Just wanted to take a minute and say Thanks for all you video's and the time you spend to make them, I have learned a lot from you and always look forward to watching and learning, Hands Down You and Mr Pete are the Best teachers I have ever seen on You Tube! Thanks again
Once again thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I think it is admirable that you can be honest and open about a mistake,it only increases my respect for you.
Super. I'm working up a metric version while recovering from a blocked artery to the heart - no fun - but now I have lots of time! Many thanks for your hard work and fine results on this series. Super.
Tom you have nailed the sound editing on this one. What a pleasure to not have machine noise blow out your voice. (as others most often do). Your addition of the second camera shots were also a nice addition. Thanks for your time to share your skills. greg
Thanks Greg. I figured out that the lapel mic is not omnidirectional as I thought (thanks to a viewer), so I had it pointing up for this video. I also started playing with the levels during the editing process which helped a lot. The multi-camera shots were tricky. I used my cell phone and just left it recording for the entire session. When needed I just picked it up and aimed it. Seemed to work ok, but the picture quality was sort of cell phone like. Tom
Tom, As a new to the metal world guy, thanks for all your great videos. Reading a book or a website it great, but to see you do these projects and tutorials makes them much easier to grasp. This is going to be one of my first projects when I get the time. Keep up the great work! Sound was perfect for me, I don't need a professionally edited video, so just keep em' coming... Brooks
Great video and I like the two cameras, the way you put them together. That is helpful in seeing what you are doing, especially on the dials. Thank you.
Great video Tom! Like I said before the quality is excellent!! I think it's great that you showed the mistake, it takes a lot for most to admit they made a mistake. I really appreciate the time you take out of your busy days to make these awesome videos! I'm learning some many different techniques from you. Is there a possibility that you may consider making a video on how you made your vice stop? Thank again! Jason
Hi Tom, What ever people say about the audio, from my seat it's excellent, after all it's a workshop with machines.... A little background noise is to be expected. If you'd hear my big 20HP phase converter, you'd know what I mean... lol Editing is fun but, I find it takes lots of time. Great production work, and also good teach! Pierre
Hey Tom, sound quality was excellent and I enjoyed the first person POV shots. With your next round of website donations you should think about getting a Google Glass! Looking forward to the next video.
Hi Mike, It's good to hear that you guys are finishing the project in spite of my tardiness. I know of a number of them that have been completed and the overall response has been good. I've been tossing around the idea of building a powered chamfering/deburring tool for milled parts for a while now, so that may be one of the next projects. The design is still in my head though, so it may be a while before it's ready to build. Thanks for watching. Tom
Excellent series as usual. Thanks for taking the time. I would like to use this on my Bridgeport, thinking of two posts in the backside locked in the vise. Feeding the stock held in a collet down with the quill. Would that be a problem. My lathe is too small.
I did not realise how many engineering changes I have made in my life time. But joking aside you could quite easily sorted it in editing,and if you were not making a video I bet you could have made a replacement in no time.
Or fixed it? I was thinking that if it really did matter, and material cost made scrapping the part painful, it could be fixed by relieving the hole, making a plug to press fit into it, pressing in the plug with some Loktite, and facing it off flush, then putting the hole where it was supposed to be. Might that have worked? Or is the nearness of the proper hole to the improper hole location a problem for that idea? Tom Lipton on his OxToolCo channel showed a repair similar to that recently...but his plug didn't overlap much with the new hole. Thanks for the great video series, and for showing some alternative methods. Us newbies learn a lot from the smallest parts of a project like this...like the corner rounding methods or when it's ok to live with a mistake...sorry, "engineering change". -- Mike
My time is valuable (as I'm sure yours is) and I'm not going to waste any of it rebuilding a part that is perfectly serviceable. It would be a different story had I screwed it up badly enough that it was no longer functional. Tom
Toms Techniques The holes are definitely too close to plug. The only way they could be fixed is to weld them shut, but then the aluminum loses its strength and anodizing makes it stick out like a sore thumb. The best fix in this situation is to just swallow ones pride and adapt the mating part. Tom
Tom, Thanks for the extra info. I only considered welding briefly, but I rejected it based on how tricky it would be to get the weld into the bottom of a small hole (though I suppose "casting" might solve that by just pouring in some molten aluminum) and the possibility that it might (probably would) warp the part. The strength and anodizing issues I didn't think of...thanks for pointing them out. -- Mike B.
