Ranting Abom just became favorite Abom.

The lantern was hammered on by the same kind of people that complain about your filing . . .

Adam, you points about filing techniques are absolutely correct those methods were exactly what I was taught 40 plus years ago by guys who had worked as bench fitters in a railway locomotive works all their lives; it obvious that folk who make those comments have never done any serious filing and bench fitting Great videos

@MrRedstoner

4 жыл бұрын

I will say, it's a nice bit of extra knowledge for me. At least something good outta those comments, a lesson for those of us who are still learning.

"If you don't like it, look away" I think there might be a tee-shirt with that ;-)

@emorybaker8188

2 жыл бұрын

I guess I am kinda off topic but do anyone know a good website to stream new series online ?

@damonahmed6528

2 жыл бұрын

@Emory Baker Flixportal :)

@emorybaker8188

2 жыл бұрын

@Damon Ahmed Thanks, signed up and it seems to work :) I appreciate it !

@damonahmed6528

2 жыл бұрын

@Emory Baker Glad I could help xD

@davidberndt6275

2 жыл бұрын

@@emorybaker8188 not only off topic, but a total scam too!

Adam, it's a good thing you don't video yourself in the bathroom, because some people will say you're doing it wrong!!!! Keep up the great work I love your videos!

"If that bothers you, you need to look away." Hilarious!!! Thanks, Adam!

Hey! I'm not a machinist. I'm a musician. I watch videos of woodworking, machining, welding, and many other craftsmen and women to relax. I have to say that I really love the precision to which you work and the care you take to make your work the best. Keep up the good work and know that your labor is not in vain.

Not sure what I enjoy more. The nicely done work on the machine or the great big grin on your face.. Solid work man. I appreciate your work

Loved the hacksaw reference!!!!!

*ADAM* ... Don't let those *COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR FILING* bother you too much... They are as set in their ways as you are... And like you said .. *IT IS ABOUT THE FEEL* ... Besides, If you *DAMAGE A FILE* they are yours to damage... *THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO* I know it takes a ton of *TIME AND EFFORT* to produce these videos...

G'day Adam I have been a machinist for 51 years and a trade teacher for the past 15 years. Here in Australia I call your knockers Monday's experts, I reckon none of them have ever been in a real workshop. Don't give them your energy.

Here's an idea for a shop-talk episode: I'm a mechanical engineer, and I'm pretty sure your other fans are too. Part of the reason I really like your channel is that I pick up design ideas and learn about some of the more uncommon tooling and techniques. I think you could do a great episode on mechanical design tips and pitfalls to avoid . As an example, I see a lot of newbies at work don't show thread relief grooves on drawings, over tolerance parts, etc. Just throwin' it out there. Keep up the great content! I'm a big fan, and have absolutely no problem with your filing technique ;)

My apprenticeship in 1953/59 in the UK taught me to file exactly the same as you do Abom79..... my advice.. keep calm and carry on!!!

@brandongarretson9475

6 жыл бұрын

Tried Keep calm and listen to Motorhead.

Your hacksaw analogy is perfect, Adam. Keep up the great work. Thank you.

The most the G&E has ever been loved!

Old guy here. Was cruzing you tube saw the picture of the front of a shaper! I used one a lot about 40 years ago. It was an old machine tool back then. When I started my tool and die apprenticeship everything was manual. CNC had not been invented. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Adam, your shaper is such an impressive piece of equipment. I love that you respect it and its heritage. Far too few people are like that these days. I look forward to seeing the great things you will do with it.

100% agree with your filing techniques. Actually the back stroke can help keep the file clean and make the forward stroke more effective and scratch free. Also it helps to set up the file for the forward stroke (feel for the cut).

The analogy with the hacksaw was spot on. Shaper is looking good...

I too am one of the people that mention the filing.... I stand corrected... Am wise enough to listen to a master machinist, and to learn from it.

Nobody ever taught me nothing about any of this stuff, but I feel like I learned something about how filing is taught and how it’s practiced.

