As with most work there are different ways to get a job done. You mentioned the cost of tooling but I noticed another one watching the work being done and that is how quietly the shaper did the work rather than a large spinning mill cutter. I love your perspective of doing the task "old school".
In my 40's, University educated, Veterinarian and today I learnt a new word 'clevis'. I love this sort of channel and thank you for taking the time to make such and informative video.
Little Bacchus Are you familiar with the novel, Trustee From The Toolroom by Neville Shute ? For that matter,his autobiography, Slide Rule is almost as good. If you like Adam's videos,I betcha you will like those two. Cheers.
Long ago I worked for a company that manufactured large press brakes and metal shears. They used huge planers ( one was 42 foot long! ) to machine the platens, blade mounts and die holders. These were massive parts 10 -12 ft. long, 3-5 ft. wide and 2-4" thick. They advanced the work piece past a fixed tool, and you wouldn't believe the size of the HSS and cemented carbide tooling! It wasn't unusual to see 3/16" thick by 11/2" wide blue chips laying around these planers. The sound of a cut like that is undiscribeable. Truly awesome old school machining not many folks even know about these days. Work safe my friend and take care. Good video and great channel, I will spread the word.
I used to think the shaper is an old school tool not needed anymore, but this video proved me wrong. The shaper was out-performing the mill in this application. Thanks, for showing this video.
Man Abom, I am sorry there are so many trolls on your channel. you do excellent work my friend keep it up and stay strong. Protecting your investment from nature is never a bad habit to have. It shows me you care enough for your things. I do the same thing when I leave for work. you are not alone man.
A mill is a kind way of removing material. The multiple cutting faces on an endmill are saying, "Excuse me, pardon me," as it removes material. The shaper straight up says, "Coming through!" I love the shaper!
Watching a master work, and do not be modest, YOU sir are a master... is a pleasure. Besides the machining, you are damn good at videography. Rare gift Adam. Your Grandad would have been proud (and your Dad too) I salute you. Not only is this wonderful, I watched you rebuild the tool you use. I as a novice in this: Salute you.
Love me them shapers! Old, simple, built tough, massively powerful. Read somewhere some joker saying, "You can make anything with a shaper, except a profit". Thanks for such a well-done restoration.
I have two mills (one vertical, one vertical/horizontal) and a shaper. I prefer using the shaper for facing type operations. I don't care that it's slow - it's relaxing.
That is one heck of a nice flame cut on 6” solid material. Perfectly straight striations with no hint of deflection towards the bottom of the cut. The one piece clevis should be very strong compared to a 3 piece assembly.
Worked on a shaper during my apprenticeship as a toolmaker 47 years ago. Not seen one in action for years. Had a chap there that worked on one full time. He could rough out complicated shaped punches to within .010" before hardening and grinding, he was a craftsman.
Man I love that oldschool stuff to abom. I wish i would have found this trade alot younger in life. It must be awsome to be born into sumthing like this with so much history and craftsmanship. Thx for the priceless videos. Thx.
Ahhh this channel takes me back to the good old days of milling and turning. Been a very long time since Ive seen a shaper in action. Used to like one because it was just another pace from the Milling machine... something about that big arm pushing out. Cheers from New Zealand. Appreciate watching your channel. Great watching a tradesman in action...
Thanks for sharing. Love those big chips. That shaper is awesome! Don't listen to the distracting viewers. Like you said, this is what your enjoying (old school machining) if people are not into it, they can just move right along. No one is holding them hostage, making them watch. I'm just a backyard hack, but I got very happy when you put those supporting machinist jacks in place. Just an idea, as an experiment maybe using a very cheap gage while the shaper was cutting, put in place to see if their was deflection at the ends of the open legs.
You rehabbed the shaper and it's working great. You may have a future working in a deli...slicing steel ham! This is beautifully filmed, too. Wonderful work, Adam. I hope the recovery is going well.
Like the way you cleaned the scraper up, it looks brand new. Really didn't think I'd like it, but i do. It'll be nice to see it after you'r through. So now looking forward to 'Rod Clevis Part 2.
Thanks for the memories! I started Machine Tool classes at a Tec school in 1985 in SC. The first project after 6 weeks with making everything with files was to grind a tool bit for the Shaper! We made several projects that involved the Shaper. They are truly great machines!!!
years ago an old mechanic told me" you WANT to learn the tricks of the trade! but to learn the tricks you have to learn the trade first." old school is still an awesome school :)
My favorite vid in a while! Love the cheap easy metal removal of a shaper! The mill fans don't realize a shaper will cut while you do other jobs in the shop
Adam you need to add a high speed camera to the shop at some point. It would be so cool to see those chips curling over and breaking off in slow motion.
