Removing the material on new Main bearing caps to match block bore on Audi 2.1 L 5 cylinder. Part Two, we make the boring bar and set up the project ready to be machined.
Keith, you continue to demonstrate a truly unreal imaginative approach to projects. This project is blowing me away with your creativity. Thank you so much for taking us along for the ride! Nick, North West Farmer
One can hope to achieve this amount of self confidence only after a lifetime of experience and even then, it needs forged steel balls to accept a challenge like that! Hats off to you mr Fenner!
usually I'm not a guy who watch long videos, but everytime I watch a video from keith I learn more things than i could made from 10 different other videos. Thank you for teaching.
"because you can"is the only possible explanation for this series .it gives you an opportunity to show off your considerable skills as a machinist. really enjoying this.
Fascinating machinist skills. I've been a gunsmith and auto technician. I truly enjoy learning and watching new ways to see problems solved especially when extreme precision and skill are used. Absolutely beautiful.
Have been trying to work out how to line bore on my lathe and you have answered my question I am building a model of a triple expansion engine and the crankshaft bearings need to be exactly in line Great video Keith and very helpful Thank you so much Pete (UK)
That was a brilliantly thought out and well built project , it now opens up a whole new use of a lathe as a line borer. Bloody good ! Thank you for sharing your skill and ingenuity .
Hi Keith, man, your setups are well thought out! Just watching you gives me ideas..... Please keep it up! Looking forward to seeing some chips after all this marvelous setup!
I know you've been doing this a long time. I learn a TON every time I watch. THANK YOU! Mainly this is to say I know that thinking ahead, planning the work, and all the technical and editing details that go with making a great video are NOT things that fine machinists are taught. Keith, you are a natural educator and a terrifically innovative mechanical artist. It is SO hard to do this well, and you are among the best. Ever. Thanks again.
I love that setup. I did line boring for years with an electric drill type drive. I never thought about adapting it to the lathe but it would have been tough to mount a skidder midsection or a feller buncher boom on but ya got me thinking. Retirement sucks bud. This is one of the sweetest setups I have seen in many years. Thanks a bunch Keith !
It is so easy to say you should use an HBM to do that job. Truth is most shops do not have the room or the work to justify the purchase of one. But when you are a true machinist not a button pusher you can figure out ways to get the work done and done accurately with having fancy machines. Keep up the great work Keith.
Great stuff even if you broke a tool sleeve and went the wrong way to align the block. That's professionalism when you can continue when you know there was a small mistake and you can fix it without having a runaway. keep up these good videos.
Absolutely love the ingenuity. It’s actually very impressive Kieth. It’s funny, I have engineers come into my shop when I’m building turbo snowmobile and off-road engines from time to time and it amazes me how many engineers minds work. Many of them are not creative people. They have on one track mind and need a set of blueprints. Some of them don’t care how or why it works, just that they built it to work if that makes sense. I certainly don’t mean all engineers, but it’s been an experience of mine many times. I’m certainly not saying they aren’t intelligent by any means I’ve just found it fascinating how their brains work sometimes. I guess they probably feel the same way about how mine and yours works as well. I can see it work in my head and can take it apart and put it back together with a photographic memory, but I couldn’t do the math to actually design it to save my life if that makes sense. Usually they don’t have much personality either lol..jk. They could build a nuclear missile, but to have a normal conversation is awkward. Now people don’t get all upright and bombard me with hate, many of you know exactly what I’m talking about. Thanks for sharing your genius Kieth. I have plenty of stories to back up my theory.
Keath, as always I enjoyed this video, I have been doing performance motor work for a long time, what your doing is very close to how we use to do it, but we would some times have problems with the center housing becoming larger than we wanted, found out, with the longer bar, it would whip. So We cut a bar down to 4" longer then the work, that made a big difference.
Keith, I am very impressed with your ingenuity and the quality of your workmanship. Thanks for sharing these videos. In your next video could you go over why the cutting tools are not on center?
Great video!! I am auto machine shop business .. Very enjoyable , great detail. Been watching you for a while now. Was great to see an engine machining as your project. Keep more coming!!!
Yer doin it the hard way! All you need is a bush to fit the first main and the rear seal bore, one cutter that slides back and forth on the bar and even just a drill motor for power.
It's fun watching you turn the bronze bushings! I'm doing that pretty often these days, at my job at Precimax, where I'm getting more skills every day. Of course, every single day, I wear my Turn Wright hat! :D -- Murray Pearson, a.k.a. "Making Sense"
I'm impressed with your engineering logic and attention to detail. These days, factory engineering is automated and can work to higher levels of precision than former times, but what was Henry Royce but a meticulous and intelligent engineer like you? I think of Royce as one of the best mechanical engineers ever, and others like him.
