You got that leather from a couch, huh? You sure you didn’t get it from some bedroom lingerie, did you? The wife might get a little upset with you cutting it up. 🥰🤣
Cora shows you so much love, it is so nice that she found you and you brought her in to your life! She is a very fortunate pup. Thanks for another great video.
Being an old surveyor, I have leveled thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of surveyor's levels for use in the field using the four leveling screws. While not nearly as precise as a machinist's precision level, the process of being leveled is still the same in my opinion. Level a 4-point object across the diagonals. Leveling perpendicular front to back on a 4-point object, you can (and will) chase your tail for quite a while. (I agree 3-points are easier, but that's not what you have, but think; with three points, you are still leveling mostly across the supports) This has to be similar for any object to be leveled, regardless of precision. Just my two cents.
One of the lab instruments I service has 5 feet. 2 in the front 3 at the back . The front right foot is not adjustable and the leveling is done using the rear center and front left feet. When the instrument is level , the 2 remaining rear feet are adjusted to touch the bench top. The whole thing weighs 280kg.
@@fiorevitola880 I totally agree. But prior to their development, I carried a 30 lb transit on a wooden tripod (probably oak) for years over many miles. Ahhh, the good old days.
Maintenance never gets priority so I'm glad to see you making the time! One of the tasks I did as an apprentice in a small prototype shop was clean and oil the machines and keep track of their upkeep schedules. I still love doing that, get real satisfaction from seeing a mill all cleaned off and gleaming, ready for the next job. Thanks for letting us watch over your shoulder, it's always fun!
Years ago when my Mary asked me why do I keep things like that old sofa leather. She learned why in a hurry when I used a piece of leather like that one to repair the seat in her car and never asked me that again, LOL. I call it Keeper Junk! When an old employer of mine brought an old lathe from an auction he put it in his barn just on a heavy pallet on a dirt floor. I told him that it needs to be stored as plumb as possible. 3 years later he moved it into a new shop with a really nice concrete floor. Needless to say after that 3 years it was twisted out of shape. About .110. It had all kinds of quirks in the longitudinal travel that took another 2 years to get it straightened out. Seems the hired help may know more than the boss eh, LOL. It's been a really nice visit again Steve. Good to see you back on the tools making things right again my friend. Take care now eh!
Hey Steve, when checking accuracy of the level, I've simply taken a felt tip Sharpie, drew some lines on the plate around two sides of the level. Alcohol removes the ink
Yeah, sometimes it's not realistic to have a setup like that. I would normally use the deck of a neighboring machine. Sometimes even the deck of the machine to be leveled. Just have to use the exact position for the two 180 out positions. Check one side, note the bubble, 180, note the bubble, adjust halfway between, repeat till the bubble is offset the same amount on both 180's. And also, it's not as though those levels are always going out of adjustment. If it's out, I would inspect the level closely to see why. Someone dropped it? A burr is stuck on it? A gouge? Normally you are checking to make sure its good more than adjusting. And then, even while leveling the machine, keep doing 180's throughout.
It's Funny how at the end of this Video, you changed the gear box oil on your metal band saw. I was thinking of that when you first showed it in this video. Then next thing you said is I'm changing it... Lol. I have an old 1980s Big Lots Green Stamped Steel Frame 3.5" Band Saw that I bought new back then & changed the oil about 5 years ago.. It needed it too. But the gear box like yours was in Great shape after years of use. I've been a happy camper with it. & I also had to re tighten all the bolts & nuts on the stand. This time I used red lock tight on them. All good now. Lol.. Great Video Steve.
