You Can't Cut What You Can't Hold !!! 

I loved this episode! The thinking behind how to machine an unusual part like this was truly enlightening. There was a tremendous amount of useful information in this video. Most of which is not explicitly spoken, but comes from analyzing what you are doing and why. Joe, your talent as an educator can not be overstated.

I love the artistic nature of old machines

A 'kicked' butt is far better than a ventilator. I go for my booster in a couple of weeks. This set up is particularly interesting. Only part that moves is the jig. Thanks for putting this up.

Wonderful presentation as usual Joe. I hope eventually that you set up all these machines in a old fashioned workshop diarama with a line shaft driving them, perhaps powered by the steam engine you first built, that would be great!!

Some people look at the creativity of a finished product. However, few people consider the creativity required to build a fixture to machine a product. From an old machinist - Good Job!

That piece is a nightmare! I'll be honest, I would hardly know where to start! As so often - fixture time - and you are the man to do it... your fixture looks great. Like those 2 pins and relationships etc - elegant. Super work Joe :)

Even with a hangover you're a better machinist than I am sober. Thanks for sharing your experiences

excellent use of reciprocals for alignment on the plane

GENIUS holding method and GENIUS locating method for those different bosses. In the shop wherein I learned the most we cut the leather tongues out of old boots that were being thrown away and used them as a cushion when clamping castings with undependable surfaces. Also great for clamping a stack of plates that aren't of precisely the same width by their edges to enable working them as a gang.

Decades of work holding experience coupled with correct order of operations equal so much practical knowledge. Things a newbie like me wouldn’t even think of. But now I know…thank you sir❤️

Thanks for another lesson! I'm glad you're not charging, man. Cuz I'd owe you a few years of free labor!

Ain’t that amazing how knowledge permeates from one individual to another? I just started watching your videos a few months back and I already see a noticeable improvement on your abilities! You’re welcome, Joe! What? What do you mean the video is a year old? It must be a glitch on the system!!!!!

WOW My head was spinning as I tried to understand the ra + rb lesson. Thanks for backing up and putting it on paper. The light finally came on. Whew!

I got the booster yesterday. It’s laid me out. Fever, chills, joint pain and a splitting head ache. Thanks for hanging in there.

Certainly an education in every video. I can see where this fixture can be scaled to help with lots of things that are not flat and straight. Thanks for the video.

Clever fixture.

My first try at that part I crushed the larger diameter hole in the vise.🤦‍♂️So I ordered a second piece, and made a holder for it. It is a very fragile and awkward piece. That is a very well thought out fixture especially the block in-between the two distant holes for the top shafts. Thanks for the a and b description will definitely hang on to that one.

Very nice work using the 2 different size pins. Your creative fixturing and common sense ideas to approach a problem is amazing. Not that you're old enough, but I'd have loved go have you as my machine tool teacher in the late 60's. Watching you problemon solve on the mill and lathe brings back some memories, I may have been a decent problem solver, but I'll admit you have me beat! Say hello to your mini machinist (the one with 8 legs)

Vielen Dank, das du uns genau in Video zeigst, wie du die Teile anfertigst. Ich bin begeistert von deinen Können. Ich warte jede Woche auf ein neues Video von dir. Dabei kann ich sehr lernen. Ich habe noch einen Bausatz für einen Hobel in meiner Werkstatt liegen, der auf seine Fertigstellung wartet. Ich werde aber solange warten, bis du uns deinen zeigst. Liebe Grüße aus Hamburg/ Deutschland

Lovely job Joe. And another wonderful lesson on work holding and jigging. And just one more example of how twirling the handwheels is only a very small fraction of what machining metal is all about for anyone that fancies themselves a proper machinist. I had to laugh at the dowel pins and paper shim test when you said "5 tenths is close enough"...

I truly appreciate your showing us the thought process you have for making the fixtures as well as operations. I am sorry that the booster is affecting you that way. The Moderna booster made me a little queasy for a few hours and my arm felt like someone punched it really hard. Stay safe and well too, Joe.

Both the use of pins between the different sized diameters and the use of a waste block when drilling between two parts are definitely going in my note book! Thanks Joe.

That "fixture" is a work of ART.... had no idea where you were going with that. Great Solution....! Lots of good lessons here, thanks for sharing, Good Camera work, as always... Hope you get to feeling better.!

very and precise job Joe..thanks for your time

It’s amazing the solutions you come up with Joe. But with your experience not surprised. Again thanks for sharing the knowledge.

