heeyyy i have worked on this exact model in my highschool (in austria, so next to germany) and its cool to see someone i had my hands on in yout shop 😮 also awsome shop, with some proper non-american machines
is you wish to build new draft table you can have it fold out of wall/ make it kinda like a backboard from school. im not sure how you can fit the old one in without rearranging for tighter tolerances of space in shop
Watch Stefan Gotteswinter for some tips and tricks about the Deckel, but I have a feeling you have :) Love your videos keep it up :) Greetings from Nothern Norway.
Your wife is a gracious lady; and.... Horizontal conversations are the best. One usually has to choose between new toys and "enjoyable times"; your world is perfect.
A pantograph is used in the production of coins. The artist does not carve a coin at coin scale, but rather on a 8 to 10 inch disk. Once approved, the design is then scaled down, checked and cleaned up, then scaled down again until it's at a coin scale. All this is done in soft metals to keep the detail vivid. Once at coin scale, a steel inverted one to one blank is carved. It's from this blank that the working dies are then made. The scaled coin copies are sometimes sold to collectors. I had a special 6 inch silver nickle come across my desk when I was working for a recycler. That was really cool.
@James-dv1df Having the proper equipment is what stops them. Making a coin or a copy of a coin is straight forward. Making it profitable is the impossible part. Some people have been busted copying old, valuable coins. They were busted as copying the coin made a lower resolution coin with all the same defects.
@@James-dv1df In the world of crime, you do not want to be on US soil when violating the Secret Service's jurisdiction. The more obscure the agency that is going to be down your throat, the more screwed you are. God forbid you mail anything because then you would be getting not just the Secret Service, but also the Postal Security Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation. In short, do not attempt to make a copy of a coin.
Mould making for injection-moulded miniatures and model kits (and I assume other similarly small things) also used used enlarged masters, typically 3x size (a "3 up")
Hi, tip from the professional here: I've worked a lot with this machine. We ground a cutting edge at the tip of the cutter. The size of the cutting edge determines the flat surface in the letters. The cutters will always break off very sharply. The cutting edge must be slightly slanted and exposed to the rear. Thanks for your videos, greetings from Austria
That's what I was going to say. Those sharp tips always break. I guess they don't bother when they're making them because why bother? It's definitely going to happen no matter how careful you are. And yeah they still work fine broken.
you just described how the industrial revolution incrementally provided better and better precision! Big lathe with really coarse hand-made leadscrew, scaled down through gear trains to cut a smaller finer pitch leadscrew, averages out the error by factor of whatever the scale was!
I live next to that Deckel factory in Munich. Went to school passing it in the 70th. I can literally see it from my home. BUT they gave it up und became DMG-Mori. So now that buildings are used by different companies and a private school. Deckel was always known for top notch machinery here around.
Used their 2 & 3 D pantographs and where I did my apprenticeship in at the CSIRO National Measurement Lab in the 70's and also used a variety of their mills. That and Aciera machines would have to be the best machine tools to work with.
Deckel is famous for their grinders. "The Deckel". No one's giving those away today. There's probably not a machinist alive that wouldn't love to have one.
@@williamchandler6151 I have a mainland Chinese benchtop mill/drill and it's good enough for what I do with it. I can't really complain about it even if it's low quality in places. Which it definitely is. I still manage to pull some stuff off using that machine I wouldn't be able to do without it. She's my baby.
I have been in manufacturing for almost 35 years, and my dad is a retired tool and die maker. I have never seen one of these in the shop before, but I heard stories about this machine from my dad and how he used one like it decades ago. These machines are superheroes from a bygone era. I remember the first shop I worked at. In the corner of the shop sat an old Bridgeport True Trace machine. I watched one of our amazing toolmakers take a molded cast of a wooden grip and stock from a single-shot rifle caliber competition pistol, and then create a plastic injection mold from that casting. It was my first experience with plastic injection molding, and it directed me into a career in that same trade that continues to this day. I have seen the transformation of mold manufacturing go from wood models used on duplicating machines to enormous Toshiba multi-axis CNCs. I love this stuff!!!
