Machining a 1000lb (450kg) Auger Drive Sub (Wait until you see the AUGER!)

In this week's video we're machining up the drive sub for the Big Rig auger bit which will be used to drill the first 12-15m (40 ish feet) before we send in the 3.0m (10ft) MEGADRILL.
The part starts as a 1200lb (500kg) billet of solid 4140, and end up as what looks like a giant square impact driver.
We'll be testing out "HAL" (our Colchester Alpha 1760's) maximum power to see if it'll run a 130mm Kennametal HTS drill... and if that fails, we'll use 'THE KRAKEN" ... our 110mm Shop Made Drill. I just want to test out to see if our big CNC has the power to run the 130HTS. Prediction: it won't... but you never know if you don't have go!
Then it'll be off to our Quantum FBV-S5 Bed Mill "GODZILLA" to shape out the driver end.
And maaaate.... is there some shaping to do...
About HAL Heavy Duty:
We're a real life machine shop for a 60 year old drilling company located in Central Queensland, Australia. Our job is to keep rigs running in the field, fixing all the stuff drillers break, and creating all the custom gear they need to get the job done!
We run three CNC's, manual repair lathes, a few mills and a big green Megabore Lathe we call "THE HULK"... and are constantly having to make weird and wonderful tools for odd (usually oversize) jobs.
We're a little shop that takes on big projects, and the latest is our MEGADRILL project where we're manufacturing a 3.0m (10 foot!) drill bit that'll weigh upward of 20 tonnes and we're getting ready to send it 250m (800+ feet) deep.
Here's the latest on the project!
The Megadrill Project • The Megadrill Project ...
The Drive Sub • Big Rig Drive Sub | Me...
Mega Drill Rods
• Mega Drill Rods Gettin...
We release one video a week (usually on Friday/Saturday) to give you all a window into our heavy duty world.
#australianmachinist #machinistlife #machineshoplife #cnclife #heavydutyequipment #australiandrilling

[@molkhal]

I feel like i cheated on Cutting Edge Australia

[@halheavyduty]

🤣

[@zoneundertop]

Spray painting.

[@bill4639]

@@halheavyduty Why don’t you turn and face one end and chuck that end before finishing? Why do you chuck the part on the uneven forged, bandsaw cut surface?

[@cschwad559]

Nah ya did’nt!

[@Rickimusic]

LOL I hear you. :)

[@rocketman13f51]

CEE would be considered a medium engineering operation while HAL would be considered a heavy engineering operation. Similar but different on the scope and operations! You can watch both without feeling guilty! 😊

[@halheavyduty]

I love watching Kurtis’s videos. He’s a really good tradesman with a very deep understanding of what he’s doing. Karen does such a pro job on the editing too. Such a lovely pair.

[@richards200]

All that insanely expensive and precise engineering gear, and still, THE most important part of the whole job, finding and marking centre, is still done by hand with a hammer, love it

[@halheavyduty]

Some things never change hahaha. Old school for the win 💯👊

[@VegasEdo]

And drilled out with a hand drill on top of it. Precision-ish haha

[@DedhedWaldo]

I used to rebuild dewatering presses and have dealt with some HUGE augers in my day, but DAYUM!

[@halheavyduty]

She's a bloody big sucker hey

[@williampankratz600]

Can't wait to see the field operation of this giant custom built equipment !!!!!!!

[@halheavyduty]

It’s one hell of a setup. Can’t wait to see it all come together myself

[@connahjones8178]

1:06 that dog was a happy dog 😂 love it

[@halheavyduty]

He’s a good boy. Just the sweetest little guy we’ve ever had.

[@warrenjones744]

You certainly build the most interesting things Matt. I like different. I should add I have a healthy respect for the man who builds his own tools and you also have the some of coolest shop built tools as well. Nothing to not like here.

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate! Appreciate the kind words.

[@ozzyfranf]

I watch all the usual machining channels and yours appeared on my page the other day. I live in Wyoming and I used to work on drilling rigs & I still currently work in the oil & gas industry.I subscribed and I look forward to watching your channel.

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate! I worked with a man from Wyoming a while back and he was the nicest, most down to earth guy I think I’ve ever met. Literally nothing seemed to bother him. Wyoming and Montana are two places I want to visit on the next USA adventure with little Teddy bear

[@ozzyfranf]

@@halheavyduty Both are beautiful states. All the Rocky Mountain States are. Just stay away from the buffalo if you ever make it to Yellowstone. People in Wyoming are pretty laid back, until we get messed with. Just consider probably 75% of people carry either openly or have something in their truck. Don't know if that numbers accurate but it's a lot.