19:30 - Golden Moment :D - Excellent as always!

So true one can't cut what one can't hold. I would have used drill bushings in the fixture to guide the drills into the part. I bought a book in the early 1980s that explained the use of drill bushings in fixtures with delicate holes drilled in parts such as this one.

Your sharing is always educational with clever ideas. Your little machines end up just beautiful. Thank you.

Joe, You could have been a great doctor or a creative scientist, but all of us metal heads in your audience are glad that you chose to be a machinist. Any time we can't figure out how to machine a complex part, we just watch a few of your videos and modify one of your ideas to solve our problem.

This video is a win based on the title alone! Love the insights Joe brings to us. Really amazing work and real life benefit for those of us who are not so clever on our own. Thanks Joe.

Great ideas and tips. Thank you.

Great job Joe, as always.

Nicely done with your fixturing... Amazing how small everything is in reality... Thanks for sharing.. Stay Safe..

I'm sitting here casually observing right until the moment you lowered that large pin down next to the smaller diameter. Bam! Hits like a bolt of lightning. Just a brilliant method. Thanks for showing that.

Sometimes making a fixture can take longer to machine than machining the job itself but it’s absolutely necessary. Great job in showing why fixtures are important.

Great video, love the solution for lining up centres. Awesome. Thanks for sharing

Joe I'm learning quite alot from your videos! And today is a good example, I'm learning the time and planning of fixtures, jigs and supports are well worth the efforts spent on planing and executing! Thank you!

Excellent fixture, thanks for sharing 👍

That reminds me very much of the mental gymnastics of doing landing gear trunnions and drag links. Bigger scale, but very similar geometric challenges.

I built one of these about 25 years ago. I used a bed on Devcon F to hold the part. It worked very well.

Brilliant once again Joe. Order of operations and jigs I guess, then very careful machining. You nailed it all Joe. Fascinating, regards from Wales

Great to see how you solve the fixturing problems. I learn a lot from you. Thanks. 😎

Very interesting fixture work. I love the pin solution - obvious after the face. Always informative videos. Thanks Joe.

Joe I love this machine tool series. I have learned a lot from watching your videos. I am looking forward to you making the shaper. Thanks for everything Kevin

Very well done instruction. Impressed!

Outstanding, as appears to be your usural! Enjoyed watching. Thanks.

Good luck Joe! thanks for the education!! 👍

Machining vids = .10/12 JP shared knowledge = Priceless Thanks Joe, Cheers

Joe you are a very methodical and patient individual keep up the good work

Thanks JP!

Great job Joe 👍

thank you

Great work and definately a learning experience

Great video! always learn something love your tutorials! Thanks Joe!

Joe you can consider me as one of your most attentive and loyal students. Many times I re watch your videos again and again to glean as much knowledge as I can. Thanks again for taking us thru the setup, my favorite part of all your creations.

Very helpful and informative videos as always. Thank you for all your time and expertise. To stop the deflection of those fragile features, I use the little adjustable parallel to support it during drilling by just catching the edge of the boss underside to avoid the drill punching through.

Fantastic fixture. That deflection was scary on that small casting. You got me thinking, would this be a good time to add mini machinist jacks to the mini machine shop? I'm going to try making them from cap screws scrap steel rod just for fun.

Thanks for the video.

Thanks Joe

I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Thanks

Bravo!

Masterful as always. Hope you get over the hangover quickly! Mine lasted about eight hours, was absolutely fine after that.

I never fail to learn something new from your videos! Great work!

I like those drilling acrobatics! Perfect result.

Joe's fixation on fixtures is forever proving fruitful. Fabulous! 👍

LOL funny becasue 2 days ago I got booster shot. That wasnt too bad but still knocked me over a bit. Second shot was really bad. Man I love this channel. Shows a LOT more setup and talk about setups than most channels.

Hellooooo. It is always great to visit here. The extra time you take to make the jigs and fixtures make for beautiful parts that WORK. I am sure you have a shelf of them to go to for that new part that they will work for. You have shown a lot of common sense physics in this part that the new and upcoming machinists can pay attention to. Especially in deflection from crowding the tools shown here on this piece. That tool stabilizing block between the parts was a great thing to happen here for sure. Thanks as this is a really good one. Take care and I hope that boosters effects clear up soon my friend.

