Making A Set Of V Blocks 

I gotta say, man, I really commend your ability to crank these videos out on a weekly basis. That's no small feat! Nice project and looking forward to seeing your uses for these.

Those clamps! Marrying a blacksmithing look with smooth surfaces really set those clamps off nicely 💪💪👍👍

I really like the hammer finish on the clamp, it gives it a more natural look. Thank you for sharing your time with us.

Excellent work! Really like the contrast between the hammered outer surface of the clamp and the precision ground v-block. Science and art!

Love the hammered finish on the clamps they came out mint

I like this a lot! This realy shows that with enough effort and patience you can make anything work if you set your mind to it even if tools and supplies are limited (like 90% of the time). Great job and thanks for putting it out there!

Excellent tools you've made here. I'm always impressed with how good your mill does with that cup wheel.

A lovely video and a joy to watch. Thank you for sharing your journey on case hardening and how you achieve it in the home shop. I will say that your clamp was quite presentable! Cant wait to see these in use in future. Regards

Hard work is always rewarded and you have proven that on each of your videos I've watched. Your videos are great fun to watch keep up the hard work.

Mate, you should have a million subs. It's always a pleasant surprise when you upload. Very nice job as usual. Also a quick tip is to drop the case hardened parts directly into a water bath once removed from the charcoal. That's how firearms get the pretty rainbow color case hardening.

Another channel with a Saturday night video I was waiting for!

Nice project, I made a set of theses as an apprentice at 16. Still have them and use them on a regular basis 43 years later. Keep up the good work mate. 👍

Nice job. I respect your "do the best can I with what I've got " attitude. Greetings from the UK👍

Love your oldschool manual approach. V blocks were my first project in trade school, we even ran them on a surface grinder. Being a professional CNC machinist I wish I had the time to make a set like these for fun as a hobby machinist. Well done

It always amazes me how you brave projects that most of us hobbyists only think about making, but don't bother and just buy lol. You are a very bold hobbyist my friend and you've come a long way. Thank you for sharing your projects with us, they surely Inspire many!

I love the honesty of your show & your curiosity/determination..... TM

Start with the tools and skills you have. Everyone’s journey starts with the first step. Looks good to me. If make a small counter sink at the top of the hole you wish to thread it make taping straight easier. A Mr Pete trick. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent work, great additions to the shop. Thanks for sharing

Impressive…. Especially the forged clamps. 👍👍😎👍👍

Hello, a great video making v blocks with little equipment! Very ingenious methods using the mill as your grinder. I started a v block years ago that I never finished. Will try this in the winter. Thank you sharing!

Those came out great, and as for the finish on the clamps, they will work as well as any others out there, and they have more character than any others out there. A double win 👍

I like the look of the hammer marks on the clamp. Well done. 👍

i like the clamps forget finish

Thank you for this very well-done video. You covered all the steps thoroughly so we can all understand the procedure. Should I win the lottery; I will buy you a power-operated saw to save your arm for the next nice project. Looking forward to your other showings.

Excellent as always ... quality and thoughtfulness ...

Brilliant job!

Solid work. Really enjoy the content on the channel.

You've really been producing a lot lately. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

*Very good for the machining of these precision parts after the hardening treatment I knew you would have to end up using the grinder. Regards*

Hmm, never seen that case hardening method before. Kudos!

Hey there, you do good work, not just in the workshop but also videoing and narration too. Subbed! Mark, Queensland.

This is a great project. I could really use a set of these.

For protecting stuff from scale, I like 2000* F Rust Oleum spray paint, as for knives I can do much less grinding before hitting good steel, really just light hand sanding actually.

Big fan of the clamps.

Nicely done sir.

Love the vid 👍. Also the reason you didn't get the same hardness as cold oil is the thermal shock from the quench. The oil being hot means the temp diff is not as massive allowing the piece to cool off more slowly.

Good work my brother, So few people today actually know how to use a hack saw. Good work with the first time pack hardening. ,,,, If anybody deserves a band saw, though. it's you. Don't sell the HF 4x6 short. Don't listen to the cork sniffers. It takes a little tuning but we have had one in our shop for over 30 years. - 2-Worm wheels, 1 moter, and installation of water and hydraulic feed cylinder and we use if a good 20 hours a week cutting 4140 round bar. Well worth the 3 hun they go for today. Like I said. You deserve one.

You're getting quite good at that!

Looks great, my understanding is alloys are heat treated differently depending on what's in them. Some use water quenching for higher surface hardness. Also if you haven't watched it yet, there's a RU-vidr with a series of build videos on making a microwave furnace. It might be something that'd interest you.

I thought this was a This Old Tony video for a minute 😳 😂 Nice work good sir

You should give a cold air blast nozzle a try. Coming up with cooling solutions is tough for most home machinists. You may even be able to machine one. They have no moving parts, but I'm not sure about what the most efficient internal design looks like. Or, you could just buy one.

Very neat job 👌

Great job well done

My jaw dropped watching you use a hack saw. Too funny.

Always mill a slot to stamp your initials in. Nice tools can walk.

I love fly cutters. Brave old school.

great project well done

NIce to see Precision parts made on hobby machines.. For Case Hardening you could also use "Hardening enveloppes" or Hardening foil, Heck, maybe even have your parts Canned.. some gift shops offer this, putting gifts in a Tin Can..

Very good thanks.

Since you seem to be grinding on the mill more frequently, I am getting worried about the dust a bit. Perhaps you should bricolage (sew?) together a quick to install jacket - something that covers more than the hand wheels.

After not hacksawing that mill backplate slug, glad to see the hacksaw return

Somewhat unconventional but still worth it. I enjoy your channel as a boilermaker. I’ve learnt a lot about machining.❤

Отличная работа!