[@RamblerMan68]

Cool, have you checked out ClemWyo s channel? He hasn't posted in a long time but he has or had some really cool old machines and did some neat work on them.

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

Man , i sure wish our Seattle kraken hockey team was as powerful as that beast ! This video came up because I'm subscribed to cutting edge engineering and the thumbnail looked interesting so i clicked , watched and subscribed ! impressive results sir !

[@halheavyduty]

That’s gold! Kraken for the win 🤣👊

[@TheJessiepacheco1992]

It's cool to see what you can do to a piece of steel beautiful work my friend

[@halheavyduty]

🙏👊

[@RalfyCustoms]

Morning guys, 5.00 am here in Merry Old England, just settling down to catch up, before I head off to my shop, great start to the day, also Rocol RTD fluid yes! Proper old school, love the smell ( one of the few shop smells I've not gone nose blind too lol) Have a great day, and best wishes to you and yours guys

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks mate! The unique smell of Rocol always reminds me of Grandad. Especially burnt Rocol 🤣 He loved the stuff. Have an awesome day my friend. Love your work 👊👊

[@plunder1956]

A most enjoyable cutting sequence. Even at this scale my ears are telling me how well the cut is going. we love the "Pink Lemonade".

[@halheavyduty]

Pink lemonade is the bomb. So much better than the other white stuff we used to run. No mess, no premixing and it doesn’t go off 🤘

[@Wyllie38]

As a mainly mill guy I appreciate the milling part on the video 🤘🏼

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate!

[@andrewlcs542]

Good video, showing the "can" and "can't" sides of machining. Metric 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 !

[@halheavyduty]

👊💯

[@GeraldStahlman]

Learning how to hand sharpen a bucket full of all sorts of bits took me awhile. Learning how not make them dull was another. Wow my hat is off to you folks!

[@halheavyduty]

The best way to learn! 🤣 Necessity

[@Arjay.M88]

Ive been watching Kurtis and Karen from CEE(A) for a long-long time. I come from a family of machinist's. I am a hobbyist machinist. Nothing comparable to what you guys do though. However I bring this up in the hopes that one day you guys at Hal... possibly Matt? Could maybe do a colab with Kurtis?? :D That would be awesome!

[@halheavyduty]

It’d be great to have him up as a guest and have some fun running The Hulk. It’s an absolute beast to run. He’d love it. I’ve chatted to him & his lovely wife Karen on the phone a couple of times and they’re both top people. I imagine something might happen in the future. They do fantastic work.

[@JohnH20111]

@@halheavyduty i don’t think you would be able to get Kurtis away from The Hulk without a fight

[@TheSparkysdog]

Just found your channel, really enjoyed the videos, looking forward to catching up and to watching upcoming content 👍👍

[@halheavyduty]

👊👊

[@halheavyduty]

Awesome, thank you!

[@tord9707]

Nice vid as always. One issue I see with the kraken is the length of the pilot drill. When it wears it will taper off on the dia and the pilot hole will squeeze around the drill, and rip it out of the locking. When you see the KM pilotdrill it has maybe 5mm length before the full dia bore. Much less squeezable surface.

[@halheavyduty]

The nose freaks me out. But it somehow works just fine. I don’t disagree with you one bit by the way… it just seems to work. Oddest design award for sure 🤣

[@CothranMike]

@@halheavyduty And the hand ground relief at the shank makes it odder still.

[@alandawson2813]

On The Kraken could you put a flat in the shank of the pilot drill for the grub screws to tighten up on to help it stop twisting as well as the flute stop? Happy days.

[@scudzuki]

I worked for a short time at Demag Delaval Turbomachinery in Trenton, PA, USA. Was running a G&L CNC VBM with a 6 foot table. I'd never run anything that big before. I was machining gas turbine impellers for pumping natural gas. Got one on the table, 5 foot diameter or so, reworking an o-ring groove that was brazed up after being cut too wide. That was nerve racking, tickling a few thou off a gazillion dollar part. Indicated the part in with 4x4s and a sledge hammer. The good old days.

[@halheavyduty]

Nice work good sir! Man that’s one heck of a machine. And I feel you re taking a “fly shit” as we call it… off a super expensive part.

[@peejay1981]

Jeez, look at that swarf from the threading tool! That's a hand remover 5000 if ever I've seen one.

[@halheavyduty]

Dude… accurate AF

[@williamhoward8319]

i watch you abd cuting edge engenering and many shows from pakistan they do so much with so little

[@halheavyduty]

I love the shows from Pakistan, India and Russia. Some serious talent. Agreed. So much from so little.

