Thanks. You just saved me a small pile of money. I had been thinking buying a set of angle gages. After watching your vid I scampered out to the shop, squared up a bunch of 1/4" x 4" by 3" aluminum plates, and then used the DRO to drill and ream .251" holes on 3.000" centers on the X and appropriate offsets on the Y. By putting four holes in each plate I could make two angle blocks from most of the square plates. I sawed them splitting the two angles and used my little Rong Fu to finish the angle on each one. Took about 3 hours. Now I have a nice set of aluminum angle blocks from 0.5 to 30 degrees (0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 22.5, 25, 30).
This tip first off was brilliant and solved my problem. The best part it opened my mind solving problems in a new way of thinking. Simple solution but it never crossed my mind.
Been watching all your videos after seeing the milling quick easy square-up and the upside down lathe thread turning….you have saved me an immense amount of time and money but most importantly teaching my kids how to think about problem solving instead of just throwing money at it. I don’t know how you find time to keep making these videos and run a business!
I’m in my Time Machine watching Mr. Pie’s videos from 5 years ago!!! What I love about him is the simplicity he puts into any solutions he shows here!!! He always assured that if there’s a product being sold, someone has had to make it before hand! That’s the approach I’ve to in every field I’ve worked on, if another human being made it, I possibly can take it apart and back together! It’s reverse engineering which fed all fields, including medicine and astrophysics! We knew nothing but found out someone’s done it before, then we just studied and replicated! Mr. Pie is the best example with knowledge to back him up!!!! He’s inspires confidence in many of us, I’m sure, when we didn’t know we could! Thank you, Mr. Pie!
Long time toolmaker here. In this situation, I superglue the jig to the back jaw and use a stop on lower end of the part. When done, knock off the jig and razor off the glue.
I just like to say I've been a tool maker for 20 years you are probably the first person I've seen on the Internet who knows exactly what they are doing nice job keep the videos coming I am loving them
in the uk the charts are in a zues book trig tables, hardness charts,tapping sizes pitch circle diameters drill charts great little book still have one!!
You explain thing so easy to understand and I truly am grateful. I am 56 and sliding fast to 57 but thank you. You are my go to guy when I want to learn something new.
Took me quite a while to find one, but finally did get an original Illinois Tool Works Trig table book in fantastic shape. With this lil trick you showed, it has opened a door to doing things only dreamed I myself could accomplish. My old HS math teach would drop dead if he knew I was doing ANYTHING using trig. Next time I'm in Austin, I owe you a dinner at Papadeaux's. Thanks !!!!!
Joe, this is a great tip. I am a home shop machinist and used this video tip to create a 29.5 Deg right triangle using a 3 pin or hole pattern layout. This allowed me to get that perfect 29.5/60.5/90 I needed for setting my compound angle on my lathe. I made mine out of .125" brass and it has become a goto tool. Thank you so much for your videos, tips, and tricks. Keep up the great productions. I truly enjoy how you make many quandaries simple!
Joe. You have saved me so much time with setting up multiple repeat parts. I have never taken the time to use logic you make the job so much easier. Thank you Paul
NTMA SANTAFESPRINGS,CA IS the school I graduated from last year on Dec 12. ,Your videos are clearly understood by by me, make many more, This tree will grow deep!
Yet another GREAT video packed full of great info you only get from years and years of experience! Thanks for sharing your knowledge Joe! Please keep the videos coming! Jason
Thanks Jason. I've been at this a long time. I walked into my first shop in 7th grade in 1970. Never looked back. 6 years of machining through school. 40 years in industry. Mostly prototype and experimental work. Stay tuned. More to come.
Great tip! I was wondering how to make my own. You’re an absolute champion for sharing your knowledge and expertise for those wanting to learn. Thank you so much!
As an old engineer, one that has forgotten too much, when you said all we know about this triangle is one angle and one base length. Then you said it was a right triangle. As soon as you said that we now know two of the three angles. On any triangle, since we know all three angles of a triangle has to add up to 180 degrees, the other angle is 70 degrees. The side opposite the right angle is the hypotenuse. The base line you used is the adjacent side to the known 20 Degree angle. The length of the hypotenuse is the adjacent side (2.50) divided by the cosine of 20 degrees. Enough,, sorry for the aside. A wonderfully presented trick that I am going to use tomorrow to make an angle plate to set up a part on the Bridgeport to drill a hole on a 10 degree angle off vertical. Thanks for all you do Joe. If you are not the best teacher out there you are certainly up in the top five. Been subbed for a long time.
Mr Pieczynski, You Sir are one of the truly outright good guys. Can't tell you have much I've picked up watching you work I'm reminded of my Dad when he was teaching me to run the machines except at the Wizard level with you speaking Can't express how much I really appreciate you doing these tidbits on all these operations and generously sharing your knowledge and time I am very impressed and hey, I normally ain't impressed by much! Thank You
Thank you for the comment and compliment. I enjoy doing this, and really enjoy hearing back from the viewers that like what they see. very much appreciated.
I've been a mill man over 30 years and always indicated my angle gage in. Never thought of drilling holes to get the angle. Nice trick I'll be using from now on. Thanks for the vid. Enjoy your other vids as well.
Great stuff Joe. This is an affordable solution to a common problem faced in the shop. As a bonus I can stir up the gray matter in the brain and revisit high school Trig.
