Thanks Tom, it's always great to hear you giggling away like a kid in a candy store when you're in your element, and I appreciate you sharing that time with us. Aloha...Chuck.
There's nothing so gratifying to a Maker than the first pieces being assembled (not counting the ones you've already "assembled" with a little ball of ionized plasma). Seriously, this is a chock-full little project to teach us new skills and approaches. Thanks, Tom!
I await the next installments of this series of videos keenly. While I'm not a fitter and turner, your information helps me in design phases of my work as it allows me to understand how things may be done. When I see my fabricator, I don't feel so "dumb". I am going to be a bit disappointed when the Baby Bullet series is finished but know that I will always learn from your information so freely given. Cheers Bob
Thank you for the tips on depth stop peck drilling, always wondered how to use those tiny drills. Now you have given me the confidence to start on the gas nozzle project I've been putting off.
Tom your killing me! This project is soooooo cool! I can't wait for the next installment. I am going to have to binge watch the whole series once you finish the last episode. I wish I had the time to attempt a project of this scale. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks Tom. I can't wait for the next installment of the baby bullet. Please keep making these amazing videos. Not sure what I would do without my ox fix.
I always enjoy watching your videos, especially for the little tips and tricks like clamping the rod in with the irregular parts, or quickly measuring parts with the quill DRO. I also particularly enjoy learning new industry/machining terms, i.e., "munk", and similar. ;) Another well done installment. Can't wait until the next one! Thanks Tom!
My wife said your not interesting enough to get her excited about watching this. I think your amazing though, all the skill and patience you have is unbelievable!!!
Another great installment in the "bullet" series Tom. That nifty little trick with the countersink was a new one for me. I may have to try that one out in work. Thanks for the great content!
just wanted to say thankyou for all your hard work in doing the project plus all the videos. I have learned a lot from this series and also from the rest of your videos. Thanks again
+ILGopher Yeah I was wondering about lubes and the "grabiness" of Cu and really appreciated the pecking stop tip and also seeing that you should use cutting oil with the drilling ops. Most helpful indeed.
it's funny how something so small and easy still makes a good video! and thank you for answering my question on the tightening the jaws just before you put it in. Was totally puzzled.
great project with lots of good tips and tricks. not to change the subject , but i couldn't help but notice the etching press wheel in the background. all i can say is your wife is much more patient than mine.
Hi, as an electrical engineer cutting and drilling some of large copper work I used to play with was always challenging in situ on site. One old boy showed me a neat trick when cutting copper put you hacksaw blade in the saw frame backward that way you cut on the pull back less tendency to dig in, we also used to run our hand held power drills in reverse for the large 10 mm plus drill bits
As always, stellar work - it sure is one of the highlights of my subscription page when there's something from you, Tom. Am excited to see this project come along, it's a beautiful built piece. Stay awesome!
Long time subscriber and I try to leave comments too since I think that helps the $ too. I enjoy the content even though I doubt I will be handcrafting any baby vises. I would need to build more of a super bullet for the work I do instead. :-)
Tom good stuff as usual you inspire me to work on my amateur machining shop and when I say amateur I mean I don't even have a legit lathe or a milling machine I have a home built lathe is all, so keep up the good work.
Awesome video Tom, I always look forward to your videos. They are very well edited and the content is great. Sorry I haven't taken the time to tell you that in a comment. Your books have helped me tremendously with my new little mini-mill also. Keep up the good work!
I once carried a copper ingot on my flat bed from a Phelps Dodge plant, 48' x 24" x 12" @ 52,500 Lb !! 559.8 Lb per cubic foot. That's $107,625 worth at today's price.
Nice work as always. Just on the knurling of the face of the steel jaws. I've seen quite a good effect using a flycutter and a high feed rate on the power feed. Run through in one direction with the cutter offset to one side. Run back with the cutter offset to the other side. It wont make a perfect knurl but quite a nice knurled effect.
Big fan of the solid copper vise jaws. Suggestion: While you're set up to drill the holes, buzz a 120* "V" tool (just a split-point spotting drill works) longitudinally down the middle of one jaw, maybe .060 deep, to make a groove. The shallow V captures pins and shafts and reduces wear on the copper from gripping round things. Doesn't really interfere with other use.
