Hey Kyle, I'm an older tool maker in a one man shop within a larger optical coating company. Part of what I do is make parts for the coating machines, it's the part of my job I enjoy most. Your shop is better equipped than mine, so I have to come up with unique methods to make parts that we would otherwise have to farm out. I've been watching your videos for a while now and part of the reason I watch is your commentary on what you're doing and how you're going to get there. Keep up the great work and yes, keep adding commentary.
Seventy seven year old metal worker, been doing machine work all my life and love it, of course getting too old now but you know, thanks for commenting about Kyle.It's what I'd like to have said.
Definitely think this format works well; keeps the machining part focussed, and then the commentary at the end works well as you can explain everything in context (having done the job).
I like CEE cutting edge engineering. They do the basics of talkinng during thhe work, and then at the end thhey do a little more, and at the very end they show their funny doggo and all the swearing curtis does.
Good morning Kyle, I love your channel, enjoy your videos whether it is working on your own equipment, repairs, or fabricating something. You put the extra narration into it which helps a novice like me a lot. I'm a retired maintenance person using the machinist world as mostly a hobby keep busy and learning type world vs. setting on the couch watching TV. I have found even I have a lot of experience in the maintenance world from working in sawmills, mining, milling, reduction plants and rolling mills that there is always something new I can learn and most of all different and new ways of doing things. I find your channel is one of the best at explaining and helping me do that. So please, keep on sharing and thank you.
I am a current engineer for Swaploader. Super cool to see people keeping our hoists on the road. From the image at the beginning this looks like either a SL-505 or SL-545. These hoists were designed in the late 90s and we produced them up until around 2016. If I were to guess this is at least 10 years old and is probably mounted on its second truck. The rollers in question we still produce PN 40H93. The OD of the roller should be 7”. We do make the rollers slightly taller on purpose by an 1/8”. From what I can tell the reason they had issues is because the wear pads on the top of the frame are missing. This would have made the rollers a half inch too tall. The original design has the grease zerk in the pin with a hole down the center and a cross drilled hole to feed the bushings.
You are 100% correct. Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, that knowledge and information gets lost along the way and the people just do the best with what they can.
Hey Kyle, love the machine videos! They're soothing and help me relax after a stressful day. My family is in the machinery business, and I love watching machines build cool things out of nothing it's very enjoyable. I just subscribed to your channel; can't wait for the next one.
Excellent job Bro! I appreciate the explaination at the end and learning the ins and outs of a trade is all part of the journey. Keep up the videos I really like them.
I watched your video about those funky shoe attachments you have and want to thank you for explaining what they are and why you wear them. I have worked on concrete floors for several decades and my feet are wrecked. At the end of the day I could hardly walk after work. I bought a pair of those shoe attachments and after about a week they seem to really help. Thanks and keep on keeping on!
Ya know, you are not the typical machinist that I have associated with for the last 50 years or so. You are a little skinny guy that doesn't look like he can even lift 50 pounds never mind handle large job pieces. Dirty clothes and all you are working your butt off and I'm impressed. Keep working and learning and I wish you all the success you can achieve. You definitely push your equipment to it's maximum so be careful not to break something vital to your future endeavors.
The methodology you use is excellent. It is an incentive for many of us who see this not as a job but as an art. Really, go ahead with your projects and keep sharing them on your channel. Congratulations.
Would have been a good idea to freeze the brass bushings before you pressed them into the steel wheel. The fact you shaved the bushings shows the fit is not as tight as it could be.
Excellent honest appraisal at the end, very honest 👏. Ref the custom head drive gears, to measure feeds, maybe engage feed, then rotate the chuck by hand exactly 10 revolutions, and measure carriage distance, divide by 10 to get feed per rev. Very good point on heavy machining on optimization of metal removal etc. Thanks for sharing. Regards John from the Black Country in the UK.
At least 1% of the reason I keep watching is the hope that you’ll decide to repaint that arbor press. Other than that, it’s always fun to watch you work. Keep it up!
Hey, i'll be there as long as you keep explaining the processes, thoughts, setups and stuff... That's a great learning opportunity for beginners like myself, and i thank you for that. And i personnally love your work with machine restoration and repair, as disassembling machines, understand how they work, is what makes me tick. Kudos to you for your engagement, and keep up the good work !
