Monday Night Meatloaf 100 P1

hey guys welcome back ox tools I'm Tom so this is your 100th meatloaf episode and let me just start out by saying thank all of you out there that watch my videos and subscribe to my channel and support me in the way that you do I really appreciate it and we never would have had a hundred episodes of meatloaf without you guys you guys inspire me you you push me to continue on with this okay and you and there is support that comes back from that so I'm learning from you too so that's one of the reasons that I do this I show people things I put that knowledge out there and I get something back from you guys believe it or not so we got a lot of really good questions I got a quite the list here of questions and so we're gonna go through them some of them are related to looking at tools in the shop some are just questions about my history things like that so we're just gonna kind of kind of jump into that so you know putting these in order is kind of tough but let's let's just start with one that came through so how old are you when you got interested in all things mechanical so I can blame that on my dad actually and when I was pretty young he had a workshop in the in the basement of our house and he had a little business making kick Wheels pottery for doing ceramics so he made these things he made kits so you could make your own or he made complete ones and you know they're made out of wood and they had a concrete flywheel and a shaft and an A and a wheel head and some other things and I remember being actually quite small and with him to a machine shop that he had some of the parts machine there was a little diameter that was turned down on the on the shaft and then the wheel heads were cast aluminum they needed to be faced and you know some stuff like that and I remember you know I think I remember the chip pan was about right here and we went over to this guy's shop and he my dad was talking to the guy and I'm looking in the chip pan and like all kids I'm really fascinated by the the curlicues and chips in there and I start to reach in there while this sharp-eyed machinist was was hip to that knee goes hey don't touch that stuff it's sharp right and so I I pulled my hands back I remember that distinctly right and the really funny part is that I've had kids over here and done the exact same thing so that's so anyway I was pretty young when I got exposed to some of this stuff and believe it or not I didn't start out as a machinist I really got going as a welder welder fabricator so a good portion of my career was a welding and fabricating and as I got more into the engineering side of it the shops that I worked in had machine shops so I was exposed to that and and I ended up getting my first lathe through a guy that I work for so and then things kind of started from there so I do both so you know I consider myself a metal fabricator machining is one part of that I do welding a sheet metal I do forming a good machine work and and I bring all those together that's what I like to think about it's my skill set so anyway so that's a couple of the questions there and the let's see what should we do next let's let's go look at the tool oh I know what I know what so a lot of you guys out there wish me happy birthday which was last week and thank you very much for that Thank You internet for the happy birthday and what I would like to do is show you what the internet bought me for my birthday my birthday gift from the Internet okay let's go look at that that's pretty cool we'll check it out and then we'll come back and we'll do a couple more questions alright so there's my new surface plate cover from Standridge granite it came last week these are really nice this is not what I what the internet gave me for my birthday let me show you so who doesn't like something that comes in a mahogany box and so I don't think I I i don't think i would have bought this if well anyway I splurged let's just put it that way okay what this is and it's made by our friends Herman Schmidt and it's a little tiny vice and it is the absolute cutest little thing you ever saw so I saw one of these in a guy's toolbox maybe 20 years ago and got majorly excited about it then and then but really didn't have a use or a justification to spend that kind of money to get something like this so for my birthday I decided I was going to treat myself to to something really really nice and and there it is it's a piece of machinist jewelry this is a you know I just get all excited when I pull this out of the box so it's a little grinding vise it's made out of a six tools steel the ground to very very tight tolerances by the Hermann Schmidt company who knows how to grind that's for sure it was its inch and a half I think they call it a V one and a half V zero one and a half something like that a couple of interesting points about this particular vise is these so it's made out of a solid block right but those little notches in there these guys they plunge EDM those slots in there if you zoom in on those and look at them those are those are those are burned in they burn them in which is a fairly expensive technique for producing a little groove like that so I was surprised when I when I examine this the first time so anyway Internet thank you very much for just an awesome Christmas Christmas birthday get there and thank you very much I'll cherish this for years and you'll see it in you'll see it in videos coming up now for all you guys out there you see this little cardboard thing in here this is one of these corrosion inhibiting squares so I trimmed one down and stuck it up in the lid in there so this emits corrosion inhibiting vapors to protect this little investment here so anyway thank you guys very much that's from all you viewers out there to me and I really appreciate it all right so a viewer sent in a question and they were asking about calipers okay and I have actually quite a few calipers so I figured this is actually a good subject the question was you know what should I buy should I buy good ones or should I buy cheap ones or what so the very short answer on that is in my belief is you use these all the times if you're gonna buy one nice tool make it a pair of calipers because it's really you know all of us tend to go to these is default this to track our measurements as we're working and if we need to do precision