That was a very tasteful subscription plea. It even appeared at a respectable time in the video. I personally don't like it when the plea apears at the very begining of the video. Well done all in all, Tom. An ad usual - Great content all around.
+Gisatan Hi Gisatan, Thanks for the feedback. I tried to make it short and sweet. Got to remind folks to do a little clicking. Thanks for the comment. Cheers, Tom
Copper is the junkie's gold. I've worked with people that would have been catching those chips in the air while they were flying. Or at least they'd have tried to catch them.
"Munk your part up," I believe is a metric version of the term to "funk your part up," which is the American Standard version. I could be wrong but it seems like I read that on page 632 of the Machinery Handbook, edition 28. Great Video by the way.
Hey Tom, you could do a trick like Clickspring did to put the diamond pattern on his clock face to "grip" the copper jaw faces. Probably no point in soft copper, but you wouldn't need a shaper, just a fly cutter.
Hey Tom, great film as usual. This Old Tony suggested that you may have some welding and brazing copper films? I am looking to learn how to weld and/or silver solder copper plate. I am familiar with silver solder but would like to know more about TIG welding copper and gas torch welding copper. I know its unconventional but was wondering also if MIG can be used with copper wire?
Hey Tom, do you think you can talk a little about the humble countersink bit in a later video. I have a stack of different designs of them and typically use single lip ones. Some designs I have never been able to get good results out of, yet they weren't super cheap to buy. It would be interesting to see a video where you go through the different versions around and under what situations some may be better than others. Thanks!
+Pete F Hey Pete, Countersinks. Now there is a subject you can sink your teeth into. I have just about every type known to man. They each have their strong suits. I'll give it a think. Thanks for the comment. Cheers, Tom
+oxtoolco I'm starting to think you've got every TOOL known to man ;) Cool, it will be great to see what you come up with. We all have them, we all use them, I was starting to think nobody seems to fully understand the little buggers!
Hi Tom- having watched the whole series on the baby thus far I am really looking forward to seeing it done! What a challenging and informative build. I always learn something. Today it was the chamfer on the jaws. I made some Al jaws for my bullet and now I need to get out to the garage to see if I need to add a chamfer to my jaws for best fit:-) Plus I always like to see what hammer you are using from your "small" collection! Was it you that said:" I never met a hammer I didn't like"? vic
One other way to drive the quill stop is to have a small two part cam system that's identical in design to the simple ball point pen click on click off mechanism, only flattened and enlarged. Each time you touch the stop it rotates the nut 2 mm down. It's a very simple project to make and a nice addition, as soon as i change my mill i'm going to make one myself. Saw said mechanism on a German mill, unfortunately i can't remember the brand name, i was too fascinated by the plethora of tiny things gizmos and doodads the machine had.
The project gets closer and closer to final product, more and more like a vise each time you put a video. I'm both saddened and exhilarated for the finale. ;)
I'm really curious to see how you weld this while still keeping it aligned. I see you have an alignment tool but will that be enough to hold back the distortion demons? you are going to have to put a lot of heat into it. I also know that you know a trick or two so I am curious to see your cunning plan :-)
Tom, many thanks for doing this project and putting up the videos on it. After seeing all the work that went into this, I keep wondering what you'd have to charge for this vise to actually make money doing it. :-)
Very nice! Boy, the first time I hadda use/mar those pretty jaws would bring some tears, huh? Prolly just use 'em around the ktchen to make - oh, I dunno - miniature s'mores or something! Thanks!! Jim@MidOhio
Tom, Nice work as always. I liked the trick of the direct reading with the quill display. I noticed you didn't use a center drill to "spot" the holes. How come? Eric
+esoomreltna Hey Eric, In general I use stub length drills as much as possible. They are short and stiff and if started carefully don't drift much. This almost completely eliminates the need to spot or center drill. Its a real time saver over the period of a year. Thanks for the comment. Cheers, Tom
Sorry to ask a silly question.. but can anyone tell me what the type of brushes (and maybe the pot) Tom uses to put the oil on the work? I'm just starting out and it seems a great way of doing it.