[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

I started watching at 0500 my time CDT, and am finishing after a long day at the shop at nearly 2100 CDT. The kraken seems undefeated! A beast for sure!

[@halheavyduty]

Nice work brother! 👊 Kraken gets the job done 💯🦑

[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

@@halheavyduty Been a long day fixing broken trucks. I envy you and yours making new product for this endeavor. Yes I get that you and the blokes fix broken shite all day long every day. Would be keen to be a part of this massive project! Best wishes on this bit of goodness! I hope you do a recap video from front to back on this! Will wake the world on what is truly capable to keep men safe.

[@halheavyduty]

Def gonna do a recap video before we dig the big hole! Bring all the new viewers up to speed. Should be a heap of fun. Yeah, our time is kinda 50/50 between repairs and R&D at the moment

[@dwjr5129]

Not being a machinist I’ve learned a lot about the skills you guys have watching several channels. Particularly your attention to detail . However, watching you machine these big parts has taught me that the most important skill is probably patience. Without it I think you’d have a bunch of destroyed parts and machines at the end of the day. Very expensive parts and machines.

[@halheavyduty]

Patience is definitely the key. I’m regularly reminded… “You’re only once digit or decimal from disaster… take your time and DOUBLE CHECK” And go very slowly on the first run. That’s said… once I’m sure it’s running correctly, we pretty much aim for 60-80% max. And on the odd occasion… You’ve just gotta send it 🤣

[@grahamstretch6863]

@@halheavyduty Positive and negative too! I worked as a toolmaker before the company downsized and at one point they got a new Colchester CNC lathe, one of the operators modified the program to reduce the distance from the end of the rapid to the start of the cut. On its second day after commissioning he crashed it so hard he broke the tool carousel and the tailstock and shifted the headstock so far that it was quite literally down to a coin toss whether they tried to fix it on site or send it back to Colchester, if we weren’t on the Isle Of Wight (just off the coast of England with probably the dearest ferry crossing mile for mile anywhere in the world) they would definitely have sent it back.

[@Dr4g0nW00d]

Nice shop and machines you got there I graduated as a Machineworker so I have worked with all kinds of machines

[@halheavyduty]

Awesome. Cheers mate!

[@massminer2343]

Engineer in the United States. Love watching manufacturing vids. It lets me know what troubles I cause y'all machinists. 1 question. Do y'all ever penetrant inspect the parts before they go out into the field? I'd bet a small crack could become a big problem with the forces involved there

[@Celciusify]

Machinist here, what frustrates me most is when an engineer has no idea what he's asking for, and thinks the world works like in his computer. Recent example; Drawing called for a 25H7 thickness of a plate, material delivered was ~25.1mm. What he actually wanted was a flat plate, but he didn't know the symbol for that. We worked around it by adjusting the mounting points, sand blasted the plate to a satin finish and he was overjoyed with the fit and finish. Same engineer wanted a bearing surface to be ground, with an Rz of 3.5... I've also dealt with engineers that demand the strictest tolerances and then never measure it and simply judges the quality by how shiny it is.

[@Sam2-ex8ty]

I can't speak for the drill rods, but all the structural components on the big rig were built from steel with mill material test certificates and welds were mag particle tested after fabrication

[@halheavyduty]

We actually do. All welded components get crack tested before leaving. The machined stuff doesn’t, but welded components 💯

[@allangibson8494]

@@CelciusifyAnd leaves out a decimal point… (or delivers a drawing where the dimensions don’t add up).

[@allangibson8494]

@@Sam2-ex8tyI am presuming you didn’t use Chinese steel (finding duplicated mill test certificates is really “annoying”).

[@ahkoenig]

New to your channel. I hit subscribe the moment I saw The Kraken.

[@halheavyduty]

Nice! 👊👊🦑✌️

[@Reuben-ny3]

I'm glad I came across your channel, great stuff and am enjoying it immensely!

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate!

[@crandonborth]

This channel definitely has potential… CEE does the medium duty but this stuff is some seriously heavy duty machining. One tip you should talk a bit more and kinda explain what and why you are doing certain things.

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks! Appreciate the feedback! Will do! 👍

[@Lokimyrottie]

I know its the weekend soon when I see your videos, cheers mate, keep posting the videos on the mega drill, I am from the drilling Industry and I understand ur machining process. Watching from India...

[@halheavyduty]

That’s awesome! Love it my friend. I love watching Indian machining videos. Some of my absolute favourite viewing.

[@Lokimyrottie]

@@halheavyduty those videos u watch are they guys from Pakistan, Health and safety is out of the window there. Heheheheheeee

[@EnricoMarangonJunior]

Heavy machining takes time !! tks for the content

[@halheavyduty]

Most welcome mate. Thanks for tuning in 👊

[@25vrd48]

First time watching , I subscribed and will continue to watch . I like the odd stuff and heavy and large . Great video .

