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thanks! what will be helpful when I finally get around to give my very similar looking clone a good cleaning.

one thing I do a lot is to just make start angle 0 and the end angle 360 and then just set the number of holes to one higher than I want. why? I´m more than likely to mess up the end angle doing the math in my head. also I often skip holes to drill the two that are on the same X or Y dimension first and come back to the other ones later. saves on some cranking handles and setting the same dimension several times. I can can jump back and forth in the PCD list with the arrow keys.

Do you do custom orders?

Hello mate, just wondering if you have any further thoughts to share on this compressor now you had it for around 1 year? I am looking to buy this myself and wondered what your take on it is now? Thanks and keep well.

I got the Aldi ferrex 12v with the same bits and to be honest the battery's are rubbish the grinding disc's are flimsy the wire brush fell apart after cleaning a pad lock, my advice don't buy this garbage buy the real thing

Hello John, I hope you are ok. I was a regular viewer and then you disappeared. I hope it’s because you have other things to deal with and that there isn’t a serious problem! 🙂

You are assuming the surface plate is flat. You have to start there and it can be proved that it is flat.

Replaced it although I think valve was ok. But now left side not inflating all the way up... What can it be?

of special interest is the recover function when power is lost and the hand wheels have been moved while the power is off.

Great video, very helpful. I would like for you to do the DRO setup video. Thank you

My surface height gauge arrived today off ebay for £2 plus £4.20 delivery. Awesome tip and I know how to use it too now. TY.

Great review thank you

I wonder why this isn’t more common. Can anyone think of the disadvantages of preloading the column like that? The round column rong fu’s flex like mad at the base too. I always wondered why they didnt compress the flex with a similar style clamping system. You know, temporarily 😅

The whole series of videos has been amazingly helpful to me! I had an oil drip from my Warco mill (which looks the same as yours), so I pulled the head off. And then left it due to health problems. This must have been pre-pandemic. I was looking at my broken mill just last week trying to figure out what to do to fix it and then spotted your video series of repairs. I now feel (relatively) confident that given an afternoon or two I should be able to watch your videos for guidance and get the machine back together! So a massive thank you for sharing your videos and letting me see how things should be done. Subscribed!

I've done all the steps as you have described and the result is, that the left site are not pumping up as the right site and i have no idea why. the diffrences between the right and the left site is the diffent 2cm.

Bit old now but these Vices are the same as offered by Vevor. Great value and 'fairly' square for the $ I got a second of these 4" for a slightly larger bench mill (rather than use one 6") and apart from one being taller by about 0.6mm to the top of the slide not a bad pair to match. Parallelism and squareness was will get a tweak later but similar to this Video within usable limits for 98% of jobs. Using the tall one as a hand scraping project after decking it down to match the other. Good Video too👍

Thanks!

Helpful, thanks

Very comprehensive review well done thanks

Now going on Lidl for £13 , bargain!

Hello. What if car dropped at driver side only?

Hi Jon, Great tool well designed, I have a question, have you considered making it settable down to one degree? My thoughts are if you add extra holes on the lower face, you could sit the gauge on a narrow parallel and include 1,2 and 3 degrees offset on each side so you could add or subtract the 1,2 or 3 degrees from the basic 5 degree settings. You have probably discounted this for a very valid reason that escapes me!! I have a 6" vice so have more room, over the 4", your comments would be appreciated. Tony

Something magical about watching a shaper run.

Hi Jon, I picked up an Elmagrav engraving machine yesterday. I have watched your videos on your rebuild and will be watching them again. They will be very helpful when I rebuild my machine. It came with heaps of accessories that aren’t shown in your videos, and it also came with photocopied operating instructions, and they are in English. There are no photos or diagrams in the operating instructions, but the instructions do refer to photos and diagrams of the accessories how to fit them and how to use them, so I can only assume that the photos were separate and have not been included. Does your manual have any of these pictures/photos? If you’re interested, maybe we could exchange email addresses and send some information backwards and forwards.

Great Review, would this be ok and good enough to remove grout?

Thank you for you videos. I am enjoying your clear explainations and the more indepth topics you are covering.

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Brilliant honest initial review Jon. Thank you.

Thanks!

Bij mij vliegt de stop eruit bij gebruik, hoe kan dat nou ???, is toch maar 750 watt??

Perfect. Only problem was some previous owner had effected a repair minus the retaining washer and substituting the split pins with 2 nails to retain the vice together. These I had to drill out because too stiff to drift. Because the washer was missing the buffing spring was baddly buckled, with the spring binding around the nail. I imagine this vice was used in a workshop, why did the "repairer" cut corners, when a workshop of useful material would be available?

Nice review, thank you!👍

Thanks for a great video with a very good and detailed explanation of the system 👍 I had my 520d 2013 up on the lift and was just about to replace the airbags, when i came across your video, and realized that it more likely was the solenoide that was broken. My BMW was also sitting on the ground, and when it was started the compressor would start for a few seconds, without anything happening. I took the solenoide off and found out that it was in the closed position which it should be. When i checked the resistance of the two pins of the solenoide the resistance was 12,8 ohm, which seemed pretty normal. I then connected the two pins of the solenoide to a 12V battery but it remained in the closed position, until i did connect it maybe 20 times and then it suddenly started to work, and i could now blow air through the solenoide when it was connected to 12V. I then assembled it again and the car worked perfect and still does, and i could even return the unused airbags 😊

Thanks

Absolute SUPER STAR Thank you ❤ Also didn't get to work yesterday but thanks to your video and the link it's all fixed at £21 😂😂😂

Hi Jon. (That’s my name too!) Thank you! So kind of you to share your efforts. I’m a blacksmith/weldor/sculptor trying to learn to be a machinist. This is a beautiful design. Is there a version of the plan in inches? - Jon Taylor, owner, Taylor Iron Works

Good review. If you sprinkle a little flux on the workpiece before heating, it keeps the metal clean as it heats- the braze then takes better.

Great tool! Thanks very much.

Thanks

Hi there, thanks for the helpful video! What is the best way to de pressurise the system, i think mine is going back sits on bump stops, and when sat for 3 or 4 hours is there a simple way to safely de pressurise it without the car having a fit? Cheers!!

Glad I stumble on this series. Last fall, I picked up an original Atlas Shaper from the 1930's. It's not the 7B, so it doesn't have the table support in the front. Last year I rebuild an Atlas Milling Machine and now the task of rebuilding the shaper begins. Thanks for sharing these videos. They will be very helpful. I'd be curious if anyone knows if the mold is the same as to where I could convert it to the 7B series by swapping out the base and installing the 7B working surfaces with the table support. Any assistance would be great. Cheers.

I like that surface grinder. Is it 3 phase? If so, are you using an inverter. But it does a lovely job, I should get one. Cheers

Just wondering why you used the shaper and not the milling machine for the machining ? Cheers

Your building a nice little channel matey. Some very interesting stuff. Cheers

Very fine explanation. Thank you!

Thank you John i just bougt my first dro for my mil and installed it i learn alot from your video's

Fabulous idea. Cheers . Video idea...engineering drawings and all those symbols etc etc. Thanks again

Thanks!

Nicely done.

Yes fabulous explanation and video cheers.