Meatloaf 137

[Music] welcome back ox tools i'm tom so we got another batch of meatloaf got some interesting stuff here um we've got uh microtome knives we've got a package from ukraine we've got a artillery clinometer and oh i don't know tuna can openers all kinds of stuff so uh sit back relax and have a nice batch of meatloaf on me this one here is from a friend of mine in chic in the chicago area this is from uh dennis p and i've known dennis for geez quite a while oh wow i didn't even know there was something inside there look at that um this bonus i didn't even know these were in there um so he watched the tuna press uh uh build with uh great enthusiasm and he said oh my god i can't believe you're using that lame ancient can opener so what he did was he sent me this hot whammy can opener here okay and this is ricon swiss made so it's probably uh pretty spiffy and i've seen this type before actually and the the cutter wheel on this particular type actually cuts through in this axis here and there's a couple of a couple of side benefits of that here let's peel this tape off here is the lid doesn't go down inside your stuff okay that's one one um one oh come on one advantage i should have prepped this beforehand here he's putting some buddy buddy pulls on there that's what we call those so and the the other let's take this out the other deal is um this goes back on and it kind of stays on and um uh which allows you to use this for like you know clean uh you could have a solvent in there or something like that and uh or oil or something like that and you can kind of reuse the lid um and you know for you super cheap skates out there you can make this into uh one of those oil cups and re-re-solder that or or glue it in there or whatever i don't know what so and i had no idea this was inside i just discovered this dennis has a 3d printer right and like a lot of 3d printing junkies he's uh oh god what do we what what do we got going here dear me i don't even know what we're doing here so you know this is a pusher of some sort i suppose right and um um but that's the whole problem with this is you got to use your hands right to squeeze the the stuff and that's was the thrust of the uh the idea behind the uh the tuna press there okay uh the tuna dewatering press but let's let's take a look at this thing this thing's pretty uh pretty spiffy here i love this handle right you know now i have no affiliation with these guys it's just i can appreciate a good design um so the handle is very nice um it's got a good size it's got just the tiniest bit of texturing on it not so much that it interferes with cleaning but it gives you a little purchase and then this handle gives you supreme purchase for leverage here look at that kind of spring oh okay that's part of the function so that it cams in and then engages the lid and then you cut now this little thing here this little little chopper on the side there i am not clear what that's for oh okay that's cool i just saw something else here so this guy here is for pull tabs um you know like like sardines right you know those little uh the little rings you can get into onto those little rings and you can get a little more leverage on that okay so they're they're covering all the bases here so uh yeah i'd have to say that's a nice looking uh a nice looking unit so now now it's got me going here what is that little chingus four four use mini pliers push button to lift like okay so it's it's for grabbing this so you don't have to grab the edge or whatever all right mini pliers anyway dennis thanks for sending this stuff um much appreciated and i'm glad you liked the video and he sent me a recipe for uh salmon salmon salad sandwiches with uh with capers and uh and pickles and stuff and that sounded really good so i'm gonna get some uh i'm gonna get some salmon in a little can like this and try it out so thanks dennis well we were just uh we're just talking about this little hook here right a little pull tab and uh i got a box that showed up mystery box had showed up and it had a whole bunch of ox tools swarf free tuna in it so this is from my uh my friend out in rio vista uh gary brown and uh he sent me his favorite which is with the pull tabs here and which is exactly what uh what this thing's for here i don't want to pop one but that's the idea and then you can open that up so this is uh this is old iron machine works he's got a youtube channel if you haven't checked him out go check him out he's on rio vista which isn't too far from here and he collects and restores old machines mainly collects he's he's got quite the iron collection and uh anyway he sent me some uh he sent me some tuna with pull tabs so a lot of people uh got a kick out of the uh the tuna can uh dewatering uh thing so uh i guess i'm getting uh getting uh slammed with uh tuna anyway thanks gary appreciate it and we'll see you soon pal all right this uh this one comes to us from a gentleman that i've corresponded with a bit and his name's rob phillips and um he is uh i guess is he the owner uh he i believe he's the owner of uh buckeye uh brass and winds so they do they sell horns and musical instruments and the interesting thing i kind of bumped