Lance & Patrick, No worries on the long videos. I enjoy every minute you guys produce. As for the military packaging, there are several reasons for the methods they require. One, and the primary reason is for corrosion prevention. You were right about that. The US Military has units in virtually every climate in the world at any given time and each part they order passes through many environment changes before it reaches its destination so secure packaging is absolutely vital to ensure optimum condition. I knew the final covering would be cosmoline. Everything metal gets slathered in the stuff for preservation. Hint: Lacquer thinner works best for removing it. It will take a good wash before you get it all out of the bearings. Another reason has to do with inventory standards in the military. Package identification, dates, supply shelving and storage; everything has a designation to identify it. Every number, letter or mark means something for its path through the military system. Additionally, the over the top packaging is to insure against damage during shipment and delivery to its destination. Consider the fact that most of the supplies and material we received in a combat zone in Vietnam came via sling nets and drop released from helicopters which often could never land due to heavy fire. We called that a Hot LZ. Even under peaceful conditions the people that move shipping containers in the military are not usually too concerned with careful movement and sometimes conditions are not the best. I remember requesting wheel bearings for my Jeep and was presented with eight cans by the supply sergeant similar to, though larger, than the tins your bearings were packaged in. It seems ridiculous but it’s necessary. Consider the fact that I received my wheel bearings at a remote outpost where the dust on the road in front of supply was 14 inches deep during the dry season and a river of mud during monsoon season. Soft packaging would have rendered those bearings unusable under those conditions. Even PX items such as potato chips, nuts and cookies were packaged metal tins. All beverages such as soda and beer were packaged in steel cans not aluminum with no pop tops. Everyone had a can opener on their key ring.
Hello Dale Griggs, you got it the heart and the pinned comment to the top of the page. We do not take either of these TH-cam functions lightly. You get the heart for serving your country and being a mechanical person, then you got our Pinned to the top of the page because your answer if the best example, maybe better then we could have hoped for, you not only know the reasons for the Government identification and packaging but you actually utilized it as well while serving, that makes you this person for this weeks video, thank you for being here and for being our friend, Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Beautiful machine and really nice work. I had no idea there were any quality collets that small, but it makes sense. Watchmaking machinery is a whole other world.
Yes we too realized Dudley Toolwright (what is your actual name) in the Simi Valley that many machinist were very unaware of the pin point accuracy we must hold and how our collets many so small they appear to be blank like they have no hole in them actually do. Hearing you share this comment about our collet sharing tells us that we need to share in more detail these little things we just take for granted. Inside track for our fellow TH-cam creator, we are stepping outside of the home converted into a full machine shop watch this nights video likely Tuesday since you and us both live in California we share why we have some things and show some expansion but some things we cannot share as we do not see them safely clear going forward just yet time will have to be our guide here and the hard work it is going to take as well. We are both so happy you are here. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Talk about asleep at the switch, I missed chapter 22 all together! I'm thinking that I set it aside to watch at dinner time and totally forgot about it. You don't EVER have to apologize for being clear, concise, informative and most of all entertaining. Take as much time as you need to do your 'thang!' Can't wait until it is all up and running and you can change your channel name to "Mini Abom80!"
Hi Peter Hann thank you, Patrick will enjoy learning that while the video got long and while it exposed the need to us for Educational pullouts in addition to our regular weekly Shop Adventure videos it is really nice that you and some others see value to taking the time needed to be sure what we share is of value now and for the coming generations behind us all. LOL mini ABOM Adam is a good man, Patrick has tracked him since before TH-cam, from the machinist forums. He is onto a venture to learn what building your own business can be like, his dad did before him if we recall right here so we these two desert dwellers hold out a great warm and loving thought for him to meet his goals and expectations Peter. Thank you for sharing your liking our extended content on important to us topics. Lance for Lance & Patrick. "Mini Abom80! signing off.
Hi Colin McGlade, thank you for checking us out this week, hope you are happy with what we share and we see you next week. Have a great week and get out and make something today that you can share in the future with others by saying, hey you know what I built or made that. Lance & Patrick.
Hello hopper1 your fellow TH-cam creator bud Lance here. If a viewer is interested in some information about what makes something mechanical tic hopper1 is taking apart a brake disc caliper NO NOT YOUR GRAMA'S CAR caliper I mean the caliper of a full blown semi-truck and let me just share this thing is so giant the mans hand and arm looks like that of a child furthermore this things even have a chain and two sprockets going on here. hopper1 is a great guy and we are likely to be doing a collaboration to frame or first product because is is really good with wood.
Hi John Bare thank you for watching us, these two guys having a great time trying to get things done yet sharing in a fun and we are hoping inclusive way how we do this or fix that. Lance & Patrick.
Good to see Patrick out front. Your videos are so interesting we watch every detail. You need a SMOOTH EDGE CAN OPENER, it cuts through the side of the rim and allows you to reclose the can. Sweet finds on the bearings and the drawbar/sleeve. Loose spindles are a Harbor Freight specialty. LOL I found several micro drills in one of my purchases. Email me your address and I'll send them to you. I have already considered where my machine tools will go after I am gone. Great video.
Hello my fellow TH-cam creator and GREAT MAN Vernon, really it is so nice to have Patrick join me up front, hoping now I am not on my way out, maybe being replaced by A-T-O-M or something. I do not know of this can opener (looked them up) will buy one makes great sense totally unaware of this Vernon. We always need drills those little guys last seconds and they despite the perception are not cheap just because they are small. Email me here info@activeatom.com (if you do not mind) I will send back our mailing address and hey thank you Vernon. Your friends Lance for Lance & Patrick. We are glad you like us have a plan for your tools and machines after we are all gone, it is tough but this is life, H.F. weeble wabble spindles LOL.
Hi back at you from the vast ever expansive California USA desert near the entrance of the Joshua Tree National Park a popular summer months visited place by German tourists we enjoy the visitors up here in the high-desert. Do not be envious of that drill press though for being as old as it is it does drill one perfect hole after another in part because it now has those new oilite or oil impregnated bronze bearings we machined and installed. Thank you for liking our German Machine Green powder coating it will last another 100 plus years to be assured. We are happy to have yo here and thank you for stopping in and sharing this really nice comment of very kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Hi friend of the mini world, this is actually Lance writing to you, you see we know you are new here and we are very thrilled to have you join us. Patrick is not aware of your channel though we are going to discuss it tomorrow just so he knows of your GREAT maker abilities, you see he loves micro mini precision made things, hence your channel. We are very happy you like watchmaker machinery we have well some more machinery and tools most all related to watch and instrument and timing parts making sizes to still share including a G. Boley lathe. So you know we are not machinery re-builders or refurbish guys though we are trained in it. See we are upgrading these machines and tools, so we can being making our product (product not shared yet) it is from a book of pencil sketches we drew while making parts in our shop for the watch movement, timing device and instrument gauge industries i.e. the clients we no longer do outside work major step for us both, we will now finally after near 3 decades of making things and fixing other things for others, begin machining the components for our first in-house designed product hope you can join the two of us while we embark on this fine precision product build code named for now "The Perfected Product". Thank you, Lance & Patrick.
