People like you are getting rarer every day. Very nice to see! You did good.

I, like you Adam, am proud to be part of Keith's program of bringing new talent to the Machinist trade . This is a trade that makes a country strong , We need new young blood in many technical trades to make America strong once again . We have all the lawyers and stock brokers we need. we need so many in the technology & medical field that are being skipped over for the big buck jobs. All of the You-tube group, I feel are feeling the same.

Hi, And many thanks for your uploading this. BTW According to Keith Fenner This project and any others becomes a world wide, or at least the Western world, not just the USA as a Country. I think it is wonderful.

Very nice Adam. Nice work.

That K and T is a great machine! This should be a fun series to watch.

A Great first project to be done on the mill !!!

1st project on the K&T, and its for another machinist......what a great project, thanks for letting us see the work.

Adam, I'm happy for you that the mill is working. It's a beast!

Hi Adam, it's nice to see the K&T working properly and being put to use on such a worthwhile project. Kudos my brother! Peace!

Hi Adam, thank you for another excellent video, as we have come to expect from you. Kudos to Brad for pulling this together, a fabulous project to add to Mr Fenner's initiative. And wow ! 3 videos in 1 night ? Very enjoyable, thanks again.

Really looking forward to this video series Adam. I made this same vice in machinist school so I'm looking forward to seeing the way you do it. Keep the videos coming bud.

Newly minted manufacturing engineer with an electrical engineering background here, learning all I can so I make less of a fool of myself when I talk with the folks in our shop. Thanks for the great videos and keep them coming!

lookn forward to seeing the finished project.

Looks like that K&T is working great! Well worth the time you put into fixing her up! -Jason

It's gonna be another great series. Cant wait to see it all.

So good to see someone working in imperial measurements. When I was an apprentice here in England we did too but over the past 40 years we are almost totally metric, I still think of sizes and fits in imperial.

Good to see You finally using the K&T after the repairs, that ,s a nice project You Guys have going,

This little vise is pretty cool, I made one pretty similar in college a few years ago, cool little project.

Hi Adam, i really like your work and i've been watching almost every video you uploaded. Keep up the good work! It's nice to see people knowing their way around conventional machines in times of cnc-machines getting cheaper and cheaper. Best Wishes from Bavaria!

looking forward for more parts thanks for the nice videos

Great Video, Adam. Look forward to seeing the next installment.

Great to see the K&T running! Very cool stuff Adam.

That K&T is a nice machine. Glad to see it working.

Got sent your way from AvE, so happy to have discovered your channel as I can tell I am going to learn heaps from your work. Great camera shots and explanations, really appreciate it!

I got to tell you, the whole collaboration tool thing is super cool and the story about the steel is crazy awesome. I tend towards the overly sentimental and this project epitomizes what is cool about tools. The person who wins that will was very lucky and it should be cherished for generations.

I'm so excited to being as well. That machine is a beast! And it looks like we got us a new series!

Really good to see the K&T at work. Cleaning up and squaring that blank would be a lot harder in the Bridgeport. .

super idea fellas the collaboration concept...AND... looks like adam has enough stock left to make a second for himself.

Enjoyed the video, love that mill! Thanks for the callout on the SCREWYBALL

Well I'm make'n my rounds, and catching up on videos I had missed in the creations of you all working on the WIYB TMC collection of tools. It is nice to see you working on the bigger mill and the first cuts to raw stock the vice came from! Nothing like a bigger cutter and a bit more weight and HP to remove the full width or flat out removing some material. Cheers, ;{)-------

Reminds me of when I was an apprentice at Rolls Royce in Derby England. On of the exercises we did was to make machine vices for the main works. We certainly chewed a lot of metal - and produced a fair amount of scrap!

