I’ve been a machinist for 18 years and I still love it. That KBC is a really good little mill. Love the videos sir!

As always, Adam's fit and finish are just beautiful. A pleasure to watch him work and see the finished product emerge.

Love the silent intro sequence Adam. Pictures speak volumes.

You give meaning to the phrase competent machinist.

I applaud standing! You will hardly find such simple and excellent content. Well done, boy. No show-offs, no extra words, everything is clear! Bravo!!!

Adam, you made that drilling and tapping process for the T nut look so easy. In my experience, its always done with effort and with some trepidation ! Thanks for the video.

Wow, awesome generosity from viewers. Ime sure everything will be cherished and put to good use.

Nice work, beautiful photography, class act. I am planning to get one for my old French lathe, now I know what to do. Thanks.

Adam, I found out that my Multifix size E couldn’t stop rotating until I put the dowel pin. I used a M6 stud bolt as a dowel pin, as the fit was really tight and made it removable, which turned out years later to be the salvation for mounting my recently acquired toolpost grinder. Your work quality makes me feel ashamed of mine’s!

Thanks for the show Adam

Superb work as usual. The Precision Matthews lathe always looks super concentric and stable. The effort you put into setting it up has produced dividends - the finish on the work pieces is outstanding!

Thanks Adam .. Best to you and Abby .

Quite a beautiful delicate work,Adam.Thank you.

turned out spot on Adam. beautiful finish as always

Excellent vid. Professionally filmed as always.

Lovely work as always Adam and excellent filming

Adam your personal honor and commitment to excellence is always evident. Great work; every .003 thou counts! Eric

Great work there Adam!

Интересный и познавательный формат роликов!

Eye candybar, great to watch , even theraputic for me ❤ Grtz from the netherlands Johny geerts

I reckon a new lathe is always exciting!

Loved watching this.

High quality video, professionally shot as always.

Brilliant Ricky!

Well done sir ❤

Nice work Adam !!

G'day Adam.. excellent video on doing the mods for the toolpost assembly

Wow great work old guy!

you just reminded me of TOT Great job mate

Beautiful work my friend....as usual.

Very nice and nice clean work

I think it's great to see a project of you making something. This is where you shine! It's like classic Abom. Luv it! Nice work, and the explanations are simple and clear. Nice narrative. Thanks for the great video!

Thanks, Adam (and Abby! 😀 ). Happy Fourth!

nice job adam & abby !👍👍

This is real technologi..good❤

Abom + multifix is a recipe for a banger video 👌

Query, why did you not clamp your compound base directly to your milling table, sitting on your parallels? Pulled down as like it would be in your lathe.

@abom79, That was an Awesome Video Adam! As soon as I get my Precision Matthews 1660TL I will be hiring you to perform the exact same job for me. Great Job!

thanks of enjoying another Saturday night

Happy 4th of July Adam and to your loved ones😊

Wow Adam.... I'm green with envy of your shop, tools and knowledge. I've always loved to play with the shop lathes and mills at work... but I'm retired now with no shop. I''m sure glad I've got you to keep me interested in it Buddy! Cheers! Happy 4th of July !

Facinating!!

It will eat on you when measurements are so close you will break it down and make it rght. Awesome Adam

Opinions are like assholes everybody has one. GREAT VIDEO Adam

perfeitissimo amei .muito lindo magnifico..super profissional.parabéns.sucésso e abraços..

Man I love me a big ol tap

Well before decking the top surface of that compound and T- Nut, I would set that compound on your AA Starrett surface plate and run an indicator all over the top side to see if it's parallel with the base.

I'm suspecting that the 0.003" [0.0762mm] was well within the manufacturing tolerance for the compound slide housing. that's seldom a truly precision ground surface. I'd be checking the bottom surface of the rotating base first a little bit more for parallelism and flatness, as that's a machined surface and can be slightly out since it wasn't ground. Only after I was sure about the base would I go after the top, checking my setup as I go along. Tolerances stck up (add up) so a couple of items being off by a few 0.0002" or so, plus some gapping, can add up to a couple of mils (thousandths of an inch). Basically, it boils down to how close do you want / need the final result to be, and how much careful attention to detail you are willing to spend to get there.

Well done 😅

Adam's new ASMR channel :)

Thanks for sharing.

All you do, tools are cutting like its in butter. Amazing

Hope you stamped it A BOMB. Really nice work.

Excellent work and very instructive. Thanks.

Станки конечно обалденные..

