Monday Night Meatloaf 117

[@johnirwin1837]

The bailout sw. is used by the pilot to turn on red lights at the other crew members positions to signal them to get out now. Flip it up to actuate it. Down is a safety off. It is used on the larger aircraft such as a B- 52 or any multi position aircraft. Just so you know I am a retired USAF Crew Chief type mechanic.

[@DennisDijkman]

Ja mmh.

[@TheMetalButcher]

Lockbox was actually disappointing. I wanted to see what that book had. Man, I must be getting old.

[@MrPhil1969]

The air tool is a tire buffer used to rough up the inside surface of the tire to apply a patch. The reason for the Jacobs chuck is for easy swap out of the buffing head.

[@georgewocosky]

Tom, I think you might be surprised with the last lapping plates you showed . . . Seriously ! Tin, or babbit mix can cut some very hard materials. Tin is the premier material for lapping and polishing stones as hard as Sapphire ! ! ! * When you said it might be good for lapping copper, I was a bit shocked . The right combination of lap material & lapping compound / polishing compound is the ticket. Considering that plexi-glass as a lap, with cerium oxide as a polishing compound will polish quartz (remarkably); I think you're underestimating the value of soft laps having incredible potential for cutting hard material ! Congratulations on your tool finds :D ! Thanks for sharing the meatloaf !

[@bcbloc02]

Tasty meatloaf! I think you might be over detailing the scraping operation though. I struggled with the same thing, you think its a super precise process but it is really more of an averaging out. As machinists we focus on the material we remove as that is what is important for what we have left. In scraping it is a mix of what we remove and what we leave that makes the finished result. I find it a different mindset for me.

[@oxtoolco]

Hi Brian. I figured if I could do the 40+ points doing 25PPI would be falling off a log easy. There are other uses for scraping besides sliding machine ways. Cheers. Tom

[@somebodyelse6673]

Sounds like a video subject. I bet most of us hobby machinists only picture scraping for those sliding ways, and maybe reference surfaces. I promise I would watch a video on other applications!

[@ericrichards5862]

Hi Tom, The bailout switch would be a switch to a signal lite let the paratroopers know that they were over the drop zone. I've seen similar switches in the DC-3s that I used to work on.

[@franklopes100]

Bailout Switch: st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2014/11/Hisso-special-roadster-bailout-switch.jpg

[@killtune]

Wow, nice score on the Skyhook, I have one that I thought I got a good deal on at $300, $30 is a screaming deal. They are great on the lathe and mill.

[@dsfs17987]

speaking of those aluminum laps, got me thinking, if one takes a clean flat piece of Al like that one, charge it with particular diamond grit, and then goes and anodizes it, then the anodizing will grow "out" of the surface just as much as it grows "in", basically enveloping and incorporating the grit into the anodizing layer, as the diamond wears, the grit is harder than anodizing, it will abrade it and expose new grit, that might be the mechanism behind those expensive laps and since I own and operate a small anodizing line, I just might go ahead and try making one of those, see what comes of it... granted mine will be regular anodizing, not hard, still, good idea for a project

[@deltamachine2059]

I've got a nice alpax gasket cutter. Solid bronze cutter body. It was destined for the scrap pile so I saved it. Unfortunately all the attachment s made it to the trash before I could get to them. Maybe you are interested in it tom. I am local and would let you have it if you want. I met you once before at the studio open house. Let me know

[@Latex1945]

Than Snap-on wrench is from 1959

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

Mrs. Ox sniffing out the Snap On stuff.

[@natesteiner5460]

Copper hammers such as that were supplied with many British sports cars to remove wire wheels. Thor was a common brand.

[@machiningbasics1729]

Hammer might be a Thor . Made in Birmingham England. And still to this day!! Nothing like British tool. Great meatloaf we had a lil vice identical to your yellow one at tech sadly it had been butchered

[@Mr_Feyshade]

...and Thomas Edison's last roll of electrical tape. Good haul overall.

[@TheZoraccer]

Hi Tom! Great video, as always! Maybe you'll find this useful during scraping : in our lab, for the most precise job (>50 dots\inch) we recently tested fluorescent dye as spotting dye. Scraping is done in a dark room under a UV light. Can't call it comfortable for worker or fast method, but contrast and readability of the slightest spots is excellent.

[@elrayox8932]

Bailout switch is very useful. I hit it when I left my corporate job.

