Making stuff from scrap rail.

[@jscarpetta1]

I am worried that you have become lax with safety procedures. Not a single sign of safety goat in this video.

[@Nicmadis]

Pretty sure safety went out the window when he started drinking the coolant. Can't see another reason to sodomize half of two budget anvils away into a bookend.

[@alwayssleepy1]

One's day is not complete without hearing Safety Goat.

[@clammaster4]

mashing your hands all over carbon steel shavings

[@trongo3]

I don't think he even put on his safety squints

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

Robots feel no pain

[@Gantwo]

While this will likely get buried in the comments, I just lost a great friend who loved to watch this channel, and his humour reminded me of AvE. Thanks for teaching me everything I know about tinkering with electronics, this comment is for you Dave.

[@DolphinPain]

😔

[@Alexander_l322]

Sorry to read this A N

[@RealSamski]

One for Dave

[@MrRorschach87]

One for Dave!

[@zeitgeist909]

for Dave! RIP.

[@matthewjohnston1400]

I understand about 5% of the technical material on this channel. But learning the crude lingo of the pros is an important step toward becoming dangerously confident in the home shop. Love the channel.

[@dangerdylan5005]

As a professional I laugh out loud.

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

What we all have on our desks, is the ultimate organizational method of mankind's labors. It is sorted both chronologically and by importance. Layers deep, like a life's lasagna. The further deep and farther back you go, the less important and older the objects become. It's the geology of your life's efforts. Everything related to everything else. Need to find something? Just remember how important or long ago it was. Take a guess, and then use your well known monuments to guide your path. It was before the kitchen renovation sketch, got pushed aside for the plumbing fixture document, above the birthday card from your aunt. ... but then eventually your wife or mother comes along and "cleans it all up for you" and *with it is destroyed all that precious, irreplaceable meta-data* coded into the heap itself. Now you'll never find a damned thing.

[@prophtube]

Always destroying my meta-data!

[@beefysghost867]

Truth

[@boobrowsky]

zi mycelium of a workbench

[@tomf3150]

Well said.

[@peteredwards2318]

Completely agreed👍

[@exceptionaluser4153]

I like decorations that are more likely to break the floor than themselves when dropped.

[@Gkitchens1]

That's what you call quality. And a murder weapon if need be.

[@saheilaanarzee5552]

@@Gkitchens1 *drops the bookend* *cores a person three stories below*

[@LonersGuide]

Using a US$100,000 state-of--the-art machining center to break expensive carbide bits to make tasteless bookends out of old scrap is something only deranged mind could appreciate. I want more!

[@fshalor738]

I'm pretty sure those were chineezzium-sneeze-grade bargin-bin bits. (he said so, and I don't feel like my d**k was touched in the process.) That said, this was more about how to understand the process. And the challenge. And the Li. Yes. Have Some.

[@mechromonger]

"state of the art" best thing i have read in years

[@LanceHarbart]

“Can’t make anything useful, might as well make art.” -AvE

[@phantomwalker8251]

i have a mate,retired,,thats deranged,,being an ex chipi,,he makes tree,s into useless things. like,wood benches,,wood squares,,wood chips,that stik in your teeth..

[@awesomefirebird69]

Wouldn't call Haas state of the art

[@DrThunder88]

"That's a lot of quality steel you got there. What are you making?" "Chips, mostly."

[@dabeamer42]

Or, as the proprietor of this channel puts it, man glitter.

[@arcadeuk]

"Watch me break $500 worth of endmills, to turn $10 of scrap rail into $20 bookends" 😂🤣

[@greenolive1278]

Dang what a deal he’s doubling his money lol

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Hey itd be a fucking awesome present!

[@allensandven0]

Two dollar garage sale book ends ,? don’t embellish on this mans legacy! Lol 😂

[@normansanchez8730]

Best comment thus farr

[@davidkennedy3050]

@@allensandven0 I'm pretty sure he said doll hair, not dollar.

