I was the planer and boring mill man at everworth tool for yrs Sure miss that job even the 70 hour weeks , all work was for a steel mill out in Pennsylvania. So it was all big stuff a ton or more. I had to make the hold downs for the planer in my small shop. Might seem tedious but now yrs later wish I could go back.
That's why I have my shop, need stuff to keep the old mind active and there is nothing like figuring out the problems that come up :) Just don't know if I want to handle the big stuff, sounds like too much work :)
Hi Steve if you canted the clapper box to right or left depending what side you are cutting there would be no need to lift cutting tool on return stroke. This is standard procedure. B .Reilly a time served planer Glasgow Scotland.
I had an idea. See if you like it. To prevent using the wrong lever, make some covers for the knobs. Cubes open on one side so it can slip over the knobs you don't want to use. when your fingers contact the angles they'll tell it's the wrong knob. (Make round ones too if they aren't round.) Good vids.
Excellent job Steve!!! Couldn't do it any better myself! Thanks for sharing. Talking about Don hanging on the cross rail. The Rockford planer I ran many years ago had basically the same cross rail but it stuck out roughly another three feet! The tracer attachment hung off of it. The table the templates attached to bolted to the side of the planer table. The tracer and mounting plate I guess was around 400 lbs.! I'm sure it didn't sag any with that tracer attached either. Ken
Worked on Bridgeports for many years. I always thought they ground them. This is very interesting. The tool room guys said after grinding. it is within tenths and will slide perfect,,,lol. Yea right, always have to do them . have a power scraper and a flaker that we no longer use. Semi-retired.
I find it fascinating the way you setup and run the planer. I had to chuckle when you said the planer weighed 28,000 pounds. My poor little Taig mill weighs in at about 60 pounds all tooled up. Thanks for the fun video.
Love your videos this reminds me of what I used to do this kind of work on a Surface grinder only I had to fight with the magnet all the time not to pull down the bow it was interesting work
It’s about time you get sponsors you deserve the opportunity and they should sponsor Donn too maybe depends lol just kidding Donn love you too haha I crack myself up
Maybe you should add a safety railing to the planer arm, so Don can get a stepladder and climb up there. Imagine the comment "engagement"!!! Might even see that half-thou of displacement IF he jumps up & down.
That an interesting grind on the HSS tool bit . Was it hand ground or tool grinder it looks very good . I think I have a couple planer tool holder if your interested
Hi Steve this one of your best videos yet! I pay attention to details in your videos because you have slightly different skill set than mine I've been a machinist for 40 years. I have run a Rockford open sided planner/shaper only 36" I'm sorry you get lambasted with Know it all's wannaBe's. Some times they make me laugh with their "only one way to do things" Yes Steve I'm still in the TRADE! At work every day and I Have a shop at Home to same Scale as yours. Great videos, I learn something or get reminded of a trick. KEEP THE GOOD WORK STEVE!!! Don makes me laugh Too. PS Yes I have meet Richard King , I have a Biax i want to SEE the your flaker Biax work
The other problem with bowing an angle is that the angle changes. Planing that away will bring the original angle back. You mentioned 42 degrees. That’s an odd number.
Without knowing the controls of your machine this may not be feasible... but a potential alternative / addition to the wooden block would be to put something tactile on the control you don't want to touch. As soon as your fingers feel it you get mental feedback. You could stretch one of Don's dirty socks or underwear over the handle. Imagine the power of THAT mental feedback when your mind registers what you have hold of...
No way to do that.... The cross slide has nothing to warn you of movement.... And God will get you for even suggesting Don's dirty underwear should ever touch my beloved planer! It's bad enough that I let Don touch it! :)
Just finished machining a Rucker 12" straight edge and will start hand scraping it. And I mean hand scraping. Don't have a mechanical scraper. Looking forward to your video on how to do it.
I'm looking forward to seeing how you employ the planer gauge to set the height side to side and get it dead nuts so there is no tilt in the table when its married to the saddle......thanks for the great vid.
I just use the planer gauge to get the tool height set close.... Remember the bed of the machine is used as the reference plane, just like a surface table.. I will then use a dial indicator to sneak up to the final surface to make everything just right...
Olá amigo Steve!!! Que trabalho fantástico, estou maravilhado com este trabalho, e ansioso pela continuação!!! Grande abraço daqui do Brasil a todos aí!!!
Steve, awesome episode, I've never seen a Bridgeport table planed in like that before, I really wasn't sure how they did them. Anyhoo, question for you. The Bridgeport I use on a daily basis is a mid 80s 2J variable speed job. With the usual wear issues. You said the tables get distorted from clamping with the T-nuts, I can see how that would happen. But what about wear? You mentioned .008 wang in the other video, is that all from the table distortion, or is some of it wear? Anyway, thanks for the videos, very informational and educational.
It is almost all from peening the underside of the t slots over the years.. I have seen one that was .020.. Heavy hand on the t nuts! IF it was .005 I would have power scraped it and skipped the planing... " Over 5 it take a ride"
Such a awesome machine honestly don’t understand why more of them haven’t been kept just because of the cost to run and accuracy of the machine it’s one of the cheapest tooled machines you can get most of it is hss and easily made your self
Because they are slow, take up a lot of space , cost a lot to make and mills advanced to where they just made the planer obsolete.. This thing does not really even pay for the electricity...
@@10swatkins you don’t really do a lot of work honestly if you opened up and bid on jobs for pipe lines machining those behemoth parts it would pay for itself pretty quickly
So, you got an over/under cattle prod/12 gauge and you're saying that if the ends are good the middle will take care of itself? I thought so. BLESSINGS!
@@10swatkins I know this ain't rocket science but it's a strange thing when an old diesel burner like me can understand this stuff somewhat. Go look in a mirror and be sure that you're really you!
Depends on what is being done.... It can go up and down automatically but not across at the same time.. I let it go sideways all the time IF it is not going into something like a dove tail.
I am looking forward to the hand/power scrapping you are going to be demonstrating for us. Is Don going to help you out with this.? Quite interesting work you are doing here. Thanks for the look.
