Funny how with all our technology it all comes back to hand scraping for precision fit. Thanks for your video . I appreciate your skill.

Well done Max, that compound angle is way above my pay grade. Had a visitor into my workshop today, doing some soldering on my bench, fixing a battery lead on my Fluke multimeter, movement caught my eye, 6 ft Cobra came under my gate and nonchalantly slithered under my wheely bin. Dispensed with my shop broom, keep an eye out in your shop, weather warming up and they are on the move. The Missus is shit scared after seeing it.

Very nice scraping work Max, a veritable clinic on refurbishing the compound slides. Very well explained and demonstrated. I found it very instructive and entertaining, cheers mate! Wow, you certainly got a lot of comments, a sure sign that everyone got something out of this video, bravo, Max!

Max the Way Gib looks absolutely beautiful. Very nice work. Very good and informative video. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day. Take care, Ed.

Just playing a little catch up. Glad to see your making some headway 😊. Lots goin on with them tapered gibs. That's the sole reason I opted to go with straight gibs on my taper attachment (ironically 😏). Well done, Max! Thanks for the vid! 👍😁👍 Cheers 🍻

Great work Max and thanks for showing how it's done. Have a great Holiday season. Cheers PS Max FTW!!

Nice use on sharpie or layout ink, lot cleaner than Micrometer blue at the initial scraping in. Mag chuck works great on difficult to hold items, scraping is plenty good enough, better than original build. Great work and video Max. Thanks for sharing.

Enjoyed…great discussion/demonstration

Top job mate, that’s another one down 👍🇦🇺

Great Blu job ya done there 😁👍👍👍

Excellent job, Max, hats off. Will be a top Top-Slide.🙂

Max that is a real brain twister. But we all knew you could figure it out. Thanks

Thanks for the plug , great to see you making use of the scraper. The taper gibs are a pig to machine correctly, but they are quick enough to scrape in being small areas. A granite reference plate will help you no end down the line, but they are a chunk of money and space taken up. All the best from the HighPeak Mat

Max, You’re making progress on your many projects. Don’t lose hope or let yourself get to feeling so overwhelmed that you forget just what a monumental year it has been for you. All the Best For The Holiday Season. Cheers, Will

good video max...thanks for your time friend

Max, you're now one of my firm favourite go to channels of an evening after work and the world needs more real men like you with proper calendars on their walls! This jib/gib job really annoyed me though as there's no need to mathematically calculate compound angles now that it's close. That's why we have brains to do all of that using creative visualization. Maybe I have a photographic memory and highly developed kinesthesia but I just take a mental snapshot of the amount to remove and have a scarily good feel for such things but I can feel what I see or imagine and hold in memory a working 3D model. I'll probably need to do this job myself on a couple of old South Bend lathes eventually and will video the process but don't anyone hold their breath. I'm not trying to teach you to suck eggs but the fact is that your final milling/grinding/scraping passes will by definition be trial and error as you home in - and hone in - on zero, no matter the desired or calculated angles you are theoretically aiming for, so just assemble the clean, dry unit and place an appropriate feeler gauge in the loose end of the gib/dovetail and support the thick end on the same feeler gauge or shim to mill it, then adjust levels and angles to a perfect fit by small increments as necessary. Once you're within scraping range you can instead glue two strips of 400, 600, or 800 etc. grit wet and dry abrasive to the dovetail ways, one each side of the gib and flushing well with white/mineral spirit or WD40, rub it in to a tight fit. The paper is as near as damnit parallel in thickness in both planes so when removed, the gib will also be left parallel in both compound planes with the cross slide and saddle dovetails it was stuck onto, assuming a thin, even glue line. In England we have what's called a 'Pritt Stick' which would work well, applied evenly to the paper backing. As for hand scraping...... it's absurdly tail chasing and fast wearing, creating thick grinding paste as it beds in unless stoned truly flat afterwards. Bear in mind that the optimal outcome is an unbroken or intact oil film or boundary layer entirely preventing any metal to metal contact, even using a thin lubricant, like a rotary plain bearing in a lathe or an engine crankshaft which never wears out when properly oiled and maintained. The reason these old lathes and mills need to be reground is im/precisely because they were scratched up in the first place by randomly hand scraping and their contact faces were never actually flat and continuous but instead, broken. My Colchester Student is still straight after 52 years as it was ground accurately in the factory and properly induction hardened but never scraped or flaked. It's bloody good quality iron too, more like chrome steel. The poor old South Bends on the other hand....... Pressure is force divided by area and flaking/scraping reduces contact surface area, necessarily increasing wear as a result, not least by permanently trapping particulates. The VB36 Bowl Master wood lathe plain bearings for example have a load rating of 200,000 lbs per square inch before any metal to metal contact theoretically occurs and so far they've all lasted forever since 1996, (Disclaimer; Pending actual forever or the end of the known universe, whichever comes sooner). Basically, bearing surfaces should all float on a thin but intact film of oil. That's why it's used, to entirely separate all moving parts. You don't hand scrape ballbearings individually or their rollers and races and they last for miles, even with inadequate oiling, as they're generally ground accurately to a fine surface finish capable of maintaining an unbroken oil boundary layer that doesn't trap dirt.