Been following and subscribed to your channel for years Adam, and I cant remember a video you've produced that I haven't learned something or at least found very interesting!!!
I love watching you machining. Because I’m just a hobby mechanic I love seeing parts being made from raw material, and I have no clue what all the machines do differenty from each other, but it is great learning from you. Im about to strip and rebuild a motorbike engine and wish I had the tooling to make parts rather than lash out on oem replacement bits that cost a fortune. But I can’t keep up with all those imperial measurements, eights and sixteenth’s etc, sounds complicated. I’ll stick to mm and cm. LOL. Thanks, Rich from the u.k.
Big, , , I love big. Thanks for a bunch of memories bud ! That was one big torch to make that cut fella ! What a great old beast. You are the only one I have seen use a shaper in a very long time. Well done my friend.Thanks a bunch fella !
Just thinking out loud, when cutting the inside section with a mill the inside corners will no doubt have a small radius, I'm sure on a part of this size it would never be an issue, however could that extra material prevent stress concentration and greatly improve the strength of the overall part. The same end result could be gained on the shaper with a clever ground tool profile. Just asking hoping for a civil discussion. Not complaining, not telling anyone how to do their job, abom79 knows his stuff. On a side note, that grinder is a beast.
Nice video. Very relaxing. Nothing like the frantic howls and violent sprays of oil and chips of a CNC milling machine. Too much modern metal cutting (my company for sure) is only about speed, productivity, bigger, powerful shafts, robots, trays of parts, multi-axes, 1000s of lines of G-code, cameras, wireless drawings and for sure, much more expense and risk. Machining today is all high anxiety. (IMTS/Chicago glorifies what modern machining is all about: money). The beauty and carefulness you show with these one-offs are long gone. Refreshing watching your work.
I LOVE Mechanical Music. Increasing any of the parameters for the speeds, feeds and xfeeds, subtly adjusts the vibration of the machine and the material in unison. Unless major adjustments happen, the change is subtle. I already love watching this channel, but the sounds are something that excites me oddly.
You raise a very valid point about power isolation for equipment. My washing machine suffered two board burnouts, and so to protect it from line transients when idle I installed a simple line switch, not relying on the machine's power off circuit as they do draw a minimum current monitoring and waiting for the tap of the "on" command button. Long story short, end of board problems.☺
I do like watching these shaper videos. Between you and Steve Summers it is very interesting. My Bridgeport and Lathe are still so new that I haven't gotten an itch to get a shaper myself. I'm thinking I could do more with a surface grinder. Still a lot of fun to watch one go and see the different approaches you can take.
Everything is made of rubber Adam, the machinists jacks in the opening of the ears is a necessity in my book, even in heavy stuff. I am glad you mentioned it. Many people might not know to do that and wonder why things chatter.
Bravo! Nice work as always, Adam. You should be very proud of the skills you have acquired, and there's lots of us that like to see the Old Skool processes. Many best wishes!
Glad to see another video I am now following you on Instagram and that thread removal was really cool to see. Love what you do Adam and you inspire me to make my own home shop more like yours. The guys who say why don't you do it that way, well there is no wrong way to machine something, as long as it is to spec or the end result is what is wanted or needed. Thinking outside of the box can save time. There is always more than one way to do something.
Generic thing in 3-world country. On russian factories we all doing this. On indian also. And a lot of chinese machinist also grinding his own tooling. We just often don't have money for inserts.
I have to wonder how many of the people complaining in these videos have ever set foot in a machine shop, much less been paid to make chips. Where I used to work, I would've loved having one of these to bevel plate edges, much smoother-running and quieter than a mill. Also would've been neat to weight the piece before and after machining, just to show how much metal is removed.
Looks like another great video! 👍🏻 Just found your channel the other day and been watching nonstop! 😁 I’m really glad you’re using the shaper for this job! Don’t get to see them in action much! Thanks Adam!
The Triggerati I just said it so little boys like you would ask questions.....guess what it worked. CNC mill would have made quick work of it dont you think
Adam, something I have come to appreciate watching youtube is the slow, human-speed tempo of old machines, I think it struck me watching Dave Richards’ steam-powered shop. Sort of like the beat of a grandfather’s clock. And it seems to lend itself to operating several machines at once. Much less frantic.