Thank you Justin, we are happy we offer good content in our shows. We hope to have another show out shortly a Monday evening thing around here. Thank you again. Lance & Patrick.
Hi cool car owning friend with a new shop toy. We enjoy your videos, your stories and recently you road trips with your son, we likely thought you were not ever going to get that machine through the doorway but a mans determination and ok an engine hoist and you got her in there amen. Ron, we never wanted to bother you about us having this channel, now that you are here we are really happy as we think you are a great guy showing some unique machinery like the mini band saw and such so please keep it up and thank you for being here spending time watching us do somethings. Patrick and I have been friends since 1975 you know yesterday and such LOL. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Hi Andy, welcome in to shop Adventures you watched an older one we are either getting better or getting worse here you are 50% into our total number of shows you can move forward if you dare and watch like Ship Adventures 40, that is our latest one , or not. Nice to have you by, we are Lance & Patrick we are friends since 1975 and in the watchmaker micro-machining business since may 1993. hope you will find some more fun to watch we are teaching in our own way our skills and knowledge. Lance & Patrick.
Yup Patrick here and Lance made me do it. Haha! Actually it was time to get in front of the camera and participate in the intros with Lance so glad to hear that you liked it. 🙂
@@ActiveAtom lol very much , I do understand about being a caretaker of your equipment. Many of the tools I own are older than my grandfather at least one older than my great grandfather. I hope to make them fully functional and preserve how they used to make parts of this kind of equipment . In another hundred years someone might be interested in this to.
Hi you are in luck not2fast4u2c we are 97% old school ok might be 96% LOL, as we are on a mission to build our museum of vintage watchmaker and micro machining machinery and tools. Thank you for stopping in we are so happy to be friends with Lyle and to have you here, even post a comment to share with us, we went over subscribed to your giant channel looks great, and will watch some videos to learn what you are about, we just both love this community so much. Lance & Patrick.
I like the green on the drillpress! You all have quite the hoard of tooling! Solid rock is awesome and I am sure would have helped if needed. Surprised you all don't have a mini cylindrical grinder.
Hi Brian if you had this drill press in your shop it would get lost under the Monarch Lathe, that lathe is huge and it is going to turn some giant and great parts for your business to be sure. We do have a cylindrical grinder no it is true we really do, let us not get carried away with these visions of giant grandeur, it is on the micro scale we have a Levin lathe bed live tooling grinding head so we can grind between centers to really tight tolerances. However the 8mm draw bar would have been ok to do longer and larger in diameter to what we are comfortable try to like watch movement parts (we know too small for Brian LOL maybe Bailey oked first) and such sizes so that is why we nearly went out after machining a new one to Solid Rock Steve and the family to help us.
The little micro drill press came out great. Love the belt drive systems, much classier than a modern head mounted motor and no bulky head assembly. Thanks for showing the bearings in a spam can. Military knows how to package things to last. There's some interesting reads about the New Departure Bearing Co. on the web. My Bridgeport came with mostly New Departure and Norma bearings. Cool stuff.... Keep'um coming.
Thank you for stopping in to share a chat The Ayr Cave Shop. I was calling the New Departure because we got in some of those so until I opened the can live in real time and realized it was a Norma makes sense. We see you like these bearings as well as they arrived in your Bridgeport Mill a knee mill we have one on the list as ewe expand into larger parts making as well as doing what we currently are. Thank you for sharing with us. We love our micro drill as it is now joining the micro tapping machine both are a part of something bigger that is coming up. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Lifes Journey thank you for the j=kind words of encouragement to us we are really to tell you some truth we thought only few friend in the watchmaker world we know and family would be our audience turns out we have people like you fellow TH-cam creators and really nice ones that share well together, we both thank you and hey Patrick says stay warm. Lance & Patrick.
Great stuff and a lovely old drill press. Also thanks for the stickers, they've arrived already and they're very nice, I'll be sure to give you a shout out in the next watch video.
Hi Mike great to learn of these stickers arriving to you and safely. That drill rebuilding video is one of our favorites, that machine is well really old, all that being shared we must remain to be truthful, it is spot on accurate and we can use it here however not known to our viewers as of yet, is we have and rebuilt it recently a spindle in our Levin & Son Micro Drill Press that does most of our mill style drill work here. We love that classic older quill type micro drill from Germany a lot it looks so nice in it sot in the Workshop. Thank you for being here with us glad we make videos you are enjoying. Lance & Patrick.
Enjoyed the video. It's great the way you have a detailed running commentary of what you are doing and why. Keep up the good work and sharing these videos.
Thank you Roy, this is Lance for Lance & Patrick we love what we do and we love now having a way to share and get into this interaction. We appreciate you being here and hope to bring you even more detailed content in the near future.
Great video guys! Enjoyed the NOS bearing. I actually took a class in the Army for promotion points about all the different classes and types of packaging used for parts. Awesome that the bearing was perfectly preserved!
Hi Burton's Attic (a great you tube channel and fellow TH-cam Creator named John) The training you got does not go wasted does it, thank you for serving our great country (we love this place, we are so free to do just what we are doing, it is the only one we have ever known). We have to soak out the Cosmoline per a recommendation from Dale below and then reapply the correct greasing methods since these are for a very accurate and critical spindle bearings of the C.E. Marshall Lathe bed milling, drilling and grinding attachment. We are happy you are here and you are our friend John. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Hi Kelly Sampson we are doing our best and we each have much to learn, me Lance more then Patrick perhaps but we will keep making the best videos we can. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
This is Patrick and I'm glad to hear that you didn't mind the long video from last week. We were really expecting a lot of complaints but fortunately we have a lot of great viewers. Thanks!
Hello Reid Eichner, what a great little drill press this machine has turned out to be, thank you for recognizing and commenting on it. We really had no idea about how it would perform, so wow until this was rebuilt we only had a general purpose Delta brand drill press in the Machine Shop area and our Levin Micro Drill press that is our most repression drill press in the shop currently. Thank you for stopping by wondering what we will do this next week. Lance for Lance and Patrick.
