You need to remember, that gravity is stronger now than when we were younger. That is why things get heavier. Gravity inflation...

That takes me back some 46 years! As an apprentice I would setup and operate a 26foot table AC/DC planer. It also had two vertical milling heads and one horizontal milling head along with the usual planner heads, what a beast it was. 8hrs to strip off a finished job and setup the next. The cutting times were usually about another 8 hrs depending on complexity. Happy memories. Thank you. P.s. it would appear you don't need a step ladder to get upto the table!

I enjoy your video. Hope you closed the other side of the oven.. All the best for the new yeas. Missing Don.

Don's shaper can be a planer too, just mount a tool in the vice and a very small workpiece in the toolpost. Stand on your head and bingo!

very good job steve

That wasn't rain, that was the crowd of people watching, clapping =)

Hello Steve yes it seams like we never get to finish one job alway have 2 to 4 half done . Good video enjoyed watching have a good day be looking for another show

Lathe with screwed on box ways, similar to linear rails on CNC, would be kinda nice. Contact area could be precision scraped and once the ways are worn, a trip to big surface grinder would fix it.

Don have a happy new year and stay away from Steve so you don't get sick.

Thank you for the pointing out around 27:00 that achieving parallelism offers no advantage in this type of tool. I had been thinking "why is he not trying to reference that already planed surface?".

Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year to you, your wife, and Don too.

Thank you for the great video. I’m always amazed how much time and work go into the items that you make. Have a great 2023, stay healthy and keep those videos coming.

A good long video, nice to see. I wish you and your family and friends a Happy New Year.

‘Caught the wife sneaking about’ 😂

Watch out here comes the Boss . JM

I wonder how long the second door will be open?

The Never Ending Workshop. I guess that makes Don your version of a Luck Dragon Have a good New Year Steve (and Don)

Glad your nearly over the flue, I’m about a week into it. Don’t do too much, your bodies working hard to fight the virus. Tell the Don to steer clear of everyone with so much as a sniffle. Thanks for the vlog, love that planer.

Glad you're feeling better steve. The flu is bad this year, I had it for 2 weeks and I hardly ever get sick.

Thanks for the video. Have a happy New Year. Consider upgrading you lift cart with 4 total lock swivel casters. I hate fixed wheel carts.

Great video Steve. I make dies for metal shaping power hammers out of S7 tool steel. I use a non-harding stainless steel grill made of half inch bar on the base of my heat treating oven to allow the hot air to uniformly circulate around the parts being heat treated. A side benefit is it protects the soft ceramic material. Not my idea...came out of the book I use for the heat treat recipe. Your oven my not be large enough with the 4' straight edge but might help with smaller pieces.

Hey Steve with those risers it looks like you could make some 1x1x2 blocks or 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 blocks keep up the good work . JM

You Sir are a great worker and very smart from my observation I do realize you realize that

Great video Steve! I just get mesmerized by that planer. Happy New Year, glad to hear you’re feeling better.🎉

Close the back door! Ron W4BIN

I have some cast iron gears that are a bit soft. I as wondering how to give them a little surface hardness to reduce wear. Never thought I"d accidently find the answer here. Thanks Steve.

my friend's father operated a planer for almost 30 years but it was much bigger than your beast, the table alone was around 30 feet long and seemingly nothing in the world could stall the table once it began moving

Steve- Please post the link to your Navy cast iron stress relief study. I think it would help me out some. Thanks.

Would appreciate your help. . . I’m going to get a hydraulic table cart like yours. Engine lathe chucks, rotary table, etc are too heavy for this 75 yr old kid. Guidance? And, where do the fire brick plates come from? Thx.

Hey Steve, I hope you had a wonderful Xmas and I hope your new year is awesome. I am also happy to see that scrap on your temple is healing up. Keep on doing what you're doing. It's very informative and I love watching you work.