[@PaulSteMarie]

Nit, but Prussian Blue is a material: ferric ferrocyanide. It forms an extremely fine colloidal precipitate when it's made, and then filtered off and used as a pigment in inks and paints.

[@chrisj4570g]

Ox Slide Pecker. Or Liptons Pecker Tool. LPT for short.

[@cathystroud8233]

The Pragmatic Redn..!eck .

[@richie4540]

Great video, I laughed when you pulled out the separate metric ruler for us "special folks"

[@johnroberts4789]

Tom, you went back to my favorite meatloaf recipe with this one!

[@DoRC]

Babe the Blue Ox Pecker

[@AmateurRedneckWorkshop]

Thanks for the tasty meatloaf.

[@wktodd]

if the switch is original, then I'd guess it's for letting the crew (bomber?) know that it's time to leave their post - via the windows!

[@bkupiec]

What is the brand of tweezers you are using at @28:26 ?

[@1010tesla]

I would like to know too. If you figure it out please come back and leave a comment.

[@bkupiec]

They almost look custom made, like a punch was split in half and a springy thing joined to the end.

[@1010tesla]

Who makes those tweezers with the knurled handle? I would like to get a set.

[@sp1nrx]

The quality level of Craigslist listings in NorCal is far superior to SoCal Craiglist listings.

[@PeopleAlreadyDidThis]

The bailout switch is essentially identical to some WWII USAAF examples that followed my dad home after the war, including the luminescent tip on the bat. He didn’t get the cool guards, though.

[@RRINTHESHOP]

Nice tool finds. Very nice of you to find a Deckel for me. Love you new scraping tool, nice way to reduce the tunnel carpel pressure. Thanks for sharing your finds.

[@somebodyelse6673]

Oh god yes! I can't grip tools for hours without my hands cramping up into claws. I'll definately be working out some slide-tapping scrapers.

[@jim...792]

It has to be The Oxpecker doesn't it, after the birds that pick ticks and flies of the backs of Zebras and the like.

[@sblack48]

Jim... I second Ox Pecker 😬

[@twwtb]

I think you explained this once. Scale is used for drawing since you are drawing to scale. Ruler is used for measuring physical objects.

[@jimleonardson4268]

Sometimes I listen to the theme music a 1.5 times speed. It feels nice and peppy, more optimistic. Try it out see how you like it. The regular speed feels a little blue to me.

[@SeanRagan]

I don't experience the same emotional associations you describe, but I did listen to the theme music at time-and-a-half and I also think I like it a bit better. Happy accidents are where good ideas come from, right? ;)

[@ROBRENZ]

Great Meatloaf Tom, love the slide hammer pinpoint scraper! ATB, Robin

[@chrispac6264]

Tip for you about that bigger scraper with the large head you made. Put that large head just in from your shoulder and below your collarbone and you can actually get your body behind it. That leaves two hands to control the tool while you lean into it with your shoulder. Much less tiring and much more productive

[@philgarbarini9645]

Try TESA #4970 2 faced tape. I have found it to work great. Thanks for the great video.

[@tom7601]

Prussian Blue made me think of this: Some steam locomotives had a wrap on the boiler that was kind of a black/green color. It was a chemical process that was developed in Russia. It was called Russia Iron. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_iron

[@nutsmcflurry3737]

Stroking with the New OxTool Pecker....... That or the OxTool Rorschach Blot Scraper.

[@tylerhensley2312]

I would love for my wife to buy me good tools at great prices!!

[@AustrianAnarchy]

Scraper tool name: Cordless high-tech precision kinetic flatness implement.

[@BuildSomthingCool]

I like your small hammer scraper. I wish I would have thought it. :-)

[@deltamachine2059]

Nice! Been missing these

[@Th3_ENGINE3R]

I want your tweezers Tom. LOL

[@jrkorman]

I wonder if the gentleman didn't work for Naval Public Works at Alameda. My dad was a machinist (apprentice in the early 60s) at the Norfolk Public Works Center, Norfolk NOB,NAS. They did work all over the base.

