Tapping that shoulder was inevitable challenging clearance!

I always learn more when you show a mistake and how to fix it than when it goes right the first time.

Haha, nice to see someone else struggling with seeing the small stuff. I probably would have had a magnifying glass out. Love your videos.

Looks like you have the right tools. Dad taught me (neither of us are pro Oxen guys. Electronic experts) to cool the work off the stone and then look at it. It is hot and changing the grain as you look off the stone. My give.

Another fine meatloaf cooked up, the portable sawmill sounds interesting. Whopping large mandrel.

Doink!!! Gotta watch them shoulders Tom. Nice work on the brass plug though buddy. Cool to meet some of the other viewers. Hope you and your worker buds enjoy the Swampfire! Let us know what ya think. Thanks for sharing this weeks Meatloaf. Adam

Hi Tom, I know this is old, and I dare say lots of people have commented on the screwcutting part, BUT just in case, if you mount the tool upside down you can screwcut away from the shoulder, with the chuck running in reverse. Love your channel BTW. Best wishes, Mal.

Suberin tip using the gage pin to align your work in the chuck! Another slick trick from Toms toolbox of time-saving techniques! Thanks Tom!

It was great to see your shop, Tom. I was pleasantly surprised to see that you were 'local' to me. I enjoyed the hours of chatting with you and the rest of the 'oxen' for a few hours. Kev (Machine_Punk of The Aerodrome Studio - the guy with the riveted projects)

Good video. I held my breath every time you cut the thread up to that face. Nice to see that I'm not the only one who bumps things once and a while.Ha!

I enjoyed watching the process. Making the cutting tool was informative for me, thanks again Tom.

Great video as usual. You guys went to so many flea markets I finally went to one. This was in Canton Texas and it is very big as you would expect something to be in Texas, over 160 acres of flea market. People come from everywhere the first Monday of the month hauling in tons of junk to sell to the people who always show up. I found a 1935 jig saw, Wood Wizard for $10. It needs a table, a work piece hold down and the mount for the table. Nice shop project for me. Keep on cranking out the meat loaf, I like ketchup on mine.

Hi Tom, I found / watched the video on the belt sander. Great information and may be a future project for me. I also watched your videos on the Clausing drill press you bought and prepared for use in your shop.. Your videos were right on time because I got lucky and found the drill press of my dreams! It is a Clausing 20 and I am excited!! Should have it home by next Tuesday,, Thanks for the informative and fun videos,, Harvey

Hello Tom, I like to use a micrometer bed stop for face grooves, shoulders etc. It's easy to set with the DRO and it avoids the chatter you get from reducing feed as you approach your numbers. BSPT is often described as British Standard Pipe Thread, but the T is for taper and there is a BSPP (parallel) form too, just like NPT and NPS. A VFD takes some of the stress out of threading up to shoulders as it's possible to set up an electrical stop. Good stuff as usual!

Tom- Another outstanding job! Every time I watch a fabrication job I always wonder "What would that job cost the customer?" Once a while back Keith Fenner mentioned a few prices and I was surprised. Lower then I imagined! I've made many parts for friends never charging them but lots of times I have to tell them to just buy the part because it will take me two hours to make a $12 part! Lol

Yay Meatloaf Mon..err...Tuesday....still good or even better the next day.

PFG Precision fine grinding

I've hit the stock on the threading before, Once I started cutting from the shoulder/relief towards the tail stock end, no more. Flip tool over and go reverse. Joe Pie's soap box topic. He has some good videos on it. Doing internal it really makes sense. ASIDE: I marked/etched all of my tapered taps so I know how deep to go. Seems like that should come with taps. Had to buy a gauge to measure them I recall.

That plug looks really, really nice. And the fact that you left the initial size of the hex stock will come in handy, since this is a relatively fine thread and bigger grip means EF will have where to grip it. Really fun project to watch.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who has an oops now and again.