[@shaunemicheal7362]

I ran a CNC bandsaw for a couple years. My shop lead wanted me to cut a piece of track like that. After hours of explaining that I could not do it on the equipment that i had, I was coerced into doing it anyway. I tried everything. After going through a pile of blades, that chunk of rail still sits next to the saw.

[@Matt-wl3jo]

Does it really need to be that precise? First thing I'd do is grab my oxyfuel or plasma torch lol.

[@kaneshillingford]

The rate at which you're chipping those tools means that you're way too comfortable with the Patreon donations. 🤣

[@stickyleg6541]

As someone who cuts 155lb rail in the wilds of bumblefck PA this video both amazed and terrified me.

[@BossSpringsteen69]

@@CatastrophicNewEngland They use a huge saw with a huge composite metal cutting disk like the kind that you put in a grinder that makes a 78 record look small. I've seen the label on one but don't remember the exact properties of the disk. The next time i see one of our track guys i'll inquire.

[@tawpgk]

@@BossSpringsteen69 78 records? Hell, you must be as old as me...lol. I haven't thought of those since I was in short pants.

[@Edyorke]

"we'd need to plug in the kiln" Killed me. That's a sense of humour you can't teach.

[@bjem2287]

There's nothing more satisfying than spending 2 hours on a workaround rather than spending 1 hour using the correct tool.

[@alienworm1999]

@@bjem2287 computer science in a nutshell

[@bjem2287]

@ivan schafeldt I was thinking from the point of view that he was afraid annealing would destroy the patina.

[@Sabactus]

Speaking of kiln. What would it take to get that to anneal?

[@BrianNeff84]

I about did a spit take 😂

[@HandToolRescue]

You need a Mantle & Co vise! It's a fractal-jaw vise meant for holding weirdly shaped shit.

[@HandToolRescue]

@Chris The Pack Rat Yes.

[@hamaljay]

@@HandToolRescue I see what you did there.

[@alltheusernameswastaken8936]

Do one have to factor in the consistency of ones stool in order to successfully make use of such a vice?

[@ElTurbinado]

@@alltheusernameswastaken8936 types 1 to 3 only, but you'll want soft jaws for type 3.

[@tesladrummer]

Hmm, where I come from they call that a Whipple tree. Awesome vise though!

[@BonnieMCarter]

This looks like a great gift to give the mother in law that "loves" you...maybe even stencil in her name just so she can't regift it.

[@monkipooman]

Plasma cut it in, poorly. don’t remove any of the dross either

[@jessepitt]

I love it! My mother in law loves me so much she gave me a life size plastic mastiff-drinking-out-of-a-fountain bird bath that’s falking hideous, we’ve been stuck with it for years. She deserves a nice book end.

[@disklamer]

Add “Loathe Lathe Lag” , blackened on the sides, and randomly weld on some Shell oilcaps on for the seaside feel.

[@TempoDrift1480]

@@jessepitt I'd like to see that actually.

[@dadillen5902]

@@monkipooman Then gushingly ask to see it every time you visit her. That way she will have to dig the heavy SOBs out of the closet and put it on display when you visit. Aint 'love' wonderful?

[@brekkoh]

The artistry with which you chop off your own punch lines is truly timeless.

[@MrDigitalCypher]

HAHAHAHAHA 3 minutes of posturing just for "...and we would have to plug in the kiln" This man is on a different level than most.

[@lumispawn]

I'm a 17 years RR maintenance of way guy. I've cut more rail with the biggest gas powered saw stihl makes than I wanna think about. Old rail will even screw with abrasive blades. Have to bang the blade to break of the edge due to what appears to be crystalization of some type.

[@bjoe385]

Why Rolls Royce maintenance engineers cut rails I don’t know.

[@blackopsrocks]

manganese nodules do that. Even annealed the hardness would probably be in the 30s on scrap rail. Its not uncommon for scrap rail to be in the 70s (which is crazy)

[@tonistaru]

Just chop it like ToT

[@temporaldisplacement]

Only done one with the chopsaw, gas axe was a breeze when compared.

