Nows it is stories of some old timer at Monarch electric telling you to sleep with a Luger under your pillow 😂 you are killing me tonight Tubalcain. I am cracking up.
What a great video, not only was it jam packed with bodacious bolts and one nut stories, but what is really amazing is you completely manufactured the part. You designed it with a cardboard mockup then produced the pattern with draft and fillet, then cast the pattern in your home foundry (a luxury I am to be honest a little jealous of) then after casting proceed to machine the project on the lathe and vertical mill. The video just has everything I could want, design, foundry work, multiple machining operations and to top it off, hilarious Tubalcain stories to make me laugh. I cannot stress enough how much I enjoy your work. I have to be honest I haven't any desire to see abomb, or randy richards, or anyone else. Just Tubalcain knocking out projects, making chips and cracking a few classy Tubalcain jokes is enough for this humble man, and I don't need some school principle telling me I have an awful lot to be humble about, I know it. 😉
Im very happy with the outcome of that project. Nothing beats experience and understanding of years' work. Looking forward to see the video of commutator being worked on😀👍
I really enjoyed this video. As you have often told us, there are many ways to accomplish a task successfully. You demonstrated your process and often gave us other options with your explanations. Good solid instruction. I think that I have essentially shut down machining for this season. It is bitterly cold in my unheated shop. I am moving into my heated woodshop. Some of my sons and grandsons gave me a workday after our Thanksgiving meal. They brought a skidsteer and scissor lift. They moved machinery and equipment, and they installed a 100A subfeed panel. The panel was less expensive than the intended welding branch circuit that I requested. AL 100A is allowed for residential subfeed, where CU is required for the 60A branch circuit. AL is that much cheaper than CU, that the panel cost was offset with my conductor cost savings. My shop is so large that future brach circuit home runs would keep adding future branch circuit expense, plus frequently demanding begging use of a scissor lift. The panel gives me an additional 20 branch circuit spaces and shortens branch circuit home runs. I am thankful for a contractor son that easily saw this advantage. This shop is large, and I am expanding into the space where we hung the panel. I have 3 loads already demanding installation. With the panel location, I don't need a scissor lift. What a blessing! I added 2 large Cribmaster tooling cabinets to my storage fleet on Tuesday. These were still on the truck. The skidsteer was utilized to ease unloading. I purchased a Powermatic 66 with lots of upgrades over a year ago to upgrade my heavily modified Delta contactor table saw that has long been the heart of my woodshop. Both machines exceed my ability to move between shops. The PM 66 needs some love from its commercial shop life and neglect. I began this work yesterday. The outboard on this machine yieldin around 52" rip capacity. This exceeds my woodshop space capacity, but I have plans for that large table! I wired it yesterday after realizing I don't currently have an available branch circuit in the unheated shop for the old tablesaw. I culled all of my little table saws long ago. I was suddenly without a tablesaw. I didn't think that through very thoroughly. A trip to the hardware store just before closing solved the materials shortage to solve the no saw problem. You have adequate machine duplicity, as demonstrated in this video. I enjoy much of the same. I got caught short on this project by disabling a critical machine. I am anxious to begin belated hopechest projects in the woodshop. ...now to complete the PM 66 installation.
Mr. Pete, You videos are not long; only thorough. Your humor blended with your expertice is outstanding. How about a $3 tour of your $1,000, 000 fastener collection.😀
Nice video Mr Pete! I must say that my grandfather would have been all over your technique for running the die through the bore like you did. He always required that you back the die and break chips more frequently than you did. Doing so will also reduce the force necessary to tap the hole. Keep the video's coming as I enjoy them.
Thank you for showing all the steps. This is very helpful. I was glad to see you turn the adjustable wrench around so the force was applied to the fixed jaw.
Hi Mr Pete....much enjoyed. I particularly liked the tips on squaring the round work piece on the mill work table. Thanks and as always, have a happy day!
