Great looking v-block! Thanks for sharing the process and thought process.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stefan and you are welcome.

Great work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you! The most recent Instagram video on it has almost 100 thousand likes as of this reply. Steve

Very nice Steve. Thanks 😊

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

👍 love your work and appreciate the grinding lessons!

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

You certainly build a great foundation for accuracy to start from.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian.

thanks for the vid mr burton ! greetings from the netherlands, ben.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure and greetings to you too.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to parody’s full video on this Steve. Very few toolmakers with decades of experience like you on you tube giving such clear milling and grinding tutorials. Thanks you sir.

@hullygully-3599

2 жыл бұрын

Produce not parody’s 😀

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome.

Your video made my day, thanks

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Always incredibly inspiring…… I need to watch your instagram more 👍😎👍

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Many times you will see short clips on Instagram before it is on KZread and some of the stuff never makes it to KZread.

Truly amazing! In that world of metrology 50 millionths or less is such high bar to reach and you do this day in and day out! It’s awesome to see you work your magic! Thank you!.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words.

Thanks for sharing 👍

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Thank you for sharing your craftsmanship and knowledge, great video production/discussion/demonstration/build

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Chuck!

Steve,You never cease to Amaze me with your teachings!😀.on any feature Projects you do on you tube post a Dementional Drawing of part,so People's Eyeballs will Drool over it( LOL).

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Very interesting Steve.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Nice surface grinding work. Thank you.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

very good job solid rock machine..thanks for your time

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Simply beautiful work 👍👍👍

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

this guy knows how to grind

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Than you Dan.

IM learning about cbn wheels. Im finding out why I never had any luck using them in the past.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

They can be tricky but once you know how to use them correctly they are worth there weight in gold.

Steve Barton ( Professor)

Thanks I'll keep that locking mechanism in mind. Its going to be really usefull in the future.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

Excellent demonstration explained it very clearly very helpful for the novelist like me and I’m sure it’s helpful to the professionals, great job!!’

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@beetlejuice4693

2 жыл бұрын

I am a tool and die maker and his videos are extremely helpful

The sine plate locking mechanism seems similar to the Taft Peirce style.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, It is similar. I believe they use an expanding collet.

Angle Block ( Drilling holes)

Can you show video of Drilling the angle block,well as drilling the hole in the center ( top of block. Inquiring minds of people seeing your stellar Professor machining work 👀

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

No, we have other videos planned for the future that will be better than basic drilling. The 1/2" C'bore was done half on both sides.

@raymondlee2680

2 жыл бұрын

Wow,That's neat and I love the videos that you put out!!!!😀 There are a lot of guys out there that Do not understand about milling Also Tramming the Head is most important aspects of making Blocks square ( 1-2-3 Blocks).. Keep up the good work Mr Barton( Professor)

dc53 is an awsome steel. I use it daily for coin dies. shock resistant like S-7 hardness of D2 with a tensil strength of amost 400 thousand psi, S7 is about 300 psi. as a comparison, 4140 is less than 100.000 psi. Dc53 is one of the best steels for tool and die out there. Never heard of using a diamond wheel on tool steel. I might of just learned something here

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Dan, I love DC53 too! Don't use diamond in steel it will ruin the wheel. I am using CBN which works on steel but not carbide.

I mean the Ol 45 block

What laser engraver do you use and will you show it that’s for Videos there fantastic

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

I have this done on the outside. I can't remember the name. I will try to remember to check next time i have something etched.

22:50 - What about buying a used Brown & Sharpe Micromaster surface grinder? Would that be most likely out of spec? Thanks. 27:25 - Jeeze talking 25-50 millionths of inch here.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

6 ай бұрын

Buying a used surface grinders is a throw of the dice. You may be getting a great deal or you may be buying an expense machine that will let you down. If possible bring a a few pieces of steel the same thickness and place them at different spots on the mag chuck and grind them to the same thickness. Check to see if they measure the same and without taper. If it passes that test you may have a good one.

@sto2779

6 ай бұрын

@@SolidRockMachineShopInc Thank you sir for the reply. By far the most helpful information I have learned. I will take this advice. Also do you have any recommendations where would be a good place to find a low priced used reliable surface grinder?

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

6 ай бұрын

That I do not know. You can start by doing a web search in your area and keep an eye out for auctions listings. @@sto2779

Steve, Great projects as usual, Thx! Question though, you need a precision 45deg angle block to make a precision 45 deg angle block, how do you create the original precision 45deg block? What is your reference?

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I will try to cover that in the next video on the finish grind. It will be hard to explain here. A high precision Vblock or Sine Plate is the key to checking the 45 degree angle. With the Vblock after finish grind you run the indicator over the part rotate the part 180 degrees in the Vblock and indicate. If the readings are zero both ways that means your Vblock angles and Big 45 are both accurate. If you get different readings then that means one or both (Vblock, Big 45) are out. The amount of indicator readings lets you know how much to adjust. Steve

@CatNolara

2 жыл бұрын

You could set up a mounting plate at roughly 45 degrees, grind a V into a test block with flat, square and parallel sides, then flip the block and finish the V. Now you could test the V for squareness and adjust the mounting plate accordingly. Just my idea of how I'd do it, his way of doing it is propably better.

What’s the trick to making those conical insert pieces? I presume they are hardened? Very cool.

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

No, they were soft prototypes. The ones for the Sine Plate will be hardened. I used 3/4" drill rod and drilled and chamfered the end. Then I used a cut off wheel in the surface grinder to spit down the middle to the required depth. Then used the cut off wheel to cut the part off a little longer than needed and finished cutting to length on the mill. I plan on doing a KZread video on it when we start the Sine Plate build.

@sblack48

2 жыл бұрын

@@SolidRockMachineShopInc look fwd to seeing it. Thx!

You said you are taking of 4 1/2 thousandths. Did you mean 4 1/2 10ths?

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

I was taking a total of about .005" of the surface. I plunge ground about .0045" and left .0005 for clean up conventional grinding.

Huge quantities of talk about _what_ is happening but zero talk about _why_ it is happening (being done).

@SolidRockMachineShopInc

2 жыл бұрын

There was plenty of why in this video. Why use CBN for roughing, why plunge grind with CBN. Why start on the proper side of the part when plunging. Why use green silicon carbide wheels for finishing and very much more. Did you watch the entire video or just the first few minutes?