Another Good one Joe Pie! Thanks for sharing. It's always a pleasure watching you perform your magic. Keep up the awesome work sir!

Great work, as always! The fixture was fantastic, great approach and execution. I always learn something from you, thank you for sharing, and feel better!!

Should there be a Nobel prize for machining you are a shoe in. Your fans / students should petition them for that catagory. Just a thought .

if ever I have seen an impossible part this is it,,,,,And it got me thinking. We have an old Buffalo 4MT drill press that has been converted to a 5HP electric motor. (Drills 2" through solid steel like it was balsa wood. We we even out flood coolant on it! ) ,,,, anyway, after watching the way you machined the model I started to wounder, how in the hell did they machine the big one,,,,,,and better yet just what kind of machine did they use to machine it! A 5" Lucas woud have been iike using a Bridgeport to line bore a Cat D8 motor! In any case, one hell of a job Joe. Makes me want to take a beater to the Cinci Mill.After watching you I don't deserve to own it.

Your really clever Joe and have years of experience. Hopefully one day I can stop by and see the shop and maybe learn something. 👍

Wow! A lot of good info in this one, Joe Pie. Definitely a Family Heirloom in the making.

Brilliant Joe thankyou. I was really quite troubled with the single clamp and that you didn't leave any location pionts for positioning on your block. That risk of deflection was very high and then I realised ahh yes I'm used to working from a cardboard box of blunt / semi blunt end mills and slot drills ecause I'm only producing weld preparations and approximately placed recesses. All rough work. So please forgive me for that. Love your ingenuity Joe. Id like to think that I'm always practising to obtain precision but as I've detailed it's not necessarily always a possibility and sketchy at best for me. But every time I manage it I privately celebrate it to keep my spirits up 😁

Very nice !

Great stuff.

That's a tricky deal and a good job. Thanks Joe, and I hope you get over the post booster blahs quickly.

When making a complicated part from a plain block of metal, of course it gets more complicated. You need to imagine in advance each operation needed to finish the part, making sure that one of the operations done out of sequence doesn't make it more difficult to hold for any following processes. All good fun!

Your fixtures are the best part of the videos.

Hi Joe, Always a pleasure watching how you fixture and machine those small castings. I'm getting my booster Monday morning. Hope I have no reaction. You and the family stay safe.

Thank you for the awesome camera work.

What a GREAT fixture!!

Enjoyed the video! I use the paper feeler gage trick regularly, today actually.

Incredible workmanship Joe.

Allot of great tips, - yet again. Thanks for the always great videos Joe 💪👍

I learn something every time, thank you

You sir are the man of the year! and I mean that in sincerity (@@)!. Lov all the creators I have subscribed to over the pass 4 yrs,,but Joe, your teaching and the attention to detail ,has inspired me too achieve as an apprentice machinist / metal worker goals far beyond any class room collage. I thank you, and may we remain life long creator friends until the chip's quit flying ! Best of the Holidays and New Year, Bear & Sammie.

Ha ha, Joe. You're so right - and how many of us do a kwikkie cut a bit off this in my hand: - and end up making a mess or worse.... Yes, I never used to think of sacrificing a block to hold items like this. Steel or worse still, brass blocks are scarce or expensive in Scotland !!

How ingenious. The setup seems way harder than the final piece. Thanks for the great video.

Great video. Someone asked me today where I learned to measure and locate things. From watching people like you and messing around on a mill (plus a bit of trigonometry). Question about this video: Why is there no drill guide block between the vertical bosses to keep the drill bit from wandering?

Seriously Joe that was some great work around, you never fail to impress and educate! Hope the hangover goes soon, your little vise is so cool. TFS, GB :)

Excellent video and thanks for helping defeat COVID!

Don't have a shop right now, but always enjoy your stuff!

Very cool

The drill press is coming along very nicely.

4 hours worth of prep saved twice that in frustration and machine time. Great fixture.

Impressive!

HI Joe. once again you step up to the plate for Mr Reeves. FOR YOU SURELY ARE .. STAY WELL please keep teaching. we want to lean. tone UK

Fantastic! I wonder what the fixturing looked like for the real full-size Sibley Camelback. The front bearing appeared adjustable (by machining until right fit or shims.

EXCELLENT