Odds and Ends 22: More New Tools and Viewer Mail

[@camojoe2]

Thanx for the episode Keith! I now have protractor envy; I have that same B&S, but mine is missing the case, short straight edge, and acute angle attachment. Good to see you back Bubba. Regards, Duck

[@VintageMachinery]

camojoe2 I really like that little protractor. Can't wait to put it to use!

[@vajake1]

It is really good to see you! I look forward to your videos! Thanks for posting this. I look forward to seeing the gear cut!

[@VintageMachinery]

vajake1 Thanks as always! Hoping to get to the gear making stuff soon.... Too many projects and not enough time....

[@bcbloc02]

Good deal on the gear cutters. I have some involute spines to cut in an upcoming video, I hope I can remember how to run my dividing head, been a couple years since I used it. lol

[@VintageMachinery]

bcbloc02 Dividing heads are like riding a bike - it will come back to you pretty quickly!

[@johnbazaar8440]

Viruses are frustrating. I have a teenager, too. 😉 and all that goes with that. Nice tools. I have a set of Starrett mikes up to 12" but it's missing the 3-4" and 4-5" mikes. Beautiful set, just need to plug the gap. Nice video. Thanks John

[@VintageMachinery]

John Bazaar Thanks John - I am trying to fill in a couple more sizes to get me up to 12" with dedicated mics. I can get there now with my adjustable set, but it will me much nicer to have a dedicated mic that I don't have to change anvils on and calibrate for each range of sizes.

[@andywander]

You need to locate a thumbscrew adjuster for that 496-really helps with fine adjustments

[@ElectricGears]

Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View tab -> uncheck "Hide extensions of known file types" It's one of the stupidest default setting that Microsoft could have possibly used.

[@Tjousk]

Indeed it is.

[@pierresgarage2687]

ElectricGears I've seen airport terminals have computers with Microsoft's blue screen, FREEKED OUT....!!!

[@12345NoNamesLeft]

ElectricGears That's exactly what I was going to say, they're conditioning people to be ignorant of file types. Never loan a computer, just keep one old computer to do your downloading on it. If you use Adblock Plus, it blocks a lot of the ads and malware links.

[@VintageMachinery]

ElectricGears I agree. I usually have the file types showing but never did this on this particular computer. Stupid me. Of course, with my daughter plugging away, she probably would not have noticed. She learned a very valuable lesson in all of this....

[@davidhoward2237]

ElectricGears I understand why one reason they dont make it default is when you rename most people wouldn't keep the extension and wont be able to use the file, What would be nice is to show file extension but not be able to change it without going throw settings.

[@ramsay19481]

The new involute cutter is for a bevel gear...The profile will probably be a bit different from that of a cutter for a spur..

[@VintageMachinery]

Mike G Yes, some others have pointed that out as well. I totally missed that.... The auction did not specify it was for a bevel gear nor did it give a picture of the actual gear. I am disappointed and could kick myself for not seeing the clearly stated sticker on the front that said BEVEL!

[@ramsay19481]

Keith Rucker - VintageMachinery.org I hearya.. I have done things like that before.. Who knows? You may need to cut a bevel gear someday... Just oil it up and put it away...

[@johnleake708]

Your experience with your daughter is the reason our daughters do not get to use mine. Sorry for the major inconvenience. Your new micrometers are really nice, great to see you up with another video.

[@VintageMachinery]

John Leake Thanks!

[@waynekwoods2799]

I feel your pain Keith, my home desk top I took out to the shop.I then built new for the hose. then the shop one died so built a new one for house 2008 . So i ordered a new one all new parts and 2 days later house one died. Wife said the house one knew I ordered parts to build a new one. Then my camera died , just can't get a break !

[@VintageMachinery]

Wayne K Woods That all stinks. Hope you get things back to working again soon...

[@waynekwoods2799]

Thanks Keith just getting my new set up running now, at least have internet up.

[@richkellow8453]

Sorry to hear of your frustrations mate, hopefully your daughter has now learned her lesson regarding downloading. Regards, Rich, UK.

[@VintageMachinery]

Rich Kellow Oh yeah, she has learned a very valuable lesson. One I hope she remembers for a long time!

