Michel I do give a $hit. Understanding is the key that unlocks success. My favorite saying is by Edward Demming. "Doing your best is NOT good enough. You must first know what to do then do your best. " thanks for taking the time to mention the details of the material.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

That makes sense.

I don’t know a thing about machining, but this is now one of my favorite channels after subscribing days ago. Love it!

@Rustinox

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much.

I loved the slow motion film of the shaper. That was positively hypnotic.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. It really is.

Michel, the ultimate steel recycler, and shaper clapper silencer 😮. New apprentice works very quick 👍

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

More excellent work Michel. Great to see you and your daughter working together in the workshop. The new lathe is going to be a great addition to the shop. Cheers Nobby

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Nobby.

Great progress, i love to see a machine that would normally go for scrap to come alive again,

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Good episode Rusti! The surface finish anomalies from the laser cutting in the plate was really interesting. And the damper spring for the shaper clapper is a great idea! The Celtic should be a great lathe when finished. Very stout lathes. Regards.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Yep, I think the Celtic was a good deal.

@plainnpretty

6 ай бұрын

I agree

Gday Rustinox, it’s really interesting looking at the tool path off the shaper, great to see you daughter helping out in the workshop to, top job mate, cheers

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Matty.

You are making good and rapid progress, Michel. Fascinating shots of the shaper in slow motion. Comments on the cutting were interesting. Thank you.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. Getting close to an operational machine now.

Good one Michel. The slomo shots were cool but the sounds of the chips pinging off the tool and work were even better. Regards, Preso.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Preso. Not easy to film, but it's worth the effort.

G'day Rusty. Excellent video explaining parts & use of the shaper, & showing how valuable the shaper is in your shop. The base & bolt fitted better than a new one, with bare minimum clearance & just about perfect fitment. And as you said " It Works " 😅😊 Well Done 👏 ✔️ 👍🏻 👌 😀

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Ted. It came out well.

The detail is in the detail. There is a story in every layer. Nice to watch. Cheers

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

There is. Thanks Paul.

I don't think there is anything much more mesmerizing than watching a shaper work. And you sir, are the "Shaper Whisperer". I am amazed at how you manage to do so many projects on the shaper when you have other machines available. But I am always happy when you choose to use the shaper. Thank you for sharing!

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

On a shaper you can make whatever you want. And much faster than on a similar sized milling machine.

Great video I don’t know why you don’t have more subscribers. That whole shaper thing some of the best I ever saw. This lathe is a great build Thanks

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. I don’t know either why I don’t have more subscribers, but... whatever :)

Time well spent, Rusti! Another interesting project. The slow motion was fun too 👍

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Dudley.

hi Michel Perfecto, and i love the slow mo shaper action👍👍 regards Kev (UK)

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Kev.

Michel, I realy like the slow motion part of the shaper where you could clearly see the working of the damper spring and the clapperbox still claps👏😀

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. It shows very well what's happening.

Good video Rustinox, enjoyed all the machining. You shaper works well and the new lathe is looking good. Cheers Tony

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Tony.

Fine work Michael! Loved the slow-mo shots of the shaper! Glad to see that your daughter helping you out in the shop!

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Allen.

"Of course it could be that u dont give a shit about it" Haha made me laugh

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Lol, thanks.

You’re always very creative with the things you have!👍🏻

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Well, that's the idea :)

Very good job, Michel. Interesting camera-angles on the shaper. The lathe will be back in bussiness very soon. Top.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. Getting close now.

Fascinating slow mo of the shaper tool skipping over the cuttings. It’s Getting better all the time, song title in there somewhere. Thanks.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Great episode, I found the slow motion shaper views fascinating. Best wishes, Dean.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Dean.

A fabulous episode, with added “fireworks” curtesy of your angle grinder. Your analysis of the surface of the plate you cleaned on the shaper was fascinating. A real insight into how flame cuts and lasers can affect a metal and the difficulties you then encountered. The tailstock mount came out very well. The extra long mounting rod (which no doubt you shortnened) could make for an excellent camera mount! As always your ideas and your execution is so inspirational. “Go for it” is definitely the way to go. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👍😀

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Andrew. And indeed, I did shorten the rod.

Good substance always Rusti! Thanks for the show.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Always worth the time I spend with you…….thanks

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

That's nice. Thanks.

