Machine Shop Tours: Vintage Machinery

[@Zerostar369]

Keith Rucker is a national treasure.

[@kurtarmbrust]

Always watch your KZbin videos. It was nice to just take a walk around the shop.

[@russellhayward2359]

I'm from the UK, so he is an international treasure 🙂

[@CSWeldFab]

We need to petition for this.

[@HolzMichel]

no he's not..

[@danielabbey7726]

Thanks for the shop tour, Keith! Vintage Machinery is an incredible resource for those of us with old American-made machines.

[@mftmachining]

Thanks, Keith, for what you´re doin for the community....top.

[@joewhitney4097]

Great tour, fantastic shop. Thanks for sharing.

[@TomokosEnterprize]

I still have my grandpas scraping tools made from old files. I just still love using them. I have had the pleasure to have run a 10 Inch Carloten and a 4 foot Master Service Carlton radial capeable of running 8 inch spade drills all day long. Quality machines all day long for sure eh.

[@weldmachine]

Hey Keith. LOVE the size of your shop, very envious of the amount of working space you have available. Thanks for showing us around, it was good of you to talk about your life and how it all started for you. All the best for the future. Peter.

[@williamgates5401]

Keath I am an old retired machinist and actually miss making parts. I really enjoyed the videos of the Lucus Boring Mill. Two machinist with years of experience taught me how to make a good living. 7:24 Worked at B@S 10 Yrs. Thanks for your videos. Bill

[@dannyl2598]

Thank you Keith. I'm happy for you.

[@scottvolage1752]

Keith is a true craftsmen.

[@sixtyfiveford]

Awesome setup. Thanks for the tour.

[@Wrighmachining]

Thanks for sharing buddy !!

[@bendonaldson1734]

Found your channel this year. Love your videos. Thank You for the education and entertainment.

[@stevef8993]

Keith, thank you for all you do with your videos and for the Vintage Machinery website. It was very helpful when I restored my late 30's Delta Model 890 Bandsaw.

[@richardvoller9204]

I really did enjoy your shop tour, a considerable amount of envy takes place when I see the plethora of tools and machinery but I thank you for all your efforts.

[@larrykent196]

Nice collection of machines, thanks for the tour. Shops are not what they used to be, dirty chips everywhere barrels full of chips for just a few parts, hog everything out of a big blanks or weldments, not today, investment cast or forged its just clean up add holes. Machines today are contained no mess and super precise. Those machines shown required skill to produce precision parts. Pretty darn cool. Cheers!

[@johnkinnane547]

G'day Keith and greetings from Tasmania Australia, I really liked watching you show us around and telling your story on how you got into it, the workshop and machines is something else fantastic but I know that you put a lot into building it and I remember how it was built from ground up. Good to see you again kind regards John

[@acethemechanic8257]

Love old vintage machinery

[@Digger72]

Awesome!! Thanks Keith.

[@richardbarnhart7302]

Very impressive collection and work space !

[@quaggg]

Very nice shop.

[@kurtdietrich5421]

Your videos are always interesting and informative.

[@sammiceli7645]

Keith, you have some awesome machinery and do awesome work. Being more of a wood worker I also love the plywood on your walls, ... Awesome grain

[@eddiekulp1241]

I did grinding from 1972 till I retired in 2012 , from sharpening saws with my dad to tool and cutter grinding for 31 years . Loved and hated it at times but was my life

[@ValMartinIreland]

You have a twin here. Worked in a totally different career pushing paper but assembled a workshop from age 22. It is imaged in my head even when not in the shop.

[@mesleyraves9983]

Wow, what a shop!!

[@fiorevitola880]

Great channel I have been watching it for three years. Always enjoy the content.

[@douglasakerman5218]

Fantastic shop. Much envy from an old retired machinist.

[@stevenblaser6277]

Interesting shop,Enjoyed your tour

[@floridaflywheelersantiquee7578]

Nice set up thanks for sharing

[@stevekibbie6198]

Awesome shop tour! This is the kinda fuel that keeps me collecting and putting my shop together. Could only wish to have a shop like yours. Thanks for sharing Keith!!

[@pawelsawicki633]

I live in New Haven and never heard of the New Haven Mnf company. Learn something new every day.

[@onceuponatime9314]

hello kieth i don't comment very often but all i'll say is.....during the 80's i was given a book, it's name was....the ideal workshop....if anything lives up to that name, it's your shop, i've watched your shop from the start it's been a lot of work time and money by yourself and volunteers but the result speaks for itself. well done sir keep the vids coming always a great watch regards from myself dave p here in the u.k

[@raymuttart5484]

Very nice Keith, Thank you from Canada.

[@robertfournier947]

Great tour from a old Tool and Die man with 40 years in the trade. Also have a small shop. It's in the blood.

[@heardashot]

Wishing you good health to enjoy Sir. That was fascinating. I really enjoyed that. Ireland sends blessings.

[@sampletaster5093]

A similar start I learned and became a machinist while I was in college to become and engineer. My job today is to automate machines. But I still use my vintage machines to make parts.

