As a welder and a NDE tech, I agree with you approach to the welding to avoid opening up laminations with heavy weldments. I do have a comment on the use of Xray to detect laminations. Xray does not detect laminar indications unless the direction of the source lines up with the lamination. the reliable NDE to detect laminations is with ultrasonic shear wave.
Perfect timing. I picked up some 1 ft by 2 ft by 1 inch thick plate to make some angle plates for my boring mill. No real way to stress relieve if I welded them up at that size so I was thinking about bolting them together and having gussets in the back.
Hi Max, I would have taken a flyer off the top faces so that when you machined the second face you could have put some dowels in the tee slots and went hard up against them, saves having to measure from the column and you keep the thickness consistent, also saves having to clock in for the finishing cuts. Just a thought. Best wishes Mal.
I plan to make a couple of blocks that locate in the t slots . They need a clean up with a file on the bottom corners from previous t nut damage / burrs . 👍
Nice work as always Max. I'll be doing the same job in a few weeks on my HBM. I have a set I fabbed up years ago, and they were close enough for the job I was doing. But now it's time to true them up for a new job.
@@TopperMachineLLC Sorry Mate , missed the reply . No , i have a good range of the Herbert ones , that i will modify 2 of the holders to take the play out of . Cheers
I'm glad I'm not the only one that removes a few inserts in a face mill like that! It's refreshing to see others trying radical steps to get results! Nice work, Max!! 🙂
Leave only one insert, then it becomes a flycutter, works quite well (I think). I noticed that my cheap facemill has quite a bit variation in the insert heights, which affects surface finish. One insert leaves it at one height only. 🙂
@@timogross8191I too have the same trouble with my 50mm cheap chinky side and face mill. I will have to try taking all but one out.. I hadn't thought about that until your comment. Thanks!
Your weld prep and weld method looks spot on, excellent point on plate lamination, during my apprenticeship in the training shop it was annexed off the fab shop. We were right by the grinding and fettling area, and the leading hand would also Vibration Stress Relieve (VSR) certain weldments, as per call up. During one test we heard the loudest bang, then a massive cracking sound, yes, lamination had showed its self. Love the foot start procedure, certainly more ergonomic than a hand lever pump. Great job Max.
Wow that was awesome Max, the big girl really likes the iron diet. That was some great info from the bag of tricks dealing with the chatter...👍👍 The weld prep / placement make total sense...thanks for the run down.. Good One ! Cheers....
Max did in the end...removing all but one carbide insert turned his face mill into a fly cutter which did give him the finish he was looking for. Nice work Max, thanks !
Hand ground insert for the win! When stuff like this happens to me I always think maybe I should have made it out of thicker plate, so I have more passes to get it right. After listening to carbide insert facemills pound away in the Bridgeport it sure is nice to (barely) hear them glide through the material in a proper, heavy milling machine. Ken
Another great video, you must be Feeding Olga the right juices at a pace she like. Olga performed to a near finish, & she didn't even break a Sweat. Well Done 👏 ✔️ 👍🏻
Great job, great mill, great result. I love watching your videos because the silver walls remind me of a space ship I built when I was a boy in the 1950s. 🙂
The removal and swapping of insert positions was very interesting to see, not something I have seen before. I was also thinking you would swap to the shaper before you resolved the chatter.
Face mills and I do not ever seem to get along with each other either Max. I never thought of using the face mill as a fly cutter. I usually use a boring head but never at 1000 RPM! . like your idea much better. Cheers
That’s some serious metal removal Max. Finish looked pretty good to me. Didn’t realise making angle plates was that involved. Nothing is ever easy, is it? Keep up the good work, makes interesting content. 👍👍👍
G'day Max, a master class in persistence. I think we have all tried changing the insert configuration on cutters. I have found once the harmonic starts it's there to stay. Changing up the speeds or feeds just when you feel it coming in makes a big difference. One of the advantages of a VFD. I've used a cutter like a fly cutter but never thought to modify the insert, that's one tip I'll lock away for a problem day. Cam
Nice finish finally Max, you got there in the end with a bit of Aussie perseverance. Olga certainly is a big old Russian girl. Good on the dance floor when you guide her, but painful if she treads on yer toes!
