The Travadial on the Axelson Lathe

[@flintstoneengineering]

There's gold to be found on KZbin, but you have to prepared to dig for it. Keep doing what you do Double D, we're blessed you care to share.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Thanks! More to come!

[@terrycannon570]

I just finished installing a low end DRO on my new to me Bridgeport clone. I do not expect to use the mill that much but like you I am addicted to working on machine tools. About a week ago I spread the ashes of my best friend and neighbor who passed away from cancer. This was his 3rd time around. First, he had Lymphoma and recovered from it. Then he had a tumor in his nose. Just about this time last year he got cancer of the esophagus. It is sad to see him go but I am happy for him in a way that is hard to describe. I will be glued to the screen watching the installation of and use of the Travadial. I try to use manual measurements as much as I can but the DRO's have spoiled many of us. Like you I could have bought all new Machine tools, but I have always been attracted to the Pioneers that came before us. As we all know simple math has been replaced by calculators and many have soaked their brains in sewage rather than knowledge. The next phase coming is the age of A I (artificial intelligence) . Not looking good for old Men like me. Who would have ever thought our society would roll over for the crap that is being taught on the school campus these days. Well enuff of my rant. Thanks for bringing us real Men along.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Wow, thanks Terry! I find it sort of hard to explain surviving the cancer I had when I was not expected to survive, but here I am still messing with old machinery! These may be survival skills in the coming years.

[@JMachien]

The longest I stayed in a hospital at one time was a month, before they transferred me to a nursing home. After being on that liquid diet at the hospital, the pureed food at the nursing home tasted so good. At that time, my body couldn't regulate temperature, so it was always too hot or too cold. At the hospital there wasn't much relief for that. At the nursing home, I just had them leave the AC running 24/7. If I got cold, I could pull the blankets over me. If I got too hot, I could throw the blankets off. The nursing home wasn't fun, but it has some things going for it :) Regarding the bullying, drama, and "experts", sadly there's some places in the industry where that goes on up close and in person :( Thanks for posting. I've been loving watching these videos. My first time hearing about a travadial. That's awesome :)

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Yes the bullying goes on in the gov entities here. The Travadials are really tough and go for years

[@aceroadholder2185]

Travadials work a treat (especially if you price the cost of a 16 ft. long DRO scale). Used them on a planer back in the 80s so the machine, equipped with a Bridgeport milling machine head, could be used as a giant milling machine. We drove the bull wheel on the planer with a variable speed gear reducer motor using roller chain. Did a lot of work for Sandia and Los Alamos National laboratories where large aluminum plates needed accurately placed holes and window cut-outs. As an aside, the trick for finishing the edges of large, thin plates on a milling machine is not to use standard end mills. They lift the work from the table because of their cutting action. Instead use right-hand cut, left-hand twist end mills. They push the work down making clamping the work to the table a much easier task.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

That is really interesting about the spiral cutters lifting the table, there is a lot of force at play that one might not realize. I have seen these modified planers for years but have not had the opportunity to use one. I would likely have a heart attack if I had to buy a 16' dro scale. I thought $750 was a lot of money back in the early 80s

[@grantadams7074]

Keep up the good work Dee Dee I really enjoy your content and are still learning even though I have been in the trade for over 40 years in NZ.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Thanks so much! I would like to go there someday.

[@devmeistersuperprecision4155]

Mike Rowe made it clear. Our problems began when we eliminated vocational programs in high school. My first job as a CNC machinist paid chicken scratch but you learned how to do the job. Once you had the skills, you moved on. Aerospace did have apprenticeships. Northfield Foundry didn’t want to waste time with chuck changes. Often they would stack chucks to save time. It’s crazy seeing those massive chucks holding smaller chucks. You only remove what you need to do the job. And hearing loss…. Oh yah! Between the Air Force and my 30 odd years in machine tools for both wood and metal, I virtually as deaf as a sign post. In one shop, management instructed assembly to disable the air gun safeties Turing these things into AR-15s shooting nails. They always knew when OSHA was to turn up and we got notified in the morning production meetings to slip these cams into our pockets during inspections. It was a tuff world and not one for a pot smoking Booz drinking gen X surfing the net on his latest Apple I-phone.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

I did a two year apprenticeship with Harley Davidson then certified.

[@russelldold4827]

I enjoy your insights into the development of the trade, mixed with nuggets about accuracy methods. Never even saw a Travadial in my time on the machines, but read about them, so I'm all ears!

