Thank you from Nashville, TN, US. I am a Mechanical Engineer, not a machinist, but I appreciate quality work with heavy-duty machines. I have been to Australia (and NZ) three times. It is an excellent place with better people.
In India if you are accepted into an industrial, aerospace or mechanical engineering course you have to take at least one year of manual machining coursework. They actually start you out on the shaper!
Your channel is one of the few that I can watch the whole video. I don't want to say it too soon, but we might have another CEE over here! I am tuning in from Wisconsin. I have been a machinist for over 20 years. Keep up the good videos
Hi Matt, my name is Pieter, 66 years of age and I'm from the Netherlands. I started out in a boiler shop way back in 1974 and switched to the oilfield in 1981. I've been drilling holes until 2001 and switched to maintenance and repairs in the heavy machine industry. Nowadays I may call myself an mechanical, electrical and proces engineer and love to watch video's of all kinds of machining. I think you're doing great and I'm always looking forward for the next one. Keep em coming 👍👍
58, retired software developer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, US. My father was a tool and die maker before switching to software development where he worked on CAM software in the '80s. I enjoy watching these videos and appreciate what someone with knowledge can do. Often, things look more like works of art instead of machined parts.
That's why we call any one who builds stuff industrial artists. thats exactly what it is. every hand made item has personality to it. just like a painting. That guy made that thing. Its art, but has a useful function.
I am from middle Tennessee. I am a centrifuge engineer in the vegetable oil industry. Love seeing the different machining of drilling components as well as the max tooling. Great seeing kids in your life!!!
Centrifuge engineer! Now that is class of engineer that I had never heard of before. You would be big on fluid dynamics, is my guess. My father was a civil engineer. Mark from Melbourne Australia Maintenance Carpenter
I'm fixing to be 68 years old and still working, not in the shop, strictly on the computer now days. I do have a small machine shop in my garage I play in. I grew up in the oilfield machine shops my dad worked in, been around this kind of stuff all my life. Spent 4 years dealing with trepanners drilling holes in drilling tools. The squealing noise reminds me of the trepanners running. I know I've lost some of my hearing from that. Just love the content you guys bring to the tube each week. I'm located in Victoria, Texas USA. Spent most of my earlier days in the Houston, Texas area. Keep up the great work! Ken
Bonjour Matt, Perthes en gâtinais (France), Je vous regarde depuis peu et franchement j'adore ce que vous faites Merci. Je suis prototypiste dans l'industrie automobile dans un bureau d'études,je travaille avec des anciennes machines outils (à l'ancienne comme on dit ici),je vous voir faire ces usinages cela me paraît énorme. Bravo à vous et très bonne continuation. Hello Matt, Perthes in Gâtinais (France), I've been watching you recently and frankly I love what you do. Thank you. I am a prototypist in the automotive industry in a design office, I work with old machine tools (old-fashioned as they say here), seeing you doing this machining seems enormous to me. Congratulations to you and very good luck.
72 years young, retired ophthalmic optician from the Netherlands. Blessed with an unstilleble interest in machining of ALL sorts🤓 ....keep them vids coming ..i love them all!
I’m a former IT network engineer, then manger (much of my career in the upstream petrochemical world) from Dorset, a rural county in the south west of England. I considered myself a plumber of IP packets. A couple of years ago I became disabled, having lost use of a leg, lost a kidney due to cancer plus a whole load of other issues and can no longer work. I know diddly squat about machining but love watching how real pros work and how both big and small lumps of metal are crafted into tools essential for our existence. Your channel is a highlight of my week, as is Cutting Edge Engineering and Matty’s Workshop and I’m starting to learn a little. I admire the precision, the innovation and seeing how you tackle and solve problems. I absolutely agree with your philosophy that work should be fun. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to produce your videos and look forward to seeing how the end products are put to use. Thanks again. Uroo !
Hi, I love the quick change drill, and yes, you will never get rid of the harmonic squeal purely because of its length, the tiny bits of backlash of the cross slide plus it is in a tool post rather than the tailstock. Even the saddle itself will add to the problem 😄. I am a retired "time served skilled centre lathe turner" and I'm in the UK. All the best to you and yours, and I wish you all a very merry Christmas. Cheers.
Hi Matt, Scottish electronics test engineer, who moved to Italy with my wife during the pandemic to assist in the care of a disabled sibling, have since become a part time (wait for it) carer, builder, plumber, electrician, mechanic - most recently changed the clutch on a Hyundai Tucson in a car park with hand tools and a 2T jack, an experience I would not reccommend. Just a guy who knows a little bit about a whole lot of things and prefers to get stuck in and his hands dirty rather than 'discuss the problem'. I tend to gravitate towards channels who's content centers around 'getting things done' ~ I find it pretty motivational.
Love it! You and my dad would get along great. By the time everyone else has finished discussing how to do it… he’s already finished and onto the next job 🤣🤣
Love the outro after your video, 79 and retired Instrument Maker, worked inside all my life. Retired to Blairgowrie Victoria, the computer is my learning centre and travelled around Australia in two goes, number 1 camped up the Stuart travelled Normanton to the east coast down Nº 1 highway, then Nº2 up the Stuart Hwy again to the west coast onto the Eire Hwy to home.
Thats wonderful! Thank you. I hear you re the computer being a learning center. It’s amazing what you can find now. So useful. I think 50% of our subscribers are over 65! Which is awesome. And very humbling. Most of them probably have forgotten more than I currently know 🤣👊
Just discovered this channel! You and Kurtis at CEE are my favorite videos can't wait to see mega drill in action! My name is Dave, been working at Rand machine works for almost 30 years now. We're located in Fresno, California (central California) please keep the videos coming! got a woody watching that kennametal drill just blow thru that 4140!
Cheers Dave, awesome to have you on board! 👊 The chips bloody explode out of that thing. Just ordered at 120mm (2.5x bigger than this one) Can’t wait to run it soon.
Engineer and hobby machinist from down in Sydney. Love to see content from professionals in things I only know a little about. I always enjoy seeing you guys running machines that could turn my entire lathe between centres. Keep it up.😁
Very much enjoy watching! Matt, you and guys like you are what make the world go 'round for the rest. If it weren't for the callouses, there would be no easy chairs. I be retired from the construction industry, working my way up from hand built log cabins to the cutting edge medical, educational, energy and petroleum projects in remote locations. I retired after a lifetime of fun and frustrations, and grateful for the experience. Life long Alaskan, presently in South Central Alaska. Keep up the good you are doing!
Chips ahoy To add more, with todays work environment where the 38 hour week is in the past, you've got to release the work demons occassionally especially after a hard slog on the machines by having a bit of fun like what you have done. I remember when all retail shops closed at 1730 on the weekdays, Saturday shopping finished at 1230 and nothing was open on Sundays.
Hi Matt, retired 68 yo from Vic. I have a small home workshop with lathe, mill, shaper and band saw, mainly used for making swarf and having fun. Also into electronics with a workshop for that and that's main use is making multi coloured expensive smoke 😀. As well into vintage machinary amd have a couple of old tractors with implements so don't tend to get bored. Keep the great content coming and like everyone else, can't wait to see this megger drill in action. Cheers
22:50 "It's amazing what a coat of paint will do" or as I always say, "a grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't" Recently found your channel, and I was surprised at how recently you started making videos. Top-notch content, mate! I can't wait to see that absurdly large drill in action. edit: Tuning in from SD, USA (north-central)58 yrs old by the calendar, about 9 yrs old according to my sense of humor. Favorite word: UNDETERRED. Two reasons: 1) Undie 2) Turd
I'm a machinist here in Albuquerque new mexico. I really dig your large scale work. I run a 5 axis mazak mill so most of my parts don't require forklifts and cranes to move around so it's really awesome to see what you guys do! Keep up the good work guys.
