SNS 370: Several Small Machining Jobs

This week's Saturday Night Special includes a few small machining jobs that I worked on over a couple weeks. These quick jobs make up fun content to share in an SNS episode.
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[@chrisnorth3458]

One of the best SNS episodes I've watched in a long time

[@ScottPankhurst]

one of the few there has been for a long time.

[@ehkerr]

You believe cutting a key slot is an exceptional episode? How old are you? And a further insult is the thumbs up rating.

[@garycarpenter9948]

9:01

[@nhzxboi]

Hand grinding that drill bit brings back memories...multi-person machine shop where no one gave a crap about leaving common tools in good shape. I worked in one of those. Get a bit, the thing is burned or bent, Wanna grind it? The stone is just a wobbly mess. The setup time when working with careless colleagues is crazy. It must be nice to be in control.

[@Punnoosia]

I feel this in my soul. I am the setup person of a large industrial tapping department. I love machining (I'm watching machining on KZbin off the clock on a Sunday) and take enormous pride in it, but the inexperienced and carelessness of other people is killing me. I have been there 3 years but haven't learned how to deal with it. The jobs I work on alone and my continuous training are the only things that make me feel better.

[@CurtisGurley]

Many of us have watched since day one and have enjoyed watching this channel grow, I am so very happy to see the new shop taking place. I'm certain your Dad and Grandad would be proud. Its amazing what we can achieve with the right people in our lives.

[@hobbyengineer1617]

This is why I originally subscribed. More please.

[@J.C...]

Try Cutting Edge Engineering. Kurtis is a full service shop serving the mining industry in Australia so he's always got awesome stuff going on. Fixing parts on HUGE excavators and graders and all sorts of stuff. Sooo much better than Adam, imo. And he doesn't talk for 80% of the vid like Adam. It's mostly machine work and him, actually making and repairing stuff like making a new piston and cylinder for a HUGE, 1 ton hydraulic cylinder. Go watch. You'll see.

[@sky173]

Good on the young gentleman who wants to learn about mechanical things. Once he's got the equipment, keyway cutting is a great beginner project.

[@tiredoldmechanic1791]

Maybe an apprentice?

[@Histandard2011]

At least for this video the "Old Adam" is back doing things that made him my go to channel for years. Glad to see some real machine work for a change.

[@J.C...]

Go watch Cutting Edge Engineering Australia. Kurtis is always doing something cool in his full service shop. After watching Kurtis, I can't watch Adam anymore. He bs's along too much and takes wayyyy too long to get things going. Like 60% talk, 40% machining. Kurtis is 90% machining and 10% talking.

[@clutch5sp989]

Some YT people get a big head & think everyone is soo into them like they are some sort of TV star. Who cares where they went for vacation or what they had for supper last night. Look at ME and all my fancy shtuff while they run their mouth the entire time giving us nothing. Not what brought us here in the first place.

[@Darkplasm919]

​@@clutch5sp989 lol damn bro tell em how you really feel

[@CraigLYoung]

I'm glad to see you doing the "Little Jobs." I know from experience it's hard to get job shops to take them on, but it helps a lot of people who need these jobs done.

[@PhilsProjects]

A good old fashioned SNS, thanks Adam

[@RobertGracie]

The perfect thing for my evening, an SNS video to chill and relax to!

[@johnlocke9609]

Never thought of that sentence, but that's the actual sentiment. Also goes to other wonderful channels like this one. Right now I'm here with my morning coffee relaxing!

[@paulcooper2897]

I really enjoy the little one off jobs! So much to learn from each setup and "method of attack" in getting it done. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@65BAJA]

1:30 Best part of the day. Walking in. Flipping that switch. This is all mine. I am my own boss. Look at all my toys!

[@eweol127]

Ich frag mich, wie er damit Geld macht.

[@firesurfer]

@FranzFuX Es ist alles KZbin-Geld.

[@MaestroPrep]

To see your shop go from empty shell to what it has become today... has truly been amazing! LOVE the POV intro Adam!! It was awesome!

[@walterplummer3808]

It was good to see the K&T in action again. Thanks

[@CameronMcCreary]

That is a piece of cake job. I use a depth micrometer with a rounded measuring end. I have a set I made to handle all radii for keyseat cuts. I also measure internal grooves with a depth micrometer.

[@Will45ACP]

Good man for taking on these little jobs, a shop willing to do so is essential for folks and a big part of the local community

[@nickjames2370]

Pig mat under the coffee machine - that is a real engineering shop!

