Replacing BROKEN Eye on A-frame for CAT 745 Articulated Truck | Machining, Welding, Milling
This video is a job we did to replace the broken eye on a suspension A-frame for a Caterpillar 745 Articulated Haul Truck. The eye was completely torn and needs replacing. This shows the step by step process to replace the eye on the A-frame including carbon arc gouging, machining, welding, milling & boring. What do you think of the finished part?
In this video we are using:
- Lincoln Electric DC-400 welder
- TM-1740G Centre Lathe
- Everising H-360HA horizontal bandsaw
- BM-63VE Milling machine
- WIA 500i Weldmatic welder
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Saw your post on I C weld and came to check out your videos. Amazing work.
Is that on Cat 745,a A frame for back axel?
I think it is good where you show a picture of the type of machine a part comes from, what it does.
Hi mate. Does liquid nitro affect the grease of bearing? Are those red grinding discs Cubitron? Thanks.
I am not questioning your craftsmanship there's no doubt your extremely talented machinist welded and fitter but I keep seeing people welding things back together welding is not a load bearing method of manufacture that will break eventually I appreciate you filled all the cavities but still welding is not meant for load bearing manufacture but still excellent craftsmanship no doubt about it
Kurtis, in case anyone is under any misapprehension about how hard you and the videographer work I for one has noticed that every time you finish a job and take it outside into the yard it’s always dark. You and the misses deserve every success and reward that comes your way. Keep on keeping on mate.
Self employed for 40+years and working late is just what we do to succeed !
Cheers mate we appreciate that! Thanks for supporting the channel 😎👍
She catches a lot of spall when videoing the welding sequences.
Absolutely, I noticed that too!!
@@wdwerker my question might silly, but 40+ years selfemployed? how old are you pal? u look 35-40 max! great job btw, greatings! 😎👍
In the 80s I loved kids shows that show how things are done - there aren’t many left these days and it’s all about non existing super heros. Luckily channel’s like this stepped in and I can show these to my kids. Craftsmanship needs to be celebrated. Thanks for your hard work.
This job's like watching someone draw when I just can't. First 20 min you're like "The hell is he doin?" Then it all comes to shape and you see what makes anyone an artist in their craft.
Was a Precision Millwright for over 40 years,and still impressed by the machine work performed by these Master Machinists
Q: since you might know the answer. How Much $$ do you think these guys make a year?
This not these
@@nef003 Kurtis is a special case in that he owns his own business and brings together a pretty crazy mix of machinery expertise, welding/fabrication hands, and machining hands. It's hard to find a job working for someone else that engages this variety of skillsets, because the road to profit tends to run through specialization. Three ways to answer this, if it helps: If you want to keep the variety of this work, maybe if you add a lengthy science/engineering education and could do all of this plus high end white collar stuff, you could prototype stuff at the R&D division of a manufacturer. I know a guy from my Ph.D. who has a job like this (but for small high-tech widgets, add labby stuff like lasers and electronics, subtract the welding/fabrication). He has a top Ph.D. in physics and we bonded in the machine shop there - he is great in the shop. There are not a lot of these jobs and variety pays less because variety does not produce a high volume of salable goods or services. Often, these jobs' progression is to pay more as they get less fun. (A megacorp will buy your cool startup with the fun job, and eventually you aren't working with your hands at all as you move into management and deal with megacorp's soul-crushing corporate bureaucracy and politics full-time. They are forced to pay you a lot more to make it up to you.) My friend is in NYC and does fine but I think, even with no kids, he and his wife rent their apartment. If I had to guess, with 10 years' experience, I'd say he pulls $130k/yr plus benefits. That's good money, though remember a lot goes into it (4 years of a bachelor's for $$$$$, then 6 years of a Ph.D. earning a stipend that's just enough to get by, so you're about 30 before you see your first good salary and might have many years of fighting student loans from college.) Funny thing about owning a business (I do this in another, fully white-collar, field) is that it's hard to price business revenues on an equal footing with wages or salary. Business takes over your life, and there are lots of crazy new taxes. The volatility in the revenue can be insane; sometimes you're making less than a professional bum even though you haven't