Actually, I have to say, it's hypnotic watching you work. You and some of the other machinists you know and others have shown and taught me a lot of techniques that do come in handy, as a machinist myself. Thanks Abom79! Keep up the good work.

What a fantastic machine the scraper is. Seventy years old and works like a dream.

Will never get bored with shaper action.....very soothing watching it run.

That shaper action is pure soul balm in these hysterical, hectic ages. Keep it comming!

Hay Adam cool to see the new technology of the welder in the same video as the old technology of the shaper, a contrast that can be appreciated.

Adam, I want to thank you for your videos, especially SNS. Last Thursday, I lost my wife of eight years to complications of the Flu. The last two weeks have been a nightmare. Having an episode of SNS to watch gives me a sense of normalcy. Thank you for that. Life is uncertain and short. Treasure every single day.

Love it when you got the G&E going

Lol, Loving the way you felt the need to state "I promise you - I DID NOT put Abom torque on this".... Great video as always!

Love your Precision work.

Lovely solution to the problem and the old gal performed flawlessly fixing her own vise problem.

Adam, the shop is looking great. Being in the shop should be fun, and its a lot more fun when you have the space for a big project like the G&E rebuild. All of your patience and hard work on the shop improvements over the last year or so have definitely paid off. Your dad would be proud to see what you've accomplished. Thanks for letting all of us spend some time in your shop each week.

I love the shaper project. I have watched the whole process of moving it, installing it and all the careful restoration. I look forward to every episode and many more projects. Thanks Adam!

Nice teaser at the end. Generous assortment of endmills too.

Stayed for the bonus shaper clip.

As a non-machinist, I find all of the content on the channel informative but the shaper videos are special. It's a nice thing to see old machinery being brought back to life and usefulness so if you keep posting posting videos on it I will keep watching them (in addition to most everything else you put up).

Your content is always great, yet for me it's the best when I see the machines running and you are working on a job.

It wouldn't be a true SNS without some chips. 😋

That shaper is just a majestic machine, simple in concept and function complicated in all the mechanisms that make it work. it's almost soothing to watch it run.

That's a lot of terminology to learn to operate the TIG machine. It's the cat's pajamas! I appreciate your explaining it all.

The sound this thing makes is Hypnotic thank you for the Fantastic video

I very much enjoy your videos and especially seeing how organized you are. I'd be so happy if I were 31/64 as organized as you are. Finally, YES, keep the shaper videos coming.

Bonus footage at the end was a nice touch!

You have got yourself a nice machine there Adam which is well worth the time you have spent on it Look after it and it will look after you None of these so called Abom silly cuts eh Take it from a Machine Tool fitter with over 50 years experience it's just not worth it Love your videos and look forward to a Saturday night to see what you have been up to Nice to see you and Your Better Half are getting along great Everyone deserves happiness in their lives and hopefully you have found yours Pete UK

Impressive result on the shaper vice - Surprising finish, especially considering part of the cut was interrupted across the mounting holes, but the finish stayed true. Kudos on bringing a "Well used" tool back to useful life. Anxiously awaiting some projects that use the shaper to full advantage.

Nice SNS thanks for the time and effort Will

Way cool I enjoy watching Machines fixing things for its own use.

Look forward to it every weekend brother. Don’t change a thing. Editing gets better every video, very impressive. Keep it up!

It's so good to see Abby n you enjoying life keep up the great footage and enjoying life

I love the shaper it can even fix itself very cool.

Nice vid as usual! Allways facinating to me to see you "making the tool" that makes the tool like that :)

Adam, I must say I was a little worried about how close the Shaper was to the wall, But you got it just right. I love when you use the Shaper for jobs. Of all your video's that I love, The Shaper fixing and working on it tops my list.

Adam!! Don't stop doing this. One of the reasons I start my computer most of the days is to watch one of your videos! Greetings from Spain!!

Damn!!! There’s something mesmerizing about that shaper.

Very interesting the refurbishing of the shaper.

Love that large face dial indicator. Looks great on video

Your place, Adam, is not just a workshop. It's a home for tools :-)

I just a couple months ago got that same exact welder, so far I really like it. It lays a real nice stick bead.

Shaper Action And Tig , Whats Not To Like , Always The Best There Is !!! THUMBS UP

I love that shaper , Enjoyed Adam !

love seeing the shaper :)

Good video Adam, good to see Abby back in your videos. Keep em' comin'.

Looks like a smooth operating machine!

That freshly-squared vise jaw face looks _good!_

I could just watch that shaper machine for hours.

Great video - I use 2t with the torch switch quite a bit. The 2t settings on these modern machines do most of what you would actually do with your pedal, especially for steel. For setting up and tacking it is great to be able to move around without worrying about the pedal. You do have to think about your current setting before you jump in just as you would with mig. Before anybody gets excited, the pedal has some big advantages, no argument, but 2t with a torch switch on this kind of a machine is a good option for lots of jobs.

thanks for the answer Adam

The shaper is such an elegant tool. I’d love to see you do more projects with it.

Beautiful! Looks ground.

Looks like I'll have to get one of those welders...Nice to work with the door open too!

A machine that maintains itself !

I love the shaper! They still have a place in a manual shop, most small cnc shops too!