[@russelldold4827]

Come to think of it, I've never seen an Axelson or a Monarch in the flesh - in South Africa we saw more British machines before the Japanese and later Taiwanese machinery took over.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

That is great!, I also have the vernier type made in Sweden HWM on the cutter grinder. Look at both more closely.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

There are getting to be fewer workers that can run machines, but it looks like many are taking advantage of some of the bargains out there for their home shops.

[@kimber1958]

Great video love the stories

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

I better be careful there!

[@allenhunt3070]

Enjoying your insights and glad that you are still kicking! Thanks for posting often.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Hi, thanks, will keep going

[@pweimer47]

Glad your still around to share your knowledge and educate us here on this platform. I really enjoy your content and commentary. Have a great day.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

I am glad you find it useful

[@DustinUlichney]

Been watching sir. Just aquierd my first axelson Awesome piece of equipment! Your rocking sir!

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Welcome aboard!

[@neffk]

7 years!

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Still alive anyway!

[@warrenjones744]

Keep 'em coming Dee. I need more corrupting 🤣

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Loading one right now!

[@thomascedarstaff9154]

Who is the dapper gentleman you showed at the end of this video? Thanks for your hard work!

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Hi, that is one of the Axelson brothers

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Lol . Good one , so true !!! 👍👍👍

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Thanks Max, I am learning to be a social worker to make things better over here!

[@davidharper4289]

Hey Dee, it's 3:00am in Aus. Couldn't sleep. Got up to have a Tea and there you are. Don't worry about Trolls, just jealous morons. All the best from Davo in Aus

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

They are having what is called "A Reckoning" because they are being "onioned" by a certified professional.

[@devmeistersuperprecision4155]

I love the travadial. I need to get a glass window as mine is missing. Came with my LeBlond lathe. Did I mention I love your mill? Wouldn’t give a series two a second look!!! Esp. If you got the 4J head! Love series one machines and I love my round ram series one. The big guy isn’t done with you buddy. You are doing what your supposed to do….corrupting our youth one video at a time.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

Yes, that mill is an interesting war time machine used in plutonium production at the Hanford nuclear site. The machine is slow and awkward to use but it can make some unusual moves with the spline driven sliding vertical head that has a short but very useful quill feed. I cant see just how I am corrupting youth but at least a half dozen followers of the pathetic US machinist forums got themselves banned from this channel. I check these people out and no videos just shooting their mouths off. It is like that on the forums but worse bullies with dynamic fake names, meaningless posturing by the forum owners chosen darlings. The clowns that have spilled over to here are running out of entertaining content, I am for providing unicycles, umbrellas and red noses! Yes! A few non machinist US web forum owners have caused considerable damage with their thuggery and Asian in particular hatred along with anyone else they deem not worthy. Then to top it off they " by direction of grand leader filthy forum slime DT Stink Finger" commit a painful slow publicity suicide by threatening a Harley mechanic and his wife from Walla Walla with physical and financial harm! How dumb can you get?

[@DavidHerscher]

The forums are horrible. They are full of hobbyists who have no idea what they are doing, but act like they are highly skilled tool makers. Spewing absolute nonsense and passing it off as knowledge. Which results in even more of these poor hobby guys just getting started who think they're getting good advice and are suffering for it. And then don't even let me get started on the whole lazy, "do my thinking for me please" culture where people just go straight to the forums and ask someone to tell them what to do, or what to buy, or whatever, instead of learning about the trade and gaining foundational knowledge, and understanding how to problem solve and apply that knowledge. READ A BOOK, not forums on the internet. The old books are the best, the foundational knowledge in them still applies today. My favorite book, which sits on my bedside always is "The Brown & Sharpe Handbook; A Guide for Young Machinists". You can't go wrong starting with a copy of that book, IMHO.

[@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision]

I am really glad you replied here I was on that forum starting in 2002 and there was a change when one individual was given control, This butt sniffing polices the forum by insulting people that do not fit into the BS mold on those forums and that has stinked up KZbin as can be seen by their stupid crap shows that get miraculous views to sell stuff and get free stuff, called grifting by one viewer here on this channel, They are intimidating, they started bullying me right off as unqualified but I cant be bullied by pathetic germs like that. However! Everyone I know will never do videos because of this bullying! Thank you for that, this is their worst nightmare right now!