SNS 215: Everlast Powertig 200DV, Shaper Vise 

Actually, I have to say, it's hypnotic watching you work. You and some of the other machinists you know and others have shown and taught me a lot of techniques that do come in handy, as a machinist myself. Thanks Abom79! Keep up the good work.

What a fantastic machine the scraper is. Seventy years old and works like a dream.

That shaper action is pure soul balm in these hysterical, hectic ages. Keep it comming!

Will never get bored with shaper action.....very soothing watching it run.

Hay Adam cool to see the new technology of the welder in the same video as the old technology of the shaper, a contrast that can be appreciated.

Adam, the shop is looking great. Being in the shop should be fun, and its a lot more fun when you have the space for a big project like the G&E rebuild. All of your patience and hard work on the shop improvements over the last year or so have definitely paid off. Your dad would be proud to see what you've accomplished. Thanks for letting all of us spend some time in your shop each week.

Adam, I want to thank you for your videos, especially SNS. Last Thursday, I lost my wife of eight years to complications of the Flu. The last two weeks have been a nightmare. Having an episode of SNS to watch gives me a sense of normalcy. Thank you for that. Life is uncertain and short. Treasure every single day.

I love the shaper project. I have watched the whole process of moving it, installing it and all the careful restoration. I look forward to every episode and many more projects. Thanks Adam!

Lol, Loving the way you felt the need to state "I promise you - I DID NOT put Abom torque on this".... Great video as always!

As a non-machinist, I find all of the content on the channel informative but the shaper videos are special. It's a nice thing to see old machinery being brought back to life and usefulness so if you keep posting posting videos on it I will keep watching them (in addition to most everything else you put up).

Love it when you got the G&E going

Lovely solution to the problem and the old gal performed flawlessly fixing her own vise problem.

Impressive result on the shaper vice - Surprising finish, especially considering part of the cut was interrupted across the mounting holes, but the finish stayed true. Kudos on bringing a "Well used" tool back to useful life. Anxiously awaiting some projects that use the shaper to full advantage.

Great video - I use 2t with the torch switch quite a bit. The 2t settings on these modern machines do most of what you would actually do with your pedal, especially for steel. For setting up and tacking it is great to be able to move around without worrying about the pedal. You do have to think about your current setting before you jump in just as you would with mig. Before anybody gets excited, the pedal has some big advantages, no argument, but 2t with a torch switch on this kind of a machine is a good option for lots of jobs.

That's a lot of terminology to learn to operate the TIG machine. It's the cat's pajamas! I appreciate your explaining it all.

Stayed for the bonus shaper clip.

That shaper is just a majestic machine, simple in concept and function complicated in all the mechanisms that make it work. it's almost soothing to watch it run.

Nice teaser at the end. Generous assortment of endmills too.

Adam!! Don't stop doing this. One of the reasons I start my computer most of the days is to watch one of your videos! Greetings from Spain!!

Love your Precision work.

Your place, Adam, is not just a workshop. It's a home for tools :-)

It wouldn't be a true SNS without some chips. 😋

Bonus footage at the end was a nice touch!

Adam, I must say I was a little worried about how close the Shaper was to the wall, But you got it just right. I love when you use the Shaper for jobs. Of all your video's that I love, The Shaper fixing and working on it tops my list.

Love that large face dial indicator. Looks great on video

Very interesting the refurbishing of the shaper.

Terrific video! Excellent quality picture and lighting. Good information. First review of the 200DV where someone actually explains the features, step by step. Much more helpful than both the Weld.com video and Chucke2009 -- both normally make really good content but on this one you totally beat them out. Thanks!

You have got yourself a nice machine there Adam which is well worth the time you have spent on it Look after it and it will look after you None of these so called Abom silly cuts eh Take it from a Machine Tool fitter with over 50 years experience it's just not worth it Love your videos and look forward to a Saturday night to see what you have been up to Nice to see you and Your Better Half are getting along great Everyone deserves happiness in their lives and hopefully you have found yours Pete UK

Look forward to it every weekend brother. Don’t change a thing. Editing gets better every video, very impressive. Keep it up!

I just a couple months ago got that same exact welder, so far I really like it. It lays a real nice stick bead.

That freshly-squared vise jaw face looks _good!_

Shaper Action And Tig , Whats Not To Like , Always The Best There Is !!! THUMBS UP

I personally enjoy the hell out of the shaper content. Along with all the other stuff you throw out there.

It's so good to see Abby n you enjoying life keep up the great footage and enjoying life

I very much enjoy your videos and especially seeing how organized you are. I'd be so happy if I were 31/64 as organized as you are. Finally, YES, keep the shaper videos coming.

I love the shaper it can even fix itself very cool.

I love the shaper! They still have a place in a manual shop, most small cnc shops too!

I could just watch that shaper machine for hours.

Way cool I enjoy watching Machines fixing things for its own use.

Your content is always great, yet for me it's the best when I see the machines running and you are working on a job.

Thanks for the videos. It's kind of like have a shop teacher in your own house.

Nice vid as usual! Allways facinating to me to see you "making the tool" that makes the tool like that :)

The sound this thing makes is Hypnotic thank you for the Fantastic video

Nice SNS thanks for the time and effort Will

Another very nice SNS, thank you. Considering the oil dripping from the Shapers Ram - the way my shaper is designed, the bolt-on pieces that you used to put felt wipers inside are actually used as oil collectors with no wiper in them. The oil gets "scraped off" by the dovetail ways themselves, drains down into the bolt-on collectors and return to the main oil supply through holes drilled into the main casting. I don't know if that's the same way yours was intended to be used but I'd say it would definately worth to be considered since you can still adjust the oilers to give the ram a thick coating but get no oil leakage because all spillage is returned to the main sump. All the Best Adrian

Looks like I'll have to get one of those welders...Nice to work with the door open too!

