Interesting projects there, Mr! We have a fabricated angle plate at work, to square up large plates on the surface grinders, and it works just as fine as a solid one. Love the small angle-plate for toolgrinding, I will brazenly copy that one :)

Glad to see you back Tom! Most excellent meatloaf with lots of goodies. Looking forward to the other things you teased us with. ATB, Robin

A "productive sabbatical" is good for active minds, and you are certainly active! Glad you could break the silence and share your work. Exciting projects. I am a mini-pallet disciple especially interested in the new fixtures. I'll have my finger on the play button while I make some chips myself. Thanks sir. M'G

Sabbatical. The restorative value is incalculable. Thanks for taking yours. We all benefit.

Very nice to have you back! Best wishes on new work and personal projects.

Robin is a national treasure of knowledge. You, as well, Tom. To be a fly on the wall listening to the two of you brainstorm.

YOU"RE ALIVE!! First view of the video too! Good to see you back Tom!!

As a machine shop we gather and watch your videos even though some of us have been in a shop a while never amazes what one will learn.. thank you sir

Great idea for your small pallet Tom, using captive screws. I like your 123 blocks also. A2 good stuff.

POW!!! Tom Lipton appears outta the cloud of smoke. uses his magic to stimulate the creative part of the mind. love the adjustable V blocks see application for between centers boring bar those could be handy for a number of things

Welcome Back Tom...Tho i guess you really never left. I saw your video pop up and got excited like a kid all over again. couldn't wait to get home to check it out. Alway worth it.

Glad to see you back. I too went to see the eclipse (about a 2 1/4 hr. trip), was within a few miles (dumb luck) of the Eclipse center (the point where the Moon's shadow was almost perfectly symmetrical), was my first total and I was very much impressed.

I am so glad everything is ok, that you are back, and that there wasn't some personal crisis that kept you from contributing. Your work is consistently interesting and informative. I check your channel frequently and must admit that I was a bit concerned. I know about how work getting in the way. I can barely get a video out every 2 weeks these days. By the way, thanks for wearing my shirt. I am honored.

Welcome back. We. Misses you. Glad the press is back!

Kudos. Robin is a quality toolmaker, Herman Schmidt is top (although they don't sell much of the manual setup equipment, except for grinding) and AA gage makes great rotary. So much Moore self proving measurement!

Great looking tool maker's work there Tom! I enjoyed this episode.

Good to see You Tom. At our age any absence does tend to remind me of how much we appreciate the stuff you put up for us.

Great stuff! The Renzetti universal 1-2-3 blocks and the additional blocks for the mill pallet were especially interesting. Thank you Tom!

Tom I am glad to see you back and everything is alright. I will be watching for your upcoming videos. Sounds like you have some very interesting projects and I love your series, thoughts, teachings and machine shop humor.

Great projects Tom. I will have to properly accessorize my mini pallet setup now. Thanks again for bringing us along.

Good to see you back Tom with some nifty goodies to end the Meatloaf Drought.

Tom Terrific returns from the cone of silence! Glad all is well and nice to see you again.

I too was getting worried that something unfortunate happened. Great to have you back Tom! Enjoy life and explore something new everyday.

Glad to see you back & have lots to show and share with us! You've been missed!!! Your videos are always informative, educational, thought provoking, and relaxing. (At least to us 'nerds') Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Glad you are still with us. Great video on a somewhat esoteric subject, which you often venture into.

I was afraid you were suffering burnout as all of us have done in the past. Really good to see you.

Glad your OK! Great to see you again!

Thanks for the video. I think I can speak for all your subscribers when I say you've been missed. Really glad to see you!

really glad everything is OK! I've been away too and didn't notice though. you're the first place I look on KZfaq when I get time. thanks for all your time Tom!

What a welcome sight to see a new Meatloaf out!

Nice to see you back. looks like you have a plate full. looking forward to the new and old projects. Thanks for sharing Steve.

Was beginning to wonder if we should put out a missing persons bulletin ! Thought maybe Adam had exacted some sort of revenge for the chuck key you made for the 16 bash ! Last seen being stuffed into the glove box of a dodge ram by a giant ! Good to see you back Tom and even better is you have a swag of projects to share with us ! We are guaranteed to learn something thats for sure !

Happy to have another loaf. Thank you for taking the time!!

Tom your going to be a million dollar man some day ! Great ideas there .. Thumbs up.. Great to see ya ..

Can't wait to see you build the adjustable v blocks. And welcome back mate😀

Mr. Wizard... Welcome back! Great to see you... And Great to see everything is OK at the Ox Tool Works! As always... Thank you for sharing your time and so many talents. All the best. Chuck

Holy moely Tom! Working overtime on the meatloaf trays. These upcoming projects are intriguing. Looking forward to them.

Hi mate. OK, Buda enough contemplating now. Good to see you back, I thought you had chucked it all in.

Everyone in the world deserves a Retreat every so often. The pressure of making videos is intense. I am happy you retreated, and of course I am interested in the etching press.But I can wait. So welcome back!

Inspiring ideas! Thanks for sharing your gifts with the world.