What I love most about your vids is the respect and love you show for your tools. You work with your heart. I like and respect that.

Hi Adam, there is an entusiast fallower of Abom 79 here in Milano, Italy....from the very first video. Is quite impossible don't enjoy with you the passion, the joy of life, the entusiasm you put in everythinghs...you are a very special man, boy.....your channel is one of my preferite, every weekend there is no tv show, no book to read...there are som Abom79 new video to enjoy, instead..!!! and please, note...I am a curious man but not a machinist at all. Very sorry for bad english, see you in a few minutes for SNS 213 part two.

That was GOLD on the hacksaw comment.

What I love about you and you have said it many times, you tell people that there are other ways to do things but this is what works for you. I could give a shit less how you use a file and those that have heartburn can piss up a rope. Great job.

Seeing you so happy makes me happy too! Congrats on the rebuild Adam.....

@patwicker1358

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was grinning as much as he was when he tested that down feed.

I'm glad you cleared up the whole filing drama. The hacksaw analogy was absolutely perfect. Last week I sarcastically mentioned "here come the filing comments." Wether someone learned new technique or not, until they start lending you files, deal with it

Awesome restoration Adam. It's great to see old things come back to life and have a second lifetime of use.

I cannot believe that someone would question your expertise.....filing..........YOU are the "King of Iron". And I don't say that lightly. Thank you for your time, effort and teaching. Much appreciated. David from "Down Under" Aus.

You look like a kid with a new toy! Its great to watch somebody who loves what they do.

Nice job, the shaper is looking good. The hardness testing files won’t last you as long if you start with the softest ones. I think we’re ‘Supposed to’ start with the hard ones, looking for the one that doesn’t bite. -Rov

Just saying - you couldn't look happier if ya won the million dollar lottery when ya got the shaper back together. Looken good there Adam. Nice refurb on it.

Adam, I'm not a machinist but have viewed for a few months or more now. This will sound strange, but watching you work with these machine tools is thrilling in the true sense of the word. I don't know why except it seems like watching perfection, something pure and important and completely satisfying. Thanks.

When I was 18, I built a small lathe from scrap hot rolled angle, cold rolled plate, and threaded rod. Bronze pillow bearing blocks for a head stock. Draw-filed the ways and compound slides, gibs, etc. using only the ground surface of a drill press table as reference. Did all the draw filing by pulling the file toward me. I remember the shearing action removed metal much faster than a forward stroke. Still it took weeks. The files were once my grandfather's. Never got to the chuck or power feed. Just hand cranks, centers and a face plate with drive dogs. But it did finally turn 1.5" dia. x 6 in cold rolled with 0.002 taper. What a labor of love...

Nice see such a huge grin. Now that you got that piece of equipment all cleaned and polished all the others in the shop will get jealous.

Mild mannered Adam, finally raises his voice, over filing techniques. I love it. Everyone has buttons to be pushed, we just found his. :D

To all the people who think they are "experts" of everything Adam does week after week, please, let's see your videos showing us how awesome you are at everything. There's a saying that describes those closed minded idiots. "If a person thinks they know everything, they might not learn much." Grow up folks, and learn to appreciate what someone is willing to take the time to show and teach. Great job as always Adam!

That green metalwork book is the one I was trained with 38years ago

Hi Adam, like the guys below who have already commented, draw filing is a valid technique and is popular with horologists who produce the wonderful polished timepieces that are greatly admired everywhere. I've done plenty on many jobs, a great deal on my model loco frames. Great to follow you restoring the G&E, but making me itch to get my workshop back into full operation and get my smaller 6 inch shaper into operation.

Glad you put people straight on the filing.. well said and put ....

Your smile says it all! Congratulations on a great machine rebuild.

Congratulations, Adam. Seeing the pride on your face is priceless.

Who cares what anyone else has to say about how you use your tools! they are yours! You rock man I love watching your videos and they make me want to learn machining.