[@raincoast2396]

Pretty soon Keith, you're going to have to build an addition to your shop marked "Tool Crib"! lol Glad to see these old tools find a good home. They just don't make them anymore, leastwise of the old high quality. They will be harder to find and more expensive, in the future.

[@VintageMachinery]

Rain Coast I really need a nice Lista cabinet to put them all in.... And a new shop while I am at it....

[@carver3419]

What is the publication date of the Starrett book? I like looking at the photos, and how the operators were dressed in those days.

[@VintageMachinery]

carver3419 The Starrett catalog is from the mid 60's - I think 1965. My B&S catalog is from I think 1941.

[@jankjensen222]

Hi Keith. Greetings from Denmark. I have a question for you. Do you often calibrate your micrometers, and if you do, what is the procedure? Keep the videos comming :-) Best wishes, Jan

[@VintageMachinery]

Jan K Jensen Jan - yes, I often check the calibration, particularly when making something from a drawing and I do not have a part to fit to. The procedure is pretty simple, you use a "standard" rod that is exactly the small length of the micrometer and adjust the barrel of the micrometer so that it reads zero. It is really pretty simple.

[@darryldodge8383]

Hello Keith, what was the word " bevel " about which was stamped on the gear cutter you bought.

[@VintageMachinery]

***** Yeah, I did not notice that at first when I got the cutter. Turns out, it is for cutting bevel gears rather than spur gears. I have since found another one that is correct for what I will be using it for. Darn.....

[@Landrew0]

Why aren't all micrometers adjustable? Oops, I forgot, they want to sell everyone a whole range of sizes.

[@colin8653]

you just have to be looking at the right time new cutter lucky

[@VintageMachinery]

Colin Samms Turns out I was not so lucky after all. The cutter is for cutting bevel gears rather than spur gears. Oh well - it is still a nice cutter, just not the one I thought I was getting......

[@Landrew0]

When all else fails, I use my FixMeStick. It roots out the malware every time.

[@johngermain3535]

I thought you might have purchased Mr Pete's gear cutter's.

[@VintageMachinery]

John Germain Nope, I wish I had more of a set though....

[@Spott07]

I'm having trouble coming up with a suitable fate for the horrible people who create destructive malware and viruses like that. Maybe we should chain them to a chair and force them to repair infected and misconfigured computers for 16 hours a day for the next 5 years. I can't understand what motivates people to try to fool random masses of strangers into clicking on or running some nasty little program that effectively screws up a computer to the point that it's unusable. It's not like the user will be able to buy their product or visit their site or whatever (even if they, for some perverse reason, wanted to), or the computer will be able to send info or perform a task, once it's loaded up with all that crap. It's like these idiots have no purpose in mind other than to cause as much aggravation and suffering as possible, for no apparent end reason. As a self-taught computer expert, and builder and maintainer of computers for a large extended family, you have my deepest sympathies.

[@VintageMachinery]

Scott Anderson Thanks Scott. Yes, if we could just get all of the people on this earth who waste so much energy bringing bad things to put that effort into good, what a better place this would be for everybody. I will never understand.... Good news is that my computer is back alive and well. I took jumping through some hoops, but after much aggravation, all is well.

[@mikenixon9700]

Nice video how much was the starret #220?

[@VintageMachinery]

Mike Nixon Yeah, I forgot to mention that. I paid $50 for it.

[@ChrisSmith-yx1iu]

Do you have or can you: make a video on how you use a micrometer ,techniques, how to properly read it , maybe if you know any tricks you picked up? thank you

[@VintageMachinery]

Chris Smith I don't see why I could not do something like that. I know that Starrett has a pretty good video on reading a micrometer that you can look up on KZbin that covers the basics.

[@ChrisSmith-yx1iu]

cool ill look into that ! but still would enjoy your process,if you make one.

[@KnolltopFarms]

I just hate those dirty little hackers, what a bummer to have to endure! I wish someone would invent a program for the home user that would back track to the computer that the viruses were created on and fry their circuit boards...that might make it a little less entertaining for those punks and make them get a life. Thanks for sharing all of that stuff with us and also congratulations on your daughter's graduation which I'm certain has already happened by now. I'm slowly catching up on my backlog of videos and will keep playing what I can when I can. Anyway, a big Aloha to you and your family on the successful raising of a wonderful young lady from the boys on the knoll, Pops and Chuck.

