Thanks for watching Andrew. I agree with you, these machines were once king before milling machines took over being faster at equivalent machining operations. Tony
I used a shaper when I was in high school. Fifteen years later, I returned to that school as the machine shop teacher. The shaper was still in very good running condition. This was the last functional shaper in the school district. Today, Pittsburgh (PA) has no more machine shops.
Hi Kevin, spot on. The objective was to set the ram travel within a confined space for practice purposes. Too easy using the the mill. Thanks for your comment. Tony
Hi Craig, that's overkill comparing me with Rustinox on running a shaper. I'm a joker really bluffing it, but Rustinox is even funnier at being a real joker. I can't win...lol Rustinox's procedures are proven well thought out facts. My method is bang a cutter in, fingers crossed and hope I get a good result this time lol. I'm looking forward to your magnificent shaper working and you being mesmerised watching it cutting it's first chips along with us here on YT. Thanks Craig. Tony
Tricky setup job.... Nicely done! If I ever have the time to spare and a place to put it, I think I’ll go ahead and make me one of those Gingery shapers...
Gday Tony, perfect job, shapers still have there place in every workshop, doing this in the mill would need a long series endmill which aren’t cheap, great job mate, cheers
I have an Alba 1A 10inçh shaper which was a real labour of love to restore it back to the nice condition it is now in. I missed buying an Elliot 16 inch which I think is the same as your machine.
@@howardosborne8647 Hi Howard, nice to hear that you've a passion for your old Alba 1A shaping machine. Shapers are great machines to watch when working. My shaper is an Elliott 14M which is a fourteen inch stroke but it's calibrated with metric dials. Tony
When they closed the shop, all the machines were sold at auction. I was warned that all the lead screws were to be in the machines. The night of the auction, the screws were missing from three of South Bend Precision lathes. Along with the collets, chucks , live centers and drill chucks. Looks like a supervisor did it as he was the one doing the bidding.
You know what they say about shapers you can make anything but money but I find it the most satisfying thing to watch and have made really good quality thing with my shaper at home work shop
Apologies Tony - this did not pop on my feed. Sorry for being tardy to this world premiere. Great work and explanations. Good work thinking it through. All the best Dan
Shapers that have a crank adjustment for stroke length are the cat's meow. I like my little Alba but would trade up to a unit with that feature if one came available.
@@eyuptony Mine can adjust for stroke length, it just needs the side case opened, a nut loosened, and the sliding block manually moved. I think the ones like yours with the crank to adjust are the cat's meow!
Great job with the shaper, we have an Alba shaper which we need to get working. In your video I could not help noticing the vice you have on the shaper, we have an identical vice. Do you know anything about these vice or where we can look for information? Were these designed as a shaper vice? It seems odd that the vice does not appear to have a gib strip
Thanks Joseph. Alba and Elliott shapers used to be made by the same company, different badge. You'll have the correct original vice that came with your machine. Tony
Hi Peter, as you know, you can't compete with mates rates labour costs. Choosing Abom79 was no brainer. Keith Rucker might want some pidgeon sh*t welding doing in the future. That's where I come in. Thanks for the complimen, lol. Cheers Tony
Nice one Tony, bit of a bastard to set up and annoying to have to grind the body of the tool in order to do it. But you have to do what you have to do!
Almost always a modern mill can do the work of a shaper. An example of a shaper-only (or at least shaper-preferred) job would be cutting internal splines or keyways.