Hi Keith That is what I started watching your videos. You do amazing setups and has inspired me to figure out my own hobby machining setups. Also on the boat forks you repaired you worked ur ass off on that !!!! I hope they rewarded u handsomely !!! :)) Also whenever you mention Sa Onafre or shipyards I rember going thru Camp Pendleton " Las Tunas" area for training 1968 Manny
0.0015" over 15 inches including the uncertainty in the OEM head deck to crank bore, plus the sag in the bar, plus the 'possible' wear in the lathe ways = Freaking Awesome!
Well. Stuff breaks... Years ago when I worked for a Mill Supply house (In Engineered products) we sold Roper pumps. The ones we had in stock had Bronze bearings and about half of our customers wanted Graphite bearings. Those we had also. It was my job to change them because for some reason I was the only one that could do it... Press the Bronze out and put Graphite (4 of them) in... The trick *I* developed was to tap the Graphite bearings in with a tiny deadblow hammer. You couldn't press them or they'd shatter instantly. Tap it *just right* though and it'd creep in. I always took FIVE bearings because I knew one would break. My work area was two floors below where the parts were stocked. About half the time I didn't need the fifth one!
There are several benefits depending on the application and the fluid the customer is moving. Primarily their use is with materials that are abrasive, which would wear out the bronze bushings quickly. Would be used for chemical resistance where the fluid would attack bronze but not graphite.
I was thinking the same thing. The main concern for me is the offset drive. From the lathe chuck to the engine block. Even with in-line borers that would still be a concern. But if Keith can make it work for him, then his choice.
Now I know about the square hole low carbon tool bit sleeves. I would have broken one too. really I thought I watched all of it already. I m watching it again because I wanted to see how you made that support bearing again,.
Been there done that. Use a lathe to this line boring,on big block Chevy but on a bigger lathe then yours. I have even bored the cylinders. But with that said great video.
Undoubtedly, but , definitely, this the best, ever, most precise, line- boring set-up .
Keith, you continue to demonstrate a truly unreal imaginative approach to projects. This project is blowing me away with your creativity. Thank you so much for taking us along for the ride! Nick, North West Farmer
“Because I can” is the reason why I do most of the things that I do. Great video 👍🏻
One can hope to achieve this amount of self confidence only after a lifetime of experience and even then, it needs forged steel balls to accept a challenge like that! Hats off to you mr Fenner!
please continue make these video like this. modern cnc make people seem to forget how these stuff is made without cnc
keiths the man. The only channel where a 'pro' machinist can learn some stuff
Uncle Dan!
usually I'm not a guy who watch long videos, but everytime I watch a video from keith I learn more things than
i could made from 10 different other videos. Thank you for teaching.
"because you can"is the only possible explanation for this series .it gives you an opportunity to show off your considerable skills as a machinist. really enjoying this.
I know I'm pretty randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
@Bobby Colin I watch on flixzone. Just google for it :)
@Sylas Maurice Yup, been using FlixZone for years myself :)
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@Bobby Colin You are welcome :D
Keith, another great video! I always learn so much from watching you! thanks.
Professor Fenner- excellent video. Continue the detailed explanations of your thought processes. It makes up all smarter.
Defiantly a candidate for set-up of the year! Thanks Keith
Fascinating machinist skills. I've been a gunsmith and auto technician. I truly enjoy learning and watching new ways to see problems solved especially when extreme precision and skill are used. Absolutely beautiful.
Wow, 27:45 looked like a magic trick! Or an SFX cut... What an instructive and enjoyable vid. Cheers
Have been trying to work out how to line bore on my lathe and you have answered my question I am building a model of a triple expansion engine and the crankshaft bearings need to be exactly in line Great video Keith and very helpful Thank you so much Pete (UK)
I always like the variety of projects and differant methods of achieving the outcome. Keeps things interesting. Thanks for great channel.
A rainy day, a bowl of hot soup, grilled cheese sandwich, and the Fenner show, Perfect lunch hour. thanks Keith
Great job, thanks for the ingenuity and thinking outside the box. Richard Sheppard
Wow I’m very impressed and absolutely in ore of the quality of your workmanship Keith. I so much enjoyed this video and look forward to part 3.
That was a brilliantly thought out and well built project , it now opens up a whole new use of a lathe as a line borer. Bloody good ! Thank you for sharing your skill and ingenuity .
Hi Keith, man, your setups are well thought out! Just watching you gives me ideas..... Please keep it up! Looking forward to seeing some chips after all this marvelous setup!
I know you've been doing this a long time. I learn a TON every time I watch. THANK YOU!