measurements and we can switch to micrometer z' or other methods these kind of keep us honest as we work our way through so what I'm going to show you though is some different types okay and and some of the different features okay now right out of the gate I'm going to tell you these little 4-inch millet o's are my generally go to ones they're nice and short you can get them in places and the other thing I really like is this round depth rod and some credit on there hope I need to get the demagnetize around then it's got this round depth rod as opposed to this rectangular one right okay so that's small and it reaches in places okay one of my criteria for calipers is I'm a thumb roll guy okay I got to have a thumb roll and I don't really care for them if they don't have a thumb roll so the difference is there's some without a thumb roll they just have a little pusher a little pusher block okay I mean they work they're fine but you know given a choice on the thumb roll guide okay now I've almost exclusively gone to digital just they don't have a rack and pinion that gets crud in them so they're ten like generally a little more friendly around chips and grit and stuff like that so I don't say family very I don't have my very first pair but this is a pretty old pair here this is some old bit of Toyotas here these are these have carbide jaws on them so one of the things I like to I like about minute oils is they have sharp angular jaws so scribing is really nice with these okay and in particular we carbide jaws the the tips don't wear starett have a more rounded job that some guys like okay but I don't think they scribed as well so so you know when your scribing a line parallel to in it yeah look at that parallel to an edge like that you know this sharper angle does a better scribing job the starett's are nice but I prefer the sharper point now this these are just my preferences okay so now from mechanical nicety standpoint okay you know minute oils are they're pretty good right but you can feel you can feel that rack-and-pinion as you're rotating it okay in in pretty much all of them right there's some 12 inches these are a little smoother here okay now there's another pair that I used to use a lot these are at a line made in Switzerland and these are considerably smoother for an analog type okay so those are real nice and analog is kind of nice because you can visually see quantities right so you know I so from there to zero I can visually see that quantity and when I you know when I look at this I really got to think about that number and where it is in relation to another number right here we get a visual display of a quantity right it's a little bit further right so and as you use these you tend to develop a sense of how much that is right and so it really is meaningful hey I'm getting close I'm getting closer oh I'm getting really close I need to switch to a micrometer or something like that right okay so these edit lines real nice nice and smooth I don't know so I haven't another pair of minute oils that I leave set up with some other fingers on here I take the battery out just so it doesn't weep all over that so you know when you're in a shop and you're moving fast this kind of stuff saves a lot of time a farting around okay what else okay what else all this stuff is like it's like a jigsaw puzzle to get it back in here in fact these don't even normally live in there I keep these up in my office when I have to measure stuff these are some eight inch here kind of intermediate range here so I got four six eight and twelve and twenty fours actually so calipers you know that's kind of your bread and butter my advice is buy the best you can afford okay and if you can't afford the best ones this get some so you have them and you start using them if you and then if you try some higher quality ones you'll be able to appreciate the differences between them okay see look at that I mean everything's like a DM like a din Ginga puzzle or something like that okay alright some of the some guys they asked about tools special tools that I've made for myself over the years and you guys have seen a lot of them actually but I dragged out a couple that yeah that I'm pretty sure that you haven't seen so let's start with a little vise that I made okay sure it's in the frame there and I don't I don't remember when I made this quite a while ago this is when I really you know first started getting into into tool making I think yeah I can't think of a date when I made this so this is made of this is 41:42 kind of pre hardened material and then these are aluminum bronze guideways here okay and it's just a little now it's kind of beat-up I'll tell you the story of why it looks so bad and the I was gonna say now I don't remember so anyway I made this vise I designed it and I made it and I loaned it to a guy Hill had a little job right he says oh hey you got a little white second bar on it yeah I said sure and first mistake I didn't ask him what he was doing with it right and you know I trusted him so anyway I loaned him the vise well what he was doing it was he was he was soldering a connection of some sort I don't even remember what it was guess what kind of flex he was using it was some kind of nasty acid flux that's really kind of attacked this thing and you know he had it for a day or so and this stuff really kind of got in there and and actually pitted the thing pretty badly so yes I was pissed you know I don't know you know what do you do right I'm not going to scream at the guy right you know I was annoyed that I certainly you know if he wanted to borrow something else I asked him what he was going to do with it right and you know initially it wasn't a problem but then it is kind of and I was like a cancer it kind of got the creeping crud there so anyway that's the story in this vise my friend Charlie he built a an engraving pantograph and he actually engraved my name in it for me which was cool and it's got two little opposing thrust bearings that are compressed against one of the others so there's there's no play in the in the knob here but it still turns freely okay it's not a left-handed thread so it's kind of backwards so that's it's one little it's one little quirk there so there's that okay and then here's the next thing that you guys have never seen and you go what the hell is that right so some of the CNC guys may