Please keep doing ANY length videos. (Pref. long ones, ha-ha!) We/I always pick up tricks and tips from your vast knowledge over the years. e.g. 'anti-bozo', the correct way to fit a circlip, take your time, don't rush, think carefully about the problem, etc, etc.There are usually several ways to solve a problem. Many thanks, Max.
Max, that was brilliant. Olga the beast mowed through that bar like a lawn. And that stunning finish....seems like the soviets knew what they were doin. Very impressive.
She's alive and likes to eat metal. Very gratifying for you Max after a lot of dedicated work. New possibilities on the horizon for us viewers. Cheers and thanks.
Nice work Max. Olga is an awesome machine. Your cutter worked great, cutting like butter. Beautiful finish. The Stanko is going to be an asset to your shop for sure. I can tell it will be a Workhorse!. Thanks for sharing the process. Have a great day.
I met a girl in St. Petersburg in 1993 at a military music festival (Edinburgh Tattoo sort of thing). She was in the Russian Navy gymnastics & fitness team. I watched this lass pick up a 1.5 Lada motor with her bare hands. She was about 6ft 2" and built like a fuckin cube. I was the only bloke that'd go chat to her. She spoke near perfect English. We shared many beers until the wee hours after the festival was done. What was her name? Bloody Olga.. 😂
Great Soviet/Russian wife 👏, dont let her get citizenship or she'll leave you 😉. Nice setup on the mill, ref stop blocks, great mill to run, whilst on another machine. Thanks for sharing
Back on track with your channel. The bigger the better, and this ole beast is a brute (@@)! Gone too be awesome to see what she will do next. Nice fit up on the face mill tooling. Bear in the US - Tx.
G'day Max, playing catch up on video's ATM. Well presented video, like the fact that you show all the detail of the checking and the set ups. You can't beat rigidity when it comes to machining. Cam
I have a 1965 Stanko tool room lathe and it is a fabulous machine although a previous owner had replaced most of the Russian contactors with German ones which have been super reliable.
Hi Max, Olga is a bit of a beast aint she. I've had trouble with shell mills in the past, believe it or not I had a Sandvik one where the bore and the face were both out, really surprising considering Sandvik's reputation, it did the job but I had to take the high tip out as it was ruining the finish.
You have to be careful Max, big cuts on the horizontal mill can become highly addictive. With the price of steel these days it can easily be more expensive than a Crack habit. The facemill you have looks very similar to a Sandvik R245 style. If it's anything like the Sandvik I think you will be happy with it. I have three of them (3", 4" and 6") and they are fantastic. They will hog out a wheelbarrow full of swarf in one roughing pass and then leave a mirror finish on the next finishing pass. Regarding the power drawbar you may want to use it for a bit and see if it grows on you. I added one to my Bridgeport clone and it was the best upgrade I made to that mill beside a DRO. My HBM came with one and it makes tool changes so fast and easy. I'm just setting my HBM up today to do a job that has 44 identical parts. For one of the holes I will be changing tools 5 times before it is finished. Without the power drawbar I would be looking to set it up on a different machine. Ken
Lol , the 6 or 7 ton of heavy plate up to 4'' that i have laying around should feed the habit ! I went for a 45 deg approach high rake cutter as i have a few plates to mill across . I might wait & see how the draw bar goes . What type of stud is fitted to your tool adapters ? Cheers 👍
6 or 7 tons of plate, a few boxes of inserts and you could be backfilling low spots in your yard with swarf. Not very cost effective but it would make a good video. Both the drawbars on my machines (Bridgeport clone & HBM) use a conventional threaded end (7/16" on the clone, 5/8" on the HBM) so I don't have to do anything to my arbors. I guess in your case it could be a problem if you can't get enough of the screw-in adaptors for your arbors. Ken
G'day Max. Very impressive Horizontal Milling, & good looking chips. Reminds me of Dr Frankenstein when he started his Experiments. 😅😅😅 Should be good when you have a full machine going 😊
Nice big mill, that was definitely a light cut for it, a decent horizontal/ vertical mill is something I would like but I definitely don't have the room, something like a Parkinson 2N with the separately driven overarm would be ideal. Bridgeport has to do for now.
Realy nice job all round showing the turning on lathe which I must say went way better than I thought as would have expected the cutter to be way harder than it was then mill out the slots and finally on to big OLGA as you call her and very impressive in dead just ripped metal off as though it weren't there thing I liked is when you say just going to nip up the cutter then you get out the cheater bar that cracked me up had a good chuckle i did Allow nice work now weight till next video to see it all set up with the cutting head on that will be impressive big Cheers from over other side of Aus top of Queensland just like the work you do no fuss just sort it and get it done Cheers
I see how you are...using the parting tool upside down. Does that have anything to do with the water rotating the opposite way down the drain in your neck of the woods? Good times! Always fun to watch Max.
Hi Max,Regarding the clocking of the inserts in the face mill. If the inserts your are using are as sintered and not periphery ground it doesnt surpprise me that they were out that much. For improved surface finish and tool life you maybe should consider using fully ground inserts if they are available? Cheers Ian
Thanks Ian . I should mic them up just for curiosity . For the machining on the next few jobs , they will be ok . They gave a great finish on the 350 steel plate even though the chip thickness was at it's minimum .1 mm recommended by Kyocera . I will crank the chip thickness to to it's max of .3 mm & see how they go .
Hi Max, You are onto it as chip thickness is very important, expecially in materials that work harden. When I was working for Seco Tools I really enjoyed working with milling as there are so many variables with feeds, width of cut, depth of cut and a simple calculation in metal removal rate can tell you if you are moving forward or going backwards. The calculation for MRR is Q = ae x ap x vf divided by 1000 gives you MRR in cubic cm per minute. ae is width of cut, ap is depth of cut axial and vf is feed speed in mm per min. Q is of course the answer. Always good fun to do a calculation. Cheers, Ian @@swanvalleymachineshop
Olga works fantastic Max. Enjoyed all the machining set ups. I was surprised at the cutters tip heights being that far off. Are you going to check how straight the finished cut is against your surface plate/straight edge. Good stuff. Cheers Tony
Thanks Max, I wouldn’t have thought to modify the tool thinking it would be too hard. Is it normal to be able to do this or did you test the hardness before you started? On that what is a rule of thumb on hardness level for still being able to use carbide? Yes, I have a lot to learn! G’day from about 35km south of you.
I have a 5 in Lovejoy mill. It uses 1 in round disks, and has always done a great finish, but i can hear its bit off, I will check it like you did! Did you swap cutters like say put the 1.5 in the zero position?
No worries . I have shown it in older video's . Just clock in the machined side of the indexer in the horizontal plane , then the work in the vertical plane . Then check the work in the horizontal plane again . 👍
