Way to work through a difficult situation....to quote somebody famous...."fits like a bum in a bucket!"

Beautiful just beautiful!!! Great job Matty!!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

Excellent job matty, great looking part's.

Hi Matty, Like Gibbsey9, I numbered my sensitive pillar drill table, over 25 years ago, my bum cheeks will never be the same, can't remember the correct setup, but the 3 secrets, I learned are (1) do a practice run on some thing first of the same diameter, (2) the blow with the hammer has to be of a consistent bash if you have to hit it a second time they are not the same....(3) and the most important one, use a SMALL strip of sellotape on the area where you need to place the numeral, this allows you to use your finger to lightly indent the sellotape and realign the workpiece or the stamp to the exact spot, yes it takes longer, but the job comes out as if you had taken it to the Jewelers. You will get a woody if you do it you self.

Wow, Matty! Those graduations turned out awesome 🤩! That part certainly adds some bling to your T&C grinder. Glad it worked out despite the crooked casting.

Hello Matty, Great work today... I was so surprised that center part of the casting was usable, it looked so far out... The graduation lines came out very good. Cheers Paul,,

Nice save with the rough casting. That turned out well. You can't worry about the occasional foop, they seem to be inevitable.

Very nice work Matty - love the comments about the horn on the jellyfish :-) It's really coming together, those graduations are just perfect, and so are the steel end stops. Very impressive.

Looking good, Matty! In his book, Prof. Chaddock wrote that this casting was made of a free-machining cast steel. Clearly there must have been foundry problems, because yours is bronze. As Craig pointed out, a rotary table is a mighty handy accessory for a mill. I am blown away with admiration for the work of the professor, who had neither mill nor rotary table, and did all his machining on an old Drummond lathe the same size as the Myford ML7 or the popular Chinese mini-lathes!

Very nice looking part. The graduations came out very well.

Matty I agree the little knurled tap wheel is great. Joe is one of my favorites. If you watch his latest video of the mini lathe and the cross slide you will see an excellent way to cut the groves with the mill while it is still in the dividing head. Another great video you have produced for us here in Texas.

Hi Matty, That's a cracking job, love it. Stay well, Kind Regards, Mike

Hi Matty , Fiddly bugger to make ! I have a set of 1/16 letter and number stamps ( i think 1/16 wide and about 1/8 high ) I'm more than happy to loan them to you if you can use them to do your dials .

Nice work, thanks for sharing

Looking so good. Great work

Looks fabulous Matty, those graduation are worth the effort, they look perfect.

Use metal number stamps and make a jig to hold them in position. Easy process really.

Great job Matty, Im surprised you saved that casting in one piece. Thanks for sharing

I am enjoying this build Matty and looking forward to how you overcome all the obstacles. As I would like to build one of these.

Nice work Matty. That Quorn T&C is coming along nicely mate. You've bloody come a long way with that project. Congratulations Matty, I'm super happy for you mate. Cheers, Aaron.

looks awesome Matty .

Thanks Matty, enjoyed.

Brian from Ma.Fantastic my friend it does look neat Thanks Besafe

Hi Matty, came out well considering the casting. Those graduations are excellent. Regards Kevin

Very nice bit of work Matty, made for a very interesting video. You have to appreciate all the finicky work you put into that. When you were marking the divisions, I was thinking, imagine having to pay someone to do that method. Cheers mate!

Matty, I wish you had flooded us with all of your build, its the agricultural way you tackle each job, and the curly bit are missing....EG the bloody ball handles...show the mistakes we are human downunder ,not like top of the globe upper-crust machinists, it saves stuff being thrown across the workshop, sorry for the crack, stay safe and just be you its cool. Beagles.

You've made a superb job of that Matty 8-)

Matty, the new patron saint of patience. When i cut my graduations i used a 10thou thick 1" dia slitting saw and a spin indexer. Did all the 10 degree using a bed stop, then all the 5s again with a bed stop and finally all the singles. I figured if i missed any one it wouldn't show as each successive cut was shorter than the mistake it was recutting. I used a saw because i figured if i had to resharpen it the width of the cut would always be the same no matter how deep i went, unlike a tapered cutter. With your numbering problem, an adaptation of my stamp guide and stamp modification should work, i wish i had thought of it back then, instead of doing it freehand.😢 ATB c Ps, dont buy the cheapest stamps you can get, some of the cheap ones are hot formed and quite blunt, the better ones are ground and form a clearer number. You only need numbers so the extra expense is not so bad. Whatever you go for, see if you can see the end that matters in any picture and judge for yourself. Although good old ones are often better than crap new. Isn't it always so?😉

Coming along great . Just caught up with your lost footage one ! Cheers .

Part looks good, I agree that the graduation lines came out very well. I know you may have already finished the lines and numbering but I remember Patrick from Active Atom was using some special ink/paint designed specifically for lettering and numbering. Can't remember what the name of the stuff was but if you ask Patrick he would know.

Matty, you have the patience of a bloody saint! Scratching out those increments must have been tedious to say the least. Utter top job mate! Shout out from the UK - (AKA whingeing pommies! lol) :)

G’day Matty. Good to see you were able to recover the spigot, now that had a bad casting problem. Nice work on the graduations, very tedious and as for the numbers if you’re not sure you’re up for it see a local jeweller. Great results for the stops, would have liked to have seen at least a little bit of the machining, don’t worry about stretching the video series out. Cheers Peter

beautiful

luv ya work mate cheers

nice work

Lots of patients, sure looks good though!

That was very tedious work but the result was worth it. Just thinking about the numbering, can a guy acid etch numbers into it, have them made on a vinyl cut out machine? Then use it like a stencil. Excellent job!

Spectacular! If memory serves me correctly, I am thinking mr Pete may have done a good video on punching in the numbers on a dial with a slick jig. Thinking I also saw another tuber do it as well, but cant remember his name of my head.

Good job Matty. Yep the most challenging part is to engrave the numbers, straight and evenly spaced, no idea how you you are going to do it. I think an engraver would charge an arm and a leg!

I stamped those numbers with cheap Chinese numbers..... Can't for the life of me remember how I did it, but it came out really good.

Your patience should be heritage listed!

Shit that has come out nice 👍 thanks for sharing

Matty, It's not a casting defect on the shaft. It's a lubrication reservoir mate. Cheers Eric

It looks like we are running neck and neck on our Quorn builds. I purchased my casting set 25 years ago and 10 years ago decided I had to finish a minimum of one piece a year or it would never get done. I have been employed as a machinist for 33 years and can say without hesitation that it is a challenging project to build. I'm building mine up in interior Alaska and am curious as to how many finished or in progress Quorn grinders exist on the face of the earth.

Looks great. Do you have any awards/trophy shop near you? If so take it to them so they can engrave those numbers for you.

at 15.55.....A vernier caliper IS NOT FOR SCRIBING!!!!!! It is for measuring only

do you sharpen your own drill bits?

Makes me shudder to see small Taps used without lube, a sure way to break them.