I'm Blown away and deeply in love with this grinder. I'm also miserable because I can't go on without this now that I know it exists. My life has lost all meaning without this. Amazing sir well done!
Well, this Build is Not !! overbuild, it is classical perfect engeneering. I love this absolutely precise kind of work and it would take its time to come up to the Final Product. I‘ve watched all 3 Parts of the building process and decided to build one of these fantastic tools. I am sure it would last longer than I would live so that my nephew could work with it. My deepest respect for the Builder
I don't understand why I didn't find your channel before, this is wonderful, What a great video. I love the complexity and the break down so simple minds like mine can understand. I am off to part 2 of your video. Cheers.
You had me at "Inches give me nightmares"... That should be a check box in youtube advanced search to avoid obsolete content... the rest is pure gold. Thanks a lot for sharing your work.
Your skills of manufacturing the parts, design, vediography & explanation is remarkable , plz make a vedio on hydraulic & mechanical vice for machining. Many things can be learned from you.
I've been meaning to get my own home machine shop up and running for years now. I think I bit off more than I could chew when I first started and it's been a challenge to get my machines reassembled and modified as I had originally intended. Thanks for the motivation. :)
Damn. You got schkills. I loved how you squared up the rough cut of the main plate with the mill. That was kind of brilliant really. Maybe not to you, but to me, yes.
I would like to make a belt grinder, but first I'll need a mill... and to make the mill, I read I could use a lathe... so I need to make a lathe. I've spent the last several weekends making 4 axle holders to fit 15mm mtb throughaxles onto a 2m x 1m bike trailer made from 60x30 Rexroth-style alu section. I used a pillar drill, hacksaw, files and a Dremel with a tiny milling bit. I tried fitting a 6mm endmill bit in my pillar drill, but the whole assembly wasn't rigid enough.
This is such a cool design, thank you for sharing this video! I'm also happy to see that you include your 'mistakes' and things you might have done differently, it's a pleasant change to see on these types of video where often such things would be omitted. This is the first video of yours I've seen, and I've just subscribed. Great job Phil!
You can tell the difference between the work of a fabricator and work of a machinist, an overbuilt, overmachined tool, which will do the same work as a basic fabricated one, is an unnecessary use of labor, BUT if I was a machinist I would TOTALLY go all out with my skills to make a basic tool to showcase my skills. It’s kinda like a gunsmith making a toaster with inlays and engravings on it, it still makes toast but it looks good while doing it.
15:35 some of us come to watch each part being made and we like the details those that don't are fluoridated and have the attention span of a gnat and some of us come to learn Phil i consider these videos a gift of knowledge those who don't are not worth the skin their in and we should be making it into lamp shades
Great work and very nice build. When you face a large, thin piece, you can reduce the chatter by bolting (or tack welding) another plate to it below. That will add the extra rigidity without you having to machine another piece.
You need to make some low profile mill clamps. They are a game changer for plate work! Fantasic looking build! Also the spring loaded pins are a brilliant addition
Absolutely! I didn't even know about these, then saw a video about someone making them a week or so ago, and thought "damn, those really would have come in handy". I kept thinking I need a mag chuck for this kind of stuff, but the price on those...
Good job! A powerful grinder is a must-have machine for the workshop! I made myself a light belt grinder. It works well enough, but I plan to make it more powerful in the near future for more serious projects. I wish you good luck with your creativity!
I'm form the States, and YES our stone-age measuring systems has got to go. But its gona cost a Gazillion dollars to replace it now. Aaand we have those "We are number one" people who say: We went to the moon using inches. To them I say? You also went in your dippers.. It got the job done.. why do you use a bathroom now.
@@iteerrex8166 I'm actually Canadian but default to mostly imperial units when it comes to most things. I keep both metric and SAE taps and die sets, but only keep stock of metric fasteners! Indicators are imperial, test indicators are imperial, calipers and micrometers; digital ones have both metric and imperial, dial/vernier scale ones are imperial. I was taught machining using imperial units and that's what I've known and used in machining for 20 years now so I doubt that'll change XD Bottom line, if it doesn't involve fasteners, I default to imperial XD You can imagine the shock I had when I started 3D printing and had to switch from imperial to metric for that XD
I know exactly where your coming from. I cant leave anything stock or factory like cars motorcycles guns and when i build things i have to totally complicate things. Ive been like this since I was a kid, always taking things apart to see how they work ETC.