FINALLY some machining. It's good to see the machines. And really once we start seeing these machines in action is when we as subscribers will see just how nice the shop came out ..... as it's being used as a shop. ~looks great
If Cora hears you talking when she doesn't see anyone else in the shop, she thinks you are talking to her. She probably does the same thing if you use your phone with it to your ear. I've got a few in my furred herd that do the same thing to me. She'll figure it out eventually.
love the videos, just finished up dinner and now I get to watch this before bed. Also just bought myself a K&T 2CH thanks to you hahaha just tore into it the other day to clean it up
@@SteveSummers yes they are, the only issue I have with mine is the bevel gears for the rapid traverse are missing a few teeth so im gonna have to weld them up or something. for having never touched one before I found it quite easy to work on for the most part, a testament to the product
If you didn't want the machine to be too high off the ground, why did you put *four feet* between the base and the floor? 🤦♂ *Thank You* for the video Steve. So happy you are back on these ones again and they are greatly appreciated. 👍👍👍👍👍
Steve, I know it would mean doing all your work twice, but another washer and nut on top of the open slots at each leg will make things that much more steady. If it was a through hole, no problem, but an open slot would benefit from a little extra metal holding everything together. If for no other reason that it would just make me feel better knowing.
Steve: I enjoy your videos a great deal, especially your direct way of explaining what you're doing, it is so refreshing to focus on your content as other guys on youtube amble along so slowly. it's so straightforward. Great Job! Oh and I love Cora.
Steve, my cabinet based Harbor Freight horizontal band saw received damage when it fell over while I was trying to move it. The plastic motor end cover broke into a hundred pieces so did the motor's electrical junction box and capacitor cover. Also the plastic fan blades broke. All this plastic is very brittle and the damage occurred only after a few months of ownership, but it was on me. Since I really liked the saw, I was not going to replace these broken items with the same plastic. I went on a crusade to find replacement parts in metal. Not an easy thing to do. HB does not sell these items individually. My local electrical motor repair shops did not have inventory that fitted. Then I recalled that all these saws are replicas of one another, but with different brand names. Low and behold, JET had a full online catalog of replacement parts IN METAL that fit! The only item I had to replace in plastic, but more flexible plastic, was the fan. Installed all the new parts and it's a much improved quality item today.
26:00 Steve I didn’t even need to see that weld to know it’s good. Sounded great going in. Nothing more satisfying than laying down a bead and hearing that crisp buzz. 😎
When making things like washers, I've found that grooving first, then driliing, results in smaller burrs and of course the drill acts as a parts catcher.
Nice video, great to see you doing some machining again. Watch those strings on your sweatshirt hood. A friend of mine had a coworker killed, when the string on his hoodie sucked him into his lathe.
We must think alike. I was throwing out an old couch a few years ago and didn't want to see the good leather on the back go to waste so I cut it out, thinking I would be able to find a use for it. I think I found a use for it!
We've all got those random shop tasks we've been putting off for far too long! I bought some old eagle and goldenrod oilers with the intent of cleaning them up. Finally got around to it last night after years of tripping over the greasy box they were in!
Happy Saturday/Sunday Steve, Cora, and Grits! It always gives a fellow great satisfaction to do a bunch of little jobs that have been piling up in your mind, finally gettin round to it. Always enjoyable. I like cutting the cover off an old sofa and using the cover in the shop, brilliant!. Thanks for sharing, God Bless.
I have a lovely old British Startrite 24V10 band saw. Big brother of the one This old Tony uses. I love it and can get incredible accuracy - within a tenth! But I hate changing blades. Getting the tracking right is always a nightmare. I suspect I need to true up the tyres on the wheels.
My airline had a Do-All saw with the identical blade splicer. You are correct! It is the Cadillac of blade splicers. I never had a bad or misaligned weld.
Did you anneal the weld? I didn't see that in the video. The instructions for my Grob welder included an annealing step after welding. The current page selling the Do-All band welder states "Dual Hi/Low range annealing switch for accurate annealing temperatures."
I have that exact same saw from Harbor Freight. Only 1 complaint. The spring that sets the blade pressure binds on mine sometimes before cut. Never during cut. Just when starting it. Just have to watch it when I start out.
Yes met that oil before, it probably is a recycled oil, just went through a filter press pack to get the chunks out, then was washed to get the acid level down, then skimmed and dried. Has that funny smell, all sorts of oil bases and viscosities mixed together, barely above fuel oil cost wise.
