Saving the Machine the World Forgot

I never thought I'd find myself packing for a cross country road trip chasing after an obsolete piece of Machinery that no one wants lathes Mills Shapers Grinders they're all relics of a different era of Machining not only are they big heavy and hard to move they take a long time to master and on top of that this shop is bursting at the seams with such equipment there's literally no room for anything else but when you catch wind of something you've always wanted that might be headed for the scrapyard you don't ask questions you run a truck pack your bags and go [Music] [Music] [Music] people are getting over of course right when I go to start recording we pull up on some traffic so I don't really know what I'm going to say about 12 hours in the car with you anything could come out of my mouth was going to say that we were blasting our way across Indiana um but at the moment we are not we are crawling going to pick up a machine that I've wanted for a while a very nice man named Mike near miniapolis saw my wish list video and uh offered me his machine and I've had several of these offers come through basically for free as long as I could move it kind of giv me the opinion that this is a machine that nobody wants so maybe I don't know 3 or 4 hours in like halfway between Indianapolis and Chicago I think I always liked road trips a lot of the road trips I would take with my grandparents all you had was the radio and if you didn't listen to the radio you came up with things to talk about or one of the things I remember my grandfather doing was he knew exactly how many miles it was the gear ratios of his transmission and the final drive ratio of the differential and he would back calculate exactly how many times the exhaust valve lifted on the entire trip from like Cincinnati to Oklahoma oh I think my favorite thing in the whole world might be traffic I wonder how many cars I've passed going the other direction in 5 hours of driving probably like 10 a second 3600 seconds in an hour time 5 probably past 150,000 cars 150,000 different cars and I'm only in one small part of the us that's a lot ofing cars now there were a lot of logistics to consider on this trip first time we tried to schedule it we ended up getting snowed out plus the rental and the tie downs and the driving it was a bit hectic fortunately though the one thing I didn't have to think about was my luggage thanks to today's sponsor Ridge by now probably everybody knows about ridge's Flagship product their wallets and yeah they're pretty great the compact design comes in tons of different different styles and colors and it's super secure so I never have to worry about my cards falling out at gas station munchie stops same goes for the ridge key cases they keep everything all in one nice little package and no more rattling but what I found especially awesome on this trip was some of rid's other products like their 20 L waterproof commuter backpack it has like a bellan Pockets but 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little bit easier Mike how's it going good how are you wasn't too bad a drive was it no not bad at all I've never done this kind of filming before that was uh I bought it from South Bend when they were still in business oh so you're the original owner yeah wow I love the way this the tool room laths I don't know that that's a tool room lathe but I love how they come with the solid base and the doors and the cabinets that's how the hardes look at look at how the old Sal Ben were they had that cast iron bottom yeah I mean everything is pretty much brand new bearings I had to replace a bunch of bearings okay so yeah it doesn't have a a it doesn't have a feed shaft oh I didn't even see it back here yeah that's the leblan that's a 15 in that's that Servo drive it looks almost dead exactly the same size as mine yeah this is the only lathe I have digital readout on really you're doing everything else manual that's impressive so how long have you been collecting in long time since about since the 80s 86 say you've got some really Mint Condition equipment it's hard to find anything in this kind of condition yeah this is the Beast yeah you ever hear of Shapers oh yeah yeah I want one I have no need for one but I want one cost me more to deliver it than it did uh that's the thing about a lot of this equipment especially the older stuff is it just cost more to move it than I mean it's all cast iron you know it's beautiful this came out of a high school I don't think it was used much still got all the scraper marks on it all right we've driven 12 hours you've waited in suspense while I toured Mike's awesome shop what what are we actually getting a Pantagraph a Pantagraph is a special type of milling machine used for duplicating and Engraving and it's basically become obsolete since the Advent of CNC in fact that's exactly why Mike is parting with this one because he got a CNC machine but being somewhat CNC resistant myself and also finding these machines cooler than cool I couldn't pass up the offer a few different companies make these kinds of machines but the ones I've always had my eye on are the decal this is a model gk2 and I never really expected to find one in the US because these are manufactured in Germany but here we are fortunately for me amongst Mike's collection is a tractor with forks on it so it should be no trouble to get this loaded piece of cake obviously I can't thank Mike enough for his generosity and for letting me tour his awesome setup a tour that continued for several hours after loading the machine but after a full afternoon of geeking out and sharing a meal it's time to make the 12-hour Journey back to Kentucky stand in front of it and what I'll do is pick up a little bit and Scoot it back okay [Applause] [Music] as they say it takes a village to build a machine shop and after some much appreciated help from my well equipped neighbor the panograph is safe at home well almost which is on the other side of this pile of mess in the garage so bear with me after my last nightmare of maneuvering a not so small small lathe into the shop I wised up and bought something that would have made everything a whole lot easier an aptly named shop crane with some assembly required well that looks like I got it together right I mean I followed the directions so let's see if it's up for the job H hold on I need to make a decision first where the hell am I going to put this when I brought the last lathe in here I maxed out the capacity of this shop