Looks good !! I love to see my students TEACH....I ask my students to teach to pass on the lost art that my Dad taught me and the German Journeyman taught him. Generations of knowledge passed down. Rich
Richard King Great to see you here Richard! We’re trying to share what we’ve been learning. Hope you enjoyed and always looking for good ideas on good useful info to share on video.
Awesome!! I agree, it's not hard to get started with minimal tools. My first scraping project was the same as Lance's. Scraping two surfaces parallel for the first time is such an awesome feeling of accomplishment.
Mr. Baltzley. I never known that scraping was a thing until I subscribed to Adams channel. My hat is off to you with such beautiful work. As you said one factor to leave oil passage and other uses. Thanks Adam for sharing
I was an apprentice in the Victorian railways 35 years ago we spent the first year learning how to file and scrape. I love these videos just wish there were more of them
i would enjoy more on scraping. its one of those things i really want to do but just cant seem to get around to it. having more videos of the basics like this helps wear down my excuses...
over 40,000 views! How'd have thought that a scraping video would get so much attention. You and RUclips may help save traditional machining methods from disappearing forever! Love the content, keep it going.
It sure is great to see another video with Lance. I love his work. He really is clear with his explanations. I have a pair of his precision ground stones and use them all the time. They are one of my favorite support tools.
Damnit lance I’m so interested in scraping and learning how, it’s about time we get to see more of your work. Love the both of you. Thank you guys for collaborating on this video, great stuff. Nick from Pittsburgh.
Another process I'd never even heard of. Learning so much watching your channel, Adam. Even as someone who's not doing any machining at all, it's truly fascinating to learn about these processes. Keep up the great content!
Hey Adam love the video I'm a new subscriber. I have 17 years rebuilding machine tools. I was more field service but know all about scraping. It's great seeing someone putting videos out there on it. I own my own business now out of Houston and would love to chat with you privately. My passion is repairing and bringing old Machinery back to life.
Thanks to you both for putting together a great start up video. Specifics on scraping would be nice, but more examples of ways to measure and correct and plan for correcting geometry would be excellent. As you mentioned Keith has many scraping videos, but showing examples of correcting alignment or showing how to measure for alignment would be of great help. I have a good grasp of alignment basics, but seeing other peoples methods really helps to expand your horizons. I was so impressed with the idea of using the magnetic cylinder square to show square on the box. I just have never had one at my disposal, so I had never thought about it. Great work, thanks again. R.J.
I worked at a machine shop as a kid (20) and I scraped the 16 inch diameter cylinders that held ywo huge grinding wheels for parallel grinding I believe...I used brown and black crayon looking markers and moved the cylinders in there bore (quite a big process) then took it back apart and scraped the color that rubbed from one to the other until the match was was like a checker board ( more or less )...fun slow process...
As a homeshop machinest with a 1950 model lathe i am happy to stay within .001 to .0005 thousandths of an inch! I will probably never get that serious. Great video Abom. I do work with machinery that is scraped, and the oiling of the the ways are the most important part.
Great video, guys! I was there at Keith’s shop with you both in 2017, and I still learned things from this video session-I hope you’ll do more. Thanks for reigniting the scraping bug in me again!
Tom with your scraping skills it's a shame that you don't have a RUclips channel showing that amazing South Bend restoration... Everyone look him up on Instagram as KingTutley.....
I can scrape ok using the stiffer scrapers. I actually prefer how they feel. Cool seeing some of Lance's scraping aids as well as metrology tools for qualifying the work done. I have a lot of scraping to do if I ever get around to it.
I have a Biax power flaker, which works really nice. My mentor, who was a machine tool rebuilder for over 60 years, would always say that I was cheating when I used it, but he would borrow it from me whenever he had a big job to do. Interesting to me how their are actually many techniques used to do scraping, but they all accomplish the same results. Great job guys.