Mainly this is to say I know that thinking ahead, planning the work, and all the technical and editing details that go with making a great video are NOT things that fine machinists are taught.
Keith, you are a natural educator and a terrifically innovative mechanical artist.
It is SO hard to do this well, and you are among the best. Ever.
Thanks again.
A very nice setup indeed. One could learn a thing or two from you without a doubt. Thanks a million for the videos.
Very interesting. I learn so much from you Keith. You always seem to have the solution to a problem.
Wow Keith! Thanks for sharing!
I love that setup. I did line boring for years with an electric drill type drive. I never thought about adapting it to the lathe but it would have been tough to mount a skidder midsection or a feller buncher boom on but ya got me thinking. Retirement sucks bud. This is one of the sweetest setups I have seen in many years. Thanks a bunch Keith !
It is so easy to say you should use an HBM to do that job. Truth is most shops do not have the room or the work to justify the purchase of one. But when you are a true machinist not a button pusher you can figure out ways to get the work done and done accurately with having fancy machines. Keep up the great work Keith.
thats an awesome plasma cutter i could watch that think work all day
Great work. Thank you for sharing your experience and ideas.
Keith one of the best videos of recent times - others are really fantastic - this one very engaging.
Keith, really enjoyed your video thanks for sharing looking forward to your next video.!.!.!.
Interesting. And nice clean tidy workshop, impressive.
Love your work Keith. Can´t wait for part 3.
You’re a genius !! I have to make a 2” and 3” boring bars here soon , thanks for the tips.
You're an amazing man Mr Fenner!! Great work!!
Looks like your having way to much fun Keith. My kind of machining out of the box!!!!!
Great stuff even if you broke a tool sleeve and went the wrong way to align the block. That's professionalism when you can continue when you know there was a small mistake and you can fix it without having a runaway. keep up these good videos.
Thanks Keith, Great series, looking forward to part 3. I am surprised the drive shaft without any support doesn't give you problems.
Great "out of the circle" thinking Keith. What a cool setup!
Truly inspiring craftsmanship. Keep it up !
Dang Keith, this is a wicked cool setup! Very clever.... can't wait for the next video! Take er cool, Doug
Mr Fenner , I salute you ! An accmplished man is the combined result of education skill and experience , welded by dedication.
Sure beats line boring by hand. I can't wait to see the rest of this mini-series!
Absolutely love the ingenuity. It’s actually very impressive Kieth. It’s funny, I have engineers come into my shop when I’m building turbo snowmobile and off-road engines from time to time and it amazes me how many engineers minds work. Many of them are not creative people. They have on one track mind and need a set of blueprints. Some of them don’t care how or why it works, just that they built it to work if that makes sense. I certainly don’t mean all engineers, but it’s been an experience of mine many times. I’m certainly not saying they aren’t intelligent by any means I’ve just found it fascinating how their brains work sometimes. I guess they probably feel the same way about how mine and yours works as well. I can see it work in my head and can take it apart and put it back together with a photographic memory, but I couldn’t do the math to actually design it to save my life if that makes sense. Usually they don’t have much personality either lol..jk. They could build a nuclear missile, but to have a normal conversation is awkward. Now people don’t get all upright and bombard me with hate, many of you know exactly what I’m talking about. Thanks for sharing your genius Kieth. I have plenty of stories to back up my theory.
Pretty sweet setup, that’s a very good way to line bore
Keath, as always I enjoyed this video, I have been doing performance motor work for a long time, what your doing is very close to how we use to do it, but we would some times have problems with the center housing becoming larger than we wanted, found out, with the longer bar, it would whip. So We cut a bar down to 4" longer then the work, that made a big difference.
Knock me down with a Floggers Mall! Definitely a best choice TH-cam channel. Keep this superb content coming. Nick, North West Farmer
Keith, I am very impressed with your ingenuity and the quality of your workmanship. Thanks for sharing these videos. In your next video could you go over why the cutting tools are not on center?
Great video!! I am auto machine shop business .. Very enjoyable , great detail. Been watching you for a while now. Was great to see an engine machining as your project. Keep more coming!!!
Keith, I learn something new with every video you put out. Thanks for that. :-)
Very cool set up. Great video.
You are proof positive sir of the old adage"where there is a will there is a way". Can't wait to see the conclusion!
All good so far. Liking the setup. :)
Truly a pure genius setup, really impressive Keith 👍🏼
Nice project for sure. Just a bonus that the carriage is on the lesser used side of the bed ways for even less deflection! Thanks for sharing.
Yer doin it the hard way! All you need is a bush to fit the first main and the rear seal bore, one cutter that slides back and forth on the bar and even just a drill motor for power.