Hello fellow TH-cam creator Chuck (our answer is a bit long because this is your first question or comment to us and we are of course thankful you are sharing here) Patrick first has watched Chuck since he began making videos he is a true gentleman to the community. Your answer: I am thinking there is video but a little shot here and one over there so what I would rather share is what we have in the Machine Shop. There are two shops that do only machining currently the Workshop think real clean small micro and the Machine Shop larger new and growing. Before we start though we always have room for a Monarch 10EE and your friends Rose Engine just saying here. LOL. The Machine Shop that is newer to larger machining started that 2 years ago when we pulled our 400 AMP 3 Phase power, started lightly. We have at the moment a support lathe, a not so Precision Mathews 11 swing 27 length and a little table top CNC 4 axis mini TAIG mill (we do SolidWORKS CNC Programming as well, sharing so you know what we are building up to here. We have room for a CNC Lathe and a CNC Mill or two, think German here, an American made bead blaster machine, magnetic parts tumbler, American made titanium anodizing station and an American made air compressor Quincy. The CNC machines are something that we are going to have to earn through this journey of making a micro mini product code named "The Perfected Product" that will begin after the manual machines that make them are completed in refurbishing and rebuilding here. Your friends Lance for Lance and Patrick.
Great stuff guys. It takes what it takes in time. Do we want good or fast (pick one and only one)? Your details are extremely valuable. The collective care and professionalism shows in every video. I enjoy the channel and the interaction you share as a team. Keep going guys! P.S. My wife and kids are on notice that I will haunt them if they scrap my tools when I am gone! Laugh all they want - when Zombies attack we are going to be just fine at my house. _Dan_
Hello Dan thank you for the understanding about our video length at least we learned a lesson or two about the need for Educational pullouts and things. I know when it comes to leaven your tools machines a legacy of things if we must to the next generation there is one single thing Patrick and I have observed. Younger people see money in these tolls and machines, not passion until they are in there later years then they wish they had kept dads old tool box or machine or whatever. We believe If the youth can be deterred for say a decade or two after you or us have departed then they will feel the attachment the actual true value of these fine pieces of history even if that history is confined to within the family nearest us mostly. Your friends, Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Hello William, nice to read your comment with us. We like knowing that we are providing a value to help others maybe even a bit of a guide on some challenges that tend to arise within the workshop of yours, or another viewers workshop in some small way. The two of us are having the time of our lives sharing what it is we are already doing each and every day, the only difference is there are cameras everywhere now capturing the workweek as we continue along on our journey to begin making our to be announced, product. Thank you for being here, sharing your kind words with us, we like reading what it is we are providing. Lance & Patrick.
G’day Lance and Patrick, I liked that little Marshal milling attachment, it was beautiful. Those bearings sealed in a lunch paste can is different, no wonder military supplies are expensive, I wonder if they do the same today. Good old cutoff disc to cut the spacer, not much out there that will stop. Good video, cheers, Peter
We are so saddened over your broken gear we are equally happy however you are going to be able to fixit, never had a doubt about that. The milling, grinding, drilling attachment is so neat and as we share one of only two ever seen by us two anyways in 30 years so we cannot wait to share it working in action again. Yes Patrick used that cut off wheel smelled up the whole shop for a bit but nothing can stand in the way of these two trouble makers on their journey Peter. The cans, US Government sealed cans were so great and to get to open one see what is inside and then share it with you all, never could have seen that when it was packaged in 1967 to say the least Peter. Clean the Cosmoline out and re grease cautiously those bearings and we are going to be great going forward. Your machine is going to machine a new gear it is really amazing to watch your channel Peter.
The Norma-Hoffman Bearing Co. was located in Stamford CT. I think they were absorbed by the Schaffler Group of Germany sometime in the 1970's. That's a sweet drill press. Congratulations on a job well done.
Hello MrShobar we missed a comment form you and it came to our attention right now. Sorry for this we love comments and we really enjoy replying to them as well. That green German micro drill press is still doing really well we need to get to using it more often now that it is restored and placed back into our arsenal of tools here to work from. Thank you for being here with us, Lance & Patrick.
Love the new intro with the two of you, It’s very welcoming. Great idea. I also very much enjoyed the opening of that 51 year old tin with the bearing inside so nicely wrapped. What a treat, I’m so glad you got that on film.
Hello to our VIP buddy Joel. Joel is a childhood friend of Patrick's they grew up together and attended the same schools and such here in Southern California. The Bearing un-canning well, we thought enough to stop sharing how Patrick is behind the camera that had to go Joel. We really did open up that can on camera though I must share it is tough you receive something (dying to open it) and then you know you cannot open it until you are filming for the shop. Joel we are both very proud to have you watching, learning, laughing (we hope) and sharing your thoughts with us an other here, it means a lot to the two of us Patrick more so because you two date back to Stonehenge LOL. Your loving friends, Lance and Patrick.
Hello Paddy, well said in deed, I mean you are already tuned in to our channel when you get here, so what would be the use in changing the channel if the show runs a bit long in the tooth, like most of my comment replies clearly do. Thank you for those good words of acceptance, we really never know what people, are going to feel, see, say or do, so again thank you Paddy. Lance & Patrick.
Hey Joe we were hoping you got to watch the video with the micro drill press she two is from Germany however we have not yet identified the maker it is really old and it is what we call a full rebuild for that machine because it was power coated unable to save the original paint it was too far gone. The reason we wanted you to see the drill press because it is the drill press that drilled the 0.8mm diameter hole that we tapping in the German tapping machine to 1.0mm. Joe it is really small work we do here and we both glad you are enjoying. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Lance & Patrick, Thank you, I am honored to be pinned today on your channel and also “Hearted” for my military service. It was indeed an honor to serve our Great Country. I had intended to make a career of military service but injuries resulted in a medical discharge before I really even got started. No regrets though as I’ve had a great life with many opportunities and am now enjoying my retirement doing things I enjoy.
We are happy to have you here with us because we live in a military base support town to the worlds largest Marine base Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Military packing really impressed me. Congrats on the project is done! Have question, maybe you already mentioned it... but how many maximum RPM the drill press gives?
Hi our friends your micro drill press question is a GREAT one because we did not thick to mention it, we use a two step pulley on the motor shaft, it is a one to one and a two to one as the one to one matches the spindle pulley. The RPM is as follows for this little might mouse the 1 to 1 is 1750 RPM and the 2 to 1 is then 3500 RPM. Patrick says great question and we hope this answer shares a great understanding about this little drill press. Your friends in the states Lance & Patrick.
Hello Mr Carpathian you are a very good person smart and with vast knowledge one we are thankful is here enjoying our show Shop Adventures. Here is what the collets do in our view, we do have ER collets but they are used i our in-house built TAIG CNC table top Milling machine. This is Lance and in my aerospace job shop past we too utilized larger ER collets in 45 taper and 50 taper collet holders for gripping smaller mils, drills, reamers and such. ER collets were originally designed as a tool holder since 1973 by Rego-Fix as tool holder so they are more for holding standard shank diameters sizes like boring bars, cutters, drills, reamers, center drills and such, and the secret to an accurate ER collet in or experience is the way they derive at the minimum and maximum tolerance so an example would be you have a 2.0 mm ER collet, it holds its best tolerance at 2.0 mm in the natural spring-less state, once you expand the collet or shrink tighten the collet the tolerances that are factory claimed greatly diminish through deformation of the spring steel. The sizes of the precision collets we use are more for holding the raw stock in the machines not the tools, so more sizes are highly available and these are more costly having to buy far more as well because you cannot expand or contract the openings in our collet types like you can with an ER collet type. The sizes available for each are drastically different meaning, say for this example, we use 5C, 3C, D, WW and 6mm, in the Machine Shop and the Workshop at Active Atom. These come in incremental sizes in every .1mm size. Thank you for writing to us about this collet question and we hope the answer is satisfactory. Patrick & Lance
Active Atom Thank you Lance for your informative and helpful reply. I now understand the difference between the types of collets that you and Patrick use and why.