Found your channel not too long ago and started watching.(mostly because I had a 6 inch lathe just like that) Didn’t understand your thumbnail name until I started reading the good book. And when the “maker of tools” name was mentioned my jaw dropped. I tip my hat to you sir. Thank you and God bless you
Mr Pete, you inspire me to get out into my shop and make something. I have a Clausing 6913 that I totally rebuilt, and a Craftsman from the late 60's. I would like to cast aluminum again, I haven't done it since 1977 in high school. Thanks Mr Pete!
When the content moves right along, the time went very quickly. Johnny may have been a part of a very dirty song (rodeo song- not for the faint of heart) I sang a lot around here. This face plate study is quite adaptable in size and scope! Thanks again! Looking forward...
Lovely job. Great to watch this project right through all the steps.Out walking with friends today and we were laughing about the "Cashew Toenails" it is just SO true. Thanks Mr. Pete.
I love these vlogs, I went to a school, where there wasn't a shop teacher but I'm so glad Tubalcain University exists - it's a practical education. Well done Mr Pete 👍👍
Great build, and video enjoyed all the way to the end. I thought the run out on the rough casting was quite good testament to your good foundry work 👍👍
Nice work.....kerosine works great on aluminum, aluminium too.. WD 40 will also work as well. You can face off the faceplate on the atlas to have it run true, not necessary unless you are going to clamp work to it. Good job.😊😊😊😊😊
A neighbour used to work at the Austin Motor Company here in Birmingham UK (later BMC/British Leyland ...) as a pattern maker. He was retired but had kept several patterns he had made. They were a delight to behold. He had used his skills to make more conventionally artistic woodwork items, but I preferred the patterns.
Good morning Lyle, Excellent project. I was very interested in the battle of trying to get a good finish. This shows how dull or incorrect profiles can affect the finish. It turned out great.
Very good video. I particularly like the videos where you're actually making something. I like all of them, but especially the ones where you're making things.
Clear and simple as always but non the worse for that. From childhood i’ve always highly valued pattern making. It was the critical starting point of much metal industry. An elderly neighbour here in Manchester UK was a pattern maker and still did occasional work from home using Quebec White Pine. I just love that timber.
Your video is such a joy to see and listen to, good thing you reminded us to like the video, because I was too distracted enjoying it, to give a thumbs up.
Haha, using both suspenders and belt...... I do that, driving a veteran train! Suspenders are comfortable but the State Railway belt is a decoration! Your video is a temptation to undust the lathe and get moving......
Brian from Ma.That was a great tip on boring bar depth.I got a laugh at your window endeavor and more.I learned a bunch in this video and I enjoy pictures.I to am blocking news and other outside crap Hope all is well Besafe
Morrissey: “Stop watching the news Because news contrives to frighten you To make you feel small and alone To make you feel that your mind isn’t your own”
As always, I loved your video. The Atlas 618 with a good 1/3 HP motor will surprise you. I easily machined a couple 4 inch cast iron backing plates for the lathe on the lathe. I used a drill motor for the power feed to face the plates.
Another great video. I also remember the Bay of Pigs panic. Whew! We're still here and still making chips! Thanks for this series. I don't have foundry equipment but, it's definitely interesting.
Great project video, MrPete. I enjoy watching all the processes you go through. At our local Tractor Supply store, they sell hardware such as nuts, bolts, washers, by the pound. So you can dump an assortment into one bag, then at checkout, they charge by weight. It would probably still be a $5.00 bolt.
I have enjoyed watching both parts of this video because I always learn something new. I would encourage to create more videos where you are using your machinist skills to actually make something as you did in those two.
Thank you for an excellent video. 😀😀 In the U.K. the driving dogs we use have straight tails and we call the "dogplate" a "catchplate ". This has a pin fitted to it that engages with the dog tail. My little Portass Lathe that I bought when I was an apprentice was supplied with one of these. Same effect but a different way I guess it's all about different ways of doing the same job. In the U.K. we drive on the left hand side of the road - just to be awkward!! Thank You again!
