Curtis in Australia got me into lathe and milling metal, found this channel, and have the best grinding disks and cut off wheels ever because of you, 3M Cubitron. You would not think a simple grinding disk could be a game changer or business changer.
Greg, Don’t sell yourself short, I think you are an excellent Machinist!! Your fabricating skills are truly awesome!! It just takes practice and time!! Thanks again, Vic!!
Another day in the life of a top repair shop. Enjoy watching your videos. I started my work life after the Army as a millwright welder. I decided to go back to college and became an engineer. I never lost my love for fabrication. I still own and use my portable welding and cutting equipment, and if I had to pass a certification test, I could. Keep on keeping on with the excellent videos.
You may not have the tooling and/or experience of a 3rd generation machinist, but you do well enough to Get The Job Done. "Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough". Thanks for the uploads!
He hardly machines anything any longer, he runs a informercial channel with a bit of machining. Imagine Abom out in the hot sun working on a big Cat machine, I'd give him 5 minutes max.
@@lerkzor He was filming at his work at Motion Industries then left the job and this was the beginning of the end in my estimation. Remember the dumb yellow Skyhook, like a mini crane attached to a cart, it was then I knew he was lost lol because he was pretending he had a bad back or something. The acting was so sad lol.
@@jamesdrake2378 Imma have to check your roll there. I don't know how old you are, but I remember being younger, and there was no way that I could have understood what it's like to literally live with body pain. He's not young any more, and he is a bit overweight too. I also suffer from both of those conditions, and let me tell you that I was jealous of his 'stupid little yellow crane thing'. We have no right to think less of him for doing things an easier way. What I miss is the high-quality machining content, rather than yet another video showing off a cool new toy.
@@lerkzor He is obese and not even 50 years old ,part of his content is BBQ videos, One condition you can't control the other you can. Since you asked I'm 65 year old paraplegic from a work accident (heavy construction) at age 60. Nothing worse than able body person not taking care of themselves and wasting the time they have through self neglect. Got that wanker, I'm still working at the bench with my C300 permobil powerwheel chair with the 8 inch rise feature, so I would say I'm uniquely qualified to judge people that don't take care of themselves. F your roll. and ask him for the skyhook.
Thanks for sharing OFW. I was expecting a classic (and satisfying) line boring video but this is a nice twist. Always great to see alternative solutions using a bush. Props to you for calling out 2 real talents in the machinist world as well.
Very nice! You fixed the damage to the bore and the sides in one operation by machining that bushing! Funny how you mention a man by his first name...Kurtis...and everyone knows who you're talking about, even though he's halfway around the world. I respect you both.
Hey Greg, I just discovered your channel a few days ago and got the impression that your work is like that of a dentist. The worse someone takes care of their machines, the sooner and more intensively you have to restore them. The quality of your work is very impressive.
What an incredible repair you accomplished on a disastrously mistreated machine. Your having all the right equipment, the skill and knowledge to to use it all has demonstrated what a true professional can do. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us. This is the one to show her why we had to have that battery powered grease gun. Love my DeWalt.
I love to watch you do lathe work, too, because you do it right. Adam and Kurtis are special and I know they would point out that they do not go out into the field and weld up abused machinery in the sun, rain and stormy weather. You and Isaac are the all-weather heroes and your machining is top notch. Thanks for another excellent video. That stick was really worn out! Nice job. Will be looking forward to seeing that swing bearing replacement!
Greg has no reason to sell himself short or feel inferior to Kurtis or Adam. Kurtis learned his trade in the field in Australia's mining industry, and got to the point he could not deal with the s**t in the field, so he went inside. Adam is a pure machinist, no field experience. Greg and Isaac are what I the grunge warriors.
As always Greg your level of craftsmanship is well above most people’s ability. Another outstanding repair. !!!! Thanks for another great school session
Chris and Abom have some excellent filming. You're pretty mean with the camera yourself. I definitely appreciate all the effort. Especially when you are in the field.
Putting in a grease groove either in the collar or bush won't help if the operator doesn't know what a grease gun is for. They never seem to remember: "Grease is cheaper than steel".
Nice repair, Greg. I'm guessing that as long as folks don't maintain their equipment, you'll have plenty of work! Thanks for taking the time and effort to take us along!
I posted this on another machining channel regarding proper maintenance "PROPER MAINTENANCE??? What is this PROPER MAINTENANCE you speak of?? It is is the big bill you get for getting the machine fixed because you are too lazy to keep it properly maintained" 🤣🤣🤣
I think it’s funny every time you get one of them jobs and your like well they never greased it. $20 in grease plus maybe $20 in labor two to three times a year vs $600-$1800 or so plus all that downtime. Not saying I’m doing proper maintenance on all my stuff either I just think it’s funny when you get these horribly worn out non greased parts.
Absolutely love your channel and the range of your repair work is spot on, especially your field work, I think you are a very special tradie my friend when you consider you go to jobs that keep other businesses on the road. Really well done
Curtis has the luxury of not being a mobile welder. He picks jobs that let him do things slowly and carefully and has customers that almost always want it returned to original condition. You, otoh, work in field conditions (ie terrible conditions) and customers that want it done ASAP. Different skillset, different polish. Don't sell yourself short.
It isn't a luxury, he (Kurtis) earnt the workshop in the field and there are some jobs like it or not that should not be done in the field. It is erroneous to make a comparison between workshop and field repairs other than the common error made by many who compare them by saying workshop repairs are proper long term repairs and field repairs are quick fixes to get the machine working asap. Generalisations which are just as inaccurate as other comments here.
Another good one. Thanks! Your constantly giving me that push to take the extra time and knock out top quality work within my own business. Sure do appreciate your attention to detail and your knowledge.
