Milling Another Heat Exchanger Plate on the Horizontal Boring Mill - Manual Machining

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Published 2024-04-06
A while back, I was brought a plate for a heat exchanger to mill down. The acid wash that was done on it had damaged the plate by pitting the surface. That plate was set up and milled on the Planer Mill. This time I do it on the Lucas HBM.

Check out the other video to see the differences in operation and decide for yourself which way was better.

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All Comments (21)
  • @jlinkels
    That statement "I did such a terrible job they sent me another one to do" was hilarious. Must have been satisfying in response to those comments.
  • @johngassmann9581
    I admire anyone that puts their work on YouTube. I can't imagine criticizing a professional.
  • @phlodel
    I'm retired after a lifetime of fabrication, welding and machine work. Sure, I can think of different ways to do jobs I've watched you accomplish. I very never think my way is appreciably better. Can't say I've ever thought you are wrong and certainly not incompetent.
  • @BigMikesGarage
    I've heard several of the really big channel owners that I follow say that one of the hardest things for them to adjust to between 50K and 100K followers was learning to ignore the haters. They say it gets a little better past 100K. I think you do great work. Thanks for the content, keep it coming.
  • @gusviera3905
    Nice work, Josh and thanks for letting us watch. You know, it continually amazes me how you can invite people in to watch the work that you perform and some want to tell you how you are doing it wrong...on a job that the customer approves of and is sending you repeat work for. So, don't mind the armchair engineers. You know, as most experienced engineering machinists do, that there is usually several ways to complete a job successfully. You choose the method that best suits your equipment capabilities, skills, costs and time constraints. Sadly, it seems some missed Shop Workflow Management Day at school (this is even taught at the School Of Hard Knocks). Maybe, if they watch enough of your past job episodes, they will catch up. I could say more, but I'll leave it there. Keep it up, Josh and thanks again for regularly bringing us into your shop. Nearly 98,000 of us apparently feel the same way. We'll see you next week. Cheers.
  • @brian_2040
    Josh, don't pay attention to the miserable people that don't have a life, but hey haters make you money too. Im glad i found your channel. I watch Cutting Edge Engineering and You. I'm not a machinist, but everything you do looks great to me. Love your content. Another thing I joined your membership today. I don't expect it to be a poor choice.
  • Don’t worry, the commenters that tell you the job was terrible are the same ones that don’t have the guts to put themselves out there. They love to hide behind the keyboard. The majority love the efforts you go to in sharing your craft. Keep it up.
  • @stevecooke9212
    Don’t worry about negative feedback, you seem to know what you are doing in your machine shop, carry on getting your videos out on your channel, they’re good to watch
  • @scottthomas5999
    Haters gonna hate Alternative methods are productive . Keep going.👍🏻👍🏻
  • @lonniebrock3282
    Josh I'm no machist but I think you do a great job and I really enjoy watching your videos people that don't enjoy your videos should watch something else they're not forced to watch them if you listen to comments about your work you probably would go nuts keep them coming for the ones that really enjoy watching them live me thanks for the activation for us
  • @charleswelch249
    It turned out great again Josh, let them complain about your methods all day. All real machinest know that a scraper was only recently replaced by the mill. A scraper is very accurate and consistent in its cutting material. Still today I would rather have a lathe bed serviced by a scraper than a mill. The mill makes heat and vibrations the scraper doesn't. Keep up the good work and ignore idiots that have no idea what they are talking about.
  • @andrewcourt5156
    When someone tells you that “you are doing it the wrong way”, quite often they are meaning you are doing it differently to how they would do it, so therefore it must be wrong! Enjoy the videos.. keep up the good work..
  • Really love this type of content. This was a great example of how putting off quality issues until later can add time to work, and I don't mean that in a negative manner. We all need to learn through these lessons. Changing feeds/speeds on the second pass wouldn't have hurt anything, and potentially could have negated one or both of those last cleanup passes. I'm definitely putting that lesson in my brain pan. Thanks and keep up the great work!
  • @alanm3438
    It is to bad that there are haters out there that want to put you down. You know your machine and you know your ability. Your work had to be good otherwise they would not have sent you more work. I love your videos. I know that the video alone takes a lot of time but you done a great job on both the video and the part. The part cleaned up real nice and it looks like most, if not all, of the pits are gone. Good to see you first thing in the morning. :hand-orange-covering-eyes::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::cat-orange-whistling:
  • @jmumbauer
    Thanks for taking us along on this journey. It's very nice to see these old machines still in service and making money for you!
  • @peltona
    No better compliment than repeat work right? Thanks for taking the time to keep bringing cool content. I know it would be faster for you not to.
  • @daveA2024
    The comments that start with "Have you tried this" or "I get good results this way" are worth reading, there are often little gems of genuine knowledge in there, the "You are doing it wrong" and the "You don't know what you are doing" brigade should go directly in the rubbish bin, there is nothing in there but bile, and they do not even merit a look.
  • @mikebarton3218
    How dare people give you such nasty comments? They are armchair warriors who have never run a successful machine shop in their lives. If I can’t find anything positive to say then I won’t say anything at all. Personally, your channel is one of the mainstays of my weekend viewing. Thank you 👍 Cheers Mike