[@joopterwijn]

You could have invited the kid, to visit and show how it is done!

[@stevebumstead9840]

That drill you ground cuts beautifully on both cutting edges. Nice.

[@ronsimpson143]

I think it is awesome that you encouraged him to learn more. Too often, the kids (I am 51) graduating high school have no desire to learn skilled trades. Like it is beneath them or something.

[@scottgm321]

My dad was a surgeon and sent me to private white collar schools only to realize that I like working on motors and using tools.

[@doubledarefan]

@@scottgm321 My Dad wanted me to go to football college and join the Green Bay Packers. I just want to build things out of wood, metal, and concrete.

[@roadshowautosports]

40:17 I love the “watchmaker’s” vise! So tiny and delicate!

[@profpep]

Thank you Adam. I've been an absentee for a while, so coming back to a classic SNS, and seeing just how far you have come with the new shop, was really enjoyable and inspring.

[@Rickster1100]

Thats the kind of videos that got me to subscribe years ago. For some reason the manual machine work is cathartic to watch especially on SNS. Yours is probably my favorite utube to watch.

[@peckerwood780]

The knowledge you give freely is priceless. I'm glad to see you are benefiting from it.

[@russelljohnson6243]

You are a really good teacher, Adam. Thank you for your time and effort, I greatly appreeciate you!

[@Rich1ab]

Geez Adam what a gorgeous shop! Did you imagine when you were playing football in high school and this is what you’ve achieved1 well done!

[@Poksutin]

finally more machining and not just new tools :)

[@davidneilson3508]

Agreed 🌴👍👍😎🌴

[@thomascaldwell184]

It's very cool watching a master machinist solve unique problems and trot out obscure methods, tools and knowledge. Great stuff.

[@MikeBaxterABC]

12:43 :) I agree .. keep Dad's new old stock tooling safe for next time!! :) ... Great to see his stuff being used, always rings a bell when Adam mentions it! :)

[@GK-ye3fr]

Great video! Really enjoyed this style format of several different jobs.

[@VideoUser47316]

Thanks for sharing, it's impressive how many different tools and equipment are needed for a "simple job".

[@thisolesignguy2733]

That's a neat little trick with those brass spacers! I fight those burrs all the time and use a step bit with a pair of vise grips. Man, that's gonna save me a ton of time!!! Thanks Adam, I think you just saved me at least a half hour of work when building a sign cabinet. I can't believe I didn't think of that before!

[@jankjensen222]

That was a very nice intro/shop tour. I really enjoyed it. Nice video to wake up to sunday morning in Denmark.. with a good cup of coffee :-) All the best!

[@kevinknight470]

Good video, thanx Adam. Glad to hear you helped the young man with his project and encouraged Him to look into a possible career. 😃

[@nickskulark6318]

The shop has come together so wonderfully 🎉

[@robertfountain4856]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall watching them trying to install those new seals. Perhaps that is why they were using O rings. Nice Machining!

[@BaseballNut719]

It is really amazing how the shop has come together. The intro here really was great with your walkthrough. It is incredible the progress you have made. You should be very proud!

[@leebatt7964]

Its the little things I see a good machinist do that seem so obvious after I see them do it but I doubt I ever would have thought of on my own that really fascinate me. Shearing the burrs off those brass washers in a vise for instance, so simple and affective but nothing I had ever seen before and it probably never would have occurred to me to do. I know thats something I wiil remember and use a lot in the future. Thanks Adam! As a 57 year old budding home machinist and fabricator these videos are gold to me.

[@neiloconnell2120]

If I went back 46 years to when I was 18 yrs old I cannot imagine a better person to be apprenticed to. It is a pleasure to watch a master craftman at work. I never did enter engineering but instead became an Analytical Chemist and subsequently a Project, Programme and Portfolio Manager. A shame really as the last ten years of my YouTubing viewing has all been about engineering or being a mechanic with very little chemistry. I doff my hat to you Sir :)

[@Eric-rz2xb]

So much more interesting than CNC. Been missing the good old days. Thanks.

[@jamesbruley2843]

Good to see the old K&T still chugging along. Great video.

[@djamelhamdia134]

The Monarch lathe and the K&T mill are always my favorite.