[@VintageMachinery]

Knolltop Farms Again, thanks Chuck. The computer is all better now and things are more or less back to normal.

[@andymandyandsheba4571]

hi keith love the odds and ends it picks me up a bit i am down at the moment with being ill i am just waiting for my new electric wheel chair

[@VintageMachinery]

Andy Coakes Hey Andy - you are always a dedicated viewer and it great to hear from you. Hope things work out with the new chair!

[@andymandyandsheba4571]

thank you keith

[@steelguitarfan]

I got the same virus on my laptop Saturday night. I had to reformat and reload Windows. I still don't have all of the bugs out of it.

[@VintageMachinery]

Charles McGough I finally got mine back up and running after about a week of being down. What a pain....

[@robertkutz9540]

keith nice video.

[@VintageMachinery]

Robert Kutz Thanks!

[@marceltimmers1290]

Hi mate. Congratulations with the graduation of your daughter. At the same time she might need a sleep with the fishies for a few days, just to tell her it's not Ok to make us do without your videos ; ) I know a guy who knows a guy.... Marcel.

[@VintageMachinery]

Marcel Timmers I will defiantly pass that info along. Maybe it will make her think twice before she messes with my stuff again.

[@jpdavis7676]

Keith, I always enjoy your videos. Maybe this is a good time to encourage your daughter to take some computer classes to deal with these problems which will certainly get worse and waste a lot of time and effort that she could be applying to her interest of choice.

[@VintageMachinery]

John Davis She is actually pretty good with computers, but like most 17 year old kids, she made a mistake. I bet it won't happen again.....

[@ianclapham9612]

Hi Keith Great video. Sent you an email. Best regards Ian

[@stephensalamone2966]

AVAST THIS PROGRAM WILL CLEAN AT START UP !! VERY GOOD --PUT IT ON A ZIP DRIVE AND LOAD IT AT START UP . THAT MAY STOP IT .

[@andywander]

Hiya Keith: Be careful with that gear cutter-do you really want to cut a bevel gear? If you need to cut a standard spur gear, that cutter wont give the proper profile.

[@VintageMachinery]

Andy Wander Not sure I am following you - involute cutters are made for cutting spur gears, not bevel gears. I am pretty darn sure I have the correct cutters.....

[@andywander]

Andy Wander Hi Keith-look at the cutter it is marked as a bevel gear cutter. B & S had a whole selection of cutters for bevel gears, separate from the ones for spur gears and racks.

[@VintageMachinery]

Andy Wander So, I went out to the shop and looked and sure enough, it is for cutting bevel gears. I had totally missed that. The frustrating thing is that the auction did not show the actual cutter and it was sold as a regular involute cutter. Oh well, live and learn - and back on the search for the proper cutter again. Thanks for pointing that out before I messed up a bunch of parts.....

[@davidhoward2237]

One reason they stop sending it out because they partition the hdd and they put it on there, If you give me the model number or even the brand be happy to look up or just google it and *(model number) recovery key* and see what key you need to push to load it, If you got a extra usb drive you can dl ubuntu and install on usb, plug in computer and you be able to run it live without installing anything,and grab files

[@davidhoward2237]

David Howard also is it windows 7 or 8?

[@VintageMachinery]

David Howard My computer (a Dell) did have the recovery partition. I called tech support, but the hard drive was so messed up that we could not even get to the recovery partition to restore everything. They were very helpful and quickly got me the media I needed along with great instructions on how to re-build the drive with all of the correct drivers. While not painless, it was probably the easiest OS reinstall I have ever done (and I have done many....)

[@davidhoward2237]

Keith Rucker - VintageMachinery.org Good to hear you got it fix, sounds like it was a bad virus, Next step i would of say Download The os from Microsoft, What kinda of pain now since they use to make it nice and had all OS disk you can download waseasy, Best advice i can give so doesn't happen again is to have two accounts, One admin one first one you make ( also good to add password matter if simple password,) and a non admin, and always use the non admin account.

