Machinist Apprentice toolbox (long format)

hello Internet welcome back box tools I'm tom so what we're talking about tonight is and I get a fair number of questions about this is a tools for the apprentice we call this tool box loadout or what tool should a machinist apprentice have okay and you know there's multiple answers to that question and it will depend on the type of shop that you're working in but there will be tools that are common across all of those things and useful across many different flavors of shops so what I've done is I've compiled a list and this will be available to you online there's some links in the description so you can download this list yourself and in add to it or compare your toolbox to it or whatever okay but what we're going to do is we'll kind of break it down a little bit and then what I thought we would do is pull all these tools out and we can talk about each tool and we'll actually put it in a put it in the toolbox okay and I'll show you kind of how I like to organize my toolbox okay so let's get started let's not talk about it more let's get started because it's fun to look at tools right all right all right so what I've done here the way I've organized this is kind of by time okay so you know if you're just starting from Ground Zero with your with your tool collecting okay so when you show up for a job all right there's day one okay and then there's three months after you've been there then there's six months after you've been there then there's a year that you've been there okay so your needs for tools are different in each one of those junctures okay so your first day you don't need everything everything in a box and kind of ready to go you don't know what kind of work is going to get assigned to you okay and most likely it's not you know if you're starting as a brand new apprentice machinist you're not going to be required to have every single thing that does not mean that you should show up empty-handed okay so let's start with day one and what you should have in your kit day one when you show up to work so we're just going to make the assumption that you've already got you've got the job you've got an offer and you're starting on Monday and you know what do you bring to work right okay you're thinking cap that for one all right so let me grab some stuff and we'll lay it out on the bench and we'll start putting it in the in the toolbox the toolbox is not something that you would necessarily have on day one okay but it's just a convenient place to tool and these things as we talk about it okay okay so here's kind of the day one kit and this is you know this is this is my opinion and you know from from years of experience and having quite a few apprentices and trainees that I've worked with so and we'll go through this okay so let's start over here you need some kind of cutting tool okay so either get in the habit of carrying a good pocketknife or get yourself a utility knife and so that you have your own okay you don't want to borrow one you want to have it handy so actually the pocketknife is probably the best but you want some kind of cutting tool apprentices a lot of times they you know they end up cutting up boxes and doing things that just kind of help the shop in general so have your own your own knife okay utility nice a good choice because if you lose it you don't really care about it okay mind you just get another one okay start your career off right and just give yourself a tape measure and get used to carrying it around okay that's a you now if you don't have to walk and go get this you're faster than the other guy okay and there's this makes you do better work because you're always constantly measuring things when somebody asks for something that's 12 inches you're measuring it 12 inches or if they're asking you for 300 millimeters you give them 300 millimeters okay this one's kind of neat because it's it's a 10 foot but it's also 3 meters so it's inches on top and millimeters and on the bottom so it's kind of nice that way and these are pretty cheap so you know and they wear out okay ideally they wear out and they should wear out now this one I took the clip off of it because that I put it in my in my pocket okay mechanical pencil or a pen something to write with okay you definitely want that and you know you should be carrying your own sharpie around to at least one and I like the blues there they seem to last longer and they're wetter than the the black ones wear a shirt with pockets and just get used to carrying these three items with you or actually four items all day long and this this this feature right this little kit right here just these four things will make you faster than many guys that are that have been in the shop for years okay if you don't have to walk they go get a scale if you don't have to walk to go get a marker you are incrementally faster than the the next guy okay and this is you know you're checking your work all the time right if you have this tool with you if you don't have it with you the inclination to go get it and check your work it's just slightly less so I recommend that you carry that's your everyday carry there okay so I still am a pen and paper guy and you know guys have phones nowadays and they can take notes on their phones but nothing beats pen and paper for speed and when people when people tell you things write them down okay and the the faintest line on paper is better than the best memory any day and so paper notebooks are good and I also have on here that you should have a calculator but most phones nowadays have calculators on them and guys are carrying their phones around with them so when you're in the shop your phone is a tool it's not a toy okay and if you're on it you should be