turned away from the 365 day commitment. This can be stressful and humiliating. The cost-of-goods-sold for work like Kurtis' is extreme and in itself hard to price. It's not just the huge bill for consumables like electricity, welding wire, argon, inserts, wrenches that broke, etc. Much of the cost of a heavily equipped facility is depreciation of capital assets and/or debt service on the equipment costs, and you could give yourself a 75% raise by changing the assumptions about these things in your books. If you spend that raise on a fancy lifestyle, you might find out in 7 years that oops, you were actually starving to death all along without knowing it, and now your facility is useless and you're bankrupt. Even my business, which is extremely simple - I sell white-collar expertise from a home office, mostly by the hour - feels hard to price vs. a salary. I've built complicated spreadsheets in which I try. If you keep the flow of work high and steady through good marketing *and* price the work well through confidence in negotiating your sales, you can create a significant wealth despite all these costs. Those are big ifs. Finally: My next door neighbor is an experienced metalworker in his mid-40s. He leaves for work at 4:30 am and comes home looking tired and smeared with that oily iron oxide schmutz. He works at a big plasma cutting table making parts for big steel buildings and has the skills to lean into many other things at the shop. He made this gorgeous meat smoker for his yard, so I believe him when he brags about his skills. Observing his lifestyle: We live in the kind of neighborhood where the public schools are bad, there's broken glass on the sidewalks, and drive-by shootings happen. He and I take pride in making the best of our little corner of it through cleaning, gardening, etc. He and his wife (who also works) have built a strong foundation for their kids, who attend a charter high school. He has an expensive hobby (bodybuilding) and his star daughter, now graduating high school, drives. He drives an old Jeep he fixed up himself, and they pay rent to his mother-in-law for their apartment. He complains when the overtime dries up. If I had to guess, I'd say his base wage is ~$35/hr plus benefits and overtime.
@ramanshah7627 lifes tough, I'm 19 and lost. Family wanted me to become a software Engineer but now i just wanna get the degree and get over with it. I wanted to get into the airforce but they denied, then aircraft maintenance engineering but they denied. Now comercial pilot is my most favourable career but the fees is too high for my family. These days i just wake up go to college, do nothing and return, Im thinking about getting a part time at the local garage as I'm good with wrenches and machines but managing college and exams would be tough and family said no to job.
Second baby was born on Wednesday evening. Mum and Bub are home at 3pm this afternoon! Managed to still watch CCE :)
Congratulations mate to you and your fam that's awesome. Thanks for watching, now family time!
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering nope still watching! Trying to finish the video lol
It's all fun and games until someone needs an eye gouged out...
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LOL good one!!
Lol
you've been to that tavern as well on north 14th St.? Good times.
@@metalbob3335 yeah, that one's better than the rough one on the other side of town 🤕😆
Beautiful work young man. I've been welding 41 years and it doesn't get any better than that!
No lies, this is fast becoming my favourite "heavier" engineering channel. You guys rock.
"Customer states: linebore" {pan to missing eye},... I love this channel!!
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Love the machining BUT Karen you have some fantastic industrial photography , colour and composition are outstanding
Thank you so much 😁
The sequence at 24:13 to 24:30 where you flip the filter in and out of shot, to just mimic what Kurtis is seeing, is brilliant.
As an 'Ancient Pom', with absolutely no talent for working with metal or wood, I am totally impressed with your workshop set-up, and especially watching you work. At one time I was interested to work on a lathe, but seeing how complicated it was, I declined the opportunity. Watching you and your attention to the smallest detail, I'm not surprised you don't have any other working with you! As long as you are appearing here, and as long as I am able, I will watch you, your dog, and the occasional appearance of your wife! Good Job, mate!
I love that dog. Had a pit myself for 17 years. They're like no other dog in the world. Their personalities and demeanor are unmatched. Helped me raise 2 beautiful girls and looked after the house and my family when I couldn't be there. Watching homeless brings back so many amazing memories I apprecite you guys including him in the vids. Cheers from Kootenays,BC Canada !
