The bailout sw. is used by the pilot to turn on red lights at the other crew members positions to signal them to get out now. Flip it up to actuate it. Down is a safety off. It is used on the larger aircraft such as a B- 52 or any multi position aircraft. Just so you know I am a retired USAF Crew Chief type mechanic.

Great video, I laughed when you pulled out the separate metric ruler for us "special folks"

Hi Tom, The bailout switch would be a switch to a signal lite let the paratroopers know that they were over the drop zone. I've seen similar switches in the DC-3s that I used to work on.

The air tool is a tire buffer used to rough up the inside surface of the tire to apply a patch. The reason for the Jacobs chuck is for easy swap out of the buffing head.

Tom, I think you might be surprised with the last lapping plates you showed . . . Seriously ! Tin, or babbit mix can cut some very hard materials. Tin is the premier material for lapping and polishing stones as hard as Sapphire ! ! ! * When you said it might be good for lapping copper, I was a bit shocked . The right combination of lap material & lapping compound / polishing compound is the ticket. Considering that plexi-glass as a lap, with cerium oxide as a polishing compound will polish quartz (remarkably); I think you're underestimating the value of soft laps having incredible potential for cutting hard material ! Congratulations on your tool finds :D ! Thanks for sharing the meatloaf !

Nice finds and great kit. Thank for sharing

Tom, you went back to my favorite meatloaf recipe with this one!

Lockbox was actually disappointing. I wanted to see what that book had. Man, I must be getting old.

Just before 10:00 he mentions using Kroil. Surprised he'd be using over-priced over-hyped products. Gave the video a thumbs up for the heirloom micrometer. Really appreciate such tools. I have a hammer head over 2 lbs that was forged by my Great, Great, Grandfather on my father's side. I used it every day for the 12 years I was in the shop. The handle itself has been changed many times but the one on it now is still a handle my father attached. Now my father has passed but the hammer is still with me (despite my younger brother...nuff said) and I still use it on occasion.

Love that meatloaf Tom! More cool stuff to show off. I used one of those tool grinders about 30 years ago on 1/4" carbide cutters when I made embossing and debossing type for date codes on food cans.

Great stuff Tom,,, as usual,, you are the man when it comes to variety and technical detail

it's good to go back and re-watch the old videos

Nice tool finds. Very nice of you to find a Deckel for me. Love you new scraping tool, nice way to reduce the tunnel carpel pressure. Thanks for sharing your finds.

It's always nice chatting with folks about a favorite subject- machining!

Hi Tom! Great video, as always! Maybe you'll find this useful during scraping : in our lab, for the most precise job (>50 dots\inch) we recently tested fluorescent dye as spotting dye. Scraping is done in a dark room under a UV light. Can't call it comfortable for worker or fast method, but contrast and readability of the slightest spots is excellent.

Nice! Been missing these

Great Meatloaf Tom, love the slide hammer pinpoint scraper! ATB, Robin

I got such a good laugh out of the book safe. Thank you for sharing

Copper hammers such as that were supplied with many British sports cars to remove wire wheels. Thor was a common brand.

Wow, nice score on the Skyhook, I have one that I thought I got a good deal on at $300, $30 is a screaming deal. They are great on the lathe and mill.

I love that scraper you made! LOL! "ox pecker" XD I love it!

Great big serving of meatloaf tonight! Thank you for sharing Tom. Matt C

Tool naming suggestion and slogan. The OxTools Pecker...... the only tool to use when you need to get into a tight spot! LOL ..... just couldn't resist that one ....cheers.

Tom, love the sound effects!

Good meatloaf Tom, lots of cool stuff!

Richard will be here next week. This will be our second class with Rich. He is indeed a treasure trove of information. I have learned a lot from him too. BTW nice triangle casting. I will quiz Richard about Aqua Wash the ink you show.

speaking of those aluminum laps, got me thinking, if one takes a clean flat piece of Al like that one, charge it with particular diamond grit, and then goes and anodizes it, then the anodizing will grow "out" of the surface just as much as it grows "in", basically enveloping and incorporating the grit into the anodizing layer, as the diamond wears, the grit is harder than anodizing, it will abrade it and expose new grit, that might be the mechanism behind those expensive laps and since I own and operate a small anodizing line, I just might go ahead and try making one of those, see what comes of it... granted mine will be regular anodizing, not hard, still, good idea for a project

Oh I had the same exact idea for the finishing scrape (pecking) with a very refined edge. I also wanted to put a rotating pivot on the weight with a handle so you don't have to grip the weight but a perpendicular wood handle (that rotates), that can also decrease the shocks and should be easier on the wrists because you grip it perpendiculary to the weight sliding axis. Great to see the thing is actually practical at all but aiming it seems to require a bit of a practice.