Hi Tom, I have a question about the 5/16-18 UNC holes in the aluminum body of the knurling tool. What are your thoughts on 5/16-24 UNF tapped holes instead? I am thinking I can get finer adjustments with the fine thread. Would the finer threads rip out due to the aluminum?
Fine threads would provide finer adjustment, but would not hold up long term in the aluminum. A fix for that would be to use helical inserts, or have the parts anodized to harden the threads.
Tom, I really like your videos. I am trying to get registered at the local VoTec. Probably next week one thing that I am concerned with is you keep wiping metal shavings with your hands. Wouldn't it be better to use a chip brush? Bill
I've worked with metal so long that I pretty much know what I can and can not get away with. I seriously can't remember the last time I got cut. I do a lot of checking for burrs with my hands, but normally if I'm just wiping chips, it is with a chip brush. If you are doing something with your hands where you think you might get cut then you should definitely use a brush. Tom
Been working some long hours lately, so there hasn't been much time for the fun stuff. I was planning to do the next video this afternoon, but my son just called and asked for some help finishing up his chicken coop, so I'm not sure if there will be enough time to get it done. :b Tom
Thanks Tom, nother good one, coming along nicely! You're making short work of this and your tips are multifaceted,,, with creative thinking can be easily applied to many things... Best wishes.... :o] O,,,
great vid in this series Tom. Lookin real sweet. I wonder if I could trade you Evander Kane for that knurling tool when your done? We don't need him. Lol. Look forward to the next instalment.
Toms Techniques I am sure he would. I see a trade in the offseason. Anyway forgot to give a hi five for the sound. wouldn't have thought it would make such a difference but it really does. Thanks for taking the trouble to help us hear and understand better. Richard.
Check your hearing aid. :) Seriously, it's the phase converter and it's pretty much as quiet as it's going to get unless I start using a file instead of the mill. Tom
Toms Techniques I run a sound recording studio here in Nuuk. Depending on what audio editing features your video editing equipment offers, you might be able to record your phase converter at the usual distance you are from it while making your (fine) videos, then using an equalizer, which is a sort of frequency dependent filter, to reduce the volume in precisely the bandwidth that the phase converter is humming. This would be an overall adjustment so it would also affect your voice timbre, but it can be adjusted to get a balance between reduced hum and acceptable timbre change in your voice. You can probably adjust the Q of the notch or band pass or parametric filter. Adjust this to as small an amount (read narrow as possible) to limit the amount of volume reduction on each side of the unwanted hum. Btw, I don't find the shop background sound bothersome because you are pointing your mic (directional) toward your voice and this makes a fine balance between voice and machine sounds. You are doing great! Check out something we recorded in my studio, my son's music on iTunes. Search for "Intalik Milne" album "EP".
Jim Milne I here what you are saying Jim, but the time I spend on editing has gone out of control. I think it's to the point now where my voice can be easily heard and that's going to have to be good enough. I don't want to be spending more time editing than it takes to shoot the videos. I'll check out your recording. Tom Oops, looks like I need to have iTunes to listen to it. I'm not an Apple enthusiast so I guess I'll have to miss it.
Toms Techniques For the record, Tom, you do not need to respond to my comments in any way. In fact I would rather you used your precious time to make your important videos. When I comment is as a gift and you need not acknowledge it. You are absolutely correct that the audio quality is (more than) good enough to convey the information without distraction.
Just wanted to take a minute and say Thanks for all you video's and the time you spend to make them, I have learned a lot from you and always look forward to watching and learning, Hands Down You and Mr Pete are the Best teachers I have ever seen on You Tube! Thanks again
Once again thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I think it is admirable that you can be honest and open about a mistake,it only increases my respect for you.
That wasn't a mistake. It was an engineering change. :)
Or, as I've heard it said in software development, there's no such thing as a bug, only undiscovered features!
-- Mike
Super. I'm working up a metric version while recovering from a blocked artery to the heart - no fun - but now I have lots of time! Many thanks for your hard work and fine results on this series. Super.
Thanks Jim.
Good luck with your recovery.
Tom you have nailed the sound editing on this one. What a pleasure to not have machine noise blow out your voice. (as others most often do). Your addition of the second camera shots were also a nice addition. Thanks for your time to share your skills. greg
Thanks Greg.
I figured out that the lapel mic is not omnidirectional as I thought (thanks to a viewer), so I had it pointing up for this video. I also started playing with the levels during the editing process which helped a lot.
The multi-camera shots were tricky. I used my cell phone and just left it recording for the entire session. When needed I just picked it up and aimed it. Seemed to work ok, but the picture quality was sort of cell phone like.