Noticed in several of the videos that you've got what appears to be a Proxxon Bench Grinder in the background... As the happy user of a Proxxon Lathe, Mill & other accessories, I'd been considering getting that very same Grinder... ...curious to know what you're mostly using it for & whether you consider it as a worthwhile purchase? regards Colin
Hi Colin Creed Tattoo Machines thank you for being here (sorry I am late to answer) to share in this journey of two childhood friends one with a single tattoo and one without one yet for now here. Proxxon is trusted here, we have a few of these grinder units around the shop, even one in the electronics shop, we use them for everything you would use a Dremel for and more. We have the power shafts and many accessories to do fine grinding on metals, plastics, Phenolic, cleaning micro threads, polishing some surfaces and we even have the Proxxon mini belt sander well we are a micro machining operation so small is a GREAT thing here. Thank you for your great question Tattoo Machines are neat tools. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
You guys have me very interested in finding a drill press like that. I have been looking and not found one yet. That loops looks like an interesting alternative to my Optiviser.
Hi Robert, oh we love that drill pres and in fact we also have a similar tapping machine like that one. Both are from Germany and hey here s something I cannot recall sharing from within the Shop Adventure shows about that micro-drill press. The head goes up and down, generally even the ones we see that are those forged column types the table is spring loaded making its way upward towards the spinning stationary drill spindle. Robert we thank you for watching our shows and for enjoying the conversations via these comments, it means quite a bit to us both. Lance & Patrick.
Hi guys, please excuse my ignorance but can you tell me what that gray tray looking device is with the T-slot insert on top? It is most visible at about 38 min into the video on your right side of the drill press. Thanks
Hi Kip you are not a bad guy, your question is like all questions in our opinion, a GREAT one to us and we are happy you asked it. This is Lance from Lance & Patrick at Active Atom. That "T" slotted bed is for a Levin Lathe a company still in business here in the Los Angeles, California area, and while they still make this 18" inch lathe bed called an instrument lathe length and style lathe bed in the video (thank you for sharing the 38 minutes in to help us share this with you) the chip tray it is mounted to is no longer made or sold and are often sought after by Levin & Son 18" inch lathe bed owners. The reason we mention the specific length of 18" inches is due to the fact the company makes a shorter 13" bed length (not a watchmaker lathe either) and while the company got its start from making watchmaker tools single leg lathes for optics, aviation gauges and watchmakers in 1917 forward. The Levin bed and the chip tray as well as the lathe headstock (not in that video shot) are all made of a grey iron material to a very high stander of casting named Meehanite process and certification ne of the most stable iron casting methods known today. Kip we are both happy to have you here with us and look forward to hearing from you in the future as we are beginning to make new videos (after just over 1 year away) as we have been busy working on a lot of items preparing to start making our first company made product after nearly 30 years (since 1993) of doing work for others. Lance & Patrick.
thanks for the video it was very interesting as per usual, maybe you should think about putting a knob on the drill handle just for peace of mind. thanks once again
Hi Richard Shephard. We are really glad you are enjoying the videos and commenting. We love to (never thought we would be saying this) make these videos, adding new video features and such every two to three weeks to keep the channel and the videos as interesting as we can. We are not video film editors not even picture takers up until well, until this all happened now after doing what we do here researching, reviewing, reading, watching, buying, trying and practicing we are making videos even taking still images for our Instagram page as we learn all of this and that about social media stuff. The handle of the micro drill press is shorter then that video would have you and I believing, it is really shot and it is within the 12.00 inch x by 18.00 inch mounted cutting block dimensions not even enough room for a Styrofoam cap with a hole in it on the end. Thank you Richard for being here and sharing with us and the others. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Patrick, where did you find the Boley drawbar? One off or something that there are multiples of? When I moved away from Dallas I lost the drawbar for my Boley F1. I have a replacement that works, but I'm not best pleased with it.
Hi Adam, Patrick here. I'll get the details for you in the morning including price. It is a really nice quality drawbar so I think you will be very happy with it.
Hi Adam, Patrick here again. Sorry for the delay, I tried to contact the seller today to get more details but no response. But I can tell you that the seller only had 2 of these drawbars but I actually purchased both of them since he gave me a good price to purchase both. I actually only needed one for the drill press but I figured I would keep the extra one for a backup. I'm more than happy to sell it to you since you can make better use of it than me sitting on it and I really doubt I'll ever need it. I'll just charge you my cost (I think you'll be surprised how cheap) plus shipping so if you are interested, please email me at the company email at info@activeatom.com and I'll respond to you from my personal email.
Hi Danny, Patrick here. I searched your comment history and the last comment you left was "Can you answer this question?" on last weeks video. So not sure what question you are referring to because you wrote it as a new comment and not as a reply on an existing comment that perhaps you had meant to do. But please clarify for us and we will be happy to respond back to you. I'm signing off for the night but Lance the early bird will definitely see any new responses from you early in the morning. Thanks!
@@ActiveAtom Lol... Patrick, I was playing with you! You say you answer all questions and I now know you do!!! Just a way also to get your comment count higher... Hope all is well for you and Lance!!!! Cheers!!! (Also hope my twisted humor wasn't too much!!!)
LOL, too funny. Here I was thinking how Lance let a question slip by so he's not in trouble anymore. Hahaha! We're doing great but can't wait to start making some parts soon. Take care, Patrick
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Lance & Patrick,
No worries on the long videos. I enjoy every minute you guys produce.
As for the military packaging, there are several reasons for the methods they require. One, and the primary reason is for corrosion prevention. You were right about that. The US Military has units in virtually every climate in the world at any given time and each part they order passes through many environment changes before it reaches its destination so secure packaging is absolutely vital to ensure optimum condition. I knew the final covering would be cosmoline. Everything metal gets slathered in the stuff for preservation. Hint: Lacquer thinner works best for removing it. It will take a good wash before you get it all out of the bearings. Another reason has to do with inventory standards in the military. Package identification, dates, supply shelving and storage; everything has a designation to identify it. Every number, letter or mark means something for its path through the military system.