[@Sean-vs3se]

@@blackopsrocks Hello worked as railway engineer The head of the rail is usually hardened with manganese used to take a long time using patrol hacksaw in the day

[@iamwhatiam4075]

No where near the level of most of your commenters, so I will just say thank you ! You are the best , and I appreciate your efforts and the sacrificing of the tools!!

[@captiveimage]

It's like this CNC thing isn't just science and expertise, there's a great deal of black art in the mix too.

[@Yeanah_Nahyea]

And a whole lotta swearing too 🤯

[@nineoclockhero]

@@Yeanah_Nahyea its called chanting.

[@km5405]

light some incense for a better surface finish

[@sixhundred3score6]

@@Yeanah_Nahyea I could hear the frustration in "it never FUCKING ENDS" ... been there 😂

[@jrayfpv4963]

Witchcraft magic.

[@thetransformatorium7980]

This takes me back a few years! I built my first metal cutting lathe using a piece of rail for the bed. A very reluctant machinist allowed me to deck the top flat in his old Bridgeport with a face mill in it. Poor old buggers probably been dead for years, but I'll always be grateful to him for letting as he put it, "some dumb kid play machinist for a day!" 😁

[@nestrac]

The worst thing you can do to a man is to bring "order" to his chaos... Can't find what you need when it isn't where you last had it

[@FUBARguy107]

You can just @ me next time, thanks. I swear, someone comes over and they move something and my world comes to a grinding halt. There is a madness to my methods.

[@RustyorBroken]

Preach it to the masses, brother. You move something of mine and I'm lost for days. I swear the other occupants of my household are conspiring against me.

[@uberdang830]

Oh God. Last time I had my car all A-part and some one(Girlfriend)Decided to pick things up while I was having a read in the study. I come back to hey I cleaned up for you. The only way I knew how to put it back together was the way it was piled up on the floor. Ya know top parts or on my case parts closet to the car first. So then ya have to fiddle fack your way through on line forms with out trying to pay for a subscription. And what would have taken a few hours takes all day.Hopefully you had enough wabble pops to forget about the extra shims you have. Until it becomes abundantly clear you might have ruined sumthing about halfway to work in -30⁰ wether. But I fixed the problem. It was easy I'm now single.

[@macbaar6073]

So... do never enter the heaven of marriage...

[@RustyorBroken]

@@macbaar6073 marriage is an institution.

[@VSO_Gun_Channel]

I have no idea what I just watched but I want more of it.

[@dr.johannesmunch891]

Pick a number. We're thousands

[@londonuntergunther252]

Welcome to the club, kids.

[@toolthoughts]

for a moment I thought you were showing off your best sunday shirt, but it was the Widlar poster

[@MotorSwapDan]

Conveniently placed to look like he's flipping you off

[@GlennHamblin]

Widlar, My hero! Genius Drunk A$$hole, we share much in common, just not the genius part.

[@ricothompson7451]

"It never (clang) fucking (clang) ends! (clang)" 🤣 I feel this.

[@andyl7935]

😂🤣🥲

[@dogwalker666]

When I was a youngster and worked at British Steel the rails were a special grade, we used to specialise in IRS " Indian Railway Steel" it was formulated to cope with the extreme temperatures, it was a pig to cut, it was my job to cut up the reject lengths with a gas axe, a proper apprentice job.

[@enbee_ash6740]

You need a work experience kid to hand that off to

[@dogwalker666]

@@enbee_ash6740 that is probably the case now, but it did teach me to be able to gas cut straight lines, without resting on the red hot literally steel.

[@philipcable7518]

Dirty, hot and dangerous work. Plasma cutting is a bit safer but it's still grubby work.

