A wise man once told me "You cannot make a mistake until you do something!" Be wary the man who never makes mistakes. He’s likely not doing anything. Another job well done!👍👍
Nicely done! When you were marking the holes out, I was screaming: "Flip the ring over....flip the ring over!" .......But it turnout well in the end. Like I say to my kids, "Its much easier to play the game on the couch eh?"
Ollie, we are blessed with the English language that includes a wide variety of very rude swear words that can be used to provide some relief from balls ups such as these.
You could have edited your mistake out, and we would have never seen it. Your a excellent trades man, you own your mistakes, and learn from them. Job well done!
Can I make a suggestion about turning the O.D. of your riser block in one! Turn your tool post through 180 degs. and use a boring bar if you have one long enough and set it out far enough to make one complete cut across the diameter.
Great stuff, being honest here, I've known time served engineers who would NOT have made that spacer better than you have. The error with the hole spaces is a lesson learned, you probably will never make that same mistake again. Really enjoyable post, thank you 👍 We do appreciate the time spent making these posts, and watching you and your mates have tractor pulling exercises 🚜🚜🚜 thanks again
Greeting from the Oklahoma USA....if that's the only mistake, you still win the game. You could have edited the mistake out and we would have never known but you kept it in the video so I commend you. Excellent! Keep up the good work Oliver.
Nice fix for the mill, I have to turn the head on mine 90° and then I usually run out of table travel ! My old foreman warned me about flipping stuff over. When he first got married, they bought a carpet remnant, but couldnt afford to get it fitted, so he reckoned if he turned it over, he could draw the room plan on the back with a marker pen and cut it out exact. Worked perfect till he flipped it back the right way up !
I’ve done conversion plates before for engines/gearboxes so I’ve had experience with the mirrored image before (thankfully I’ve never ballsed one of them up) but these bolt holes I expected to be symmetrical.
Superb job, and thank you for showing how life really is in a engineering shop. Things dont always go to plan, however we learn from it and move on, the job gets done just the same.
My mate and his father before him were farmers. They did all their own repairs. The father said to the son it doesn't matter if something is wrong or broken you can only make it better. There are no problems only solutions. The outcome is all that matters in the end. Another good job done enjoyed that very much.😁❤
Hell Oliver, if that's the worst thing that happened all week I think you did alright! Especially if you and the lads didn't break any tractor parts! . Cheers
Well anyone can make mistakes because we are human, I made mistakes in the past and made me a better man. You learn something new and that is part of life keep learning everyday. Job well done at the end.
Well done and much appreciated for the explanations of the processes! As someone new to milling I am able to learn many new things by watching and listening to your reasoning. Thanks! 👍👍👍😀😀
That was good as usual Oliver. The correction to the riser block, the tractor pulling and and that witty bit of sarcasm made this another beaut video, looking forward to the next one already.
Hi Ollie, hope you're keeping well. If you're not making mistakes you can't be doing owt. Someone said that once. Great job, and fixing your mistakes only took a bit o' time. Well done. As for the tractors? I knew my life was missing something! 😂 Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work.
Great project. Can you add both blocks? When you are turning the OD, you might try a boring bar instead of a toolbit holder so you could stand off a bit more. I enjoy you channel
@@BruceBoschek I've watched enough Snowball videos to know he'll just temporarily weld it all together if he needs to then gouge the weld out later and start over again. Nothing seems to stop him. Haha
We called them "soup cans" where I used to work. Had a big overhead crane in the shop and eye bolts in the top of the Bridgeport mills. Just bring the crane over lift the top off change out your desired height soup can reattach the head and your done. Great job on your riser block. If you can't find what you need and you have the skill and knowledge then you build one... A viewer from the USA.
I was watching you mark up the holes thinking he's forgotten to flip the angle scale, then I looked at again and thought be alright its symmetrical. I did the same last year measuring up to make a bracket for a Bosch injector pump, found my mistake after it was made - Doh!
Great job. I was watching closely to see if you flipped that ring when doing the second side. Then I couldn’t think if you needed to flip it or not. Good save though. You are handy with that putting on tool. Nice to see the power cord hanging there while your drill was in tapping mode. 🤠 You need a tapping head. I’m sure you can get one that doesn’t work from China. Seriously it does look like you are doing it the hard way which is why it rates as your favourite. Have you seen the tapping thing Abom79 has. Talk about overkill. I reckon it must have been a freebie.
