So excited! This is going to look glorious on the power hammer.

@PhilG999

3 жыл бұрын

Are you concerned about the thin areas in that casting? I'm not a Machinist, but a Mechanical Engineer. Don't know what the structural loads are on that part but it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy.

@inspector8572

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool! Looking forward to see your episode on the power hammer.

@555_Kochi_STi

3 жыл бұрын

Is this for Will’s power hammer? He had some bad luck, but it’s great to see the community coming together to help him out. Looking forward to seeing him and his channel grow. He’s a good kid.

@LarryOsterman

3 жыл бұрын

@@555_Kochi_STi IIRC, Eric has his own Fairbanks. I believe I read that Will's hammer is over at Fireball Tools.

@kevinpoore5626

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you approve his work Kathy is doing it for you LOL :-) :-) keep your tools Sharp and your fingers out of the way

I was really hoping this was Will Stelter's power hammer, his seriously needs some rescuing 😔

@jdrains16

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the -exact- same thing!

@Mucidamascusblades

3 жыл бұрын

Well, he needs a bit more than machining... he needs so serious welding......

@almostanengineer

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mucidamascusblades he does indeed, but this being a fresh casting, I was rather hopefull this was a possible solution.

@sheldonrunkey6160

3 жыл бұрын

I think he may have sent his power hammer to the guy making this part... so they could repair it. Only makes sense.

As a machinist, these are the kinds of jobs that drive me crazy to set up. There's no "one size fits all" way to go about setting up a part like this. You just gotta keep pounding and adjusting until you get it in good enough. I have to say, you did an excellent job!

@Abom79

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Some cast parts on power hammers look like they were eyeballed after happy hour. Nice to see a Fairbanks receiving such care.

Love Eric's 80s sitcom intro.

@HandToolRescue

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

This is the sort of stuff I subscribed for. Real old-school Abom!

@ChrisMaj

3 жыл бұрын

Well, we don't get much of it lately.

@tuppyglossop222

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisMaj True. That’s why I was so pleased to see it.

I love watching you all collaborate and helping each other out. You guys are awesome and it helps me learn new things for my work. Take care and have fun. You're all my brothers

2:31 put a propeller on the front of that thing and have a REALLY heavy model of a biplane!

Deciding which surfaces to use as a reference would have given me nightmares. Great job!

@stevenslater2669

3 жыл бұрын

The print will show you where the reference surfaces are. Complex castings like cylinder blocks & cylinder heads, which have a number of cores, are always laid out on a surface plate. The layout inspector scribes lines on the casting to equalize the inevitable core(s) shift. We used to joke about buying machinist’s blue by the barrel. Often, you would be halfway thru laying out a block only to find core shift that made you blue over your carefully scribed lines and START OVER! The really good inspectors could mark up a couple of V8 cylinder blocks in a day. A rookie might take 2 or 3 days.

Always interesting to see you setting up a challenging workpiece.

Great to see some machining on a complex part again-love it! Great tip on having the 4 jaw contact the part in one plane. I hadn’t ever given that a thought but it sure makes sense.

Your Chuck key discipline is top notch - that’s one of the few times I’ve seen you put the key on the bed. My apprentice master would be proud of you!!

Thanks for the tips on lining up rough castings.

So I'm curious why not just put some bar stock in the tailstock and use that to get a roughly centered/aligned bore?

Thanks Adam, always great to see craftsman take a casting and turn it into a machined piece of perfection. Take care

"Looks like we NAILED it." No Adam - YOU nailed it. With years of experience and attention to detail and pride in your work. No need to be modest here.

@jlucasound

3 жыл бұрын

Amen, Neil!

You are the ninja master with a 4 jaw chuck!

Thanks for sharing with us Adam, catch you on the next one. Fred. 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

Hey Abom! Ive wanted to say this for a while. Watching your content has helped me no end with confidence building when machining even the most basic stuff. Seeing yourself someone with lots of experience has helped someone ie me who is still learning the basics of maintenance and machining to be more confident and trusting in the tooling to do the job rather than freaking out thinking it's gonna go wrong 😂 cheers anyway and thanks for the content! Always nice to go over old videos in the evening for whatever reason just to chill with

Really appreciate your instructive videos given with generosity. Love from Suffolk England.

I love watching you working on jobs with your Monarch!

4:34 made me really happy with the results of cleaning up the casting lines and such. I wanted to do that as soon as you showed the part.

Excellent job on centering the part in the lathe. Nowhere as easy as you make it look. Be Careful and Stay Safe. Bob

I have always wanted to see you indicate a casting like this. A very asymetric part.

when I saw this, I thought right away WILL STELTER! but nope. Great video though!

@Sausketo

3 жыл бұрын

me too lol

@bloxit6968

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sausketo lol I got excited

The dual guitar piece during the stills is awesome, wow! 👍🙏💝‼

@waynespyker5731

3 жыл бұрын

Who was it and what name is it called. Thanks

Great set-up and first op, core hole looked quite accurate in casting. Thanks for sharing.

Abom you never disappoint. Excited for this project, thanks for uploading! Machining castings never gets old.

