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An old (83) retired mechanical engineer thinks you are one of the few people that do what needs to be done and doesn't cry (much) about it. I have been watching you solve problems the exact way I would have, the right way, awesome. Excellent camera work, awesome!
I’m never sure what’s more impressive, the machinist skills, the welding skills or the ability to find the balance point on odd shaped pieces of material when using the overhead crane.
Karen really nails the audio! Its often overlooked or done bad, but you are great at keeping it balanced between clips. No jumpscares cause 1 clip is crazy loud or something.
Not just UA-cam videos. Her audio is better than a lot of the videos on the paid streaming platforms! It's very annoying to have to turn on closed captions just to hear dialog.
@@jonpattison - Standards for streaming services tend to be about the same as for cable channels, which are / were significantly lower than the ones for "real" broadcast TV. I've worked in (TV and film) post-production since the 90s, and until 15 or 20 years ago it would be unthinkable to have a _single_ dropped frame or slightly mismatched audio in a "finished" (i.e., ready for broadcast) tape. We would literally re-record the whole tape if _one_ frame had an error. But people got so used to that with online videos that they don't seem to care anymore. Cinema still has pretty high standards, but the lines are getting blurred. It's a good thing most video formats don't use interlacing anymore, because that's a whole extra layer of issues that I suspect a lot of modern "video technicians" would have no idea how to handle (in fact, I've seen major interlacing and timebase screw-ups on the UA-cam channels of several international networks, like CBS or the BBC). But bad (as in inaudible / incomprehensible) audio is often _not_ the fault of audio engineers or post-producers, it's partly a fad (some directors think dialogues _should_ be hard to understand because "it's more realistic") and partly cost-cutting (audio is used straight from the live recording, without any ADR / Foley even if the original was noisy, etc. - they just leave the noise in, or brute-force filter it out even if that messes up the actors' voices). And yes, Karen is easily in the top 20% of (professional!) videographers I've worked with.
Thank you so much for opening with Homey! He gets a lot of screentime here because we recently lost our old puppy dog. I always look for your new videos as I love to work shop. Thank you Kurtis! Thank you Karen! Thank you Homey! We love you all so much!
My condolences for your loss, its always hard losing a family member, especially one you grow as close to as a dog. From how you talk about them though, it seems you gave them a long and happy life, which is really all they could have asked of you.
my dog also passed by recently. i also love homey’s screentime, would love to see homey meet bullion & ingot … ( if the distance is not so far to drive 🙈 ) ….
I'm retired 56 years old I was in the military. I'm no mechanic and I don't know how to weld but I was a pipefitter for a year and a half with a company when I was younger and worked with one welder. I have been binge watching your videos for the last 3 days and have really enjoyed watching them watching them. The crane refurbishment and I just finished watching you making the Earth clamp. Thanks for the way you and your wife produced the videos. Cheers
That long spindle for internal grinds is impressive indeed. Back in the '70s, a shop where I worked had considered the prospect of acquiring a lathe and tool post grinder for the purpose of restoring the ID of Lycoming and Continental aircraft engine cylinders to their original spec after rechroming, When we figured out that we would need to process at least 3,000 cylinders to save money vs the cost of having the outsource shop do it, we decided it just was not practical. No one in our shop had your fabrication skills. Mine were not up to it back then, though I may have been the best they had, which was sad since I was the youngest. Experience will often exceed inventiveness when it comes to skill in problem-solving, but my shorter experience was broader than theirs since they'd all been in one job forever. Still, all of us put together would not have equaled the talent of the general machinist around the corner from our shop, and you're far better than he was. I know skill when I see it, and I'm seeing lots of it here.
I personally chuckled that he said “some people use a gauge or special tool…” then proceeds to use the shop-made “ruler cut to the right height.” That’s a gauge, ain’t it? 😂
That little fella at 7:40 is a Welcome Swallow. Gorgeous, happy little birds with seemingly boundless energy that are so named due to their appearance heralding the coming of spring.
Aaah Friday morning..............and just in time, the long-awaited second part of the tool holder grinding machine project is available. A perfect start to the weekend. Excellent work by Kurtis on the lathe and milling machine and by Karen filming with two cameras at the same time and post-processing.👍 I'm already looking forward to the third part next week! Greetings from: 🇩🇪
Just wanted to mention that it’s awesome to see Kurtis getting used to his new pearly whites! Dudes got a great smile now and sounds damn near like he did pre-surgery.
I thought he was a different person when I saw the most recent video. My wife and I gave her sister $3k to get her teeth done and it was the best money I ever spent. It literally changed her life.
