarwood]

I prefer this format, voice narration over a low volume working background. Well done!

[terryezzell]

Had a metal shaper in my Industrial Arts shop in the mid 1970's. Really liked it, and it was a unique piece of machinery. Mine was a little newer, it was a WWII era machine. I am going to enjoy this series. Hope you have a good sand blaster

[loydsa]

Now is the time to buy shares in Evaporust :-)

[bcbloc]

If the grinding doesn’t pan out I could probably mill it for you and hold it to about .002” or less over that distance as Mike’s John Doe shaper can attest to.😎

[Smville]

Our vo-tech was a decommissioned Air Force base, complete with all of the machinery. All that the school had to buy was a couple of Bridgeports and a Kalamazoo. The school bus was full of bullet holes. The students patched those up and put a donated engine in it. I was told that they used the planer on wing spars. All of those old lathes are now gone. The ones that feel like steering a big ship.

[MikeBramm]

Wow, those are some pretty large parts to de-rust. Evapo-Rust would be a nice sponsor for this project. Looks like you're going to need a lot of it. This will be a fun series.

[silverbullet]

You can count on me watching and wishing I could be there helping. It's the things I love to do teardown fix repair rebuild . I for one don't believe in scrapping machinery . These are and were built to last forever with just minimal care, clean oil and don't abuse and they will work forever. I wish I wasn't disabled so bad it's impossible to get out of bed now. But my spirit still wants to work. Thanks Mike and your other buddy for the help .wish I had friends to help me. No friends when you can't help them it seems for me. Thanks Keith

[mhmghb]

I bet you're glad to have that gantry crane. My back hurts just thinking of doing all the lifting by hand.

[yqwgjsg]

Now you need a 24 foot above ground pool full of Evaporust

[flipndoris]

Just love the breakdown videos. Almost as much fun as seeing the whole complicated thing being reassembled.
It is humbling to consider that the people who engineered this machine a century ago did so with pencil and paper using their ingenuity and hard-won skills.
Looking forward to the rest of the process.

[clockguy]

That Gantry Crane was a good purchase.

[yvesdesrosiers]

Just a thought. You should he yourself an adapter for your pressure washer to do water sandblasting. You could clean the rust off without all that dust and make it way easier on your self. Thanks for sharing looking forward to the restoration.

[jacobusjohannescaspers]

Thanks, really interesting, greetings from Norway by Koos

[glennstasse]

A massive project that would intimidate nearly everyone. Hats off to Keith!

[vza]

I came back here from ep#19 to review where it all started from. Back to #19!

[bobjimenez]

Beautiful machine, I have to watch the whole series when I have more time. : )