calculating something or looking up a cutting speed not texting with your buddies on Instagram okay so and then you should have a pair of gloves when you show up leather or some mechanics gloves or something like that you'll probably be cleaning out machines and moving scrap metal around or moving stock around into the saws and doing different things so this is kind of your day one kit right here okay alright so we'll put that in the toolbox and then we'll move on to what you should have you know after three months and you'll be kind of incrementing your way along and armed with your tool purchases okay okay so you know kind of after three months so you you know from zero to three months you know this list also makes the assumption that you're you're reinvesting some of your your wages into buying tools okay and and if you're not you should be because if this is going to be your future you literally are investing in your future so you know by what you can when you can yes it should hurt a little bit and instead of going out for beers with your buddies you know cruise Craigslist or go to the hardware store and pick up a few items off your list every week ideally okay so after three months you should have some kind of little place to keep all your tools this is a Kennedy machinist the box it's a small one I believe it's a five twenty model yeah five twenty it's a good size to start with it holds quite a bit of stuff then you can actually still pick it up even when it's pretty full so so as you buy your tools you'll be putting them away in your box and in filling up your box and pretty soon you'll need a bigger box and etc etc okay so literally you're investing in your future okay so you should mark all your tools that way if you forget them somewhere in the shop guys like me and Adam will know who they belong to so we can hide them properly know so that we can return them to you and anybody else that picks them up and if you see a scale laying on the bench you can look at it go my gosh that's got my name on it I laid it down and I forgot about it so mark your tools put them away and then let's go go to the the next stage here and put some stuff in here all right so let's start here so the first item after three months you need your own Allen wrenches okay so you should have inch and metric sizes these are ball driver tips and that's a homemade holder although you can buy these Bronco plastic ones for a couple of bucks I prefer these over the myself over the Banda style they're easier to get these in and out so so anyway those go in the box I like them in the top because using them all the time right that's something that you're grabbing day in and day out so they really need to be accessible okay so next thing here is I got a small ball peen hammer eight to twelve ounce this is an 8 ounce here Stanley anyway you need a little hammer alright Mike my hammer handy and I this drawer that's I'm showing you my layout - while we're at it so ok screwdrivers so if you're going to buy one screwdriver this is a pretty good one if you take it with you across the shop you got multiple sides of the bits and you know either direction right small Phillips large Phillips and flat blade these also work in cordless drills - for driving screws so begin to get one screwdriver that covers a lot of ground for one screwdriver and those are pretty modestly priced ok 6-inch file your you know the shop may supply these ok but you don't want to have your own make sure you got a nice handle on it ok a very important tool in the shop you're constantly deburring things and so you should at least have one of those after a couple of months of your own ok adjustable wrenches or Crescent wrenches a couple of them this is an 8 inch and this is a 6 inch okay 150 millimeters and now these are the super wide variety here that I happen to like and they open up extra wide once again these are all pretty inexpensive items and should be well within some of your budget in three months okay you know and you don't have to buy this you know the snap-on when you once you get started you know you can always upgrade next item is a couple measuring tools here six inch calipers okay so yeah some people might argue that you want these on day one but I'm going to say you know you can wait a little while I mean that's a hundred bucks right there when you catch them on sale okay so you know you're an apprentice and you're starting out at eight or twelve or fifteen bucks an hour whatever it is right and and you know maybe you have to pay rent and insurance on your car and all that stuff so a reasonable box will give you a little bit of time to get something like that so those those need to be accessible to and then we have our venerable zero to one micrometer Cruz eBay Craigslist you can find this stuff relatively cheap so you know these two on on Craigslist or Ebay in really good shape you know one hundred dollar bill would get both of these without too much trouble or you can buy new and catch them on sale and in Ko or something like that okay alright so that's our kind of our three month three month things so you know bosses look for this kind of behavior you know that you're regularly buying things you're adding them to your box and you're using your tools okay yeah I got one of those and you grab it out of your box and and you go you know something like I forgot to mention on the the six-inch scale is if you're going to buy one this is a good one here it's inches on one side and then it's metric on the other so you kind of killed two birds doing stone so you should be prepared for you know metric metric only shops and it's just you know it's coming guys so the better get used to it okay so now let's gather up the six-month stuff and then we'll