Additionally, the over the top packaging is to insure against damage during shipment and delivery to its destination. Consider the fact that most of the supplies and material we received in a combat zone in Vietnam came via sling nets and drop released from helicopters which often could never land due to heavy fire. We called that a Hot LZ. Even under peaceful conditions the people that move shipping containers in the military are not usually too concerned with careful movement and sometimes conditions are not the best.
I remember requesting wheel bearings for my Jeep and was presented with eight cans by the supply sergeant similar to, though larger, than the tins your bearings were packaged in.
It seems ridiculous but it’s necessary. Consider the fact that I received my wheel bearings at a remote outpost where the dust on the road in front of supply was 14 inches deep during the dry season and a river of mud during monsoon season. Soft packaging would have rendered those bearings unusable under those conditions. Even PX items such as potato chips, nuts and cookies were packaged metal tins. All beverages such as soda and beer were packaged in steel cans not aluminum with no pop tops. Everyone had a can opener on their key ring.
Hello Dale Griggs, you got it the heart and the pinned comment to the top of the page. We do not take either of these TH-cam functions lightly. You get the heart for serving your country and being a mechanical person, then you got our Pinned to the top of the page because your answer if the best example, maybe better then we could have hoped for, you not only know the reasons for the Government identification and packaging but you actually utilized it as well while serving, that makes you this person for this weeks video, thank you for being here and for being our friend, Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Beautiful machine and really nice work. I had no idea there were any quality collets that small, but it makes sense. Watchmaking machinery is a whole other world.
Yes we too realized Dudley Toolwright (what is your actual name) in the Simi Valley that many machinist were very unaware of the pin point accuracy we must hold and how our collets many so small they appear to be blank like they have no hole in them actually do. Hearing you share this comment about our collet sharing tells us that we need to share in more detail these little things we just take for granted. Inside track for our fellow TH-cam creator, we are stepping outside of the home converted into a full machine shop watch this nights video likely Tuesday since you and us both live in California we share why we have some things and show some expansion but some things we cannot share as we do not see them safely clear going forward just yet time will have to be our guide here and the hard work it is going to take as well. We are both so happy you are here. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom I look forward to seeing your future content.
Talk about asleep at the switch, I missed chapter 22 all together! I'm thinking that I set it aside to watch at dinner time and totally forgot about it.
You don't EVER have to apologize for being clear, concise, informative and most of all entertaining. Take as much time as you need to do your 'thang!'
Can't wait until it is all up and running and you can change your channel name to "Mini Abom80!"
Hi Peter Hann thank you, Patrick will enjoy learning that while the video got long and while it exposed the need to us for Educational pullouts in addition to our regular weekly Shop Adventure videos it is really nice that you and some others see value to taking the time needed to be sure what we share is of value now and for the coming generations behind us all. LOL mini ABOM Adam is a good man, Patrick has tracked him since before TH-cam, from the machinist forums. He is onto a venture to learn what building your own business can be like, his dad did before him if we recall right here so we these two desert dwellers hold out a great warm and loving thought for him to meet his goals and expectations Peter. Thank you for sharing your liking our extended content on important to us topics. Lance for Lance & Patrick. "Mini Abom80! signing off.
Hi guys, Thanks foe the video.
Hi Colin McGlade, thank you for checking us out this week, hope you are happy with what we share and we see you next week. Have a great week and get out and make something today that you can share in the future with others by saying, hey you know what I built or made that. Lance & Patrick.
Another great video guys.
Hello hopper1 your fellow TH-cam creator bud Lance here. If a viewer is interested in some information about what makes something mechanical tic hopper1 is taking apart a brake disc caliper NO NOT YOUR GRAMA'S CAR caliper I mean the caliper of a full blown semi-truck and let me just share this thing is so giant the mans hand and arm looks like that of a child furthermore this things even have a chain and two sprockets going on here. hopper1 is a great guy and we are likely to be doing a collaboration to frame or first product because is is really good with wood.
Thanks guys!
Hi John Bare thank you for watching us, these two guys having a great time trying to get things done yet sharing in a fun and we are hoping inclusive way how we do this or fix that. Lance & Patrick.
Good to see Patrick out front. Your videos are so interesting we watch every detail. You need a SMOOTH EDGE CAN OPENER, it cuts through the side of the rim and allows you to reclose the can. Sweet finds on the bearings and the drawbar/sleeve. Loose spindles are a Harbor Freight specialty. LOL I found several micro drills in one of my purchases. Email me your address and I'll send them to you. I have already considered where my machine tools will go after I am gone. Great video.
Hello my fellow TH-cam creator and GREAT MAN Vernon, really it is so nice to have Patrick join me up front, hoping now I am not on my way out, maybe being replaced by A-T-O-M or something.
I do not know of this can opener (looked them up) will buy one makes great sense totally unaware of this Vernon.
We always need drills those little guys last seconds and they despite the perception are not cheap just because they are small. Email me here info@activeatom.com (if you do not mind) I will send back our mailing address and hey thank you Vernon. Your friends Lance for Lance & Patrick.
We are glad you like us have a plan for your tools and machines after we are all gone, it is tough but this is life, H.F. weeble wabble spindles LOL.
Very nice drillpress, I’m a bit envious. Greetings from germany
Hi back at you from the vast ever expansive California USA desert near the entrance of the Joshua Tree National Park a popular summer months visited place by German tourists we enjoy the visitors up here in the high-desert.
Do not be envious of that drill press though for being as old as it is it does drill one perfect hole after another in part because it now has those new oilite or oil impregnated bronze bearings we machined and installed.
Thank you for liking our German Machine Green powder coating it will last another 100 plus years to be assured.
We are happy to have yo here and thank you for stopping in and sharing this really nice comment of very kind words.
Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom I'm really enjoying your videos because I love these watchmaker stuff.
Have a nice day
Hi friend of the mini world, this is actually Lance writing to you, you see we know you are new here and we are very thrilled to have you join us.
Patrick is not aware of your channel though we are going to discuss it tomorrow just so he knows of your GREAT maker abilities, you see he loves micro mini precision made things, hence your channel.
We are very happy you like watchmaker machinery we have well some more machinery and tools most all related to watch and instrument and timing parts making sizes to still share including a G. Boley lathe.
So you know we are not machinery re-builders or refurbish guys though we are trained in it.
See we are upgrading these machines and tools, so we can being making our product (product not shared yet) it is from a book of pencil sketches we drew while making parts in our shop for the watch movement, timing device and instrument gauge industries i.e. the clients we no longer do outside work major step for us both, we will now finally after near 3 decades of making things and fixing other things for others, begin machining the components for our first in-house designed product hope you can join the two of us while we embark on this fine precision product build code named for now "The Perfected Product".
Thank you, Lance & Patrick.
Great channel , love your work.
Thank you Justin, we are happy we offer good content in our shows. We hope to have another show out shortly a Monday evening thing around here. Thank you again.
Lance & Patrick.