Tom; Had a chuckle when I saw the "Kangaroo Thread" reference on the sketch. About best way to describe it. Whitworth's can be a PITA. I have owned several MGB's and although almost all the bolts on the car are SAE, the engineers at the factory had to keep one Whitworth reverse thread bolt just for old times sake. I almost busted a gut trying to get that darn bolt out the first time. Finally decided I would try the old, give a bit of a tighten to break the rust, trick and the bolt spun out as nice as you please. After a few moments of judicious swearing, I made sure to remember where that bolt was from then on. I am planning to make it up your way from SoCal one of these days and hope to be able to stop by and say hi. Regards; Ron Kluwe

RCH 🤭 what a great universal standard

Tom, that had to be the nicest odd part I've ever seen, thank for serving up a fine meatloaf..

Mr Dumbass!!!, I guess Mr Wizard is on holidays. Great vid as always Tom, I really like how you professionals stuff up "on purpose" just to educate us on how to recover from brain farts. Thanks for all you do....love yer vids. Cheers, Peter.

Great video - highly entertaining.

Wow Tom, nice save. I would have panicked and probably scrapped the part. Nicely done. Wish I could have made it to the open house, but it's a long trip from Massachusetts. Maybe next time. Funny, I've been right by Benicia. I did some work in Sacramento a few years back, and on a couple of free weekends, took the Caltrans train to Richmond, to connect with BART. into SF. Really nice area. The multi tool setup on the DRO is interesting. Maybe you could explain that more sometime? Thanks, Bill

Great Video man. I use to love to work on Brass. When I use to do the O-Ring slots I use the round end cutter. I found that when I made a square back/inside like you made the O-Ring had to stick out more. Have you notice that.

Another great video Tom. I wish I could get a slightly bigger lathe and a DRO would be great too.

BSB is British Standard Bicycle , often used on crank hubs and the like. Good useful fine thread but really easy stripped of careless.

Hope you had a nice open house weekend. Looking forward for your chip control episode. Thanks Mehmet

Thanks’ Tom, Yet another outstanding vid! Nice to be back! As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~

Hi Tom Great video I said it for you at 38 mins lol Best John

Doink!

Tom great video keep up the good work!

another great video, thanks

another great video was a bit lost last night without it not much on you tube to watch PFG pretty flipping good

I remember it was 1980 when I hear the term RCH. The shop boss told me a story of finding a secretary of the correct specification and describing how he needed to measure one. She left and came back with one. I've been told it was triangular and 3 mils

You were fashionably late, Tom, but the meatloaf was excellent!

Great video. I like the use of the DRO for different tooling. I heard an interesting bit about BSBT and BSPT Sometime ago, I was reviewing specs on a old piece of equipment were I was working. It was made in Germany, had all metric threads except for outer ends of the hydraulic hoses that attached to pipe, they were BSPT? I ask another engineer at work about it (he likes to work on old British cars and motorcycles) He said some manufacturers prefer BSPT because they are less likely to leak or "wick" because of the shallow taper.

Hi Tom, thanks for coming through with a meatloaf i always look forward to it. michael

Hey Stan, warm up the grinder.....We're gonna try iron! :-) I swung by and knocked but no-one home.....missed the open house! Nice recovery. There was very little room for error from the get-go. Colin

Great video Tom, nice job on the plug and enjoyed seeing the Oxen onsite. Was well worth the wait though I am sure globally there were households where "Honey, I think youtube is broken, there is no Sunday meatloaf" or even "Summats wrong with this basstud youtube!!" could be heard echoing throughout..... :)

Another great vid Tom! Even with the "Dumbass Moment" LOL! Good save though. Whitworth was quite the guy. Invented the screw machine, An engine, and as he applies to my world he invented what was probably the most accurate rifle of the late 1800s. Instead of having a round bore with rifling cut into it, it had a twisted hexagonal bore and fired a bullet that was the same shape. extremely accurate but it never caught on. Couldnt convince the military to buy it but it became fairly popular in the long range shooting matches of the day.

