That would be amazing. Complete with vice, T-slotted table etc... Would be a treat to watch. Tapered tools on a rack to the side... I reckon we have to admit those girly doll houses ain't got nothing on this workshop we talking about.
OH, how I love the color of polished metals. Especially brass. A reminder on file treatments is that "Burr Life" from "Rio Grande" supplies. I have never used anything else like it that works so well on files and burrs. Since discovering it I have never had a tooth on a file pile up and damage a finish. I really like your changeups. They make a show and tell piece into a workable machine with a few more bells and whistle's. That brass drive shive is gorgeous. Brass sure hit's ne where it counts my friend. Onwards and upwards and a big, big thanks for todays bling. See you never soon enough Joe, !
Another excellent video, I like the look of the brass pulley wheel, the holes give it an old fashioned style look. Thanks Joe. You must be extreemly proud of the quality you are achieving I believe any museum would be proud to own such quality.
Not to mention again , that you're a true pro toolmaker, but, I'm always intrigued and enlightened by your work holding techniques. To me, as a novice, hobby machinist, your workholding techniques always are the key to the puzzle in my mind. Thanks again for your teaching. Sincerely, Scott
Great video as always, I caught the “ sanity check” when you grabbed the digital calipers to verify the micrometer reading, I do the same thing, when in doubt check, double check! Saves parts.
Awesome video as usual, Joe. I would love to see a video on your technique for grinding custom form tools. My handful of attempts haven't been as effective as I'd like and I would be very interested in seeing how a man of your experience does it.
Another enjoyable “build” video Joe. Just as aside, I’ve constructed a number of Craftsman styled clocks over the years, comprised of many copper / brass pieces - if you would like to maintain the brightness and flaw free surface finish of your machined surfaces, I can highly recommend 2105 Nikolas lacquer… it is “water clear”, sprays wet, dries quickly, and is quite effective for years after application. Used primarily for coating brass musical instruments, and you know how much handling they get.
Thank you Joe, best way to start a Saturday morning. A nice country breakfast of ham, eggs and hash browns and a fresh cup of coffee all while watching another great video from you. Don't get much better.... : )
I restored an 1890’s era Sibley and Ware drill press, took 1.5 years. Mesmerizing machine to look at and fun ever to run. The sounds it makes is awesome.
@@spehropefhany They got the job done, in many cases you don't need the absolutely best tool precisely tuned for a given task, whatever is handy for the momentary need works perfectly well.
@@avi8r66 I know, better than nothing- but those drug store things are so stiff and short I cringe whenever I see them, having been forced to compromise more than a few times.
@@spehropefhany And yet, they accomplished their task quite nicely. If you do this kind of very fine small scale work on a very frequent basis it would matter, but for the rare occasion they are fine.
I have all of these kits from PM Research, but I have not started to build them yet. Seeing how you are doing them is very helpful and I am enjoying your video series very much. Thank You.
Hi Joe, The machining looks flawless. I like your attention to detail. When you were attempting those last two screws was thinking 'When's Joe going to use some tweezers', and just needed to wait a few more seconds. Looking forward to those upper parts to be machined. You and the family stay safe.
Looking good Joe! Believe it or not, in my first machine shop job, all the machines had flat belt drive belts. A line shaft still ran across the ceiling. All the machines had electric motors adapted to them. I actually ran a drill press just like the one you are building, back in 1975.
My dad had a flat belt driven lathe in our garage in 1960-70s. The motor was mounted on the wall above the lathe. Between the two was a pivoted wooden lever with prongs either side of the belt. This allowed you to push the belt off the driven pulley onto an idler pulley stopping the lathe but leaving the motor running. To restart the lathe you moved the belt back onto the driven pulley. I can only assume they did this (instead of switching the motor on and off) to reduce start up surges?
"Fourteen minutes, real time." You crack me up as always Joe. Reality is that it's 14 minutes Joe Pi time, you really should state the conversion factor to real time, 3.141 something or other I believe.
Thanks for adding the details such as lubes and feeds & speeds. For a total noob like me, that info is really helpful. My new task is cracking the lube/coolant code. I can't make out any rhyme or reason as to when or why to use lube and when to turn dry.
Absolutely beautiful…… I’m really enjoying these miniature tool series as it provides so many real world examples of fixture holding and machining methods without dealing with customer proprietary issues. Thanks Joe so very much for investing the time to share with us. 👍👍😎👍👍
Great end to a busy week. Your work on that lathe is my ASMR zen relaxing thing with these miniatures. Thank you for them. Hope you and the family keeping well, Joe.
