Pretty sure safety went out the window when he started drinking the coolant. Can't see another reason to sodomize half of two budget anvils away into a bookend.
While this will likely get buried in the comments, I just lost a great friend who loved to watch this channel, and his humour reminded me of AvE. Thanks for teaching me everything I know about tinkering with electronics, this comment is for you Dave.
Using a US$100,000 state-of--the-art machining center to break expensive carbide bits to make tasteless bookends out of old scrap is something only deranged mind could appreciate. I want more!
I'm pretty sure those were chineezzium-sneeze-grade bargin-bin bits. (he said so, and I don't feel like my d**k was touched in the process.) That said, this was more about how to understand the process. And the challenge. And the Li. Yes. Have Some.
i have a mate,retired,,thats deranged,,being an ex chipi,,he makes tree,s into useless things. like,wood benches,,wood squares,,wood chips,that stik in your teeth..
I understand about 5% of the technical material on this channel. But learning the crude lingo of the pros is an important step toward becoming dangerously confident in the home shop. Love the channel.
What we all have on our desks, is the ultimate organizational method of mankind's labors. It is sorted both chronologically and by importance. Layers deep, like a life's lasagna. The further deep and farther back you go, the less important and older the objects become. It's the geology of your life's efforts. Everything related to everything else. Need to find something? Just remember how important or long ago it was. Take a guess, and then use your well known monuments to guide your path. It was before the kitchen renovation sketch, got pushed aside for the plumbing fixture document, above the birthday card from your aunt. ... but then eventually your wife or mother comes along and "cleans it all up for you" and *with it is destroyed all that precious, irreplaceable meta-data* coded into the heap itself. Now you'll never find a damned thing.
I ran a CNC bandsaw for a couple years. My shop lead wanted me to cut a piece of track like that. After hours of explaining that I could not do it on the equipment that i had, I was coerced into doing it anyway. I tried everything. After going through a pile of blades, that chunk of rail still sits next to the saw.
@@CatastrophicNewEngland They use a huge saw with a huge composite metal cutting disk like the kind that you put in a grinder that makes a 78 record look small. I've seen the label on one but don't remember the exact properties of the disk. The next time i see one of our track guys i'll inquire.
I love it! My mother in law loves me so much she gave me a life size plastic mastiff-drinking-out-of-a-fountain bird bath that’s falking hideous, we’ve been stuck with it for years. She deserves a nice book end.
@@monkipooman Then gushingly ask to see it every time you visit her. That way she will have to dig the heavy SOBs out of the closet and put it on display when you visit. Aint 'love' wonderful?
This takes me back a few years! I built my first metal cutting lathe using a piece of rail for the bed. A very reluctant machinist allowed me to deck the top flat in his old Bridgeport with a face mill in it. Poor old buggers probably been dead for years, but I'll always be grateful to him for letting as he put it, "some dumb kid play machinist for a day!" 😁
I'm a 17 years RR maintenance of way guy. I've cut more rail with the biggest gas powered saw stihl makes than I wanna think about. Old rail will even screw with abrasive blades. Have to bang the blade to break of the edge due to what appears to be crystalization of some type.
manganese nodules do that. Even annealed the hardness would probably be in the 30s on scrap rail. Its not uncommon for scrap rail to be in the 70s (which is crazy)
@@blackopsrocks Hello worked as railway engineer The head of the rail is usually hardened with manganese used to take a long time using patrol hacksaw in the day
New subscriber here! Who’d a thunk a fella could get machining tips and broaden his vocabulary all whilst sitting on the shitter?! Time management I says! Excellent!!!!!
No where near the level of most of your commenters, so I will just say thank you ! You are the best , and I appreciate your efforts and the sacrificing of the tools!!
With this Letterkenny and a few other shows(I'm American) I'm suprised no one ever talks about canadian humor like they do american or british. This is how you can tell if someone really has a sense of humor it's just gold shot at you in rapid monotone, picking it up is on you.
When I was a youngster and worked at British Steel the rails were a special grade, we used to specialise in IRS " Indian Railway Steel" it was formulated to cope with the extreme temperatures, it was a pig to cut, it was my job to cut up the reject lengths with a gas axe, a proper apprentice job.
@@enbee_ash6740 that is probably the case now, but it did teach me to be able to gas cut straight lines, without resting on the red hot literally steel.
@@philipcable7518 indeed it is I ruined a pair of socks every day, I have used plasma cutters too, after all after i repair one I had to test it didn't l, and now we have a CNC plasma robot cutter, that took some programming, Still need the good old OxyAcetylene wher ther is no mains or compressed air, and any cuts over a few inches deep too. Sitting in a cherry picker burning 8"BSW nuts off is quite fun actually. Accidentally Setting light to the Forklift below was just an added bonus lol.
@@dogwalker666 "Accidentally Setting light to the Forklift below was just an added bonus lol." Way more fun than setting fire to the leg of your trousers... Don't ask me how I know. Great for improving your Anglo Saxon outbursts though.
You can just @ me next time, thanks. I swear, someone comes over and they move something and my world comes to a grinding halt. There is a madness to my methods.