into him because some of the metal work involved in you know making musical instruments is actually pretty interesting um you know here's here's a good example how do they polish all that stuff right and uh all those you know this is all soldered together and fabricated you know from kind of raw brass sheet right and uh and they got to polish them when they're done and if you've ever looked at one up close the the polishing is actually quite nice uh and anyway they have some tricks of the trade and uh they use uh uh these ropes that have polishing compound in them and uh and they have a just kind of an a arsenal of um different little tools for getting that done which uh you know and that's how i learn stuff as i watch other people doing things and you know you can take ideas from one trade and apply them in another you know i kind of like that kind of stuff so anyway rob he sent me some goodies here and this is the the the first one here which is some uh ephemera here of the wizard chuck and i think i uh i catch the uh the uh the uh parallel there and this is some kind and i've never seen one of these in the flesh here but it's some kind of quick change chuck um has a morse taper on it but um some kind of adapters with a bayonet key locking arrangement here to insert the tools in and out rapidly which you know there's quite a few different uh systems like that and um um this is one that i haven't seen now clearly it uh it didn't uh become super popular there are some other systems of the and i can't think of the names right now that were more popular but this is neat um you know the fonts on here are kind of old-timey here i mean look at this figure three figure one uh the way this is this is drawn this is a kind of old school it's got that kind of lithography look to it uh which is kind of uh kind of neat here and this is the uh oh yeah okay meadville pennsylvania all kinds of good stuff going on there that that area um honestly i don't know what's going on in meadville um a lot of deer hunting i know that and but uh merkin's tool is there i think there's quite a few tool and dye shops there so i'm not sure what is around meadville that attracts tool makers right um and uh you know or tool manufacturing companies so uh um that's kind of an interesting coincidence so anyway he sent me another thing here too which is kind of neat let's get this out and uh this is this is kind of cool here this is a it's a uh artillery clinometer is what this is and it's just glorious it's just super nicely made it's made out of brass or some kind of bronze what do i want to say it's uh um it doesn't look bronze it almost looks nickel silver to me right that's what it kind of looks like here it's not magnetic okay that's magnetic that's a steel rivet there but let's let's get in a little closer and we'll talk about this and the scale on here and how this thing is uh how this thing is used so there's a better view of this this really nice instrument here so um actually let's just take it out of the box here i mean anything that comes in a box like this is look at this this is just a spiffy box and you see this one divided by 6400 that has some meaning here for us and what this what th this this is a clinometer uh c-l-i-n-o-m-e-t-e-r clinometer so it's used for measuring angles and this particular one is used for setting um the angle on artillery pieces and it has a little uh it has a little bubble level in it so that you can set a particular angle like so and then you put it against the gun or set it on the gun uh like so and then you adjust the gun until you get uh uh you get your bubble centralized like that okay and then you know that the gun in relation to gravity is um is at the correct angle okay now what's weird about this one here is and i'm not completely clear on its uh um its operation so a circle has 6400 this is a military mill scale mil which stands for miloradian uh thousandths of a of a radian okay and um so 1600 mils is 45 degrees and we see that down here in the bottom here right so that would mean that this would be the measuring surface here in this case right which doesn't make any sense to me because it's a skinny little edge and it's clearly kind of set up for this or this to lay on the uh on the artillery piece at least it seems like it now i kind of poked around i couldn't find any pictures um so of this one of these in use although there was a lot of these uh pictures of these and this one's pretty cool in that it has a um a real fine adjust here okay and we can adjust the angle and then it has this little adjustment here for the level and it's got a little key here and let's go ahead and do that and then you can see that move and you see that's moving in an arc like that right so this is a vernier vernier or vernier whichever you like okay i don't really care um and you can make uh very very small adjustments there which is pretty neat okay and plus and minus uh so kind of cool so why a mill scale what the milliradian scale why would we want to use that right well the interesting quality of radians like that is if you have a a known distance or a known height of an object you can you can calculate uh distance or you can calculate