Don't know why anyone complains about scraping videos. It's easy enough to click on the next video. Many of us find this stuff fascinating and are happy to see this.

this is turning into the scraping channel.

Think of all the hours Keith has spent scraping on this planer with his BIAX and scraper. Then remember that this planer dates back to the 1890s, way back before power tools. Just imagine how long it took the old timers to scrape these machines in by hand with tool steel scrapers! I bet they had the patience of Job back then!

Doggo remains unphased by the beautiful (and noisy) scraping patterns!

Looking good Keith! ATB, Robin

If only everyone put this much effort and time into what they do! You sir are a very dedicated person! Excellent work Keith!!

I really like to hear you talk through your decision making process. So much of being an expert is being able to think like one. Hearing someone problem solve helps me see what I should be asking myself

Very nice work Keith. Great content. Amazing how old the planer is, and how good the old timers were that made it. You have insured it will last a lifetime. Better than new. Thanks again, Ed M.

I'm really enjoying this planer restoration - thanks.

Great work, Keith. I never tire of watching your content.

Mr. R. Thank you for your teachings. I suspect this plainer is going to come out of restoration more accurate than when new. Scraping and flacking, I never knew. I have now watched, as far as I can determine all your videos. I would like to see the stoker you refurbished being utilized. I am a Vietnam era submariner that enjoys seeing steam work. SSBN. Steam still provides the power, only the heat source has changed.

Enjoying this very much.

you work harder than anyone else on youtube and you have a full time job, keep up the good work

One step at a time. Keep up the good work.

I’m in the middle of scraping in my Hardinge HLVH. The compound, saddle, and most of the cross slide is complete, with the gib being the last to work. The bed plate is out for regrinding and I’m looking forward to the Rulon bonding on the saddle and tailstock. That Biax scraper looks like the bee’s knees, sure wish i could justify buying one. Keep up the good work. Scraping videos are always good to see.

really enjoying this planer restoration like the Monarch build ! But it'''s coming along can not wait too see it running !thanks Keith !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've had a few videos pop up on my feed where guys are using planers to tune up Bridgeport tables. Ya know? As nicely fit as your planer is, it's a real good candidate for jobs like this. Imagine the fun.

Usually on a dovetail slide only one flat face and the angled face make contact with the mating part. That may be why there was hardly any contact initially on the other flat face.

Looks like the dog has found the warmest part of the AC!

Thanks for sharing. Nice work.

THANK YOU...for sharing.

Good job. Moving forward !!

Keith, this project seems to be a snowball rolling down hill, picking up "momentum." I'm really looking forward to you using this planer to plane its table and future projects!

Getting closer to the finish line.. 👍

Here for the long haul,enjoy the content🙂

Been looking forward to this one.

I've had some videos pop up on my feed where guys are using planers to tune up Bridgeport tables. Ya know? As nicely fit up as your planer is, it could be a good candidate for jobs like this. Imagine the fun.

Oh boy. Another planer video.

Great stuff, Keith! Thanks for sharing. I'm still trying to find time to finish that 7" South Bend shaper. Don't judge me, it's only been 3 years... ;)

Won't be long now she'll be up and running.

Great video as usual ! :) I think it would be interesting to take a picture of the part between every pass with a camera mounted at a fixed angle. That way you could do a small timelapse of the whole scraping process and we could see the bluing pattern evolve. Cheers

I have watched every episode of the job, enjoy learning new things. I was wondering, because you have a one man shop and pushing the gantry crane around, would it help if you had a bar of some kind that would go all the way across from one side of frame to the other with flat pieces of metal welded on the bar that would fit over the sides of the legs of the crane. This way, you could push from the middle of the bar and it would move the crane straight. Just a thought.

Surprisingly difficult piece to scrape considering it is comparatively such so little surface area. Did manufacturers back then contemplate sacrificial parts ? I would doubt it, but this part did need to be strong, but light at the same time.

I know you mentioned it, but what was the process of making sure the flat side was parallel to the dovetail and gib surfaces? Did you measure it on the surface plate or while you have it on the machine?

6:00 I think the high areas along the slot could be from T-bolt jacking. If it's a T-nut, and the bolt is a little too long, the bolt bottoms out and jacks up the edge of the slot. Or, as the T-nut wears it wedges in the slot, and over many years could jack that edge Edit: The top is at the left of the screen and the bottom is at the right. I think we're just seeing normal well worn machine parts. As the machine operates the clapper will push against the bottom and pull out at the top. This probably better explains the distortion near the slot in the top half, as well as, 7:30 after a few scrape cycles, not much contact at the bottom. 11:00 Maybe flake the gibs?

