- 362
- 726 248
Hill Top Machine Works
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2017
Welcome to my channel. I will be featuring videos of manual machining, metal fabrication, and welding taking place in my shop in the gorgeous mountains of SW Virginia.
Machining an arbor and boring bar for the Horizontal Boring Mill
Happy 2025 everyone. Trying to tool up the Defiance boring mill. I decided to hold off on drilling holes in the long bars for now. So I made a 12" bar at 1 3/4" diameter and modified an arbor I picked up off of E-Bay.
We just got back from surgery and my wife is doing fine.
We just got back from surgery and my wife is doing fine.
มุมมอง: 2 260
วีดีโอ
Opening my gift for the #SecretSanta2024 project
มุมมอง 1K14 วันที่ผ่านมา
I just received my gift from Small Town Machine Shop as part of the secret Santa 2024 project. So lets open it up and check out what I got. If you are a creator and would like to be involved in next years project reach out to Steve at Firehouse Custom Fab. Also check out the other channels that were involved. Thanks everyone for a great year and see you in 2025.
Machining more tooling for the Horizontal Boring Mill
มุมมอง 7K21 วันที่ผ่านมา
I had some free time so I figured I would get an MT5 arbor made for a 2" face mill I picked up to use on the HBM. I hope you enjoy a lot of machining content because I end up using all 3 lathes and both my milling machines making the arbor. The video does run a bit long so sorry about that. Have a Merry Christmas!
Making my version of a Starrett pocket level for #Secret Santa project 2024
มุมมอง 1.3Kหลายเดือนก่อน
I am proud to be involved again in the secret Santa project that Steve at Firehouse Custom Fab has put together. I decided to machine up one of those 3 inch pocket levels that are real handy to have around in the shop. Thanks for watching and check out the other channels making things for the #Secret Santa 2024.
Machining a handle to lock the head on the Horizontal Boring Mill
มุมมอง 2.1Kหลายเดือนก่อน
A project I have had on the list of things needing done. Using the hardware store bolt that was in there was not cutting it. With some lathe work on the old Monarch lathe the project went smoothly.
Let's build a Allis Chalmers toy tractor
มุมมอง 690หลายเดือนก่อน
I hope you enjoy watching me make this tractor. There is some machining on the lathe and milling machine. I sure had fun making it and Brad really enjoyed getting it.
Fabricating a metal roof for the front of the shop. Part 2 and final
มุมมอง 1.5K2 หลายเดือนก่อน
Boy am I glad to have this project done. It took a lot longer to erect it and it has kicked my butt at times. It is so nice to have this work space out front out of the weather. Thanks for coming along on this long journey!
5K subscriber drawing and winners announced
มุมมอง 3832 หลายเดือนก่อน
Congratulations to the winners. Please contact me at my email so I can get your shipping addresses. Thanks to everyone that participated. Now on to 10K!
5K Subscriber give away
มุมมอง 6152 หลายเดือนก่อน
Thank you all! My small channel finally crossed over the 5 thousand subscriber mark. So as a token of my thanks I have put together a couple of prize packages to reward you guys & gals. Good luck.
Fabricating a metal roof for the front of the shop. Part 1
มุมมอง 1.2K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
I know you have seen the large steel beams on the shop floor in previous videos. So I am building a roof out in front of my shop over the concrete pad. It has been quite the under taking because the steel is large and heavy and I have limited shop space to work on a project this large. It will be nice once it is done. All the fab work is done. I am just waiting for some dry weather. It has been...
Another getter out job on a Hearth Stone Homestead stove
มุมมอง 1.9K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
Customer brought me a wood stove with two broken bolts in it. One came out on the first try. The second one fought me and finally came out on the third attempt using the weld on a washer and nut method. Thanks for watching.
Quick and easy tractor parts modification
มุมมอง 1.7K3 หลายเดือนก่อน
Just a short video this week of a repair that came into the shop. Deep hole drilling can be tricky especially with small diameter drill bits. Constant chip clearing and not too hard of a feed rate is needed to make sure you don't break your bit. Thanks for watching.
Another Bush Hog repair
มุมมอง 9873 หลายเดือนก่อน
Just a short video on a Bush Hog that needed repairing. Customer hit a large rock while mowing and tore up the swinging plate that holds the blades.
Hillsville VA Labor Day Weekend Flea Market 2024
มุมมอง 4.5K4 หลายเดือนก่อน
That time of year again. Me and my wife hit the flea market looking for goodies. She came home with more stuff then I did. I only found a couple of items for the shop. It was good to see my machinist tool vendor there. He had a bunch of stuff, but nothing I needed this time. I hope you enjoy the walk around and seeing the things for sale.
Modifying the Jet lathe steady rest
มุมมอง 2.2K4 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this video I remove the bronze finger tips on the steady rest and add roller ones. During the fix I discover the steady rest hinge is sloppy and I need to repair it. Some milling on the Defiance Boring mill and the Excello mill get things square again. I machine up two bronze spacers on the Monarch lathe to fix things. Thanks for watching.