size just by looking at it so a lot of military binoculars have a mil or scopes have a mill scale in it so if you see something at a thousand meters and it's uh um [Music] sub tens uh one mill then you know that that object is one meter tall okay so so it has this this interesting quality that very easily you can determine distances or sizes so meters over mills times a thousand um equals the uh um that that's the equation i should say and then you can rearrange it depending on you if you have size or you want to know distance or vice versa okay i hope that i hope that makes sense that wasn't a very mathematically rigorous explanation um and this is made by the france france crewman coolman and this is was made for uh the german army okay and i don't know if uh i think coolman is uh that's that may be swiss i'm not positive um but here's here's our clue here because it's got the little eagle on it there the evil eagle and um although you can't see into the the little circle of the eagle there so uh kind of an interesting historical piece uh used for measuring angles and setting uh artillery pieces so um just just kind of a i don't know i i love these old instruments i mean this thing weighs like i don't know probably weighs a kilo or something like that a couple pounds and uh and it's just beautifully made and all the pieces are here all the knobs are intact and a lot of times the knobs are are missing on stuff like this so so rob thank you very much for sending this this is pretty sweet and that's uh just kind of a nice uh a nice piece there and maybe we'll look at another type of clinometer that's used for setting and measuring angles so so we have a little uh repair job here uh for one of my carb neighbor buddies um and these these are uh i don't know rear bumper chrome strips yeah i don't know what the proper name form is but basically the tail light goes here tail light pokes through this and the uh the lens mounts on these little studs here now this is a you know i don't even know what this is made out of honestly zinc or something you know it's some kind of uh some kind of casting um and let me show you the problem this is the problem one here and you can see that somebody got medieval on this and uh and kind of blew out those uh threaded threaded posts there now this isn't weldable that would just not be the right approach here so what can we do right i guess is the question and um so there's some complications here these kind of come out at a an oddball angle so your first thought might be to just whack them off and put a new stud stud there and attach it in from the back right and uh but getting it to sit at that at that angle because it's okay there you can see it there it's not normal to this this mounting surface that makes it a little tricky right so um so i've been i kind of noodled it and looked at it a little bit and tried to think of a way to fix it so um fortunately we have one good example so this one this one's this one's healthy here and hopefully you can see this on camera is these are tapered and this is needed to release it from the uh from its mold or whatever with the permanent die casting or something like that so we can get a good measurement off of uh off of these studs here in fact let's just do that right now let me get this one out of the way get some some pip here and some calipers so what i'm going to do is first i want to i want to get some diameters you know diameter at the tip and and then i'm going to measure down say an inch or something like that to see what this taper is because i want to duplicate that taper so what i want what i'm going to do [Applause] drop all my sharpies here um is i'm going to cut this off or the bad one i'm going to cut it off down here and replace the upper section with a new tapered piece and then we'll we'll thread this section and we'll thread this section and we'll put them together with a little stud with some loctite on them and then we'll have our uh our female thread here uh at the right the right spot and at the right angle and it's all you know perpendicular cuts and everything so it's easy from a kind of a machining standpoint so let's uh let's uh mark this off oh wow look at that hey sometimes you're lucky right that line is it exactly at one inch all right let's see here what is that 340. so well everything starts with a little sketch here right so this diameter here 1.0 is 342. okay now we'll measure it at the tip here that diameter see what we got and this is always a little 283 okay so from that we can determine we got a little angle here right we got a little angle here that we have to deal with and uh so let's figure out what that is so 42 2 8 3. okay so it's about 60 thousandths difference in the diameters um between the the big end and the small end okay so what what i care about is since we're going to machine it i care about the half angle right not the included angle um so we let's see what can we do here um so let's take half of that let's divide that by two okay so that's about thirty thou something like that okay so thirty thousands over one inch okay is a little less than two degrees okay and you might be wondering how how i know that right well