I just did a job last weekend that I wish I had not taken, lesson learned for me. It was super simple, 20x 1" x 7/8" spacers with a 3/8" hole in the middle. On any reasonably sized machine it would have take less than an hour to do all of them, but I have a Sherline and these were right at the limit of what I could get it to do reasonably well. It ended up taking me almost 30 minutes for each part. Anyway, point of the story is that some of these cuts you were taking in this video are the size of entire parts I have made in the past :D
Glad I found your videos. For this project I couldn't help thinking that it would have been great to find stock that was a little more near net shape but at least it wasn't brass. Thanks for posting.
Cool stuff, I dig the commentary as well as the video content and your honesty in what you do is what sells it for me, you just got a new subscriber, keep up the cool work.
Hello Kyle we all make mistakes. Out of that we learn from our mistakes. The whole life it is a pendicular game - Make good - make mistake - learn from that - and repeat. Greetings from Germany.
I work in a family owned 8 person machine shop. I started out running a manual mill but now I primarily program and run a CNC mill. I say this because even though I operate machines I still enjoy watching others in the same industry. I like your channel because you’re always trying to learn and improve on whatever your working on. All I can say is keep up the great work and I’ll keep watching.
Very educational video. I know nothing about metal lathing or machining but I find it very interesting. I am a wood lathe wood working person myself. but your videos are great. I'll keep watching for sure
New subscriber here Kyle. I appreciate seeing the mistakes and the work arounds. Problem solving is the thing that makes a good OR a bad fabricator. You answered the question I had about not having a crosshatch pattern for your grease grooves in the commentary. Good job.
I can totally see you making some sort intricate part to power feed your compound, other than the drill adapter. Using a power feed for a mill with a built in battery or something like that. Great video man, always look forward to the next.
Thank you yeah that could work. I don’t really cut tapers that often so it’s kind of a ghetto way to do it, but it does work really well and keeps the lathe compound low profile.
Hi Kyle, I stumbled across this video today and thought you did an excellent job explaining your process. It's nice to hear th hat your business is growing in this disposable society. If I remember correctly, yes, you are supposed to keep the half nut engaged for metric threading. (But don't quote me...😁)
Hi, this is my first vdio from you. Exellent work. To make a criss cross grease grove cut a long groove (1 /2 turn long) and retract. reset the part 180 degrees and reverse the lathe and cut another groove. that will work. A small recomendation, I think that your busines needs an uplift with rented shirts and pants. Just add $5 to the job and that covers the cost.
It's always better to learn from others mistakes. My little CM Mini Lathe can only dream about making chips like that. Thanks for sharing, warts and all. It really helps.
Young man t don't know much about machine work but I love watching these shows you have the perfect personality to build big you keep up the good work and I'll be here with you
When cutting metric you can still disengage the half nuts as long as you don't move the carriage by hand but re-engage the half nuts at the exact same point on the dial once you reverse the lathe
Curious as to when taking measurements for ID on the wheels 20:29 , did you have to wait sometime? What I mean is that after heavy cuts with the insert & no coolant(I understand that insert needs no coolant necessarily) would generate heat, does that affect the readings you take to get to final dimensions.
I do mechanical design as my day job. I've never used a lathe or a mill and always enjoy watching machining vids. I truly admire and appreciate your channel both for the actual machining operations but mainly for the commentary and endnotes which to me is a great way to learn more about how a machine shop actually works and handles jobs. I really look forward to seeing you getting your shop to the places you want it to be and will sure be following closely. Thanks a ton for the great content and for the effort you put into your channel and good luck!
You had the bushing in the lathe you should have put a starter on the od. Also I was taught to release your pressure when you first start pressing it in. Helps it go in straight.
I use to do a fair amount of work using Inconel 625 and Hastelloy. Both alloys have a very good scrap value, but to obtain the best price, you need to tear down the machine and thoroughly clean, otherwise the contaminated price drops to less than 25% of the pure alloy. Is there a reason that you aren't flood cooling? While a bit messier cutting rates can be increased, surface finish is better and tool life is more than doubled. I commend you on taking on the larger, (by modern small shop standards) heavy metal jobs. Most Mom-n-Pop shops will only run this type of job from long time customers. Somewhat difficult to estimate the job where you make money, instead of giving away your work.
Great machining job. I hardly ever turn things that big because I find it a bit boring. I preferred smaller things because the lathes we had were too small, and we could only take smaller cuts, so one of those would take all day, lol.