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks mate. Much appreciated

[@ianlangley987]

Hi Matt, I like your thread guages, well done as they are so easy to check the fit both on the face and the thread itself. Cheers Ian

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate. Yeah they’re a bit unconventional but work brilliantly.

[@MrCdrant]

Never even thought of parts so big you need to do a centre in them before putting it in the the lathe. Monster part

[@halheavyduty]

Big on our scale for sure… I’m still left in awe of the really REALLY big stuff people do. Makes our work look tiny.

[@a-fl-man640]

i don't think i've ever seen any flats that sized milled out of solid steel. damn. that commercial boring bar looks expensive. can't wait to see this monster in action.

[@halheavyduty]

Irs def the biggest square drive I’ve ever seen. The bar was a KM63 head from Kennametal welded onto a shop made shank. Cost about $450 all up in materials, so not too bad. It took about three hours to make.

[@a-fl-man640]

@@halheavyduty that's pretty reasonable

[@125spectrum]

Great content. New to the channel. Maybe a bit more dialogue of what things are and what you are doing? Kurtis would be proud. Paul, Scotland.

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers Paul! Yeah, still trying to get the right balance of commentary! Let me know what you reckon of todays vid. Always appreciate the honest feedback 👊

[@LyonsLover]

This guy and the CEE guy makes me want to move to Australia and take up machining. lol

[@halheavyduty]

🤣👊

[@ehamster]

Looks like a good candidate for a trepanning tool. Look up David Wilks channel, he shows making and using large trepanning tools. Much less swarf/machine load for large hole boring.

[@ehamster]

Obviously no use for a blind hole.

[@halheavyduty]

Yeah, I love his videos. We have a trepanning tool (it gets used in the next video actually) but it isn’t quite big enough for this hole. We are about to build a new one for the big rig items. It’ll be a 210mm hole and 1m deep. Will be fun to make.

[@alankeith7866]

It's fun and exciting watching the progress of this massive project.

[@6point5by55]

I wonder what the final invoice totals out at.

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks mate! We are all getting pretty excited about the first hole

[@James-ru4jx]

When 2 beautiful matching chips come off the work,you know the bit is correctly sharpened.

[@halheavyduty]

💯👊

[@Aladinscave]

That is one insane drill can’t wait to see that thing in action, videos like this remind me of my uncle who used to work on insane stuff like this in South Africa on the mines me and my cousin used to work school holidays at the shop for extra money back in the 80s great time learned a lot great content mate keep it up 👍🏻 💪🏻

[@halheavyduty]

Nice! Yeah man some of the stuff old school guys did was amazing. I can’t wait to see this thing dig!

[@jimsvideos7201]

Boy howdy do I ever look forward to seeing all this come together.

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers Jim!

[@chrisjw9487]

Great content machinist my self respect the work you guys do. BTW love the bessy clamp door lock 😄

[@halheavyduty]

Nice! Thanks for that mate. Well spotted re door clamp 👊🤣

[@wallbawden5511]

some big bits doing their job shame the 130mm one had a bit of chatter but in your typical fashion you brought in the reserves and got it done some chips flying round the shop and a boat load for the bin so close now to seeing this thing drill it’s going to be EPIC I say nice work there Cheers till the next instalment Cheers from Up North

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate! Yep, had to unleash the tried and tested Kraken to get the job done. I bloody love that crazy drill now.

[@garytelling397]

Hi Matt, again you nailed it with great content, problem with the alpha cnc's are they are just to light for certain tasks but absolutely magic at other applications. That's machining though there is always a compromise to make, nice milling machine it took decent size cuts. Cheers Gary

[@halheavyduty]

You’re spot on there Gary. Very versatile, but with limitations. We are looking at a bigger upgrade in the near future for all the “super heavy” stuff. The two alphas go really well, especially when we have the hulk to throw big stuff into… but some extra power and more rigidity would be bloody magic!

[@Ddabig40mac]

Have you looked in to adding a minimum quantity lubricant (mql) system to your mill? Helps a lot with surface finish and insert life without the moat that an open mill makes of flood coolant.

[@halheavyduty]

Any suggestions on brand / setup. Sounds like we could def use this! It drives me nuts

[@TheChad138]

When I first started watching the first video I saw of yours I saw what seemed to be a new dog, I got sad for a moment, then realized it wasn’t Cutting Edge Engineering, lol, glad I found your channel.

