That's one powerful machine. Great job on the giant angle plate Tom. Also, Kayos has you trained well. Won't be long he will have you getting him an air-conditioner.
Superb result Tom, great watching the HBM in action. Your hard work has paid off. The machine looks very impressive viewing on a large screen. Cheers Tony
A great result in terms of accuracy (squareness) especially knowing that the bed of the machine is not flat. (from memory, I think it was .012" out) It's good that you can give Mr Kaos some exposure mid video. He's a great dog and it looks like you take good care of him with his own bed, water bowl and fan. Thanks for the videos Tom.
Never boring hanging out with you and the pup in the work shop supper nice job on the angle plates another shop built tool you can be proud of instead think there way better than the buy version for sure get many years of use out of them for sure The boring mill in action supper nice to see it work looks great after the Restore it don't matter if you missed a video as work N paying job is better than no dollars coming in we will weight till you show one for sure Oh the clip of the mesure pointer was great also as for us it hard to see if the cutter is moving and at what speed that showcased it well Thanks Tom for yet another great video Cheers from Australia
G'day Tom. How bloody cool is that mate. The big old girl lives to eat steel another day. You've got to be happy with those results. Cheers Tom, Aaron. PS: poor chaos is feeling that heat.
It is totally exciting for sure. Glad to be making chips. Yeah it was a hot one that day. We have had some cooler days lately so that has made it nice.
G'day Tom. The Virtical Mill did an excellent job, slowly milling away with the large face mill. Considering there is no coolant, you ended up with ... 😊 less mess but still resulted in a very good result. The area right on top shouldn't make any difference, because you are using a very large surface area. Well Done Ted.
Thanks Dominic. Pretty happy with the results. I rotated the inserts around so I would have fresh edges for the second plate. The surface finish was even better.
Hi Tom. It's good to see these old and very expensive { When new} machine tools not getting wasted. i have recently bought a Ceruti 63/110 and am in the process of regrinding the slideways. When inspecting it I found 1.5 thou bend in the last 8" of the spindle, a bit like yours. Ive been contemplating how to straighten it And have come to the conclusion that a jack and some heat would do the job. What do you think? i also got a parts manual for a G and L 330T, looks like it's from the 50's. I'm in New Zealand but if anyone would like it.
Tom -- Here is a mathamatical equation . Expensive Material + Lots of Burning + Lots of Welding + Lots of planning and hard work + Lots of Machining Time = " Well Worth it " -- Jim
I know very little about machining. I'm learning but yet to know much about the different choices of cutters. My question is what are the advantages of a face/shell over a single piont fly cutter? The HBM is awesome! KOKO!
Usually fly cutters are used for lighter depths of cut. Like a thousands or two for a clean up pass or maybe 10 thousands to take some material off. I was taking 20-25 thousands off a pass so a face mill is the better tooling choice. Thanks for watching.
Really surprising the head doesnt slouch forward throwing off your tram/lap lines on a machine that old. You did a really damn good leveling too, to get nearly perfect overlap Nice work
Hi Tom , what sort of DOC were you using for the faces? And do you think that some system like cool mist would have given you an even better surface finish? When you stated with the four flute HSS end mill I thought a cool mist blowing the chips off would definitely improve that finish. You could see where slivers had gone round with the cutter and given indents into the surface. They might well not be able to be felt but you certainly could see them. This isn't a criticism, just an observation and a question.
Hello Sam and great question. I was brushing off the chips occasionally, but some air blowing them out of the way probably would have helped the finish for sure. On average I was taking 20-25 thousands off of the faces to get a good clean up since there were some low areas from the welding pulling the plates.
Nice work, I’m excited to get to start playing with my HBM
Thanks Adam. Can't wait to see yours in action. Your package went out today. Possibly have it by Saturday.
I could see you were having fun Tom, those plates look great. I bet you filled up a few buckets with chips 😁😁
It was exciting to finally run the mill. I did have chips everywhere.
The boring machine did a fabulous job on the angle plate Tom. Well worth all the effort and hard work to get it in order. Cheers Nobby
Thank you Nobby. Glad you enjoyed it.
Brilliant Tom - came out really well. It’s a treat seeing the HBM chew some material. 👍
Thanks Stuart. It took several hours per plate to get them done.
I bet it did - lots of area there. Did a great job though.
From restoration to machine parts. Nice transformation Tom!
Thanks Matt. It is starting to get Arizona temps here. 😀
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 Sorry about that!
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Nice one Tom. Can't wait to see those babies earn their keep. Mr K was probably too hot and tired to play today. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Jim. They will be handy for future jobs for sure.
That's one powerful machine. Great job on the giant angle plate Tom. Also, Kayos has you trained well. Won't be long he will have you getting him an air-conditioner.
Thanks Dave. Only the best for my buddy. 😉
Superb result Tom, great watching the HBM in action. Your hard work has paid off. The machine looks very impressive viewing on a large screen. Cheers Tony
I appreciate that Tony. It definitely can do some work.
nice shop mate .enjoyed the show
Thank you and I appreciate you watching!
A great result in terms of accuracy (squareness) especially knowing that the bed of the machine is not flat. (from memory, I think it was .012" out) It's good that you can give Mr Kaos some exposure mid video. He's a great dog and it looks like you take good care of him with his own bed, water bowl and fan. Thanks for the videos Tom.
Thank you and thanks for watching. Khaos is my buddy for sure.
Blue machine doing nice work Tom. Good stuff.
Thanks Randy. Glad to have it finally making chips.
Gday Tom, perfect results I’d say, may have been a ton of work but certainly worth every minute mate, great job, cheers
Hey Matty. I do have a lot of time in them, but I could not imagine how much they would cost if I had to buy some commercially made.
