Metal Planer Restoration 71: The Final Episode - Cross Head Raising Adapter

[Music] hello keith rucker here vintage machinery.org guys uh back to work on the metal planer and uh this feels good because this is going to be one of the final videos i think on the actual planer restoration uh we are really down into the short rows getting this thing finished up we've already uh used the machine we've already tested it out and i've still got some learning about this machine and using it to get used to it but uh we've got it running the only last thing i've got is i need to make a little adapter to go up here on this top shaft where i can come in with a crank and crank this and be able to raise up this cross head in the the cutter and all that to get the proper clearance under the machine so when i made this top shaft up here i didn't really put a a square on the end of it to be able to do that the original didn't have one and i was copying it but it's going to be a lot easier to be able to just crank this thing up right here so we're making a modification to it and uh pretty straightforward i've got a piece of one inch steel here this shaft diameter is one inch here it's already keyed uh it's already sticking out a little bit my plan here is is that we'll make a little extension that will also be keyed put a square on it where this handle can go up on there to crank and then we'll make a little uh bushing to go over it that will connect the two pieces together and that should give us what we need to do so and when that is done this machine is done it's been a two-year project a little over two years and it really feels good to have this i need to get on to some newer projects and i got plenty of those lined up so really excited to be able to kind of check the last thing off this i do still have some oil cups that are going to go on the ends of this down here and those are at the foundry right now uh waiting to get done there's some work that has to be done to the to the uh to make some cores and stuff on that uh but you know we can use it without that so yeah there will be a follow-up at some point in the future when we get there but other than that we're pretty much done with this machine once this is done so without further ado let's get in here and get started on it over at the lathe we're going to start by just facing this uh front side get that saw marks out of it that looks good and i also want to pretty heavily champ for this leading edge that's probably good right there all right over to the mill we're going to put a square on it so up next is to mill the squares uh square in there over on the middle machine and to do that i'm going to use this little set here this is just a 5c collet block uh these sets they come with a square and a hex and it's for exactly this milling either a square or a hexagon shape uh over on your middle machine so i've got a 5c collet this is a 1 inch collet that's uh pretty much the largest size they go and uh what you do here is you put this collet into the collet block there's a key that um there's a slot right there that had to line up there we go and we'll slide our material up through there leave it sticking out enough and we'll just tighten this collet up now the kit comes with a one of these you can use a spanner wrench for this is a one that i've made on the lathe just knurled it and i have it where i can put a wrench on it i prefer this over the one with the spanner wrench and basically all this does is screw on the back of the collet and that will draw it tight and that collet if you notice up on the front was tapered so when you tighten this up in the back and pull it in it's going to squeeze it shut and make a really nice tight holding there so i'm going to put this over in my vise get my wrench out tighten that up good and we'll be ready to go to the middle machine [Music] so i got my block set up over here in my vise now i've got my milling head on here we're going to use to cut this with and you can see how this works we basically just are holding it in this square block and what i can do is just take the block out rotate it 90 degrees at a time and just keep making that same cut across it until you get the thickness you want and speaking of that this shaft is currently one inch in diameter and we are going for a 5 8 inch square shank on there so 5 8 inch is a 625 thou so i've done the math and basically what we want to do is uh you know figure out one inch minus 625 that's going to be 0.375 there's your math if you want to see it so 0.375 that's 3 8 of an inch get that in the frame uh so 3 8 of an inch and then that's the total we need to take we need to take half off the top and half off the bottom so you divide that in half that's 3 16 or 0.1875 so what we should be able to do is touch off here and drop it down point one eight seven five and that should give us what we need so one uh you know 100 3 16 is probably a little bit more than i want to take in one pass the mill would handle it but i think what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna come in here touch off drop down to a hundred thousands and do all four sides i will then measure it make sure confirm my numbers are like i expect and then we'll take that last uh 875 thousandths in a second second pass and second operation so let's get in here and get her done head going there i shouldn't be touching right here but what i'm going to do is i'm just going to raise the table up until i just touch the very top there right there and i'm going to zero my digital readout on my z-axis and i'm gonna come up a hundred thousands cut across that [Applause] okay [Applause] i'll stop my cutter head we will remove this from the vise and i'm just going to rotate it 90 degrees right there now i just did this where the the front of that is flush with the edge of the vise if i was really good i would have put a stop on there where it would have been exactly in the same place but i'm just feeling it with my hand it'll be close enough that's flush all right cut two [Applause] flip it again [Applause] [Applause] support [Applause] now we're going to come in here and get a good measurement on this make sure it's where we want it to be and we are reading right at 800 000 which should be right on the money where we were shooting for because we took a hundred thousandths off of each side one inch minus 100 thousandths on each side would be 800 000. so we need to go ahead and dial in that extra what was it uh 875 or not 800 yeah 87 and a half thousands that's what i'm trying to say so i'm just going to dial that in we'll go 80 5 7 and a half right there okay let's uh go around the corners again all four sides and we should be where we need to be [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] okay let's take her out inspect it and make sure everything's like it is and we'll be ready to go all right so i took it out all my measurements check out i checked it with my tool that i'm going to use to crank it with and everything looks good i do want to just clean this up a little bit i'm going to re-champ for the leading edge of this a little bit and also come in here and chamfer this shoulder back here just so that it blends in a little bit nicer so let's fire up our lathe and kind of come in a little bit and that looks like it's uh pretty well blend it in and same thing back here there we go and that looks a lot better so uh i'll go hit that on scotch right wheel and just deburr everything but uh i think it looks good over at the marble saw now we're just going to cut this thing off i got a mark on there and we'll just zip it right off where it needs to be take over the lathe and face that side so [Music] [Music] [Music] last step here we need to put a quarter inch keyway in this uh to key it over on there so i'm just going to put this in my vise i just got a parallel that we're going to drop in here we'll drop this piece in and i'm not going to worry about getting that perfectly flat it really doesn't matter main thing is is that the piece is sitting down flat on that block back there now with that in there we're going to use a edge finder we'll find the center of this shaft so i'm gonna do is i'm gonna come in here i'll find the edge on the back side of that jaw i'll find the edge i'll zero my dro i'll find the edge on the front side of the jaw and then whatever that measurement is half of it will line me up in the center of this so it's just some simple math and we can do it all in the dro so we'll just use the half function once we find that distance uh dial it into zero and we should be dead nuts on center let's go ahead and do that real quick there we go i'm going to bring that over until it jumps out to the side right there and that tells me i'm on the edge i'll zero my digital readout and i usually just verify that once i do it and you know we're right on the money so we'll come to the other side now do the same thing and right there is my distance i'll show you on the digital readout now so there's what we measured two thousandths over half inch and that makes sense because my wiggler or my edge finder is a half inch one inch uh piece so we got two thousandths in there that's somewhere maybe error it may be real it doesn't really matter two thousandths isn't going to matter here so what we're going to do is just use the half function though so i'll hit this one down here in my views of so many times you can't see it very well covered in grease but i'll hit the half function it'll tell me to select which axis i'll select the y-axis and notice that number changed to 251 and i'm just going to dial that into zero right there and we'll lock the table down and that should be right down the center of that shaft all right so i have switch tools now i've put in a quarter inch end mill we need a quarter inch keyway in there and uh it needs to be half of the depth of the width so half of a quarter inch is an eighth of an inch which is 125 so we will touch off uh raise the table up 125 and we're going to cut that all the way through let's uh let's do it again we'll just uh bring up until i get a little chip on there right there and we'll come out to the end and i will zero my digital lead out again and i think i'll do this uh do 75 000 and come back and do take the rest so i'm just going to dial in 75 right there we'll go down [Applause] what the world all right guys i don't know why that broke that was a brand spanking new carbide end mill never been used before started out cutting beautifully as it got through that cut it acted like it was getting dull getting hot i mean i wasn't running it too fast in fact if anything i may have been running a little bit on the slow side and i didn't think my feed rate was too bad so we're going to try it again i got a high speed steel uh end mill this time i've basically just uh put it back down to that same depth we were just cutting go slow right here there we go yeah i don't know what's going on but uh we'll raise that on up to the 125 now and come back through there [Applause] all right high speed steel and old we're out high speed steel bit and just beat a carbide bit go figure let me debur that we got some pretty nasty stuff up on the top from where that uh carbide one was not doing right all right so i got a piece of keyway here key stock we'll put that in there that looks like it's seating down pretty good this is a coupler this i bought that already is everything to size so we got the keyway and it's already one inch it's probably going to take a little bump in to get it in there there we go a little bit too far all right let's see if i can bump that out kind of flush with the front that there good now [Applause] there we go and i'm going to tighten these uh set screws up already got this one snug we'll tighten it on up the rest of the way i'll start by loosening the clamps on here there's a some locking clamps on either side so that once you get it set you can leave it so let me loosen up the other side as well and with that we should be able to that's going down and it's going up