Tooling and Head - Bridgeport Cleanup Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- About a month ago, I bought a Bridgeport milling machine. The machine is in good shape but could use a really thorough cleaning. This time we're going to get started by cleaning up the tooling that came with it and start cleaning the machine by cleaning the head.
Cleaning the Vise - 2:30
Cleaning the Tooling - 12:35
Top of the Head - 22:00
Variable Speed Control - 28:05
Underside of Head - 34:19
Left Side of Head - 36:46
Front Face of Head - 39:05
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Hope you enjoy spending some time in the shop with me cleaning this beast up! I've included time codes in the description in case you'd like to skip around or want to watch in parts. Have a great week!
Great job so so humor, and always a pleasure to watch you operate. ( Matt, it's only grease.) Gloves?
Gloves are required because the heavy metal particles in the old grease and the anti grease chemical.
@@p33ty333 I use the exact same gloves...lol
@@jonivan1014 good for you :D :D :D
You should flip the moving jaw on that vise. you reinstalled it backwards
I just watched 48 minutes at regular speed of Matt cleaning grease. And I loved it.
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It's fun to watch an old piece of equipment get cleaned up and the change in how it looks.
Matt. Please continue the series on your Bridgeport restoration. I'm not a woodworker or a metalworker, but I am fascinated with that milling machine and your disassembly vids. So, I don't know about you but I gotta have more Bridgeport.
Wow, I am throughly amazed at how you go about things, love your narration of what you’re doing and yes, I chuckled at the Matty finish. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you Matt I appreciate your video very much, your patience and diligence is much admired. I was very impressed how you balanced the shaft vertically without knocking it over on the floor and having the balls bounce all over. I know I would have made that mistake. Great job bringing this machine back to good shape.
I'm watchin to see this Matt finish. Paint can take a hike. Looks like you should have made a good deal on acquiring this tool. Knowing how a tool is put together is very good knowledge.
Thanks Matt - this is very inspiring. Looking forward to more on the Bridgeport.
It always cracks me up to see comments of what you did or didn't do, ask "So them what did you do?" Keyboard critics. Great Job.
I was a toolmaker for GM for over 30 years and ran a bridgeport mill like that and some earlier models like the M head great machine, made my heart happy to see it get the respect it deserves thank you.
Matthew your vids are soo informing I just love them.Looks to me like you are a very good machine mechanic with a very good clean up . Thanks be blessed.
A lovely mill. The DRO and power feeds are an added nicety.
You’re doing everything I’m trying to do! Excellent resources for my future! Love your attitude about everything! Happy Milling!!!🙌🙌🙌Thank you for the amazing content!
You are amazing Matt. I would be short of parts or have leftovers if I did that.Thanks for the entertainment. Great job.
Thanks Dana!
Nice job on the start of cleaning your Bridgeport. You will definitely learn a lot about how it works by taking it apart. You did a great job, Matt! Keep it up!!
Thanks for sharing Matt. Enjoyed seeing inside the mill. It hasn't been that clean since it left the factory and you made it work as well. Congratulations on a job well done. Caught April's video on the bandsaw mill. Glad you guys had good time doing it.
Nice job; you are alot like me in wanting the machine to be clean . I saw you using grease and that is critical as well as oil to use when assembling after cleaning. Early in my working career I worked in a aluminium and brass foundry and a time at a machine shop and I did enjoy the accuracy aspect of the trade. That was monumental for my woodworking. I like the name Matti for the mill. Milling all edges in woodworking made projects made assembly easier and more pleasing to the eye and opened up the revelation for reading wood grain for strength and visual appeal . This was a game changer when I got into solid surface work as part assembly was mostly butt joint with epoxy adhesion. As always love your content and your attention to detail.
Looking forward to series. Don’t be afraid to go with more substantial oil on moving and exposed parts though.
thanks Jim!
That was interesting. Greatly appreciate the long format. Best wishes from Germany
Thanks Michael!