Now you need a table with a bushing in the center for your gasket cutter, we always had allpax ones in the shipyards, very versitile tool. Thanks Tom

that little pin point scraper is great.

When you need to escape - the red cover guides the eye. When you look at the switch head - see the green ? Put into sunlight and look at it in darkness. Radium spot to glow at night. I have a number of them but not with that cover. Mine from B36 and B47 and B52(early). Pipe flange gasket cutter - all Round. I suppose some are donuts with holes and are small... Hoist is way cool - take a chuck out - chuck an eye in the jaws -and extract - wing to rolling table or a hanger. Nice indeed.

wow! Seriously good video. You made some innovative steps for scrapping that should be noted by us wanna-bes. A new, mess-controlling spotting dye, a new tool for "pecking" fine points and FLEXIBLE scrapers. Mess and repetitive motion injury are not small things and I applaud and thank you for bringing some these ideas out. Solution, techniques and doing are what bring me back thirsting for more. Thank you Mr. Wizard!

I like your small hammer scraper. I wish I would have thought it. :-)

Worked on Deckle mills and then Deckle/Maho CNC mill very solid machines!!!!

The bailout switch is essentially identical to some WWII USAAF examples that followed my dad home after the war, including the luminescent tip on the bat. He didn’t get the cool guards, though.

That would be the first book I would pick off the shelf!

Tom, always enjoy your videos.

Used to use yellow artist paint for setting gears in helicopter transmissions and tail rotor gear boxes. Was easier to read than the blue and washed off easily.

Thanks for the tasty meatloaf.

Nice finds. I love the little chain hoist but the book is the one that got me interested as soon as I noticed it on your table. Most likely we both would also be interested in the "Aluminum composites" title from the same "author" still on sale at Amazon 😁

That's a great little design you have there Tom! I have the perfect name for the little spot scraper. Tom's Little Pecker. 😁

Tasty meatloaf! I think you might be over detailing the scraping operation though. I struggled with the same thing, you think its a super precise process but it is really more of an averaging out. As machinists we focus on the material we remove as that is what is important for what we have left. In scraping it is a mix of what we remove and what we leave that makes the finished result. I find it a different mindset for me.

Bailout switch is very useful. I hit it when I left my corporate job.

liked the slide scraper, I know Richard King. smart guy.

Interesting video, thank you.

keep up the good work mate, always entertaining :)

Hi Tom, thank you for creating such enjoyable and informative videos. You have inspired me to a have a go at a few things myself. My first project is, surprise, surprise a welding table. This will be my workbench for everything. I bought your book which arrived just the other day and I thought that it was fate as there is an entire section devoted to “flame straightening”. The inch thick table top I have has a moderate bow in it. It is about 6 feet long, but 3 feet wide. I read what you wrote and will give flame straightening a go (although with such a big piece of steel plate, I am not sure what the results will look like.) If you could do a video on flame straightening, that would be fantastic. The second thing I would like your advice on is how to hold, drill an tap a sphere. I want to replace the handles on my drill press. The only “out of the ordinary” machinery I have is a drill press, so no DRO to find the center of the sphere and I am not sure how to effectively clamp the steel balls either. Any tips would be great. Cheers, Al

Great Mrs ox for snap on wrench

Nit, but Prussian Blue is a material: ferric ferrocyanide. It forms an extremely fine colloidal precipitate when it's made, and then filtered off and used as a pigment in inks and paints.

Love me some spicy meatloaf.....you definitely have higher class flea markets than we have in our area. Adam will love the grinder.

i want that vice! I've been looking for one for ages :-)

Did you notice the indent in the container for the centre hole of the tape rested inside. Sweet.

That toggle is out of drag car (quite possibly re-purposed as it a common part in aircraft panelling). Usually sits next to the parachute deployment toggle. We're talking 50s and 60s era stuff and later. Aircraft tend to have hard/soft pulls and levers for deployment of emergency ejection/canopy off initiation. Usually in yellow and black stripes, or, rarely, red.

that scraping tool, I have had an idea very similar for "pecking" off welding spatter. the little BBs that are stuck to metal after welding. I normally grab a flat chisel and a hammer, but I got to looking at a slide hammer and thought, that would be perfect! Your application is probably alot better suited though, it doesn't take long to peck of spatter, scraping you are probably doing that all day long :D

👍thanks for another one.

Right on Tom, its a steel RULE not a ruler. As a veggi I really enjoy your meatloaf!! Kindest regards Joe.

The name for your tool is obvious: the Lipton PickOx. We used to make the same type if slide/hammer unit for lapping split-ground stripper inserts in diework. That tool-your PickOx-will be popular, I assure you. Nice going Tom.

Tom, great group of items here. I just picked up a 14x18 cast iron plate. Would love to see some video of scraping, when you do it. Thanks!