I just can't say enuff to compliment you on your craftsmanship. I am here in Texas staying awake to watch you work at 4:30 AM as i usually do on friday mornings. I must say Homeless scored huge when he found you and the Giggler to love him and take care of him. He always makes me smile. Thanks for all.
Hey Terry thanks for watching over there mate at such a crazy hour! Homey is definitely living his best life we are lucky to have him. Have a good Friday mate
It would be pretty funny to see the customers face when it was dropped off with only a line boring done to the 1/3rd of what's left of that eye.
You want a line bore? you get a line bore. Oh you wanted a fix? that will be different. Maybe next time, let us know it needs a whole replacement.
Could have fixtured the remainder of the bit cut off, and bored it out, then framed it with a small caption " just needs line bore", and put it on the wall. Reminds me of a job, where the description was "first bomb fell on target".
@@SeanBZA What?! We gotta here that story!
@@SeanBZA elaborate, spunds pretty interesting haha
If the w/o said "repair eye, linebore" it means refabricate and linebore. You got the refabrication done, but you never linebored it. Lineboring is performed to create parallel and square features referenced to a datum (the mounting pads) such that when the A-frame is reinstalled, its bore is parallel to the plane of the pads, perpendicular & centered to the mounting bolt holes and at the right height. Even with a spherical bearing installed, just 1 degree error in the horizontal plane will cause 17mm misalignment of the bolt holes on a 1 meter long shaft. You should have bolted the pads to a HMC or a squared fixture on a vertical mill, centered the spindle to the mounting hole pattern's center and floor-to-bearing-center height, THEN linebored it.
Karen, thanks for the humor/giggles. Kurtis fine work as usual, TYVM. Homie, do enjoy the toys! :)
My career involved programming computers, so I never had anything to do with machines like these, but I love watching craftsmen in a different field doing work I could never imagine myself doing. Love watching this! Keep up the fantastic work!
same here....u took my words
It's an art that is rapidly going away, at least in the us. There just aren't the craftsman or craftswomen that there used to be I am a diesel mechanic and machinist I build alot of obsolete and unavailable parts. Seems like these days mechanics are mostly parts changers, they just don't fix anything anymore.
@@zebschreiber7357 It's not so much "don't" as it is "can't", (though it is a vanishing skillet). As in, the manufacturers no longer want their products to be serviced, repaired, or tinkered with by anybody other than their technicians, because they now make a killing overcharging the owners/operators to basically lease the machines that were purchased outright. Disabling the machine/vehicle if it wasn't handled by one of their "licensed technicians". John Deere is one of the most notorious offenders of this corrupt practice. Though, if things keep as they're going, corporations such as Caterpillar could soon follow suit...
Having Sharpened Drills in my shop for nearly 50 years, the most impressive part of this VERY IMPRESSIVE Video was the drilling on the super spacer.. It's possibly the FIRST KZhead Video that I've seen where the drill is drilling 100% symmetrically! Swarf coming out of both flutes equally? Unheard of! Spot on! Well Done!
Proper bit.
Gotta like them twin swarfs especially the redheads
24:25 that synchro between the mask going down and lowering the filter for camera is so nice.
Thank you glad you enjoyed it
Thank you team. The acting lessons for Curtis are worth every penny😂😂😂❤. No toy is safe around Homeless the safety inspector.😂.
I found this by accident. It had a very relaxing effect on me and I watched the whole thing,which is rare for KZhead videos. Very well done 👍🏻
Awesome, thank you!
Me too, just yesterday, love the combination of skill, hard work, great cinematography, great editing and such a cute little doggie.
Customer states “needs to be line bored” Curtis states “get off the crack”
You sure he only said "crack"???
@@darrylvanrooy 😝
Ah, Australian humour, up there with "It'll buff out"
@@PeterNield bit of duck tape shee’l be right mate
All it really needed was some high tensile wire wrapped around and a bit of duct tape... maybe a zip tie or too just to be sure 😉👌🤣
All sorted and ready for action, Homeless watching the package get opened is such a crack up, he's so cool.