Could it have been mounted on a spin indexer and rotated under the grinding wheel to do it in one pass?

Hiya Keith

Were these machine pieces all scrapped in when they were originally manufactured?

Josey like Baily even with time lapse can't tell they moved. LOL

2:50 is why you need a bcbloc sized lathe ;-)

Keith, how do you control parallel and square to the cross slide?

Philmont!

do you use manual scraping for finer work?

Lovely work as always... It would be nice to see how it was done before the age of electric tools.....

I noticed your stone was a little dirty. Soaking in some dish soap and putting it in the dishwasher does a good job at cleaning them.

Not parallelism, just parallel

Would a shaper work on this???

I was thinking, it'd nice to have a lazy-susan type scraping bench with locking positions. Then you could turn your work, on smaller parts, to a more comfortable position while working.

Captivating! The hand scraper looks suspiciously like a file. Would the tool you used to hand scrape have been similar to one used before mechanized hand scrapers?

Shop dog is supervising...

Why is the worn area (the ring) the high spot? shouldn't it be just the opposite?

I'm the first to say terrific!

If it's 10" across and you only have 8" of cross travel on the surface grinder, could you not mount it on a rotary table and grind it in a circular fashion, thus only needing 5" of travel?

I understand the point of scrapping but i not see why that pice needed scraping as it is moved to certain point and locked there same as the uprights and the crossmember probably they would have been sufficient but i am not a machinist and i will happily be told why the scraping is needed to be done but good video any why

Great video Keith. Will the Monarch 10EE be up for restoration after you are done with the planer?

Thank goodness no scrapping. M

Keith, why did you say "interesting" when you saw the planer marks? Did you think they wouldn't be visible anymore based on the condition of the machine?

I think you did a video on a scrapping class you mentored. Can I have the title of that video? Thank you Keith.

Keith would you be able to help me find some planer poppets I have a pratt whitney planer I use thanks

2:56 If only there were a machine that could make nice flat surfaces on large pieces of metal, perhaps by a scraping action in a plane. If only ;-)

The problem that I see developing is he is scraping away the original reference to the level of the support area complicating the scraping process and making the areas to mate larger than the original specifications. I think what h should do is mount the piece in the Monarch and back cut the non mating surfaces so the mating surfaces are raised again. Then he would only have two one half inch surfaces to scrape and match. I love to watch his scraping work but he can get tunnel vision sometimes.

DOGGIE!

Ho by the way I'm from Newhaven. East Sussex. England. M

It seems to me that you are putting this machine in better shape than when it left the factory. I just don't think that they would have put the time into it once it was acceptable according to the standards at the time.

Doggie! :-)

It is too bad that you could not have done a test prior to the rebuild and scraping to see if all the work you have put in made a substantial difference.

I'm unsure of why the front of the cross slide saddle needed any work. The clapper mounts to that. The tool is held in a lantern style holder. The amount of work that went into making sure that the lantern style tool post was "exactly perpendicular" to the cross slide seems excessive. The work on the dovetail and surfaces on the back does make sense as they are going to be moving and need the oil retaining capabilities of flaking. It just seems like way to much work in order to deal with the positioning of a tool cutter that is going to be hand ground and adjusted by eye for contact. The ways of my lathe are scraped. The cross slide and compound slide are scraped. They need to be accurate. If my ways are not accurate then the tool moves in and out, up and down as the tool moves from left to right. If the compound is not square, then I can end up with a convex or concave surface when I face of something. But the top of the compound where the tool post mounts? That was machined, not ground, not scarped. It would not surprise me if there was a few thousands of difference from one side of the compound to the other side of the tool post mounting slot. It doesn't matter with my quick change tool post and it mattered even less when it was a lantern style

Interestiing tedious work.

dang, every time you do that i wonder how much adjustment for wear might be in such old machine, because every time you scrape a thing or two you are removing material i wonder how much off the oryginal specs that machien already is

Why not fly cut it on the mill?

I guess I'll never understand the appeal of scraping.

Interesting videos but the scraping videos are becoming a bit too much, at least in this viewer's eyes. I'd like to see more variety.

love your videos but let up on the scraping

Ho no not more scrapping please. M

I think you have "milked" this planer thing too far. It is time to move on to something else. I can't watch this.