Technically, and I'm not trying to be overly pedantic here, but most turned parts that are round were machined with nothing more than friction holding the part - either in jaws or via friction turning like he does here 👍🏻 There's even an entire category of friction turning where they form metal into things like pots and pans 🤓
@@THE_PeglegSwantoon lol, yeah I guess that’s true. I meant more sandwiched between two surfaces, as opposed to gripped, but then I remembered turning between centers. 🤦♂️ But with centers you got the points preventing the part from being pushed out sideways. And I’ve seen some metal spinning. Very cool
My real name is Michael McCluskey. I like to design and make things myself. One thing I like about TH-cam is there are people who I can learn from them, You are one of them!
Another great video today Joe! I wish my hands were as steady as yours although I still get it done. The project is coming along nicely thank you for taking time and effort to share your work with us!
I think the first drill press I owned was about this vintage but it had been retrofitted with a top mounted motor and a "Robley Speed Variator". Nice work as always.
Hi Joe, I have a challenge for you: It is to, on a manual lathe, make a hole on a large plate... but the hole wall is a toroidal/convex shape instead of being a smooth cylinder. No form tools or step machining via DRO allowed.
Took a while to get used to retirement... you're too young yet Joe - but you must remember that in retirement you must stay active. And; you'll never get as much done in a day that you did while you were working full time!! As strange as it may seem... But remember most of all in retirement: YOU CAN NEVER TAKE ANOTHER DAY OFF! Yes, well and happy!
and for joe's next build a belt sander in a bottle !!!! lol j/k sweet. i do have one question though. that shiny brass looks nice. are you sealing it or doing something else to prohibit tarnishing or as the stuffy upper class say "petina"
You’ve commented before about the scale of the screws throwing off the look, which I agree. Looking at this piece today had me wondering if a small counterbore for the screws would ease the scale issue by reducing how much they stick out? Just a thought. I’m learning so much from your channel, Thank You.
Looks awesome Joe, what do you think about making some square headed screws for the base ? Not sure if square or hex fits the time period, 🤔 but either would look cool.
Those tiny screws would drive me crazy... I'd be chasing them around the workbench until they fell on the floor and bounced underneath the desk directly center out of reach or retrievability from any angle... The tweezers/needle nose pliers seem like the right solution to control them where you need to put them... I occasionally need to assemble small electronic projects with tiny components so I've been there myself with those small awkward screws. Great build so far, I look forward to seeing the rest of the drill press project.
@@mpetersen6 Wow... that's good to know... I've got to get me a set of those... I'm tired of getting screwed by screws. Do you have something that you use and could recommend a brand or where can I get them? Thanks in advance!
Lovely to see you making such tiny parts on your fairly big lathe. I have an older Colchester Triumph roundhead and she is still very accurate. I have a Jacobs rubberflex collet chuck but yours is better.
Joe, when the reamer first entered the cone pulley, you appeared to steady or otherwise touch (guide?) the reamer. Why did you do that? Curious (& old, but still learning!) minds want to learn for uses in their own shops.
Shouldn’t the shortened side of the pillar be towards the cone pulleys, since that side length was increased with the delrin? The bearing post just doesn’t look centered on the base casting
Your work always impresses Joe, is there a horizontal mill project coming in the future? The first machine shop I worked in I was still in HS senior year 84 and it was a gear shop, I can still smell all the older cutting oils they used, anyway I had the "pleasure" of running a Fellows gear shaper that was built in 1903 if I remember correctly and a couple of WWII era Gleason bevel gear cutters along with horizontal hobs and a turret lathe that was built in the late 20's(oops 1920's for the youngins) it was a good learning experience and I was making way better money than most kids, but I eventually moved on to toolmaking, too much repetition in production for me. It would be cool if those older styles of machines were available to build for the nostalgia of it.
Just awesome,,,Joe @ 3:59,,the belt on the vertical sander,,,do you splice your own?? Is there a tip you can share?? I have all those 50yr rolls of Emery, and going to build a narrow belt sander and be great if I could use the emery I have in stock,, Bear.
Has to use tweezers, lol. I used to make fun of my dad and others for having to use them, my fingers are magic! Now, many years later, I'm struggling to hit the correct letters to type these words. Must be time for stronger reading glasses too. Another great video, thanks Joe.
you should invest in a nice pair of offset tweezers. then a bit of work on the sander to make them fit your hand and the way you hold them. Well done as always
Is there a set screw to lock the cone pulley to the shaft? Nice work, and the brass pulluy notn only looks good, it will be a better flywheel for when you put this tool to work! Thanks.
No, because it will connect to a belt on a line shaft, so alignment is done by positioning the drill press on the floor and the pulley on the line shaft.
