Keith, my dad's a retired toolmaker here in the uk. This Christmas I set him up in the armchair and loaded your videos up on the iPad. Never heard a peep from him and my mum had to drag him home at the end of the day. Respect.
I'm not a machinist, but I enjoy watching skilled craftsmen at work in any medium. I'll bet the other machine shops send their insoluble problems to you. Thanks for your generosity. Lee Humes, Sun Valley, Nv.
Haven't seen you stamping your work for quite a few projects now. Good to see it at the end of this one. A person who signs their work takes pride in a job well done as well as takes responsibility for righting any problems.
Fantastic work, Keith! I could watch your videos all day: very inspiring, educational and motivational. I have a small workshop with bench top type machines that I am still building up when I can, and It's after watching your videos that I have dared take on a few projects that I could never have quite get my head/brain around without learning techniques, tips and tricks from your years of experience. Your attitude, patience, work ethic and Getter Done approach are a lesson to all, whatever walk of life. More power to your elbow, Keith ... and best wishes to you and your family. All the best, Griff
Very nice set of videos, great camera work and lighting, I am sure we all enjoyed the work you put into these. Very nice work and lessons taught. I start everyday with you, Ox, Adam, Boost, Screwball, and others. Thank you. Richard, Inman, S.C.
Keith, thanks for another wonderful series. Learned a boat load as always. Feels like I'm right there in the shop. I can almost smell the cutting fluid. -Dale
Another excellent series. I learned so much my head is still spinning, but that's ok. I really appreciate the unusual efforts you make to share this with us.
Keith, there is no way the customer understands what he got here. The level of skill, along with the precision in the execution, on manual machines is a rare thing in 2014! Aside from the machine work, the effort to show us what "can be done" is simply extraordinary. Great respect, from a member of the fan club.
Excellent series. Not machinist/engineer myself but have become addicted to your videos. Cant stop watching them. This one definitely shows that a lot of time and labor goes into making and modifying tools to get the job done. A hard job made look easy when in the hands of a master of his craft. "I like it". :)
Great project Keith, I really appreciate you demonstrating the importance of understanding the whole project so you make the rite choices when it comes to material and tolerances to make the best repair for the customer. Cheers
Thanks for Your work. I saw every Minute and enjoyed it. And i do no metalwork at all. Do not know what makes your Videos so Special. I think it is, because you do nothing fancy and stay true and honest. The man, the craftsman, is the Sensation.
Keith, I enjoy your videos, the spline series was very good. I am a retired marine engineer, CE. Your videos bring many thoughts Of the old days working on ships and in shipyards around the world. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
What a Seriies....! I watched all 8 in one sitting with great interest. For me, the pucker facter was really high on part 6.... Total concentration is an understatement!!! Thanks for bringing us along. I think this would be classified as an "oldie but goodie".... Great job on the video, AND the coupling....!!!
Hi Keith, Nice work and fascinating watching all the steps you had to go through to make this coupling. I hope we get to see the photos the guys in the field send you as you mentioned in your response to Toly. Thanks again. RS
Wow - you've hardly had any machining video's for a while and then all of a sudden boom - a mountain of them. Thanks very much - you have the best machining videos on UA-cam. Really appreciate them.
Wow! That was awesome Keith. So many steps and processes to this project. All while controlling the unknown variables (tool flex, climb, wear...) and foreseeing assembly tolerances and stresses.
This video is why I bought your south bend shaper Keith! Although I've only cut key ways in some cast gears. Thanks for all the tips. Great series. Hope all is well. Greg.
Thanks for sharing this with us Keith! I was wondering the same about moving the table instead of rotation the work but you already answered it for Mark.
Super well done both in terms of your running commentary and the videography. I'm not qualified to judge your work, but to me the tools and the product look like fine art! On top of that, being of service to so many around the world must be a source of motivation and encouragement (if not satisfaction, too) for making more of these fascinating series. All 8 of this series were watched with wrapped attention. Thank you!