Thanks again Joe. I spent years in school and have a good handle on trig, conics, calculus etc. none of which I ever used in dentistry. Now that I am learning lathe and mill work to custom build parts for my gyroplane I am finally getting to use what I learned almost 50 years ago. I sure wish our local college had a machine shop and an instructor like you! More than anything you are teaching us to think! Today I drilled on my flywheel but don't have an index table. I made a fixture which indexed on the 105 tooth starter ring gear every 15th tooth... voila perfect 7 hole pattern... you haven't shown us how to do that without a dividing table yet! You are making this stuff fun for us all! Terry
Terry Horlick in Australia we have a little book like joe's and and it's called the the Zeus book it has formula's for vairiety of different number of holes with variable PCD bolt pattern's
From the design side, I designed aerospace cameras and paper mill equipment, and I hardly ever used a sine or cosine. I worked the tangent, which I find the easiest to use, and always ended up with spot-on x and y dimensions, which made the machinists happy. They didn't have to do the trig. Just x and y. Nice trick! I'm not a machinist, just a woodworker dabbling in machining, and I'm glad I subscribed. Gems like this video keep me coming back!
It's so incredibly simple it's [t's positively elegant! Precision angle parallels of any thickness or angle you need in 15 minutes. You made me feell even stupider then I am for not thinking of it for myself. That;s another one for Joe! Bless you my brother. Keep them coming!
I was going to DIM - do it myself - a few holder for CCMT0602 at front back ends ... was discouraged finding no end mill that can mill 7 degree of inclined wall. I don’t even have a set of precision angle plates necessary to grind that 14 degree engrave cutter. This video has make my day. I end up with an angle plate measuring 7.0 degrees with my digital protractor. Couldn’t be happier. Thank you Joe.
Nice... refreshingly direct and well-taught material. I much prefer your appreciation of your own skills to the tongue-in-cheek modesty ubiquitous elsewhere; not to imply anything negative towards you. You clearly know what you're doing and you make it clear that you know what you're doing. That is very important to people like me, trying to learn from the right sources, while retaining some healthy skepticism. Thanks for sharing.
Joe, Have watch several of you videos and am blow away with your knowledge and ability to communicate these techniques. Thanx so much for sharing you expertise. I actually live in Blanco and would love to come over to Austin and visit some time. Thanx again.
All i can say is thank you! Your channel has given me so much knowledge and confidence in my fabrication shop. Thank you so much for sharing these tips n tricks with us lil guys 🤘🏼
Wonderful solution, this is better than the purchased angle block sets. I always hated how short they are. This method solves, span, angle & location. BTW, Carr-Lane had the same little booklet with common trig tables and other cool things, I've had mine since the early 1980s. Keep those great videos rolling.
Joe, has anybody yet told you how awesome you are? I geek hard on the stuff you show us how to do. Thanks for taking the time. I just knew there were real world applications to all this stuff we learned in HighSchool!
I used this trick first time today, to make a few hold downs for a small parts clamping block that I built; and even though didn't need huge precision, I did it anyway. I'm just a hobbyist with a garage shop, but never the less, I loved the time savings; and the parts all have matching angles. ...Almost makes me look like I really know what I'm doing... ;) Thanks Joe!
I just wanted to say thank you for all the information you provide in your videos. If i ever have a problem with my lathe or mill i know you always have the answers already on youtube.
I appreciate you taking your off-work time to spread your knowledge to a very interested audience. You explain concepts well and make great real-world machines to demonstrate. Sorry that your shop gets so warm. Cooling such a large area is expensive. Well done and God bless.
Great instructional video. I am just a hobbyist which I carried over from trade school machine shop. I always like to learn the tricks from the professional tradesman.
Hey Joe.... I got around to making more DYI QCTP tool holders and I needed a better way than using a plastic triangle last go. This worked very well, light years ahead of my first go. Important to me is the locking handle being close to the same location with all the holders, this method proved to be much easier to repeat as well as being accurate. Many thanks for this and your other tricks. oh, the trick of drilling 1/8" holes for stops, priceless.
Very much worth the watch. I'm not sure I could drill the two holes precisely without a DRO, but will try. Your explanations are crystal clear and it is obvious that you have an extensive knowledge of the trade. Inspiring for me.
Thank you Jim. I love what I do. If you place your hole farther apart, and do have some error in you dials, the error will be less in your angle. Another good hint is to always turn your dials in the same direction as the direction you turned them to find your starting point. Even if you take out backlash, it was still an extra table move.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your experience! Learning from you is pure pleasure! So many smart tricks so well explained! I love your channel! Milling a 22,5° angle for my 1958 Harley becomes now easy! Thank you! Please, keep on going! Greetings from Germany!
Hey Joe, I made me a 20 degree block using this technique, its perfect. I going to make many more too. I did it on a bench-top micro mill from LMS. Keep your tips coming. I'm new to machining but enjoy it very much. My son lives in Austin too. Next time I'm in town I'd like to check out your shop. Thank you, Kurt Kenyon, Seattle Wa.
You truly amaze me with your tips and tricks. I have learned Soo much that I never knew, on how to make my tasks on a mill or lathe so easy. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge.
THANK YOU! Exactly what I needed about a week before I needed it. I was going to make a .125 thick sine bar with hard step for locating parts, and a dedicated .125 thick gage block, but then I have one extra piece that can move around. This idea gets me just as accurate and less stuff to fiddle with on every part change. Loving these videos.
Everyone of these videos is full of so much useful content. As a home machinist I've learned to use my lathe more proficiently and since getting a small burke/millrite mvn mill I have learned how to put it to use. I can't say thanks enough for the free and immensely valuable info you are passing along!
It is absolutely my honor to share a lifetime of experience with all of you guys just starting out. Do me a favor and share what you learn with someone new, without judgement. Take the concept and run with it. Best of luck. Be safe.
