I've never heard such a high-value proposition for becoming a patron: technical drawings of ... a cylinder. :)

Just a quick safety note. When using toe jacks it is well worth having some backup support in case the jack fails or slips out, especially when you are in the firing line. In this case instead of pulling the blocks out when you lift just slide them out of the way but still under the body of the machine. That way if the jack fails the block will catch the machine before it falls on you.

Fell in love with your demeanor, the calm and intelligent discourse are a winning combination. Now for my OCD side, lol, could you please check your feelings on the power cord routing. Touching the drip pan could wear away the insulation in 100-300 years (hope you'll still be around 🙂) and look for possible oil getting on the cord. I truly want to keep you safe. Great content, keep it up.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

SJOOW cord has oil-resistant outer and inner insulation. If the grinder is moving enough to wear the insulation, you're doing something very, very wrong.

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 Oil resistant is the key phrase. I have seen cable routing cause any number of problems. While I am not in any way, shape or form OCD, this is one area where even I don't say good enough. I love a proper festooning to insure that all wear is not on the cables.

@mitch1632

Жыл бұрын

@@oldfarthacks Good enough, tend to be safety conscience overboard. Glad to see you both are highly intelligent people.

Wd40 sprayed on the blade definitely does more than make smoke :) I cut heavy section aluminium all the time, and my saw cuts 4x as fast and lasts a lot longer when lubricated. There are better cutting oils, but wd40 is cheap and adequate

@jort93z

Жыл бұрын

i mean, if it smokes, that means it's evaporating. Evaporation does a lot of cooling.

@Cj19944

Жыл бұрын

100 percent true

@ellieprice363

Жыл бұрын

Mineral Spirits or paint thinner by the gallon is probably cheaper but WD-40 lubricants a little better.

As Quinn says "Chamfers are what separate us from the animals".

Must be nice having a new shop with brand new machines. Your grinder is about the same size as my 1985 Kent which still does a decent job. Once you have a surface grinder in the shop you’ll wonder how you did without it.

I feel your pain on that James, it sucks having to be hunched over while operating any machine! I'm 6'5" and the Lathes and Mills where I work seem super low to me, so I'm always hunched over. I recently talked my boss into letting me jack a single Mill and Lathe up 6½" inches just so I could operate them without being in pain all day. Which wasn't easy, I had to use the old "well if you'd prefer paying my workers comp when my back finally goes out, I guess we can just leave them" argument lol. 👍👍

@eslmatt811

Жыл бұрын

If only people cared about tall people like the do "vertically challenged" a friend from highschool under 5' got a bunch of tax breaks and funding for being short. At 6'8" nobody has ever cared about my quality of life, even my wife gets annoyed at my shelves, for my stuff.

@angrydragonslayer

Жыл бұрын

Here i am, at almost 7'

@eslmatt811

Жыл бұрын

@@angrydragonslayer Have fun over there. I have a 7' arm span, but people sized legs and feet. I have no envy of someone taller, but plenty of pity. My son asked if he would be a tall as me, hopefully not...

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

Ah the places that even we 6'1" people can't get into. When the GM Saturn came out I just for fun tried to get into it. That was a joke. But then, even my 65 Mustang required that I take off the driver side arm rest so that I could get past the steering wheel to work the clutch. And don't you just love all the long sleeve shirts that end about midway down the forearm?

All the ice cube type phase monitors i worked with for years were based on % of rated voltage. 7 seconds in a single phase condition is an eternity. And probly will be shut off by the overcurrent setting of breaker and maybe even Thermal OL before the 7 sec of the phase monitor. In a single phase condition the current is go's ballistic. And you cant shut that condition down fast enough. If you are truly worried of damage to motor in a single phase condition. Test it by setting time at minimum. Try it. Bump up time to just give you enough for stabilizing and not 1 secnd more. Normal inrush current on old motors was about 10 to 14 x of full load amps. But with the newer more efficient motors it was upwards of that. Low input voltage is what the phase monitor protects from. Low voltage translates to high current.