Good job you filmed a series here. You've got something to show your customer when justifying the bill. lol Really enjoyed that. You explained absolutely every step. I'm really glad the UK went metric in the early seventies though, I couldn't be doing with working in fractions all the time.
About the work that you are showing to us it is no comment I mean for good, but when you show us videos I stay all night in front of my computer looking the new shares, thank you for videos and very very good job that are you making.
Keith thanks so much for a very informative project from start to finish great job with all the areas covered, I think this is one of the best yet and I seem them all. Thanks again...
Mr. Fenner, you are, all that, AND a bag of chips! Great series... Thank you for sharing and your excellent way of explaining the details (plain English)... Some great equipment and tooling too! As always looking forward to what's next! :o] O,
Great set of videos for this project, Keith. Patience is definitely a virtue it looks like when doing that kind of job. The shaper and indexer seem like a pretty nice combo for that type of work.
Amazing set of videos, something I have never seen being made before and had no idea of the complexity of construction. I use this system of power shaft connection all the time with tractors and machinery, The real pigs though are those connections with a King spline which can only be fitted in one precise location - this involves rotating either shaft until you find the correct place.
Keith the coupling looks like it turned out well and met your expectations. I was worried when you had to put it back into the chuck and re-index it. Nice work on the videos I'm sure that took a fair amount of time as well.
best video on you tube well done .hope you charged for the million hours it takes to do these things.and people done realise how long a small part takes.
Very interesting to see the amount of work that goes into a bespoke part, something that if you didn't know better you'd think was 'just' a coupling and only worth a few dollars.
Superb vid series Keith - much enjoyed. I couldn't help thinking back to when I had my old shaper. I'll bet now and again in this sort of project there are definite ''pucker'' moments as you take cuts and hope you calculated just right - which you did of course. 40 hours of vid - hey man - mammoth job editing too after the job finished. Thanks ever so much from this old (small scale) machinist. :)
Great job utilizing all of the KT accessories! I sold my KT head like that a couple years ago, after deciding a KT mill was out of the scope of machinery I wanted to "mess" with at this time in my life. I also had the matching tailstock, along with the gear box and drive shaft to connect it to the mill......now I am sort of kicking myself, since the KT itch still requires some scratching periodically! Since I never did get paid for it, I'm still half tempted to try and get it back.....not sure how to correctly identify the model, but it looked identical to your head. As far as markings, all I ever found, was a number in fraction form.....16 over 5779. Since I have a small shaper, I always wondered how they were intended to be setup, for use with a dividing head for the type of work you just did....an auxillary table? Great work and video!
Another excellent set of videos Keith. Just a quick comment. I think you need a small squirt oil can for your cutting oil. I saw the broaching arm catch the brush at least once. You are so careful in all the work you do and it shows in the final product. Thank you so much for sharing this project with all of us. Mark.
May be I should pick up the next shaper i see. They are usually a giveaway here at the north pole :) or close . I can see Lillehammer from my house and just nort of that you'll find the pole.
Keith, A fascinating series! Tow questions from a layman: 1) Why do you always switch off the motor before touching the countersink bit to the work? 2) Given that you widen the spline grooves by moving the table, not by rotating the work piece, the bottom of each spline groove is flat and parallel to the table. On the other hand, the tops of the teeth on the shaft are presumably not flat, but part of the shaft circumference. Also, by using the table to widen the grooves, the sides of the teeth in your work piece are slightly more angled than if you'd widen the grooves by rotating the work piece. By the time you're cutting the second half of a tooth, the work piece has been rotated one 14th of a revolution. This would make the tooth more angled than if you were working on a flat toothed rack. I'm wondering whether these small discrepancies create any mating issues? (Hope my question is clear, and not too trivial for an old hand...)
