If the haters don't like your methods, let them find another teacher. Your knowledge is a treasure, keep it coming. Thank you for sharing.
Left the tool grinding profession 10 years ago . Watching your videos brings me vack
Just picked up a Southbend 9A, circa 1944, I am a rank amateur at the lathe, and these videos are helping. Thank you!
Also wanted to say that it is awesome you pulling out stainless that is the exact thickness of the gauge from your stockpile. You are very correct that it is a great pleasure to have fine layout tools, it makes the job very satisfying. Excellent video Tubalcain.
Good morning Mr. Pete, yet another good shop class. Always like projects.
These simple and straightforward techniques are absolutely _vital_ to learn. Many thanks indeed for taking the time to cover them!
Nice project for an afternoon I bet lots of people make these. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.
Thanks Pete, You need a hand stamping guide; which is a piece of 1.5 angle iron with two holes in it, and a bigger piece of heavy flat stock with two studs sticking up to match the holes in the angle iron.
Thank you Mr. Pete. I didn't think that I could make something like that but you've shown me that it really isn't that difficult.
Refreshing to see the t-square, triangles and board instead of a CAD drawing on a computer monitor. Not to mention the cardboard box w/ the drafting pencils & erasing shield!
Thanks again for informative video. Sold my drawing board and Dietzgen and Post T-Squares many years ago at a moving sale. Have kicked myself every day since.
I think you do a fantastic job and it's too easy for people to criticise (Scottish) anonymously on the interweb. Keep up the good work. Paul, Scotland
Thank you Mr Pete. I appreciate you showing so many different ways to do thing. I hope you have a great weekend.
Good morning Mr. Pete, I have a 3d printer and I find it is most helpful in my home machine shop. I have used it to make gears to cut a special thread. I have also made holding fixtures for odd shaped items to clamp in the milling vise.
Good idea for making templates for cutting gears if you don't have a index head.
I am a woodworker so have no use for this gage, but I enjoyed watching this entire video. There are details on layout, methods of shaping metal, theory, and yes HUMOR. I was completely entertained and did not fall asleep once!!!
Great project !! Enjoyed it as usual keep up the great work !!
Nice job. Thanks for the tips.
Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.👍👀
As I drink my coffee in my easy chair I'm amazed. Mr Pete a first. "QR" codes and running the die filer. Very nice. Thank you Sir.
As usual, great video, with many solutions. Thanks for your time and sharing, Me Pete! 👍😎✌️
Great video Mrpete , like how you showed the different options for the layout and cutting 👍👍👍👍
I still have a T-square and all the drawing tools. But........ Thanks Mr. Pete! Fun video.
Good project thanks for sharing
Mr pete i enjoy your videos I looked ay your one on machinist hand books quit a few years ago my friend bought one at a sale he paid $10 for it he got home looking throw it and founded a $20 bill in it i just finish one of you steam engines and about done with the next one the spool valve I would like to send you a video of them but dont no how keep up the good work
Great stuff Mr. Pete! Also, my 16 year old nephew has a fascination with drafting. I bought him an old, but really nice, drafting protractor and he's even got an old drafting table now.
Thankyou for your work.
Neat video! And thank you for the mention of the eyes being quite accurate as comparitors.
They are.
Learned something today! Thanks Pete 👍
Lyle you're not waving things around...you're knocking off the dust and swarf for clear video viewing. Nice work double tasking! I don't have a die filer but somehow, I do have a couple files for one. Great video thumbs up.
Thanks, Mr Pete.
Thanks for the video Mr. Pete, I really enjoyed watching you make the gage. I appreciate the time you take to make your content for us to enjoy.
The company I worked for had several filing machines. They were used for filing to the lines on templates used on Cincinnati hydrotel milling machines with tracing heads .
Also on VTL tracing heads.
Thank you Mr Pete
Thanks for the video.
My project job for tomorrow !
Thanks for a good project
Thank you mr Pete
Clamping the piece down with a straight edge will allow you to use the straight edge to get those stamps aligned better. As far as the haters, welcome to the internet brother!
I’m sure I mentioned before I have a filing machine and use it as often as you do. As far as stamping numbers etc goes I use an arbor press. I made a fixture to hold the punches and have an x&y table for the work. This way it is quite easy to get your stamping in a straight line and evenly spaced.
I have even enjoying watching you in the machine shop cranking out the projects.
Hello Mr. Pete
I dearly love your videos. Yep I have a vertical band saw, and
a set of angle blocks. I have been machining pulleys, and use the angle
blocks to set the angle of my compound. The protractor on my lathe is useless.
With a fifteen-degree angle block I can set it dead on in just a couple seconds.
If you have macular degeneration and only partial use of one eye sawing on a
bandsaw can be quite entertaining!
Great video thanks for the idea I will be making one of these tonight thank you
apparantly your tinkercad files are not public, cool project
Thank you
Another great video Lyle. I liked seeing the die filer in action. Two years ago at an auction I was one of two bidders for a very nice condition butterfly die filer. Could not resist for the $15 it cost me - deals are out there you just have to be at the right place at the right time. This project might give me an excuse to fire it up.