and these walls aren't just going to move because I have no self control so something's going to have to go can you guess what you're probably also wondering how I'm going to get the machine through the door and the short answer is I'm not you see my wiser years when I built this shop I made the decision to make this wall removable so once all this stuff is out of the way I just have to remove this outlet and wire and this whole wall segment will just pop out but before I let all the spring humidity come rushing in I want to make sure I can actually pick up the panograph well that puckered my button a little bit but we're safely off the pallet so let's get the wall out of the way for all right a little bit more 1,600 m in 24 hours of driving and the panograph is safe in its new spot and I got to say it looks right at home amongst all my other machines but there's one small issue this belt pulley needs some room otherwise it'll just rub a hole through the wall so I'll try turning this on an angle to give myself some more room yeah I really like that gives a lot more room to get around the machine to reach everything I need to and generally just looks nice standing out like this now I'm chopping at the bit to clean and play with this but I'll do the responsible thing first and put the shop back together and that also means saying goodbye to the drafting table I'm afraid the older panograph pulls rank in this situation don't worry I'll try to find a way to bring it back in here soon now I mentioned this thing is old by my Reckoning in the paperwork that this came with I believe it's it's from the 1960s and usually with old machines comes dirt and rust and grime but this thing is an amazing condition a little bit of surface rust here and there and a little bit of old grease and grime but overall it's in great shape so this cleanup should be pretty easy I'll start like I've done with all my other cleanups and work on the important surfaces first with some scotchbrite and penetrating oil now wait for it wait for it oh yeah that's nice the scotchbrite works perfect for all the metal surfaces but I don't need it scrubbing away the paint so for all the regions I'll use a gentle or Degreaser and a rag last but not least is to make sure all the waves screws and bearings are properly lubricated we don't want this thing rubbing itself into a pile of metal shavings this is also a good spot to point out the insane condition of this machine I mean look at the flaking on the wav I could be completely wrong but my guess is that's all original which would indicate that this machine was lightly used which is music to this secondhand owner's ears okay okay that's good enough let's play with this thing I'm going to start off with something simple partially because I've never used a panograph before and largely because Mike gave me buku lettering templates and I think it's obvious what the first engraving should be the letters are traced by a stylist that mounts in this end of the arm and then I raise the platform to get the stylist to actually land in those letters grooves now for the business end or should I say the business expense end this engraver isn't going to be very useful without engraving bits so I bought several nice oh you stupid it may have been a business expense but it still hurts note to self don't let go of the freaking cutter until it's tight good thing I bought several just when you thought we were ready to go surprise more setup with this panograph I can scale things down from whatever the template is by moving these joints around I I think I'll start with a 1 to2 scale half scale for my American viewers last thing I swear and this one's important we need some material to engrave I'll choose some beginner friendly aluminum the cutter spindle is on a quick retract so I'll get this in the down position and raise the platform until it almost touches the material then I can retract the spindle and set the cutting depth using this fancy little Contraption one final check to make sure we're centered on the test piece and more importantly not going to wreck into anything and then we're ready to rock the rest of this is better explained by seeing it in action so let's just enjoy these first chips okay I love this it's so incredibly cathartic to trace over the letters and watch them just materialize over on the other platin and my excitement for finally panograph for the first time isn't even diminished by the fact that I broke yet another engraving bit I mean just look how nice the results look but what I really want to see is how it looks even smaller let's give quarter scale a go in case it isn't obvious how this panograph is able to scale movements like this it's really just a matter of proportions the closer the cutter spindle is to the main Pivot Point the more the movements are reduced just like this wrench a lot of distance out at the end is reduced down to smaller and smaller distances as you reach the head it may seem more complicated with the extra arms on this machine but they're basically just to make this reduction possible in the two-dimensional space is it just me or does that look even better well now I have to know what it looks like at eighth scale okay I hate to sound like a broken record but I'm in love that looks so effing good maybe now I can finally put my maker mark on some of the tools I've made but not right now I'm not done playing while this hgraph is spectacular for Engraving letters that's like using your Bugatti exclusively for getting the mail at the end of your driveway so let's engrave something a little more complicated like this frilly little dude on my grandfather's retirement [Music] plaque very nice let's turn it up another not still we've already talked about how this can duplicate in two Dimensions but what if I told you it does 3D as well well get ready because it does this in 3D by removing this bolt it frees up the arm to move up and down giving that third axis that makes it possible to duplicate just about anything so let's try something with a three-dimensional profile like this motorcycle engine valve cover aside from just mounting the part and some material there's a little extra planning involved here too first is the stylus I'm going to be using a 3/16 ball End Mill in the spin so I need a stylus to match the shape but it also needs to match the scale so I whipped up a ball end stylus and some nylon that's 1.5 times larger than the ball mill or at least approximate enough for this little exercise the second piece of