I shut off the power and then kiss it because I don't want to take the time to lower the speed by changing the belt position so by shutting it off and the split few seconds i'm able to kiss the counter sink to the hole with the right combo of speed and pressure to eliminate any chatter. The size of the major diameter is large enough not to be a critical factor and the angle of the cutter was made to create the proper angles needed to create the fit, which is it's own angle and not a flat inline with center axis, as you will see in the next videos in this series. ;{)------
nice work, excellent tricks, I only fear a loose spline fitting and with back and forth movement of such an hydraulic motor, a short life of the coupling
You just make it look so simple. Great job Keith. I wonder, how many "bloopers" do you cut out before posting your video. Have you ever thought about releasing them (assuming there are some ) to youtube???
hello keith, i really enjoy all your vids. i am 50 this year and am now finally getting my workshop set up and trying to learn some machining skills, having been a lawnmower mechanic for over 30 years. i have found the foil trays from ready meals make great catch trays to collect the oil when machining and you can shape them to fit any gap. also may i ask why you make the form tool narrower than the slot ? doesn't it make more work that way. it seems to me that if the tool was the width of the slot you would only need one setting.
Very Nice! You really seem to favor the 8620 for your high stress shafting and couplings over something like 4140 which is also a chromoly alloy. Can you comment on your preference or reasons for this and other applications? Thanks for the excellent workmanship and taking time to share. Mike
Keith, just wondering why you didn't do this project on your old shaper that you restored? Would have been a treat to see the old machines in action ;-)
Hi Keith Great series/build...curious why you didn't use your flood coolant in lieu of the oil brushing....assume it was for your own visual of the tool cutting action? Chuck
There a time for running soup and a time for dabbing saute. Yes it is mostly a visual hindering thing but wearing coolant, ranks right up there with not's. ;{)-------
Very nice work Keith. I think your final touch at the end with the ping and your stamp is right keen. On that subject..... Have you updated your stamp for 2014?
right is spelled wrong.. [ hoho ] nice job with what under the hood and in your hands. (y) Engine man Machinist from ( Dinmark - Denmark ) .. Happy Cutting Keith F .. im a fan.. blacksmith Jonas - Copenhagen.
Keith, my dad's a retired toolmaker here in the uk. This Christmas I set him up in the armchair and loaded your videos up on the iPad. Never heard a peep from him and my mum had to drag him home at the end of the day. Respect.
I'm not a machinist, but I enjoy watching skilled craftsmen at work in any medium. I'll bet the other machine shops send their insoluble problems to you. Thanks for your generosity.
Lee Humes,
Sun Valley, Nv.
Haven't seen you stamping your work for quite a few projects now. Good to see it at the end of this one. A person who signs their work takes pride in a job well done as well as takes responsibility for righting any problems.
Fantastic work, Keith!
I could watch your videos all day: very inspiring, educational and motivational. I have a small workshop with bench top type machines that I am still building up when I can, and It's after watching your videos that I have dared take on a few projects that I could never have quite get my head/brain around without learning techniques, tips and tricks from your years of experience. Your attitude, patience, work ethic and Getter Done approach are a lesson to all, whatever walk of life. More power to your elbow, Keith ... and best wishes to you and your family. All the best, Griff
And the marathon is over, a whole series in one go!
Nice work as usual.
Very nice set of videos, great camera work and lighting, I am sure we all enjoyed the work you put into these. Very nice work and lessons taught.
I start everyday with you, Ox, Adam, Boost, Screwball, and others.
Thank you.
Richard,
Inman, S.C.
Keith, thanks for another wonderful series. Learned a boat load as always. Feels like I'm right there in the shop. I can almost smell the cutting fluid.
-Dale
Another excellent series. I learned so much my head is still spinning, but that's ok. I really appreciate the unusual efforts you make to share this with us.
Mr. Fender, Awesome series. Thank you for sharing your time and expertise. All the best, Chuck.
Keith, there is no way the customer understands what he got here. The level of skill, along with the precision in the execution, on manual machines is a rare thing in 2014!
Aside from the machine work, the effort to show us what "can be done" is simply extraordinary.
Great respect, from a member of the fan club.