To be honest..I can watch your uploads all day and am fasinated how these machines work. Life is too short...if I had more years I would surely want to learn how to operate such machines. Its also great to see how your subscribers sent you stuff as token of appreciation of what you do. Having worked as a quality controller in a machine factory I know how expensive some of these precision measuring tools are...so, well deserved and God bless

Clearly, one should put more down-pressure on the cutting stroke (on either a file or a hacksaw) than on the backstroke. It's pretty simple.

It's been fun to watch all of the care that you put into rebuilding the shaper. I'm looking forward to seeing it work for you.

Hi Adam Filing comments "look away and get over it" I just love that as i have said before there is nothing wrong with your filing, funny enough another UK viewer says that's the way we are taught in the UK. Seriously you could point out to anyone filing the "safety" importance of always have a handle on your file especially when using on a lathe.

Hi Adam, You give them Hell on the filing topic, I was laughing my ass off, you tell them. Great job! Craig

Great response to the A-holes out there snipig on your filing techniques . I wouldn't have been as polite as you Adam ... keep up the great content ....

Man that was beautiful to see it work again after all your hard work on it. Really great to watch this project.

By going the extra mile you have done an excellent restoration. Your pride in workmanship is showcased in that beautiful machine. I started working as a machinist in 1966 and those books would have sure made it easier for me. Thank you for sharing your project.

It's a good feeling when you restore a piece of equipment to that degree. Satisfaction!

Hi Adam, that thing really looks terrific, runs better too doesn't it, nice job! TC 13:48 "if that bothers you, then you just need to look away and get over it..... " funniest thing I have heard all month!!! With the results you achieve, your techniques are just fine with me!

Nothing like the bringing to life that vision in your head of what that machine should look like. You're lovin' every minute of it Adam, it shows. Keep on keepin' on.

I enjoy watching you doing great things. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us, you are a real inspiration!

You tell 'em, Adam. As you say, "If it bugs you, just look away". Cheers, Gary

Only time I’ve ever pulled a hacksaw up after a cut is in plastic when its tight and biting the blade. Lol. Anyone giving this man hell about his use of tools.......is a tool.

Love the way some people see an image on a computer screen and immediately take ownership of it, which seems to give them the right to tell you how you should do your profession. Today you have put them all back in their boxes and nailed the lid shut, well done. Shaper is looking awesome, you have done a job to be proud of

Your getting the shaper back into good order, it reminds me of watching the neighbor fellow who spent three years restoring his 1949 Pontiac Chieftain. Nobody else would have put that much effort into the job, but then, not everybody has a 1949 Pontiac Chieftain. Nicely done. Thank you.

Congratulations! That machine is now a joy to look at and to use.

love the shaper, been going back and watching these. Hope they keep coming in the future.

I like watching you take old tools and make them new

I was taught draw filing at school 55 years ago when I started metalwork classes at the age of 11 or12. The one thing that I learnt later on as an apprentice (Engineer Cadet in the Merchant Navy) was that when filing a round profile, rather counter intuitively, was to file in the opposite direction to the round profile. So that rather than the file following around the round section you lifted the file up in the direction of travel while pushing down at the rear. This actually gives you a rounder profile than filing the other way which tends to give you a series of flats. For doubters I can only say go to your workshop/garage and give it a go, it does work.

Thanks Adam! An enthralling series of clips. The shaper looks pretty! I know the pleasure to be had in the restoration of old things

I enjoy the passion you express for your trade. Another job well done

Yes, your viewers are also happy and pleased to see your hard work pay off. Thanks for sharing.

Love the hacksaw analogy, thanks for the videos.

So freaking cool! Literally smiled with you when the auto feed started turning itself! Awesome.

Beautiful job! Very much enjoyed watching the whole process and all the care, love and joy you put into it.

@Abom79 What I enjoy most about your videos is your style of working with tools (example: using the file) is the same method of tool working that my grandpa used! It's almost like jumping back in time and watching grandpa in the shop again! Awesome videos!

Congratulations! I'm glad it turned out the way you wanted it to be. Thanks for showing the effort. Good luck.

I’ve been waiting for the reassembly now for weeks! The G&E looks stellar! Keep up the solid work Adam. Thank you!