[@tomoakhill8825]

Thank you Adam. For FORTY years I have had trouble with the pulley on the blade shaft of my table saw. It keeps coming off, and destroying the Woodruff key. My problem has been that the "correct" size does NOT fit, and I have been hand filing them to "fit". How was I to know, prior to the World Wide Web, that a Woodruff key is a tight press-fit? Thanks to this video, I now know how to fix this once and for all. I will replace the key currently in the shaft with a new one, by "press fitting" it into the keyway. I am so excited to finally realize what has been the cause of an almost annual failure. In 1980, when I started my own woodworking shop, there was no access to information about machinery. This was "industrial trade" information, and at that time you would have to go to "trade school" to learn it. In high school I was in the "academic track" bound for college. I bought my woodworking tools with the money I earned as a research chemist right out of college. As I grew up, i was taught woodworking by my grandfather, who learned it from his grandfather who was a Master Furniture maker, ca. 1850. Thus, much like Adam. I learned woodworking skills passed down to me from my great-great-grandfather. But of course that man knew nothing at all about power machinery. He worked in southeastern Iowa, on what was the far western frontier, in Mount Pleasant.

[@audimaster5000]

That’s awesome. The assimilation of knowledge is so empowering! It’s amazing how much access we have these days to such knowledge.

[@phillipjones3342]

Glad to see all them tools go to work finally

[@Unrivaledanime]

This is why you are the man all the details you say in your videos really appreciate it

[@MickHealey]

I loved that episode Adam. Wall to wall machine shop stuff. Thank you.

[@eumoria]

It's cool but a little disheartening that you were so surprised that a young guy was so interested in machine work and mechanical engineering. Props to you for recommending local education that can lead him into a career that he's genuinely interested in. I work in a totally different field but it's guys like you who showed me the ropes, how to be the FNG, and ultimately gave me the experience to do what I love also. You're a good man, Adam.

[@jamiemorgan4146]

Adam... Thanks for helping out the young guy. Many times when I was a kid, I’d walk into a shop for something I needed and lucky for me. The people in the shops never turned my little projects away. In fact, they sort of took me under their wing and showed me more that I came for... Their help and want to teach, made me feel confident and made me bite off much more.

[@BobOBob]

I have very much enjoyed traveling down other paths with you, but this is what I joined for.

[@rodneywroten2994]

I really enjoy watching you work. You can tell of your history you have experience and knowage

[@billmckillip1561]

I took a break from cleaning my shop to watch this video. Very relaxing to someone else work. Excellent video.

[@anthonyfreeman5858]

Adam, You have really filled up your shop. A place for everything & everything in its place. Awesome job.

[@willjosephson]

Love seeing the ol' Milwaukee mill get some action. That's just a big beautiful machine.

[@gusviera3905]

Hey, Adam. Thanks for the "walk-in walk-through" of the new shop. I have to say that is one awesome machine shop. Enjoy. See you on the next one.

[@nuxboxen]

Man that vice trick to clean up those brass washers was exactly what I needed today. Thanks for sharing, perfect timing

[@saberwork]

A friend suggested your channel and this was the first episode I've watched. It won't be the last. Well done!

[@mrstan3997]

Hi Adam, nice ensemble of a bunch of small jobs, arc gouging was cool too. Hope you're having a great weekend. Thanks for sharing. Take care

[@MartsGarage]

Thanks Adam. Good to see some old fashioned machine work being done. I enjoyed dropping by the old shop too! Mart in England.

[@uwerothe6017]

I like so much the workmanship you show us

[@Lordstarknight]

When I was 18, I definitely would have ground the key slot out with a die grinder or dremel or something free hand. Smart guy for going straight to a professional! Haha. Still can't get myself to do that 25 years later.

[@bryanlatimer-davies1222]

Me too posts are boring, but me too !

[@chennemeyer]

Love the multiple quick projects format, attention span waivers for longer ones to be honest

[@gerrylundergaard60]

Some helpful advice. Set the lash on the X axis so it does not climb the part. Also the machine has axis locks for a reason. Use them. Good to know you’re finally working off of the Machinery Handbook. It will be your friend. Keep up the good work!

[@patrickcolahan7499]

Nice to see you showing some machining projects again. Thanks for sharing.

[@stuartschaffner9744]

I've always liked watching you do hydraulic work. In some ways it's just machining, but I can see that a lot of extra experience comes in mighty handy.

[@PaulSteMarie]

It's simply amazing what you've built in that shop! I am quite envious of your success with this business.

[@z06doc86]

The new shop is so damned impressive!

[@jacquewarnars8623]

It's not hard to fall in love with that Precision Matthews Lathe.

[@timothypirnat3754]

Excellent content Adam. Very cool to see you do a variety of jobs.

[@matspatpc]

The "trick" to remove the burr from parting off thin parts, shown around 43m 50s is one I learned in another Abom79 video. Very handy.