Greetings Mr. Phil, my name is Edward (please feel free to call me Ed, if you do provide a response :) ) from the USA more specifically The Midwest (Chicago, Illinois). I am involved in the IT field as a database/software engineer during the day as my full time job (to pay (barely) the bills and so forth) and on the weekend consider myself a "hobby machinist". I have a small and modest shop set up in my basement... a small benchtop lathe, a milling machine, a couple of drill presses, and a nice large workbench along with some precision and machinist tools but never enough nor close the amount like you "RU-vid" creators have (perhaps one day i will come close to being a 1/3 or 1/2 of the amount most of you guys have) but i am always on the lookout for good tools, and machinery as long as the price is good (cheap enough :) ) which is why I go to a lot garage sales, auctions, and estate sales. Anyways I also enjoy watching the RU-vid machinists creator (each of them great and talented in their own ways) but some of my favorite are Adam Booth (Abom79), Keith Rucker (Vintage Machinery), Keith Fenner (Turn Wright machinry), Lyle Peterson (Tubalcain), Randy Richard (Randy Richard in the shop) and most recently Stefan Gotteswinter (practitioner_of_the_mechanical_arts) and now your channel ( i just subscribed recently and am enjoying some of your previous videos especially the DIY Industrial couch) and especially the video series on the Belt grinder... very well explained, detailed, yet still very easy to comprehend!!! my very best to you and your loved ones for the very best in every sense throughout the rest of 2020 and beyond!!! and looking forward to viewing (and liking) all your upcoming videos that you release!!! :)
Yes sorry about that, I looked on a web page and I think some one has tried to copy your design, but looking at again it didn’t look no where as good as yours , my mistake, but if you do decide to build them I would be very interested. 🤞👍
The grinder design looks awesome, the parts are coming out beautifully, and also your command of English expressions and colloquialisms is really fun to hear with the German accent! Very cool build. I will say, though, you should make a welding fixture table for a future project--holding each individual tack weld in the machine vise is not ideal :)
If you can drill a hole you can hand tap shallow with a tapered tap and finish with bottom,I know its longer but success in the end is good,also using tap guide in chuck, provided you're not using CNC tapping by hand gives a lot more feel when you will break a tap 30 yrs chinist can feel that
Vu les heures d'usinage que tu as passé ta macine doit revenir a une fortune. C'est fou ce qu'on peut faire comme bon travail avec les machines outils que tu as a ta disposion
Man, the loud click from your mill's power switch when you reverse the spindle during tapping is triggering my PTSD. Thought you broke the tap every time!
Ha, yeah it sounds pretty similar when it actually does break. It's not the switch though, I think it's the pulley on top that has a bit of play and engages in the other direction when the moter reverses
@@Markolise442 How odd (maybe). I started my Toolmaker's Apprenticeship in 1972 and all the machines there were imperial. My first job after learning to make tea the right way for all 9 guys there (and sweeping floors, going shopping for cream cakes etc.) was to translate/convert all our 'Engineering Drawings' metric dimensions to imperial, since all the the machines were in inches, thous and tenths (the handwheels on lathes/grinders and the Heidenhain Optics on the Bridgeports) This was before calculators (my boss bought one for 120 UKP in 1974 it had no memory functions save for a const feature), so a nice book of log tables to go with my Trig Tables became my best friends. After doing this in drawings in batches for a few months, I had learned many of the conversions both ways and it became second nature. Incidentally, we were taught both Imperial and Metric in School (from Junior school for me) and the UK metricated in Currency on 15th Feb, and I made extra paper round money by persuading the old folks to pay their "paper bills", so imperial / metric was well ingrained in me on leaving school. It is now 48yrs later and having got close to retiring I re-discovered my passion for Toolmaking and built a little Toolroom of my own.. All my machines are metric of course but I procured 2x Wohlhaupter UPA3 Boring/Facing heads a while back, one imperial one metric and restored both to their deserved perfection but it is the Imperial one I use by choice and have decided to keep and the Metric one, I will sell on (If anyone's interested). Swiss and German engineering was well known for being the best when I started in the trade and the Taps in Germany (where I now live, ironically) are way better than the British / US taps as they don't come in 'taper, 'not so tapered' and 'bottom (or plug)' but thre first two has a smaller thread core and are numbered I, II and III (or unmarked, therefore implied by the lack of marking and you can always measure it with a mic); so not only are they are more effective accurate and easier (especially with hand tapping small dia's). I created a channel but am not finding the time to upload content as I am too busy working in my toolroom and one thing leads to another. My main project now is my Surface Grinder, which I am building from scratch. I STILL prefer to work in thou's in my mind (but the numbers are still pretty much in my head bi-directionally); it just feels more natural to measure something in thou's with a mic and my "slips" are imperial too. I have all the video on my HD's and NAS, I just need the time and a **** load of impetus to put it together and start uploading some....
