Machine Shop Tips

Posted by 141drew Posted onDec 9, 2010 at 1:40 AM and filed under Reviews & Features


I was messing around on YouTube today and found a series of videos based around machine shop tips and tricks and figured you guys might be interested. Mr. Pete is a retired shop teacher and his videos are patient, well produced, and just plain smart. If you are into this sort of thing, take some time and check out the series.

You can find them here.


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I too was looking at those last week. My fav is this one, if anyone is having difficulty sharpening tool bits..........


Do a "machine shop tips" search on youtube to bring up a bunch of other good stuff.

Thanks for the reminder.
 
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Metalworking Sink or Swim by Tom Lipton? I think? is a great book. Tons of cool tricks and useful info.

Here's a machine shop tip: don't show up for a job interview in sandals. That ***** did not get hired.
 
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Ign said:
Metalworking Sink or Swim by Tom Lipton? I think? is a great book. Tons of cool tricks and useful info.

Here's a machine shop tip: don't show up for a job interview in sandals. That ***** did not get hired.
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Thanks for that book ref. The library system here lets you reserve books on line. A machine calls you when the book is delivered at my branch and you go pick it up. I can review it first before laying out any $$$.
 
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tublacain!!! this guy's videos rock! I've spent a LOT of time watching this guy's videos. They are to the point, but in depth enough to give you a good understanding of whats going on.
 
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Yeah thanks for posting this, I mentioned somewhere before I inherited my uncle inlaws tool box which is filled with machinist tools and gagets many of which I see in these videos. Maybe I will buy a milling machine one day.:bowdown::bowdown:
 
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Fun stuff. The wooden examples he uses for showing the angles to be ground on HSS turning bits are exactly how I was taught years ago. We first had to grind a tool bit out of a block of wood and then we ground our actual HSS bits.
 
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What a neat old guy.

I had one grandfather that was a machinist/inventor and another was a carpenter and I often regret that I'll never know the smallest fraction of the things they did. I love old timers like tubalcain that can do these types of things with a simple, confident competence that just isn't shown much these days.
 
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If I was gonna make the drill fixtures . I think I might make only one block with changeable drill bushings on the ends (for the stock size) put whatever you need there - to match your stock - and put whatever you need in the top to match your bit - viola - one fixture does everything! Just thinking out loud....


Edit: Now I'm thinking "V" block base with bushing on top. Hmnn I think they sell these already...
 
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I never took "shop" in school and have wished many times that I could have. Listening to these videos makes me wish even more that I had.

I enjoy his state-pride references. In the video where he makes the sand core for the steam engine casting "silica sand ... from Illinois" makes me smile. Nothing wrong with being proud of the state from which you hail - just look at my thread signature.

Also - his references to the cost of a 6-pack bring a smile to my face. "You really need two band saws, one with a ... blade and one with a ... blade. Don't tell me you can't afford it. They only cost 50 6-packs . . . if you buy them used." There's another reference about the cost of a quality quick-change tool post for the lathe - "Don't whine it's too expensive - just quit drinking beer for a few weeks and you can buy one..." (or something similar.)

In the video about taps and dies and recognizing threads he talks about "the gal down at the local hardware store . . . she has a moustache . . . can recognize almost any thread at a glance" made me laugh out loud.

All in all, the best show on TV. I'm learning lots - and learning is a great thing. Good shop teachers are a thing to behold, and from my perspective, this guy left "good" in the dust many decades ago.
 
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He also says something along the lines of (paraphrased) "if you got one of those Chinese vises throw it out or use it as a boat anchor then get a nice used US made one".

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I don't know how to link to a youtube video, but watch #3 of 3 Drill bit sharpening by tubalcain. At 4:57 he takes a hammer and beats an el-cheepo drill bit sharpening jig, and then throws it away. I laughed out load when I saw that.
 
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well, it took three years of membership, but here is my first post on the GJ.. cool link, thanks Ryan...
 
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I wish I would have had a shop teacher like this in high school, I might have learned something.....
The shop teacher we had was more into working on HIS own personal projects than teaching us "newbies".
what a waste.
 
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Wow! Great stuff. I have been employed as a machinist for over twenty years now and this takes me back. High school metal shop. They don't even offer it anymore except in vocational schools.

We rarely hand grind our tool bits anymore. Most of our lathe tooling consists of indexable carbibe toolbits held in various styles of toolholders. Carbide is necessary due to materials such as Titanium, Inconell, and different grades of Stainless among others. When modifying or creating a custom bit the carbide blank is ground with a diamond wheel or wire cut in a EDM machine.

Although things have evolved, the fundamentals shown in these videos are the pillars of everything we do in the shop today.
 
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frozen_bohemian said:
I wish I would have had a shop teacher like this in high school, I might have learned something.....
The shop teacher we had was more into working on HIS own personal projects than teaching us "newbies".
what a waste.
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I had the same type high school shop teacher in Electric Shop. He was always gone working on something around the school, mostly the intercom system. When he was in class he tried teaching at a level that only an electrical engineer could understand. It was almost like he had no patience for teaching and few in our class really learned anything although he did give everyone passing grades. I can see now that Machine Shop would have been a much more useful class.

Luckily my Dad taught me how to use tools properly. He would have been a great shop teacher had he chose that vocation. I still miss him after all these years.
 
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Racecarl said:
I don't know how to link to a youtube video, but watch #3 of 3 Drill bit sharpening by tubalcain. At 4:57 he takes a hammer and beats an el-cheepo drill bit sharpening jig, and then throws it away. I laughed out load when I saw that.
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That was a General Tools #825 sharpening jig. About $25.

Could also have been a Craftsman branded one.

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