go over that alright here's the next batch so we did the three months now we've come to the end of six months now and these are what I believe the tools that you should kind of have at that point after six months on the job okay so first item on the list I'm just going to go by the list is a three corner scraper it's for deburring you can make this out of an old file you can also buy and brand new for McMaster there are a few dollars so important tool you're constantly deburring so you need that and I keep that on the top this I call these whirligigs so these are rotary deburring tools and this is a Noga brand here which is a real nice one these are pretty modestly priced you know you can get them on sale from Enco and they're they're pretty cheap so also keep that in the top of the box you're using that all the time okay um a little bit weird so I I think that every machine is should have a pair of their own snips and the reason is you're you're cutting strapping on pallets you're cutting little pieces of shim stock and trimming the edges of things occasionally so there's this two styles there these are both left hand cut because they have red handles okay this is whis and this is pro snip here okay just one pair is fine in you know you got it you got a load of material and it's strapped down to a pallet you got it you know or a bundle of rods or something that they put a steel band around binky this cut it you go so drop that in the drawer so okay next one soft face hammer so I got a couple types here I only need one this is a lick C which is it's got shot in there too and this is a Stanley which is a this of 14-ounce and so either one of those is good the lick C is quite a bit more expensive than this so we'll just we'll just go with this one here and now we're going our hammer drawer okay set that aside all right um hacksaw frame so a lot of guys really hate the hacksaw but I'll tell you you got to cut a little piece of stock off and somebody is using the saw a piece of key stock or a little piece of rod that you're going to use in the lathe a just need a little chunk ax ax is faster than the bandsaw okay trust me on that okay up to about you know size of your thumb something like that you got a good good bi-metal blade in a high tension frame like this I can grab this and get through it before you can walk over to the saw and and get your cut done okay now I'm just going to set that up in here alright for now I'll probably end up in that drawer there okay so what's next your Center punch so I get two varieties here we got a round one and then we have a square one I honestly I prefer the square ones because they don't roll off the bench they just sit there and don't move just like you wanted to although I have this one and use it to these come in a bunch of different sizes and this is a stair it actually and they're actually I know this is like nine dollars or something like that from Starrett I think okay so we're going to put that in here one of those all right just need one six inch needle nose this is actually pretty important you're grabbing chips you know off of the lathe out of the chip pan stuff like that you don't want to touch that stuff with your hands so good pair of needle nose or chain nose pliers is a good thing to add so important okay and then after that we get it to diagonal cutters okay these are oh I can't remember what kind knees are anyway these are the connect they call these six inch here and so you know cutting wires and little rods and spacers and things like that very handy to have yeah you know your kit you know a lot of you guys are probably going to have many of these things already okay another file we're adding another file this is an 8 inch okay and this is a mill bastard I'm going to say mill smooth is a would be preferred okay this is happens to be a bastard cut all right and then on the same front um files this is a three corner file and these are great because they're sixty degrees and you can clean out threads and thread starts with them and reach into some areas that are hard to get in with with a flat file okay so three corner file alright and what else Oh tapping guide so you know you may be doing some hand tapping now these are homemade and this is a great little first shop project you can make a block of steel and drill a hole that fits the tap the tap will pass through easily okay but not bind up the tap and then you know you put these on a surface and get you started nice and straight so the boss will yell at you if you tap holes crooked so use a block there's a different style made out of a piece of hex okay and got surface ground okay so that's something that you know you can make in your spare time or lunchtime or after work or something like that okay open up the top and oh this is actually pretty important here this a pair of tweezers trust me you're going to need them one thing you get in the shop is you get little metal splinters and I'll tell you all work stops when you get one of those so get yourself your own set of tweezers and keep them keep them hanging because I pretty much guarantee you're going to use them okay alright and the last thing is the plier front is a pair of vise grip locking pliers uh these are pretty handy you can probably substitute channel locks for this although I think I have channel locks later on in the at the one year so it's a another good addition to just kind of a general kit okay alright let's let me grab the next pile and then we'll keep going here okay so now we're starting to get into the the more expensive stuff I would say but you know this is from six months to a year so you got six months to work on this this part so I'm going to you know we're making the assumption to that you've been progressing