Gotta say love your videos I have leared a lot from you all I have are small import machines but love making stuff with them. Just want to say thank you for making these videos and sharing your knowledge and experience I just wish I had understood what this was all about when I was younger and how much fun it is
Thank you Sir, You are truly skilled and knowledgeable, always something to learn. And oh yeah! Texas! Can I ask what your education background is, and from where today can you really get comprohensive training
Joe; (making accurate angle cuts) I am a machinist with 55 years of experience in the trade. I find it of interest to see how persons with varying abilities explain how things should be machined on the internet. I find when I watch your videos you go into great detail and carefully explain why and how to proceed. Sometimes others assume that because they know how to do some aspect of machining they assume that others do also. You should seriously consider making a program explaining machine shop practice so that others could learn the proper approach to machining. Having said the above I should mention that you indicated the back jaw in the shoe but not the moving jaw. This could throw off the angle. By the looks of your shop I assume that you run a typical job shop as I do also. I wish that my shop was that clean. Good job.
I just made a 45° and a 30° (w 60° as a by-product) angle gages using your method. Done the sketch on CAD : even easier than using the trig tables. Your trick works great Thanks for the videos
Thanks for all your great videos. Having been a woodworker my entire life of 70 years, I have decided to go heavy metal. I am buying a lathe, should be getting it in September, and I can't even begin to tell you how much I have learned from your vids, as well as others such as That Old Tony and Blondie Hacks. Hope you keep up the good work. Oh, and one other thing...judging by the background sounds on your vids I think you must have your shop right in the middle of the K1 Speed race track...
Great great stuff Joe. You just got another new subscriber.Anything you can do on really small stuff is beneficial to me.I'm an ME that likes to make models. Like 1/35th Armor. I'm dabbling in Scratch Built and have made my Proxxon into an end mill. Although it's totally different than what you are doing, it is exactly the same. Thanks for the incredible installation of knowledge. I now understand how some of the magic is produced on the parts I design.
In the job I had before I opened my shop, I had the opportunity to suggest, construct and teach an in house "Design For Manufacturability" course to 3rd year mechanical engineering students from The University of Texas in Austin. For the first week of their 6 month co-op experience....they were mine. I introduced them to the machinery on our manufacturing floor, told them about the capabilities of the machines, cost of features, attachments, tooling and basically everything they really needed to know to not design a part the machinist would want to kill them with. The ME curriculum skips over that information and I thought it would be a good thing to expose them to. They always shook my hand at the end of the week and told me they just learned more about manufacturing in the last 5 days then they had in the last 3 years. They were better designers when they left. It was very rewarding for everybody involved. I believe all ME's should really listen to the guys on the floor that make their parts. These guys are craftsman, artists and a wealth of real world knowledge for those willing to listen. I do plan to shoot a 'small parts' video. Stay tuned and thanks for your support. Post a video of some of your models. I'd like to see them.
I was in Tucson for a stint, and my company mandated a Class run at the community college for ME's. The first part was that we had very minimum requirements to design to. We would design our parts in CAD, THEN we had a 4 week class in the machine shop trying to make these parts.It was very rewarding, and VERY eye-opening for many of the engineers. I was actually a carpenter for 10 years before going to school, so I had a huge head start.Any peer review I run, I still get manufacturing people involved. Often, well before the peer review, I will get them involved. Its just good practice.I will see about the models. I do have them posted on a modeling website, but just still shots.I recently made the turret of an M60A3 Patton operational. It was supposed to be glued open or shut. I of course wouldn't have that. Unfortunately, I didn't use a dial indicator, and had a bit of run out at the end. Since it's only plastic, putty and paint made it what it aint.You sir are now subscribed. Will play catchup on your stuff. Thanks again, and thanks for spending the time with the next gen of ME's. The world is better off because of it.
Thank you for sticking this video out in the that heat. Lately I have been thinking that it would be great if someone could show some tricks to get around having all the specialized devices to machine a variety of parts and shapes. I, for one, have a only a garage shop, almost exclusively for designing and building telescope mounts.
@@joepie221 I have been watching many of your videos.. with having limited tools, I can relate to your creative thinking, especially when thinking out ways to create a certain feature while getting around the need for expensive tools or accessories.
Great tip, I was always crap at maths, but seem really easy when you are shown how...sir you would make a great teacher...thanks once more jack from across the pond
Hey Joe. Just a quick shout out. I rewatched the vid the other day and used it to set up an adjustable angle plate for motorcycle raked trees. Was able to dial it in to 0.006mm vertical over 100mm horizontal. Keep up the great vids
Joe Is there a video on what you shop does and also how you started in learning & your path as a machinist & how you started your business/ I can not believe how down to earth you are and how smart you are I think you are a great guy and man your videos are wonderful & the way you make them also. Thanks you Joe btw I noticed how clean your shop its spotless is that a requirement for employees to clean up at the end of each day.. looks like it
Thats a long and colorful story my friend. I have had many awesome opportunities, challenges and mentors. I'm a true believer in paying it forward for just those reasons.
Words fail to adequately express my thanks and appreciation of the time you spend and the skills you relate when you make these videos that are SO good!
Great video I been a machinist for 10 years now and everyone harps on speeds feeds, g code, cad cam, but honestly figuring out fixtures is the hardest thing, I look at it more as tricks of the trade. The more you know the better you will become. Fixtures are more complicated because it has to be right and it has to be strong, and it has to be repeatable, you can miss. Judge speed or feed by 5-10 % it won't kill the job not the same for any part of fixture
Super useful, both in the simplicity of making the angle gauge and in the use of stops for mass production. As a limited experience mill user, these tips jump me a long way forward into making things accurately and quickly which is what motivates me to carry on and get better. I don't have dro but I do have a surface plate and vernier height gauge and for when I want holes at very precise points I often use an optical centre punch that I completed a while back from someone else start of it . I am amazed how experienced folk can pick up exact crossing points and have found that by scribing hard and feeling when the punch hits the cross I do better, but I still like the optical. Thanks for the inspiration and techniques.