if you keep one thing in your head the the sine of one degree is point zero one seven five inches at one inch so over an inch one degree is equal to seventeen and a half thousands which is a little a little bit more than than half of that so uh so what i'm gonna say is um that's two degrees or roughly two degrees all right i'll figure it out exactly it's you know 1.8 or whatever it is right and uh and then we'll uh turn some of these little stumps on the lathe and um put it all together and fix my friend's business there's a little closer shot here of these uh kind of mangled uh studs here and looking at this one here um i don't think i want to go a full inch here so i'm going to go i'm going to cut this i'm going to cut them off at three quarters of an inch so i want to make the little replacement um standoffs you know identical so um and i don't want to go all the way down to the base here i don't know how how thick it is in that area right so i think i'm just going to go three quarters of an inch here and that should get me out of the damaged area this one here and this one without any trouble um so i'm going to mark those and cut those off at three or cut off three quarters [Laughter] [Music] me [Music] hmm very very straight cut there i mr didn't look too bad from here okay all right i'm not gonna be too hard on myself this is definitely a zinc all right not too bad i'll recap i'll recap these uh holes that are here retap the holes so that the new piece can get added on can't stand it myself make sure you get it going nice and straight i'm gonna check it out in both directions here this is my uh makes it harder to bozo a tap tap wrench here okay i think that's hitting bottom there all right so let's set screws in okay here's our stud so that's a set screw i'll just tighten that up in there and then that'll form a nice uh a nice male thread to add the uh the new piece onto so all right let's see i don't want any more sticking out that i need so let's go a little more like that so i instead of uh we're going to cut this angle um so it's good this is going to be the big end and this will be the small end towards the chuck um so what i did was and i didn't show this i ground a tool that has the correct angle on and you can see my little scribe line there that uh laid out so what i did was i laid that line out and uh with a accurate protractor then grounded then i checked it on the optical comparator and then adjusted the angle okay so that uh it's actually 1.7 degrees as the oops is the correct angle and so it's you know sometimes it's easier to fuss with the tool and sometimes it's easier to fuss with the compound so it just depends um just depends so i decided in this case to do the tool because i'm just going to do a big fat plunge in there and make the uh make the little thing our little standoff in one whack hope that makes sense so let's uh let's do this z axis center drill so this is kind of a weird rig i have the the chuck on a uh it's just on a bushing and i use this one for capping small holes because i can if i feel anything uh weird i can uh just let go of the chuck like that right and like that okay if something weird happens all right that should be deep enough all right and then we'll tap when we actually you know what not mr wizard so we got to do there's more steps here not just hard to remember all this stuff when you're talking all right so we're going to zero this form tool against the end okay beep all right and then i'm going to come in the width of the form tool which is three quarters 750 okay um oh i need to calibrate the diameter too so let's do that i'm going to cut i'm going to cut with my my small end like that it's gonna feed it in a little ways like so and it doesn't have the right clearance on the uh on the leading edge that's why it's pushing up a burr but we don't really care about that right now so let's measure this and then we'll calibrate the tool diameter and then i'm just going to go to my number that makes sense i'm just going to go to my small end number four eight seven five okay point four eight seven five enter okay okay so theoretically we're ready to go here now we're going to 750. there we go and i'm going to go slow because i don't want it to be better all right let's look at the uh oh you know what that's a pretty good shot let's just go with the flow there okay our target number is 283 on the small end it's cutting pretty good so all right so we're at 300 now 2.90 there okay and theoretically let's see here it should be right right at our 283 right here 284 i'll take it and then this thing here this is just a little nasty little burr that we're gonna take off let's check our uh let's check our rear big end so oops sorry guys should be around three 323 okay it's a little small 323. i did knock that burr off of there we were looking for 327 was our theoretical we were 323. i think that's going to be okay for this thing put it this way i'm not going to relap the tool anymore so let's uh let's go ahead and thread that little monkey here and you guys will get a look at this uh um this chuck deal that i was trying to describe here okay so get up nice and close like that okay and this chuck is it's