and now you're getting small machining jobs to do you're not just doing a general shop maintenance cut kinds of things so get your own set of parallels eighth inch ones are great buy cheap import ones the expensive ones are really expensive and they're not noticeably that much better and they're going to get chowder dup so but it's really nice to have your own and it's also very nice to have them accessible to you very quickly so I keep those loops in the top of the box all right next thing is you want an edge finder at least one you'll need one at least by then okay here's a half-inch 13 millimeter and then here's a 200 thousands here okay so we're going to put those I call it the pointy drawer actually so it's the you know pointers and punches and things with a point so sit down in there - okay Fred pitch gages inch in metric okay you may be checking a variety it's nuts and bolts okay I keep those in a separate drawer from the punches this drawer this is my one of my action drawers here that's opening all the time on my toolbox okay so thread pitch gauges inch and metric phone let's after that tap handle so we got a variety of tap handles here I suggest two small one for you know small taps up to say number ten and then a larger one that a whole larger larger taps up to a half inch and then you may want to tap wrench to which actually you can get a lot more leverage with - so this depends once again you know the how the works going in the shop - you know the order here isn't absolute by any means and alright so let's see here tapping goodies in there we had barely fits enough I'm not going for need okay and then the next kind of this is I would call it a big-ticket item here this is a high quality combination square and you can probably get away with just buying the square head and the blade okay but you should have a good one and this is a starett here Lufkin is good old Lufkin you know which you can buy up ebay Brown & Sharpe and bit of Toyo makes a good one these are at these this is forged and hardened and if you check these okay with a with a comparator or something like that they're better than mm over 12 inches which is pretty good even for machinist work okay so you can put a plate up on the mill and you can square it to a jaw or something like that and get it that close just with a combination square okay and this is also nice for squaring up the quill on a manual machine if you happen to move it you can get it there real quick with that and then this is a protractor here okay this is the kind that this is what they call a non reversing yeah non reversing and it goes all the way around okay and if you're going to get one that's the one to get okay the other one only goes you know that far something like that but it has a fence on either side which you know is not as useful in my opinion okay alright and this is centering head here okay for centering on rounds that's also very handy so we're going to put that in the measuring drawer okay alright and let me grab the next a lot alright so the next set of items here so I have a drill chuck 0 to 1/2 inch capacity now you can spend a lot of money on an awl break okay and you know if you're doing okay and you got the money great get one of these or very fast Jacobs are perfectly serviceable they're excellent chucks and in many cases hold better than the all bricks depending on what you're doing okay so this one is a this is 0 to 1/2 inch here there's there's several types this is a ball bearing type not totally necessary but just nicer my only comment here is get a straight shank on it okay and people are going oh no you should get an RH Kinnick blah blah blah well with a straight shank you can use that in any machine CNC manual whatever okay r8 you only get to use at one place okay and it's considerably longer okay so you have to drop the knee down to get it in you notice that these are short here and they're short for a reason so anyway 0 to 1/2 inch Chuck or 0 to 13 millimeter Chuck with a straight shank of some sort on it is a very good nice to have your own and then you kind of maintain it and you know what condition it's in and all that you're using the shop beater Chuck okay so we'll just put that in the chuck drawer all right I'll set that aside next up is a 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 micrometer 's so there's a 1 to 2 and a 2 to 3 okay so this is about as many micrometer x' as you would need beyond that the shop that you're working for would probably supply them some guys like to have their own so they keep buying them and and maybe your company requires you but most reasonable shops only need to have up to three inch yourself and beyond that the the company will a tool crib where you can get one out let's put that in there alright and then we got a couple of kind of specialty mics this is a multi anvil mic this is a very very useful tool you can do many things with it you can take the space off you can measure you can see how thin that is you can reach into places that are difficult to measure so you can measure steps measure thin things it also has a an alternate pin around pin so you can use it like a tubing micrometer very handy tool so that's something that should be in your kit as well once again they'll give this stuff away that we're into them the more expensive items here okay and then the last thing on micrometer ziz you'll want a depth micrometer and these usually come as a set 0 to 3 inches or 0 to 6 and once again it'll it kind of depends on the work that you're doing you can buy the accessory rods after the fact so get the smaller set to start with and then expand from there okay so depth micrometer and I'm not doing a fancy job arranging in here ok and then the last thing for