Lucas Horizontal Boring Mill - Machining a new Spring Loaded Handle

[@brucehowlett2887]

Thankyou for saving the beautiful little kittens

[@halnywiatr]

@ 21:10 Truth in machining. It's why we love this channel.

[@geowallace9758]

as a 16 year old apprentice circa 1951, i operated a Kearns Richard HB around the same size as your one. Brings back memories.

[@jameslezak8179]

Great video! The old machine is coming along! Thanks 👍

[@migueltorres6073]

Great video! The old machine is getting there! Thanks

[@tpobrienjr]

Thanks for showing the knurling process.

[@simsapot]

Hi Keith, I enjoy watching all your videos, while I am not a Machinist, I learn from each video, your work ethics, the importance of restoring machines that built this great Nation, restoring the machines that gave rise to America’s manufacturing dominance. CNC has it place, but will never replace Good Olde American Craftsmanship!

[@ROBRENZ]

Looking good Keith! ATB, Robin

[@chrisoddshoes]

Thank you for leaving the mistakes in, it helps me to understand what can go wrong and, hopefully avoid a few in my own work.

[@robertrowse7878]

I always like seeing how you make the old come back to life. Thank you.

[@wrstew1272]

I enjoy the fact that you are using dial calipers to do “close enough “ measurements for “ period “ reproduction. Ain’t no need for micrometers for get it done machining to build these parts, serviceable is totally what is proper. Another check for the punch list!

[@Barnagh1]

It looks amazing. Your skills are phenomenal.

[@01thomasss]

Very good expletive-control!

[@elsdp-4560]

THANK YOU...for sharing. Very nice repair.

[@bobbyanderson6272]

I would like to give several thumbs up but don't know how. I love this kind of thing when you try to put a piece of machinery back to near-perfect original condition. Keep up the good work. Thanks for your excellent videos. Bob, Jacksonville, FL

[@michaelphillips9037]

Another good project compleated,

[@davidhoward2237]

Thanks for another great vid

[@samward6745]

I enjoy seeing your cats going through on the videos

[@gwpsr58]

HBM looks awesome!

[@buckburton7318]

What a pleasure to watch a master at work

[@bcbloc02]

HBM is looking pretty!

[@MrPatdeeee]

Very good video. Learned a lot. Thanks.

[@DeepPastry]

Every time a second part gets made "Off Camera", I just imagine those old cooking shows. Keith has a completed dish prepared earlier for us.

[@robertharley4730]

I realize it is kind of off topic but do anyone know a good website to stream newly released tv shows online ?

[@saintgabriel790]

@Robert Harley Meh I watch on flixportal. You can find it if you google:D -saint

[@robertharley4730]

@Saint Gabriel thank you, I signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I really appreciate it !!

[@FinnoUgricMachining]

Those small tapered reamers are really delicate. They are much like small taps. If the flutes are straight, then the reamer will collect the chips in the flutes and it should be releaved every now and then of those. Much like a straight flute tap. The reamers that have the spiral are pushing the chips into the hole, much like a gun tap. If You look carefully, You might have noticed that the spiral is left handed so this type of reamer also pushes itself out of the hole and does not jam in there so easily. Being too eager with straight flute tapered reamer is a sure way of breaking one no matter if it is driven by hand or a mill. I use regularly hand drill to drive those.

[@rickeyburke2596]

LOL, Remember seeing a few of those machines on the repair ships during my time in the Navy. Nice work.

[@stuartkorte1642]

Definitely looking better than when I saw it. Looking good.

[@jackheath6623]

the horizontal boring mill is my favorite machine tool.

[@cavemaneca]

Great restoration as always. I'm sure there are some people who'd argue that you shouldn't replace a working part, but this is a machine getting restored to be used, not to sit on display. It'll be much better to have something good in the hand than keeping the old piece just for the sake of having as much of the machine original as possible.

[@jimthesoundman8641]

Plus he could sell that original part to someone else who has one of those machines for $100 and recoup some of the time and expense of repairing his.

[@assessor1276]

Nice work Keith - what a satisfying little job!

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Great job Keith, it's coming along very nicely.

[@tomeyssen9674]

Nice! I really enjoy and learn watching your videos. Thank Keith.

[@mkegadgets4380]

Got to love that Starrett punch set.

[@michaelpedersen1672]

I have been watching your videos for several years now. This was the fist time I have seen anyone use a knurling attachment to knurl a handle. Very cool. Much enjoyed that. I am not a machinist but I do enjoy watching you work. Keep it up! Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@rickolson9011]

Very nice job!

