Hands down. I bought the plans. His are metric so I’ll be converting to imperial and using mostly aluminum. But this is night and day better than anything I’ve ever seen.
@@Jraksdhs Dude just learn metric you will hate imperial once you do so. trust me i'm 100% born and raised in the USA. imperial was all i used up till about 5 years ago when i started 3d printing. once i got into machining I didn't want anything to do with imperial anymore.
Definitely one of the greatest build I've seen. Insanely well documented and wonderful editing. Love that you show each time what part you are machining.
This is absolutely fantastic. Already watched part1&2, but I'll leave part 3 for later. I love watching metalwork/machining channels, and in my opinion this seems to be the best so far.
The machine is fantastic! I love the overkill. Your running commentary is humorously informative. Thank you so much for all the effort you have put into this series. It’s hard to wait for what’s next!
I had to stop the video just to comment that your solution for securing the drive wheel stock to the lathe is nothing short of genius. You’ve raised the bar for me and what I can do with my small lathe. Apart from that, watching this series was like watching a feature film. Amazing engineering.
Oh man I just watched the first part of this video yesterday and was so ready for part 2! Thank you!! Your videos are amazing, perfect blend of awesome machining and great shots as well as narration.
I am from Qatar, you are really cool. Wonderful performance, explanation and way of thinking of distinguished people. May God reward you. I am one of your followers
Part 1 is 37 minutes 58 seconds and part 2 is 37 minutes 33...together, probably the best 75 minutes and 31 seconds on UA-cam. Outstanding work, outstanding. Looking forward to part 3.
I had to machine a similar piece of angle recently. I stopped the chatter by placing wooden wedges under the overhang, just some lengths of timber with a 45 degree mitre, clamped at the back of the vise so as not to interfere with the table movement. They only need to make light contact, otherwise they can flex the material but it worked very well. Great work on this project, thoroughly enjoying your videos.
What absolutely beautiful work. These results are why you have a mill and a lathe. The precision of finish and fitment is very enviable. Very Very well done.
Nice video of your detailed machining on your belt grinder. So good to see that you have all the machines to create it, especially the lathe and the milling machine. Thanks for making the video.
Phil Vandelay! You are an amazing craftsman, you helping to justify the cost of a milling machine for me, Love this type of project. I was "surprised" to see you use a pair of pliers to tighten the axle twice.
They're knipex wrench pliers and some of my favorite tools. Grabs clean and parallel like a wrench with a lot of holding power so it doesn't mess up the surface, and if you're lazy one of those can replace half of a toolbox. Trust me if you get those, you'll understand why I use them so much :) And yes, a mill is an awesome machine to have!
Hey Phil... this is turning out to be THE BEST beltgrinder design and build on You Tube... and there are some pretty damn good designs out there (I've watched all of them!)!! Very well done Sir! Greetings from Southport, UK.
very nice, and you did the right thing with the crowned pulley. there's no controversy, just physics. the crown creates small differences in tension in the belt which keeps it centered.
@@PhilVandelay y, either works. as long as one of the wheels is crowned, the belt will track. tensioning wheel is usually easier to make. my big band sander has a crowned tension wheel, drive wheel is rubber. having a crown on both is unnecessary and might be problematic if they aren't precisely aligned.
Awesome build! I once worked in a asphalt shingle factory. We would glue ceramic tile to wear surfaces. As I recall it worked well. They too had to be replaced once in a while.
Hadn't even thought of ceramics but it makes sense. Most people use tempered glass, but I've heard of a few cases where it broke regardless which sounds quite scary (glass pieces being shot around).
@@PhilVandelay yeah we would glue them on with epoxy. They never broke in service. When they were worn we would heat them up and break / grind back to fresh steel where we could install new ones.
bro found this by accident and this is by FAR the best belt grinder build on youtube that ive seen . holy crap your video was just hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm love the build just wish i had the ability to copy just 1/10th of our skill bro
there are "surface grinder" attatchments for this type of belt grinders. its just sliding magnet chuck you attatch under a large-ish diameter wheel. alec steele uses it. it does achieve pretty good flatness and finish tbh. sorry if i just added quite a few hours of work to your porject hahaha.
@@PhilVandelay the only thing i see wrong so far .. not your work or how it's built all great ,, the one thing wrong is i don't have one yet ,, great work ,, keep it up ...
Fine looking grinder! In fact it looks so good that may be you should just sit it up and admire it. Guess I just see the well used variety of bench grinders to often.
A showcase in amazing talent! I just subscribed to your channel. Regarding the 2 degree angle, I've personally found insignificance. If you have an adjustment, it seems to track just fine, at least what I found in my own design and build. But to each his own. Your craftsmanship is second to none.
