Line Boring (with a $134 dollar mag-drill!)

[@chriswalford4161]

I think your videos are getting better as you seem to be more relaxed in front of the camera. I really enjoy the humour you put into precision 😀

[@FFLFFS]

100% Learned more than any other time I’ve been around line boring..

[@WesleyHarcourtSTEAMandMORE]

I've been pondering doing exactly that! I have an antique steam engine that needs the bores for the reversing shaft bored. I don't want to spend $1500+ on a specialized line boring tool for a one-time operation. Thank you for posting!

[@eweunkettles8207]

what about a boring cutter in a self feed radial drill ?

[@altonmusicstudio1920]

Really appreciate the camera work. It’s cool to see things like the guy welding at the other side of the shop.

[@HOWEES]

In all honesty something had caught fire on the part he was welding and I was trying to catch that, but I left it in for the reasons you stated. We're a working job shop, might as well show it. -Cameraman

[@ronblack7870]

curtis is chuckling at you setup all the way from australia.

[@Kurokimachine]

Great video. I got my start line boring with a similar setup. Old dumore versamill as the drive/feed unit, same bearing setup, and a driveshaft made with truck PTO parts. Did a LOT of work with it

[@kentuckytrapper780]

My vevor magdrill has speed control on it very handy tools,great video guy's, keep'um coming..

[@HOWEES]

We've got one of the variable speed vevor mag drills, but we decided to show it can be done with the cheapest of the cheap. They're not bad for the price. -Cameraman

[@mikediamond1522]

Spinning that fast is whipping the bar, causing an overcut! Mike

[@edsmachine93]

Nice setup. Thanks for sharing. 👍🇺🇸👍

[@ThisMFINGuy]

Hope u have a great year

[@RustyInventions-wz6ir]

Very nice work mister. That looks like a great setup

[@benjurqunov]

Excellent video. Btw, Thanks for mention Clark College.

[@mjkbj1234]

Good shit MacGyver. Get er done👍🏽

[@cycleprep8829]

Very cool. It works. Does the job.

[@79chevy350]

Iron Maiden Piece of Mind in the background, hell ya

[@HOWEES]

Austin always has good tunes, luckily we didn't get DMCA'd over it. -Cameraman

[@dotgirl10101]

I have done similar work using a rigid brand pipe die drive.

[@johndorazio3759]

You can do anything if you put your mind to it

[@michaelboyle1983]

Thanks for making this video and great job recording it. I've always wondered what my tool was saying when it was chattering. I wonder if Google Translate would work. God bless you all!

[@Nudnik1]

Best to remove rust. Dulls lathe tool edge. Oil coolant may help also .

[@patrickroeill8746]

Good Job nice set up but it is possible that it work hardened from the fast speed it was bored at but still came out good 👍

[@HOWEES]

It had some hard spots, in the beginning & still one in the end, no additional hardness though.

[@davestambaugh7282]

I have always had to bump in any new chuck that I bought, as I can remember.

[@bobbob8229]

moderndaytinker here -- i would try a very heavy gear oil, instead of way oil.(Might take up some of the clearance in the bearing bushings) Also i NEVER move an insert without blowing off the seat (before tightening down the screw) Otherwise I APPROVE of everything. (you do remind me of myself 😅)

[@northmanlogging2769]

thought Clark college sounded familiar... went to a couple trade competitions there way back in trade school days.. 95-96' took 4th in 96' while hung over... cause the welders thought southern comfort was the hardest drink ever... we were all in high school lol

[@legouda8454]

Cool idea, I have to try that with my magdrill. Did you use just normal flange bearings or some kind of specialized bearings for line boring?

[@alanswanson5642]

Why not the mill? Is this to show how you might do it in the field?

[@HOWEES]

Yes, just for demonstration purposes with a 'real' part. -Cameraman

[@lembriggs1075]

Very nice video! Thank you guys so very much! Question: In the case of fitting for hardened steel bushings and considering surface finish and press or interference or negative fit. Would it be better to leave 0.003” clearance (a good slip fit) and then use locktight rather than do a guessing game and try for a really good press fit? Thanks again for your time in demonstrating and your comments along the way! 👍😎

[@HOWEES]

No, Never, the advertisers & rookies love plastic, in real industrial it doesn't even start to compare to metal. 100x the load capacity with press fit. the worst offender is the "Belzona crowd" many engineering departments are avowed to their sales pitch, I think it is the high price, that makes better bunch of believers. Until they have had enough years to see the repairs back again, then they all swear-off of all the various forms of J-B-Weld.

[@lembriggs1075]

@ Ok. Thanks for the great advice!!! Cheers!!!

[@mjm7187]

still lower 48 and not future 51st state. made the same but in a different time zone. Get an old school inside caliper that will span your boring bar and transfer measurement to outside mike. They're cheap and will save you alot of time from your accumulated error method.

[@daveb3910]

Very cool thank you!

[@armandhammer9617]

Do you have 2 channels? If not i got unsubscribed somehow. Great video btw.

[@HOWEES]

Only this one for Machine work.

[@ssboot5663]

What was the head injury from?

[@mikeakerstrom1667]

Leaving the chuck key in the chuck

[@HOWEES]

The unglamorous reality is John was thinking when he should have been walking and tripped on his own feet. His glasses mashed the bridge of his nose and his forehead pretty good. -Cameraman

[@graxav]

Just saying - I would have dead stopped the cutter with a grub screw at the back of the drive bar through hole so that the cutter can be removed without losing the offset position - then the main boring shaft can be removed for final measuring and finish cuts.