There you go, making my 14 look like a 7 again. I've done .1 deep, but haven't yet dare more than .012 step over. I'd like to increase my reserve of HSS before gambling and breaking any that i have now to bits. I used a similar grind on my last project (it had some top rake to it) and once I had my angle of attack figured out, I was quite pleased with the result. Aggressive cut and a better finish than I would have gotten with a 'pointy' grind.
This channel is so AWSOME!! I love hand machining stuff. At work we have some of the coolest haas , okuma, CNC machines I do a lot of the engineering and planning for pistons connecting rods and super chargers. A few of are best guys came from the manual aerospace stuff and they are the baddest dudes I have ever met. With all the button pushers now days it’s so cool to see manual stuff. AWSOME channel thumbs up😎🇺🇸
7:30 When you work with gear you can't easily get parts for, doesn't hurt to turn the power off at the breaker. I unplug the TIG in the shed habitually, one day that corner of the roof leaked badly all over it. Week later, turned it on and it still works. Probably be fried if it was plugged in
Another thing to consider about milling something like this is the size of the mill you need and how much horsepower you would need to power through a massive cut like that
Just found you a few days ago, subscribed, fascinating to watch you work. Not a machinist, thank you for doing these videos, you have hundreds for me to watch and learn from, great stuff.
Football player Rosie Grier was on a "Love Boat" episode. One of the crewmen was working out with a Hand Exerciser grip and sweating trying to squeeze them together. Rosie comes along and says.." Look how cute!!, Finger Exercisers" squeezing them together like it was nothing.
Other than a shaper, the only way I know to get true inside corners on a part like this is using a really expensive wire EDM. Or maybe a really large horizontal mill cutting the slot in one pass. Neither option seems cost effective for a job shop, so this old shaper seems like a decent solution. Nice vid, Adam.
Hey Tom, the inside could also be milled in the horizontal milling machine with the part laid on its side and an endmill in the horizontal spindle. I personally don’t want to ruin my good expensive cutters on these.
As with most work there are different ways to get a job done. You mentioned the cost of tooling but I noticed another one watching the work being done and that is how quietly the shaper did the work rather than a large spinning mill cutter.
I love your perspective of doing the task "old school".
In my 40's, University educated, Veterinarian and today I learnt a new word 'clevis'. I love this sort of channel and thank you for taking the time to make such and informative video.
Little Bacchus Are you familiar with the novel, Trustee From The Toolroom by Neville Shute ? For that matter,his autobiography, Slide Rule is almost as good. If you like Adam's videos,I betcha you will like those two. Cheers.
Long ago I worked for a company that manufactured large press brakes and metal shears. They used huge planers ( one was 42 foot long! ) to machine the platens, blade mounts and die holders. These were massive parts 10 -12 ft. long, 3-5 ft. wide and 2-4" thick. They advanced the work piece past a fixed tool, and you wouldn't believe the size of the HSS and cemented carbide tooling! It wasn't unusual to see 3/16" thick by 11/2" wide blue chips laying around these planers. The sound of a cut like that is undiscribeable. Truly awesome old school machining not many folks even know about these days. Work safe my friend and take care. Good video and great channel, I will spread the word.
I used to think the shaper is an old school tool not needed anymore, but this video proved me wrong. The shaper was out-performing the mill in this application. Thanks, for showing this video.
Man Abom, I am sorry there are so many trolls on your channel. you do excellent work my friend keep it up and stay strong.
Protecting your investment from nature is never a bad habit to have. It shows me you care enough for your things. I do the same thing when I leave for work. you are not alone man.
A mill is a kind way of removing material. The multiple cutting faces on an endmill are saying, "Excuse me, pardon me," as it removes material. The shaper straight up says, "Coming through!" I love the shaper!
Haha yep
It really is kind of hypnotic to watch the shaper work and the sound is even soothing.
Watching a master work, and do not be modest, YOU sir are a master... is a pleasure. Besides the machining, you are damn good at videography. Rare gift Adam. Your Grandad would have been proud (and your Dad too) I salute you. Not only is this wonderful, I watched you rebuild the tool you use. I as a novice in this: Salute you.
An Australian sunday morning. Steaming hot mug of coffee served with hot Abom chips. Nothing better
I'd pay money to spend a week with you learning. Absolutely love this channel.
Love me them shapers! Old, simple, built tough, massively powerful. Read somewhere some joker saying, "You can make anything with a shaper, except a profit". Thanks for such a well-done restoration.