Your channel is brilliant. I trained as a mechanical engineer through 1998 to 2002 in a university whose specialty was machining. Theres so many concepts I had to learn through a book that have been absolutely brought to life by your videos. Would you ever think of doing a shorts series of the stuff you think is trivial (for instance choice of tool, centre finding) as I think it would get loads of views.. you could link to those videos whenever you use that particular technique. Your approach is just.. 👌
This build motivated me to spend last weekend making spacer risers to get my TP grinders on center on my two lathes and make a wheel dresser as well, thanks mate!
I'm glad you mentioned guards. I was getting a bit worried during the build but I haven't seen Kurtis compromise on health and safety yet so I probably shouldn't have. With such huge stones, a powerful motor and the inherent susceptibility to knocks and bumps the stone explosion risk is probably higher than in most other machines with abrasive stones.
The only problem you may run across with those grinding wheels are balance. Even if you put a center in the chuck to hold the grinding wheel while you are dressing the grinding wheel. The grinding wheel will be out of balance. This could be a problem with the internal deep grinding finish and finished size. Also you'll be using coolant when you are grinding and the wheel will absorb some of the coolant so when you are finished grinding let the wheel spin for a few minutes to sling as much of the water out of it so it will be easier to balance the next time you put the wheel back on. I used a OD grinder in the Air Force. Very precision grinding and sometimes it would take almost a day to balance the grinding wheel. Remove the armature from the grinding machine, remove and replace new wheel on the armature, balance it, replace armature with the wheel on it back in the machine, dress the wheel, remove armature and wheel, balance it again,replace in machine and dress the wheel again, remove from machine, check the balance again. Repeat this process until the wheel does not need any more balancing then replace it in the machine dress it one last time and your ready to do some great work. I ALWAYS hated when it was time to replace the grinding wheel on that machine but it was so accurate and the finish was like a mirror. But making Aircraft Parts for our own aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base was great. No other base I had been stationed at had the machines that were at that base but it has a runway that is a little more than 2 miles long and 15 feet thick concrete. Was originally a TAC base that was built for the B-52 carrying nuclear weapons.
When I was 16 I was working a lathe with 2 -1/2 turns of slack in the cross slide. I was machining valve bodies with tapered threads for high pressure naptha pumps. I'm sure I couldn't do it now. I'm also sure you appreciate the wonderful machinery you work with.
I don't typically comment very often and I'm sorry that it may hurt your algorithm but when I witnessed you touch the material to feel the temperature it just showed me that you really are the individual that I already felt that you were, cuz you understand the cause of thermal dynamics in tight tolerances the same way when I try to explain what tensile strength is to ppl when they asked me to weld certain materials together and expect a specific load capacity. Once again you have my respect and admiration cuz you wouldn't do it any different than I would. And a little Overkill in material if you can afford it in your personal projects never hurt anyone. It just gives you the extra confidence when you have to exceed certain parameters to get the job done you know you built it and what is truly capable of.
Hope everything is okay. We miss you guys. I know I'm not the only scratching his head about your whereabouts and most importantly, your condition. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Nothing beats a Home made Tools video, honestly these are the best part of my week! sitting down and watching this on my 4K TV in surround sound....makes it all that more immersive!
Under the constant pressure of jobs it must be quite a chore to keep the floors around your machines free of swarf. And yet the two of you take time to have some fun with the birds and your amazing dog. "All work and no play you loose your humanity." Good on both !
I'm not that dedicated. The posts come up at 08:00 here in the UK. I normally have my first coffee on the go in bed when the notification goes off. A nice lazy start to retirement Friday.
I think the birds are starting to go from background actors to supporting cast and I love it, and the birds. As you're tapping in the bearings I immediately said to myself that hammer has put in a few days work. Keep the awesome work and videos up. I love seeing them.
Quel régal de voir ce travail de précision et bravo a madame pour filmer cet usinage! la qualité de l'image égale celle du travail d'usinage de son époux. Encore bravo a vous deux.
It's so nice to see how careful you are handling your equipment, machines and finishing parts! You're a bit of exception in the trade for what I have seen...
I love how in the last video you made the clamps 100mm to fit standard stock and now you weren't able to get 100mm stock for the housings and had to machine it anyway 😂😂
I enjoy watching this guy work, he's a master of the trade! A true Jake of all trades . I just wish he had about a dozen sons to share his knowledge with to keep these trades alive. As always I enjoyed watching!
Karen thank you for showing what Kurtis did with the DRO it makes it a bit clearer for me as I am trying to learn how to use one at the moment. I may be able to understand how to use it in about a hundred years😊
I love Friday mornings with Homey, Kurtis, and Karen. I'm a retired teacher (music, and science.) I have never touched a lathe or a mill but I really enjoy the channel a great deal. Thanks so much for your wonderful Channel.