[@TraditionalToolworks]

@oxtoolco You can get imported collets for the SO on ebay uk, search for Alexander collets, about $15/ea. If you need to fill any sizes that might be a way to go if you don't make your own from scratch. Deckel tooling and machines are second to none...nice stuff...I saw that on craigslist...glad it went to a worthy home....😀But seriously Mr. Gizzard, leave some of the good tools for the rest of us! LOL (j/k, I enjoy watching your tool buying, you shop for quality stuff 😀)

[@MyRadDesign]

I believe the AN number indicates Army Navy as in this spec: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Electronics_Type_Designation_System

[@craigr3941]

"bailout" switch, it's body is classified as naval arming and it's for emergency crew and passenger warning to GTFO of the aircraft. The really fun or critical switches had holes for copper .030 lockwire to hold the red cover down to prevent accidental actuation.

[@martineastburn3679]

When you need to escape - the red cover guides the eye. When you look at the switch head - see the green ? Put into sunlight and look at it in darkness. Radium spot to glow at night. I have a number of them but not with that cover. Mine from B36 and B47 and B52(early). Pipe flange gasket cutter - all Round. I suppose some are donuts with holes and are small... Hoist is way cool - take a chuck out - chuck an eye in the jaws -and extract - wing to rolling table or a hanger. Nice indeed.

[@MillerFourFingers]

I know this is off track but, I'll ask anyway. Did you ever finish the Etching Press? I binge watched them a year ago and KZbin keeps telling me to watch them again. They're so good that I do...

[@mudnducs]

Problem: I was given an intact part that a guy want to duplicate. I was given no tolerances only that it needs to be “close tolerance”…so I’m trying ( and generally not getting there) to get to the nearest mil. How do you handle a project when you have no drawings or dimensions and the owner has given no tolerances?Thank you for all you do!!

[@colemanadamson5943]

Just before 10:00 he mentions using Kroil. Surprised he'd be using over-priced over-hyped products. Gave the video a thumbs up for the heirloom micrometer. Really appreciate such tools. I have a hammer head over 2 lbs that was forged by my Great, Great, Grandfather on my father's side. I used it every day for the 12 years I was in the shop. The handle itself has been changed many times but the one on it now is still a handle my father attached. Now my father has passed but the hammer is still with me (despite my younger brother...nuff said) and I still use it on occasion.

[@zylacone3219]

Wow. Good stuff! I am wondering how gage blocks stick together. I saw a YT video where a guy wrung a pair together and a second after he let go of one of them there was a loud snap and they flew apart a couple inches. So I was wondering if they could be pushed together, and if they can how much pressure it takes. You and Davey Jones (another YTer) might be able to come up with a strain gage to measure the pressure. This mission, if you choose to accept it, Tom, could change the world. Well, it might at least be interesting anyway. Zy.

[@keliweisgerber3896]

I bought instructions from stodoys and I builded it very very cheap.

[@Stephen1455]

Worked on Deckle mills and then Deckle/Maho CNC mill very solid machines!!!!

[@thatguythatdoesstuff7448]

Bob Ross was a big user of Prussian Blue.

[@Mishn0]

The "Bailout" switch was probably to tell crewmembers to get outta the airplane. It probably lit a light or lights somewhere else than the pilot's cockpit. Never mind, someone already answered it. I worked on Phantoms and they had something like this to tell the backseater it was time to leave.

[@cavemaneca]

If I'd been drinking something when you said how much you paid for that skyhook, I'd have spit it out. I'm not one to usually audibly exclaim but that price was just ridiculously low.

[@ronalddavis]

I have cut literally thousands of gaskets in the shipyard with gasket cutters. We had the allpax brand.

[@knas5289]

That might be an European vise, but it is by no means a typical European style vise, just to be clear. I am from Europe and have never seen a vise like that before.

[@yanwo2359]

How about using a solenoid to drive the weight on the Ox-Pecker?

[@mattmanyam]

Lil late to the tool-naming party, but didn't you pretty much name it "Binky" in the video? 😁

[@NevynsLab]

A bit late to the party but I reckon the 'Ox slide pointer' is suitably confusing for anyone who doesn't know anything about scraping

[@casual257]

i could be wrong but that air die grinder, could be a tire tool, i seen some like that, for grinding the rubber on the inside to smooth it out for a patch, they would put a rubber hose on the exhaust port, to keep rubber dust from collecting inside the tire

[@wrstew1272]

Used to use yellow artist paint for setting gears in helicopter transmissions and tail rotor gear boxes. Was easier to read than the blue and washed off easily.

[@tesladrummer]

"Pick-Ox"

[@ajtrvll]

Financial bailout switch?

[@davidwatson4649]

i once watched a video on a pneumatic engraver i wonder if something like it could be used for scraping

[@jonanderson5137]

Some of the parts at my job use Nitto... sticks like nothing else.