Hey mate 😎👊💥
Mate you are NOT messing about at all and I luv your bully he's a lovely boi 👍
As a heavy mech I’ve always said operators can break an anvil in a sand box with a rubber hammer. Great job young man . Love your safety man!
After they cracked open the first one and saw it was all meat they just swallowed the second one whole. They will spend the week passing it.
It makes me so happy to se a youtube channel with an inteligent welder that knows that gas is poison and the radiation is going to kill u. The best welder i have ever seen in my life by far passed away with lungcancer in 2014. He said to me that if he only knew about the dangers of the gas he had been breathing in for 30 years. I do miss that man. But you are an awsome welder with no bullshit and u protect your self, a big break from all the bullshiters i see.
People are always pissing and moaning about health and safety getting in the way. And sure, it sometimes does. But it only exists because employers have historically chosen to kill workers over spending anything to keep them healthy. Everyone deserves to go home healthy after a shift.
There is no real excuse for it these days. quality safety equipment is cheap, easy, and better than ever before.
Sadly the regular KZhead videos coming out of the Middle East, South Asia and S.E. Asia demonstrate that personal safety equipment is off the radar and out of reach.
We don't see it, but I hope the Camera Lady also has eye, hearing, and breathing protection...
@@ZaphodHarkonnen It pains me to say but more pepole should see pepole like my old mentor whene he had the lungcancer, he didnt die well im sorry to say. Use the fucking saftey eq and dont nag about it is what i always say to the god dam kids that think they are immune to everything.
In times of Covid where we see loads of incompetents babbling nonsense is so good to see a highly competent at job. It's the people like you who makes the world functioning.
Adding in the dog and also the bloopers was smart. Nice job, guys.
You and Isaac both tear the ass out of this work. Much appreciated, Lately, many youtube people have taken to making a simple job a 3 or 4 part deal to milk content. Thanks and Greetings from the NJ Bayshore.
Greed, the universal human condition!
Yep I stopped watching that guy for the very reason... stretching out content. Kurtis, Isaac and Peter at Edge Precision for CNC on the Mazak can't be beat!
@@theoldbigmoose The one guy is building a shop and I was thinking for what? making fancy bottle caps and tapping holes :)
I love that every video ends with the work being tied down on a pallet. That's it. Job is done. It's like getting closure for every job.
I'm so glad to have discovered your channel. You sir are quite the artist.
Срасибо за работу, всегда с удовольствием смотрю Ваши видео👍
I'm in IT, and I also "LOVE" when the proposed scope of work doesn't even remotely begin to describe the actual task needing to be performed. I absolutely love your content, mate. I love stuff like ThisOldTony and AvE, but the big sonofabitch jobs you work on... Man, that's something special, and a joy to watch.
Hey Ian thanks for watching and the support mate 😎👊💥
Abom79 is another great one that also does big iron projects, just without the aussie accent
I am in IT too and only found his channel last night and am seriously enjoying his skills. But I am right with you on job scope. I have made a couple of those calls to clients in the past. “Oh no, this is out of scope. I will get you the costing this afternoon for your approval.” “Yes I am sorry about that but who knew a massive amounts of user caused damage isn’t covered in the standard price book.”
dude, that is nuts. this seems like a more complicated job than I have seen recently and you just plow through it like nothing. good on ya mate for making it seem so easy.
It would take you and I combined, a week to do this job….he did it by himself in the matter of a few days.
Hey Nick yeah a few processes to this one just got to get in and get it done 😆👊💥
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering I laughed at the customer's mis- statement of the job description. I was thinking, "Get paid upfront"
Did I ever tell you you’re a wizard with a torch? Well, you are! 👍
1st time seeing Kurtis using an oxy acetylene torch to partially lop off a piece of that steel eyelet before switching up to the air arc gouger👍 Going old school for a brief moment 😊 I remember Kurtis mentioning we’re no longer in the 80’s, we use air arc gouging now days😄👍
The metal workmanship already being top-notch, I really appreciate the slow-motion camerawork. We engineers have already spent weeks in classes and machine shops understanding metal forming, but the slow, close-up perspective allows those outside the industry to grasp the concepts. Oh, and can't forget the proper allocation of pitbull footage!