Tom
Tom, As a new to the metal world guy, thanks for all your great videos. Reading a book or a website it great, but to see you do these projects and tutorials makes them much easier to grasp. This is going to be one of my first projects when I get the time. Keep up the great work! Sound was perfect for me, I don't need a professionally edited video, so just keep em' coming...
Brooks
Thanks for watching Brooks.
Great video and I like the two cameras, the way you put them together. That is helpful in seeing what you are doing, especially on the dials. Thank you.
Thank you Tom for such educational videos! I have learned so much in those 40 minutes its amazing!!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video series, Tom. Great sound too. Thanks.
Thanks Kevin.
Glad to see someone else screw up. Thanks for all you do.
The only people who never make mistakes are those who never do anything. :)
Toms Techniques I was told when I was an apprentice that the man who never made a mistake is a liar :-)
Great video Tom! Like I said before the quality is excellent!! I think it's great that you showed the mistake, it takes a lot for most to admit they made a mistake. I really appreciate the time you take out of your busy days to make these awesome videos! I'm learning some many different techniques from you.
Is there a possibility that you may consider making a video on how you made your vice stop?
Thank again!
Jason
Tom, another fantastic video thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks Earl.
Hey Tom, very enjoyable.
Thanks Dennis.
Thanks works for me simple and effective and accurate.
Great video. I appreciate what you are doing.
Thanks Paul.
Hi Tom,
What ever people say about the audio, from my seat it's excellent, after all it's a workshop with machines.... A little background noise is to be expected.
If you'd hear my big 20HP phase converter, you'd know what I mean... lol
Editing is fun but, I find it takes lots of time.
Great production work, and also good teach!
Pierre
Hey Tom, sound quality was excellent and I enjoyed the first person POV shots. With your next round of website donations you should think about getting a Google Glass! Looking forward to the next video.
I think Google needs to work on their pricing a bit before that will happen. $2K is WAY out of reach for me.
Thanks for watching.
Tom
Tom I completed knurling tool works great . What is coming next & when . I am ready for another great project!
Hi Mike,
It's good to hear that you guys are finishing the project in spite of my tardiness. I know of a number of them that have been completed and the overall response has been good. I've been tossing around the idea of building a powered chamfering/deburring tool for milled parts for a while now, so that may be one of the next projects. The design is still in my head though, so it may be a while before it's ready to build.
Thanks for watching.
Tom
Excellent series as usual. Thanks for taking the time. I would like to use this on my Bridgeport, thinking of two posts in the backside locked in the vise. Feeding the stock held in a collet down with the quill. Would that be a problem. My lathe is too small.
I thought there was a difference in the taps. Something, as you point out, to do with the chip flow/discharge.
Eric
I did not realise how many engineering changes I have made in my life time. But joking aside you could quite easily sorted it in editing,and if you were not making a video I bet you could have made a replacement in no time.
Or fixed it? I was thinking that if it really did matter, and material cost made scrapping the part painful, it could be fixed by relieving the hole, making a plug to press fit into it, pressing in the plug with some Loktite, and facing it off flush, then putting the hole where it was supposed to be. Might that have worked? Or is the nearness of the proper hole to the improper hole location a problem for that idea? Tom Lipton on his OxToolCo channel showed a repair similar to that recently...but his plug didn't overlap much with the new hole.
Thanks for the great video series, and for showing some alternative methods. Us newbies learn a lot from the smallest parts of a project like this...like the corner rounding methods or when it's ok to live with a mistake...sorry, "engineering change".
-- Mike
My time is valuable (as I'm sure yours is) and I'm not going to waste any of it rebuilding a part that is perfectly serviceable. It would be a different story had I screwed it up badly enough that it was no longer functional.
Tom
Toms Techniques
The holes are definitely too close to plug. The only way they could be fixed is to weld them shut, but then the aluminum loses its strength and anodizing makes it stick out like a sore thumb. The best fix in this situation is to just swallow ones pride and adapt the mating part.
Tom
Tom, Thanks for the extra info. I only considered welding briefly, but I rejected it based on how tricky it would be to get the weld into the bottom of a small hole (though I suppose "casting" might solve that by just pouring in some molten aluminum) and the possibility that it might (probably would) warp the part. The strength and anodizing issues I didn't think of...thanks for pointing them out.
-- Mike B.
excellent
Thanks.