[@dogwalker666]

@@philipcable7518 indeed it is I ruined a pair of socks every day, I have used plasma cutters too, after all after i repair one I had to test it didn't l, and now we have a CNC plasma robot cutter, that took some programming, Still need the good old OxyAcetylene wher ther is no mains or compressed air, and any cuts over a few inches deep too. Sitting in a cherry picker burning 8"BSW nuts off is quite fun actually. Accidentally Setting light to the Forklift below was just an added bonus lol.

[@AndyHullMcPenguin]

@@dogwalker666 "Accidentally Setting light to the Forklift below was just an added bonus lol." Way more fun than setting fire to the leg of your trousers... Don't ask me how I know. Great for improving your Anglo Saxon outbursts though.

[@jeffmatson2046]

I totally enjoy this every time. It's a wonderful way to learn something New. Every episode. Great job 👍

[@d.e.m.9519]

As a young apprentice I went through 4 drill bits to get a whiff of a whole started on some sort of hardened steel. The old dude just asked you want another bit or an explanation?

[@jongrimm7767]

We made breaker plates out of inconel. They were discs that were drilled so much you you'd wonder why bother. A cobalt drill would go halfway thru then need a resharp. It turned so painfully slow. Squeek. Squeek. Squeek. etc

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

@@jongrimm7767 need some Boelube

[@aycock1ofmanyindustries828]

I am in love all over again. 12:11 "oh to be a fly on the wall at that garage sale . . . " the sort of insight that keeps me coming back for more. Truly, sir or ma'am or how ever's youse identifies your self... great work on all fronts. I wanna run off and join your army.

[@jakerogers6562]

When the door wouldn't shut because of the vise, i almost choked laughing so hard. My whole damm day has been like that. Thank God that 5:00 is finally here!

[@dancearoundtheworld5360]

question is, will it still run open

[@charlesmcdowell3984]

Congrats! Now the end of the weeks hurdles await me: a singular twelve hour shift fighting fires and pressing "start" buttons stands in the way of my weekend. Godspeed, sir.

[@turdherders9749]

@@dancearoundtheworld5360 tape works

[@stephen1r2]

@@dancearoundtheworld5360 not unless you disable the safetys. It will also spray metal shavings at silly speeds.

[@stevenkelby2169]

It never. Fucking. Ends.

[@tomnolan9651]

Love your videos, keep them coming. Your humor is priceless

[@snodoubt]

“When you can’t make something useful...” sure sounds like a Red Green quote without the duct tape references.

[@squigtonianmayhem4602]

Ol' Red's gotta be Bumble's uncle or somethin. Philosophies are a little too close, even if the nomenclature don't match up.

[@andrewfarnsworth7178]

I believe the last part of the quote is "at least make it heavy."

[@azpcox]

“If you can’t make yourself useful, make something useless.” :)

[@DoveWrestler]

Also dick in a vice is pretty strongly reminiscent of stick on the ice.

[@jeremypetro1084]

Dude I absolutely love your channel. I can't wait to show my wife the Lee theory. You sir are an inspiration and I truly have nothing but love and respect from Brookfield Connecticut!!!

[@treddirt335]

New subscriber here! Who’d a thunk a fella could get machining tips and broaden his vocabulary all whilst sitting on the shitter?! Time management I says! Excellent!!!!!

[@mattgrover3096]

I think the reason I love you so much is your dad like demeanor and advice. Thanks papa.

[@peloponeso31]

You have no idea how much i love your videos, you seem like the coolest person to hang out with.

[@DragonHeart5150]

You are absolutely hysterical yet very accomplished and interesting. You say what everyone of us have felt at one time or another. "It never fucking ends." I love it!

[@stealinghubcaps]

...reminds me of an old machinist I knew that had one of those. he used it to machine one of those contraptions that lower caskets down into a grave. He wanted to be let down by HAAS one last time... LOL! Keep up the awesome VID's!

[@UpLateGeek]

Stop your books from falling down alright. The whole bookshelf will fall right apart at the mere sight of these things!

