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My father worked in Switzerland with this machine in the 60s. As someone wrote already, my dad said that it was in a room that was temperature, humidity-controlled and had an operating room level air scrubber. He proudly explained to me how he worked with. Now, 22 years after he passed away, I see this amazing machine. It is touching to me. He would be very interested in your channel. Thank you very much, Mr Korenko.

It makes me watery eyed seeing how well that machine is made, how well its documented, the diagrams, the spares and even how nicely the accessories are all boxed up. Its from an age where engineering seemed to ooze a level of pride that seems to have diminished. Its a large boxy, grey and heavy piece of kit, but its a thing of beauty to my eyes and built to last too!

I did my toolmaker apprenticeship at Holden in Adelaide (Woodville plant). We had 2 of these machines in a temperature controlled room and I was fortunate enough to be trained on them and work in there on many occasions. These machines are bang on accurate and have no vibration or chatter when machining. Exactly like a Rolls Royce would be if it was a jig borer.

Hi Curtis, Just found your excellent presentation and I have experience to add to your project. I was a maintenance engineer at the Small Arms Factory where we had two SIP Jig Borers, an old one and one like yours. In 1965 the SAF bought a 7A CN with NC rotary table making it a 4 axis NC machine. I was sent to Geneva for 9 weeks to study all the systems concentrating on the electronics and how to fix it if it fails. At that time GM Fishermans Bend bought a 6A CN and a few years later the Ammunition Factory Footscray bought a 6A CN. I had great experiences associated with this machine and later learned that when the SAF was disbanded, the 7A was auctioned off and went to the USA. What a shame. At this time the 7A with rotary table cost around 250,000 pounds. I recall that the positioning accuracy was +- .0001inch even with up to 1 ton on the table and it would do this on auto (NC), The table moves on very accurate rollers so accurate that SIP had to build their own factory to make them. The factory had isolated foundations to isolate the grinding of the rollers form all sources of vibration. The agent in Sydney was Mechanical Precision Equipment, the owner Cliff Done, the father of Ken Done the artist. Cheers.

This jig borer is one of the wonders of engineering, and your description and explanation was simply a joy to watch and hear. You have a great gift for technical story telling. And the close up cinematography was a joy as well! Thank you both for this episode!!

When I was an apprentice machinist in late 60’s General Electric aircraft in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA had one installed. Besides the HVAC control in the room, it had to be put on an isolated floor to keep the vibration of the other machines from affecting it. What I remember most is the Swiss engineer who came over to calibrate it. Wore a suit with white shirt and when he was finished it was still white! Thank you Kurtis for sharing this with us!

I work on this exact model every single day and it's rapidly become my favorite machine. I'm glad someone has put out a video on it! Mine has the mechanical rotary table that adds additional two axis movement. We manufacture very very close tolerance space and defense parts with it.

As a skilled tradesman I'm amazed at how much you know about so many different machines and mechanisms. Your understanding of systems and way of explaining them is the best I've come across

I started my Apprenticeship in '79 as a Fitter and Turner and after completing my trade with the added modules I was a Toolmaker at the Ordnance Factory Maribyrnong in Victoria. In our toolroom we had a Hydroptic 4, 6 and 8 which was beside each other in a controlled atmosphere. The 8 had 2 spindles, a vertical and horizontal which were aligned within 0.0002" so machining holes that were 90 degrees to each other and were aligned was easy. During the 90's we were making gearbox housings for the American Army for the M1 Abrams tank when the Gulf War was in full swing on the Hydroptic 6. At that point in time I was the Toolmaker Checker and so all the housings went through me before being sent to the USA. Unfortunately that meant working 80 hours a week, starting at 5:30 in the morning 7 days a week for 18 months doing 10 and 12 hour days. We worked all holidays except Christmas day and was the first time I earned more than $32,000 as I think the base wage for a toolmaker was around the $22,000ish mark. If the machine is the same as ours they have a glass scale which is where you get the black line that you align the 2 fingers when looking through the optics. The optical centre that goes in the spindle can also be used to pick up an edge. As the machines aged the best thing we did was put a DRO on the 4 and 6 as we were in the phase of going from Imperial to Metric so at the flick or a switch it went from Imperial to Metric and was just as accurate as the optics. The best thing about going to the DRO was you could make your fine adjustments in either direction unlike the optical which has to be done in one direction to maintain accuracy and if you go past you have to back off and start again. They are a great machine but they do suffer from problems you don't have with a normal mill in being able to see what is happening with your cutter as you cant get over the cutter and look down but you get used to it and have to have faith in what your doing. As with all machines they are only as good as the operator but they are great at what they were made for and not everyone I worked with was able to use the Hydroptic's due to the system used to hold a cutting head in the spindle and working out how to works the optics.