may figure out what this is here this is a this is for touching off your tools in a mill and so the idea is that you bring your tool down and you and you touch this top table here okay and you get a displacement okay and then you know you know when your tool is a particular height off of the table right in this case it's two inches you know roughly 50 millimeters so what I wanted was I wanted a large table surface so I could bring face Mills down and touch off right so many times face mills have one insert that's that's hanging lower than the others right so if you inadvertently touch off a face mill on a and it's not running for example you're not using a laser probe or something like that you can pick the wrong tooth and it's you know if you tense different than one of the other two so teeth cutting edges teeth so anyway that was the general idea and this is just a mechanical version of that that I made it's it's a prototype I had the thought that I might make some of these and and give them the people the test so it's got a its flexure base it's got a parallel flexure in here and some other stuff and then it's got three little contact buttons that are ground and and then it's two inches from here to the to the little buttons so you can land your tool on here and 0 up or you can add a little bit or subtract a little bit if you want to do some particular offset or something like that so that's something I made as a kind of a test deal I don't know quite a few years ago now so so the next question is and this is a good question to a couple people multiple people ask what's what's the weirdest thing you've ever been asked to make so this actually that's actually a really good question because I've been asked to make a lot of very very strange stuff so a couple very strange ones come to mind one of one of which is a machine that we were asked to build that would actually sniff cat pee I know some of you guys are laughing out there but inquiring minds want to know okay so the idea was and this was for a company that makes cat litter okay so some of you are aware of the huge amount of testing and qualification stuff that happens behind the scenes for product testing so the shop that I used to manage we designed and build custom machinery so they came to us and said listen we we want to put varying concentrations and varying amounts of cat urine in cat litter but we want to auto sample these things and basically open the containers and I have an instrument take a whiff literally give us some quantitative data from that and and do it over over time and keep track of that so that we can anyway they're working at formulations or testing the competition they're doing all kinds of things so we we built this machine and basically a robot that held many jars of cat litter with cat pee in them and it would go around and it would it would sample the each jar and it was looking for ammonia by the way hey what sample each jar and you know give readings and they could do statistical work on the on the data and and get some meaningful results out of that or claim support or things like that so yeah to me that was that was pretty weird right and but so what's the first question that comes to mind is where do they get the cat pee from right so it's not you know you know go to the store and go yeah give me a couple of litres of cat pee right well it turns out that there's a thriving business in getting cats to pee in stainless steel trays and then collecting that uriens urine and selling it and at the time this is 15 years ago or at least yeah 15 years ago so 50 milliliters of cat pee was several hundred dollars okay so you want to go into a side business figure out how to get your cat to pee in a tray and collect it and he might make some money so okay so continuing on with the the weirdest thing I've ever been asked to build the other one that comes to mind is an interesting project that scientist called me one day and you know you can in the when you do it enough you kind of get used to it and the weirdness it doesn't sound weird anymore somebody asks you to do something you know ask you to help them you help them right so this particular guide said listen I need to I need to count ants you know the insects a little little itty-bitty little dance right and I said okay and I didn't go why you know I just it's you know here's the guy's problem right he just treated as a practical problem excuse me so he says yeah I need to count ants he's had a vision system and what he wanted to do is he wanted to watch ants move from one area to another and actually count them as they as they moved across under the field of view of his vision system right so this is for a company that made insecticides and you know things that kill insects okay so one day I'll tell you about the cockroach lab anyway so he needed the count ants right and so I said okay so we talked about it a little bit nice and I you know I did my usual thing I said okay I got I think I got what you want to do let me think about it for a day or two and let me get back to you right so I thought about I did a little reading and and it turns out the ants are pretty sensitive to temperature changes and they don't like things when they get really hot and they don't like things when they get really cold right so so they have a what I would say a narrow tolerance band for temperature right so anyway talk to him again I said listen I think I got an idea here's how I'm gonna do it he goes okay great what let's make a little prototype right so we made a little prototype and what it was was basically two two areas connected by a narrow bridge right and one was where the ants would start and they would they would go across the bridge under his camera so he could count them and they would go into this other area and what I did was I attached Peltier heaters or a healthy a heater to the starting side and by giving it a little bit of voltage caused it to warm up and so you just put the ants and once it looked like a little dumbbell right with a little bridge in between right and it was all enclosed so that they could only go in this narrow little channel they couldn't come up over the side you know there's some other features too so anyway tested the thing and I was like okay this looks pretty good you know it's good enough for him to try right so what I gave it to him I went over to his