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[Music] hey guys welcome back to the shop thank you for joining me for another episode of Saturday night special so I want to apologize in the last episode of S&S I guess the way I had said I was misunderstood and saying that I was going to be having surgery and everybody was thinking that I've already had it done and what I had said was in about a month from now when you're watching this I'm going to be having surgery so I apologize for the confusion but whenever you guys watch this I will be just about to that point where I'm gonna have surgery so that's actually coming up on the 19th of June is when I go under the knife and I'm time to filming this you know I got a few more days left and I'm starting to get a little bit nervous but I think everything's gonna be okay as I said it's gonna it's going to be something good for me and help me out so anyway I've got I'm doing this episode now that you're watching and I'm gonna go ahead and have the following weeks SMS ready as well for you so next week we'll have another video there also I've been working on some projects out here just dabbling uh some different things and I've been trying to save some of this footage so that I can you know bring you guys at least one video for the next month or so on the weekends that I certainly didn't want to go a week without having one but I got plenty of content to share after this S&S I'm gonna show the final video for the hydraulic rod clevis we got part three of that it's going to be coming out and another one of my projects that I did was some more shaping a little project I did more of like a fun project using up some scrap material at work making some bars and we did our longest cut on the shaper which was right at 28 inches and I had some fun with that so we got that coming actually real soon two and got I started working on the welding table but I'm making some some slugs that's going to weld into those legs and anyway I got I got that started so that's going to be some more footage that's going coming out to got a few things there to share with you okay so I've got some videos coming your way but I really appreciate all of the well wishes and comments I've received numerous emails and messages and everybody giving me their their well wishes and hopefully everything is going to turn out okay and I'm sure that it will so I'm really looking forward to getting this and getting it done and once I go through this process I'm gonna have approximately four minimum four weeks off of work or four weeks down time and maybe up to six weeks it really just depends on what the doctor says once I do my four-week follow-up if I can go back to work he did say that I'll be able to do some lights you know light duty stuff I can't be out here you know picking up big old heavy pieces of plate steel things like that but you know working at a desk editing videos yes I can do that you know there's not a lot of lifting involved with that I've been kind of saving up some different things I want to make an episode while I'm recovering I've got viewer mail some things that has come in some different gifts just like all sorts of different things that I've just been kind of saving up so I do want to make a video that's just kind of kind of catch up all that little stuff while I'm recovering okay and I also had an idea for another video that I could make during that recovery time of sort of what I call a hodgepodge of machining I've got lots a little like 30-second and one-minute video clips I take home my phone during the day just all these little things that I get into you know just job stop daily job shop stuff and I think I'd like to make one episode just kind of throw all that into one it would just be a mixture of all kinds of machining all at once so I'm kind of looking forward to making that so that's something that I'll make whatever I'm sitting at home in the chair resting as well okay so as far as this episode what I want to share with you guys is a couple of new tools that I have in the shop I have acquired two new things I've got one through the mail and will give to that I'll share it with you I don't want to spoil it right now and I've also got something else that I recently picked up this past weekend at one of our antique shops ok it was a real surprising fine I didn't know that I never seen one before like that and I just couldn't turn it down so I'm gonna grab it we're gonna talk about that I'm going to tell you my plans for it and yeah I'm just really excited about that I do have a little bit of machining that I'm going to share with you had one little small project that had that was brought to me and just just some little bit of lathe work but no that's gonna be kind of the the gist of this video here and as I said after this there'll be a little bit more shape or action we're gonna get into some shear tool I'll show you my shear tool grind and try to get a nice finished cut on that hydraulic rod clevis okay so let's grab the new stuff and share with you what I got I mean you guys remember seeing this in my videos I've shared this a few times this this was my dad's this was as Norton it's a multi oil stone and I use it for honing every now and then and it's a it's a nice tool I really enjoy having this so there's the cover and and what this is is that you have three different grits of sharpening stones on there and you have oil down in there that keeps it lubricated and you just