I'm sitting here laughing about the dad joke and then ya come along with the "I hope someone laughed" and now I can't breathe
This was a video I could not stop watching. Good pun on the Matt finish. As quick putting it out there as Mark Boe does from Barnwood Builders show.
Great video series man. I'm about to do the same thing. This definitely makes me more confident about it. Thanks a lot for posting!
Keith Fenner at Turn Wright Machine Works has great T-slot scrapers. Support you favorite RUclipsr. Nice machine man.
You never cease to amaze me dude!
Loved every second of what you were doing. You have to have a good set of kajonies to do what you have done Can't wait to see the next one.
Every machine shop should show this video at their health and safety meetings. Great work.
Thank you!
That's quite a serious undertaking. Obviously I am expecting a Geoffrey Croker quality finish!
AvE and This Old Tony will be proud. "Release the Shmoo!"
Thanks Matt, this must be what it's like for women to spend time at the spa!
Great job Matt!!!
well that is fascinating to watch you do something that is totally impossible for me to do. Not really sure why that is enjoyable to watch but it is!!!!
I’M watching and I don’t even know what it IS!
At least you have the video to help you put it back together. Great idea for any overhaul. LOL Nice Job
very true. It's a nice failsafe!
As someone with no experience with, or any plans to work with a mill... I'm surprised how interesting this was. Thanks for sharing Matt!
Well that’s good to hear!
I'm in the process of restoring a 100 year old 16" jointer and it's a slippery slope indeed. I didn't know when to pump the breaks and now the machine is in as many pieces as it's possible to be in. Well hopefully I will be repainting the whole thing and reassembling this weekend.
great. now I have to go find videos of these things being built from a raw casting. Just looking at all the little tabs and mounds and areas that had to be milled and machined to make each part fit is really interesting.
I never thought I would be so engrossed watching a machine being cleaned.
It's nice you have documented footage to refer back to if you forget how it goes back together. I'm good at taking things apart. So so at reassembly.
Definitely chuckled on Matty!
nice work! but... how does it TASTE?!
Minty with a hint of soap
Cool job Matthew. I'm a certified Machinist got my certification in 81 and I was trying to clean the animals or whatever machine I was working on the end of the job or the end of the day whichever came first. Now that's to say I cleaned all outsude surfaces and tracks. Any inside cleaning of the engine housing or anywhere else was left to somebody else. so it's interesting to watch you do this job. If you have to take the table off I'm going to be interesting to see you do that. So enjoying this episode. It's a dirty job but as they say somebody's got to do it.
This is the most satisfying video I have ever seen on RUclips.
Bob
Man, that thing was filthy! Looks like you're the first one to give it some TLC. Great max effort on cleaning that thin up. Looks Great!
thanks!
You said it's a little dirty but it's actually pretty clean for what it is thumbs up my friend
Holy crap, hehe, im spending 45min+, watching you wash å dirty old milling machine. What have i the world come too, hehe
😂😂
You are a freaking genius. You are beginning to scare some of us normal people.
Love the Matt finish, Lol. Cheers from Western Australia.
Thanks!
You got a reply from TOT. I wasn’t sure he watched other people’s videos. Just kidding. He isn’t watching my stuff though so you must be more entertaining than me :-). Great job on the clean up. Can’t wait to see more
Good video Matt, good job as alway.
Matt please ask advice before you kill the machine. This Old Tony has really interesting vids on restoring this kind of stuff. And please run to the shop, buy a bucket of grease and a can off oil.
Matt amazing detail. Like you I could not stand all the grime before using it.
Thanks Rick!
Matt finish, chuckle. Nice work Matt, you have good mechanical skills mate
Thanks!
Several hints about disassembling these vises. First, when loosening hex head screws that are tight, always insert the wrench so that the handles is on the downward direction, not upward. If you need to wack it with a plastic, lead or copper/brass hammer, it works much better, and is much safer when hitting downwards. I recommend using a soft metal hammer, as plastic or rawhide has too much bounce back.