What's California shop time worth? $60 per hr? If you built this for a customer at time and material I wonder how much it would cost complete. Thanks for showing us how it's done.
Nice adittion to an already nice series. On your subscribe pitch, I want to mention that since youtube removed the 'all activity' button all the machining community channels are difficult to find for outsiders. they might find one, but cannot see what else is going on in this 'circle' anymore. TH-cam did this to slowly decimate small communities like this one and favour the big 'middle of the road' money making channels. there was some protest, but it sadly died silently. My biggest indignation is that none of the creators, nore any of the vieuwing members of this community talked any word about it. This action by youtube very much took the 'clicking cohesion"and growth potential out of this community, as well as all similar others. There are some whizz kids trying to make a fix around this, but up til now it seems not very easy for normal users. the frustrating thing is that the 'all activity'information is still hidden behind the normal interface screen, but the button is just removed. The only way to get around this, is what some woodwork channels are starting to do: the creators make a dedicated section in their video's where they highlight other channels/ video's they like. this way the vieuwer gets to know new finds/creators once again. I hope this community will wake up on time and start coping with this thing youtube did. cheers.
+Flip de boer A lot of people talked about it. It was Google's move to introduced TH-cam Red their pay to view variant. There's nothing that can be done except jump the boat when the time comes, and that, is for the content creators to decide, and by extension, the job of the communities to influence. I for one have a very altered and modified version of the TH-cam page that always shows only subscription videos and where i can remove videos once i've watched them, similarly when i look at the video, it covers the entire page without being in fullscreen mode. In short i see none of Google's algorithm clickbait. I rely on word of mouth from the content creators themselves (as was done in the old days of TH-cam) to reach new channels and new content creators. It's the best way, it's the single way outside of searching myself. Searching for other channels would not be the biggest effort though, and would be easily achieved with a single Google search in Video mode. Using the " ..." and - system i can weed out or add to my search specific topics, people, ads, or clickbait. Part of the problem we face now is the ease with which people have renounced the old ways of doing things, because it's easy to just float along with the current rather than fight it. So in conclusion, we have nobody but ourselves to blame, Google follows trends they see work, not individual or even more, voices. On a side note, to be noted: the help section of their system is the most evident pointer to their modus operandi. Thousands of topics opened and not answered, complaints never addressed or reviewed, half answers, satire or down right rude answers and ridicule. And when they do address one they generally copy and paste answers that users have come up with in other similar threads. In other words Google help is just a "i'm there because i had to tick a box of necessities" type thing. If that doesn't tell you what you're dealing with, nothing will.
+Flip de boer I have long felt that you tube throws my channel at the bottom of searches because it is not monetized. I think since they aren't making any money off of it it doesn't show up in "suggestions" and is way down in keyword seraches. I know this because I can search for multiple keywords that are in my tags and I might have to go thru 3 or 4 pages before the video shows up, and many videos on those previous pages might contain at most one of the tags I searched.
Micscience Clicking on this button you could see wich video's were liked by the creators you are subscribed to, and which new subscriptions they did, thus revealing possible other interesting channels to you. this makes a community grow very fast. Now we got the "trending" (read: not interesting, but money making) button instead.
bcbloc02 I found your channel with the all activity button rather soon, and watched more than only the video that was liked by someone in the community. I'm shure most creators must have notice a drop in their subscription growth some three months back. Keep on going. I appreciate it.
Tom, when you produced the first datum, why didn't you just turn them upside down so you can then make two perfectly parallel surfaces, and then you're ready to do the other sides? (by the way, I never try to over suck the tool, yes you really said that)
+gus bisbal He didn't because that procedure would not give two parallel surfaces. There is no way to insure both of the pieces would CLAMP dead flat and parallel in the vise for the second cut.