Retired Drilling and Completions engineer from Alberta, Canada here. I'm a farmboy trained as Mechanical Engineer turned oilfield engineer. I've worked on projects in 8 countries on 4 continents over 35 years. I've worked on wells from 200 m to 4500 m. FYI, the PDC abbreviation stands for Polycrystaline Diamond Compact, while PCD is, as you've said is Poly Crystalline Diamond. Looks like the small bits you show replacing the compacts on are Tungsten Carbide Matrix body bits. Some years ago, we started using steel body bits. The bits were cut out of solid blocks of steel in 5 axis machines with live milling spindles. Very economical to build and far easier to change designs. The machining centers were as fascinating to watch as the big stuff you do. Thanks for sharing! I am playing with some far more modest machines in my home shop now. Some of your stuff won't fit in my 1440 to machine up the tooling, much less the work pieces, LOL.
Hi HAL, Hanno here from Hamburg, 66 yrs old, in northern Germany, pure Hobbyist with a tiny Lathe and CNC Mill. Just interested in what guys with big machines do :) I have a smile on my face the whole video long...
I have nothing to do with machining professionally but my dad was a welder and I have come to appreciate his work through watching all sorts of machining channels! Yours is a new and very wecolme edition! Cheers from Finland!
That's how we ran our cnc lathes too, with a quick release tool post . Remarkably accurate as long as no one crashes the machine. Our boss was cheap and only bought us about 20 tool holders between 2 lathes . These were two Clausing Colchesters with a Fanuc OT A controller. Basically two identical machines. They worked good for what we were doing, mostly turning S7 tool steel to make molds for molding milk inflations. A small rubber molding factory in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. That's about 40 miles west of Milwaukee. A small family owned business too, but we certainly never rode scooters through the building. Looked like fun. Been enjoying your videos and looking forward to seeing the mega drilling operation once it gets going.
Cheers mate! Yeah… we invested a truckload into tool holders. The bloody things aren’t cheap - but it dramatically speeds up the job when your tools are all set up. Scooters… buggies… the lot 🤣🤣🤣. It takes about half an hour to walk the place otherwise.
I’m 63 a retired cnc service engineer I’m on The east coast of uk in Lowestoft I have recently subscribed I think your videos are great and very interesting and bring back memories of working on cnc,s all over the uk I’m really looking forward to the mega drill in action keep up the good work 👍
53 yo from Vermont, USA. Been machining since 1986. Now engineering robotics for a plastic injection molding business. Loving your vibe, and (still) learning every day. Keep up the good work!
As a machinist/tool engineer I want to thank you for showing the evolution in "spade drill"-'type tooling. I happily see that a basic center drill works perfectly well with two replaceable carbide insert cartridges, even creating a chip breaker at the intersection of these inserts.. Thanks Matt!
Most welcome mate. Glad you found it interesting. I'm endlessly fascinated by the evolution of tooling. In here when Grandad (Hal) started, he was grinding up all his own HSS tooling to create threaded drill subs from scratch. I dont'think people fully appreciate just how much tooling has evolved - especially in the last 20 years!
I’m in the UK, a 58 year old retired (from own business) pipefitter / welder / fabricator, specialised in stainless steel pharmaceutical work, especially orbital welding. Set up my home workshop to learn machining. Learning so much from the likes of yourself, Kurtis, Max Grant, Joe Pie etc. Keep up the unique content, great to see proper heavy engineering, as I spent 5 years at a sugar beet processing plant, and my father worked on making walking draglines in the 60’s.
Oh wow! That’s great mate. Yeah there are some excellent channels out there. UA-cam seems to have opened so many windows to worlds that no one got to see before. Sounds like you’ve got some solid experience yourself good sir. Thanks so much for tuning in. Much appreciated
Hello, Matt, from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I've been in the machine tool industry for 20 years, seeing the size of the pieces you're working on is a real eye opener. Those boring bars are crazy. Love it. Very much looking forward to seeing this drill in action.
I’m in scotland, a 25 year old neep That is a welder / fabricator / ex machinist at my old job. Its always good to see the chips flying out the chuck like that miss doing all the wild and lets say wonderful jobs that came thorugh the doors. Anyway good luck with the Big Rig hopefully all goes as planned.
Electrical Engineer and hobby machinist from South Dakota, USA. You always have interesting unique content. Your shop looks like a fun place to work also. Keep up the good work.
This is adequate drilling how it should be! Perfect chips easily flushing out 👌 Kennametal tools are finest worth every penny. Like to use them. For turning plastic's you can use a old insert an grind it sharp do it once have it for a lifetime 😊 Well done Matt ✌️
Cheers mate! Yeah I’m a fan of the Kennametal for Udrills & HTS. I’ve tried a few other brands for the indexable drills but find the Kennametal to be my personal preference. Thanks for the tip re plastic too!
I'm just over the ditch in Auckland, NZ. Original trade training was as Fitter/Turner/Machinist in the RNZN. Moved around a few branches of engineering maintenance including cryo machinery and slowly drifted into automotive. Done a bunch of other stuff over the years in a lot of different trades. Now a senior automotive diagnostic tech and general Mr Fixit in the shop. I do have a cheap basic 6" lathe in the shop which is really handy for fixing all sorts of problems that most automotive shops here in NZ can't even think about trying inhouse. I'm really enjoying your channel along with CEE. It does make me wish I could've stayed with the machine shop trade but I still pick up some ideas from watching you guys.
I’m 21 working at a family company called “NoDig Equipment”, we also specialise in machining parts and tools for the drilling industry but in Perth WA. I spend 40 hours a week pretty much doing the exact same thing as you, yet I still happily spend my unpaid free time watching your videos about things I do at work. Ahaha. Your filming and editing has improved greatly btw. Cheers
Thanks mate! It’s been a steep learning curve. Haha yeah I hear you. I machine all day… then watch it again at night making videos. But I love it 🤣 Obsessed with machining.
Greetings from the Pacific North West(USA). Glad I found your channel always interesting. One of the ways that I have found to stop or decrease the squeal on boring bars is to wrap some rubber around the shank and clamp it in place. It will disrupt the harmonics that create the squeal and usually improves the finish. Don't worry about not being the most experienced, we are all learning more everyday, that's the best part of the trade. No one knows it all but everyone has a great idea.
Hey, I'm from Berlin, Germany. I used to work in metalworking in the eastern part of Germany, but our machines were much smaller and much older. Our oldest lathe was from 1950, but it was a great machine and it was a lot of fun to make things with my hands that will be around for a long time. Greetings from Berlin
From Big Banana, NSW. Dad was a boily, always loved jumping on his lathe, belt drive on a 4 speed gearbox, bit of a hack job when a boily tries to be a machinist 😂 but she gets the job done! Loving the content mate, keep it up 🇦🇺🍻
71 Retired tool and die maker in Adelaide. Spent the last 25 odd years working in IT and now have a very modest workshop at home. Of all the channels I watch, CEE, HAL and Swan Valley Machine Shop rate the highest for me. Go the Aussies!! Matt, I like your natural approach to videos, I don't really think there is much you could do to improve, being yourself is always best. The mix of you talking and the action on the machines seems about right to me. I have always been fascinated by API threads (dunno why and never had to cut one) but I always think they just look awesome so i love watching them being made albeit by CNC. Have you ever machined one manually? Keep up the great work mate!
