You are most welcome. I REALLY wish that scrapers could be mass produced, so the price would come down. There is no reason that one should be more expensive than a sawzall at Lowe's. But hopefully someone can take what I have shown and make their own. Best wishes!

Thanks! :-)

Welcome aboard!

I think starting with hand scraping would be a good beginning. Get the feel for it, and see if you really need a machine. On the other hand, it was a fun project to make!

@@KevinToppenberg I agree. Once the CNC is done I probably won't need to scrape anything again. I primarily want the CNC for telescope making and some other projects.

@@jameshicks7125 That sounds like a fun project. Best wishes!

I guess it is all about enjoying the journey, eh? It is funny that you mention transporting your mill down a grassy incline. I am in the process of moving my shop out of my garage to an outbuilding which is down a grassy incline. I'm afraid I'm going to have to rent an expensive forklift with large tires. Best wishes!

If you follow through my restoration videos on the South Bend lathe, there is more scraping than any sane person would want to live through. LOL!

Thanks for the kind words. They are appreciated!

You are 100% correct. I realized my mistake after I sat down to assemble the clips into a presentation. I probably should go back and re-film the entire thing... Rookie mistake!!

@@KevinToppenberg Yes please, it very awkward to look at and you leave a lot of useful stuff out of view.

It was a pretty fun project overall. I think more people should attempt this. Best wishes.

Thanks! Does it remind you of a particular pop culture reference? I was trying to be dramatic, but wasn't copying anything specific, as I recall.

Best of luck! Just make sure you get the right kind of reciprocal saw, with a scotch yoke.

Someday I hope to purchase a proper set of carbide drills. But you do what you have to do! Thanks for watching

@@KevinToppenberg You never know what the day will bring. I recently went to car boot sale and got lucky finding a tin of about 50 carbide drills.These are mostly metric and under 7mm with a lot of duplicates, and a few small carbide bottom mills and countersinks as a bonus ....they are all in great condition, some never used. I knew straight away by the weight of the tin that I was on a winner and snatched their hand off when he only asked £4 for them ...... even in my state of shock, I did have the decency not to try and beat the price down. :

@@bigoldgrizzly I love stories of a great find at such sales! Best wishes.

@@KevinToppenberg Indeed so - a bit like fishing, every time you cast, you never know what might end up on your hook ;

I am interested, tell me more.

It's been awhile since I did this, so I don't recall directly. But my usual process is to sit down with caliper and measure all the parts, and then put those values into my modeling software (I use OpenSCAD).

Thanks. There does seem to be a bit of physical skill needed. I appreciate your feedback. :-)

Thanks for your input. I know that a hand scraper has flex, but do the machine scrapers also flex? From the pictures I have seen of them, they look rigid. Good idea, too, about the screws. Thanks again.

@@KevinToppenberg yes. Without that, it’s hard to control, and quickly becomes very tiring. You’ll also have to make a different handle. That handle. Particularly being vertical, on the top, isn’t going to give you much control, and, after all, we’re just taking a couple of tenths off each time, at the most. I can’t really figure why you’d want one of these anyway. They’re really only useful when you do a lot of scraping, often.

@@melgross Well, as I said in the video, this is a learning process for me. I'm going to have to figure out what is best as I stumble along in the dark. Thanks for trying to send some light my way!

Good to know. Thanks!

I got my starting unit from a pawn shop for a good price. Also, as I tried to point out in the video, not all sawzall's even have a ring gear, and they wouldn't work at all. So try to find a schematic of the model before buying it.

@@KevinToppenberg That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I looked up yours and then went to eBay to look for one

I’m using a Makita JT3050, easy to find, very well made, spares widely available and made to be disassembled for repair. The large gear is available so If my modification goes wrong I can try again. The handle end is removable so I plan to 3D print a replacement adding a variable speed switch with a dial as used on some drills. I am aiming to sue the saw upside down that way it will more closely look like a Biax. I’ll experiment with a 3D printed piece where my right hand will sit at the front of the saw being right handed.. Biax give the length of their units and I think I will need to shorten the front end. My adjustable stroke mechanism will be very close to your design. thanks for the inspiration. It would be good to see an update detailing what I working well and what if anything you have/ would like to change.

@@tonyray91 Best of luck with your project! Regarding an update... as I mentioned in the video, this is all new to me. When I used my power scraper, it just didn't seem to dig in and scrape very well. It seemed that the motor was going too fast, despite me dialing my speed to the slowest possible. The scraping project I was working on (a 9" straight edge) was not very large, so I actually ended up doing much of the finishing work with a hand scraper. I used the power scraper to cover all the surface, but after inking I used the hand scraper to adjust small areas of contact. I think if I had a large project, with a lot of metal to remove, then the power scraper would be more useful.

Rookie mistake! I have since learned better. 🙂

@@KevinToppenberg lol

What I want to know is WHY they are so bloody expensive! Seems like there would be a market for a cheaper alternative! Thanks for watching.

@@KevinToppenberg i think the market is very small and they are high quality units built at low production rates in europe (Germany?). We are so used to prices of mass produced poor quality items from China that the price seems outrageous in comparison, but a lot more robustness and quality control goes into these machines. Also, there are virtually no competitors and since the market is mainly larger industrial companies they can get away with charging an arm and a leg. That’s why we see more and more conversions like yours.

@@sblack48 Yes, I sadly think you are right.

Thanks for watching. This was one of my early videos, and I mistakenly took all the footage with the camera in vertical (portrait) mode instead of horizontal (landscape) mode. But to show on KZfaq, it has to be landscape. So this was my attempt to still make it work. Sorry for the distraction.

@@KevinToppenberg i tried flipping landscape mid video but it still persisted, but I’ll try loading it this time while already in landscape first to see if it fixes. Thanks for the info, I’m looking forward to watching it to completion this time 👍.

@TradeWorks_Construction Flipping orientation on your end won't help. I took the erroneous vertical video and added those side bars so that that the uploaded video was now the aspect ratio of horizontal. Yes, it's a complete mess! So sorry!.