Watched for a long time now, you are both very talented people. I enjoy the content even though I do not own any metal tools only DIY woodworking/plumbing etc. You have a hell of a lot of patience and grit. I could not restore that crane. All the best from England.
Kurtis thinking that your series is so great ,watching it is really educational for me. Not being a machinist it is eye opening, thanks from Western USA.
Very good machining on the parts. May I suggest putting studs and nuts in the spindle housing clamp ?It would make it easier on you when mounting the grinding spindle 👍
This is Jay from Washington State USA and I'm a huge fan of you, Karen and Homey. I wish I had this kind of thing when I was in school to help me learn your tallent. Thank you all for these videos and I try to see all of them. How's the crane project going?
Considering that I haven't a clue what you're talking about, or even doing, it is great testimony to your and Karen's skill that I find your vids compelling viewing.
Thanks for sharing another great video. It is really helpful to those of us running machines but not at Kurtis level to see and hear one cutting pass without it being sped up. So many subtle tricks and tips to absord by watching!
The little bird on the fan is a House Martin, we have them here in New Zealand too. It is a relative to the Swallow and most people here think they are swallows. They catch insects as they fly around. Love the channel as I am also a machinist, some things I would do different but I am not doing the job so it is up to you to do it they way that suits you.
Those reddish markings on the face, neck and chest identify it as a Welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena). Interesting that they're called House martins in NZ as the true House martin (Delichon urbicum) doesn't come further east than central Asia; it also has no red markings.
On the subject of centre heights, I used to drive an Ikegai A20 which had a little block bolted to the saddle with a setting mark on it so all you had to do was put the tool on the machined surface with the packing and compare it to the block. Don’t know why other manufacturers omit this incredibly useful little feature.
I just got myself a new to me 1967 Ikegai A20, still working out some bugs in the electrical system but am really looking forward to making some chips on it!
@@brownh2orat211 they were like a spaceship compared to any lathe at the time, still seem modern now with DR and recirculating ball lead screw . Super accurate.
03:43 AM in Red Deer AB, Canada. 18 mins left in the video and I can’t wait to see the test runs on this contraption when it is completed. Love it. All the best to you and yours Curtis, and 🐕 too.
What an amazing build! I found myself watching parts of the video over 2 or 3 times to watch the machining and fitment. Damn, you're good. It's like you are making jewelry. But man what a grinder! And the video was awesome, getting multi-angle shots and close-ups. Thanks guys and looking forward to the next installment! Cheers.
There was a FAG bearing plant in Joplin, Missouri for a long time. Unfortunately it's now closed. It's always amazing to watch you turn what looks like scrap into tools.
Gooooooooooooooood morning Aussies slowly I'm getting a picture what that contraption is going to be used for. Next friday part 3 I hope ??? Have a great weekend and a nice bellyrub for Homey Greetings from The Netherlands
Kurtis, i love these shop made tools! You make them better than anything you can buy and tailor them to your specific needs. Big respect for your skill and determination to save money and still have the tools you need to enhance your business.
love the "feedcam" @ 20:40. like always you use the dials where it matters. i*m 58 and questions my life work choices....watching you work is a joy.. I'm electrical engineer
as easy as those berings went in ...will they walk out under load? i'm surprised you didn't counter bore a little deeper for a snap ring . Great video it's always interesting to see what other machinist do and what ideas i can adapt for my little shop
I was thinking the same thing, those bearings went in without much press fit. Just seems there should be snap rings and possibly an outer liquid seal on the grinding wheel end, but I guess they could be added later if needed.
Bloody beautiful Kurtis and yes your long tool is very impressive, it’s quite the mouthful. Well done mate, good to see AUS boys doing it as good as the overseas lads. Karen, awesome job of the filming, really complements the channels content
Kurtis your work is incredible. I always look forward to Fridays to see what you do next. Karen, you're behind the scene is incredible as well. I am looking forward to seeing your tool post-grinder in action.
Una abuela seguidora desde Panamá, les abraza con cariño. Veo sus interesantes reportajes, por su gran destreza profesional y excelente grabación. Y principalmente por su hermoso Perrhijo consentido!♥️🇵🇦
wow. Kueris, you are a creative machinist, designer and content creator and Karen you are excellent camera person, audio person and editor . thanks for sharing
Great video again. The editing is superb! Those little birds might be cute BUT they will find somewhere in your shed to nest and rear young (and shit all over your machines) and to protect their young they WILL dive and swoop you like a maggie and drive you out of your shed. Ask me how I know. Still my fav UA-cam channel.