Excellent series. Not machinist/engineer myself but have become addicted to your videos. Cant stop watching them. This one definitely shows that a lot of time and labor goes into making and modifying tools to get the job done. A hard job made look easy when in the hands of a master of his craft. "I like it". :)
Great project Keith, I really appreciate you demonstrating the importance of understanding the whole project so you make the rite choices when it comes to material and tolerances to make the best repair for the customer.
Cheers
Beautiful. Your video's make it feel like we are there doing the job with you, excellent. Thanks for taking the time. JD
Great series of videos. A lot of great info for everybody doing machine work, even beginners like me. Thanks
Thanks for Your work. I saw every Minute and enjoyed it. And i do no metalwork at all. Do not know what makes your Videos so Special. I think it is, because you do nothing fancy and stay true and honest. The man, the craftsman, is the Sensation.
Keith,
I enjoy your videos, the spline series was very good.
I am a retired marine engineer, CE. Your videos bring many thoughts
Of the old days working on ships and in shipyards around the world.
Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Great video series. Well worth the wait. Thankx for sharing your expertise .We all know the effort it takes for quality content.
What a Seriies....! I watched all 8 in one sitting with great interest. For me, the pucker facter was really high on part 6.... Total concentration is an understatement!!! Thanks for bringing us along. I think this would be classified as an "oldie but goodie".... Great job on the video, AND the coupling....!!!
Hi Keith,
Nice work and fascinating watching all the steps you had to go through to make this coupling. I hope we get to see the photos the guys in the field send you as you mentioned in your response to Toly. Thanks again. RS
Great vid series and your a great teacher! Thank you Mr Fenner.
Wow - you've hardly had any machining video's for a while and then all of a sudden
boom - a mountain of them.
Thanks very much - you have the best machining videos on UA-cam.
Really appreciate them.
Wow! That was awesome Keith. So many steps and processes to this project. All while controlling the unknown variables (tool flex, climb, wear...) and foreseeing assembly tolerances and stresses.
Thanks for the great series Keith! It gave me great ideas for the workshop!
Excellent series of videos on the spline work. As always, great work! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
This video is why I bought your south bend shaper Keith! Although I've only cut key ways in some cast gears. Thanks for all the tips. Great series. Hope all
is well. Greg.
Thanks for sharing this with us Keith! I was wondering the same about moving the table instead of rotation the work but you already answered it for Mark.
Super well done both in terms of your running commentary and the videography. I'm not qualified to judge your work, but to me the tools and the product look like fine art! On top of that, being of service to so many around the world must be a source of motivation and encouragement (if not satisfaction, too) for making more of these fascinating series. All 8 of this series were watched with wrapped attention. Thank you!
Good job you filmed a series here. You've got something to show your customer when justifying the bill. lol
Really enjoyed that. You explained absolutely every step. I'm really glad the UK went metric in the early seventies though, I couldn't be doing with working in fractions all the time.
About the work that you are showing to us it is no comment I mean for good, but when you show us videos I stay all night in front of my computer looking the new shares, thank you for videos and very very good job that are you making.
Amazing piece of work there Keith, really top notch. I'm dying to put some of what I've learnt watching your videos into practice.
Good video .Keith ...glade to see some more machining ... thanks..for all your hard work..
Man well done! My head hurt just watching this. I got a lot to learn yet. Thank you Keith
Keith thanks so much for a very informative project from start to finish great job with all the areas covered, I think this is one of the best yet and I seem them all. Thanks again...
Awesome, clarity and step by step explanation is 1 st class. Many thanks. Dave UK
Great series Keith. loads of tips and tricks in this one Great job.
Bravo!...I haven't seen that done since I was an apprentice. I'd almost forgot!
Hi Keith, Nice series of videos very informative as well as being entertaining. Keep up the good work.
Mr. Fenner, you are, all that, AND a bag of chips! Great series... Thank you for sharing and your excellent way of explaining the details (plain English)... Some great equipment and tooling too! As always looking forward to what's next! :o]
O,
great series Keith, very interesting. You are a great craftsman, thanks for sharing your skills and knowledge with all of us...cheers!!!