Hi Rusti, good work on both projects, and it is definitely interesting looking at a tools signature on a workpiece.......you have one more level to go to reach 'Master' and that's when you get excited looking at bits of swarf through an eye glass........it happens 😁

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Well, maybe it already started... :)

Greetings from Vacherie , Louisiana .Thank you sir for sharing your knowledge with us. Great to see you have a young person learning from you! I have grand children who want to learn also.I enjoy your videos greatly. Have a great day!

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Louisiana? Cool. Thanks.

Good work with your mod to quiet down the clapper. I like the slow mo clips of the shaper doing its cutting too. Makes me want to get my shaper up and running, but I have a few other projects to do first.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Go for it. Shapers are cool :)

Hi Michel, What a great video this was ably helped by your new apprentice!! Loved the slow motion shots on the shaper👌👌. Really interesting lesson reading the surface finish, more please!! Its looking really solid. Have a great weekend.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks David. More to come.

Good one Rusty, Two more Celtic issues solved and shaper action! Good to have some shop apprentice help too 👍 ATB.....

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Dean. Getting close to an operational machine now.

I had a similar flame cut "Hard Surface" problem the other day, I couldn't even drill through it with a cobalt drill, so I had to mill through it with a carbide end mill, so I could finish drilling it out for a thread. Nice simple solutions you came up with to fit your tail stock 👍

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Flame cut parts will put up a fight sometimes :)

@MyMiniHomeWorkshop

6 ай бұрын

@@Rustinox You're not kidding

Nice work Michel, very interesting repair/upgrade, I should modify my setup, it has nut underneath and over time loosens and requires adjusting, not hard to do, just yucky with swarf/grease. I finally got around to my adjustable parallel, as per your suggestion of two parts for the female dovetail part , near final step I goofed on drill ing a countersink, either make a new half piece or modify somehow. Just takes getting out to the shop. Enjoyed your video, take care and cheers!

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Howie. A little fail time to time is just part of the thing :)

Bonne Fête Grand-Papa Rustinox de Montréal, Canada!

Such a joy to watch and learn 👍👍😎👍👍

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Looks like the Celtic is ready to work. 👍

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Yes it is!

keep your eye on your apprentice,, she could be your new boss one day!!!😀😀

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Getting close... :)

I like the lathe feet, I made feet like that for my lathe a couple of weeks ago. Mine are a bit higher and I did not trust they would be stable on their own like that. I welded them together with some square tubing into a big wide 'U' shape (and put them up-side-down and filled them with concrete before putting them under the lathe).

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

That will hold. For sure.

Great video rusty, keep'um coming..

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

That's the plan.

You need to be an actor lol You could be the next great Bond or his villian lol Your so entertaining

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Maybe I am... who knows :)

Shapers are always faster than mills when you count cleanup time because they politely leave their chips in a small pile at the front of the machine

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Not always. Several times the chips goes airborn to land all over the shop.

Well done 👏

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks.

I enjoyed the video as usual, thanks. I do like the idea of a cutting tool writing it's own history in steel. Fascinating.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

It really is.

Your lathe is too tall? Work bare feet and you won't need to increase the height :) You are the best scraper guy, I've seen. Yet! Beware, I'm improving really much!

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

In no time you will be my teacher :)

finished grinding the jaws on the Walcott for now. more work needed, but works as it is

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Don't stop. Go for it.

Thank you sir, for another excellent video. I especially enjoyed the slow-mo clips of the shaper slicing chips from the plate. It was like taking a big breath and letting it out slowly, then feeling peaceful and relaxed. I could relate to your experience with running into those hardened edges too. Something similar happend with a piece of stock I was using a while back. It was 'mystery steel' from the scrap yard, and I don't know if it was a hardenable steel to start with, or if the plasma(?) cutting process somehow changed the composition right next to the cut? If I could offer a small suggestion (which you may have already done off camera anyway), add a hardened washer below the top nut on that threaded rod to protect the softer cast iron. As far as that goes, maybe a hardened top nut with a machined flat bottom surface too, to reduce friction and wear? (In my experience, hardware store nuts & washers don't stand up to repeated cycles of loostening and tightening very well, and start growing a collection of sharp little metal splinters pretty quickly.) Thanks again! Watching this project has been a good motivator for me to get back to fixing up my old 11" Logan from 1952.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

I made a bronze ring that goes between the casting and the nut. It works very well.

It was interesting to see how different the steel in that plate was, from one part to another, depending on the hardness of the steel itself at the previous features. Makes me curious what alloy it is. Made a good lathe part in the end though!

