Saturday Night Special 105 

I have no idea what you're making most of the time, but it's abundantly clear that you are a master of your craft! Well done sir, well done!

Nice job Adam I love the horizontal boring mill. Looks like it is very handy .

Shop Life at it's finest, Thumbs up.

Nice to see that big tap holder make an appearance. That's some really nice repair work, too. I can only imagine the peace of mind the customer must have knowing someone so deliberate and thoughtful is on the job getting things right. Thanks for sharing your skills.

we repair ALOT of equipment for motion industries here in arizona. just about every video you create, I can relate to. There's not alot of people in my field of work, so I'm just blown away when I see the stuff you do, that I work with daily. you are a true artist, and at the top of the chain in this field. I appreciate everything you're doing for the rest of us who love to watch work, when we're off work.

Those big parallels look good on the horizontal mill!

Thank you for all the hard work . Saturday's can't come fast enough .

You are GREAT, Adam!!!

Thanks for the new video.

Hi Adam, I love it when you use the Anchorlube on your projects! We sell it and when you use it, we get inquiries about it. We send potential customers to your video to see what it can do. Jay Kilroy used the Anchorlube on his shaper in one of his videos. That was a first for me as I have never seen anyone use it on a shaper. I also sent you the sample of "Cape Cod Polishing Cloths" sometime ago and you were kind enough to give us a mention at the time that we very much appreciate. Keep up the fine work! Thanks again,Dana

And a Minnesota style beanie. Florida cold, but still the grin.

way cool...playing with the big toys

Looks like its a wee bit chilly down there on the Gulf Coast Adam, with your head warmer on and a little portable heater on the bench aimed at you. No Saturday would be complete for me now, without my weekly installment of SNS from Abom! Cheers.

Thoroughly enjoy your videos even though they frustrate me, as my nearly 83 year old knees and back wont let me get out to my workshop in this cold weather. Thank you for your time.

Thanks for taking up the brazing/welding subject. I agree with your opinion and reason for brazing I've done it myself and have the same experience with hard spots when using weldment. I was one of "the guys" who asked about the brazing😀 I was a Machinist myself but now as a Mechanical Engineer but I'm missing the smell of fresh coolant, cutting oil and hot chips 😄 Going to the machine shop at work to get my daily sniff😀

Always a mixed bag of goodies Adam, nice to see all the entries for the Abom79 photo challenge just Awesome, that thread repair was very informative

Adam, Another great SNS! You working on that hydraulic actuator makes me a little homesick for a job I had. If the owner hadn't smoked himself (literally) to death (lung cancer that spread to his spine), I'd still be playing with actuation and building custom control boxes for our clients. 99% of the work I did was on electro-mechanical actuators. The hydraulic units I worked on involved replacing piston seals, output shaft o-rings, etc. I will get my picture entry in as soon as it clears up . . . Yes! California is actually getting rain! Thanks again for sharing! Have a good one! Dave

Nice! Thanks! Love the pics from around the World.

Hey Adam, I just wanted to throw out some info for you to look into for cast repairs. Lawson Cronatron 211 welding electrodes. I worked a lot of years in maintenance and found this rod to be pretty amazing. The 333 rod for dissimilar metals also works fantastic for removing bolts broken off inside holes, just plunge in straight down bolt holes and let the rod flow itself in. The flux protects the threads while the filler builds up on itself until you have enough build up to grab with pliers and turn out the broken stud. I suggest you try these 2 electodes and keep a pack of each in your shop, they're great time savers and get you out of trouble quick. Keep up the vids brother. Matt

Thanks for sharing, making the video, editing, & uploading Adam.

Thanks Adam, I loved the great mix this week and always enjoy the boring mill clips. Aloha...Chuck

GREAT STUFF ADAM !!! Keep up the good work.You are "number one" in my book.

Great how to on the thread repairs. Next time you're on a mill with a DRO, use the co ax your way and set your zeros. Move it off a bit and turn the spindle on to 200 rpm. I think you'll be surprised how easy it is to use that way. Thanks again, Jeff

Another great SNS Mate !!!!!!!!!!!

Those little oil cans like that use to come with new sewing machines years ago.

Whoa, was very surprised to see Annapolis Royal show up on your video! I live about 2 hours North (ish) from Annapolis Royal, in Halifax Nova Scotia. I'll have to send in a picture of my own!

Heyman, I love the KeySerts, and use them whenever there is enough material around the hole for the oversized tap. As always, Thanks for the time you put into making these videos.

Those big J wrenches are what I know as stem wrenches they are used to tighten & loosen drill bits on a drill stem used on a cable tool rig to drill a well be it water,gas or oil. Our family business is Drilling & Repairing Water Wells in the NW Corner of Ohio. I used them till I was 18 and we then switched to Rotary machines to drill wells with that was 1978.

Thanks for explaining why you prefer brazing to welding. It makes sense that the bronze would be easier to machine and I never thought about machining because as a mechanic I don't machine my welds. I always thought that brazing was inferior to welding but you've made me reconsider. Personally I do both welding and brazing on exhaust manifolds. I know the welds are very strong as we have torture tested them. Years ago I did a 1931 Buick exhaust manifold by brazing and that seemed to work well also.

Good video Adam. The actuator you worked on looked like a scotch yoke style. I used to work on the style a lot with pneumatic rather than hydraulic. Looking forward to seeing next week with the valve work you said you would be posting. I used to do a ton of valve machining. Facing, boring etc from raw castings. Looking forward to seeing that!

Cool gifts.