Preach it to the masses, brother. You move something of mine and I'm lost for days. I swear the other occupants of my household are conspiring against me.
Oh God. Last time I had my car all A-part and some one(Girlfriend)Decided to pick things up while I was having a read in the study. I come back to hey I cleaned up for you. The only way I knew how to put it back together was the way it was piled up on the floor. Ya know top parts or on my case parts closet to the car first. So then ya have to fiddle fack your way through on line forms with out trying to pay for a subscription. And what would have taken a few hours takes all day.Hopefully you had enough wabble pops to forget about the extra shims you have. Until it becomes abundantly clear you might have ruined sumthing about halfway to work in -30⁰ wether. But I fixed the problem. It was easy I'm now single.
I was just today watching a vijayo on another channel where they were talking about needing to hire an experienced CNC captain for working with tree carcass, and that they had up to 100k p.a available for the right person. I thought of this channel instantly for some reason, and then you go and upload this to remind me that I should look somewhere else entirely.
I am in love all over again. 12:11 "oh to be a fly on the wall at that garage sale . . . " the sort of insight that keeps me coming back for more. Truly, sir or ma'am or how ever's youse identifies your self... great work on all fronts. I wanna run off and join your army.
As a young apprentice I went through 4 drill bits to get a whiff of a whole started on some sort of hardened steel. The old dude just asked you want another bit or an explanation?
We made breaker plates out of inconel. They were discs that were drilled so much you you'd wonder why bother. A cobalt drill would go halfway thru then need a resharp. It turned so painfully slow. Squeek. Squeek. Squeek. etc
...reminds me of an old machinist I knew that had one of those. he used it to machine one of those contraptions that lower caskets down into a grave. He wanted to be let down by HAAS one last time... LOL! Keep up the awesome VID's!
When the door wouldn't shut because of the vise, i almost choked laughing so hard. My whole damm day has been like that. Thank God that 5:00 is finally here!
Congrats! Now the end of the weeks hurdles await me: a singular twelve hour shift fighting fires and pressing "start" buttons stands in the way of my weekend. Godspeed, sir.
Frog Snacks, didn't realise rail was that hard. But, you've come a long way since the day you realised you could turn hardened steel on the ol' Boxford Lathe.
My dad had a machine shop, I worked there as a broke college kid. The neighbor auto shop had brought in diesel engine manifold to be refaced, when the fly tool broke due to a hidden weld, it was the start of my education on true angry volgarity.
The "big" drive is probably formatted in exFat, lot's of stuff(that isn't a pc) with usb ports prefers fat(32). Might work if you reformat it, if you really want to use that drive
"There ya go Bob, here's a retired CN rail turned into a bookend for your retirement. Better appreciate it cause I had to retire a shitload of bits to make it!"
I'm the other guy. I found a nice broken forklift tine at the scrap yard on the last trip, 120kg at least. I cut a 35cm slab off to use on the hydraulic press as an arbor plate. It took more than an hour with a big grinder and a cut-off wheel to make it through the 65mm thick piece. I would have spent more time cutting additional slabs. But, someone offered me a pretty penny for the rest of the tine. They were willing to drive a few hours one-way to pick it up too.
Dude I absolutely love your channel. I can't wait to show my wife the Lee theory. You sir are an inspiration and I truly have nothing but love and respect from Brookfield Connecticut!!!
You are absolutely hysterical yet very accomplished and interesting. You say what everyone of us have felt at one time or another. "It never fucking ends." I love it!
Even just reading the title, I'm reminded of that old piece of rail about 30cm long that's lying around somewhere in my family's garage/workshop. AFAIK it's used once every few years as a kind of crude anvil by putting it into the bench vise or even just directly onto the workbench. Pretty handy to have around.
Hiya Mr Ave! What feed and speed were you using?(seemed a bit fast) for hardened steel,(I do a ton of hardened steel like 17-4 and such) I usually do about s500-s800 with a max feed of about 10-12.5 and try to keep around .008 to .012 ipt. my experience with running them faster is that a high frequency harmonic tends to destroy larger (1") tools. Thanks for your time and keep your prick on the ice!
Sometimes it is just the principle of the things. “They say it can’t be done” I can do it with excessive amounts of money and swear words. Thanks for the videos. Happy Easter from Michigan.
Reminds me of the time I made a door knocker out of a piece of rail. I finally got a slice cut off, using 3 blades in the chop saw. I almost buried myself in broken 5/16 inch drill bits, trying to get 3 holes in it, but by God, I got it done. A ball peen door knocker looks better all the time. I even used some cuss words I didn't know I knew!
Best one I saw in the machine shop. We heard a horrible noise from the saw shop and investigated. Well one of the assemblers needed a shorter Allen wrench so he decided to cut it down on the band saw. Basically just sheared all the teeth off the blade.
I was always told to cut rail from the bottom towards the top. The top is work hardened. A band saw will cut the bottom 3/4 or 7/8 of the rail; the the top needs to be ground after that. But that's US of A rail.....