Yep been there myself, retired tool and die mold maker...injection, compression, blow, vacuum, encapsulation,lost wax, die casting....was a great career
7:14 Small tip for strapping down things, whenever you have a length of strap exposed to wind in parallel with the wind's direction, put about 1 twist per 18-24 inches into the strap. Having those twists causes the wind to spiral around it and will prevent it from vibrating and slapping. It's the same reason why tall narrow smoke stacks have thin metal ribs that spiral around them.
"why tall narrow smoke stacks have thin metal ribs that spiral around them" IIRC, they're called "strakes", and they trigger the launch of multiple, small vortices at different heights and sices of the (whatever ; "column") instead of less-frequent, larger, vortices. But it does work.
@@a.karley4672 sort of yeah. The issue in both cases is that a vortex forms on either side of the uniform body (chimney/strap) that are imperfect, and so one pushes the other, but then the other kind of pushes back, and you get a natural oscillating force on the object that slowly amplifies more and more. This can cause the strap to vibrate and tear itself apart, or the chimney to stress and break. The twists cause multiple vortices all over that cancel each other out and prevent the oscillation from occurring because it wants to oscillate in every direction instead of only side to side.
@@flamewave000 @a.karley4672 i LOVE engineering/maker channels precisely because of this kind of banter.. . the enlightenment continues into the conmments like a flamewave of genius tearing through flammable thirst for knowledge!
A tip for the future, when moving machines with a shop crane, rest the load on a couple of 2X4's on the legs, stops it swaying. I have a Taylor Hobson, my first use was a brass plaque that read 'Residents only' for my cat door.
I just picked up 4 machinery skates from Amazon and their really nice for a whopping $25 each, (bought the return item, they didn't put locktight on the top swivel plate screw and it worked loose in shipping and all the 5/16 bearings were laying in the bottom of the box so people returned them!)
@@brownh2orat211dude I've saved SOOO much money buying returned stuff at Amazon. I seriously check and see if what I'm looking for has a return I can buy every time I'm on there to get something 🤣🤣🤣
So many years ago I made the stamps for cigarettes... you remember the brand names written on the paper just before the filter? They had some quite fine pictures and each of the brands had another font for the letters. It was a huge job only to make the templates, and engraving took so many hours as well. All that for a stamping on the cigarette paper. And we used exactly this machine you lucky guy received as a present. Later we had CNC machines, but honestly they could not (and even today can't) make the fine details as good as with these pantographs. After some time you develop the right feeling for the feeds and how to press the stylus in the template grooves. These machines are in between art, precision and craftmanship and one can produce beautiful things with them. I hope you will enjoy this new machine in your tool shop.
18:55 I think the reason it looks better is because the chisel tip hasn't reduced in size, but at a lower ratio, the spacing of everything _has_ reduced. It gives the text a more bold appearance at reduced scale. It's a really good look, nice work.
@@InheritanceMachining Bit like using a dulled drafting lead. Do you resharpen for the precision point or leave it slightly rounded for easier object lines...hmm...
Not only the reduced scale, but you're getting a much smoother cut and feed with the smaller scale. Like the wrench example, if you're making something at a 1/4 reduced scale, all your movements with the stylus are scaled down by 1/4 including any jumpy moves that naturally happen when dragging a stylus over a lettering set
Exactly what I used for engraving insignias, mould numbers and instructions. Figuring out height and width ratios and also necessary depths. It was a more relaxing part of toolmaking. Miss those days and glad to see you have saved this engraver. I never used D-bits, as you have found, they break easily. The best cutter is a 3-sided bit. You will need a Deckel tool grinder for that. I don't know if you have one. You start with a rod of tool steel and set at 20 degree angle and grind to a point first at 60deg then 120deg then 0deg and put an angular flat on the tip.
