When you pick that caliper up it looks like you're holding a broadsword ⚔ laddie.

The whole outdoor setting reminded me a lot of the first time I saw welding in person. Boy Scout camp when I was about 12 or 13. Deep on a private ranch in the Sierra foothills. One of the dad's trucks broke a front suspension part. One of the other dads was a welder and had some of his work stuff in his truck (helmet & rods) The put the trucks nose-to-nose in a small circle and daisy chained the batteries with jumper cables. Made a great 48 volt 200 amp welding rig.

It's never stuck if it's molten ;)

It's nice to be able to make your own tools. Wait a minute. You are a tool maker.

what RPM were you at when you started cutting?

Always key all three holes on the chuck .

Im thinking i must misunderstand what its for. Because if its what it looks like, welding the shaft in should work. The part thats welded into the disc doesnt have to be 1-15/16. It can be a large enough diameter to guarentee its stronger than the 1-15/16 shaft without wasting that much metal. Dont get me wrong, I totally get why hes doing it that way. The customer said to turn it out of a single piece, so the customer gets what the customer wants. And I totally get why the customer wants it that way. Because the OEM says to make it that way. So you do what the OEM says because they probably have a good reason for saying it. Generally, when the experts say to do something a particular way, and it seems that the "so called experts" dont know what they are taling about, it really just means the problem is far more complicated than you realize, and you dont understand it neatly as well as you think. So i suspect i don't really understand the problem. Because it looks to me like you could cut that disk out of a piece of plate, then clean it up, bore maybe a 4" hole. You would cut a shaft that was about 2-1/8" or so and and weld in the shaft. The weld would then be at such a radius that it would be far stronger than the shaft. Then you would clean everything up so its all concentric. But since they are not doing that, there must be something thats not obvious.

Oh man.. I would have throw a piece of plywood under that sketchy workpiece. Yeah would have made me nervous too..:)

If you're off by 1/8th inch its time to become a carpenter.

Do you know what chemicals run through this exchanger? We ran some pretty nasty hazardous stuff through our plate exchangers at the last chemical plant I operated at, sure wouldn't be touching them with my bare hands.

Totally agree about winter. Dark cold and snow 👎🏻

Doesn't the job need bolting together and re drilling down the center now you have reduced the size of the hole by cutting it in half leaving it out of round

Is there an engine shutdown procedure?

I've never seen or used a Victor duplicator. What a handy machine!!

You said you really didn’t trust your boring bar set up. If you think it’s out of speck, why not just take it apart and fix what ever is wrong with it to bring this equipment back to standard machining order? Heck, cheaper to fix than buy another, don’t you think? Just a suggestion from an old man. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge with me.😊

If only there was a machine shop that could fab up a new arbor for the mill, hmmmm. 🤐 Just giving you a hard time there. Great work as always.

Good job, Josh. I mainly work for farmers and get jobs like this all the time, repairing something not available or very costly. Enjoy watching your videos.

Oh Man that Hough Payloader brings back memories. Ran one for many years before Super storm sandy drowned ours. Love hate relationship with that old girl. Loved what she could still do at her age with both the 4 yard bucket and the forks. Hate because too many openings in the cab so full of wasps in the summer and cold as anything in the winter while moving snow with it blowing into the cab. Lol. Glad to see one still running. Take care of her.

What came first your love of videography , or love of large machinery , steam engines , cranes , or being a machinist ?

Somehow I was unsubscribed.

My $.02, might want to put a center in the replacement pin for the next guy

I learned to put the heated part on the press table, then try to put the cold part in. Sometimes the press is not needed, but JIC.

Excellent post.

Yeah, it’s sad to see a business like This close and I know it’s due to China because a lot of the stuff that’s made in that shop could be done in China for 1/4 of the price and it’s also do to the man in the White House, removing all of the tariffs and restrictions from China so they’re back in full swing. I bet The shop was doing pretty good between 2015 and 2020

Well done!

Good job 👍

Josh, please don't wear long sleeves while filing on the lathe my dad was a tool and die maker for 40 years and always warned about that please be careful

I have repaired a lot of New Holland balers, and can’t place that part. Round or square baler?

Sounds like a kitten. Blue chips green money

Thank God there are still schools that teach basic shop skills.

They break in half the first time you use them. Bummer. Been there.

Genuine question. 🙋‍♂️ Can you ever set up multiple staggered cutters to remove 3 times the material in one pass? Or does this put too much stress on the motor?

Good to see a pro like yourself training a young man. I wish I could have been trained by someone like you when I was younger.

Wouldn’t a key way that deep into the wall of the piece affect the strength of that piece? Hmmm… ist a thought.

I dug a lake with one of these, about 40 years ago. Besides making sure you don't let the cables unspool on you, you have to adjust the brakes for the cable spools, during prolonged use. You have to expand the shoes, as the drums heat up. And, you have to loosen them up, before you stop for the day. If you don't, they will be all bound up when the drum cools down, and shrinks. Failure to adjust the spool brakes will result in the inability to hold the load. Since there is no hydraulic assist, it's important to have them adjusted correctly. When your rear end starts to come out of the seat, because you are pushing so hard, it's time to adjust them. 😆

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Watco = Totally Scab Railroad... and always has been.

Sounds out of round, you would want to machine a section around 1 inch long to keep it concentric with the inner cylinder part

a portable vacuum might be handy

Love your videos man. Great education. I do have a safety tip though, please put on short sleeve shirts while running the lathe. One of your sleeves could get caught in the chuck and we won’t have you making these cool videos anymore. Thanks for another good one.

Thrilled to see you take out your Johnson. It is impressive and should be taken out regularly for sure.

If you wanted to take a follow up video to a next level, try and a get a picture of video of the finished part re-installed and functioning. You dont get that from most machining channels. Like your videos nonetheless!

I truly enjoy your videos, Josh! They're very well done and I can only imagine how frustrating it can be sometimes to get everything just right for the viewers while making precision parts or repairs for your customers. Thanks for sharing!

One of these days I need to pick up a lathe and a mill, I don’t do anything nasa precision, but I need the ability to turn rotors, drums, cut wheel centers, mill heads, bore cylinders and cases on atvs. Luckily all those tasks have a higher tolerance for small inaccuracies. The biggest problem is finding a used lathe with at least a 14” swing that isn’t 12’ long