I loved watching the build of this grinder. It looks very appealing to the eye and easy to use with all the adjustments and lockdowns. I have always wanted to build a better one, so, i bought your plans to make this one. One thing i noticed the plans do not have is a bill of materials on the steel used to make it. Do you by chance have a list of materials needed. This way i don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out thickness and lengths required for clearances when finishing. thanks
Wow Phil, a true craftsman and humble too. An awesome job so far, can't wait to see the next episode and the finished product, I would love to copy your design, with your consent, and try and make one myself, lots of hacksaw and filing as I don't have a mill, but am looking forward to the challenge. Your time and effort with the fantastic video are much appreciated. Many Thanks
Think about what you're going to make with it first before you buy it. Don't go buying tools without a purpose; otherwise, it's just a toy (not a need) that will collect dust and your money.
Wonderful! really tempted to make your version just because it looks interesting to make and i need to learn how to print plans from fusion. I'll just tell my missus I needed it.
This is my favorite, I appreciate every part of this. I'll probably end up doing one of these and if I do your will be the one. I don't have the slightest ability to weld and don't care to. but I have a really well tooled machine shop in my back yard. I build most all of my own equipment, centerless grinders mainly. I think, maybe like you we just end up with a level of perfection that we can't go out and buy. well I look forward to this fun project, I haven't been enjoying what I've been doing out of necessity very much, I don't have the engineering talent you have so I think I suffer for that part of it. with this project you've done all that, the rest is just fun watching it come together, I look forward to it. ps. oh yea, metrics give me nightmares LOL. I have basic metric stuff so it'll fit right in
Hi from N.Z.. So impressed!! Your detail and workmanship is immaculate. Love that mill! A question if I may, but considering it is simply a sander, could the side plates and some of the components not be made from Aluminium? The thickness of the material used in the vid would surely be adequate made in Aluminium.
Awesome video, thinking about purchasing your plans but would love to see a quick break down of cost of this piece of art vs an off the shelf solution!
Ich wünschte ich hätte auch so einen. Ich habe selber ein gebaut, aber mit Handsäge, Feile, Akkubohrer etc. sagen wir mal .... es läuft, aber ich hätte natürlich lieber so einen wie deiner ! :D Tolle Arbeit. Ich bin voll begeistert. (ich habe ein kleines Video zu meinem, aber kein Vergleich zu deinem Beast :D)
this build is uttterly insane. so smart. so thought out. love it. question. i noticed in some of your videos you use the tig trigger instead of a pedal. i tihnk the tirgger would be more intuitive to me...i use a wacom tablet a lot and and am an illustrator /designer in real life....i have mig welded alot...just bought a tig...but havent messed with it yet...do you love or hate it
Personally I love it, and you don't really need the pedal except for special occasions where you need to change up the amps while welding (usually only necessary for Aluminum). If you weld steel like this a simple on/off switch is totally sufficient. There's also some machines/accessories where you get adjustable amps on the torch via a pressure sensitive button but the feature is quite expensive. I suggest just watching some starter vids and then just messing around with it. Learning curve is a little steep in the beginning (you're gonna be dipping the tungsten a lot) but once you get the hang of it, it's very rewarding. You just have a lot more control and versatility versus a MIG welder, at the cost of some speed.
@@PhilVandelay awesome. i think my internal tactility( that prolly not a real word) will dig the finger control...i do have a pedal though if poop goes sideways...wich trigger did you buy...and. thank you so much for answering...yer builds are so fun..i hav e a few fun builds coming up
Not a machinist, but am curious, to prevent the piece (motor mount piece) from vibrating during the facing, could you "glue" it to another under it with something like silicone to minimize the vibrating?
Wow. Please give me advice and I'll pay for it. and I will buy the plans for this and make this to teach me the basic skills for milling. its perfect. I hope the plans include details about which parts. I'm brand new in the process of taking milling courses, I'm retiring from Medical Nursing and building a workshop. Please recommend minimum specs for a mill and lathe to be able to make your belt grinder. If I can build this... I'll retire happy making things like it. In Canada Ottawa here.
Some can say "Overkill" but if you have the time and machinery, then its called "Built to Last". Engineers over build everything to cut down on cost of maintenance. If cars were built this way then car part companies wouldnt make money.
What Mill are you using there? Seems like a really good, but portable mill. I'm on the fence about getting a mini-mill or just getting a milling attachment for my lathe. Size and price are the main deciding factors.
Sure, it's a SIEG-SX4. Some other companies sell it under their own brand, such as Grizzly (not sure what they call it but you can find it on the website)
I am very curious on how the build is holding up? people always tell me that hot rolled is soo unstable. Have you noticed any parts building up stress since you finished the build? maybe too early yet too notice any stress.
It's holding up fine, it's extremely overbuilt so even if it was made from Aluminum it's very unlikely something would just "break". Biggest issue in the long run is more likely going to be surface wear in places like the table, platen, clamping blocks and so on. But I think it'll take a long time for that to become a problem, at least with my use.
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