[@MartsGarage]

Nice job, Keith. Thanks for including the visit from Mr Bozo.

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas!

[@johnnyholland8765]

I used to run a big DevLeig HBM when I worked at Boeing in Macon Ga. We had two of them.

[@amftpt]

Nice job. We have a Lucas Boring Mill where I work. As it happens, I'm running a hot job on it today.

[@qivarebil2149]

You handled that one quite well! Thanks for sharing! Stay safe! ;)

[@wmcwings4343]

I really appreciate the care and love you give to your machines.

[@lesmansom7817]

Nice one wheezy 😎👍

[@MaturePatriot]

Nice work Keith. That is a nice matched set of handles.

[@BedsitBob]

to counteract the suction effect, you could drill a 1mm hole, in the opposite end of the handle.

[@BedsitBob]

22:11 I'm surprised at you Keith, turning that reamer backward.

[@vedranlatin1386]

@Keith You can clearly see the part moved while you were drilling it around minute 19... it's quite possible your hole wasn't in line with the spindle after that and the reamer was being bent when it broke. Some copper or aluminum padding under those knurls might have helped to hold it better

[@mrbakerskatz]

Thanks Keith !

[@toolbox-gua]

Fine rebuilding! Or refurbishing, but from you always a fine job.

[@jamesdavis8021]

I spent two decades working on Swiss,German and,Italian machines where everything was attached to shafts with a tapered pin.In many cases,the holes were hand drilled and reamed.

[@PaulWoodJatobaFilms]

Thanks, Keith, I’m looking forward to the next video!

[@homeryoung7436]

Thank you Keith

[@ronaldkearn3322]

Keith, You're a Wizard. :-) :-) :-)

[@Venge94]

Just a tip with those straight flute reamers, try locking the quil and raising the table instead.

[@emilgabor88]

no. it was packed whit chips...

[@Venge94]

@Timbo Dewabem thats not a drill press.

[@andystansbury8576]

ran one like that for several years

[@FesixGermany]

18:47 the sound of precision

[@WilliamTMusil]

Hiya Keith

[@classicbandgeek]

So many questions about those reaming decisions - how was that runout not a concern? Was the rpm actually the same as the drilling speed? Why not use a spiral flute or at least peck to clear chips, and why no cutting oil?

[@mrsock3380]

Watching with it muted, saw the tapered reamer and thought I would be impressed if you finish the hole without breaking it, still impressed you put it in the vid.

[@hydewhyte4364]

Cosmetic .. isn't negligible . Dad always swore that his cars ran better when they were clean.

[@hwesson75]

Depends on the vehicle. Took my old ratty S-10 to the car wash for the first time in years to knock off the rather impressive layer of sap and moss off of it, barely got a half block down the road headed back home when it died and I had to get it towed home. It liked its layer of dirt. XD (Ethanol gas was the culprit. Fuel pump had sucked in a chunk of the screen that was in its intake that had rusted to pieces from all the water content, and the metal base of the sock was also a solid chunk of rust.)

[@phillipyannone3195]

Fun video, I bet you loved using your Starrett hand tool

[@davidcantrell5098]

When putting all that stuff together, why no grease or anti-seize to prevent rust from forming on the mating surfaces inside? Make it a heck of lot easier for the next PDB that has to take them apart. Great work as always though.

[@Hoaxer51]

Nice machine!

[@joopterwijn]

Keith, for sure i expected while you explained the project, that you would make a threat instead of the pin.

[@jackheath6623]

especially if its equipped with the sliding chuck.

[@SciPunk215]

Good as new !

[@evanpenny348]

Nice.

[@kimber1958]

Great job

[@geckoproductions4128]

I see you're using the Lyle Peterson method of layout and design......works pretty good for me too. Nice video

[@mrsock3380]

Who is Lyle Peterson and why are you crediting him for inventing that way of ruining vernier calipers?

[@mightymalikie]

@@mrsock3380 mrpete222 he is a retired metal shop teacher Also goes by the name tubalcain I use the caliper method all the time to scribe lines but only cheap ones the efficiency of it trumps the cost of the replacement cheap calipers

[@geckoproductions4128]

@@mrsock3380 Mr. Pete aka tubal cain

[@componenx]

@@mrsock3380 I've been using the same cheap dial caliper (Rutland) for about 35 years on my lathes like that, and it's anything but ruined. There's almost no jaw wear. (Of course, the Etalons don't get used that way!)

[@mrsock3380]

@@mightymalikie but it's not efficient, it's quicker and more accurate to use a rule rather than to clean it, blue it, set calipers and scribe a line that the swarf will scratch off before you even get to the mark.

