This is why I like watching these videos. You pick up little stuff that you'd rarely think of yourself if you haven't been doing this for 40 years. That little catch tool he comes up with at 11:00 is stupidly simple but slick. I've been sticking a ball point pen in there, risking tearing my arm off, all while trying to complete the parting cut, when all this time I could've just used a little piece of rod in the tail stock drill chuck like this. That kind of knowledge is pure gold.

Adam, you are a great machinist/ welder and steel fabricator. God bless you sir.

Hi I'm not a machinist(electrical fitter/engineer) from Scotland ,only about 100miles from doublboost. I found a tap like the one frozen in the adaptor you showed and always wondered why, now I know , it was in some of the tooling from my granddads workshop, Enjoy your SNS every week

The process of rolling cold rolled steel leaves compressive stresses in the outer layers of material. When you cut the slot, those stresses closed up the slot. Nice project. Thanks, John

I a man older machinest and tool and die maker i am retired now and disabled and reopening my small shop 'I am using bench mark horizontal 1930's and the vertical is a 1940's i pulled out of dirt in a friends back yard The old lathe is a 1940's also i pulled out of the dirt i am rebuilding them now having to rest a lot now i have been watching your vidoes and they have really help me with my project Thanks for shearing your knowledge

I like that , Great Project .. Holds the tap firm and straight ! Thumbs up man ..

Million miles away from the flex arm - love the early sns work

I am not a machinist but your videos are so clear and easy to understand I feel like machining something right now. Nice videos!

Hey, I know nothing about this kind of work but it's been great to watch a true craftsman produce such a precision item. Thanks for a great video with an excellent presentation.

I'v seen other machinists this good...but they were 65 years old. This guy is sharp!!

Adam, I just found your channel. All I can say is OUTSTANDING !! Your skill combined with your knowledge and ability to logically explain the projects is exemplary in every way. Thanks

Thanks Adam, nice little bit of shop wisdom there. Nice to see you getting together with family, cheers!

Good useful project there Adam, thanks.

I love true manual machining! You are a shadow of your old self. Great work.

Revisiting this old SNS, I take the liberty of saying:. This is your passion, your talent, your calling. You shine in all aspects. Make more videos, just like this one and 500k subscribers will be a reality soon.

very informative video Adom,great video.thank you for sharing with us older retired guys.

I am enjoying your channel, very interesting always. The camera work is impeccable, always perfect lighting and focus along with the volume. Thank you for your time and effort in explaining clearly, what you are doing, for us novices. My Father was a machinist, back in the '30 ies, and I now can really appreciate what he did. P.S. Nice shop you have there.

Very nice design. Simple. Effective. Two thumbs up!

Very cool little tool project for the shop Adam.

Thanx for giving metric sizes, it really help use guys that don't use imperial every day.

Adam if you want to loosen that up a bit use your torch and give the side away from the slit a bit of heat it will pull it back and give you clearance. Great project.

This gives me some ideas for if you wanted to mount taps in a hand drill for field work. Sometimes you can't chuck stuff in a mill and tap wrenches aren't practical either. Putting your tap in a hand drill or on a socket to turn with an air ratchet is sometimes all you can make happen. Milling something with two flats in it like this might be the trick. Good video. Thanks Abom.

Very nice Adam. I really like that tap holder and I like the small project videos. Thank you.

A great big thank you for sharing this knowledge. I made one for holding a 5/8" gun tap and just finished tapping 4 holes using my mill drill.

one to keep in mind again. it is getting a lot. thanks, Adam. Cheers.

This is a very cool idea, and one that I shall certainly be using. Four years later you now have that tapping arm, but that's going to work in all situations. I always worry about power tapping, and wonder what would be a ball park tap size to be safely strong enough. Much as I hate abusing a chuck by holding a tap, that does at least give a sort of safety margin by slipping when the torque reaches a certain level. That is not going to happen with a collet driving a positive grip on the tap. I'm going to try using this method on 6mm and upwards, but I have a feeling I'll start out going just a tiny bit over on the tapping size. Say 5.1mm or 5.2mm for harder stock. BTW, I did two years at Ford UK's Apprentice Training school (starting in 1967), but I learned so much more from the older guy I shared a bench with, when I got to the big boy's work shops. Cool tricks and tips just like in this video, that helped in real world situations. You have to do the work to _really_ learn how to become good at it. Instructors who came straight from college just don't cut it.

