Man, I work in a USAF machine shop and we get basically nothing but one-offs, and never anything super complicated; the little tips and tricks I get from this channel are just awesome, since I've become basically the "seasoned veteran" despite being mostly self-taught. What I'm saying is that the lessons I learn here are invaluable since I don't work with anyone who could teach them to nearly such a degree.

@boboften9952

4 жыл бұрын

"" Tips of Tony "" """ Tricks of Tony """ "" Totally oresome Tony "" "" Tricks or Treats" " Turn or Turn " THIS OLD TONY . YES HE IS BETTER THAN THOSE OTHERS.

@6806goats1

4 жыл бұрын

navy avionics here for 20 but years ago. Tried to hang out in the ship's machine shop but have never used a lathe. Guess I just gotta buy one and go from there. Wonder if they have them at DRMO or if they''d be trash?

@miguelcastaneda7236

3 жыл бұрын

well enjoy yr future you will be one of few hands on.guy am the old man here manual machines..work younger guys and push button cnc who make three times what i do when i retire soon their screwedhave know idea how to fix improvise grind

@user-qy9rg3nt2l

3 жыл бұрын

@@6806goats1 Lots of good machinery gets tossed due to ridiculous reasons. Scored a $6000 genset for nothing because they didn't realize there was a fuel cutoff under the tank. Turned and started right up.

@ilham7345

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-qy9rg3nt2l it seems when it comes to used stuff, US seems like a flea market compared to Japan which I considered as retail market. I've ever seen ppl get cars for free or just 3 digit bucks

You could gather the best people in TV world and they wouldn't be able to make a show about machining that is this entertaining. The internet is so peculiar.

@brandonrippeonphoto

6 жыл бұрын

that can be said about alot of youtube channels. aVe, Alec Steele, Frank Howarth, etc.. all are quality channels.

@Larry1942Will

6 жыл бұрын

Add olfoundryman, marc l'ecuyer that lazy machinist, Robrenz, & clickspring channels to the list. All produce content far better than any TV program.

@pangtsr

5 жыл бұрын

Larry Schweitzer waaaait! Not so fast. I have to write those down. Except Chris. That one i already watch.

@TechNed

5 жыл бұрын

Likewise, as regards Techmoan's reviews.

@Gottenhimfella

4 жыл бұрын

@@Larry1942Will I checked out M l'Ecuyer, but I just can't decipher his accented French (Quebequois, je m'en doute?"). I'm fine with continental French if the enunciation is careful and they don't gabble (so I'm all at sea wth French TV, and radio, unless it's a politician, who tend to speak with great clarity!) but to me Canadian French is about as inaccessible as, say, Portuguese.

watching these olds ones really makes me appreciate just how much you've perfected your craft nowadays. Listening to unscripted Tony being so genuine is sort of satisfying in a way. these "sorry"s aren't scripted! its so interesting! love you tony! glad you've kept at it all these years!

@ThisOldTony

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ezra!

@christopherdrekr1078

2 жыл бұрын

😀

LOL @ "the only thing you can't make with a shaper is a profit".... True... So true.

@jdgower1

5 жыл бұрын

I had to pause the video and guffaw at that remark for a hot minute myself.

@bigblue1402

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Tony. When you cut a metric thread on your student what is the driver gear count also the driven gear..... can't understand why mine is acting strange.... your the man....👌 Dave in the UK

Quote from my father: "The highest setting is usually only there to scare the shit out of new operators so that they never use that setting."

@chanakyasinha8046

4 жыл бұрын

😂 😂

@WoodCutr1

3 жыл бұрын

my dad has a little grizzly mill, being in the shop with that thing at top speed isnt fun, and with any and I mean ANY cutter (Drill bit is bad enough, carbide cutters are worse) is scary, keep yer face away from the same plane as the teeth on the cutter.

I saw this video when it was released and loved it, I guess it was one of the things that convinced me to finally enrol in a machining/mechanics course. Now last December I started my internship on a local factory and my first job was cutting keyways on a similar shaper and I cannot explain how much confidence it gave me having seen this video. Even though I had seen it years ago and I couldn't find it then, your explanation of your eyeballing technique on the shaper still survived in my head somewhere, and I killed it since day 1. I owe you so much TOT, I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this channel.