On mine, it was my guess that the black oil in the gearbox had moly in it, which is recommended for that type of gear in brass. Good to see that Steve's regular gear oil is working out ok.
@@thedodger7030 If the stuff I met had any moly in it it would be a contaminant. Added a tiny bit in as well for brass gears, and noisy bearings, which does help, though it also makes it foam a lot.
Abom did a recent video of scraping, but it was interesting to me that his flaking was on the upper surfaces only. I wonder if leaving the bottom ways smooth, helps the wipers work better? I hope your dog gets some better bones. Leather is amazing. Even if it gets all dried out and curled up, it can be restored as long as it doesn't get moved and bent while it is dry. That breaks the fibers. I had an antique saddle restored by Burn's Saddlery in Salina Utah and they did an amazing job. They turned what looked like a lost cause into a usable working saddle with pretty much only new wool installed. Great price too. As I recall, they disassembled the whole thing and soaked it in Neetsfoot oil and stitched it all back together. I would have liked to see how much work that was. It turned out great. Is your DuAll on 3 feet and not 4? I once had an argument with my Machine Friend about 3 casters or 4 on a big tool. I went for 3 and it was fine. All wheels on the ground at all times.
I believe Steve used a foot in each corner, hence the 4 washers he parted off but I guess you are referring to the _3 points of contact_ method. Also, I like your music. ✔😁
I heard argument that’s you do not need to level your mill as long as you indicate the table correctly. I feel like that’s probably true but I leveled mine anyway. Good video buddy.
I would say that is true. it is nice to have one level IMO . On a level machine you can use a level for work setup and coolant flows to the drains properly as well,
DoAll made a blade guard so you can run a shorter blade. You would change out to the longer blade only when you needed to Saving your self a bunch of money over the long haul.
At 35:35 which we were neighbors, would have loan you my press brake head I made for #roughcut2022 :)> Great content Steve, the mill is really looking good. My chip protectors were sewn up like and accordion so they expand and retract like a spring. Only draw back is chips do tend to build up, but a quick vac does the trick :)> Best to you and families over the Holidays, Bear.
Steve - could you make way-wipers that run off compressed air and either blow the ways clear, or power a rotary brush like in a vaccuum cleaner to push chips off the ways ? Even just angling the current ones so they push chips off the side might be an improvement ?
Hey Steve, Thanks again for bringing us into your enviable shop. I especially like the Do-All saw, and have always liked the built-in blade welder. If memory serves me correctly, there is an "anneal" button on the welder and I didn't see you using it on the video? Did you perhaps do it off-screen or is it not there on your model? It's an important part of blade welding after the joint is made. Thanks again, GBD
LOL, I keep the hood up most the time to remind me that the battery is unhooked. I don't trust the mice around here to not to burn the place down with all the wire chewing they seem to get into.😄
Or just bolt the shield to the gearbox and drill the holes vertically then you can have a full width clamp bar instead of all that loose stuff on each side.
Love your videos and all the machinery. Can you tell me what brand of snap center punch you are using in this video. It sounds like it works well it has a crisp snap to it. Thank you
Late is better than never 🙂
The Price is Still Right!!!
Definitely throwing me off though. Thanks for another great video Steve.
I was getting concerned about you!😁 Another great video, thanks for sharing!
I never knew how to calibrate a machine level that way. Great video Steve. Hello Cora shop supervisor.
You got that leather from a couch, huh? You sure you didn’t get it from some bedroom lingerie, did you? The wife might get a little upset with you cutting it up. 🥰🤣
Cora shows you so much love, it is so nice that she found you and you brought her in to your life! She is a very fortunate pup.
Thanks for another great video.
Being an old surveyor, I have leveled thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of surveyor's levels for use in the field using the four leveling screws. While not nearly as precise as a machinist's precision level, the process of being leveled is still the same in my opinion. Level a 4-point object across the diagonals. Leveling perpendicular front to back on a 4-point object, you can (and will) chase your tail for quite a while. (I agree 3-points are easier, but that's not what you have, but think; with three points, you are still leveling mostly across the supports) This has to be similar for any object to be leveled, regardless of precision. Just my two cents.