As always Tom, excellent. And the audio is perfect. Some guys workshops must be in a library!! lol Shhhhhh, sorry hehe
Thanks Allan. :)
Hi Tom,
I have a question about the 5/16-18 UNC holes in the aluminum body of the knurling tool. What are your thoughts on 5/16-24 UNF tapped holes instead? I am thinking I can get finer adjustments with the fine thread. Would the finer threads rip out due to the aluminum?
Fine threads would provide finer adjustment, but would not hold up long term in the aluminum. A fix for that would be to use helical inserts, or have the parts anodized to harden the threads.
@@TomsTechniques Thank you for the reply
Tom, I really like your videos. I am trying to get registered at the local VoTec. Probably next week one thing that I am concerned with is you keep wiping metal shavings with your hands. Wouldn't it be better to use a chip brush?
Bill
I've worked with metal so long that I pretty much know what I can and can not get away with. I seriously can't remember the last time I got cut. I do a lot of checking for burrs with my hands, but normally if I'm just wiping chips, it is with a chip brush. If you are doing something with your hands where you think you might get cut then you should definitely use a brush.
Tom
Hey Tom where did you go? Miss seeing you finishing up the project. Hope you are alright!
greg
Been working some long hours lately, so there hasn't been much time for the fun stuff. I was planning to do the next video this afternoon, but my son just called and asked for some help finishing up his chicken coop, so I'm not sure if there will be enough time to get it done. :b
Tom
Tom, do you employ a different threading tool for power taping as opposed to hand. Are two spiral taps better for taping?
Eric
You have to use spiral point taps to power tap, ordinary plug taps will plug up with chips. Watch my video on power tapping to see how it's done.
Tom
Does anyone know what a Angular face is when using centre lathe?
Center lathe?
How do you deburr the screw holes in the slots?
Have you got a CNC
Thanks Tom, nother good one, coming along nicely! You're making short work of this and your tips are multifaceted,,, with creative thinking can be easily applied to many things... Best wishes.... :o]
O,,,
Thanks O.
great vid in this series Tom. Lookin real sweet. I wonder if I could trade you Evander Kane for that knurling tool when your done? We don't need him. Lol.
Look forward to the next instalment.
Sorry, too much attitude for the Wings. Babcock would probably stuff him into a locker.
Tom
Toms Techniques I am sure he would. I see a trade in the offseason. Anyway forgot to give a hi five for the sound. wouldn't have thought it would make such a difference but it really does. Thanks for taking the trouble to help us hear and understand better.
Richard.
Thanks Richard.
hi Tom. What's going on? Been missing your vids. how's your health? just a message to let you know you are thought of.
the tool in the mill seems to be wobbling, is that normal?
PappaKnowsBest :)
PappaKnowsBest
Not sure what tool you are referring to unless it's the edge finder, and that one is supposed to wobble. :)
Tom
Don’t you use spotting drill Tom
audio has hummmmm
Check your hearing aid. :)
Seriously, it's the phase converter and it's pretty much as quiet as it's going to get unless I start using a file instead of the mill.
Tom
Toms Techniques
I run a sound recording studio here in Nuuk. Depending on what audio editing features your video editing equipment offers, you might be able to record your phase converter at the usual distance you are from it while making your (fine) videos, then using an equalizer, which is a sort of frequency dependent filter, to reduce the volume in precisely the bandwidth that the phase converter is humming. This would be an overall adjustment so it would also affect your voice timbre, but it can be adjusted to get a balance between reduced hum and acceptable timbre change in your voice. You can probably adjust the Q of the notch or band pass or parametric filter. Adjust this to as small an amount (read narrow as possible) to limit the amount of volume reduction on each side of the unwanted hum. Btw, I don't find the shop background sound bothersome because you are pointing your mic (directional) toward your voice and this makes a fine balance between voice and machine sounds. You are doing great! Check out something we recorded in my studio, my son's music on iTunes. Search for "Intalik Milne" album "EP".
Jim Milne
I here what you are saying Jim, but the time I spend on editing has gone out of control. I think it's to the point now where my voice can be easily heard and that's going to have to be good enough. I don't want to be spending more time editing than it takes to shoot the videos.
I'll check out your recording.
Tom
Oops, looks like I need to have iTunes to listen to it. I'm not an Apple enthusiast so I guess I'll have to miss it.
Toms Techniques
For the record, Tom, you do not need to respond to my comments in any way. In fact I would rather you used your precious time to make your important videos. When I comment is as a gift and you need not acknowledge it. You are absolutely correct that the audio quality is (more than) good enough to convey the information without distraction.
Jim Milne ditto
:-)
First!