Nice job of installing the Zirk recessed at an angle. Once you get the threading starting point issue worked out could you have just rotated the wheels 180 degrees on the lath and have achieved the cross hatch grease channels? One thought that comes to mind is if you want to increase profits by reducing machine time when large amounts of materials must be removed is to use coolant for all cuts and then cut rates can be greatly increased. Those wheel are almost too nice looking to use great job!!
Everything that follows is purely my opinion . . . One of the bigger reasons for the success of certain YT machinists like Adam, Keith, and Josh has been their willingness to focus on the teaching part. With "Mr Pete" it's even more obvious because he was and calls himself a teacher. You've got that too, especially in your closing summaries. People want to follow, they want to be entertained by chip size and shape, but it's even better if they get easy access to knowledge like why chip color can be important.
If you have plans to get into machining larger components, do you anticipate purchasing and restoring either a VBM (vertical boring machine) or a VTL (vertical turret lathe)?
I use Premier Pro but if I was doing it all over again, I would recommend da Vinci resolve. It’s cheaper and sounds like it. It’s almost better these days.
I've got an imperial lathe that I thread metric on. The challenge is that the set of gears you install on an imperial lathe per it's thread table to get a metric feed are about 99.99% of the correct ratio (2.54 to 1) to get your inch lead screw to move MM, but that 0.001% off in ratio means that every time you disengage and re-engage the lead screw, you land in a position that's slightly off where you started. The only way to do metric on an imperial lathe and not have this happen is to put in a 127T gear (when combined with a 50T gear it gets you a 2.54:1 ratio).
That's not exactly true, yes various combinations of gears give a slight error in pitch. But even with the correct 127 tooth gear for an exact match you still can't disengage the lead screw like English threading, the reason is the transposing gears basically divides it by your metric equivalent, so your lead screw position will only repeat since every 254 revolutions.
38:00 Ahhh.... you can see that you're scraping it in. You should consider a liquid nitrogen dip when the part being pressed is known to be a softer metal.
Kyle, I like hearing your thought process as you make decisions along with your honest commentary at the end of the videos. Did you, by chance, weigh the two wheels to see how many of the 271-lbs went int the scrap barrels? Also, is it "safe" to wear your ring while working? The big/heavy parts that you're working with could easily crush your ring onto your finger. Anyway, thumbs up!
Nice job! Interesting to see the lower speed/higher feed working better. I think I might have to get one of those tool holders that you used for facing (around the 30:00 mark) that uses the obtuse angled corners of the CNMG insert that otherwise doesn't get touched. Not thought about using coolant? Would spoil the video & make a mess I know!
The half nut would have most likely needed to be engaged on an even number. Some threads will work on any number, and others will require the same number or an even number.
Howdy Kyle , very good video . Working 30 hours a week on customers jobs is great in my mind . Your not rushed and always behind . Commentary at the end is really cool and explains a lot to us that were some what confused . Rollers came out looking great .
Hey Kyle, I am just wondering ! Did you actually make them smaller, on my phone watching they look to be the same size as your sample. Enjoyed your video, keep the videos coming
Interesting to watch, thank you! A question for you, what QC tool post size and do you have any trouble having the post slip? I am trying to improve surface finish on 1045…. Not my favorite so far. 😅
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 mine too. I have slipping problems, particularly with larger drills. I am not using the tailstock much these days. Thank you for reading and responding.
Yeah ca but I wouldn’t run drills in it. To much side load can be done but your issue makes sense. Drills put way more force than a single point cutter.
Ya, your 'problem' with the grooves is the half nut as you assessed. Using an "american" lathe, your lead screw will be an inches acme thread, so, it doesn't matter what gears you have installed, you'll always have to leave the halfnut engaged on that machine when you're doing metric threads.
Thank you for sharing and the honest, realistic info. As someone who is learning, it is sometimes hard to know what realistic expectations are. Question: when installing bronze bushings, do you factor in any compression of the ID?
Your format and content is good. I like the chat at the end, it's nice to have an explanation. When threading metric threads with an imperial leadscrew, you can disengage the half nuts, eg. threading up to a shoulder, but the threading dial must not make a whole turn before you re-engage in reverse. Thats the way I cut metric threads with my 4 tpi leadscrew.
