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About David Richards
Dedicated to passing on knowledge about stationary steam engine power with belt drives in shops and industry, the actual operation of 100 year old machine shop equipment, and the preservation of the old technology that built our country. Please check and comment on my Community tab page to see the latest shop work.
Recent Videos from David Richards
OLD STEAM POWERED MACHINE SHOP 77 LOOKING BACK
In this video during the winter break, I went back as far as 5 years to look as some of the jobs and projects done in my representative 1925 "job" machine shop. I also commented on the origin of my main shop building and some of it's history in my small "upstate" New York town. I hope you enjoy it … Old Steam Powered Machine Shop 76: Rebuilding a steam engine
Video # 76 from my shop, built to depict a general 1925 "job" machine shop using steam power from a time when municipal electric power was not yet available. Most of the shop runs on steam only, supplied by a 1924 Mundey steam hoist vertical boiler and a 1902 8"x11" steam engine built by Richards I… Steam Power to Remachine Steam Engine Parts
Old Steam Powered Machine Shop #75. The Lily steam engine cylinder head, slide valve and steam chest cover are remachined on a shaper, lathe and planer using only steam power in my 1925 line shaft, steam powered shop. I put this shop together, as you can follow on my older videos, to show how it wo…