American Pacemaker Compound Slide Reassembly 

Imagine being the guy who worked with the machine for his worklife, seeing the love it gets by getting rebuild to continue to serve the next 80 years.

I enjoy your videos, I not only learn new things but you have a terrific speaking voice, so it's a relaxing break in the day. Thanks Adam!

I spy a new machine, still in the crate right by the rollup door! Merry Christmas Adam, Abby, and everyone!

Love videos like this. Thank you

Organization is paramount to a proper working environment! Love your shop brother, Great Job!

As a guy who loves to take old stuff apart and put it back together better than new, this video series is a pleasure to watch.

The close-ups of installing those last three oilers were on the money! More of that style of photography would be awesome!

Nice to see the Pace coming back together. So satisfying to feel no backlash and know you will have a reliable lathe to do your work. Thanks very much for sharing.

Gota say I miss the old shop……….so much more homey.

Fantastic to see the Pacemaker Coming back together! Can't wait to see how the ABom puts it through its paces and makes it earn its keep!

That fettled compound slide with all that TLC will be "as smooth as silk" when assembled.!

I can't wait to see some chips flying off of the American Pacemaker!

Nice to see the old lathe getting the love, new shop looks great !

i love the restoration/rebuild videos, even the general mainenance

I do believe the bearings should be double shielded, double sealed. The are open at bottom and are subject to contamination. Double sealed bearings are lubricated for ever in the type of use where little or slow rotation is the work.

After watching one of your videos last winter, I bought a can of that CRC SP-350. Since I wasn't going to be using my mill and lathe for a few months over the summer, I wanted to spray them both down with it. Here a couple of weeks ago I went to clean them both off and put them back into service--that stuff is GREAT! It was still well-coated on all parts I had applied it to several months ago, and cleaned off easily with WD-40. Definitely made a believer out of me!

Great job of rebuilding. I hate painting but I have found with my rebuilds that without paint it just isn’t done.

Great video Adam. Nobody does it better than you, thanks.

As an absolute amateur in regard to working on industrial machinery, I recently completed the teardown/reassembly of a Bridgeport style mill... and I am so glad to see a number of the techniques in this video that I used in the process of completing my project. It helps me feel better that I (more or less accidentally) got it done right. 🙂

Absolutely fascinating, Adam, ...Thank you !

Nice, Looks good Adam. Looking forward to seeing the installation and testing. Thanks for sharing.

Looks really good Adam, you're happy is what really counts. Cheers Blessings. 🙏

Thanx Adom , I've been jonesing for this next episode! I watch other RU-vidrs and I must say that your close ups and camera work in general are outstanding. While watching others contend I find myself saying " Abom would have shown a fine close up right here ". Thanx , I've learned a lot watching you .Merry Christmas.

Incredible work Adam. You wouldn't find such sterile conditions in an operating theatre. Your attention to detail is second to none.

Excellent video. Thanks Adam.

I have been following this very closely because I have a 16 inch American Pacemaker with the compound taken apart too. I am about ready to go put it together now! Thanks Adam, you are an inspiration.

LOL at 28:25 or so I thought, man it just started bucketing down outside my window. Then I realized that was your fans or compressor.

I love watching, thank you for all of your time you've put into these videos

So nice to see you getting back to good old school non-computerized all-American lathe maintenance.

The machining world is lucky to have guys like you willing to put the time and effort into bringing these old machines back into service

I’m excited to see this on the lathe! I love to see this back together.🙂

AtThe place where I spent most of my working years at had an American Pacemaker identical to yours. That is a very nice machine.

Machinery is a wonderful invention. Once it is all together the user has very little understanding of the internals. A few dials and away you go. It is very educational to see the mechanism from the engineer's point of view. Good job, Adam! Anyway, thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!

Thanks for teaching. I love to learn. And something as simple as improving my use of easy outs can save hours and headaches.

Excellent work,Adam.Thank you.

Videos just keep getting better. Thanks.

Great job, Adam. Your dad and granddad would be proud!

thanks for sharing. took a few tries to get the proper time allotted to watch this weeks video. great fit and can only be done with experience and knowledge, always showing and talking us through it. thanks for your time.

Adam, I think I’ve watched all your videos from working with motion industries to you first getting your home shop set up. From day one it’s been a pleasure watching you work. Top notch work without shortcuts as always. I appreciate a true American machinist !

That was great fun!! Thank you Adam!

I love precision machinery! There's an inherent beauty to precise things and this cross slide has that in spades! Wonderful piece of superbly designed tooling! Thanks for sharing! :)

Really enjoyed this video, seeing all of the parts come together. Anxious to see the next steps.

Fantastic detail and information. I truly appreciate the excellent videos and continued variety of content. Thank you!

Best ASMR machining video ever made! Very relaxing. Thanks Adam!

