Olga is a Beast , she plowed through that weld like it wasn't even there !

Very nice video capture to the work features. Thanks for having me along. I enjoy the view to adjustments as to finish. M.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that removes a few inserts in a face mill like that! It's refreshing to see others trying radical steps to get results! Nice work, Max!! 🙂

Perfect timing. I picked up some 1 ft by 2 ft by 1 inch thick plate to make some angle plates for my boring mill. No real way to stress relieve if I welded them up at that size so I was thinking about bolting them together and having gussets in the back.

I was expecting sand bags as plan C Max😉. You got there though, what a beast.

Keeping that weldment that square, is damn impressive! Nice work.

Nice work as always Max. I'll be doing the same job in a few weeks on my HBM. I have a set I fabbed up years ago, and they were close enough for the job I was doing. But now it's time to true them up for a new job.

Thanks Max. I learned much today.

Thanks, Max. Great next step video. Get it done when you need it. Need a tool build a tool.

As a welder and a NDE tech, I agree with you approach to the welding to avoid opening up laminations with heavy weldments. I do have a comment on the use of Xray to detect laminations. Xray does not detect laminar indications unless the direction of the source lines up with the lamination. the reliable NDE to detect laminations is with ultrasonic shear wave.

love watching u sir , ive just started my journey in milling and love watching passion and wizdom thankyou!

Those old USSR machines are well built, bit agricultural but great manual machines. I remember using Sanko import machines a college in NZ. Solid!

Your weld prep and weld method looks spot on, excellent point on plate lamination, during my apprenticeship in the training shop it was annexed off the fab shop. We were right by the grinding and fettling area, and the leading hand would also Vibration Stress Relieve (VSR) certain weldments, as per call up. During one test we heard the loudest bang, then a massive cracking sound, yes, lamination had showed its self. Love the foot start procedure, certainly more ergonomic than a hand lever pump. Great job Max.

Great video showing your bag of tricks , thanks!

Thx for the vid. Olga still effortlessly putting in the work.

Hand ground insert for the win! When stuff like this happens to me I always think maybe I should have made it out of thicker plate, so I have more passes to get it right. After listening to carbide insert facemills pound away in the Bridgeport it sure is nice to (barely) hear them glide through the material in a proper, heavy milling machine. Ken

I love that Mill❤. I need to get me a horizontal. Great video

Nice job Max. I like that you stuck with it even to modifying your insert. I learned some things. 👍

Loved watching the progress I was yelling at the TV to try a fly cutter the finish is great .I really like your channel a lot

Nice mill And perfect job for the mill. I like your stress relieving technique

Great job, great mill, great result. I love watching your videos because the silver walls remind me of a space ship I built when I was a boy in the 1950s. 🙂

Remarkable persistence! 👍 Worth it for such nice results.

Cant stop drooling over all the machinery! 👍 great explanation of your excellent work, thank you 🙏

Great stuff mate! I could watch this all day..

Always a pleasure Max. Enjoy the learning curve.Thanks!

Another excellent lesson. Cheers, Max.

I ‘Armonize with ya. All about harmonics.. Nice work horse that mill.

Another great video, you must be Feeding Olga the right juices at a pace she like. Olga performed to a near finish, & she didn't even break a Sweat. Well Done 👏 ✔️ 👍🏻

Nothing beats a no nonsense machine Max.

Old Olga did a fine job mate thanks to your persistance for quallity . Thank again for a great vid mate👍👍

Wish I was your neighbor, you would enjoy my enthusiasm ! We probably get into trouble !

thanks for showing your troubleshooting on that chatter!

I just love that mini mill of yours! 🤣

Wow that was awesome Max, the big girl really likes the iron diet. That was some great info from the bag of tricks dealing with the chatter...👍👍 The weld prep / placement make total sense...thanks for the run down.. Good One ! Cheers....

Nice work Max. The angle plates came out nice. The mill sure is a nice machine. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day.

Very nice , Love that machine..

Hi Max, I would have taken a flyer off the top faces so that when you machined the second face you could have put some dowels in the tee slots and went hard up against them, saves having to measure from the column and you keep the thickness consistent, also saves having to clock in for the finishing cuts. Just a thought. Best wishes Mal.

Enjoyed…nice work/discussion

nice finish Max, ill have to get you to grind the other 6 of my inserts now so they are all the same !! ah ha

Great to watch Max. You don't see much horizontal head milling on YT. Cheers Tony

Thanks for sharing 👍 Excellent timing, I was just looking at building my own.

Thank you for the knowledge. Nice machine that one.

Great video on the machining of the angle plates Max. I remembered when you fabbed them up and poured in the MIG wire welds. Olga is a monster mill.👍

The removal and swapping of insert positions was very interesting to see, not something I have seen before. I was also thinking you would swap to the shaper before you resolved the chatter.

Hi. Loving all these videos Max. Cheers 👍

That’s some serious metal removal Max. Finish looked pretty good to me. Didn’t realise making angle plates was that involved. Nothing is ever easy, is it? Keep up the good work, makes interesting content. 👍👍👍

Another great video of you and Olga on the dance floor. Thanks Max, cheers.

👌great finish

Awesome job mate

Nice one !!

Face mills and I do not ever seem to get along with each other either Max. I never thought of using the face mill as a fly cutter. I usually use a boring head but never at 1000 RPM! . like your idea much better. Cheers

Thank you Max!