Restoration and machining skills you name it, all on this channel and I love it.

Adam, what a beautiful transformation. All your hard work has really paid off! Happy shaping. Eric

I can see that you're over the moon with the result. Rightly so too - you have made a top job of that old machine - Well Done!

You did a great job restoring the shaper it looks better than new. Thanks for sharing.

Watching that auto down feed work even put a smile on my face. Great video.

You are recording an historical record that will be very valuable a hundred years from now. You make us feel part of everything you do. Thank you.

You’re absolutely right on the use of a file!

I love those old text books. They look similar to books, and processes I learned with in high school. I miss that - having access to those machines. I learned to use a shaper in tenth grade, as well as a horizontal mill. I don't have access to manual machines anymore, but get to vicariously live through your videos. Keep up the great work, Adam. BTW, my machine shop teacher taught me to use a files just as you do.

Just got hooked on your videos. Great job. That machine will now probably out live you.

Nice job on the restoration. The way you described the types of filing operations is how I learned it as well! Keep up the great work.

Adam - always look forward to your videos but this time it was really hard to miss that GREAT smile on your face. Great job.

Totally agree with you Adam on the filing technique. During my apprenticeship I was taught here in the UK that a light return stroke clears the file, draw filing on edges was for truing. A "bastard cut" file is used for rapid removal of metal etc.

Its great when a tool does what its supposed to...and gives you confidence when operating properly...enjoyed the shaper series & understanding the guts of all the machines...Thanks

Nice! That thing is gleaming. What a beautiful machine. You're making me want to buy something to work on. I love rebuilding machine tools.

Hey Adam, It's really cool to see the shaper's power feed working again. I can understand your enjoyment of watching things work like they are supposed to after putting it all back together. Keep up the great videos. I love what you're doing!

Adam, you've done a great job bringing back some mildly to severely abused equipment to top working order, adding to your own expertise and educating me in the process. Thanks man!

you have done a cracking job on the shaper cant wait to see it working

You are a very laborious man! Congrats for your "old-new" TOY!

Abom is right - I was taught the same techniques. File finishing is an artform when it's done right. When I was a lad 50 years ago the old boys would hand finish their tools using a range of draw file techniques. While it was all referred to as drawfiling, by varying the angles of the file on the attack and release strokes they would create anything from a smooth "frosted" finish or by following the angle of the ridge lines they could cut quite deep grip lines as good as any knurling wheel. They'd also create burnishing steels of various agressions for finishing. All "just" with a file. I was taught never to "peck" and told that constant contact was the surest way to maintain a consistent angle. Certainly when filing they'd vary the pressure used on the attack and release - but a combination of the release stroke and only grudgingly, occasional use of the pinbrush was used to clear the teeth of any "shit stick" especially with aluminium.

I’m very impressed with your G&E I’ll always enjoy your videos on the shaper, loved the slo mo on it in your next video and the sound it makes when cutting a chip, yes sir I am impressed.!.!.!.

Seeing that auto-downfeed working just made my weekend! :) To think only a few months ago that shaper was sitting in a dark garage and now the life you have brought back to it. Just such great work Adam.

Great have enjoyed every minute, it has made 6 weeks of lockdown more bearable. Bob Bristol England.

Brilliant episode. Machine looks amazing, can't wait to see it back to work...

Nice job Adam shapers looking well good. The smile on your face says it all

Nice work Adam, great to see it working properly again

I spent ten years working in a shipyard, as an outside amchinist and periodically had the opportunity to work in the (inside) machine shop. I really enjoy watching your videos, as I always learn something new. My ONLY regret is that I didn't go to machinist school when I had the opportunity.

congratulations Adam for such a laborious and totally successful effort ! The machine has been transformed visually and this whole restoration series is in par or even better than other restoration series by other very respected and talented top youtubers !

Great progress on the shaper. I always like to look at the newspaper packing in old boxes. It can tell you when and where the box was packed and sometimes a glimpse at what was happening in the world when the box was packed.