not keyed or it's just in a um it's just in a in a bushing like so i can slide it axially like that right okay and see low speed all right like that put a little uh glove on there and then i'm just gonna hold this with my hand and stick it in there right so if for some reason i felt something alarming i just let go of it right or okay it's winding up okay so that's far enough all right and then i'm going to run it in reverse and do the same thing and come out so it's kind of nice for that kind of stuff where you want some sensitive feel actually we may run that down in there again and clear out those those chippers okay okay one all the way down and then you can go faster if you want to okay i'm pretty sure um i'm through or a bit deep enough i should say okay cut a little bit more okay cool now what i want to do is just kind of zero on the shoulder there like that okay this should be good i see threads i'm good okay i just gotta take that little the little pip off of there and then uh there's there's our piece rinse and repeat and we're done let's do a dry fit up here first let's see how it uh how it looks [Music] i'll put i'm going to put loctite on these so they don't come out at least on this particular this end here and there's one of our spacers okay pretty good match actually you know i gotta grip grip that to tighten it up so hmm i gotta think about that let's get a little oh you know what there's a little little bozo there so this one was shorter so uh interesting if the angle was different on that or it was just because it's a consistent taper it was just a bigger area of the taper i don't think that's going to hurt anything so let's i got the lens here we're just going to pop that on there and see if i see threads i see threads i think i'm good it's got a little gasket that sits in that uh that trough too all right let's do a full i'm giving him some slightly longer some screws so that he can get the gasket in there and compress the gasket a little bit all right things are looking pretty reasonable crank that side down too much i don't know how well this thing i think this is an aftermarket light dealie bopper here i guess you had a little bit of flexibility there to line it up all right well i don't know how close these fit normally so there's a little bit of variation this is not machinist-like stuff here so but it's okay just quit looking at it all right let's do the final i'm gonna i'm gonna lock tight it up and uh give it to mr sam and uh hopefully be happy with it i think he will because he was uh he was stuck before okay so uh this is some kind of studebaker uh for all those that are that are wondering i'm not sure what the model is i'll see if i can get a picture of it for you guys now i want a little bit of a little bit of gronk on here so i'm gonna do is [Music] secure that and then give it a little bit of english there all right it should be good i could have milled some flats on there i suppose but that would have been overkill oh yeah that's too that feels pretty good okay and i think we're gonna call that quits time to get off the horse before we break something this next group um this next group of things comes all the way from uh from ukraine and uh by way of several uh handlers and this was mailed to me by a guy named vladimir vladimir alice alasenko cinco uh sorry vladimir if i uh vlad if i uh pronounce that incorrectly and what we have here uh and this one leaked a little bit here and so i rebagged it um so there's a couple things in here we got some scraping uh spotting inks right uh for when you're doing machine scraping uh these are his formula that he's kind of come up with so uh i'm gonna i'll be trying those out um but the main reason it's in the bag is these things here now these are some kind of air fresheners or something i don't know what these are they're melon flavored um air fresheners from ukraine and and i'll tell you they are potent so everything in the package smells like these things and vladimir also sent me this cool apron and a scraping apron and black is a great color for a scraping apron all right and that's his deal there by axe and he's got a flag a couple of flags on here and i'm assuming this is uh the flag of the ukraine here i'm not positive i didn't look it up sorry um and uh anyway vladimir thank you very much i know this was some some effort to put together and i really appreciate it and it really humbles me when people go to that kind of effort to to get something to me you know that they think i'll enjoy or uh that i'll make use of so i very much appreciate it and um um you know that effort that you put in there so we're going to try this uh this spotting ink sometime here soon and uh i'm sorry i'm gonna get rid of these they're just too they're just too potent uh uh uh and uh for me anyway in fact i can smell it through the bag right now so it's pretty intense so anyway thank you so much for sending this and uh we're gonna make good use of this so this uh this little lot here is uh it's actually kind of i don't know it's sad for me because these belong to a work mate of mine and friend that that died recently and anyway they were cleaning out his office and there was some