Completing Disassembly - Bridgeport Cleanup Part 3 

For some reason, my favorite part of this video is you taking down the air cleaner with all the stuff on top of it and watching it spill all over the place. Probably just most relatable :-) Thanks for posting.

it is "relaxing" watching you work

Matt I am looking forward seeing you put that bridgeport back to life the way you expect it. You put craftsmanship into doing that sort of work like you do with your Wood projects.

That skid-steer really is a great investment too. Very useful. Looking forward to seeing the restoration videos.

Great video. Seemed like a lot stress on the spindle bearings with that whole head unit mounted on that bracket. Thrilling !

Greatly looking forward to the next few Bridgeport videos. Thank you!

I would never be able to get this jigsaw puzzle back together again but I know YOU WILL.

Thanks, let us learn about the Bridgeport vicariously. Love your videos and appreciate the time you take to make them

I loved working on ol Bridgeports back in high school metal shop. I've always liked the idea of getting one but knowing the condition most are in made me hesitant. I'm glad you're posting on your metal working and I hope you continue as it's great motivation.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of your videos is watching you maneuver large logs and machinery with ingenuity and leverage, even before you owned the skid-steer. Having the skid-steer didn't detract from this enjoyable aspect, as we now get to watch you use the skid-steer in ways I am sure no one else has thought of doing. I am pretty sure your picture, or perhaps just your t-shirt likeness:), can be found next to the definition of Renaissance man! Impressive!

Yeah! Good to hear the Bridgeport is getting a full resto! Love those machines and I hope to own one myself someday.

What a nice surprise! Thank you Matty!

My suggestion for what it's worth....You might want to just get the Bridgeport major parts bead blasted and the prime and paint. It is so much faster. You may already have it all complete, but I just thought I would throw my 2 cents in. Way back in the day, I started my career as a machinist running a Bridgeport amung other machines, before college. Great memories. I am glad to see you bringing one back from the dead !

Glad to see you decided to do a proper restoration. I have a Bridgeport just like yours that I bought brand new forty six years ago and I plan to do exactly what you are doing. These are incredibly versatile machines and you will enjoy using it the rest of your life.

Watch Keith Fenner restoring his Bridgeport "Buffy". As an Expert Machinist he puts in a lot of Tricks for you.

You have taken on a huge task I commend your bravery.

You have several really good boat anchors there!

Please make a video about how you made the awesome table top leaning on the wall. Thanks

While it's unusual for a woodworker to be wrenching on a Bridgeport, I definitely sympathize and wish I had the space as well as the motivation to do the same! I'd like to see the re-paint and assembly as well as the calibration!

If nothing else, fully documenting the disassembly process on video will certainly help when it comes time to reassembly and you discover there are 3 bolts left in the hardware bucket. LOL

If you are going to media blast the Bridgeport, I’d recommend dry ice blasting if there is any chance that the blast could hit the machined surfaces.

After watching this I know knew why you are a little friendless............because it takes a real friend to help move a Bridgeport

There are lots of videos from H&K about disassembling a BP, rebuilding it, and even putting it back together. Putting the head back on the ram and aligning the 4 tbolts can be a challenge. I envy you having that little Vermeer.

That was great Matt, hope you can remember how it goes back together LOL , keep we posted on it, and you and your family Stay Safe now !!!.

Like #71 Thanks for the video! Life is a learning curve! HINDSIGHT is 20-15!

Keith Fenner is rebuilding a mill right now have you watched any of his videos

Got my own bridgeport to play with last year. Only had to pull it apart to clean out the grease someone mistakely used to try and lube all the carriages with. Love seeing these updates.

Good luck putting that spider back in there !

Good evening Matt. Great video. It’ll be great seeing videos of the rebuilding of it. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.

Nice job Matt, you obviously took the time to study up on the disassembly and get it right. I have no idea how you are going to reattach to that spider on the tower as l see no access panel. Very enjoyable video.

I fondly remember using the bridgeport mills at TSJC gunsmith program. Built like tanks.

I had two of these in a workshop I used to manage. One was past its best and was scrapped - the other went for $4.5k. The sale notice said the new owner was responsible for the machine, loading and safety once it was across the shop threshold and outside. He turned up in a van, with a dog in the passenger seat, towing an 8ft garden trailer! Happy days!!!!

Consider up-to-date sensors for positioning. Digital read-out or course.

Matt, take a look at Keith Fenner 's youtube site he has a series one his bridgeport also. Pay attention to the process he user to save on bearing for the knee, it's a special size nd not easy to replace.

YOU ARE A VERY COURAGEOUS MAN

Are you going to check the table and saddle for deformation? Planing the table is awsome!

Sure hope it all works out for you Matt, will be watching as you work on it. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋

Impressive skid steer work!

Good thing you have a video so you can get it back together!

i would suggest you goes to Keith Fenner‘s yt channel, he just happens to have a mill on restoration, although that one is not a Bridgeport. but he also had a series of Bridgeport maintenance and restoration film couple years ago. that would be helping a lot, guaranteed useful for your current situation, don't miss it.

THANK YOU , MATTBOMB2021.

Here is a sure-fire way to get the "right" chain when operating a chain hoist, at least it works 100% of the time for me. Pick one and then pull the other one. Might be closer to 50%, never done the math.

Always enjoy the videos! Thanks for the content.

Where can I find those big Allen keys? Love the videos! I think it’s great that you are doing this right!

I agree take it all the way down to the cast iron!! Do it the right way! Most people just slop another coat of paint on! Don’t be like most people. I use Sherwin Williams DTM( direct to metal) I like their color Gibraltar for my machines! Good luck I’m sure you’ll have it in great shape in no time!!