[@halheavyduty]

🤣🤣🤣 The CEE safety officer is still in the house 💯👊

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

I'm surprised you named the Mill Godzilla... I'd have named it Garfield... Cause it's as big as he is and eats the same way he does...LOTS and FAST!!! 😄😁😆😅😂🤣

[@halheavyduty]

That’s actually a VERY appropriate name 🤣👊💯

[@wdelgenio]

I know the problem with the kraken is that the center HSS drill is too long, but could you use the same HSS bit and just drill out the center of the holder some number of mm and re-mill the part where the set screws go in and tap some new set screw holes? Essentially it would just be taking the HSS bit and moving it back until it was at the right protrusion length on the working end. Either that or could you just hack the entire HSS front 80% off and regrind a cutting edge so it's just a far shorter bit? Or maybe grind off the flutes at the bottom end and move the shoulder of the bit up closer to the cutting edge and shorten the bit that way? Just curious if those ideas are even possible and which would would actually be the easiest/fastest to do.

[@Roberty98]

15:57 While pecking you punch the drill against the part with rapid. It stops right where you were before a peck. This is most probably why the front gets damaged too early. It may be programmable with a clearance where you rapid 0,5mm before feeding in. This may increase the tool life.

[@halheavyduty]

I’ll try and see if I can do it. Other than a blunt HSS pilot drill, we still haven’t had to change an insert on it yet. That thing is bloody tough… And we’ve given it a hell of a pizzling 🤣

[@kuni8880]

Hi, thank you for sharing your work. In one of your videos you mentioned Karen from Cutting Edge and her advice on behalf of the comments. Have you ever thought about a „voice over“ version like in „growler jams“ (awesome NAVY pilot)? Some people enjoy your videos because you show the pure process without much commenting. But maybe there are some who would like to hear some more comments in the process, maybe some background Informations. I am aware that this will ad much work on postprocessing. Anyway, i really like your channel and the way you present it. Thanx a lot.

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate. Yeah, it’s a struggle some days to get the balance just right

[@ptonpc]

That was fascinating to watch. Hello Doggy!

[@halheavyduty]

Moooooray for the win!

[@crazyjoe6679]

Love the content, look forward to seeing your work . Amazing work and awesome videography I know that it has to be hard shit just running the lathe is enough for me lol . Cheers to you and your team 🎉

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks a million mate. Appreciate the kind feedback

[@richardsweet5068]

Your scrap merchant must love all the clean swarf you send him.

[@peteb3365]

not saying anything but he just ordered another ferrari 😜

[@halheavyduty]

They’ve been visiting a bit more regularly since we started this project 🤣

[@57menjr]

sell him

[@T.McGarry]

That dog knows how to relax. He's got good hair....

[@halheavyduty]

He’s once chilled out doggo

[@Nathan-vq9ch]

Matt top notch stuff & you no if ya part was used in a tractor pull what would come of 2nd best

[@halheavyduty]

🤣🤣💯👊

Kraken be crackin'. It's a forbidden nacho-fest with such chips.

[@jmazoso]

Forbidden nachos, love it

[@halheavyduty]

Deliciously annoying stringy chips

[@forrestchung7694]

The stone you were using to sharpen the drillbit. Can you elaborate more on that machine and what the stone is?

[@halheavyduty]

It’s a diamond matrix cutting wheel I believe. Not overly expensive, and more used for the final polish. We have a green coloured aluminium oxide wheel (I think) for rough grinding the carbide first, although you couldnt see it in the video

[@deathbecomesu4604]

C.E.E explains things. You some how dont....Not sure sure of your channel but things can change!!!

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks for the feedback mate. CEE are light years ahead of me quality wise, but it’s really fun trying to figure out how to make the vids just a little better each time. Loads of room for improvement for sure.

[@rixogtr]

Try to get the Drill Doctor, does a fantastic job at redressing drills. Also, not sure about these diamond wheels but electroplated diamond abrasives and resin infused diamond abrasives shouldn't be lubed for sharpening.

[@halheavyduty]

Interesting. I was always told to put a small amount of oil on that particular diamond wheel. Could be wrong? I’ll look into it. Cheers brother 👊

[@rixogtr]

@@halheavyduty Could be. I'm not saying you did wrong, it's just what I read and I myself use it dry. Honestly, this claim would kind of make sense for the resin bonded diamond abrasives as the oil could work its way into the resin and debond diamond stones. At least that's how I see it. But I definitely want to put an emphasis on the Drill Doctor products. They do look extremely flimsy and plasticy but the work really well. Depending on a model there's multiple collet holders for a range of sizes of drill bits. I can relate because you do what I used to and while it's a great skill to have to be able to sharpen a drill bit, the semi mechanised way of doing it with the Drill doctor just gives night and day results compared to hand sharpening. The one I got can even do a split grind.