This brings back so many memories of walking through the machine shop in the 1950's, which was founded by my great grandfather in the 1800's. When I got home, my mother made me leave my shoes outside because the chips that were stuck in the soles would scratch her linoleum kitchen floor. Nice job!
Didn't you have a doormat to clean your shoes on before entering the house?
@@AlessioSangalli those metal chips need pliers to remove them.
it's so satisfying watching people to their jobs.
I love watching you old world craftsman skills. You work like the certified pipeline welders I used to assist 40 years ago in the natural gas utility business.
The whole process of managing the thermal expansion, I can see how you weld small bits at a time to prevent distorting the eye and frame too much, possibly unequally. Amazing, like watching a freaking artist. Good job.
not to mention metallurgy, blueprint reading, etc. Even in welding or machining (i have both certs), there is a LOT of science, going on.
Reminds me of the Monty Python black knight sketch- "Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no eye left!" "Yes I do!" "Look!!" "It's just a line boring job"
Tis but a scratch, I've had worse....
@@kiddiescripterkiller Or - We'd like a room for two Knights, please
Black Knight, “I'm invincible!" Arthur "You're a loony."
Howdy from Tanglefoot, Texas, USA! Going back through earlier content.
You get up everyday, go to work and do something new and awesome everyday. Your dog is a sweetheart. Guys who have pit bulls for pets and raise them to be human friendly are awesome people to admire. You dog is like a baby and it shows by your caring and kindness.
"Can you imagine how much that operator would have shit his pants when that thing broke" I lost it there lmao 😭 Great job once again Kurtis! Cheers from the states 🍻
🤣👍Thanks for watching the vid mate
When the truck literally snapped in half! I bet that made a hell of a BANG when it let go! ;)
Obviously it didn't snap this was a line boring job what are you going on about.
@@nocturnhabeo now that is funny
Karen - "you think he poo'd a little" Kurtis - "No...I think he poo'd ALOT" LOL
Best part of this vid was seeing the dogs face light up with happiness when he sees the ball 🤣🤣 great job though, top notch at a high level!
Your welding is first class
For a man that didn’t like school your bloody good at that ,just showed you ,jimmy D, WA
Shirt and hat ordered last Friday, arrived in Canada in time for me to wear them while watching this weeks show! Thanks and good job!
Hey mate thanks for supporting the channel and merch shop! Hope you enjoy the goods 😎👊💥
Kurtis it's good to see when someone like you takes pride in doing a great job like you do. Good job. PS Kurtis your very fortunate to have a beautiful partner that is on page with you all the time God bless.
love the dog, and the craftmanship of each job
You guys make an excellent team, with his skill and knowledge and her artistic cinematography skills really make these videos very enjoyable. Thank you guys!
Heartily endorsed
Shows the benefit of thinking ahead and keeping good records and building a database of information so that just in case you get that really unusual job you have all you need to do the job right. Once again you prove that you have done so much for so long with so little that you are now qualified to do the impossible with nothing.
What you can do with metal just makes my brain explode. I just love watching your videos with the before and afters. Just incredible talent you have man.
Such attention to detail and always looking to prevent further damage, Curtis you are a credit to your craft and your videographer possess professional skills and details you two have to be genuinely passionate about what you do.
Unbelievable precession involved in making that replacement eye 100% respect
What I find amazing is with the pressures that the tooling takes, that one little screw holds the inserts clamped in place. Especially with the interrupted cuts. Nice job Curtis.
The sometimes-confusing magic of leverage. It's a wonderful thing when it works _for_ you.
The screw on the insert is there to locate it, the cutting forces are mostly carried by the big bearing face on the base of the insert into the tool, which is why you see every time Curtis is changing an insert or moving it to another cutting face he is scrupulous about making sure there are no chips or dirt on the faces that will come into contact, so that there is full even loading. If there is a small chip there it can easily shatter the cutting tool or damage the bearing face, making the tool useless till it is either reground flat or replaced. 30 seconds of care versus $500 for a new bar, or an hour with a carbide flat mill in the small mill to reface the pocket.