I just came across this one ( I'm way behind on videos ). Great to see Lance again and talking scraping. I took the November, 2017 class at Keith Rucker's place and Lance helped me a lot. Since then I've been tooling up, even landing a Biax off of eBay. Now, if I could get more time ... Regards, Jeff from IL
I just bought 2 biax with a bunch of blades and some straight edges. Don’t even have hand scrapers. Im gonna jump into an angle plate scrape. Thanks for the encouragement!
I love the references to the Moore book, "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" My well read copy is 40 years old! I'm a retired Precision Engineer, originally working at Professional Instruments here in MN. I spent the majority of my career at 3M working in optics mastering and metrology.. Lance's ref to high ppi project is well considered. I had a very large SIP jig grinder built for special purpose several years ago. The ways were scraped to >60ppi to achieve a surface finish, not just machine longevity. The Swiss Craftsman that built this machine were amazing. Precision grinding and air bearing slides are steadily killing the use of precision scrapeing, but it is a skill that is critical to preserve. You might find a visit to Prof Instruments to be equally fascinating. Drop me a note if you'd like to set this up.
Thanks for the video. As far as scraping goes, what I would find most helpful would be.to see a.small job.from start to finish. This would include all of the measurements and the decisions made from those measurements. This would be extremely helpful to those scraping at home. Thank you again for the info.
Fantastic video! Would love to see what advice you have for bluing and yellow highlighting. Maybe a bit about the stoning of burrs too. Thanks for sharing!
@@Abom79 Credit where it's due my friend. I weighed 296 at 5'9", My wife weighed 280 at 5'4" just 2 months ago...now we're both down to 260! and still going. Though, I didn't start my weight loss from your weight loss, it's a motivating factor every SNS episode. every intro, I have to rewind to see your intro because you outstandingly different, each time. I showed my wife and she said..."WOW, that's a man with with a plan", then I gave her a napkin to dry out her drool and turned the video off on her...LOL. But ya know what's cool? You have video of of your progressive weight loss, and i say this with all seriousness after seeing your results. Were your parents Super heroes? LOL.
Lance, Adam, that was a very helpful video for someone just getting into this (me). I’m not gonna be buying a Biax just yet but I am gonna get some practice with the scraper I’m building as I watch this. Thanks!
To learn to scrape .the best way is to use the Whitworth three plates method . When I started my apprenticeship in 1965 in the firms apprentice training workshop ,we were issued with three 6 inch square x 1 inch thick cast iron blocks . The blocks had to be scraped testing one block to another in a complicated procedure until all the blocks were perfectly flat without using a surface plate anywhere in the procedure .One of the blocks was submitted to the instructor to see if you had achieved perfect flatness .If people are interested in having a go at this , enter Whitworth three plates method on Google and full instructions can be found (engineering blue is needed to test the plates)
Watched this a few times now. Picking up more comments, getting more enthused to try this. There was mention of plans for the custom built scraper and making them available. Are you chaps planning to do that? Heck even a photo of a whiteboard sketch would be great. Remember to suggest materials if stock standard “mild steel” is not the best/recommended option. Cheers, James (NZ)
Excellent vid Adam! I've heard Lance's name but wasn't familiar with his work. There's so much smoke and talk around scraping, as if there is a right way or a wrong way to do it, but in my very limited experience, it's more about whether you're getting the results you want and whether those results could be happening a little bit faster or not. Keep up the great content. I especially like the hand work vids (scraping, filing, and lapping) because most anyone could spend some time, attention, and tenacity and produce something truly extraordinary with very little.
I spied a Creality CR-10 printer in the second workshop area. Shouldn't need much scraping on the finished prints if the slicer profiles are set up right 😁
I'm very interested in this. I own 3x Amco 3850 lathes, 2x Procut VBG and 3x old VBG red lathes. All of them have ware in the dovetails to varying degrees which is becoming a problem. I've been tempted to try scraping them, but haven't been brave enough to attempt it yet. If this becomes a series, I'd be very interested in following along.
Great video, would like to see more. Love all the tools and straightedges you have. I took the March 2020 Richard King scraping class in Detroit but haven’t done any scraping since. I think this video might give me the incentive to get off my rear end and get back into it.