One could only wish modern equipment would be assembled with as much care as you are demonstrating here. 🙂
These miniature machines will make brilliant desk ornaments. Next please do a mini milling machine
That would be amazing. Complete with vice, T-slotted table etc... Would be a treat to watch. Tapered tools on a rack to the side... I reckon we have to admit those girly doll houses ain't got nothing on this workshop we talking about.
You are going to have to build a model sized shop with a line array for powering these off the steam engine.
OH, how I love the color of polished metals. Especially brass. A reminder on file treatments is that "Burr Life" from "Rio Grande" supplies. I have never used anything else like it that works so well on files and burrs. Since discovering it I have never had a tooth on a file pile up and damage a finish. I really like your changeups. They make a show and tell piece into a workable machine with a few more bells and whistle's. That brass drive shive is gorgeous. Brass sure hit's ne where it counts my friend. Onwards and upwards and a big, big thanks for todays bling. See you never soon enough Joe, !
Another excellent video, I like the look of the brass pulley wheel, the holes give it an old fashioned style look. Thanks Joe.
You must be extreemly proud of the quality you are achieving I believe any museum would be proud to own such quality.
Not to mention again , that you're a true pro toolmaker, but, I'm always intrigued and enlightened by your work holding techniques. To me, as a novice, hobby machinist, your workholding techniques always are the key to the puzzle in my mind. Thanks again for your teaching.
Sincerely,
Scott
Agreed!
Thanks guys. I try to show techniques you can improve on and use elsewhere. Making something is just a bonus.
Great video as always, I caught the “ sanity check” when you grabbed the digital calipers to verify the micrometer reading, I do the same thing, when in doubt check, double check! Saves parts.
Agree!
Awesome video as usual, Joe. I would love to see a video on your technique for grinding custom form tools. My handful of attempts haven't been as effective as I'd like and I would be very interested in seeing how a man of your experience does it.
Another enjoyable “build” video Joe.
Just as aside, I’ve constructed a number of Craftsman styled clocks over the years, comprised of many copper / brass pieces - if you would like to maintain the brightness and flaw free surface finish of your machined surfaces, I can highly recommend 2105 Nikolas lacquer… it is “water clear”, sprays wet, dries quickly, and is quite effective for years after application. Used primarily for coating brass musical instruments, and you know how much handling they get.
Nice to see a partial assembly this early on to see how it's progressing👍👍
These little machine tools look like jewels, a reflection of your thoroughness and skills.
Can't wait to see all the rest, Joe.
Hey Joe thank you sir!!
I'm enjoying this series. Thank you.
Thank you Joe, best way to start a Saturday morning. A nice country breakfast of ham, eggs and hash browns and a fresh cup of coffee all while watching another great video from you. Don't get much better.... : )
I restored an 1890’s era Sibley and Ware drill press, took 1.5 years. Mesmerizing machine to look at and fun ever to run. The sounds it makes is awesome.
Wow! The fit and finish is First Class! Thanks, Joe.
Oh boy! Masterpieces after masterpieces. You are so important in the evolution of life. Great times ahead.
I'm glad you see the value in these videos. Its not all about the model.
Watching those last two screws I kept thinking tweezers would be helpful, and bam, out came the tweezers. Looks great Joe.
Looks great for sure, but a good set of electronics grade tweezers would be much easier than those hair ones.
@@spehropefhany They got the job done, in many cases you don't need the absolutely best tool precisely tuned for a given task, whatever is handy for the momentary need works perfectly well.
@@avi8r66 I know, better than nothing- but those drug store things are so stiff and short I cringe whenever I see them, having been forced to compromise more than a few times.
@@spehropefhany And yet, they accomplished their task quite nicely. If you do this kind of very fine small scale work on a very frequent basis it would matter, but for the rare occasion they are fine.
I have all of these kits from PM Research, but I have not started to build them yet. Seeing how you are doing them is very helpful and I am enjoying your video series very much. Thank You.
Hi Joe,
The machining looks flawless. I like your attention to detail. When you were attempting those last two screws was thinking 'When's Joe going to use some tweezers', and just needed to wait a few more seconds. Looking forward to those upper parts to be machined. You and the family stay safe.
Your having a blast doing these micro machines. Awesome job.
Thanks for allowing us to look over your sholder,good tips.🤗😎🤗😎
Looking good Joe! Believe it or not, in my first machine shop job, all the machines had flat belt drive belts. A line shaft still ran across the ceiling. All the machines had electric motors adapted to them. I actually ran a drill press just like the one you are building, back in 1975.