That was an interesting explanation of the welding, I'm not a welder and never heard anything like it before. The only welder who made a comment agreed with you so I guess if I ever decide to make some angle plates I'll know where to start
Good video friend Max..thanks for your time Hello Max. If you allow me as a professional miller, I can give you some advice. The clamping of these pieces can be improved... they should have staples holding the pieces at the top with at least one staple in the middle and one staple on each side You would also have to take into account that some welded squares should have lateral triangles that in Spain we call gussets and that is what really gives rigidity to the squares and allows you to avoid bending... in fact the gussets can be screwed now that they are still You are at a time, and once the gussets are placed, then you do a few passes planning the surface with a couple of tenths...on the other hand, that milling plate with that plate geometry is more for roughing but it is not appropriate for giving good results. finishes... an apkt 16 type geometry with aluminum plates would give you a much better finish... or also a flicutter to do the finishing passes a greeting from Spain michael
That's why i reduced the flat on the insert . Do not have any small rad inserts for that face mill . Usually get by with the inserts that i use . As for cuts in the same direction , that is more important when chasing accuracy . I want to see how this machine reacts in all directions , to see the condition of everything . Cheers 👍
Gday Max, Olga really is the sturdy girl eh mate 😂, I'd forgotten you started these big barstards! great work as always buddy, Lady Chatterly certainly gave you a run around eh, thought you'd end up fly cutting lol, thanks for bringing us along
Hi Max it looks like the first runs on the machine are going good. Are you going to bolt it down to the floor? The reason for asking is if that will effect how it cuts. Cheers
Hi Just for clarification, you cannot find laminations in plate bt X RAY testing as the beam cannot detect the lamination perpendicular to it. Commonly lamination testing is done by ULTRASONIC testing with a 90 degree probe. This will detect laminations perpendicular to it as it reflects the sound wave back to the probe. Mick UK.
Thanks for the correction . Last time i machined that stuff , it had numbers stamped in that were not allowed to be machined out . Blanking plates for an off shore gas rig . Cheers 👍
Hi. That would be for traceability. There may also have been 3rd party inspector stamps for independant witness verification as well.@@swanvalleymachineshop
From your cut pattern it seems you had several inserts at different heights. I fine tune cutters like this with an indicator and I shim the inserts. This helps with chatter also.
Thanks . In the milling cutter modification video a couple of weeks back , i found them at different heights . These inserts can not be shimmed or adjusted . 👍
Max, would it have helped dampen the harmonics if you also had clamps right out at the end of the toe of the plate, ie; in the centre T slot of the table. As is, you only clamped in two positions of the plates, and the more clamp positions the better, even if it is showing to be flat.
Would it have been a job for the shaper with the load going down to the table ? All my experience is watching videos . I commented before the end of the video. Kit from Queensland
Aside from being extremely experienced, with a well calibrated eye, do you use any means of non-destructively testing thick weld beads and plate? I used to work at a place that made wind towers, and ultrasonic testing was the main inspection method. There was dye/penetrant, and in certain situations stuff was shipped out for x-ray testing, but it was impressive how much could be caught with ultrasound. It wasn't just for fabrication issues either. Had some customer supplied steel from God only knows where, with sparkplug porcelain and such fully embedded in the plate. One of the few times in my life I did an actual double-take, trying to comprehend what I was looking at after rolling the plate into a cylinder.
I do not do any testing . Ultrasonic gear is used at work to test the thickness & wear of steel in track machine rollers . Lol , the porcelain is a new one on me ! Cheers 👍
Hi Max, didn't know much about lamination in steel back in the late eighties. Ultrasonic thickness testing was carried out on a 48" elbow on the outlet of the Vacuum Distillation Column some 200 feet high and deemed too thin. It was removed at great expense. I was walking past and the Maintenance Manager was going to town on the alledged thin area with a ball pein hammer and yelled out its laminated, threw the hammer down in disgust. Perfectly good elbow removed for no reason?
