Splitting a 24" Sprocket in the Shaper

[Music] hey guys welcome back to the shop so some of you might remember seeing the Machine a couple of these sprockets in the past I've shown this before the last time I did one of these sprockets we split it whenever I had the 12-inch Sheldon Schafer and in the time before that we went to the Kearney and Trek for horizontal mill and he used a horizontal milling cutter and split it in half well I've got another one right here and I've been kind of holding on to this it hadn't been a rush or anything and I've been wanting to save it for the G&E shaper and that's what I'm gonna do with this I'm going to cut it in half on the G&E I've been kind of excited about getting to this point and trying it I was I was trying to you know get the tool head back together and get this thing in operating conditions and the power down feed working that's what I plan on using is the power down feed to do this instead of having to manually crank it down so we're gonna get set up on the shaper here and we're gonna we're gonna cut this thing in half and that's my hopes anyway this will be the first real job that I've done on this Genie shaper so pretty excited about that too now some of you and there will be comments because I've already learned you know I've already done this twice so there's gonna be a bunch of comments that's gonna say why not just use a grinder and cut it why not just use a band saw and cut it why not just use a plasma cutter and cut heck we could probably even use the old dis ol Tony method and judo chop it in half if we wanted to but that's not what we're going to do I want to use my shaper and have fun doing this so I'm not under a time crunch there's there's many ways that you could do this kind of job and get it done very quickly and effectively you know and so I don't have a vertical bandsaw to cut that yes I've got Metabo that I could cut it I've even got plasma cutters you can clamp a straightedge there and drag that thing have that cut in no time it's not what this is all about I'm enjoying using my machinery to make cuts like this it's not about showing you the fast way to do it it's about the application of doing something on the machine that's what it's about okay so we're gonna rotate the table on this thing we're not going to use the buy-side we're going to use the flat side of the table we're going to rotate it and hopefully the vise will just hang over onto the side and we're going to clamp it down the flat side of the table and and get set up okay so we've already removed the table support we're going to loosen the four nuts there and then swivel the table or rotate the table you know I think you might need to live a bit of tension on one of these you're all of chips falling oh no I ain't gonna do it it's hitting the back of the device over here I didn't see that all right I have to change it up do this part of the screw right here hits there so what I'm going to try is to swivel the device 90 degrees the other the other way and see if that's enough for it to clear clear that way oh yeah there we go that'll work so you've got some fresh oil dripping out I've already oiled this thing before I even started I'm gonna look at it look at it this way too cuz I'm curious I suppose you can do it like that too but the by camel Hicks is going to be sticking up out of the stick up in the air so I might just do it like this and see if that will work and if and if it don't work I'll just take it off so what I'm doing is I'm I'm using my stone here I didn't do this whenever I cleaned the table up before and I had noticed it you know it's got some dings in it along the the t-slots there's a couple places where something got kind of pressed down into the table and you've got you know some notch right here on the very corner so I'm using the stone and just dressing those down make sure that we've got a good flat table now I'll come over to this side you can rub your stone to frost it and you can feel it whenever it catches right there there's a Dean right there on that corner [Laughter] all right so we're gonna get the table trimmed in I've got my parallel here and I put this big stared on here too it's a little bit easier for you guys to see it that's on team Watson on YouTube number 656 indicated all right so we're gonna traverse it across this was just eyeballing it in on the the zero mark down on the graduation so it looks like we got those are half thousands lines three three thousands all right let me see if I can make a tweet hey that's close enough write home about tighten these bolts up over here yeah it's gonna work so what uh what I figured out there off-camera was that it's a little bit easier to rapid and while I'm wrapping it I'm using my other hand I'm lightly bumping the handle and watching this thing stop moving around so I might try that again next time and show you it's pretty good let's do our first indicator indication across the table here and see what the indicator is saying if we're getting kind of droop or or what happened Wow that's a half of balance let's let it settle out and see what it's doing see that flicker and that's just the machine [Music] if I had to suspect it's probably in the gear train it's making it flicker like that but so we're seeing approximately 1,000 max at each line as a half a cow there [Music] that's not too shabby you got to think the machine is like 70 years old and it's still doing it alright we're gonna live with that [Music] [Music] [Music] this one's actually a little more tricky to set up than on the Sheldon just because of the spacing of the tea slots my my plan was to lay the cut line right in the center Slott and built utilize the other two to clamp it down but it's there's not enough room to put a stud in there and hold it down so what I'm having to do is elevate the sprocket and I've got it on my two inch tall parallels and I've also got one two three blocks here as well we've got four of them and I'll mic to all of them and everything is within three thousandths of being the same height so with this sole you know mill scale steel plate on there it's going to be fine we're going to use our big strap clamps one on each side with two studs so it'd be four studs holding it down and then that way whenever it cuts you know you've got two areas there that's holding this thing square on both sides as it's pulling down so I'm going to start hunting up the hardware and the hold downs and then we'll start getting the clamp down okay I gathered up