Oh, and a technical comment on the material of the backplate: Cast iron is normaly choosen because its pretty resistant against dings and embedding chips. (Forget about the "vibration dampening" for such a compact part, it doesnt play into the overall thing.)

@bradley3549

8 жыл бұрын

+Stefan Gotteswinter Cast Iron is more stable as well, I'm sure that factors into things.

@SupraSmart68

7 жыл бұрын

Not as much as cost of production. I know I would rather pay more for steel to avoid a 14" chuck flying off the lathe if I have a cross slide crash because I'm too busy watching the cutter. One good reason to never have a chuck that's big enough to interfere with the cross slide, I guess!

@MakinSumthinFromNuthin

7 жыл бұрын

You dance nice in this vid Stefan, you should do more of it on your channel :)

@hansjoachimutikal8791

7 жыл бұрын

Stefan Gotteswinter

@JaakkoF

6 жыл бұрын

Resistance to dings is a matter of specific material. GG-25 grey cast iron dings very easily, while something like GG-70 does not. It is purely a cost reason to make them out of cast iron commercially, as the cast iron is cheap as dirt and easy & quick to machine. Making a back plate out of steel is like you said not an issue, it works just as any other thing would. Though I would choose something like W.Nr. 1.1730 or W.Nr. 1.7225 for the material to make sure it machines nicely unlike W.Nr. 1.055.

Nothing like This old Tony videos to keep me company at 3.00 AM when I cant sleep. I give a man to man nod in your direction master of the home metal hobbies.

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

man-nod right back at'cha.

@TheManLab7

3 жыл бұрын

I do love a nice man to man nod 😊 It's one gesture that means so much, from something so little, to explain a lot.

@jazzyjay1150

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisOldTony so cool

Thank you.. I have Boxford vsl lathe, a Southbend 9" clone. It has an L00 spindel nose. And here en Denmark they're allmost imposseble to come by. So after watching this video 3 or 4 times, I went out to the garage and made my own. So thanks for the inspiration👍😁

Exellent, Love your work. Back when I was a young fella, my Boss and I were drilling through something, not with the right tooling but you know , getting by. "Are we through" he said? I replied " as machinists we are" As you can see ,Australian technical humour has a long way to travel. Cheers

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

hah!

@michaelpiotrowicz6100

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@Gottenhimfella

4 жыл бұрын

Australian humour at its best. Which is effectively unbeatable.

@Iceflkn

3 жыл бұрын

It's still better than another U.S. movie goer saying, "throw another shrimp on the barbie".

Best chuck money can buy? C'mon man, I'm right here!

@ThisOldTony

6 жыл бұрын

O. M. G.! *blushes*

@BISONUSACorpHamilton

6 жыл бұрын

Usually my live center makes people blush

@steamgadget

6 жыл бұрын

Best comment here! Bison makes hella good chucks. They grip rods and shafts better than most could dream! ;-)

@thibaythibay

5 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@misterfixit1952

5 жыл бұрын

"Best chucks money can buy", there's the rub, that money thing.

It doesn't really matter because you don't have the shaper anymore... but you asked how to find true center for your keyways. It's actually pretty fast and easy. If you have an accurate v-block, center it with your tool holder, and then drop the table to use it to center your work piece. Easy peasey! Absolutely love your machining videos, man. Thanks for everything and all the great tips (and the humor!!!)

Hey! A shaper! I just changed jobs and one of my first tasks was to reseal two of our shapers. The seals behind the flow control were glass-hard, and it had been leaking around half a gallon a minute for over 10 years they told me. Your 150spm is what we run our machines at (aluminum parts, very short stroke). So that speed is familiar to me. I'm really enjoying re-watching this video now that I'm exposed to machining as an industry directly. Cheers! Joel

That was very hillarious - Almost as I was trolling you in the video ;) Your videos remind me a bit of AvE but with less french and less cursing. Great editing and the tracking overlays are just to cool. Oh, and by the way, nice backplate ;)

@charltonwang

8 жыл бұрын

+Stefan Gotteswinter Yeah, definitely reminded me of AvE as well. :)

@MorganOliff

8 жыл бұрын

+Stefan Gotteswinter My precise Thoughts compared to +AvE! Like an alter Ego that can machine parts without fire.