Enjoy watching your projects and how you approach them. I enjoy when you mention how you measure things and the mathematics you use. The tractor pull was excellent.
Nice job on the Riser Block! Make sure you get the top and bottom faces ground so they are flat and parallel.0.01mm out over those faces could throw your head out by 0.1mm or more over the length of the ram. And don't paint the top and bottom faces!
Good job, mr Snowball! Glad i found this channel, always learning something new here! Extended reach for outside in the lathe could maybe been achieved by using a boring bar upside down and running the lathe backwards?
Good job and nice recovery from the holes. Been caught out with hole patterns like that before too, they look bang on so you assume it to be but for some design reasons they make them a baw hair out!! All the best.
Sarcasm, oh what it is to be British. 🇬🇧 If it had been me, a lot of the commentary would have been bleeped out at that point. Nice job, now you've held us in suspense will be waiting for you to show us using the bigger block. 👍
Very well done, I did not see you flip the ring over, but it makes sense that the holes would not line up. You taught me a great lesson here. I would have thought the holes were in the center like you did. Excellent fix and solution. The tractors at the end were pretty cool.
Thumbs Up! Very interesting project build. There are certainly more ways to skin a cat, sort a speak, than just cutting a huge block of metal to make such an adapter. And since you turned it parallel on the lathe so both ends are true, it works!
I bet the additional cut outs and bolt holes are because it is more universal and can be used on multiple models. Making one riser block that fits several models would be more cost efficient.
That was an interesting way you made the new riser block, considering that the old one was cast in one piece. But the new one will do the job nicely. I was watching you make that mistake when you were marking out the holes when you put the plate on upside down and thinking it should have been up the other way. But you fixed it, so it was all good in the end. It will be interesting seeing the job you use it for. Hope you can film it and it's not something propriety that you can't film.
Yep machine builder PCD’s have all kinds of surprises. You will also find 1 hole in a PCD out of place so it will only go on one way sometimes, handy to find before you drill the holes.
Invest in a pneumatic tool changer. There's a non-zero chance there's a kit specifically for your mill somewhere, maybe even second hand (tho most kits are pretty cheap these days, and it's not like it has to take lugs off a truck rim). You'll never look back after that and you can supply them with air from a very small compressor (one of those jobsite ones) if you don't have one in the shop.
I would not have painted the mating surfaces, as when you put new "feet" on a track on a digger you grind the paint of where the feet touches the track othervise the will come loose. The old riser was also not painted on the mating surface. Nice job, well worth the time.
I Oliver, loved the block build, Curtis would have and i think i think he has made one of these, so you are in great company, i was wondering do you do apparel, i would love to get my brother a tee shirt or other top, for Xmas or soon after. Simon
Whenever I watch your videos I can't help but think building things out of wood is so much easier. Being a Carpenter. But then metal workers often reckon not. I like making things out of metal. Just need a lot more practice. And skill.
I was lucky enough to serve my time with ICI Plastics what a great apprenticeship we had. We had some of the best equipment in our apprentice school and some of the best instructors that was in 1972 though. We came from all over the UK and lived in the ICI hostel in Welwyn Garden City we had the best of times wonder if there any others who trained at Welwyn Garden City
A wise man once told me "You cannot make a mistake until you do something!" Be wary the man who never makes mistakes. He’s likely not doing anything.
Another job well done!👍👍
Anyone that says they never broke anything, never fixed anything.
@@mongoose388 Truer words were never spoken!
My dad always said “if you do all the work, you’re gonna make all the mistakes!”. Truer words were never spoken.
A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships are built for. 🙂
Another phrase is an expert can fix his inevitable mistakes so that nobody ever notices.
The flaming exhaust clip at the end might make a short that could go viral.
Nicely done! When you were marking the holes out, I was screaming: "Flip the ring over....flip the ring over!" .......But it turnout well in the end. Like I say to my kids, "Its much easier to play the game on the couch eh?"
I made the mistake of thinking it would be symmetrical
Ollie, we are blessed with the English language that includes a wide variety of very rude swear words that can be used to provide some relief from balls ups such as these.