Greg, your camera work gets better with every episode..... not that it was ever poor.....but the angles and shots you are getting really show the job well....Bravo......PB
Very impressed!! Been watching a lot of your videos. It won’t be long before you have over 100,000 subscribers. It’s probably sometimes a pain in the ass to make videos for RU-vid but all us armchair welders and machinist as well as people just getting into the trade really appreciate your awesome videos. Thanks so much for taking the time to make them!!!!
Did a very similar thing on a scissors lift. Routine maintenance in machine shop tends to be neglected. Lack of lubrication was the first of two problems. 2nd was poor design of anti-rotation for pin going through lower cylinder. Just a flat washer tacked on a 1/4" pin. I used an older Van Norman boring bar. Built a 2 insert bar, supporting the bar on the end away from the machine with a bushing. Left plenty of clearance for chips. Had plenty of room to make insert bushings with a wide shoulder to put a pin through both the cylinder pin & bushing shoulder. This was kinda fun project, and it saved lots of dollars.
20:00 I have that same ratchet, a Snap-On 710-B I got in 1972.....and it was used then, got from my college roommate....traded him a military aircraft seatbelt for it.... still cherish it and the memories of where and what it has done ....
On Fire Welding, Cutting Edge Engineering (Kurtis) and Abom69 are awesome channels. I’m not a machinist but enjoy every second of their vids like it’s my last. Thanks Greg and the other channels.
To you, this is day to day stuff, your job, nothing fancy To me, i absolutely LOVE seeing the process in action. it's so darn satisfying to turn something weird, mishapen and and no where near uniform and make it perfectly round and good.
I like the grease channel you cut into the back of the bush. I've seen a couple of bushes rotate in the bore, not much but just enough to prevent grease getting to the pin. Hopefully the next operator will grease it properly, but I probably shouldn't hold my breath...
I posted this on a video that was over a year old so I thought I would put my comment on a more recent video. "I love watching your repairs. I'm learning a lot. (71 years old, welded since I was 15, never professionally so...) I'd like to see some of the equipment work after you fix or modify them."
I’m always curious about how much time it takes to do these things??? You mentioned Kurtis & Abom another fellow is Issac of IC Weld in Texas That press was interesting, that’s not even cheating fair I do appreciate your videos. Thank you Sir
I love these videos, when I was a kid my old dad was a farmer and he'd work at machinery that needed repair. We'd take bashed up parts to a local machine shop and bring them home looking like new, I was fascinated by how they could do this and the equipment looked like the work of black magicians. Well, now I know how they did it. 🙂
I've seen some worn out pins but that's on a whole other level. Had a customer trade in his worn out mini-ex for a new one. He didn't like that the bucket was tight on the new one. Said when they're "worn in" and can flop around that they're easier to clean out when digging. The less maintenance he does just means more money in my pocket.
Nice job well done great idea adding grease slot in bushing. Fit seems loose for new OEM parts, I would measure and check dimensions of parts aganist factory specs to make sure you have correct items and a different version was not sent in error for peace of mind otherwise this joint will consume a lot of grease to keep it lubed. Ray
ever since i was a lil boy i was in a machine shop, i knew from a young age i was going to work with my hands in a machine shop. i took every class i could in jr high and high school and then some. before i was 5 my grandfather had me stick welding to see if i would be afraid of the flame and to see if i could take getting splatter burn.,. lol love watching these type of videos. P.S. im old now, but when i step foot in a machine shop and smell it, my childhood comes flooding back, again thank u.
I work at a state of the art tool grinding shop but we also have a building full of the old school machines like yours, you have to. but I'd say your work is very solid. people have to remember that you are ultimately repairing heavy equipment. I was also a mechanic for decades so I'd also be the one to hang the boom back on the machine. there's probably only 2 other guys at work I'd trust to help me do that part. 😉 anyone else can just bring us oil.
Hey bud, been watching your videos and really enjoy them. Metal work and Welding is something I've always enjoyed. Maybe you can inspire our youngsters to wanna do what you do. Thank you from Tn.
I love watching stuff i dont do. Watching how you cut, drill and make stuff work after milling down pure steel blanks of metal is very enjoying to me. Im a Med Diesel and Auto tech.
There is very high chance the other piece where this "arm" suppose to go it wouldn't fit. The "sleeve" with the nice looking welding(s) is now slightly longer, I can't say by how much but at least 3-4 mm on each side. Of course if the other piece of the arm have a large gap 10-20 mm the wouldn't be a issue but if the play gap is only 5-6 mm, both welded ends have to be cut and eventually re-welded, keeping the original size.
there was the tiniest brass dingleberry in the second bushing in one of the grease holes. Will that affect anything later down the line? or is it so small that it is negligible. thanks for all the content love ur vids so much has been learned
Don't knock yourself down comparing your work to Abomber he used to be a machinist but now is a pitchman, you do great work and with each job you learn a little more. great video of a working man.
Once again, nice work. One thing I'd be slightly worried about is the non-sliding section in the middle where on many machine bores they install a removable sleeve in the middle. Changing out those bushings later after a life-cycle might be a chore since they're bronze and you can't weld-shrink them out? But, I'm probably over-thinking it too.
I think this was a decent fix. Well done. I would suggest making a much wider face for shims to rude against, as it helps a lot with offset radial loads.
This shit is all fascinating. I don’t know how to weld, started watching videos because I’m interested, and stumble on this and your other videos. Neat shit man. Way cool.
80% of doing a lot of repairs and figuring out what the best way to do it and yes you could’ve welded all that up but instead you decided to cut a sleeve for in there which to me is actually better than welding it all up and probably last time and less expense and that is a 100% perfect repair compared to what it was before how that they even operated was beyond me