@johndarakashiko9011

8 жыл бұрын

+Stefan Gotteswinter :) Why are you making fun of French, it's the same with Tom Lipton, I heard him say "excuse my french" lol. ;)

@richardputnam1801

7 жыл бұрын

Stefan Gotteswinter

@KnolltopFarms

7 жыл бұрын

No, it's because AvE actually speaks French in his videos. Don't be so over-dramatic and hyper-sensitive, the world isn't out to get you...FilmGelenk632 FilmGelenk632

Well... that was ... informative. Workmanship that would rival a master machinist... using a rough rock and a cold chisel. I never realized DL, Dumb Luck, was an intrinsic part of geometric formulas. Okay, getting serious, that is a fun video. I had the unfortunate job of assisting a master machinist once. 62 years experience starting when he was six, indentured to a machine shop in Serbia. You know you are working with a mentally disturbed precision perfectionist when he builds all his kitchen, garage and shop cabinets in thousandths. The first and only time I've seen a micrometer in the wood tools box. When the posts for the fence alongside the driveway must be precisely 6 feet long, 12 inch by 12 inch:... Me: "Say Phil, do you really think the termites care and pack measuring devices? That's green rough sawn lumber for crap sakes." Him: "I'm going to pressure treat them!" Me: "You're going to build a pressure tank large enough for those plugs of wood?" 6 1/2 months later he calls to tell me the posts are ready. Precisely 6 foot by 12" by 12", sanded to 400 grit. Well Phil owned a certain model Peugeot. More or less, the European equivalent of a Chevy Vega. After some 45,000 miles the engine was shot. So he took it to the best mechanic around for a rebuild. Getting it home it spun a bearing after about 2 1/2 hours. Ignoring the razz from his buddies to buy American, Phil tore the engine out, deciding to build it himself. Seeing that one coming, his wife bought a second car. Three months later, Phil fired up his wunderkar. After two weeks it was drinking oil to the tune of a quart every 100 miles. I attempted to explain to Phil you can't fit rings, pistons and cylinders to .5 thousandths. They have to break in. Wear in. Phil didn't buy it. Couldn't drive it either with that huge cloud of smoke following him around like a lost puppy. Sometimes 'good enough' is good enough. And it's a really good idea to be able to tell when you are beating a dead horse.

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

Good story! Thanks Ryan!

@SupraSmart68

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, I thought I was OCD! Sorry, I meant O.C.D. Sorry, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, (although I don't consider it a disorder as such; more, evidence of a higher functioning mind that realises that the devil is in the detail rather more than the average individual). Notice that I didn't credit the devil with a capital initial as that would be to acknowledge that Satan Is Lord. Obviously he isn't lord at all. Perish the thought. He doesn't exist for Christ's sake. Though if you think about it, where would Christ be without his opposite number? Just a normal guy who happens not to be evil and stuff. How would we know though? What standard would we have against which to measure his actions? I mean, who's going to argue with Jesus? He could get away with anything like Obama!

@jrmbayne

5 жыл бұрын

That's a great one!

@johnwhipps5656

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not OCD but I am annoyed that the letters are not in alphabetical order?

@danallured4533

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnwhipps5656 compulsive disorder obsessor! that'd do!

Like Cryangallegos, I am self-taught from a mixture of trial and error over the years and so I find videos like this are absolutely priceless. Here in UK, proper engineering is dying out and within a couple of decades we're going to have no one whatsoever in this Country who can do this type of work. A real shame considering we're the ones who started the industrial revolution. Thank you, T.O.T. for yet another absolutely excellent tutorial.

Thread cutting interest +1.