Grandad did them all by hand. We repair them manually, but it’s just so much faster in the CNC. I’ll probably do a video cutting one by hand (just for the fun of it!)
Hello Matt. My shop is just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It's me and my father in law. I machine, he welds. One thing we work on fairly often are tunnel boring/auger boring machines. My brother has a heavy civil construction company and one thing they do is tunneling for sewer/water work. I repair their current equipment and design and build new machines for them. Similar to you, but on a smaller scale and horizontal, not vertical. (the drilling that is). We also do job shop work for industrial and agricultural customers. I like the work you guys do as it is large, unique and similar to what I do. Keep it up.
I served my apprenticeship in fitting and machining in the early eighties in Ireland Matt and when I was qualified we were in a deep recession so I went into the thing I knew next best, trucking, all over Europe. A very different career but I still have a great love of engineering to this day. Thank you for taking us along with you, your work is fascinating. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
43 years young, prototype machinist in Fort Lupton, Colorado, United States. It’s nice to see conversational programming on the lathes! I love the bigger stuff you do on the channel! I. I miss doing the larger stuff in my day to day. I love you channel, thank you!!
Sonoran Desert in the SW USA. Technical Trainer at a railroad shop. Have had a hobby machine shop since the 80's and designed and built large scale industrial automation and developed a CNC plasma system before they were easy and commercially available. Love watching how other people develop methods to solve problems. You guys, Curtis, Josh Topper and Oliver at Snowball Engineering are favorites.
From NZ. I love watching you and CEE, for the size of the work you do. I have a small machine like Mattys workshop. I can5 believe the depth of cut and the speeds you get out of your machines. As for the weight of the chuck. A quarter of the weight of my entire lathe.
Hi Matt, Mal from the UK ( Darlington, home of the railways), Reverse Engineering specialist, and currently CNC cell programmer and machinist ( 2 Colchester 8TM and I Colchester Multiturn). Loving the way you experiment with your tooling and don't necessarily rely on the manufacturers recommendations. Every machine is different as is every job, you gotta find the happy spot. Keep up the good work, and get some helmets for those kiddies. lol
@@halheavyduty They are a bit flakey ( over 10 years old) but we have a great mech guy who knows them inside out. Spares for the older machines are a real problem, I have had to make some parts myself as Colchester no longer make some spares for these machines. All in all they function, but need a bit of TLC.
Across the ditch in NZ. I'm a hobby machinist, but getting a little bit of paid machining through my handyman business. I appreciate you telling us what you're doing. There are so many channels where you just watch some ego run a machine, and it's hard to learn anything. Keep up the good work 👍
CNC machinist from Scotland here. enjoy your videos! I run MAZAK mill turn lathes. Medium sized work like yourselves and its good to learn new tricks. cheers
I can totally see why you would enjoy replacing the buttons on those drill heads. Really seems like a thing you could disappear in to. Totally agree with buying tools from machinists, they know what works and tend to be able to help find a solution for odd projects. Thanks for the video from Canada.
Did a bit of machining in the military.Love the content and can't wait to see the big drill in operation.Keep up the good work from New Brunswick Canada.
Mid Canterbury New Zealand here. Awesome to see you guys having fun in the workshop. What you said about spending a third of your life at work, why spend it miserable? really hit home. Took me till I was in my 50s to figure that out myself.
Hey Mat. Thanks for showing us all this great stuff. It is fun to see your channel growing. I learned how to understand Austrailian from Curtis so I get most of what you are saying! Watching from Abbotsford, southwestern Canada. 🇨🇦
Evansville Indiana USA. Retired electronics engineer. Grew up in my Grandfather’s tool and die/ fabrication business. One of my favorite smells is hot cutting oil.
Hello Matt, I think it is great that you are showing us what your little (yeah right 😂) business is doing! I am a hobby machinist and fabricator located in Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA. I also love watching what Kurtis does at CEE! State side my big three are Abom79, Keith Rucker, and Keith Fenner but there are also quite a few others I watch depending on their project. Take care! Cheers, John McDonnell
Watching from Whangarei area in NZ Retired Comms tech, hobby machinist currently restoring Vintage engines in my spare time. Really enjoying your channel. Just keep going the way you are it's fine.
This my first visit with you guys!! I watch a lot of CEE because though I've retired as a machinist I never got to run bigger tools. You all provide that other side of the coin!!! Thanks!!
Hey Mat I'M 66 Yo Equipment operator Retired in California USA. My father was a welder and equipment operator grandfather was a machinist in the aircraft industry until jets became the norm in the military then he worked as a engine machinist. I worked for a while as a welder / maintenance mechanic in a fastener factory. When i was working there i made tooling which is the tool steel casings that the carbide dies are pressed into that go in the Header presses to make the screws or bolt blanks that the get flat die threaded to spec. I ran lathe and mill for them until i healed up from an injury to go back to running equipment again... Love watching you and curtis at CEE Really like the videos
Cheers Matt, thanks for taking the leap and starting your channel. Always enjoy seeing what is going on in someone else M/C shop. Located on the other side of OZ in Karratha. Profiling rail wagon wheel sets on CNC portal lathes today. Not often I get on manual machines now. Toolmaker by trade. I agree about your 3 tip milling cutter, used to operate a small toz universal with a 3 tip cutter, it was way faster than the machine next to it that was 3x bigger. I recon you’d like my garden ornament, it’s a PA35 mega bore, in the front yard of course. Take care mate 👍
Great job mate. I did my machining apprenticeship in the early 80"s and haven't touched a lathe for 30 years but enjoy watching what you are doing.. Andrew Brisbane QLD
Brand new sub here. Really enjoying watching you make some very interesting tooling. I have no experience with any kind of drilling so its cool to see the equipment you use. Thanks for explaining how everything works. Great to see a family working together and passing knowledge and skills to the next generation. I'm a self taught hobby machinist so I appreciate when you include all your feeds and speeds and what you watch for when you select and set up your tooling. Joining you from Saskatchewan Canada Keep up the great videos Matt
Cheers mate! Much appreciated. Yeah; I’m the same. I love watching machining videos like @chrismaj where he gives the feeds and speeds etc. @titansofcnc are really good like that too.
Nice work Matt. These big drill bits are really something to see in operation. You have a nice shop and certainly good personal. And you're absolutely correct, you have to have fun. If you can't have fun, whats it all worth. I'm from Rogers, Ar. Thanks for sharing. Have a great week. 👍👍💯
Hi Matt I’m from Bedford, UK. Really enjoy your videos. Retired from heavy equipment repair but have my own small machine shop at home. Thanks for taking me along with you.
Tuning in from Europe, Sweden, Stockholm and i have 0 experience with this kind of work. But it’s very interesting to watch, follow and learn how all this works.
Hi from Sweden. I'm a marine Engineer and during my free time I have a small machine shop with i Harrison Alpha 400s plus lathe. Teach in lathe doesn't seem to be so popular but for me they are worth it. Enyoing your channel and the work you do. Keep it up.
Hi Matt, i‘m watching your Videos here in Germany. You and Kurtis are my absolute Favorits in Machining Vids. I‘m a Automotive Technican with a small Lathe and a small Milling Machine in my private Workshop and you Guys always help to get better in machining. Thanks to you and keep it up. Greatings from far away Germany Karsten
The way you have the videos set up and laid out (edited) is great. Keep the the parts in with some of the laughs and funny stuff in the video. Things like that, is what sets your videos apart from a lot of other channels. Like CEE channel and the out takes they do at the end of the video are awesome. The information and process is awesome as well. Keep it up and the channel will go. Your channel and CEE are my 2 most anticipated videos of the week. I am a Captain of a towing vessel on the waterways along the gulf coast in the United States. Awesome watching Tradesman from other country’s and putting out content to show how important these trades are for our world and infrastructure. Cheers Mate.
