New Toy For The Workshop!

hi everyone welcome to another video last weekend we put out the very first video of the year casting number one of the renewal of bodies and the response has been so so good cheering me on encouraging thanking and just brilliant so i just wanted to say a very quick thank you to everybody that's watched that video and everybody that's left me really positive comments i've had loads of messages on instagram and youtube and everywhere thank you very much and you can show your support by subscribing to the channel i know it doesn't seem like a lot just clicking that subscribe button but it believe it or not it does make a huge difference for us these videos do take an awful lot of time to put together myself and dan editing them all and by hitting that subscribe button you're doing both of us a huge favor and helping us out so show your support hit the subscribe button thank you very much for watching let's get into today's video good morning everyone thank you for joining me for another video i hope you're all doing well it's first thing in the morning far too early monday morning just started to get light we're up and out we're in the van that can only mean one thing we are going on an adventure i may have bought myself quite a large christmas present um i've got to go a couple of hours two and a half hours or so drive to get there to meet a lovely old lady that's got something quite amazing in her shed which is going to be very helpful for the workshop it's an exciting day [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] and just like that i've got a bridgeport [Music] the best christmas present i could have asked for i have wanted one of these machines for a long long time if you're not sure what one of these machines is it's a milling machine imagine like a drill press like a pillar drill like a chunk at the top there that holds a drill or like a cutting tool you can drill holes but you can also the part you're drilling a hole in you can move left and right up and down back and forwards so you can make slotted holes you can machine surfaces basically they're a very very versatile tool for machining it's one of those things i've needed a few times and it's kind of like ah i need a mill i need to just surface that off we've needed one on the repair shop a few times actually i restored a vise on there and it just needed the top of it where it had been rusty and sort of pitted it needed the top just skimming off that would be perfect on this sort of tool because you can clamp it to the bed that slides left and right and then just machine off and skim off the very top thin layer of metal very very precise very accurate very very clever piece of machinery very big very heavy very hard to find they've been making these machines for years this one was made in the late 70s so it is quite old this one just it kind of almost found me yeah it popped up online for sale i was just like oh that looks nice i did actually go down to visit it to visit the old lady vivian sadly her husband was the machinist he passed away and he had a workshop in his back garden his son was still around and was used to work with his dad in this workshop repaired built rebuilt restored remote control aeroplane engines so this bridgeport has been in their workshop in the back garden of vivian's house for the last 25 28 years i think they said it's been there it's in its original paint it's all there it's complete it's got the digital readout manual feed table so i can push a lever and the beds will slide on their own it's a fancy bit of kit it's way too fancy for me you know i'm clearing out my bank account very very quickly with buying random parts and wheeling machines and components for that well this is part of the ranola journey mainly the lower cradle you can see this is in its raw state that's as i get it from chris from the foundry all these extra runner bits poking out they'll be cut off but basically this is the raw casting as i get it from the foundry and i need to convert that and transform that and machine that into this finished article you can see the finished one has beautiful machine surfaces it's all to size it's all nice and square the base is perfectly 90 degrees to the uprights the holes drilled and tapped and threaded all of that work is done on this machine all of the machining drilling tapping boring out the hole in the middle facing off the bottom all of that work to convert this raw casting to the finished article is done on this machine i had to pay an engineer over the road from the workshop to do it the engineer has done a beautiful job of machining this lower cradle but he also charged me a lot of money and i the whole point of me reviving the ranola brand and bringing back these wheeling machines is so that i can make them accessible to people so that people can have them and use them and buy them and enjoy them the costs are just spiraling out of control things are getting more and more expensive and you need more and more components for them and every single bit is another cost another cost another cost the more i can do myself the cheaper they can be and if i'm doing the work i can come here on a sunday and have five or ten of these lower cradles here lined up spend all day machining them and it's only my time that i've lost so this is a way of me trying to keep the costs down for the ranola project by spending a fortune buying this thing you know what i actually really quite like being able to do as much as possible myself in my workshop here other than the casting obviously the turn parts are going to be done by the guy of the road because i can't quite get there yet i'm i'm not good enough at doing turn parts i've got a little lave but it's nowhere near big enough or good enough to do that this lower cradle from chris the part