Cool project! I'm 100% sure I would not have thought of this solution. Clever and nicely executed. Folks sent you some really thoughtful items! Fun video, made me chuckle!
I worked with and became friends with a German fellow who had been a radar operator in a Me. 110 night fighter. When he saw I was sincere in my interest in aviation he opened up and we had some good conversations. Because I had a rather extensive library on WWII aviation, I knew about German aircraft. He said to his wife one day, that I knew more than him about their aircraft. That was because information was highly restricted in his time. The books I had was information revealed after the war. One subject we discussed was fear. Those young kids, and today they we look back on them as kids, 16 to 25 years old, held the same fears as our young had once they were in the middle of the conflict. Read the posters of the time. It was supposed to be an adventure.
ONG !! Dont do this ! My heart is bleading see this. You have to scrap the ways. Never Sandpaper, Never Grynding Paste. Why dont look on RU-vid before?? There so many channel that show how to fix this the wright way !!
Nice repair Michel and effective as well. All I could think pf during the process was your"dislike" of scraping. I enjoyed the video very much, cheers and have a great day friend!
Yes,it most certainly works,Michel.Your rationalistic approuch is flawless.Your evaluation process based on your experience and equipment is unique and transferable to your viewers.Thank you.
Hi Michel. Looks like you got a decent result, but you took a few risks. Odd that the lower surface under the slideways is rough, you're right that it stops you measuring, I think I'd have skimmed them with the shaper :)
Good morning Michel, just settled down with a fresh coffee and a soft Kitten, ready to watch, I know before I start, this will be a good one, best wishes to you and yours buddy
*_You should check out Max Grant on his scrapping videos._* Scraping is the key to real flatness. And the only time you should be feeding with your compound is when making angled cuts. There are locking screws to lock the gib so the compound doesn't move which is what you should be doing when making normal facing or 90 degree cuts. 👍👍👍👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣
Great channel suggestion. Max Grant is what happens when decades of experience and natural talent collide. There might be better 'how to' videos on scraping (Stefan Gotteswinter did a good tutorial, I thought), but Max got a lot of result with very few tools when he scraped his bridgeport's ways. It's a crime his channel isn't more popular. I've learned so much watching his videos. For those interested: Max Grant ,The Swan Valley Machine Shop.
@@pingwax. Yes there are more "instructional" videos on scraping but Max is more real, in the dirt; What someone is going to be experiencing sort of thing in real life in their shop. I call Max The Wizard. LOL. I agree his channel is an unsung gem. In fact, all of the Aussie channels are great. Few American channels can really hold a stick to them.
@@Rustinox I would recommend installing locking screws and locking them when making cuts. The effect that alone will have on the quality of the cut is amazing. I went through my compound slide last year and glad I did. I only have one locking screw but I am planning on adding another at the front of the compound slide.
Hi Michael, good to see the old, new, toy or is it new, old, toy? Either way you have your work cut out. Like you I bought a machine that was familiar to me, in my case, a 1949 vintage Myford ML 7. It too was filthy when I collected it so it got dismantled and pressure washed in my driveway before it entered the shop. There a detailed clean, lubricate, and reassembly took place. Fortunately, wear is minimal. You've obviously got more to deal with. Do you have a manual for it? Let me know I might have a source.
Hi Michael, I don't have the same lathe, but my top slide gib has four setscrews with locknuts to adjust the gibs on both top and cross slides. Usually, gibs like on yours are tapered with an adjusting screw at each end. How are you "supposed" to adjust that gib normally? Making a new gib to tighten it up seems a bit strange. I couldn't decern any threaded holes with setscrews in them for any adjustment. Just curious as to how normal wear is compensated for. Your "repair" seems to have worked, but adding an extra shim seems a little overkill to me. There should be a way of adjusting that small change. Regards from Canada's banana belt. 🤞🇨🇦🍌🥋🇺🇦🕊🇧🇪💩🏁👍
Adding shims to gibs is a normal practice. And yes there should be a way to lock the gib. I don't have time to go back over the video to see if there were any. If he doesnt have them he has enough of a shop to add them and he should.
The way the gib adjusts is with the screw at the fat end. It has a step in it which engages with a slot in the gib, pulling / pushing the gib in and out of the ways. In some cases (like the one on the X axis of my mill), there's a second screw at the thin end in order to lock the gib in place, but mostly it's not needed, as the gib can't back drive the screw. Shimming when you get to the end of travel is a necessary evil when you have a "pre-loved" machine like Michel has.
I can imagine that some of the purists out there would have been having kittens with some of the things you did, but a Man's gotta do, what a Man's gotta do to get the desired result, with the equipment you have. Great result. 👍
@@Rustinox Same Same with me, I had the purists having a go at me when I was building my Mill, they didn't like the fact I was calling things Flat, without the part being surface ground. 👍
Well done! I wouldn't have tackled the fix like that, but then my milling machine needs some TLC to get it running accurate again. When I did my topslide, it was straight to the surface plate, measure, scrape, measure, scrape etc etc until it ran silky smooth. Time for you to learn how to scrape ways flat?
Hi Michel ☺, looks like your efforts to true up the slide has worked, I presume a test cut on the lathe will show up any problems, I hope there isn't any, and it is moving nice and smooth now. Thanks for another interesting video mate, have a good wkend. Stuart Uk.
Great job there. The shaper and mostly the mill came to rescue to solve the problem. Respectable determination as well. Asking an engineering shop to surface grind that compound might have costed quite a bit. Hope the accuracy has improved there. Enjoy the weekend