Comes up a treat. Thank you for all The Info. Good to see That there is a little fun at work, we aLL SPEND MOST OF OUR LIVES AT WORK. Have a merry Christmas guys tuning in From Adelaide Now, We were up on The Gold Coast for 24 years running a Mechanical workshop of our own, Been in Business 34 years. Between the NT and Qld Now at 68 still working for myself BUT much less Hours. also do a lot of Machine work mill and lathe. Restoring Vintage Moto Cross bikes. Cheers Guys
Jeff from the eastern Shore of Virginia, USA. I just want to say that the best part of your videos is your attitude. You are a perfect presenter. Your audience I’m sure runs from the real pros to the people who feel they could, and we are all comfortable here. I’m an instructor and the only thing I would add is maybe an ongoing few minutes on showing, what the wheels do, which axis is what, how to know how fast to run the feed and how much you can take off. I was thrilled to see the torch being used to repair the lost cutting teeth. Everything today is automatic. I love to braze, solder, silver solder, etc. no need to go too deep on a subject, maybe a couple of minutes on how things were done and what got us here. I talk too much!
Reno, Nevada, USA . I just found your channel a couple weeks ago. Love machining channels I’m a retired auto mechanic of thirty years. I’ve been watching GEE for a while and love his channel. Keep up the good work.
Hi Matt, good job, man. I´m in Frankfurt/ Germany, watching ya since you started. I´m a machinist/toolmaker, certified, and worked in landscaping for 10 years. Worked in a big museum as a technician and studied historical arts. Now again since 10 years in the shop on the lathe and mill and so on. Learned the trade from my father since 8 years old. He was a toolmaker. Cheers.
Thats so wonderful that you learned directly from your father. I'm really grateful that I get to learn stuff from my dad. He's a mechanical / drilling genius.
Thanks Matt. A little side story: My dad once cutted an m2 thread, and he told me: Come here son, just very carefully turn the tap-handle, only to this exact point, you can feel the tap bending, when you feel it like this, don´t turn any further, ´cause it´ll break then. I carved that into my brain and kept it there till today. Now the point: in nearly 50 years in this trade, and tens of thousands of hand tapped holes, i never broke one single tap. Not one.
Hi Matt, I totally agree with your comment about being happy at work,If you or your staff are not happy in the workplace then they are in the wrong one,I myself work in a smaller family run workshop and could not be more happy Keep up the great work
hi hal,love your channel. i'm a retired mechanical/electrical engineer from swansea south wales UK,its all about family and work ratio,keep em coming mate and merry christmas
Kilmarnock 🏴 Another very interesting video mate 🤘 As far as I’m concerned just keep doing what you’re doing, I love the content as it’s straightforward and honest, not an over produced glossy package, you guys are a down to earth workshop not a boudoir 😊
Great channel Matt. Came across it recently and have added it to my ever growing list. Situated in Auckland, just across the ditch from you guys. CEE is another of my regular weekly YT fixes from Oz. An an ex tradie fitter/turner, I love the quality and precision you folks are cranking out. Keep me coming!!!
Watching from small town near Hamilton Ontario Canada. I'm a farmer/Electro-Optical Technician and enjoy watching machining/welding/fabricating videos. You and CEE are awesome channels to watch. Can't wait to see the big drill setup.
75, retired builder, outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. The several Aussie machining channels are the most interesting on YT. Well done Matt.
I know CEE and this one. Any other recommendations?
Cheers mate, glad you like the content! There are some great channels out there. Glad to see Aussie ones representing 👊🇺🇸🇦🇺
@@medic593 Mark Presling, Matty's Workshop, Swan Valley Machine Shop, Aaron Engineering
I'll have to check out Mark Presling and Aaron Engineering. Havent come across those ones yet! Thanks for that
From inside Albuquerque!😊
Thank you from Nashville, TN, US.
I am a Mechanical Engineer, not a machinist, but I appreciate quality work with heavy-duty machines.
I have been to Australia (and NZ) three times. It is an excellent place with better people.
Cheers mate!
@@halheavyduty What are the drillers drilling for? Thanks.
@paulgar8 howdy from Franklin Tn. Former chemist/material scientist. Australia is amazing. Been only once
We have waterwell drillers, exploration drillers and very large diameter (big rig) drillers.
In India if you are accepted into an industrial, aerospace or mechanical engineering course you have to take at least one year of manual machining coursework. They actually start you out on the shaper!
Your channel is one of the few that I can watch the whole video. I don't want to say it too soon, but we might have another CEE over here! I am tuning in from Wisconsin. I have been a machinist for over 20 years. Keep up the good videos
Wow. Cheers mate! 🇺🇸
Love your videos Matt, you and CEE is my Friday evening entertainment. I’m a young farmer from Tassie.
Keep up the wonderful work.
Cheers mate! Glad you enjoy the show 👊🇦🇺
Hi Matt, my name is Pieter, 66 years of age and I'm from the Netherlands. I started out in a boiler shop way back in 1974 and switched to the oilfield in 1981. I've been drilling holes until 2001 and switched to maintenance and repairs in the heavy machine industry. Nowadays I may call myself an mechanical, electrical and proces engineer and love to watch video's of all kinds of machining.
I think you're doing great and I'm always looking forward for the next one. Keep em coming 👍👍
Thanks mate! Wow. You’ve got some seriously solid background in the industry there good sir. Thanks for tuning in 👊
58, retired software developer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, US. My father was a tool and die maker before switching to software development where he worked on CAM software in the '80s. I enjoy watching these videos and appreciate what someone with knowledge can do. Often, things look more like works of art instead of machined parts.
That's why we call any one who builds stuff industrial artists. thats exactly what it is. every hand made item has personality to it. just like a painting. That guy made that thing. Its art, but has a useful function.
They really do. It’s so nice to turn a drawing into a physical product.
That said… all mine go out the door and get instantly wrecked by drillers 🤣🤣🤣
Enjoy your videos have worked in drilling off and on , Union Crane operator by trade, Tennessee ,USA.
Cheers mate. Love it.
I am from middle Tennessee. I am a centrifuge engineer in the vegetable oil industry. Love seeing the different machining of drilling components as well as the max tooling. Great seeing kids in your life!!!
Centrifuge engineer! Now that is class of engineer that I had never heard of before. You would be big on fluid dynamics, is my guess.
My father was a civil engineer.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Maintenance Carpenter
Cheers mate! Love it 🇺🇸
Hello, 59 yo welder fabricator from central Michigan USA. Just found you channel, bang on as they say!!
I love how you have the kids in there and have fun!
It’s a riot act
I love that you use Kennametal products. It reminds me of good times with my late dad. He use you be the Sales Manager at the Main office in Pa.
I'm fixing to be 68 years old and still working, not in the shop, strictly on the computer now days. I do have a small machine shop in my garage I play in. I grew up in the oilfield machine shops my dad worked in, been around this kind of stuff all my life. Spent 4 years dealing with trepanners drilling holes in drilling tools. The squealing noise reminds me of the trepanners running. I know I've lost some of my hearing from that. Just love the content you guys bring to the tube each week. I'm located in Victoria, Texas USA. Spent most of my earlier days in the Houston, Texas area. Keep up the great work! Ken
Cheers Ken! Great work mate 🇺🇸🇦🇺👊
Bonjour Matt,
Perthes en gâtinais (France),
Je vous regarde depuis peu et franchement j'adore ce que vous faites Merci.