Beautiful! Looks ground.

I like it. Send them chips flying. I love shapers.

The shaper is such an elegant tool. I’d love to see you do more projects with it.

Shaper action is always good, and US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER is a great place.

Adam, that is the start of the Appalacian mountains, not the Smoky mountains. Smokys are only in TN and NC.

Love to see your sub count skyrocketting. Lot of local youtube celebs around here these days. Keep it up

Good video Adam, good to see Abby back in your videos. Keep em' comin'.

Damn!!! There’s something mesmerizing about that shaper.

Shapers are damn insane tools.

🇦🇺 great work thanks for sharing

Using the pedal is great if you're sitting down, but if you have to stand, it can tire you out until you get used to it. And the older you get, the tireder you'll be. :-)

At last waiting all week🍺🍕

love seeing the shaper :)

You're a great man. Hi from Ukraine!

A handy tip for welding thicker aluminum is to use a shielding gas with 75 helium 25 argon mixture. This gas mix gives about 30 amps extra heat. I use Air Liquide Blueshield 3 for welding thick aluminum.

A machine that maintains itself !

Just put two Zfab weld carts together, they are beautiful

Wow, those end mills are gorgeous! Cart kit looks great and the Everlast TIG - well - very desirable.

Nice bonus footage at the end

The 4t mode seems smoother and slower coming off the arc than anyone ive seen using a foot pedal. Im gonna try that when i get my 200DV

Time for a labeling machine for those drawers.

Enjoyed Adam! looking forward to long term opinion of the tig. ATB, Robin

Nice content. I was expressed with the everlast as well. Enjoyed seeing the shaper run.

Looks like a smooth operating machine!

Antiques Roadshow: Adam, what you have here is the first file Jebediah Heller ever made! You tell me you paid $5 in Huntsville, Alabama? This file is worth....

Not sure that welder has it but up-slope is also a great feature to play with Adam. You can start the arc at about 20 amps and when you let off the button, it will ramp up. Great for pipe welding and aluminium etc, Gives you time to put the arc just where you want it before pumping up the heat. Great vid!

Adam, what a Gorgeous Shaper you have, I really like seeing it do job.!.!.!.

tools dont want to sip margaritas on a beach when they retire, they want to go to aboms home workshop

I dont think I could ever get tired of watching shapers run, but thats probably why I spend so much time in the shop, lol. Ive seen a few ways of tramming the head in, but would you show how you trammed the head in so it cuts downwards perfectly square?

I love that shaper , Enjoyed Adam !

I was worried about your cutting the fixed jaw with the holes in it. I thought for sure the cutter would chip on the holes, but it worked just fine. That would have only happened if it were me, hahaha.

Some of the shaper shots remind me of the old 3D movies where the show an object coming straight at you.

Excellent, a little too much oil never hurt anyone. Too much oil beats no oil any day

I live in Huntsville and would love to have met y'all. Glad you liked the Huntsville area.

Great for cleaning up the vice not as aggressive as a face mill or end mill.

I now live in the land of real fires and wood burners in houses which is BRILLIANT, but, as much as I love my brother in law I have a constant battle with him over bits of wood.... I see a chock, a jack pad, a brace or some other 'need that for one day' use for every scrap of wood around the place. He sees FIREWOOD! Oh MAN!!!!

I live less than 45 minutes from Huntsville, been here for a year now and have yet to go see the U.S. Space and Rocket Center!

thanks for the answer Adam

Nice "bonus" shaping!!

Not sure if you've done this before, but maybe you could show of your library of books and highlight some you like the most. I can imagine you have quite some books about machining and metal working by now. Nice video once again, cheers.

Great video. Thanks Adam

Seems like an automatic drip oiler on the tool of the shaper would be just the thing.

That's nice, the shaper does a tenth of a mm on its smallest stepper setting. (well 1.6 microns more than a tenth of a mm)

Nice spoiler (alert) at the complete end!

Next modification, a small oil pan on the end of the down feed cam so that the feed lever dips its toe in it before carrying some oil onto the cam.

Wow Adam I wish I would have known y'all were going to be up here near my town. I live only five minutes from Cathedral Carverns here in Grant Al Would've loved to have met you both.

Hi Adam! Are you sure that was a drill bit, and not just a big, springy, curly chip? 😆 Looks like something that would come off of that big lathe you have at work. Also, there’s Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, and Natural Bridge caverns here in Texas, should you be into that sort of thing. It’s great that you’ve got the G&E shaper up and running, but don’t neglect you’re other tools, like your Monarch lathe, or your horizontal/vertical milling machine; they need TLC as well!

Miller has fan on demand but on the old transformers there jets and even there inverters are quite loud when they kick in when they get warm

The USS Alabama Museum in Mobile Ala. is another great place to go near you. They have a lot to see there.

Way cool machine! Thanks.

Always enjoy your videos thanks for sharing. :o)

Have you check the squareness after your work? I just wants to know how the difference before and after.

Why not just install needle valves on the individual oiler lines to accurately control flow?

I’ve been seriously looking at an Everlast Multiprocess for a little bit now and I’m really curious to see how fast and how well they take care of your issue. Damn good vijeo Adam, keep em comin!!!! And hell yes man keep them Shaper vijeo’s comin! Only you sir could take a machine like that that seems so boring be so exciting and informative!!!