Can't wait till the next episode. I can't wrap my head around how the x and y is gonna work .

My wife just said ‘are you listening to Keith Rucker again?’ I have listened to so many of your videos that she knows your voice!

Engine hoists make life so much easier in the shed. About the only thing mine has never been used for is lifting an engine!

I'd like to cast my vote for your K&T mill as the most anthropomorphic machine tool on KZfaq. 🙂

It’s such a pleasure to watch you work as your videos are highly instructive. You are such a wonderful teacher you hold my attention even though I am not a machinist. The workers with the skills you demonstrate make our lives of relative comfort and abundance possible. Thank you!

I'm probably wrong but I'll put this out there. When you had this setup in typical fashion with the long arbor and table swiveled to 45° could you have retracted the over arms and put the cutter on the outside of the support you removed in favor of the universal head?

necessity is the mother of invention

Thanks Keith, I was just about to type “why not use a longer arbor?”, then you explained it. I’m still learning.

Really interesting project, I have so much respect for the guys of old who used to do this day in day out and not really think about it, sorry to say we're losing those skilled craftsmen, a gear cutting Co closed down here in Coventry England not so long ago

It’s been so much fun watching you build this setup because I’ve watch each piece as it was added. What a project. How many gears are involved to make a gear ?😂

I was wondering how the 50 taper worked if they had a drawbar or not and then you answered my question, thanks Keith great video as always

another brilliant and learning video keith!

been anticipating this very much

Thanks for sharing 👍

awesome work!!! you are on it!! I love it!!!

Thanks for sharing

What an amazing machine! I love how you are using it as was intended. Great stuff!!!

Really interesting project,

Thanks for sharing.

wow, what a project....a lot to learn

Thanks Keith I can’t Waite to actually see you getting this done

The are so many set up steps for this one! Can't wait for the next one!

Thank You !

Rube Goldberg would be SO PROUD!

Most excellent.

Great video Keith, keep'um coming..

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.👍👀

thank you Keith, following the whole project. step by step.

Love the old school cliff hanger until next time. You are definitely pulling out all the tips and tricks on this project.

Amazing flexibility in that old machine!

Been lookin" for you. You are always so predictable, but surprised us today. Good video, thanks.

Loved seeing the transition to the vertical head. I have a 50's era milling machine that I would love to adapt a vertical head to. Getting some ideas here watching this! Andrew

Keith LOVE watching you use and work these old machines! just so interesting and fascinating to watch how it was once done!

Amazingly versatile tool! Fascinating to watch you configure it. GREAT that you're making videos that can serve as operator documentation for the future! Old iron never dies!

Thank you for my relaxation therapy. My blood pressure has come down to normal.

I am REALLY looking forward to seeing you make chips here. Wow.

What a surprise! You put an evening video out instead of in the morning. Always love your videos Keith you do a great job! By the way my third son's name is Keith!

I'm gonna turn 64 next week. I hope I live long enough to see the end of this series. : )

I have had to install the wheel cutter on the out side of the overhead support to gain clearance at times. it looks dangerous but works ok with light cuts.

Well Keith, you have no lack of projects. Seems your projects each generator 4 or 5 projects to do all by themselves. Thanks very much for sharing.

Man what a lot of time spent on just setting up the machine to cut one gear. My trade was in leather before I retired. Set up was laying the hide on the cutting table, measuring or tracing a pattern to make cuts. Cheers from 🇨🇦

A pleasure to watch, amplified by the fact I can just buy the piece I’m watching be machined.

I'm not sure which is more impressive. Learning to use and using that machine in all its configurations or draining and building it in the first place!

PROBLEM SOLVING, GREAT JOB

I sharpen cutting tools for a living and if you ever need one sharpened I would be happy to fix one up for you no change. Even if you have one that is badly burned up didn't throw it out. It can be fixed a lot easier than you might think . The key to doing it right is maintaining the correct rake angle by the offset marked on the cutter. Changing the rake angle will change the form. If someone has cut it wrong it too can be easily fixed. And I don't burn up the cutter. Give me a try some time.

A remarkably versatile mill ! (If you have all the add-ons!)

I remember a machinist I knew decades ago that had long arbor shafts for cutting severe angle gears. He had a pair of half open pedestals with 'half moon' bearing openings on top that were placed near the gear on each side, for support of the shafts. It really stopped vibration and was 100% out of the way.

Hi Keith from the UK

Спасибо большое за очень интересное видео, ваш опыт и науку.!!))

Obviously its a lot of work to cut a helical gear the manual way. Been waiting for this since the first video several months ago. Very interesting to see how much is involved. I would never imagine... Thank you for sharing all the details.

Next video: adding the toilet paper holder attachment and radial arm back scratcher! Man, that milling machine is so awesome

Eagerly anticipating the cutting of the gears. Most likely will be better than the running of the bulls.

In the dim and distant past, I had a similar problem. I solved it by mounting the cutter outboard of the arbor support, getting just enough clearance to do the job.

Wow, no good deed… you’re a patient man.

Well, hopefully Keith, it won’t be too long before you’re ready to send out more videos on this with all of been waiting a long time to see how the gears are going to go maybe put up more videos per day would be a good thing I know I would be interested in watching them even if there was two or three videos a day please we could see what the project is in the process that you’re going through. Look forward to more videos when you can get them out

The way I see it, you still need the table at 45 degrees and the head in line with the machine spindel. If you feed on the X axis with the table straight and the head at 45, the cutter will cut sideways on an angle and will destroy the blank and maybe the cutter as well.