The milling and turning an art it's not a job any one can do ...I used to work on it for 6 years from 1996 till 2002 🤗 ...I salute you for your videos ...you bring me back to my beautiful memories

Nice work Adam. Your vids are always fun to watch, but even more so now as I am getting over an appendectomy and the entertainment (and educational) value of your vids, and those of the other KZfaq machinist community are really a welcome alternative to mainstream media. Really, really great stuff, thanks again. Love your Instagram stuff too, 👍👍

Abom are the best professional I've ever seen here on youtube, thank you for sharing your videos and your experience :)

Adam, on my Kurt I use an deep well impact socket with a 1/2" breaker bar on it. That might make a good starting point for your new handle. You could make a spider for it ,short but you can still use both hands to tighten .

I appreciate your videos and efforts. One thing I can do for you is to offer an analysis of the material for you with future projects. It's a quick turnaround and best of all,no cost to you.

Nice to see the K&T finally doing what it was meant for

Nice machine to have in your arsenal. Joe

Great Video: Nice to see the K&T in action!

Another great video. The flag on the back wall looks great!

Really like the screw ball must have one! I always check my face mills on a granite table with a height setter to check all the inserts are the same height then I check again with the tool mounted on the arbor and then again with the tool in the spindle using a DTI on each insert. Great work!

love the music oh and the work is awesome to

Nice milling action

Adam, Make sure that ball is low enough that the work can't roll. Also when I was at Boeing we had " roughing face mills" for the real knarly materials and "finish cutters" to complete the job with. It made for a better finish. Now would be a good time to use your surface plate and a good square to see if you are indeed "square". Keep em coming cause I don't know if you know how informative and educational your videos really are....... Johnny Holland Cochran Ga

Really enjoy all the videos you make, I just hate it when they finish! DD.

I made all the parts for one of these in my mill class, the only difference being the fixed jaw is bolted in and can be rotated around and I'll maybe machine a feature in one side eventually. Definitely a fun project. Nice thing about making all the parts is that you can fit them like a 1911 slide. Butter smooth! I left the jaws a light press fit and used some lapping compound used at work to polish tool steel and ceramic to get them to slide on just perfectly.

Nice Video. I'm learning and you do a very good job of explaining what you're doing. Looking forward to watching more. Thanks!

Hi Adam glad that old cutter did you some good.One trick I have used over the years is to remove every other insert or just run 3are 4 depending on how many it has . I am still recuperating lot better but just do not have my stamina back yet. Keep up the good work .

Love that K&T! Sometimes the big cutters just like to be buried.

Hay Man that old rusty chunk of steel looked real nice once you peeled the rind off it. Good to see the K&T doing it's thing.

Hi Adam, lovely work as usual, may I suggest that you braze a short length of 1/8" welding rod to the screwball item, it will make it easier to get it into tight places. Regards, Rich, UK.

GREAT VIDEO !

Hi Adam greatings from Holland i like yout conventional machining, i have about 22 years experiance with conventional milling and turning. In your video you came up with the cut ball bearing wich i like a lot. now you where milling that peace of square steel. i have a shorter way to get the length on 90 degr to the 4 faces with hss mill on the Y axe. offcourse cut it like you did the 4 faces clean but when you get to the length part you only have to clean a 1/2 inch depth with hss mill, clean the surface. then return to your flat inserts cutter the one you used to get it square, place the square steel product on a small but even peace at the bottum of the vice at the fixed jaw. place the steel strait up,clamp it , cut it clean, now you finish on all sides 90 degrees, turn the steel 180 degrees in the vice and mill it to dementions of your drawing. done! benefits are less wear on hss tools. hope you understand my poor explanetion

Looks fine to me and the k and t has to be a pleasure to work with. HOPE ALL IS WELL.

thats funny, at 10.20 the screwy ball has a smiling face on it!

Great videos man ......I'd love to get my hands on these prints

Hey Adam, Pretty cool that shell cutter. I use to set them inserts in a optical comparator, measuring all these slots, and all these inserts, to find the best fit. On a shell like this, the length should be within .0003 inch. But the OD could be off a bit. If the finish is good on your cut, the noise you heard probably came from the eccentricity of the OD. It can be corrected by swapping every second insert with the opposite side. It should reduce the noise and vibrations, and make a better cut.