Working in the automotive industry, every stamped part has to have a part number and a coded lot number. All done in the die during the stamping process.
thats the way this draughtsman does a drawing, even though I do know about CAD.
nice
Rolled die stamping would be an interesting topic. How do they make the rollers, what machinery presses it and rolls it?
The mysteries of the gunsmith -- bit like that puzzling process Rotary Hammer forged barrels.
"Forgotten Weapons" Ian McCollum has that covered (at last) in a recent video of a factory visit to I think it was the Czech Republic.
March 2024 i liked this and bethought me to buy one - import to uk. What a nice experience. Snappy delivery and careful packaging Repro leaflet included Great value.Maybe not necessary but such a simple and basic help-out.
Try the mail order Alisam engineering. Nice people ! Sub 10 day delivery to Europe and no taxes. Thanks to you Mr Pete for suggesting I buy a bit of history .
Hi Lyle.
How about a "stamp alignment device" if you are looking for future projects ?
I had to make one when I made my cross feed dial.
Hi,
I went to the website to download the plan and cannot find it. The link takes me to the main page of your projects but the gauge is not listed. I went to the site map and looked for it there with no success. Since I do not have a cell phone that I can download the app for reading codes that does not work for me. Do you have the exact link for access by a desktop? If so, maybe you should post that in the SHOW MORE area. I have plotted the dimensions onto a piece of graph paper and will use that for transfer to steel. Thanks for doing this.
Sorry, I guess it is not on my heap. Use your phone to take a picture of the drawing at the end of the video
I have a Die Filer and finallyfounf a reason to use it. (LOL)
Wow, so if you've never visited Mr Pete's heap page do yourself a favor and just go there now. He's got whole pile of small, easy and incredibly useful projects for the shop.
I had to grind my hss tools by eye under the Greek shop teacher in freshman high school don't remember any gauges. I think by ear, I could make one now. rake angle and such over 50 yrs ago.
I did also and still do. Rake angles don’t have to be exact or even close. As long as you have enough to prevent rubbing the tool will cut.
I recently found out the hard way that the tops of my milling vise jaws are not parallel to the bed of the vise and the table. You may have to clamp the work between parallels to use the ruler trick.
At 24:15 did you see my hand iin the air??? Grandpa's 1939 Delta 24in NSS-210 has the needle fill as part of the Scroll saw (@@)! Had it since 2008 and just finished up it's restoration, hope you check out it out Lyle. Quess you heard, Sammie passed last Wed peacefully. She loved to set be me and watch your channel, Bear.
No I did not know that. That saddens me greatly. I hope you are able to deal with the loss. Things will get better. We will pray for you
I would suppose one could always use an electric engraver to mark the gauge.
Hand raised!!
Why not etch it instead?
Show bandsaw cutting...with speeds and blade type.
Is that a roll of wire from NorthWestern Steel and Wire by your stainless steel stash?
Hi. You give the QR code to get to “my heap” and that works fine, but when I get there there is no pattern for the SB lathe cutter tool grinding gage. Where can I find this? - Jon
Do your stamping before your machining
Could you tell us the belt sander model or something comparable?? I like the large table surface and solid looking sliding miter gauge. Thanks!
We also went to the link and could not find the template any ideas?
Sorry, I guess it is not on my heap. Use your phone to take a picture of the project drawing near the end of the video
I have to finish my die file kit. Some idiot has named a computer file extension .die, so you can not hardly look up die file anymore.
All of your tinker cad designs are private :( Only the indicator holder shows up for me.
I hate to comment on your video but do you have an email that I can ask you a few questions I seen your vice restorations.
Blondiehacks made a pretty cool stamping guide jig thingy a while back... I'm still trying to eyeball them and getting the typical results.
You missed me when I had my hand up! I thought I had bought one, but in digging up information for this comment, I found out I have a Profile Grinder, not a Die Filer. I purchased {at an estate sale) a Milwaukee Profile Grinder made by Rice Pump & Machine Co. in Belgium, Wisconsin; Serial No. G 890. From Vintage Machinery,org: "Wisconsin Pump & Machine Co. was originally a division of Milwaukee Chaplet & Manufacturing Co. (archived) but was spun off in 1950 as Rice Pump & Machine Co." Under both names they manufactured a die filer, but mine is a Profile Grinder with a cylindrical grinding stone (20,000 RPM) protruding up through a flat table that can be tilted. Vintage Machinery,org has a brochure of it listed under Rice Pump & Machine Co./Publication Reprints/Milwaukee Profile Grinder that shows what it looks like. The brochure has a designation: Bulletin 55-PG, that maybe dates it to that era, but since the Bulletin No. appears to be typed on, not part of the original artwork, who knows? It is came with the stand and altogether probably weighs about 75 lbs. Like you, so far I am an accumulator and have not used the machine, although it does run.
Thought you might like this item I found also: From Vintage Machinery,org: A. H. Petersen Manufacturing Co. was a forerunner of Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. and the originator of The Hole Shooter. Maybe you are a descendant of the Founder of one of the premier power tool names in portable tools!
Few things in life are as gratifying as finding a use for something that has been saved for years, hoping to find that perfect use for it.