stuff that that ended up with me and um so these are a couple of the items here so i just wanted to show them anyway this is a friend of mine his name was jim galvin and he was a um well what do you want to call it uh this guy was brilliant and i learned so much from him and i did a little uh it all started i did he he came over to my office one day and said hey tom i i have a little i have a machining need and i said oh okay well we'll just do it in the shop here and he says oh no no it's it's for me personally and i said oh okay well you know what do you need to do right so he shows me this little job and um i said oh well what's you know what's this for right and he says it's for one of my microscopes and i said really i said oh you're in the microscope sign i didn't i didn't know this at the time this is quite a while ago now and um so anyway uh he said uh do you know anybody that can help me out and i said well yeah i do i'll i'll do it and i'll do it in my shop at home right and he goes oh okay and um so anyway i did this little job and uh you know it was some adapter rings uh you know to hold some optics and some other stuff and uh you know it's a little it was a couple hours or whatever it was right so i i bring it back to him and uh i give him the uh i give him the the job back right and uh and he was just so appreciative and i thanked me so much and he said hey what do i owe you and i said nothing just nothing forget it right and a couple of uh i don't know a couple weeks later he comes into my office and he says i have a present for you and uh i said really i go what's that and he pulls he has a box with him and he drops a box on my table in my office and he says i'm giving you a microscope and i said really i said wow and uh he says yeah but you got to uh you got to put it together and i said oh okay and he said but i'll help you you know and i'll show you all the stuff right and i go okay great so anyway um i got a microscope and true to his word a he had taken apart dozens of this particular model and uh anyway so uh basically i rebuilt this microscope took it all apart cleaned all cleaned all the the linear bearing slides and made everything operate and all the little detents got fixed and all the little things were anyway and then he gave me a bunch of objective lenses and light sources and basically i have a microscope that's probably worth 25k now right and uh you know i i can do uh uh polarized light and i mean just everything right so anyway uh jim was a good friend and i helped him out a few times and uh he helped me a bunch of times and anyway i got some of his stuff here so let's let's take a look at this so uh um let's look at this one first since it's probably the easiest one this you know it's kind of a nondescript pair of steroid calipers okay and these are old ones obviously right and but what's kind of uh and unfortunately they don't have his name on him anywhere i wish they did that would be really that would be special for me but uh i don't i don't see any markings for of his on here so these will read to um a thousandth of an inch okay now what's interesting about these and i don't know if you guys can see them is we got a little dot right there and then we have a little corresponding you know it's in line this way a little dot on the frame here or on this on the sliding part and what that's for that's for setting your dividers okay which is a really neat feature because now you can set your dividers very very very precisely how do you like that huh so we go into the little hole like that okay all right so yeah i didn't set it for a particular uh a particular number but uh uh you know back in the olden days uh when a lot of the machine work was done via layout right um that was one way you could get an accurate very very accurate caliper settings right and scribe a perfect circle or a perfectly sized circle so pretty cool that's kind of neat and actually i don't have any like that believe it or not and but now i do and they came from uh they came from a good friend which is all this is the best the best thing right so now what we got here is is really hard to get open here [Applause] i want to be careful because what's in here is extremely sharp all right so what this is um and there's the word this is a micro tome knife which is a very special kind of knife my friend jim was in the microscopy and so one of the things that you have to do um i don't have anything here that's that's any good is um sometimes when you have biologic samples you want to take a very very thin slice of them so that you can look at their their structure so light will actually go through the structure and microtomes are designed to to make very very very thin slices in fact uh extremely thin they're actually quite impressive little machines and um there's an old i think he had an old style one that was kind of a hand crank one that excuse me um uh reciprocated the blade and then advance the sample a little bit each time or move the knife i don't i don't know which um i remember him talking about it at one point and he brought this he brought this knife in um which you know i don't know if it goes in the machine or if this is a handheld