Hi Adam you levelled the top of the compound but isn,t the bottom of it three thou out now.. I might be wrong trigonometry was not my thing in school ..anyway love the videos keep em coming

Nice job, agree with the shimming to get it level with the existing surface, as you have to assume the compound is probably in line when installed on the owners lathe. cheers, Dave

You get all the fun jobs. Thanks for the video.

Inspiring. Always a pleasure watching your craftsmanship.

Great work as always !!!

Since it was off .003, would it have been better to pull the oilers and mill the whole top? Great video and love the content!

Beautiful work as usual thank you for sharing

Very good

Nice job thanks for sharing

Nicely done!!

great mod man! you should really invest in a surface grinder

americano é americano. perfeito. valeuuu..sucésso..tmj..

Nice little job thanks Adam

nice hammer

Great video! Interesting point about the 0.003" off parallel. I wonder if the dovetail slides are also off parallel, or if they are true to the bottom. I would have checked that before deciding how to do the top with the new tee nut. I also wonder if this technique might be advantageous when mounting other types of tool posts. I designed my own with a broad, circular base that straddles the slot in the compound but now I am wondering if this mounting technique might make it more rigid.

Nice product placement.

You should really post a toolbox tour video, I’m curious to see what different types of tools you have

Man! I can’t believe what great surface finishes you get Adam with the tooling and speeds & feeds you select. Really nice👌 And also, great video. I have ADHD, so with the way you create your videos, they move along nicely. So therefore it keeps my attention. With my ADHD, if videos are not concise and informative, I lose interest. Your videos keep me captivated….thankyou👍🙂

Interesting content. Super filming. Thanks!

Not a machinist and never will be, too old, but I been watching machining for several years now, enthralled with the ability to be sooo accurate. Like others, not understanding the meaning of the .003 parallelism discrepancy. @chemech and @ydonl have plausible explanations I can appreciate.

Thank you very much... Lots of great info for me to use

Nice job as always 👍. I have watched loads of your videos and I really like you watch. Can I ask what watch it is ?

Well done little brother!

❤ Love it Adam.

Real craftsmen. Wow.😎

Perfect timing for me. I’m changing the tool post on my Grizzly to a better quick change. The T nut doesn’t fit, so I think that I have to make a new one. Do you think that I’m on the right track?

Hi Adam, great video as per usual. Have you seen these fractal vices? It seems to me this tool would be in demand if someone was making them at a very high level of quality. Adam Savage recently showed one on his channel from China. I thought of your exacting practices with machining and you would be perfect to make one of these thing of the old patent and it make for some great videos.

Thinking about the front to back 0.003" error, could that not be due to the gib tapers?

Great video, great precision!! 🙂

That’s some dang good photography at the end

Bravoooooooooooo

Appreciate the good/detailed videos. I went to Walter's site to look at the external threading tool style you were using (vertical insert) and they don't show it as an item they carry. Maybe I just can't find it. Do you have a link for the external threading holder and inserts?

18:00 Since the part was so perfect in the vise, I would have shimmed up the whole vise.

should you put a 3/4" set screw in before milling the top if you turn the compound around to let the back jaw dominate as it does. the moving jaws likes to lift a little any way .you may not need a parallel on the movable side

Good job. Could you give a demonstration of how to use this. Thank you.

Saturday

Why wasn't the top of the compound, surface ground? I just subscribed with max bell. Very good fit on the tool post thread. Thanks for the machine work. Do you ever use thread gauges for checking the fits of precision threads? Otherwise, I will continue to view to see your work. I was a CNC machinist much of my life before retiring and I also had a toolroom shop at home where I did custom work. See you tomorrow.

Do you think the 0.003 was from the dovetail? Did you try tightening the dovetail wedge?

Sorry for the question, I am still learning. Would it have made more sense to have gone with a coarser thread to the T-Nut, and a Fine 1/2" 20tpi for the hold down nut? The thread to the T-Nut was fine, but the thread where you want the most clamping force was coarse.

So, my question is, did you measure the thickness on both sides of the slide to see if it was the same? I can see why you shimmed it to replicate the top's original plane. But if it was out of parallel originally from the factory, wouldn't you want to correct that?

Adam I have been watching some of the videos that CEE have put up recently (I only found them this week), he does a lot of Abom sized jobs.

So glad you took care of the .003 difference. That would bug the heck out of me if you hadn't fixed that.

So what angle do you set the compound to before you pin the multifix tool post holder? 30 degrees for threading?

F**k me the sound of those things milling like that is satisfying

Very nice video, thanks for sharing. :o)