@ClaytonwFirth

8 жыл бұрын

+2

@daantreurniet9747

8 жыл бұрын

+1

@jbh.6257

5 жыл бұрын

+3

@jamesluck2969

5 жыл бұрын

+4

@iankrom510

5 жыл бұрын

+5

Awesome video Tony. I appreciate your understated and self deprecating ways, and quick wit. Great storyline that you used to present this machining project!

That was a lot of trouble! I woulda just made it out of a nice piece of Oak, using a jigsaw and the drill press. 💁‍♂️

@Joelsfilmer

4 жыл бұрын

Calm down, Diresta.

@theorboguitarmaker8155

4 жыл бұрын

hopefully you might use green oak, so that it forms the proper taper fit when it dries out automatically ;-)

@CubicSpline7713

3 жыл бұрын

I think a thick piece of cardboard would have done the trick.

@simonfairall5122

2 жыл бұрын

Just use duct tape

Belly laughed pretty hard when you brought in that third hand for the thread wires like it was no big deal. love this channel.

I think it annoys me when he skips footage of machining He says I'll find it boring but that's one of my favorite parts of these videos

Well done and thank you! As someone who is trying to decide if metal work could be an interesting and beneficial addition to my retirement protocols, I can confirm your work was inspirational!

Well done..!! I'm currently a first year machining student in Nova Scotia. Videos like these are interesting,and for me, they push the learning curvet just enough to keep my brain engaged...

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael, glad to hear it!

I have to agree with all your other comments . I am a hobby machinist that has no idea other then what i am learning off you tube, books and the good old trial and error. You're videos are an invaluable learning tool as well as being entertaining . Who needs TV. Keep up the good work.😀

My grandparents had an Omes 300 on their farm and my grandmother used the 150 setting to churn butter. :)

@vincentguttmann2231

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm glad you found an off-label use for your grandparents butter churner

Thanks Tony from a new subscriber, great video with a good balance of humour and education... plus of course the very much appreciated cameo by Stefan. 👍🏼

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+Peter Baynes Thanks Peter, and good to have you!

A brilliantly professional production. Thanks for posting!

long time since I had such fun watching engineering videos. Great humour, keep it up. You have a talent for education with humour. Thanks very much for taking the time.

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+lookcreations My pleasure, thanks look!

Dude I really love your videos. I am studying for a higher degree in machining and most of my coleagues subscribed to your channel after I show them a couple of your videos. Thank you for your work.

That 3rd hand reminded me of the Naked Gun. Love that slapstick humor. Great job keep-um coming!

These were good ol' days, before the world went crazy. I like to come back to these old vids and reminisce. Also these were the videos that convinced me to spend my life savings converting my garage into a machine shop. I also like to come back to try and figure out just what the h-ll I was thinking... 🤣

Great video as always ! I find you methods & explanations very helpful ! Thank you for sharing your skills !

Love the comedy. Very entertaining video and nice project!

Your part turned out lovely. I have a ginormous four jaw and would like something smaller and safer like you have here. In my country we call it the "compound slide". 150 strokes per minute would be useful when the shaper stroke is very short. There it would run fairly smooth as the acceleration would be a lot less. You can use twist drills in place of three wires if you don't have a set. As a teacher a big challenge is stopping students from removing a part from the chuck so that you can measure it for them. I'm still working on that...... For such a long video I was never bored watching. (An amusing observation: In a shop with multiple lathes, the only one with the "American Standard Spindle Nose" was our Yamazaki. Made in Japan!)

Thanks again, I like your honesty when things don't go exactly to plan

Funny, interesting, fast, practical, ..., in one word : CLEVER !!! Thank you for designing and sharing your videos !!!

Loved the video. The commentary is just off the chart!

You & Stephan are a couple of my favorites anyway, but your editing in this video was hilarious. Thanks for sharing a great video.

I know exactly what you mean.. I have a Bison 3205 160mm 3-jaw for my Grizzly G4000 that has been kicking around my shop which has moved 6 times and two states and I had the same push of motivation to design a backplate: must be chuck season. But I have a tool you don't: SolidWorks. In about 2 hours I had a complete, accurate dimensioned drawing from a solid model ready to make as soon as I get a hunk of stock (steel :-) Purchased the chuck 24 May 1994, so I guess it is about time, and watching you I got some good tips. BTW the Stephan music video at the end was a superb bonus.