Thinking a bit far out, but I could see these skills becoming very important when we get to a point where we are colonizing the moon or Mars. It would be impractical and expensive to haul a mill or lathe to remote locations like this. However once a little basic metal refining gets established, one of the first things that will be required are flat surfaces for building machine tools on site.
Would love to see some blueing I have an old Atlas lathe that could really use some work. I don’t need anything fancy just enough info to get it back to home shop standard. I can’t part off at the moment as it just picks the tool post up and digs in. Great video guys.
Good video! I have a craftsman lathe with a funky compound slide I would like to scrape but I realize it would be a terrible first project. Can you make a “your first scraping project” video? Is the “durabar” material good for a first time project?
Great video!!!.. I'm hoping you guys do more videos on this and other subjects as you seem to work well together. The down side is between you and Keith you're probably going to drive the price of those fancy Biax scrapers up! lol
This is very interesting, would like to see more about the "flaking" technique. You mentioned about resurfacing the granite top, that would be really interesting to see. Great video with lots of great info. Cheers :)
Great stuff! It would be great if you could do a video on an easy way to measure the wear on lathe ways. I have a 10ee that cuts great. I’m just curious to know how much wear it has.
Some really great information here, especially about how scraping provides a pocketed fluid interface with a lower coefficient of friction for shaper and other machine ways. The audio was a bit uneven. The pacing and dialogue was slow, making most of the video better at 2x speed. Thanks for explaining beginning technique and general usefulness.
Great video! I'd love to see the process behind scraping in the ways on a milling machine for example. The process behind mirroring both ways, how to adjust to achieve parallelism or perpendicularity etc
Thank you for doing this. I would like to start scraping on a small scale. Could you show us how to make a hand scraper so I could get started on small things like the small angle plate you showed and the small right angle plates.
I would love to see something on scraping the ways on a lathe. I have a south bend lathe that was made in 1939 that I use regularly in my shop. It's still very usable but could be better. I actually rescued it from a local scrapper. I want to keep it and other old iron alive and in use in my shop. I want to be able to pass these down to my son one day.
Scraping is a true art form, keep it alive. -- A question for Adam: I notice when you drill holes on your lathe the drill goes into the hole without moving off-center. Many of the more amature machinest on RUclips seem to have a problem aligning the hole with the drill. How does this happen?
If you see a drill bit adjust when it hits the pre-centered hole on a lathe it is caused by malalignment, usually due to wear on the tailstock and the ways under the tailstock. Generally this causes the tailstock to be tipped forward toward the headstock. It's very noticeable with longer drill bits.
What is difference between scraping and jeweling? Is scraping for lage industrial applications and jeweling for smaller mot intricate applications? I believe both applications are designed to retain lubrication and reduce surface contact.
The way I understand all of this is "jeweling" is strictly cosmetic and eye appeal. Look at pictures of the cowl on "The Spirit of St. Louis" which is jeweled.. I have seen pictures of auto dash boards that have been jeweled. Scraping is removing material to make a part flat or at an angle or parallel to another surface. Scraping can be more precise than grinding. I have not done any scraping but in watching the videos about scraping that is what has come across.
I have the same issue my schaublin vm120 has wear on the bed near the chuck , i dont have a surface plate but i can get a straight edge would that be enough to scrap in the bed of my lathe.
Looks good !! I love to see my students TEACH....I ask my students to teach to pass on the lost art that my Dad taught me and the German Journeyman taught him. Generations of knowledge passed down. Rich
Richard King Great to see you here Richard! We’re trying to share what we’ve been learning. Hope you enjoyed and always looking for good ideas on good useful info to share on video.
Richard, when are we going to see the official King-Way machine tool rebuilding RUclips series?
Tank you guys. I could watch and listen all day about mashining and welding. It‘s soothing me like watching an aquarium.
This "IS" what we nerd out to.
Cheers
Rick Palechuk . Never looked at it that way, but he nailed it with that line....