I had a fight with NHRA. Over stress relieving the 4130 tubing after welding the tubular chassis on top fuel and funny cars. The back of the welds would crystalizeif not back purged but the heat from the welds would cause soft medium and hard spots in the tubing as you move away from the welds. So the tube chassis would crack just beyond the weld. I actually found a heat treating company that could fit a bare 300" wheelbase top fuel chassis in to bring it to 1100f to get the 4130 to an even temper along its whole length. So there are no hard spots and the unwelded areas are now full strength .. nope. They put me in touch with the guy who writes the specs for top fuel chassis. Ah not needed. The chassis manufacturers use reverse polarity and it pulls the heat right out of the welds . I sent my research to john force racing to the father of one of his drivers who had been killed in a race crash. I am wondering about your long oven. If you could add ceramic rope fireplace seals to the end and purge it with nitrogen to get the 21% oxygen out to avoid the black oxidation on the surface. Or would it take argon to prevent oxidation. Or do like wrapping parts in stainless wrap and throw in a chunk of paper to burn up the oxygen inside the stainless wrap. How much does the oven cost. Perhaps enough to look for a diesel gen set to run it and the house if its on wheels to plug in either building thru a proper isolation switch so there is no chance of feeding back to the power pole even on the common. A milk route owner ended up with a spare reefer unit from a crashed truck. He lived up east of pasadena california when it gets really warm in the summer. Yep power out on a hot day. Wife says lets go to a hotel. He fired up the reefer and cooled the house. Forward thinking.

Food for thought 🤔... Invent ( I am going to call 📞 it a Blow Piston. Note this not a mechanical item. No mechanical connection. ) at end of Stroke Blow Piston Activities holding Clapper Up. Returns to beginning of Stroke Deactivates and Clapper comes Down ready for power Stroke.... No Damage to Bit....

Good job on the planer. I wondered if you were going to reverse it early to save time. I’ve done the same thing on large surface grinders

Close the door on the other end of your oven. You're letting the heat out!

I hope you realize the back door was open when you started the kiln and closed it!

? Can A base be glued to make it level or so fasting points are flat to the table???? great video thanks for the show!!!

Steve, why do you get a double clap from the clapper box when the table reverses?

What brand are your scissor lift tables? have a happy new year

I live around the Tyler Texas area. I have an A16x30 Axelson with the original carriage clutch lever if you'd like to get the dimensions and profile of it. Mine is missing the bed clamp for the taper attachment and chip pan. If you know any source that I can find take offs or get the dimensions. I would greatly appreciate it.

I never get flu shots and have not gotten it in thirty years

how big of a piece of plywood you need for the vice cabinet? might have something

Wouldn't most foundries have cut the sprues (you call them risers) off before delivering the casting? No reason for you to leave with a casting that's not gotten even a rough cleanup. Angle grinder would have been magnitudes faster.

Now tell the truth, did you almost forget to close the back door on the oven once you started the heat treat? :)

Steve looked like when you hit the first emergency stop it did not stop or what happened if you don't mind

At work I'm trying to fix a big 18 foot table American tool works company planer mill that has been converted to use a mill head from a knee mill. It has been severely neglected, never oiled, and they attempted to true the table with a fly cutter. The machine is not level and I would like to properly correct that. With such a long what is the proper way to level? Should I use the table top, or use round rod in the ways to level it? The man that use to run this retired, no one else will tuch this thing.

I thought durabar was common as pie Guess not.

close the door

My father-in-law was paralyzed, and he got the flu shot and pneumonia shot every year. Typically, he would spend 4-6 weeks a year in the hospital for the flu or pneumonia. Then he didn't get the shots one year, and he didn't spend one day in the hospital that year, so we decided not to get either shot again the next year, and he never was hospitalized for the flu or pneumonia after that we stopped giving him the shots. He died 8 years later of kidney failure. I'm just telling you our experience with those shots im not for them or against them.

How do you know it was flu and not covid? Glad you re still kicking and making chips!

Should kiss the top of the handle first no?

why not make new rails and use the planer to cut the old rails off ??? this way they're replaceable in the future

“The government study I rely on…” That’s your mistake right there. Believing ANYTHING that comes from the federal government is foolish at best, and quite often mortally dangerous at worst.