One of the things I saw while I worked around machine shops was, what I thought was a clever idea, a method of expanding registers that were just a tad undersized. The shop had a machine that had a bearing housing that had been badly damaged when the bearing seized and spun which then cracked the housing. They decided to make a new housing out of steel and a machinist was assigned to do the job. When the fitters (millwrights) reassembled the machine they were unhappy with the fit of the register. I it was just a tad loose foe their taste. Everyone was debating what to do when the shop owner, an old Englishman, came out. He looked at it and told the shop foreman to get it back in the lathe, register out. He told them when the got it in and trued in a four jaw to take a knurling tool and put a slight knurl around the registers circumference. You could almost see the light go on in everyone's head. Knurling the edge would raise the surface a few thousandths which could then be custom fit with a fine file while in the lathe. It took a few tries but after an hour or so of trial and error the part fit like a glove.

Man, you are making some *outstanding* videos lately. They've always been very good, but now they are amazing. Great great work, sir!

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+Pest789 Thanks!

your humor has it's own kind of funniness, in a good way

I enjoyed watching. Your math calculations and divider were up to the task and the holes came out so well. Congratulations and thanks.

A couple of KZread machinist recommended looking at your channel and I am glad I did. I like your narration style with a combination of humor, factual information, skipping the the boring parts. You machined a nice fit with the new backplate. I have to work from a notebook of shop sketches to minimizes surprises because I would forget an important detail. Glad to see it work out for you.

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Jones Thanks Paul, I appreciate that. Thanks for watching.

Well back in my younger days I could do that one punch cut off with eight to ten inches but now I have to draw back at least three inches just to break wind ! 😎 That's what happens when you get old and decrepit, so enjoy it now while you can ! ;-) Thanks Tony for sharing, good video !

Man this video is perfect!!! Best youtube channel This Old Tony!!!! :)

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+SIMI.KING MOTO Thanks! I'm work'n on it. :)

"The Bruce Lee One-Inch Punch" bit still gets me every time, Old Tony. As if someone could have pulled that off without knowing EXACTLY what type of steel that was. You rascal, you...

I dont understand why, but this is my favorite video of all of yours. I sunno why i just like the machining process.

very experienced ,professional machinist he is.but he doesn't act like it ;awesome character

You can turn upper slide at 60 degree and cut thread by it (like taper). Tool will cut only one side and chatter may disappear.

I think that is the third time I'm watching this video. It's still fascinating, very informative - and a LOT of fun. Loved the punch method - I'm still stuck with the old hacksaw approach :)

This is probably the 10th time I am watching this video, and am enjoying it as much or maybe even more than the first time... You my kind sir are a gift from the providence that graces this abominable realm...

would also be loving to watch the thread cutting video

Netflix: Are you still watching? Someone's daughter: 21:46

@Davestar-fj7kp

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha hillarious

@BensMiniToons

4 жыл бұрын

I can relate.

@lost4468yt

4 жыл бұрын

Why write "daughter"? That's just weird to creepy.

@Wildminecraftwolf

4 жыл бұрын

@@lost4468yt Thats just how the joke goes, its to make the crude humour more crude lmao

@jonasrivers3675

4 жыл бұрын

@@lost4468yt Every woman is someone's daughter

I was researching making a back plate for a new chuck I recently purchased for my lathe. Stumbled across your video and must say your humor is outstanding. I had to watch it twice, the first time I missed most of it because of laughing so hard I was crying. Thanks for the good video.

Thank you for your information on the back plate. I just purchased an off-brand 4 jaw chuck and now I have to make a back plate for my southbend lathe 13 in.

We need more guest appearances, Tony

@bobshepherd9353

8 жыл бұрын

+Andre Gross How about doubleboost? That will confuse you yanks!

@andregross7420

8 жыл бұрын

+Bob Shepherd bastad

The fact that I find this stuff more interesting than my actual job probably means I made the wrong call in life. Oh well.