Nice job!!! We needed an additional tapping in a steel commercial boiler one time. The boiler inspector wanted a certified welder to weld a coupling in the boiler and pressure test the boiler yada..yada. I asked him if we could drill and tap it without going through all that and he said OK. So, we drilled and tapped it for 1" pipe. Worked out ok but was not easy. Nothing to center the tap with just used an adjustable wrench. Took a while.
Whenever I'm making two slots (or something) of different sizes, I like to do the smaller one first. A boo-boo 'up-grades' it to the bigger one. regards, Doug
Perfectly serviceable and rather handsome faceplate there Lyle. Looking forward to your starter reconditioning videos. Had a neighbor long ago who rebuilt them in his basement for two bits a pop. We did duck and cover drills when I was in grade school. I don’t subscribe to any news channels so I can enjoy UA-cam without the constant brainwashing.
Nows it is stories of some old timer at Monarch electric telling you to sleep with a Luger under your pillow 😂 you are killing me tonight Tubalcain. I am cracking up.
Love everything about this, the banter, the craftsmanship, the tools and the lessons explicit and implied. Make the trades great again!
Glad you enjoyed it
What a great video, not only was it jam packed with bodacious bolts and one nut stories, but what is really amazing is you completely manufactured the part. You designed it with a cardboard mockup then produced the pattern with draft and fillet, then cast the pattern in your home foundry (a luxury I am to be honest a little jealous of) then after casting proceed to machine the project on the lathe and vertical mill. The video just has everything I could want, design, foundry work, multiple machining operations and to top it off, hilarious Tubalcain stories to make me laugh. I cannot stress enough how much I enjoy your work. I have to be honest I haven't any desire to see abomb, or randy richards, or anyone else. Just Tubalcain knocking out projects, making chips and cracking a few classy Tubalcain jokes is enough for this humble man, and I don't need some school principle telling me I have an awful lot to be humble about, I know it. 😉
Lol. Thanks for a great comment. You cracked me up.
Edutainment indeed! I love watching you work but the commentary is priceless.
Thank you very much. I do work at that.
Teacher. You’re a National Treasure. Your quip about your friend was a trip.
😀😀
Good video. Makes want to try casting something……. Thanks a lot.
Just what I was looking for need to make one for my south bend 13' my thread is 1 3/4 hole.
Skill and talent like yours is so rare today.
Thank you
I'm always enthralled by the casting/machining projects. Going from molten metal to a finished part is extremely satisfying.
It is quite satisfying isn't it?
Beautiful work. You again showed me some new lessons on doing this type work. You are the Best Teacher. Thank You.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you Mr Pete, thoroughly enjoyed this series, best wishes to you and yours
Im very happy with the outcome of that project. Nothing beats experience and understanding of years' work. Looking forward to see the video of commutator being worked on😀👍
👍👍
It was such a pleasure to watch you making chips. Do not worry about the time, the longer video, the better. Some tips come out unexpectedly.
👍👍👍
It's so cool to see this go from an idea to wood pattern to rough casting to final product that is quite professionally made..nice!
I agree, it's satisfying to see it all come together!
Always enjoy watching a real craftsman at work.
I appreciate that.
I really enjoyed this video. As you have often told us, there are many ways to accomplish a task successfully. You demonstrated your process and often gave us other options with your explanations. Good solid instruction.
I think that I have essentially shut down machining for this season. It is bitterly cold in my unheated shop. I am moving into my heated woodshop. Some of my sons and grandsons gave me a workday after our Thanksgiving meal. They brought a skidsteer and scissor lift. They moved machinery and equipment, and they installed a 100A subfeed panel. The panel was less expensive than the intended welding branch circuit that I requested. AL 100A is allowed for residential subfeed, where CU is required for the 60A branch circuit. AL is that much cheaper than CU, that the panel cost was offset with my conductor cost savings. My shop is so large that future brach circuit home runs would keep adding future branch circuit expense, plus frequently demanding begging use of a scissor lift. The panel gives me an additional 20 branch circuit spaces and shortens branch circuit home runs. I am thankful for a contractor son that easily saw this advantage. This shop is large, and I am expanding into the space where we hung the panel. I have 3 loads already demanding installation. With the panel location, I don't need a scissor lift. What a blessing!