I once won a $50 bet by measuring a bar of material and getting the length within .005 by eye. The guy never bet me again. Your eyes will get very sensitive to location and lathe runout over time.
Joe, I have been in the trade longer than. Your videos are the best of any on You Tube. I wish my shop was as clean and well organized as yours. I have two suggestions: 1.) if you have a cylindrical square do a video on it, very few machinist even know what a cylindrical square is or how to use it. I think of that since you tend to point the necessity of squareness this would be a good topic to cover. 2.) And along the lines of a clean and well organized shop it should go hand in hand with GOOD hand tools. Ever tried any Noga tools. Made in Israel........very good tools, NOT cheap, a mag base would be a good place to start. Thanks Eric..........Please keep up the good work!
You are one smart person, I wish we could have worked together. Some of the finest brains on the Israeli medical industry have learned some tricks from you, thanks
Thank you for the compliment. I was formerly the head of the prototype department for one of the worlds leading orthopedic companies and spent years as a knee product development engineer for them as well. Great field. My current business was built on the production of orthopedic instruments for hip, knee and spine surgeries.
If you keep up sharing all these great tips I might be able to not only spell the word machinist I might become one. Thanks for taking the time to share, John F
The boss needs to pony-up for a shop A/C.....people are MUCH MORE productive when they are comfortable. Can't tell you how much I have learned watching your videos. I am in the process of doing numerous upgrades to my Chinese mini lathe and can't wait to practice with my newly acquired knowledge! Thank you kindly for all the great info!
SOH CAH TOA was an Indian chief who wanted to figure a way to use his arrows more efficiently. One day, while putting on his war paint, it suddenly dawned on him. S=O/H C=A/H T=O/A...... easiest way to remember sine, cosine, tangent. THANKS JOE. GREAT VIDEO!
Hey Joe! From Chicago Great video, Great idea! As always. I used your video as an exercise for learning CAD. I input your stated dimensions, in my Onshape app. I then created a part. I also incorporated the step & pin holes on the edge. Now I have a model stored for reference. I extruded your name, "Joe Pi idea" on the front of my part, to give you proper credit! Thankxxxxxxxx for inspiring us!
Carbide Depot has a great trig calculator I use all the time. Also, you can get cheapo angle blocks like the ones you showed at the end. My set cost me £37 and are apparently accurate to +- 20 seconds. I've used this technique a few times now for weird angles though, works a treat.
Very nice , would you have any videos using "tooling gauge balls " for compound angles ,milling and drilling , think everyone would be interested in that ?
Joe, you're great for parting with your knowledge, FOR FREE! It's much appreciated. This is a great tip.
Happy to help. Hit that subscribe button. Thats a great way to say thanks.
Here I am, 81 years old and learning trig. Fantastic!!! I love it, Joe!
I am in the same at my 50's 😁
I am an untrained hobby / miniature engineer and your videos are clear concise tutorials for me. Thought provoking. Many thanks
Glad to help
It's 2020 now Joe. Thank you for taking some time back in 2016 to teach me now.
As I recall, it was a hot day exactly like today. Thanks for checking it out.
Thank you for sweating your balls off longer than you needed to, to share your knowledge with everyone.
Thanks. You just saved me a small pile of money. I had been thinking buying a set of angle gages. After watching your vid I scampered out to the shop, squared up a bunch of 1/4" x 4" by 3" aluminum plates, and then used the DRO to drill and ream .251" holes on 3.000" centers on the X and appropriate offsets on the Y. By putting four holes in each plate I could make two angle blocks from most of the square plates. I sawed them splitting the two angles and used my little Rong Fu to finish the angle on each one. Took about 3 hours. Now I have a nice set of aluminum angle blocks from 0.5 to 30 degrees (0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 22.5, 25, 30).
Outstanding. Pass it along.
You can get Chinese made angle plates for around 25 USD. BUT making custom ones is possible with the same method!
This tip first off was brilliant and solved my problem. The best part it opened my mind solving problems in a new way of thinking. Simple solution but it never crossed my mind.
Glad I could help. See how many ways you can apply this theory. Thats the point of my videos. Glad its working.
Your tips are absolute Gold Joe. Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching.
@@joepie221 excellent lesson, thanks for this.
Been watching all your videos after seeing the milling quick easy square-up and the upside down lathe thread turning….you have saved me an immense amount of time and money but most importantly teaching my kids how to think about problem solving instead of just throwing money at it. I don’t know how you find time to keep making these videos and run a business!
I’m in my Time Machine watching Mr. Pie’s videos from 5 years ago!!! What I love about him is the simplicity he puts into any solutions he shows here!!! He always assured that if there’s a product being sold, someone has had to make it before hand! That’s the approach I’ve to in every field I’ve worked on, if another human being made it, I possibly can take it apart and back together! It’s reverse engineering which fed all fields, including medicine and astrophysics! We knew nothing but found out someone’s done it before, then we just studied and replicated! Mr. Pie is the best example with knowledge to back him up!!!! He’s inspires confidence in many of us, I’m sure, when we didn’t know we could! Thank you, Mr. Pie!
Thanks for the flattering comment. I am happy to share what I know if it helps you guys out. All I could ask is that you pass it on.
Joe !, im now addicted to your instructional videos, please make a million more, may god keep you in good health , we need guys like you on the web
Thanks. I'll try to keep it fresh. I wish you good health as well.
Long time toolmaker here. In this situation, I superglue the jig to the back jaw and use a stop on lower end of the part.
When done, knock off the jig and razor off the glue.
For some reason, super glue is never a consideration when I think out a setup. I may have to start putting it on the list.