Wow...the size of tools you're working with....Liked

The water-cellulose mix looks to be a variation/evolution of Pykerete which is water and sawdust. It offered strength and more importantly improved melt resistance over frozen water. The British considered it as a possibility for an aircraft carrier in WW2 as a torpedo resilient alternative to conventionally constructed ships. All in a good read in My Tank is Fight with loads of other crazy WW2 inventions that never quite made it.

Nice repair , enjoyed the video.

thanks abom

your right about brazing with oxy-fuel. i have heard that from multiple people. :) good video, thanks for sharing!

Big leverage, that's why it is easy... yeah right. Have you ever seen those pistons attached to your shoulders. That's power.

+abom79 when trying to read worn part numbers, take a sheet of paper (I like sticky notes), place it over the area and lightly shade with a pencil, you will see what was there that the eye can not pick up.

Those flood coolant spade drills work great on a boring mill , or cnc mills with the right coolant you can drill very fast and straight

Hey Adam. Love the spring loaded centre for tapping, will have to make one for myself. Looking at the internal threading head, it should work the same as a Coventry Die Head in that you can set the stops for the thread depth and when you hit the stop the head pulls out and automatically releases. Will be interesting to see. Keep up the great work.

Love this channel

Hi Adam Great thread repair

Hey Adam that number probably came off when I cleaned up the die. It was hand engraved in. I went back to the video I had made when I picked it up. The model number is C7G103D (the G could possibly be a 6). And the serial number is 33337

nice one as always Adam

I still love the SNS's. I'm back and I'll be offering comments again and giving a lot of thumbs up. Nice video tonight! ....13

got the hat on, lol must b cool there, getting ready to come down end of the month.

Hi AdamGreat thread repair John

I bet that repair is stronger than the original threads now :D

awesome bro!

Hey Adam, You look cold mate! Regards.

You can get a reducer to go from 50 to 40 and use the milling cutters..I do this sometime and use lighter 40 arbors in my 2h mill. Mike in Louisiana

through coolant on those straight flute spade drills is critical

Even tho i know you guys work a lot there, i like to think that the work Abom79 videos have some of his co-workers sitting in chairs eating pop-corn. :D Just my mental picture.

nice fix

nice repair /

once again nice work abom! hey noticed u have a heater on the bench is a little chilly their I'm in Michigan just 30 minutes west of Detroit.

Hit LIKE, then watch!

It appeared to me that the casting had failed along the heat affected zone of the weld so I believe that the brazing repair will probably hold up better.

cool hat

Abom the chip looks more like cast steel to me.Even doc cast would give a small chip.

Hey Adam, did you know that -40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit? It's the only temp when the two scales are equal.

That oil can looks like the one that was with my moms sewing machine. Why no power tap on the HBM?

I think that bridge material is similar to something called "pykrete."

I live not 20 miles from Oneonta.

Must be good little oil can I could hear the bottom clicking.

I don't guess there would be any advantage to adding a thread locker (Loctite) to those inserts?

Hi Adam, great video. I have never seen an horizontal boring mill in operation. What model is it and I will look it up to see more about it? Thanks

Wouldn't it have been safer to wait to hammer the insert pins in until after you'd bored and tapped all 4 holes? I know you've got some serious clamping pressure going on but "just in case" as it were? It would suck to go through all that setup time getting everything aligned only to hammer in the pins and realize you didn't *quite* tighten it enough (or something managed to loosen up) and you've suddenly knocked things askew

Adam, when you are tapping cast iron would you normally break the chip. Just curious because i always have. thanks, Brett

Adam on that thread repair job, if one or two of those thread inserts got buggered up how would you repair that. I've never used that type before they are impressive looking

If some knucklehead were to damage one of those inserts, how do you go about getting them out? Just drill/mill and knock the pieces out?

adam great S.N.S. see you soon.

Hi mate. The threading with that anchor lube sounds very nice, but why by hand.

hey man i will send you a snow suit

Adam can you tell me what do you use for a cutting compound as I used to use a grease called Tallow

were you close to getting into the tie rod ends? like your vids thx

hi @abom79 I always wondered what happens to all the excess metal that is discarded and do you do the same at home as you do at work?

Hey Adam, do you use those key locking inserts on hydraulics often? From the looks of it there should be leak paths along the keys and through the outer threads. Don't they leak in practice?

Hey Adam! I'm looking to purchase my first lathe and I was wondering if I should get an older American made lathe or a brand new one from overseas. My budget is about 2k and I like American made tools but I don't want something that won't produce precision work. If you could give me some advice I would be grateful. Thanks man!

Hi Adam, can you please tell me what's the name of the song you use as intro in this video? Thanks, Matteo.

sewing machine (oil can)

the thing i wonder about these inserts is, what do you do when you strip them? you already runied their thread with those pins, so u cant just put in another one. after a minute of thinking i came up with this: i.imgur.com/iIJbRtA.png (yes its made with paint) basically you put in the insert, then bore a hole for a set screw and thread it. then drive the setscrew in there. the thing that is fastened to the surface should keep the setscrew from coming back out. alternatively you could just use some round bar steel, but it would be a bit loose with that i guess

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adam just checked people can find your logo on . google images .

What?? The temp fell all the way to 60*??

what name of this machine sir can you ask me please you are to good

Doen't your K&T vertical head take a 40 taper?

Adam I would love to have your intro picture as my screen saver.. If this is OK with you please send me the file to download.

Sewing machine oil can buh

Hi Adam , why do I still have not answered ?