this particular segment we got more to go on the the up to one year segment but you'll need a simple protractor these are great for just double-checking your your angles and tool bits and things like that and and setup so very handy and a reasonably price this is a Helios here which i think is a german one yeah german x this is a nice it's nice and thick and I like the the polish on this one as well so and of course I have other ones too alright so let me get the next lot together and go from there ok so actually part of that last lot that I forgot was a telescoping gauges this for measuring bores and slots and things like that these are pretty modestly priced so that's a good one there all right and then next after that we get a one inch travel indicator okay with a lug back okay and this is a starett you know these things take a beating in the shop you actually use them a lot you can use them for stops or on the lathe or in the mill or whatever and they kind of get a beat take a beating so you know good ones are nice and they're smooth and so buy a good one if you can afford it if not you can buy you know some of these offshore ones at a reasonable price and then you don't worry about it so much okay so set that up to the side and then to go with that this is a mighty mag bass okay that you can easily attach the lug back to and a couple of different configurations so you can use it like a laid stop cross slide stop to monitor if it's moving on you something like that you can put it on the saw and bump your stock against it whatever you can monitor something on the milling machine to see if it's moving and whatnot this this is kind of a neat tool because it gives you a variety of mounting options and these are these are pretty cheap these are twenty bucks or something like that okay the more expensive one is this guy here in this is you know our our bill Noga and this will mount a variety of indicators here including this one here on the shank or there's a you can put an attachment in here too to go to the lug back so you can put this anywhere and indicate in a chuck or check run out on something or whatever so that's on the list as well alright and once again these are heavily used items that you would hope and you can see that we're kind of rapidly running out of room in our toolbox here so you know we're going to pack this one trust me okay um what else what's this next year we did that dad Oh carbide scribe er um you know you might argue that this could come earlier too right so you know I didn't I spent some time thinking about the order of things so but you know that could certainly come earlier it and it's an inexpensive item that was carbide tip by the way we got a mill stop all right this is a little one that clamps onto a vise jaw and once again this is an evening project you know that you can work on after hours or whatever if the if the shop lets you okay goes I I keep mine in that particular drawer so okay next set of picks you know you're constantly digging it stuff I can tell you okay chips that are down a hole or some little screw head that needs to get cleaned out before you can get a screwdriver into it so a couple of picks or a little set like this is is just a really welcome addition to to any tool kit that's a snap-on there's the part number there and you know even the snap-on one's not too expensive and if you bust went off the they give you another one so okay all right I've got some dried pin punches these are starett's but the other folks make them this goes from about a millimeter and a half up to what is that 3/8 got 5/16 I can't read the it's so worn this is an old set I've had this for a while and and trust me that those look pretty good but they've been replaced multiple times because these get shattered up you know bopping things around and punching pins out and that kind of stuff so very very handy item go in that drawer alright okay indicator we'll put the indicator in here okay okay next up is some kind of fine cutting tools so we got a scalpel here with a number 11 blade or we have an exacto knife with a with the I think they call an 11 blade - these are great for deburring okay the blades are cheap and you can scrape with them and you can they got a very very fine tip you can you can shave and cut plastic with them so it's a very handy deburring tool watch where you put these because a lot of times you just dive in into the box so I suggest this drawer and point the tips away from you so when you reach in you're not you're not going going for a point when you when you reach your hand in there phone okay next we got I set a set of V blocks this is my actually my first set of V blocks that I ever bought I think and these are brown and sharp and I bought them from a friend of mine and he's the heck out of them so you know I think I could argue the case for a pair or not a pair right but usually they kind of sold in pairs so it's a good idea but what I would say is this account is it's really nice to have two sizes okay and when you're holding stuff in the mill vise Brown stock things like that you want to put it you want to put it in them in a V block so you have three point contact okay and what I mean by that is you know you have something in here and then you clamp it in the vise so it's touching two places on the B block and the vise jaws holding it in there and then it can't turn on you okay so I can't you know when you're drill in the end of it it can't go in and move on yet so this is a brown a sharp 750 B and you know then grab it comes with a clamp that looks similar to this so if you're going to get some B blocks get a get a smaller one and get a larger one and you'll be a happy camper okay and another type that's really good too is what they call