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Voice over was a great call, much easier to hear

Hey Don, who would you use to do rebuild and do scraping work now that Plason Scraping has closed up shop?

I have had to turn my Bridgeport into a lathe a few times.

I need to side dress a 6° angle but having trouble finding a video

How much does a machine like that cost?

There are so few videos on od grinders and so few people that know how to use them them. I want you to know how much they help, I work In a small shop and we make parts to keep our machines alive and your videos give me the base I need to get started.

DA ! Where are they made 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 they never told me.

I learned this from this video YEARS ago, and I still use this method at work when doing a center setup on our KO Lees. . . .

Just found your channel and subscribed. Nice work.

Thanks, Don. Like always, excellant video. I was just telling my wife about you discovering your inner teacher & how much you enjoy it. She may not know you, but she knows Suburban Tool... recognizes the name, anyway. Why? She's been MSC's resident lexicographer for 12, 13 yrs, something like that. Lexi-what-a-fer? LOL That's most people's response. She is the knowledge behind MSC's massive product data challenge, of which Suburban contributes w/ your product line. The data organization behind their search engine, & structure of the product titles is her work focus. Her working for MSC has been a gift to me, too. I've been a builder, maker, fabricator my entire life. I'm retired, now, but something I've wanted to learn since high school is machining, but it was never in the cards, situationally or financially. So, I'm doing it now. I added a lathe to my modest sized, over crowded w/ equipment shop almost 7 yrs ago. Planned on adding a mill sooner, but just got 1 this summer; I've been side tracked w/ cancer for almost 5 yrs, so I'm trying to make up for lost time. MSC has been a great company for her to work for; can't say enough good things about them. The 1 thing whichs directly impacts me is their amazingly generous Employee Purchase Program. Because I have a no income hobby shop, I can buy from MSC, through her employee account @ cost +10. I get to buy all kinds of toys! Which brings me to this video. Looking into a boring head, but I'm also looking at fly cutters. You mentioned the cutting tool could be placed horizontally in the boring head; can it double as a large diameter fly cutter in that config? I have some of your excellant cast iron angle blocks. Got one as a 90⁰ reference for my metrology 'dept' & another to create a make shift milling adapter for the lathe. Nice stuff; wish I could buy more Suburban brand, great quality. If I had a job shop, I be a steady customer. Starrett quality, but not the exorbitant tariff for the name. Thanks for contributing to the knowledge base. GeoD

Exelente, thank you for this video. very informative and all well explained.

These don't look ideal but I'm glad you still made this video to expose us to this.

Good video, as a Toolmaker myself I must say it's an extremely skilled and challenging trade

Great video. Proper terminology would have been good to describe things. Ram, turret, swing, nod, rack n pinion

Great job on this video thanks for taking the time to post this.

That is a nice piece of equipment

It's a dying industry, but business is booming.

They make it sound complicated but it's not it just common sense another thing is this is really just a straddle mill very easy to operate but them chips be getting hot lol😂

Thank's a lot for the trip. I love it. Very interesting to see the whole prosess 😍🇧🇻

This was very educational. It's going to help me on my project. One thing I am going to do to get that extra thousandths of an inch is to cut a slit in a small bar and place a strip of 400 grit sand paper in it, and let it turn inside the hole. I learned this works well to get that little extra instead of adjusting the tool. You can't overshoot unless you are careless.

Happy times arrive when we see a video of you sharing yet another great tool in this case a total line of tombstones, keep up the quality we have grown to depend on. Lance & Patrick. Wishing your newer Mazak CNC is running as well seems to be answered here as it looked like it was to be as it was being installed.

.... sooooo Am I the only one that wants one of these as my ACTUAL Tombstone?

I hope Don is ok. Always a pleasure watching your videos. Thanks to Don my wallet is a lot emptier these days. I now own 4 surface grinders! And it's just a hobby for me!

I'm a CNC programmer, and a design engineer, so of course I'm interested in this type of video. That said, I am also interested in old cemeteries. Hard to say how this got promoted for me to see by CZcams.

Is “Don Bailey” okay ?

More shop tours with machines running!

Cool!

Can you engrave an epitaph?

ooooo pretty

In Father and King Jesus' Name, Amen ✝️✨

Very good thanks

Good Job...

As a home hobbyist, I only have a few dollars here and there to sacrifice on tooling. I bought two set of cheap Chinese 123 block and was shocked to find that bolts didn’t pass through the other holes. I had never used high end 123 blocks and didn’t know that the better block the bolts do pass through the clearance holes. I so glad I watched your video before I tried something dumb.

The weight of a steam locomotive and tender. That puts the size into comprehension.

When you say “a couple of tenths” is that a, one thousandths of an inch divided by ten? As in half a though wound be five tenths? 0.001 = one thousandth. 0.0001. = one tenth ?

I started watching the video thinking I was going to quit in few minutes... I ended up watching until the end. Love thise material.

Used that same radius dresser for years

Thank you for your advice. I needed to do this to my 2 lathes

Important free information thanks you 👍

I grind small and large parts up to 168" long. As small as 1/2". Carbide coatings. There is no quick and accurate way. It's ,002 per pass max or they egg from deflection. Diamond wheels can't easily be dressed.

Fascinating stuff, love keeping these vintage american girls in service.

Well done😊good

Thank you for your tutorial and excellent explanation of the why's and how comes. I'm sure that others will agree. Thanks

As I watch this video, I note that it is 8 years old. There is so much good information in it that comes from experience that it's hard to take it all in with the first view. It makes we want to go out and get a Bridgeport and start making stuff (I know that they are hard to find now). Thanks for posting it Don!

great tools, great technique, great sense of humor. Real winners

Nice work... that was exciting! I like the method!!

Brilliant, love your videos! Bring back memories in the toolroom in UK!

You guys are keeping an almost lost art alive. Thank you for all you guys do. You've helped this industrial mechanic become better and more skilled at his job.

Thank you. Now I know what that is.

That takes me back to a different life time 😊