lab and I dropped it off and he wasn't there and I said okay well I'll leave a little voicemail right so I called him and I said hey listen and I said hey I dropped that thing in your lab try it out I left a little power supply for him to use right and I said hey so that that Peltier heater you gonna use point three volts and to you know as your test your starting point right and try it out let me know how it works right so you know I don't I'm at your back from for a day or so and and okay I get a call here this is the funny part right I get a call and he goes oh yeah that's the time because it's just such I got a problem and I go what's the matter he goes well the ants burned up and I said what what do you mean they burned up he goes yeah they just isn't your thing that smoked him down right and I'm like really and and I said I go hum it I go did you use point three volts he goes point 3 volts he goes no I use 30 volts and I went okay I think I know what your problem is right and so it turns out that he didn't hear the voicemail correctly or whatever and he used too much voltage and and burn the answer for the first batch anyway so he wouldn't tried it and the action was able to take County it's going across this little bridge so another example of something weird that I've been asked to do so those are two standout examples I would say all right so here's just one of the drawers in my my machinist box and somebody asked the question they asked the question about the the little ratchet thimbles okay so there's there's basically two types okay actually let's use this one here there's two types so this is what we call a a ratchet thimble okay and what this does is it as you come up on your on your object that you're measuring it it limits the amount of torque that you can apply to this otherwise it's truly like a c-clamp okay now you know guys that use micrometers all the time they have a pretty good touch and so they're they can apply a pretty consistent torque and but this this helps the rest of us mere mortals here by having basically a torque limiting device and that's how that works okay now there's another type and that's this here and this is the it's the same principle but it's called a friction thimble okay and honestly I prefer the the friction thimble because you know I have big hands but my fingers aren't very long so I can't actually reach up here very easily okay so the friction thimble is a better reach for me okay now I have both as you as you can see here and some micrometer 's well that one doesn't even have one it looks like it does this allows you to spin it a little faster too in this case it's fixed this is a blade micrometer blade depth micrometer non rotating spindle but it for measuring little skinny slots to fit it back into the puzzle here so here's a small base depth Mike with a which are with a ratchet thimble that's a Lufkin I like the shape of their bases are nice okay and that's a starett actually is the first step Mike I bought there I just got that - so the ratchet thimble okay let's see what else is in here so here's one that has nothing that's an inside micrometer okay so it's kind of its opening as a as a rotate in this direction and it's for measuring bores and and holes and stuff like that so all right so anyway that's the ratchet thimble torque limiting thing that that helps you measure so here's another question there's another good question somebody asked why do you do this and that what I think they mean is the YouTube thing and so let me just expand on that a little bit and so I was trained by some old guys and they instilled in me that the the knowledge doesn't belong to me it belongs to the trade and so as a journeyman or a practitioner and the in the trade part of my responsibility is to is to Train younger people and and the people that are coming up in the trades and pass that knowledge to them so so if we don't do that then they have to discover all this stuff on their own and it takes a long time so I feel like that is that is a responsibility of mine so I wrote a couple of books I had a column in a in a magazine I sit on some councils that advise community colleges about machine tool programs and in particular DBC here which is near me and so I do these things to to further and support a trade that's been very very good to me and now YouTube is an awesome way to get to a lot of people right so the feedback for me is that I have met people in basically every country and world now and you know I have pins all over maps I get emails from people from all corners of the world asking questions telling me about their experiences and I am learning myself and so right now this is an awesome time to be in a life and you know in 1800 sure there were machinist but there was one book and if he wanted to go to another city you had to walk okay well I can look at the surface of another planet with a couple of clicks right here and I can talk to my friend in in Nuuk Greenland or Japan or Malta or wherever that happens to be in a few seconds and and all those people have unique experiences that I'm learning from so so that's what I get out of this and and it's it's it's pretty powerful motivation for me anyway because I love this trade so much right and I don't mean machining I mean making things with your hands I follow blacksmiths and and musical instrument makers trumpet builders woodworkers stone carvers I I follow many many different types of tradesmen's and and try to learn something from all of them and so and that lead you know that kind of segues into another question you know what is the best advice for young people is learn everything that you can from everybody that you can and you know there's something to be learned from the janitor the the plumber the electrician all of these people there's they have something to teach you if you're open to it you know if you hold your hands closed you can't put anything in them you have to you have to be open okay so that's my advice to young people is stay curious and and be observant and respectful and learn as much as you can so that's what I get out of this okay so let's go look at something in the shop and then we'll come back and we'll do a few more questions you

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Id: XUMA1upmGyo

Length: 33min 31sec (2011 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2015