Heay guys,,,,,why didn’t think to look at your channel before now. I’ll be checking out more videos. Your newest subscriber........ Ron.
Hi cool car owning friend with a new shop toy. We enjoy your videos, your stories and recently you road trips with your son, we likely thought you were not ever going to get that machine through the doorway but a mans determination and ok an engine hoist and you got her in there amen.
Ron, we never wanted to bother you about us having this channel, now that you are here we are really happy as we think you are a great guy showing some unique machinery like the mini band saw and such so please keep it up and thank you for being here spending time watching us do somethings. Patrick and I have been friends since 1975 you know yesterday and such LOL. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Love the humour
Hi Andy, welcome in to shop Adventures you watched an older one we are either getting better or getting worse here you are 50% into our total number of shows you can move forward if you dare and watch like Ship Adventures 40, that is our latest one , or not.
Nice to have you by, we are Lance & Patrick we are friends since 1975 and in the watchmaker micro-machining business since may 1993.
hope you will find some more fun to watch we are teaching in our own way our skills and knowledge.
Lance & Patrick.
Good to see you both in the introduction.
Yup Patrick here and Lance made me do it. Haha! Actually it was time to get in front of the camera and participate in the intros with Lance so glad to hear that you liked it. 🙂
@@ActiveAtom lol very much , I do understand about being a caretaker of your equipment. Many of the tools I own are older than my grandfather at least one older than my great grandfather. I hope to make them fully functional and preserve how they used to make parts of this kind of equipment . In another hundred years someone might be interested in this to.
MRPETE222 sent me here ..I like old school tools and stuff so I will be enjoying seeing any thing old you work on
Hi you are in luck not2fast4u2c we are 97% old school ok might be 96% LOL, as we are on a mission to build our museum of vintage watchmaker and micro machining machinery and tools.
Thank you for stopping in we are so happy to be friends with Lyle and to have you here, even post a comment to share with us, we went over subscribed to your giant channel looks great, and will watch some videos to learn what you are about, we just both love this community so much.
Lance & Patrick.
I like the green on the drillpress! You all have quite the hoard of tooling! Solid rock is awesome and I am sure would have helped if needed. Surprised you all don't have a mini cylindrical grinder.
Hi Brian if you had this drill press in your shop it would get lost under the Monarch Lathe, that lathe is huge and it is going to turn some giant and great parts for your business to be sure. We do have a cylindrical grinder no it is true we really do, let us not get carried away with these visions of giant grandeur, it is on the micro scale we have a Levin lathe bed live tooling grinding head so we can grind between centers to really tight tolerances.
However the 8mm draw bar would have been ok to do longer and larger in diameter to what we are comfortable try to like watch movement parts (we know too small for Brian LOL maybe Bailey oked first) and such sizes so that is why we nearly went out after machining a new one to Solid Rock Steve and the family to help us.
The little micro drill press came out great. Love the belt drive systems, much classier than a modern head mounted motor and no bulky head assembly. Thanks for showing the bearings in a spam can. Military knows how to package things to last. There's some interesting reads about the New Departure Bearing Co. on the web. My Bridgeport came with mostly New Departure and Norma bearings.
Cool stuff.... Keep'um coming.
Thank you for stopping in to share a chat The Ayr Cave Shop. I was calling the New Departure because we got in some of those so until I opened the can live in real time and realized it was a Norma makes sense. We see you like these bearings as well as they arrived in your Bridgeport Mill a knee mill we have one on the list as ewe expand into larger parts making as well as doing what we currently are. Thank you for sharing with us. We love our micro drill as it is now joining the micro tapping machine both are a part of something bigger that is coming up. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Lots of good Info. No problem with the length. Take care
Lifes Journey thank you for the j=kind words of encouragement to us we are really to tell you some truth we thought only few friend in the watchmaker world we know and family would be our audience turns out we have people like you fellow TH-cam creators and really nice ones that share well together, we both thank you and hey Patrick says stay warm. Lance & Patrick.
Great stuff and a lovely old drill press. Also thanks for the stickers, they've arrived already and they're very nice, I'll be sure to give you a shout out in the next watch video.
Hi Mike great to learn of these stickers arriving to you and safely. That drill rebuilding video is one of our favorites, that machine is well really old, all that being shared we must remain to be truthful, it is spot on accurate and we can use it here however not known to our viewers as of yet, is we have and rebuilt it recently a spindle in our Levin & Son Micro Drill Press that does most of our mill style drill work here.
We love that classic older quill type micro drill from Germany a lot it looks so nice in it sot in the Workshop. Thank you for being here with us glad we make videos you are enjoying. Lance & Patrick.
Enjoyed the video. It's great the way you have a detailed running commentary of what you are doing and why. Keep up the good work and sharing these videos.
Thank you Roy, this is Lance for Lance & Patrick we love what we do and we love now having a way to share and get into this interaction. We appreciate you being here and hope to bring you even more detailed content in the near future.
Great video guys! Enjoyed the NOS bearing. I actually took a class in the Army for promotion points about all the different classes and types of packaging used for parts. Awesome that the bearing was perfectly preserved!
Hi Burton's Attic (a great you tube channel and fellow TH-cam Creator named John) The training you got does not go wasted does it, thank you for serving our great country (we love this place, we are so free to do just what we are doing, it is the only one we have ever known). We have to soak out the Cosmoline per a recommendation from Dale below and then reapply the correct greasing methods since these are for a very accurate and critical spindle bearings of the C.E. Marshall Lathe bed milling, drilling and grinding attachment. We are happy you are here and you are our friend John. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
I enjoyed watching!!! Thank you both very much. M.K.S.
Hi Kelly Sampson we are doing our best and we each have much to learn, me Lance more then Patrick perhaps but we will keep making the best videos we can. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Great video. I had no complaints on the long ones it just took me a few nights to get through them.
This is Patrick and I'm glad to hear that you didn't mind the long video from last week. We were really expecting a lot of complaints but fortunately we have a lot of great viewers. Thanks!
Good video Guys! I like seeing that Micro Drill Press running! Pretty sweet!
Hello Reid Eichner, what a great little drill press this machine has turned out to be, thank you for recognizing and commenting on it. We really had no idea about how it would perform, so wow until this was rebuilt we only had a general purpose Delta brand drill press in the Machine Shop area and our Levin Micro Drill press that is our most repression drill press in the shop currently. Thank you for stopping by wondering what we will do this next week. Lance for Lance and Patrick.
enjoyed....can you or have you done a video on your large machines in the shop?
Hello fellow TH-cam creator Chuck (our answer is a bit long because this is your first question or comment to us and we are of course thankful you are sharing here) Patrick first has watched Chuck since he began making videos he is a true gentleman to the community.
Your answer:
I am thinking there is video but a little shot here and one over there so what I would rather share is what we have in the Machine Shop.
There are two shops that do only machining currently the Workshop think real clean small micro and the Machine Shop larger new and growing.
