Hi Mark, Like most of your follower I do appreciate your teaching immensely. I have no backgroud in machining & although I have been fiddling for many years (too many to care to remember) those videos have improved my machining enormousely and more importantly it has helped me become more accurate in my work. I thank you very much for all your work and excellent teaching.
Hi Marc, Thank you for this series of lessons. These courses helping us, to understand how the tools that we are using everyday, actually work! Thank you very much indeed for your kind words sir! All the best Jimmy from Greece
Marc, Thanks for another informative lesson. I've used taps, dies and hacksaws most of my life and never realized the aspects of them that you pointed out. Your lessons are always exciting as I always learn something. Thanks for being a great instructor! Have a good one! Dave
I also own a couple of those (yellow) brand HSS 18 TPI blades. I am very careful when using them because of the crazy cost. I keep the $1 High-Carbon blades around for when I want to "chop" it off quicker than a lumber jack! I don't cry as much when I break the cheap blades! Thanks Marc!
Hi On my relatively cheap lux brand hacksaw blades bought in a German building centre I found "7 / cm" printed, i.e. 7 teeth per centimeter. I couldn't find any indication on the number of teeth on any of my keyhole or coping saw blades. As usual: I enjoy watching your videos which give a firm basis and a lot of (not too) theoretical background. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge in such a generous way.
I have been using bee's wax to lube the side of the hacksaw blade to help with friction and heat while cutting. I bought the 1lb block of bee wax on amazon. A fellow coworker had it in his toolbox and I ask him what it was, he has been using the bee wax for years on hacksaw blades, axes and tools.
Mr, you are an excellent and knowledgeable teatcher. Do you have any plans to collect your videos into dvds for selling? I would be interested. Thanks and keep up the good work
Yup, 300mm x 24 = metric length of blade x teeth per inch. It is like our plywood dimensions. You want metric, we'll give you metric. A sheet of plywood is sold here as 1220 x 2440mm which is, well, a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood. We pay for 1220 x 2440 and only really get 1219.2 x 2438.4mm. I wonder where all that excess plywood goes? Oh well. I still love the programs you make and echo the commenter that would like to have your great collection of videos on DVD. I'm standing in line as your first paying customer if you change your mind on this one. Thanks for sharing. ps. My main squeeze of 45+ years is also still putting up with me, who knows why?
Hi Mark,
Like most of your follower I do appreciate your teaching immensely. I have no backgroud in machining & although I have been fiddling for many years (too many to care to remember) those videos have improved my machining enormousely and more importantly it has helped me become more accurate in my work. I thank you very much for all your work and excellent teaching.
Hi Marc,
Thank you for this series of lessons. These courses helping us, to understand how the tools that we are using everyday, actually work! Thank you very much indeed for your kind words sir!
All the best
Jimmy from Greece
Marc,
Thanks for another informative lesson. I've used taps, dies and hacksaws most of my life and never realized the aspects of them that you pointed out. Your lessons are always exciting as I always learn something. Thanks for being a great instructor!
Have a good one!
Dave
I also own a couple of those (yellow) brand HSS 18 TPI blades. I am very careful when using them because of the crazy cost. I keep the $1 High-Carbon blades around for when I want to "chop" it off quicker than a lumber jack! I don't cry as much when I break the cheap blades! Thanks Marc!
Marc, Completely agree about Jimmy's Canal... his videos are kind of mesmerizing. Yours are gold also.
Salut!
Good lesson, I will need to listen to it several times. Your videos really cut thru the confusion. Thanks Marc,
Another excellent video. Thanks for sharing your talents
Thanks for sharing the knowledge Marc. Now I have an explain for why I had such a hard time threading a 5/8" rod last month.
Hi Marc, here in the Netherlands the other day I bought a12"blade 24TPI.
Still going strong in imp
Love your video's.
Jan
Hi
On my relatively cheap lux brand hacksaw blades bought in a German building centre I found "7 / cm" printed, i.e. 7 teeth per centimeter. I couldn't find any indication on the number of teeth on any of my keyhole or coping saw blades.
As usual: I enjoy watching your videos which give a firm basis and a lot of (not too) theoretical background. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge in such a generous way.
Dear Marc, thank you very much
Lesson: 25
Many charts I've seen and use and I believe the machineries handbook recommends 50% thread for stainless steels. Great vids!
I have been using bee's wax to lube the side of the hacksaw blade to help with friction and heat while cutting.
I bought the 1lb block of bee wax on amazon. A fellow coworker had it in his toolbox and I ask him what it was, he has been using the bee wax for years on hacksaw blades, axes and tools.
Thank you for the video, Marc!
Thanks Marc.... Much appreciated......!
Hi Marc,
Go as many parts as you want, keeping in mind my attention level of about...Hummmm... 30 seconds... lol
Pierre
Mr, you are an excellent and knowledgeable teatcher. Do you have any plans to collect your videos into dvds for selling? I would be interested. Thanks and keep up the good work
Hi, I still have a question about the tension of the sawblade on a hacksaw,
Thanks for the interesting videos, Christ
found blades made in chech republic and they were dimensioned in metric and sold by teeth per inch
Yup, 300mm x 24 = metric length of blade x teeth per inch. It is like our plywood dimensions. You want metric, we'll give you metric. A sheet of plywood is sold here as 1220 x 2440mm which is, well, a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood. We pay for 1220 x 2440 and only really get 1219.2 x 2438.4mm. I wonder where all that excess plywood goes? Oh well. I still love the programs you make and echo the commenter that would like to have your great collection of videos on DVD. I'm standing in line as your first paying customer if you change your mind on this one. Thanks for sharing.
ps. My main squeeze of 45+ years is also still putting up with me, who knows why?
I think metric countries use the archaic TPI.
Grit-edge hacksaw blades?..... Saved my ass many times.