Use your C or W tool for facing. D and V tools are for turning only. That first pass on hot roll you want to get completely under the diameter. Interrupted cuts on hot roll slag will destroy an insert. Get under it and be aggressive. Get that crap off. Never make any final cuts until everything is roughed out. Including drilling and boring. I know this part isn't critical, but getting in the practice for all parts will make you a better machinist.
I was just going to say now as just a suggestion; test your machine to see about oil groves what setting would work out. Now I'm just a retired auto tech that does a small amount of hobby machining and I know nothing, but at the end ya kind of answered what happened with oil groves. Hope your business grows by leaps and bounds.
For sure the chat at the end , the conclusions are interesting to me. The Setup is important. The turning is fast forward because it’s repetitive and if you’ve done any machining thats where you go into zen mode or Aotomotive pilot. I started adding metal scraps in the household municipality Blue box, I’m surprised what they take and assume it’s depending on your municipality contract with landfill management. But I started to deposit any scrap metal from the shop in the blue box, one box a week and it’s nice to know that it is getting melted and reused. I’m pretty confident it doesn’t need to go to landfill. My son just started his business, and young kids and all that life throws at him. Like I did, and what I tell him is that all the work you do, all the extras are investment in yourself and your profession . Make hay when you can there are many rewards. Very satisfying to watch your site and watch your growth !
Hey Kyle, I'm an older tool maker in a one man shop within a larger optical coating company. Part of what I do is make parts for the coating machines, it's the part of my job I enjoy most. Your shop is better equipped than mine, so I have to come up with unique methods to make parts that we would otherwise have to farm out. I've been watching your videos for a while now and part of the reason I watch is your commentary on what you're doing and how you're going to get there. Keep up the great work and yes, keep adding commentary.
Awesome thanks I appreciate the kind words. Solving problems is fun.
Hello, we are specialized in manufacturing parts in China, with reasonable prices. Can you give me a chance to cooperate with you? Thank you
Seventy seven year old metal worker, been doing machine work all my life and love it, of course getting too old now but you know, thanks for commenting about Kyle.It's what I'd like to have said.
Honesty is the key to your success. Love what you do. Job well done.
Yeah, I try to be as transparent as possible.
Definitely think this format works well; keeps the machining part focussed, and then the commentary at the end works well as you can explain everything in context (having done the job).
Also really enjoying the end game retrospectives as much or more than the machining.
Yeah good to know thanks guys
I like CEE cutting edge engineering. They do the basics of talkinng during thhe work, and then at the end thhey do a little more, and at the very end they show their funny doggo and all the swearing curtis does.
Curtis is awesome and definitely knows his stuff
Their dog is nuts. I love CEE. I found this channel because of CEE,
Good morning Kyle,
I love your channel, enjoy your videos whether it is working on your own equipment, repairs, or fabricating something. You put the extra narration into it which helps a novice like me a lot. I'm a retired maintenance person using the machinist world as mostly a hobby keep busy and learning type world vs. setting on the couch watching TV. I have found even I have a lot of experience in the maintenance world from working in sawmills, mining, milling, reduction plants and rolling mills that there is always something new I can learn and most of all different and new ways of doing things. I find your channel is one of the best at explaining and helping me do that. So please, keep on sharing and thank you.
I'm glad you're enjoying the videos, I’ll keep them coming
I am a current engineer for Swaploader. Super cool to see people keeping our hoists on the road. From the image at the beginning this looks like either a SL-505 or SL-545. These hoists were designed in the late 90s and we produced them up until around 2016. If I were to guess this is at least 10 years old and is probably mounted on its second truck. The rollers in question we still produce PN 40H93. The OD of the roller should be 7”. We do make the rollers slightly taller on purpose by an 1/8”. From what I can tell the reason they had issues is because the wear pads on the top of the frame are missing. This would have made the rollers a half inch too tall. The original design has the grease zerk in the pin with a hole down the center and a cross drilled hole to feed the bushings.
You are 100% correct. Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, that knowledge and information gets lost along the way and the people just do the best with what they can.
Hey Kyle, love the machine videos! They're soothing and help me relax after a stressful day. My family is in the machinery business, and I love watching machines build cool things out of nothing it's very enjoyable. I just subscribed to your channel; can't wait for the next one.
Appreciate the support and glad you find it relaxing.
Excellent job Bro! I appreciate the explaination at the end and learning the ins and outs of a trade is all part of the journey. Keep up the videos I really like them.