I just realized, Homey is like a big kid that gets to go to work with mom & dad. George is like the neighbor's kid that only shows up around dinner time. 🤣
Second week of my comment experiment not working - giving up on that idea 😁😁 Anyways, back to the vid - got a litre of coffee brewed - should see me through ☕ Kurtis' tool centre height gauge is classic example of the simplest ideas being the best 👍 All the best, Paul
Another week and here you folks are. Great to see the 3 of you. One of the things that keeps me coming back is the size of your lathes. Mine were as is and big or small it did it all. You allready know how much I support in house tools, jigs and anything you can make is cash in the bank. If these were to be bought and paid for they would cost a fortune. Now you have purpose made, exactly what you want and need. Tools that minus your time are really inexpensife overall eh. Thanks so much for another Friday seeing what I liked to do best over 50 years. You too Karen. This is a two way streat from start to finish. A nurgle on Homie's noggin too. See you next week my friends.
My wife is giggling like a schoolgirl right now. She heard my gasp of exasperation when I heard and realized there was going to have to be a part 3! Love the work and am grateful that you take the time to show us all that goes into building these. Thank you so so much and I look forward to the next installment. You make my Fridays something to look forward to!😊
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It’s that time again… whoop whoop! 🥳🥳🥳
G'day Kurtis, Karen and Homey awesome video as always mates. Homey was so funny trying to choose a toy 😂😂😂
8 minutes in, over 3000 views. You guys sure have a great audience!
Cheers 👍💪✌
11 minutes in, over 4500 views...say no more 🙂
@rjung_ch we have the best YT community!
Hey Kurtis, great to see the ways you create more tools you use, but can’t wait to see the franna series again 😊
yeah when he builds new things and or does things like the crane is my favorite too.
You'll wait.
FRANNA FRANNA FRANNA ❤
Me too😊, Kurtis is nothing less than an artist! He goes beyond just skills and knowledge
Mayby it a tool needed to work on the franacrane?
An old (83) retired mechanical engineer thinks you are one of the few people that do what needs to be done and doesn't cry (much) about it. I have been watching you solve problems the exact way I would have, the right way, awesome. Excellent camera work, awesome!
I’m never sure what’s more impressive, the machinist skills, the welding skills or the ability to find the balance point on odd shaped pieces of material when using the overhead crane.
All three of those skills are equally impressive.
We don’t know how many times they tried before the video. At least that’s what I would do.
@@dirtfarmer7472 that is true but there’s plenty of instances where it’s all one take
Yes, I am more impressed with Karen's editing ability! Nevertheless, Kurtis is amazing all the way around!!
It used to be a fun game at my old shop using the magnet on our diamond plate floors. The new guys would always get humbled real quick lol
You've really found the sweet spot with realtime vs fast forward on the repeat parts. Never need to skip forward watching. Love the editing!
Karen really nails the audio! Its often overlooked or done bad, but you are great at keeping it balanced between clips. No jumpscares cause 1 clip is crazy loud or something.
Would be nice to get some background on Karen's video talents -- was she born to it or did she do it professionally in a previous life?
@@antronargaiv3283
Yes, I second that idea
Not just UA-cam videos. Her audio is better than a lot of the videos on the paid streaming platforms! It's very annoying to have to turn on closed captions just to hear dialog.
@@jonpattison - Standards for streaming services tend to be about the same as for cable channels, which are / were significantly lower than the ones for "real" broadcast TV. I've worked in (TV and film) post-production since the 90s, and until 15 or 20 years ago it would be unthinkable to have a _single_ dropped frame or slightly mismatched audio in a "finished" (i.e., ready for broadcast) tape. We would literally re-record the whole tape if _one_ frame had an error. But people got so used to that with online videos that they don't seem to care anymore. Cinema still has pretty high standards, but the lines are getting blurred.
It's a good thing most video formats don't use interlacing anymore, because that's a whole extra layer of issues that I suspect a lot of modern "video technicians" would have no idea how to handle (in fact, I've seen major interlacing and timebase screw-ups on the UA-cam channels of several international networks, like CBS or the BBC).
But bad (as in inaudible / incomprehensible) audio is often _not_ the fault of audio engineers or post-producers, it's partly a fad (some directors think dialogues _should_ be hard to understand because "it's more realistic") and partly cost-cutting (audio is used straight from the live recording, without any ADR / Foley even if the original was noisy, etc. - they just leave the noise in, or brute-force filter it out even if that messes up the actors' voices).
And yes, Karen is easily in the top 20% of (professional!) videographers I've worked with.
@@RFC3514 ...I totally agree, thanks for the comment.
Pretty sure that toolpost grinder weighs more than my lathe. 😁 Beautiful work as always, Kurtis!
Thanks Quinn appreciate it!