That's experience ! Machined some blanking plates back in the day for North Rankin A platform , they were all Ultrasonic tested or what ever they did . Had certification stampings that woe betide if i accidentally machined them out ! 👍
Hi! I think that milling head is wrong. After hardening it was twisted. But really it's work for shaper. And surface grinder. But I don't know Your plan for this tool.
@@swanvalleymachineshop Really. But shaper work, You drink tea ) My main jod - 3D printing. Ohhh it's very long... I understand You. And video how shaper work not so interesting ;-)
No , tried that ! Usually i take the cuts in one direction when i am chasing precise dimensions . I need to see what this machine does in all directions . Cheers 👍
These were always destined to be done in the shaper . But due to the urgency , the shaper would have taken several times longer to machine them . Cheers 👍
YES, a flycutter could be made to be as wide as the workpiece and therefore one blade wide. They give brilliant results. See Topper Machinery for a fine example. I once had access to a universal milling machine which had one cutter head 300mm diameter. Couple of passes would do a great job of the angle plate.
Olga is a Beast , she plowed through that weld like it wasn't even there !
She is ! Thanks 👍
She like a Russian shot putter from the ‘80’s
I was expecting sand bags as plan C Max😉. You got there though, what a beast.
Can't beat sand bags Jon ! Cheers 👍
As a welder and a NDE tech, I agree with you approach to the welding to avoid opening up laminations with heavy weldments. I do have a comment on the use of Xray to detect laminations. Xray does not detect laminar indications unless the direction of the source lines up with the lamination. the reliable NDE to detect laminations is with ultrasonic shear wave.
Thanks for that . Cheers 👍
Correct
Perfect timing. I picked up some 1 ft by 2 ft by 1 inch thick plate to make some angle plates for my boring mill. No real way to stress relieve if I welded them up at that size so I was thinking about bolting them together and having gussets in the back.
No worries Tom . They can still move after machining . Steel plate can hold a lot of stresses . 👍
Another excellent lesson. Cheers, Max.
Cheers Rob . 👍
Very nice video capture to the work features. Thanks for having me along. I enjoy the view to adjustments as to finish. M.
No worries 👍
Hi Max, I would have taken a flyer off the top faces so that when you machined the second face you could have put some dowels in the tee slots and went hard up against them, saves having to measure from the column and you keep the thickness consistent, also saves having to clock in for the finishing cuts. Just a thought. Best wishes Mal.
I plan to make a couple of blocks that locate in the t slots . They need a clean up with a file on the bottom corners from previous t nut damage / burrs . 👍
Nice work as always Max. I'll be doing the same job in a few weeks on my HBM. I have a set I fabbed up years ago, and they were close enough for the job I was doing. But now it's time to true them up for a new job.
Thanks Josh . Just going over my quick change tooling , very similar to yours . 👍
@@swanvalleymachineshop Are you referring to that magic chuck I have? I have a smaller one if your interested in it.
@@TopperMachineLLC Sorry Mate , missed the reply . No , i have a good range of the Herbert ones , that i will modify 2 of the holders to take the play out of . Cheers
I'm glad I'm not the only one that removes a few inserts in a face mill like that!
It's refreshing to see others trying radical steps to get results!
Nice work, Max!! 🙂
Leave only one insert, then it becomes a flycutter, works quite well (I think). I noticed that my cheap facemill has quite a bit variation in the insert heights, which affects surface finish. One insert leaves it at one height only. 🙂
@@timogross8191I too have the same trouble with my 50mm cheap chinky side and face mill. I will have to try taking all but one out.. I hadn't thought about that until your comment. Thanks!
Do what ever it takes ! Thanks 👍
I love that Mill❤. I need to get me a horizontal. Great video
Lol , cheers Glen . 👍
Another great video of you and Olga on the dance floor. Thanks Max, cheers.