Forgot to mention, that’s a fancy dividing head you’ve got, never seen one with those quick change plates for multiple hole drilling before.
Yeah it's a great bit of tooling that has come in handy many times
Not to mention you picked it up like it was a 2 Kilo sack of potatoes
Watch a gear cutting vid. There's a channel on YT called this old tony. Indexing plates like this are used for gear cutting and on his home lathe he showed us - and it was A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y fascinating.
I could watch this all day. Cheers.
Hi Curtis, when you were growing up was engineering what you loved to do because watching every thing you do you take pride in what you do cheers Declan 👍👍
I love wathing off-axis lathework. Bloody beautiful how the whole piece looks like it's wobbling, but the cut us absolutely motionless
Kurtis, as a hobby fabricator/welder, I can't thank you enough for sharing your processes and wealth of knowledge with the world. Thank you so very much!
Oh and thank you Karen for all the hard work you do creating the videos!
@@just.some.dud3 ki88
When I saw the broken eye I thought, that's stuffed, they need a new A-frame. My favorite part was the carbon arc gouging, never seen that done before. Love this video.
hey mate thanks for watching!
I love watching you work, but I love watching your dog just as much!
This job illustrates the usefulness of a Bridgeport style milling machine perfectly. Being able to quickly rotate and extend the head to reach odd shapes makes it so versatile. As we have come to expect from Kurtis, a excellent and well done repair. Cheers from the rather warm at the moment top half of the world! 🍻🍻💪💪👌👍 BTW had to laugh at the Instagram post a few days back about the "needs line boring" comment, Priceless!
Hey mate yeah this style mill works great. Thanks for watching, I'm not looking forward to it warming up here or the snakes that come with the heat 😆
Or the value of a conscious maintenance director and crew!
Yhank you for allowing me into your mysterious world. In the way that most Western Europeans and Americans believe that porcelain toilets and electricity just 'happen' (that is till they come to central Africa) so i viewed the world of machienary . There but never thought about, I never thought how engineers fix them... I appreciate the amount of work you put into filming and editing, thanks.
Hey Mark thanks for watching mate
My favorite part of your videos are the outtakes...the silent headnod is like a signature move.
Great camera work and post production! (Hats off to the miss)
"Customer states" videos are some of my favorites. Customer states - Black eye. Customer actually has - Eye ripped out of socket and kicked around like a football.
I love it when I see cleverness anywhere. “Hey, I’ve got this forklift here anyway, these sure look like they are in the right place as arm rests.” Either they are part of the problem or part of the solution. Thanks for the fun problem solving videos.
It does make me miss my Pitty but I love how you guys always show us the unboxing of your pups mail. You can tell he's getting all the loving he needs, I didn't say wants as we pit owners all know they be on our laps 24/7 if it were possible.
Thank you for adding all the interesting Metalworking to these dog videos.
It is amazing when you say “I have one in stock”! Then you proceeded to start on a huge piece that you make into the correct size!
"In(side of) stock"*
More like "I have a piece of stock"
Everyone buys toys for Homeless. Nobody buys toys, or beers, for Curtis (or Carl??). Even if I'm not a machinist/welder it's amazing how you care of everything!
Carl has enough sex toys lol
Leave the butt plug out of this 😂
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering whe know you use a custom "boring bar" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Australia has laws about importing the better beers, they have to settle for xxx or Fosters.
@@SeanBZA Fosters….It’s Australian for Beer …..mate. So as an American wanting be be like an Australian…. I drank it fir a while
What no rain today. It amazes me how many times you get rain. More involved than I expected, especially the last step finishing the bore on the mill. Thanks again!!!!!
You're doing really biblical work: An Eye for an Eye!
This was really interesting to see Kurtis, the use and setup of the different tools with that beastie frame was impressive. Thx for sharing with us, steady hands, Kurtis and Karen, steady "CHOMP".....Homey givin' a master class on how to appreciate a gift!! Well done indeed!
Welcome mate thanks for taking time to watch and comment
Me again ...😆 Forgot to mention the photographers work . the slow mo on cutting great . We'll see her face sometime . Stay safe 😎
Your work is amazing, pure perfection!