I just like to say I've been a tool maker for 20 years you are probably the first person I've seen on the Internet who knows exactly what they are doing nice job keep the videos coming I am loving them
Thank you very much.
in the uk the charts are in a zues book trig tables, hardness charts,tapping sizes pitch circle diameters drill charts great little book still have one!!
You explain thing so easy to understand and I truly am grateful. I am 56 and sliding fast to 57 but thank you. You are my go to guy when I want to learn something new.
Took me quite a while to find one, but finally did get an original Illinois Tool Works Trig table book in fantastic shape. With this lil trick you showed, it has opened a door to doing things only dreamed I myself could accomplish. My old HS math teach would drop dead if he knew I was doing ANYTHING using trig. Next time I'm in Austin, I owe you a dinner at Papadeaux's. Thanks !!!!!
Thats one of my favorite restaurants. Great Cajun seafood.
will be down spring time, as soon as i shovel out from under the snow here near Lake Placid....done deal for Papadeaux's
I have been retired for fifteen years and still keep that same little book on angles in my desk, adding a calculator makes it fun. Nice shop.
I actually have a brand new spare hidden in my toolbox. Great little book.
Joe, this is a great tip. I am a home shop machinist and used this video tip to create a 29.5 Deg right triangle using a 3 pin or hole pattern layout. This allowed me to get that perfect 29.5/60.5/90 I needed for setting my compound angle on my lathe. I made mine out of .125" brass and it has become a goto tool. Thank you so much for your videos, tips, and tricks. Keep up the great productions. I truly enjoy how you make many quandaries simple!
Joe. You have saved me so much time with setting up multiple repeat parts. I have never taken the time to use logic you make the job so much easier. Thank you
Paul
Thanks for the trust Paul. Much appreciated.
Such a great, simple, and easy idea!
Also, I've never seen such a high like/dislike ratio on a video before! You are the best!
Thanks, overall the channel is still above 97 % approval.
Im so thankful a good friend and machinist told me about you!
I’m learning so much!!
Great job!
Awesome! Thank you!
I'm cutting custom bevel gears and need a special angle plate for a setup gage.
This is perfect.
Thanks,
John
I learned this 55 years ago... The revision was welcome!!! :-) Thanks Joe
NTMA SANTAFESPRINGS,CA IS the school I graduated from last year on Dec 12. ,Your videos are clearly understood by by me, make many more, This tree will grow deep!
Thanks, I hope so.
Yet another GREAT video packed full of great info you only get from years and years of experience! Thanks for sharing your knowledge Joe! Please keep the videos coming! Jason
Thanks Jason. I've been at this a long time. I walked into my first shop in 7th grade in 1970. Never looked back. 6 years of machining through school. 40 years in industry. Mostly prototype and experimental work. Stay tuned. More to come.
Great tip! I was wondering how to make my own. You’re an absolute champion for sharing your knowledge and expertise for those wanting to learn. Thank you so much!
As an old engineer, one that has forgotten too much, when you said all we know about this triangle is one angle and one base length. Then you said it was a right triangle. As soon as you said that we now know two of the three angles. On any triangle, since we know all three angles of a triangle has to add up to 180 degrees, the other angle is 70 degrees. The side opposite the right angle is the hypotenuse. The base line you used is the adjacent side to the known 20 Degree angle. The length of the hypotenuse is the adjacent side (2.50) divided by the cosine of 20 degrees. Enough,, sorry for the aside. A wonderfully presented trick that I am going to use tomorrow to make an angle plate to set up a part on the Bridgeport to drill a hole on a 10 degree angle off vertical. Thanks for all you do Joe. If you are not the best teacher out there you are certainly up in the top five. Been subbed for a long time.
Thanks for the comment and support.
Mr Pieczynski, You Sir are one of the truly outright good guys. Can't tell you have much I've picked up watching you work
I'm reminded of my Dad when he was teaching me to run the machines except at the Wizard level with you speaking
Can't express how much I really appreciate you doing these tidbits on all these operations and generously sharing your knowledge and time
I am very impressed and hey, I normally ain't impressed by much!
Thank You
Thank you for the comment and compliment. I enjoy doing this, and really enjoy hearing back from the viewers that like what they see. very much appreciated.
I've been a mill man over 30 years and always indicated my angle gage in. Never thought of drilling holes to get the angle. Nice trick I'll be using from now on. Thanks for the vid. Enjoy your other vids as well.
Great stuff Joe. This is an affordable solution to a common problem faced in the shop. As a bonus I can stir up the gray matter in the brain and revisit high school Trig.
Thanks again Joe. I spent years in school and have a good handle on trig, conics, calculus etc. none of which I ever used in dentistry. Now that I am learning lathe and mill work to custom build parts for my gyroplane I am finally getting to use what I learned almost 50 years ago. I sure wish our local college had a machine shop and an instructor like you! More than anything you are teaching us to think! Today I drilled on my flywheel but don't have an index table. I made a fixture which indexed on the 105 tooth starter ring gear every 15th tooth... voila perfect 7 hole pattern... you haven't shown us how to do that without a dividing table yet!
You are making this stuff fun for us all!
Terry
I like to include theory in what I present. If you can take a part of this and apply it over there, we both win. Thanks for watching.
Terry Horlick in Australia we have a little book like joe's and and it's called the the Zeus book it has formula's for vairiety of different number of holes with variable PCD bolt pattern's
You are so kind to provide these useful information. I wish you will have day by day increasing new techniques in your job.
Thank you.
From the design side, I designed aerospace cameras and paper mill equipment, and I hardly ever used a sine or cosine. I worked the tangent, which I find the easiest to use, and always ended up with spot-on x and y dimensions, which made the machinists happy. They didn't have to do the trig. Just x and y. Nice trick! I'm not a machinist, just a woodworker dabbling in machining, and I'm glad I subscribed. Gems like this video keep me coming back!