[@MrPirax]

The "big" drive is probably formatted in exFat, lot's of stuff(that isn't a pc) with usb ports prefers fat(32). Might work if you reformat it, if you really want to use that drive

[@tomf3150]

Fat32 on a 128gB is a bit extreme, but for crossplatform it's mandatory.

[@ValentinoMariotto]

some 128gb drives are actually a scsi array of smaller chips. They work with just about nothing.

[@jonathan1427]

Or NTFS.

[@FiatMortem]

Partition a 32 gig fat32 up front for the old mill and the rest on exfat or NTFS.

[@redpillcommando]

I am suffering from an almost apoplectic case of workshop envy. You have a lot of VERY nice toys.

[@mikespunchlist]

A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.

[@yzrippin]

Its a clean mind but a dull boy

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

a clean desk is the sign of someone who had nothing better to do than clean their desk.

[@macbaar6073]

..of a poor mind... or too lazy to oversee the chaos that is like the universe

[@ivo215]

- Looks at desk - ... Are you implying that I'm a mentally healthy individual?

[@GlennHamblin]

A brilliant man has a messy piled up desk (Bob Pease RIP), what kind of man would have a clean desk?

[@synchro-dentally1965]

Rails: soft and "springy" in the middle and hard on the top. A brilliant and simple design.

[@MrGrentch]

Never stop sir. 🙂 and thank you for the years of quality schmoo and schmoo that always chooches.

[@radeckiless]

With this Letterkenny and a few other shows(I'm American) I'm suprised no one ever talks about canadian humor like they do american or british. This is how you can tell if someone really has a sense of humor it's just gold shot at you in rapid monotone, picking it up is on you.

[@spazzwazzle]

I absolutely agree, and it's a shame that no one seems to call it out or pick up on it.

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

What rock have you been under? Second city was almost all cunucks

[@ZacWilkersonMusic]

Me and my brother-in-law *were* talking about getting a CNC but then you got yours...

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Jeeze youve got a wonderful job and shop. Living in a city apartment seeing all your stuff makes me tear up! Beautiful.

[@stevie6420]

Me: how much for the rail track do-dad Ave: well it cost me 5,000 doll hairs in machine parts to make it

[@hk74654]

Even just reading the title, I'm reminded of that old piece of rail about 30cm long that's lying around somewhere in my family's garage/workshop. AFAIK it's used once every few years as a kind of crude anvil by putting it into the bench vise or even just directly onto the workbench. Pretty handy to have around.

[@GrahamDallas]

Frog Snacks, didn't realise rail was that hard. But, you've come a long way since the day you realised you could turn hardened steel on the ol' Boxford Lathe.

[@KiwiRanger1]

10:25 "destination fuc*ed" Nice reference to Aussie Man Reviews ! Been binge watching a lot of his stuff recently

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Seems to be MORE VIDS post-2020...😊

[@gregg3364]

My dad had a machine shop, I worked there as a broke college kid. The neighbor auto shop had brought in diesel engine manifold to be refaced, when the fly tool broke due to a hidden weld, it was the start of my education on true angry volgarity.

[@thomaslamothe3263]

AvE's grandiose version of Pinterest's favorite pastime: 'look what I made from this old pallet!'

[@erat91]

I'm using the monologue at 2:22 next time the boss is on me about the shop being a mess. haha

[@Bob_V]

Rails make great small anvils,,,,, I have one that I use often. just cut it with a torch looking down from the top to make the point.

[@thejoetandy]

I was just today watching a vijayo on another channel where they were talking about needing to hire an experienced CNC captain for working with tree carcass, and that they had up to 100k p.a available for the right person. I thought of this channel instantly for some reason, and then you go and upload this to remind me that I should look somewhere else entirely.

[@NathanNostaw]

Old timer engineer I knew used to cut the hardened top (about 1/2") with abrasive then bandsaw the rest. Worked great.

[@nbolin2879]

I wouldn’t mind a art “by AvE” but not sure I could afford the shipping... maybe I’ll stick to ordering stickers and shirts...

