My primary take-away from this one: when planning the order of operations, remember that they're not necessarily the same operations in each possible ordering. I had a jaw-dropping moment when I realized that you were going to leave much more support for the final pass than I initially thought was possible. This just reinforces my faith in my method for approaching difficult tasks: I ask myself, "how would Joe Pie do this?".
I’m just a garage amateur. I would have never thought to do it that way. I would have been trying to take 0.050” off and turning the part four times like Joe did at the end.
Yet another great video Joe. Being a 60 year old apprentice looking over the shoulder of a true master of his craft is an honour, and with no interviews for the position, what a bonus. Thank you so much for sharing that wealth of knowledge.
I just love how you go the plans one better and machine delicate small parts. I realize that the "plan" designers, are trying to make the part easy to make. Even so, Your methods ALWAYS come out on top. A little extra time and effort is the way to go, to make outstanding finished parts. Stay cool, and have a cold one, in the shade, Texas DOES get a bit warm, this time of year. ;-)
Joe - please do a segment on approaching the hand filing of a semi-finished part..I’m sure I’m not the only one that has screwed up at the very end of an operation by ham fisting fit/finish with dodgy filing. Bench position, file selection, order of operation, filing “assists”, etc. would be most helpful. Great video BTW.
Hey Joe. Great post to cover some gentle procedures. If at all possible I would love to have made this from a grade 8 bolt. Nice and sharp with little time on it. You have a really fine touch on all your moves I have seen you make over the years now. Mine are similar by a wee bit but noughthing like yours. Take care and hope to see you soon my old friend.
I'm differently 😂putting this option into my save folder. About the 100 degrees. Moved from Michigan to South Dakota. It darn hot, what really helped. The air wasn't humid--most of the time.
I came running, believing you’ve had accepted my challenge in doing work on a mini mill and mini lathe but that’s not the case 😢 I really would love to see uncle Pie doing work on a Sherline or DB200 Unimat, just to be amazed by the tips and tricks you could come up with to share with us. I even wanted to make a new headstock with bigger roller bearings and larger throat but all made using these mini (micro?) machines instead of a big lathe. Well, I’m very patient, uncle Pie! Still love all videos and appreciate your kindness! You made us better machinists!!!
So great! I mostly make small parts and I’ve a bad habit of diving in and cutting away material that could have been helpful as support. Great lesson. Thimk!
What are those little steps at 90° on the round face? Is there some axial play in your spindexer? I thought it was an illusion at first, but i caught a glint off the step when you were measuring it around 10:20.
I find it funny that some people want to know the size of everything. I find myself completely ignoing measurements, i guess when you do them all the time you realize that is not the relevant information in this video. I try to focus on the most important and useful information not some meaningless number that i will forget anyways.
I was holding my breath when you did the second part, didn't even realise I was doing it ! 102 degrees, I don't know how you do it, is the humidity high ? I'm in Florida where it's 'only' 92 degrees, local TV weather people kinda piss you off when they happily say 'It will feel like 106' (due to humidity) I'm sweating so much in garage it's dripping on material and being 'salt water' causing bad corrosion if I don't notice, wipe it off and re-oil. (at least I'm keeping machines in reasonable shape 🙃)
Some nice practical how-to by a master of his craft. Great approach, Joe. Great results. Cheers P.S. 17:30 Love the tiny Chrysler building you made out of that second piece ;)
Great work! Without taking anything away from the excellence of this method, the alternative method suggested, namely silver-soldering the square tubing to a base requires it's own set of great skills around heat control and fixturing small workpieces to ensure a good result.
I would've loved to see one of the cuts in real time and perhaps list cutter speed for reference. But hat's easy enough to figure out.. Anyway would find that helpful. However I cannot fault the value in what you have presented here Joe, this is huge. I generally make medium to large parts in repair work, but on occasion small parts or some sort of fixturing is needed. You sir have elevated my game in that respect exponentially. I learn something new every time you post a video. Thank you sir.
Is it just me, but something about the taper doesn't make sense... -Why do you have a smaller finished dimension on the end sticking out furthest away from the workholding? Isn't the deepest cut the one that is closest to the workholding where the material is the most rigid, which would therefore produce the smaller end of the finished product? -Am I missing something?
I have waited very long to see how small specific part like these are made. I know its bound to happen to me at some stage or another. So i say thank you so much for this "shop gem" as you would call it
Us metric folk dont mind saying half a millimeter, quarter millimeter etc, but quarter is probably the limit. Writing it down is a different story though.
