I dont have a tenth of the tools required to restore old machinery but for some reason, I can't stop watching your restore videos. Love the sense of humor!
Very nice purchase and restoration it’s a great addition to the boardroom. But my favourite in all your videos is your commentary you crack me up every time. Love your humour and the short scenery clips are priceless
Hi Mike I'm Dave from creative doors & carpentry in Miami love your stuff and feel you when u speak of your love of our trade Im in my 33rd year in biz and hoping for another 33 years. To truly appreciate the craft I believe you have to have been a field carpenter like us . The wood worker title is basically meaningless without the apprentice time and journeyman time in the trade . Thanx for the vidz I'll keep watching 😀
Of course the detritus gets in and "crunks" up the bearing (4:47). When you said that, I suddenly realized: a) I used to use that verb all the time, but b) I haven't even thought of it for decades. "Crunks" is hereby going back into the dirt vocabulary. Thanks!
Mike I see your son and I can't believe how big he is, I remember perfectly when you showed him playing with the snow as a baby, it's incredible how he's grown!!!
Still my favourite channel. Always wanted an edge sander. I figured someone would come out with one to fit 48” belts or something inbetween a full size and a small stationary sander. Back in the 80’s we had a stroke sander in the cabinet shop,that was fun to use. Cheers
Something I find useful for restoring tools, you can get scotchbrite wheels for a bench polisher or bench grinder and they work great for removing rust and leaving a satin finish for painting or polishing 👍
"Anything worth doing is worth over-doing." Of course my wife was asleep when I watched this... but great job! I enjoy your restoration content as much as your project stuff, tbh. Also, the red pads will exfoliate you very well, and I'd add that a P220 disc on a random orbit sander is great for corn removal and general pedicure work. Uh, as someone told me, that is...
Seriously, if you weren't such a phenomenal woodworker I may have expected this skill at engineering and mechanical design. You did an excellent job on this far above what I would have expected. Detritus!? We just call it junk or crud where I come from. I presume that sander must have came from a university or school of higher learning where they don't have crud or junk. Motorcycles? Other shop? You have a life outside your RU-vid channel? How about some videos of that during these long dry spells between woodworking projects? Love your channel and everything about it. Art from Ohio
Thanks Art. I have plans to include a little more about my Moto stuff in the future. In fact I was just buying a camera for one of my motorcycles. Stay tuned.
When I heard the word "kink" I realized that there was no music recommendation 😃. Great stuff, as always. I really enjoy these makeovers and restorations that you've done.
Very cool video and nice to see the apprentice back in the shop. My only additional thought was maybe to lay down a piece of formica (or similar) on the top. I hate MDF so much I do everything in my power to try and cover it up when I opt to use it.
I like the idea of Formica, but, a sheet of it is almost what I paid for the sander. If I had some laying around I would have done that, as it is MDF with poly is pretty durable.
I have two sets of the single hole countersinks. They work on steel if you use a low speed and cutting oil. They don't chatter and leave a nice finish. I even saw someone use one in a milling machine to put a 45° chamfer on a work piece. Now that REALLY amazed me!
Another shop for motorcycles and stuff? I'd love to see some content. I'm not mechanical at all but I always enjoy your restoration and rebuild videos.
Always enjoy your videos - you do a great job. By the way, I don't know what the shop apprentice is eating, but in a few more videos, he might be looking you in the eye. Man, does time fly. Thanks for sharing Mike.
always wanted an edge sander in my shop but never had the space to justify it. now i am retired i still dont have the space in my garage lol. woah that is some serious snow! i complain when we have a year with a frost.
You had me at "Rad". I'm glad to have another Mike Farrington video! I have a song suggestion for you I think you might like. "Freaking Out" - The Wrecks.
I've used the sandpaper on glass to touch up solid lifters with a cam change. Works great. I also use some wd40 with the red scotch bright to clean items like you did dry. Think of it as wet sanding. Waiting for the song suggestion for this video. Thanks for your videos. Even the girlfriend loves watching them
Good job thinking this one out as far a modifications go. You did not mention brand but I am guessing a Asian import - which makes using Timken bearings an excellent choice.
Excellent video. For dust collection if you revise it at some point ... instead of a box, maybe a kind of half tube (think the under base dust thingy for some routers like Festool 1400). It attaches to the area above the belt and can be tightened down at any point along a t-track. Sorry this may not seem so clear, but other analogies that come to mind are shower curtain tracks or meat hooks. The tube hangs down where you need it because it's attached to a more or less continuous t-track.
When you're cutting threaded rod always have the end of the rod facing away trom the rotation of the bench grinder. This opens the threads up instead of pushing them into the next thread. Works first time every time.
Love the tool restoration videos! Fun to watch and I always learn something about the more mechanical side of tools in addition to some great woodworking tips and tricks. Did I miss the song recommendation though!?