[@Jayneflakes]

I learn so much from these videos, even if it is just imaginative ways of swearing. Thank you for sharing.

[@PwnySlaystation01]

The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 (Summer)

[@natalie5947]

Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping to find in the comments. I thought I recognized it but wasn't sure.

[@gregorteply9034]

Duh.

[@toast47624]

I haven't watched your vids for some time. I needed that comical relief.

[@LoremIpsum1970]

A 3D chronological desk filing system...I am familiar with this practice...

[@glenbarnier]

im glad im not the only one that has room to work on the very corner of my bench at all times

[@tonykarter8830]

Hey, the panel at 0:34 looks alot what I'm going to be using next year in my precision machining school courses. Neat!

[@robertshand8923]

I made a couple of rail anvils, cut them off with my old mechanical hacksaw, went through em like butter, bandsaw wouldn't touch it! shaped them with the actylene torch and milled the top flat with a HSS flycutter, worked perfect! Great watching as always

[@BobbyJHeupel]

God bless. Uploaded 9 secs ago and 1.5k views. You’re living right, AVE!

[@shoestringeng6473]

One of my Fav AVE Vajayos! Tried to cut a 4' 136 Lb rail right half in two, took 4 hours with 14" cur off wheel.....also never knew that I too store things in 3D. Watched this last night but had too much to-kill-ya to write a comment. AVE the best thing ever on KZbin!

[@zapman2100]

you need to put a sitcker on the ON button that says "Cycle SMASH" since thats what they do most.

[@AndrewBeveridge461]

I tore a bunch of decorative wood out of a fancy apartment complex and used it to make some incredible pallets.

[@kc9489]

If you listen real close, you can hear the new tool exclaim, just prior to the first cut, "we who are about to die, salute you!"

[@theskett]

AvE atque vale :-)

[@charliezxi]

I live by a railroad. I’ve never been able to lift any of the scrap rail laying alongside parts of it, but I have made some interesting tools from the spikes!

[@tehpanda64]

Sometimes a guy just doesn't want to watch a train-wreck, but once you start watching a man go through carbide at every cut you just can't look away.

[@oscaralejandrovelascorodri4430]

Hey dude, I love your video, so funny and represents a real workshop day, first time I watch your channel I’m a fan now

[@Lee_Adamson_OCF]

I made a cattle bridge out of old rails a while back. Tractor couldn't lift it into the hole when it was done. -_-'

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

well there's yer problem, tractors don't lift they pull, right in the name tract-ion

[@douglasmayherjr.5733]

Sometimes it is just the principle of the things. “They say it can’t be done” I can do it with excessive amounts of money and swear words. Thanks for the videos. Happy Easter from Michigan.

[@christop672]

"There ya go Bob, here's a retired CN rail turned into a bookend for your retirement. Better appreciate it cause I had to retire a shitload of bits to make it!"

[@johnburnitin1027]

Reminds me of the time I made a door knocker out of a piece of rail. I finally got a slice cut off, using 3 blades in the chop saw. I almost buried myself in broken 5/16 inch drill bits, trying to get 3 holes in it, but by God, I got it done. A ball peen door knocker looks better all the time. I even used some cuss words I didn't know I knew!

[@chandlerbennett4562]

The summary of shop work “it never fucking ends” still laughing minutes after this video.

[@nobody-ly9ef]

Wow, what a great episode. Cheers from Florida.

[@78trav]

Few hundred doll hairs worth of bits to make $2 bookends. I love it!

[@MarcoR34]

Hiya Mr Ave! What feed and speed were you using?(seemed a bit fast) for hardened steel,(I do a ton of hardened steel like 17-4 and such) I usually do about s500-s800 with a max feed of about 10-12.5 and try to keep around .008 to .012 ipt. my experience with running them faster is that a high frequency harmonic tends to destroy larger (1") tools. Thanks for your time and keep your prick on the ice!