Glad you put this in a side tag on previous video! This was great. Thanks for sharing! Are you gonna do some sand/bead blasting?

"I've got this I beam I used a few times." The whole time you have been working on this my thought is that you could really use a gantry crane. Wha-La!

damn, and I was proud of restoring my old delta uni-saw, and it had way fewer parts to keep track of. long as yer that far in might as well mount up some Nema 34's.

There's an old saying, here in England (and I'm certain it resonates worldwide too) that, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well ! Hope the paint job goes well.

Hope your Going to fix all the skidsatire damage!

all that pressure on the quill is making me nervous tbh. possibly another way to support all that mass? Love the wood sawing vijayos

I think that mini-skid is the best tool you have! What would you do without it?

I've remolded my grage\shop three times already in the last two years and now that I just built myself a shed to store the extra crap in the shop I now need to remodel once again knowing it wont be the last time.

Looking for the @markpresling preso comment. Good choice going the full Monty Matt and looking forward to watching what will be a great restoration

Powder coat would be awesome on that thing

Get yourself an indacall cl and a inerapid indicator and a magnetic base make sure gibney doesn't have too much slop in it same with all Gibbs

Also I miss my Bridgeport

I still don't understand what this tool is used for, but I would love to see it painted a vivid color.

I know very little about this sort of thing, but it seems to me that by supporting the entire weight of the Bridgeport machine's head as you did, via what I guess you might call the spindle, you're placing that part, the spindle, under more stress than it would ever by be required to handle in it's normal usage. I'd be afraid that the next time I started the machine up the "spindle shaft" (I made that up, but you know what I mean) would be bent and would thereafter have a wobble.

Been watching this one closely lol. I have a Bridgeport J Head about the same year. I’d like to know where you are going your send the table and saddle to get the ways scraped and trued and if you are going to do the table top also. Cost would be nice to know also.

Nerve wracking. (Later), it'll be a whole lot happier when you get all those components cleaned up.

Scary watching you drive on the trailer with the head and seeing that spindle take a spin, just a little sketchy.

Can’t imagine how he will remember where all of those bits and pieces go back...

Mills and Lathes are as much fun as are I.D Grinders or Cylindrical Grinders

It's going to be funny when whoever buys the house finds your channel and sees what you did to that garage.

I did not know that Matt had a Bridgeport.

Where or how did you learn to dis-assemble the Bridgeport? Wonderful episode!!!

Remind me what you paid for the mill? Have you seen the Smithy Granite? I think it would be nice to have all those machines in one but then of course it's a quality issue of trying to share the motor and the limitations it imposes on your projects.

Can you include a list of your costs for restoring this bridgeport? All the bearings and pieces you've replaced, and especially services done to it like grinding the ways. Debating doing this to my bridgeport

Any Idea when your going to restart the bridgeport rebuild

Are you going to deep clean everything or actually replace a bunch of these parts you're pulling out? This is a cool video. I like seeing how it all is put together.

Cool beans. I want one very bad but not going to happen very soon .😊👍👍

Always entertaining and educational, couldn't you rent a sandblasting machine to remove the painting?

Use an automotive self etch primer do 70 comes to mind lasts forever use in my paint n bodywork won't come off its expensive but a gallon will paint every machine you have 3 times

"Its still heavy..." Gravity cuts Matt no slack.

I keep wait for one of those to run across my path @ a good price. The last one I saw the guy thought he had a museum piece that was worth twice what a robotic mill would cost new.

Just in case you don't have time in your schedule to follow him, Keith Fenner is restoring and refinishing a Bridgeport to replace his older one. You can find part 3 here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZWojYLzscWE.html

"Macho Macho Man, I want to be a Macho Man". :-)

Did you consider a chemical stripper? Such as Zip-Strip? Just paint on and power wash off. A lot less elbow grease!

Repaint it gloss black. Sheerly for the cool factor.

have you taken one of these apart before?how did you know double set screw and all the rest needed to remove things

You should’ve pixelated a few seconds of the adapter to receiver hitch shot.

Will you be adding an I-beam in the new shop ?

Hi Matt, do you have a sand blaster cabinet, from what I can see it would be the ideal thing to get rid of the old paint and any rust. I would have been happy to lend you mine but as I live in the UK, I think the shipping would come to more that the item cost in the first place. I have heard that you can get a sand blaster head that is the same size as a paint sprayer and use that from a compressor, the only drawbacks are that you would need to do it outside and you would lose a lot of the blast material.

Hey Matt. How long do you think before your in for hernia surgery?

after another year Matthew , how is the Bridgeport doing? 😅

Ohhhhh I found an unlisted video :D

Part 3? Where are parts 1 and 2? Also, maybe you've covered this before but, what is a "Bridgeport"? What does it do?

Have you assembled the Bridgeport?

I've never seen a fourteen foot chainsaw before! :-O

Time to get a sandblaster. I know there are services that will come to your place and sandblast cars. It might be quicker than sanding, etc.

Not only could I never take that thing apart I could never never put it back together!

"It's lighter"😊 it's a Bridgeport lightness is relative

Hmmm 🤔 what color are you going with? (I vote Red, like your trailer and part of your bandsaw, because you have to match!!) Also, are you seeing yourself getting more machining tools?

Paint it purple.

❤

Matt Paint it Black and Red

Stripping the garage down, how many things did you "rediscover" hiding in the dark corners...

Do you have a blueprint or drawings on the Bridgeport because you don't seem to be surprised by what you find inside.

Please don't put it off for a year. Again. Keep the vids coming. All my best.