“one lump” 👍😂
You could have edited your mistake out, and we would have never seen it. Your a excellent trades man, you own your mistakes, and learn from them. Job well done!
I edited a lot of swearing out when I realised it was wrong 🤣
Can I make a suggestion about turning the O.D. of your riser block in one! Turn your tool post through 180 degs. and use a boring bar if you have one long enough and set it out far enough to make one complete cut across the diameter.
Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.
Thanks for that!
It's only a "balls up" if it's scrap! Job well done. The only man that never made a mistake it the same guy that never did anything.
Gday, that riser block turned out pretty bloody good and looks like a good weekend away to, cheers
The best forklift as a ceiling crane dude on the internet
Isn’t that what forklifts are for? 😉
@@snowballengineering of course!
Well done, Ollie! I'm stunned at how true that turned in the lathe before you started skimming it!
Skillz 😎 🤣
Great stuff, being honest here, I've known time served engineers who would NOT have made that spacer better than you have. The error with the hole spaces is a lesson learned, you probably will never make that same mistake again. Really enjoyable post, thank you 👍 We do appreciate the time spent making these posts, and watching you and your mates have tractor pulling exercises 🚜🚜🚜 thanks again
Greeting from the Oklahoma USA....if that's the only mistake, you still win the game. You could have edited the mistake out and we would have never known but you kept it in the video so I commend you. Excellent! Keep up the good work Oliver.
It's a pity that YT dont allow multiple thumbs up (one for the fabrication and one for the sled pull at the end).😄
Your intuition is your strength.
Nice fix for the mill, I have to turn the head on mine 90° and then I usually run out of table travel !
My old foreman warned me about flipping stuff over. When he first got married, they bought a carpet remnant, but couldnt afford to get it fitted, so he reckoned if he turned it over, he could draw the room plan on the back with a marker pen and cut it out exact. Worked perfect till he flipped it back the right way up !
I’ve done conversion plates before for engines/gearboxes so I’ve had experience with the mirrored image before (thankfully I’ve never ballsed one of them up) but these bolt holes I expected to be symmetrical.
Superb job, and thank you for showing how life really is in a engineering shop. Things dont always go to plan, however we learn from it and move on, the job gets done just the same.
car jack, block of wood...smart...
Pozdrowinienia z Polski od spawacza😊😊😊
Greetings from Las Vegas, NV. Really glad i found your xhannel, this is great stuff!
The tractor day looks like a lot of fun
My mate and his father before him were farmers. They did all their own repairs. The father said to the son it doesn't matter if something is wrong or broken you can only make it better. There are no problems only solutions. The outcome is all that matters in the end. Another good job done enjoyed that very much.😁❤
Grand! Very well done, a slight oversight but you recovered well from it.
Arise Sir Oliver!
Mark from Scotland 😂
Hell Oliver, if that's the worst thing that happened all week I think you did alright! Especially if you and the lads didn't break any tractor parts! . Cheers
Nice one. Why buy it when you can make it.
What a way to close a weekend ... with a Snowball Engineering video. Now I can face work in the morning.
Well anyone can make mistakes because we are human, I made mistakes in the past and made me a better man.
You learn something new and that is part of life keep learning everyday.
Job well done at the end.
Thanks Oliver. Them’s who never made a mistake never made nowt !!! ,Oliver😊👍
Well done and much appreciated for the explanations of the processes! As someone new to milling I am able to learn many new things by watching and listening to your reasoning. Thanks! 👍👍👍😀😀
Great save on the part. I like the old J.L Snowball 1973 crate above the lathe.
Back from the old potato growing days. Well before my time.
That was good as usual Oliver. The correction to the riser block, the tractor pulling and and that witty bit of sarcasm made this another beaut video, looking forward to the next one already.
I watch a few creators who post on Fridays, so it's nice to see one appear on Sunday. Thanks for posting enjoyed it. Good camera work 😊
If you don't mind, how are the creators besides Curtis you follow?
I think it might be a good idea for you to putting in a over head Crain for lifting all your heavy stuff
Binge watching again, 4th night on the trot 10pm-2am
Hope you’re enjoying the videos!