I operated a Hermes pantograph for almost 9 years at an air force base i was stationed at in the 80s. I was the only one in the shop that cared to go beyond engraving the radio faceplates and recognition plaques. I learned real quick the three things you DON'T DO. .1. Don't drop the cutter. .2. Don't let the stylus skip out of the groove. .3. Remember to pick up the cutter off of your work between letters. I had 7 years experience as a manual machinist before I went in the service. I enlisted to do something else than metalworking. Ha! Two weeks after I got to my first duty station I was training people. They didn't even need to send me to technical school. Direct duty, man. The last year I was at that base the manual machine was replaced with a computer controlled one. The Hermes went to the transportation squadron. I spent some time over there, too. You can make your own templates or patterns. Get with your local countertop installers and get the Formica top scraps or cutouts. Draw or trace your design directly on the top or make a stencil. Take a rotary tool and carefully groove out the lines. Every little bump and bobble will show up in your work so go slow and steady. Naturally you aren't going to need to do this unless you have a special logo or such that you will use more than once. The biggest thing is use your imagination. Be gentile! Router bits for wood are your best friend for odd jobs. That machine will amaze you! Cool find on the 3D option Oh. Make sure you get the proper set lines on the arms. If you don't your "0's" will look like drunk kidney beans...LOL! Cheers Terry
An den FP1 - Deckel Maschinen hatte ich damals meine Ausbildung begonnen. Am einer Deckel FP3 Dialog 11 hatte ich dann anschließend meine Prüfung gemacht. 99% bestanden. Das waren die guten alten Zeiten als Zerspanungsmechaniker. Grüße aus Deutschland!
22:57 I was married for almost 30 years, my wife passed away 15 years ago. I never once heard her as excited about anything whatsoever, as your wife was about the tiny! .. You have a very good wife! .. She is a jewel!! :)
Block ordered! I'm leaving on father's day to go down to my grandpa who was a master machinist during his career. I'm dragging a trailer with me in order to pick up his lathe and mill. I'm hopping I can bring this block with me in order to work on it with him before bringing his tools home to my shop. This channel raises the bar for what can be expected from RU-vid entertainment.
I moved a Bridgeport in a similar way, but instead I used the shop crane/engine picker to pick it up just to put a pallet under it and remove the pallet. And then I used a 5000 lbs capacity pallet jack and it moved effortlessly exactly where I wanted it. If your floor is smooth enough, it works great!
@@stuartjakl well yeah. If you have a pallet jack and the machinery fits then it's great. Rollers are just a simpler and more accessible solution though. I don't have a pallet jack but I got a bucket full of 3/4" pipe for pipe clamps. Now I'm wondering what ball bearings would be like. Or even marbles. If you had enough marbles could you move a machine on them? Might be a novel way to get workman's comp. Steel shot blasting beads! It could be a new sport. Machine curling.
Expat Brit living in LA since 1985, time served machine tool apprentice with Coventry Gauge & Tool (MATRIX), manufacturing precision grinding and broaching machines. First job after 1 year in the training center was fixing the machines used by the other employees, one of the most interesting jobs I ever held, I still love fixing things to this day some 50 years later. You passion for saving such machines is nothing short of fantastic and if you were anywhere near where I live I would love to help you refurbish your machine tools.
I also got myself a pantograph recently for gunsmithing use. I've gotten a good bit of use out of it with 3d printed templates, both for engraving and tracing shapes. I love seeing machines like this being shown to a wider audience like your channel. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
My mother did engraving from the 50's through the70's. She used a Hermes Engraveograph that even had a motorized cutter that was used to engrave those laminated plastic badges/tags. It was a smaller scale, manual version of your pantograph- brings back memories.
What a fest of recognition!!!!!!!!!! I worked on a Deckel pentagraph at school, when I was 16... I am a teacher in mechanics myself now, and I still use the Deckel mills, they are so handy, and accesable, cause they are small... I have one, fully equiped with all of it's tools, one can even convert it to a slot bench (is that the correct word?). The shapers, man, what a memories... We used them like a rodeo bull lollll :-) Regards from Belgium!!!