Cheers!
Whipple
Awesome!! I agree, it's not hard to get started with minimal tools. My first scraping project was the same as Lance's. Scraping two surfaces parallel for the first time is such an awesome feeling of accomplishment.
Great collaboration video guys. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. You guys have inspired myself and many others.
Mr. Baltzley. I never known that scraping was a thing until I subscribed to Adams channel. My hat is off to you with such beautiful work. As you said one factor to leave oil passage and other uses. Thanks Adam for sharing
I was an apprentice in the Victorian railways 35 years ago we spent the first year learning how to file and scrape. I love these videos just wish there were more of them
Adam excellent, thank you Lance for sharing this. I'm firm believer that knowledge is wasted unless shared. Again thank you
Adam, this is the kind of video I prefer: those where I learn something. That's why I enjoy your channel!
i would enjoy more on scraping. its one of those things i really want to do but just cant seem to get around to it. having more videos of the basics like this helps wear down my excuses...
Great job,Thanks. It's amazing to me that the accuracy we find in machinery can trace its roots to something done by hand.
A most interesting & informative video. Thank-you Adam & Lance for your time & effort, you turned up the light of knowledge with this one.
over 40,000 views! How'd have thought that a scraping video would get so much attention. You and RUclips may help save traditional machining methods from disappearing forever! Love the content, keep it going.
Please, more videos on this topic. Very informative.
It sure is great to see another video with Lance. I love his work. He really is clear with his explanations. I have a pair of his precision ground stones and use them all the time. They are one of my favorite support tools.
I love Lance's attitude - he's always so reserved with what he does and doesnt know. Smart guys are always unsure, dumb guys are always certain.
Just when I though I knew it all.....a whole new wold of discovery. I love these guys. Dedicated to achieving perfection.
a very helping video for beginners like me. Thanks for sharing. Abom79 has always interesting contents in his channel!
Great video Adam & Lance👍. I definitely enjoyed it.
Steve Summers Thanks Steve!
Thank you Steve, keep up the great content.... I watch every video you make!
Any man who drinks San Pellegrino in his shop is my kind of man. It's the water of the discerning toolmaker!
A Vet that works metal, wish I was closer to Gainesville, I’d bring my dog in for a checkup and talk machining.
Damnit lance I’m so interested in scraping and learning how, it’s about time we get to see more of your work. Love the both of you. Thank you guys for collaborating on this video, great stuff.
Nick from Pittsburgh.
I'm in Nagoya Japan and today I will attend a scraping class at the Mazak museum. I remembered this video so wanted to watch it to get a head-start!
Another process I'd never even heard of. Learning so much watching your channel, Adam. Even as someone who's not doing any machining at all, it's truly fascinating to learn about these processes. Keep up the great content!
Really interesting, it's great you guys are getting this almost lost art out there. Flat and square things really are quite rare.
Hey Adam love the video I'm a new subscriber. I have 17 years rebuilding machine tools. I was more field service but know all about scraping. It's great seeing someone putting videos out there on it. I own my own business now out of Houston and would love to chat with you privately. My passion is repairing and bringing old Machinery back to life.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to more scraping videos
Thanks to you both for putting together a great start up video. Specifics on scraping would be nice, but more examples of ways to measure and correct and plan for correcting geometry would be excellent. As you mentioned Keith has many scraping videos, but showing examples of correcting alignment or showing how to measure for alignment would be of great help. I have a good grasp of alignment basics, but seeing other peoples methods really helps to expand your horizons. I was so impressed with the idea of using the magnetic cylinder square to show square on the box. I just have never had one at my disposal, so I had never thought about it. Great work, thanks again. R.J.
Would love to see more, maybe a series? Would really love that !
Great video Adam and Lance....would love to see more.
Enjoyed Lance and Adam!
ATB, Robin
ROBRENZ Thanks Robin!
Thank you Robin, always appreciate your help, mentorship and opinions. Your positive comments mean a lot!
