It's tragic that so few younger guys are preserving these old treasures ...and the knowledge and wisdom.

amazing how the best way to do this job hasnt changed in almost 200 years.

The other reason for using the full stroke of the planer is to help to keep bead wear even.

What a great video. Thanks for allowing me to look over your shoulder.

Beautiful finish., slow and steady wins the race. I think Don has a little planer envy. Thanks for sharing.

I don’t know about anybody else but the rhythm of that machine is so relaxing. Love the job guys thank you for sharing and taking us on this journey

Mezmerizing, Steve! I agree with the “measure twice, cut once” ethos! Thanks for the great video, again!

Thanks for the time you take to show these great machines at work.

sure glad Don showed up to supervise

Hey you said comment so here it goes, glad Don came by to supervise. Your wife brought liquid refreshments, I have been getting into diet ginger beer myself. Was waiting for you to put a cramp on the backside, rod and a wedge, anything, but you remembered. Doing good. Myself I have just been making parts for the engineers, getting them coming out to see me before they go home, pick their brain and I throw my 2 cents in, maybe I won't have to make so many prototype parts that way. Engineers are special, tool and die guys just have to figure out what they want done, make it work and explain it to them so they can change it in autocad, but now they use solid works. Give me a Big Chief tablet and a pencil. Ok, been commenting about work, been a 2 year ordeal at work, I have been there 9 months now, 2 engineers have thrown their hands in the air and quit on this new line, they got mad and put part of it on the die shop to handle, we handled it. Wish us luck, we are making parts now, hand testing components now, but making parts for auto test machine now. Can't explain too much, proprietary stuff. But I am making this stuff on a Bridgeport clone. How much stuff has been turned out on a Bridgeport, toolroom mill of choice, might not be the best at anything but it will do everything. Handier than a pocket on a shirt.

That is slicker than snail snot. Thanks for sharing the video. Super cool.

Just found your channel. After watching this video it looks like I will be spending a bunch of time watching your videos. Very nice job!

I used to suck them Mountain Dews down. A buddy got me started on them and I made up for lost time. Kept two 6-packs in the company truck tool box all the time but here in the hills it's not hard to get the real thing. This was after my all expenses paid tropical vacation where I about burned my kidneys out drinking Fanta orange and grape because the water point was almost all the time messed up. And as it was said about Carl Jackson a while back, I'm glad to see the beautiful and talented Don Madre, the Rembrandt of the rebuilt and restored metal working machine world back in his rightful place, trying to turn your planer over by leaning on it. And remember, ONE Dew a day. And don't forget the GATE! GBWYall!

Hi Steve, thanks for yet another enjoyable video. You have grown to become one of my favorite machine video providers :-) Best regards from Denmark

Thanks for sharing these videos Steve. Love watching these for ideas with our machine building best practices!

Been looking forward to seeing this since you first showed us the planer. Its a good day plus a Don sighting

Thanks for another interesting video.

Nice job setting up the work piece for planning.

Very nice, to the people who think your not going fast enough, you can hear it howling in the middle from being un supported, but int needs to be unsupported so its flat in "free state", also the same reason you would fight it on a grinder; the chuck wants to suck the bow out of the table, then it comes back on the surface plate

Abom79 has does barbecuing, Steve Summers has squirrels, CEE has his dog….. Steve’s got …. Don !

Should have tee shirts . Come ride my Rockwell Planer. Smooth landings every time after a lot of touch and go's and a few go arounds.

This is so satisfying! Ive never seen a scrapper that big!

Nice work!

Addictive just to watch and smile when the grumpy one chatters.

That's a magnificent machine. Kudos to you for moving, setting up & keeping it in use.

I wish you were a couple thousand miles closer. I would have mine sitting on your door step to do. I have an older Gorton mill that could use some love like this. I enjoy your videos Steve. Joe

It is always interesting to see the machines that make the machines that make machines.

Really enjoyed watching this antiquated but oh so effective process. Thanks Steve!

Looks great! Nice to see an old machine being used!

happy to find this amazing channel, i appreciate the steady hand working both the machine and the work piece

If you are happy, we are happy. Glad to see someone else does a diet dew a day. I also do a brew a day, but after I finish in the shop. And Don, tell Steve the batteries in the flash light will last longer if he turns it off.🤓

I am 1/10,000th of your goal! Loved watching and learning about the planer! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

That is a nice machine to have, the possibilities are endless. Take care Steve, and Don....