turn this thing to go to your different grits all right so this one is your medium that's the coarse medium and fine right there so dad used to always use this I'm sorry dad and granddad and my uncle also used to always use this for sharpening their knives that's really that's really all I remember ever seeing them use it for now I use it to hone my tool bits and I love it because it's a nice large surface sharpening stone and I come over here with my tool bits and I do my honing so you guys might have seen that okay so what I'm getting at is I have another one that I'm gonna share with you so this is what I found at the antique store this past weekend whenever I seen this I knew exactly what it was although I never had seen one like this before I've seen this other one in the plastic case in stores actually Pensacola Hardware had one in their display case last time I was there but I seen this and I instantly knew what it was and I went up and checked it out and lo and behold it's the same exact thing it's a Norton multi oil stone and this is exactly how I found it right here so it's got a metal lid and look at the base man it is a solid cast iron base it's it's very heavy so it's set up just a little bit different than the newer and the newer generation of it where this one let's pull the lid off that right there the the new style you can rotate it see this older style right here was made to where you actually pick it up see it won't rotate you actually have to pick it up and drop it back down in there like that so it only came with this stone right here the other ones were missing and as rusty as this thing is it looks like whoever owned this and whoever had it and used it never you never put oil in it they didn't use it in that manner and for some reason they somebody took the other stones off but luckily the clamps and the screws are still on the ends that hold on there but I was just stoked whenever I found this because I just didn't know that they built this so I don't know how old this thing is if I had to guess this is probably war-era 40s 50s maybe 60s I just really don't know you know if somebody has seen these and know how long they've been around I'd love to know a little bit more info on them the ends the handles or the these appear to be like cast aluminum they got a set screw so it looks like you just slide it onto the shaft and tighten it down with the set screw and it's like that on both ends I don't see a set screw on that in but I'm not sure maybe this one's threaded on so what I want to do with this thing is I'm going to actually make a restoration project out of this I'm I'm just so excited to have this item right here because I just you don't see these things anywhere but look how solid the base is so this will easily be cleaned up in the bead blaster I can do that at work and after doing a little bit of research what I have figured out is it's probably originally it was painted green I can see a little remnants of green paint there on each side and there used to be a tag right here and I don't I don't have any idea what that tag would have been but it's gone so that can easily be clean and as far as the stones there you can see more of the green paint on the inside that just today I ordered all new stones for this multi stone right here I got I got them on order from Norton and what I went with this one looks like an India stone what I decided to go with is a medium and a fine grit India stone and then I got a soft Arkansas stone and I'm gonna make this my primary multi stone to use for honing my tool bits I'll still use my dad's over here because I figured instead of getting the same stones that are on Dad's and put it on here and have two of the same thing go ahead and put the India and Arkansas stones on this one and just use the this is like the aluminum oxide style I can't think of what it's called offhand but lumen amok side honing honing sticks over here so anyway the other the other thing I'm gonna mention about this is let's go back to this guy right here so this is the cover and by the way look at how well it fits all right just a little bit of pressure and it just fits in there snugly so it's not loose so it's got a great fit after all these years it still fits in there just like it's supposed to so the the tag it's got a nice tag it appears to be aluminum with brass rivets there I I contacted my friend Tom motley and Tom by the way he's on Instagram and I went to a Richard Keene scraping class with Tom and he is recently he's been working on a South Bend restoration and he's developed a way to recreate these these machinery tags and he made some for a South Bend laid that turned out absolutely gorgeous probably better than what the factory done but I contacted him I sent him a picture this and asked him would he want to make a new tack for this thing to do a restoration on it and he said absolutely so he's agreed to make a new tag we're just trying to do a little bit more research right now because this is just past couple days trying to find out what this tag would have looked like originally you know as far as the colors go but I'm going to remove it from this cap from the lid and send it to him and this is going to be a project that Tom's working on and I don't know a timeframe and I'm not I'm not going to rush him or anything like that just whenever Tom gets to it he'll get to it but we'll be sure to share this you know on SNS as this as this progresses now one more thing to before