I worked at a machine shop as a kid (20) and I scraped the 16 inch diameter cylinders that held ywo huge grinding wheels for parallel grinding I believe...I used brown and black crayon looking markers and moved the cylinders in there bore (quite a big process) then took it back apart and scraped the color that rubbed from one to the other until the match was was like a checker board ( more or less )...fun slow process...
Very interesting, thanks for the introduction. I always had an interest in machine Scraping.
Thanks Lance for sharing your knowledge on this . . .
Cool toys and reloading equipment in the background?! This is clearly the coolest shop ever!
Thanks for making this video. Look to maby doing this!! To fix old machine's
Hi Adam and Lance - Thank you both for this video. More videos on these topics would be great! Please :)
Fascinating video, I'd be happy to see more.
As a homeshop machinest with a 1950 model lathe i am happy to stay within .001 to .0005 thousandths of an inch! I will probably never get that serious. Great video Abom. I do work with machinery that is scraped, and the oiling of the the ways are the most important part.
Great video, guys! I was there at Keith’s shop with you both in 2017, and I still learned things from this video session-I hope you’ll do more. Thanks for reigniting the scraping bug in me again!
Tom with your scraping skills it's a shame that you don't have a RUclips channel showing that amazing South Bend restoration... Everyone look him up on Instagram as KingTutley.....
Holy Cow Lance you got a lotta cool toys!
Just what doctor has ordered Cheers you two from West Australia!
I can scrape ok using the stiffer scrapers. I actually prefer how they feel. Cool seeing some of Lance's scraping aids as well as metrology tools for qualifying the work done. I have a lot of scraping to do if I ever get around to it.
I have a Biax power flaker, which works really nice. My mentor, who was a machine tool rebuilder for over 60 years, would always say that I was cheating when I used it, but he would borrow it from me whenever he had a big job to do. Interesting to me how their are actually many techniques used to do scraping, but they all accomplish the same results. Great job guys.
Love it - more please.
I just came across this one ( I'm way behind on videos ). Great to see Lance again and talking scraping. I took the November, 2017 class at Keith Rucker's place and Lance helped me a lot. Since then I've been tooling up, even landing a Biax off of eBay. Now, if I could get more time ... Regards, Jeff from IL
I just bought 2 biax with a bunch of blades and some straight edges. Don’t even have hand scrapers. Im gonna jump into an angle plate scrape. Thanks for the encouragement!
Lance & Adam, Great & informative video thanks for sharing.!.!.!.
Thank you, enjoyed very much.
I love the references to the Moore book, "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" My well read copy is 40 years old!
I'm a retired Precision Engineer, originally working at Professional Instruments here in MN.
I spent the majority of my career at 3M working in optics mastering and metrology..
Lance's ref to high ppi project is well considered. I had a very large SIP jig grinder built for special purpose several years ago. The ways were scraped to >60ppi to achieve a surface finish, not just machine longevity. The Swiss Craftsman that built this machine were amazing.
Precision grinding and air bearing slides are steadily killing the use of precision scrapeing, but it is a skill that is critical to preserve.
You might find a visit to Prof Instruments to be equally fascinating. Drop me a note if you'd like to set this up.
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Nerds. I don't even own a piece of machinery or probably will ever do any scraping.
Still great to watch.
Thanks for the video. As far as scraping goes, what I would find most helpful would be.to see a.small job.from start to finish. This would include all of the measurements and the decisions made from those measurements. This would be extremely helpful to those scraping at home. Thank you again for the info.
Classic American Gunsmith Yep, we’ll be working more towards videos like this for my video library. 👍🏻
Nice job guys, I would like to see more details especially about measuring and blueing dovetails etc
Barry Daly We’ve discussed making more videos that are more subject specific on the topic, such as “how to Blue a part” as an example.
Flaking techniques would be a nice topic to cover.
Cheers Zed
I’d be scared to sneeze in that shop for fear of throwing something out. Great knowledge to share.
enjoyed....honestly I would watch my two friends even if you were talking about why the sky is blue....great info and super collection
Love ya Chuck! Thanks buddy!