Just 200 more to watch. thanks for your support.
It's so incredibly simple it's [t's positively elegant! Precision angle parallels of any thickness or angle you need in 15 minutes. You made me feell even stupider then I am for not thinking of it for myself.
That;s another one for Joe! Bless you my brother. Keep them coming!
I was going to DIM - do it myself - a few holder for CCMT0602 at front back ends ... was discouraged finding no end mill that can mill 7 degree of inclined wall. I don’t even have a set of precision angle plates necessary to grind that 14 degree engrave cutter. This video has make my day. I end up with an angle plate measuring 7.0 degrees with my digital protractor. Couldn’t be happier. Thank you Joe.
Nice... refreshingly direct and well-taught material. I much prefer your appreciation of your own skills to the tongue-in-cheek modesty ubiquitous elsewhere; not to imply anything negative towards you. You clearly know what you're doing and you make it clear that you know what you're doing. That is very important to people like me, trying to learn from the right sources, while retaining some healthy skepticism. Thanks for sharing.
Very simple, but accurate technique. I love it. I'll try to use it next time I have to cut angle(s) at work. Thanks Joe.
Watched serration video moments ago. Knew I had to watch this one. It was worth it. I have to thank you Joe. You’re an excellent instructor.
Joe, Have watch several of you videos and am blow away with your knowledge and ability to communicate these techniques. Thanx so much for sharing you expertise. I actually live in Blanco and would love to come over to Austin and visit some time. Thanx again.
I'd be more than happy to visit with you once this Covid thing calms down. Thanks for the compliment.
All i can say is thank you! Your channel has given me so much knowledge and confidence in my fabrication shop. Thank you so much for sharing these tips n tricks with us lil guys 🤘🏼
Thats great to hear. Glad to help.
Thank you so much. I use a mill in making individual parts for muzzleloaders I build. Being self taught your videos are a wonderful resource.
Thats great to hear. Thanks for the trust.
Wonderful solution, this is better than the purchased angle block sets. I always hated how short they are. This method solves, span, angle & location.
BTW, Carr-Lane had the same little booklet with common trig tables and other cool things, I've had mine since the early 1980s.
Keep those great videos rolling.
Longer ones would be better.
I have had mine since 1973. It's better than Google, because you don't need a computer and access to the internet.
Joe you are amazing. This tip is Awesome! Thank you for being so willing to sharing your experience.
My pleasure!
Joe, has anybody yet told you how awesome you are? I geek hard on the stuff you show us how to do. Thanks for taking the time. I just knew there were real world applications to all this stuff we learned in HighSchool!
Thanks.
I used this trick first time today, to make a few hold downs for a small parts clamping block that I built; and even though didn't need huge precision, I did it anyway. I'm just a hobbyist with a garage shop, but never the less, I loved the time savings; and the parts all have matching angles. ...Almost makes me look like I really know what I'm doing... ;) Thanks Joe!
Outstanding. Raise your price now !
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I just wanted to say thank you for all the information you provide in your videos. If i ever have a problem with my lathe or mill i know you always have the answers already on youtube.
I appreciate you taking your off-work time to spread your knowledge to a very interested audience. You explain concepts well and make great real-world machines to demonstrate. Sorry that your shop gets so warm. Cooling such a large area is expensive. Well done and God bless.
Great instructional video. I am just a hobbyist which I carried over from trade school machine shop. I always like to learn the tricks from the professional tradesman.
Hey Joe.... I got around to making more DYI QCTP tool holders and I needed a better way than using a plastic triangle last go. This worked very well, light years ahead of my first go. Important to me is the locking handle being close to the same location with all the holders, this method proved to be much easier to repeat as well as being accurate. Many thanks for this and your other tricks. oh, the trick of drilling 1/8" holes for stops, priceless.
Glad it helped.
Very much worth the watch. I'm not sure I could drill the two holes precisely without a DRO, but will try. Your explanations are crystal clear and it is obvious that you have an extensive knowledge of the trade. Inspiring for me.
Thank you Jim. I love what I do. If you place your hole farther apart, and do have some error in you dials, the error will be less in your angle. Another good hint is to always turn your dials in the same direction as the direction you turned them to find your starting point. Even if you take out backlash, it was still an extra table move.
Thank you, I learned so much in such little time. hope you do more videos like this, I'm a hobbyist and if I can learn from this video ,anybody can.
Thanks. I try to make it easy to understand.
Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing your experience! Learning from you is pure pleasure! So many smart tricks so well explained! I love your channel! Milling a 22,5° angle for my 1958 Harley becomes now easy! Thank you!
Please, keep on going!
Greetings from Germany!
Thanks for staying late on a hot afternoon to explain this.
It can get very hot in here. Thank God the offices are A/C'd.
Great tip. Your presentation is very easy to follow and is complete. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your passion. Joel......
Thanks Joel. Stay tuned.
Hey Joe,
I made me a 20 degree block using this technique, its perfect. I going to make many more too. I did it on a bench-top micro mill from LMS. Keep your tips coming. I'm new to machining but enjoy it very much. My son lives in Austin too. Next time I'm in town I'd like to check out your shop. Thank you, Kurt Kenyon, Seattle Wa.
You are more than welcome to stop by. Call or e-mail first for directions.
Wow, this will be super handy for all of us home shop guys who like you said most likely do not have any gauge sets (yet). Thanks for the info Joe!
Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge with us Joe. Every time I lay my hands on the controls of machines, I use what you teach.
Excellent. Expand on the theory when you can and come up with new applications for it.
You truly amaze me with your tips and tricks. I have learned Soo much that I never knew, on how to make my tasks on a mill or lathe so easy. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge.
Glad to help.