Je suis prototypiste dans l'industrie automobile dans un bureau d'études,je travaille avec des anciennes machines outils (à l'ancienne comme on dit ici),je vous voir faire ces usinages cela me paraît énorme.
Bravo à vous et très bonne continuation.
Hello Matt, Perthes in Gâtinais (France), I've been watching you recently and frankly I love what you do. Thank you. I am a prototypist in the automotive industry in a design office, I work with old machine tools (old-fashioned as they say here), seeing you doing this machining seems enormous to me. Congratulations to you and very good luck.
Thank you very much! I visited France as a young boy with my Grandma. We absolutely loved it.
72 years young, retired ophthalmic optician from the Netherlands. Blessed with an unstilleble interest in machining of ALL sorts🤓 ....keep them vids coming ..i love them all!
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Thank you for tuning in 👊🙏
I’m a former IT network engineer, then manger (much of my career in the upstream petrochemical world) from Dorset, a rural county in the south west of England. I considered myself a plumber of IP packets. A couple of years ago I became disabled, having lost use of a leg, lost a kidney due to cancer plus a whole load of other issues and can no longer work. I know diddly squat about machining but love watching how real pros work and how both big and small lumps of metal are crafted into tools essential for our existence. Your channel is a highlight of my week, as is Cutting Edge Engineering and Matty’s Workshop and I’m starting to learn a little. I admire the precision, the innovation and seeing how you tackle and solve problems. I absolutely agree with your philosophy that work should be fun. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to produce your videos and look forward to seeing how the end products are put to use. Thanks again. Uroo !
Cheers mate! Much appreciated.
Hi, I love the quick change drill, and yes, you will never get rid of the harmonic squeal purely because of its length, the tiny bits of backlash of the cross slide plus it is in a tool post rather than the tailstock. Even the saddle itself will add to the problem 😄. I am a retired "time served skilled centre lathe turner" and I'm in the UK.
All the best to you and yours, and I wish you all a very merry Christmas. Cheers.
Thank you good sir 🇬🇧👊
Hi Matt, Scottish electronics test engineer, who moved to Italy with my wife during the pandemic to assist in the care of a disabled sibling, have since become a part time (wait for it) carer, builder, plumber, electrician, mechanic - most recently changed the clutch on a Hyundai Tucson in a car park with hand tools and a 2T jack, an experience I would not reccommend. Just a guy who knows a little bit about a whole lot of things and prefers to get stuck in and his hands dirty rather than 'discuss the problem'. I tend to gravitate towards channels who's content centers around 'getting things done' ~ I find it pretty motivational.
Love it! You and my dad would get along great. By the time everyone else has finished discussing how to do it… he’s already finished and onto the next job 🤣🤣
Upstate New York. Love what you do. I'm a machinist that does alot of heavy turning. You and CEE are my entertainment for Fridays
Awesome. Glad you enjoy the content! I love it that other machinists get a kick out of it all too 👊
Love the outro after your video, 79 and retired Instrument Maker, worked inside all my life. Retired to Blairgowrie Victoria, the computer is my learning centre and travelled around Australia in two goes, number 1 camped up the Stuart travelled Normanton to the east coast down Nº 1 highway, then Nº2 up the Stuart Hwy again to the west coast onto the Eire Hwy to home.
Thats wonderful! Thank you. I hear you re the computer being a learning center. It’s amazing what you can find now. So useful.
I think 50% of our subscribers are over 65! Which is awesome. And very humbling.
Most of them probably have forgotten more than I currently know 🤣👊
Just discovered this channel! You and Kurtis at CEE are my favorite videos can't wait to see mega drill in action! My name is Dave, been working at Rand machine works for almost 30 years now. We're located in Fresno, California (central California) please keep the videos coming! got a woody watching that kennametal drill just blow thru that 4140!
Cheers Dave, awesome to have you on board! 👊
The chips bloody explode out of that thing. Just ordered at 120mm (2.5x bigger than this one)
Can’t wait to run it soon.
Engineer and hobby machinist from down in Sydney. Love to see content from professionals in things I only know a little about. I always enjoy seeing you guys running machines that could turn my entire lathe between centres.
Keep it up.😁
Cheers mate 👊👊
Greetings from Toowoomba.
QUEENSLANDER!!!
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Very much enjoy watching! Matt, you and guys like you are what make the world go 'round for the rest. If it weren't for the callouses, there would be no easy chairs.
I be retired from the construction industry, working my way up from hand built log cabins to the cutting edge medical, educational, energy and petroleum projects in remote locations. I retired after a lifetime of fun and frustrations, and grateful for the experience.
Life long Alaskan, presently in South Central Alaska.
Keep up the good you are doing!
Cheers mate! Amazing that you’ve built log cabins by hand. Unreal 🇺🇸👊
Chips ahoy
To add more, with todays work environment where the 38 hour week is in the past, you've got to release the work demons occassionally especially after a hard slog on the machines by having a bit of fun like what you have done.
I remember when all retail shops closed at 1730 on the weekdays, Saturday shopping finished at 1230 and nothing was open on Sundays.
Those were the days. I preferred it honestly. Gave everyone a break!
@halheavyduty absolutely. Today, a lot of people are trying to spend quality time with their family and to unwind.
Agreed.
Hi Matt, retired 68 yo from Vic. I have a small home workshop with lathe, mill, shaper and band saw, mainly used for making swarf and having fun. Also into electronics with a workshop for that and that's main use is making multi coloured expensive smoke 😀. As well into vintage machinary amd have a couple of old tractors with implements so don't tend to get bored. Keep the great content coming and like everyone else, can't wait to see this megger drill in action. Cheers
Love it! Nothing like a good home workshop for all the endless projects.
Me too! I can’t wait to see it drill
22:50 "It's amazing what a coat of paint will do" or as I always say, "a grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't"
Recently found your channel, and I was surprised at how recently you started making videos. Top-notch content, mate!
I can't wait to see that absurdly large drill in action.
edit: Tuning in from SD, USA (north-central)58 yrs old by the calendar, about 9 yrs old according to my sense of humor. Favorite word: UNDETERRED. Two reasons: 1) Undie 2) Turd
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We are gonna get along just great
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I'm a machinist here in Albuquerque new mexico. I really dig your large scale work. I run a 5 axis mazak mill so most of my parts don't require forklifts and cranes to move around so it's really awesome to see what you guys do! Keep up the good work guys.
Cheers mate. Love it. The Mazak machines are top notch gear 👊🇺🇸
Retired Drilling and Completions engineer from Alberta, Canada here. I'm a farmboy trained as Mechanical Engineer turned oilfield engineer. I've worked on projects in 8 countries on 4 continents over 35 years. I've worked on wells from 200 m to 4500 m.
FYI, the PDC abbreviation stands for Polycrystaline Diamond Compact, while PCD is, as you've said is Poly Crystalline Diamond. Looks like the small bits you show replacing the compacts on are Tungsten Carbide Matrix body bits. Some years ago, we started using steel body bits. The bits were cut out of solid blocks of steel in 5 axis machines with live milling spindles. Very economical to build and far easier to change designs. The machining centers were as fascinating to watch as the big stuff you do. Thanks for sharing!
I am playing with some far more modest machines in my home shop now. Some of your stuff won't fit in my 1440 to machine up the tooling, much less the work pieces, LOL.
Love it, and thanks for clarification re the PCD stuff. Much appreciated good sir 👊👊
Hi HAL, Hanno here from Hamburg, 66 yrs old, in northern Germany, pure Hobbyist with a tiny Lathe and CNC Mill. Just interested in what guys with big machines do :) I have a smile on my face the whole video long...