nice machine ! Btw. 5:05 is not to set the table, it's to zero the scale to the next full (5-ish) digit. A lot of european machines from that time have the same feature. So its easyer for the operator to calculate long travel distances. You get to do a lot of calculating in your head when working with analog measuring systems. When zeroing, I use the tecnique of zeroing the 1mm scale, zeroing the 0.01mm scale on the handweel and then calculating the travel on the sacle, adding the needed rotations on the fine adjusting weel scale. You can then easely and fast travel your distance routhly by the 1mm scale, for eg. 250.5 mm travel, from 425mm to 675mm, then dialing in the 0.5mm with the fine scale on the handweel. And because all your indicators/scales are on the same zero, it works like a calculator. I also used to mark my "waypoints" with a permanent marker on the 1mm scale, so its easyer to navigate. When you are on 645mm on the 1mm scale, and 0 on the handweel scale, you are exactly at 645.00mm - I hope that makes sense, greetings from switzerland.

What a trip down memory lane! What a treasure! I worked on one just like that in the mid-60's with a major aerospace company here in the U.S. I apprenticed in tool & die and wound up working on the SIP. Truly amazing machines. When you get everything cleaned up and sorted out, you'll have a VERY valuable piece of equipment for your company but remember... they're built like a tank, but treat them gently. I was young then and now I'm old, but I clearly remember what a joy they were to work with. Treasure it and take care of it.

Jig borers are truly amazing machines. The 1st company I worked at had a Brown and Sharpe version I seem to recall. That was a long time ago in the late '70s. The WW2 vet who was my mentor as an apprentice was the only master craftsman allowed to use it out of over 100 machinists in a good sized complete fab shop. Later, when I worked at United Airlines, we had about 10 Vlieg horizontal boring machines that we used primarily to service landing gears. They all had a compound turntable for true 5 axis adjustment. We all wore out expensive indicators on a yearly basis on these! They were all quite old and long used, but incredibly accurate machines. These were incredibly versatile machines that could be used on all sorts of odd shaped workpieces. When management at United realized I had good CNC experience, they trained me on a custom built Cincinnati machining center. This machine was the most accurate machine I've ever worked on besides grinders. It was the most accurate mill in this huge shop. It was tested and checked for accuracy with a laser every month. There were only 3 guys in the 'jet shop' at United Airlines in SF CA out of 8000 people in the building who were trained for this machine. We used it mostly to bore gearboxes for a generator motor used on various aircraft. This milling/boring machine had a programmable CNC touch probe (like a CMM) used to probe out numerous bores on several different planes in the gearbox. Then we could analyze the data and adjust the relationship of all the bores to bring them back into spec. This machine could inspect its own work! This feature, along with a 50 millionth's indicator and a big set of integrated boring heads and cartridges could produce incredibly accurate work. We would 1st bore out and remove the old worn bushings, carefully rebore the housing just slightly larger. Then we would turn new bronze bushings on a latge, freeze them with liquid nitrogen, bond and install them in the housing. Then again rebore them to finished dimensions. It was a fascinating but slow process. It would take about 2 1/2 shifts to complete one gear box. We had either 2 or 3 machinists working 3 shifts on this machine. Before I worked at United, I worked at several shops machining high reliability devices, such as defense hardware, surgical devices and aerospace hardware. Engineering, testing, intensive QC, but most often quality assurance (QA) methods were a huge part and my work. A truly amazing aspect about the job at United for me was the lack of actual inspectors. Everyone was well trained and checked out on their various tasks. Each maintenance procedure was engineered and any changes to procedures were highly monitored. Everyone was accountable and well aware of the human life and costs at stake. Nobody was ever rushed to get work finished. Everyone was accountable for their work, documented and held responsible. The A&P mechanics who installed the hardware into the aircraft made sure it was correctly completed at end of this long process. United Airlines was a fascinating place to work. There were lots of excellent people there and many highly skilled machinists. Unfortunately the labor union/management relationship and workplace politics forced me to leave there after only a few short years. I despise labor unions! I'll never work for another. I left to earn far more money machining and developing heart surgery devices at a startup company. What was funny is that I went from machining huge aircraft components to tiny pieces less than sn 1/8" in diameter. Almost 1/2 my time was spent inspecting and deburring parts under a microscope! This seemed intimidating at first, but I quickly realized all the machining principles remained the same!