THANK YOU! Exactly what I needed about a week before I needed it. I was going to make a .125 thick sine bar with hard step for locating parts, and a dedicated .125 thick gage block, but then I have one extra piece that can move around. This idea gets me just as accurate and less stuff to fiddle with on every part change. Loving these videos.
Excellent. Thanks for watching. Good luck with your project.
Thank you Joe, very well presented sir. down n dirty with tons of applications, what more could we ask for, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
some people buy expensive equipment and tools but did a little precision works。 This kind of trick is very good!
Everyone of these videos is full of so much useful content. As a home machinist I've learned to use my lathe more proficiently and since getting a small burke/millrite mvn mill I have learned how to put it to use. I can't say thanks enough for the free and immensely valuable info you are passing along!
It is absolutely my honor to share a lifetime of experience with all of you guys just starting out. Do me a favor and share what you learn with someone new, without judgement. Take the concept and run with it. Best of luck. Be safe.
Great video Joe you are a very good teacher.
Thank you.
Joe Pieczynski
Joe, what I like about your videos, its "hands on" and easy going. not high tech like the other guys.
Its all stuff you may actually use some day in your shop. I try to keep it relative. Thanks for watching.
Thanks joe, ive been watching a couple of months now, I really enjoy your videos.
And you just saved me the cost of cheap Chinese angle gauges 😎😁
Excellent. Have fun making your set. Make sure your back jaw is level.
Brilliant. Now I know another reason for keeping & saving broken endmills...
Awesome video and a wonderful tip!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
@@joepie221 All your tips are helpful (and put to good use). I love your videos... Awesome content.
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Gotta say love your videos I have leared a lot from you all I have are small import machines but love making stuff with them. Just want to say thank you for making these videos and sharing your knowledge and experience I just wish I had understood what this was all about when I was younger and how much fun it is
Thanks. I'm glad they help.
Thank you Sir,
You are truly skilled and knowledgeable, always something to learn. And oh yeah! Texas!
Can I ask what your education background is, and from where today can you really get comprohensive training
Joe;
(making accurate angle cuts)
I am a machinist with 55 years of experience in the trade. I find it of interest to see how persons with varying abilities explain how things should be machined on the internet. I find when I watch your videos you go into great detail and carefully explain why and how to proceed. Sometimes others assume that because they know how to do some aspect of machining they assume that others do also.
You should seriously consider making a program explaining machine shop practice so that others could learn the proper approach to machining.
Having said the above I should mention that you indicated the back jaw in the shoe but not the moving jaw. This could throw off the angle.
By the looks of your shop I assume that you run a typical job shop as I do also.
I wish that my shop was that clean.
Good job.
I just made a 45° and a 30° (w 60° as a by-product) angle gages using your method. Done the sketch on CAD : even easier than using the trig tables. Your trick works great
Thanks for the videos
Hit that subscribe button! Its free.
You can also find triangle calculators online everywhere.
Great stuff as always Joe. Your channels is a wealth of information. Thank you.
Glad to share it.
Thanks for all your great videos. Having been a woodworker my entire life of 70 years, I have decided to go heavy metal. I am buying a lathe, should be getting it in September, and I can't even begin to tell you how much I have learned from your vids, as well as others such as That Old Tony and Blondie Hacks. Hope you keep up the good work. Oh, and one other thing...judging by the background sounds on your vids I think you must have your shop right in the middle of the K1 Speed race track...
Great great stuff Joe. You just got another new subscriber.Anything you can do on really small stuff is beneficial to me.I'm an ME that likes to make models. Like 1/35th Armor. I'm dabbling in Scratch Built and have made my Proxxon into an end mill. Although it's totally different than what you are doing, it is exactly the same.
Thanks for the incredible installation of knowledge. I now understand how some of the magic is produced on the parts I design.
In the job I had before I opened my shop, I had the opportunity to suggest, construct and teach an in house "Design For Manufacturability" course to 3rd year mechanical engineering students from The University of Texas in Austin. For the first week of their 6 month co-op experience....they were mine. I introduced them to the machinery on our manufacturing floor, told them about the capabilities of the machines, cost of features, attachments, tooling and basically everything they really needed to know to not design a part the machinist would want to kill them with. The ME curriculum skips over that information and I thought it would be a good thing to expose them to. They always shook my hand at the end of the week and told me they just learned more about manufacturing in the last 5 days then they had in the last 3 years. They were better designers when they left. It was very rewarding for everybody involved. I believe all ME's should really listen to the guys on the floor that make their parts. These guys are craftsman, artists and a wealth of real world knowledge for those willing to listen. I do plan to shoot a 'small parts' video. Stay tuned and thanks for your support. Post a video of some of your models. I'd like to see them.
I was in Tucson for a stint, and my company mandated a Class run at the community college for ME's.
The first part was that we had very minimum requirements to design to. We would design our parts in CAD, THEN we had a 4 week class in the machine shop trying to make these parts.It was very rewarding, and VERY eye-opening for many of the engineers. I was actually a carpenter for 10 years before going to school, so I had a huge head start.Any peer review I run, I still get manufacturing people involved. Often, well before the peer review, I will get them involved. Its just good practice.I will see about the models. I do have them posted on a modeling website, but just still shots.I recently made the turret of an M60A3 Patton operational. It was supposed to be glued open or shut. I of course wouldn't have that. Unfortunately, I didn't use a dial indicator, and had a bit of run out at the end. Since it's only plastic, putty and paint made it what it aint.You sir are now subscribed. Will play catchup on your stuff. Thanks again, and thanks for spending the time with the next gen of ME's. The world is better off because of it.