one it must go in the machine i think there's no way you can do this by hand so the the how thin you can cut these so with these uh kind of a normal microtome right uh you can cut things uh you know thinner than um um you know 50 microns right uh you can make slices uh in that kind of a range and or down to a few microns and with ultra microtomes you can actually make slices that are um you know in the 30 to 100 nanometer range which is like super thin and that's used in electron microscopy with biologic samples so kind of cool but let's take a look at this thing here because this is what we have and this thing and i don't know there's no way to define sharpness over video right i don't want to cut anything with this because i can damage the edge of this thing but let's just say that this is beyond kind of scary sharp right and um you know this is it's got a very very steep uh bevel angle here and um actually there's a there's a handle i think or this mounts in the machine here i'm not positive on that and uh let's see here let's see i don't want to i don't want to kill myself here on camera here i think there's something underneath here yeah okay let's take a look so there's the the carrier for it to protect it all right so there's a little handle there's yeah so now you can you can make a a deadly weapon here oh god look at that that's uh i mean that's pretty frightening this is uh you know this is straight razor 10x straight razor kind of stuff here and um is that a guard what is that what is that i don't know what that is oh okay so this is for sharpening here this is for sharpening i guess i would guess that this slides over the uh okay so this slides over this and then sets that secondary bevel angle that you can just you're probably just catching it in the light there so you got this main bevel angle then you got a a secondary bevel angle it's very very small there so anyway that's a pretty scary sharp chingadera there so let's take this off and put it back in its protective environment here for a leak blood all over the place here so anyway yeah microtomes are pretty cool and they have uh uh the ultra microtomes use a uh they're much smaller the blades and uh and we're going to see something that's kind of along those lines in a sec but the the edge is actually made out of a out of diamond and um so diamond they can they can hone and lap that and get that down to an extreme fine edge for cutting you know nanometer thickness uh samples pretty cool so let's close that up and then we'll we'll take a look at this next one here which is kind of neat all right this little guy here so this is kind of along the same lines as that as that micro tome knife or blade um and this is a a cleaving tool and now what i think this is for it doesn't say that but what i think this is for is for cutting uh optical you know fiber optics or fiber optical fiber and um and it fits in a machine let's uh get that out of there if it amounts in a machine okay and is um basically you you know you put your optical fiber there and it makes a nice uh nice clean cut um and you know i i don't know if i've never used one myself and i don't know if um the uh the cut that it makes is uh you know kind of splice ready or bond ready or whatever so not sure but i think you get a pretty clean cut now so theoretically and it says diamond on this on this deal here that is a chunk of diamond there and it's actually a pretty big chunk of diamond uh you know as far as diamonds go excuse me i get to get some hiccups going here um so it's pretty cool actually so uh and you know i run my finger over it and it feels like really sharp okay um it's not a microtome uh blade but uh it's a cleaving blade so it's gonna have a slightly different angle um to it and um what i'm thinking is um and i can visually see some little you know and you probably can't see it on video but uh i'm looking at it and if i catch it just right in the light i see some little anomalies on the um on the edge and um let's see if i can yeah if i if i just just slip my fingernail along that it it catches some little um some little divots i'll call them divots okay so what i think i'll do is go put this on the microscope that i built uh with jim galvin and see if we can get some imagery of um of that diamond and uh that edge so what do you think that sounds kind of cool huh so it's kind of a nice tribute to jim i'll use the microscope to look at a diamond that uh that he left for me in his uh his stuff in his office so uh anyway let's uh let's go let's go try to i'll get that set up and then we'll get the camera over there so this is the microscope that i uh that i built with jim galvin and basically he brought me a box a big box of parts and said here here you go and so what he was trying to do is he wanted one of these in its most complete state with every possible accessory that they ever came with so to do that he had to buy a lot of what i would call carcasses to get certain parts off of so that he could have the most complete and best unit so he was proud of ebay for years buying these things and um so consequently anyway he got what he wanted and he has uh uh the most complete you know optifod that i've ever