Planing a Bridgeport Table... I really screwed up :( 

A wise old machinist told me the difference between him and the apprentice is, he doesn't let people know about his mistakes. Keep up the good work. 👍

In my lifetime around machinery I never saw a machine with a conscience: given opportunity, they bite. Experience gives us options to fix what we broke. Thanks for sharing.

Sometimes, recoveries can be great! Although, I am worried about Dons brass nut for his shaper. Thanks for the look.

I always heard that if you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. Great to see the process you go through to see what the cause was and what the solution is. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Steve! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and mistakes! That shaper seems scary!

An experienced machinist knows how to fix mistakes

Thank you for showing the messups, I struggle when editing my videos to keep or leave out my mistakes. It's definitely the hardest parts of making these videos is to show ones mistakes so other can learn from you. Love the videos keep up the good work.

Thank you. Your video was a timely reminder to me, to plan more, to go slower and be more patient in my undertakings. You worked through a trying situation...another very important lesson. Best wishes to you.

Thanks for the kind comment on the tool bits. You're welcome any time. Ken Edit: You should be able to turn the clapper block and compound slide so the tool bit will kick out and clear the cut on the return stroke.

In your defense Steve, you are not just a machinist doing his job .. you are also a film maker, camera crew and producer ... that planer needs 100% of your attention, and I can easily see how the smallest thing, like locking the head, could get missed when you are also setting up lighting and camera angles! Shit happens! We learn and move on. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Nice work Steve. Sorry to see you had a tough time. It will all work out fine. Take care, Ed.

Thanks for sharing 👍

Sorry the sound is wonky... There is a fixed version here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XABHXB3dVP4.html Something to do with the processing by RU-vid...

Shit Happens Steve, but you now how to fix it and thats workexperience^^

It appears as you still have all your fingers showing your amazing skill.

that gouge and the chip are what JB weld is made for.

I think you could call that a "Strategic Relief Cut" Thanks for making the video-

First time seeing your work Ill be subscribing. Keep up the good work God Bless. Human is practice Divine is perfect.

👍👍👍👍👍

Your good to show us mistakes, so we can all learn what not to do. That bridgeport table looks like a toy on that planer. So you have to cover the machine with porcupine quills to keep Don off it, lol.

Steve, now I know that you are human; all humans mess things up. I am very glad that there’s a good way out of it, and that you seem happy with taking it. It’s for just such a reason that I decided to get my lathe-bed flat purely by hand methods - endless scraping - because I was really afraid I might make a wrong move in machining it. For the return-stroke in your first operation here, going down the side of the dovetail, it looks to me as though it’s possible on your planing-machine (as it is on mine) to swing the clapper-box over on the tool-slide so that the cutting tool lifts out clear obliquely. For planing the horizontal surface under the overhang, you obviously do have to lift the clapper-box right up; but for this sort of case, and for jobs such as planing tee-slots, the old books suggest fitting a hinged flap in the clapper-box behind the cutting tool. It swings back out of the way on the cutting stroke, but at the end of the stroke it drops and, on the return, lifted by contact with the work, it lifts the tool clear. Lifting it by hand as you do is fine, but to manage without needing to do that would give you one less thing to think about.

Think Don has been out tomcating . You had better ask him . Has he let the Ferret off for a run !!!

Steve. wonderful video, glad it was only a minor flub a dub, best wishes from Florida, Paul

Great work, good to see the screw ups. Let's me know that even skilled machinist make a mistake now and then. But the important thing is how to fix your mistake...

scared me and I was just watching a video, guess we all have those moments

Even something as stupid as a part getting away in the drill press can serve as a jolting reality check. These machines love to get our attention.... and not in a good way. Glad everything was "okay".

And the wise old machinist knows how to fix said mistakes.

She'll be right ! 👍

a very good place to have some damage = where it doesn't matter and wont be seen :-)

Hi Steve, redeemable with Turcite and will be a better job, the epoxy will fill that little the small void. Pity Don was not there, could have blamed him!

There are planers Here in Germany by Waldrich-Coburg which where build as late as 1980 i think

Thanks!

Hi Steve, I'm certainly glad and didn't got drugged into this machine. Considering some of my mistakes, how about an engine block system and transfers the block into the next station. Almost got my leg caught as it was lowering down. Anyway, it was nice to see you do this operation!!

Don Get better , we need you to keep , up with everything ,

nice machine

Well it could have been worse. Just make lemonade from you lemon. Glad you didn’t get hurt.

Thanks for sharing the mess ups! Always useful learning the less hard way! For dovetails, shouldn’t you be setting the clapper box to something like half the included angle of the dovetail?, regardless of what angle the slide is on so that the tool is always swinging into a clear area between the faces? (No planer experience, just a little bit of shaper time!)

sorry about the mistake.

It's happened to us all .

All’s well that ends well, blame Don.

A video a few years ago showed planer production in India

I think the Don-bot was after you and you'll do it right. You won't sleep till you do. BLESSINGS!

Just blame Don, “Don! what did you do”

i may have some tooling of interest there is hss and brazed carbide. thats if you could use the brazed on IThink it would most likely work then again i have never used a shaper or planer the tools are odd shapes i will email some photos. great work why have i only just found this channel

You are getting lots of practice.

I just looked up Turcite. There must be a better way and I expect you will tell us what it is 😁

I remember you saying that the saddle you're working on was warped by 0.6 mm I think you said, this was down to the clamp bolts distorting the T-Slot grooves production in-built stresses that produced the distortion. So is it possible you could just clamp the saddle down flat and machine the T-Stot grooves over size to remove the stresses and thus removing the 0.6mm distortion? Jimbo🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 p.s great show

i just watched ABOM set up a woodruf cutter with a planer gauge, looks very versitle too me.

is that a surface plate at the end of the video?

Fascinating process. I didnt understand why you cant just plane it to clean it up. I understand it on a lathe to get the leadscrew to not bind on the carriage but why on a mill.?Maybe a dumb question but i got broad shoulders and dont mind looking stupid.

Whoa Ateve! What happened to the sync? Ah. I didn’t see your post about this before I commented. I suppose I could cheat and delete my post, but nah.

why do you pick up the tool head at the end of the stroke

Oh Steve, you noticed I haven't been back since the butcher knife incident...😒😒☹☹ Something about a sharp knife that doesn't feel appealing!!!

Planing a Bridgeport table...?

Not one machinist hasn't had a oops WTFH most aren't serious or fixable so we cuss a bit and then get the job done. One chip out on the end on top shouldn't hurt anything you epoxy it with titanium putty and file it flush then do your scrapping

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$hit happens.

Hmm. some people might say oh boy Steve is getting forgetful and that is why he screwed up.. Not me i know the real reason its all Dons fault, you made fun of him with the pigeon wire at the start of the video and he used his voodoo powers to get even LOL...... Lesson Don't mess with Don LOL