One of the lab instruments I service has 5 feet. 2 in the front 3 at the back . The front right foot is not adjustable and the leveling is done using the rear center and front left feet. When the instrument is level , the 2 remaining rear feet are adjusted to touch the bench top.
The whole thing weighs 280kg.
@@paulg3336, Sounds like a fun time. Lol
I as well have worked in civil engineering and I agree with the simplicity of the three-point leveling system, but the new transits are much simpler.
@@fiorevitola880 I totally agree. But prior to their development, I carried a 30 lb transit on a wooden tripod (probably oak) for years over many miles. Ahhh, the good old days.
@@paulg3336 That's the way I level my floor drill press. I use the rear 2 feet and 1 in front like a 3 point, then snug up the other front foot.
Nice work today. Thank you
Nice job on everything. Have missed some episodes due to Ian. Can't thank you enough for all you share. ❤ . Till next week stay safe.
Maintenance never gets priority so I'm glad to see you making the time! One of the tasks I did as an apprentice in a small prototype shop was clean and oil the machines and keep track of their upkeep schedules. I still love doing that, get real satisfaction from seeing a mill all cleaned off and gleaming, ready for the next job. Thanks for letting us watch over your shoulder, it's always fun!
you are my morning tea..
Years ago when my Mary asked me why do I keep things like that old sofa leather. She learned why in a hurry when I used a piece of leather like that one to repair the seat in her car and never asked me that again, LOL. I call it Keeper Junk! When an old employer of mine brought an old lathe from an auction he put it in his barn just on a heavy pallet on a dirt floor. I told him that it needs to be stored as plumb as possible. 3 years later he moved it into a new shop with a really nice concrete floor. Needless to say after that 3 years it was twisted out of shape. About .110. It had all kinds of quirks in the longitudinal travel that took another 2 years to get it straightened out. Seems the hired help may know more than the boss eh, LOL. It's been a really nice visit again Steve. Good to see you back on the tools making things right again my friend. Take care now eh!
Thank you for sharing. Very much enjoyed.🐶👍👀
I would have never thought to use leather. Brilliant
I greatly enjoy you videos.
I love Cora. She reminds me of my first dog.
Hey Steve, when checking accuracy of the level, I've simply taken a felt tip Sharpie, drew some lines on the plate around two sides of the level.
Alcohol removes the ink
Yeah, sometimes it's not realistic to have a setup like that. I would normally use the deck of a neighboring machine. Sometimes even the deck of the machine to be leveled.
Just have to use the exact position for the two 180 out positions. Check one side, note the bubble, 180, note the bubble, adjust halfway between, repeat till the bubble is offset the same amount on both 180's.
And also, it's not as though those levels are always going out of adjustment. If it's out, I would inspect the level closely to see why. Someone dropped it? A burr is stuck on it? A gouge? Normally you are checking to make sure its good more than adjusting.
And then, even while leveling the machine, keep doing 180's throughout.
I'm so glad that you are feeling much better. Glad you are back.
It's Funny how at the end of this Video, you changed the gear box oil on your metal band saw.
I was thinking of that when you first showed it in this video. Then next thing you said is I'm changing it...
Lol.
I have an old 1980s Big Lots Green Stamped Steel Frame 3.5" Band Saw that I bought new back then & changed the oil about 5 years ago..
It needed it too. But the gear box like yours was in Great shape after years of use.
I've been a happy camper with it.
& I also had to re tighten all the bolts & nuts on the stand.
This time I used red lock tight on them.
All good now. Lol..
Great Video Steve.
Good to see you back on the machines, From Down Under
Glad your feeling better
There should be an anneal button on that DoAll blade welder which will let you soften the weld so it won’t break as easily.
There is. I was wondering why he apparently didn’t use it.
