I had the honor of working along side of a beautiful Sip Hydroptic #6 for a number of years. The workmanship that made up this machine makes it the Holy Grail of jig borers, that set a high bar of standards for all imitators that didn't even come close to the quality and tolerances this machine is capable of. Operating this machine taught me more than a room full of professors.
Work on a SIP 6a over 45 years ago and still love them, though its shame to see rust on the model in the video our machines were always gleaming despite being work on double shifts we were allowed an hour a week for cleaning on a Friday
Where I work we have two SIPs a #5 & a #6. Both machines are of approximately 1952 vintage. The machinists who operate them say they both still hold 0.0002” tolerance. The Swiss really can make beautiful machines.
We were very sad to move this one on to it’s new home, but we did keep the SIP 3K, hoping to get some more footage and project work on that once the workshop is built out at our farm
Worked on one of these about 25 years ago, except it was fitted with a DRO and extra drives on the X and Y axis. Absolutely amazing bits of kit. The only down side was the lubrication oil on the leadscrew on the X axis would drip into the coolant and turn it "sour", god that used to stink. Spend my days now on a PC operating a CAD system, still miss the old days.
Después de 35 años trabajando con esta máquina puedo decir que conseguí saber todo su potencial. En el vídeo veo que andáis despistados esta maquina se basa en 2 reglas graduadas en espacios de 1milimetro se puede decir que casi perfecto, son reglas interiores, tanto como para la mesita cómo Para la traviesa. A 20 grados centígrados éstas tienen una precisión de 0'002 milímetros en un metro , siempre y cuando la instalación i nivelación este con arreglo a normas si no es así no se podrá conseguir un rendimiento óptimo de esta maquina la mejor máquina herramienta de su época . Para dar medidas a través de los visores es necesario que estén bien iluminados y se vean claramente las reglas interiores tanto en horizontal como en vertical. Estas visualizaciones llegan a los visores a través de un sistema de lentes muy preciso . Bueno esto es un pequeño comentario, podría estar muchas horas hablando de esto pues después de 35 años trabajando 8 horas diarias en ella creo que llegué a dominar un 99 por cien su manejo .
Nice, yesterday I saw the same video from Kurtis (CEE). Today I saw another one indeed. Kurtis, is looking for parts or a spare one. Maybe there are options 😉
It’s the same type as Kurtis, this one is in Perth Western Australia, on the other side of the country. We sold it to an engineering works in town here.
HI THANKS FOR SHARING . MAY BE YOU COULD GIVE CUTTING EDGE INGINEERING AUSTRALIA A SHOUT AS HE HAS JUST BOUGHT ONE MAY BE YOU COULD HELP HIM . HIS NAME IS KURTIS
@@MrDdunn11965 cheers David, we retain a SIP 3K, which is fitted with CNC Servo control on X and Y, with Z in the works... quite a machine! hope to have video up on it someday soon
Hope you can help Kurtis with his machine dilemma. The secret to his 70 year old problems are here ❤
Yeah been watching close on Kurtis’s channel :-)
I had the honor of working along side of a beautiful Sip Hydroptic #6 for a number of years. The workmanship that made up this machine makes it the Holy Grail of jig borers, that set a high bar of standards for all imitators that didn't even come close to the quality and tolerances this machine is capable of. Operating this machine taught me more than a room full of professors.
Level of engineering beyond what I can fathom and a thing of beauty.
Totally!
Work on a SIP 6a over 45 years ago and still love them, though its shame to see rust on the model in the video our machines were always gleaming despite being work on double shifts we were allowed an hour a week for cleaning on a Friday
Yes indeed, this SIP had sat idle for 4 or more years on this day, we gave it a real birthday before it went on to productive life at a new workshop
Where I work we have two SIPs a #5 & a #6. Both machines are of approximately 1952 vintage. The machinists who operate them say they both still hold 0.0002” tolerance. The Swiss really can make beautiful machines.