No worries 👍
I just love that mini mill of yours! 🤣
Thanks 👍
Keeping that weldment that square, is damn impressive! Nice work.
Thanks . The 3 & 1 ratio did the bizzo . 👍
Thanks, Max. Great next step video. Get it done when you need it. Need a tool build a tool.
No worries 👍
Great video showing your bag of tricks , thanks!
No worries . 👍
Nice job Max. I like that you stuck with it even to modifying your insert. I learned some things. 👍
Thanks 👍
Remarkable persistence! 👍 Worth it for such nice results.
Thanks . Just working through the problems ! Cheers 👍
Nothing beats a no nonsense machine Max.
Cheers Graham . 👍
Your weld prep and weld method looks spot on, excellent point on plate lamination, during my apprenticeship in the training shop it was annexed off the fab shop. We were right by the grinding and fettling area, and the leading hand would also Vibration Stress Relieve (VSR) certain weldments, as per call up. During one test we heard the loudest bang, then a massive cracking sound, yes, lamination had showed its self.
Love the foot start procedure, certainly more ergonomic than a hand lever pump.
Great job Max.
Thanks . I was machining a plate in an old video , that had a big lamination through it ! 👍
Thx for the vid. Olga still effortlessly putting in the work.
So far so good ! Cheers 👍
love watching u sir , ive just started my journey in milling and love watching passion and wizdom thankyou!
No worries 👍
Wow that was awesome Max, the big girl really likes the iron diet.
That was some great info from the bag of tricks dealing with the chatter...👍👍
The weld prep / placement make total sense...thanks for the run down..
Good One !
Cheers....
Cheers Dean . You should see the mess on the floor & 10 foot radius ! 👍
Nice mill
And perfect job for the mill.
I like your stress relieving technique
No worries , thanks 👍
Loved watching the progress I was yelling at the TV to try a fly cutter the finish is great .I really like your channel a lot
Thanks . Do not own a fly cutter ! Prefer face mills . 👍
Max did in the end...removing all but one carbide insert turned his face mill into a fly cutter which did give him the finish he was looking for. Nice work Max, thanks !
Great stuff mate! I could watch this all day..
No worries 👍
Enjoyed…nice work/discussion
Thanks Chuck 👍
Hand ground insert for the win! When stuff like this happens to me I always think maybe I should have made it out of thicker plate, so I have more passes to get it right. After listening to carbide insert facemills pound away in the Bridgeport it sure is nice to (barely) hear them glide through the material in a proper, heavy milling machine. Ken
Lol , yes they can make a racket in a small machine . Cheers Ken . 👍
Old Olga did a fine job mate thanks to your persistance for quallity . Thank again for a great vid mate👍👍
No worries . There are always tricks up the sleeve ! 👍
Another great video, you must be Feeding Olga the right juices at a pace she like. Olga performed to a near finish, & she didn't even break a Sweat.
Well Done 👏 ✔️ 👍🏻
Cheers Ted 👍
Nice work Max.
The angle plates came out nice.
The mill sure is a nice machine.
Thanks for sharing.
Have a great day.
Thanks 👍
Awesome job mate
Cheers Matty 👍
And was the finish up to your standards, Matt???? 😄😁😆😂
Those old USSR machines are well built, bit agricultural but great manual machines. I remember using Sanko import machines a college in NZ. Solid!
No worries . Lol , we had little Boxford lathes at Kapiti ! Thanks 👍
Great to watch Max. You don't see much horizontal head milling on YT. Cheers Tony
Cheers 👍
I ‘Armonize with ya.
All about harmonics..
Nice work horse that mill.
Cheers 👍
Great video on the machining of the angle plates Max. I remembered when you fabbed them up and poured in the MIG wire welds. Olga is a monster mill.👍
Thanks 👍
Thank you for the knowledge.
Nice machine that one.
Thanks 👍
Thanks Max. I learned much today.
No worries 👍
Wish I was your neighbor, you would enjoy my enthusiasm ! We probably get into trouble !