I added 2 large Cribmaster tooling cabinets to my storage fleet on Tuesday. These were still on the truck. The skidsteer was utilized to ease unloading.
I purchased a Powermatic 66 with lots of upgrades over a year ago to upgrade my heavily modified Delta contactor table saw that has long been the heart of my woodshop. Both machines exceed my ability to move between shops. The PM 66 needs some love from its commercial shop life and neglect. I began this work yesterday. The outboard on this machine yieldin
around 52" rip capacity. This exceeds my woodshop space capacity, but I have plans for that large table! I wired it yesterday after realizing I don't currently have an available branch circuit in the unheated shop for the old tablesaw. I culled all of my little table saws long ago. I was suddenly without a tablesaw. I didn't think that through very thoroughly. A trip to the hardware store just before closing solved the materials shortage to solve the no saw problem. You have adequate machine duplicity, as demonstrated in this video. I enjoy much of the same. I got caught short on this project by disabling a critical machine.
I am anxious to begin belated hopechest projects in the woodshop. ...now to complete the PM 66 installation.
Mr. Pete, You videos are not long; only thorough. Your humor blended with your expertice is outstanding. How about a $3 tour of your $1,000, 000 fastener collection.😀
Lol
Nice video Mr Pete! I must say that my grandfather would have been all over your technique for running the die through the bore like you did. He always required that you back the die and break chips more frequently than you did. Doing so will also reduce the force necessary to tap the hole. Keep the video's coming as I enjoy them.
I normally back the dye off when threading by hand.
Me and my 618 watched the entire video. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
I love seeing projects like this! Keep up the great videos.
Thank you for showing all the steps. This is very helpful. I was glad to see you turn the adjustable wrench around so the force was applied to the fixed jaw.
By gum, I saw that too but you caught it. I try to do the same even tho, supposedly, we don't need to.
Hi Mr Pete....much enjoyed. I particularly liked the tips on squaring the round work piece on the mill work table. Thanks and as always, have a happy day!
your videos are never to long i enjoyed very much nice job. Thank you.
Thank you Mr Pete. That was a lot of work, but you made it look easy and it looks like you enjoyed it, especially how well it turned out. Great job.
I enjoyed doing it.
Excellent video. Love these kinds of projects!
Good video Mr Pete. We need more projects to make. Thank you
Great to see the job progress from start to finish. Old school engineering at its best.
Beautiful work Pete.Thanks for sharing your how too .
I love to see you making chips. Great video.
Glad you like them!
Found your channel not too long ago and started watching.(mostly because I had a 6 inch lathe just like that) Didn’t understand your thumbnail name until I started reading the good book. And when the “maker of tools” name was mentioned my jaw dropped. I tip my hat to you sir. Thank you and God bless you
Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. I am very pleased that you found my channel, especially if you have a 6-inch lathe.
"That was irrelevant."
You're a hoot, old man.
Thank you once again Mr.Pete
Thanks, ,Mr. Pete! Now I have to do it for my lathe, you've made your video just in time!
Great!
Poor Johnny...Well that's irrelevant. Loved the project, and the side tracking is priceless!
😀👍
From molten metal to finished faceplate, very impressive!
Thanks!
Yes, very impressive
Great video Mr. Pete. Looking forward to the commutator demonstration.
Great video and that faceplate came out great! Thanks for sharing Mr. Pete!
Thanks 👍
I love your video
And how show all the different steps. It is so helpful for me to learn
That’s good to hear!
Very good, Mr. Pete your end product looks really nice.
Another great video series. I always enjoy your projects and the length is what is needed.
Awesome, thank you!
Mr Pete, you inspire me to get out into my shop and make something. I have a Clausing 6913 that I totally rebuilt, and a Craftsman from the late 60's. I would like to cast aluminum again, I haven't done it since 1977 in high school. Thanks Mr Pete!