Thank you so much for opening with Homey! He gets a lot of screentime here because we recently lost our old puppy dog. I always look for your new videos as I love to work shop. Thank you Kurtis! Thank you Karen! Thank you Homey! We love you all so much!
My condolences for your loss, its always hard losing a family member, especially one you grow as close to as a dog. From how you talk about them though, it seems you gave them a long and happy life, which is really all they could have asked of you.
He's the star of the show. the machining is just to keep you busy in between his segments.
I agree…He sure loves going to work 👍🏻😁🐕🥰
my dog also passed by recently. i also love homey’s screentime,
would love to see homey meet bullion & ingot … ( if the distance is not so far to drive 🙈 ) ….
Yes this was different & nice for a change, thank you
I'm retired 56 years old I was in the military. I'm no mechanic and I don't know how to weld but I was a pipefitter for a year and a half with a company when I was younger and worked with one welder. I have been binge watching your videos for the last 3 days and have really enjoyed watching them watching them. The crane refurbishment and I just finished watching you making the Earth clamp. Thanks for the way you and your wife produced the videos. Cheers
In my humble opinion, such beautiful, reliable and solid tools require shop's label!)
So maybe some day we'll see some sort of handheld laser marking machine...
Fecit
That long spindle for internal grinds is impressive indeed. Back in the '70s, a shop where I worked had considered the prospect of acquiring a lathe and tool post grinder for the purpose of restoring the ID of Lycoming and Continental aircraft engine cylinders to their original spec after rechroming, When we figured out that we would need to process at least 3,000 cylinders to save money vs the cost of having the outsource shop do it, we decided it just was not practical. No one in our shop had your fabrication skills. Mine were not up to it back then, though I may have been the best they had, which was sad since I was the youngest. Experience will often exceed inventiveness when it comes to skill in problem-solving, but my shorter experience was broader than theirs since they'd all been in one job forever. Still, all of us put together would not have equaled the talent of the general machinist around the corner from our shop, and you're far better than he was. I know skill when I see it, and I'm seeing lots of it here.
Well said bud !
Love the ruler cut to perfect height for centring, quick, easy and efficient. Have a great weekend guys.
Can't beat a yard stick mate
And it doesn't care if it's metric/banana's or apple's
Avoid "unitools" wherever possible - it's a ruler and a height gage. No excess unitools cluttering up the area. I like it.
I’d be willing to gamble that he has a different tool for each of his machines
I personally chuckled that he said “some people use a gauge or special tool…” then proceeds to use the shop-made “ruler cut to the right height.” That’s a gauge, ain’t it? 😂
That little fella at 7:40 is a Welcome Swallow. Gorgeous, happy little birds with seemingly boundless energy that are so named due to their appearance heralding the coming of spring.
Your spring, Our winter is close to being upon us.
Some of us are just starting our days, others just finishing it. But we've all been looking forward to the next vid😎🏴🇺🇲
Aaah Friday morning..............and just in time, the long-awaited second part of the tool holder grinding machine project is available. A perfect start to the weekend. Excellent work by Kurtis on the lathe and milling machine and by Karen filming with two cameras at the same time and post-processing.👍 I'm already looking forward to the third part next week! Greetings from: 🇩🇪
@@susansu-p5o I don't buy Chinese products!
17:13 ... sounds like your pipe center is due for new bearings ...
Great progress on the Grinder!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
It is! 😅
Just wanted to mention that it’s awesome to see Kurtis getting used to his new pearly whites!
Dudes got a great smile now and sounds damn near like he did pre-surgery.
I thought he was a different person when I saw the most recent video. My wife and I gave her sister $3k to get her teeth done and it was the best money I ever spent. It literally changed her life.
Your channel is brilliant. I trained as a mechanical engineer through 1998 to 2002 in a university whose specialty was machining. Theres so many concepts I had to learn through a book that have been absolutely brought to life by your videos. Would you ever think of doing a shorts series of the stuff you think is trivial (for instance choice of tool, centre finding) as I think it would get loads of views.. you could link to those videos whenever you use that particular technique. Your approach is just.. 👌
Have a great weekend Karen and Kurtis! Thanks for your efforts.
Cheers,
Alan
Berlin
This build motivated me to spend last weekend making spacer risers to get my TP grinders on center on my two lathes and make a wheel dresser as well, thanks mate!
I'm glad you mentioned guards. I was getting a bit worried during the build but I haven't seen Kurtis compromise on health and safety yet so I probably shouldn't have. With such huge stones, a powerful motor and the inherent susceptibility to knocks and bumps the stone explosion risk is probably higher than in most other machines with abrasive stones.
Lol so many toys he couldn't make up his mind. So many choices. You all are awesome. Thank you for all the videos.
