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It might ‘only’ be a puller tool, but it was made with as much care and attention to detail as you put into all your other work. Nicely done! Thank you.
You got yourself some Dutch coffee there :D "Douwe Egberts" is a really old Dutch coffee brand. You'll see that in almost every house with people 35 or older living in it. Can't start my day without it :D
Karen's work on that camera is just short of spectacular to say the lease captures every angle to show us exactly what you are doing your work is great as well i just like the bigger jobs as we get to see way more of how it is actually done thank to you both and the safety officer
This is an awesome puller design. I would say that when I'm doing mechanic work, the hardest thing sometimes is getting good pullers and press plates that will work with whatever I'm trying to take apart and reassemble. Recently I've taken to making my own. Having the lathe and mill there to make custom pullers and press plates just makes my job so much easier. I'm rebuilding my Kubota tractor engine and rather than do like most guys and smash the old sleeves out of it with a chisel and risk destroying the block, I made my own puller out of scrap steel I had lying around and I made the pulling plate out of some aluminum to avoid damage to the block. You can't get these old blocks any more and people want stupid money for them so it's critical not to wreck them. The screw I used was from an old broken Snap-On kit I inherited from my father. It took me about half a day to make it but it saved me about $700, and it would've taken a week to special order all the pieces in, so it was well worth my time. It was a hell of a workout with a long cheater bar to pull those sleeves but it popped them right out no problem.
@@MH-es9rn No but I'll have to check it out. I find myself doing a lot more diff work as time goes by. Most people are afraid to do it because you can't just slap the part on and torque it down. You have to actually set it up and take measurements and stuff. 🤣
Holy crap that tap was going fast! Kurtis is a master at thinking the job through and planning the least-effort way to get the finished product. Karen, nice camera work and your planning of the 'story' and editing have grown so much. The 'making of the coffee' was a really clever touch. Really nice work, both of you. I'm an old retired software engineer living in an apartment, but I can't get enough of watching professionals taking care of business. And of course, homey, so adorable and full of personality. Cheers to all!
Sweet! I'm so glad your channel grows fast and steady, the content is GOLD as always! No lengthy filler dialogue and most importantly no splitting the video into a soap opera. You guys are awesome!
@@BrayleArroyo Yes, especially if you can put that on, and easily get a bearing off that is deep in a housing, or your torch is going to damage some other part.
Sooo glad that after watching "Making a Pair of Heavy Duty V-Blocks" this morning RU-vid highlighted this video As a note in one of your packages said "Interesting and Effective". Impressive how sharp and effective your large drill bits are. What a design you have created !! Writing this just realized commented on this episode a year ago. Great watching this for a second time.
Retired here so I love watching a true master do the things I cannot anymore. Thank you for sharing Kurtis. In my college courses of machining processes I combined all of the required parts to make a gear / bearing / race puller. It was a 8lb slide hammer with a 2 jaw & a 3 jaw with concentric and a ring to push the jaws in or out against the work. I basically rewrote my whole curriculum that included all of the processes like rotary table, lathe, mill, heat treating etc. All of these processes would have left me with useless parts for each respective process, so combining all I was able to have something tangible in the end. I actually needed a puller to rebuild my differential on my car so this was a win / win. Shout out to Mr. Begman - Delta College - University Center, MI
Friday morning, another CEE video to watch and as usual it didn’t disappoint. The welding was a master class and puts others to shame. Having just machined a 2” piece of high tensile steel I was amazed how easily you took the centre out of that plate. Keep up the good work. Love the outtakes. If Karen struggles to open the coffee just give it to Homeless.
After have watched 10 previous videos, i am amazed by the quality work you have done, so precision work and top notch videos by your wife, Karen. I decided to subscribe to your channel! As I desire to learn to be machinist and other things as well, like welding too. I'm from USA. So this will be learning tool for me, great job, Kurtis!
@@royreynolds108 For sure! The think I love about him is that he looks like a complete animal; but if you listen to what he's saying, and watch carefully what he does, you find out quickly that he really knows what he's doing. He also tackles some absolutely humongous, difficult, and crucial tasks.
Wow, now I have finally understood how cones and angled surfaces are turned on a lathe: the whole base of the tool holder gets angled! You learn something new with every CEE video - and I don't even do metalwork or have a workshop... 😁😎👍
Lovely job. I've only watched 10 minutes but you've answered my trapanning questions. Now I can relax and finish another masterclass video. Thank you for taking your time to produce these tutorials. REALLY enjoyed the bit with the coffee machine video being in the same vein as the engineering video.
