The new sign looks good I really like the patina job on it. Great tip on that cleaner thanks for passing that along.

What has 8 sides and needs three machinists to hang up? A sign in the OX Shop! LOL

That floor stripper really cleans up that gunky stuff in no time flat, thanks for the tip.

Cool Meatloaf Tom! I enjoyed watching three knuckleheads trying to hang a sign. Tom did a great job with the cut out. Lots of cool new tools this week. Looks like I better step up my hammer collection. Good tip on the floor cleaner. I'll have to check that out. Looks like it did a good job. I have a bunch of other Zep industrial cleaners I got for free from work. I think they are like the purple cleaner. Been wanting to try it on the machines as well. Thanks for the little shop tour. Cant wait to see the video on the new machine! Take care bud! Adam

Finally got to watch the second half of this meatloaf. Used to work for a helicopter company that hauled executives around. Had to try and keep the aircraft clean. Used a mild detergent of some sort on most of it, and WD-40 on the rotorhead. But the area where the engine exhaust blew onto the tail boom required ZEP. Strong enough to get the grunge off, but never took the paint off (poly urethane paint). But earlier, spent several years hanging around various airports. If you go to the hangars where the corporate jets are kept, you frequently see the pilots hanging around doing spot cleaning on their aircraft. Invariably they're using a spray bottle of 409. I used several bottles of 409 cleaning the 50 year old grunge off my Bridgeport when I got it.

I'm very glad that you liked the sign, Tom. My wife and I sure got a kick out of seeing it hung up in the shop! Really appreciate all that you do for this community.

Always interesting production.. The OXTolls sign is great. It's an «oeuvre d'art"

Hey Tom, Yes, meatloaf is always better the second day. Thanks for saving some! A few questions: Why would you want to saw off your Johnson? (Are you going into the vasectomy business?) Do the bad hammers hang around smoking funny stuff and littering the street with empty beer cans? I really like your sign! That guy really does some great work. Keith Fenner has done some similar stuff. Just for giggles, is that guy selling his lathe? (It's probably more than I can afford anyway!) Oh well . . . Regards, Dave

Thank you for your videos I'm getting towards my twilight years at 81 and can't spend so much time in the shop as I would like so enjoy watching others efforts. Many Thanks fron south Wales UK

Thanks for Meatloaf 33, Tom. Great as usual. I will have to try out Zep on my next cleaning project. A while back we painted a large mill (11' diameter table) for our local water district. It was caked with years of cutting oil, chips etc. We ended up buying Purple Power degreaser (bio degradable) in 5 gallon pails (about $26 each) and used a small airless sprayer to apply it. We dropped the floor with 6 mil visqueen and taped it down with duct tape. We covered the cylinders, electrical parts and motor with visqueen.It worked great! After we were finished we mopped up the degreaser with a commerical mop and bucket. We then hand applied TSP to remove the degreaser residue. It makes fast work of a dirty job, especially on larger machines.

LOL That is too funny getting the sign just right!

Holy Magic Sauce! That ZEP is excellent...thanks again for the videos. Aloha, Chuckie

Tom, Nice batch of meatloaf this week. Thanks for sharing your time and talent. Glad to see you finally got around to cleaning your Johnson. All the best Chuck.

Yum, leftovers !!! I had a feeling something was missing from my day yesterday. I'll bet those metric gage pins get some use. I've been using the Zep Industrial Purple Degreaser and it cuts just the same as the floor stripper you used. May be the same product with a different label on the jug. It will strip the paint if you leave it on too long. I also wipe everything down with a wet cloth after to get any remaining purple stuff off and neutralize it somewhat.

Geez Tom, You sprayed Zep on your Johnson & then rubbed it.......Brought tears to my eyes, you're a tougher man than me. Cheers, Peter.

Outstanding video ‘Tom’ I always look-forward to my Monday Night Meatloaf. As always thanks’ for taking the time to make this video, and I support this site. ~M~

Great channel. Much respect for your knowledge and skills!

Great stuff Tom. I especially liked the cleaning product review and the tour through the shop. I'll be looking in my area for tools as well. I'm always inspired when I watch what you all are doing.

We use Purple Power from O'Reilly Auto Parts for cleaning off the oils and grime on our machines. I like because there's no soak time. Spray on and wipe right off. Looks like about the same results as that ZEP floor stripper. I'm going to have to try that stuff too. Andy Maul

That sign looks terrific. I'm pretty sure Chuck's claw hammer came on the Mayflower. good tip on the Zep cleaner. I bet it might work as engine degreaser too.

Tom, I am a Woodturner who is slowly (very slowly) adding some metal spinning and general machining to my skillset. The steel spinning tools are for spinning non-ferrous metals, copper, pewter, aluminum and such. The bronze tools are for spinning ferrous metals. That is a nice little collection. I am very intrigued by the trim tool, usually when you see those holes down the shaft they are for using it with a second bar where increased leverage is needed, but I have never seen a trim tool setup that way. Please let us know if you find any more information on them.