Great Work. Great idea on relief hole to turn into grease fitting. May help last longer. Thank you for sharing.
Great set of videos for this project, Keith. Patience is definitely a virtue it looks like when doing that kind of job. The shaper and indexer seem like a pretty nice combo for that type of work.
Amazing set of videos, something I have never seen being made before and had no idea of the complexity of construction. I use this system of power shaft connection all the time with tractors and machinery, The real pigs though are those connections with a King spline which can only be fitted in one precise location - this involves rotating either shaft until you find the correct place.
This has to be the most interesting project I have seen here. Brilliant stuff.
Nice work and thank you for your contributions,I've been waiting over christmas for this ehheeh !
Outstanding work and a great series of videos Keith. Thanks for the education! Fred
Beautiful work Keith! Very nicely done!
You are a master at your trade, great series sir.
Thanks for sharing a vanishing art. Very cool series.
All 8 in one day, it was a Splinetacular Thanksgiving here on the farm!
I hope you had a great day and also a nice upcoming weekend, Aloha...Chuck
That made a cool series Keith! Thanks! I learned even more tricks!
Great job! Your videos are top notch! Thanks for sharing...
Keith the coupling looks like it turned out well and met your expectations. I was worried when you had to put it back into the chuck and re-index it. Nice work on the videos I'm sure that took a fair amount of time as well.
Great series Keith!
The coupler look so awesome!
Great Series Keith1
Thanks for all the great video lessons, I'm on the front row taking notes!
You just blew my mind. Thanks !
best video on you tube well done .hope you charged for the million hours it takes to do these things.and people done realise how long a small part takes.
36:39 made the whole series worth watching, when that coupling clunked down on the splines.
Another fine job. Love watching these videos that you post.
Great series Keith. Glad to see you back working the shop again. Happy New Year.
YOU GOTER DONE!
A great part! BTW, nice touch with the ships bell...
Great series Keith - Proper Job, they say in Cornwall
I can't help but wonder how much torque that hydraulic motor can deliver, it looks like a real beast.
Happy New Year Keith, what a fantastic job you made of that ! Nice way to start the year off
Kim
Great series Keith. Enjoy all you post
A good fit there Keith :-)
Very interesting to see the amount of work that goes into a bespoke part, something that if you didn't know better you'd think was 'just' a coupling and only worth a few dollars.
"Just" a coupling. Yeah, right. That is top notch workmanship and RIGHTLY commands serious money.
Eli Duttman
Indeed, thats exactly what I was alluding to.
Work of art, thanks for the vids Keith ....
Superb vid series Keith - much enjoyed. I couldn't help thinking back to when I had my old shaper. I'll bet now and again in this sort of project there are definite ''pucker'' moments as you take cuts and hope you calculated just right - which you did of course. 40 hours of vid - hey man - mammoth job editing too after the job finished. Thanks ever so much from this old (small scale) machinist. :)
nice work keith i really enjoyed this series thanks keep them up
Good informative videos again Keith thanks for sharing your time and knowledge
Great job utilizing all of the KT accessories! I sold my KT head like that a couple years ago, after deciding a KT mill was out of the scope of machinery I wanted to "mess" with at this time in my life. I also had the matching tailstock, along with the gear box and drive shaft to connect it to the mill......now I am sort of kicking myself, since the KT itch still requires some scratching periodically! Since I never did get paid for it, I'm still half tempted to try and get it back.....not sure how to correctly identify the model, but it looked identical to your head. As far as markings, all I ever found, was a number in fraction form.....16 over 5779.
Since I have a small shaper, I always wondered how they were intended to be setup, for use with a dividing head for the type of work you just did....an auxillary table?
Great work and video!
Very nice work. Quite complex job!