Thx for explaining where the gib grinding went sideways and how you managed to sort it out in the end.

Well done Max. That setup was never that nice from the day it was assembled. You did very well, I finally stepped up to carbide blades on a Sandvik handle. The steel blades unless perfectly ground (every twelve seconds) were much harder to use and required a much greater effort. The carbide was an instant level up to a scalpel versus a hatchet. 😂. I got by with a thin diamond wheel (easy get from Amazon) mounted on my bench grinder against a dressed stone wheel. Worked just fine and cheap. Got the idea from Stefan G. Very nice finish (maybe not a mirror but darn close). I have a-lot of scrap carbide and will silver solder in the future for close in places like the v-ways. One small thought. I found a hard rubber ink brayer (like folks use with printing) from the hobby and craft store a good help for spreading the bearing blue nice and thin. Easy clean up with some glass cleaner, back in the drawer and ready for use years from now. I got my blade radius gauge from young Marcus down your way.

To you and yours from me and mine all the best for Xmas and New year

Thanks for another excellent and educational video. If we don't hear from you before then, Merry Christmas and looking forward to another great year at the Swan Valley Machine Shop!

Great result, looking forward to the next video. Stay safe and well 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great job as always Max. In case you don't post again, can I wish you and yours a happy Christmas and a prosperous new year. I've really enjoyed our back and forth this year and hope to continue in the sane vein next year.

I have learned so much from the JFMT videos. Thanks for taking me along for the ride, warts and all. Great!!

Very satisfying to watch the scraping process thank you for sharing take care, Max from the UK!

nice end result max ! cheers ben.

Happy Thanksgiving merry Christmas hope you get a lot done thanks for the video Fleco Tech Walla Walla Washington

Well worth the wait to see you crack that one Max. Like your down to earth approach, as always. I keep imagining the capability you will have in the new shop once all the machines are there & all restored to the same standard as this big lathe. You’ve come a heck of a long way this year, with what’s left to go really no where near as far as you’ve come. I reckon it’s all downhill from here. Aiming to catch up out there before Xmas all going well. 👍

That was a lot of work, but well worth it. Lots of lessons learned. Well done, Max.

Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks Max, really great series....keep up with the great videos. I have learned so much watching you. Thanks and cheers

You are capturing the blueing after scraping on camera pretty well, moving the camera as you do helps. The granite will be a good investment, at least it looks like you have the space for a decent size, in the UK at least the larger ones aren’t much more that the smaller units as most home shop machinists can’t accommodate them.

I always learn something it seems watching your videos, thank you Max🙂👍

Compound turned out great . I appreciate your just get down to business approach . Really breaks down the scraping and rebuilding process seem much less overwhelming. Keep them coming, much appreciated 👌

Filming or photographing metal in any condition without reflection is difficult. It takes some diffused lighting techniques to pull it off successfully, there are books on the subject of one wishes to learn. photographing scraping without a contrasting color unearth is equally difficult. Nevertheless less you were able to get the lighting good enough here to see it well. I too see no issue with shimming a gib. Making a new gib is time consuming at best and like you say not really necessary. I am from the school of scraping slides to get sufficient contact and geometry to give proper service and a reasonably long service life and not spend time unnecessarily to get "Jig Bore" level on a machine that has no need for it. Good series Max I have enjoyed it. P.S. the Look Creations channel is indeed good. It's been a while since I have listed. I might have to go have a look. Cheers

Good stuff Max.

G'day Max, Quite a perplexing angularity problem...I suspect most of us would not have know of thought of it, certainty myself. Nice to see you've cracked it ! That's going to be a smooth running compound slide ! Enjoying the rebuild and education your providing. Nice shout out to Lookcreations...been a follower and great channel 👍👍 If we don't see you before Christmas, have a great holiday...you and yours ! Cheers....Dean

Tungaloy sells the highest quality carbide scraper blanks here in Japan. CST-30, 25, 20 and 15mm width blanks. Mirror finished.

Awesome progress Max….. Merry Christmas

G'day Max, bloody brilliant mate! The scraper work reminds me of my time restoring antique cut throat razors, creating an even workable bevel really is a work of art, and you nailed the exact same principle there for sure Remember anytime you need an apprentice I'm your fella 👍😉

That was really nice work there and you are making substantial progress. I bet there are a ton of off camera hours put into this rebuild.

