Thank you ever so much for knocking this video together for me, this will definitely come in handy. Awesome bloke, cheers!!!! Oh and thanks for the sticker as well!
Love your film. Very nice to see people still have the skills to help teach. Like to add a couple of points that I was taught when making keys back in the 80's. When not using dot punches and dividers we used a plain washer for rough marking out, and halved it to be used as a radius gauge for the profile before trying in the keyway. Hope this helps further.
Another useful hint is always drill and tap the middle of the key so when you want to extract it you jack it out... not like most of the fitters i know who use a hammer and chisel
vice looks like a record vice with the quick release, im guessing after all the use and abuse the half thread nut has worn out, i have the same vice, but it doesn't work so hard, hopefully it will outlast me! good video as always!
+jusb1066 Thanks, yes I am sure it is a Record. The vice is in the welding bay, so has been used to hold metal when welding/grinding etc. I don't work there often enough to have a go at fixing it as I normally use one of the other work shop vices ;-) Thanks for the comment
remimds me of the engineering course i done a few years back. we had to file a piece of tool steel square, and used engineers "blue" to mark out. worst part of it all was trying to file a curve.
20 years ago i used to build my own style time trial bikes and used to love filleting the tubes and brazing. have you ever built or would like to build a bicycle
+TheJeremyevans No, I have never built one and would not have the time or the space to make one. I can't even ride a trial bike LOL Thanks for the comment
Hi, Great video as usual, May sound like a daft question, I have some parallel form A feather keys that i want to drill and tap to M8, is this doable with HSS drill bit and regular taps? Thanks. Dave.
Hi Dave, yes, that should not be a problem. We often drilled and tapped some key steels, with M6,M8,M10 threads, so that you could easily remove the key, just by winding a bolt into the threaded hole 👍
Do you know of any way that i could possibly make a keeway into a round piece of steel without going to a machine shop and paying them to do it on a milling machine? Thanks!
+Arron Adams Sometimes you can do it on a good pillar drill if you have one, but you would need the correct size milling cutter. It's much easier on a milling machine though!
Thank you ever so much for knocking this video together for me, this will definitely come in handy. Awesome bloke, cheers!!!! Oh and thanks for the sticker as well!
+Joel Laight
You are welcome Joel, us maintenance engineers have to help each other ;-)
Love your film. Very nice to see people still have the skills to help teach. Like to add a couple of points that I was taught when making keys back in the 80's. When not using dot punches and dividers we used a plain washer for rough marking out, and halved it to be used as a radius gauge for the profile before trying in the keyway. Hope this helps further.
Thanks for the comment ;-)
Whew! It's been so long since I've done anything like that. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
+Bruce Dobson
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comment
Another useful hint is always drill and tap the middle of the key so when you want to extract it you jack it out... not like most of the fitters i know who use a hammer and chisel
Yes, that is a great tip (if you have time to do that).
Thanks for the comment
working on your lunch break? you must have been hungry later on that day great video
+Yusuf Maltese Yeah, but it was the only chance I had of filming it so had to go hungry LOLThanks for the comment
Thanks so much , needed to see this.
Glad it was helpful!
vice looks like a record vice with the quick release, im guessing after all the use and abuse the half thread nut has worn out, i have the same vice, but it doesn't work so hard, hopefully it will outlast me! good video as always!
+jusb1066
Thanks, yes I am sure it is a Record. The vice is in the welding bay, so has been used to hold metal when welding/grinding etc. I don't work there often enough to have a go at fixing it as I normally use one of the other work shop vices ;-)
Thanks for the comment
Great stuff, something a little different but still very interesting. Cheers for sharing. N.
+Neil “Slugger” George
Yes, not something I would of considered doing a video on until it was requested.
Thanks for the comment Neil ;-)
remimds me of the engineering course i done a few years back. we had to file a piece of tool steel square, and used engineers "blue" to mark out. worst part of it all was trying to file a curve.
+Dazzyc84
I did three weeks of filing when I was an adult apprentice- I loved it LOL
Thanks for the comment ;-)
20 years ago i used to build my own style time trial bikes and used to love filleting the tubes and brazing. have you ever built or would like to build a bicycle
+TheJeremyevans
No, I have never built one and would not have the time or the space to make one.
I can't even ride a trial bike LOL
Thanks for the comment
Great video, by the way I received the sticker last Friday! Very please with it!! Thank you!
+Faisal Y
Thanks Faisal, I'm glad you got the sticker safely ;-)
great video as always!
+TomTheBricki
Thanks Tom ;-)
Hi, Great video as usual, May sound like a daft question, I have some parallel form A feather keys that i want to drill and tap to M8, is this doable with HSS drill bit and regular taps?
Thanks.
Dave.
Hi Dave, yes, that should not be a problem.
We often drilled and tapped some key steels, with M6,M8,M10 threads, so that you could easily remove the key, just by winding a bolt into the threaded hole 👍
Brilliant, Thanks!.@@ultimatehandyman
That vice has seen some bloody action lol 👍😄
+wayne burgess
You are not kidding ;-)
Thanks for the comment
I would have just run down to the hardware store - they have plenty of specialty keystock. ...and hey, is that Darth Vader in the background? ;)
+Jo Baecker
LOL, thanks for the comment Jo ;-)
Do you know of any way that i could possibly make a keeway into a round piece of steel without going to a machine shop and paying them to do it on a milling machine? Thanks!
+Arron Adams
Sometimes you can do it on a good pillar drill if you have one, but you would need the correct size milling cutter. It's much easier on a milling machine though!
what size drill bit did you use for making the radius?
I just used a hand file for the radius?
Or do you mean the slot in the shaft?
Thanks for the comment
Nice
+3omar2005
How do you comment so fast?