Great video, a little trick I learned from a mechanic, just open the handle of the jack with pliers if you want more feel.

I'm 6'1" and I raised my Mitsui up 4", and ran it like that for ten years I ran a 7.5 Kva machining center for 15 years off a rotary phase converter without that gizmo. It was a Roto Phase and I ran it through a balance transformer and never had a prob.

Those saws are pretty rugged, my brother has the same one and we cut a piece of railroad track with it haha. Diablo blades work really well. cheers

You are a humble guy and a very good teacher. I'm looking forward to additional high quality content. Personally, I like "project" videos (ala Blondihacks, Joe Pie, steam engine type stuff, etc.) but whatever you feel comfortable with presenting us, I'll watch... and learn. Thank you for your time and effort to educate and entertain us!

Abom would make this a 5 part series

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

Glad to see you are no longer unsettled with your grinder.

For cold sawing heavy aluminum sections like that I've found white bar soap works great. Works well on band saws as well. Which makes senses to me since anchorlube works well when sawing aluminum as well. Doesn't cool the cut but helps prevent chip packing and edge buildup.

@wizrom3046

Жыл бұрын

Or candlewax. Same result. 👍

Hi James. It's 4:02 am here! Nice gentle voice over presentation. Thanks for taking the trouble.

Personally, I always put a bit of "something" under hard machine support, a bit of card, pig mat, old carpet on very rough floors ... just something to give good solid all round contact between the foot and the concrete.

I wanna see that deadlift 🤣

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I might have been exaggerating a little. I actually had a meet today and pulled 210kg.

I just did the same thing out of a 4 inch bar of 1144 for my lathe. They're beautiful but I know I'll never install them because I don't want to go to that amount of effort to re-level the lathe :)

Because... Yuchol. Haha! Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks he's a bad influence. 🤣

@marclevitt8191

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain that joke? I’m afraid I did not understand it.

@woodscreekworkshop9939

Жыл бұрын

@@marclevitt8191 I am guilty of peer-pressuring friends into buying things they don't need. Hence James has a lot of aluminum left over from this project.

slight taper on second cut could help hide the transition as well.

If you don't mind silicoln on the surface. CRC's heavy duty silicoln cutting lubricant (which is a dry film kinda setup) Often works great on these types of blades. I have been using it on router and shaper bits for wood cutting for ages. But I have found it works for cold cutting aluminum quite decently too.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

Cool. The key concern in this scenario is keeping the chips from welding up in the gullets.

@a154james

Жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 We use Boelube with our Cold-Cut saw in aluminum, works well and doesn't clog up the blade teeth

Alcohol is a great lube for Aluminium cutting. Some studies show 50% reduction in cutting force. BTW suggestion for your apron, if you cross the straps over, so right shoulder to left hip and vice versa it takes heaps of load off your neck vs having it around your neck and another around your waist. Soooo much more comfortable

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I've never even noticed it when I'm working.

@zyeborm

Жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 I had a heavy apron for doing chemical work with and was feeling quite uncomfortable after a while. It just looked like yours was sitting on your neck tightly and impacting your posture a little. Either way, thanks for the video and I hope you have a great day.

James - be still... there's a russian hamster hitting a vape box on your apron... I'ma smack it, don't move. No, seriously - your content is top shelf stuff (ELS series sucked me in for good), thank you and keep it up!

I wonder if you could have automatic constant-surface-speed by figuring out a way to connect the VFD to the cross-slide DRO/scale, sort-of analogous to the ELS

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I think this machine will eventually have a servo-driven power feed, if I know me. :)

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 That's the nice thing about electronic control, you can automate everything. Say that your tailstock is not aligned quite right with the spindle, well instead of moving the tailstock, just put in the offset. The full CNC package is not needed, just something that has the comp tables. Also it lets you throw away the hand wheels and just use a remote knob.

Great stuff James! Nice new pads for leveling the grinder!