Hammer might be a Thor . Made in Birmingham England. And still to this day!! Nothing like British tool. Great meatloaf we had a lil vice identical to your yellow one at tech sadly it had been butchered

I have cut literally thousands of gaskets in the shipyard with gasket cutters. We had the allpax brand.

That's the sort of book that attracts me too, though it would be well camouflaged on my bookshelf at least, amongst the other machining books.

The hammer scraper makes so much sense. A couple thoughts: given that you don't need to push into it maybe it doesn't need to be so long. And then I would try to use it tapping toward myself to make it even easier to see fine detail of what I was working on. (My perspective from working lately under a magnifying ring light probably.)

Stroking with the New OxTool Pecker....... That or the OxTool Rorschach Blot Scraper.

Heptane will remove the sticky from the tin without ruining the ink on that sticker. Coolest item you bought.

I was an F-15 mechanic in the USAF and the ejection seat related controls were always black with like yellow diagonal stripes. Maybe that is an ejection switch from an earlier era when men were men and didn't need fancy colorful caution tape levers to eject. ;)

The "Bailout" switch was probably to tell crewmembers to get outta the airplane. It probably lit a light or lights somewhere else than the pilot's cockpit. Never mind, someone already answered it. I worked on Phantoms and they had something like this to tell the backseater it was time to leave.

Who makes those tweezers with the knurled handle? I would like to get a set.

I've got a nice alpax gasket cutter. Solid bronze cutter body. It was destined for the scrap pile so I saved it. Unfortunately all the attachment s made it to the trash before I could get to them. Maybe you are interested in it tom. I am local and would let you have it if you want. I met you once before at the studio open house. Let me know

i could be wrong but that air die grinder, could be a tire tool, i seen some like that, for grinding the rubber on the inside to smooth it out for a patch, they would put a rubber hose on the exhaust port, to keep rubber dust from collecting inside the tire

thanks for the video,,

I want your tweezers Tom. LOL

Huh, I have lots of litho ink around (I'm another printmaker, though haven't had a press for a while). I might have to try that out next time I try scraping

I wonder if the gentleman didn't work for Naval Public Works at Alameda. My dad was a machinist (apprentice in the early 60s) at the Norfolk Public Works Center, Norfolk NOB,NAS. They did work all over the base.

Oh Look, a hammer! Imagine my surprise.

...and Thomas Edison's last roll of electrical tape. Good haul overall.

Awesome - a whole hour of meaty goodness. I have a sneaking suspicion that grinder is going to Robrenz

I think you explained this once. Scale is used for drawing since you are drawing to scale. Ruler is used for measuring physical objects.

Laughed at the video description, it's certainly descriptive :))

"bailout" switch, it's body is classified as naval arming and it's for emergency crew and passenger warning to GTFO of the aircraft. The really fun or critical switches had holes for copper .030 lockwire to hold the red cover down to prevent accidental actuation.

The tin that tape came in does look worth saving.

Die grinder gives off that industrial dentist vibe

I like the Ox-Pecker.I've been thinking on making one based on an automatic center punch,maybe even with a trigger pull......

GREAT MEATLOAF ---- YUM , YUM !!!

That "die grinder" is like a high speed tire buffer. It would've come with that chuck when new.

A partner who is on the outlook for tools for you, how she's a keeper.

if the switch is original, then I'd guess it's for letting the crew (bomber?) know that it's time to leave their post - via the windows!

The bailout switch would be helpful to activate the passenger ejection seat when the nagivator insists we pull over and ask for directions ;-)

i once watched a video on a pneumatic engraver i wonder if something like it could be used for scraping

How about using a solenoid to drive the weight on the Ox-Pecker?

@oxtoolco You can get imported collets for the SO on ebay uk, search for Alexander collets, about $15/ea. If you need to fill any sizes that might be a way to go if you don't make your own from scratch. Deckel tooling and machines are second to none...nice stuff...I saw that on craigslist...glad it went to a worthy home....😀But seriously Mr. Gizzard, leave some of the good tools for the rest of us! LOL (j/k, I enjoy watching your tool buying, you shop for quality stuff 😀)

Financial bailout switch?

Die grinder is for patching tires

The quality level of Craigslist listings in NorCal is far superior to SoCal Craiglist listings.

The "die grinder" looks like it was intended to be used as a drill all along. I'm thinking airframe fitters drill.

Thanks for the great meatloaf Buddy! But I am a big Guy and still hungry!

Try TESA #4970 2 faced tape. I have found it to work great. Thanks for the great video.

Scraper tool name: Cordless high-tech precision kinetic flatness implement.

KING OX slide PeKer odiously thanks for sharing

Build a bracket for your lathe tool post for that chain hoist for changing those monster lathe chucks you don't wanna lug around

Babe the Blue Ox Pecker