Mr vous faîtes un bon boulot merci je vous regarde a chaque fois merci
The only problem you may run across with those grinding wheels are balance.
Even if you put a center in the chuck to hold the grinding wheel while you are dressing the grinding wheel. The grinding wheel will be out of balance. This could be a problem with the internal deep grinding finish and finished size.
Also you'll be using coolant when you are grinding and the wheel will absorb some of the coolant so when you are finished grinding let the wheel spin for a few minutes to sling as much of the water out of it so it will be easier to balance the next time you put the wheel back on.
I used a OD grinder in the Air Force. Very precision grinding and sometimes it would take almost a day to balance the grinding wheel.
Remove the armature from the grinding machine, remove and replace new wheel on the armature, balance it, replace armature with the wheel on it back in the machine, dress the wheel, remove armature and wheel, balance it again,replace in machine and dress the wheel again, remove from machine, check the balance again.
Repeat this process until the wheel does not need any more balancing then replace it in the machine dress it one last time and your ready to do some great work.
I ALWAYS hated when it was time to replace the grinding wheel on that machine but it was so accurate and the finish was like a mirror.
But making Aircraft Parts for our own aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base was great.
No other base I had been stationed at had the machines that were at that base but it has a runway that is a little more than 2 miles long and 15 feet thick concrete.
Was originally a TAC base that was built for the B-52 carrying nuclear weapons.
OMG. I scarely thought PRECISION works happened that way. Thanks for share!!
When I was 16 I was working a lathe with 2 -1/2 turns of slack in the cross slide. I was machining valve bodies with tapered threads for high pressure naptha pumps. I'm sure I couldn't do it now. I'm also sure you appreciate the wonderful machinery you work with.
Hey guys. Looking forward to todays episode. It's great seeing Kurtis's skills and we also get to enjoy Karen's flawless filming and editing. Cheers!
Сказать, что смотрю с удовольствием - ничего не сказать. Наслаждаюсь!!! 😁👍👍👍
I don't typically comment very often and I'm sorry that it may hurt your algorithm but when I witnessed you touch the material to feel the temperature it just showed me that you really are the individual that I already felt that you were, cuz you understand the cause of thermal dynamics in tight tolerances the same way when I try to explain what tensile strength is to ppl when they asked me to weld certain materials together and expect a specific load capacity. Once again you have my respect and admiration cuz you wouldn't do it any different than I would. And a little Overkill in material if you can afford it in your personal projects never hurt anyone. It just gives you the extra confidence when you have to exceed certain parameters to get the job done you know you built it and what is truly capable of.
Hope everything is okay. We miss you guys. I know I'm not the only scratching his head about your whereabouts and most importantly, your condition. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Nothing beats a Home made Tools video, honestly these are the best part of my week! sitting down and watching this on my 4K TV in surround sound....makes it all that more immersive!
Under the constant pressure of jobs it must be quite a chore to keep the floors around your machines free of swarf. And yet the two of you take time to have some fun with the birds and your amazing dog. "All work and no play you loose your humanity." Good on both !
Here I am in the USA at 2:00 am in the morning 4 minutes after the post showed up on my feed to see part two of this build.
I'm not that dedicated. The posts come up at 08:00 here in the UK. I normally have my first coffee on the go in bed when the notification goes off. A nice lazy start to retirement Friday.
Do you have another 2 am where you live?Over here in Australia we only get that time once a day.🤣
9 in the morning here in Austria ...
Just started watching and it is 02:00 in 4 minutes. 😂
Me too 2 AM USA
I think the birds are starting to go from background actors to supporting cast and I love it, and the birds.
As you're tapping in the bearings I immediately said to myself that hammer has put in a few days work.
Keep the awesome work and videos up. I love seeing them.
The greatest show on earth !!! Have a wonderfull day everyone !!
Quel régal de voir ce travail de précision et bravo a madame pour filmer cet usinage! la qualité de l'image égale celle du travail d'usinage de son époux. Encore bravo a vous deux.
It's so nice to see how careful you are handling your equipment, machines and finishing parts! You're a bit of exception in the trade for what I have seen...
that’s the difference between a precision machinist, and a fabricator. fabricator ain’t got time for that 😂
I love how in the last video you made the clamps 100mm to fit standard stock and now you weren't able to get 100mm stock for the housings and had to machine it anyway 😂😂
I enjoy watching this guy work, he's a master of the trade! A true Jake of all trades . I just wish he had about a dozen sons to share his knowledge with to keep these trades alive. As always I enjoyed watching!