That is way cool Adam. Using an original piece of "Booth Machine Shop" inventory steel. Something your Dad or your Grandad handled, along with yourself. You could call that chunk of metal "Three Generational Steel". Cheers.

Man, I love those K&Ts. Sounds like a big steam locomotive pulling a load of... K&Ts up a grade.

Hey Adam…good video. as always. We've got a couple milling cutters in the shop I work in that cut the same way. Either they aren't fitted to the holder squarely or just plain sloppy-fit but they work on only half the inserts. Gets annoying after a while. Seems to work out pretty good for you though. I noticed a couple of your videos of Iscar turning tools. They make some real nice milling cutters too. I've been using them for year's. 5 inch cutters using the ADKT style inserts and they are great for hogging off material. Anyway…keep them awesome videos coming …thanks..Mike in Canada.

I watch in aww man. Thanks!

Adam, great video as always. As far as your cutter not being true, i can agree with that. Another thing I was seeing is that in your final pictures at the end, the scratches post machining are all facing the same direction, the front of the cutting edge going around in a circular pattern, and it matches all the way down the piece. Seeing that one would wonder if your cutting head is on true. It makes me think that its installed slightly cockeyed. Might be something to look into.

Just like the stone sculture says, I just have to remove the rock that isn't the sculture. Nice start to the project.

4:22 Abom sized Bandsaw anyone? Haha, more videos of yours inspire me to make more of my own workshop equipment and tools. It's becoming an itch on the foot of mine to get a shed built and a couple machines I'll say

It should be noted that Keith Rucker is making the wooden box for this.

The K&T worked well. Your face mill has adjustable pockets so you can take the time to adjust them to an identical height. It won't sound so much like a fly cutter then. Jeff

Really nice job, which is complicated by the 5 or 6 people or more making the various parts to this vice, OK if like you this is the final grind but there’s a lot to think about, well done to you and all. I know in one of the last WIYB’s a person from the UK where I live was the lucky recipient of a box, or to be more correct many individual ones that made up the whole wonderful gift from knowledgeable Engineers and Part time and Professional Machinists. I hope they realise just how much work went into their many separate pieces! I have said it before, - I wonder if Keith realised what a many headed snake these WIYB would become, though it spreads the knowledgeable camaraderie of the many people kind enough to make the many parts of maybe even more finished machinists tools with some becoming absolutely indispensable and are for continued use?! Thanks for the completed item and for the upload of your work. Take care mrbluenun

Adam, I am glad to see the mill working. That brings back memories, good and not so good. I have three ideas. 1. Way covers, saves in grief and cleanup time. Hot chips + way oil = abrasive carbon slurry. 2. Head crane, saves in setup and aggravation and your back. 3. Gibs, if you haven't touched the crank 2 thou. is a lot of movement. Move table all the way left, lift knee some and lock, zero readout or other indicators, move table all the way right, unlock knee, and see the difference. You can do the same on all three axis and combos. That can tell you a lot about the condition of the ways and gibs and what you need to fix or compensate for. Mike (o\!/o)

Прикольно. Дядька неторопливо, с расстановкой так делает. Хорошо поясняет, как Дядька Максим или Негода :). Люблю настоящих людей! Привет из России!

Great to see the K&T doing its thing, and well. Another set of enjoyable videos this weekend. Thanks.

That is just soo cool how you guys are collaborating on this for someone. Something that is really personal and home made, everybody pitching in their unique talents and skills. Instead of just buying something off the shelf from MSCdirect or Harbor Freight. (MSCdirect is just so outrageously overpriced)