These SIP machines are indeed the top of the food chain. We had one in a room by itself that was temperature, humidity controlled and had an operating room level air scrubber. Only two operators in the shop were allowed to run it. They had a full service and certification annually. You got a helluva machine there

I recall one of these at Hawker-Siddeley (the Harrier maker) in Kingston, London in early 70's. It could be "programmed" with punch cards. It was a sackable offence to cross the yellow line near it on the shop floor if you were an apprentice.

I have been in metrology for over 50 years recently retired. We rated the Sip as the best machine of its kind in the world. 30 years with Starrett; 10 with Mitutoyo and 10 in other areas of metrology. I believe the plug in scope is an auto Collimator to check flatness. We used them to measure surface plate flatness. Great video, and happy to be retired. Keep up the great job as you enter into real accuracy in machining. My best sir.

Congratulations! I used to work on a SIP 6 35yrs ago at our federal aviation company nowadays known as RUAG here in Switzerland. The machine was in a 20° conditioned glass box with ALL the tool options from the SIP catalogue. Until today this work experience remains as my personal TOP in terms of precision and smoothness. Just a dream for any passionate machinist. As you said correctly it's the Holy Grail in our machinist world imo.

WOW!!...So good to know that smart people still cherish these mastepieces of mechanical technology. I bought one myself 3 years ago from an aerospace firm in Italy, and incredibly enough a game changer for my workshop even in the cnc era!

Farking wow, life goals right there mate. I'm not sure how many people will truly be able to appreciate the design and capability of this machine. Love your work CEE!

Just found your channel, love it. This takes me back, I'm 80 and I have retired quite a few years ago but being a machinists was one of the happiest times being on the machines was better than being a supervisor. Thank you for this channel, I'd love to be in your workshop. I would think that if I had the money I'd have a little workshop in my back yard just to play with.

A good friend of mine had one of these machines, and he would allow me to use it from time to time. Wonderful machine to operate. Had a job with a series of bored holes with a hole location of +&- .0003 true location. When I sent it to my customer they said the most error was .0002 they were very impressed.

A very impressive machine you have bought there 👌 ,back in my days(1970's) the reason there were 2 identicle books was that one was with the operator (always dirty ) the other (very clean ) was in the office and never ever allowed onto the shop floor.When trying to repair the machines the operators book was often unreadable because of the dirty fingerprints left by the previous repair guy.You then had to beg the office manager to allow you to have acess to his clean copy,easier said than done.Grovelling comes to mind and being told wash your bloody hands and wipe your boots.Good old days when working class knew blue collars workers were better than them.😂The spares you found brought back memories of when all machines came like this, the manufacturer provided wear items that would need replacing under about 2 years of use .I remember they were also wrapped in waxed paper to protect them.👴Your videos always bring back memories that are locked away in the old vault,thanks Kurtis.😊

Hi Kurtis, I seem to recall, as an apprentice at Borg Warner in Fairfield Sydney in the 1960’s, we had a Societe Genevoise jig borer in the air conditioned tool room. There was one skilled operator and no one else was allowed to use this machine. Hope to see you run the machine soon.

I used to work with these fabulous machines in the late 70s here in the UK. We did work for the aerospace(RR) and nuclear industries among others. I imagine most of my old workmates are now in that big workshop in the sky bless 'em. Won't be long before I'm joining them lol. What fantastically skilled people they were. For me this video was a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thank you.