Great job! Would like to see the run out measurement later on. I panicked when you drilled the mounting holes and was hoping it would go well - very glad it did!! Usually on the last operation is where something goes wrong, for me at least. Thanks for the excellent work.

I really appreciate the little details you add. Just certain things here and there when you add some more info. It's really great.

Great video,I'm glad to see,that after making the adapter plate,you ran the "H" out of the chuck!

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

ha!

@kellerrobert80

7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you could make a replacement logo. Poke out the "H" and put in a "T" or just fill with black epoxy.

Love thebruce lee punch

Great job of presenting technical knowledge in a humorous manner, makes learning enjoyable! Thanks!!

I love the sound of a nice clean cut in steel. The monstrous roaring aside, the sound of that shaper cutting is gorgeous

I keep finding myself watching all these videos for a second time... either that or I am remembering what I have seen in a parallel universe

Dear Old Tony, another little slice of brilliance!

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks David!

Absolutely one of my favorite channels. Nice work and love the sense of humor to boot! Keep em coming.

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+phooesnax Thanks!

Machining humor courtesy of This Old Tony! I love your one inch punch Tony, it’s gnarly!! 😆😆 Edit: I’ve rewatched your videos so many times I’ve lost count. I never get tired of watching your videos, Tony, thanks for everything you do! 🥰🥰

I waited for the whole episode just to hear about thread cutting angles! ;)

Awesome vid my man!

A brilliant video. Very instructive and completely honest. Really helpful as I have to do this job on a Colchester Triumph with an L1 taper. I don't have a shaper though so wish me luck! Thank you

Inspiration thank you. Now I have to go and tackle installing a backplate for my er32 chuck, long time coming. Not as involved as yours but still challenging for me and at the same time enjoyable. like your presentation.

Used that color for accents when I sold my house. Real estate crowd calls it "Add to your cart yellow." Supposed to tickle your Amazon gene.

From my understanding, I was always told that cast iron was used because it helps deaden harmonics.

By far the funniest machining videos, love your style and humor.

Really enjoying your videos. Thanks for taking the time to make them!

I really love your video's, they are always hilarious. Kinda reminds me of being in my Grandpa's metal shop. Also I like how you explain the things that you think are obvious, because they might not be obvious to others (including myself, LOL) Keep up the good work man.

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Zach!

@TC-bz9dz

6 жыл бұрын

This Old Tony ..what does "chatter" mean....explain please. ...I don't do lathe work but I love to watch you build things. thanks

@emilsitka7590

6 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machining_vibrations

that was hilarious, hope Stefan finds it funny as well.

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+sharp x Thanks.. and that makes two of us!

@StefanGotteswinter

8 жыл бұрын

+sharp x He does ;)

Just putting this out there: I’m building a project for my Arduino, and I’ve had it in my mind that the potentiometers I needed went up to 1M. I bought them from mouser, then accidentally left another set that only went to 100k in the shopping cart when I bought another part from Adafruit. I was kind of annoyed, until last night when I was preparing for assembly and the 1M didn’t work. Checked the datasheet, and it called for 100k. Not only did I get the size wrong, but at some point I knew the right size, put them in the shopping cart, left it abandoned for 3 weeks and in that time the new size just grew itself in my brain. I don’t even remember it ever being 100k. So I hear you about the size coming from nowhere.

Thanks This Old Tony. I've the same issue with my 4 jaw chuck and my small Optimum 180x300. Maybe now that day will also arrive soon back here after watching your inspiring video!

Your 1inch punch went awry because you used the Bruce Lee variant instead of the lesser known Chuck (Norris) variant. Hope this helps (you chuckle)

I am checking the comments waiting for a comment by Stefan. I really enjoy your videos Tony.

@StefanGotteswinter

8 жыл бұрын

+larsmark He needed some time to recover from laughing ;)

So pleasant to see this smooth accurate work. Cheers!

Very very funny, informative, and entertaining. I'm gaining confidence to have a go through watching you and importantly from your humanness in things not working out as perfect as you might like. Nevertheless you're acceptant of your efforts. Good work, thanks a lot.