Steve, try a polarizer filter on your camera when looking out the window, you can cancel a lot of the reflection by adjusting the polarizer.
You can get a roll of polarized film made for car windows, if you care to limit how much light comes in the window.
There.
Now I can meet the weeks challenges refreshed and revitalized!
Touch & go there for a bit though.
I learned something today. Thanks Steve. 👍
A good way to do gage blocks is go backwards with the number of stack size you want. Makes it real easy. Thx
Oh yeah and... You tha Man Steve!
Cora the best little shop dog you can have. 😃
I really like that dog.
FINALLY some machining. It's good to see the machines. And really once we start seeing these machines in action is when we as subscribers will see just how nice the shop came out ..... as it's being used as a shop. ~looks great
Stay safe and we'll see you next week.
Redressing after the first four have been "roughed in" then finish ginging is a smart way of maintaining accuracy.
If Cora hears you talking when she doesn't see anyone else in the shop, she thinks you are talking to her. She probably does the same thing if you use your phone with it to your ear. I've got a few in my furred herd that do the same thing to me. She'll figure it out eventually.
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving with family Steve. Cora is always on the spot to lend a helping paw. Keep up the good work.
love the videos, just finished up dinner and now I get to watch this before bed. Also just bought myself a K&T 2CH thanks to you hahaha just tore into it the other day to clean it up
That is awesome. I was cleaning mine up a bit today as well . They are fantastic machines.
@@SteveSummers yes they are, the only issue I have with mine is the bevel gears for the rapid traverse are missing a few teeth so im gonna have to weld them up or something. for having never touched one before I found it quite easy to work on for the most part, a testament to the product
If you didn't want the machine to be too high off the ground, why did you put *four feet* between the base and the floor? 🤦♂
*Thank You* for the video Steve. So happy you are back on these ones again and they are greatly appreciated. 👍👍👍👍👍
Love your concentration level and expertise, it gives all of us closet machinist hope.
Good job on the DoAll mill. Now it can Do All you want on it!
s always enjoy you videos.
Steve, I know it would mean doing all your work twice, but another washer and nut on top of the open slots at each leg will make things that much more steady. If it was a through hole, no problem, but an open slot would benefit from a little extra metal holding everything together. If for no other reason that it would just make me feel better knowing.
Steve: I enjoy your videos a great deal, especially your direct way of explaining what you're doing, it is so refreshing to focus on your content as other guys on youtube amble along so slowly. it's so straightforward. Great Job! Oh and I love Cora.
Steve, my cabinet based Harbor Freight horizontal band saw received damage when it fell over while I was trying to move it. The plastic motor end cover broke into a hundred pieces so did the motor's electrical junction box and capacitor cover. Also the plastic fan blades broke. All this plastic is very brittle and the damage occurred only after a few months of ownership, but it was on me. Since I really liked the saw, I was not going to replace these broken items with the same plastic. I went on a crusade to find replacement parts in metal. Not an easy thing to do. HB does not sell these items individually. My local electrical motor repair shops did not have inventory that fitted. Then I recalled that all these saws are replicas of one another, but with different brand names. Low and behold, JET had a full online catalog of replacement parts IN METAL that fit! The only item I had to replace in plastic, but more flexible plastic, was the fan. Installed all the new parts and it's a much improved quality item today.
Cora is such a sweetheart!
26:00 Steve I didn’t even need to see that weld to know it’s good. Sounded great going in. Nothing more satisfying than laying down a bead and hearing that crisp buzz. 😎
That good sizzle is all it takes😄
When making things like washers, I've found that grooving first, then driliing, results in smaller burrs and of course the drill acts as a parts catcher.
good to see you back at the machine work
I used a band-saw blade welder back in college. Very nice and not a steep learning curve.
In first! Love this content the most. New/old machines FTW!
Nice machine.
Steve you can tig weld hss steel and use old drill bits as welding rods. I use this technique to add hard edges and making lathe tooling.