0:00 when i saw the title i said to myself how precise can it really be , then i saw the operator run in and i knew we were about to witness some advanced technological achievements in history

Almost 9ton fine ass machinery. They where really able to produce high tolerence stuff back then only using their brains and calculations on a paper. Impressive!

I can almost feel the generations of hands that have touched those controls! What a legacy you've found!

Imagine the accuracy of the master machines that are used to manufacture these borers/mills/lathes!

Good day. I'm a retired Mould-Maker Plastics in Canada. In my humble opinion you, sir, have scored a priceless machine-tool & accessories. Great video, mate! Bravo!

Wow what gem. I served my apprenticeship at NSWGR workshop at Cardiff near Newcastle,starting in 1963. In a controlled atmosphere room was the "Genevoise Jig Borer". I'm not sure what size it was but to a 15yo apprentice it looked huge. I remember the operator showing me the optical centre finder, at the time I was totally amazed. What an absolute goldmine of tooling and accesories and that documentation is worth its weight in gold, priceless. In this day of CNC, machines like this are cast aside, I'm glad to see it go to someone who appreciates quality machinery Phil from EVLE

This has legitimately become my favorite channel, you guys do a better job on these videos than I think you realize.

With those Opinel knives, many people don't realize, but the metal collar can rotate and lock the blade open, or closed. Very useful gadget...

Love the 3 minutes of outtakes at the end of the video - gave me a good giggle.

I've heard of jig borers for 35 years, but never seen one much less a tutorial. I guess it's because I've always worked in job shops where most jobs only needed +/-.001 banana tolerance with an occasional venture into the string bean scale which is 35/64 of banana.

Wow, that brought back memories. I worked on one occasionally for a couple of years over 50 years ago about that size. I was told it was recovered from a salt mine somewhere in Europe after the end of World War 2 as part of war reparations! It had a direct reading optical scale system different to yours, you looked through an eyepiece similar to the one on the optical center finder, it was in the same position to your measuring setup. It had the same on the cross head. SIP really wanted to get hold of it to upgrade! I worked as a civilian for a British military establishment at that time. We had several pieces of interesting machinery including an extremely accurate thread grinder. A metric machine but an imperial leadscrew. The leadscrew was 'borrowed' by a machine tool company to cut another master! as it was so accurate! Enjoy your machine I did!!

A giant Swiss watch is what this is, I know nothing about your trade but I'm a mechanic and I can imagine how satisfying it must be working with this jewel, a joy watching your tour of it. Best.

This machine and all the extra tooling is like 100 Christmas's bunched together. Wow!!!

OMG x 1319! What an absolutely amazing machine, from a 'proper' company, AND a time when companies had genuine pride in what they were producing. All those standard, and spare parts included. Oh my heart just melts. Totally excellently described principles of operation too. You (and machine) are a credit to each other. Regards Mark in the UK

I've been in Precision Engineering for 35 years now, the jig-borers fascinated me. The tooling that came with them was pure quality. They were always off limits to most people. Only the privileged few were allowed to go anywhere near them! Very rare to see a Sip these days. Great video.

The Company I used to work for had 6 of these same machine tools lined up side by side in a wood planked, air conditioned, humidity controlled room. The outside wall that faced the street was glass so if you passed by you could see all the Master Machinists in white coats making parts on the SIPs. Yes those were the days.....

*YOU WERE VERY WISE TO PURCHASE THIS INCREDIBLE PRECISION MACHINE...WOW...CONGRATS!!*

That is a stunning piece of equipment that you have found. The condition that it is in, all the tooling, manuals and all the electrical spares that have come with it. There was a machine works somewhere in Aus That had really cared and maintained for it as its over 60 years. And with your TLC I'm sure that it will give another 60 years of service. Thanks for a relaxing start to the weekend with a few cold beverages. Stay dry.

Made in 60s, and still works like Swiss watch, incredible!

Awesome! I spent the bulk of my machining career running two different SIP jig borers. The statements to that you made about how accurate they are and how nice they are to operate are accurate. Thankyou for sharing. This channel always brings me joy to watch.