This project is so cool. I'm also having an idea to make something for myself too that could make my day easier at needed points. Nice job mate, you've done pretty good job modeling the model in Fusion 360, i am also modeling, but haven't done nearly that large projects as yours.
Wow. I’m impressed by the talent and skills. Suggestion;at 29:30 or do you talk about the lathe shaking. It shakes when center of mass is off center. Have you tried to add a weight on the other side of the chuck? Then the masses on either side of the center are balanced.
As someone who is currently building a belt grinder..and using it as my excuse to learn how to weld...this thing is so far beyond anything I could imagine making it is unreal.
Congrats, you really push those small machines to their limits. Lucky you have power feeds on the lathe or that wheel would have been a nightmare. Thanks for the video, great content and good humour too.
True, reversible (!) power crossfeed was a lifesaver for this thing. And yeah it was a good project to find the limits on those machines, both size and power wise. I think they did admirable, considering the bad rep that "hobby" import machines get.
I don't need a belt grinder and I don't own any of the tools required to make one, but I really want to make and own this belt grinder. It is a work of art!
Yep, they are pretty expensive though! This was the "quick and dirty" version with what I had around. But also the broaches need a through-hole and this one is closed at the bottom
I love your overall practical approach in the engineering design of your belt sander. I was curious as to why on the clamping blocks you used the lathe and a boring bar when a reaming bit on your mill for the final size would have allowed you to achieve the desired ID dimension without have to use the lathe at all. I'm not knocking for it, just would have been much safer. Thanks Love the video series
Unlike many people assume, I don't have a full-blown professional machine shop here, my equipment both in quality and quantity is very much hobby grade, so I don't have a huge 25/30mm pre-drill and reamer just sitting ready in a drawer somewhere. Sure that would be nice, but buying those tools (most likely only for this one job for the foreseeable future) would have cost me a few hundred bucks in decent quality, while boring it out is essentially free. Might not look like it in the videos, but I work around a lot of limitations here, including financial ones.
@@PhilVandelay it was not my intention to offend you. My question was strictly from a manufacturing standpoint. I completely understand working with what you have adapt and overcome, innovate and just get it done!! I love your videos and have learned alot of tips and tricks from a point of view that would have never crossed my mind. Thank you for all the knowledge you share and I apologize if my comment offended you.
@@tricky4g63 No worries, I wasn't offended, sorry if it sounded that way. I would explain more about why I do things certain ways in the videos but it's just too much information to squeeze in sometimes. But most of the time, if it looks like I'm doing something in an unusual way, it's because I'm improvising with the methods I have available. Like chucking a chuck into a chuck because I don't have a backplate ;)
Here's a tip if you are worried about the part causing balance problems Use a thick packer between the jaw and the job to make the weight either side of the centre more even
If I may suggest; the clamp blocks that are tightened onto the channeled shafts with only loctite between the threads-drive a roll pin into them. Vibrations & use over time will definitely loosen those threads. Unless you're into grinding knuckles off.
@@PhilVandelay I think tacking them in place would make them 'too' permanent. Since the trouble of making threads on the mating parts are already established, putting a hole through them wouldn't be that much more work. A roll pin just allows them to be taken apart with ease, if a reason arises.
Hi bro i impressed with your machine it is mind blowing,it like company finsh,really nobody can do like you.thanks all the best bro i admired in your machine,i love this too👍👍👍👍👍
If you cut the inside rim of the drive pulley at a 20 deg. Angle it will be self cleaning. I have a home machine shop and everything I built there’s a lot of machine work involved whether it needs it or not!
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Got to be the finest built belt grinder I've ever seen.
Hands down. I bought the plans. His are metric so I’ll be converting to imperial and using mostly aluminum. But this is night and day better than anything I’ve ever seen.
@@Jraksdhs Of course they're metric! That's how most of the world runs ;)
Could say this is gunna be one fine grind.
Lol. Why would you machine a belt sander like this?
Jon Smith because he can
@@Jraksdhs Dude just learn metric you will hate imperial once you do so. trust me i'm 100% born and raised in the USA.
imperial was all i used up till about 5 years ago when i started 3d printing. once i got into machining I didn't want anything to do with imperial anymore.
Certainely the best inovative and precise job I ever seen building belt grinder
Definitely one of the greatest build I've seen. Insanely well documented and wonderful editing. Love that you show each time what part you are machining.
Just, jaw dropping, I mean woah. Wasn't expecting the ball locks, those snappy clicks... dammm... so satisfying.
This is absolutely fantastic. Already watched part1&2, but I'll leave part 3 for later. I love watching metalwork/machining channels, and in my opinion this seems to be the best so far.