Wow that's friggin cool. Thanks for the tip on the contact points. That monarch sure runs smooth for 80 year old machine, for any machine for that matter

was looking at the bore as you were indicating and it was getting better and better

A joy to watch. Thank you so much!

Always a pleasure to view one of your videos, Thank you😀

Great 12-string guitar music at the end. Much appreciated!

you are truly an artist, setting up that casting in the chuck running true like that was really something to see.

As soon as I saw this casting I knew I was in for a 4 jaw indicating treat! Nice work Adam!

Hay Look who just got another big thumbs up. Thank you for sharing, nice work ..!

Watching again after thinking about it. I'm excited to see the end result. After seeing how you are about finishes and such, this is gonna be one pretty work piece when done. Possibly make a little 2 tool holder (1 up + 1 down) fly cutter to fit through the holes before the bushings are installed. Lots of machining to do.

Interesting. I don't remember you doing a rough casting that way. Makes sense. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing: I'm learning more here about machining & production than I did back in engineering school. Even back in the late nineties, there were too many computers around...

Cast iron machines so nice and what a cool part too.

I work in a production machine shop. Its cool to watch custom work machine shops operate and see the different tools y’all get to use

I love Eric! Such a good channel!

Saw Fairbanks power hammer and immediately thought you were doing a colab with alec Steele

@ehsnils

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. That was a sorry story for Will.

It is fun to watch a master work.

Bravo zasta vrhunski rad i zalaganje da se posao obavi kako treba.

Love your work ABOM! You're a master machinist!

Great project, back to what you do best.

really interesting video. i especially liked your technique for lining up the casting in the lathe.years ago i worked with an old school machinist in our locomotive repair shop who never used an indicator he used the surface gage and chalk.

Great work Adam , I just bought a new 4 Jaw for you new lathe & I LOVE IT ! ENJOYED..

Loved the music at the end Adam! (Always love the beginning music too)! Oh, loved the machining stuff too ;)

Adam... i hate to love what you are doing, the tools are one thing but the knowledge you have are so incredible. If i lived in the states i would pay to be there to learn. Love your content! What makes you better then others is that you are okey with hiccups and takes us alog with when you learn things too.

Glad to see you collaborating with so many of the channels I sub to great show man

Good info on the plane contact, I had no idea.

Great work! I am an Industrial Mechanic (that is what your job is called in Germany :)) on my own at the DLR! And luckily I am still in contact with the *old* machines as well. You feel a sertain *connection* to these ones, which is not there when you work on NC v CNC machines! You really know what you are talking about! I even enjoy seeing metall getting cut in my off-time :D! Kind reguards from Germany! Tim

@AttilaAsztalos

3 жыл бұрын

It's not that different - with NC machines you just make sure all is well _before_ you press "cycle start"...

I could watch that Monarch cut cast all day. Nice work, as always.

I know every project can't be this.. Man these are the ones I subscribed for... I watch everything else but I love lathe stuff!

As a cabinet and furniture maker I am always in awe of the amazing control and precision you have which is well beyond what my tools and abilities can provide.

@paulmanson253

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno. It is very human to have less respect for the skills already possessed. I recall reading years ago in a Fine Woodworking magazine issue,that if you want a line or crack to visually disappear,it has to be plus or minus about 4 thou. About +- 0.004 " . You call yourself a cabinetmaker,so if you can make seams visually disappear, that is nothing to sneeze at. Now when Adam starts chasing tenths, that is when I go wow. Both wood and metal have lathes ,but the metal variety is more than a tad more expensive. For very good reasons. Being able to shape wood to a satisfactory end product is not something everyone can do,either. I am more than a wood butcher,but no cabinetmaker,that's for sure. The variety of human ability is very wide.

Hi Adam, I really enjoyed the setup of the workpiece in the four jaw... The use of the surface gauge made it a little easier... Take care. Paul,,

Good thing Eric asked you to do that. It would have taken a LONG time to rescue that with hand tools.

Abom your are a badass for sure and love watching your work. I've been an automotive mechanic for over 40years an shop owner for 20years. Ive been sub to your channel for a little while now an you my friend are very talented for sure an amazing. I live on the east coast fla an only know one man over here that is retired now that was a tool an die maker an always was amazed at what Fred could do but to watch you is a pleasure. Stay safe an God bless.

@rodneywroten2994

3 жыл бұрын

It was the same for me Mr. Price. Mechanic all my life and the last 17 years with ford dealership. It is refreshing watching somebody special as Adam.

Thank you for using the surface gauge when setting up the casting in the lathe. I drives me crazy like nails on a chalk board when a dial indicator is used for setting up a rough casting.

@bcbloc02

3 жыл бұрын

Eye centric is as good as it gets for rough castings. :-)

I thought that it was Will Stelters Fairbanks power hammer part. 😢

@ChannelJanis

3 жыл бұрын

I have not heard any news on Wills Little Giant. Last news were they will try to fix it at Fireball tools. Since then nothing. That will be a huge project to braze all those huge pieces together. Probably months.