the setup is that the stylus and cutter need to be in a straight line with the main pivot back here original from the factory this machine included a so-called former bracket for helping set this up but this panograph unfortunately got separated from its bracket long ago so I'll use the next best thing my right eye ball just kidding well sort of I did eyeball a straight edge with the center pivot and then used it to set the height of the cutter and the stylus okay let's give it a go [Music] I'll say one thing this isn't a fast process but it is pretty satisfying to watch the full shape emerge out of the raw block of aluminum and it's actually really interesting to feel the feedback of the cutter as it works through the material you can actually feel the difference between climb and conventional Milling it gets a little carried away if I don't limit the depth though so I'm using this bump stop back at the pivot to incrementally work my way deeper and deeper while keeping everything manageable well that looks a fair bit better than I thought it would the Finish isn't dead smooth but considering I don't know what I'm doing I'll say that's fair enough the only real downside is it's not a one toone duplication if I wanted to make a 2/3 scale replica of the engine I snagged this from it's perfect but a like for like copy just isn't happening on this machine unless there's a way to modify it I'll keep such conjectures to myself for now because I have a visitor I know who will appreciate this new addition to the shop my wife I did the panag I did the panograph you did the panograph I got to go get them all that time and you're not prepared I had to hide them all right how about that one oh it's tiny oh look at the tiny that's really sharp that's eighth scale eth scale how small does this go 10th really so you can make it even smaller that looks awesome so I I was doing the I did the big one first and got to the last e in inheritance and broke the bit oh no so I broke both of my 30° bits and then I did quarter scale so that's half of that and then that's half of that like is this your Makers Mark or are you just testing I was just testing I do Wonder like how hard was the r if you cut over something it's it like do doesn't double cut it's not like a spring pass or anything where it takes off a little bit more I mean maybe but it's like so small you're not going to see it I guess it doesn't really matter I want to make the IM am like the Box see you probably could make the Box reasonably well I guess it's a rule of the shop though that all the meals sit on 45° so yes well it looks really nice it's like a it's like a stadium of tooling specimen number two oh you're in trouble you're in so much trouble do you know how many things I'm going to have you make that have swirly girls on them was this in one of the templates no that's my grandfather's plaque it's on the corner literally just C clamp that to the table and Trace to the oh that is so pretty all right this worked way better than I thought it would oh my gosh so it's it's a 3D panograph so like it can literally just follow Contours and shapes this was done with a ball mill and like that all that took like an hour to do up next you're going to make some no no what did you have this planned yes I don't know what you're going to make you get to pick out the words you want to make there's all kinds of letters over there all right I will get this set up while you're thinking I haven't had to think this much about spelling since like I got a smartphone what scale do you want uh itsy bitsy teeny weeny forget about the polka dot bikini ignore the fact that I'm using a uh crescent wrench cuz I don't have the appropriate spanner I don't know how to read I don't know how to alphabetize apparently so we're even I can't sort these and this is pissing me off so I'm just going to use the literally use that one that one's in order this one's in order yeah what do you want to do it on brass I learned from the best brass was the first thought but I want it on a block and I don't want to use all of your expensive brass block I need to do some hand wheel stuffs I would venture to say that this machine has never been operated by someone wearing a dress it's probably a pretty fair guess I'll help you set the depth on every one of them so don't worry okay so I just have to do like the B the one to say that I did it all right we're going to turn it on look at you all smug that actually looks really good looks pretty darn good that's as small as I can go with these letters if I had small letters I could go even smaller but the lines are kind of thick so I don't know that I would go it's smooth too like it doesn't leave like a bur or anything you're a natural I'll do some tests on steel before I actually engrave anything on any of my existing tools that's a good idea cuz that would be Philly are we selling these it's missing one critical feature this block doesn't have any champers on it you can't have a champer block that doesn't have chamers on it yeah you can because that's part of the project ah this is here it is I'm going to make the blocks to say # # chamfer it on it and it's up to the the buyer to chamfer it yes it's a command limited run limited run in the description you can get your own project block yeah you made you a block where you going to put it I thought it was going to stay down here yeah where you going to put it we going to put it well I think that about wraps up this Whirlwind of a project machine acquired wife approved and we even got a little momento out of it and I have to say thank you to Mike once again for his unbelievable donation to the shop it's honestly so surreal to finally have a panograph and in such nice condition at my disposal I'm really looking forward to using it in my projects and seeing what this machine can really do as always thanks for watching and see you next [Music] [Music] time who wear short shorts I wear short shorts I think I'd get used to that camera being on that Gantry I whack my noodle on it all the time don't you tempt me with your seductive shapes over there I think you're working on the wrong crank if you're trying to be to deal with being tempted you have business things to talk to me about yeah okay can we go talk about business things let's go talk about business things horizontally yes yes yeah

Channel: Inheritance Machining

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Id: 7am-ysvGD3s

Length: 27min 53sec (1673 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2024