Speaking on precision this video was uploaded at 12:01am Pacific Standard time. Curious as to how much time the Mrs. has put into making sure that the video is edited and ready to upload at such a precise time. It is actually incredible how hard you guys work towards the “Under promise, Over deliver” part. Thank you for your precision.

Let me get this straight, to get her going you have to flip some switches, activate the lubricant fluid, flip a travel lever to the correct speed, move a lever forwards and back, turn some big knobs, smaller knobs, and finally some knobs under a hood which is difficult to reach, then move some other smaller levers, unlock the spindles and axis, rotate a wheel, hit 2 more levers, set the speed rate and finally hit the start button. Where as to get him going you just need to flip his switch and blow a little?

Wow, thanks! I used to work one of these in the uk making titanium rotor heads for Sikorsky helicopters. Awesome machine, so smooth and accurate. The rolls royce of machines.

LOVING YOUR CHANNEL,I SPEND HRS WATCHING, BACK IN MY DAY WE DIDNT HAVE INSERTS,WE GRINDED OUR TOOLS, MISS THE SMELL OF MACHINE SHOP ,THANKS GOES TO YOUR MRS, FOR HER OUT STANDING AN CREATIVE FILMING.

Wow I love old machinery, how freaking accurate is that thing! amazing, with a bonus of a time capsule inside as well. As always, I love the work you two share with us. 👍

I loved working with the SIP Jig Borer at WRE Instrument Workshop SA in the 1970s-80s.

I love these big old machines. It's amazing the size to which machines were built and this is a little one of the big ones. Such as when you're looking at the big presses made during WWII (and later) - 27 to 36 meters tall and taller. 50,000 to 80,000 tons of pressure.

Hi Curtis, I was in Geneva a couple of days ago and found this information about the SIP Company - Geneva Physical Instruments Society (SIP) Company founded by the physicist Auguste De la Rive and the botanist Marc Thury with the aim of manufacturing devices and instruments necessary for research and scientific and scientific experiments. In 1870, the engineer Theodore Turrettini joined the management of the company. It expanded into the machine tool and precision mechanics sectors. and precision mechanics. The company has become famous for the production of high-precision heel rolls. The company has up to 1400 employees at its two sites in Plainpalais and Chatelaine. In 1990, SIP moved to Satigny. In 2006, it was bought by the StarragHeckert group. The Satigny plant closed in 2016. Kind regards, Jim - Brussels - Belgium 😉

Got my dream job as an industrial mechanic here in norway yesterday! Learnd alot from your videos and even though im not gonna be working on any big equipment, i learnd alot of tips and tricks from your videos! keep it up

I ran one of these back in 97'/98' Absolutely awesome beautiful machine. One of my favorite experiences in my career 🥰

Been selling Industrial Tools for 43 Years and knew NOTHING about Jig Boring until now. I just spent 30 Minutes with my mouth open out of pure amazement..! Thank you for this very educational video. 👍

This video is a masterpiece for presenting so many of the nearly endless functions of that stunning machine! I'm delighted that someone had the foresight to keep all of the accessories and tooling with it and that it got into your hands! With all of the comments here anything I would write would be redundant. My great grandfather and grandfather were Swiss engineers, so this machine is so I am especially attracted to this machine. Thanks for the wonderful presentation and perfect videography, as always.

Love the video! One can clearly see that you are very excited about that machine. My grandpa worked at SIP in the sixties as a machinist priducing parts for machines. I do not know if there are any parts from him on this exact machine, but he would certainly be proud that these machines are still used today.

When I was an apprentice (1963) I used this machine with great pride . To this day I still chuckle about the spring loaded Centre punch & subsequent optical aligning accuracy.

as a now retired machinist, years ago for a long time I used a Devlieg jig borer. incredibly accurate, robust, a delight to use and 1950's vintage. most work was measured in tenths of a thou.

A joy to see the beauty of old machinery still being used i love watching them being used

Brought back happy memories of learning to use our SIP#1 jig borer as an apprentice. It lived in its own quiet and clean room and had a great stool to sit on whilst working it. It had a magnificent selection of tools and accessories and was treated with such reverence!