I'm a woodworker but love seeing guy's save older machinery, I'm sure it's built better than the stuff made today. I'm still using the sears table saw my Father had for forty years and I've used it as many years, 20 years or more I had replace the arbor bearings. Furniture builder 38 years. Keep up the good work.
You can make hair thin lines by using V bit and thicker stock, doing normal depth, and machining/grinding to thickness. This way, there is enough tool engagement to make the cut smooth, and you can get any line thickness you want by removing less or more material from the surface. You can also make really cool multi material patterns, by V engraving negative in one material, then the positive in another, gluing both like a sandwich, and machining it down until most of the negative part is gone and only what was matching the grooves is left. The trick, is to cut one side deeper than necessary, so only the peaks/valleys touch and the rest has some clearance, this way even if your tolerances are off, simply pressing both sides together harder will force them to conform.
Oh I love this.. I have an old friend, he is 83 years of age now.. who still always repairs my saxophone. He has a pantograph down in his cellar and used it to scale down 'his theoretical perfect saxophone mouthpiece curve' to 1/8 the size onto the actual mouthpiece. I always thought, and still think that it was insane mastery!
put a drop of oil on your template letters because they’re made of brass and the tracer is made of metal so your letters will wear out very fast. we also used brass tracers to prevent the wear out. i worked on this model as an apprentice in the late eighties. brings back memories 🙂
This brings back some memories. Worked at a mold shop in Burbank California back in the 70"s and early 80's that had multiple (maybe a half dozen) Deckels set up in their own room because of their noise when running. There was some that were the larger ones, twice that size, that would go to a 1 to 1 ratio. The key to these was the patterns used to get the ratio right and that required highly skilled tool makers. Eventually left there and got into CAD/CAM/CNC machining doing the same type of molds in 1/4 of the time with more accuracy with better finishes. Anyone who says pantographs where better is not being realistic. They were hard work. Standing in front of one of these was not pleasant. The hot chips would fly back in your face and down your shirt. The joys of manual machining...
we had 2 deckel gk-12 in the shop but they dont get used anymore since the oldtimers went with pension. We removed one of them to make space but couldent find anyone that wanted the machine (it was in even a better condition than the one in the video). but with a lot of pain in our hearts we send it to the scarpyard. its good to see that a machine like this will still live on.
Would have been nice to bring one of the old-timer's back (if you had means to contact them and get them to your workshop for some time) to teach how to operate and maintain the machine to you or two or three off your Mill machining persons to keep them and use them longer. The Pantograph does take lets say 1to2 months to get acquainted with and get decently good at setting and using them effectively you will have means to make high quality short run products (30 to 50 pieces only or less)or one/two pieces of special request product's on short notice and you need them done now. CNC machines are great but the one to one touch feel and precise steady control you get to have at the level of feeling yourself being one with the milling/machining materials is not so replicate able on a CNC compared to an Pantograph. The old timers certainly must have maintained the Pantograph well if the condition was as good as you mention.
Deckel is the Rolls Royce of Engraving Machines.I had the English Taylor Hobson. It did not have 3D faciities. You will now need to acquire (if not already got) a cutter grinder to change angles for different materials as well as sharpening. We never bought bits but instead HS dill bits BEFORE fluting was done. Saved a lot of money as we did A LOT of engraving.
i had this exact same pantograph. I ended up selling it after doing a bit of restoration on it. I had bought it for 80$ canadian. I kind of regret selling it but I had no space at the time. cool to see it here :)
In UK I used them in the 70's to make durable labels for HV underground cables, the plastic we used could produce black or red lettering on a white surface, by varying the depth of the cut.
Which is pretty much what DIN/ ISO/ BSI say for line-widths in technical drawings. So ... 0.35mm pen for 3.5mm high lettering ; 0.7mm pen for 7mm lettering. My tube pens - Rötrings - dried up long ago.