Glad I could inspire you.
When the content moves right along, the time went very quickly.
Johnny may have been a part of a very dirty song (rodeo song- not for the faint of heart) I sang a lot around here.
This face plate study is quite adaptable in size and scope!
Thanks again! Looking forward...
Lovely job. Great to watch this project right through all the steps.Out walking with friends today and we were laughing about the "Cashew Toenails" it is just SO true.
Thanks Mr. Pete.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Eagerly anticipating trying the faceplate with the comutator video!
I love these vlogs, I went to a school, where there wasn't a shop teacher but I'm so glad Tubalcain University exists - it's a practical education. Well done Mr Pete 👍👍
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them.
I always learn new techniques, no matter what project you make. Thank you.
I'm glad you enjoy the videos.
I do not miss any of your videos. I learn something everyone I watch.
Thanks
Great build, and video enjoyed all the way to the end.
I thought the run out on the rough casting was quite good testament to your good foundry work 👍👍
Thank you very much!
Another enjoyable video from the master. Thanks and have a great day.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I do love how it goes from a concept to a useable tool!
Nice work.....kerosine works great on aluminum, aluminium too.. WD 40 will also work as well. You can face off the faceplate on the atlas to have it run true, not necessary unless you are going to clamp work to it. Good job.😊😊😊😊😊
Stunning! So great to see!!
Metal lathes !! What a neat tool to have at one's disposal !! Thanks for an entertaining video- as entertaining as a lathe video can be!!
They sure are a lot of fun to use!
I'm moving right now so I have to get my shop fix vicariously through you. Keep up the videos.
Thanks! I hope the move goes smoothly.
A neighbour used to work at the Austin Motor Company here in Birmingham UK (later BMC/British Leyland ...) as a pattern maker. He was retired but had kept several patterns he had made. They were a delight to behold. He had used his skills to make more conventionally artistic woodwork items, but I preferred the patterns.
I bet those patterns were works of art. I’m glad you appreciated them.
Tubalcain, I have missed seeing you making chips. Thank you for your great videos.
Glad you like them!
I like everything you say and teach.
Thanks
Awesome work!
Great content. Thanks for all you do in documenting techniques that aren’t so commonly used these days.
😀👍
Thanks Mr. Pete! Perfect timing! I need a new dogplate for my old Logan. Thanks for sharing!
Great plate
Good morning Lyle,
Excellent project.
I was very interested in the battle of trying to get a good finish. This shows how dull or incorrect profiles can affect the finish.
It turned out great.
Very good video. I particularly like the videos where you're actually making something. I like all of them, but especially the ones where you're making things.
I enjoy making things too!
Clear and simple as always but non the worse for that. From childhood i’ve always highly valued pattern making. It was the critical starting point of much metal industry. An elderly neighbour here in Manchester UK was a pattern maker and still did occasional work from home using Quebec White Pine. I just love that timber.
I bet it smelled great.
I remember my father making patterns using sugar pine
Beautifully done. Start to finish
Your video is such a joy to see and listen to, good thing you reminded us to like the video, because I was too distracted enjoying it, to give a thumbs up.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Pete for my morning entertainment
Excellent video Mr Pete can’t wait for the next one in this series.
Haha, using both suspenders and belt...... I do that, driving a veteran train! Suspenders are comfortable but the State Railway belt is a decoration!
Your video is a temptation to undust the lathe and get moving......
👍👍👍
Lyle - Another good and interesting video. With the chalk writing on the floor my granddaughter must have been visiting. LOL
Yes, I had to borrow the chalk from my granddaughter Sophia
Always fun watching you work buddy
Brian from Ma.That was a great tip on boring bar depth.I got a laugh at your window endeavor and more.I learned a bunch in this video and I enjoy pictures.I to am blocking news and other outside crap Hope all is well Besafe
Morrissey: “Stop watching the news
Because news contrives to frighten you
To make you feel small and alone
To make you feel that your mind isn’t your own”
👍👍👍
Did you just say bodacious? Totally gnarly. Thank you for what you do.