the fishtail because it looks like a little fishtail right and that's a starett these are nice because you know you can clamp them down and you get another V here and you can lay them over on their side and the nature of the clamp the way the clamp is is you can adjust them so these are more expensive but they're also very nice but these would be my first choice right here okay oh and the last thing here is a set of one two three blocks these you know everyday use ones get pretty hammered if you using them a lot and so I would say import ones are fine unless you're doing really really fussy stuff or you have a thirst to have the best available ones around so and these are they sell these dirt cheap okay so alright alright so let me put this away and then we'll go to the next segment okay so we're getting down to the wire here guys so what I still good way to go through this really fast so and talk about each piece okay so next thing set a feeler gauges okay just a general set of those those are very handy in the machine shop okay it was in the middle you're okay test indicator so this is as a wide variety of these available so pick one that you like or you know try some out of your co-workers if they'll let you and see which one you like the best I've actually been liking this brown achar best test I like the dovetail configuration on it and the action is pretty nice so I like the large dial the older you get the larger the dial so okay I'm gonna slip that into the let's put that in the indicator drawer here okay and I would organize this a little bit better but let's just keep going okay a small inspection mirror this is very handy looking behind something sometimes you want to look at your indicator and it's in an awkward position I think nope this one I have another one that telescopes this one is just a small one okay so I put that in the little little drawer some more rulers 6 inch hook rule very very handy it can reach down a bore and you can measure and you know somewhere where you can't see that you can't see the end and you can use the hook the very handy tool okay so I will go in the in that drawer and then we're going to say flexible ruler okay so this is a 300 millimeter or 12 inch okay very handy where you got to measure around a curve or something like that or or bend it to get down into something okay you know kind of put an offset into it to get down into something they're very handy to have okay and then you're going to want a couple of longer rules so you got a couple choices there you can go for just a you know like a 24 inch you know excuse me 600 millimeter rule something like that now unfortunately that does not fit in this box and there's no good way to get it in here you can kind of put it in like that you know it's you may want to wait on that an option is to is to kind of upgrade and get the 24 inch scale for the combination square which I find more useful myself well not more useful this useful okay you know no pros or cons although this kind of does double duty here and these are very accurate overall length you know if you if you measure that with a micrometer it's very very close and same on the width here so that's an option to for for this guy here all right now you can make a little tube that sits on the side of your your tool chest and hangs on the side and then it's got a cap and you can put that put your long rules in there that works too okay then we got a solid square or a machinist square okay this particular one has beveled edges these are very accurate and you can use these for squaring stuff up in the mill when you put it in there to do the ends and but not so we'll put that in in this drawer here okay that way no all right six-inch dividers um you know I wanted to include this because I use them all the time okay for scribing little arcs and doing little layouts and stuff like that you know you know modern times I know you could kind of go either way with this but I included it anyway okay so we'll put that in the in the pointy drawer all right fishtail gage uses for check-in tool bits threading tools you know I don't know you know not a lot of guys are grinding their own tool bits anymore so this is starting to I would say become I don't know less useful than it was but but I still use mine all the time because I cut a lot of threads and and also this has a double depth of thread printed right on it so pick one of those up to put it in your and put in your toolbox okay this is a jeweler's loupe okay now this is actually a really handy tool so for one for getting splinters out okay number one use other the other use is for inspecting inserts okay and even even you folks out there with really good eyesight when you look at an insert under magnification sometimes it tells you a very different story of why the inserts not performing an edge is broken down a little bit but it's very difficult to see with the naked eye anyway loop is extremely handy handy you'll see insert sales guys and they whip out their little magnifiers and they look at inserts and tell you all the terrible things that you're doing wrong with their tools so anyway there's that right now I got a set of torques you know most your insert tooling uses a Torx screws fasteners and this is a nice little set actually I kind of like these ease butterfly style another option is Elle wrenches or this one for the guys that they tend to lose things is one that's kind of all together so you know one of these options having a set of torques is pretty nice in your kit okay let's put this one in there since it's kind of self-contained alright alright so move that aside and then a couple more items here adjustable parallels I use the heck out of mine so I'm just going to include them and you