That machine is freaking AWESOME! Damn I want one. Everything was so much better back in the day!

Great video. You should convert a section of your shop to a "Clean-room" with stable temperature for your high precision equipment

Pretty amazing that there is 150 km between the SIP company from Genève, Switzerland, and the Opinel knife conpany from Saint Jean de Maurienne, France ! The machine and the knife has made nearly the same travel to your shop !

I nearly wet myself, as an apprentice we were using a SIP model 5E. What a lovely machine to use and the parts were spot on too. How lucky were you to get all that awesome tooling with it, mind you the SIP system, as you said, would not fit the "run of the mill" machines. After leaving the company after a few years, I never worked on a SIP jig borer again. A Japanese one I worked on, but never was the same as the 5E. They still produced a good product though, just not the silky smooth SIP. I never saw the front lifting holes on the 5E, but I just loved seeing the fantastic hidey hole for the electric spares, a great Aladdin's cave you found. Thanks once again for making us old engineers happy.

I am a machine maintenance technician… I have done it with all manner of machines for the last 25 plus years. I don’t need to know what it dose. I need to know HOW it works!!!! People have a very hard time understanding the difference!!! Thanks you for the amazing video!!!! you have done an amazing job of bringing me up to speed on a Machine I have never seen. (Not the first time, wish it was the last but I am not dead yet… Lol… Anyway, thanks so much and that is one HELL OF A MACHINE!!!!! So cool!!!!

I am living in the town where this machine was built : Geneva. And I know where the factory building is, It's now turned into an art centre. (your pronunciation "sociétè genevoise" was good). Thank for the videos It's always a pleasure to watch.

Oh yeah! We had those in the early part of my career. Sadly, 40 years later they were rusting in a warehouse out back.

Mind blown! What a fantastic piece of vintage precision machinery. Love it. 😎👍

The project of organizing, learning, rapairing, and setting up this machine, is like a dream come true.

I really do appreciate the extra info on the "new" machines in the videos

Wow Kurtis that is one helluva piece of equipment, looking forward to seeing it in use. Many a fine tune played on an old fiddle 🎻 👌

This stuff is fascinating - I'm not a tradesman but have always been interested in machining, lathes and mills etc. The equipment and skills you have accumulated are impressive !

I remember a company (Marsden & Shires) my dad worked for bought 3 Swiss jig borers, (late 50's early 60's I think) they were installed in temperature-controlled clean rooms with air conditioning to ensure absolute stability & accuracy. They were used for making parts for Concorde while it was in development & build. Zero tolerance & 60-micron finish on quite a lot of the work he did. The whole factory was spotless with no swarf allowed on the painted floors & safety lines painted around every machine. I know he was involved in the early use of 'disposable tips' made of ceramic I think, which meant that they didn't have to spend a lot of time making their own cutting tools. He did a lot of aircraft/jet work. He was a reserved occupation in WW2 working on aircraft instruments & gauges. He ended his career as a senior tool calibration inspector. Sadly he died of Emphysema caused by the cutting oil fumes. I enjoyed the video.

This machine with all the documentation is a real treasure. Love to see such a fantastic old machine.

I'm not an engineer but this machine is beautiful Swiss engineering and it might be an elder statesman now but it can clearly still produce the precision you require in your work. This is a video you and Karen should be proud of, you both put in a lot of work on this one

Great tour & tutorial, absolutely fascinating...now I want one! The books, the tooling, and the spare parts are a total bonus! Too often I see machinery for sale with no extras at all with them. I love seeing the extra and tooling in well made wood cases rather than plastic.

I machined CH47 and CH46 transmission cases, rotor head parts, drive shafts, turbine engine rotors, shafts, fuel system parts, for Columbia Helicopters for 3 yrs on one of these SIP Hydroptic-6 Jig Bore and the Rotary Tilt table. Our Digital Readout was dead on at .0001, I checked it every day on the X and Y axis. The z axis had a .005 backlash problem, so I hung a V-bottom mag base with a 1.0 travel Federal indicator to hold those tight tolerances. I changed the draw bar once, and did all the maintenance. We never used flood coolant on it. Added LED light in place of the old T8 tube. All the original positioning needles were removed. We used a shop vac for cleaning, air only lightly on parts only. At every 5 yrs, a specialist Sip rep came in and greased the spindle bearings. Definitely the most accurate manual machine I ever used.