Yep, classic old saying. I’m proving them all wrong though! 😀
I have two mills (one vertical, one vertical/horizontal) and a shaper. I prefer using the shaper for facing type operations. I don't care that it's slow - it's relaxing.
That is one heck of a nice flame cut on 6” solid material.
Perfectly straight striations with no hint of deflection towards the bottom of the cut.
The one piece clevis should be very strong compared to a 3 piece assembly.
I’m not a machinist but like a lot of different trades it has always fascinated me. That shaper is just awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Worked on a shaper during my apprenticeship as a toolmaker 47 years ago. Not seen one in action for years. Had a chap there that worked on one full time. He could rough out complicated shaped punches to within .010" before hardening and grinding, he was a craftsman.
All your hard work is paying off, the shaper looks like it is running great! Thanks for letting us hang out with you in your shop.
The way you approach machine tools is like you have the soul of a talented jazz musician. Cool.
Love the shaper and the reasons you are using it. Keep the trade and art alive man, you are a fun guy to watch and listen to.
Man I love that oldschool stuff to abom. I wish i would have found this trade alot younger in life. It must be awsome to be born into sumthing like this with so much history and craftsmanship. Thx for the priceless videos. Thx.
Your Monarch used to be my favorite machine The G&E is now. Just the sounds it makes, the chips, the old-school nature of it. Mechanical beauty.
Ahhh this channel takes me back to the good old days of milling and turning. Been a very long time since Ive seen a shaper in action. Used to like one because it was just another pace from the Milling machine... something about that big arm pushing out. Cheers from New Zealand. Appreciate watching your channel. Great watching a tradesman in action...
Thanks for sharing. Love those big chips. That shaper is awesome! Don't listen to the distracting viewers. Like you said, this is what your enjoying (old school machining) if people are not into it, they can just move right along. No one is holding them hostage, making them watch. I'm just a backyard hack, but I got very happy when you put those supporting machinist jacks in place. Just an idea, as an experiment maybe using a very cheap gage while the shaper was cutting, put in place to see if their was deflection at the ends of the open legs.
The pacing and timing of these films are great, allowing an opportunity to understand the processes you are doing. Thank you.
You rehabbed the shaper and it's working great. You may have a future working in a deli...slicing steel ham! This is beautifully filmed, too. Wonderful work, Adam. I hope the recovery is going well.
Every possible tool for every possible scenario. Absolutely brilliant 🙌
Like the way you cleaned the scraper up, it looks brand new.
Really didn't think I'd like it, but i do.
It'll be nice to see it after you'r through.
So now looking forward to 'Rod Clevis Part 2.
Man that shaper looks and work great. Awesome job restoring it @Abom79!
I find you and the machine amazing. Old school is the best school. It worked to get us where we are at!
Had to go WAYYY back and find some shaper videos in the old home shop!
That *tink* sound the chips make when the come off and hit the table is magical..it's like therapy
That peeling sound followed by plinks and pings, yeah its great.
Thanks for the memories! I started Machine Tool classes at a Tec school in 1985 in SC. The first project after 6 weeks with making everything with files was to grind a tool bit for the Shaper! We made several projects that involved the Shaper. They are truly great machines!!!
years ago an old mechanic told me" you WANT to learn the tricks of the trade! but to learn the tricks you have to learn the trade first." old school is still an awesome school :)
I've never seen those 'machinist jacks' before. What a great way to assure absolutely no flexing. Very informative.
I ran a shaper some, years ago in an oilfield machine shop. I love seeing one being used today !
My favorite vid in a while! Love the cheap easy metal removal of a shaper! The mill fans don't realize a shaper will cut while you do other jobs in the shop
This shaper is mesmerizing to watch in action! This is a dream of a machine for a homegamer. i would LOVE to have one of these in my shop!
That's one piece of Abom size steel. Loving it.
I love watching the chips change color
Adam you need to add a high speed camera to the shop at some point. It would be so cool to see those chips curling over and breaking off in slow motion.
This lad is a fucking champ. Skill, good communication and sharing of cool topics. He’s down to earth and sound too.
Well done mate.
Been following and subscribed to your channel for years Adam, and I cant remember a video you've produced that I haven't learned something or at least found very interesting!!!
That shaper just won't quit- the heavy chips are very impressive!
Wow you really cleared some space on that end of the shop with your new addition. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the weekend.
I love watching you machining. Because I’m just a hobby mechanic I love seeing parts being made from raw material, and I have no clue what all the machines do differenty from each other, but it is great learning from you. Im about to strip and rebuild a motorbike engine and wish I had the tooling to make parts rather than lash out on oem replacement bits that cost a fortune. But I can’t keep up with all those imperial measurements, eights and sixteenth’s etc, sounds complicated. I’ll stick to mm and cm. LOL. Thanks, Rich from the u.k.