[@shakejones]

enjoyed watching video, your passion comes through mate! thanks for sharing!

[@leonardoa.espinozasoto9771]

THANK YOY GRATE MACHIN SHOP saludos de santiago de chile

[@troymoon6633]

Beautiful I'm a 30 some years journey machinist, worked out of Houston Texas in the military and aero space industry

[@victoryfirst2878]

Good day to you Keith. I have to say I am jealous of your beautiful shop you have. Not to mention the machines that you have. We are machinist brothers. Hope one day to stop over and see the place in person. God bless you Sir and please stay virus free too. VF

[@catfishgray3696]

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

[@chieft3357]

Thanks for the tour, it was great.

[@TomokosEnterprize]

WOW, Our past are Identical. Turret lathes making plumbing parts. Thousands of them. Started 10 years before you.

[@richardreis5865]

enjoyed the tour, I like your channel finding the content interesting and informative.

[@frankdeegan8974]

I have been hanging around for about 6 years now I guess, and have watched at least 99% of the content of the channel.

[@ronball913]

Pretty kool !!!!

[@dmadere1]

Awesome Keith

[@Thewatson77]

Such an amazing collection of toys! You just got yourself a new subscriber 😁

[@jacquespoirier9071]

something to render ma jaleous !!!, truly a well equipped vintage machine shop.

[@johnquinn3899]

Great tour Keith - thank you !! OK: Elliot wants to play.

[@kcribin5654]

Respect to you my friend 👌🏻

[@zexsrah5836]

That's a bad ass shop damn

[@bigthumperfoot]

What a great tour. Never knew what you had. Can't wait for the 10k lb. goodie to show up!

[@joefreitas9339]

it's most likely a granite table he has eveything else...

[@hitoortega1616]

Excellent shop please keep on

[@thom3124]

Keith, Thanks for the info and the shop tour. I have been watching you for quite sometime now and you are always in my KZbin feed each day. Finally became a subscriber. Thanks for what you do.

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Nice shop tour from Keith...

[@josephvalentjr7677]

There is no Grater Gratification than creating something by hand from a chuck of steel or a pile of wood. Great Videos thanks

[@barrybogart5436]

I grew up in a family of machinists and Mech Engineers. Like you I worked as a machinist Summers during college, at Ingersoll-Rand 50 years ago, where my dad was a pattern maker. I worked on a drilling machine like your Carleton, but mine was larger - a 6 foot swing. It had a swing out stool and builtin light, and you are right, it could do anything. I still have a full set of tools and gauges and also a Unimat lathe/milling machine in my little apartment. Still have that cutting oil in my blood.

[@dsnicker9719]

Keith, you are one of possibly the three best master craftsmen left in America. I am in awe of your knowledge and dedication, and I look forward to the day when I am one percent as capable as you. Doug

[@waltyhall1019]

Good job

[@Rustinox]

Thanks for the tour. Very interesting.

[@brianglade848]

We checked the ASME Machinists Handbook circa 1968....241.1 says. " A machinist in a four corner tool room must have at least one corner to hide" ....interesting

[@joshschneider9766]

In case of a fixture exploding or similar.

[@want2seeall]

Love your pation. Great shop tour.

[@edwardwilson990]

One of the best of the best!

[@codyelrod577]

Our Carlton is a 12' tall with a 6' radial arm. It is absolutely huge

[@jamiebuckley1769]

wow exellent shop love your tools and your knowlage kieth. love your channell and i see you have done very well for yourself shopwise. 42x85 is a really big shop my shop is 17x32 lol.

[@georgea6403]

Wow. Elon recently became my new idol. After seeing this. You the man. I want to Votech machine shop graduated 1979 got my journeyman’s papers. I loved doing it. But honestly. I wasn’t that good at it. Then I became an inspector. Lol. I do believe I was a good inspector tho lol. always thought of having my own machines. I admire everything you’ve done. Great job!!

[@powaybob]

Very nice. I think that ice cream freezer should move up on the to do list!

[@richiepfeiffer9302]

Very cool shop! I hope to have something even close to half of what you have one day!

[@bobjimenez4464]

I like that Index vertical mill, I've seen their lathes but never a mill. Is it absolutely beautiful and 100% operating? There's one other type of mill that prompts saliva dripping....A manual mold maker's mill with a stout rotary table integrated into the mill just above the quill. Complex face grooves become one simple setup. I've only seen two of them at Hughes Radar Systems a Long time ago.

[@thebeaver6596]

Yay love this !

[@gristlepounder]

Love the shop!

[@lauriepocock3066]

Interesting. First, I served an apprenticeship as a tool-maker back in the 1960's where I specialised in surface and cylindrical grinding; and second I read a book sold by the Science Museum in London on the history of machine tools, and in there was a chapter on grinding discussing how the US embraced the process, and how we in the UK were reluctant to us it because it was of its contaminating effect.

[@blacksmithbrazil8838]

very good my friend.

[@MichaelLloyd]

A look into your ag scientist job would be real interesting too. Looking at the big gears under the planer makes me wonder if they are going to sling oil and make a mess of your concrete.