we break out of this segment the original paint as I said appears to be green but I'm just man I just really don't want to paint this thing green I'm gonna have probably half of you guys say keep it original part of you is going to say don't do anything at all but I don't want to leave it rusty I want to I want to have a clean tool to use I don't want a rusty tool I really would like to make it black like the newer generation right here so maybe I'll do a poll I don't know yet maybe I'll do a poll and let the viewers decide what color I should paint it go back green some kind of original green color or go with my personal favorite which would be black or I had even thought possibly like a dark gray or something like that but drop a comment let me know what you think maybe we'll do a poll on this later and let the viewers decide what color we're going to do but very excited about this project right here and a real happy score by the way as far as the cost and everybody wants to know there was a sticker on it that said $99 and the the booth that I got this at was running a ten percent off sale that day so I got it for 90 bucks all right and I did a search on eBay and I did not find any of these on eBay so I don't know how common they are but I'm sure we're sharing this they're gonna increase in value now so anyway I look forward to get moving on this in the coming weeks and I'll be sure to share more of this with you as we progress with it and just look forward to having this real prettied up in the shop and be able to use it so a few weeks ago a few a couple episodes back and that's the nest I shared this brown and sharp straight edge right here number 526 straight is right there 5:26 this was an eBay store and whenever I had shared this I'd mention that you know I didn't know how flat it was the sharp edge there you know the straight edge edge was pretty dinged up and so after sharing that I had a viewer of my longtime viewer his name is Pete Brubaker he emailed me and he offered to regrind this for me and so we worked out a deal and I sent it to him that's what the little board was there for and I sent it to Pete and he did some inspection on it and found that it was out of parallel by one thousandth and he's got a he's got a nice granite plate he's got all the inspection equipment and by the way Pete he he was just he's been very inspired by many of the machining channels mine and a lot of the other guys and he was inspired enough to quit doing I want to say he was in the software business and he went out and started doing his own thing and now he's running a machine shop at home and he absolutely loves it so he said that he wanted to do this as like a thank you so but I thank you Pete for doing this he did a fabulous job regrinding it and as I said he found it to be within 1,000 parallel so what he decided to do by the way we had we had read Forrest comment on the proper way to grind this which is what you would normally do what for said was you set it on the edge like that set it flat on your on your magnetic Chuck and you dressed the wheel so that you actually used the side of the wheel come in there and grind it and that's supposed to be the the proper way to do it I would assume I've never done it but whenever he inspected this and it wasn't one of the thousands he wanted to go ahead and just try standing it up like this so that's what he did he went ahead and ground both sides touched up both sides really well so both sides are nicely ground and after he got it ground on both sides he inspected it again and found it to be within 1/10 of parallel and flat n2n so we're pretty much spot-on now but I've got a couple of pictures and a couple little short quick videos that PETA took there in this process that I'm going to share those right now and again thank you very much Pete for doing this it's really nice of you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's an exciting day here in the shop I got me a very cool trade item in today and I've been waiting for this to come in I've been working a deal on this item right here so Andrew Alexander he's on Instagram known as blacksmith tools and he is god I've never seen anybody with the collection of Isis and anvils and blacksmithing tools that this man has and not only that the knowledge that he has about all those tools that he is so passionate about I've never seen anybody like it so I'm very fortunate and I'm proud to call Alexander a friend now that I know him and I enjoy following his post so some time back has probably been well over a month maybe a couple months he's he shared a vise on his Instagram that I thought was just fantastic and most of you guys that watch me know that I'm a fan of stearic tools I love my stearic tools and I love the history of the stearic company and he shared a vise on his Instagram it was an Apple vise and I showed interest in that vise with with Andrew and he ended up offering to me he said I'll send you that vise just send me something so that's what we did we worked out a trade I gathered up some tools and I sent him some tools and of course I offered these tools before I sent them but yeah he said that'd be great so I gathered up some different things and I sent him this to his way and he has sent me that Apple vise so let's open this thing up and check this thing out I'll move the camera so you can kind of see down in there you see on the side it says Apple and I learned a little bit of history about this vise and the