You truly are a skilled machinist. I really enjoy your videos & how detailed they are. Thanks...

Awesome video..... This gives me a chance for another project in my shop. 👍

Adam, thanks, you made my day with the description of the adjustable spanner as "all Sixteenths", love it, never heard that before, cheers from Scotland, Spud

Seems like those darn bushings ALWAYS want to spring on you. Makes slitting a challenging job. Fried slit saws! YUM YUM

Thanks for this project Adam. Very good information.

I love your all 16ths wrench. Never heard it like that before. Will be using it... All. The. Time.

That is a really nice collet holder you are milling with. Cast Iron strength ! Ok when sawing a tree down one uses hard plastic wedges to keep the slot (tree) from squeezing you down and trapping your $1K saw until another saw saves it !

Neat Tool! Simple, effective and easy! Narrow slits in any metal can be ugly.

I sure love that milling machine. Sounds like a rock.

YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO.

31:21 "Like it was made for it!" made me laugh so hard. We had a machinist at one of the railroads that I worked at (a half a lifetime ago) that would exclaim, "Like it grew there!!!" Good times in that shop. Great times. Anyway, yet another excellent video, that I just caught up on, Adam. I need to go snag me one of those snazzy pocket tees of yours before it's too late. It's the least I can do to thank you for such great content and many smiles.

Very slick job on a good idea. The two camera set up worked nice. It would be great on some projects to switch from side to side.....Dave

Right on time Adam.I was just drawing a blank in the shop.Going out there now to make a couple of these.

I like it, thank you to you and your mentor. Better ideas. I built a bunch of tap drivers with set screws to hold the square but the screws forever come loose. This is a far simpler and better idea. Usually simplest is best.

That’s awesome. Your knowledge and skill is just amazing.

I used to attend the Moultrie Swap Meet every November. Huge event! Took 20 hours to get there from PA but well worth it. I worked for Pypes Exhaust, an exhaust manufacturer. We had a huge black NASCAR style tractor trailer that we would set up. I don't remember the location because that airfield is huge !You can find Everything and anything there.

I really enjoyed your comment about not needing another loosening relation. You deserve the best. Merry Christmas!

Always very satisfying to make your own tools!

We made a set of similar adapters for various valve stems in our Navy valve rebuild shop for a drill motor driven globe valve lapping setup... talking about production, an aircraft carrier has a lot of valves to work during a shipyard maintenance availability. Fond memories, thanks for the share!

A nifty project. Thanks for sharing. Have a good one! Dave

Hello Adam, Man that was one hellaceous feed! I would have brought a sleeping bag for next day's leftovers! Thanks again for some wonderful videos. Always one of the highlights of Saturday night for me. Take care. Doug

Awesome tool. That Sonny must have been one smart dude.

Another great video Adam, easy to follow commentary but always interesting stuff. keep it up

Hi big chap, watched SS Part 1 tonight in Helsinki Airport and Part 2 in Amsterdam Airport before flying home to Scotland. Great work Adam, you set you standards very high. Thanks for sharing. Kindest regards. Joe.

Very cool stuff.. clearly you have a great love and passion for this..

Great to go back and visit bud. These are a great idea !

That style of tap driver also gives you the maximum possible headroom between tap and table.

That's another little project for me to do. I could have used one of those today. Thanks for the TIP.

Awsome man, that gives me something easy to do in the shop. Thanx brother

I make them to drive in but I let them collar have a bit of play so it will pill past the square drive then you don't have to worry about breaking the tap , it allows for use in a drill press with no reverse.. I had an old mentor too Alex the Scot man. He was a real old time machinist. Real super if he liked YA you were in . YUPP he liked me shared a lot of Kool tricks. Loved just hearing him talk.

I was reaching for the hacksaw when you finally managed it. Another SNS fix for my addiction, thanks Adam.

This helped me sort out one of my upcoming projects. Great video!

power tapping scares the crap out of me so I try to avoid doing it,but there's so much really good information in this video it would be wise for anyone to watch.heard about this guy from a bunch of folk but my first time seeing him...gonna be paying attention now!