[@wileecoyoti]

Huh, I have lots of litho ink around (I'm another printmaker, though haven't had a press for a while). I might have to try that out next time I try scraping

[@ALAPINO]

That toggle is out of drag car (quite possibly re-purposed as it a common part in aircraft panelling). Usually sits next to the parachute deployment toggle. We're talking 50s and 60s era stuff and later. Aircraft tend to have hard/soft pulls and levers for deployment of emergency ejection/canopy off initiation. Usually in yellow and black stripes, or, rarely, red.

[@tristanpatterson3843]

Over here we have a ruler and then we also have a scale ruler for scaling off plans. What do you call the ruler for scaling off architectural plans?

[@FreemanPascal]

A partner who is on the outlook for tools for you, how she's a keeper.

[@akfarmboy49]

your Snap On wrench was made in "1959"

[@jonathanjensen4879]

i have almost the same fake book but mine says Aluminum Composites

[@akfarmboy49]

your Snap On wrench was made in 1959 from date codes I saw on the wrench

[@hammer1212]

I have a switch that says ..BATTLE OVERIDE

[@SteveSummers]

I've see micrometers that have been calibrated with pliers like that. Just like the guy who taps his compound around with a steel hammer. 😢. Wish I could be there to snatch the hammer out of the guys hand.

[@robmckennie4203]

Someone should tap them around with a steel hammer and see how they like it

[@sp1nrx]

Never seen it but I heard that micrometers can be used as c-clamps when needed.....

[@robmckennie4203]

Great for welding precision fit-ups

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

Amen.

[@edwardhugus2772]

sp1nrx C-CLAMPS?? damn...now my eyes can never UNread that statement. :(

[@carabela125]

the bailout switch goes in the holding cell at the police station

[@twwtb]

Oh Look, a hammer! Imagine my surprise.

[@Robonthemoor]

Did you notice the indent in the container for the centre hole of the tape rested inside. Sweet.

[@mrhp434]

Die grinder is for patching tires

[@JWH3]

Got some pretty bad audio lag in this vid.

[@bulletproofpepper2]

Nice finds and great kit. Thank for sharing

[@nevetslleksah]

What is the name of the company that makes the chain hoist?

[@dtec30]

OPP the Oxtool Precision Pecker

[@akfarmboy49]

it's good to go back and re-watch the old videos

[@catherineransom6880]

Help! I can’t find you on patreon.

[@1jtolvey]

GREAT MEATLOAF ---- YUM , YUM !!!

[@Copozeras]

What happened to the etching press project?

[@horkinyorkin]

that little pin point scraper is great.

[@rcleveacp]

How about the Oxpoint?

[@krazziee2000]

thanks for the video,,

[@joeduda8507]

Ox-pecker would work

[@James-fs4rn]

👍thanks for another one.

[@artt3165]

Tool naming suggestion and slogan. The OxTools Pecker...... the only tool to use when you need to get into a tight spot! LOL ..... just couldn't resist that one ....cheers.

[@mg-shop6996]

wow! Seriously good video. You made some innovative steps for scrapping that should be noted by us wanna-bes. A new, mess-controlling spotting dye, a new tool for "pecking" fine points and FLEXIBLE scrapers. Mess and repetitive motion injury are not small things and I applaud and thank you for bringing some these ideas out. Solution, techniques and doing are what bring me back thirsting for more. Thank you Mr. Wizard!

[@tobarapprentice6618]

Ox Pecker........ lol

[@msquared6324]

"Not very heavy but awkward to carry arround"....I had a girlfriend like that once. Yet another serving of tasty meaty loafs. Please sir....can I have some more?

[@krap101]

Ejection seat?

[@Bowtie41]

I like the Ox-Pecker.I've been thinking on making one based on an automatic center punch,maybe even with a trigger pull......

[@bobgodburn5874]

The name for your tool is obvious: the Lipton PickOx. We used to make the same type if slide/hammer unit for lapping split-ground stripper inserts in diework. That tool-your PickOx-will be popular, I assure you. Nice going Tom.

[@juliejones8785]

The hammer scraper makes so much sense. A couple thoughts: given that you don't need to push into it maybe it doesn't need to be so long. And then I would try to use it tapping toward myself to make it even easier to see fine detail of what I was working on. (My perspective from working lately under a magnifying ring light probably.)