company behind it through Andrew and his website of course it's all out there on the internet too and we'll talk a little bit about that as well so that's looking at the side of the vise and you can see the apple name cast it into the body of the vise there very cool all right let's go ahead and start getting this thing apart so I've got my share of vices around here a lot of you probably notice that I've got a couple nice ones over on the welding table I've recently brought home my Morgan over here I had that one at work but there's nothing wrong with having more and one of the joys of having your own shop at home is that you can play and collect to your heart's desire I've always wished that I had a nice starett vise even though this is an Apple vice it's actually still a steric vise also there was vices with the starett name on it and I'd like to collect you know those as well the crate here Andrew said that he got from his neighbor he had a neighbor that was rebuilding this deck so it saved all the scrap for building crates because this is that's the something that Andrew does by cells and trades all these types of tools so I'm sure he ships and stuff out quite a bit y'all don't know who I'm talking about go check him out on Instagram because he's got some videos and pictures of his collection of tools there and it's just amazing I believe he said in one of his posts that he has over 700 vices just just vices I don't know how many anvils he's got he just bought that set for the collection I believe his name is Richard postman and he had a huge collection of animals and Andrew was able to purchase that and I don't know he's got truckloads of hands just amazing there it is so there's the name the casted into it Athel M&F company Apple Mass made in USA Apple number 615 might have some lag screws I'll see about screwing it down here so it don't fall over so this style of vice right here is what I believe they call a welded welded vise jaw there's no screws that hold the the jaws in here and they are in good shape it hasn't been abused there's still a lot of the serration left on those it's just got surface rust on it from its age sitting what I probably going to end up doing with it is just cleaning it up myself I'll probably wire brush it clean it really good and just give it a just give it a paint job probably go back black with white highlights on the letters there I think that'll look real nice I've seen some others like that and I don't know what color it would have come from the factory it almost looks like it might have been a grayish color so this one just mounts straight down to the to the vise table no swivel and I planned on putting this on the the new workbench that we're gonna be building for this spot right here so this vise is probably going to go down here I'm going to say on this it's going to be down here on this end of the table to your right side and use as a shot bite down here we got our lag down to the board here and I've got the board's clamped together so that won't tilt over on me so I've just been kind of checking it out and you know what it's a great vise we just need to take this thing apart clean it good clean the screw make sure there's no old grease left on the screw I mean it's actually dry right now so you've got approximately once you open it up here it's gonna open up to at least eight inches right there and you got five inches on the width this is going to be a very nice vintage vice to have on the on the workbench right here really good quality stuff so a little bit of history about the Athol brand of ice so Laroy stearic mr. Starrett you know we know him as starett tools back in the late 1800s he had started the Apple machine company with some of his buddies they all went in together and that's where mr. Starrett developed his what a lot of people know is his first invention is the meat chopper and anyway some time went on he had some disputes with the company and he left that company the Apple machine company and later on in the early 1900s I want to say around 1905 he actually sued the Apple machine company and won the lawsuit and there took the the money that he got from the lawsuit and actually bought the company the Apple machine company alright and then if you fast-forward to around 1920 is when the Apple machine company actually decided to change their name to Athol manufacturing and foundry which is what it's soda here Apple M&F company so any of these vices that say ethel M&F company Ethel manufacturing & foundry is gonna be post 1921 and any any vice that just says Apple machine company is going to be a vice that was produced pre-1920 somewhere I don't know exactly the year 1920 or 1921 but it's it's right there in that that year range I want to say 1921 and after is going to be at the old manufacturing and foundry and then before 21 is going to be Apple machine company alright so mr. Starrett owned Apple machine company from 1905 so I think any any vice is could be considered a stayer advice even these athletes right here so a little bit of neat history about the company and it's just nice to finally own one of these things I'm going to enjoy having it so I really appreciate Andrew working a nice deal with me on this vice right here I'm going to enjoy having it alright guys we got a super simple project to do today just a very simple machining job so this belongs to one of my older customers he ran into me one day asked me if I was still doing some work here in the