Fantastic video! Would love to see what advice you have for bluing and yellow highlighting. Maybe a bit about the stoning of burrs too.
Thanks for sharing!
Jesus gripes, Abom is looking good, when he turns sideways he disappears.way to go 👍
He's turning into Agrenade
Adam is looking great. Keep it up Abom!
Will look even better when he starts using a proper sized t-shirt. ;)
eddie Towers Thanks! 😁
@@Abom79 Credit where it's due my friend. I weighed 296 at 5'9", My wife weighed 280 at 5'4" just 2 months ago...now we're both down to 260! and still going. Though, I didn't start my weight loss from your weight loss, it's a motivating factor every SNS episode. every intro, I have to rewind to see your intro because you outstandingly different, each time. I showed my wife and she said..."WOW, that's a man with with a plan", then I gave her a napkin to dry out her drool and turned the video off on her...LOL. But ya know what's cool? You have video of of your progressive weight loss, and i say this with all seriousness after seeing your results. Were your parents Super heroes? LOL.
Lance, Adam, that was a very helpful video for someone just getting into this (me). I’m not gonna be buying a Biax just yet but I am gonna get some practice with the scraper I’m building as I watch this. Thanks!
Very interesting Adam and Lance.
To learn to scrape .the best way is to use the Whitworth three plates method . When I started my apprenticeship in 1965
in the firms apprentice training workshop ,we were issued with three 6 inch square x 1 inch thick cast iron blocks .
The blocks had to be scraped testing one block to another in a complicated procedure until all the blocks were
perfectly flat without using a surface plate anywhere in the procedure .One of the blocks was submitted to the instructor
to see if you had achieved perfect flatness .If people are interested in having a go at this , enter Whitworth three plates method
on Google and full instructions can be found (engineering blue is needed to test the plates)
Watched this a few times now. Picking up more comments, getting more enthused to try this. There was mention of plans for the custom built scraper and making them available. Are you chaps planning to do that? Heck even a photo of a whiteboard sketch would be great. Remember to suggest materials if stock standard “mild steel” is not the best/recommended option.
Cheers,
James (NZ)
Excellent vid Adam! I've heard Lance's name but wasn't familiar with his work. There's so much smoke and talk around scraping, as if there is a right way or a wrong way to do it, but in my very limited experience, it's more about whether you're getting the results you want and whether those results could be happening a little bit faster or not. Keep up the great content. I especially like the hand work vids (scraping, filing, and lapping) because most anyone could spend some time, attention, and tenacity and produce something truly extraordinary with very little.
I spied a Creality CR-10 printer in the second workshop area. Shouldn't need much scraping on the finished prints if the slicer profiles are set up right 😁
I'm very interested in this. I own 3x Amco 3850 lathes, 2x Procut VBG and 3x old VBG red lathes. All of them have ware in the dovetails to varying degrees which is becoming a problem. I've been tempted to try scraping them, but haven't been brave enough to attempt it yet. If this becomes a series, I'd be very interested in following along.
Great video, would like to see more. Love all the tools and straightedges you have. I took the March 2020 Richard King scraping class in Detroit but haven’t done any scraping since. I think this video might give me the incentive to get off my rear end and get back into it.
Cool video - scraping really interests me, even all the way over the pond in the UK. great work guys.
Passions very inspiring video
So much to learn. Thanks
Good one Adam!
I would like to see more.
This is a great video, thank you
Thinking a bit far out, but I could see these skills becoming very important when we get to a point where we are colonizing the moon or Mars. It would be impractical and expensive to haul a mill or lathe to remote locations like this. However once a little basic metal refining gets established, one of the first things that will be required are flat surfaces for building machine tools on site.
Would love to see some blueing
I have an old Atlas lathe that could really use some work.
I don’t need anything fancy just enough info to get it back to home shop standard.
I can’t part off at the moment as it just picks the tool post up and digs in.
Great video guys.
