Kevin, Thanks for taking us along on this journey. You have been very straight forward in sharing both your trials and triumphs and your creative solutions to problems you've encountered. I have often wondered what happens to my castings and it a treat to get a ringside seat for this one. I am looking forward to the next video. Denis
Thanks for the kind words! I hope that, after seeing me bumble along, that it will give encouragement for others to try to do something similar. Your castings are a great option to get into this with. Thanks again so much!
Kevin you certainly do have a beautiful shop. It almost looks sterilized. I certainly commend you for machining that much cast iron and keeping the mill so clean. Sometimes I use oil on a brush just to keep the fine particles of cast iron out of the air and on the ways. i am about to re machine the ways on the saddle of one of my lathes and really not looking forward to the mess that cast iron can make.
I think part of that appearance is that floor. It is all nice and shiny. The problem is that shiny floors are not really what you want when you need to start welding etc etc. But thank you for the kind words! :-)
I am hoping I got that edge thin enough to reach all the way into the corner of the dovetails. We'll see. How long was the straight edge that you machined?
They say you can't learn from your mistakes until you make your mistakes. Ha! I had hoped that with the soft cast iron that I would get away with it taking a light cut. But you are right, way too sketchy! Thanks for watching!
yeah, at the end of the video I tried one, and that didn't work either. My favorite saying is that "I can't learn from my mistakes until I make my mistakes." My brain told me that my hair-brained flycutter wouldn't work. But I still had to try it to be sure. :-) Thanks for your feedback.