Well done. An easy project well done. 👍👍👍

One day while doing something similar where I couldn't see the level from where I had to make the adjustment, I realized the cheap WiFi endoscope I use for so, so many things now had another use. Set it up, turn on the phone app, and I can see around corners while making adjustments.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

Yet another excuse...er...reason to buy a new tool!

With that circular saw it is a good idea to "peck" at the cut, ie; cut for a couple of seconds then lift it a tiny bit for a half second. That helps clear the chipsmfrom the teeth, gets some cooling air back around the teeth and the up down movement gives you a fractionally wider cut slot so you get less side rubbing and friction heat etc. I know you're not from a tools using background James but it is good practice with a lot of saw tool processes.

It is usually me that needs the riser blocks.

Just be careful with the lathe that high. The advantage the factory height has, is if it falls off the foot, the machine will touch the ground before tipping over. Now there's a good 3in, and with the right amount of momentum, that's enough to tip it over. The guys at work tipped the lathe over in the shop one time, fun stuff. I've even had some things tip over on me. I bought a surface grinder a few years ago, which was delivered on a pallet that was falling apart. I had half of the surface grinder on some skates, the other half on the pallet still. the "solid" wood of the pallet broke and it tipped over, almost on to me. It happened really slowly, and at first I tried to push against it, to stop the "leaning". I quickly realized it wasn't leaning and moved out of the way quickly. Other than almost dying, I now had to figure out a way to tip this 2500lb surface grinder back over. I ended up welding a frame out of some scrap and making another frame and bolted that to the concrete. I made a hinge between the two frames using some tubes. This gave me a way to control the orientation of the grinder while righting it. I then used a winch and a high lift jack to lower it back down. When it fell it also spilled a lot of oil, which pig mats did a fine job cleaning up. Anyways, the safest thing you can do is build a little cradle around the base, so if it does tip, it will stop on the cradle, before it hits the floor.

i will be making risers for my milltronics mb16 so i can move it with pallet jack. nice job

I think you may be a bit taller than average. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

I have the sliding compound evolution saw. I've used that to cut a LOT bigger stuff than you should. As long as you don't burn out the speed controller, it gets the job done, even in steel.

@somebodyelse6673

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you DID burn out the controller? What did you do?

I think if I ever build a floor stand for a lathe that has leveling bolts under the bed, I'll put 3 feet on the stand, two at the headstock end, one under the much lighter tailstock end.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

If the bed is stiff enough to stay straight on its own, that would probably work.

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

Actually, level is not really all that key. Think of the number of ships at sea, they are never "level". But level does help in keeping the twist out of he ways, so it's not a bad thing to do.

I did a double take with the chop saw cutting thru the bar of aluminium.

@mattmanyam

Жыл бұрын

That's a cold saw, specifically for cutting metal... although normal "woodworking" saws will cut aluminum quite easily (be wary of where the hot chips are going, if your environment also contains sawdust).

@mikefrachel8292

Жыл бұрын

I have that same saw, I was shocked at how well it works.

I realize it's not a significant need for you, at least I hope you don't have to relevel equipment all that often, but I've run into situations where I really want a camera on something that I can see on my phone where I'm working on something related. I htink the picams with the webcam software is petty much a shoe in for setting that up. But there are other solutions as well, including just using a bore-cam with wifi to a phone. I presume that the drone cam would be a workable solution as well. Worst case, borrow someon'e phone and face-chat or duo or skyp their camera view, with one of the phones straddling a pair of 1-2-3 blocks or so to get a decent field of view of what you're monitoring. Great episode as always.

You know what Quinn say champer ...... 😉😉

Someone once asked me what I would do if the Earth really was flat. I told them I would chamfer both end!

@woodscreekworkshop9939

Жыл бұрын

If the earth was really flat, you wouldn't have edges to chamfer, would you? And if you happen to chamfered, there wouldn't be 2 edges (you implied by saying "both ends"), also by chamfering, the earth would no longer be flat. So based on science, your desire to chamfer "both ends" would prove to be futile.

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

The nice thing is that there is hard evidence that the Earth is not flat. Were it flat, by now, the cats of the world wold have shoved everything over the edge.