@@snowballengineering Of course 👍 top man 🇬🇧
Great job Pal. Anyone who makes no mistakes, either does nowt, or is a liar.
nice job !
little disapointment about the "clifhanger".
cheers ben.
Sorry! 🤣
Clever lad you ! Well done !
Hi Ollie, hope you're keeping well. If you're not making mistakes you can't be doing owt. Someone said that once. Great job, and fixing your mistakes only took a bit o' time. Well done. As for the tractors? I knew my life was missing something! 😂 Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work.
Hj did you not thinl about useing your booring bar to do the out side .
another great job. Good to see honest mistakes left in to show even pro's make mistakes...
Great project. Can you add both blocks? When you are turning the OD, you might try a boring bar instead of a toolbit holder so you could stand off a bit more. I enjoy you channel
Good idea on both points.
Hmmm, even massive fabrications like that have their torsion limits. I'd sure do some testing first before using both blocks together.
@@BruceBoschek I've watched enough Snowball videos to know he'll just temporarily weld it all together if he needs to then gouge the weld out later and start over again. Nothing seems to stop him. Haha
At 41:33 he says he has an upcoming job where he'll "need either both blocks in or neither".
@@kindabluejazzOh, thanks. I missed that!
We called them "soup cans" where I used to work. Had a big overhead crane in the shop and eye bolts in the top of the Bridgeport mills. Just bring the crane over lift the top off change out your desired height soup can reattach the head and your done. Great job on your riser block. If you can't find what you need and you have the skill and knowledge then you build one...
A viewer from the USA.
You didn't say whether you used a steak or a pork pie to get the circumferance 🤣 Fantastic video and great work (as usual).
Nicely pulled back. That plate machines up well.
I always keep in mind the the little Blue Bird of Happiness is always circling ready to crap on your shoulder given the chance. Good onya
Fantastic video again ollie
Thank you!
Excellent job Ollie, a you are a real engineer/designer and not afraid to develop.
I wish I'd known you were after the riser block, my friend has an old Beaver mill with an 8 maybe 12 inch riser for sale.
I’d still be interested in them! If they’ll fit mine
@@snowballengineering I've sent you a message
I was watching you mark up the holes thinking he's forgotten to flip the angle scale, then I looked at again and thought be alright its symmetrical. I did the same last year measuring up to make a bracket for a Bosch injector pump, found my mistake after it was made - Doh!
My friend did the same with a bosch p pump onto a tractor puller 🤣
Looks like a nice add to the workshop!
Great job. I was watching closely to see if you flipped that ring when doing the second side.
Then I couldn’t think if you needed to flip it or not. Good save though. You are handy with that putting on tool.
Nice to see the power cord hanging there while your drill was in tapping mode. 🤠
You need a tapping head. I’m sure you can get one that doesn’t work from China.
Seriously it does look like you are doing it the hard way which is why it rates as your favourite.
Have you seen the tapping thing Abom79 has. Talk about overkill. I reckon it must have been a freebie.
Enjoy watching your projects and how you approach them. I enjoy when you mention how you measure things and the mathematics you use. The tractor pull was excellent.
Excellent work Oliver👍👍👍 . Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself 🇨🇦
Clever👍
Nice job on the Riser Block! Make sure you get the top and bottom faces ground so they are flat and parallel.0.01mm out over those faces could throw your head out by 0.1mm or more over the length of the ram. And don't paint the top and bottom faces!
Great work, such an annoying issue at the end, I feel for you here!
Good job, mr Snowball! Glad i found this channel, always learning something new here! Extended reach for outside in the lathe could maybe been achieved by using a boring bar upside down and running the lathe backwards?
Could of done I suppose.
Good idea!
Good job and nice recovery from the holes. Been caught out with hole patterns like that before too, they look bang on so you assume it to be but for some design reasons they make them a baw hair out!! All the best.
Sarcasm, oh what it is to be British. 🇬🇧 If it had been me, a lot of the commentary would have been bleeped out at that point. Nice job, now you've held us in suspense will be waiting for you to show us using the bigger block. 👍
I havnt worked out how to bleep stuff out yet when I’m editing otherwise there would have been a lot 🤣
Awesome video, great work. Thank you Oliver 😍😍😍😍😍😍
cool, another new video, I've been looking forward to watching it the whole time and you've once again done a great job. Greetings from Germany 😎
Very well done, I did not see you flip the ring over, but it makes sense that the holes would not line up. You taught me a great lesson here. I would have thought the holes were in the center like you did. Excellent fix and solution. The tractors at the end were pretty cool.