My dad had a flat belt driven lathe in our garage in 1960-70s. The motor was mounted on the wall above the lathe. Between the two was a pivoted wooden lever with prongs either side of the belt. This allowed you to push the belt off the driven pulley onto an idler pulley stopping the lathe but leaving the motor running. To restart the lathe you moved the belt back onto the driven pulley. I can only assume they did this (instead of switching the motor on and off) to reduce start up surges?
"Fourteen minutes, real time." You crack me up as always Joe. Reality is that it's 14 minutes Joe Pi time, you really should state the conversion factor to real time, 3.141 something or other I believe.
Thanks for adding the details such as lubes and feeds & speeds. For a total noob like me, that info is really helpful.
My new task is cracking the lube/coolant code. I can't make out any rhyme or reason as to when or why to use lube and when to turn dry.
Great video JP! Can hardly wait to see the completed “shop”
Learned a few more tricks today.
Thanks Joe
I really enjoy your videos Joe, Your fun becomes mine. Greatly appreciated. Stay safe and be happy. All the best, Job
Absolutely beautiful…… I’m really enjoying these miniature tool series as it provides so many real world examples of fixture holding and machining methods without dealing with customer proprietary issues. Thanks Joe so very much for investing the time to share with us. 👍👍😎👍👍
Glad to do it.
That is coming along very nicely i do like the changes that you have made to this drill.
I enjoy the attention to detail. Looks great.
Great job 👏 I like the idea of waiting till the end for assembly but nice surprise thanks
Great end to a busy week. Your work on that lathe is my ASMR zen relaxing thing with these miniatures. Thank you for them. Hope you and the family keeping well, Joe.
Enjoying the build. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.
Beautiful absolutely beautiful...
Excellent tip to put the washers in the between the rotating parts. It's looking great.
It is always a pleasure to watch you do "a little work". Thanks for the video.
Engaging as always. Thanks Joe!
I’m not a machinist, so maybe this was obvious to everyone else, but I had no idea you could turn a part that’s just held by friction. Neat!
Technically, and I'm not trying to be overly pedantic here, but most turned parts that are round were machined with nothing more than friction holding the part - either in jaws or via friction turning like he does here 👍🏻 There's even an entire category of friction turning where they form metal into things like pots and pans 🤓
@@THE_PeglegSwantoon lol, yeah I guess that’s true. I meant more sandwiched between two surfaces, as opposed to gripped, but then I remembered turning between centers. 🤦♂️
But with centers you got the points preventing the part from being pushed out sideways. And I’ve seen some metal spinning. Very cool
Beautiful work!
Love the mini tool series.
Poetry in motion.
Thanks for the video Joe.
Thank you again for the video series I hope you had as much fun building it as I have watching you build it
Thank you Joe you make it look so easy
My real name is Michael McCluskey. I like to design and make things myself. One thing I like about TH-cam is there are people who I can learn from them, You are one of them!
It's coming along nicely. Thanks for the video Joe.
Another great video today Joe! I wish my hands were as steady as yours although I still get it done. The project is coming along nicely thank you for taking time and effort to share your work with us!
Your additions/modifications are epic Joe
I think the first drill press I owned was about this vintage but it had been retrofitted with a top mounted motor and a "Robley Speed Variator". Nice work as always.
Thanks Mark.
“Edward ScissorHands”….no match to “JoePie TweezerFingers”….😍enjoyed!
That is looking very very good there Joe.
Thanks Joe - progressing nicely.
Great job Joe, you are an artist with machine tools!
Looking fantastic Joe, cheers
Fixtures rule! :thumbs_up:
Hi Joe, I have a challenge for you: It is to, on a manual lathe, make a hole on a large plate... but the hole wall is a toroidal/convex shape instead of being a smooth cylinder. No form tools or step machining via DRO allowed.
I wish it was as easy as you make it look, by the time I was finished with that pulley I would have thrown it away and started over. LOL 😆
Tiny work .... Great video .. thanks for sharing .. Stay Safe
Nice one Joe. You certainly stepped up a few gears making this one. 😉
Thanks Joe
very best video joe..thanks for your time
Always entertaining and educational. Can't wait for more
Fantastic work, once again, thank you
That's lookin soo cute Joe! TFS, GB :)
Details, always details.
Well and happy Joe Pie, thanks!
Took a while to get used to retirement... you're too young yet Joe - but you must remember that in retirement you must stay active. And; you'll never get as much done in a day that you did while you were working full time!! As strange as it may seem... But remember most of all in retirement: YOU CAN NEVER TAKE ANOTHER DAY OFF! Yes, well and happy!
Enjoy your work.
Very nicely done !