That’s wonderful good sir! Thanks so much for tuning in 🙏🇩🇪👊
I have nothing to do with machining professionally but my dad was a welder and I have come to appreciate his work through watching all sorts of machining channels! Yours is a new and very wecolme edition! Cheers from Finland!
Awesome 🇫🇮👊👊
64, home shop owner, Gloucester England - Kurtis and Karen sent me in your direction, loving what you do on your channel Matt!
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That’s great. Cheers good sir 👊 🏴
That's how we ran our cnc lathes too, with a quick release tool post . Remarkably accurate as long as no one crashes the machine. Our boss was cheap and only bought us about 20 tool holders between 2 lathes . These were two Clausing Colchesters with a Fanuc OT A controller. Basically two identical machines. They worked good for what we were doing, mostly turning S7 tool steel to make molds for molding milk inflations. A small rubber molding factory in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. That's about 40 miles west of Milwaukee. A small family owned business too, but we certainly never rode scooters through the building. Looked like fun.
Been enjoying your videos and looking forward to seeing the mega drilling operation once it gets going.
Cheers mate! Yeah… we invested a truckload into tool holders. The bloody things aren’t cheap - but it dramatically speeds up the job when your tools are all set up.
Scooters… buggies… the lot 🤣🤣🤣. It takes about half an hour to walk the place otherwise.
I am in Maryland USA and I am disabled . I find your channel very entertaining and informative
Thanks mate! 🙏🇺🇸
I’m 63 a retired cnc service engineer I’m on The east coast of uk in Lowestoft I have recently subscribed I think your videos are great and very interesting and bring back memories of working on cnc,s all over the uk I’m really looking forward to the mega drill in action keep up the good work 👍
Thanks Peter. Appreciate the kind feedback mate.
You and me both. Can’t wait to see that big boy drill
53 yo from Vermont, USA. Been machining since 1986. Now engineering robotics for a plastic injection molding business. Loving your vibe, and (still) learning every day. Keep up the good work!
Thanks mate! Appreciate the kind words. 🇺🇸👊🙏
As a machinist/tool engineer I want to thank you for showing the evolution in "spade drill"-'type tooling. I happily see that a basic center drill works perfectly well with two replaceable carbide insert cartridges, even creating a chip breaker at the intersection of these inserts.. Thanks Matt!
Most welcome mate. Glad you found it interesting. I'm endlessly fascinated by the evolution of tooling. In here when Grandad (Hal) started, he was grinding up all his own HSS tooling to create threaded drill subs from scratch.
I dont'think people fully appreciate just how much tooling has evolved - especially in the last 20 years!
Retired ironworker and welder from Denver Colorado. Love the content and can't wait to see the "Big Rig" in action.
Me too!
I’m in the UK, a 58 year old retired (from own business) pipefitter / welder / fabricator, specialised in stainless steel pharmaceutical work, especially orbital welding. Set up my home workshop to learn machining. Learning so much from the likes of yourself, Kurtis, Max Grant, Joe Pie etc. Keep up the unique content, great to see proper heavy engineering, as I spent 5 years at a sugar beet processing plant, and my father worked on making walking draglines in the 60’s.
Oh wow! That’s great mate. Yeah there are some excellent channels out there. UA-cam seems to have opened so many windows to worlds that no one got to see before.
Sounds like you’ve got some solid experience yourself good sir.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
Much appreciated
Hello, Matt, from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I've been in the machine tool industry for 20 years, seeing the size of the pieces you're working on is a real eye opener. Those boring bars are crazy. Love it. Very much looking forward to seeing this drill in action.
Cheers mate! Me too 🤣👊
I’m in scotland, a 25 year old neep That is a welder / fabricator / ex machinist at my old job.
Its always good to see the chips flying out the chuck like that miss doing all the wild and lets say wonderful jobs that came thorugh the doors.
Anyway good luck with the Big Rig hopefully all goes as planned.
Cheers brother! I think we’ll need every finger crossed when we hit the “SEND IT” button
Adding young Teddy to more videos will make me happy in Central Vic. Dogs, babies and kids will get me each time.
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Every shop needs a four-legged safety supervisor.
100%
Oops sorry, I got some names mixed up.
Electrical Engineer and hobby machinist from South Dakota, USA. You always have interesting unique content. Your shop looks like a fun place to work also. Keep up the good work.
Cheers mate! Appreciate it 👊
This is adequate drilling how it should be! Perfect chips easily flushing out 👌
Kennametal tools are finest worth every penny. Like to use them.
For turning plastic's you can use a old insert an grind it sharp do it once have it for a lifetime 😊
Well done Matt ✌️
Cheers mate! Yeah I’m a fan of the Kennametal for Udrills & HTS.
I’ve tried a few other brands for the indexable drills but find the Kennametal to be my personal preference.
Thanks for the tip re plastic too!
I'm just over the ditch in Auckland, NZ.
Original trade training was as Fitter/Turner/Machinist in the RNZN.
Moved around a few branches of engineering maintenance including cryo machinery and slowly drifted into automotive.
Done a bunch of other stuff over the years in a lot of different trades.
Now a senior automotive diagnostic tech and general Mr Fixit in the shop.
I do have a cheap basic 6" lathe in the shop which is really handy for fixing all sorts of problems that most automotive shops here in NZ can't even think about trying inhouse.
I'm really enjoying your channel along with CEE.
It does make me wish I could've stayed with the machine shop trade but I still pick up some ideas from watching you guys.
Cheers mate! Sounds like you've got some great experience! 🇳🇿👊
Very impressed with your work, attitude and cheery nature. Thanks mate. From Brissy!
I’m 21 working at a family company called “NoDig Equipment”, we also specialise in machining parts and tools for the drilling industry but in Perth WA. I spend 40 hours a week pretty much doing the exact same thing as you, yet I still happily spend my unpaid free time watching your videos about things I do at work. Ahaha. Your filming and editing has improved greatly btw. Cheers
Thanks mate! It’s been a steep learning curve. Haha yeah I hear you.
I machine all day… then watch it again at night making videos. But I love it 🤣
Obsessed with machining.
Hi Matt, Essex, UK. 57, clueless but love watching and learning about this kind of stuff! Glad I found your channel!
Cheers mate! 🇬🇧
Greetings from the Pacific North West(USA). Glad I found your channel always interesting. One of the ways that I have found to stop or decrease the squeal on boring bars is to wrap some rubber around the shank and clamp it in place. It will disrupt the harmonics that create the squeal and usually improves the finish. Don't worry about not being the most experienced, we are all learning more everyday, that's the best part of the trade. No one knows it all but everyone has a great idea.
Couldn’t agree more! Thanks for the suggestion, and for tuning in. Much appreciated mate 👊🇺🇸
@@joelwarthen1135 I use lead sheet held in place with rubber strips. That takes the whistle out pretty well. No use on 8mm carbide boring bars though!
Hey, I'm from Berlin, Germany. I used to work in metalworking in the eastern part of Germany, but our machines were much smaller and much older. Our oldest lathe was from 1950, but it was a great machine and it was a lot of fun to make things with my hands that will be around for a long time. Greetings from Berlin
And a big hello back to you mate! Thanks for tuning in.
Watching from East Texas, I really enjoy your videos and love to see the kids/grand-kids.
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From Big Banana, NSW.