[@ChrisMaj]

7:03 What's the HP on that thing. If your spindle load is below 100%, you're going to slow. 😉

[@halheavyduty]

Hey mate, you’re the PERFECT person for this question (I hope you respond bro) How fast would you comfortably run a 320mm billet with a steady? You do giant parts, so I’d love to know. I absolutely want to try and run it all harder… but I do get a tad nervous when I’ve got a tonne spinning in the lathe. Would love your input bro. Keep up the amazing videos. I always look forward to seeing them.

[@ChrisMaj]

@halheavyduty Hard to tell. I don't know your lathe, I don't know ridgit it is and how much she can handle. I don't think you can find one video me machining in steady rest. I use it for long parts, but that's about it.

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks for taking the time to reply Chris. Appreciate it mate 👍

[@sass1ap]

HAL must stand for huge ass lathe

[@halheavyduty]

🤣🤣🤣💯

[@fastst1]

Need a cordess to mega drill adapter. Challenge Hougen to make you a 120mm super deep annular cutter to knock the slug out of the middle.

[@halheavyduty]

I like your thinking mate.

[@zadrik1337]

Hey, as an American don't bother converting metric that isn't some amount of football field or Olympic swimming pools for distance. We just get confused. School busses of cement trucks for weight please.

[@gabriellongworth]

Ha! I jump back and forth in carpentry. When finding the center of a block or board, metric is the way!! Cheers from Mid Michigan! 🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@neilmchardy9061]

Please join the rest of the world.😊

[@gabriellongworth]

@@neilmchardy9061 oh jeez would love to….adding and subtracting fractions is annoying to say the least. The world went left, ‘MERICA went right, ha! 🤙🏻😝 Politically too….got the ever growing fascism cancer in our democracy. Need some serious chemo…😤😅

[@Wyllie38]

Old crushers and loco stuff only comes in pounds shingles and pence so we tend to use both at work.

[@halheavyduty]

Good to know 🤣 We use both (for different things)… it’s a crazy Imperetric system around here.

[@mrayco]

It's good that you show the brand of the coolant in the video 🎉

[@halheavyduty]

No probs. People seem to be very curious about our forbidden pink lemonade 🤣

[@mrayco]

@@halheavyduty at first sight it looks like antifreeze lol thanks for the reply

[@halheavyduty]

👊👍

[@VegasEdo]

And here I thought those were wrench flats. "Hey, Jimmy, hand me the 13 17/32 inch wrench!" 🤣

[@halheavyduty]

🤣💯

[@nickvinten7803]

Usual quality content mate, getting 'really' interesting now.....can't wait ✌️ Question is, life after mega drill, what's next ? 🤔

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers bro! Yeah… so this rod set isn’t even the final “BIG SET” 🤣 There’s another one coming that’s even bigger. And if I know ANYTHING about this crazy company… It won’t be the last 🤣 And I think once it gets drilling I’ll have literally endless content material from all the shit they’ll break hahaha

[@Arjay.M88]

I HAVE to see what it going to turn this big thing. It's gonna be epic.

[@halheavyduty]

It’s. wild setup!

[@robstirling3411]

You need to talk us through the process mate. I can watch metal turn any day!

[@halheavyduty]

Let me know how I go on this weeks vid bro. Trying really hard to get the balance right. All feedback gratefully accepted and I do pay attention. Cheers mate 👊

[@rionstretton8133]

Awesome fantastic work 👏 ❤

[@halheavyduty]

Thanks mate 👊

[@MikeBaxterABC]

2:47 YES!!! Finally ... IDK if you guys s that all the time ..BUT SOO Many times I say "Just use the Cordless Drill ... At the KZbin screen!! :) ... I've seen So Many Times where the machinist is messing around ... maybe (dangerously) holding a LARGE part by JUST the chuck ... trying to get a Centre Drill in the face at really low RPM and it's all wobbly!!! .... Just use the cordless drill!!! .. I wager you got that within 1mm of dead centre .. not that it really matters that much!! :)

[@halheavyduty]

100% If it’s over 100kg, I use the drill. Fook messing around with heavy shit like that 🤣

[@MrValhem265]

Brother that Kong is Hardcore what a cut

[@halheavyduty]

Kong is my all time favourite little bar. If you want to see his big bro in action… go check out the BEAST MODE ON episiode. That thing is a metal monster. It absolutely HAMMERS

[@MrValhem265]

@@halheavyduty cool tA bROTHER WICKED bEARD BY THE WAY CHEERS FELLOW AUSSIE

[@halheavyduty]

👊👍

[@bernardreilly7519]

Nice well organised machine shop love the shop made tooling. What HP motor does that lathe have. I look forward to Fridays Regards Bernard Reilly Glasgow.