Thank you for sticking this video out in the that heat. Lately I have been thinking that it would be great if someone could show some tricks to get around having all the specialized devices to machine a variety of parts and shapes. I, for one, have a only a garage shop, almost exclusively for designing and building telescope mounts.
I think you may have come to the right place for that. My video catalog covers a lot of work around topics for budget shops.
@@joepie221 I have been watching many of your videos.. with having limited tools, I can relate to your creative thinking, especially when thinking out ways to create a certain feature while getting around the need for expensive tools or accessories.
Great tip, I was always crap at maths, but seem really easy when you are shown how...sir you would make a great teacher...thanks once more jack from across the pond
Thank you for the compliment. I enjoy teaching people. Greetings from Austin Texas USA
Hey Joe. Just a quick shout out. I rewatched the vid the other day and used it to set up an adjustable angle plate for motorcycle raked trees. Was able to dial it in to 0.006mm vertical over 100mm horizontal. Keep up the great vids
Joe Is there a video on what you shop does and also how you started in learning & your path as a machinist & how you started your business/ I can not believe how down to earth you are and how smart you are I think you are a great guy and man your videos are wonderful & the way you make them also. Thanks you Joe btw I noticed how clean your shop its spotless is that a requirement for employees to clean up at the end of each day.. looks like it
Thats a long and colorful story my friend. I have had many awesome opportunities, challenges and mentors. I'm a true believer in paying it forward for just those reasons.
Great job explaining that process. I wish there were more educators teaching with your presentation skills. Thanks for all you do.
What a time saver trick for making multiple parts exactly the same.
Thanks for sharing
Words fail to adequately express my thanks and appreciation of the time you spend and the skills you relate when you make these videos that are SO good!
Thanks for watching. I am glad they help.
Great video I been a machinist for 10 years now and everyone harps on speeds feeds, g code, cad cam, but honestly figuring out fixtures is the hardest thing, I look at it more as tricks of the trade. The more you know the better you will become. Fixtures are more complicated because it has to be right and it has to be strong, and it has to be repeatable, you can miss. Judge speed or feed by 5-10 % it won't kill the job not the same for any part of fixture
Super useful, both in the simplicity of making the angle gauge and in the use of stops for mass production. As a limited experience mill user, these tips jump me a long way forward into making things accurately and quickly which is what motivates me to carry on and get better. I don't have dro but I do have a surface plate and vernier height gauge and for when I want holes at very precise points I often use an optical centre punch that I completed a while back from someone else start of it . I am amazed how experienced folk can pick up exact crossing points and have found that by scribing hard and feeling when the punch hits the cross I do better, but I still like the optical. Thanks for the inspiration and techniques.
I once won a $50 bet by measuring a bar of material and getting the length within .005 by eye. The guy never bet me again. Your eyes will get very sensitive to location and lathe runout over time.
Great to see you mending nicely, Joe!
Joe, I have been in the trade longer than. Your videos are the best of any on You Tube. I wish my shop was as clean and well organized as yours. I have two suggestions: 1.) if you have a cylindrical square do a video on it, very few machinist even know what a cylindrical square is or how to use it. I think of that since you tend to point the necessity of squareness this would be a good topic to cover. 2.) And along the lines of a clean and well organized shop it should go hand in hand with GOOD hand tools. Ever tried any Noga tools. Made in Israel........very good tools, NOT cheap, a mag base would be a good place to start.
Thanks Eric..........Please keep up the good work!
Thanks Eric. My shop can get pretty messy, pretty quick. It has its moments.
Thank you Joe.
You are one smart person, I wish we could have worked together. Some of the finest brains on the Israeli medical industry have learned some tricks from you, thanks
Thank you for the compliment. I was formerly the head of the prototype department for one of the worlds leading orthopedic companies and spent years as a knee product development engineer for them as well. Great field. My current business was built on the production of orthopedic instruments for hip, knee and spine surgeries.
Excellent video Joe, despite the heat, you make it look easy!
That's a really smart trick Joe. I never thought of it. I'm impressed.
Thank you . It works well.
Great tutorial, I wish my school would teach these kinds of tricks
If you keep up sharing all these great tips I might be able to not only spell the word machinist I might become one.
Thanks for taking the time to share, John F
Thanks for watching.
The boss needs to pony-up for a shop A/C.....people are MUCH MORE productive when they are comfortable. Can't tell you how much I have learned watching your videos. I am in the process of doing numerous upgrades to my Chinese mini lathe and can't wait to practice with my newly acquired knowledge! Thank you kindly for all the great info!
SOH CAH TOA was an Indian chief who wanted to figure a way to use his arrows more efficiently. One day, while putting on his war paint, it suddenly dawned on him.
S=O/H C=A/H T=O/A......
easiest way to remember sine, cosine, tangent.
THANKS JOE. GREAT VIDEO!
Thanks Joe, practical, useful information well demonstrated.
Every video that I have watched I have gotten some great ideas that I can use and don't cost a lot to make.
Hey Joe! From Chicago
Great video, Great idea!
As always.
I used your video as an exercise for learning CAD. I input your stated dimensions, in my Onshape app. I then created a part. I also incorporated the step & pin holes on the edge. Now I have a model stored for reference. I extruded your name, "Joe Pi idea" on the front of my part, to give you proper credit!
Thankxxxxxxxx for inspiring us!
Glad you liked it. Many thanks from Austin Texas
Joe you have taught me so much. Thank you bro.
Heheheh! I chuckled when you say it’s all Greek!
Carbide Depot has a great trig calculator I use all the time. Also, you can get cheapo angle blocks like the ones you showed at the end. My set cost me £37 and are apparently accurate to +- 20 seconds. I've used this technique a few times now for weird angles though, works a treat.
Very nice , would you have any videos using "tooling gauge balls " for compound angles ,milling and drilling , think everyone would be interested in that ?