+Yan Wo As he said in the video, soft materials (and even harder ones) will be 'sucked' in to the bit, especially when the bit is very sharp. A safe practice is to always peck at your work thus never giving the bit the chance to grab. One other way of working soft materials is one exemplified by TH-camr "ClickSpring", he has a special, separate set of drill bits that have been purposefully "de-sharpened" or in other words their bite has been taken off with a needle file. If you Google "clickspring youtube" (just select the whole thing quotes and all and paste that in Google's page) you'll find his channel, well worth watching his (few) videos. Cheers.
Sacrificial aluminum rod! I got no sacrificial aluminum rod! There’s just no hope of being a ‘Lip-Tone Wizard’ for me without any sacrificial aluminum rod!! But wait… You said, ur rod was in the wrong spot! Crap! I can’t even say something like that! ‘Cus I got no sacrificial aluminum rod! Arrrrg… “suck the tool”… “pinch the piece”, (your quotes). Crip’s Tom, don’t seem I will ever be a true machinist. I can’t even get the terminology down! “Suck the tool”, “Pinch the piece”? On the other hand Tom! That sure is a beautiful Baby! Thanks fur-ur effort! Brad
+Cadwaladr Sure, But then you wouldn't know you can use a countersink to machine one when you want to machine one. I could have drug it on the concrete and done the same thing and not have had to walk to get the file. Thanks for the comment. Cheers, Tom
maybe 6 people hit the wrong button or they would think things like: man why can´t copper be more blue? Woul´d they thought green or black, then there were a solution. But blue just won´t work... greetings from Germany
Thanks Tom, it's always great to hear you giggling away like a kid in a candy store when you're in your element, and I appreciate you sharing that time with us.
Aloha...Chuck.
There's nothing so gratifying to a Maker than the first pieces being assembled (not counting the ones you've already "assembled" with a little ball of ionized plasma). Seriously, this is a chock-full little project to teach us new skills and approaches. Thanks, Tom!
I await the next installments of this series of videos keenly. While I'm not a fitter and turner, your information helps me in design phases of my work as it allows me to understand how things may be done. When I see my fabricator, I don't feel so "dumb". I am going to be a bit disappointed when the Baby Bullet series is finished but know that I will always learn from your information so freely given.
Cheers
Bob
Thank you for the tips on depth stop peck drilling, always wondered how to use those tiny drills. Now you have given me the confidence to start on the gas nozzle project I've been putting off.
Tom your killing me! This project is soooooo cool! I can't wait for the next installment. I am going to have to binge watch the whole series once you finish the last episode. I wish I had the time to attempt a project of this scale. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks Tom. I can't wait for the next installment of the baby bullet. Please keep making these amazing videos. Not sure what I would do without my ox fix.
I just love watching a craftsman work things out to a useful perfection. Thanks for sharing this project.
I always enjoy watching your videos, especially for the little tips and tricks like clamping the rod in with the irregular parts, or quickly measuring parts with the quill DRO. I also particularly enjoy learning new industry/machining terms, i.e., "munk", and similar. ;) Another well done installment. Can't wait until the next one! Thanks Tom!
My wife said your not interesting enough to get her excited about watching this. I think your amazing though, all the skill and patience you have is unbelievable!!!
Another great installment in the "bullet" series Tom. That nifty little trick with the countersink was a new one for me. I may have to try that one out in work. Thanks for the great content!
just wanted to say thankyou for all your hard work in doing the project plus all the videos. I have learned a lot from this series and also from the rest of your videos. Thanks again
I love this series Tom. I've been here for about two years and have enjoyed the journey. Your attention to detail is amazing.
That copper looks good on that thing. Thanks for all the helpful tricks you use and include in the video.
+ILGopher Yeah I was wondering about lubes and the "grabiness" of Cu and really appreciated the pecking stop tip and also seeing that you should use cutting oil with the drilling ops. Most helpful indeed.
I love the videos Tom I am always looking forward to them every week
it's funny how something so small and easy still makes a good video! and thank you for answering my question on the tightening the jaws just before you put it in. Was totally puzzled.
great project with lots of good tips and tricks. not to change the subject , but i couldn't help but notice the etching press wheel in the background. all i can say is your wife is much more patient than mine.