The sound of the shaper working is awesome.
Love the sound of the shaper.
Big, , , I love big. Thanks for a bunch of memories bud ! That was one big torch to make that cut fella ! What a great old beast. You are the only one I have seen use a shaper in a very long time. Well done my friend.Thanks a bunch fella !
I don't know why but i can watch that machine work all day....a wondefull piece of equipment!
Just thinking out loud, when cutting the inside section with a mill the inside corners will no doubt have a small radius, I'm sure on a part of this size it would never be an issue, however could that extra material prevent stress concentration and greatly improve the strength of the overall part. The same end result could be gained on the shaper with a clever ground tool profile. Just asking hoping for a civil discussion. Not complaining, not telling anyone how to do their job, abom79 knows his stuff.
On a side note, that grinder is a beast.
Nice video. Very relaxing. Nothing like the frantic howls and violent sprays of oil and chips of a CNC milling machine. Too much modern metal cutting (my company for sure) is only about speed, productivity, bigger, powerful shafts, robots, trays of parts, multi-axes, 1000s of lines of G-code, cameras, wireless drawings and for sure, much more expense and risk. Machining today is all high anxiety. (IMTS/Chicago glorifies what modern machining is all about: money). The beauty and carefulness you show with these one-offs are long gone. Refreshing watching your work.
Having your own shop which you can relax and enjoy, and produce parts and or content at your pace is what this is all about. 👍🏻
I LOVE Mechanical Music. Increasing any of the parameters for the speeds, feeds and xfeeds, subtly adjusts the vibration of the machine and the material in unison. Unless major adjustments happen, the change is subtle. I already love watching this channel, but the sounds are something that excites me oddly.
You raise a very valid point about power isolation for equipment. My washing machine suffered two board burnouts, and so to protect it from line transients when idle I installed a simple line switch, not relying on the machine's power off circuit as they do draw a minimum current monitoring and waiting for the tap of the "on" command button. Long story short, end of board problems.☺
I do like watching these shaper videos. Between you and Steve Summers it is very interesting. My Bridgeport and Lathe are still so new that I haven't gotten an itch to get a shaper myself. I'm thinking I could do more with a surface grinder. Still a lot of fun to watch one go and see the different approaches you can take.
Everything is made of rubber Adam, the machinists jacks in the opening of the ears is a necessity in my book, even in heavy stuff. I am glad you mentioned it. Many people might not know to do that and wonder why things chatter.
Bravo! Nice work as always, Adam. You should be very proud of the skills you have acquired, and there's lots of us that like to see the Old Skool processes. Many best wishes!
Don’t you have a mill? I’m kidding! Great video. Always look forward to Saturday evening with Abom.
Glad to see another video I am now following you on Instagram and that thread removal was really cool to see. Love what you do Adam and you inspire me to make my own home shop more like yours. The guys who say why don't you do it that way, well there is no wrong way to machine something, as long as it is to spec or the end result is what is wanted or needed. Thinking outside of the box can save time. There is always more than one way to do something.
Thanks Kenneth. Glad to hear you enjoyed that. It’s fun the work I get into. 👍🏻
Adam is a REAL machinist, grinding his own tooling !
Generic thing in 3-world country. On russian factories we all doing this. On indian also. And a lot of chinese machinist also grinding his own tooling. We just often don't have money for inserts.
I have to wonder how many of the people complaining in these videos have ever set foot in a machine shop, much less been paid to make chips. Where I used to work, I would've loved having one of these to bevel plate edges, much smoother-running and quieter than a mill.
Also would've been neat to weight the piece before and after machining, just to show how much metal is removed.
Even after all the videos on the shaper I got to still say the machine is looking great!
I like how the shaper peels metal off like a potato peeler rather than a tornado of knives like an end mill.
Looks like another great video! 👍🏻 Just found your channel the other day and been watching nonstop! 😁 I’m really glad you’re using the shaper for this job! Don’t get to see them in action much! Thanks Adam!
Always love the shape work adam. Deffenanly shows the old school in the way you do things.
What would be a new-school way of doing it?
The Triggerati I just said it so little boys like you would ask questions.....guess what it worked. CNC mill would have made quick work of it dont you think
Sure. I just didn't know if you were trolling. Frankly I'll never be able to afford a CNC, so I watch classic machining vids.