[@vettepicking]

How did you hurt your face ? Thanks

[@HOWEES]

Tripped on his feet, face met concrete, glasses complained. Very unglamorous, but that's most injuries. -Cameraman

[@vettepicking]

@HOWEES thank you. Feel better

[@stevensnyder5332]

Kurtis is wondering why he spent all that money on gear.

[@AMRAMRS]

@0:35 Blew it all with the hoes... Ehmmm, excavators... 🤣

[@benjaminarmstrong5550]

Nothings made me take eye pro more seriously than old timers outsourcing their vision.

[@HOWEES]

Biggest thing for slowing the old-age vision troubles is to make sure you have an adequate amount of high quality fat - ideally dairy and cod liver oil - in your diet. On top of that, limit screen time and don't run a glasses prescription that's too strong. Other than the time he took a rod to the eye he hasn't had any injuries that I know of. I agree whole-heartedly, having had eye injuries from drunkenly playing with a brush pile one time and from an infant another time. -Cameraman

[@SouthernEngineering]

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas...

[@matthewackerson7861]

What do you think the surface footage is about 1600?😂

[@williamwertman24]

Not a bad idea

[@northmanlogging2769]

theres a 3rd type of "machinist" everything is perfect, new fancy machine, good solid tooling and set up... and they still bitch about it and scrap 1/2 the parts... (oh right thems ain't machinists) I'm firmly in the camp of I got a hammer and a chisel, we'll get er done, having actually used said tools to complete a job once lol (customer wanted .030" rad's inside corners of a box, with compound angles... did as much as we could with endmills, and I cleaned the corners up with a chisel... worked good)

[@mystiquesquared]

My old boss called most of the yt stuff "make believe" because they're just showing fantasy parts with no real use. Part of the problem is you can't shoe the processes usually. Either that is how you make your money by doing something no one else has figured out. Or the customer doesn't want their trade secrets exposed if you're producing parts for them. It's better now with channels like this where you can feel like you're actually in a real world shop getting something done.

[@HOWEES]

Not having a reason to do a process absolutely is one of the biggest problems we have when it comes to filming since as far as work goes we are limited to what comes in the door. That's part of why our content varies so much. We finally admitted defeat, so to speak, and just did a mock-up for line boring. Other than this, though, I think all but a couple shorts where we show machining have been real jobs. Would a real field job have been better for showing? Yes, probably - but I won't say I'm sad I didn't have to film in field conditions in December hahaha -Cameraman

[@northmanlogging2769]

@@mystiquesquared I worked in a lot of different shops, often running some of the same or similar parts (turns out they followed me shop to shop...) the whole "we've figured out something no one else has" is a bunch of BS, the processes are all the same, its mostly a matter of paying attention to the important stuff like fixturing, its not like anyone out there has discovered electric plasma welding and is keeping it a secret. Keeping some of the production parts under wraps is a legal concern, but only few and far between is that a reality. Granted I am aware of a shop that was using oil based coolant on parts that specifically required 90% alcohol... (lazer parts) because of them undercutting everyone, and then scrapping 1000's of parts, those jobs were sent overseas...

[@pnwRC.]

Falling don walking across the shop 🤔 that could explain the bandaged head trauma we've seen!?

[@stevewilliams2498]

I thought that. Blames he's old glasses and no mention of alcohol 😂

[@HOWEES]

He tripped on his feet in the great wide open, I was there. The concrete tried to put his glasses in his head, thus the nose bridge and forehead injury. No glamour for these wounds. -Cameraman

[@Maniacalchopshop]

You spelled dodge front end wrong

[@stevewilliams2498]

A good example of Ai meaning artificial ignorance with the sound translation.

[@HOWEES]

Yeah, I really scratched my head at that. It did a decent job saving his speech from the grinder noise, but that was inexplicable. -Cameraman

[@0dbm]

Gonna burn that drill up IMHO

[@markvoluckas4571]

I have done a lot of line boring with mag drills smaller than that, and also my screw feed line bore drive uses a large Milwaukee mag drill motor. It's really not a huge hp application, and mag drills like that vevor are designed to run annular cutters up to about 2 inch which take a lot more power than a single point tool like that.

[@0dbm]

Out of my shop Finger tight Out of my shop

[@oldschool1993]

I don't see any line boring happening- you are just boring a hole through a single piece. That could be done on a large lathe or a mill.

[@HOWEES]

Right, but we bored it using a lineshaft... Almost like a demonstration? -Cameraman

[@michaelwooda9444]

Some smaller steering u joints would have been a little more fitting i would think

[@highlandermachineworks5795]

Maybe so. But, I think they benefit from the inertia from the extra weight. I could be wrong.

[@HOWEES]

I think it was just that those u-joints could be used with the line boring shaft without turning it down, but I could be wrong. Might be what was on hand. -Cameraman

[@michaelwooda9444]

@HOWEES defanitly gotta use what's available!

[@ThisMFINGuy]

Lol

[@NS-no1li]

Absolutely love the AI chatter BS…. That is what I think the real use for AI is..

[@ThisMFINGuy]

Its not broke yet must not b a ford