Wes, I haven’t any idea what your working on but anyone with any common sense should realize your one hell of a long way to what’s considered a mechanic. I find your videos great information, not to mention your sarcasm. I’m here in central Illinois just south of Champaign so I’m very familiar with the problems of Illinois weather. Lee Bretzlaff

Wow, this is the info on scraping I have been looking for. Thank you so much for sharing.

have to say, between you, Brian an tony, I learn tons from your videos. thank you putting time and effort into providing engaging content.

Can't wait to see the follow-up too! Great video Wes. Thanks for sharing it.

The point you make at 15:53 .. love it .. reminds me of when I read "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" and it clicked about making a perfectly flat reference from 3 plates and from that you can make perfect 90' angle plates etc .. it's all about the reference surfaces.

Nice, I like it. Good design.

great job wes i love your design of the adjustable foot. simple looking design but takes a clever fella to come up with it.

Very clever replacement to the original tube design and I like the added capability your improved King-Way gives. Kudos to you, Wes! Cheers, Gary

Your version of the Kingway tool is very nice love the Swingable Cameras Accessory arm you used @Watch Wes Work

Very interesting video Wes.

Great design improvements, appreciate you sharing it!

Very well done Wes ,simple and looks to be a very useful tool. I am currently rebuilding my south bend and sure could use one. As it is I have to learn to scrape!!! That said if you could supply a drawing in pdf format or another common form it would greatly benefit me as I am approaching 70, I don’t have much time to figure out , let alone build them so a drawing would greatly help. If you want to sell the drawing or the tool let me know, as I said I would greatly appreciate it. I love the way you considered building a tool that works on small v ways like south bend. Thank you very much for any help in this. Bill

This video concludes my binge watching of the entire Watch Wes Work back catalog. It’s been a ride. Wes, I know you’ll probably never see this comment, because that’s how KZfaq notifications be, but your change in tone has been interesting. Your earliest videos are quite didactic, interesting nonetheless, but in your newer stuff you let your cynicism and wit shine and it really helps lighten the mood. I’m looking forward to what you have up your sleeve next. Maybe in another 4 years you’ll be rebuilding jet engines or restoring electron microscopes.

Nice job on the machine design elements, it looks like they made the assembly easy. From what you describe with the original version of the tool your 2 piece design for the tube looks like a big improvement.

I came back for a fresher on your design of this tool

Very, very impressive. Nice work Wes.

I still like your idea When I get time I’ll build one

I might would add some sort of positive stop feature to the adjustable base rods. Something like a threaded rod with trunions. It is critical that the distance between your rods with the ground bushings does not change during your measurements and it seems that a careless heavy touch could likely alter yours with only the friction from the lock handle holding against the long leverage from the arms to the ways. Otherwise looks great to me!

Good job Wes. Thanks for taking the time to share that. I like the way you made that ball joint I've been thinking on the easiest way to make those. I'll consider that design.

Good stuff man. I also just built my version of the king way. I got to study one in person at one of Richard's classes, and I went ahead and made the tube out of 4140 HT like the original, but now I may copy your design for the foot rest. Cheers!

Wow I'm impressed by your design. impressive

I see this as so SIMPLY GENIUS

Thanks for the great video Wes! I really enjoyed it!

Quality doesn't have to be complicated or unreasonably expensive, if you supply the elbow grease. Top shelf build of the Wes Way tool! :-)

Very nicely done. You can download a copy of the original patented sketches for the Kingway Alignment tool. The slit tube foot can be mounted slit down or slit up.

Been holding off making a variation Wes' when might part 2 be ready for our viewing pleasure :-) I share your view on the tube rest limitations - still trying to think of a simple solution with less pats than your fine example. All the best Mat

Very cool! Brilliant design!

Nicely done Wes! ATB, Robin

Wes, Very nice work again. Lever handles are a nice touch. _Dan_

Very good, thoughtful work- excellent actually (and you are so young!). No doubt that you will do very well and be very successful,...hopefully you will find the time to make more video about your modifications of this device. Will you use two crossed vials? I realize that you have already done far more than most people- (many of us contribute nothing except complaining). Thank you, Mr Johnson I appreciate very much your contributions! -Rov

Nice redesign on the horizontal guide bar. I'm also collecting parts for mine. I'll be interested in what you use for levels I looked into the Geier & Bluhm 20sec/division. A little pricey. And the ones Richard had we're nicer than what they offer now. Also, the ring under the ball was just a big inner ball bearing race. Really like your approach on things. Keep it up.