Great way to end the week, I put this on fullscreen on the telly at 4K, and sit on the couch with the dog and chill out. Thanks for another one guys.
oh geeze… that’s a fabulous idea!! ❤
Karen thank you for showing what Kurtis did with the DRO it makes it a bit clearer for me as I am trying to learn how to use one at the moment. I may be able to understand how to use it in about a hundred years😊
I love the 2 opposing reactions to the little bird 😂😂
Karen: "awwww look"
Curtis:"that's George's spot"
😂😂😂😂
I love Friday mornings with Homey, Kurtis, and Karen. I'm a retired teacher (music, and science.) I have never touched a lathe or a mill but I really enjoy the channel a great deal. Thanks so much for your wonderful Channel.
Wow...the grinding wheel is going to have to be carefully balanced on that loooong spindle to ward off vibration.
I can see Dad smiling down about you doing this Kurtis.
Absolutely I'm sure he would be!
"Spot on" then proceeds to tap it in for the 0.000 precision. Love this.
Watched for a long time now, you are both very talented people. I enjoy the content even though I do not own any metal tools only DIY woodworking/plumbing etc. You have a hell of a lot of patience and grit. I could not restore that crane. All the best from England.
Homie is the bestest funny doggo
Yous guys are da best! The machining and videoography. Win, Win! My favorite UA-cam channel. Thanks!
Kurtis thinking that your series is so great ,watching it is really educational for me. Not being a machinist it is eye opening, thanks from Western USA.
Very good machining on the parts.
May I suggest putting studs and nuts in the spindle housing clamp ?It would make it easier on you when mounting the grinding spindle 👍
This is Jay from Washington State USA and I'm a huge fan of you, Karen and Homey. I wish I had this kind of thing when I was in school to help me learn your tallent. Thank you all for these videos and I try to see all of them. How's the crane project going?
Considering that I haven't a clue what you're talking about, or even doing, it is great testimony to your and Karen's skill that I find your vids compelling viewing.
Thanks for sharing another great video. It is really helpful to those of us running machines but not at Kurtis level to see and hear one cutting pass without it being sped up. So many subtle tricks and tips to absord by watching!
Great to see the process of basic materials becoming a tool that makes the shop better.
The little bird on the fan is a House Martin, we have them here in New Zealand too. It is a relative to the Swallow and most people here think they are swallows. They catch insects as they fly around.
Love the channel as I am also a machinist, some things I would do different but I am not doing the job so it is up to you to do it they way that suits you.
Those reddish markings on the face, neck and chest identify it as a Welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena). Interesting that they're called House martins in NZ as the true House martin (Delichon urbicum) doesn't come further east than central Asia; it also has no red markings.
On the subject of centre heights, I used to drive an Ikegai A20 which had a little block bolted to the saddle with a setting mark on it so all you had to do was put the tool on the machined surface with the packing and compare it to the block. Don’t know why other manufacturers omit this incredibly useful little feature.
I just got myself a new to me 1967 Ikegai A20, still working out some bugs in the electrical system but am really looking forward to making some chips on it!
@@brownh2orat211 they were like a spaceship compared to any lathe at the time, still seem modern now with DR and recirculating ball lead screw . Super accurate.
That tool center height ruler was a good tip. I'll make one when I get to my shop today.. Nice work and big thanks!!!
Nice trick with the ruler.
I have been watching far a few months and love the videos! I’m amazed by the skill you have but more so by the very gentile way you handle everything.
03:43 AM in Red Deer AB, Canada. 18 mins left in the video and I can’t wait to see the test runs on this contraption when it is completed. Love it.
All the best to you and yours Curtis, and 🐕 too.
Since he has his phone in his pocket, you should do Curtis cam kinda like when you do Homeless cam ;)
Midnight here in California awesome quiet time to relax and enjoy part2 Thanks guys for all the awesome videos .
Impressive threading your tool disengagement is spot on
What an amazing build! I found myself watching parts of the video over 2 or 3 times to watch the machining and fitment. Damn, you're good. It's like you are making jewelry. But man what a grinder! And the video was awesome, getting multi-angle shots and close-ups.
Thanks guys and looking forward to the next installment! Cheers.
Very very beautiful machining! Unbelievable the precise fit of the bearings and shafts.
Midnight, 12 AM Fridays here in Arizona means it's time for a new Cutting Edge video. Good time for Insomniacs like us.
What a work of art. Very impressive.
Hope you can get many years of service out of these beautiful tools that Kurt is making. Great job, guys. ❤🎉🎉
Tool shop made is my favourite thing, I wouldn't use ball bearing but tapered roller bearings, it should do the job fine hopefully
There was a FAG bearing plant in Joplin, Missouri for a long time. Unfortunately it's now closed. It's always amazing to watch you turn what looks like scrap into tools.
Gooooooooooooooood morning Aussies slowly I'm getting a picture what that contraption is going to be used for.