[@muhaahaloa941]

format and reinstall ) and use avg antivirus

[@ian-c.01]

Muhaa Haloa Not necessary if you use Malwarebytes and Ccleaner !

[@muhaahaloa941]

I used to write exploits pal and was well involved in the whitehat scene,With regards to exploit development and bypassing anti virus and i can tell you Avg is a good anti virus and I agree CC cleaner is good but it only clears your registry and temp files with a few handy tools nothing that can't be done by hand through MSCONFIG??That wont stop a virus..Using avg and keeping it updated all the time is the best option simple it's heuristics database is constantly updated..And real time protection...And there is a big difference between malware and virus and Trojans there 2 different programs pal...science.opposingviews.com/avg-vs-malwarebytes-23035.html

[@JRo250]

Hopefully this will never happen again, Keith. But if it does, have a USB-bootable Linux (ie: ubuntu) drive and immediately yank the power cord from your PC. Reboot it with the Linux drive and now you can see all that is going on with your Windows OS and perhaps run an antivirus on the Linux side that will fix your Windows installation. Microsoft Security Essentials, aka Windows Defender is an excellent and free antivirus. Glad to see you were able to fix it eventually.

[@VintageMachinery]

JRoque250 I have a pretty good antivirus program, but in this case, it was being over ridden by my daughter basically forcing the computer to run the virus when she thought she was playing a song. Very clever of whoever wrote this one - basically tricking the operator to override the virus software....

[@JRo250]

Keith Rucker - VintageMachinery.org Good deal, Keith. IMHO, Microsoft has the best AV software, and it is free. But yes, social engineering (ie: getting people to do the hacker's bidding) is the most effective way to infect a machine. It might be a pain but here's a suggestion: create an account for your users other than yourself. That account should be set to "limited" access so it would make it much more difficult to override the prompts and security features. Your daughter comes around wanting to use your PC and you just "switch users" to her account. In fact, it's even better to always run on this lower-class account. You will be prompted for the administrator's password (that only you know) whenever a higher level action is required.

[@muhaahaloa941]

format and reinstall ) and use avg anti virus,Most computers have a licence key on the side of them you some times can just download the OS and use the key :)..

[@VintageMachinery]

Muhaa Haloa All that has been done. I filmed the segment that got uploaded today last weekend so I guess that news is kind of old. I have since wiped the computer clean, done a complete re-install of everything, and restored my data from a backup. All is good now, just wasted a lot of time to get back there again.....

[@jeffmoss26]

Oh man...computer problems...I deal with them all day! If you need any help, don't hesitate to shoot me a PM.

[@VintageMachinery]

***** Thanks Jeff - I got everything reloaded and running again. It was a pain but not as bad as some other OS Rebuilds I have had to do in the past. Dell took good care of me and sent me a restore DVD that was pretty painless compared to some jobs I have had before.

[@RoelTyros]

Hello Keith, Bad luck that your pc crashed because of that bad mp3 file, or better say the wannabee mp3 file with a big virus in it. Strange that your virusscanner didn't react and warned her when your daughter opened it. I use since several years Eset Nod32 and I download also music, films etc.. ( only the ones I have originals from ) but Eset always warns me when something is wrong with a file. When you have an working pc or laptop you can also download an copy from Windows and make an bootable dvd or usbstick but I'm not shure what version of Windows you use. When you use Windows 8.1 you can go to windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media Anyway again a nice Odds and Ends and many greetings from Roel !

[@VintageMachinery]

RoelTyros Thanks - running Windows 7, but we got it all restored and running again....

[@charlescompton4495]

To err is human but to really mess up you need a computer!

[@VintageMachinery]

Charles Compton Amen.....

[@dougrundell947]

Hi Keith, I have been trying to figger out what it is that you do for a living and have decided that you must be a bible salesman. Am I close?

[@VintageMachinery]

Doug Rundell LOL - that is funny! I try and keep my KZbin machinist life and my professional life somewhat separate since they are totally unrelated, but it is not any secret. I am a scientist for Bayer CropScience where I do research and development work as well as sales support with our line of crop protection products. I cover all of GA and AL as well as N. FL.