Great video. I always learn something on each episode, thanks for sharing your wisdom with us.
Hi, as an electrical engineer cutting and drilling some of large copper work I used to play with was always challenging in situ on site. One old boy showed me a neat trick when cutting copper put you hacksaw blade in the saw frame backward that way you cut on the pull back less tendency to dig in, we also used to run our hand held power drills in reverse for the large 10 mm plus drill bits
She's gonna be a beauty. Thanks
just bought myself a new vice, a record number 8, and I reckon one if the first things for it should be some nice soft jaws, the copper is a good idea
Hi Tom,
i allways went thru Abom's channel to this one, but now you have another sub !
love the work you make.
thanks,
Mark from The Netherlands
Good work holding tips Tom. Vise is really shaping up nice.
As always, stellar work - it sure is one of the highlights of my subscription page when there's something from you, Tom. Am excited to see this project come along, it's a beautiful built piece.
Stay awesome!
Long time subscriber and I try to leave comments too since I think that helps the $ too. I enjoy the content even though I doubt I will be handcrafting any baby vises. I would need to build more of a super bullet for the work I do instead. :-)
That baby is going to be too beautiful to use. Kinda like gettin the first scratch in a new car
Man, thanks for making uninteresting copper machining, interesting! Thumbs Up. I learned a lot in this vid. That Aluminium Rod...
I do like those copper jaws! Thanks for nice video. Matt C.
Another entertaining and educational Video. Thanks Tom
Excellent tip with the aluminum rod.
Could've used that yesterday!
Tom good stuff as usual you inspire me to work on my amateur machining shop and when I say amateur I mean I don't even have a legit lathe or a milling machine I have a home built lathe is all, so keep up the good work.
Awesome video Tom, I always look forward to your videos. They are very well edited and the content is great. Sorry I haven't taken the time to tell you that in a comment. Your books have helped me tremendously with my new little mini-mill also. Keep up the good work!
Good job uncle Tom! 👍. Hope the channel keeps growing for you. All the best.
I once carried a copper ingot on my flat bed from a Phelps Dodge plant, 48' x 24" x 12" @ 52,500 Lb !! 559.8 Lb per cubic foot.
That's $107,625 worth at today's price.
Nice work as always. Just on the knurling of the face of the steel jaws. I've seen quite a good effect using a flycutter and a high feed rate on the power feed. Run through in one direction with the cutter offset to one side. Run back with the cutter offset to the other side. It wont make a perfect knurl but quite a nice knurled effect.
Big fan of the solid copper vise jaws. Suggestion: While you're set up to drill the holes, buzz a 120* "V" tool (just a split-point spotting drill works) longitudinally down the middle of one jaw, maybe .060 deep, to make a groove. The shallow V captures pins and shafts and reduces wear on the copper from gripping round things. Doesn't really interfere with other use.
Thumbs up, Tom, nice production.
Man those jaws look sweet Tom , Thumbs up man.. enjoyed !!
Very nice video today, enjoyed it a lot. Thanks.
Lookin' good...nice video editing by the way. Like the cuts.
Very nice addition Tom, cooper will certainly give it that Period finish :)
The $2000.00 vise is coming along nicely. Good Work!
Jaw screws look a little big, not leaving much unobstructed copper area for clamping.
Anon
That was a very tasteful subscription plea. It even appeared at a respectable time in the video. I personally don't like it when the plea apears at the very begining of the video.
Well done all in all, Tom. An ad usual - Great content all around.
+Gisatan Hi Gisatan,
Thanks for the feedback. I tried to make it short and sweet. Got to remind folks to do a little clicking. Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Tom
Copper is the junkie's gold. I've worked with people that would have been catching those chips in the air while they were flying. Or at least they'd have tried to catch them.
Excellent
"Munk your part up," I believe is a metric version of the term to "funk your part up," which is the American Standard version. I could be wrong but it seems like I read that on page 632 of the Machinery Handbook, edition 28. Great Video by the way.
Awesome Tom
not sure if I yet had seen copper machined.
Love the warm shine of it though.