I've use a pantograph quite a lot at work before we actually bought a CNC. I'll never forget that awesome feeling when you are engraving for half a hour and make a mistake 2-3 letters from the end.
First thing I want to say. I really enjoy watching USA machinist. I just came across this today. My grandfather and father were both machines. My grandfather actually is the original owner of Bendix. I grew up with my father. Having a full machine shop in the backyard in a 3 car garage. Back in New Jersey. He sold off all the equipment back in the 70s. Cause he they sold Grandfathers property. I wish my dad could have taught me how to be a machine, as could. I really enjoy it? I've done a few things. Are my own by using a drill press. And I've always enjoyed working with metal. It's almost relaxing but my dad sold everything off before I could be taught and as I was growing up, they didn't really have machine shops or machining and schooling anymore. shop class pretty much was woodwork. But I have subscribed to your show and I wanna watch. I really enjoy watching you. Do the lettering, but the thing that got me so excited is the way your wife got excited for you and your new piece of equipment. I wish more women would support their husbands that way, but it doesn't happen. But I will be a new watcher. I hope you can teach me some things you spoke to my father and my grandfather has passed away
I've also wanted one of these for a while, even though CNC has totally superseded it, but there's just something about the process of the old pantograph that's so enjoyable.
About 28 years ago i put together a machine shop/ blacksmith shop out of aged machines of good quality. Shapers, pantograph mill, a massive radial arm drill, 3 lathes, horiz. mill, turret mill, 100lb. Little Giant hammer, a drill press with a 4 ft. throw quill, welders galore. Then a personal catastrophe struck. I was wiped out and homeless and a mental wreck. I gave that entire machine shop away. Put an ad in craiglist: free machine shop, if you can haul it you can have it. Empty shop in 4 days. I survived and rebuilt in another state. I am successful and healthy and happy. Yeah, those days were hard, but life is good now.
That is some stellar resilience my friend. Glad you were able to make it through. And who knows what good came from those free machines to their new owners.
You are welcome for this idea I sometimes collect old letterpress blocks. Imagine doing a collage using letterpress blocks or stamps as the pieces to template. Mashing up images and shapes to make 1 of a kind relief collages. If I had a 3d pantograph I would.
seeing someone not a middle aged guy excited about a machine like that was pretty great. i was thinking you could 3d print an upscaled version of a part to replicate it. that would reduce the errors in 3d printing since the errors get smaller as you scale it back down.
@@InheritanceMachining just remember that bondo thinned a touch with polyester resin is amazing if you want to put a good surface finish on a 3d print for cheap. that panto looks like it'll probably carry over the surface finish to some degree.
I Love the Old Machines. They are so well built that with Care and Maintenance, they will last almost forever. That was a really lucky find, and to get it for Free is incredible. I think you will really enjoy having that. Now you can also figure out ways to make Dials, 360 Degree Angle Compasses, all kinds of things.😁👍❤️
I used to work as a model maker, we had a 3D Pantagraph about twice the size of yours and a small 2D one about half the size of yours. Always enjoyed using both of them.
Been there with the Skid Steer in the garage. I rescued a mint Browne and Sharpe grinder (invoices and manuals bought new in the 60's) from a guy that makes aerospace parts in Connecticut (he has CNC machines up the wazzo). Got it home using my neighbors truck and had the local construction guy come over with his skid steer to get it down from the truck. We tried a small farm tractor first but that was way too sketchy and scary. Congrats on the pantograph, enjoy it.
It's always entertaining to watch a true craftsman work, even if it doesn't fall under the actual definition of the term. However I must say in the most respectful way that watching your wife's reaction to something that is obviously about your passions is truly priceless. It's the way a marriage should be and what so many young people are failing to do in their own relationships. A true joy to watch 👍
I worked at Irish Tool briefly, and they used theirs, to copy big wheel seats. He had sheet metal in one building, and machining in the other. He was a lot like Wolfe, from American Pickers. Really into risking his life on those dangerous bikes. Thirty years ago, I wonder if they are still in Hartford City? I don't think shops would use them much, except for special shapes and engraving. They work great on two color name tags, labels, and signs.