The machine is fantastic! I love the overkill. Your running commentary is humorously informative.
Thank you so much for all the effort you have put into this series.
It’s hard to wait for what’s next!
说的好
Some of the best content Ive seen recently, Been looking for Part 2, and now waiting for your next video!
I had to stop the video just to comment that your solution for securing the drive wheel stock to the lathe is nothing short of genius. You’ve raised the bar for me and what I can do with my small lathe.
Apart from that, watching this series was like watching a feature film. Amazing engineering.
Oh man I just watched the first part of this video yesterday and was so ready for part 2! Thank you!! Your videos are amazing, perfect blend of awesome machining and great shots as well as narration.
That's not a grinder, that's a work of art!! Well done fella, outstanding!!
I am from Qatar, you are really cool. Wonderful performance, explanation and way of thinking of distinguished people. May God reward you. I am one of your followers
I really like the fact that this is a machinist’s sander and not a welder’s 👍🏼
Welders use sanders?
Nah just quick and dirty angle grinder🤣
If it was a welders sander he would of cut it out with a Zip disk and welded it together.
Part 1 is 37 minutes 58 seconds and part 2 is 37 minutes 33...together, probably the best 75 minutes and 31 seconds on UA-cam. Outstanding work, outstanding. Looking forward to part 3.
The most clean and neat work, this machine will last for years.
Elegant design brilliantly executed- A genuine pleasure to watch-Thank You
I had to machine a similar piece of angle recently. I stopped the chatter by placing wooden wedges under the overhang, just some lengths of timber with a 45 degree mitre, clamped at the back of the vise so as not to interfere with the table movement. They only need to make light contact, otherwise they can flex the material but it worked very well.
Great work on this project, thoroughly enjoying your videos.
I've got shit to do, but now I'm going to sit here for 37 minutes and watch this.
I watch it only 18.5 minutes - play speed 2x. 😉
Me as well... :))
Restoring some Wadkin old table saw
same man, same. and I can't wait for the next video...
@@DPTech_workroom You can also get twice as much out of it if you watch on 0.5 speed, just tried that and it's really funny to hear myself as a sloth
@@PhilVandelay The time is money. 😉
First time UA-cam algorithm didn't let me down and recommended this! More than a hour passed with the part 1, and I didn't even realize it.
What absolutely beautiful work. These results are why you have a mill and a lathe. The precision of finish and fitment is very enviable. Very Very well done.
Nice video of your detailed machining on your belt grinder. So good to see that you have all the machines to create it, especially the lathe and the milling machine. Thanks for making the video.
This is the best belt grinder build and a fantastic video - excellent narration, skill, etc.
I remember from last video "if you can't make it perfect, make it adjustable." My friend you're doing a great job. Keep it up. 😊
Phil Vandelay! You are an amazing craftsman, you helping to justify the cost of a milling machine for me, Love this type of project. I was "surprised" to see you use a pair of pliers to tighten the axle twice.
They're knipex wrench pliers and some of my favorite tools. Grabs clean and parallel like a wrench with a lot of holding power so it doesn't mess up the surface, and if you're lazy one of those can replace half of a toolbox. Trust me if you get those, you'll understand why I use them so much :) And yes, a mill is an awesome machine to have!
Hey Phil... this is turning out to be THE BEST beltgrinder design and build on You Tube... and there are some pretty damn good designs out there (I've watched all of them!)!! Very well done Sir! Greetings from Southport, UK.
Holy crap that is one solid bench grinder with some exceptional features!! Very very impressive build.
So well done. I'm so jealous. Finest built belt grinder I've ever seen.
Thank you for sharing this very high quality video with great comments. It must be so much work !
Pretty trick features on this tool. Definitely high-quality machining and design input. Thanks for Pt.2!
So satisfying to watch how it comes together :) GREAT JOB
Opening the cardboard box and taking out the part, isn’t the type of video we want watch either. Excellent work!
Phil Bro!!! You Are A BAD ASS!!!!! Wow, I feel like I'm still in 3rd grade. Your previous life lessons and training have paid off. Very Nice Sir!!
very nice, and you did the right thing with the crowned pulley. there's no controversy, just physics. the crown creates small differences in tension in the belt which keeps it centered.
Yeah but the question is, do you taper the belt tension wheel, the drive wheel or both. I've seen all these options and they all seem to work 🤔
@@PhilVandelay y, either works. as long as one of the wheels is crowned, the belt will track. tensioning wheel is usually easier to make. my big band sander has a crowned tension wheel, drive wheel is rubber. having a crown on both is unnecessary and might be problematic if they aren't precisely aligned.