Nicely done! : ) I like the way you placed the grease fittings!
Appreciate it
I watched your video about those funky shoe attachments you have and want to thank you for explaining what they are and why you wear them.
I have worked on concrete floors for several decades and my feet are wrecked. At the end of the day I could hardly walk after work.
I bought a pair of those shoe attachments and after about a week they seem to really help.
Thanks and keep on keeping on!
Wow great to hear someone else is being helped by that
Ya know, you are not the typical machinist that I have associated with for the last 50 years or so. You are a little skinny guy that doesn't look like he can even lift 50 pounds never mind handle large job pieces. Dirty clothes and all you are working your butt off and I'm impressed. Keep working and learning and I wish you all the success you can achieve. You definitely push your equipment to it's maximum so be careful not to break something vital to your future endeavors.
Yeah thank you
The methodology you use is excellent. It is an incentive for many of us who see this not as a job but as an art. Really, go ahead with your projects and keep sharing them on your channel. Congratulations.
Would have been a good idea to freeze the brass bushings before you pressed them into the steel wheel.
The fact you shaved the bushings shows the fit is not as tight as it could be.
Yeah true
Thanks
Excellent honest appraisal at the end, very honest 👏.
Ref the custom head drive gears, to measure feeds, maybe engage feed, then rotate the chuck by hand exactly 10 revolutions, and measure carriage distance, divide by 10 to get feed per rev.
Very good point on heavy machining on optimization of metal removal etc.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards John from the Black Country in the UK.
At least 1% of the reason I keep watching is the hope that you’ll decide to repaint that arbor press. Other than that, it’s always fun to watch you work. Keep it up!
Yeah, it won’t get repainted. You can stop watching lol I’m just kidding, but no yeah maybe a different arbor press will be painted a different color.
Great work! Thank you for taking the time to explain things.
I’m glad you like it!
Hey, i'll be there as long as you keep explaining the processes, thoughts, setups and stuff... That's a great learning opportunity for beginners like myself, and i thank you for that.
And i personnally love your work with machine restoration and repair, as disassembling machines, understand how they work, is what makes me tick.
Kudos to you for your engagement, and keep up the good work !
Love your videos looking forward to watching your business grow
Appreciate the support!
I just did a job last weekend that I wish I had not taken, lesson learned for me. It was super simple, 20x 1" x 7/8" spacers with a 3/8" hole in the middle. On any reasonably sized machine it would have take less than an hour to do all of them, but I have a Sherline and these were right at the limit of what I could get it to do reasonably well. It ended up taking me almost 30 minutes for each part.
Anyway, point of the story is that some of these cuts you were taking in this video are the size of entire parts I have made in the past :D
Omg crazy.
Glad I found your videos. For this project I couldn't help thinking that it would have been great to find stock that was a little more near net shape but at least it wasn't brass. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, that would’ve been nice. Less work for sure.
I quite enjoyed the video. and the stor Thank you so much
Appreciate that, glad you enjoyed it!
Cool stuff, I dig the commentary as well as the video content and your honesty in what you do is what sells it for me, you just got a new subscriber, keep up the cool work.
Just came back and finished the end commentary today. Congrats on the growth!! Bring on the big stuff, and keep the commentary.
Thanks, Rich . My 3-D printer has been sitting for over a month. I’ve just been slammed.
Hello Kyle we all make mistakes. Out of that we learn from our mistakes. The whole life it is a pendicular game - Make good - make mistake - learn from that - and repeat. Greetings from Germany.
Hello indeed
So good to hear that the shop is getting busier - yes, I am one fo those who watches tot he end and I like this format :)
Good to know thanks
I work in a family owned 8 person machine shop. I started out running a manual mill but now I primarily program and run a CNC mill. I say this because even though I operate machines I still enjoy watching others in the same industry. I like your channel because you’re always trying to learn and improve on whatever your working on. All I can say is keep up the great work and I’ll keep watching.
Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words.
They look so good. Like your format.
Thanks
Good luck Sir, thank you for allowing us to watch your journey.
P.S. Keep the talking coming, it is very much appreciated.
You bet
Cool! The balance between customer jobs and your own projects is interesting but also keeps one foot in reality.