Machining large pins for the local saw mill
มุมมอง 4K5 หลายเดือนก่อน
Machining large pins for the local saw mill
Repairing a tractor bucket for a local farmer
มุมมอง 1.5K5 หลายเดือนก่อน
Repairing a tractor bucket for a local farmer
Making some utility pole camera mounts, but with a twist
มุมมอง 1.4K5 หลายเดือนก่อน
Making some utility pole camera mounts, but with a twist
Machining the large angle plates on the horizontal boring mill
มุมมอง 2.5K5 หลายเดือนก่อน
Machining the large angle plates on the horizontal boring mill
Local feed mill needed their auger trued
มุมมอง 2.1K6 หลายเดือนก่อน
Local feed mill needed their auger trued
Fabricating some large angle plates for the HBM
มุมมอง 3.4K6 หลายเดือนก่อน
Fabricating some large angle plates for the HBM
Making a MT5 arbor for a 5 inch face mill
มุมมอง 2.2K7 หลายเดือนก่อน
Making a MT5 arbor for a 5 inch face mill
Hillsville VA Memorial Weekend Flea Market 2024
มุมมอง 9K7 หลายเดือนก่อน
Hillsville VA Memorial Weekend Flea Market 2024
Making a taper lock key for the boring mill
มุมมอง 1.8K8 หลายเดือนก่อน
Making a taper lock key for the boring mill
Getting a new ball screw adapted to the Defiance Boring Mill
มุมมอง 1.7K8 หลายเดือนก่อน
Getting a new ball screw adapted to the Defiance Boring Mill
Making an adapter to mount the new ball screw nut to the saddle
มุมมอง 2K8 หลายเดือนก่อน
Making an adapter to mount the new ball screw nut to the saddle
The Defiance Boring Mill Table and Saddle are cleaned up!
มุมมอง 1.1K8 หลายเดือนก่อน
The Defiance Boring Mill Table and Saddle are cleaned up!
Happy New Year Tom, thanks for sharing your build. Best regards to Bess, i hope she is doing well.
Hey Dave. I hope you had a good holiday. Bess is home and recovering well.
Hi Tom hope all goes well with the bride matty getting your package ready he has been flat out all the best trevor and matty
Neat job on the boring bar and arbour Tom. Happy New Year to you and yours. My very best wishes to your wife for a quick recovery. ATB Nobby
Thanks Nobby. Bess is home and doing well.
Nice. And another tool ready to go.
Yep. 👍
The machining possibilities for that horizontal boring mill are amazing. I wish I had one. Are you going to give Curtis over at CEE a run for his money? It was 72F here yesterday., but with the smoke you could call it a white Christmas.
Hopefully get some good paying jobs with the HBM coming up and some good videos. I guess we will have to see what comes in the door. Looks like another front is coming in Friday and should dump some more snow on us.
Handy piece of tooling. You guys seem to be getting all the snow. We didn't get much of anything the last couple of weeks. My brother in Kentucky got 10 inches! Hope Bess's surgery goes well!
Pretty much all the snow we have gotten is still here. It has not warmed up enough to melt any of it. Supposed to be getting more Friday. Bess is doing well. Thanks Greg.
Nice job Tom. Boy Scout motto is Be Prepared and you are getting that machine ready for whatever comes in the door. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Jim. I am trying. 👍
Greetings from Dresden (Germany)! 🍀🍀🍀❤🛠💪☀🕊💵🍻🇩🇪🤝🇺🇸😎
Hello and thanks for watching!
My wife had foot surgery the hardest thing was getting her in and out of the bathtub. She was zero help used a webbed weight belt for a hand holds. The weight belt was water proof. Hope you and yours well.
I am betting the shower is going to be the biggest challenge. I have removed the shower doors to make it easier. We got a sliding bench from Amazon that you use for getting in and out of the shower so hopefully this will work. Thanks for commenting.
very good job friend Tom
Thanks Michel. Happy 2025.
nice one Tom and Khaos👍👍😉😉 HNY atb Kev(UK)
Hey Tom, happy new year buddy, 24⁰F here this morning 😂 plenty of hot coffee, catching some cool videos, and long johns on, before I head out to my shop, have a great one 🎉 Edit: just caught that the Mrs is having surgery, heres sending her best wishes for a speedy recovery
Thanks Ralfy. Bess is doing well. We have more snow coming tomorrow. Fun fun.
Hi Tom, wishing the best on your wife’s surgery. The first of many boring bars to come, checked off the list. That’s a cool gift from Aaron 👍
Thank you Dean. Surgery went well and Bess is resting. It was very thoughtful of Aaron.
Happy new year Tom. Glad the wife is okay.