Before we start though we always have room for a Monarch 10EE and your friends Rose Engine just saying here. LOL.
The Machine Shop that is newer to larger machining started that 2 years ago when we pulled our 400 AMP 3 Phase power, started lightly.
We have at the moment a support lathe, a not so Precision Mathews 11 swing 27 length and a little table top CNC 4 axis mini TAIG mill (we do SolidWORKS CNC Programming as well, sharing so you know what we are building up to here. We have room for a CNC Lathe and a CNC Mill or two, think German here, an American made bead blaster machine, magnetic parts tumbler, American made titanium anodizing station and an American made air compressor Quincy.
The CNC machines are something that we are going to have to earn through this journey of making a micro mini product code named "The Perfected Product" that will begin after the manual machines that make them are completed in refurbishing and rebuilding here. Your friends Lance for Lance and Patrick.
Great stuff guys. It takes what it takes in time. Do we want good or fast (pick one and only one)?
Your details are extremely valuable. The collective care and professionalism shows in every video.
I enjoy the channel and the interaction you share as a team.
Keep going guys!
P.S. My wife and kids are on notice that I will haunt them if they scrap my tools when I am gone! Laugh all they want - when Zombies attack we are going to be just fine at my house.
_Dan_
Hello Dan thank you for the understanding about our video length at least we learned a lesson or two about the need for Educational pullouts and things. I know when it comes to leaven your tools machines a legacy of things if we must to the next generation there is one single thing Patrick and I have observed.
Younger people see money in these tolls and machines, not passion until they are in there later years then they wish they had kept dads old tool box or machine or whatever. We believe If the youth can be deterred for say a decade or two after you or us have departed then they will feel the attachment the actual true value of these fine pieces of history even if that history is confined to within the family nearest us mostly. Your friends, Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Wonderful video! I learn so much from your channel. Thank you both for sharing your skills and knowledge 👍❤️😊
Hello William, nice to read your comment with us.
We like knowing that we are providing a value to help others maybe even a bit of a guide on some challenges that tend to arise within the workshop of yours, or another viewers workshop in some small way.
The two of us are having the time of our lives sharing what it is we are already doing each and every day, the only difference is there are cameras everywhere now capturing the workweek as we continue along on our journey to begin making our to be announced, product.
Thank you for being here, sharing your kind words with us, we like reading what it is we are providing. Lance & Patrick.
G’day Lance and Patrick, I liked that little Marshal milling attachment, it was beautiful. Those bearings sealed in a lunch paste can is different, no wonder military supplies are expensive, I wonder if they do the same today.
Good old cutoff disc to cut the spacer, not much out there that will stop.
Good video, cheers, Peter
We are so saddened over your broken gear we are equally happy however you are going to be able to fixit, never had a doubt about that. The milling, grinding, drilling attachment is so neat and as we share one of only two ever seen by us two anyways in 30 years so we cannot wait to share it working in action again. Yes Patrick used that cut off wheel smelled up the whole shop for a bit but nothing can stand in the way of these two trouble makers on their journey Peter. The cans, US Government sealed cans were so great and to get to open one see what is inside and then share it with you all, never could have seen that when it was packaged in 1967 to say the least Peter. Clean the Cosmoline out and re grease cautiously those bearings and we are going to be great going forward. Your machine is going to machine a new gear it is really amazing to watch your channel Peter.
The Norma-Hoffman Bearing Co. was located in Stamford CT. I think they were absorbed by the Schaffler Group of Germany sometime in the 1970's.
That's a sweet drill press. Congratulations on a job well done.
Hello MrShobar we missed a comment form you and it came to our attention right now. Sorry for this we love comments and we really enjoy replying to them as well. That green German micro drill press is still doing really well we need to get to using it more often now that it is restored and placed back into our arsenal of tools here to work from. Thank you for being here with us, Lance & Patrick.
Love the new intro with the two of you, It’s very welcoming. Great idea.
I also very much enjoyed the opening of that 51 year old tin with the bearing inside so nicely wrapped. What a treat, I’m so glad you got that on film.
Hello to our VIP buddy Joel. Joel is a childhood friend of Patrick's they grew up together and attended the same schools and such here in Southern California. The Bearing un-canning well, we thought enough to stop sharing how Patrick is behind the camera that had to go Joel. We really did open up that can on camera though I must share it is tough you receive something (dying to open it) and then you know you cannot open it until you are filming for the shop.
Joel we are both very proud to have you watching, learning, laughing (we hope) and sharing your thoughts with us an other here, it means a lot to the two of us Patrick more so because you two date back to Stonehenge LOL. Your loving friends, Lance and Patrick.
What ??!! Introductions with the two of you?? Madness!!
Long videos are better than short videos...so..... there !
Paddy
Hello Paddy, well said in deed, I mean you are already tuned in to our channel when you get here, so what would be the use in changing the channel if the show runs a bit long in the tooth, like most of my comment replies clearly do.
Thank you for those good words of acceptance, we really never know what people, are going to feel, see, say or do, so again thank you Paddy. Lance & Patrick.
That is a great little drill press, well done! The overview of the different collet sizes was cool. Keep up the great content. Cheers
Hey Joe we were hoping you got to watch the video with the micro drill press she two is from Germany however we have not yet identified the maker it is really old and it is what we call a full rebuild for that machine because it was power coated unable to save the original paint it was too far gone. The reason we wanted you to see the drill press because it is the drill press that drilled the 0.8mm diameter hole that we tapping in the German tapping machine to 1.0mm. Joe it is really small work we do here and we both glad you are enjoying. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Lance & Patrick,
Thank you, I am honored to be pinned today on your channel and also “Hearted” for my military service. It was indeed an honor to serve our Great Country. I had intended to make a career of military service but injuries resulted in a medical discharge before I really even got started. No regrets though as I’ve had a great life with many opportunities and am now enjoying my retirement doing things I enjoy.
We are happy to have you here with us because we live in a military base support town to the worlds largest Marine base Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Military packing really impressed me. Congrats on the project is done! Have question, maybe you already mentioned it... but how many maximum RPM the drill press gives?
Hi our friends your micro drill press question is a GREAT one because we did not thick to mention it, we use a two step pulley on the motor shaft, it is a one to one and a two to one as the one to one matches the spindle pulley. The RPM is as follows for this little might mouse the 1 to 1 is 1750 RPM and the 2 to 1 is then 3500 RPM. Patrick says great question and we hope this answer shares a great understanding about this little drill press. Your friends in the states Lance & Patrick.
Can I ask Patrick what his view is on the accuracy of ER collets and whether they are used in your workshop.
Hello Mr Carpathian you are a very good person smart and with vast knowledge one we are thankful is here enjoying our show Shop Adventures.
Here is what the collets do in our view, we do have ER collets but they are used i our in-house built TAIG CNC table top Milling machine.