Yes indeed
Very educational video. I know nothing about metal lathing or machining but I find it very interesting. I am a wood lathe wood working person myself. but your videos are great. I'll keep watching for sure
Appreciate you checking it out.
Thanks man. Very cool of you to be so unselfish. Rare these days.
New subscriber here, not a machinist nor do i work on metal let alone own a drill press, but i enjoy your skill. Thank you for sharing your passion.
New subscriber here Kyle. I appreciate seeing the mistakes and the work arounds. Problem solving is the thing that makes a good OR a bad fabricator. You answered the question I had about not having a crosshatch pattern for your grease grooves in the commentary. Good job.
Appreciate you joining the channel
I can totally see you making some sort intricate part to power feed your compound, other than the drill adapter. Using a power feed for a mill with a built in battery or something like that. Great video man, always look forward to the next.
Thank you yeah that could work. I don’t really cut tapers that often so it’s kind of a ghetto way to do it, but it does work really well and keeps the lathe compound low profile.
Great job, please keep on talking, it makes the difference and helps me to learn a lot! 👍😀
Will do I’ll keep it up.
Hi Kyle,
I stumbled across this video today and thought you did an excellent job explaining your process. It's nice to hear th hat your business is growing in this disposable society.
If I remember correctly, yes, you are supposed to keep the half nut engaged for metric threading. (But don't quote me...😁)
Hi, this is my first vdio from you. Exellent work. To make a criss cross grease grove cut a long groove (1 /2 turn long) and retract. reset the part 180 degrees and reverse the lathe and cut another groove. that will work. A small recomendation, I think that your busines needs an uplift with rented shirts and pants. Just add $5 to the job and that covers the cost.
It's always better to learn from others mistakes. My little CM Mini Lathe can only dream about making chips like that. Thanks for sharing, warts and all. It really helps.
Small lathes can be fun too, but yeah
Interesting content…….👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very nice work and you seem like a really good dude
Nice work, congrats on your milestone!
Thank you
Is nice to see those big chips breaking 😁
Everyone likes big chips.
Great explanation of your work
Young man t don't know much about machine work but I love watching these shows you have the perfect personality to build big you keep up the good work and I'll be here with you
Thanks! Appreciate that.
When cutting metric you can still disengage the half nuts as long as you don't move the carriage by hand but re-engage the half nuts at the exact same point on the dial once you reverse the lathe
I'm not a machinist, nor ever will be. However I did enjoy your video AND your commentary at the end.
Curious as to when taking measurements for ID on the wheels 20:29 , did you have to wait sometime? What I mean is that after heavy cuts with the insert & no coolant(I understand that insert needs no coolant necessarily) would generate heat, does that affect the readings you take to get to final dimensions.
I do mechanical design as my day job. I've never used a lathe or a mill and always enjoy watching machining vids. I truly admire and appreciate your channel both for the actual machining operations but mainly for the commentary and endnotes which to me is a great way to learn more about how a machine shop actually works and handles jobs. I really look forward to seeing you getting your shop to the places you want it to be and will sure be following closely. Thanks a ton for the great content and for the effort you put into your channel and good luck!
Appreciate that
Hello, we are specialized in manufacturing parts in China, with reasonable prices. Can you give me a chance to cooperate with you? Thank you
wheels looked good thank you!
Thanks! I appreciate it.
The sound of the BONK at 02:49 tells you that the piece is heavy!
Truly
You had the bushing in the lathe you should have put a starter on the od. Also I was taught to release your pressure when you first start pressing it in. Helps it go in straight.
Beautiful work!
Thanks!
I use to do a fair amount of work using Inconel 625 and Hastelloy. Both alloys have a very good scrap value, but to obtain the best price, you need to tear down the machine and thoroughly clean, otherwise the contaminated price drops to less than 25% of the pure alloy.
Is there a reason that you aren't flood cooling? While a bit messier cutting rates can be increased, surface finish is better and tool life is more than doubled.
I commend you on taking on the larger, (by modern small shop standards) heavy metal jobs. Most Mom-n-Pop shops will only run this type of job from long time customers. Somewhat difficult to estimate the job where you make money, instead of giving away your work.
GREAT video
Thanks!
Beautiful. How many hours?
I appreciate the commentary.
Thanks
Is that straight water on the band saw?
Great machining job. I hardly ever turn things that big because I find it a bit boring. I preferred smaller things because the lathes we had were too small, and we could only take smaller cuts, so one of those would take all day, lol.