@picklesnoutpenobscott3165

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChannelJanisWhen Will's accident happened, I emailed Fireball tools about it, and the reply was they were not taking any custom work at that time. What a disappointment, but they might have just been blowing me off, cause who am I, right? Nobody. So that was why I got hopeful when I saw this part getting made. Look at us, talking about Will on other makers channel... but - That's how much we care about each other. It is an excellent community.

Half an hour of Abom!? Heck yeah! 🤘🎸

Thank you Adam I always enjoy watching your videos I am from South Africa

Interesting work on the machines! Good luck!

Always great work! 👍

Would love for you to fix Will's Fairbanks!

I'm learning much from your videos Adam. I really like the way you did the set up on this casting. To a novice like me it looked to be an almost impossible shape to set up to get the bore lined up, but your skill and experience show through. Neat job. Moving to the next one now!

I like the pushrod for indicator post trick!

Great content thanks for sharing

Your casual manner and attention to detail is great to watch, I advise my students to subscribe 😉

Looking forward to part 2.

Have been looking forward to this ever since you posted it on your Instagram a while back!

That’s amazing to find a unmachined casting for a tool that old! Can’t think of a better guy to machine that old part and make it just like the factory did but better

@BrizzleMFD

3 жыл бұрын

This is a new casting done by windy hill foundry on KZread if I’m not mistaken

Looking forward to the next installment. I would live to have a Monarch EE.

excellent job Adam

For those curious, "Darn Straight" is an Imperial standard, not metric.

@brandonbenjamin9452

3 жыл бұрын

As is dead nuts. Metric equivalent is spot on

A rod down the center might make it a lot easier to align that casting on the machines.

@roquri

3 жыл бұрын

Assuming the core was straight and centered in the mold.

Seeing big, weird shaped and unbalanced items chucked in the lathe always makes me nervous

@jrneff9773

3 жыл бұрын

true machinist if it will go in the four jaw we can turn it. i have seen a man use 401 Loctite glue a part to a face plate and turn it omg it is always scary but these pees know when to spin and not to spin

@petemclinc

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, the part must of had fairly balanced mass front to back and side to side.

@pacificcoastpiper3949

3 жыл бұрын

You and me both maggs

@metalman6708

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrneff9773 double sided tape works well too. Done that more than a few times.

@picklesnoutpenobscott3165

3 жыл бұрын

Same here - I was keenly aware the consequences of poor workholding... got the shivers.

Respect for the timing and choice of outro music. Adds a lot to your machining skills, Adam. Nice one.

Good setup

Funny looking bi-plane!

@mitchkronowit3633

3 жыл бұрын

First thing I thought too! That looks like a little toy biplane.

I always find it very interesting how an industrial machinist tackles a problem. My background is in automotive machining.

Very nice dialling ty.

Awesome stuff! As a current employee of FM and an amateur smith a Fairbanks hammer is on the some day wish list.

Very cool. Was watching Hand tool rescue channel before I discovered yours. Nice collab.

I VERY MUCH ENJOYED THIS VIDEO ADAM !! CHEERS MAN

Where are you? I'm here waiting for you at the mill.

@rugger8787

3 жыл бұрын

i can just imagine some random dude in abombs shop standing by the mill

Great video production...discussion/build

Wieder spitze gemacht!!👍👍👍

Very good job! I also work with lathe, I'm from Brazil.

The line-up method Adam is using prevents possible core shift from throwing everything off.

nice first part mister Adam

As always great show keep it up , greetings from romania .

Nothing wrong with that set up method . Cheers .

@axeman2638

3 жыл бұрын

that's artistry.

Now thats a Outro!! Keep it up!!

Nice Work

Great work Adam! One thing I’ve done on casting is find something roughly the same diameter as the core hole and use this mounted in the tailstock to assist with the alignment.

@MartinInAmsterdam

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. Just push the tailstock up to the hole before tightening the chuck.

@michaelkuehnen8584

3 жыл бұрын

On a casting with a cored hole, can you trust that the core stayed concentric with the casting? Problem with castings is knowing which surfaces to use as reference and which surfaces are arbitrary.

@MartinInAmsterdam

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelkuehnen8584 Well Adam has the drawing so it should be clear from that.

@ogaugeclockwork4407

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely requires the cored hole to be good. In my limited experience they’ve generally been ok.

Hopefully he doesn't try moving it on a pallet jack...

@felixar90

3 жыл бұрын

That was the most painful thing I ever watched.

@maximummarklee

3 жыл бұрын

@@felixar90 what happened on which video that I apparently missed?

@felixar90

3 жыл бұрын

@@maximummarklee It's on Alec Steele's channel. Fixing Will's 100 years old Fairbanks Power Hammer. They were making good progress. Will brought the hammer outside to try to pick up the anvil block with a forklift (which didn't work). But when he was bringing it back inside the pallet jack tipped over and the hammer slid off then smashed on the ground and a main part of the cast iron frame cracked. Then Will was crying. It was sad.

@picklesnoutpenobscott3165

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I felt that one myself. I love old iron and I got the heartache too.

Precision presentation here. The machining ain't bad either.