I have the baby version of this which is an old New Hermes that I restored and added a DC motor. The simple fonts like you used are still the most enjoyable for me. You will never lose the experience of joy every time you use this machine. When I use mine I always want to shout out to the world. "Hey you guys look at this!" No one is around or hears me but the smile is just as big.
Another great programme. I remember using one of these engraving machines in England in the 50’s as a GCE Engineering student…that’s when you drew every piece of machinery you used and described every process in detail.
I’m watching him move that on the engine lift and I’m thinking “tie that rod back. He must hear it banging back and forth”. This is how pieces of old equipment get damaged and people say “Hum, I wonder why that got wrecked. Too bad there’s no replacement parts available anymore” Great tool and great job doing the copy. I was surprised it came out so smooth.
Of course there are still replacement parts available for it… they’re all just trapped inside various bits of block or rod stock, and most of them are probably right there in his shop!
The ratio pantograph is a very versatile machine,can be used for other types of machining other than lettering,used for dies,inserts,profiles,gears,splines etc. Good for duplicating,making templates to use anytime,great detail can be achived.Good pickup!
Wow very cool machine!! Can’t wait to see what you make with it! Also impressed by your wife’s knowledge of machining “spring cut” that just grabbed my heart! I want a wife like yours!!!! Mine couldn’t pick a spring out of a bucket of washers 😢
My dad bought one of these at an auction when I was a kid. It was only 2D, but it was so neat to mess with! The action of the arm and ability to scale was mesmerizing to my young mind.
i thought for sure it was going to be a die filer or scraper. that pantograph is still very much in demand among us knife makers so if you ever decide its gotta go im calling dibs!
Brings back memories, used a large version of this machine to cut cavities/cores for die cast molds back in the 1980's. Moved to CNC afterwards. I still have some parts that were cast of my first mold cut, "old school". A master model was used to trace with the stylus, larger to smaller as finishing cuts were made. Good times.
Used a tool and die version of one of these machines which was heavier built. It used direct feed motors instead of belts. Was capable of holding larger tools. We used it to copy complex parts with curved surfaces. Made coining die copies and EDM carbons for burning shapes into foundry blocks. I have dreamed often of one for my shop. Unfortunately I have never seen one like it again, and it would have been a bear to move.
I bought a GK21 recently so have a few pointers You need a tool and cutter grinder (i know of a Deckel T&C) for sale in chicago if you're interested. Those carbide D bits are basically 1 time use before they need to be sharpened again. Take very shallow cuts and go over it again if you want letters deeper this helps minimize breakage. You can 3d print stuff and engrave it on metal like a company logo or whatever. Which really expand the usefulness of the machine.
You're a lucky man . . . my wife of 35 years has never expressed more than a passing interest in any of my projects. She certainly wouldn't visit my shop just to see what's going on, and she'd be hard pressed to name much less describe anything I've worked on. Love seeing you two together discussing a new tool and potential projects that interest her.
I was rewatching your old videos and you said you wanted to put your maker's mark on the machinist hammer you made, but 'didn't want to just stamp your initials willy nilly'. This is the perfect tool for the job! A side project 2 years in the making XD
Scotchbrite and oil has been my method of choice for cleaning up cast iron tooling for over 30 years. It's amazing how it brings machine tables back to life
Hello from Alsace in France. Magnificent machine! In 1977, in the company where my father worked, I watched a lot the person who used the same machine to engrave parts where a magnifying glass was needed to see the detail. I think it's one of the machines that has always made me love machining.