Hi Tom, Cool video I like the Ox tool sign it looks like it would work well as a template to make a template for spraying logos on stuff... Angry, angry hammer looking ready to strike, maybe it were john Henry's steel drivin' hammer,,, lol And,,, big thanks out to John Markus for the Zep Stripper tip lots of cleaning power for a very reasonable price! Man I'm behind on watching vids.... I like your tool post grinder I have I think one size smaller one almost never used but acquired for very few bucks! Thanks for sharing this great variety.... :o] O,

At last, something I can do that you can't, (well you could very easily if you tried) metal spinning. I learnt to do it so I could make a part for a old barometer I was restoring. You don't need a spinning lathe, I used my Graduate wood lathe, but you could probably use you centre lathe if you wanted to, give it a go before passing on your tooling. An over-joyed viewer chris

Btw, just started getting into machining myself becauseof your vids, picked up a few flea market machinist tools this past weekend and video'd them. Flea Market Finds - Machinist Tools - Tooling - Canton TX

I too am a Simple Green fan and now a fan of this Zep stuff too. thanks! To clean gunk off of Wooden Furniture even rubbed on paint, try some furniture oil like liquid Gold, and rub with Ferry Fine steal wool. should also work good on gunky hammer handles. and it leaves the original Finnish too. thanks for sharing! Dennis

Hi Tom, my first reaction to beginning of the video was that there had to be another three stooges joke in there somewhere, but since you didn't hit your thumb with the hammer, nah.... Congratulations on the cutter grinder, looking forward to seeing all about that, and the progress on your horizontal band saw too. Great vid as always ...... Mike

Those soft faces on that lightweight hammer might well be made from the same poly-butyrate which gets used for screwdriver & chisel handles... Cheers, Eric

I can not wait to see what the new machine is.

Tom, Another tasty Meatloaf. I see that you enjoyed playing with your Johnson!

Hey Tom, good to see the MNM, even on Tuesday :). Just subbed recently, have gone back and watch all of your videos. Saw you comment about trying not to repeat the words "uhh" and "umm". Not sure who criticized you for that, but dang man, don't pay attention to those. Your channel is popular because of your skills, tools, projects, but mostly because of you and your personality, and the way you present things in an easy to understand way, Keep up all the good videos and Don't change a thing!

A new cutter grinder huh? Good, I need a pair of scissors sharpened so I can run with them...lol Good meatloaf even with the apprenti. ;-) Colin

Yet another great video. So your buddy is going for some of that rocky mountain high. Metal spinning is fascinating to say the least, part art part industrial. I once watched a show where this company was spinning street light posts from aluminum tubes. Just when are you going to cast your lead hammer like mrpete and Keith Rucker? Keep on burning em and I will keep on watching.

Another good video Tom, I've learned a lot while watching you channel. Which one of you guys was Moe, I used to love watching them when I was a kid. I'll have to get some of the Zep cleaner, it worked really good in such a short time. See ya Mark

Better late than never. Thanks for the vid Tom. I don't know where you find the time to do these. I saw how long it took to hang the sign you must work more efficiently alone lol.

So since you showed mean hammers can you show average and standard deviant hammers next? :-) Eric

You guys assumed the plywood sheet was level. Should have checked it first. Still, your new sign would never look right unless it was aligned with the edges of the plywood.

I was wondering how many machinists it takes to change a lightbulb. I guess it's three.

Hi Tom, That friendly jewelers hammer also looks like the hammers that are used for repairing sheet metal body parts of the cars. By the way there is no mean hammer, they are just innocent victims which are tortured by mean hammer owners. :) Another tasty dish thanks. Mehmet

I like the gage pin acquisition a lot. I have always thought the black anodized ones were the nicest. I never had enough presence of mind to spend the extra amount when I bought mine though unfortunately.

That's a cool set of metric pins you got there. Metal spinning... cool.

Tom, I think that when hanging something that close to an edge, square is more important than level. The eye is much better at noting a width difference than it is on angle differences. Eire way, it's a first class sign! Is the first mean hammer you showed named "Spike"? That quick release leg vise was neat! Never seen one like that before. Perfect for blacksmithing when you have your hands full of hot metal and hammers. Thanks for the video! -- Mike

the only way to get the sign level is to jack up the building.. those almost look like cymbal making tools

Floor stripper, who knew? I like my antique machines to function as new, but I allow them the dignity to look their age. Visitors ask why is my WWII vintage lathe (and ONLY my lathe) shiny and painted like a ho'? Well she came to me grungy, and someone suggested a miracle motor cleaner called "OilEater." Indeed a miracle, the gunk slid right off; I went at it just like you and your Johnson. So happy that was done. But next day my floor is covered with grey dust, and the machine is butt necked iron!! Every bit of original Victory grey just flaked off and blew away overnight. No choice then but continue to "parade rest," as Fenner says, and repaint her. Never again. "Test In Inconspicuous Area" as they say.