Keep up the good work.

I really dont know any thing about this type of work I am a Animator by trade but I found this so relaxing thank you for the video and time to relax and enjoy some thing different, have a great day.

Beautiful job. Enjoyed watching perfection! 😊

Cool video, thanks for sharing.

Very enjoyable, Steve. Thanks.

Thanks for the video,enjoyed the set up.made a brilliant surfaced bed.

Very educational, thanks for sharing 👍

Beautiful work

I’d love to have a machine like yours, be awesome to be able to plane my lathe bed ways. You sir have some fantastic skills. Greetings from Perth Australia 🇦🇺

Awesome video , really appreciate your time to show the set up and how you are holding the workpiece and setting the planner up 😁👍👍👍👍

Awesome video. Definitely a great wealth of knowledge for the public!

Hi I am glad I found your channel always wanted to see how to resurface a mill table so y’all are awesome

Nice job Steve!

Great stuff and nice sharing man

Nice one . I remember there was some huge planer machines at the railway workshops where i started my apprenticeship a long time ago . 👍

Wow, it is my first experience with this technology , luxus job. Have a nice day , thank you for video.

Perfect job!

You know, that the lift you need for A/C unit is already available and can usually be rented. So don't build one just rent one for a day, remember you need all the space you got to do what you got. The last shots of the planing of the table top were the money shots. Beautiful!! Enjoyed watching and good to see Don.Thanks!!!!

I love that machine! It does such a nice job of flattening stuff! The base that your planer table rides back and forth on must be flat within 100 millionths or better! That Planer is one nice machine! :)

I love the the way explain what you are doing 😊

You have to admit it's pretty impressive how well those Pakistani guys do with the most basic tools possible. Great video Steve!

Super cool video. I am amazed by some of these old machines. And people who know how to use them. I am just learning some basic machining. So I watch a ton of videos and learn a ton Thanks

Looks great guys….not something you see in Australia….not sure what they used back in the day…certainly something I would live to own👍👍👍👍

I would LOVE to have a big planer!

Nice work

That planer does a beautiful job!! Thanks for sharing Steve. Wishing you all the best! Norm in Arizona

Way to be chugging the Mountain Dew! Watched the entire thing. You and your machine, your assistants, and the Mountain Dew delivery guru, are top notch. You have obviously been there and done that. Thanks for sharing and yes I hit the subscribe button. I play weekend blacksmith and ypur style of videos I find very interesting and informative. And I choose to be the one that is deaf - What? [Your door sign - love it!]

VERY impressive

That came out right nice !!!

We never had a Planer that big, but we did have a Surface Grinder that big. The surface grinder could spark out a tolerance of 0.0002, but it took an hour for the machine to get warmed up enough to hold that kind of tolerance.

There is a lot of knowledge based set up to get these kind of results....I wonder, how fine of a step over can you take with this planer...?? Looking forward to see the magic on how you do the dove tails on the back side.

Very useful tool. I like seeing historic production pictures showing rows of parts being cut simultaneously. I also like the idea of a milling head on one too; the long-travel stable bed with a milling head would be quite a contraption.

Thanks for sharing.

Great old machine.

Steve please bring back the bell🤣

What a machine! I trained on a planer shaper as an apprentice back in the 1980s, nothing as big as that though. Great video 👍

The bevel on the cast iron edge answers why there are bigger bevels on 1 end of a south bend lathe

ahh shucks Steve i am happy your happy, really like your video's. was an automotive machinist for 16 years, really enjoyed doing the work.

I've run shapers but not planers and they are beautiful and the nice thing is if you run them slow enough and precise you can have your whole house painted by Don by the time the part is finished. These machines are why I have to stay off Auction Sites and even ebay or I'll come up with another excuse to the wife... The old dreaded Bridgeport table really looks nice, Steve. Imagine if our tables could speak, man the stories they could tell from abuse. Ricko

Pretty cool old machine!

First time watching. When you talked about why you run the whole bed length I thought you were going to say to the bed wears the same the whole way across. Which it would. Like we see in many machines, the wear is never all the way. It's always in the most used place. Great video. Thanks.

I agree. Definitely equals a rehab workout.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

You know your machine.