Dad was a boily, always loved jumping on his lathe, belt drive on a 4 speed gearbox, bit of a hack job when a boily tries to be a machinist 😂 but she gets the job done! Loving the content mate, keep it up 🇦🇺🍻
Cheers brother! 👊🇦🇺🍻
71 Retired tool and die maker in Adelaide. Spent the last 25 odd years working in IT and now have a very modest workshop at home. Of all the channels I watch, CEE, HAL and Swan Valley Machine Shop rate the highest for me. Go the Aussies!! Matt, I like your natural approach to videos, I don't really think there is much you could do to improve, being yourself is always best. The mix of you talking and the action on the machines seems about right to me. I have always been fascinated by API threads (dunno why and never had to cut one) but I always think they just look awesome so i love watching them being made albeit by CNC. Have you ever machined one manually? Keep up the great work mate!
Grandad did them all by hand. We repair them manually, but it’s just so much faster in the CNC.
I’ll probably do a video cutting one by hand (just for the fun of it!)
Hello Matt. My shop is just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It's me and my father in law. I machine, he welds. One thing we work on fairly often are tunnel boring/auger boring machines. My brother has a heavy civil construction company and one thing they do is tunneling for sewer/water work. I repair their current equipment and design and build new machines for them. Similar to you, but on a smaller scale and horizontal, not vertical. (the drilling that is). We also do job shop work for industrial and agricultural customers. I like the work you guys do as it is large, unique and similar to what I do. Keep it up.
That sounds like some pretty heavy duty work! 🇨🇦👊
Love it. Great that you get to work with family. It’s so much fun.
True Aussie workplace. Love it mate,keep doing what your doing your doing great.
Cheers mate, appreciate the support! 🇦🇺👊
I served my apprenticeship in fitting and machining in the early eighties in Ireland Matt and when I was qualified we were in a deep recession so I went into the thing I knew next best, trucking, all over Europe. A very different career but I still have a great love of engineering to this day.
Thank you for taking us along with you, your work is fascinating. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
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43 years young, prototype machinist in Fort Lupton, Colorado, United States. It’s nice to see conversational programming on the lathes! I love the bigger stuff you do on the channel! I. I miss doing the larger stuff in my day to day. I love you channel, thank you!!
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Sonoran Desert in the SW USA. Technical Trainer at a railroad shop. Have had a hobby machine shop since the 80's and designed and built large scale industrial automation and developed a CNC plasma system before they were easy and commercially available. Love watching how other people develop methods to solve problems. You guys, Curtis, Josh Topper and Oliver at Snowball Engineering are favorites.
Cheers mate! Wow. I watch those guys too. Humbling to be put in the same league. They do some bloody fantastic work 👊
From NZ. I love watching you and CEE, for the size of the work you do. I have a small machine like Mattys workshop. I can5 believe the depth of cut and the speeds you get out of your machines. As for the weight of the chuck. A quarter of the weight of my entire lathe.
Cheers mate! Yeah when that machine rocked up it was bloody intimidating. Feels normal now though.
Cleary time for an upgrade 🤣
Hi Matt, Mal from the UK ( Darlington, home of the railways), Reverse Engineering specialist, and currently CNC cell programmer and machinist ( 2 Colchester 8TM and I Colchester Multiturn). Loving the way you experiment with your tooling and don't necessarily rely on the manufacturers recommendations. Every machine is different as is every job, you gotta find the happy spot. Keep up the good work, and get some helmets for those kiddies. lol
Wonderful! Cheers mate 🇬🇧How do you find the Colchester machines?
@@halheavyduty They are a bit flakey ( over 10 years old) but we have a great mech guy who knows them inside out. Spares for the older machines are a real problem, I have had to make some parts myself as Colchester no longer make some spares for these machines. All in all they function, but need a bit of TLC.
Good to know! Cheers mate
Across the ditch in NZ. I'm a hobby machinist, but getting a little bit of paid machining through my handyman business. I appreciate you telling us what you're doing. There are so many channels where you just watch some ego run a machine, and it's hard to learn anything. Keep up the good work 👍
Cheers bro. Happy to help 👍
CNC machinist from Scotland here. enjoy your videos! I run MAZAK mill turn lathes. Medium sized work like yourselves and its good to learn new tricks. cheers
Awesome. Mazak lathes are pretty much as good as they get!
I can totally see why you would enjoy replacing the buttons on those drill heads. Really seems like a thing you could disappear in to. Totally agree with buying tools from machinists, they know what works and tend to be able to help find a solution for odd projects. Thanks for the video from Canada.
💯 it’s so relaxing!
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Did a bit of machining in the military.Love the content and can't wait to see the big drill in operation.Keep up the good work from New Brunswick Canada.
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Mid Canterbury New Zealand here. Awesome to see you guys having fun in the workshop. What you said about spending a third of your life at work, why spend it miserable? really hit home. Took me till I was in my 50s to figure that out myself.
Cheers mate. Yep. Gotta do your best to make the most out of whatever you’re doing!
Hey Mat. Thanks for showing us all this great stuff. It is fun to see your channel growing. I learned how to understand Austrailian from Curtis so I get most of what you are saying! Watching from Abbotsford, southwestern Canada. 🇨🇦
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Evansville Indiana USA. Retired electronics engineer. Grew up in my Grandfather’s tool and die/ fabrication business. One of my favorite smells is hot cutting oil.
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Hello Matt, I think it is great that you are showing us what your little (yeah right 😂) business is doing! I am a hobby machinist and fabricator located in Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA. I also love watching what Kurtis does at CEE! State side my big three are Abom79, Keith Rucker, and Keith Fenner but there are also quite a few others I watch depending on their project. Take care!
Cheers,
John McDonnell
Cheers John!
Watching from Whangarei area in NZ
Retired Comms tech, hobby machinist currently restoring
Vintage engines in my spare time.
Really enjoying your channel. Just keep going the way you are
it's fine.
Cheers mate! 🇳🇿👊
This my first visit with you guys!! I watch a lot of CEE because though I've retired as a machinist I never got to run bigger tools. You all provide that other side of the coin!!! Thanks!!
Cheers mate!
That tool labelling, amongst everything else, is excellent. Nice work.
Cheers mate!
Dutch IT guy over here in Europe.
Great channel, keep up the good work, have fun
Awesome! Thank you!
Hey Mat I'M 66 Yo Equipment operator Retired in California USA. My father was a welder and equipment operator grandfather was a machinist in the aircraft industry until jets became the norm in the military then he worked as a engine machinist. I worked for a while as a welder / maintenance mechanic in a fastener factory. When i was working there i made tooling which is the tool steel casings that the carbide dies are pressed into that go in the Header presses to make the screws or bolt blanks that the get flat die threaded to spec. I ran lathe and mill for them until i healed up from an injury to go back to running equipment again... Love watching you and curtis at CEE Really like the videos
Cheers good sir! Man, sounds like you’ve done some great work in your time. Your grandad too!
Hi from Berlin, Germany. Very nice to see a heavy duty machinist :)
Thank you 🇩🇪👊🙏
Cheers Matt, thanks for taking the leap and starting your channel. Always enjoy seeing what is going on in someone else M/C shop.
Located on the other side of OZ in Karratha. Profiling rail wagon wheel sets on CNC portal lathes today.
Not often I get on manual machines now. Toolmaker by trade.
I agree about your 3 tip milling cutter, used to operate a small toz universal with a 3 tip cutter, it was way faster than the machine next to it that was 3x bigger.
I recon you’d like my garden ornament, it’s a PA35 mega bore, in the front yard of course.
Take care mate 👍
Awesome, thanks mate! 👍
Yep, I’d love your ornament. Big old machines are the bomb 👊👊
Great job mate. I did my machining apprenticeship in the early 80"s and haven't touched a lathe for 30 years but enjoy watching what you are doing.. Andrew Brisbane QLD
Cheers Andrew! 👊🇦🇺
I'm a welder fabricator/machinist for 26 years love yur vids huge fan of big steel and this is from Connecticut USA
Cheers mate! 👊🇺🇸
Proud of your accomplishments from San Jose, California. Foundation driller.