Great video. Thanks Adam

Another very nice SNS, thank you. Considering the oil dripping from the Shapers Ram - the way my shaper is designed, the bolt-on pieces that you used to put felt wipers inside are actually used as oil collectors with no wiper in them. The oil gets "scraped off" by the dovetail ways themselves, drains down into the bolt-on collectors and return to the main oil supply through holes drilled into the main casting. I don't know if that's the same way yours was intended to be used but I'd say it would definately worth to be considered since you can still adjust the oilers to give the ram a thick coating but get no oil leakage because all spillage is returned to the main sump. All the Best Adrian

I personally enjoy the hell out of the shaper content. Along with all the other stuff you throw out there.

Nice bonus footage at the end

Terrific video! Excellent quality picture and lighting. Good information. First review of the 200DV where someone actually explains the features, step by step. Much more helpful than both the Weld.com video and Chucke2009 -- both normally make really good content but on this one you totally beat them out. Thanks!

Adam, what a Gorgeous Shaper you have, I really like seeing it do job.!.!.!.

Thanks for the videos. It's kind of like have a shop teacher in your own house.

Way cool machine! Thanks.

Shapers are damn insane tools.

🇦🇺 great work thanks for sharing

At last waiting all week🍺🍕

Nice "bonus" shaping!!

Great for cleaning up the vice not as aggressive as a face mill or end mill.

I like it. Send them chips flying. I love shapers.

Enjoyed Adam! looking forward to long term opinion of the tig. ATB, Robin

Always enjoy your videos thanks for sharing. :o)

A handy tip for welding thicker aluminum is to use a shielding gas with 75 helium 25 argon mixture. This gas mix gives about 30 amps extra heat. I use Air Liquide Blueshield 3 for welding thick aluminum.

The 4t mode seems smoother and slower coming off the arc than anyone ive seen using a foot pedal. Im gonna try that when i get my 200DV

Shaper action is always good, and US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER is a great place.

You're a great man. Hi from Ukraine!

Wow, those end mills are gorgeous! Cart kit looks great and the Everlast TIG - well - very desirable.

I live in Huntsville and would love to have met y'all. Glad you liked the Huntsville area.

That's nice, the shaper does a tenth of a mm on its smallest stepper setting. (well 1.6 microns more than a tenth of a mm)

Love to see your sub count skyrocketting. Lot of local youtube celebs around here these days. Keep it up

Adam, that is the start of the Appalacian mountains, not the Smoky mountains. Smokys are only in TN and NC.

Some of the shaper shots remind me of the old 3D movies where the show an object coming straight at you.

Just put two Zfab weld carts together, they are beautiful

I live less than 45 minutes from Huntsville, been here for a year now and have yet to go see the U.S. Space and Rocket Center!

Wow Adam I wish I would have known y'all were going to be up here near my town. I live only five minutes from Cathedral Carverns here in Grant Al Would've loved to have met you both.

I dont think I could ever get tired of watching shapers run, but thats probably why I spend so much time in the shop, lol. Ive seen a few ways of tramming the head in, but would you show how you trammed the head in so it cuts downwards perfectly square?

Nice content. I was expressed with the everlast as well. Enjoyed seeing the shaper run.

Time for a labeling machine for those drawers.

I was worried about your cutting the fixed jaw with the holes in it. I thought for sure the cutter would chip on the holes, but it worked just fine. That would have only happened if it were me, hahaha.

Awesome video as usual. I would figure out away to mount a tool post grinder on that thing for a surface grinder. 😌

Not sure that welder has it but up-slope is also a great feature to play with Adam. You can start the arc at about 20 amps and when you let off the button, it will ramp up. Great for pipe welding and aluminium etc, Gives you time to put the arc just where you want it before pumping up the heat. Great vid!

Using the pedal is great if you're sitting down, but if you have to stand, it can tire you out until you get used to it. And the older you get, the tireder you'll be. :-)

Nice!!

Excellent, a little too much oil never hurt anyone. Too much oil beats no oil any day

tools dont want to sip margaritas on a beach when they retire, they want to go to aboms home workshop

Antiques Roadshow: Adam, what you have here is the first file Jebediah Heller ever made! You tell me you paid $5 in Huntsville, Alabama? This file is worth....

Hi Adam! Are you sure that was a drill bit, and not just a big, springy, curly chip? 😆 Looks like something that would come off of that big lathe you have at work. Also, there’s Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, and Natural Bridge caverns here in Texas, should you be into that sort of thing. It’s great that you’ve got the G&E shaper up and running, but don’t neglect you’re other tools, like your Monarch lathe, or your horizontal/vertical milling machine; they need TLC as well!

Nice spoiler (alert) at the complete end!

Next modification, a small oil pan on the end of the down feed cam so that the feed lever dips its toe in it before carrying some oil onto the cam.

Miller has fan on demand but on the old transformers there jets and even there inverters are quite loud when they kick in when they get warm

Was this a "mine is better than your's Steve?" He showed a manual parting today. So much easier having that automatic down feed.

Some of the new welders only run the fan as needed, so they're much quieter.

I now live in the land of real fires and wood burners in houses which is BRILLIANT, but, as much as I love my brother in law I have a constant battle with him over bits of wood.... I see a chock, a jack pad, a brace or some other 'need that for one day' use for every scrap of wood around the place. He sees FIREWOOD! Oh MAN!!!!

👍👍 for italy

Not sure if you've done this before, but maybe you could show of your library of books and highlight some you like the most. I can imagine you have quite some books about machining and metal working by now. Nice video once again, cheers.