We were very sad to move this one on to it’s new home, but we did keep the SIP 3K, hoping to get some more footage and project work on that once the workshop is built out at our farm
I don’t suppose you sold it to Curtis from cutting edge engineering
Worked on one of these about 25 years ago, except it was fitted with a DRO and extra drives on the X and Y axis. Absolutely amazing bits of kit. The only down side was the lubrication oil on the leadscrew on the X axis would drip into the coolant and turn it "sour", god that used to stink. Spend my days now on a PC operating a CAD system, still miss the old days.
Awesome to hear from you! We still have the SIP 3K which has had servos added to X and Y axis, and in process of getting Z servo control added to it
My Dad did his apprenticeship with SiP, later to be SiP Dixi and worked as the UK service manager for many years. Amazing machines
Very cool! We still have the sip 3K, but have sold on the 6 unfortunately
Después de 35 años trabajando con esta máquina puedo decir que conseguí saber todo su potencial. En el vídeo veo que andáis despistados esta maquina se basa en 2 reglas graduadas en espacios de 1milimetro se puede decir que casi perfecto, son reglas interiores, tanto como para la mesita cómo Para la traviesa. A 20 grados centígrados éstas tienen una precisión de 0'002 milímetros en un metro , siempre y cuando la instalación i nivelación este con arreglo a normas si no es así no se podrá conseguir un rendimiento óptimo de esta maquina la mejor máquina herramienta de su época . Para dar medidas a través de los visores es necesario que estén bien iluminados y se vean claramente las reglas interiores tanto en horizontal como en vertical. Estas visualizaciones llegan a los visores a través de un sistema de lentes muy preciso . Bueno esto es un pequeño comentario, podría estar muchas horas hablando de esto pues después de 35 años trabajando 8 horas diarias en ella creo que llegué a dominar un 99 por cien su manejo .
Funny for the first time I ever saw one of these machines Kurtis from CEE was showing one he has and now today another from Australia .
Nice, yesterday I saw the same video from Kurtis (CEE). Today I saw another one indeed. Kurtis, is looking for parts or a spare one. Maybe there are options 😉
Yeah they are an awesome machine, the tool cabinet alone on ours was $100,000 nee
Great piece of craftsmanship looks like a great machine
Absolutely gorgeous! A work of art mate
Gday JB, nice machine, very technical by the looks, extremely fine adjustment setting, interesting machine, thanks JB
Blown away by the accuracy on this one
Beautiful machine! I would love to have one like it.
We were sad to see it go, still have the 3K thankfully
Great looking bit of kit JB. Cheers, Matt
Even nicer in person.. the tool cabinet was to die for!
JB, did Kurtis buy this machine from you, cheers from the other Sunshine State, Florida, USA....Paul
This one has the wheel that Kurtis is missing
No, ours was sold locally in Perth Western Australia
Vrhunska izrada nesto najbolje ikad izradjeno
slažem se prijatelju
Bili smo tužni kada smo prodali ovaj stroj
One nice machine .
Indeed :-)
I don't have the space, the money, nor currently a use for one...
However...
I NEED ONE!
I very nearly kept this one, but no space was a killer my shed is a way off yet
Is this the same Maschine as owned by CEE?
It’s the same type as Kurtis, this one is in Perth Western Australia, on the other side of the country. We sold it to an engineering works in town here.
0.0002 tolerance for a machined tolerance ? I can that B.S , grinding possible
The SIP is seriously able to hold that level of accuracy in both position and bore size
Magnificent machine.
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HI THANKS FOR SHARING . MAY BE YOU COULD GIVE CUTTING EDGE INGINEERING AUSTRALIA A SHOUT AS HE HAS JUST BOUGHT ONE MAY BE YOU COULD HELP HIM . HIS NAME IS KURTIS
Indeed I was very surprised to watch his video today, they are an amazing machine :-)
I posted on CEE's video on his machine that he needs to look at this video and should look into contacting JBFromOZ
@@MrDdunn11965 cheers David, we retain a SIP 3K, which is fitted with CNC Servo control on X and Y, with Z in the works... quite a machine! hope to have video up on it someday soon
Pro tip: Try canned air to unstick your CapsLk key!!
This machine is CNC before we have CNC
Our SIP 3K is CNC controlled with servos on X and Y
The music junked another video 👎👎👎👎💩💩💩😬😬