Thanks man!👊🇺🇸
I’m a retired machinist from alabama love your videos
Thank you!
Thanks for taking the time to run us through the hardware. Don’t do any machine work but like to see how the various trades work
Most welcome mate. 👊
Brand new sub here. Really enjoying watching you make some very interesting tooling. I have no experience with any kind of drilling so its cool to see the equipment you use. Thanks for explaining how everything works. Great to see a family working together and passing knowledge and skills to the next generation.
I'm a self taught hobby machinist so I appreciate when you include all your feeds and speeds and what you watch for when you select and set up your tooling.
Joining you from Saskatchewan Canada
Keep up the great videos Matt
Cheers mate! Much appreciated. Yeah; I’m the same. I love watching machining videos like @chrismaj where he gives the feeds and speeds etc.
@titansofcnc are really good like that too.
Nice work Matt.
These big drill bits are really something to see in operation.
You have a nice shop and certainly good personal.
And you're absolutely correct, you have to have fun.
If you can't have fun, whats it all worth.
I'm from Rogers, Ar.
Thanks for sharing.
Have a great week. 👍👍💯
Cheers mate! Appreciate the kind words. A big G’day from across the pond 🇺🇸🇦🇺
Hi Matt I’m from Bedford, UK. Really enjoy your videos. Retired from heavy equipment repair but have my own small machine shop at home. Thanks for taking me along with you.
Most welcome good sir. Thanks for tuning in 👊🇬🇧
Originally from Michigan and live in New Hampshire USA. Love the vids. My dad was a machinist for 37 years. Loved working in his shop growing up.
Nice!! Yeah, it’s fun as a kid being in a shop hey.
From retired PLC programmer Windsor Ontario Canada, always fun to see what you guys are working on....
Cheers mate!
Tuning in from Europe, Sweden, Stockholm and i have 0 experience with this kind of work. But it’s very interesting to watch, follow and learn how all this works.
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Thanks HAL, i’m from the NW of England in great britain. Good to have this in the background as i’m running tests in the lab
Niiice! 🇬🇧
Hi from Sweden. I'm a marine Engineer and during my free time I have a small machine shop with i Harrison Alpha 400s plus lathe. Teach in lathe doesn't seem to be so popular but for me they are worth it.
Enyoing your channel and the work you do. Keep it up.
Thanks mate! That’s a good solid lathe. Personally I love working on them. Very versatile and reliable.
Hi Matt,
i‘m watching your Videos here in Germany. You and Kurtis are my absolute Favorits in Machining Vids. I‘m a Automotive Technican with a small Lathe and a small Milling Machine in my private Workshop and you Guys always help to get better in machining. Thanks to you and keep it up.
Greatings from far away Germany
Karsten
Cheers Karsteb! Thanks for tuning in mate 👊
Hi Matt, greetings from the UK, love the videos. great content. Fridays are now complete with you guys and CEE.
Awesome! Thank you! 🙏
The way you have the videos set up and laid out (edited) is great. Keep the the parts in with some of the laughs and funny stuff in the video. Things like that, is what sets your videos apart from a lot of other channels. Like CEE channel and the out takes they do at the end of the video are awesome. The information and process is awesome as well. Keep it up and the channel will go. Your channel and CEE are my 2 most anticipated videos of the week. I am a Captain of a towing vessel on the waterways along the gulf coast in the United States. Awesome watching Tradesman from other country’s and putting out content to show how important these trades are for our world and infrastructure. Cheers Mate.
Cheers mate! Thanks so much for the thoughtful comment. It’s really helpful, and I appreciate it 🇺🇸👊🙏
Comes up a treat. Thank you for all The Info. Good to see That there is a little fun at work, we aLL SPEND MOST OF OUR LIVES AT WORK. Have a merry Christmas guys tuning in From Adelaide Now, We were up on The Gold Coast for 24 years running a Mechanical workshop of our own, Been in Business 34 years. Between the NT and Qld Now at 68 still working for myself BUT much less Hours. also do a lot of Machine work mill and lathe. Restoring Vintage Moto Cross bikes. Cheers Guys
Jeff from the eastern Shore of Virginia, USA. I just want to say that the best part of your videos is your attitude. You are a perfect presenter. Your audience I’m sure runs from the real pros to the people who feel they could, and we are all comfortable here. I’m an instructor and the only thing I would add is maybe an ongoing few minutes on showing, what the wheels do, which axis is what, how to know how fast to run the feed and how much you can take off. I was thrilled to see the torch being used to repair the lost cutting teeth. Everything today is automatic. I love to braze, solder, silver solder, etc. no need to go too deep on a subject, maybe a couple of minutes on how things were done and what got us here. I talk too much!
Awesome suggestions Jeff. Will do some of those. Great ideas mate 👊👊👊
Reno, Nevada, USA . I just found your channel a couple weeks ago. Love machining channels I’m a retired auto mechanic of thirty years. I’ve been watching GEE for a while and love his channel. Keep up the good work.
Cheers mate! 🇺🇸👊
Love watching you work! Great video, as always. Greetings from the US and Poland!
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Hi Matt, good job, man. I´m in Frankfurt/ Germany, watching ya since you started. I´m a machinist/toolmaker, certified, and worked in landscaping for 10 years. Worked in a big museum as a technician and studied historical arts. Now again since 10 years in the shop on the lathe and mill and so on. Learned the trade from my father since 8 years old. He was a toolmaker. Cheers.
Thats so wonderful that you learned directly from your father. I'm really grateful that I get to learn stuff from my dad. He's a mechanical / drilling genius.
Thanks Matt. A little side story: My dad once cutted an m2 thread, and he told me: Come here son, just very carefully turn the tap-handle, only to this exact point, you can feel the tap bending, when you feel it like this, don´t turn any further, ´cause it´ll break then. I carved that into my brain and kept it there till today. Now the point: in nearly 50 years in this trade, and tens of thousands of hand tapped holes, i never broke one single tap. Not one.
Hi Matt, I totally agree with your comment about being happy at work,If you or your staff are not happy in the workplace then they are in the wrong one,I myself work in a smaller family run workshop and could not be more happy Keep up the great work
Cheers mate, that’s what it’s all about.
hi hal,love your channel. i'm a retired mechanical/electrical engineer from swansea south wales UK,its all about family and work ratio,keep em coming mate and merry christmas
Cheers mate!
Your videos go around the globe, I'm watching from Germany and watching this its the best thing to do to get in the weekend
That's awesome! Thank you 🇩🇪
Kilmarnock 🏴
Another very interesting video mate 🤘
As far as I’m concerned just keep doing what you’re doing, I love the content as it’s straightforward and honest, not an over produced glossy package, you guys are a down to earth workshop not a boudoir 😊
Cheers mate!
Great channel Matt. Came across it recently and have added it to my ever growing list. Situated in Auckland, just across the ditch from you guys. CEE is another of my regular weekly YT fixes from Oz. An an ex tradie fitter/turner, I love the quality and precision you folks are cranking out. Keep me coming!!!
Cheers mate! From across the ditch 👊🇳🇿
Watching from small town near Hamilton Ontario Canada. I'm a farmer/Electro-Optical Technician and enjoy watching machining/welding/fabricating videos. You and CEE are awesome channels to watch. Can't wait to see the big drill setup.
It’s gonna be a bloody interesting vid I reckon