That was an interesting explanation of the welding, I'm not a welder and never heard anything like it before. The only welder who made a comment agreed with you so I guess if I ever decide to make some angle plates I'll know where to start

Max, another great video. Looking forward to the next installment. From kiwi land

Hard to see the graduations in the light, that is my excuse too as I get older 🤣 Mr Pete style Visor is getting more use as I age.

Good video max, interesting to see how you work through your problems.

G'day Max, a master class in persistence. I think we have all tried changing the insert configuration on cutters. I have found once the harmonic starts it's there to stay. Changing up the speeds or feeds just when you feel it coming in makes a big difference. One of the advantages of a VFD. I've used a cutter like a fly cutter but never thought to modify the insert, that's one tip I'll lock away for a problem day. Cam

Nice finish finally Max, you got there in the end with a bit of Aussie perseverance. Olga certainly is a big old Russian girl. Good on the dance floor when you guide her, but painful if she treads on yer toes!

Oh my days! Don't tell Matty 😂

Olga gets more good looking every time I see her ;)

olga did good max. cheers ben.

Good video friend Max..thanks for your time Hello Max. If you allow me as a professional miller, I can give you some advice. The clamping of these pieces can be improved... they should have staples holding the pieces at the top with at least one staple in the middle and one staple on each side You would also have to take into account that some welded squares should have lateral triangles that in Spain we call gussets and that is what really gives rigidity to the squares and allows you to avoid bending... in fact the gussets can be screwed now that they are still You are at a time, and once the gussets are placed, then you do a few passes planning the surface with a couple of tenths...on the other hand, that milling plate with that plate geometry is more for roughing but it is not appropriate for giving good results. finishes... an apkt 16 type geometry with aluminum plates would give you a much better finish... or also a flicutter to do the finishing passes a greeting from Spain michael

Gday Max, Olga really is the sturdy girl eh mate 😂, I'd forgotten you started these big barstards! great work as always buddy, Lady Chatterly certainly gave you a run around eh, thought you'd end up fly cutting lol, thanks for bringing us along

A sheet of corrugated cardboard on the back side held on with magnets to dampen the harmonics. Mike

Chatter is mostly indipendent from the feed speed. Your squares need a support in the back. Reduce rpm and blades is a way to go.....when works.

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Delicious.

Hello Max. Can I suggest that on finishing cuts, make them all in the same direction. Also, for finishing, use a small radius on your carbide insert.

Hello Max. She is a big rigid mill and quiet at work. BC

Ah, chatter problems. Not always easy to find a good solution.

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Tape a sheet of rubber around the stickout of the spindle.

She's a beaut 👍👍😎👍👍

Hi Max it looks like the first runs on the machine are going good. Are you going to bolt it down to the floor? The reason for asking is if that will effect how it cuts. Cheers

That machine makes your adjacent us mill look tiny - like an appliance for kitchen use. Kitchen aid perhaps?

Aside from being extremely experienced, with a well calibrated eye, do you use any means of non-destructively testing thick weld beads and plate? I used to work at a place that made wind towers, and ultrasonic testing was the main inspection method. There was dye/penetrant, and in certain situations stuff was shipped out for x-ray testing, but it was impressive how much could be caught with ultrasound. It wasn't just for fabrication issues either. Had some customer supplied steel from God only knows where, with sparkplug porcelain and such fully embedded in the plate. One of the few times in my life I did an actual double-take, trying to comprehend what I was looking at after rolling the plate into a cylinder.

Damn Max! Not entirely sure those angle plates are big enough.

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Would it have been a job for the shaper with the load going down to the table ? All my experience is watching videos . I commented before the end of the video. Kit from Queensland

From your cut pattern it seems you had several inserts at different heights. I fine tune cutters like this with an indicator and I shim the inserts. This helps with chatter also.

Max, would it have helped dampen the harmonics if you also had clamps right out at the end of the toe of the plate, ie; in the centre T slot of the table. As is, you only clamped in two positions of the plates, and the more clamp positions the better, even if it is showing to be flat.

> beer:30 laugh riot observation - ya gotta be switched on to work Olga...

Hi Max, didn't know much about lamination in steel back in the late eighties. Ultrasonic thickness testing was carried out on a 48" elbow on the outlet of the Vacuum Distillation Column some 200 feet high and deemed too thin. It was removed at great expense. I was walking past and the Maintenance Manager was going to town on the alledged thin area with a ball pein hammer and yelled out its laminated, threw the hammer down in disgust. Perfectly good elbow removed for no reason?

I wonder if shot or sand bags would help with that chatter.

Max, Would it help with chatter to make your cuts from one direction only with the cutters pushing downward instead lifting upward lifting upward?

Hi Just for clarification, you cannot find laminations in plate bt X RAY testing as the beam cannot detect the lamination perpendicular to it. Commonly lamination testing is done by ULTRASONIC testing with a 90 degree probe. This will detect laminations perpendicular to it as it reflects the sound wave back to the probe. Mick UK.

Seams similar to a fly cutter.

How old is Olga she is one ball breaking machine. Have you inspected the oiling system to ensure she is getting her daily feed.

Would it be feasible to use a fly cutter

Why you did not do the work on the sharper?

Fly cutter Max ??

How much easier it would be if they were cast iron?

Hi! I think that milling head is wrong. After hardening it was twisted. But really it's work for shaper. And surface grinder. But I don't know Your plan for this tool.

Max----Sharpen your pencil please,it's really annoying, thanks Mike, from Texas 😁

Don't you love flycutters ?

You are cutting from the same end

Banana brain here. when you say "take a 1 mil cut" do you mean 0.001 mm?

You should be over the side with the work

shorten the arbor

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