Probably ! 👍
Great job, great mill, great result. I love watching your videos because the silver walls remind me of a space ship I built when I was a boy in the 1950s. 🙂
Thanks . Lol , i built one too . Meccano set , early 70's ! 👍
Cant stop drooling over all the machinery! 👍 great explanation of your excellent work, thank you 🙏
No worries , Thanks 👍
nice finish Max, ill have to get you to grind the other 6 of my inserts now so they are all the same !! ah ha
Lol , Cheers 👍
Thanks for sharing 👍 Excellent timing, I was just looking at building my own.
No worries 👍
Hard to see the graduations in the light, that is my excuse too as I get older 🤣 Mr Pete style Visor is getting more use as I age.
Lol , i am due my yearly visit to have my glasses prescription checked ! 👍
The removal and swapping of insert positions was very interesting to see, not something I have seen before. I was also thinking you would swap to the shaper before you resolved the chatter.
No worries . 👍
Oh my days! Don't tell Matty 😂
Lol !!! Cheers 👍
Face mills and I do not ever seem to get along with each other either Max. I never thought of using the face mill as a fly cutter. I usually use a boring head but never at 1000 RPM! . like your idea much better. Cheers
No worries . I have used my boring head in that way before as well , it works ! 👍
Nice one !!
Thanks 👍
Thank you Max!
No worries 👍
Hi. Loving all these videos Max. Cheers 👍
Thanks 👍
thanks for showing your troubleshooting on that chatter!
No worries 👍
That’s some serious metal removal Max.
Finish looked pretty good to me.
Didn’t realise making angle plates was that involved.
Nothing is ever easy, is it?
Keep up the good work, makes interesting content. 👍👍👍
Cheers Ian . They were an easy one ! 👍
👌great finish
Thanks 👍
G'day Max, a master class in persistence. I think we have all tried changing the insert configuration on cutters. I have found once the harmonic starts it's there to stay. Changing up the speeds or feeds just when you feel it coming in makes a big difference. One of the advantages of a VFD. I've used a cutter like a fly cutter but never thought to modify the insert, that's one tip I'll lock away for a problem day.
Cam
Thanks Cam . The flat contact edge on that insert was just too wide causing the plate to ring . Cheers 👍
Nice finish finally Max, you got there in the end with a bit of Aussie perseverance. Olga certainly is a big old Russian girl. Good on the dance floor when you guide her, but painful if she treads on yer toes!
I hope she does not stomp on my toes !!! 👍
Good video max, interesting to see how you work through your problems.
No worries 👍
Chatter is mostly indipendent from the feed speed. Your squares need a support in the back. Reduce rpm and blades is a way to go.....when works.
Can not put a support in the back , will go through it next video . Cheers 👍
That was an interesting explanation of the welding, I'm not a welder and never heard anything like it before.
The only welder who made a comment agreed with you so I guess if I ever decide to make some angle plates I'll know where to start
No worries 👍
Max, another great video.
Looking forward to the next installment.
From kiwi land
Thanks 👍
Hello Max. She is a big rigid mill and quiet at work. BC
Thanks Bernie . 👍
That machine makes your adjacent us mill look tiny - like an appliance for kitchen use. Kitchen aid perhaps?
Lol , thanks 👍
Good video friend Max..thanks for your time
Hello Max. If you allow me as a professional miller, I can give you some advice.
The clamping of these pieces can be improved... they should have staples holding the pieces at the top with at least one staple in the middle and one staple on each side
You would also have to take into account that some welded squares should have lateral triangles that in Spain we call gussets and that is what really gives rigidity to the squares and allows you to avoid bending... in fact the gussets can be screwed now that they are still You are at a time, and once the gussets are placed, then you do a few passes planning the surface with a couple of tenths...on the other hand, that milling plate with that plate geometry is more for roughing but it is not appropriate for giving good results. finishes... an apkt 16 type geometry with aluminum plates would give you a much better finish... or also a flicutter to do the finishing passes
a greeting from Spain
michael
Cheers Michael . I will go through the reasons & questions from others at the start of part 2 video . Thanks 👍
olga did good max.
cheers ben.