+madinatore Copper, brass, bronze, a joy to work with in any machine. Expensive though.
Hey Tom, you could do a trick like Clickspring did to put the diamond pattern on his clock face to "grip" the copper jaw faces. Probably no point in soft copper, but you wouldn't need a shaper, just a fly cutter.
GORGEOUS!
that vise is gonna be nice ... nice work .....
beautiful!
That shear hog really gives a great finish. Do you find copper gummy to work with?
Thanks again.
Hey Tom, great film as usual. This Old Tony suggested that you may have some welding and brazing copper films? I am looking to learn how to weld and/or silver solder copper plate. I am familiar with silver solder but would like to know more about TIG welding copper and gas torch welding copper. I know its unconventional but was wondering also if MIG can be used with copper wire?
Hey Tom, do you think you can talk a little about the humble countersink bit in a later video. I have a stack of different designs of them and typically use single lip ones. Some designs I have never been able to get good results out of, yet they weren't super cheap to buy. It would be interesting to see a video where you go through the different versions around and under what situations some may be better than others.
Thanks!
+Pete F Hey Pete,
Countersinks. Now there is a subject you can sink your teeth into. I have just about every type known to man. They each have their strong suits. I'll give it a think. Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Tom
+oxtoolco I'm starting to think you've got every TOOL known to man ;)
Cool, it will be great to see what you come up with. We all have them, we all use them, I was starting to think nobody seems to fully understand the little buggers!
SWEET! Someone is going to be VERY lucky to get that baby.... :)
HI TOM, LOOKS NICE. THANKS. M.K.S.
Hi Tom- having watched the whole series on the baby thus far I am really looking forward to seeing it done! What a challenging and informative build. I always learn something. Today it was the chamfer on the jaws. I made some Al jaws for my bullet and now I need to get out to the garage to see if I need to add a chamfer to my jaws for best fit:-) Plus I always like to see what hammer you are using from your "small" collection! Was it you that said:" I never met a hammer I didn't like"?
vic
One other way to drive the quill stop is to have a small two part cam system that's identical in design to the simple ball point pen click on click off mechanism, only flattened and enlarged.
Each time you touch the stop it rotates the nut 2 mm down.
It's a very simple project to make and a nice addition, as soon as i change my mill i'm going to make one myself.
Saw said mechanism on a German mill, unfortunately i can't remember the brand name, i was too fascinated by the plethora of tiny things gizmos and doodads the machine had.
The project gets closer and closer to final product, more and more like a vise each time you put a video. I'm both saddened and exhilarated for the finale. ;)
Do you use friction tape on the linisher? Have wondered how that would effect accuracy. Guess that's what the milling is for.
I'm really curious to see how you weld this while still keeping it aligned. I see you have an alignment tool but will that be enough to hold back the distortion demons? you are going to have to put a lot of heat into it. I also know that you know a trick or two so I am curious to see your cunning plan :-)
Tom, many thanks for doing this project and putting up the videos on it. After seeing all the work that went into this, I keep wondering what you'd have to charge for this vise to actually make money doing it. :-)
It's looking good Tom, man just polish it and shoot a couple coats of clear on it.
Man that thing is lookin sharp, if you need it coated, I just so happen to know a guy ...... :-D
Yeah, Stan, but your guy powder coats vices PINK! :)
Nice vid.
Very nice! Boy, the first time I hadda use/mar those pretty jaws would bring some tears, huh?
Prolly just use 'em around the ktchen to make - oh, I dunno - miniature s'mores or something!
Thanks!! Jim@MidOhio
Tom, Nice work as always. I liked the trick of the direct reading with the quill display. I noticed you didn't use a center drill to "spot" the holes. How come?
Eric
+esoomreltna Hey Eric,
In general I use stub length drills as much as possible. They are short and stiff and if started carefully don't drift much. This almost completely eliminates the need to spot or center drill. Its a real time saver over the period of a year. Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Tom
Sorry to ask a silly question.. but can anyone tell me what the type of brushes (and maybe the pot) Tom uses to put the oil on the work? I'm just starting out and it seems a great way of doing it.