You three (I have to include Homey) make such a fantastic team. Wonderful demonstration of knowledge and skill put to work. You don't need an interest in machining to really enjoy your videos.
Ahhh memories. I flashed back to the recommissioning of a cotton gin and refreshing the bearings on some of the motors. After the first time the puller (porta-power) and bearing came flying off at a rate of knots (the bearing left a nice dent in the wall) we tied the puller to the motor with some telecom rope and NOBODY was allowed in front of the shaft...
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering Oh yeah, no qualified sparky on site and all motors still wired in, the switching room looked like it had been raided by 13yos on crack.
No sarcasm intended : impressed with the accuracy of the chalk line! - I've been using the nail on rust, or Tungsten tip pen on Blue paint...but then no two of our tape measures are the same !! You're a great inspiration. Slàinte Mhath.
There’s not much I enjoy more than a Friday morning with a hot cup of coffee and a new CEE video! Other RU-vidrs could really learn a thing or three from you guys! The quality of your videos is coming real close to the quality of Kurtis’ workmanship! Another great video you three!
Quite an ingenious bearing puller. It sounds like the customer is going to refurbish their used bearings. It'll save them a chunk of cash. I'm impressed with your method of cutting a ginormous hole in a big plate of steel.
@@MoraFermi Not necessarily, they can cut the cage, remove the rollers, and then regrind the races to fit oversize rollers, and put in a new cage. Cheaper than a new bearing, and you can still reuse the cage if you simply prepare it and weld it up again on the cut. Big cost saving on those large bearings to recondition them, and provided you have not let it get too worn, you get a good number of refurbishment cycles as well before you need to replace them.
@@marksmallman4572 If your new bearing is $1k, and refurbishing gives you half again at a minimum as much life for $300, it is worth it. For very large bearings all will be refurbished at some point, especially as the price goes over $5k, and lead times for new ones are measured in months. Some you have little option, as a new one might be a year or more to order, and you need the machine to run, while a refurbish might only take a week. For some you just have to do it, as the original manufacturer might no longer make them, which is common in older precision instrumentation, as the bearing races are actually part of the machine, and you simply polish them and put in matched sets of balls. There your refurbishment means you select from a whole series of slightly different diameter balls, to get the right clearances in the machine.
@@SeanBZA Given how much work it is to pull these off and re-install, I expect there is very little economic reason to try to rebuild a bearing.. However, using a puller like this will make it less likely to damage the shaft compared to cutting off with oxy/gouger/etc, so to me, that's the value..
I agree. it's encouraging watching a skilled craftsman doing what he loves...Reminds me of Mike Rowe. I'm guessing he has watched CEE. If not he should..Remember the situation where there's a skyscraper being built. So the contractor builds a tall fence around the job site....The he drills a few holes along the fence so folks can view...There's something about useful and masterful work being done that is a part of our traits..Psalm 11
I concur. As a former owner, likwe that Kurtis understands that a customer will pay more for a craftsman that loves their work. One knows it will be done correctly, amd done well. I for one, am always willing to pay for services rendereed.
Very neat welding work there. Reminds me of some heavy welding on a cutterhead for a TBM I was inspecting in Italy. The guys were having a break when I first arrived. I had a good look at some of the finished work before they came back. My first question was "where are the robotic welders?" They looked confused. I was pointing at the other workshops. "Which one has the big welding gear?" I asked. They just pointed to the three of them. "Welders" "just us". I thought they were pulling my plonker. No way such heavy welding, of such high quality, was done by hand. I sat for an hour watching them work, open mouthed for the most part. Proper artists at work. Never seen welding as good as that before or since. You came pretty close though.
My father had a neighbour, who used to do fabrication at a paper mill, and his speciality was brazing the paper webs to make a continuous roll. Only way you could see the joint was to look for the line of yellow and blue on the shiny fine mesh stainless, where the heat had discoloured it, and the yellow was the silver brass alloy paste he used, to join the individual 0.5mm wires together. Did that for over 40 years there, and even in his retirement he would go in and do this, on a contract basis, well into his late 70's. He did train a lot of people in the job, though most of them left after a few years for better pay, so he was always doing the training, and also some specialist fabrication when needed. Don't think I could get to that level, I do not weld enough, and can do reasonably strong and ugly though. Filler and paint though can cover a lot of sins, and car body panels are not at all difficult to replace.