I simply cannot stop watching
Kurtis is thee consummate professional. He explains what he did and why making it easy for a lay-person , such as myself , to follow along in the procedure. Even the Bloopers are great. Opening packages of dog toys makes him very approachable. If it didn't cost $30 to send a $6.package to you id send pup something. Keep up the good work and great videos...Chris M Smalley from Chicago Illinois, USA..
That is one wild setup for the final bore! "I mean yeah, why not use a forklift for setup???"
I was wondering how he would manage the final ID after attaching the eye but I was not expecting that kind of balancing act!
@@Legendinium yeah, I was expecting him get out the line borer, again. But, in retrospect, nothing to fasten it to.
It worked out but I'd be afraid of the forklift getting a slow hydraulic leak and slowly lowering the work piece while it's still bolted to the mill.
Wow. The last shot, the before and after, really brings it home. Amazing work and satisfying to watch!
You’re worth your weight in gold brother. I wish I had your knowledge!
Finally found a drawing for where that part goes, that is a major part of the suspension. You were for sure right, the operator did drop a load when that thing let go. Thanks for sharing, Charles
Share link to drawing, please!
I have to commend you on how steady your hand was when flame cutting the eye material off the frame. That steel was super thick and you kept the cut throughout the cut. Also, I noticed that as you were prepping the frame there was another pair of legs. Does this mean that the Safety Officer was helping to film the process? If so, you have a well trained hand in your shop.
Yes safety officer helps out he's got a steady hand with filming 🤣
Good job again. I've spent my life as a job shop machinist, fixing everything from cameras and medical equipment to bulldozers and locomotives, so I really enjoy watching old school repair work. I'm amazed by your extensive use of the 3 jaw chuck, I seldom ever put one on the lathe unless i'm doing multiple parts or something where concentricity is unimportant. When I saw you put that eye blank in with two rounds and a flat I couldn't believe it, but I watched the whole video and have to realize that you've done this many times over and know exactly what you intend and the results you will get. Once again, good job! And keep those videos coming. Thanks again, GBD
Knowing nothing about these things, (I may have touched a school lathe in the 1970s) I was amazed how casually the lathe itself could spin an irregular price of metal and not even flinch.
Kurt you absolutely amaze me. Love ❤ your show. I'm from Ohio, and know absolutely nothing about machining.
He's probably the most liked safety officer ever to have lived. He's a very lucky internet celebrity dog.
Stronger and better looking than the factory job! And many thanks for all the detailed shots of setting the job up on the mill table. Very interesting and informative. And as always, kudos to your camera person!!!
Great comment thanks for taking time to watch and give feedback 😎👍
The satisfying clunk of the frozen part slotting in was the best bit almost saying 'jobs a good 'un'😍
You the man Kurtis! Such an expert at everything you do. You must have had a great teacher, and would probably be a great teacher as well
First-class film making and really-interesting engineering. The good picture quality shows us lots of useful detail and the super slo-mo shots show us how the milling happens, something we'd normally not see. Thank you!
Love the part where this frozen piece clips in smoothly :)
Job description "Needs line boring", that was like saying just needs the paint touching up. Great job done - both of you.
Once again Kurtis, a superb repair giving new life to a piece of valuable equipment! Also, a big thanks to the Mrs for recording and editing!
I could watch an hour vid of Homey playing…I don’t know how you get any work done!
He's living his best life for sure. We will do a special day with Homey video soon
Make you are a bloody God. I work in wood for 50 years making everything from cabinets to pens houses to shelves. But you take formless metal and create parts to keep industry moving really consequential things. Thank you for letting us peer over your shoulder at the remarkable works of creation that you perform. I chose medicine as a career in a retired doctor which makes me qualified to do absolutely nothing but when you retire you'll be able to continue to create from raw substrate the things of industry for pleasure as well as part-time profit. Honestly I think I made the wrong choice. Thank you again most importantly please be safe and be sure to pat the security guard on the head for me.
As soon as gouging eyes out was mentioned I knew this was a video for me.
Karl got his 9" out, very nice!
Keeping the Karl fans satisfied 😏🤣👍