seen right and but uh in the process he had parts for probably five or six others and uh anyway i ended up with some of those parts and was able to put together a complete system that's actually quite nice and so that's what we're going to do we're going to put our little uh diamond cleaving blade in here and um if i have a i have a video camera here so i'm i'm kind of getting the uh the image kind of so i turned up the lights in the room which uh seemed to help here and so this this is this is the uh the carrier and then this is the diamond and then this is the edge here and you can see there a little bit of damage and let me uh i'll move it around a little bit so there's the corner right and then i slide it down you can see the little notches in the edge there's some big chinguses there i think that's what i felt with my finger there oop wrong way there let's see if i can sharpen that up a little bit here there we go that's pretty good there so yeah you can see that uh that edge is pretty severely damaged there right now we're lighting it just from the top here um you know so there's probably some combinations of lighting that uh that might improve that um and that's one thing in my crossfit microscopy is you know you're you're fiddling around with some parameters to get the uh the best uh view now this particular software i can take images i can take measurements things like that uh which is kind of handy for uh for machinist nerds so i'm gonna i'm gonna kick it up to the next magnification and i'll turn the camera off for a second because it'll take me a minute to probably get it dialed in so all right we're getting close here let's uh get some focus going here all right that's pretty good and then there's there we go that's those little broken edges so i had to fiddle around with the sample a little bit um to uh oh yeah that's pretty cool yeah it's definitely broken looks terrible huh so that's one thing with microscopes that uh you know that you can make anything look bad let's just put it that way right so that said uh that diamond edge that's so there but you can see how good oh there you can see some lapping marks in it up here right you can see the some crisscross from the lapping but when you look at the actual edge that's intact it's actually fantastic uh even at this high magnification so um actually i don't know what to plus yeah you know what i'm not sure what this magnification is um i'd have to look at the thing i can't see the the objective uh number so anyway uh so i'm getting i'm nerding out here sorry um the actual edge that's intact is actually spectacular right and actually quite good um see there's a corner that's dinged up right there and then we'll slide down look at the other oh yeah there's the other end there that's a chowder fest there huh yeah oh yeah that's pretty cool all right well i think that's enough nerding out uh anyway thanks jim i appreciate uh you uh giving me this stuff and uh hooking me up with this microscope so i hope you're having fun in the in the uh big shop in the sky well there was a whole there was a whole bunch of folks that were kind of pissed off that i didn't that i didn't show this uh little trailer hitch arrangement here i had mentioned it and i guess i forgot about it uh when i was doing doing the rest of the video um but what this is is uh you know clearly you know we're at the lathe here okay and this is the carriage and then this is the tail stock here and what i've done is i put a bracket on the tail stock and then this bracket kind of does double duty it protects the uh the scale here uh the dro scale from the the tail stock slamming into it but it also um is my let's see make sure oh yeah that's that's brilliant tom you can really see that well can't you okay let's back up just a whisker here okay i'll back up into this okay and then you can couple these together all right and drop that in so now my tail stock is kind of coupled up now it's got a little bit of play but usually it doesn't matter because you know you're going forward and then you back up to clear so the advantages of this is now i can power feed the the tail stock if i want to and the other neato thing about that is now i can use the dro to keep track of this position my drilling position so i don't i don't move the quill in that case i just lock it okay like so and then i just use the carriage uh to uh to peck with so i can go back to a a particular pec depth and then pick up or i can drill uh the precision depth uh for example and uh you know so there's there's some things that you can do and uh that are kind of neat so that's the uh that is the trailer the mystery trailer hitch and then i just uncouple and drive off so sorry about forgetting about that folks but there it is [Music] you

Channel: oxtoolco

Views: 29,188

Rating: 4.9584055 out of 5

Keywords: Machine work, Toolmaking, Mechanical design, Studebaker bumper repair, microtome blades, Diamond cleaving blade, Form tool turning, Apron and spotting ink from Ukraine, Artillery clinometer, More tuna, Swiss can opener, Nikon Microscope, Starrett Calipers.

Id: ynsMmKdERpc

Length: 63min 10sec (3790 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021