Tom - My recommendation regarding heat treating your gage tolerance block is to have it cryogenically treated to convert the retained austenite into martensite. Otherwise there will be a natural conversion over time that will result in distortion because of the volume change.

Hello there Tom Lipton Esq Wow. You've really been busy and creating some real cool neat complicated and superb projects. Looking forward to seeing all the Machining work-in-progress Thanks for showing and sharing All the best aRM

Glad to have you back tom you are one of the best

Hi Tom , glad to have you back you were missed here in the U.K. Regards PARTSMADE

Good to see you again Tom!

Glad to see you're back for us tool making junkies! These projects are gonna be awesome to follow. Can't wait!

Really nice to have you back, Tom! Thanks for sharing with us! While your projects are so far out of the realm of my capabilities (hint hint- beginner project??) you're absolutely right that there's huge entertainment value!

Tom, I figured you were just taking some time off, but I was beginning to worry a little, glad you're back. Looks like you've been really busy and have some cool projects in the pipeline. Craig in Sunnyvale

Tom - this was a good one. Great technical info and really dig all those cool mini-pallet accessories!

Good to see you are back and doing well. It sounds like you had a good sabbatical leave.

Glad you are back and ok!!

Mr Lipton, please dont stay away so long again!

Good to see you back. Some great ideas goin on there.

Mmmmm, I do love the meatloaf! Nice to see you again Tom, there is not much that compares to your content, cheers!

Looking forward to following along with these new projects.

Glad you are back Tom!

Good to have you back, Stay Strong.

Good to see you back, Tom!

Man where have you been, I was worried about you.. Glad you are back... I know you are busy but missed you a lot .. thanks for the videos

liking that 123 block pattern with the relieved captive screw. i might make some of these myself

Hooray!! Good to see you Tom.

Tom, it's good to have you back. It looks like you have several interesting projects in the pipeline. I was hoping that you hadn't signed off forever. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the etching press progress. Thanks for the videos.

Good to see you back, hope all is well

Some beautifully made items, nice work.

Incredibly interesting and educational! I learn something (or more likely several things) every time I tune in. Thanks for doing these!

You have been busy.. many little projects kickin around there. Interesting stuff. :-)

Looking forward to the upcoming videos, thanks for showing! Those are projects many people in the machining world need at one time or another, as they are very useful.

Looking forward to seeing these projects. Thanks for giving an up-date.

Looking forwards to it all Tom Take Care

Was scrolling through my "watch later" playlist a couple days ago and saw some of your old videos and wondered where you were and when we'd see some new videos. Can't wait for the new videos to go live.

Hey Tom, glad you are back. Congratulations on the "challenge" at work.

Looking forward to seeing all of that

Welcome back you were missed.

Absolutely fascinated by metrology. My father was a machinist. Wish I had chosen it as my career.

Nice to have you back

Glad to see you back Tom. Really looking forward to those upcoming projects.

Wow! Well that was certainly worth waiting for. I think I am going to need to rest my brain now. Nice to have you back.

Sounds more like a sabbatical. Welcome back!

Mr Lipton apparently when he is "spiritual" retreat, his mind gives birth to wonderful projects, but I must admit that he was missed, in any case well returned.

Nice to see you back , looking forward to the etching press continuation.

Lots to digest there Tom, might have had a bit too much loaf in the one sitting. Plenty to think about, thanks for sharing . Always good to see your ideas develop. All the best mat

So glad to see you back up and running for public view.

Always fun to Catch up

Some more great ideas from a very wise guy, please keep them coming.

Glad you're back. Missed ya.

Glad to see you are back. Looking forward to seeing the upcoming projects.

You may have been "silent" but you were very productive!

Tom: Perhaps of interest re your surface plate level profiler, when I was senior repair tech at a since defunct cal lab I got tagged by our dimensional side to try to repair a surface plate profiler probe (they had dropped). The way it worked was heavy footed base like yours, but sensor was a multi-looped rectangular copper frame shape on a knife edge pivot on top and low end affected the inductance of two coils. Reading was differential inductance between the two coils. Tip one way copper loop moved toward one coil, it drops and other increases in inductance. Was VERY sensitive. As I recall read in millionths. Software did the plotting and would spit out a profile map. Don't recall the interface, but whole thing ran on a laptop.

Glad to see ya back!!!

Yes yes yes adjustable angleplate project!!

Good to see you're back! Next rime call if you'll out late!

Glad to see you back! I was getting concearned you were chained to the etching press and the wife wasn't going to let you do any other projects till you finished it! lol Clearly you have no shortage of projects.

I like your bearing design in your tailstock 4 jaw chuck

Glad you are back......

stay well and keep up the good videos I really enjoy them

What a comeback! I expect you will get lots of extra views of this video from people like me who get overloaded with that many new, interesting, clever, and useful ideas we have never seen or even considered before presented all at once -- how did that work again???

Wonderful that you're back! :-)

Some really nice work tom!

Glad you're back!

Looking forward to seeing all this come together! The Tubes been lacking quality fresh content lately, glad to see you back.