all the hardware we're going to start getting this thing clamped down so this is the the clamp that we're going to use and what we'll do is we'll put both of them just like this right here so it will be pulling down on the parallel in the one through three blocks there as well I got my Armstrong tea nuts we already got one installed there because I was trying to check my height that I needed for the stud so these are 5/8 this is 5/8 holding down hardware that I'm using this is all stuff that was my dad's same thing with the studs 5/8 I think I got everything kind of positioned where it needs to be so these type of clamps right here they used to be made by Armstrong and there's no longer made by Armstrong but they are still made in the USA a lot of these same clamping stuff that what used to be Armstrong is now made by a company called Gibraltar and if you buy these usually will be Gibraltar brand still made in USA it just doesn't have the Armstrong name on it anymore so really really good stuff all right so what we're going to do these are pretty pretty big but you see I like them because you can do they're great for large areas but they will hold up to a one-inch stud we're going to use a 5/8 so I'm just going to stack some washers in here like this and then we're going to do a couple more of the these are 3/4 washers here and that way we have a good solid base pulling down onto the the clamp there and then we got our good 5/8 flange nuts all right now I haven't lined up this scribe line yet we're gonna do that with the tool but I'm just gonna get her just very lightly snug down all right now use my soft blow hammer and we'll use the tool like I said like I did before we'll line the tool up in the on the back and then come down here to the end and then line it up there and we'll just keep bumping it until we get it straight okay I'm gonna grind in the cutting tool that I'm gonna use we're gonna use this one that already ground whenever we were trying our half inch wide slotting there so I shaded out the area that I'm gonna grind to keep the grinding a little bit a little bit easier where you just focused on one side is I'm just gonna offset the tool to one side there now we do we will have to grind our side relief there but we'll focus most of our hogging right here in this general area right there we're going to make it 1/8 wide by the way and then the plate is 7/16 thick so I just wanted to go back maybe about 5/8 of an inch is enough to clear it good [Music] we'll use our little square make sure that we get a nice square nose round on it I want to go ahead and do that verse use the shank of the tool there to square it up to [Music] [Music] there's a result of our Brian right there that done got a little honed edge on there and I should have I should have ground the top the way I wanted first because whenever I did touch that I lost a couple towel at it on 125 was showing 120 324 now but that's not too critical we're just making a nominal size of 1/8 so hopefully that will cut right there we're only going to be taking a few thousands of pass so we're not hogging any taking any big cut so hopefully this will we're good what I'm doing is I'm squaring the tool to make sure that I've got clearance on each side of the tool bit there it looks like I got it right there so it's touching on the tip of the tool and then it'd be a little bit of relief up as you go further up the blade there it's looking pretty good right about there so we'll take them we'll lock this thing in right where it's at I'm gonna go ahead and get it sent it up now [Music] [Music] oh man I got those pretty tight [Music] yeah I think I got is pretty well centered up looking pretty good to me so we're gonna roll with that with Snug our clamps completely I already snug them up once okay we've got our RAM all the way back so this is going to be the furthest back but we're going to install our cam plate now go ahead and push it up on there alright so that would be bully engage there tighten it off right there run it through one time [Music] good to go we'll run the motion before we actually engage the bead I've got the stroke set at 13 doing the math that was saying some around 17 but I got it at 13 there just drop it down if you try to be a little bit conservative [Music] I think we're ready to go I don't know how that tool is going to react you know I don't want nothing to dig in and so we'll start off with a light feed rate and if it's doing good we might bump it up you know from like four to eight thousand such party all I'll do I was give us jobs [Music] oh dear [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh man that's beautiful [Music] awesome let me move the camera get you a shot on the side [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I think one had just happened there twice was the chip itself got caught up between the tool and the fork and had tried to you know trying to cut a chip at the same time that's entering the cut right there that's what was going on there I was afraid maybe at the time you know what the 4000 speed is working great so I'm actually kind of scared to push it Oh No [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] to be just about there I think it's pushing through oh yeah there we go [Music] wasn't that a little bit more fun that a bandsaw or a plasma I quite enjoyed that and I was really surprised with my tool it did really good everything felt smooth you know the only the only thing that that happened was the chips getting stuck on that second cut right there which is it did good so I'm happy with it man we didn't have no catastrophes I didn't break a tool bit we didn't scrap a part did great so man I'm just going to go ahead and get this cleaned up we still got to dress our edges we got a marker our part you know side a side B make sure it's all times up right but I hope you guys enjoyed watching this man this was this was great to finally get to this point [Music]

Channel: Abom79

Views: 516,471

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Keywords: abom79, shaper, metal shaper, g&e shaper, antique shaper, vintage machinery, antique machinery, metal shaping, parting in the shaper, splitting in the shaper, sprocket, splitting a sprocket, parting a sprocket, grinding a tool bit, high speed steel, hand grinding, indicating, machine tramming, machine shop, manual machinist, general industrial machining

Id: 9_bKezGbe4w

Length: 26min 48sec (1608 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 28 2018