just like it's supposed to work [Applause] perfect so this will allow me to have larger items clear up underneath the cross head this is something that uh is not really moved while the machine is running if you need to plane up and down you use here pull that gear out where that'll go so you can move your cutter up and down there and you got pretty good range but this gives you the clearance for whatever work you're working on up underneath and that seems to be doing the job so uh with that i'm declaring it this machine is done yeah we got a few little things that we'll probably still have to come in here and take care of but in the grand scheme of things it is done whoa all right well there you go uh i think not only is this a wrap on this episode this is a wrap on the series like i said i think we're pretty much done with this yes um like i mentioned before i've got to put the oil cups on here very minor does not interfere with the running of the machine it's just really from keeping a mess on up off the floor hopefully we'll get those on here before too long i've got i was able to find some original ones my friend andrew alexander out in texas has the same planer and he let me borrow some i'll borrow one and that is at clark's he's going to try to use the original cups as the pattern but he has to make a little core piece to make it all work out it's going to take a little time for him to get that done but again no big deal whenever we do get done with that we'll we'll do a video putting those on of course but in the meantime it doesn't prevent us from using the machine i'm sure there's going to be some other fine tuning and adjustments that we have to do this machine as we use it and really learn it and get to know it and get comfortable doing jobs on it but again we're done with the restoration the restoration phase is over and i am really tickled uh to get this done this project for yous that i've been watching the whole time and been watching the whole series yes it has gone on for quite a while a little over two years two years and three months roughly ah give or take a month or two it's been a long long haul and it's been a lot of fun i hope you guys have really enjoyed it this machine quite honestly it probably deserved to go into the scrap yard and under most people's eyes i looked at it and said you know what that's a challenge and i want to take it on this machine probably has virtually zero value to a modern machine shop that wasn't what it was about to me it was about preserving the history saving a machine from the scrap yard and giving it a new lease on life and from an economical standpoint you know i probably can't justify the amount of time and money that i put into this machine for what i can get out of it but for a personal satisfaction standpoint from the standpoint of preserving history and having something now that we can use to show younger generations probably for generations to come on how things used to be done you know to me it doesn't have a dollar value it's priceless but no one's going to pay me the money to do this this job but fortunately that's what i enjoy doing or maybe unfortunately i'm not sure but anyway i hope you guys have enjoyed this series we're going to move on to some new projects now and uh yeah so you know the jimmy diresta bandsaw is probably the next thing i'm gonna focus on ah it's got a lot of work to do to it but i think we can knock it out fairly quickly when i say fairly quickly we're still talking months just because of the amount of time that i can come out here and spend on it if this was a full-time shop and i was working you know 40 50 60 hours a week in here it wouldn't take that long but you know i'm pretty much a weekend warrior when it comes to working in the shop this is kind of a this is more of a hobby for me than what i do for a living so yeah it's going to take a little bit of time but in the grand scheme of things that should be a fairly simple restoration the monarch 20 inch 28 inch lathe we've got it well underway and i really need to get focused back on that and knock it out that's probably the next machine of myself we're going to work on and yes people have been asking about the stoker engine the stoker engine quite honestly has been kicking my butt here lately i've been having some difficulties trying to get that that part machine down in the bottom um i think we've got a plan on i think we're up to playing erf now i can't remember what it is but uh hopefully we're going to try something else on that real soon once i can get those bottom pieces machined in we can really kind of get back to going but i've got to get that done and honestly it's just it's kicking my butt right now that's just all there is to it but uh we need to get that back onto the front burner so that we can get it knocked out for the nashville steam group up there they're not needing it yet we got time but uh i i need to i need to get it done before it becomes an emergency and then the the 10 double e lathe we dropped the bed off up at in milwaukee to get ground i told him when i dropped it off people may ask me hey have you got that back yet i told uh told them i'm in no hurry whatsoever to just work it in when they have time to get down there and work it in so uh if it's next year when i pick that bed up i don't think i'm going to be needing it before then because i got plenty of other things to work on so uh yeah we'll get it done but uh it's it's kind of a back burner project right now so anyway there you go that's where we're at quick update there and uh glad to have the metal planer finished guys uh that will be a wrap so uh again thanks for watching so much uh please subscribe to channel if you haven't already hopefully you're already clicked on that subscribe button if you haven't please do click on it it helps me out a bunch please click that like button that also helps me 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Length: 27min 45sec (1665 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 18 2021