Hey Josh! In one of your other videos you mentioned how bad it bothers some people that you wear long sleeves, no ball cap, and something about your dew. Your work speaks for itself. I enjoy watching your work. 👍🏼
Back in 1974 as a 17 year old apprentice working in the chieftain tank factory in th UK My first shop floor placement after one year in the training school was with a man called jock a massive Glasgow man he was operating a planer similar to yours. On it we used to put the tank hulls on the machine bed to do the world preps on the long faces. The milling head was broken with about a 6 month lead time for repair. So he had to set it up as the original planer machine. This bloody thing frightened half to death taking a 1" wide x . 063 depth of cut blue hot cutting the size of massive truck coil springs changed as the sprang off the end of cut.bouncing down the shop. I think the machine was a waldrich blb(bloody big bugger) oh what fun we had.. Fantastic place to get an apprenticeship... Think you do a great job thanks for you vids
The planer table is a very nice tool. This is a very interesting project to follow along with, thanks. I noticed that you do not have a cooling pump on the planer, what are your thoughts on using a cooling system?
After running this job several times, I found 325rpm to give the best tool life. I used to run faster but would burn up inserts after a couple bars in the middle of a cut. Feed rate still about the same.
yep had to mute the chatanooga choochoo ...sorry terrible joke Was the planer always a rotary cutting machine or did it straight cut like a really long shaper?
You're only limited by the travel of the mill and your imagination. Research materials. Mine is 1018 and is not meant to be a production die. Just occasional use. I haven't finished it yet, been too busy and it's not a priority now.
@@TopperMachineLLC I know I'll have to harden most materials guess that's why we have a forge just have to learn that now thanks for the tips though...also can't I do what they call hard milling mill already hardened metal but with low depth cuts And aggressive cut speeds?
@@justinperry3791 you could use a 4140 Prehard, it's about 28-32 rockwell C to start with, but it too has internal stresses. When you start taking off a lot of material on one or 2 sides, it takes away the strength. It will move, doesn't matter what it is. I mill 4140PH like anything else. It's a little harder on inserts, but cuts fine.
Hey Josh!
In one of your other videos you mentioned how bad it bothers some people that you wear long sleeves, no ball cap, and something about your dew. Your work speaks for itself. I enjoy watching your work. 👍🏼
Back in 1974 as a 17 year old apprentice working in the chieftain tank factory in th UK My first shop floor placement after one year in the training school was with a man called jock a massive Glasgow man he was operating a planer similar to yours. On it we used to put the tank hulls on the machine bed to do the world preps on the long faces. The milling head was broken with about a 6 month lead time for repair. So he had to set it up as the original planer machine. This bloody thing frightened half to death taking a 1" wide x . 063 depth of cut blue hot cutting the size of massive truck coil springs changed as the sprang off the end of cut.bouncing down the shop. I think the machine was a waldrich blb(bloody big bugger) oh what fun we had.. Fantastic place to get an apprenticeship...
Think you do a great job thanks for you vids
I'm going to sub just because you have a planer/planeo mill
The planer table is a very nice tool. This is a very interesting project to follow along with, thanks. I noticed that you do not have a cooling pump on the planer, what are your thoughts on using a cooling system?
Coolant gets messy. I usually run carbide indexible cutters so no problem. I am considering a cold air gun tho.
@@TopperMachineLLC sir,your machine mechanism use gear or screw/threaded rod (X axiz)?🤝👍thanks
Josh, could you make a mist coolant set up on that machine as they seem to work with very little mess.
Great re purposed machine . What rev's were you running that cutter on . Cheers .
After running this job several times, I found 325rpm to give the best tool life. I used to run faster but would burn up inserts after a couple bars in the middle of a cut. Feed rate still about the same.
@@TopperMachineLLC Have you tried the high rake cutters , they love to eat steel .
@@swanvalleymachineshop not yet. Been looking at new tooling. Been hard to justify with the last few years I've had. Been awful slow.
yep had to mute the chatanooga choochoo ...sorry terrible joke
Was the planer always a rotary cutting machine or did it straight cut like a really long shaper?
I have two vertical mills in my shop work wants me to start being able to make dies for our brake presses and any tips would be greatly appreciated
You're only limited by the travel of the mill and your imagination. Research materials. Mine is 1018 and is not meant to be a production die. Just occasional use. I haven't finished it yet, been too busy and it's not a priority now.
@@TopperMachineLLC I know I'll have to harden most materials guess that's why we have a forge just have to learn that now thanks for the tips though...also can't I do what they call hard milling mill already hardened metal but with low depth cuts And aggressive cut speeds?
@@justinperry3791 you could use a 4140 Prehard, it's about 28-32 rockwell C to start with, but it too has internal stresses. When you start taking off a lot of material on one or 2 sides, it takes away the strength. It will move, doesn't matter what it is. I mill 4140PH like anything else. It's a little harder on inserts, but cuts fine.
@@TopperMachineLLC but would be ok for dies on big brake presses? They use Amada brakes
I did not know you can make a planer table go that slow
It has a modified drive. Original drive was changes out by a previous owner to a Variable DC Drive. Works great.
sir,your machine mechanism use gear or screw/threaded rod (X axiz)?🤝👍
gear drive
@@TopperMachineLLCwow thats great sir..how you arrange/set the table speed?(one speed or variabel speed?)thanks a lot.
@@Ph-vl1fm it is variable dc drive. Check out my other videos of the machine.
@@TopperMachineLLC ok,thank sir.👍🤝btw how is your motor spesification:power,etc?
On the top of the mill head, around the spindle. Are there a pair of levers? I couldn't tell for sure, but what are they for?
If you're referring to the 2 black knobs, one is a brake and the other is for shifting high/low speed.
@@TopperMachineLLC that's them . Thanks