Awesome work Tom! Nice recovery :) Damn BSB thread... I'm glad we got that sorted. I didn't think about a thread relief. Good stuff. I have a 1/8 BSPT tap, so you can keep yours and never use it again. I find that if you tap down to the second or third thread from the end of the tap, it usually makes for a nice, tight fit. Thanks again - it will truly be like an early Christmas. I will post an 'install' video as soon as it arrives. I can't wait!

Hey Tom Thanks for showing the "doink" and how to repair, nice to know it happens to a pro! FYI...loving the lathe DRO and I sit watching with envy...LOL ATB Chuck

Hi Tom, Meatloaf is not just to be eaten on Mondays, it's good on any day of the week. Threading that close from a shoulder is always a little nerve wrecking... The fuzz on the tip of the cutting tool is confusing as where the tip really is, a little jet of air often helps to chase that fuzz so the visual sync. operates better. As always a good machinist falls back on his feet and keeps on. I think I could easily get used to California, here near Montreal it's still sooo cold for that far into spring. Thanks for sharing, Pierre

Nice work.

Tom, Always look forward to the meatloaf. PFG to dumb ass all in the same episode. Very nice recovery too. Thanks for sharing your time and talent. All the best. Chuck.

Nice job Tom, you always go that extra mile on your jobs. I really like the angle sets Shadon HKW is making. Matt

Anybody an do a good job, but it takes a craftsman to fix a screwup… ;) Well done!!

I always use a 45 degree chamfer on a 60 degree thread, read somewhere that's called a "Higby" prep? Works good and resembles what is on most "factory" fasteners

Well nice" but as I see on Adams video 3 thumbs down! Why? What was to dislike? A large amount of time & effort go's into this kind of production, & unpaid, these guys have forgotten more than some of us will ever know. 3 extra likes from ,my wife, & two sons. Roll on next week.

always called the center gauge/thread tool thing a "Fish" LOL I sure like that mitutoyo set you have, have to add that to my want list!

Hey Tom, Your meatloaf is a day late but fortunately, it's not dried out. That extra sauce did wonders! I got to give it to you, man! You have a knack of bailing your "nut" out of the fire! :-) Why do the British have their own threads? Why are we Imperial while most of the world is metric? Where am I going with this? I guess we (as the human race) are just an odd lot. Thanks for yet another yummy meatloaf! Regards, Oxen Dave

When I started it was all 55 degree BS Whitworth - BS Fine - BS Pipe. Then around 1960 New Zealand converted to the American 60 degree NC - NF - NP standards. Not content with that we ended up metric in the 1980's and here we stand. Not to many metric lathes around then so we learned the joys of 127t gears and running lathes backwards. Hard luck if the lathe didn't have a reverse! Much pulling on chucks!

RCH! My side is splitting if that's what I think it is. Didn't think you had it in you.

Tom, Just put a blob of "precision" hot glue on top of your kurt vice jaws, that'll take up the space needed for the small squares! :-)

Thanks for another great Video, interesting precision work. Note. A Whitworth 55° thread, top slide setting (which you didn't use so it doesn't matter!) is 27° instead of 29.5°. Thanks for another great Video, interesting precision work. Regards, Matthew

Those tricky 55 degree threads, they can put you off your game but a real craftsman can "out trick" them. Now that you have done one, there will be no stopping you, not! ATB chris

Tom Hang on to that BSP tap for when you restore that Rolls Royce or Jaguar you've been longing after ( fuel, oil and brake line fittings ). Then you'll need some BSF ( fine Whitworth ), BSW ( course Whitworth ) taps and dies as well, for the engine, transmission and suspension. Plus some Whitworth ( W ) and British Standard ( BS ) wrenches as well, which are based on the bolt dia, not logically nut size like SAE / AF. How they could use " Standard " in the names is beyond me. I read somewhere Packard engineers in Detroit in the 1940's, faced with the prospect of building the Rolls Royce Merlin under licence, looked at the Whitworth threads used, and said " Thanks, but no thanks !! ". " We'll use UNC, UNF and UNEF. " Aren't we glad they did ? Spare a thought for our X-Ray fabricator down here, who looks like he's working with a British-built medical X-ray. Just like the British car scenario - he's got no choice. If he had a choice, he be like me - UNC, UNF or Metric ! Regards

Damn Tom, you got my sphincter clinching and pulse elevated a few times in this video!!