[@Moe_69]

He has his priorities correct’ coffee first! And that shop is high and tight! Excellent!

[@cellphone208]

Been waiting for SNS to be like this again, Great Job!!

[@rexmyers991]

EXCELLENT video! This is the type of video that helps me improve and learn. Thanks, Adam.

[@keithgraham6947]

Great job on the seal installation and the shop is so modern all set for the future

[@Lordstarknight]

The new shop does look super nice, bet you are some proud. The camera shots look like something I would have done if I was proud of many years of hard work and dedication.

[@GreenGander75]

Outstanding!! Best SNS in some time. Thanks!

[@glennbarker222]

Always good to see machining in action. Happy days. Nice work too.

[@anthonymarino4260]

WORKING WITH DADS TOOLING. PRICELESS

[@jonathanzellner906]

The work at the old shop at your house is always the best in my opinion. But it’s good to see you growing too!

[@vitesseguy]

What a nice variety of jobs. Each one well explained and executed. Thanks!

[@Jaws677]

This is what we are here for , thank you

[@mfc4591]

Thanks Adam, really interesting. Have a great Sunday

[@satguy]

❤ Proof of Life of the old shop, outstanding.

[@terryjennings2356]

Use a rubber band to hold your coolant nozzle against the back of your boring bars. Just loop it over the cooland line and hook the other end over a screw on the tool holder.

[@inquisitive980]

Used to be easy to find machine shops. Not the case any more. I used to be in the injection molding business. We had our own mold shop. As the years went on we could not keep up with the implores, and our mold shop only did repairs and modifications. Now being removed from that setting I really miss not having the equipment at my personal disposal. Not easy to find anyone to do even the simplest projects. Keep on doing what you have always done!

[@jeffflanagan2814]

Gotta be awesome walking into that shop knowing it's all yours!

[@larryrivers1471]

It's not Saturday without SNS. Yes. !

[@redrover1565]

Your shop sure looked a lot bigger before tools! Now it looks like second-home. Very nice. And, thank you for helping the young guy. When I was in high school, the clutch linkage rod on my '72 Chevy pickup broke. I took it to a machine shop and an old guy welded it up, good as new for $5. He seemed happy to stop and help me.

[@janvisser2223]

Loved to see the K&T in use again!

[@Robert-S-]

Watching the intro to this video, just makes me wonder if you from 5 years ago would have ever believed this is where you would be today? Its inspiring for anyone watching that even in todays world, it is still possible to find success. Any chance we can get an update video on some of the various projects you've shown glimpses of over the past few years. The Cincinatti Radial Arm Drill, the 2nd shaper you had in the home shop for a while, and some of the other machinery you've shown purchasing and storing for future videos?

[@colinfahidi9983]

Yep, I'd love to see a restoration series on the radial arm drill

[@davidsellars646]

This is what I signed up for. Hope you will do some videos on the bushings for Will Stelter.

[@tomoakhill8825]

I LOVE that Adam *knows* the truth about making a measurement. Do Not Look as you make the measurement, or you will set it to what you want and not to what it is. I spent 40 years as a Medical Research Scientist, and this is the cardinal rule. Along with, "EVERY measurement has an error range." You must state this range or your measurement is meaningless.

[@WoodNMetalWorkshop]

Very nice to see a old time SNS video. This is the kind of stuff I subscribed for. 👍

[@garyc5483]

Great. A proper SNS at last. regards from the UK

[@dscnuyler]

you and your videos gives me motivation to keep pushing keep up the good work

[@angelramos-2005]

Excellent work,Adam.Thank you.

[@stevemaertz7793]

Great Job As Allways !!! Thanks Adam.

[@bulletproofpepper2]

Thanks for sharing. Getting done.

[@warrenjones744]

Sometimes it hard to convince people about simple tools and their accuracy. Spring calipers can give you some amazingly accurate results with some practice and thought about what is going on with the process. Sometimes it's the only or best way to measure a groove without resorting to custom gauging. Well...This job for for example! Let the customer struggle with those little seals...Priceless (they can be aggravating) Good to see an SNS Adam, I enjoy them. Cheers

[@traviswalker6831]

Thanks for the video and doing a small job for this young fellow!

[@marcinpsarski8879]

Great job Adam. 🙂👍

[@GavinM161]

That was a neat trick to remove the parting off flash... Nice!

[@fabricancustoms]

That intro was sublime :) I hope you feel as proud as I think you should. You look like you're living the dream right now, buddy 👌