I worked at several mold shops that had Deckel's. I was the Engineer and chief programmer of the CNC's and could have easily programed anything they need done but the old timers preferred their Deckel. I also used those shapers back in my 60's shop class in high school.
Ran a GK-21 for 45 years. We always ground our own carbide cutters. For raised engraving your cutter angle should Match you stylus angle, only way to get sharp corners on raised engraving
Life is short. I do not waste 45 minutes of my time on anything. This post is not just anything. Up to 4:12 I knew. I seriously “Didn’t like wasting my time with sponsors. I live in Sydney Australia. I am so impressed with Ridges. I will order their products TODAY. Please tell RIGID to look out for my order ((give me a day or two) Awesome video. All the best from Downunder John
Had a bank of these where I apprenticed many years ago. We spent many hours cutting electrodes for EDM work, not to mention a few making brass nameplates for our tool chests. Top notch quality on these, and lots of capabiity, can do 3-d work too. Now you need a Deckel SO single lip tool grinder to make the cutters!
Hi loved the video, my son inherited a 9 inch southbound,and he converted it to digital readout, I appreciate you getting and restoring and using old machinery, cheers mate 👍
From the intro "teaser" clips I said "Pantograph" straight away. In the 1980s my Dad had a sign business. He bought a pantograph for engraving signs on acrylic and similar plastics. The suppliers brought it in bit by bit and assembled it in situ. It never moved from that spot - it was too heavy! I made plenty of signs. It was a joy to use. I made a key ring for myself as a test piece. I engraved the number plate of my car on it, plus the engine number and the chassis number, all on a little chip of plastic. The pantograph was able to scale down to very tiny lettering, but it was still legible. I honestly don't remember what make it was, but we're in England. Who knows, it might have been one of those fancy German machines.
Watched tonight for the first time. Very exciting! I get the appeal of the old timers. Retired now but have run some old timey machines. There were two Blanchard grinders. Chucks at an 18 inch diameter. These were 30 or 40 years old. Got into them. Found they'd hold tolerance these guys never dreamed of. Making circular carbide knives. I got them holding +/-.0002. We fundamentally changed a process. Where they'd been leaving .004 plus material for a lapping process we ended up leaving.0025 and bypassing one whole step. Better parts way more l productive. Those old timers were amazing!
The ONE video I’ve not had chance to watch on release day in the last year or so, I was gutted when I got to the part where you said limited run of mementos and I figured I was well out of luck but I managed to snag one. I’m so happy. I LOVE stuff made by creators I like and this is perfect 😍 Stay awesome (both of you) your videos are my chill time favourite. So satisfying watching a level of precision and attention to detail I could never hope to achieve.
I'm an IT guy and I was lucky enough to work at a university engineering department in in Australia the early 2000s which had a workshop much like yours, including a pantograph. I was thrilled the few times I used it. We used something called traffolyte to make signs with it. The letters looked exactly like yours. I often wonder if they still have it squirreled away somewhere.
We have a cherry picker/shop crane my dad built. He had a silage chopper that was worn out. He sent me and my little brother out to disassemble it. We un bolted, pinned, everything. Then we cut the frame apart and ground the metal smooth. He took it and built the cp. The arm was the drawbar. It is heavy. We have picked up complete 700 cubic inch diesel engines. Then I took some of the materials and built a torch caddy. You can hook it to the cp and use it to load the torch into a pickup. Fond memories.
Cool! Deckel pantographs were once pretty common in the mold making industry. I learned to operate one in the 1990s duplicating small forging die cavities for brass valves and fittings. We made 3x size models first in plastic, then used the pantograph to reduce to final size in the actual die. We were able to produce very fine detail that way. We ground all of our single point cutters from carbide blanks on a Deckel grinder, too. Those were the days.
Love your content!.. I'm no machinist or fabricator by any means. I find your content informative, educational, at times hilarious, and always inspiring ideas. I have worked in the farming industry a large portion of my life, so maybe you can imagine the inspiration your content brings regarding repairs and improvements to various machinery.
