Making Solid Steel Rollers For A Steel Mill - Manual Machining

Owning my auto shop for 40 years, we used to make gaskets with the ball peen hammers all the time, new guys would eat that up. Thanxx for the content !

You know you have talent when you can blend in a radius using both hands for duel feed.

HI, Josh. Thanks for letting us watch this job. I'm always impressed with the quality of cuts you get from those inserts. You were doing a 200K cut, the lathe is grunting under the load, but you were leaving a near-finish pass result using the same insert edge for the whole job. I don't know how many times I would have been sharpening a carbide tool to get the same results...just impressive as hell. More job for less time. Have a great week, Josh. Cheers.

You were probably the etch-a-sketch champion of your school! Excellent work. Even though this is a simple mostly low tolerance job you treat it like aerospace work anyway. Thank you for sharing.

Wise man explaining why you use solid instead of round. Otherwise keyboard experts would have had a field day. A few are already questioning alternative repairs to existing shafts. How about they bow to you and the customer's research of down time created versus extra cost of manufacturing new rollers from scratch rather than risk issues with weld buildup of 1045 steel which in most cases needs normalizing at 550 - 600 degrees C for a few hours to allow the stresses in steel grain structure to dissipate (plus finding someone who has a big enough furnace). Without normalizing, welded 1045 steel has quite a high risk of fracturing. Hobby machinist in Land Down Under.

Were I 60 years younger I would put up with Wisconsin winters and apprentice for you. I did some machining in EE/ME classes in college. Used those skills and amazed my co workers who hadn't a clue.

When your chip guard vibrated.... my wife gave ME a dirty look!! 🤣😂

Nice set up, and nice also to have repeat clients, even if they are sometimes years apart.

Josh Topper Keeping it real, since as long as I have been watching. Nice job Josh cheers!

Josh , I may not be a machinist, and I've seen kurtis from cee do this the same , you just keep doing these awesome jobs!!!!!!!!!!!

Chip deflector is a good idea I'm a retired Machinist of 35 yrs I never thought of that one

hey Josh...great to see you back in acton, Paul in Florida

I like to center drill rollers and shafts because if you need to use a puller to get the bearing off, it makes life easier.

Excellent job Josh, great video, keep'um coming.

You're taking some pretty deep passes there. That's a really nice machine to handle it so well!

Nice work, the bearing journals look to be very small compared to the diameter of the roller - though as you said they had been running over several years with the same design there is clearly no issue with the design there. Nice to see a local business supporting you.

Absolutely brilliant Josh! 👍🏻

Nice job Josh. Thanks for sharing.

really love that chip deflector........:face-fuchsia-tongue-out:

Nicely done josh if you’ve been setting steadys wrong for 25 years I’ve been doing it wrong for over 40 lol I thought the idea was to get the job done with the least amount of messing about as possible 👍👍👍