I'm so disappointed you're fixing things instead of spending 4 months building a giant vice that might never be used. ;)

I have a confession to make, I was a 2nd year Apprentice when my rotation into the Machine Shop,

Stripped out a worn shaft like that from a conveyor one day shift. Left the shaft on the bench with a note for night shift "Make a new one of these please" came back the next morning to a brand new shaft with the exact same "tapered end" machined in !

Came here from a cutting edge engineering video, so nice to see the smaller scale stuff done so well, that threaded hole was simply butter.

The anchor lube product placement reminds me of Wayne’s world when Garth was wearing the full Reebok outfit and saying it’s really a shame when people sellout 😂

Saving the customer will surely be on their minds when more machine shop work is needed .

Put a center in the end. Just in case you need it later. Makes things easier.

Not sure how I stumbled onto this or why I ended up watching this, but found it very interesting. Guess I have a new channel to watch!

Kudos to the algorithm that brought me here. You have a new subscriber.

I have a friend who has a 25 year old Dixon ZTR mower and I was fixing leaky hydro gearboxes when I discovered that one of the axle shafts had been eaten away by a loose inner bearing. Obsolete part - naturally. Local machine shop was able to weld it up and turn it to size. I re-assembled it with some red Loctite to try and keep it from happening again. So far, so good. 👍

I love doing repair machining not vary many of us out there anymore or at least in my area

I enjoy watching your video keep up the good work it's really entertaining and fascinating to watch people do jobs like that and other stuff and equipment

Welding and machining. Two trades I wish I had learned when i was younger. Fascinating to watch how you handle the issues the customers bring you.

It's always nice when someone can save another shop a few dollars like you did there I'm sure you will get repeat business from them ! Great job ! Very professional looking ! 👍👍

It always mesmerizing to watch a manual machinist who knows what he's doing. All your cuts are so good. Nice not to hear all the CNCs running at max all day. That screech......

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Yep, I think more people are getting into machining and also realize the value of old machines, because we can fix them. Very good to see you helping out where you can. Great job and thanks for the advice on machining stainless!

Tig welding is one of those things that you must do every day or two I think to be good at it. I tig about 5-6 times a year and find a few mins of practice on some scrap is helpful. Just to get the motion down and the memory working again. Nice Job Josh, Your typical job shop repair right there. I need this can you help me out.

Awesome work! Where i work we get a lot of worn conveyor shafts, pretty cool to see into the process of repairing them.

Very therapeutic watching and listening to this video, I’ve not used lathes and milling machines in over 15 years, since I retired early.