Yeah true
Nice job of installing the Zirk recessed at an angle. Once you get the threading starting point issue worked out could you have just rotated the wheels 180 degrees on the lath and have achieved the cross hatch grease channels? One thought that comes to mind is if you want to increase profits by reducing machine time when large amounts of materials must be removed is to use coolant for all cuts and then cut rates can be greatly increased. Those wheel are almost too nice looking to use great job!!
Yeah agreed
The commentary is great.
Thank you.
Everything that follows is purely my opinion . . .
One of the bigger reasons for the success of certain YT machinists like Adam, Keith, and Josh has been their willingness to focus on the teaching part. With "Mr Pete" it's even more obvious because he was and calls himself a teacher. You've got that too, especially in your closing summaries. People want to follow, they want to be entertained by chip size and shape, but it's even better if they get easy access to knowledge like why chip color can be important.
Yeah good points
Cool video first time iv seen that Hall heavy duty machining from Australia his are very heavy duty stuff boring bars 3feet long .u r very energetic
I really like his channel. I’ve been watching it more recently.
If you have plans to get into machining larger components, do you anticipate purchasing and restoring either a VBM (vertical boring machine) or a VTL (vertical turret lathe)?
I’m not sure yet. I need to get the machines I have running and then I’ll kind of go from there.
Glad to hear that your business is growing. Also, I am looking forward to more vids of you manufacturing parts for your machines.
You and me both
Great videos. I watch all of them. What video editing software would you recommend? many thanks
I use Premier Pro but if I was doing it all over again, I would recommend da Vinci resolve. It’s cheaper and sounds like it. It’s almost better these days.
I've got an imperial lathe that I thread metric on. The challenge is that the set of gears you install on an imperial lathe per it's thread table to get a metric feed are about 99.99% of the correct ratio (2.54 to 1) to get your inch lead screw to move MM, but that 0.001% off in ratio means that every time you disengage and re-engage the lead screw, you land in a position that's slightly off where you started. The only way to do metric on an imperial lathe and not have this happen is to put in a 127T gear (when combined with a 50T gear it gets you a 2.54:1 ratio).
Yeah transposing gears are good for that
That's not exactly true, yes various combinations of gears give a slight error in pitch. But even with the correct 127 tooth gear for an exact match you still can't disengage the lead screw like English threading, the reason is the transposing gears basically divides it by your metric equivalent, so your lead screw position will only repeat since every 254 revolutions.
Well done. This work is not as easy as you make it look.
Yeah it kicks my butt TH-cam makes it look easy
Good job and tutorial 👍👍
Appreciate it
Honest, open, and real. I won't be seeing your name on a ballot anytime soon. Thanks for the great honest and real machine work video.
lol yeah true
Has the need for coolant disappeared lots of heat there?
Yeah
Thanks for sharing!
Appreciate it!
38:00 Ahhh.... you can see that you're scraping it in. You should consider a liquid nitrogen dip when the part being pressed is known to be a softer metal.
Sure
Well done 👍
Kyle, I like hearing your thought process as you make decisions along with your honest commentary at the end of the videos. Did you, by chance, weigh the two wheels to see how many of the 271-lbs went int the scrap barrels? Also, is it "safe" to wear your ring while working? The big/heavy parts that you're working with could easily crush your ring onto your finger. Anyway, thumbs up!
About 60lbs when finished
Nice job! Interesting to see the lower speed/higher feed working better. I think I might have to get one of those tool holders that you used for facing (around the 30:00 mark) that uses the obtuse angled corners of the CNMG insert that otherwise doesn't get touched. Not thought about using coolant? Would spoil the video & make a mess I know!
Yeah those do work well for facing I got to remember not to toss my CNMG inserts so quick I always forget I can use the other edges…
The half nut would have most likely needed to be engaged on an even number. Some threads will work on any number, and others will require the same number or an even number.
Yes correct
Will they be giving you those old wheels to turn down, as shelf back-ups?
Probably not but it’s a great idea.
Howdy Kyle , very good video . Working 30 hours a week on customers jobs is great in my mind . Your not rushed and always behind . Commentary at the end is really cool and explains a lot to us that were some what confused . Rollers came out looking great .
Thank you I appreciate it
NICE VIDEO.
Thanks!
Good luck Kyle with the shop.wheels looked good 👍👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
Hey Kyle,
I am just wondering !