Stefan comments are the best

@dgedi78

8 жыл бұрын

+EmperorDevilhunter "One hundred of a millimeter ? Yeah, not too bad" - Stefan :D

Hah, when I saw the title I thought, "Stefan will definitely comment on this one." Then the video started and I discovered I was more right than expected.

Very impressed with your skills at turning and video making, thumbs up!

I don't know if it's a reason that's mentioned enough, but apparently cast iron backplates have a strong tendency to reduce the amount of vibrations transmitted between the lathe and the usined parts. One of our CNC lathes (Masturn MT54) that did finishing passes on the same part hundreds of times a day for years had its backplate damaged after falling down on hard floor during a maintenance... We never found a replacement part and ended up having to make one out of 1040 steel. It worked fine for a while, but we saw that the surface finish was not the same straight after using it. Nevertheless, it worked pretty well for a while and we weren't too bothered about the 100ish RPM difference to get the good surface finish again. ...This worked for a few months, but it progressively got worse. The usined parts couldn't keep their tolerances as easily (they're pretty much 100mm in diameter by 400mm long tubular parts, with +-50µ tolerances on the diameter), and the lathe made increasingly loud noises. We don't know whether it's because of the steel backplate or just wear, but the lathe just completely broke down. Its spindle got worn down and we ended up having to replace the machine altogether. It might just be normal wear, granted, but I think it's a weird coincidence that it happened so quickly after changing the backplate.

I only recently started watching your videos, interesting work and (very) entertaining editing-lol Im not a machinist just a home fabricator/tinkerer but wish I had went into machine work years ago instead of the automotive field - but im too old for either now so I look for great channels like yours to watch. Again im not a machinist, so just asking since you commented on the register fit, in a job like this was it necessary to check final runout at the chuck jaws, im guessing no since the jaws have to be dialed in anyway before a job-?? Looked great from here -- Thanks, Mike

@ThisOldTony

7 жыл бұрын

Not strictly necessary since it's for a 4 jaw chuck. But you're right, if it was a 3 jaw.. or a self-centering 4 jaw, runout would have been very important.