The HSS still keeps its hardness, or at least enough of it? That's amazing
@caseysmith1718 yes its hard after cooling . You can weld hss pieces to end of steel rods for custom boring bars, i use them for o-rings and threads
A set of aircraft drill bits have the extended length that you need. Might be something to look into.
The problem being is with "Aircraft" in the description the price skyrockets pun definitely intended lol
Nice video, great to see you doing some machining again. Watch those strings on your sweatshirt hood. A friend of mine had a coworker killed, when the string on his hoodie sucked him into his lathe.
Steve. Extended length drills are available in all sizes from many companies such as Aircraft Spruce and Specialties in Georgia.
Teasing us with the hood open on the pickup with your old engine sitting out front?
Great work. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing that simple level calibration method!
Good stuff
as usual very cool videos, your channel is an inspiration to the rest of us RUclips folks... Keep the videos coming..
We must think alike. I was throwing out an old couch a few years ago and didn't want to see the good leather on the back go to waste so I cut it out, thinking I would be able to find a use for it. I think I found a use for it!
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everything looks OILright now nice to see you DO ALL your own maintenance and stay LEVEL headed
Thanks for sharing. Always enjoyable to see what you are up to.
We've all got those random shop tasks we've been putting off for far too long! I bought some old eagle and goldenrod oilers with the intent of cleaning them up. Finally got around to it last night after years of tripping over the greasy box they were in!
Happy Saturday/Sunday Steve, Cora, and Grits! It always gives a fellow great satisfaction to do a bunch of little jobs that have been piling up in your mind, finally gettin round to it. Always enjoyable. I like cutting the cover off an old sofa and using the cover in the shop, brilliant!. Thanks for sharing, God Bless.
I loved the tightening of the saw blade based on the tone when strummed!
Good very early Sunday morning from the UK! :)
I have a lovely old British Startrite 24V10 band saw. Big brother of the one This old Tony uses. I love it and can get incredible accuracy - within a tenth! But I hate changing blades. Getting the tracking right is always a nightmare. I suspect I need to true up the tyres on the wheels.
Love the sight glass idea on the gear box on the cutoff saw.
What's the status on the big bandsaw project you were working on before the building repair?
Good evening Steve
Good evening!
LOL. Well would you look at that?!! Well played, Sir.
Good
My airline had a Do-All saw with the identical blade splicer. You are correct! It is the Cadillac of blade splicers. I never had a bad or misaligned weld.
Did you anneal the weld? I didn't see that in the video. The instructions for my Grob welder included an annealing step after welding. The current page selling the Do-All band welder states "Dual Hi/Low range annealing switch for accurate annealing temperatures."
Yes, this machine has the annealing feature.
Those cutters should be worth a bunch of "atta boys", just remember : it only takes one "OHOH" to wipe out all of them.
Steve, nice "hole" you've burned into the grinder spark guard! 😳🤦♂️🤣
I have that exact same saw from Harbor Freight. Only 1 complaint. The spring that sets the blade pressure binds on mine sometimes before cut. Never during cut. Just when starting it. Just have to watch it when I start out.
Steve i got a Milwauke right angle drill 18v, tight spots pretty accesible swear by it mate, up to 10mm or 3/8 chuck
AM or PM. It's all good.
I swap out "disintegrator" blades like that a couple times a year, Mine are about 12" long , which makes setting blade clearance a real treat.
Try 680 locktite for drill extension. It works great . Tap extension as well .
Evening Steve😁
Yes met that oil before, it probably is a recycled oil, just went through a filter press pack to get the chunks out, then was washed to get the acid level down, then skimmed and dried. Has that funny smell, all sorts of oil bases and viscosities mixed together, barely above fuel oil cost wise.
On mine, it was my guess that the black oil in the gearbox had moly in it, which is recommended for that type of gear in brass. Good to see that Steve's regular gear oil is working out ok.
@@thedodger7030 If the stuff I met had any moly in it it would be a contaminant. Added a tiny bit in as well for brass gears, and noisy bearings, which does help, though it also makes it foam a lot.
Better later than not at all!!!!!!