Good one, Tom. It's nice to see the new blue machine doing so well.
I am happy to final get some time on the controls. Not looking forward to next months power bill though.
It looks like HBM did a really nice job on the angle plate. Thanks
Hey there Randy. The mill did a good job for it's age and wear. It is good to know I can do some decent work when needed.
Hey Tom, hope ya'll keeping well buddy, just catching up on this, great seeing the boring machine in action 👍
Doing well and thanks for watching.
All ways enjoy your videos. Keep up the excellent work. ✌️
Awesome and thanks for watching!
Never boring hanging out with you and the pup in the work shop supper nice job on the angle plates another shop built tool you can be proud of instead think there way better than the buy version for sure get many years of use out of them for sure
The boring mill in action supper nice to see it work looks great after the Restore it don't matter if you missed a video as work N paying job is better than no dollars coming in we will weight till you show one for sure
Oh the clip of the mesure pointer was great also as for us it hard to see if the cutter is moving and at what speed that showcased it well
Thanks Tom for yet another great video
Cheers from Australia
G'day Tom. How bloody cool is that mate. The big old girl lives to eat steel another day. You've got to be happy with those results. Cheers Tom, Aaron.
PS: poor chaos is feeling that heat.
It is totally exciting for sure. Glad to be making chips. Yeah it was a hot one that day. We have had some cooler days lately so that has made it nice.
That turned out good 👍
Thank you.
Great results…enjoyed
Thanks Chuck.
I'ts a Beast Tom
& the borer is a beast too👍👍👍👍👍👍
well it is is to us Hobbyists😉😉
thanks for sharing
regards
Kev
Just a tad bit bigger than your micro lathe. 🤣🤣
That looked like fun, nice video. My pup likes to drop the toy 8 feet away also lol
That it was. Hate to see what the power bill is going to be though. 😀
Well done Tom
Thanks Trevor. I hope you are doing well now.
G'day Tom. The Virtical Mill did an excellent job, slowly milling away with the large face mill. Considering there is no coolant, you ended up with ... 😊 less mess but still resulted in a very good result.
The area right on top shouldn't make any difference, because you are using a very large surface area.
Well Done
Ted.
Thanks Ted. No real good way to use coolant since the mill was built without any coolant catch provisions on the table.
Hey Tom, nice angle iron. went well with your horizontal milling machine. Thanks for the shout out👍🏻
Thanks Dominic. Pretty happy with the results. I rotated the inserts around so I would have fresh edges for the second plate. The surface finish was even better.
You aren't kidding about the screaming air chamfer tool. I just bought one and I feel like I owe all my neighbors an apology every time I use it!
I know right?
They are obnoxious.
Thanks for sharing Tom
Thanks for watching.
Very good job friend Tom,,thanks for your time
Thanks Michel!
For her age, she sounds nice. Good work, Tom.
Thanks for your help getting it to this point.
Great result . Can you point out the feed & speed range that machine has one day . Cheers Tom . 👍
Thanks Max. Sure can if I can remember.
That's one beast of an angle plate. That would have cost many thousands to buy.
Thanks Robert. They should come in handy for up coming jobs. I would hate to buy a commercial set.
very nice. I would have used my K&T if I had it running, back when I made my angle plate. I had it blanchard ground at a local shop.
Hey Doug good to hear from you. I hope your are not still working a crazy amount of hours.
Always fun to get to do some nice shoosh shoosh milling.
It was. 🙂
Hi Tom. It's good to see these old and very expensive
{ When new} machine tools not getting wasted. i have recently bought a Ceruti 63/110 and am in the process of regrinding the slideways. When inspecting it I found 1.5 thou bend in the last 8" of the spindle, a bit like yours. Ive been contemplating how to straighten it And have come to the conclusion that a jack and some heat would do the job. What do you think?
i also got a parts manual for a G and L 330T, looks like it's from the 50's. I'm in New Zealand but if anyone would like it.
Congrats. The Ceruti's are good mills. If you want to sent me the G&L manual I can probably find a good home for it. Email me.
Tom -- Here is a mathamatical equation . Expensive Material + Lots of Burning + Lots of Welding + Lots of planning and hard work + Lots of Machining Time = " Well Worth it " -- Jim
Amen brother!
thanks for the video
Thanks for watching.
Nice job Tom. The odd thou makes no difference over that length. ATB regards from the UK
I appreciate it Gary. 🙏
I know very little about machining. I'm learning but yet to know much about the different choices of cutters. My question is what are the advantages of a face/shell over a single piont fly cutter? The HBM is awesome! KOKO!
Usually fly cutters are used for lighter depths of cut. Like a thousands or two for a clean up pass or maybe 10 thousands to take some material off. I was taking 20-25 thousands off a pass so a face mill is the better tooling choice. Thanks for watching.
Really surprising the head doesnt slouch forward throwing off your tram/lap lines on a machine that old.
You did a really damn good leveling too, to get nearly perfect overlap
Nice work
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Looks good. How long did it take to get them done.
Hey Steve. Several hours a piece.
@@hilltopmachineworks2131 I figured, even with the big face mill.
Hi Tom , what sort of DOC were you using for the faces? And do you think that some system like cool mist would have given you an even better surface finish? When you stated with the four flute HSS end mill I thought a cool mist blowing the chips off would definitely improve that finish. You could see where slivers had gone round with the cutter and given indents into the surface. They might well not be able to be felt but you certainly could see them. This isn't a criticism, just an observation and a question.
Hello Sam and great question. I was brushing off the chips occasionally, but some air blowing them out of the way probably would have helped the finish for sure. On average I was taking 20-25 thousands off of the faces to get a good clean up since there were some low areas from the welding pulling the plates.