Nice.
You don't have a shaper? Sounds like a good excuse to get one!
+Brian Simmons I'll add my vote to that. Even Adam has one, what are you doing Tom??
Do you always need cutting fluid for something as thermally conductive and soft as copper?
What's California shop time worth? $60 per hr? If you built this for a customer at time and material I wonder how much it would cost complete. Thanks for showing us how it's done.
That sponsor was so convincing I almost unsubscribed so I could subscribe again :)
Nice adittion to an already nice series. On your subscribe pitch, I want to mention that since youtube removed the 'all activity' button all the machining community channels are difficult to find for outsiders. they might find one, but cannot see what else is going on in this 'circle' anymore. TH-cam did this to slowly decimate small communities like this one and favour the big 'middle of the road' money making channels. there was some protest, but it sadly died silently. My biggest indignation is that none of the creators, nore any of the vieuwing members of this community talked any word about it. This action by youtube very much took the 'clicking cohesion"and growth potential out of this community, as well as all similar others. There are some whizz kids trying to make a fix around this, but up til now it seems not very easy for normal users. the frustrating thing is that the 'all activity'information is still hidden behind the normal interface screen, but the button is just removed. The only way to get around this, is what some woodwork channels are starting to do: the creators make a dedicated section in their video's where they highlight other channels/ video's they like. this way the vieuwer gets to know new finds/creators once again. I hope this community will wake up on time and start coping with this thing youtube did. cheers.
+Flip de boer A lot of people talked about it. It was Google's move to introduced TH-cam Red their pay to view variant. There's nothing that can be done except jump the boat when the time comes, and that, is for the content creators to decide, and by extension, the job of the communities to influence.
I for one have a very altered and modified version of the TH-cam page that always shows only subscription videos and where i can remove videos once i've watched them, similarly when i look at the video, it covers the entire page without being in fullscreen mode. In short i see none of Google's algorithm clickbait.
I rely on word of mouth from the content creators themselves (as was done in the old days of TH-cam) to reach new channels and new content creators. It's the best way, it's the single way outside of searching myself.
Searching for other channels would not be the biggest effort though, and would be easily achieved with a single Google search in Video mode. Using the " ..." and - system i can weed out or add to my search specific topics, people, ads, or clickbait.
Part of the problem we face now is the ease with which people have renounced the old ways of doing things, because it's easy to just float along with the current rather than fight it.
So in conclusion, we have nobody but ourselves to blame, Google follows trends they see work, not individual or even more, voices.
On a side note, to be noted: the help section of their system is the most evident pointer to their modus operandi. Thousands of topics opened and not answered, complaints never addressed or reviewed, half answers, satire or down right rude answers and ridicule.
And when they do address one they generally copy and paste answers that users have come up with in other similar threads. In other words Google help is just a "i'm there because i had to tick a box of necessities" type thing. If that doesn't tell you what you're dealing with, nothing will.
+Flip de boer What was the function of the "all activity" button ? I never seen such a button on TH-cam.
+Flip de boer I have long felt that you tube throws my channel at the bottom of searches because it is not monetized. I think since they aren't making any money off of it it doesn't show up in "suggestions" and is way down in keyword seraches. I know this because I can search for multiple keywords that are in my tags and I might have to go thru 3 or 4 pages before the video shows up, and many videos on those previous pages might contain at most one of the tags I searched.
Micscience
Clicking on this button you could see wich video's were liked by the creators you are subscribed to, and which new subscriptions they did, thus revealing possible other interesting channels to you. this makes a community grow very fast. Now we got the "trending" (read: not interesting, but money making) button instead.
bcbloc02
I found your channel with the all activity button rather soon, and watched more than only the video that was liked by someone in the community. I'm shure most creators must have notice a drop in their subscription growth some three months back. Keep on going. I appreciate it.
What lube are you using to machine copper?
+carver3419 I hear 'love juice' works well with copper, brass and aluminium too.