PFG = Pretty Finely Ground Perfectly Flat Grind

Aww man .... I measured 4 different vices, thought I had good sizing on those .. *sigh*

Sharpie on lathe is up side down. Fluid must be available but likely not. Oil is bad. Such is life.

Gday Tom, Another meatloaf I haven't seen yet ! All these tools you have, I feel like the Joker - where he says (where does he get all these toys ?) Anyway those Starrett thread guages are great !! - never seen anything like them - I would like some so I'll google them. Cheers, Pete...

Great Video. Wonder what you got in mind for the tool box..? I just brought a tool box for myself wish i paid $77 mine was $430 lol Great to see your helping a out a Aussie fella. great job

sm vice grips one of my top 10 hand tools rch yes sir

Enjoyed the process , it kept me interested . One thing that always irritates me being a dumb a.. is why 28 BSP are in all my [2] metric tap`n die sets? They must be popular ? Cheers

Nice job on the 'Plug Nickel' job. In these parts that is Whitworth-less as who has tooling for that stuff? My Grandpa and I used to work on old MG's and Triumphs and they were loaded with those oddball threads, lots of workarounds and swearing but we always prevailed.

ahh British Standard Brass thread, just to help confuse you

Hey. Nice attempt at threading, but you're no Adam Booth :)

Hi, Tom. so your saying not make the thread tools perfect and square??? nice save!

Have you thought about doing this: i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab142/hondawhitefox/DSCN0710.jpg to one of those duster cans so that you aren't throwing them away when you want them for those times you don't wanna start up the air compressor? I have seen re-fillable aerosol cans around but I would imagine the flow rate from the valve on the top would be less than ideal.

Nissan is another vehicle to find BSPT. Austin Motor Company partner, hence BSPT. Oddly Toyota partner was GM... hence the old Land Cruiser six (FJ40 & FJ60) will look familiar to old Chevy mechanics, so a Chevy HEI distributor fits but swap drive gears (they look almost identical, but are not) Best vehicle... Saab. Mixture of Whitworth, USA, and Metric hardware.

Like 7:30!

The knife you carry, what brand is that and where can I find one just like it?

Nice to see that we all make mistakes from time to time ;-) In regards to DROs, is there anything that can be added on the tailstock for depth/blind holes as a secondary z-axis? Just curious.

using a marker on an oily surface is not only infuriating when it doesn't work, it ruins the marker for life. If I had a marker for every time someone destroyed one this way well... I WOULDN'T HAVE TO BUY MARKERS ALL THE TIME >:C

I'm curious, why use a tap follower and tap wrench? just putting just putting tap in the tail stock and turning the chuck by hand is a no-no?

hi was wondering ,,,I seem to get trouble parting...was wondering about a vid on parting a piece of 3.5" steel? :)

HelloTom, I have a query over your Monday Night Meatloaf 29 where you do not put a radius on the crest on the thread which is normal for Whitworths threads.I would normally do this using a chaser which is made from an insert from a Coventry diehead mounted on a handle and used on a toolrest mounted in a tall post. I obtained a number of these inserts from a flea market sale and could supply you with ono but I don't know what TPI you're likely to use, if ever, for Whitworth thread again. Should you have a need for one I have that particular thread pitch I would send you one if you let me know. Bren

What? Wait. Stan hasn't made you a 55°/35° square for grinding Whitworth thread tools? What is he doing with his time? ;-)

22:50 ... Pretty Fine Gal... is it? is it? ,... uh oh oh,... Pesky Fire Goblin, no? Pulsed Field Gradient, Probabilistic Fault Grading, Performance Fishing Gear, Playboy For Geeks,... oh I give up, What is it?

PS if you don't call yourself a dumbass at least once a week then you don't actively practice this trade LOL