know honestly you really want two of each size that's really the the cat's meow but these are so handy for measuring slots and measuring things and doing odd setups you can do sine bar setups with them really quickly or use them as packing blocks to take up space in a place that you want to take up space they're just super super useful and I keep mine really handy and in this particular drawer in my kit okay alright so we'll put those away up there alright and then after that actually we're going to go back in that drawer is we have some abrasive stone so this is a little I should have cleaned it but they didn't this is a little bench stone Norton so it's fine on one side course on the other so I think this is 320 grit and 120 grit on this side so it's they call it a combination bent stone and maybe you can see the number there it's a I can't read it ib or one B 134 or something like that anyway very useful and then a couple of Diamond hones these easy laps here you got a course and then fine sometimes you down to your last insert or something like that or you got something in a hard material that you need to take an edge off of or something and these are cheap and and very good very good for honing tool bits okay easy level alright alright so let me check my list make sure I got everything and I think we're pretty close here so let me double check alright so I think we got it now I pretty much covered it I covered everything on my list okay so you know kind of after one year this would be this would be a nice kit to have so this is something that you can operate with for quite a while you know and the one year thing is not an exact thing the key is that you're making regular contributions to to your future okay and this is about your future right becoming a machinist or a highly skilled mechanic right is having the tools at your fingertips your own tools that you know the condition in you and you're used to using them and all that so you're really you know if this is your career you're really investing in your future okay it's just like kind of like going to school right some people go to college some people buy tools and learn how to use them okay and some people do both okay anyway this list is available online so look in the description and you'll find a link to a PDF of this particular list feel free to download that and share it anywhere you like I expect a lot of comments on this particular video of all the stuff that I forgot to put in there and but you know the bottom line is you can't really put a kid together that covers everything it just depends on the shop and on the nature of work you might end up working in a shipyard and all these tools are way too small so this really depends okay but this these tools and these are certainly the thought behind all these is it's kind of universal across the board hey you might end up in a shop that this exclusively does grinding okay so you might have ten indicators and and no 1 2 3 blocks for example you know who right so anyway I hope you liked it sorry I don't think there's a good way to make a short video like this and I hope you got something out of it and comment and if you like this kind of content let me know and please subscribe because that helps me and and have a nice dig see you later you know what I did forget something and this is more of a self-preservation thing for me a lot of guys are going to scream bloody murder that I didn't mention Machinery's handbook and sure Machinery's handbook is a nice nice addition to to your kit okay but it's 2016 right now and your online resources that you have available to you at your fingertips in your pocket in your phone are potentially much greater than Machinery's handbook and it's quicker to find okay so I could go either way on that and yeah sure get the book it's great because it's really the standards of industry and sometimes that is hard to sort when you're looking at a bunch of web results web hits so in these modern times you have these wonderful devices that you can look a lot of this stuff up with much quicker than you can find in a book and as you can see there's no room left in here to put a Machinery's handbook so we barely got enough room for the stuff that we have okay but by all means get one because you you learn by you learn things that you didn't even know that you needed to learn by flipping through the book okay it's kind of like surfing but with a very very narrow focus okay anyway get a Machinery's handbook too

Channel: oxtoolco

Views: 213,440

Keywords: Machinist, Adam Booth, Keith Fenner, Turnwright Machine works, Mr Pete, Abom79, Diresta, Make, Welding Tips and tricks, Bridgeport milling machine, Lathe, Autodesk, Solidworks, Lathe threading, CNC, Five Axis, Steady Rest, Broken Tap Removal, Albrecht, Jacobs, Cincinnati, Kearney Trecker, Hardinge, Monarch 10EE, Starrett, Morse Taper, McMaster Carr, Mori Seiki, Tormach, Wilton, Whats in your box, Apprentice Machinist

Id: 7xX69e0sawE

Length: 48min 48sec (2928 seconds)

Published: Mon May 09 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/grauenwolf]

I don't quite understand the thinking here. If I were running a shop, I would have all of this stuff just there and ready. "Welcome aboard, here's your tool box, if anything is broken or lost you're responsible."

I shouldn't have to pay someone's wages a year before they accumulate the stuff to do their job efficiently. (Unless they are an independent contractor, in which case they better already have everything they need on day one.)

[u/CrispyD]

This is the kind of information I would want if I were starting as an apprentice in a shop. Everything seemed well organized, and explained for the parts I watched.

I noped out after the 20th "OK" 5 minutes in.