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| Steady Finger Mods - Screw-up!! | Try to mill old fingers to take cam rollers - but screw up on one so - back to drawing board! |
| Mkl Ball Turner Part One | We start the project, mainly making a dedicated T-nut and some plans for the remainder. |
| Mkl Ball Turner Part Two | This stage was mainly milling out a center slot for toolpost slider, plus a relief one side. |
| Mkl Ball Turner Part Three - 1st Test | Finish some milling and drilling and try it out. It works but with limitations. |
| Mkl Ball Turner - mods needed | Some changes needed with pivot rigidity (lack of), and tool profile for rear of ball access. |
| Mkl Ball Turner, Pin modification 1 | The first try to improve rigidity with regard to the swivel pin free play. |
| Mkll Ball Turner Build Pt 1 | Started the build, utilizing a boring head threaded on a tool post shaft, mounted in a block. |
| Mkll Ball Turner Build Pt 2 | Completion of the main build, with making of a boss and handle etc |
| Mkll Ball Turner, 1st Test Demo | Time to test the device, but making do initially with a boring bar which is not ideal at all. |
| Mkl Ball Turner, Pin modification 2 | We try another modification to reduce overall 'slop' previously experienced. |
| Mkll Ball Turner Re-tooled | Tried some different tooling instead of the less than useful boring bar! |
| Taper Turning Attachment | Just a look and description of the attachment that came with the "Little John". |
| Steady Fingers Ball Race 1 | We make the first finger -- milled slot for bearing and axle pin and use our dividing head. |
| Steady Fingers Ball Race 2, Test | Finish threading, set-up and test. Function very adequate in the end. |
| Gravity Feed Mill Oil | Decided to use similar approach to one used on lathe -- ability to have drip supply when needed. |
| Foot Operated Air Blast | Made from available stuff - in order to have a convenient means to sometimes clear milling chips. |
| A Rifle Butt Plate | A fiddly but interesting project - with a lot of hand work, and patience! |
| Centering Roller Tool | Copied from Frank Ford, on frets.com. Very simple but useful gizmo to have on hand. |
| Magnetic 'Picker-Upper' | Almost a copy of Tubal Cain's device but used different materials. Works well. |
| Mkll Ball Turner, more re-tooled | Yet another quick try of different tooling - not very successful. |
| Mkll Ball Turner - Vertical | Tried this, just for the hell of it! Interesting to try but rigidity inadequate. |
| A Simple Vise Stop | A simple vise stop from scrap - to suit the specific lightweight vise. |
| Weld Table Castor Base | Managed to fit an unused "Shop Fox" base to weld table for easy mobility. |
| Mkll Ball Turner Re-tooled, Again! | Tried a new grind, temporarily with a piece of drill. Getting better even with cross slide method. |
| Shars Swivel/tilt Vise 1st Use. | A very robust, budget price, versatile vise which we evaluate for the first time. |
| The 0704 Y-axis Problem | It was discovered that the Grizzly mill's Y-axis was metric - and not inch as specified! Needs corrected. |
| MKll Ball Turner - Final | The latest tooling seems to have done the trick. This time we adjust the boring head, with a locked cross slide. |
| TIG Welding Steady Device | To avoid finding pieces of 2x4 when extra support height needed, we make a simple 'gadget'. |
| A TIG Steady - Addition | The steady was modified by making an additional piece of cranked tube, to extend the overall height range. |
| Diamond Tool Holder | A first very brief look at this tool holder system, which employs tangential cutting. |
| Updates and New Site launch | Small updates, and we launch 'theoldmansshop.com/" - somewhere to keep all our videos together. |
| TIG Steady - One More Addition | Welded a 'T' piece of square tube - something to increase adjustment options even better. |
| 0704 Y-axis Leadscrew Swap | At last, plucked up courage to make the change-over, from the metric to inch leadscrew threads. |
| Data on The Raglan 'Little John' | We have scanned the Raglan manual pages, and also some parts pages as well, to create images for reference. |
| H Freight Blast Cabinet - First Look | We assemble this unit and give it a trial run. |
| A Custom Chuck Adapter | An adapter we make for a YouTuber who has no change wheels for threading. |
| The Lotos Plasma Cutter | First time firing up - our novice status shows initially rather well! :) |
| DRO fit to 0704 - Part One | We set about installing the X-axis components - which was a bit complicated! |
| DRO fit to 0704 - Part Two | Now the easier bit - install the Y-axis parts and then test - successful. |
| The Easy T-Nut Cheat | Many will have done this - 'modifying' a coach bolt to suit a light duty purpose to save time. |