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate! Thank you. The CNC has about 20kw from memory (not enough 🤣)

[@pst3615]

I've been wondering why nobody drills a pilot hole before using large diameter twist drills, I know that small twist drills may wander off, especially when drilling deep holes, but I think a pilot hole takes away a substantial part of the forces needed to push the large twist drill in the material. I remember my teacher kicking me in the behind (back in my days this was still allowed 😂) when I didn't use a small drill to start any hole larger than 12mm, but hey, times have changed. In drilling we used the saying that you've got to be able to peel a potato with an ax, maybe this is also a part of it 🤣🤣

[@halheavyduty]

If I’m standard drilling, I def ageee with your teacher. The pilot hole should be the thickness of the twist. About 10mm for a 50mm drill etc. It makes a massive difference in the force required… especially when you have to wind the bloody thing in by hand 🤣

[@MarshallSmart]

The Centre drill you had to sharpen, did you consider using an indexable carbide drill there instead for your centre. It might reduce your loading%. No sharpening just index the inserts when needed. Good vid😀 M

[@halheavyduty]

It’s funny, but most of these big drills use a HSS centre drill. I asked the same question, but they tend to last longer, and as the surface speed is quite slow in the center, there’s no real need for carbide.

[@Strothy2]

Seeing that machine struggle to drill that hole makes me value the amount of OOOMPF my CTX 2000 has on the main spindle

[@halheavyduty]

Yeah bro… I need a power upgrade ASAP. We’re looking at a new CNC megabore that will absolutely smash it out. About 4x the spindle power of Hal with huge upgrades to Z axis. You only appreciate lathe power… when you run out of it 🤣

[@markhardman6413]

Pivitol point of your business is drilling and you sharpen by hand, was expecting precision grinding great videos 👍👏🏻

[@halheavyduty]

We have precision grinders for small drill bits, but over 25mm we still do it by hand. Most drills we use are indexable now anyway, so it’s not too often we need to use the big HSS ones any more 👍

[@markhardman6413]

@@halheavyduty thank you so very much

[@halheavyduty]

Most welcome brother. We did look at a big sharpening machine a while back but I just couldn’t justify it… as we just don’t use HSS as much as we once did.

[@ipadize]

18:24 having a 10x miles per gallon button is actually genius!

[@halheavyduty]

🤣🤣🤣

[@KSMechanicalEngineering]

Good to see this processing

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers mate 👊

[@alvarogeorgenobregeorge69]

I sub, all tha way from Brazil.🎉

[@halheavyduty]

👊👊👊✌️

[@ÇağatayKULMAN]

Nice work ! What is the machining cost of such a part in the USA? 10k ?

[@halheavyduty]

I’d say $8-10k approximately. It’s for our own gear, so we didn’t charge it out directly, but I’d guess somewhere in that range

[@dcrahn]

It's surprising that you don't have a much bigger cutter for milling those flats.

[@halheavyduty]

We’ve actually never had to machine that much material off a drive sub before. I looked at getting a bigger cutter, but the 50mm one just blasts it out. 8mm cuts and a fairly solid feed made quick work of it.

[@ronarant2897]

I can’t believe the “ribbons” of swarf the kraken is making!

[@halheavyduty]

If I had more Z axis push I’d be cranking out Doritos 😜

[@RjKingie]

Why do you not relieve the web, to extend the cutting edge in the centre of the pilot drill for the Kraken. I see the centre of the hole is burnished by the blunt nose of the pilot, and so I wonder if it is deliberately to prevent the Kraken from advancing too quickly?

[@halheavyduty]

Main goal is to keep Z axis load lower. I probably should relieve the web more… but just wanted to see what a quick sharpen would do. It dropped it by 8%, so next run I’ll spend a bit more time on the sharpen. Well spotted good sir

[@NRK1988]

Just realised your in rocky from looking at the back ground hahaha bit disappointed in that shit ozito drill tho😂

[@halheavyduty]

Hahaha. It’s shit alright… but at least the mechanics don’t seem to want to steal it 🤣 Does the job. Just…

[@RicksterX-92fs]

I have a question. Why don’t the steel manufacturers make steel pipe to a certain rough spec so you don’t have literally drill out that massive amount of material from the center?

[@Mokkisjeva]

Making pipes is a different process which often fails to meet customer criteria when it comes to material specs. Also, even if you get pipe which is at spec the price is usually much more than the time it takes to make a hole yourself. What is cost effective is to just have a specialized shop for drilling to make the hole for you. But those are rare, and depending on distance it might not be worth shipping the material for this process alone.