I just saw one identical to that on Sunday! ;-) Good job, love the design.

Did part 2 get deleted? Or is it ‘still in production’? This was a very good video, thanks!

at least you could get out of your head and make it real! I think you could sale a lot of them .it's nice of you to share your plans .great job

I like this Wes . I have got to build one . use on my machines.Thanks for sharing.

I'm in the process of making one now. Nice job.

Hi Great tool, a good old handmade thumbs up to you, would love to have one to check and adjust my lathe and mill. all the best.

vary nice, Wes i like your use of spherical washers Thanks,ron

very nice design, thanks for sharing

Great video , clear and concise thank you

Hey Wes. Did you ever do a follow up to this? I'd love to build one of these myself.

thanks for sharing. looking forward to seeing it in action.

Way to take things up a notch. Great job.

Nice design Wes. I guess you could put on a few simple rubber o-rings to stop any sudden movement when using your adjusting knobs.

Excellent.

I like it, Looks great! Thumbs up

Wishing we had got part 2, any chance of that happening?

Nice mods Richard should be proud of you :)

Patiently looking forward to Part Two of the Wes Way tool now that the weather is turning. Sorry, but Johnson Way doesn't have quite the same ring to it!

bruh. i been watchin you videos. you da man!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for this, building a king way is a upcoming project for me. I wonder if you will end up liking/hating the single knob adjust after some use. I would love a parts list or diagram.

Brilliant!

You should have registered it. It’s a good design. And you have this down load dating it. So it would be hard for someone to patent it.

Nice piece of work. Your improvements are definite improvements not mere changes: they actually address and remedy shortcomings in the original design. Hurry up with the levels. I want to see how you attacked the fine adjust problem.

Have you found the 6" foot to be too long? Thinking about making my own attempt at this but probably would want a smaller foot to be able to sample a greater range of shorter ways.

What happened to part 2?

How well does it brake down for transport? Will you need a special case? How long does it take to assemble and calibrate for service? It does look like something I could use, nice design.

It's been a year! I suspect these things come easily to you, so they don't hold your interest. I sure would like to see PART 2 incorporating the vials / levels. Thanks

Super awesome Wes! Do you notice more hysteresis in the setup than what's in the indicator itself? Meaning, does the reading at a given point change very much when you arrive there sliding in one direction than it does if you approach the point from the other side (sliding in the opposite direction)?

Excellent. Subscribed

Thanks for sharing!

Calling Dr. Johnson. Brian Bloc has a glass scale question over on his channel. Might be in your wheel house of wacky machine repair.

First class, yet again.

Awesome, I want one but the real King Way prices are stupid

Awesome now I want to make one

Think we'll ever get a part two Wes or have you moved on since some of the machines have been sold?

Wes, if you're wondering why this video is getting a bunch more traffic, it was mentioned in one of @abom79's latest videos.

Hello, why is sviwel foot needed? Why not leave ball end there to get single point contact?

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very nice how long did that take to design

I saw this mentioned on another channel-Abom maybe?

Looks legit.

Could you release the dimensions of the pieces you cnc'd?

Now you can make these worth keeping the Tree vmc ;-)

Hi Wes, I thought you might want to check out this level mounting idea, about halfway down the page: metalscraping.com/w2-Preview.html. The basic idea is that the level vial is mounted on a base that pivots by way of a micrometer head, such that you can get a direct-ish reading of the relative droop at a certain spot by just re-leveling the vial and reading the micrometer head. Not necessarily a good idea in this case, but maybe grist for the mil :)

In testing a lathe why not let the ball ride on the only surface that has no wear, the machined surface in between the back inverted v where the tailstock rides on and the flat the saddle rides on?

Where’s part two? I couldn’t find it.

Pardon my French, but that is fanfuckingtastic!

Mooooaaaareee

Do you have any design docs or cad files?

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a BobCAD toolpath?

This is a very graphic video.