Mr. Pete, I've watched your videos for some time now and always enjoy them. So I thought I should take the time to tell you how much I appreciate your contribution to us all. I've often wished I could have done woodwork and metalwork the way you do, but life took me in another direction. Now at the age of 72 I thought I better tell you how much I appreciate you while I still can. Keep up the good work and I'll keep on enjoying every minute of your humor and tips and tricks.

Thanks for the video. A cup of Joe and a Mr. Pete video. Aaaaaaaah, it’s a good day already.

That South Bend mill's power feed attachment does look incredibly complicated, but I thought not too noisy considering all the componants, great vid by the way, thanks, Dave

Morning Lyle. I'm thinking, Dancing With the Stars is calling your name. Love you man.

Great to see Mr. Pete seems to be enjoying good health.

Another great value is the Mr Pete you tube channel! Costs nothing and returns a plenty! 😎

Very complicated, but it worked. Thanks for sharing.

Always enjoy seeing the Clausing horizontal mill in action. I enjoy mine very much, partially due to you providing me the dimensions for the limit pucks. Stay warm up there. Cheers from Florida’s Space coast.

I don't know but when you are used to these old mechanical power feeds , who were 100% predictable, these new low powered feed motors are quite a challenge. Haven't seen one where the feed speed was not influenced by the resistance of the milling operation.

I think your channel is awesome and heading uphill! I appreciate your time being our shop teacher and being a student! Bruce

Great video. Great display of how technology keeps advancing and real-world example of how it affects us.

Outstanding as alway

All that old mechanical stuff is so cool thank you Mr Pete

I remember Pete opening that power feed on the Clausing, and all the gears with dried grease.

Hey Mr Pete, I'm 73 and been watching your videos for probably more than 10 years. Whenever I mention Mr Pete around my friends and much younger nephews I get a big "Oh Yes", but all of them watch a lot of KZfaq and videos in general compared to me ,so I'm pretty sure they don't comment or even click the like button... Just the way it is these days! Don't sell yourself short, you're just a victim of these times we live in! Lol! Great stuff and thanks for your time and sharing! 👍😎✌️

I love how it appears they've just used a gearbox from a 9 or 10" SB lathe. 😂 I know you said it's a different gearbox, but I mean, at the most it appears they just made some modifications to the existing lathe design to wedge it onto the mill. I would rather have mechanical systems over servo motors every day of the week. But I just love the old machines, and would rather stand in front of an old mechanical manual machine all day and crank out parts slow as molasses than operate a fancy CNC. Thanks for the awesome vid! I love these old machines, and love seeing how they work!

Very interesting. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

The price of that South bend Mill in todays money would be around $45,000,00 .

Lyle - Very interesting video. By today's standards these old purely mechanical drive mechanisms seem quite complex. I wonder - as did a previous commenter - about the power of the new smaller ones as compared to milling load. But then that is true of any machine - no matter how much power someone will figure out how to crash it. The mill I got from a high school is a 1968 Cincinnati CINEL with three power feeds and rapids. I'm just glad I've never been into the knee on it trying to figure out how it works! Much worse than a mechanical gearbox for sure. Have a good day and thanks for the edutainment this morning with the first cup of coffee.

The '68 vintage new SB mill purchased for my shop had the mechanical QC feed setup and the hydraulic quill feed. This was a good machine for training and I had no negative issues that I can remember.

Temperature is dropping here in north central Iowa and an unheated garage is not the place to be. I found the comparison very interesting.

I always wonder: how did they make these machines without first having a machine to make the machine! Like chicken or the egg.... Thanks Mr Pete!

The power feed on my Index, is a 1/3hp 3 phase motor, driving a 3 speed gearbox. The smaller index mills of the time had a drive train similar to your South Bend. Thanks for another great video Sir.

Thank you Mr. Pete

Enjoyed the video, the Southbend feed system is very Rube Goldberg compared to the newer style. I've got a Cincinnati 1b mill that, at one time, had a power feed but when I purchased it that had been dismantled as I'm sure Bubba forgot to pay attention and it crashed breaking the gears, as I've learned from the Interweb that was often the case, so was dismantled. I have plans to build a feed using a stepper motor with a cog belt drive and your video has inspired me to get with it, it does get tiring cranking away all day when you have a big project. Thanks again!