[@nikolaiownz]

What a beutiful shop

[@skinny6523]

First I watched Adam's, now Keith's, now I'm going poke around in your video library to see what else I can find......lol

[@smo3241]

It is interesting how were made spindles and other rotary parts of the first machine tools in the world?

[@mabmachine]

Wait Keith has a Oliver 510 Drill Pointer he didn't tell us about 😁

[@johnleake708]

Thanks for sharing... Your shop is great.... I'll "make do with mine" which is both a vehicle shop and wood shop across the lane from our home, including an apartment (mandated by the city).

[@thebeaver6596]

Also I’m going through the same thing right now. I’m a finance manager right now and getting paid well, but I have this “machinist bug” your talking about. And I really don’t know what to do because I know I’m not good enough to have my own shop, and I don’t have enough time to get as good as I want to be because of the hours I work. Sorry just venting have a good one.

[@clypeum5063]

it can always be a hobby ;) start small and build your shop up piece by piece! with time knowledge will accumilate!

[@CleaveMountaineering]

Just get a vise, hacksaw, cold chisels, files, machinist squares, micrometer. One of the old exercises for an apprentice was to precisely file a cube (or pick your other rectangular dimensions). See how close you can get it. Tip 1 - flex the file to a convex surface on the work. Tip 2 - sharpen the front of the file and you can scrape away high spots in the middle of the workpiece.

[@thebeaver6596]

CleaveMountaineering oh man ! I’m on it! Starting that right now! See this is why I love this KZbin machinist community people like you! Just knowing little things like that is so cool and to actually do something that an apprentice would do is super cool to me. I’ve been ordering little machinist lots off eBay so I have all the things you recommended. I’ll get to filing.! Thank you sir. Any other things you can throw my way I’m open !

[@katelights]

Branch Manager working hard at the end there.

[@skunked42]

What do you use to fight rust in cabinets and drawers?

[@dtm8073]

What voltage and phases are running in your shop? I'm limited to 240 volts and single phase. Hard to find equipment, everything seems to be 575 volts, 3 phase. I'll need transformers and phase converter!

[@ValMartinIreland]

Could you explain the difference between a universal milling machine an ordinary one.

[@johnwasham7113]

So what can you tell me about a old tree tool and die mill with power feeds do you have information on how to make work thanks john washam

[@brbrabush153]

doin the good work

[@ZenFuKid]

He must be a very happy man.

[@fredboat]

Enjoyed the story and video. I have been making chips since the early 80s myself. Question, Does Goldy laying behind you get Chips in His paws? I had to keep my pup out of my shop with metal shavings all over the place. Later from Texas.

[@plcprogrammingofgearmachin4654]

I can retrofit gear machineries ( hobbing machine, shaving, shaper, bevel gear generator etc) with new PLC, new control panel wiring with PLC & HMI PROGRAMMING

[@geckoproductions4128]

Keith: vaguely similar story here. UT Austin grad, retired, then got elected Judge. My shop is my therapy. Along the way I have acquired a Holbrock C10 high precision toolroom lathe that started out in life at Kelly AFB in 1951. I will be happy to give, absolutely free, this lathe to you or anyone else who can come and get it. The kicker is it weighs 4300 pounds! Works ok, but the electrics are jury rigged. Needs a good home....any takers?

[@Dwarfracer88]

A judge with a "jury rigged" lathe. How apropos.

[@Dwarfracer88]

< taker

[@oldschool1993]

@@Dwarfracer88 Just coincidental- the term "jury rigged" has nothing to do with juries in a courtroom. Jury is an old English word meaning " makeshift" and jury rigging was a term used on sailboats when masts and sails were hastily repaired.

[@Dwarfracer88]

@@oldschool1993 I always thought it was from the end of WWII, when Allied soldiers found hastily repaired German equipment. They would say "Look at this 'Gerry' rigged (insert piece of equipment here)." Gerry being the slang term for German.

[@oldschool1993]

@@Dwarfracer88 No, that term was " Gerry built" and like a lot of slang sayings they get mixed up and misused in common language. No doubt you have heard people refer to a signature as "your John Henry" when the the correct term is "your John Hancock".

[@kasotty]

Can someone provide more info on wells mill? Thank you

[@woodintheblood4104]

I'm curious, would you ever consider replacing straight blades on one of your vintage woodworking machines with a helical head carbide cutterhead???

[@johanea]

No, actually never considerate that option, but I will.

[@guyloughridge4628]

Keith, where did you purchase the gantry crane?

[@JeromeCooley-us8zl]

Like myself old school. Been machinist/die maker since 78. Young generation don't have a clue.

[@luigitorchia8866]

Can you make a vedeo on bench grinders. Thank you.

[@Thewaldo12345]

Not sure how much bigger than the K&T it might be but I’ve got a Cincinnati no 3 horizontal mill for sale.

[@rgengineering]

I feel exactly the same.....

[@steveskouson9620]

Keith never did the "Carlton Dance" after that radial drill-press was finished. steve

[@franknalej6492]

vintage but the best