[@alexanderw6309]

I love your videos and your restoration of old machines. I have pictures of an old large horizontal boring mill that dates back to the early 1900reds that was operational in a large machine shop owned by a cousin in New Haven Conn up to two years ago. The shop was started in about 1870 by my great grandfather. Is there any way to share these pictures?

[@alexanderw6309]

The boring machine I mention above was made by Universal Boring Machine Co of Hudson Mass and appears to be a larger model than any picture I have found so far.

[@FutopiaAD]

You can post them on vintagemachinery.org

[@alexanderw6309]

@@FutopiaAD Thanks will do

[@the_hate_inside1085]

Don´t like when antique parts, are replaced purely for cosmetic reasons. I my opinion the other knob being original to the machine has a value on it´s own. That being said, you generally tend do pretty gentle restorations.

[@MF175mp]

good that the engineers designed a weak spot there- otherwise the casting would've broke and that's harder to get done.

[@bobrobert6277]

funny

[@the_hate_inside1085]

It´s a hand operated knob, why would it be designed to tank a forklift hit?

[@bobrobert6277]

@@the_hate_inside1085 its sarcasm with the fact that if the handle was designed in a other way the handle casting could have broke making the repair way harder

[@ron827]

Keith is a perfectionist as I am too but I would have been tempted to machine away the light knurling on the OEM handle and re-knurl it to match the new part rather than make two new handles. "Assuming" the tapered pins were identical, could the reamer have been marked with a Sharpie as a guide for the needed depth?

[@darrentong322]

22:10 Ahhhg! The cardinal sin of turning a reamer backwards!

[@BedsitBob]

Yep, I cringed, when he did that.

[@justinl.3587]

Careless Keith at it again!

[@TheDippoo]

loads of oilers will you be installing a oiling system to make it simpler?

[@StreuB1]

18:03 Reaming at mach 5 lol

[@catfishgray3696]

GREAT JOB, GREAT VIDEO, NOW LET'S GO TO WORK...

[@HaroonUAE1116]

Sir please make videos on boiler mantinance like feed check valve,safety valve blowdown valve, level gauge glass

[@tehsimo]

maybe take the paint off that surface where the pin is gonna be sliding up and down before it drops into the holes?

[@doctwiggenberry5324]

What good does it do to oil the outside of the stock when cutting it? The tool has minimal contact with the oil when cutting.

[@imchris5000]

man wrapping your hand around to grab the part your parting off is a good way to become one with a lathe. just hold your hand open under it and let it fall into it

[@daviswallace6351]

Where can I get a punch rack/holder like the Starrett one on his work bench??

[@ianide2480]

Something like 5 years, I've been watching your videos Keith. I have a serious bone to pick with you bud... I want a lathe and mill but they do not fit in an apartment very well, this is definitely your fault =P

[@RambozoClown]

There are small ones.

[@componenx]

I remember reading a story about a guy in NYC who had a bridgeport in his high rise apartment. Something like a millrite or a mill/drill would be easier (and lighter).

[@ianide2480]

Unfortunately this is not that type of apartment.. One of them little dremel mounted drill presses (takes up a 6x6 space) almost doesn't fit heh

[@RambozoClown]

@@ianide2480 John Saunders (NYC CNC) started with a micro mill in his NYC apartment. Just forgo the bed and learn to sleep standing up. It's all about priorities. ;)

[@ianide2480]

@@RambozoClown If the neighbors under me don't mind the noise (they call the management company if I step a little to loudly). Seriously thinking after some of my life events unfold a bit more, time to move..

[@200932me]

Can you make gun barrels on this machine?

[@garys9694]

Keith, you need to do some maintenance on that lathe or possibly the 3 jaw chuck you have mounted in this video. You just shouldn't have that much run-out in your parts. It is very obvious. Every time you mount a piece of stock you have way too much run-out. At 6 inches from the chuck, you shouldn't have any more than .006 to .007 of an inch. And I'm being generous. the better quality chucks will be dead on at that distance. I know that Monarch EE you have would be a lot better than that especially with a good chuck on it. You might consider a 6 jaw Buck Chuck. The kind where you can make adjustments for run- out.

[@nutwiss]

Keith - I'm not sure that runout was on your stock - looks like your chuck might need a bit of TLC.

[@Sixta16]

Definitely noticed too the chuck has huge runout.

[@sircaran]

I was thinking the jaws are messed up, maybe time to grind them in, didn't notice much on the rest of the chuck

[@milantrcka121]

Here it makes no diff...

[@Sizukun1]

Why is the live center removed when using the parting tool?