She did ! 👍
A sheet of corrugated cardboard on the back side held on with magnets to dampen the harmonics.
Mike
Lol , i think it needed more than a sheet of cardboard !!! Thanks 👍
Olga gets more good looking every time I see her ;)
Lol , Cheers 👍
Hello Max.
Can I suggest that on finishing cuts, make them all in the same direction.
Also, for finishing, use a small radius on your carbide insert.
That's why i reduced the flat on the insert . Do not have any small rad inserts for that face mill . Usually get by with the inserts that i use . As for cuts in the same direction , that is more important when chasing accuracy . I want to see how this machine reacts in all directions , to see the condition of everything . Cheers 👍
Very nice , Love that machine..
Thanks 👍
Gday Max, Olga really is the sturdy girl eh mate 😂, I'd forgotten you started these big barstards! great work as always buddy, Lady Chatterly certainly gave you a run around eh, thought you'd end up fly cutting lol, thanks for bringing us along
Cheers Ralfy . I do not own a fly cutter , never even used one !!! 👍
Hi Max it looks like the first runs on the machine are going good. Are you going to bolt it down to the floor? The reason for asking is if that will effect how it cuts. Cheers
One day it will get bolted down . There is enough weight in the machine not to effect those small cuts . Thanks 👍
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Yes She was . Around 1980 . 👍
6т83ш отличная машина👍
Great machines 👍👍👍
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Cheers 👍
Tape a sheet of rubber around the stickout of the spindle.
The spindle is not the issue . Cheers 👍
Hi Just for clarification, you cannot find laminations in plate bt X RAY testing as the beam cannot detect the lamination perpendicular to it. Commonly lamination testing is done by ULTRASONIC testing with a 90 degree probe. This will detect laminations perpendicular to it as it reflects the sound wave back to the probe.
Mick UK.
Thanks for the correction . Last time i machined that stuff , it had numbers stamped in that were not allowed to be machined out . Blanking plates for an off shore gas rig . Cheers 👍
Hi. That would be for traceability. There may also have been 3rd party inspector stamps for independant witness verification as well.@@swanvalleymachineshop
From your cut pattern it seems you had several inserts at different heights. I fine tune cutters like this with an indicator and I shim the inserts. This helps with chatter also.
Thanks . In the milling cutter modification video a couple of weeks back , i found them at different heights . These inserts can not be shimmed or adjusted . 👍
Damn Max! Not entirely sure those angle plates are big enough.
Lol , i have just started the extension plates because they are too small ! 👍
Delicious.
Thanks 👍
Max, would it have helped dampen the harmonics if you also had clamps right out at the end of the toe of the plate, ie; in the centre T slot of the table. As is, you only clamped in two positions of the plates, and the more clamp positions the better, even if it is showing to be flat.
I could not fit extra clamps in . The outside slot in the table is a coolant drain , not a tee slot . Cheers 👍
Would it have been a job for the shaper with the load going down to the table ? All my experience is watching videos .
I commented before the end of the video.
Kit from Queensland
The shaper would have been a good machine to use , but i need them done a lot quicker than a shaper would be able to do them . Cheers 👍
Ah, chatter problems. Not always easy to find a good solution.
Pops up everywhere !!! Cheers Rusty 👍
She's a beaut 👍👍😎👍👍
A keeper so far ! 👍
Aside from being extremely experienced, with a well calibrated eye, do you use any means of non-destructively testing thick weld beads and plate? I used to work at a place that made wind towers, and ultrasonic testing was the main inspection method. There was dye/penetrant, and in certain situations stuff was shipped out for x-ray testing, but it was impressive how much could be caught with ultrasound.
It wasn't just for fabrication issues either. Had some customer supplied steel from God only knows where, with sparkplug porcelain and such fully embedded in the plate. One of the few times in my life I did an actual double-take, trying to comprehend what I was looking at after rolling the plate into a cylinder.