This is Lance and in my aerospace job shop past we too utilized larger ER collets in 45 taper and 50 taper collet holders for gripping smaller mils, drills, reamers and such.
ER collets were originally designed as a tool holder since 1973 by Rego-Fix as tool holder so they are more for holding standard shank diameters sizes like boring bars, cutters, drills, reamers, center drills and such, and the secret to an accurate ER collet in or experience is the way they derive at the minimum and maximum tolerance so an example would be you have a 2.0 mm ER collet, it holds its best tolerance at 2.0 mm in the natural spring-less state, once you expand the collet or shrink tighten the collet the tolerances that are factory claimed greatly diminish through deformation of the spring steel.
The sizes of the precision collets we use are more for holding the raw stock in the machines not the tools, so more sizes are highly available and these are more costly having to buy far more as well because you cannot expand or contract the openings in our collet types like you can with an ER collet type.
The sizes available for each are drastically different meaning, say for this example, we use 5C, 3C, D, WW and 6mm, in the Machine Shop and the Workshop at Active Atom.
These come in incremental sizes in every .1mm size.
Thank you for writing to us about this collet question and we hope the answer is satisfactory.
Patrick & Lance
Active Atom Thank you Lance for your informative and helpful reply. I now understand the difference between the types of collets that you and Patrick use and why.
Noticed in several of the videos that you've got what appears to be a Proxxon Bench Grinder in the background...
As the happy user of a Proxxon Lathe, Mill & other accessories, I'd been considering getting that very same Grinder...
...curious to know what you're mostly using it for & whether you consider it as a worthwhile purchase?
regards Colin
Hi Colin Creed Tattoo Machines thank you for being here (sorry I am late to answer) to share in this journey of two childhood friends one with a single tattoo and one without one yet for now here.
Proxxon is trusted here, we have a few of these grinder units around the shop, even one in the electronics shop, we use them for everything you would use a Dremel for and more.
We have the power shafts and many accessories to do fine grinding on metals, plastics, Phenolic, cleaning micro threads, polishing some surfaces and we even have the Proxxon mini belt sander well we are a micro machining operation so small is a GREAT thing here. Thank you for your great question Tattoo Machines are neat tools. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Lance, thanks for your detailed reply, it's much appreciated.
You guys have me very interested in finding a drill press like that. I have been looking and not found one yet. That loops looks like an interesting alternative to my Optiviser.
Hi Robert, oh we love that drill pres and in fact we also have a similar tapping machine like that one.
Both are from Germany and hey here s something I cannot recall sharing from within the Shop Adventure shows about that micro-drill press.
The head goes up and down, generally even the ones we see that are those forged column types the table is spring loaded making its way upward towards the spinning stationary drill spindle.
Robert we thank you for watching our shows and for enjoying the conversations via these comments, it means quite a bit to us both.
Lance & Patrick.
Hi guys, please excuse my ignorance but can you tell me what that gray tray looking device is with the T-slot insert on top? It is most visible at about 38 min into the video on your right side of the drill press. Thanks
Hi Kip you are not a bad guy, your question is like all questions in our opinion, a GREAT one to us and we are happy you asked it. This is Lance from Lance & Patrick at Active Atom.
That "T" slotted bed is for a Levin Lathe a company still in business here in the Los Angeles, California area, and while they still make this 18" inch lathe bed called an instrument lathe length and style lathe bed in the video (thank you for sharing the 38 minutes in to help us share this with you) the chip tray it is mounted to is no longer made or sold and are often sought after by Levin & Son 18" inch lathe bed owners.
The reason we mention the specific length of 18" inches is due to the fact the company makes a shorter 13" bed length (not a watchmaker lathe either) and while the company got its start from making watchmaker tools single leg lathes for optics, aviation gauges and watchmakers in 1917 forward.
The Levin bed and the chip tray as well as the lathe headstock (not in that video shot) are all made of a grey iron material to a very high stander of casting named Meehanite process and certification ne of the most stable iron casting methods known today.
Kip we are both happy to have you here with us and look forward to hearing from you in the future as we are beginning to make new videos (after just over 1 year away) as we have been busy working on a lot of items preparing to start making our first company made product after nearly 30 years (since 1993) of doing work for others.
Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Wow, that's a lot of good info. I'll definitely be watching for your upcoming videos. Thanks again!
thanks for the video it was very interesting as per usual, maybe you should think about putting a knob on the drill handle just for peace of mind. thanks once again
Hi Richard Shephard. We are really glad you are enjoying the videos and commenting. We love to (never thought we would be saying this) make these videos, adding new video features and such every two to three weeks to keep the channel and the videos as interesting as we can. We are not video film editors not even picture takers up until well, until this all happened now after doing what we do here researching, reviewing, reading, watching, buying, trying and practicing we are making videos even taking still images for our Instagram page as we learn all of this and that about social media stuff.
The handle of the micro drill press is shorter then that video would have you and I believing, it is really shot and it is within the 12.00 inch x by 18.00 inch mounted cutting block dimensions not even enough room for a Styrofoam cap with a hole in it on the end. Thank you Richard for being here and sharing with us and the others. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Patrick, where did you find the Boley drawbar? One off or something that there are multiples of? When I moved away from Dallas I lost the drawbar for my Boley F1. I have a replacement that works, but I'm not best pleased with it.
Hi Adam, Patrick here. I'll get the details for you in the morning including price. It is a really nice quality drawbar so I think you will be very happy with it.
@@ActiveAtom Thank you sir.
Hi Adam, Patrick here again. Sorry for the delay, I tried to contact the seller today to get more details but no response. But I can tell you that the seller only had 2 of these drawbars but I actually purchased both of them since he gave me a good price to purchase both. I actually only needed one for the drill press but I figured I would keep the extra one for a backup. I'm more than happy to sell it to you since you can make better use of it than me sitting on it and I really doubt I'll ever need it. I'll just charge you my cost (I think you'll be surprised how cheap) plus shipping so if you are interested, please email me at the company email at info@activeatom.com and I'll respond to you from my personal email.
Did you answer my last question?
Hi Danny, Patrick here. I searched your comment history and the last comment you left was "Can you answer this question?" on last weeks video. So not sure what question you are referring to because you wrote it as a new comment and not as a reply on an existing comment that perhaps you had meant to do. But please clarify for us and we will be happy to respond back to you. I'm signing off for the night but Lance the early bird will definitely see any new responses from you early in the morning. Thanks!
@@ActiveAtom Lol... Patrick, I was playing with you! You say you answer all questions and I now know you do!!! Just a way also to get your comment count higher... Hope all is well for you and Lance!!!! Cheers!!! (Also hope my twisted humor wasn't too much!!!)
LOL, too funny. Here I was thinking how Lance let a question slip by so he's not in trouble anymore. Hahaha! We're doing great but can't wait to start making some parts soon. Take care, Patrick