So proud of you young Man ... no knife edges, all holes chamfered/deburred ... true craftsmanship !!! And yes, as an "Auditor/Lead Auditor" for ISO9001 and AS9100 you wouldn't qualify as a "1 Man Shop" ... but you have my sincere respect for your knowledge of what needs to be done. You have a lucky Customer !!! Kudos
Hiya Kurtis , When We remove the outers of a bearing We just run a pass or 2 of reasonably hot Mig Weld around the inside, they shrink like crazy then and generally just fall out or tap out with no effort
Really enjoyed this instance of your flexing your tool and die maker chops, and using machines, fixtures, and processes you don't generally in your videos. It takes someone with your experience, reasoning power and skill to come up with such an elegant solution - knowing how the removal process works and how to build the exact tool needed to facilitate it. Imagine how much more efficient this will make this part your customer's business!
Amazing work as always. Would love to get a video of them using your custom puller, would be awesome to see you're newly created cutting edge equipment in use!
About a month ago I viewed one of your CEE jobs for the first time and was overly impressed by the artful skills you have possessed in manufacturing & repairing metal products. Your welding is second to none! Looking forward to more Karen videos and the safety of Homeless (Homey) Just finished the video of Questions/Answers I had not seen. Very enjoyable in learning your working history of many talents in manufacturing & design.
Back when I worked on heavy trucks, some of the best tools that made my job easy were the ones I made myself. With I had a lathe and mill back then. Nice puller, I'm sure as the customer is a repeat one he is happy with what he gets.
The craftsmanship good to see, in a world where so much seems to be just thrown together and/or disposable. Also appreciate seeing the respect you show when viewers send small gifts, like toys for the Safety Officer and/or coffee for you and Karen. Strong work.
36:30 Well, if there's a taper you could make adapter rings which adapt them down - as long puller fits into the housing there shouldn't be an issue with that. :)
You and Karen are very skillful at what you do and you do some of the greatest millworker I have ever seen your skill is unmatched I can see that you take a lot of pride in what you do keep it up.
Yes hard on the taps. But UNC threads is odd in Australia, though I would guess that it is used because it is an old tap, and thus either there are a lot of them around unused and sold for a pittance, or Kurtis is always grabbing them off auctions in boxes of nearly new taps. Going to guess though the machine it will be used on though was made in the USA, so it has a mix of UNC and Metric threads and fasteners through it.
@@notstonks20 Possibly, old unit that is the ship of Thesus, where every part has now been changed, but the new parts still use the old thread patterns. At least those threads will be easy to replace, as the insert kits probably are cheap, as they have been sitting on a shelf since the 1970's. I have a few sets like that, came in the metal case instead of the plastic ones the metric use, and bought for around a tenth the price as well. Just going to be a bear getting new inserts for them, the only supplier only keeps a few around at a time, so included them with other orders, to get better pricing, slowly. Some of the kits had a date on them that was older than me.
My grandson and I both love watching your show. We too love seeing your dog and your endings have gotten a lot better. Thank you for sharing and all that good stuff. Thumbs Up to you all for caring.!
I appreciate the thorough explanation of what this was and how it works. I’m not a machinist but I find this work fascinating. Great editing as usual. Thanks for the video.
Another nice job. I’m always impressed with your handling of heavy materials, this time the chucks, and your forklift driving. Any chance of including a rough estimate of the material price for the steel? This type and grade is not what the average guy would know and might be interesting to a few
I'd work on roughly 6k/t mate (AUD). Approx $400 for the two pieces. (Going on twice the rate of mild steel atm). Try calling your local plasma cutter for a more accurate price.
Job well done. I have been machining for 35 years, and needed a way to finish my puller. I like the way you did yours. I need to pull off the variable speed pulley from my mill. That will help. I hate to spend to much time on a tool that will be used only once.
Banana Man again, 13/10. I have had to make custom pullers and installers for these tapered roller bearings before as well. The problem I had was there wasn’t any room to pull the cone. Then there wasn’t a tool made to press the new one on.
Induction heaters are used but before that an old electric frying pan filled with oil to heat it to temp. To incraes the ID or chill the shaft and they just slide right on but you have to be quick either way
That coffee that you got from the dude in Texas is called Douwe Egbert and it is from Holland. It's one of the best coffee in the world and I love it. Great video as usual 👌
Great work as always both, cute little taper roller bearing! 😍 I have worked on bigger ( first time for me, Ref Cutting Edge Engineering fayre) we use Timken, 36 month lead time for the bigger ones 18"/ 450 mm OD from the US to the UK, though you can get them quicker at a huge premium. Good to see high tensile plate being used, and other more suitable materials. Stay safe all, and best regards from the Black Country. John.