[@CothranMike]

@@Mokkisjeva And DOM (drawn over mandrel) might not be rigid enough for some uses. Billet steel is still the way to go for strength of materials and specific uses.

[@halheavyduty]

We can order in hollow 4140 from overseas, but Australia only supplies solid billet steel. The steel needs to meet VERY stringent quality standards considering the application. Hope that answers the question. Boy I wish we could buy hollow 4140 locally. It’d halve my workload

[@RicksterX-92fs]

@@halheavyduty I see! Thanks for the response. Well, I guess you keep drilling and I keep watching!

[@bobbiac]

That thing is just asking for a 25mm U Drill or one with through coolant and a replaceable tip.

[@halheavyduty]

💯

[@bobbiac]

@@halheavyduty actually I looked it up .. kennemetal makes a through hole pilot drill for that thing. HTS DFT I think? That or modular. Modular would be more fun but definitely expensive.

[@noahkleugh9323]

Love the dawgies

[@halheavyduty]

They’re like chalk & cheese too. Murray wants cuddles Penny wants a nibble They go well together 🤣

[@noahkleugh9323]

@@halheavyduty Dawgs make us whole.

[@halheavyduty]

Agreed

[@beriklelmut1842]

Why don’t you use a higher feed I mean it’s higher then everything I used but other people like Abom79 is using 0.762mm per rev is the machine not capable of those feeds and amazing video nice seeing some milling on this Turing channel to is that holemaker coolant premixed with water in those container or is it just the oil and you really must be paying a lot of money for coolant since so much turns into mist and how much power has the hall lathe that it got stopped by that enormous drill and how much load can the z axis produce I also Imagen you run the kraken at 0.07 mm per rev because of the HSS drill bit

[@halheavyduty]

Great questions as always bro. 1) Pink lemonade goes in straight and it mixes in the tank. We check it periodically with a refractometer, but mostly by colour… which is surprisingly accurate after you get an eye for it. 2) Hal has about 20kw of power, but the major limitation is Z axis thrust. We are doing work way bigger than what the lathe is designed for, so I just make do. I’ll have to check the exact Z axis stats, but it’s good for up to about a 78mm Udrill… then it struggles. Ideally I want to upgrade to a CNC Megabore with about 50kw and unlimited Z axis…. And about a 420 spindle bore for all the big work that’s coming. Hal does the job for the moment, so no run… but I really want a MEGA set up for the super heavy duty stuff.

[@beriklelmut1842]

@@halheavyduty 20kw is quite strong the strongest lathe in our apprentice workshop has 8KW and a mega cnc would be amazing would love to see a even bigger machine hogging away metal because of a great operator

[@charlestosi5199]

When do you not need cooling liquids?

[@halheavyduty]

You can dry machine most things, but tool life is lessened. That said, Udrills and HTS drills absolutely need coolant Lots of it 💯👊

[@charlestosi5199]

@ Thanks. Wishing you continued success. Westerville, Ohio, USA

[@halheavyduty]

Thank you my friend!

[@firstmkb]

Just curious - why did you center drill by hand? Aussie machining is something to behold!

[@halheavyduty]

It’s just easier with the larger billets. Anything over 1000lbs usually gets the hand treatment

[@kurttaz]

That was mint👌👌

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers brother 👊

[@kenmcclure4562]

Great video man you'll make some serios chip's

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers brother 👊👊

[@markjurkovich7814]

That thing is beautiful! That'll be 30K, please. 😉

[@halheavyduty]

Haha. Big stuff sure aint cheap. 100%

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

Or as Kurtis would say, the hole will be 120 Bananas wide and 9,600 Bananas deep... Now THAT hole is just seriously Bananas!!! 😄😁😆😅😂🤣

[@halheavyduty]

🤣🤣🤣👊

[@ColinLennard]

Thanks Matt

[@halheavyduty]

Cheers Colin!

[@billyjewett5006]

Good lookin pup!

[@halheavyduty]

He’s a good boy

[@peterhall6656]

I went for a 2km surf swim and came ho'me to watch a bit of hard core machining. This what you do when you are 72.

[@halheavyduty]

Love it! Thanks for watching mate.

[@onemoredeadman]

Nice diamond sharpening set up, I'd offer to sharpen it for you but I don't think it would fit in my $90 knock off Drill Doctor

[@halheavyduty]

🤣🤣🤣

[@rodrigomolina5475]

👍chulada de trabajo amigos exelente

[@halheavyduty]

It’s a fun place to work. Cheers Rodrigo! 👊