I came home from work, watched Cutting Edge Engineering weekly video, as it finished up came a notification On Fire Welding video is on, great timing saw the new line boring machine, now it’s time to sleep. 😁👍
Me three. BTW, that Frenna was a mess of rust. Do they live near the coast at all? Like within about 5 miles? I'd put it all together with neverseize, if it were me.
@@tetedur377The CEE Franna crane was previously used to load parts into and out of a caustic wash bay is my understanding from what Curtis described in the early videos on the machine. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Im impressed at your decision to set this up slowly without rushing into it. So many (to many) people try to show how much they know by speeding through procedures like this and ultimately making a mistake or three and ruining the workpiece or the tool. You have gained respect and appreciation by your process.
I came up with a good alignment method when referencing off of an existing parallel bore. I went and got heim joints with eyes the same diameter as the boring bar and I welded bar ends into different lengths of dom tubing. They are basically adjustable link bars that allows me to perfectly line up the bore.
Given your experience and knowledge of line boring and the fact that you already own what is probably the very best line boring setup available, I would say that you gave S-Power a ringing endorsement. I’ve commented many times before on your videos about my fascination with line boring and desire to get into it. I believe, based on your experience as well as other S-Power customer review videos that I’ve watched, that this is a system that I could use and afford in order to get started. Thanks for your insights.
Well, I see the mean girls are awake! Obvious? I’ll give you that. Thought I’d try to help Greg’s algorithm for taking the time to do the review with something slightly more intelligent than, “First”. Glad you fellers found it entertaining. Have a blessed day.
I realize that I like your vids for the great experience you display; but I also like it because you seem like a moderate, calm person unlike some die-hard guys in this field. Your shop is bold, not filled with propaganda posters (either side of the fence, propaganda takes us for more stupid then we actually are). It is all about welding and an important welder experience. Your vids make me see the importance of dual shield (I was a bit under the stick mode dogma). Thanks!
Thank you. I have my beliefs but I try to keep RU-vid professional. I do call people out in the comments though! Dual shield is great. But stick has its place.
You are a brave soldier!! Nice narration of the goods and bads. I thank RU-vid for the privilege of watching "On Fire Welding", "I C Weld", C&C, & CEE some really great machinist/welders. THANK ALL OF YOU. Ye Ole Caterpillar Cowboy out here in Illinois. If "S-Power" doesn't take advantage of your experience and make some changes DAMN fast they are missing the boat. Back to the project. I think I'd drill thru the pin delivery grease in two places at once. Congrats Gregg, excellent project.
It's funny you watch a whole lot of engineering videos on RU-vid and you start understanding the creators thought processors.... and that's where it stops. Great job!
i never was able to get into the machine shop side of things i got stuck doing mechanics all my life witch thats what God wanted for me so i stayed with it but now im 62 wore out and really enjoy watching you guys thank you for struggling with video eq while you work God Bless.
Well a great part 2 . Really enjoyed watching the review on the line boring kit . I agree there is always going to be teething problems but for the limited heads up on how to use it you did a fantastic job . For the price it seems a good investment for a start up item . As said a few improvements on certain parts could help in the long run but it's a usable tool out the box . Thanks for the overall time frame on the repair a lot of the time a couple of hours in a video really doesn't give the real time perspective with the hours it can take you to do the repair . And not a bad match on the paint . Thanks again fir a great video with great content .
I REALLY like both the WS2 machines that CEE uses! For this being a cheaper option, I'm really impressed 👏 with the results you achieved with it! Between yesterday and today, I've watched 4 or 5 videos of yours and I've gotta say, you really know your craft my guy! You're up there with the quality of CEE and I'm gonna subscribe for more of your content bud! Keep up the great work! God bless!
Thank you! I think line boring machines are like cars, some have options others don’t, and some are more expensive, but they all get you to your destination.
Hello Greg. I'm new to your channel and really enjoy watching it. The reason I am writing to you is I watch C & C Equipment RU-vid channel and he just bought a metal fab shop complete with lots of fab equipment . There are a lot of Miller welders that he is talking about selling, so I thought I would give you a heads up so you see if there is any welders or other equipment you might be interested in. His video was just posted yesterday. Take care, Russ
Another good job ... I kind of thought that trying to straighten that one side was not gonna workout. Glad to see you had the replacement side already to go. Nice J Joint weld, got to love the 71M wire. I did watch guys doing line boring but the Co i was working for at the time hired me to do cracks and weld on grouser bar so could not do a lot of learning at that time. my background is Welding, Machining,Lathe and mill And operator of all kinds of equipment
Great job! My guess is that customer had you do this repair because a new link was either not available. Not available in a reasonable time and or price. Love it if you included in your videos exactly what you saved your customer by doing this.
awesome review of the product. I appreciate your frustration at the 1/2 fine thread and 1/2 coarse thread. That seems as if it is a manufacturing error. especially when the screws they sent you do not fit and you have to use your own. Great job on the repair.
very good vid,enjoy your work and your skill very good at anything you do,highly skilled I think,and been doing this type work since late 60'sthank you
On the cheap bore welder we have we can only run it counter clockwise when looking from behind it If you run it the other way the threads can unwind causing the gun to come apart inside and arc out Kinda looked like what happened to you?
Really interesting video. Went and visited their factory last week in China and it was a really cool operation. A lot of manual mills with a few cnc lathes they seem to make a good product considering the price.
Hi Greg, I just finished both videos on this repair and I have to say that it was one hell of a repair. That part must go through hundreds of cycles during a day of operation when you stop and think about it, so it is a little surprising that there is metal on metal contact between the arm and the pin and the other connection without having any bushings to take up some of the daily wear. It is all a bit much expecting the grease to do all of the work and we are all aware that not everyone is diligent with their daily grease patrol of their equipment. But then again what would I know? 😅 I noticed during the video that your press frame lower bar was flexing during the operation and you mentioned that it has bowed, so I guess that we can all look forward to when you get busy and Frankenstein the press! I love a good bit of Frankenstein equipment! 😅 Keep busy and stay safe! Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Seems the haters came on strong on this one. I thought it looked good. He made it back to factory? It looked like an older machine and this repair will probably last the rest of its/owners life.
As always I look forward to see your videos to me it's like sitting in a classroom and you're the teacher always something to learn from what you're doing
Looks very sturdy well done. I always wanted a line borer but stuck with the site welding and lathe/mill. Guess you could use the pitch of the grub screw for roughing cuts 2mm pitch one turn = 4mm Maybe shorten the arc length to stop that wire problem .
An interesting episdoe young man. No doubt as with a lot of things from the orient, doing some modification improvements can convert the product into a much improved tool over the original.
Another job is done and it may work for a while, I don't know who engineered or designed that setup but it should have been oversized and bushing installed so the bushings would wear instead of the pin and arm. because you could see from the camera angles that there were areas where the pin was not touching the bore 100% better than you started with
Good video on the new boring machine. It was strange to receive the rusty set screws which did not belong. Milwaukee has a good reputation and this really disturbed me. I liked the graduated screw hole to assist with tool depth. Too bad the measuring device did not work. Yours is better.
That doesn't look pretty good, that's beautiful, good job. I don't know anything about line boring but i could see the two sides were not parallel. You saved someone a lot of Buck$.
I have been waiting for this video ..... the only reasson i havent got a spower machine is most of the equipment i do has smaller holes than the s power dose ...
They do sell a small bar kit I believe. I also think it would be pretty easy to make a small bar kit yourself. I saw someone with a S power and 1” bar.