Another excellent set of videos Keith. Just a quick comment. I think you need a small squirt oil can for your cutting oil. I saw the broaching arm catch the brush at least once. You are so careful in all the work you do and it shows in the final product. Thank you so much for sharing this project with all of us. Mark.
Awesome series
Keith, no worries about the key fretting away at the shaft? I always thought it was best practice to have a setcrew right on the key.
May be I should pick up the next shaper i see. They are usually a giveaway here at the north pole :) or close . I can see Lillehammer from my house and just nort of that you'll find the pole.
Keith,
A fascinating series! Tow questions from a layman:
1) Why do you always switch off the motor before touching the countersink bit to the work?
2) Given that you widen the spline grooves by moving the table, not by rotating the work piece, the bottom of each spline groove is flat and parallel to the table. On the other hand, the tops of the teeth on the shaft are presumably not flat, but part of the shaft circumference. Also, by using the table to widen the grooves, the sides of the teeth in your work piece are slightly more angled than if you'd widen the grooves by rotating the work piece. By the time you're cutting the second half of a tooth, the work piece has been rotated one 14th of a revolution. This would make the tooth more angled than if you were working on a flat toothed rack. I'm wondering whether these small discrepancies create any mating issues? (Hope my question is clear, and not too trivial for an old hand...)
I shut off the power and then kiss it because I don't want to take the time to lower the speed by changing the belt position so by shutting it off and the split few seconds i'm able to kiss the counter sink to the hole with the right combo of speed and pressure to eliminate any chatter.
The size of the major diameter is large enough not to be a critical factor and the angle of the cutter was made to create the proper angles needed to create the fit, which is it's own angle and not a flat inline with center axis, as you will see in the next videos in this series. ;{)------
nice work, excellent tricks, I only fear a loose spline fitting and with back and forth movement of such an hydraulic motor, a short life of the coupling
I enjoyed it! Thanks Keith
You just make it look so simple. Great job Keith.
I wonder, how many "bloopers" do you cut out before posting your video. Have you ever thought about releasing them (assuming there are some ) to youtube???
Great work Keith iam learning a lot from your work.
Keith the best!
When you get a chance, can we see it in action?
Great education, thank you
excellent job Keith :)
Great job Great video as always!!!
hello keith, i really enjoy all your vids. i am 50 this year and am now finally getting my workshop set up and trying to learn some machining skills, having been a lawnmower mechanic for over 30 years.
i have found the foil trays from ready meals make great catch trays to collect the oil when machining and you can shape them to fit any gap.
also may i ask why you make the form tool narrower than the slot ?
doesn't it make more work that way. it seems to me that if the tool was the width of the slot you would only need one setting.
keith your are the man great job.
hard to see how you could turn a profit on this one. Wow that was a lot of work.
Very Nice! You really seem to favor the 8620 for your high stress shafting and couplings over something like 4140 which is also a chromoly alloy. Can you comment on your preference or reasons for this and other applications? Thanks for the excellent workmanship and taking time to share. Mike
Keith, just wondering why you didn't do this project on your old shaper that you restored? Would have been a treat to see the old machines in action ;-)
I really enjoyed watching this series. Would it have been worthwhile making a shaper-style cutting tool for this job?
Hi Keith
Great series/build...curious why you didn't use your flood coolant in lieu of the oil brushing....assume it was for your own visual of the tool cutting action?
Chuck
There a time for running soup and a time for dabbing saute. Yes it is mostly a visual hindering thing but wearing coolant, ranks right up there with not's.
;{)-------
great job sir
Very nice work Keith. I think your final touch at the end with the ping and your stamp is right keen. On that subject..... Have you updated your stamp for 2014?
right is spelled wrong.. [ hoho ] nice job with what under the hood and in your hands. (y)
Engine man Machinist from ( Dinmark - Denmark ) .. Happy Cutting Keith F .. im a fan.. blacksmith Jonas - Copenhagen.
or wright is spelled rong ... blame the Germans for the silent w
happy new year.
Top stuff as usual Keith, can I possibly ask what you would charge for a job like that?
Great series!