[@raydreamer7566]

I managed electrician, welder, carpenter, plumber, aircraft building, chainsaw 101 all the modern caveman trades BUT never managed machine shop. Long story why BUT you make this trade look and sound more than just interesting to learn. Thanks for the information and demonstrations as I am in the Philippines with my safety sandals on looking at my 1.5 meter long train rail of no genetic history trail wanting to make an anvil and a 4 legged pound on dolly with a stick - rock and a broken piece of glass and now thanks to you I know where to start. I have to scratch through it as fast as I can with the sharpest piece of limestone as I can find on this island. Well I am stranded here no thanks to the Canadian government so I guess I will have time to reload the wore out limestone in my gloveless hand for a few more months or more until I can cut through this rail....... Keep your videos coming. Thanks....

[@dinon35]

I have a rule. Always be mindful of the limitations of the FAT32 filesystem. It’s more common than you think!

[@Marc_Sola]

Please review the Milwaukee stubby impact. I’m wondering if it’s compact size compromises longevity?

[@NBCRGraphicDesign]

I was always told to cut rail from the bottom towards the top. The top is work hardened. A band saw will cut the bottom 3/4 or 7/8 of the rail; the the top needs to be ground after that. But that's US of A rail.....

[@Chris-1974]

Australian rail needs to be cut top to bottom though...

[@thequeenofspades]

It's somewhat comforting to know that other people say "it never fucking ends" as they are trying to get things done.

[@divingeveryday]

It's really 4D storage. You can't ignore the time component.

[@jean-pierredeclemy7032]

And what about the relative distance in space?

[@russellstephan6844]

I'm the other guy. I found a nice broken forklift tine at the scrap yard on the last trip, 120kg at least. I cut a 35cm slab off to use on the hydraulic press as an arbor plate. It took more than an hour with a big grinder and a cut-off wheel to make it through the 65mm thick piece. I would have spent more time cutting additional slabs. But, someone offered me a pretty penny for the rest of the tine. They were willing to drive a few hours one-way to pick it up too.

[@Heeby-Jeebies]

Coming at this from a know-nothing perspective: I've never seen sparks on a mill before! That... that seems like a problem...

[@nickcook1556]

After a long shitty day of working on the railroad this video made my day

[@dadfacts2371]

Quote of the day: Organization, although not always present, is unique to owns own perspective."

[@refink33]

this channel must be one of the most positive channels on all KZbin. always a damn good time. fucking always

[@garner6583]

Your table is organized like mine, chronological.

[@jaydenorcutt5677]

I took a Cnc class and now watching you work on the haas machines i understand what you are doing

[@GAIS414]

"Who knew fixturing was so important?" One might think a man who spent a couple of thousand dollars on Kurt vises might have an idea.

[@EOTG_AK]

I’ve got a 80’ or so of 1920’s vintage 70lb rail and it cuts no problem with my 17” horizontal bandsaw.

[@SuperSecretSquirell]

Now I just need some books to use with my bookends.

[@chriswalford4161]

But first you have to fabricate the shelves

[@SerenitynPeace]

Mon Ami, oui! C'est bon! 😁👏👏👍👍 Ave, I would love a set of "different" bookends! Your videos are exceptional. Mercy!

[@DIMTips]

That cnc has had more hot suppers than me....and I have had a few.

[@muddyudders]

Best one I saw in the machine shop. We heard a horrible noise from the saw shop and investigated. Well one of the assemblers needed a shorter Allen wrench so he decided to cut it down on the band saw. Basically just sheared all the teeth off the blade.

[@waltdixon1719]

Why no coolant

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Thermal shock to the carbide. To my understanding you want the tougher materials to develop hot (soft) chips and it's easier on the carbide cutting tool to run with air instead of coolant.

[@waltdixon1719]

Thanks for the explanation

[@blackbyrd72]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 and some coatings harden when they get hot.

[@escapethewormhole]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 that's correct. But you also went backwards. Harder the material the slower you have to go. Hard and tough materials need lower speed. Feed is dependent on horrificness rating chart (HRC).