Thing of beauty Phil ,very elegantly narrated 😊👋
Awesome build! I once worked in a asphalt shingle factory. We would glue ceramic tile to wear surfaces. As I recall it worked well. They too had to be replaced once in a while.
Hadn't even thought of ceramics but it makes sense. Most people use tempered glass, but I've heard of a few cases where it broke regardless which sounds quite scary (glass pieces being shot around).
@@PhilVandelay yeah we would glue them on with epoxy. They never broke in service. When they were worn we would heat them up and break / grind back to fresh steel where we could install new ones.
I love these 3 part videos. I watch them over and over. Respect for the craft and the effort you put into it.
I've been waiting for this! Gosh damn you're great at this.
Now I want to see Tony do milling operations on his shaper, for karmic balance with you shaping keyways on a mill.
bro found this by accident and this is by FAR the best belt grinder build on youtube that ive seen .
holy crap your video was just hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
love the build just wish i had the ability to copy just 1/10th of our skill bro
Never seen someone doing awesome thing like that. Good job
The moment you are about to go to bed but you check yt one more time and you see that part 2 was uploaded!!!!!!
there are "surface grinder" attatchments for this type of belt grinders. its just sliding magnet chuck you attatch under a large-ish diameter wheel. alec steele uses it. it does achieve pretty good flatness and finish tbh. sorry if i just added quite a few hours of work to your porject hahaha.
👌🏻 30:00 You could place a counter weight, a piece of material, and speed up your lathe.
It's a brilliant design and well executed. Thank you for sharing your expertise. It's a pleasure watching.
Innovative approach to chuck that big piece in your lathe.
This is in my top 20 builds on YT!
Loving the detent concept:) Very nice work.
Very elegant design worthy of my time go watch.
Awesome work Dude. And you seem to be a down to earth Person. It's always like that people who know more show off less.
Love the ball bearing grub screw sliders.
Only downside I see would be grinding grit getting in there and the stainless steel could seize up.
I wish I could hear the discussion of the archeologists who will dig out this machine 5000 years from now....
Fernando the SpaceCaptain it will be Jimmy Direstas great great great great great grand kids doing a restore video.
@@vfxsoup It's gonna go viral for sure on the neuralnet hypertube
This is like the modern-day Antikythera mechanism.
@@PhilVandelay the only thing i see wrong so far .. not your work or how it's built all great ,, the one thing wrong is i don't have one yet ,, great work ,, keep it up ...
@@vfxsoup '
chips humm melt it down and make your self a useful block of metal. great build like it a lot and all the thought you put in to it very useful design
I really love your dry sense of humour!
Love your videos it’s a pleasure just to watch you work, you are a true artist!
Stunning work and 100% commitment to producing a perfect build, well done wish I had a mill now, thanks keep up the great videos
Un genio, me encanta la manera de trabajar con mucha precisión. Me gustaría ver mas vídeos de estos trabajos. Saludos desde Argentina
saludos desde quilmes :)
Fine looking grinder! In fact it looks so good that may be you should just sit it up and admire it. Guess I just see the well used variety of bench grinders to often.
A showcase in amazing talent! I just subscribed to your channel. Regarding the 2 degree angle, I've personally found insignificance. If you have an adjustment, it seems to track just fine, at least what I found in my own design and build. But to each his own. Your craftsmanship is second to none.
Great video and great work. Doing instead of talking. If I have more time, I would build same kind belt grinder.
This project is so cool. I'm also having an idea to make something for myself too that could make my day easier at needed points. Nice job mate, you've done pretty good job modeling the model in Fusion 360, i am also modeling, but haven't done nearly that large projects as yours.
it is such a pleasure to watch your work great work keep it up please build a grinder where machining is not required so any one can build.
Wow. I’m impressed by the talent and skills. Suggestion;at 29:30 or do you talk about the lathe shaking. It shakes when center of mass is off center. Have you tried to add a weight on the other side of the chuck? Then the masses on either side of the center are balanced.
The best! Time stamps it is perfect
Outstanding work as usual, can't wait to see the finished product! 👌👍
Great attention to detail.
Вот что значит руки из правильного места. Красава!
OMG... This is engineering, machining and making pron.. The very best on UA-cam. Could you tell us the brand and model of your mill and lathe please.
I am so glad this showed up on my suggested after I forgot to sub during the first part. You get a sub.
Awesome project. Wow, that was a lot of aluminum wool.
This is amazing, you my friend are extremely talented.
Just phenomenal work… really beautiful!
As someone who is currently building a belt grinder..and using it as my excuse to learn how to weld...this thing is so far beyond anything I could imagine making it is unreal.