I see you have become a professional on video effects, too. Nice blending out the tiny screw.
Nice work, Joe!
Excellent video.Thank you.
Always learn something
Wishing I had a tenth of your skill sir. Very well done.
and for joe's next build a belt sander in a bottle !!!! lol j/k sweet. i do have one question though. that shiny brass looks nice. are you sealing it or doing something else to prohibit tarnishing or as the stuffy upper class say "petina"
As always great work and effort. Even simple things need a fair amount of thought got get them right.
Thanks for sharing 👍
thank you for adding speeds and feeds info. Often wonder if I have them in the "ball park".
You’ve commented before about the scale of the screws throwing off the look, which I agree. Looking at this piece today had me wondering if a small counterbore for the screws would ease the scale issue by reducing how much they stick out? Just a thought. I’m learning so much from your channel, Thank You.
Wait! You didn’t make tiny press fit oilite bushings for that pulley shaft to run in. What’s up with that Joe?
Looks awesome Joe, what do you think about making some square headed screws for the base ? Not sure if square or hex fits the time period, 🤔 but either would look cool.
Those tiny screws would drive me crazy... I'd be chasing them around the workbench until they fell on the floor and bounced underneath the desk directly center out of reach or retrievability from any angle... The tweezers/needle nose pliers seem like the right solution to control them where you need to put them... I occasionally need to assemble small electronic projects with tiny components so I've been there myself with those small awkward screws. Great build so far, I look forward to seeing the rest of the drill press project.
They also make small instrument screw drivers that have holding arrangements in the tips. And I know all about having sausages for fingers
@@mpetersen6 Wow... that's good to know... I've got to get me a set of those... I'm tired of getting screwed by screws. Do you have something that you use and could recommend a brand or where can I get them? Thanks in advance!
Lovely to see you making such tiny parts on your fairly big lathe. I have an older Colchester Triumph roundhead and she is still very accurate. I have a Jacobs rubberflex collet chuck but yours is better.
Joe, when the reamer first entered the cone pulley, you appeared to steady or otherwise touch (guide?) the reamer. Why did you do that? Curious (& old, but still learning!) minds want to learn for uses in their own shops.
Shouldn’t the shortened side of the pillar be towards the cone pulleys, since that side length was increased with the delrin? The bearing post just doesn’t look centered on the base casting
Luv it . Nuff said
They should have specified socket head cap screws,they would look more realistic than "giant" slotted screws.
Maybe scale square-head screws?
Your work always impresses Joe, is there a horizontal mill project coming in the future? The first machine shop I worked in I was still in HS senior year 84 and it was a gear shop, I can still smell all the older cutting oils they used, anyway I had the "pleasure" of running a Fellows gear shaper that was built in 1903 if I remember correctly and a couple of WWII era Gleason bevel gear cutters along with horizontal hobs and a turret lathe that was built in the late 20's(oops 1920's for the youngins) it was a good learning experience and I was making way better money than most kids, but I eventually moved on to toolmaking, too much repetition in production for me. It would be cool if those older styles of machines were available to build for the nostalgia of it.
I was wondering how you would setup the belt thing. Making very light cuts to make a nice radius is nice
Perfection. 👌 What else is there to say 🤔 👏👏👍😀
Just awesome,,,Joe @ 3:59,,the belt on the vertical sander,,,do you splice your own?? Is there a tip you can share?? I have all those 50yr rolls of Emery, and going to build a narrow belt sander and be great if I could use the emery I have in stock,, Bear.
Has to use tweezers, lol. I used to make fun of my dad and others for having to use them, my fingers are magic! Now, many years later, I'm struggling to hit the correct letters to type these words. Must be time for stronger reading glasses too. Another great video, thanks Joe.
you should invest in a nice pair of offset tweezers. then a bit of work on the sander to make them fit your hand and the way you hold them. Well done as always
Now, we need to make all these little beauty's out of tungsten vanadium. 1 million % accuracy so we will make jewellry and watchmaking great again.
I'm actually surprised they us a brass column instead of steel or cast iron. Looks great!
Is there a set screw to lock the cone pulley to the shaft? Nice work, and the brass pulluy notn only looks good, it will be a better flywheel for when you put this tool to work! Thanks.
Joe, a work of art, I can't understand why 14 dislikes!
I can probably name them. No big deal.
I'm just wondering, does it not matter that the large brass pulley sits further back now due to the larger hub?
No, because it will connect to a belt on a line shaft, so alignment is done by positioning the drill press on the floor and the pulley on the line shaft.
Who else wants to see Joe build a full miniature workshop powered by the steam engine he built?
Big fingers tiny parts old eyes I feel ya