shop and said yeah I still dabble a little and he said I got this ring it needs a little bit of material bored outta poured out of the center and asked if I was interested and I said sure let me have it now I'll take it and fix him up so all he wants is this boy right here up to this shoulder he said he wanted about 30 thousands taken out of that apparently he's having some clearance issues for what this is and he tried to scuff it a little bit with a little dremel tool which we know that doesn't work too well so this is a machined apart and I and he did say this is off of a shaper now this isn't off a D&E shaper this is probably most likely something for a wood shaper I didn't get into it with him so don't know I usually don't I just asked what they need and and just take care of what they need so since it is a nicely machine Park we should bill to chuck this right here on this on this register and it's a machine face there so belt it Chuck that will use our three jaw Chuck make it real simple and go in there and touch off and cut 30,000 South NASA it's not a critical number it's just a pieces just take about 30 thousandths and it'll be good so right now as of how it's being measured looks like it's a 75 millimeter bore so right there it's about two inches 958 so that's just over 75 millimeters probably just a little bit of clearance for 75 plus whatever scuffing has been done in there all right so we'll just we'll measure that and then we'll just take we'll just take 30,000 so we'll make it at 958 on our finished size there how about that all right let's go get it done all right we're gonna make use of our nice Gator three jaw Chuck and we'll just catch that lip right there we're not going to over torque it just enough to hold it and let's go ahead and take a soft blow here and tap it and make sure it's up against the jaws looks like it's running nice and troop all right so let's find a boring bar we can use for that I think we'll use this old Valley Knight carbide shank bar this takes a TPG 300 insert just a triangle insert these are more suited for cast iron and bronze and stuff like that short chip material but we're just doing a little bit out of this this aluminum so I think this will work okay we'll give it a shot we want to go ahead and establish our our stopping point back Internet shoulder use my little pancake mag back indicator over here and we're gonna set the very first zero it'll be our stopping point that's going to be our touch off there based in 2000 set of time a nice slow feed rate there seems to be chipping out okay anyway [Applause] that's machine and nice actually looks like we tell you exactly ten 668 do two more cuts just like that [Applause] see what we got now like 79 okay let's just take another ten as I said 30,000 sort of like a nominal number for some clearance I'm not gonna bring it back across that cut this time I'm gonna retract the tool and so it doesn't scratch it looks a little bit nicer if I can get the calipers square like they're supposed to be there they go alright so we did our 30 thousandths all right and we just need to break that corner and use that tool right there raised on chamfering tool bit and mighty to us holder that's for a 3/8 shank come up just break all right so that other shoulder back there is fine it doesn't need to be hit it didn't clean it all the way up so I think what we'll do is one little kicker will hit that face with some scotch brite I'm gonna get a rag [Applause] okay well that looks good like I said that was a very simple operation sometimes it's nice to get the easy ones there we go alright guys I just dropped off the the cart the zt5 welding cart and we've also got the the TIG rod holders in the bottle bracket and I am at thermodyne powder coating here in Pensacola and Jeff has been helping me out and he is gonna get this stuff hooked up right here so I got to go over some color options and figure out what I want to do but at least I had a opportunity to drop it off so here it is and whenever whenever I pick them up we're gonna do a little bit more of a shop tour I'm over here to powder coat shop with Jeff he's behind me here and we've been going over some of those color options and as you can see there is a there's a vast array of colors for powder coating you've got a lot of them look at all these right here that means just tons and tons of colors but we're kind of leaning towards maybe something like this this vane texture but I haven't decided on a color yet I'm thinking possibly green or gray but I just haven't decided so I'm gonna go on the website they're prismatic powders and and look at some color options and get back to them and see if we can nail down something here's another example of the of the gray which i think looks really nice I think that would be a good good color for a welding card in those brackets there so we'll see well let's you know we'll bring you back [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Abom79

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Keywords: abom79, norton, norton multi oilstone, oilstone, sharpening stone, vintage tools, antique tools, antique sharpening stone, brown & sharpe, straight edge, surface grinder, athol, athol vise, athol manufacturing, athol machinist vise, vise, antique vise, test indicator, lathe, machining aluminum, boring aluminum, machine shop, machinist, job shop

Id: R0rhNPVDDwg

Length: 39min 55sec (2395 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 16 2018