Have you ever considered chain-drilling when cutting material?(For those who haven’t heard the term, it’s drilling a series of holes close enough together so the bores of the holes slightly overlap each other into one groove, a strait line, circle, or whichever pattern) It does waste a bit of material, but it makes the hacksawing so much easier. I use DeWalt pilot point bits for doing this in big chunks of material all the time. I just did this with a 12x8x1/2” steel plate and roughly chain drilled the shape of features, think a poor mans waterjet type of cut, and finished it with two passes per feature face on the mill. Just throwing the method out there for anybody. I know endmills don’t grow on trees for us hobby people, but drill bits sorta do. But, if anybody does this, be VERY careful with the drilled edges.

Very nice work. I made my own forge too - I was (still am) about the fiber comming from those K-wool blankets. I (very carefully with full protective gear) coated my forge with refractory cement (about 5 layers - about 3 extra due to cracking and other issues. Two layers are good enough). You really don't want to breath these tiny fibers - it's like breathing asbestos. These tiny glass fibers induce silicosis - a process of forming lung cancer due to embedded particles in the lung that cannot be cleared out, just like asbestosis. FYI.

A suggestion when sealing the boxes with clay, maybe try rolling the clay into snakes rolling between your palms, then you have a rope of clay you can lay around the lid and mash into play like a continuous bead, it may fill the gaps a bit better.

That fly cutter is definitely earning its keep

I was using citric acid in granules to remove polymerized oil from aluminum part. I just sprinkle it on part and heat it with heat gun. When part cools its easily washed with water. Also i use it as an active flux for soldering when dealing with old oxidized nasty cables and for general purpose soldering. Obviously you cant use caustic soda on aluminum parts. I dont know if citric acid will work better that caustic soda for steel. but on aluminum it surely works great when heat is applied.

A nice next big project could be a power hacksaw, a mechanism similar to that of the powered filer could be used, I imagine that sawing metal by hand is getting tiresome at this point. Great video and great work.

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Vai meus parabéns do tamanho da nossa distância pra vc amigo 👏👏🇧🇷

Really nice job. If you already had some vee blocks you could have used them to hold the parts square when machining the ends. No problem now though 😊

Good Job fella!

Impressive work! You have an amazing machining setup but still cut thick pieces of steel by hand with a hacksaw? Thanks for taking the time to film your work.

Thanks for teach, you are a good master, FARDIN from Iran,, 🙏WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM, 🙏

Nice, Thanks

Nice job

nice done!

My first reaction was that your time is worth more than the purchase price of a set of V blocks. However, you are assured of getting an end product which meets your specifications, and you (and your viewers) learn a lot on the journey.

I wish you lived state side. I have like 5 portable bandsaws and I would totally send you one so you can put down that dang hacksaw…

Absolutely superb. I could really do with a set at my dayjob

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Nicely done. How are you going with all the wet weather? Up here in Qld we are not getting as much as you, but plenty of flooding in the usual low laying areas around the place.

Nice Work 5*

We needa buy our guy a bandsaw!

If my boss saw this being made he'd be out of his skin

Gday, the vee blocks turned out great, nothing wrong with them at all, where abouts in Australia are you, cheers

I'm about to make these

an alternative to carburizing is "super quench" 4 gal of water 1 large bottle dish detergent liquid 1 sm bottle of "jet dry" 5 lbs of salt mix ingredients quench your 1018 - 1045 when your above the curie point works great for low to mid low carbon steels you can expect about a 50-52 rockwell descale with a soak in muriotic.

Dude - love the end product (and video of course)! Have you seen anything like these for sale anywhere? I think we all need a pair.

Nice video, both the quality of machining and filming ! A question though : For such parts, what's the adventage of case hardening VS making the part of higher carbon steel and quenching it ? It's quite time consuming and you dont get as much hardness as you could with the first method Btw, good work mate, keep them coming !

yo man about that scale from heat treating I've found if you sand your surface to 400 grit then the scale just rinses of the sand paper I used was klingspor I know different countries have different grit systems so there that

Everything you doing are grate, nice jobs… Did you ever thinking to get a band saw instead a manual metal handsaw? 😉

thank you

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If you can make two blocks, try for three or four. They will always come in handy.

You should look into a mister and some compressed air for your mill

Why did you machine the bar BEFORE forging it? Just curious... the clamp turned out awesome! The contrast between machined and forged finish looks very good!

Great. You might square the stock as long as you are milling....

Oh boy. Bet you did learn a lot from this project

if you want too facegrind with no mess find a stainless steel tub your vice fits in with some room either side, about 50% of your mill table have the tub about 4” high (whatever fits nice) drill two hold too bolt the vice through too your table. This will catch all the sand your pretty much putting a bucket under and around your vice i use stainless cake tray found at a kitchen shop. that way it doesn’t compress when you bolt the vice on it

Be interesting if you welded some steel angle into a V block then skimmed the working surfaces true, would it stay true or distort ? If it works then it would save a lot of time and money.

In your furnace, there is a guy with a telescope looking out 😄

Blacksmithing looked like it went well

Try heating the steel up before you machine it. It may warp it before hand.

you need to make a bandsaw next

Question: Why wouldn't you weld the top on? It should seal it totally, then you could cut it off after you heat treat it.

Надеюсь точность такая же как аккуратность изготовления 👍.

Silver flux is boric acid and borax. One thing you might try is to get a hold of some nitric acid. A 15% nitric acid/water mixture will etch the case/core of a test (done at the same time) sample which is ground down allowing you to measure accurately the case depth. It will turn the case black and leave the core silver.

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