Looking great, Max. Have a great Holiday season if we don't see you.🎅👍 (but I hope we do ...) Gib strips and Mag plates aren't really friends, right? You can't really complain because those mag plates are the absolute cats meow on the heavy stuff just not the thin flexible stuff. Sorry you ran into that. But it got you in the ball park where scraping could dig you out. Glad that ordeal is over for you and you have recovered so well. Looks fantastic now.

Very good info. great content

Hi Max... been watching the last few videos with the grinder & the blueing of the gib, & the scraping. You have shown us the complexabilty of what has to be done to get the precision that needs to be done to get that extra high precision. Great set of videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge & time so far.

Gday Max, great video, I don’t think I’d like to have a go a compound angle machining, it don sounds that easy, I really glad you got that all sorted and the results are spot on, Matthew at Look creations has a brilliant down to earth channel for sure, thanks for sharing mate, cheers

I knew you would figure that one out Max !

Ahh...! Those compound angles, not simple, really needs lots of concentration.... About those nasty reflections, it seems like you're using strong bare lithing, in front of your lights you could try some softbox or diffuser of some kind, it works for me quite well. A piece of light nylon, diffused plexy, thin paper, etc... It will also soften your shadows. 🙂🙂 Cheers, Pierre

Hi Max. Really happy to see the scraping instruction and pointers as to tool. I understand applying that best process takes time to learn. Report very happy to be making some tools for my lathe and what I learned from the recent videos is to be very focused upon the precision of the lathe tools as saddle and cross slide. Where, that neglect of fitment would directly impact the work product. So, Max...thank you for taking the time to teach such useful process. A little bit less time in the workshop as bitter cold minus 8C is present in the evenings. (outside) And where I take measure to remain not as so chilled to endurance. I look forward to visits at your shop area. McGary

Thanks Max that was doing my head in went around to mattys on Thursday had us stuffed well done mate 🙃 😅

If its gotta be tight, you might as well call it Barry.😃

The bluing showed up pretty well, I think. I am confident that one difference between what you showed and other channels is how much blue you used. In one of his, Stefan Gotteswinter specifically said that he used a lot more blue than was ideal to get it to show up better on camera, but recommended that a thin coat gave better results. You used a proper thin coat, and the camera picks up the light and glare a little more. It did not diminish the demonstration.

Thanks Max, glad you got to the bottom of that one and looking forward to the next chapter on this rebuild

Patience and persistance, it got you there. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Thanks for a wonderful year of education and demonstrations.

Thanks Max. Super video, great explanation on getting back on track and fallowing the facts. It a little out for my wheelhouse but I need to do the same to my lathe. Great info. I think my gib is too wide and interfering with a proper running fit.

Hope you make some great progress on your new shop. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Merry Christmas Max if we don't see ya again till later! That compound turned out better than new! Better oiling for sure. You goin to put an oiler through the gib strip to oil the vways? My scraper I brazed a 4mm carbide endmill shank to a piece of 1/8 plate it works pretty good for this scraper I made out of a lawnmower deck handle I found. Good use for broken mills and old tile bits. Also diamond lapping plates are dirt cheap and work pretty good for shaping/sharpening. I think they're for jewelry making or something. I put one on my table saw with it plugged in a router speed controller. Makes it easier to get the right 2 or 3⁰ angle every time with that since don't have a nice tool grinder. Appreciate all the years of experience you always share here

I think one of the hardest thing to learn about scraping is getting the right amount of blue on . Not to much or it smells and not to little it shows nothing good luck with scraping

great job,

Merry Christmas Max. You're very talented and patience machinist. I really enjoy watching your videos

Olá amigo trabalho muito interessante!!! Boa sorte!

Hello Max, Another interesting video... In the previous video you established there was a slight dip in the magnetic vice, I assume there was no concern about using the vice to scrap the gib... Merry Christmas if we don't see you before... Take care. Paul,,

Heh! “Short and curleys”. I’ve never seen them described that way before.

Touchdown.

Max, I am interested to see the scraping done, never seen that technique before but touched on it in metal work at school. There must have been a lot of it done in the days of white metal bearings. What about an old file ground to be a scraper? Jeff

Great video max, 27-degrees here at the moment, colder than a witches tits in a brass ba-zer..lol.going to be a top notch lathe..

I looked a while ago and a i think it was 450mm×600mm aa granite surface plate was only about 400 bucks at some place in Brisbane

nice one Max. I understand now! I'm just wondering are you going to go to this extent with all your machines?

Hi Max, do you know who in Australia has the carbide replacement bits for hand scraping.?

Hi Max, to take the glare out of your video's. Make sure you put the ISO in manual and NOT auto ISO, set it to 200 or so ISO, then use your "S" (shutter speed) to darken your Video....

Hi Max. (Gooday) Is that gibb steel or cast ? Hi Matt @Look Creations 😎 Merry Christmas

Handscraping... not my cup of tea. It just takes too long...