Time to get the arbor press off the floor and sorted. Stick around while we knock out a couple of its teeth and make some simple tooling! ----- Music: Epic TV Theme - Audionautix
This Old Tony, you are by far my favorite RU-vid channel. I do wish you would post more, but I understand that life and family come first. Just know that anytime you post something, you make a lot of people happy.❤
The best thing about wire brushing with power tools is the tiny pieces of loose wire you will keep finding embedded in every piece of fabric you did or did not own at the time of the job being done. It always reminds you of the good times you and that wire brush had together🙂
This Old Tony is now an official Arborist! You should plant the press out back in the Arbor-etum and see if you can grow some mini presses...or maybe breed it with a hydraulic press. That's where pnuematic presses come from. It's the old story of the boards & the beads 😛
I worked in a shop (brand Yellow...) with about 40 other guys...one whom we nicknamed "Launch master.". Every time he'd use the 150-ton hydraulic press for anything, his tooling setup would look like something from a Dr. Guess cartoon, and he refused to use the safety cage...the entire shop would take cover. Same guy who shot a piece of 1-1/8" grade 8 threaded rod THROUGH his tool box. Entertaining.
So with it being my Dads birthday, and I was missing him something awful, I've been watching TOT all morning long. Like for the last 4 hours I've been watching my old favorites. This one pops up, and im scratching my head thinking how on earth did I miss this one? A TOT I've never seen? Wasn't till 3/4 of the way through, I realized it was just released. What a great gift, Tony. Dad was a big fan.
This Old Tony I get worried when you don’t post anything for ages, things go through my mind like may be he has welded him self to a project, may be misses Tony has cheaped out on the oil and you’ve rusted solid, perhaps he’s over modified his machines and they became sentient again but none of them have a finger that can upload a video please don’t scare me like this just post a screenshot once in while let me know your still turning stock into scrap
That 1 2 3 block trick with the pencil was worth the price of admission alone. And no, it's not free because if you're not already subscribed to ThisOldTony then you're just like that kid in too many '90s TV shows that sneaks into the movie theaters through the fire escape. And you should feel bad until you subscribe! But for real, thanks so much for another amazing video Tony. You're always an inspiration and few people on this planet have the talent to provide so many helpful tips in such an entertaining way. You're a true creative genius!
My Dad was a lifelong machinist for Curtis Wright. He's since passed, but I wish he was still around to watch your videos and enjoy your sense of humor. I think of him every time I watch your channel. Thank you!
2 month without a video. I WAS WORRIED ;) My wife was so relieved when she saw the notification of your video. Guest she was tired to see me crying in the tub hitting my head waiting for your video to come out. ;) Happy to listen to you again. 😅
Hats off to you sir, for regaining the same style and dad humor after several years of sadness (also of pruning tools videos). Glad to see you still have your old sense of humor. Welcome back!
The welding wire trick to help get welds square is something i learned from you a few years ago and has made my life way easier many times. Thank you for putting formerly tribal knowledge out for people like me learning things the hard way... But help is always nice when you can get it lol
As a non-welding would-be welder, that trick only works for non to low force welds right? I mean if there is a gap between the subjects, so only the weld is filling the gap that would not be very load bearing compared to subjects being flat and then welded?
No, it's not like hot melt glue, the weld is similarly strong as the bits of metal it's joining. And, they physically become one piece because the two pieces being joined physically melt into the weld and together. I'm sure there are specific combinations where it's notably weaker, cases where it's not permitted and even situations where the base metal is the weakest part of the bond, but generally, in most scenarios, just as strong with a gap or no gap.
For tool holding, instead of a set screw, just put an o-ring on the shaft. In my last job we had a tiny arbor press like thing to close watches after swapping the batteries. It used the o-ring method since you had to swap the tools to fit the size of each watch and it was really convenient.
Dang boy, RU-vid gets awfully boring without some new TOT videos occasionally. Always a treat. Thank you for continuing to take the time to do this. God bless you and the family sir!
I quit watching wintergreen when I realized he was going to finish the mmx somewhere about 3 weeks after he dies and someone else takes over the project.
I'm wasting at least 6.25 hrs turning the shop arbor press into a ratcheting press on monday. It gets used prob 3 times a year. I'll charge time to the safety team so we're all good. Tony, you are the GOAT!
Fewer teeth. Less custard; fewer pies. I hate myself for writing it, but I shan't sleep if I don't. I love you though, Tony! My heart skips a beat when I receive the notification. Superb video, as always.