@Chromevulcan

Жыл бұрын

@@woodscreekworkshop9939 Yuchol, you of all people should know that there would be 2 edges to chamfer. A flat Earth would look like a cutoff of any piece of round stock, flat to and bottom with a given circumference. Cylindrical, not spherical. CHAMFER THE WORLD!

I'm using 4x4 pt blocks under my 14-40 lathe for the same reason - much more comfortable working height. Been 4 years or so now, seems to be fine although I wonder if I'm turning tapers in the summer with the humidity - probably should check that:) Just an aside, I cut 6" round al bars on my 4" horizontal band saw routinely - just have to spin the stock.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

My saw needs a tune-up and a coarser blade for big jobs like this. It's been complaining quite a bit lately. I need to tear it down and see.

Murphy oil is a good lubricant to cut aluminum.

You could have plunged a tool in to make a ring near the top and hide the diameter blend line.

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

He could have also knurled the feet to hide the blend line and explained that away as a feature to help with handling the somewhat heavy blocks.

To hide the transition from turning from the edges to towards the center? Just turn a broad line at the transition and chamfer it, and do it for all the units being produced and call it an 'artistic flourish'. Is it needed? No. Can it hide a bad transition? Yeah. Just an idea.

I have cut pieces of mild steel on my Evolution that size. They will cut it.

You will thank me for the extra left over material later. 😏

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

The last time I bought double what I needed, an opportunity came up later to help out a friend. It's usually a good investment unless it's something really odd.

Anybody have a link to the material uses to you soak up oil? :-)

14:56 could sand paper fix the issue?

What brand of brush do you use to wipe away the chips?

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

No idea. It's garbage and it's falling apart.

I think I would have just put a 1/4" steel plate on top of the wood blocks and see if that fixed it, although the aluminum ones do look nice.

@dog2bert

Жыл бұрын

Maybe try using the block with the end grain towards the load

@glfarwell

Жыл бұрын

Your assuming the floor will never get wet and those wood block won't swell, thus there goes level.

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

@@glfarwell Well you could put the wood blocks in some more of those aluminum pans that he is using to catch the drips. Then add two swallows and a bit of twine and you are all set.

Are you worried about the Aluminum contacting the cement floor with no isolation pad? Was always taught to put a thin piece or rubber or UHMW under, so there is a slight tendency for the Aluminum to react with the cement alkalis - and producing hydrogen gas. It's probably not worth it, but I'd tend to be cautious.

@4GSR

Жыл бұрын

It has to come in contact with an acid to create hydrogen gas. Nothing happens with contact with alkaline. Water will only create a oxide surface skin deep. Might get a trace of hydrogen off of that reaction if it does react. I'd be worried about hydrogen gas from other sources before something like this. No caution needed here.

@TheSpud1129

Жыл бұрын

Whomever replied to this - it freezes when I try to read it. Can you kindly re-reply? Thanks!

So what did you make for your 935VT? I suspect it has been raised. Can you show us in your next video?

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I did. I cut two lengths of 4x6" 3/8" wall rectangular tube. Those are bolted under the base, across the front and across the back, with the leveling feet under the ends of the tubes. I used a new steel yard, and it ended up being WAY more expensive than I anticipated because I think they were padding for the small cut job. I think it was $250 for a five foot stick.

@artjensen4061

Жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 Thanks for the reply and I agree that’s a bit expensive. In the years to come I’m sure the added height will be welcomed.

Did you consider cast iron for these feet? Excellent vibration damping characteristics.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I did not. If the surface grinder is vibrating enough for that to matter, something is very, very wrong.

@bigmuz_pilot

Жыл бұрын

@Clough42 haha yeah fair enough mate. Appreciate your amazing videos, thank you 😊

Some snide comments today. I'd ignore them, they are like me green about the kit you have, I'm just working on what I can get hold of, but it won't be new. Having said that, the Evolution UK importer is only 30 miles from me and I keep looking at the new metal mitre saw. A road trip maybe needed.