@JohnSmith-dr9vl

7 жыл бұрын

18.5.17 From UK. UTUBE. Tony. Making A Back Plate.No Smoke Without a Fire. You know i am never failing to be amazed at the skill and innovation depicted in these videos. i have good reason to detest the media having spent 12 yrs gathering Political Medical.Charity Law.Mainstream Religion. University. Media.Govt info on foot in Cent London. The attacks we got were suppressed by employing BGs. The 1000pp provoked the BBC (who we are assoc with) to advise us to hide it abroad. Since then the deception re an aircrash has taken up some of our time. However, to get back to the topic,, the nonchalant way these engineers present their activities hurts my brain. They have tools and equipt beyond imagination. i sit here spellbound. Maybe one valuable thing about that field is the purity of the action. there's no secret letters or underhand tel calls or threats on violence. i am very very impressed. how odd is it that i met so many clever people like these who were scratching a living and in fact had little intention to take action about it. that leaves me in dangerous situations. We also admire the electonics geniuses and without them there would be no vids to teach us. how lucky are the people of the last 40 yrs or so. The downside is of course its all mainly taken for granted. Does anyone realise that the great steam engineer Trevithic and many others ended up penniless. Marconi of course knew how to use the ideas of others and do marketing. All these highly paid woman posing for photos would not even have a jar of face cream if it was not for machinists but that dont bother them and I fear it don't bother Engineers either.Reminds us of Cameron Clegg. Brennan. Grayling. Pickles etc (uk govt) who we removed by using 1000s emails.but of course at least 25% are blocked by Yahoo. Facebook. Police. Electoral Office. and others. They just instruct the illegal activity via a private enterprise org who do the blocking for them We are guided by the the following- Its The Rich What Gets The Money And The Poor What Gets The Blame. Yesterday we went on a site about chuck noses.( Pract Machinist).forums. The last entry was made by a man in US who is saying he is so poor he will have to continue working till he drops dead.What amazed and disgusted me was, there was no replies to that last entry which was some yrs ago i cant remember the date but could be 2004 or 2014. i wanted to try to help but every time I tried to register something went wrong. because i have had a life threat illness like poisoning and no med help and violent police attacks I felt too tired to persist. Of course the near death experience nightly made me do research into diagnostic tactics of 3000 yrs ago and now i am alive as a result. Of course it took about 20.000 hours to scratch the surface but I did it.The point is, the ignoring of the man on P-Machinist exactly aligns with what we found going on throughout Europe. In 12 yrs we only found about three people who could be trusted and who would act against wrong doing.Then we discovered the same dissociation was going on in 1940-50 re the A bomb research and Einstein and others said that the public wee collectively suppressing their consciences. He was very alarmed by what was goin on. but however we now know that was the fuse that destroyed the Greeks and Romans despite forcing philosophers to drink poison. Looks like the Dallas Bob Bellars 38.40 radio receiver group are dead on or mainly so, re the future of the US and Uk.Its nice to have ones own findings supported even if the numbers are under ten.No we dont tell lies and yes we realize you don't believe it. We were like you, once.so how can we be mad at you?? i know one thing, if i had not had impeccable advice when I was a nothing and nobody i would not now be alive. How i resisted the learning.Tatar. Got to go in a minute,there's 5 hour violence on TV to nite.i want front seat. Don't ask us about Trump, some Scottish Universities and the victims on a Golf Course. Scotland? Dont ask. Looking at the Engineering factories in China yesterday offering precision items at $15 no postage I foresee that most engineering will disappear in UK before long. in China the factories inside look more like palaces. We ordered summat from China for $5 (no postage) and summat went wrong. We got whole paragraphs of profuse apologies and offers almost of a free holiday. We sent dozens mails to UK govt Police. HM Coroners. HM CPS. HM bar Council etc.about life,death, spending and other researched issues. Did we get any reply. ? Go on have a guess.

@TheHuntermj

7 жыл бұрын

John Smith You need more medication, or possibly less, I can't be sure...

@billyc2572

7 жыл бұрын

Matt Hunter a poor man with one watch always knows what time it is. a rich one with two, is never quite sure...

@PaulHigginbothamSr

7 жыл бұрын

matt: you can't help low intelligence, no matter what you gives him.

This weekend i started building a back plate for my new four jaw chuck ... damn i now need a new blank and one more weekend . I screw up miserably :(((

I absolutly love your channel, i want almost nothing more than to learn machining!! We dont even have a machine shop in the town i live, youve really inspired me to change that even tho the reality is it will never happen but just know that this channel has given me the inspiration and the motivation! Now i just gotta figure out those small factors like years of knowledge and that pesky money part lol. Very educational channel

Great vid.....loved the one inch punch and Stefan's contribution.

so how did you cut the plate before the bruce lee punch?????

@sinsilius

7 жыл бұрын

I think that punch did it. (actually my main question after watching this video for the first time)

@donking6527

7 жыл бұрын

band saw

@MitchellBumgarner

7 жыл бұрын

I suspect @Don King is right. I believe he used his band-saw, but he flipped the part. You can see the uneven matching cuts where he flipped it at 6:28 (ish). Since he had to cut it down already, it shouldn't matter that there was extra and uneven material left. It was to be removed anyway.

Good video, just the right amount of talking. Keep it up.

wery nice job, I love how you set up the videos so funny and the interesting projects, thanks for sharing

You crack me up! Love your videos. Entertaining and extremely informative.

Chuck back plates are not my thing. But i've still come to the right channel. Trust me.

You sound just like I picture myself sounding if I knew what I was doing and had a better sense of humor.

@ThisOldTony

8 жыл бұрын

+DrPortland hah.. you've got some style there DrPortland; got yourself some style.

Hey ToT, thanks for showing us we can machine a backplate without a milling machine. I can now buy a 4-jaw for my little Myford ML1 with confidence now 🤩

Grate explanations + smart humor+ v.g. editing . 100%. Thank you.