I hope that was Karen making the coffee at the end of the video otherwise Kurtis has some explaining to do about his manicure 😂. Thanks guys, have a good weekend.
Tom, I absolutely love these deep dive tech videos. No nonsense straight up. I know that there are a few out there that the content might have been over their heads, it is so well worth it. Thanks Tom for being really the only one out there that does this, other than Stefan of course.
I was concerned about how you measured that plate for the holes. You were using some defunct metric system, while we all know the only quality standard is bananas.
Pretty bad ass way of cutting out the center of those plates to save material that might be useful later. I love that type of thought process. Very nice work. Beautiful welds. That was a dandy all around.
Ingenious. I like to make a stab at what Kurtis is doing next at the start of each stage of the process. I am getting most guesses right. Not bad for a retired bank manager that has never actually seen a lathe run live! Brilliant skills and fabulously addictive entertainment. I love the out takes where Kurtis "corpses".
I ran amce gridely screws machines when I was a young lad always loved the maching processes amd all the diferent machines I got to use , lathes, radial arm drill press, surface grinder, broaches, key cutters, and a lot more watching you and your craftsmanship and brimgs back a lot of great memories nothing better thsn looking at something you made with a microfinish you can see yourself in. Quality workmanship and great videos is why I like this channel and the peole who make it all happen on the You tube. 10/10
Brilliant work young man. Those welds look like they were done by spray transfer, very smooth indeedy. Top video in every respect, best regards to all three of you from soggy England!
Nicely done mate, love the design. I had initially wondered how you were going to bore the cross bolt holes. Tike the cross bars better. Of course the out-takes are always better. Great camera job Karen.
настоящий професионал-. и токарь и сварщик и слесарь. и всё руками и головой. без CNC автоматов. молодец. Оператор с камерой тоже молодец.Приятно смотреть.
So interesting, love watching you do your work & your workshop is so well equipped! Also would you ever consider doing Live Chat with your Friday Nite Shows? I reckon it would be a big hit!
I love watching you machine stuff. My father was a machinist repairman. He would tell me what he did, but now I actually have a visual to go with the stories. Thanks for that.
Might be a silly question but do you ever paint/powder coat the components or tools you make? Or do you just coat them in an oily protective film for rust protection and leave It up to the customer to paint etc? Loving the videos.
He has stated that generally his customers have their own paint shop, or perhaps they don't want to pay an outsource hourly rate to do something that could be done in house.
I happened to notice a chopper landing out the back of CEEA earlier this week (whilst doing a delivery just next door (not a stalker, I swear)). An update to the Camera Mount Spacer perhaps?
Hi Kurtis and Karen, Another fine video on well made shop tools. Karen, the start of the outtakes had me laughing with Kurtis's silence. That was golden. :-) Homey sure tore into that shipping package. Have a great weekend and you both stay safe.
The Wise Machinist once asked of the Apprentice: "What came first? The Shop bought Tool or the Shop made tool?" -Meditations of Steel and Precision Chapter 3, by Karl the Philosopher.
@@MajesticDemonLord I call it the what came first sandwich but I always eat the chicken bit first as its not as good as the egg side. I just wish they'd make more egg sandwiches so when I'm late I don't get the philosophical delima tbh
Always the shop made tool, the shop bought tool is invariably only used for common things, and I would say most machinists still use the tools and jigs they made as apprentices, and have gone on to make many more. Remember many a shop made tool starts off as a broken shop bought tool, that failed to do the job, and was modified and upgraded to do the job properly or differently.
How nice would it be to have Kurtis as a buddy! Lol. Need something broken? Need something fixed? Need a special tool no one has come up with? Well he's your guy for the job. I've been going back and watching the older videos I haven't seen as of late. The massive boring bar was also a really good one. The care and detail in the work is just awesome. Keep up the great work Kurtis and Mrs. Kurtis!!!
Love watching these shop made tool videos. I have had to make many custom pullers for working on my plant's equipment with nothing more than a torch and grinder so it is great to see precision pullers made with much pride and craftsmanship.
It’s good to hear correct tool name in the video. 14mm Twist Drill. Being a machinist (retired) my pet hate is hearing twist drills being referred to as bits, they are only drill bits when you break them, then they are bits or bits of drills. Of course wood workers, carpenters use a brace and bit.
I so enjoy your videos, the ‘grip’ does an excellent job with the camera…….and Homie . Please keep them coming, great to feel your still ‘in the workshop’ even at 73. Much appreciated.
Kurtis you just redefined the my understanding of "power tapping" I usually baby the tap into a hole. You drove into those holes like a bat out of hell