Good to see alternate uses or non conventional uses to getter done
Great series
That Plasmacam is a wonderful machine for making this all possible! Very impressive! :-)
OK, HOW MUCH COST TO BUY A USED ONE AND TO BUILD ONE?
It's fun watching you turn the bronze bushings! I'm doing that pretty often these days, at my job at Precimax, where I'm getting more skills every day. Of course, every single day, I wear my Turn Wright hat! :D -- Murray Pearson, a.k.a. "Making Sense"
Love the videos Keith. Please keep them coming.
Fantastic work...love it Keith.👍🏻
Just awesome!
Thanks for the videos.
Scott
I'm impressed with your engineering logic and attention to detail. These days, factory engineering is automated and can work to higher levels of precision than former times, but what was Henry Royce but a meticulous and intelligent engineer like you? I think of Royce as one of the best mechanical engineers ever, and others like him.
hello sir Keith,
You deserve to be a space scientist,
a big salute from casablanca MOROCCO
You are either a genius or a mad man. Either way i like it!!!
Great job Keith
Mad genius?
Denny
This is where "thinking outside the box" came from. Thanks Keith!
@45:40 now that's a thing of beauty. Nicely done Keith.
Very nice work
This is mind boggling! Fascinating!
Very ingenious, nice job.
You Mr Fenner are a very skilled man
you know i love your vids and you,but this is why they call the lathe the queen of machines:) thanks for sharing
Outstanding work. Totally awesome.
Hi Keith That is what I started watching your videos. You do amazing setups and has inspired me to figure out my own hobby machining setups. Also on the boat forks you repaired you worked ur ass off on that !!!!
I hope they rewarded u handsomely !!! :)) Also whenever you mention Sa Onafre or shipyards I rember going thru Camp Pendleton " Las Tunas" area for training 1968
Manny
These setup is amazing!😮
Really interesting job,love the way you are going through it,top shelf stuff:)
Very cool project !
0.0015" over 15 inches including the uncertainty in the OEM head deck to crank bore, plus the sag in the bar, plus the 'possible' wear in the lathe ways = Freaking Awesome!
Cool setup!
Good lessons, thanks. The bearing material sounds like ampco 18. 👍
Maestro total. Cuánto conocimiento hemos adquirido de tu experiencia...
Cheers, ;{)-----
The one thing I learned about this is SETTING UP is 90% of the actual machining. Thanks
I think you forgot about 6% there ;)
interesting setup
Enjoyed Keith!
ATB, Robin
Just when I was relaxing and ready to see the set screw tube in action, bam
nice setup
OK never seen it done this way before. Nice.
Facinating, as usual.
Neat setup.
Ahhhhh..... another Fenner fix! Thanks amigo!
Good control on your words when that sleeve broke 😃. I probably would have chosen different ones.
Well. Stuff breaks... Years ago when I worked for a Mill Supply house (In Engineered products) we sold Roper pumps. The ones we had in stock had Bronze bearings and about half of our customers wanted Graphite bearings. Those we had also. It was my job to change them because for some reason I was the only one that could do it... Press the Bronze out and put Graphite (4 of them) in... The trick *I* developed was to tap the Graphite bearings in with a tiny deadblow hammer. You couldn't press them or they'd shatter instantly. Tap it *just right* though and it'd creep in. I always took FIVE bearings because I knew one would break. My work area was two floors below where the parts were stocked. About half the time I didn't need the fifth one!
Aha!
@@PhilG999 forgive my ignorance what is the benefit of graphite bearings over brass? I would think brass to be the better Choice.
There are several benefits depending on the application and the fluid the customer is moving. Primarily their use is with materials that are abrasive, which would wear out the bronze bushings quickly. Would be used for chemical resistance where the fluid would attack bronze but not graphite.
I read this before I watched the entire video and thought you meant one of the sleeves in the block, which would have been a whole different story.
I am a little surprised you did not put a support bearing on the chuck side of the engine like the Tail stock side.
I always enjoy your vids
Thanks
I was thinking the same thing.
The main concern for me is the offset drive. From the lathe chuck to the engine block.
Even with in-line borers that would still be a concern.
But if Keith can make it work for him, then his choice.
Another elaborate video!
Dude, you’re awesome!
This man is a Legend...
Can't believe how clean you keep your lathe. My lathe is a little messier.
It's a beautiful thing Keith
Now I know about the square hole low carbon tool bit sleeves. I would have broken one too. really I thought I watched all of it already. I m watching it again because I wanted to see how you made that support bearing again,.
Great video!
Been there done that. Use a lathe to this line boring,on big block Chevy but on a bigger lathe then yours. I have even bored the cylinders. But with that said great video.
Respect man, I really love your channel, just keep going please!