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

As the parted off part drops away, it can become lodged between the material in the chuck and the center.

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hello Keith, Nice work on the handles... When making a replacement part do you ever do anything to age the new part or do you just let it age naturally? Take care Paul,,

[@artnickel7624]

You have to teach the cat to fetch dropped parts...😜😜😜

[@davidmontgomery1016]

When you say you are taking 100 thou off on a turning like in this video, are you removing 100 thou from the radius or the diameter?

[@MrPatdeeee]

Diameter. 50 thou on each side. The reason is: the micrometer reads the diameter, but the amount of cut is half that. Thus; it's easier to use it this way and not make a mistake.

[@davidmontgomery1016]

@@MrPatdeeee I thought so. I'm not a machinist so I thought I would ask. Thank you.

[@MrPatdeeee]

@@davidmontgomery1016You are most welcome kind Sir.

[@markneedham3088]

@ 1:28 I did. I did. I taw a puddy tat. Then 28:15 I see oilers, stacks of the buggers.

[@dorelgogu8631]

You were going way too fast and no lubricant. But we always learn from our mistakes. And always love watching your videos! Thanks a lot, keep them coming!

[@MikeB0001]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@viscache1]

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine....and 300 thou....

[@robertbamford8266]

“Where’s that pin?” A familiar refrain. I seem to be able to temporarily lose track of things large and small. Thanks for the video.

[@Hoaxer51]

I’ve always wondered if he used cold blue or something like that. It might make it less prone to rust.

[@KS-cp6bj]

I always look on the floor first.

[@componenx]

Any horizontal surface in the shop becomes a table/shelf where things get put down without thinking. I set down a radiused end mill a week ago, and still haven't found it.

[@strhunter666]

what kind of steel did you use?

[@firearmsstudent]

Queue the sad ASPCA music: *In the arms of an angel, far away from here* "These old, abandoned machines, suffering from years of neglect in fields and production set-ups need your help" *From this dark, cold hotel room and the endlessness that you fear* "Here at Keith Rucker's Vintage Machinery we give new life to these forgotten former titans" *You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie* "For less than the time it takes to watch the video, you too can help, please, if you have the heart, like, share, subscribe or even give to this great organization." *You're in the arms of an angel, may you find some comfort here*

[@ratdude747]

How'd you chuck directly on the knurl without messing it up? Back in high school shop class (where we did a lot of knurling), in the rare event we needed to grip on the knurl, we usually wrapped it in paper towels (since we didn't have copper soft jaws). Did the trick.

[@VærdAtSe]

I'm sure he didn't put much attention to detail. Look at the end where he hammer the pins in, whit the knurled handle laying on a steel block.. 🙄. So many bad things has been showed in this and many other videos. Can't believe people admire this sort of 'educational videos'. So much wrong and bad habits is shown.. Really just some self-taught methods

[@Sixta16]

@@VærdAtSe Even though you're probably right, Keith never said he's a professional machinist or the best one of them. He just likes to do what he just wants to and we like watching him screw up here and there occasionally. (and if you don't like how he shows stuff getting done, make a better video explaining the stuff better).

[@slippery547]

@@Sixta16 Nicely put 👍

[@RambozoClown]

Perfection is the enemy of progress. Or at the shop I worked in, the phrase was "Good enough for who it's for". It's always a balance of quantity vs quality. Keith makes parts to suit his standards. While some people have higher standards, others will put up with vise grips for years.

[@VærdAtSe]

@@Sixta16 a reply as I expected.. - as being a machinist my entire life im sure I could teach and tell some people a thing or two. My point was simply, - when doing KZbin videos in this scale, with this amount of view I think it would be the best to show people some more correct content. I know he's not a professionel, and never claimed to be. But many people admire those types of KZbin 'machinists' and they are hero's to them. They are in a way a educational channel for many. And when doing this, it would be the best to show things doing the right way. - else you just past on wrong information and habits. And to a huge amount of people. That's really sad.. and maybe not the intention. But it's the fact.. Just an example. He's using a reamer with way to high spindle speed. In a part where the hole doesn't run true. Next, running another reamer to fast. And it snaps. This could easily be avoided. Yes he did show the fail. But did he mention what went wrong, or what should be done othervise? Just to mention one... Have a nice day. Best regards

[@ShainAndrews]

3:53 Work piece was not secured. I could see movement on the facing, center drill, and a big movement with the live center.

[@demonknight7965]

I was wondering why didn't you make it all one piece then i noticed why it was pinned

[@kris4362]

👍👍👍👍👍👍😎

[@cliffordfender1159]

That lathe must have just one speed ( Bat out of Hell )