That’s an amazing piece of equipment. I love that it’s 60 years old and still more precise than some of todays CNC. Your explanation was great and when you pulled all the tool boxes out I got really excited. Can’t wait to see it in action.

These machines were used in Europe in specially air conditioned closed room in order to maintain a very high precision degree and repeatability.It was dedicated to special work like tools or molds and operated by highly skilled professionals (only one or two).

I’ve been operating a jig borer for a few years now and it’s a fantastic machine to use, I love the accuracy it can achieve

My Grandfather was a Linebore Man who worked till 98 years old. He would love to see this Tool.

my, Kurtis you are a wonder. thank you for your time to show us your machine. cant wait until we see it in action.

In our country, this is called a "coordinate boring" machine. In my opinion, more accurately reflects the essence. We have almost all the terminology of machinery came from the German language.

The SIP is a cadillac. Ran one for a few years at Dexter Tool Co., doing aircraft work in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Gratulation to this machine! Same Quality is Reiden and Starrag from the sixtees, also made in Switzerland.

Kurtis, you and your wife and safety officer have a very special place here on planet earth. You guys are so dedicated to your craft and to each other. Keep up the solid work for your customers and us that vicariously live a life of “pretend machining” through your channel. I love watching your content and the antics and happy times from Mr Safety. (Lol) I mentioned to my wife that if we visit Australia in our retirement years (10 more years) that I’d like to goto a machine shop in the Gold Coast and visit a pay respects to a real machinist doing heavy machining on mining equipment. Her eyes glazed and she fell ill…(lol) …anyway by then you’ll be a multi millionaire having several million subs and views on each video. Thanks again for your content and please keep everyone’s finger’s and toes happy..

It always fascinates me how much precision they were able to get, even 100 years ago. We really do have an engineering debt to the pioneers of the industrial revolution.

I was a machinist toolmaker for Aerojet General for 32 years in Folsom, California. We had two SIP'S identical to what you now own. One of my most favorite machines to operate in the shop. Extreme accuracy doesn't even come close to what those machine's are capable of. You are fortunate to own one. All the wear marks on the paint of that machine look so familiar. Wouldn't it be something if that machine was purchased at the plant closure in Folsom .

Thankyou so much! Years ago I studied machine alignment and restored my first cnc that I still use today (scrape, measure, scrape...). I cant imagine how such a machine could be made to such exacting tolerances. I would bet that today it would be financially unrealistic. Take good care of it. That machine belongs in a museum.

Awesome new machine! You were very thorough in describing how it works and it’s various uses and functions. And as always, love seeing the out takes and the love that Homeless gets!

Thank you for being the custodian of wonderful machines, seriously it is beautiful, love your work.

They don’t make them like they use to. What a machine. It’s so versatile for such an older machine it is. Can’t wait until you demo it for its first money making job.

Thankyou sir ,as a retired ranch hand I have know reason for watching your program , I just love your story telling . Thankyou peace fellow babies.

Magnificent machine... Absolutely the pinnacle of pre-digital equipment.. Can't wait to see it in action. Wish my dad was alive.. He would LOVE to have seen this...

"It just needs to make sense.. And sometimes it's hard making you make sense." As an IT nerd that also builds random shit, welds, and can run a mill.. I felt this. I've watched my wife's eyes just gloss over trying to listen to me lmao

you made Keith Rucker cry. Beautiful machine!

I had the the once in a lifetime opportunity as an apprentice fitter and turner to do a few jobs on one of these at my first job. You felt like a fitter and turner using one of these.

I love the bloopers at the end, but I must say as a young fella who worked as a appy fitter at an abattoir and is now a fabrication appy I love seeing a tradesman with actual tradesmen quality nowadays it seems like a dying bread. Love learning from your vids and look forward to learning more from a proper trady 💙

It's amazing to see,despite so much parts,fixtures and adjustments this machine is brilliantly accurate and precise ! ! ! Swiss engineering is marvelous.