Nice, this man has talent.
Can't give this as many likes as it deserves!
Great video Young man!
Great job and excellent videos
We want more designs for workshop machines 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Congrats, you really push those small machines to their limits. Lucky you have power feeds on the lathe or that wheel would have been a nightmare. Thanks for the video, great content and good humour too.
True, reversible (!) power crossfeed was a lifesaver for this thing. And yeah it was a good project to find the limits on those machines, both size and power wise. I think they did admirable, considering the bad rep that "hobby" import machines get.
Oh what a wanderfull and clean JOB CONGRATULATIONS
thats just insane of a buid! love it!
I don't need a belt grinder and I don't own any of the tools required to make one, but I really want to make and own this belt grinder. It is a work of art!
This is almost Stefan build quality machine :)
I love it
Simply amazing
you can buy keyway broaches to use either on the quill (although not recommended) or on an arbour press.
Yep, they are pretty expensive though! This was the "quick and dirty" version with what I had around. But also the broaches need a through-hole and this one is closed at the bottom
Amazing work. That's it.
Where is the zeger fuse on the bearing shaft?
Приятно смотреть. Отличная работа.
Perfect work and you can Make it again using waterjet cut... Cool.
just woww perfect job, i love this insane belt grinder
👍👍👍 Отличный проект, великолепное исполнение!
Absolutely fabulous build and super video. Amazing work.
I love your overall practical approach in the engineering design of your belt sander. I was curious as to why on the clamping blocks you used the lathe and a boring bar when a reaming bit on your mill for the final size would have allowed you to achieve the desired ID dimension without have to use the lathe at all. I'm not knocking for it, just would have been much safer. Thanks Love the video series
Unlike many people assume, I don't have a full-blown professional machine shop here, my equipment both in quality and quantity is very much hobby grade, so I don't have a huge 25/30mm pre-drill and reamer just sitting ready in a drawer somewhere.
Sure that would be nice, but buying those tools (most likely only for this one job for the foreseeable future) would have cost me a few hundred bucks in decent quality, while boring it out is essentially free. Might not look like it in the videos, but I work around a lot of limitations here, including financial ones.
@@PhilVandelay it was not my intention to offend you. My question was strictly from a manufacturing standpoint. I completely understand working with what you have adapt and overcome, innovate and just get it done!! I love your videos and have learned alot of tips and tricks from a point of view that would have never crossed my mind. Thank you for all the knowledge you share and I apologize if my comment offended you.
@@tricky4g63 No worries, I wasn't offended, sorry if it sounded that way. I would explain more about why I do things certain ways in the videos but it's just too much information to squeeze in sometimes. But most of the time, if it looks like I'm doing something in an unusual way, it's because I'm improvising with the methods I have available. Like chucking a chuck into a chuck because I don't have a backplate ;)
Here's a tip if you are worried about the part causing balance problems Use a thick packer between the jaw and the job to make the weight either side of the centre more even
Is this when I go to amazon and start buying everything to become a machinist cause god damn you make it look so fun and easy
ye, and after buying a lot of tools and started working you understand that this work is very difficult...
@@Paul_Kair nothing is difficult in life. Once you have the correct mindset you could pretty much achieve anything you want.
@@GearheadOutlaw Where do you buy these mindsets???
@@brucejacobson3350 it comes free If you stopped wasting time on meaningless things around you. Good luck brother
@@GearheadOutlaw I'll pay on that one. Cheers.
If I may suggest; the clamp blocks that are tightened onto the channeled shafts with only loctite between the threads-drive a roll pin into them. Vibrations & use over time will definitely loosen those threads.
Unless you're into grinding knuckles off.
I actually thought about just tack-welding them in a few places just to keep them from coming loose. But I don't really think it's that big a risk
@@PhilVandelay I think tacking them in place would make them 'too' permanent. Since the trouble of making threads on the mating parts are already established, putting a hole through them wouldn't be that much more work. A roll pin just allows them to be taken apart with ease, if a reason arises.
It's so beautiful, I couldn't use it. I'd have to put it on my coffee table as art.
Hi bro i impressed with your machine it is mind blowing,it like company finsh,really nobody can do like you.thanks all the best bro i admired in your machine,i love this too👍👍👍👍👍
So looking forward to part 3.
Отличная работа👍👍👍
What a quality project as well as the video!
If you cut the inside rim of the drive pulley at a 20 deg. Angle it will be self cleaning. I have a home machine shop and everything I built there’s a lot of machine work involved whether it needs it or not!
This is the kind of things you only need one of in your life. Lifetime warranty! Amazing.
*Very well done.*