OLD STEAM POWERED MACHINE SHOP 14 Steam engine crankshaft

This is number 14 in a series of videos I created in my shop to depict how work might have been done in a 1925 steam powered small job shop in “up-state“ New York, under steam power. The job for today envolves repair of a crankshaft belonging to an early 1900’s vertical steam engine which will be completely rebuilt in the shop. All comments on steam power, old type machine work, line shaft operation and the such, are always welcome. If you try to imagine a time when Ford was cranking out Model Ts by the thousands and we wouldn’t see model As for a few more years, horses, buggys and wooden wagons were a major part of transportation and most small industry was still powered by water wheels or steam , you get the picture. Pioneers by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license () Artist: