Making your bushings was genius, such an improvement to the working of the Baldor. They (Baldor) should take note and make improvements to their product with your ideas! A proper engineer and good to see. 🇬🇧
Adam. My Uncle Derwood was a machinist on the USS Lexington CV2. I remember as a young man him telling me that when anything broke on the boat machinists were the ones called because In the Pacific you couldn't just pull into a parts island and get a new one. The Machinist either fixed the broken piece or made a new one. As I watch you and other machinists on this channel I am mesmerized by your ability to at times , pull a rabbit out of your hat, to fix something. Kuddos to all machinists. You are the closest to a magician I have seen. Thank you Uncle.
Thank you Mr. Booth for teaching us the trade. Before following your channel, I literally knew nothing about machining. Now I can, confidently, work on various machines. Thank you very much for sharing your skills. I shall share such skills with future generations. Thank you ever so much.
Ashamed? Those are accessories. Obviously they're not going to put the time and effort into them that a single person can put into a single set. They've got thousands upon thousands to do. I doubt it's any better or worse than anyone else's.
I have to agree. If you pay a premium price, it's not too much to expect premium quality. We're not talking about harbor freight tools, this is baldor. Adam is a lot more tolerant than I would be...
JC ..You obviously don’t know anything about Baldor. They are suppose to be a premium product. And yes, their competition is doing it better, I’ve owned several Palmgrens (Baldors are suppose to be about the same) and have never seen this. They have to build the tooling to manufacture them anyways...why not manufacture them to a higher tolerance? If they can build that high quality of unit, they can surely build the “accessories” to suit the quality. And they aren’t “accessories”. They are required to use the unit. Do you call the wheels on your car accessories?
I would agree, also surprised to see paint on the shaft too. I guess not detrimental to performance, but just makes you wonder about the preparation. Still looks a very nice piece of kit. Tempted myself to find a decent UK sold kit of similar quality to upgrade from 6" polishing wheels
NICK CRAIG well who do you think created the demand for those cheap tools? Not the consumer. The bizarre capitalist system we live in now is no good for anyone except the companies that makes their money on producing crappy stuff, skewing the whole market, creating a demand for shitty stuff and forcing the great manufacturers out of business and decreases consumer knowledge about what is right and should be expected of a product. My two cents.
This video reminded me of the latest from Steve Summers who is poring a new concert floor for his shop. He spent 30 minutes trying to get a 1/16th inch deviation out of his forms. Ya gotta love the machinist's desire for perfection. Love your videos, these two were the best 70 min. of my day! Abbie's editing is spot on! I like the new editing where you talk about what you did, and then watch how you did it. Perfection!
It was 1/32 of an inch at one point... on that section that was in the wrong place and he had to move it anyway. I swear if it wasn't for the squirrel cutaways, I'd be yelling at the screen. I kept chuckling to myself "Never send a machinist to do a contractor's job"
I checked the price on the Baldor grinder and it's not cheap, you would think at that price point the flanges would be square to the bore and run better. I sincerely hope the rest of the grinder is better quality.
I would say the most valuable asset to your shop is your connections. You know so many people and I love that you outsource locally. If you like nails on a chalkboard sound skip to 9:55
A couple of years ago I had to fix my hydraulic leveler pump, same as yours looking at the video. I was lucky to find a used armature as mine was ruined by oil from a seal leak. It did require machining on the lathe and mill to modify the end of the armature to match the old one but wasn't too hard. Lucky the replacement was larger in dia so I could modify to fit. RV's do require nearly constant maintenance when they get a little older.
This is exactly why we follow you ! The commonsense logic of something most of us don't think about . Like , are the flanges actually machined true ? How many times have we blamed the stone or the wire wheel ? Just a few minutes time and they're now running true . Thanks brother , stay healthy .
Everything you have done in this video is absolutely the way to do it.. I am glad I found you, I will certainly be looking for other videos you put out. Thank you for doing these video.
You may want to look into a Brother label making machine. I use mine to mark all my outlets and machines for voltage. You can adjust the size and the font and even frame the label with different art. Not a very expensive machine and it uses a wide variety of tapes and colors.
I second the Brother recommendation. The tapes are durable and easy to removed if needed if you go with the p touch tz tapes as they are all clear laminated over the “ink”.
I am not a machinist, just a handyman. I eliminate the run out in my miter box and wet stone saw blades (both 10") by rotating one of the provided washers at a time until there is no run out. What a wonderful difference. Ron W4BIN
Your 8” wire wheel, you can also get it with nylon or some kind of plastic bristles that work really well for deburring and it doesn’t tear your hand up if you hit it by mistake. The wire always sticks your hand when you touch it...lol. We use them at work.👍👌
Great job on bushings and backing plates. Your right all those wire wheels and grinding wheels bushing are cheap and sloppy. Great stuff Adam. Thank you for sharing.
From the very first second I saw that Baldor running, I knew those flanges were going to end up on the lathe, your OCD was never going to allow those to go past!
We have that same baldor buffer at work and ended up lasering some smaller bushings so we could utilize more of the wheel vs having to replace then when they were only half worn
Wow!, that’s smooth and you can’t tell how fast it’s running. You can balance a wire wheel a little but yours seems ok. Looking for forward to the pillar build or buying it. Thanks for sharing
The motor assembly looks rock solid on that buffer, but I cant believe how bad the runout was on those flanges before you fixed them! good job; but one you shouldn't have had to do.
Thanks Adam I have another smaller type of bench grinder that I need to do this to. Im so sick of it not running true. Man I love that Baldor always wanted one of those big Baldor buffers with long arbor shafts for buffing big stuff and long knives. Maybe someday I want to get a good belt grinder too. I might end up making one.
Yes, fine, as always, amazing information. And I always give a like. But I gave a like this time for when Abbie came out. Because the two of you are adorable together!
Hello Adam, I modified my wire wheel and have 3 of those wheels stacked on one mandrel and now it has awesome performance compared to the original wobbling all over the shop.
I wouldn't say that 12v brush motor is bad, just reading to ground. It's just loaded up with carbon dust . Clean the Armature with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol flush it several times letting it dry each time. Then reface the commutator and etch the mica between each slot. you won't be out much more than a half hr of your time. I've Brought back to life many a Starters that way . Give it a try !
I think machining the angles on the flanges would add to the balance; same for the inside of the flanges. It may be overkill, but the more precise balance supports longevity of the motor bearings.
This is a Baldor grinder. A top of the line "Made in USA" industrial grinder. No Chinesisum here. The US needs to stop resting on our laurels and up our game.
Great video! I have a Baldor 6" buffer in my shop and it has some vibration issues. I am not a machinist but a welder fabricator. This gave me some ideas to solve my issues. Thanks!
I know you shouldn't have to fix your new tool, but we all do it. I mean, even in woodworking, my new plane irons and chisels (no matter the price) don't come flat or sharp. So it is nice to see a way to improve a buffer / small grinder.
Talking about your videos in general. Pretty interesting stuff. I never knew what all was involved. I just dropped the stuff off and picked it up when ready.
WOW I have a buffer setup with pedestal and the vibration is so bad, I can't keep it sitting still when I turn it on. It moves so much that I have to step on the pedestal base to try and hold it stationary and that really doesn't work. So I may have to start from the motor shaft itself and start seeing where the real problem is. Thanks for the video about getting yours running smooth. Thumbs Up!
I converted all the old ballast type flourescent fixtures to 120 volt LED. A very simple wiring mod, toss the ballast out and what a great difference. I think they are better than the leds that go in with the ballast remaing in place. Eric
Lightly use a diamond hone stone to true up the wire wheel. Or lightly apply a file while the Baldor is running to smooth out the highs in the wires. Also using a hand grinder with a cutoff wheel counter rotating against the wire wheel rotation will work to true up the wire wheel
While marking the receptacles is nice if the correct NEMA L15 (250 VAC 3 pole 4 wire 3 phase) and NEMA L16 (480 VAC 3 pole 4 wire 3 phase) plugs and receptacles are used then there is nothing to worry about. Also any 480 volt systems should use proper SO cord rated at 600 volts, cheaper SJ cord is only rated to 300 volts.
Adam was fired up about his new toy not behaving like the rest of the tools in the shop... it was great. That company should use his bushing drawing.... That was dope. Good stuff.
Good stuff Adam. That looks like a sweet buffer. Would love to have that in the shop at work, but they would make us guard it up so much it would be unusable. Can't wait for the tour of the Bronco rebuild shop. I'll bet they do some sweet rebuilds there. Great video, stay safe.
hey Adam just enjoying your videos and i noticed how small your shop is getting with all the added tools and machines and remembered you talked about building a larger shop with a overhead crane and that got me to wondering if that's something you still think about doing one of these days ( just wondering ) i know shops don't grow on trees anyway thanks for the great videos God bless you and Mrs booth. HAVE A GOOD ONE !
You should put a rectangle of polished stainless or maybe mirror finished Mylar in the ZTFab cut-outs on the tool holders. I think that would look good.
I ended up making my own bushings and Flanges for bothe my grinders too. Pretty sure the 1 has a bent shaft. What a difference it makes having true flanges. Very cool to see you truing them up.
For the electric outlets, you could also try to color-code them to add an additional level of identification for each voltage. Color-coding is a great way to verify things at a glance. Great video Adam!
@@kevinhewitt1428 Yes, NEMA L14 for single phase 125 or 250 volt, L15 for 3 phase 250 volt and L16 for 3 phase 480 volt. Add a -20 for 20 amp, -30 for 30 amp followed by a P for male cord plug, a C for a female cord connector or an R for a female wall receptacle.
I should check my Baldor 3/4 hp grinder that I bought 25 years ago I guess as it has always had some vibration issues...I have no excuse as I have everything I need to do it... Cheers; Mike in Louisiana
@@Abom79 I bought that grinder a good 25 years ago at Oliver H. Van Horn in Baton Rouge and it has aluminum backups...The machine had the lighted eye shields on it but they finally rattled to pieces so I took them off .. I may take it apart and do exactly what you did .. My machine is 3450 rpm though.. Mike in Louisiana
Great job on those bushings and getting that Baldor running true! My little grinder is a little vibratory, I bought some machine bearings to add and mount my wheels, helped but I need more. Oh, to have a lathe! ZTFab are nice units. Powder coating is so nice compared to paint. Good to label your stuff, but I doubt you'd mess up and plug the wrong one in. I love me some EsAndEs Saturdays!
That was an awful lot of wobble in that aluminum flange @ 10:30 no? Also, pretty slick how they masked off the ZTFab logos so they weren't sprayed over. Wonder how they did that?
Hi Adam, This was yet another good video :-) I'm not sure how you dress your Scotch-Brite wheels and I'm sure you already have a good way to do that but I thought I'd share the way I dress mine. I use an old brazed carbide lathe turning tool and so far it has worked well for me, I usually use a piece of wood setting on the bench just under the wheel to rest my hand on while firmly holding the brazed turning tool, then I slowly move the lathe tool across the Scoth-Brite wheel till it runs true (with a face shield on of course). In some cases I shape the face of the wheel to match the shape of a part that I'm polishing, yeah it shortens the life of the wheel but it's usually worth it. It's a shame that Baldor doesn't have a better source for those aluminum backing washers, not a big deal for people like us with a lathe but i'm sure they sell buffers to people who do not own a lathe. I feel certain that Baldor does not make their own, if they did they would run true right out of the box. Poor design on the arbor spacers too but the buffer itself is top notch!! :-) Stay safe, Adam!! Joe
If you can get some waste ceramic floor tile you can rig it to true-in the wire wheel by grinding off the long side, it'll make quite a bit of dust but using the flat of the foot side of the tiles will do the work. You can take it outside and just trickle water onto the tile to control the dust. I've been using my junk from flooring to keep my stones flat to save on wearing the stones.
Had a grinder on a pedestal. With 2 wire brush wheels it was like a fan. It threw a ton of air around. It also vibrated so much it would vibrate across the floor.
Making your bushings was genius, such an improvement to the working of the Baldor. They (Baldor) should take note and make improvements to their product with your ideas! A proper engineer and good to see. 🇬🇧
Adam. My Uncle Derwood was a machinist on the USS Lexington CV2. I remember as a young man him telling me that when anything broke on the boat machinists were the ones called because In the Pacific you couldn't just pull into a parts island and get a new one. The Machinist either fixed the broken piece or made a new one. As I watch you and other machinists on this channel I am mesmerized by your ability to at times , pull a rabbit out of your hat, to fix something. Kuddos to all machinists. You are the closest to a magician I have seen. Thank you Uncle.
Thank you Mr. Booth for teaching us the trade.
Before following your channel, I literally knew nothing about machining. Now I can, confidently, work on various machines.
Thank you very much for sharing your skills.
I shall share such skills with future generations.
Thank you ever so much.
It really is so nice to see someone who actually knows what he's doing. IT IS A PLEASURE TO WATCH
Adam is teaching nearly half a million people valuable lessons in not only machining, but life in general. Thanks for all your hard work Adam!
Just not in proper electrical connections
@@eqrunner I'd say hes doing pretty well to find people who know what they're doing when he doesn't
Gettin' all that centered will contribute fantastically to the lifespan of the motors internal bearings. Great great work Adam!!
You should send this video to Baldor's quality control department. Not that it matters, they already cashed your check.
Baldor should really be ashamed at putting out products of that quality. Great fix.. really night and day from how it came out of the box
Ashamed? Those are accessories. Obviously they're not going to put the time and effort into them that a single person can put into a single set. They've got thousands upon thousands to do.
I doubt it's any better or worse than anyone else's.
I have to agree. If you pay a premium price, it's not too much to expect premium quality. We're not talking about harbor freight tools, this is baldor. Adam is a lot more tolerant than I would be...
JC ..You obviously don’t know anything about Baldor. They are suppose to be a premium product. And yes, their competition is doing it better, I’ve owned several Palmgrens (Baldors are suppose to be about the same) and have never seen this. They have to build the tooling to manufacture them anyways...why not manufacture them to a higher tolerance? If they can build that high quality of unit, they can surely build the “accessories” to suit the quality. And they aren’t “accessories”. They are required to use the unit. Do you call the wheels on your car accessories?
I would agree, also surprised to see paint on the shaft too. I guess not detrimental to performance, but just makes you wonder about the preparation. Still looks a very nice piece of kit. Tempted myself to find a decent UK sold kit of similar quality to upgrade from 6" polishing wheels
NICK CRAIG well who do you think created the demand for those cheap tools? Not the consumer. The bizarre capitalist system we live in now is no good for anyone except the companies that makes their money on producing crappy stuff, skewing the whole market, creating a demand for shitty stuff and forcing the great manufacturers out of business and decreases consumer knowledge about what is right and should be expected of a product. My two cents.
Those Baldor improvements will absolutely extend the life of the machine and produce better results. Nice work
It's sad that it takes this much EXTRA work by a master machinist to make it a quality tool.
This video reminded me of the latest from Steve Summers who is poring a new concert floor for his shop. He spent 30 minutes trying to get a 1/16th inch deviation out of his forms. Ya gotta love the machinist's desire for perfection. Love your videos, these two were the best 70 min. of my day! Abbie's editing is spot on! I like the new editing where you talk about what you did, and then watch how you did it. Perfection!
It was 1/32 of an inch at one point... on that section that was in the wrong place and he had to move it anyway. I swear if it wasn't for the squirrel cutaways, I'd be yelling at the screen. I kept chuckling to myself "Never send a machinist to do a contractor's job"
Every good shop needs a concert floor.
I checked the price on the Baldor grinder and it's not cheap, you would think at that price point the flanges would be square to the bore and run better. I sincerely hope the rest of the grinder is better quality.
Thank you Adam I always enjoy watching your videos I am from South Africa
I would say the most valuable asset to your shop is your connections. You know so many people and I love that you outsource locally. If you like nails on a chalkboard sound skip to 9:55
Everything was awesome, including the sky at the powder coat shop.
I am a bit taken aback at Baldor, excellent quality motor and Chines factory thirds for the bushings and backing plates. We need to get this fixed.
A couple of years ago I had to fix my hydraulic leveler pump, same as yours looking at the video. I was lucky to find a used armature as mine was ruined by oil from a seal leak. It did require machining on the lathe and mill to modify the end of the armature to match the old one but wasn't too hard. Lucky the replacement was larger in dia so I could modify to fit. RV's do require nearly constant maintenance when they get a little older.
This is exactly why we follow you ! The commonsense logic of something most of us don't think about . Like , are the flanges actually machined true ? How many times have we blamed the stone or the wire wheel ? Just a few minutes time and they're now running true . Thanks brother , stay healthy .
Nice job on those arbor bushings & that powder coating is killer!
When you turned the buffer on at 19:58, it was nothing short of magic.
Everything you have done in this video is absolutely the way to do it.. I am glad I found you, I will certainly be looking for other videos you put out. Thank you for doing these video.
To be able to have the tools to be able to make things, to make your life easier or better: Priceless.
You may want to look into a Brother label making machine. I use mine to mark all my outlets and machines for voltage. You can adjust the size and the font and even frame the label with different art. Not a very expensive machine and it uses a wide variety of tapes and colors.
I second the Brother recommendation. The tapes are durable and easy to removed if needed if you go with the p touch tz tapes as they are all clear laminated over the “ink”.
Big Clive has one and raves about it.
You really improved that rotation big time....those bearings will thank you
The powder coating on the racks turned out awesome Adam! I'm proud to have my products in your shop!!
ZTFab racks like that would also be perfect for hanging our CNC lathe spindle liners.
Dayum! I thought those arbor racks looked nice in bare metal, but that powder coating is awesome.
I am not a machinist, just a handyman. I eliminate the run out in my miter box and wet stone saw blades (both 10") by rotating one of the provided washers at a time until there is no run out. What a wonderful difference. Ron W4BIN
Fantastic work truing those wheels! Very satisfying to watch.
Your 8” wire wheel, you can also get it with nylon or some kind of plastic bristles that work really well for deburring
and it doesn’t tear your hand up if you hit it by mistake. The wire always sticks your hand when you touch it...lol. We use them at work.👍👌
Adam great video ..Baldor should pay you for fixing their lousy machining great job you did to repair their equipment........
I look forward every week for the SNS episode. Always good.
Great job on bushings and backing plates. Your right all those wire wheels and grinding wheels bushing are cheap and sloppy. Great stuff Adam. Thank you for sharing.
From the very first second I saw that Baldor running, I knew those flanges were going to end up on the lathe, your OCD was never going to allow those to go past!
I loved the minute taken at 10:30/35:11 to marvel at how out of true that flange was! I could just hear the 'WTF' in your head at that moment 😂
Those arbor brackets are beautiful after powder coat those are freaking awsome
We have that same baldor buffer at work and ended up lasering some smaller bushings so we could utilize more of the wheel vs having to replace then when they were only half worn
Wow!, that’s smooth and you can’t tell how fast it’s running. You can balance a wire wheel a little but yours seems ok. Looking for forward to the pillar build or buying it. Thanks for sharing
Good to see the big show still enjoying his hobbies after all these years
Nice work Adam, and Hi to Abby too. It's a shame but we do sometimes have to finish tools that went out on a friday afternoon...
The motor assembly looks rock solid on that buffer, but I cant believe how bad the runout was on those flanges before you fixed them! good job; but one you shouldn't have had to do.
Thanks Adam I have another smaller type of bench grinder that I need to do this to. Im so sick of it not running true. Man I love that Baldor always wanted one of those big Baldor buffers with long arbor shafts for buffing big stuff and long knives. Maybe someday I want to get a good belt grinder too. I might end up making one.
The pride of people shows a lot about a person
Baldor might have mighty fine electric motors but their accessories leave a lot to be desired.
Always enjoy your content Adam, keep them coming .
The older your eyes get the more you appreciate LIGHT.
The only way those flanges could be any more crooked would be if a politician made them.
Yes, fine, as always, amazing information. And I always give a like. But I gave a like this time for when Abbie came out. Because the two of you are adorable together!
Awesome work with the buffer man, thanks for sharing! I'm definitely going to put some of those fixes on ours too
Thank you - really good stuff! It was to see Abby too.
I love those arbor racks! I have some 50 taper arbors laying in a big file Cabinet that needs to hang in those!
Hello Adam, I modified my wire wheel and have 3 of those wheels stacked on one mandrel and now it has awesome performance compared to the original wobbling all over the shop.
I wouldn't say that 12v brush motor is bad, just reading to ground. It's just loaded up with carbon dust . Clean the Armature with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol flush it several times letting it dry each time. Then reface the commutator and etch the mica between each slot. you won't be out much more than a half hr of your time. I've Brought back to life many a Starters that way . Give it a try !
so, if you want a Baldore, just buy a lathe first...
I think machining the angles on the flanges would add to the balance; same for the inside of the flanges. It may be overkill, but the more precise balance supports longevity of the motor bearings.
Those flanges sure are a quality "made in USA" product. At times the US needs to up our manufacturing game.
Robert Harker They are more than likely made in China. USA stuff is usually top notch.
This is a Baldor grinder. A top of the line "Made in USA" industrial grinder. No Chinesisum here. The US needs to stop resting on our laurels and up our game.
I don’t know if Baldor makes the flanges or if they have those parts imported. I agree they should be made to better standards.
Loved seeing the wheel balancing and improvements to purchased wheel flanges.
Man you scared the crap out of me, thought for a second you started the lathe with a parallel in between the 3 jaws..... ty for the video!
It used to be when you bought (invested in) a tool like a Baldor grinder, you would use that to fix other, lesser tools, looks like them days is over.
Good job Adam, really made that grinder smooth running. Thanks for sharing with us so we have an idea to repair our own. Fred.
Two videos in one day? Awesome
Great video! I have a Baldor 6" buffer in my shop and it has some vibration issues. I am not a machinist but a welder fabricator. This gave me some ideas to solve my issues. Thanks!
I know you shouldn't have to fix your new tool, but we all do it. I mean, even in woodworking, my new plane irons and chisels (no matter the price) don't come flat or sharp. So it is nice to see a way to improve a buffer / small grinder.
Talking about your videos in general. Pretty interesting stuff. I never knew what all was involved. I just dropped the stuff off and picked it up when ready.
WOW I have a buffer setup with pedestal and the vibration is so bad, I can't keep it sitting still when I turn it on. It moves so much that I have to step on the pedestal base to try and hold it stationary and that really doesn't work. So I may have to start from the motor shaft itself and start seeing where the real problem is. Thanks for the video about getting yours running smooth. Thumbs Up!
Mine does the same
Y’all check everything out. Most likely the wheels not running true and straight
Nice mod and choice of materials for the bushings. It will extend the life of the bearings for sure.
I converted all the old ballast type flourescent fixtures to 120 volt LED. A very simple wiring mod, toss the ballast out and what a great difference. I think they are better than the leds that go in with the ballast remaing in place.
Eric
Lightly use a diamond hone stone to true up the wire wheel. Or lightly apply a file
while the Baldor is running to smooth out the highs in the wires. Also using a hand
grinder with a cutoff wheel counter rotating against the wire wheel rotation will work to
true up the wire wheel
While marking the receptacles is nice if the correct NEMA L15 (250 VAC 3 pole 4 wire 3 phase) and NEMA L16 (480 VAC 3 pole 4 wire 3 phase) plugs and receptacles are used then there is nothing to worry about. Also any 480 volt systems should use proper SO cord rated at 600 volts, cheaper SJ cord is only rated to 300 volts.
Was going to comment the same thing, to many people go to home depot and lowes and just grab a receptacle and plug that match and call it good!
I don't think Adam has 3 phase 250. Isn't he using 125/250 single phase?
@@DaveDablave Adam has 240 volt 3 phase from his local power company
@@DaveDablave he obviously has 480
no one you know here
Thats what the transformer is for.
Adam was fired up about his new toy not behaving like the rest of the tools in the shop... it was great. That company should use his bushing drawing.... That was dope. Good stuff.
Good stuff Adam. That looks like a sweet buffer. Would love to have that in the shop at work, but they would make us guard it up so much it would be unusable. Can't wait for the tour of the Bronco rebuild shop. I'll bet they do some sweet rebuilds there. Great video, stay safe.
Awesome powder coating! They look amazing!
Maybe Baldor needs to sub out the fit and finish of their flanges and bushings? A bread and butter opportunity for you?
I was thinking that's probably already Baldor's problem, they sub out those parts from a bad supplier!
hey Adam just enjoying your videos and i noticed how small your shop is getting with all the added tools and machines and remembered you talked about building a larger shop with a overhead crane and that got me to wondering if that's something you still think about doing one of these days ( just wondering ) i know shops don't grow on trees anyway thanks for the great videos God bless you and Mrs booth. HAVE A GOOD ONE !
I got a new Machine, now lets fix it True. Love You Abom79
your shops so cool ! Thanks Abom
You should put a rectangle of polished stainless or maybe mirror finished Mylar in the ZTFab cut-outs on the tool holders. I think that would look good.
I ended up making my own bushings and Flanges for bothe my grinders too. Pretty sure the 1 has a bent shaft. What a difference it makes having true flanges. Very cool to see you truing them up.
Maybe you should send Baldor this video, those shouldn't be that bad. Looking forward to seeing how you fix that motor for the hyd pump. Cheers :)
What a difference. Wish you a great week
You can mill HHS with carbide multi flute. But it’s nice to have friends with grinders.
For the electric outlets, you could also try to color-code them to add an additional level of identification for each voltage. Color-coding is a great way to verify things at a glance. Great video Adam!
Spraying the cover plate and plug body the same color by voltage world be great
Proper receptacles and cord ends do it all. They don't fit where they shouldn't.
@@kevinhewitt1428 Yes, NEMA L14 for single phase 125 or 250 volt, L15 for 3 phase 250 volt and L16 for 3 phase 480 volt. Add a -20 for 20 amp, -30 for 30 amp followed by a P for male cord plug, a C for a female cord connector or an R for a female wall receptacle.
The center of NEMA receptacles are already color coded.
The powder coating finish looks like ancient iron: seriously rad!
was waiting for the sirens. was not disappointed.
I enjoy all of your videos 👍
Since you reorganised your shop. it looks so clean and efficient.
I can't wait for you to be able to stream live. Great SNS Adam!
It’s coming, just been to loaded up with jobs lately.
@@Abom79 I know Adam, I just keep seeing all the fun ways it will increase your content. P.S. are you planning to announce it?
I’d love to see the shop tour of Velocity Adam.
Man the runout on those Baldor flanges is truly embarrassing.
I should check my Baldor 3/4 hp grinder that I bought 25 years ago I guess as it has always had some vibration issues...I have no excuse as I have everything I need to do it... Cheers; Mike in Louisiana
I’d love to know if the vintage grinder have machined backups vs my cast ones.
@@Abom79 I bought that grinder a good 25 years ago at Oliver H. Van Horn in Baton Rouge and it has aluminum backups...The machine had the lighted eye shields on it but they finally rattled to pieces so I took them off .. I may take it apart and do exactly what you did .. My machine is 3450 rpm though.. Mike in Louisiana
Great job on those bushings and getting that Baldor running true! My little grinder is a little vibratory, I bought some machine bearings to add and mount my wheels, helped but I need more. Oh, to have a lathe! ZTFab are nice units. Powder coating is so nice compared to paint. Good to label your stuff, but I doubt you'd mess up and plug the wrong one in. I love me some EsAndEs Saturdays!
Yeah, that one flange had a "little" runout. Can you do some more shop talk videos? I really enjoyed those.
That was an awful lot of wobble in that aluminum flange @ 10:30 no? Also, pretty slick how they masked off the ZTFab logos so they weren't sprayed over. Wonder how they did that?
That was the point, the flanges were horribly manufactured items.
they are holes not labels
Hi Adam,
This was yet another good video :-)
I'm not sure how you dress your Scotch-Brite wheels and I'm sure you already have a good way to do that but I thought I'd share the way I dress mine.
I use an old brazed carbide lathe turning tool and so far it has worked well for me, I usually use a piece of wood setting on the bench just under the wheel to rest my hand on while firmly holding the brazed turning tool, then I slowly move the lathe tool across the Scoth-Brite wheel till it runs true (with a face shield on of course).
In some cases I shape the face of the wheel to match the shape of a part that I'm polishing, yeah it shortens the life of the wheel but it's usually worth it.
It's a shame that Baldor doesn't have a better source for those aluminum backing washers, not a big deal for people like us with a lathe but i'm sure they sell buffers to people who do not own a lathe.
I feel certain that Baldor does not make their own, if they did they would run true right out of the box.
Poor design on the arbor spacers too but the buffer itself is top notch!! :-)
Stay safe, Adam!!
Joe
Fernando is doing a great job on the electrical , HVAC guys are great electricians .
Those are some nice looking Broncos there!
If you can get some waste ceramic floor tile you can rig it to true-in the wire wheel by grinding off the long side, it'll make quite a bit of dust but using the flat of the foot side of the tiles will do the work. You can take it outside and just trickle water onto the tile to control the dust. I've been using my junk from flooring to keep my stones flat to save on wearing the stones.
Very very nice powder coating!
Had a grinder on a pedestal. With 2 wire brush wheels it was like a fan. It threw a ton of air around. It also vibrated so much it would vibrate across the floor.
On that pool ladder bolt removal, man, I KNOW you've got a heart of gold but I hope you charged him what it was worth, bro'. Great video again.
Those Scouts were badass!
K Fenner had to adjust the flanges, bushings, and nuts for his new grinder motor as well.