Nice job!!!! Always a pleasure watching your work.

Nice video Adam :) nice to see the labor you put in the restoration of the lathe 😍

"All i want for Christmas is to see some chips fly of the American Pacemaker" Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

So much pleasure seeing this come together. It is obviously working smooth as glass with no lash. I love seeing how clever the engineers were who designed this cross slide.The set screw engaging the gib, which allows fine adjustments to the tightness of the slide, is wonderful.

It’s so nice to watch your machines with absolutely no runout whatsoever. Incredible precision.

What a gorgeous compound

So glad to see you working on the Pacemaker, Adam. I’ve been going back and enjoying all the great videos and memories related to the big Pacemakers, even to those first pictures on PM. What a fun history to go back and discover. (And it reveals what a hack I am for the way I’m impatiently going through my South Bend 14-1/2😊)

Adam, this rebuild has been a great project to watch and learn - I like that the final assembly is like a surgical procedure: super clean and precise. Nice!

Great to see the manual machines, want to see this one cutting metal.

Hi Adam, thank you for bringing us along on these very interesting projects. Happy Holidays to you and Abbie.

Thanks for sharing Adam

Love this video. So satisfying.

Adam, I'm always amazed watching your videos..I really like watching machining on the old machine. I was worried about you getting into CNC stuff but that is going to be cool to... keep up the amazing video's

Nicely done, Adam.

Love it. Been looking forward to this and getting the Pacemaker running. Nice job on that pin alignment...first time baby! 👍

Fantastic Adam!

Beautiful work! We’ll done👍

Imponente amigo!! Desde Uruguay Latinoamérica!!!!!

Thanks for continually bringing us the best content, Adam. The American Pacemaker looks beautiful with each little piece you restore on that proud machine. I can’t wait to see what the new year brings as you move into working more and more with the latest CNC machines and the old-timers. Whatever it is, I’m here for it. Take care of yourself and Abby, and I hope you and your family have the best holidays. Much love from South Texas.

Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing some chips on the American Pacemaker.

Thanks for the video, happy Christmas to you and Abby and all your families 🎄🎅🏼🥃🥃🥂🍾💝

Bravo Maestro !

Great careful and thoughtful work. Merry Christmas

Congrats! It's been a long road. Now if Keith can just get them darn helical gears cut the world will be saved. :)

Yeaaaaa! Here's hoping the American Pacemaker runs for another 80 years.

I really enjoyed this video, much more like the ones you used to do from which I learned so much. Thank you. The only thing I would have done differently, me being a tad OCD hobby machinist, would have been to nickel electroplate the handwheel to stop it corroding from sweat in use, but I understand you're doing it for a job, unlike myself, so your time isn't free.

i like the new shop, but really like that your making vidoes more like the ones you used to

Flaking came out good Adam... you did a great job... 👍

Been a long journey, no wonder you were excited to get it re-assrmbled👍👍(and yes, that flaking looks amazing)

Cool project thanks

I love your videos man... you are a wealth of knowledge, you have a great pace and tone... very comfortable I have an aircat impact gun which I love BTW... quiet and insanely powerful

I'm refurbishing a big ass cool lookin vice right now, I'm busting all the rust and then I'm gonna paint it dark green. So stoked. I feel like I'm a big boy machine shop guy now 😎

Would like to wish you and yours a VERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Thanks Adam .. all the best to U & Amy .

Looks better than new :-)

So exciting!!

Nothing like waking up on a Sunday morning to a new Abom vid, cheers and Merry Christmas to you and your family from us here in Australia mate.

Fascinating!

Enjoyed the video! Nice work 👍

Dude, the background of your videos has made a drastic improvement!

Thanks for sharing 👍

Great job!

I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

just recently stripped, cleaned and re-assembled a small hobby mill that i got from my uncle, it has tapered gibs on the slides and I immedietly spotted the missing screw when you reinstalled the gib lol

Camerawork always A class. Content always interesting. Merry Christmas to you and the Boss.

Ecxelente amigo, muy buen trabajo, te felicito. Saludos desde Colombia.

Putting things back to OEM always makes the manual correct. My experience rebuilding count less industrial machines, we liked to use the xxxx 2RS bearings. They are sealed (rubber seal) on both (2) sides and do not need to be lubricated. One less failure point.

The thing I like most about your videos is your meticulous patience for getting things just right.

Yea! Big Lathe is almost ready for chips.

Yeah, I commented about he width of the nut a couple months ago when you first made it...

Nice work 😊👍🏻👍🏻

I bet that runs smooth as butter now

Great video

A very good work.

Hi Adam. We hear you are in for a huge storm. We hope you all are OK and your new shop roof is snow proof. All the best for a happy and peaceful Christmas. Bill B - UK.

Absolutely beautiful machine work. I wish you lived close by me. I would love to get a couple little things made.