Abom did a recent video of scraping, but it was interesting to me that his flaking was on the upper surfaces only. I wonder if leaving the bottom ways smooth, helps the wipers work better? I hope your dog gets some better bones. Leather is amazing. Even if it gets all dried out and curled up, it can be restored as long as it doesn't get moved and bent while it is dry. That breaks the fibers. I had an antique saddle restored by Burn's Saddlery in Salina Utah and they did an amazing job. They turned what looked like a lost cause into a usable working saddle with pretty much only new wool installed. Great price too.
As I recall, they disassembled the whole thing and soaked it in Neetsfoot oil and stitched it all back together. I would have liked to see how much work that was. It turned out great. Is your DuAll on 3 feet and not 4? I once had an argument with my Machine Friend about 3 casters or 4 on a big tool. I went for 3 and it was fine. All wheels on the ground at all times.
I believe Steve used a foot in each corner, hence the 4 washers he parted off but I guess you are referring to the _3 points of contact_ method. Also, I like your music. ✔😁
Making a drill extension no need to silver solder them in, super glue the small one in.
You need to make a few of those round tuits to keep around. Never can tell when they will be handy.
You can fill the scores with JB Weld and then level it off to the surrounding surface. It will allow the wiper to wipe better.
I heard argument that’s you do not need to level your mill as long as you indicate the table correctly. I feel like that’s probably true but I leveled mine anyway. Good video buddy.
I would say that is true. it is nice to have one level IMO . On a level machine you can use a level for work setup and coolant flows to the drains properly as well,
The way oil also flows along the surfaces of the machine how it should if the machine is level.
An automatic band saw blade sharpener would be a great project for someone to design & make, to attach to your tool & cutter grinder.
good video steve
DoAll made a blade guard so you can run a shorter blade. You would change out to the longer blade only when you needed to
Saving your self a bunch of money over the long haul.
Lol 😂just high enough to get a broom under. I always found that what I just dropped almost always finds it way under there and hides on me. 😂
At 35:35 which we were neighbors, would have loan you my press brake head I made for #roughcut2022 :)> Great content Steve, the mill is really looking good. My chip protectors were sewn up like and accordion so they expand and retract like a spring. Only draw back is chips do tend to build up, but a quick vac does the trick :)> Best to you and families over the Holidays, Bear.
Keep up the maintenance on Cora, just like you're doing. She's definitely a luv bug ain't she?
Sure would like to you get back on the DoAll band saw.
Steve - could you make way-wipers that run off compressed air and either blow the ways clear, or power a rotary brush like in a vaccuum cleaner to push chips off the ways ? Even just angling the current ones so they push chips off the side might be an improvement ?
Hey Steve,
Thanks again for bringing us into your enviable shop. I especially like the Do-All saw, and have always liked the built-in blade welder. If memory serves me correctly, there is an "anneal" button on the welder and I didn't see you using it on the video? Did you perhaps do it off-screen or is it not there on your model? It's an important part of blade welding after the joint is made.
Thanks again,
GBD
Are you annealing the weld on the blade after you weld it?
I see the hood is up on the truck. Must be putting the tunnel ram on. 🙂
LOL, I keep the hood up most the time to remind me that the battery is unhooked. I don't trust the mice around here to not to burn the place down with all the wire chewing they seem to get into.😄
Don't think for one second we have forgotten about the DoAll horizontal bandsaw. The harbor freight one does not have enough meat on it. :)
**warning** Gumbee Dance at 54:05... ;-) HAVE A GOOD DAY STEVE, NICE VID
Or just bolt the shield to the gearbox and drill the holes vertically then you can have a full width clamp bar instead of all that loose stuff on each side.
Love your videos and all the machinery. Can you tell me what brand of snap center punch you are using in this video. It sounds like it works well it has a crisp snap to it. Thank you
Please watch those hoodie pull strings around the lathe. Would hate to see something avoidable happen. Great job!
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Didn't you have a larger horizontal saw you were working on a couple years back?