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I would prefer the blade turn slower for my use, but otherwise it's a nice little saw.

As long as your legs fit well between your hips and feet you are the right height

I wonder if you could chemical anodize the feet so they don't corrode up?

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen aluminum corrode in the shop. Maybe this is a concern in some places?

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

There are lots of compounds for that. Brownells sells a compound that they call aluminum black.

17:54 could you have made a point? Like speaker mounts for carpet.

.....Are what separate us from the animals 😂

I hate this channel because I keep seeing amazing machines I cannot afford to buy and/or store somewhere :(. Anyway I had to subscribe..

Well done. So meticulous.

"in case it's not totally clear, 5 inches is more than 4 inches"... hey man, I don't come here for math lessons!

I did this to my evolution, 80mm steel... the blade deformed and got wobbly... scary.

I feel the deviation between Subscribe and Subscribed is within deviation. Just kidding

Hey James, what's your first surface grinder project going to be? You need to get cracking to justify that purchase 😅

@JohannSwart_JWS

Жыл бұрын

Well, there's more than one piece of equipment to be justified. He's got a recent knifemakers belt grinder, and now the surface grinder, so it stands to reason it should be a over-engineered folding pocket knife...

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

@@JohannSwart_JWS With a built in set of gauge blocks.

If they sink thought he aluminium you'll have to get a big chunk of carbide. Ain't no way it's gonna sink through that

@jort93z

Жыл бұрын

or just, you know... concrete. can just cast concrete blocks.

Try paraffin candle wax (you might call it something different in the US) this can pressed lightly on the blade…

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I have a stick of beeswax to load grinding wheels. That would probably work well.

6:40 Uchill? I can't tell what you're saying.

@DeserdiVerimas

Жыл бұрын

Might be talking about Yuchol at Woods Creek Workshop -- they're friends, maybe he wants the remains of that bar?

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

Yuchol Kim talked me into buying more than I needed for this project.

. WOW' what is it' what does it do' LOL Naaaaaaaa it's great 👍 Lol ya goofy m8te from Australia 😆

👍👍😎👍👍

⭐🙂👍

3:24 Ummmmm.... You have a screw loose (Lower right corner).

lol, yeah, those valves are probably made by Heinz...

Youchal?

@mattmanyam

Жыл бұрын

I'm also here in hopes someone explains the joke for me...

@car9167

Жыл бұрын

@@mattmanyam The owner of Woods Creek Workshop youtube channel

Because Yuchol lol

grab some bricks of candle makers wax and rub it on the blade before cutting

Heh, you're 183cm tall; whereas I'm 174ish/5'8ish"...

lube That Metal cutter with paraffin wax.

That's a job for a specialist like Abom79! I wouldn't attempt an advanced job like that myself, leave it to the professionals. He appears to only make riser feet, so I would defer to him.

@randy-yk1yk

Жыл бұрын

Actually, he also makes ads. Multi talented.

@jerrylondon2388

Жыл бұрын

@randy-yk1yk They are actually not ads. KZread requires content creators to highlight ads in their content as such. Abom79 has never acknowledged any product placement, ergo no ads!

@zorbakaput8537

Жыл бұрын

It is a wise man who knows his limitations, well done you.

@jerrylondon2388

Жыл бұрын

@@zorbakaput8537 Yeah, not a riser feet specialist like Abom79! He buys new equipment just to make new riser feet videos!

@stuartkorte1642

Жыл бұрын

Guess I’m watching a different Abom

You drew theses? Geeee...

@DolezalPetr

Жыл бұрын

Yeah LMAO he must be joking right?

@stuartkorte1642

Жыл бұрын

You watched the video? Geee

@Clough42

Жыл бұрын

I spent a couple minutes drawing them after the fact because people always ask.

@oldfarthacks

Жыл бұрын

@@Clough42 Clearly you did the full Fusion 360 model and ran it through the FFT analysis to ensure that there are no long term stresses that will cause problems. I can actually see some stress riser problems from where the pointy bits on the feet hit the aluminum. 😁