will come here and i'll be able to do everything including the little spacers that's sitting there that hold the wheel all the little bits the drilling the tapping the threading for the holes the boring of the hole facing off i'll be doing all of it on this okay confession time i have no idea how to use this thing literally no idea i'm fairly competent with machinery and pillar drills and lathes and things like that this is another world this thing is so complicated luckily vivian did give me the instruction manual which is fantastic so i've got some evening reading to do but actually you can all help me i know a lot of you out there are ex-engineers or machinists so anyone out there that can guide me on how on earth i need like an idiot's guide basic how to get started on using a bridgeport in my initial looking into it my brother dan he is very good with things like this he said you need to look at what was it tramming which is basically um setting up the head to making sure it's at 90 degrees there's all sorts of adjustments on this machine the head can tip left and right forwards and backwards it can do all sorts of things and i need to make sure that it's set at dead on zero we are talking very very small measurements like tenths of an inch i've ordered a special bracket already to bolt it onto the machine so i can use my dial indicator to make sure it's all set at zero but if anyone out there can help me and give me a bit of advice or send me some good youtube videos or some good books i should buy i am jumping straight in at the deep end here i have no idea how to use this machine i can barely turn it on it works i know it works i've seen it working in their workshop it's now a case of figuring out how to set this thing up to get it all nice and set to zero i'll be able to do it i'm sure i'll figure it out eventually but anyone out there that can help let me know i have no real tooling for this milling machine you need almost like a set of drill bits but they're like cutters you get all sorts of different things boring bars for cutting big holes i need all of these things um i have none i've actually been absolutely nothing so i think i'm going to be spending a bit more money on tooling so actually if you can advise me at all on where to get some decent tooling from i don't need tons i just need milling bits end mills and the boring bar but if anyone can guide me on any links to which ones to buy i would rather buy new ones instead of getting old sort of blunt resharp and start getting into re-sharpening and things like that so i was lucky enough to get the original bridgeport cabinet to go with it which has got these awesome little sort of like hinge out fold-out drawers and little recesses to take all of the collets and all of the tool holders all the bits all the cutters everything will fit in these nice little drawers it's lovely it's a really cool thing to have and now i just need to fill it up i was telling vivian i was like your husband looked after it clearly for many many years and now it's over to me and i will do my best to look after this thing you open this door on the side and it's got a huge big diagram of oiling points and where to grease this where to oil that and then down below that on the side of the machine it's got this sort of a pump almost it's a reservoir with a pump and then pipes coming out of it they're going to manifolds that have loads of pipes coming out of that and as these pipes go everywhere on this machine they are all oiling pipes so i mean you pump that handle sort of lubricates all of the moving parts get it powered up and get it see if it turns on and see if i can get it spinning but before i start using it i'm going to make sure i figure out this oiling system and get everything greased up nicely [Music] this switch at the top that's the power to the main motor that's going to get the whole thing spinning [Music] that is so good it's working it's spinning it sounds really nice and quiet there's no horrible grinding bearings or anything like that so this little red one is the controls for the manual feed table so this lever engages left and right and in here there's a gearbox so i have to engage the gearbox push it one way and then this one of these switches will turn on the motor and it should send it across which is a an extra feature not all machines have that will be really handy on the back on the bottom side of the cradle big flat surface like that it can just push the lever across press a button and it will continue track across at a set speed which i can adjust depending on what we're doing so that is an awesome feature how cool is that so then if i stop it engage the lever the other way and then start it again it should go back the other way perfect right i'm right i'm gonna stop i can literally see there's a sort of like an eyeglass on the front for the oil level and it's completely empty so i really don't want to push my luck and do that too many times because i know it's all a bit dry and it needs a bit lubrication please leave me a comment i will give it a read and if you can help me it would be very very much appreciated i have over the moon i'm so pleased there's no stopping us now thank you so much for joining me we'll see you next time and don't forget please subscribe to the channel because it really does help us out with the numbers and the youtube algorithms however on earth they all work thank you very very much and we'll see you next time take care bye-bye [Music] dan this is for the thumbnail hey we got a bridgeport

Channel: Dominic Chinea

Views: 48,302

Keywords: dominic chinea, the repair shop, workshop, milling machine, english wheel, wheeling machine, ranalah, bridgeport, machinist, tools

Id: cH3uG2nrSpw

Length: 14min 28sec (868 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 09 2022