Tom, when you produced the first datum, why didn't you just turn them upside down so you can then make two perfectly parallel surfaces, and then you're ready to do the other sides? (by the way, I never try to over suck the tool, yes you really said that)
+gus bisbal He didn't because that procedure would not give two parallel surfaces. There is no way to insure both of the pieces would CLAMP dead flat and parallel in the vise for the second cut.
Hy Tom ,
I have a 4" Wilton bullet wise and I want to make copper jaws , how hard the coper you use is ? Or any other advise . Thx
Them cobalt drills can be grabby.
First Screwy balls and now Screwy's rod.. not for the faint hearted these shows ;o)
That brush looks alot like what my hair looks like in the mornings.
Tom, I see you very carefully pecking very often. Please explain why you did that. Is it to keep copper from sticking to the tool? Jon
+Yan Wo copper is quite soft, and VERY grabby. if you aren't careful it'll suck a sharp tool right down into the material, possibly ruining the part.
+Yan Wo As he said in the video, soft materials (and even harder ones) will be 'sucked' in to the bit, especially when the bit is very sharp. A safe practice is to always peck at your work thus never giving the bit the chance to grab.
One other way of working soft materials is one exemplified by TH-camr "ClickSpring", he has a special, separate set of drill bits that have been purposefully "de-sharpened" or in other words their bite has been taken off with a needle file.
If you Google "clickspring youtube" (just select the whole thing quotes and all and paste that in Google's page) you'll find his channel, well worth watching his (few) videos.
Cheers.
+Yan Wo Also, copper expands more with heat and can grab the drill.
Tom,
I thought the rule was to cut brass dry. I noticed you used oily oil on the copper. Can you give some insight
Brass yes. Copper no.
+Jason Raksnis us old timers use cows milk , yes the stuff you drink on copper works better than oil on copper
Stuart
Shear hogs are great tools!
that contrast between the copper and steel is so sweet! be a shame to paint it!
"Munk it up."I use to know a guy named Munk...you used the word appropriately.
bring back the wrist-banners! :)
Bitchin project Tom!!
Sacrificial aluminum rod! I got no sacrificial aluminum rod! There’s just no hope of being a ‘Lip-Tone Wizard’ for me without any sacrificial aluminum rod!!
But wait… You said, ur rod was in the wrong spot! Crap! I can’t even say something like that! ‘Cus I got no sacrificial aluminum rod!
Arrrrg… “suck the tool”… “pinch the piece”, (your quotes). Crip’s Tom, don’t seem I will ever be a true machinist. I can’t even get the terminology down! “Suck the tool”, “Pinch the piece”?
On the other hand Tom! That sure is a beautiful Baby! Thanks fur-ur effort!
Brad
+Brad “HomeShop” Apprentice "ur rod was in the wrong spot", I also seem to recall the wifey saying that... :-)
Where's my meatloaf? Loves these little projects but I love meatloaf too! just sayin
cutting those corner chamfers, couldn't you have done that with a file in like 4 seconds?
+Cadwaladr Sure, But then you wouldn't know you can use a countersink to machine one when you want to machine one. I could have drug it on the concrete and done the same thing and not have had to walk to get the file. Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Tom
Hey I am first! Enjoyed....nice tips
I see shaper in your future
GREAT VIDEO !
BEEN SUBSCRIBED SINCE (( AL GORE )) INVENTED TH-cam :-)
It's really turning out well! Thank you Tom! :o) O,,,
"Scarf" Man Glitter
+John Rysdyk That got a chuckle out of me. Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Tom
looking good tom please not pink
maybe 6 people hit the wrong button or they would think things like: man why can´t copper be more blue? Woul´d they thought green or black, then there were a solution. But blue just won´t work...
greetings from Germany
Tom, You haven't done a Meatloaf in 2 months. Did living in CA finally turn you into a vegetarian?
+God of Thunder (UKKONEN) What would the vegetarian version of a meatloaf be named, i wonder???
aserta HateLoaf
+aserta TVPLoaf (Texturized vegetable protein, aka dried tofu)
careful. don't get your copper jaws whopper jawed.
19 episodes x 20min for a build.... that's 6 hours of video for a vise....
+manu de hanoi Sounds about right........Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
Tom