Thumbs Up! Very interesting project build. There are certainly more ways to skin a cat, sort a speak, than just cutting a huge block of metal to make such an adapter. And since you turned it parallel on the lathe so both ends are true, it works!
I bet the additional cut outs and bolt holes are because it is more universal and can be used on multiple models. Making one riser block that fits several models would be more cost efficient.
nice job right there and you are an honest man one who can admit to making mistakes well done in the end the prof is in the final fit up Cheers
Good without a doubt. Very cool tractor pulling at the end 🚜
It never would have occurred to me to build a bigger riser like that. You did a good job
"if something is worth doing it's worth doing right"
Great job!
I just picked up a tap guide from McMaster for work and it saves me from having to start taps from a drill 😂
That was an interesting way you made the new riser block, considering that the old one was cast in one piece. But the new one will do the job nicely. I was watching you make that mistake when you were marking out the holes when you put the plate on upside down and thinking it should have been up the other way. But you fixed it, so it was all good in the end. It will be interesting seeing the job you use it for. Hope you can film it and it's not something propriety that you can't film.
Yep machine builder PCD’s have all kinds of surprises. You will also find 1 hole in a PCD out of place so it will only go on one way sometimes, handy to find before you drill the holes.
Enjoyed that build, look forward to seeing it in use...
Your a clever lad well done
Good job mate, you've just given me the incentive to make one for mine - they are a pain in the neck doing tool changes though!
Invest in a pneumatic tool changer. There's a non-zero chance there's a kit specifically for your mill somewhere, maybe even second hand (tho most kits are pretty cheap these days, and it's not like it has to take lugs off a truck rim). You'll never look back after that and you can supply them with air from a very small compressor (one of those jobsite ones) if you don't have one in the shop.
Well done simple mistake but remedy well done and looks good.
I would not have painted the mating surfaces, as when you put new "feet" on a track on a digger you grind the paint of where the feet touches the track othervise the will come loose. The old riser was also not painted on the mating surface. Nice job, well worth the time.
Great video! I enjoy watching tools being made, just something about these types of videos.
Well that was quite uplifting...thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it
I Oliver, loved the block build, Curtis would have and i think i think he has made one of these, so you are in great company, i was wondering do you do apparel, i would love to get my brother a tee shirt or other top, for Xmas or soon after. Simon
excellent work as always... thanks for sharing
Whenever I watch your videos I can't help but think building things out of wood is so much easier. Being a Carpenter. But then metal workers often reckon not. I like making things out of metal. Just need a lot more practice. And skill.
Nicely done very strong. I think it will be rigid enough too.
You should also get yourself a tapping head for use with the drill press, would have made tapping all those holes a lot easier
That`s what I like about your channel is that you are not afraid to show your cock ups and how you always find a solution keep up the good work
job well done, I enjoy watching your videos
wow... simple correction ....nicely done
Brilliant as usual
Great job mate. Important question though - how many cups of tea a day? I haven’t seen a kettle!!
Only 1, Im not a big tea drinker 🤣 and my house is only a 30 second walk so no need for one in the workshop
Excellent job man, I've got a 7"riser for my kbc mill haven't had to use it yet, great video, keep'um coming..
A good video, thank you. I always think it is satisfying to make your own tools, and in part that is what you did in these episode. 😀🇬🇧
I was lucky enough to serve my time with ICI Plastics what a great apprenticeship we had. We had some of the best equipment in our apprentice school and some of the best instructors that was in 1972 though. We came from all over the UK and lived in the ICI hostel in Welwyn Garden City we had the best of times wonder if there any others who trained at Welwyn Garden City
Just awesome craftsmanship🎉🎉
you did it again Sir, mad skills.
Another excellent job. Well done !
Waiting for new vid, spot on
Oliver is keeping it Real.
Excellent work sir 👏
Much appreciated
It is always a learning curve. keep on learning.
Fine work mapping that out blessings to All 🎉🎉❤❤😅😅
Fantastic ingenuity and skill.
Very tidy man! 🧐🤔