I did
I regret that I can only give this video the one Thumbs Up. There's an improvement for UA-cam. Multiple thumbs up feature.
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Hello Mr. Pete, That was interesting and fun to watch. Every video helps me to learn something and that's great! Thank you so much!.
You are very welcome
Very entertaining as always!
Excellent video! Your casting turned out great! This of interest to me as I have some face-plates for my wood lathe that need to be cleaned up.
I think the same techniques will work for your faceplates.
Oh, I get it. At the end of the video, instead of saying "cut", you did a cut. Very clever.
As always, I loved your video.
The Atlas 618 with a good 1/3 HP motor will surprise you. I easily machined a couple 4 inch cast iron backing plates for the lathe on the lathe.
I used a drill motor for the power feed to face the plates.
Maybe it has a little more capability then I would have thought. Good idea with the drill motor.
Another great video. I also remember the Bay of Pigs panic. Whew! We're still here and still making chips!
Thanks for this series. I don't have foundry equipment but, it's definitely interesting.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That was before my time but my fallout shelter in the basement reminds me of that reality
Great project video, MrPete. I enjoy watching all the processes you go through. At our local Tractor Supply store, they sell hardware such as nuts, bolts, washers, by the pound. So you can dump an assortment into one bag, then at checkout, they charge by weight. It would probably still be a $5.00 bolt.
Another interesting and educational video MrPete.
Keep em coming.
Larger size fasteners are pricey.
Great video as always 👍
I have enjoyed watching both parts of this video because I always learn something new. I would encourage to create more videos where you are using your machinist skills to actually make something as you did in those two.
I really want to do more projects, but you will notice that not that many people watch videos such as this look at the numbers
A great project. Thanks for the videos.
I sure do love Mr Pete ! Thanks old buddy
You're welcome!
it has been a good seris of videos . Thanks Mr. Pete
Thanks
Great video Mr Pete, can’t wait for the armature work!
Great stuff, love your approach to all your projects. Keep them coming
Thanks, will do!
Great video , thanks Mr. Pete
Tap Magic works well in reducing effort to tap aluminum and provides a superior surface finish.
Thank you for an excellent video. 😀😀 In the U.K. the driving dogs we use have straight tails and we call the "dogplate" a "catchplate ". This has a pin fitted to it that engages with the dog tail. My little Portass Lathe that I bought when I was an apprentice was supplied with one of these. Same effect but a different way I guess it's all about different ways of doing the same job. In the U.K. we drive on the left hand side of the road - just to be awkward!! Thank You again!
I have never heard of the term catch plate. Kind of interesting.
Nice job!!! We needed an additional tapping in a steel commercial boiler one time. The boiler inspector wanted a certified welder to weld a coupling in the boiler and pressure test the boiler yada..yada. I asked him if we could drill and tap it without going through all that and he said OK. So, we drilled and tapped it for 1" pipe. Worked out ok but was not easy. Nothing to center the tap with just used an adjustable wrench. Took a while.
Sounds like a real challenge!
Whenever I'm making two slots (or something) of different sizes, I like to do the smaller one first. A boo-boo 'up-grades' it to the bigger one. regards, Doug
Great project! 👍
Great video with lots of interesting points made that help those of us with less experience.
Thanks!
Loving this 618 series!
Thanks
Loved the class thank you fine sir .
Thank you, Mr. Pete. great video.
Enjoyed this project immensely . A whole lot of chips to clean up though!
Perfectly serviceable and rather handsome faceplate there Lyle. Looking forward to your starter reconditioning videos. Had a neighbor long ago who rebuilt them in his basement for two bits a pop. We did duck and cover drills when I was in grade school. I don’t subscribe to any news channels so I can enjoy UA-cam without the constant brainwashing.
Last week I fired the cable company, and I’m glad of it
Nice work Mr. Pete. The faceplate came out really nice. Regards, Aaron.
Thank you, Aaron.