No drill shank tapper work? Have you done it & I've mist it??? Or is it still in your lathe. I like the saw, look nice when you get it clean. Rob

Hi Mr. Tom, Would the machine your talking about be a surface grinder? And what is the "are we working out side" about on the white bored, I have seen it their for a few weeks now? Love your videos and learn so much from them. I would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge you have gathered from all the years you have been a machinist. Sincerely, Tristan Shepard

I think the yellow hammer head is cellulose acetate, I think that Chuck's hammer is malleable iron (cast & cheap except for the heat treatment). The fitted box is definitely the work of a toolmaker. That's a nice set of metric pins, are the imports any good ? VPI paper isn't effective for ever, buy some camphor. Copper tools for spinning brass ? Great Sign ! Big Johnson Saw ? You're not sawing my big Johnson !

Thats a railroad spike through that hammer head....eek!

For the old tools use, see "How It's Made Trumpets" in youtube ;)

How often do you replace those copper soft jaws? I got into a debate with a coworker today about whether to use copper or aluminum on a vice I brought in to set up next to our station at the Lynx 210 I run.

Tom, Thanks for the great video. Does the floor stripper cause any of the bare metal to flash rust or corrode ?

Nice new TC grinder! Are you sure that floor stripper won't strip the machines paint off? And now that you have a tool post grinder, will you finish up your 8620 cylindrical squares? I've been waiting to see them ground if they have not been already.

Find out if they are selling those Kurt milling machine vises, would be interested in the smaller one.

What type of sand disc was that you used on the V shaping Tom.

Hi Tom, Would 308, 309, 316 replace nickel 99 with chances of succes on cast iron??? Friendly hammer, mean hammer and Winter olympics hammer is Lillehammer Did you say genitorial smell... what is that? Cheers, Pierre

HI Tom, I was surprised when you preheated that casting while clamped to your super flat welding table. aren't you afraid it might be damaged by the heat? if i had that nice of a table, I would be afraid to take any chances that it could warp. nice job with the nickel rod though.

Hey Tom, how would you follow up after the degreaser? I am always worried about using products like that on my tools, I don't want rust later on. Because of that I have always stuck to using Kerosene or similar but it's so expensive and the smell and fumes don't make it a terribly pleasant job, I certainly wouldn't go around spraying it lol.

Nice one, Tom. Especially like the cast welding. I picked up some Ni99 recently myself and find it to be really quite nice. Nervous the first time I used it but once I saw a file cut through it like butter I was sold. Any idea what you pre-heated the piece too and did you do anything to slow cool it? I have a bunch of it to do on some more critical pieces in the near future and figure I better read and ask now while I can.

Hey, how come that sign doesn't also say "Repaint"?!

Wow Tom, A ton of great stuff in this video, thanks for sharing! I noticed the "thumbs down troll" hit you twice, little bastard... Looking forward to seeing your Big Johnson in action, wait a minute, that did not sound right, you know what I mean, in use. That didn't sound right either... lol! Thanks again, Ray

Tom I ran across your channel last week and my first Monday Meatloaf arrived. At the tail end I surprisingly recognized John Neuman's shop, is he still having a tool sale? I had installed a furnace for him years ago and worked for a sheet metal shop on the corner of Stevenson st

How many oxen does it take to hang a sign?

Carpentry by Keystone Copper?

Hey Tom, long time subscriber, first time commenter from the Central Valley. Did a quick glance over the comments to see if anyone else asked first. But did you dilute the Zep any? Or was that full steam ahead? Thanks in advance. Till next time.

nice let me guess. you picked up that nice lathe i seen there :)

Good episode, enjoyed that :) Didnt Chuck get his man card back yet?

Is the machine a spinning lathe by chance? :D

polish the knob eh???

why not paint the plywood?

you have a saw dedicated to cutting johnsons? ;|

lets do some spinning !

What does a level say? Bubble, bubble, bubble....

Cool metal spinning tools! Terry Tynan is an expert metal-spinner, and he has some very well-done how-to DVDs on the art. Check out these samples www.metalspinningworkshop.com/MovieClipTwo.html I used to use Simple Green for cleaning but got turned on to Super-Clean by a friend who uses it to clean the grease out of his deep-fat fish fryer. The Super-Clean comes in a purple bottle and is available at WalMart and Pep Brothers Auto Supply, probably most other auto supply stores too. Haven't noticed it at HD or Lowes. I'd be interested to see how it compares to the floor cleaner stuff. Interesting stuff as always, Tom.

Sounds like you have sparrows in your shop. Wear a cap.