Cnc’s have their place today, but old school is cool, just like old hot rods. 😎
Abom79 well said sir.
The sound of the tool making those chips is so satisfying. Shapers are Neat.
Excellent teaser. Really enjoyed hope all is well.
That machine is BEAST! Imagine the forces at work.
"Why not use a mill?"
In the wise words of my dad...
"IM FUCKIN THIS MONKEY,SIT BACK AND SHUT UP!!!!"
Adam, something I have come to appreciate watching youtube is the slow, human-speed tempo of old machines, I think it struck me watching Dave Richards’ steam-powered shop. Sort of like the beat of a grandfather’s clock. And it seems to lend itself to operating several machines at once. Much less frantic.
There you go, making my 14 look like a 7 again. I've done .1 deep, but haven't yet dare more than .012 step over. I'd like to increase my reserve of HSS before gambling and breaking any that i have now to bits.
I used a similar grind on my last project (it had some top rake to it) and once I had my angle of attack figured out, I was quite pleased with the result. Aggressive cut and a better finish than I would have gotten with a 'pointy' grind.
.100 seems like a light cut for me now, I like those deep heavy passes! 👍🏻👍🏻
Outstanding Results Boss... love that Shaper
That is a big ass piece of solid metal.
Very nice! I'm looking forward to part 2.
more poetry in motion - congrats on all the work and thanks!
Nice!! Looks like you really are "dialin'" in the shaper! Great job!!
It's so satisfying to see the sharper in action it's is kinda hypnotic. Love it
That shaper is a very nice machine to have around. When I was machining in the 1990's I never got to play with one. :)
You did a hell of a job on that shaper, bringing it back to life. Same with that K&T you rebuilt. Amazing.
Endmill videos would be boring. I'm here to watch the shaper.
This channel is so AWSOME!! I love hand machining stuff. At work we have some of the coolest haas , okuma, CNC machines I do a lot of the engineering and planning for pistons connecting rods and super chargers. A few of are best guys came from the manual aerospace stuff and they are the baddest dudes I have ever met. With all the button pushers now days it’s so cool to see manual stuff. AWSOME channel thumbs up😎🇺🇸
7:30 When you work with gear you can't easily get parts for, doesn't hurt to turn the power off at the breaker. I unplug the TIG in the shed habitually, one day that corner of the roof leaked badly all over it. Week later, turned it on and it still works. Probably be fried if it was plugged in
I love that shaper Adam , Great work , ENJOYED !! Great share ..
i think you're having fun with your new machine.
Love the listen to them sharpers as they work....cool project Adam...!
Really like your careful, unhurried style, you remind me of my metalwork teacher in school. He taught me to use a shaper, think it was a Myford.
nice work there i like the way you explain things easy to understand thank you .
Another thing to consider about milling something like this is the size of the mill you need and how much horsepower you would need to power through a massive cut like that
The shaper is so cool
Just found you a few days ago, subscribed, fascinating to watch you work. Not a machinist, thank you for doing these videos, you have hundreds for me to watch and learn from, great stuff.
Nice crunchy sounds coming from the cutting.
Love it! Man I wish I there with you to help. Great video brother. Hope you’re well.
Really enjoying your shaper work. Cant wait for some really thick, deep sik cuts on the shaper!
Thanks for sharing these shaper projects. Awesome machine.
The chips this thing throws off are freaking huge! So awesome!
That guy is strong. Handled the steel part with one hand like it was wood.
What was that, a mosquito?
Football player Rosie Grier was on a "Love Boat" episode. One of the crewmen was working out with a Hand Exerciser grip and sweating trying to squeeze them together. Rosie comes along and says.." Look how cute!!, Finger Exercisers" squeezing them together like it was nothing.
Adam there is something missing from this video. Can you please add the smell of burning cutting oil !
Other than a shaper, the only way I know to get true inside corners on a part like this is using a really expensive wire EDM. Or maybe a really large horizontal mill cutting the slot in one pass. Neither option seems cost effective for a job shop, so this old shaper seems like a decent solution.
Nice vid, Adam.
Hey Tom, the inside could also be milled in the horizontal milling machine with the part laid on its side and an endmill in the horizontal spindle. I personally don’t want to ruin my good expensive cutters on these.
hello, adam booth here, vintage machinery dot org :-) only joking, i love watching the shaper, the amount of metal it can take in 1 stroke is amazing
Enjoyed watching the old girl doing what she was made to do.
Beautiful old machine.
Shaper looks great just like brand new!