When removing the movable jaw, loosen that Allen screw in the center of the rear first, then the jaw lifts straight up. Be careful of the half ball bearing in that jaw, it’s easy to lose.
If you have a loose ball thrust bearing, a bit of grease will keep the balls in the retainer. And please, don’t bang cutters against each other.
Looks a lot better 👍
That was great, Matt.I wish there was enough call for a mill in my life. I've never seen one serviced and am surprised you didn't pop for the time to paint it!
Did you ever get a mill?
Amazing! That sure is a beast of a machine but it really looks like it’s well built and will server your needs well. Enjoy.
Thanks!
Hey Matt great job on your new well use machine but it looks a lot newer I guess that's the OCD in you that you like to have everything clean tidy and neat just like me everything has this place and I don't want to be working on something and touch something else and go back to touch something else that's clean and get it all dirty that will only delay the job so if everything is clean there's no delay it's all about time is money and money is time good job on that machine Matt look forward to seeing the rest of the cleanup on it you're amazing God bless you and your family
Amazing that you could keep track of all the parts and where they go. You could put something like JB weld in the drill holes on the table.
Matty... (chuckle). Nice machine. Really jealous. Can't wait to see you start milling stuff.
Thanks Tom!
WOW, you are a luck man! You have a Bridgeport mill! Don't ever let her go!
Don’t plan to :)
Man that mills pretty!!
Keith Rucker knows a guy that can (edit: could) reprint that cover.
Also, "Matty"... I like it.
I enjoyed this forMAT!
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No chuckle for you! ;-P Thanks, for taking the time to shoot this.
Wow, what a difference a little TLC makes!!! Or a lot of TLC! :-) Looking good!
Thanks Steve!
ThisOldCremona79. Love it!
Looks like a real nice machine Matt! I have lookin for one similar to it!
10:34 Seriously, you didn't add grease to bearings? Should have added some molydbenum to the bearings and threads
Im hoping adding the grease got cut.
I didn't have any when I shot that scene
@@mcremona Oh okay... hopefully you have some grease for it now. I was getting worried you were trying to make the bridgeport completely grease-less when you cleaned it up.
The whole video is basically "how to expose bare metal to moisture" or '"Cleaning things that are allowed to be filthy"
Check the rules and standards book regarding greasing your balls. We are very concerned.
This series is not helping my "Bridgeport Fever." Now I want one more than ever!
#morecowbell
You should have stoned all the flat mating surfaces, and then oiled well before assy. Please re-oil the parallels.
allso shouldn't he have packed the barrings with grease ?
Somebody PLEASE get this man a t-slot cleaner!
BluetoothSensei crevice tool on a vacuum cleaner does miracles that's all I use
thank you
Getting there Matt, you should be a Millwright !!!
Thanks!
It's really satisfying to see how well those parts clean up. The sign of quality workmanship on the original tool manufacturing.
Don`t let Lyndsay catch you putting bits of it in the dishwasher ;)
Great video good job
Thanks!
Hope Keith sends you a T slot scraper!
Hey Matt, first nice mill! Jumped in with both feet and got a Bridgeport, nice. From your videos you look like you know your way around wood working machines. Take it from an old machinist get some books and watch some videos on running your new baby. Mrpete222 Tubalcain is a great teacher with a great many videos on running and working on machines. Most of stay safe and Enjoy. 73
yeah baby!!!
I would make a slip over cover to keep the wood dust off it.
What do you plan on using your BP mill on in a woodshop? My son and I share a shop His side is woodworking, my side is metal.
Nice job on the cleanup so far Matt! 😃👍🏻👊🏻 ..... Also, I applaud your attempt at humor 👏🏻, however despite your best efforts, it would appear that for some strange reason Matt Finnish puns always seem to garner a lackluster response! 😉
soooooo what you're saying is that I should leave the puns up to you?