Good lighting, great Audio, wonderful camera angles, Clear and concise, lots of Chips. You nailed it! I'll be making these for my Tree Mill.

Hi. Nice video again and what a great idea. Thanks for sharing. Best regards; Zmago - SC Patent

Super tap holder Adam - very much enjoyed that. Gonna have to make me some. Great video again as always! Thanks!

I love these simple shop made tools, Merry Christmas Adam

Another excellent video Adam,well done...👍👍👍

awesome project. thanks for all your work on the videos

Cutting the slot to drive the square was an idea that never occurred to me.... thanks

This is one of my favorite. just the thinking out side the box instead of trying to drill a square hole you just cut a grove with a hole the size if the square part of the tap. it is awesome.

I enjoy your videos and definitely hope you have an apprentice to pass your knowledge on too. Sadly, skilled Craftsmen/Tradesmen are a dying breed. I'm 51, work in a steel mill and can tell you, in just the past 20 years I've seen a horrible decline in tradesmen who take pride in their work or have the ingenuity to "make it work".

now thats an awesome pro tip!! many times the drill chuck causes height probs. Thanks Adam!!

Nice work there, great and simple idea for a common problem.

Another amazing creative way to git 'er done!

I really enjoy watching all your videos

The suspense with the slitting saw nearly killed me 😅 Great work as always.

Neat project. I don't power tap all that often because of the chuck issue. Now I know a better way. Thanks!

Great project, Adam!

This is awesome thanks for sharing!! I will definitely be making a set of these!:)

My boys love watching your videos. Keep up the awesome videos.

Nice project there Adam, I've been watching many of your videos and it's nice to see you drifting in to metric 😄 keep the videos coming!

Wow great video and idea. Gotta make me a few of these.

Beautiful! I'm gonna try to make an adapter like this to run annular cutters both in the mill and lathe. Merry Christmas and Thanks Adam!

Awesome , Adam thanks for making this video

Very cool and helpful video. I just picked up an old Logan lathe and started to play around with it a little. No real use for it....but you never know when ya need it!

I liked how you held the boring bar, i will be using that one.

More good info, thanks Adam.

Looks like a great idea.

Cool project Adam. You made a useful tool.

Nice Adam, this is something I could use! Thanks

You need an SPV tapping tool like what I have to tap on the K&T. Probably be handy on the Kearns as well. I love not having to worry about turning too hard and braking a tap. Those drivers sure look handy for when you don't have one!

Nice camera shot can see great very slick

Wow. What timing. After watching one of Tom Lipton's videos where he talked about tap drivers (or at least problems driving big ones), I decided to make my own. Finished it two days ago, and I then killed all of the threads on my drawbar (coincidence, not due to overtightening to keep the driver from slipping.) Yours looks a lot simpler Mr. Booth, but I can't believe we both made a tap driver around the same time. A short video of mine should have just posted to my channel, it's an r8 design that uses bushings and allens to hold onto the square.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! GREAT SNS !!!

A nother good job A-bom!!!!!!

Nice job Adam, will have to make some of those for the shop. New camera angles look good.

Adam, that is really neat and useful. I have the luxury of climb milling as my little CNC has ball screws and R8 spindle/quill. First job on my DIY EDM attachment will be making neat slots.

sticking the catch rod in the tailstock chuck is brilliant!! no idea how I never thought of that.... Always seemed to require 3 hands to do parting.... one feeding (or ready to disengage power feed if something goes wrong) one applying coolant (no flood on the lathe here) and one with the catch rod. I've usually just stopped with coolant almost all the way through and picked up the rod then. And I must say those indexable parting tools are great! I actually enjoy parting when using the seko or Sandvik with a fresh insert, even parting stainless

Hey Partner, I just picked myself up a Bridgeport and am looking forward to testing it out for trueness and travel. I was lucky in getting a very nice set of collets along with the deal. Who knows maybe I might show a couple little jobs I have to do right soon. I also enjoyed that tour you had in Witchita of all that collection of various machinery from days gone by. Some of which I grew up with. Thanks for your great video as usual. I don't possess your knowledge but can make what I need. You take care in these covid times. By for now.

Like it! I'll be making some, Thanks Adam

Nice project. Added to my "to do list" :)

awesome my friend if i knew as much as you have forgotten i would feel blessed !!!!

very cool little project!