Did you actually make them smaller, on my phone watching they look to be the same size as your sample.
Enjoyed your video, keep the videos coming
The od looks similar because the old one is worn down. The is however is smaller.
Why no use of coolant - those inserts may be able to take the heat, but dimensionally, the work piece is gonna be off somewhat ?
I’ve answered this question so many times
Interesting to watch, thank you! A question for you, what QC tool post size and do you have any trouble having the post slip? I am trying to improve surface finish on 1045…. Not my favorite so far. 😅
CA size tool post on the American.
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 mine too. I have slipping problems, particularly with larger drills. I am not using the tailstock much these days. Thank you for reading and responding.
Yeah ca but I wouldn’t run drills in it. To much side load can be done but your issue makes sense. Drills put way more force than a single point cutter.
New subscriber and amateur machinist.
Ya, your 'problem' with the grooves is the half nut as you assessed. Using an "american" lathe, your lead screw will be an inches acme thread, so, it doesn't matter what gears you have installed, you'll always have to leave the halfnut engaged on that machine when you're doing metric threads.
Yes indeed
Thank you for sharing and the honest, realistic info. As someone who is learning, it is sometimes hard to know what realistic expectations are.
Question: when installing bronze bushings, do you factor in any compression of the ID?
Yes you do some most of shrinkage happens on od but yeah some shrinkage on id occurs depending on material and press fit
cool, I have the exact same bandsaw at work.
and nice work on the rollers
Your format and content is good. I like the chat at the end, it's nice to have an explanation.
When threading metric threads with an imperial leadscrew, you can disengage the half nuts, eg. threading up to a shoulder, but the threading dial must not make a whole turn before you re-engage in reverse. Thats the way I cut metric threads with my 4 tpi leadscrew.
Yeah your correct thanks
@VanoverMachineAndRepair Sorry, didn't want to sound like a know it all. Thats just the way I have to work.
I don't think i would be overly confident with an electro magnet holding that much weight walking that closely behind it!
Nice shop, videos, and quality of work. Did you go to school for this
No self taught
This kid should be a politician as much as he waves his arms around when he is speaking.
Use your C or W tool for facing. D and V tools are for turning only. That first pass on hot roll you want to get completely under the diameter. Interrupted cuts on hot roll slag will destroy an insert. Get under it and be aggressive. Get that crap off. Never make any final cuts until everything is roughed out. Including drilling and boring. I know this part isn't critical, but getting in the practice for all parts will make you a better machinist.
I was just going to say now as just a suggestion; test your machine to see about oil groves what setting would work out. Now I'm just a retired auto tech that does a small amount of hobby machining and I know nothing, but at the end ya kind of answered what happened with oil groves. Hope your business grows by leaps and bounds.
Thank you
I'm surprised they didn't ask for the grease fitting on the pin which is fixed rather than the wheel which is not.
Yeah, you never know. Sometimes the design changes are uncertain why they choose them.
Super Arbeit.
Indeed
We all have a passion for bigger parts
Yeah
Great job. Grease fitting location is ace and those chips were gorgeous when you got it tuned.
Thanks Rich
Did you go thru an apprenticeship? Where does your experience come from?
Self taught I didn’t even know what machining was four years ago.
@@VanoverMachineAndRepair Well good on you. Your a lot better than some machinist I used to work with that had been machining for years.
For sure the chat at the end , the conclusions are interesting to me. The Setup is important. The turning is fast forward because it’s repetitive and if you’ve done any machining thats where you go into zen mode or Aotomotive pilot.
I started adding metal scraps in the household municipality Blue box, I’m surprised what they take and assume it’s depending on your municipality contract with landfill management.
But I started to deposit any scrap metal from the shop in the blue box, one box a week and it’s nice to know that it is getting melted and reused. I’m pretty confident it doesn’t need to go to landfill.
My son just started his business, and young kids and all that life throws at him. Like I did, and what I tell him is that all the work you do, all the extras are investment in yourself and your profession . Make hay when you can there are many rewards.
Very satisfying to watch your site and watch your growth !
Thank you
“Sennemenel”😊? Where are you from?
I think my family is Dutch. I lived in Chicago for the last 15 years, but moved around a lot before that.
Hi
Just if i can point something out...
While roughing, revs a bit too high and not high enough federate
Thanks