@@mcremona 😁 I love your puns Matt, they're what inspire mine! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
The handle for drilling has a spring inside the housing that may break sometime, don't throw the old spring away as you can cut lengths of it off to use to place between your parallels to keep them against the vice. The cross feed power feed is not really that useful but the longitudinal feed is handy. The cross feed power feed would be more useful on the knee to raise and lower the table, you would need to make an adapter to use it though. 45 years as a machinist mostly on Bridgeport mills. Nice looking one you have there too.
Looking sweet. No funny sound but you better tear the head down to give it a good clear up inside. And also make sure the oneshot oil system works. In order to do that you have to remove the table... and... why not take it all apart :)
And maybe a lathe next month, surface grinder, shaper...
I'm looking forward to you coming over to the UK and to Crimson Guitars!!!
me too!
Yea, matte finish! - (I laughed)
yeah, i giggled despite myself...that was definitely a dad joke!
i had to chuckle also
Nice job Matt, Grease the bearing and they should hold in place.
Would be cool to see you build a cabinet with organization for all the "accessories" for the mill.
You need to watch Jackman’s current video. You’ll know why, when you see it and read his description (not just the title) of the video.
I always wish that I had learned about mechanical stuff, but since I’ll be 60 this month and woodworking keeps me busy enough.
Thanks for another interesting video, Matte.
a "matt" finish... I did laugh. you win.
Yes!!
Me, too.
I always laugh at Matt's chuckle. Add a pun and it's that much funnier.
Not a chuckle but a smile I like Matt finish not keen on gloss in over
I’ve said it before. Love the videos & you’re honesty ur a genuine fella.
Do a collaboration on knee mill basics with a machinist like Abom69👍
Why did you not grease the ball bearings?
Once you get the table cleaned you might consider installing covers on each side of the vise: When I was a shop teacher I made them out of masonite with scrap wood in the T slot grooves. This way routine clean up is much easier but they can be removed if you need to use a coolant stream for a particular project.
I plan to except they’ll be crotch veneer 😄
Love the Matt finish. Nice machine. Look up lubricants online. Jim
Get some thick rubber matting and cut it to fit on the bed and cover the t-slots when all you have is the vice on the table. This will prevent chips from working their way into the table and keep it much cleaner and it won't get nicked up. Also get a few cafeteria trays to keep your cutters and such on when your working. Keeps things organized and they don't get dropped on the floor etc.
There is a hole in the center of the Table for oiling the Acme screws for the X,Y Lead screws could be plugged with a Allen plug screw.
john ward you're thinking old Bridgeport that's a variable speed head that has a one shot Lube that lives up the screw in the table
Hey Matt! This is another cool video from you :) thank you for that! :) the only one thing I don't understand, why don't you put fresh grease to the wise moving areas? Like if you add grease to the bearing balls and cage it will not fall apart because the grease will keep it together, and will give for it lubrication, so will not wear out that quick as well...
Talk to Keith Fenner about one of his T-Slot scrapers
Hey Matt,
I didn't see it in the vid nor in the comments...and I'm hoping you did this without showing it... you need(ed) some grease in that thrust bearing ( and it holds the balls in place), and a little bit on the machined surfaces of the swivel base. I suppose you could use a dry Teflon type spray for the swivel base to go with your not getting dirty when you brush up against it. Same applies for the sliding surfaces on the vise itself.
Dad is an engineer - I grew up knowing all about "the goop" ( and lots of lectures about friction and such) - but Dad must know something, things that were put together 40 years ago aren't worn out and they still come apart...
Wonderful restoration job your are doing and I can't but imagine all the great use you are going out of this mill once you are done ( and yes, I'm green with envy over your little friend there in the corner)
Enjoy the mill !!
the head sounds good mine was really noisy when i got it they get very dirty inside from drive belt rubber dust
to make a t-slot scrapper take one of the clamping t-nuts and wrap it in some layers of paper towel then put one of the threaded rods on it for a handle