Mike, how would one contact you? I have stumbled upon a plethora of old commercial grade tools . Upon admiring these ol beauty's, I couldn't help but think, "Mike Farrington would call this a Gold Mine"! And yes, they are on your side of the country lol!
Perfect as always Mike. Hey quick question, we just moved to Castle Rock. What’s a good lumber yard you recommend. I know most are in Denver. What’s your go to place. Thank you sir.
I have yet to find a really good lumber yard around here. I go to Paxton on the north side of town. For you I would recommend Austin Hardwoods. They are pretty good there. I don't go there cause it takes me forever to troll across town.
You probably won't use the edge sander every day, but when you do use it it will save you all kinds of hand sanding time -- and you wonder how you ever got by without it.
Sealed bearings are the better choice unless the RPMs are high and then it is time for shielded. The rubber seals create heat and at very high speeds cause grease to fail. That sander is running nowhere near the rpms that would create such problems. I have a similar sander (ACME) and use it all the time. Very handy.
@@MikeFarrington I think your Rodgers is comparable, yet a bit more refined with the table tilt mechanism. I added DC to mine as well when I restored it. Not that much different from yours. Makes a huge difference in the amount of dust floating around the shop compared to w/o. Those sanders create a dust cloud in a hurry.
That countersink drove me nuts for a while. I wanted to get a single size, but they only sold in sets and pretty pricey at that. Took me a year to bite the bullet, but now I wont use anything else.
Thank you. I have a couple different bikes, a vstrom 1000, which I think I'm gonna sell, and I just picked up a Kawasaki Concours 14. As to a place to visit, I like Lake City. Its right in the middle of some of the most dramatic mountains in Colorado.
I've always been so hesitant about using MDF. I notice you use it frequently. Maybe my hesitance is unjustified. If it's good enough for the 'mighty Mike Farrington' then it is also good for me.
MDF is awful to work with, but I love it for shop furniture flat surfaces because once you seal it well, it stays dead flat. Mike's thinned poly is probably best for sealing, but I use boiled linseed oil because I like the dark color and it's re-touch-able without buildup. Anything to keep the MDF from sucking moisture out of the air.
Mike, as usual, that was awesome, brother. But, there were 2 GLARING issues with the video: 1) no music recommendations and 2) you never told us wether the red scotch brite worked on your face! Perfection, otherwise.
I have watched every resto-vids you have done, couldn't help but hear you play with motor cycles. Would you happen to know anything about Norton's, I have a 75' that my dad left me and know nothing about it and would love to find anything out about it.
Thank you. Yes, I'm a huge fan of motorcycles. I don't know anything about old school Nortons, other than I would love to own one. My guess is if its in good shape, it may be worth some bucks.
@@MikeFarrington It is in pieces in my someday wood tinkering shop, but I have looked around for some of the specs or info and can not find anything, as I would like to rebuild it some day. Figured I would ask just for the possibility of finding someting.
Is the bed height where you're sanding mostly on the edge of the belt by design (so you can flip the belt when it's worn out?) I would think most sanding jobs would be for stock < 1" thick so the full height of the belt isn't normally needed.
Where do you manage to find tools? I've looked for months for different tools and can never find anything that isn't either ridiculously priced or a true pile of rust!
I worked construction at the end of high school and through college. I got a degree, got a job and by lunch on the first day I had made up my mind to go back to construction. I just can't sit at a desk. Early on, I worked for a couple different small time operations. Pretty quickly, I realized that I could easily make more money if I just started my own deal. I've been at it ever since. It hasn't been easy, and I would strongly recommend a different career path to anyone who asks. As to the "finer" side of woodworking, I've always been a detail oriented person, plus I like to continually improve. So as the years go by, I've just gotten good at it. Not exciting, but its my story.
@@MikeFarrington Amazing. It takes a lot of courage (or perhaps incorrigibility :D) to jump from a degreed job to something "off the beaten path" and make it work. I find it really interesting when people carve out their own winding path, particularly when it's highly successful. Thanks so much for indulging me! And congrats on finding your "thing."
@@SmittenKitten. Thank you. Its been a weird path. I have very much and still do enjoy the work. The business side, that can be tougher to enjoy, but building really is my "thing". I built legos when I was really young, then I moved onto models, then cars and motorcycles in my early teens, then construction in my late teens. I've always found something to build. Thank you for your comments.
I did not use 4" PVC pipe to hang my sanding belts in the shop, so they did indeed develop a kink. Not full-on auto er0t1c like you would expect from a belt, but definitely some interesting bdsm craziness.
When you are edge sanding you must keep the wood trailing. The scene where you demonstrate the opposite it is liable to dig in and the piece can rip the belt and go flying to the right. And it will hurt your fingers. Also don’t forget to frequently use the rubbery plastic dresser to remove sawdust. That way the belt will last 100 times longer.
yo! I could be wrong, but didn't you once have a different edge sander in your shop? Did you sell that one, miss it, and then get this one to replace, or what? Pretty sick lil radsto, dude.