I don't know exactly how to tell you this but..... I've never been more entertained by another man's hands. Except for maby Bob Ross. He is legend as well is TOT!
Happy to say that I was able to maintain my composure though most of this video.... but I lost it when you threw the angle drive attachment on the arbor. Comedic gold. We all have our breaking points.
You just showed me my next arbor press mod! Mill off two teeth! I already did the hole for tooling. Mine lives on the floor, clamped to table when needed. That ratchet feature is going to get done.
Today was already such a great day, pay day, Friday, steak at work, making brownies at home, had a great ham sub for dinner and now a new TOT video? This day cannot get any better
I work on a lot of small pumps and the motors that drive them. I have a 1 ton manual arbor press. The “feel” it communicates is terrific. I need to remove a couple teeth. As soon as you started to mention it I remembered it. I am often at a bad position and probably would have never remembered on my own. Thank you for the prod. Great video, as always!
Once in awhile This Old Tony graces us with the gift of another great video and our meager existence again has meaning. Also engagement equals algorithm points. Excellent production and content as always.
This has been my favorite RU-vid channel and will be my favorite. Please keep doing what your doing. I love the videos and the fact that I can actually learn a couple things makes it good stuff.
In the early 80s, I had an arbor press, just like yours, that I bought from McMaster or Grainger. It worked great for punching holes into many thousands of scrap circuit boards. TMI What I really wanted to say was that I love your humor and your videos make me smile. Thank you!
Its The same joy as waiting for a long off event knowing you have videos coming at some point, Thanks for the content, I can't tell you how many times in my life a ThisOldTony video made a ruff day so much better, Thanks again
As always an absolute pleasure to watch , laugh, learn and to dream of having the kind of workshop to let you do all the amazing things we see here. Thanks This Old Tony!
Something’s wrong here. There are over two hundred comments here, and even though the only substance I’ve greased my brain with is ethanol, I’m still the first one to catch that amazingly smooth pun at 16:25-“Is that redundant? I think all molly grease might be high [pressure]”. Well played, sir, well played.
Thank you for making these videos. I really enjoy them and my son, who is 12, watches them with me and we both have a lot of fun together. He giggles at all the gags and dad jokes(me too) and I like all the machine parts.
Rachet mod made my day. I use mine exclusively for leather work. Rivets, punching slotted holes etc, and due to everything being a different length or thickness, I frequently end up in that dead torque zone. This will fix my issues 100%
I used to work at Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes as a frame assembler. Each bench had it's own small arbor press like that with its own tooling for carefully pressing bearings into links and frames. Very handy tool.
Thanks TOT! I finally decided to try your approach of sacrificing two teeth on my small Dake press! Now it works great! I also added a brass plug ahead of the gib screw on the side of the press, which also works great! Your video gave me the kick in the pants I needed to address the handle positioning issue that has plagued me since I bought the arbor press. Love your videos!
"I could press stuff in at an angle." doubled me over with laughter! SO GREAT. Thank you! Man this video has me thinking about dragging my arbor press out from under the house. Curse you!
I used one of these in my company on an assembly line in 1989 We were still using it daily 2 years ago when we moved to automation. Must have operated multi-million times. And it was a similarly simple press as yours.
Watched your video and thought what a great idea! So, I ran to the garage and converted my Dayton #2 arbor press. Works great! The other thing I did was add a clamp to the top of the rack to limit the travel if I need to. It is adjustable up and down the rack and hits the top of the arbor casting as a stop. It also has an Allen head cap screw for fine adjustment. Thanks for the inspiration.
This Old Tony, at the risk of sounding a little silly, I just wanted to let ya know that you and your videos have been with me through a hell of a lot. From when I was first starting out as a technician designing basic parts in CAD for the first time, through covid and a whole bunch of hard life changes, to today as I’m working at a nat’l laboratory doing a whole lot of design work and machining on my own, I always find myself coming back to your channel. Feels like I’m just talkin’ to a buddy of mine that I never actually met. It’s meant a lot to me. Much more than just the information/content alone. Thanks for doing what ya do. Hope you’re doin’ well, take care.
I like Tony's gimmick of getting, for lack of a better term, the lowest quality equipment and enhances it till the weaknesses are strong or are accounted for in the design. Real machinist ingenuity with the materials on hand.
This may sound strange but there is no content or account that brings me joy and smiles like yours. Like someone said here, It is a good day when we get to watch a new video of yours. Thank you.
