Bet Sr is enjoying using the mill after all the work restoring it. He'll be looking for more things to do on it. Enjoy it! Dad always loved being out in his shop. Miss those times....
Nice job, Senior. There was a period there when I was hoping you were wearing hearing protection. Keep up the good work, and thank you both for all your videos.
Awesome job!!!!!!! They will never make anything like the old stuff that can be rebuild back to new with common materials. Keep the videos coming. Can't wait to hear it run again.
Great job Squatch Sr.. just a suggestion when you have to machine a long shaft or plate I always use a support at the long end to stop any vibrations that might occur. Long items typically work like a tuning fork to amplify vibration. Thanks for the content I love watching old equipment being brought back to life.
A person who has all the special tools and measuring equipment like you have is certainly not an amateur. Perhaps a novice at the milling machine, but in general a very skilled and seasoned craftsman.
I've found that if I'm installing a cover over a spring that it goes easier if I use over length bolts to start with. When I get even tension on the plate and the spring centered, I replace one bolt at a time with the OEM bolts and then run them down
A wee bit advice, when starting and stopping a cutter, you should part the work from the cutter as the increasing and decreasing speed can cause problems, if, a shaving or sliver is caught. Not all situations require this, but that's up to experience to figure out (this one's so and so, both cutter and cut are decently sized that no problems should occur is setup is right). Just my 2 cents, nothing more.
You’ve got this, dad. You may be new at the milling machine but you’ve got a great sense for mechanical principals and precision and tolerances. There’s nothing you can’t do now. Get r done, we want to hear her run like a Swiss watch. 😎👍👏🇱🇷
I’ve found that a thick coating of STP works really well in oil pumps as assembly lube. It seams to help them prime themselves if the pump isn’t submerged in the oil.
Good to see more from the workshop, with the starting motor just sitting there as a prop! Should there be a thrust washer between drive gear and casting? As it is right now, won't the side thrust from the drive gear, be taken by the end plate in the pump chamber?
Would a longer bolts with a sleeve spacers compress the cover and spring then the original bolts in the other holes to hold the cover and then replace the longer with the original length bolts?
The first time i heard mention of Squatch Sr. I mentioned it is so cool that Squatch253 had his Dad helping with equipment and filming. I have since seen that Sr. is a upper class Mechanical Talent Himself. I hope being a You Tube content creator has enriched the ole Man's life as well. ( Not to speak ill of MY Dad but he was born around 1919 ish, and his remedy for gas overflowing from the bowl vent on a 2bbl Rochester carb was to stuff toothpicks and rubber bands in an attempt to plug the leak) Only Humor; he was a sharp mathematician and a skilled Surveyor. Just very cool to still look up to someone on the basis of teaching cool stuff. I got A's and B's in Auto mechanics but it was my favorite subject. Stil learning a lot thanks to you and Sr.. Kudos to you both, and thank you for all your effort. To this Day I still remember my Mentor- also my Auto Mechanics teacher, Mr Weiss.
Is that a specific type of steel rod you are using for the shaft?? Would the factory have heat treated or case hardened the shaft for better wearability?