@Rustinox

5 ай бұрын

The history of a tool written in a piece of steel :)

Michel, better watch it, she will be taking over a few machines soon.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Too late...

@carlthor91

6 ай бұрын

@@Rustinox Hmm, Acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.👍👍

8000 subscribers now Michel! slowly going up-i am confused why it isnt more

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

8000 indeed. It's going well :)

I now wish i had documented the similar pattern cutting the jaws on my lathe chuck, jumping the mount holes. ruined a few bits before I found the best cut

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Well, too late I guess :)

Nice work

@Rustinox

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Rusty.

Now you just need to make a nice "funky" handle for that lockbar. Of brass maybe or aluminium

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Will be in next video.

I really liked the analysis of the shaper cuts. I think this is something that's very often missing in the world -- slow down, look at what is in front of you, think about it! I also really liked the slow-motion sounds. I think I heard the tool bouncing just a little against the work on the return strokes. Interesting! You need a crane on all of your machines. You made one for... was it the shaper? When your back was injured? And finally... you could put a flag at the top of that threaded rod, yes? :-)

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Well, I have to find a flag first...

Hmm free child labor, did the kid get some waffles as a treat ? 😆

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

A half one... I have to reduce costs :)

Michel. be careful being that close to the shaper while you are cutting nothing! If you get a piece of nothing in your eye it will drive you insane trying to get it out! ;)

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

You're right. I didn't think of that.

I couldn't help but think the full length of the threaded rod could possibly be used to hold a camera or light or maybe something else? It shouldn't interfer with normal operations. Just a thought.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

That's a very good idea, but... I already cut it :(

good stuff!

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Emma.

As always an entertaining video, and inspiring for my dust collecting shop. Why run the shaper on those welded parts? Turn the whole thing 90 degrees and let the welded part point to the side? Aha, extra hands today. Why do they appear so seldom? It works.... Oc course it does, even without persuasion (sledge hammers etc).

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

I wanted to remove the welded blocks, so it looks a bit less stupid :)

@Stefan_Boerjesson

6 ай бұрын

@@Rustinox I thought so.

Very fine things, you realize! At nearly the end of the episode with the tailstock - clampingscrew, you use a special toolholder with the cutofftool in it. I saw it at other lectures on youtube allready, but what is it´s special function? Because there is allways a nervous thing for me, that cutting off procedure at the lathe. Is it possible, to explain - sometimes - this miraculous thing?

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

The holder acts like a spring, to prevent the tool from digging in to the part.

@gunterkarl9384

6 ай бұрын

@@Rustinox This seems to work simple and fine. Thank you for the information!

I can say with all honesty, your tailstock probably weighs as much as my whole lathe. Steve.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with small lathes, Steve :)

Good job. And on the plus side you now have somewhere to fly a flag

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

So, I need to find a flag somewhere :)

@philmenzies2477

6 ай бұрын

@@Rustinox Blue and Yellow were my 1st thoughts

Hi Rusti, what steps are your shaper dials marked in? Im new to shaper work and I have an Elliott machine, made in England, i thought it would be marked in .001" steps but it has 5mm pitch threads with dials marked in 0.1mm steps which seems very coarse, i wonder if maybe it was originally in a school.

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

The pitch of the lead screw is 4mm and the dial has 0,05mm increments. I hope that helps.

@sion023

6 ай бұрын

@@Rustinox thank you! Interesting that your machine is in 0.05mm increments, that's very close to 0.002", still not as small steps as other machine tools are usually marked, but with 0.05mm steps it's easy to judge halfway between marks for close to 1 thou.

I always like videos where a shaper is used. I was thinking (I know no good can come of that)! But, as I watched the shaper cut its path through the metal plate, did the cutting tool move the table (left to right or right to left) on the forward stroke or the return stroke. I think it depends on whether the table is moving left to right or right to left. I would value your opinion on this subject. I have a SB 7" shaper and it looks to me, that is the way the shaper moves the table. However the movement happens a little to fast for me to be sure. KOKO!

@624Dudley

6 ай бұрын

James, if you look back to Nov. 18, 2022, you’ll find a video from Rustinox called “Shaper feed timing”. It’s been a while, but as I recall your question is answered there. Good luck 👍

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your help, Dudley. That's teamwork :)

Hi Rustinox just a thought could you explain how your channel name came to be "Rustinox". Has it got a meaning you could explain?

@Rustinox

6 ай бұрын

Rust is corrosion on steel. And inox is what we call sainless steel over here. Rusted stainless steel.... It's just a paradox.