Good video! I have a craftsman lathe with a funky compound slide I would like to scrape but I realize it would be a terrible first project. Can you make a “your first scraping project” video? Is the “durabar” material good for a first time project?
Yes durabar is great to scrape, I've made prism straight edges with it....
Sure would love to see a more advanced scraping video from you guys. That's what there is very info on. IE. Alignment/Geometry.
Thanks
Steve just Steve thanks. We’re discussing more individual videos.
You are Bob Ross of machining.
Great video!!!.. I'm hoping you guys do more videos on this and other subjects as you seem to work well together. The down side is between you and Keith you're probably going to drive the price of those fancy Biax scrapers up! lol
Alan Gilman That’s already happened! 😂
Like the 1st day of machine shop class with the hand file.
This is very interesting, would like to see more about the "flaking" technique. You mentioned about resurfacing the granite top, that would be really interesting to see. Great video with lots of great info. Cheers :)
Great stuff!
It would be great if you could do a video on an easy way to measure the wear on lathe ways. I have a 10ee that cuts great. I’m just curious to know how much wear it has.
Great info. Question. Do you slightly round the corners of the carbide? It appears as though this has been done to this blade
Some really great information here, especially about how scraping provides a pocketed fluid interface with a lower coefficient of friction for shaper and other machine ways.
The audio was a bit uneven. The pacing and dialogue was slow, making most of the video better at 2x speed. Thanks for explaining beginning technique and general usefulness.
Just love this
Thanks a lot fot you Theach! , you are a big Master.
Great video! I'd love to see the process behind scraping in the ways on a milling machine for example. The process behind mirroring both ways, how to adjust to achieve parallelism or perpendicularity etc
Thank you for doing this. I would like to start scraping on a small scale. Could you show us how to make a hand scraper so I could get started on small things like the small angle plate you showed and the small right angle plates.
So that’s what that ball is for on a surface gage. Wow. Good tip, I thought it was just decoration for the longest time.
He also shoots and reloads as evidenced by the shelf over your left shoulder!
Thanks
Thank you, tonns of tips and tricks.
I would love to see something on scraping the ways on a lathe. I have a south bend lathe that was made in 1939 that I use regularly in my shop. It's still very usable but could be better. I actually rescued it from a local scrapper. I want to keep it and other old iron alive and in use in my shop. I want to be able to pass these down to my son one day.
Got my BOOTH MACHINE SHOP shirt yesterday :)
Roy Smith awesome! Hope you enjoy, thanks
very informative. Thanks
Cool, I was just looking to buy a scraper earlier today.
I would love to see more of this content
Machine nerds unite👍
Hi, Adam and Lance. I'm looking for 36" camelback straight edge with a bevel on one side. Wondering if either of you know of any lying around.
Scraping is a true art form, keep it alive. -- A question for Adam: I notice when you drill holes on your lathe the drill goes into the hole without moving off-center. Many of the more amature machinest on RUclips seem to have a problem aligning the hole with the drill. How does this happen?
If you see a drill bit adjust when it hits the pre-centered hole on a lathe it is caused by malalignment, usually due to wear on the tailstock and the ways under the tailstock. Generally this causes the tailstock to be tipped forward toward the headstock. It's very noticeable with longer drill bits.
What is difference between scraping and jeweling? Is scraping for lage industrial applications and jeweling for smaller mot intricate applications? I believe both applications are designed to retain lubrication and reduce surface contact.
The way I understand all of this is "jeweling" is strictly cosmetic and eye appeal. Look at pictures of the cowl on "The Spirit of St. Louis" which is jeweled.. I have seen pictures of auto dash boards that have been jeweled. Scraping is removing material to make a part flat or at an angle or parallel to another surface. Scraping can be more precise than grinding. I have not done any scraping but in watching the videos about scraping that is what has come across.
I have the same issue my schaublin vm120 has wear on the bed near the chuck , i dont have a surface plate but i can get a straight edge would that be enough to scrap in the bed of my lathe.
Ty guys