Just had my 70 year old Bridgeport delivered, so really hoping you will get back to your Bridgeport restoration - with more videos of the process. I found your channel searching Bridgeport Mill on KZfaq & since this one you’ve done everything but get back to your Bridgeport restoration. 😂 Don’t get me wrong - the non Bridgeport videos are very interesting too, just not as relevant to me personally as seeing what you do next with your Bridgeport restoration. 👍👍👍🇦🇺

I see a beast of a lathe in the background! 😛

A planed mill table is a great idea, plenty of quality machines such as Deckel’s have planed tables. Much less likely to develop a raised up ding than a ground table.

Looking forward to the rest of this series especially the turcite/rulan process there’s not very many good videos of this process of correcting warped and bent machine tool castings besides just scraping and making a new gib

I’ve had a shaper obsession since I first saw one. Planers are awesome as well, but that thing is bigger than my home shop (10’x12’ shed with concrete floor). I still don’t have a shaper, someday though. My father has been a job shop machinist for 40+ years now, always tells me shapers, planers, jig borers and horizontal mills (K&T and such) are obsolete. He’s not wrong, he’s just surrounded by million dollar CNC machines at work. The rest of us have to get by with old technology that isn’t as fast.

Man I would love to come across a planer like that. Where I live industrial machining just isn't a main industry so equipment is hard to find aside from your basic small lathe and the odd bridgeport style mill here and there. On top of that they always are priced like they're made of sterling silver or gold and in just above scrap condition or beyond scrap. I managed to purchase my first modern style lathe last year and am extremely happy with it, it's a late 70's early 80's YANG 2000HG, swings 20" and has a gap which allows about 31" and a 80" bed length. Needs a bunch small things but it is in overall pretty decent condition. All the speeds and feeds work well and runs quiet so I was happy about that and as far as my initial inspection went doesn't have to much wear even up close to the head stock. Once I take the time to fix a few minor things on it il get it off my machinery skates and level it out to see exactly what kind of condition the bed is in. It does have flame hardened ways on it and no real visible wear so I'm optimistic on how good it really is but for what I do or plan to do with it I could set it up in my driveway and it would still be accurate enough. Usually just make the odd pin bushing and pins for a bucket or grapple and the odd hydraulic cylinder rod end here and there. I'm still on the lookout for a good milling machine but I waited 25 years to find this lathe I'm sure I can wait a bit longer to find a mill.

I thought about leaving 2000 comments but then thought better of it. Nevertheless enjoyed the video - I love seeing the planer in action. Judging by the first passes there seemed to be a little twist in the top surface.

Nice!

very good video..new suscriptor

If I'm not mistaken, they don't actually remove any metal until ~ @38:00 ... Seems an excellent tool (attachment?) that MANY mills would benefit from It'd also be great to not only plane mill but lathes. THis is awesome.

Being new to machinist videos, I have not seen a planer like yours before. Impressed by the result and thanks for taking the time to explain why the long stroke, before you explained, I had assumed it was to keep your planer bed wear more even over the length. After the explanation, I was watching the head kick twice on the backstroke almost every stroke and when I could watching the head move to the side at the start of every forward stroke, and the settle time that followed. Would be nice to see the table on the machine it came from. I assume you will be showing work on the other side of the table?

Superb.

Good job son Good job As far as the nicks go A blind man would be tickled to death to see them or You will never see them from the river

Nice job

Love this stuff x2000

Taking it slow also allows the table to relax as stressed metal is removed.

Steve that is the coolest vintage equipment that would give you the potential to get as close to perfection as a man can get ! It's a lot louder than even the biggest ones iv seen (check out Curtis at CEE cutting-edge engineering) he just got the biggest I have seen anywhere certainly in its line of manufacture and it would have some limitations where you would not ! I don't know enugh to know what makes one better than the other . However I'm positive I would have a lot more fun with your planer than any shaper I have seen !

Love to you keep on working

Interesting never seen a planer in operation before

The Pakistani truck guys do some amazing work with their hillbilly methods.

2000😊nice work 😊👍🏻

Beautiful finish. Like Keith Fenner says occasionally "it's better to be looking at it than looking for it" I've known a few guys who thought being aggressive with their cuts saved a lot time until they went too far and had to weld it up and do it over or scrap part. I'm with you, be conservative and remove as little as possible.

Nice and slow Steve, nice and slow .... no rush for no-one :)