Good job. Thank you 😊

Although the modern electronic table feed is great, I can't repair the high tech portion of it but I can repair the mechanical feed as found on your South Bend or my Van Norman. The Van Norman uses a separate motor to power a similar gearbox and drive shaft however the mechanism is all contained within the saddle after the drive shaft. It also uses permanent stops to prevent dangerous over travel and adjustable stops for stopping the cut on the work piece. Both can be used at once and it micro adjustable stop that can be manually eased up against after the power feed is disengaged by the primary stops. I guess I got a little wordy and off topic; my apology for that! Thank you for another great video. I don't think I will make it to Lost Creek Saturday; I really wanted to visit with you again as I enjoyed it immensely the last time( which has been a few years)!

Great video,mrpete.I like your Clausing mill machine.Merry Chistmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.Thank you for posting.

I was wondering, does it limit the movement of the table ? It almost looked like you could mostly move to the right only ? Never used any of these machines

Thanks again

Same year as my model A toolroom lathe!

Cool video, thanks for making and posting it. That's an interesting, complicated, large and costly power feed but it's also a piece of history. I would assume most of those machines had their original power feeds removed by their owners when the infinitely variable Servo type came to be. Assuming my above assumption is correct, have you considered contacting a machinery museum (if one even exists) to see if they'd be interested in that machine? It may be a tax break for your estate if it were donated (later of course). I've never seen a Southbend Mill in person nevermind that type of power feed. Surely someone somewhere is interested in preserving and sharing such machines rather than it rusting away in a basement somewhere or sold for scrap. Just a thought that may or may not have crossed your mind. Thanks Mr. Pete for all of your videos, they are appreciated more than you know!

Good morning MrPete. Good video, some complicated mechanisms for their times for sure. I noticed your Clausing horizontal table has the same geared crank device as my Clausing 8530 vertical mill. Is it a two speed, normal and 4X? That's the side I intend to mount my Vevor power feed onto, just haven't gotten around to figuring out how. When I do I'll try to document it well and forward the results.

Have you done or considered a tool storage / climate protection video series?

Thanks to the American company Servo for inventing the variable powerfeed, that the CHICOMS stole.

I have a power feed for my Index mill. It still sits in the large bottom drawer of my toolbox. I'm not even sure if all of the pieces are there. I don't use it enough to make it worth investigating. Life keeps getting in the way:-) It looks like a more modern solution may be a better option if I decide to add one at some point.

I know it’s a sin but I covet that Clausing mill every time you show it 😏

Neat video. Then, if we want to cut spiral gears on the mill, we need yet another drive unit for the dividing head on the table. Did I get that right?

I have a universal mill from 1948. It has the gear box at the same place as the bridge port and a similar driveshaft. It dosent have the long gearbox its more under the table (like the second mill) and you start the feed from a lever in front of the table. It is belt driven from the motor with 2 different size of pulley (2 speed v-belt change) then from that spindle via a 2 speed gearbox to a flat belt with 3 possitions (speeds). And from the main spindle a v belt drives the feed gear box that have 6 speeds. So basically when you change the tool/spindle speed you also change the table feed. Complicated?

Actually I did notice the woman, but mostly because she's wearing open toe shoes in the shop. One of the places I worked at when I was in high school, the secretary/assistant used to have to talk to people in the shop and she wore heels usually open toe. My stepfather was was managing the company at the time made her either just wear boots, or have a pair of boots to swap to when she had to go out in the shop. I'm not one of the safety sally's, but I do take it seriously, so the dress on the model wouldn't fly either, since it could get hung up in the works too. Personally, she would have been more alluring if they had drawn her dressed for the shop, and not a night at the opera.

Do you think I could adapt the vevor power feed to my Cincinnati Toolmaster? Thanks

Dear Mr. Pete, do you think that power feed would work on the South Bend machine? It looks like it could just hang on the end of that long neck of an end cap ? Thank you in advance for your answer

What machine.

YO Tube, do you know where that orange tool you have on your mill came from. HINT: Western Electric/AT&T.

Thats the Frankenmill power feed system Tubalcain, overly complex using a cobbled gear box with a peg leg. Lol

Mr. Pete, The girl next to the milling machine is pretty H0T. Can you do a video or story on old time machine shop girls?

The robustness of the mechanical gear driven power feeds will outlast that cheap Asian thing by a hundred years.

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