Next friday part 3 I hope ???
Have a great weekend and a nice bellyrub for Homey
Greetings from The Netherlands
Coffee, Karen, and the kids :) Mon the weekend! Thanks for all your hard work, both of you. Take care & stay safe.
Freaking Wow! It has got to feel so awesome to see something like this come together! Way cool! Great work!
*Cutting Edge Engineering Australia* Hi guys always a pleasure to see another video, thank-you for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
After seeing your custom ruler for setting to center I have realized I have lived my entire life the wrong way. Brilliance is often simple.
Kurtis, King of Chamfers, did it again 👍. You build beautiful precision tools, and Karen edits phantastic videos. 👍☀️👍.
All the best to you and Homey.
Kurtis, i love these shop made tools! You make them better than anything you can buy and tailor them to your specific needs. Big respect for your skill and determination to save money and still have the tools you need to enhance your business.
51:10 - "Woop-woop! That's da sound of da pulleys!"
You need to leave 😢😂
love the "feedcam" @ 20:40.
like always you use the dials where it matters. i*m 58 and questions my life work choices....watching you work is a joy.. I'm electrical engineer
Kurtis had to be off camera at minute 44:02, there's no way he wasn't laughing and didn't want to get canceled :'D
Said the same thing
So cool to see the snap gauges and micrometer come out 🤩
Dundee strikes again, THIS is a tool post!!🐊
as easy as those berings went in ...will they walk out under load? i'm surprised you didn't counter bore a little deeper for a snap ring . Great video it's always interesting to see what other machinist do and what ideas i can adapt for my little shop
I was thinking the same thing, those bearings went in without much press fit.
Just seems there should be snap rings and possibly an outer liquid seal on the grinding wheel end, but I guess they could be added later if needed.
Awesome as Always Thankyou for Another Quality Vid.. Very Entertaining
Just got my CEE-coffee mug. Morning coffee tastes just so much better now ❤
Bloody beautiful Kurtis and yes your long tool is very impressive, it’s quite the mouthful. Well done mate, good to see AUS boys doing it as good as the overseas lads. Karen, awesome job of the filming, really complements the channels content
Not even sure how to take that statement, but I'm secure enough in my manhood to complement your tool!
Kurtis your work is incredible. I always look forward to Fridays to see what you do next. Karen, you're behind the scene is incredible as well. I am looking forward to seeing your tool post-grinder in action.
Woohoo Finally made a Friday night viewing, first time for a while. Greets from across the ditch from Auckland, NZ
Una abuela seguidora desde Panamá, les abraza con cariño.
Veo sus interesantes reportajes, por su gran destreza profesional y excelente grabación. Y principalmente por su hermoso Perrhijo consentido!♥️🇵🇦
Those keyway cutting shots are fantastic!
wow. Kueris, you are a creative machinist, designer and content creator and Karen you are excellent camera person, audio person and editor . thanks for sharing
Homie he is one happy dog makes me smile bless him. 😀
Great video again. The editing is superb! Those little birds might be cute BUT they will find somewhere in your shed to nest and rear young (and shit all over your machines) and to protect their young they WILL dive and swoop you like a maggie and drive you out of your shed. Ask me how I know. Still my fav UA-cam channel.
It's Friday! Hurray. 🙂
I just realized, Homey is like a big kid that gets to go to work with mom & dad. George is like the neighbor's kid that only shows up around dinner time. 🤣
Haha
I could stay in your shop all day and just watch you do your stuff,totally fascinating !
Id even sweep up and make the coffee for free!
That is beautiful finish on those shafts!!
Second week of my comment experiment not working - giving up on that idea 😁😁
Anyways, back to the vid - got a litre of coffee brewed - should see me through ☕
Kurtis' tool centre height gauge is classic example of the simplest ideas being the best 👍
All the best,
Paul
Another week and here you folks are. Great to see the 3 of you. One of the things that keeps me coming back is the size of your lathes. Mine were as is and big or small it did it all. You allready know how much I support in house tools, jigs and anything you can make is cash in the bank. If these were to be bought and paid for they would cost a fortune. Now you have purpose made, exactly what you want and need. Tools that minus your time are really inexpensife overall eh. Thanks so much for another Friday seeing what I liked to do best over 50 years. You too Karen. This is a two way streat from start to finish. A nurgle on Homie's noggin too. See you next week my friends.
My wife is giggling like a schoolgirl right now. She heard my gasp of exasperation when I heard and realized there was going to have to be a part 3!
Love the work and am grateful that you take the time to show us all that goes into building these. Thank you so so much and I look forward to the next installment. You make my Fridays something to look forward to!😊
Maybe even part 3-4&5 before they get done