Hey Adam, Maybe ? this was already mentioned. If not then I've got zero doubts you'd already know it, but many viewers might not. Rust forms a type of carbide and that means just what any other type of carbide does. It's hard as hell and the last thing you want mixed in with any way oil on the machines moving parts. Just something for the rest of us to keep in mind when machining less than pristine metal. And great to see your K & T fully operational. I've worked with hydraulic equipment for over 40 years now. I think you may have gotten real lucky that whatever the real issues were they weren't far more involved than what you fixed. My best guess is you had a combination of at least 2 faults but you did a fantastic job of figuring out the required solutions. Reboring, sleeveing, and then precision internal grinding spool valve bores is just a f#&*$ing massive pita to be honest. I know K & T along with many others including Cincinnati made some larger Horizontal/Vertical mills than yours is. But your's is still a beast. A Bridgeport might have far more accessories built for it, and it's arguably maybe more versatile. But if my shop floor was concrete, I'd take a hydraulic machine like yous any day. Especially so having both the horizontal and vertical spindles. I am more than envious. Pete

i use a pool foutain pump on mine been going for years if u get the one with a valve on top of it you can control the flow pretty easy

awesome presentation, thoroughly enjoyed it!

+abom79 Hey Adam, great to see the K&T back in action. Make sure the internal taper on the spindle is spotlessly clean, that is critical to getting a holder properly positioned. A tiny chip will throw it way out, which I learned the hardest way possible.

Adam,Good job, it is nice to see the K&T at work in your shop. May I please request a copy of the plans for the vice. Respectfully,John

Nice shop. Makes mine look inadequate, which it is.

Never mind, you explained in in the next 5 seconds, for squaring, I should have been able to figure that out, that's what I get for only having one cup of coffee today. :)

Can't wait to see this project all come together #COLLAB

on the bottom of that milling head for the K&T there is what looks like a 2 and a half inch strip that is at a 45 degree angle to the table. might be a good place to put some leds for more light.

You aren't nearly pushing into your sweet spot of tool pressure on that face mill.

a magnet in the flat face of the ball will be nice!

true machinist!

Happy new year sir. At 11:26 the top bolt of the three head bolts looks loose. Awesome work my friend. Just sayin..

Hey man, :) If I were the one grinding this, I would lean more to .015" for clean up. With the amount of material being removed, there could be a lot of stress released in heat treat. Easier to take it off than put it on.

Good work Adam. It seems to me the rapid traverse moves really fast when compared to your other machines.

Always enjoy your videos. You're either going to get smaller fingers or Chuck is going to send you a larger screwy ball. You're getting to like that digital read out huh?

Adam, it sounds like that cutter is cutting nicely on the radius, but has one or two teeth hanging low. Why not try indicating up from the table to the bottom of each insert at the lowest point, maybe using a ten thousandths indicator. That should probably tell you if the cutter or the holder are at fault.

Another great video Adam, thanks. Have you talked to Tom Lipton about the grinding work? He picked up a machine not too long ago that he's been working on. Looks like a really nice unit.

Nicely done. That was a rough piece of steel, eh

That K&T is bad-azz!

Do you have a video on the Vertical Head for the K&T? I didn't know that was available.

I realize this is an old video... At 1 time I used to make machines Vices.... We used to get The blanks... From a foundry in Canada.... I made machinist Vices.. At a place you may heard of.. The L S Starrett Co in Athol,Massachusetts

Im just getting into machining but i was wonder what would happen if the bandsaw and the stock was under water, it would cool it definity but would it work like would the chips move out of the cut or do you think something else would happen.

Adam, Is this the first official project for the K&T? Looks like a wonderful vice project to do! All the best, Eric

.."that's enough #Force there"... I doubt I could torque that vice half as tight. And you mounted that Quill and I didn't see that as a video anywhere... hrmph...

Thanks for the videos Adam, they've been very relaxing and enjoyable for me today. We've got heaps of extra folks and furry critters staying with us for the last 3 days due to the massive wildfire that's burning up town after town here only 10-15 miles from our house, so it's been a stressful time and you know how calming I find all of the nice machining videos. Also thanks for sharing your little family fun project with us, and please tell Kevin I said "Thanks for helping Adam move that vice!" It's good to know you've got help when you need it and you've only got one back so treat it kindly ;) Aloha...Chuck

cool

adam cool video . ps i got my abom tee shirt to day nice shirt. bob

Question: in a large surface cutter like that wouldn't each tooth Being progressively lower in the circle Help in spreading out the forces? Sideways is one cut downward is another. The actual cut will wind up at the lowest Tooth.