Hiya Keith

That old K&T is turning into some kind of ancient monster with all that equipment attached to it. It saddens me to see these skills going by the wayside. Nothing against CNC but I think it tends to make us lazy. I think it causes us to forget how much skill was involved in creating set ups like this. Personally, I appreciate you desire and willingness to preserve the old ways.

We used to realign out Huron universal table with a dial indicator, attached to table, and sweep machined column..but don't do it the other way round.

Keith could’ve had this done weeks ago if he would have just sat in his recliner with a nail file & a depth gauge.

Given your demonstrated ability to find parts that us mortals can't, you need to get a parking attachment for that head. Even Adam had to give up and make one but you can show us yours next week.

Great video, love all the explanations.. One question. As I understand it involute profile gears did not become common until the 1940's. Being from a 1928 Austin is it not probable that this is a cycloid gear? How would you tell the difference and identify the pressure angle that the manufacturer used?

I have the same head for my 2HL Plain. I don't have a low lead attachment or a K&T dividing head. I'd love to have the model H dividing head he isn't using. :)

I can’t see why not, so I will ask; can’t you mount the cutting disc on the outside of the support arm? With such a short stick-out, it shouldn’t have any vibration issues. Or am I missing something?

You should do some side consulting work with KitchenAid designing attachments.😀

Why not put overarm support inboard of cutter or longer driveshaft and move dividing head over to the left?

Confused? Sure. :) Get you a soda can or something, and a marker. Draw the spirals on the can, at 45 degrees. Now, hold the can between your left and right hands, and rotate it. You need to keep the path of one of your spirals right underneath a cutter of some kind. The rotation and the left-right motion have to be synchronized; that's what the attachment does. The cutter could be something like an a pointy end mill, I suppose, but what you really want is a form gear cutter, to make the teeth the right shape. And the cutter's going to have to be at 45 degrees, to stay in line with the gear tooth being cut; in line with the lines on the can. None of this makes any sense if the can is not rotating in sync with the horizontal motion.

It's about the journey, not the destination.

Interesting... 🙂

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This is the first time us You Tube folks have seen you put in the four cap screws; the first time you installed the Universal Vertical Head, you did not have them. I am glad you are getting closer to cutting the spiral gear. What is it for by the way?

Put the over arm support inbord of the cutter

7:16 only a true machinist knows what "dead nuts" is :)

Couldn't you put the cutter on the outside of the support to miss the gearhead. I'm puzzled at how having the cutting head at an angle will cut an angled gear with the table moving straight across it. I'll keep watching to see.

hope you're cutting more than one of those gears after all this headache with setup.

Is it possible to use the overarm support in the middle of the arbor with the cutter extending out to the end?

I noticed that there are 3 zerk connectors on the top of the universal head. Do you inject grease or oil into those?

Just waiting to see you turn the feed table parallel with the the cutter.....

The cam drive gear Keith will make will be of much higher quality than the original.

It took a bit to get my head around what’s happening here. To cut a helical gear the cutter is turning, the gear is slowly rotated and the table is slowly moving all the same time. Helical gear teeth are slightly curved, making them very different from straight gear teeth.

You can rest assured that everything will be on camera and we know your real identities

Just can't wrap my head around the cutter being at 45* and the table being at 0*. My mind says it will not cut straight, but rather will 'mill' across the top. My perspective is obviously not seeing something. Can't wait to see the follow up video.

Was thinking that all those adjustment/clamp bolts would benefit from a socket wrench...

I suspect the longer mandrel with it turned the other way would have been more rigid as now you have the cutter with a lot more flex instead of the part with a little more. Lots of ways to skin that cat though. 🙂

Is it unnecessary to tran the head more accurately than what can be read on the index dials?

Push the bearing supports in about 6 inches and put cutter on end of shaft?

you need the parking attachment :)

it looked to me as if that first setup would have worked with a longer shaft to hold the gear blank but what do I know, not much.

i see them old school craftsman tools!!! mostly made in china now tho

I hope you're charging this guy per episode. lol

Maybe I'm missing something but why not mount the gear blank on a longer mandrel to get more clearance from the index head?

i dont think the way you are going to be cutting the teeth is going to work because your slide table is going to be moving at a right angle to the cutter, also are the teeth on the gear right or left angle? i do enjoy your videos and look forward to the next one.

I'm sure the degree marks on the rotating base are accurate enough for most needs, but what would you do if you wanted to indicate the table after rotating it (for peace of mind)? I've been racking my brain trying to think of a way to set up an indicator to nudge the table perpendicular and I can't think of a good setup. I guess you would need to hold a large ground flat surface in a collet and then another straight edge parallel to the table, and measure in two places. Sounds like a pain though. What would you do?

This is in Keith's wheelhouse. 7:33 - No tramming? 15:30 - Off by 2* on both scales? Seems tramming would be a good idea.

The tail stock for the model K dividing head is not K-T OEM.

Couldn’t you just put the cutter on the other side of the arbor support while in normal horizontal mode? Kind of overhang the cutter into free space ?

Hey Keith- how many ft. lbs. on the torque? One small grunt on the socket head cap screws, one serious grunt on the nuts. Any other silly questions?

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Hi Keith, wouldn't it be possible to turn a longer shaft so that the tailstock would be much further away from the turntable? So the cutter would take a cut earlier and your turntable would be out of danger. Nice work anyway :-)

What would happen if you turned the table 45 the other way?