Thanks Matt. You want a snow cone? 😀
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 Ha! We got an inch ourselves last night. Woke up to 25 degrees
Great work Tom, good eBay score it saved you a lot of time. Interesting builds. Horozontal borer looks well, ready to work. Cheers Tony
Thanks Tony. 👍
Hi Tom, make yourself a tap follower to hold alignment when starting taps, you will thank yourself in time saved. Keep up the good work. Happy New Year. Jim
Hey Jim. I actually have several in the drawer. I was just to lazy to go grab one. 😀
Looks good Tom. That lube looks nice. I found some stuff around here that looks like anquor lube but half price. Happy new year. I hope your wife's surgery goes well.
Hey there Randy. Thanks bud. Everything went as planned and Bess is home resting. Are you getting a bunch of this snow? It is staying so cold here it wont melt.
Great job! I would definitely recommend drilling the hole in the end for your tool bit at an angle. That will enable you to bore shoulders and blind bores. You can't do that with it at 90 degrees as you have it. Regards.
Thank you and great suggestion. 👍
Nice job, I need to make some tail stock bushing for my hbm, there is just a 3 inch bushing in the end of mine. I was either going to make some out of brass or make them in steel with bearings, any thought on that
I would think the hard steel bearings would wear whatever shaft material you used when it is moving in and out. Maybe better with brass or bronze.
@ I meant steel bushings with roller bearings in them, I should of clarified that lol
Happy new year Tom. I hope the surgery goes well.
Thanks Randy. Surgery went well and Bess is home and in good spirits.
Great work Tom - love the approach of finding something that you can anneal and repurpose and save some money - that's ingenuity. I like the Hangsterfers All Tap also. Cheers!
Thanks Stuart. I love searching E-Bay for tooling deals. There is a lot of good stuff to be had so why make it if you don't have to. I imagine you are getting a bunch of snow right now too.
Actually - no snow where I am. A little bit for Cheistmas, but other than that it has missed us entirely and gone south. Weird.
@@StuartsShed Oh wow.
"Need a tool... make a tool" still holds! Thanks for the videos and hope they keep coming in 2025. And a big pat for Mr Kaos, the wonder shop-dog.
Great annealing job and modification on the arbor. Best wishes to the Mrs. for a swift recovery Tom.
Thanks Al. Good to hear from you.
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 ✅Thanks Tom.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching Craig!
Since you had a wood stove you could have soaked it in it for annealing. I have used wood fires to anneal car axels to use for stock
Howdy Jim. Yep that trick works too. 👍
Glad you did not get washed away! That was a lot of rain.
It was some serious water.
Whats the price to change to lug patterns on wheel hubs?
Good thing he got a shop guy to make parts since can’t get them from Allis anymore. lol😊
LOL!
Watching this again, it is one of this weeks projects hopefully, has yours been working well
Hey Adam. I had to remake the sliding part again much larger. It works well now and locks in just right after some trial and error.
@ did you make it taller or longer
@@smalltownmachineshop6860 Taller so it would lock in sooner as it was pulled in.
Thanks for sharing Tom
Thanks for watching. 👍
good video friend Tom
Thanks. 🙏
Very Cool
👍👍
Hi Tom. Excellent gift. Nice heavy duty mount for the clock gauge. Mr Khaos is very happy with his new toy as well. Happy holidays. Catch up with you in 2025. All the best to you and yours. Nobby
It is Nobby and will be handy. Khaos was having a great Christmas too.
Cool tool.
Very much so.
Merry Christmas Tom. Adam sure is a good fellow.
Yes he is!
So does the quicker make the toy? My son's dog favors the noise makers.
He just likes them when they are new and firm. The squeaker is a bonus.
Nice gift , i love the concept of it . Boxing day here , traveling a tad slow this morning , might have to crack open a '' Hair of the Dog '' !!! Cheers 👍
Nothing like some spiked egg nog.
nice gift.
Merry Christmas Doug , Cheers 👍
Thanks Doug. Good to hear from you. Hope you are staying warm up there and getting some shop time in.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Yes sir!
Merry Christmas all
That's a cool tool ! Happy New Year to All !
It will be handy.
Nice one Tom - quality tool there. Always good to see Mr. Chaos.
It will be a helpful tool.
Hey Tom. nice gift. Merry Christmas to you too and a beautiful 2025
Very nice, thank you for the shout out and I would definitely appreciate other creators jumping in next year. Merry Christmas and may you have a blessed new year.
I’d be interested in getting in on that.
@StuartsShed if you could please send me an email with your contact information, and next year around July /August timeframe I will reach out and start putting it together. Thank you
Great gift Tom. ATB....Tony
It sure is.
That's cool. Have a good one, Tom.
It is.
Video wouldn't be complete without Kaos (and his Christmas toy)
He loves a new toy.
Merry Christmas from all us guys at the shop.
Thanks and Merry Christmas to you guys!
We are all old enough to buy our own stuff we need. Forget Santa
True, but it is still something fun our community can do.
Yes please on boring bars, or anything else fun you are up to in shop.