I do not do any testing . Ultrasonic gear is used at work to test the thickness & wear of steel in track machine rollers . Lol , the porcelain is a new one on me ! Cheers 👍
Hi Max, didn't know much about lamination in steel back in the late eighties.
Ultrasonic thickness testing was carried out on a 48" elbow on the outlet of the Vacuum Distillation Column some 200 feet high and deemed too thin.
It was removed at great expense.
I was walking past and the Maintenance Manager was going to town on the alledged thin area with a ball pein hammer and yelled out its laminated, threw the hammer down in disgust.
Perfectly good elbow removed for no reason?
That's experience ! Machined some blanking plates back in the day for North Rankin A platform , they were all Ultrasonic tested or what ever they did . Had certification stampings that woe betide if i accidentally machined them out ! 👍
Always a pleasure Max. Enjoy the learning curve.Thanks!
No worries 👍
I wonder if shot or sand bags would help with that chatter.
Probably not as it was only an issue at the top of the vertical plate . Cheers 👍
Hi! I think that milling head is wrong. After hardening it was twisted. But really it's work for shaper. And surface grinder.
But I don't know Your plan for this tool.
Thanks . I was going to do the job in the shaper but it would have taken 10 times as long . Cheers 👍
@@swanvalleymachineshop Really. But shaper work, You drink tea ) My main jod - 3D printing. Ohhh it's very long... I understand You. And video how shaper work not so interesting ;-)
> beer:30 laugh riot observation - ya gotta be switched on to work Olga...
She gives you a workout ! Cheers 👍
How old is Olga she is one ball breaking machine. Have you inspected the oiling system to ensure she is getting her daily feed.
Approx 1980 . Still have to go through the oiling system , as with a lot of other things . Cheers 👍
Seams similar to a fly cutter.
Similar ! 👍
Max,
Would it help with chatter to make your cuts from one direction only with the cutters pushing downward instead lifting upward lifting upward?
No , tried that ! Usually i take the cuts in one direction when i am chasing precise dimensions . I need to see what this machine does in all directions . Cheers 👍
How much easier it would be if they were cast iron?
One could only wish !!! 👍
Why you did not do the work on the sharper?
These were always destined to be done in the shaper . But due to the urgency , the shaper would have taken several times longer to machine them . Cheers 👍
You are cutting from the same end
Same end and both ends . Their is a reason . 👍
Would it be feasible to use a fly cutter
Don't own one & never even used one ! It's on the one day list to make one ! It was a tool never used in my industry experience . Cheers 👍
Mattys workshop made one a while ago and I made an even simpler one. It does a really good job.
@@philmurray1359 Have put a tool in my boring head to flycut before !
Fly cutter Max ??
Still have to make one . I always prefer carbide face mills . Cheers 👍
Max----Sharpen your pencil please,it's really annoying, thanks Mike, from Texas 😁
Lol , i did . In part 2 !!! 👍
Don't you love flycutters ?
Might have to make one & find out what all the hoo ha is about ! Cheers
YES, a flycutter could be made to be as wide as the workpiece and therefore one blade wide. They give brilliant results. See Topper Machinery for a fine example.
I once had access to a universal milling machine which had one cutter head 300mm diameter. Couple of passes would do a great job of the angle plate.
You should be over the side with the work
If you have operated one of these machines before , you should know why i am not using the side controls ! 👍
Banana brain here. when you say "take a 1 mil cut" do you mean 0.001 mm?
Probably means a full mm because 1 mm is only .039 of an inch.
.001mm is a tiny .000039 inches (39 millionths) (or 1 micron)
It can get confusing! 🙂
Looking at the chips he’s making they are 1 mil(imeter).
However, I think that if said 1 thou that’ll be 1/1000”
He means 1mm or 40 thousands of an inch, small cut for Olga 😊
Just 1.0 mm . Cheers 👍
shorten the arbor
Nothing to do with the arbor . The plate is the issue . 👍
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Good machine . 👍