From the MachinistBlog.com
Machine Shop 1 – Machining Skills for Prototype Development (Length: 40:32)
- Basic tour of the machine shop
- Layout techniques (including transferring hole locations)
- Basic tools: drill press, band saw, belt sander and grinder
- Locating and drilling holes (includes using a center finder and deburring)
- Tapping holes (including using a tap guide)
Machine Shop 2 – Machining Skills for Prototype Development (57:33)
- Drilling holes
- Special drills for plastics and hard or abrasive materials
- Drill press limitations
- Bandsaw
- Suitable speeds, feeds and materials
- Bandsaw setup
- Using the drill press vise
Machine Shop 3 – Machining Skills for Prototype Development (30:02)
- Good practice – clean up
- Small belt sander configurations
- Grinder operations and materials
- Deburring and buffing
- Finishing techniques
Machine Shop 4 – Milling Machine 1 (50:33)
- Parts and controls of a Bridgeport Mill
- Quill feed
- Axis handfeeds (11:20) backlash explanation (12:15)
- Gib locks (14:40)
- Power feed (18:33)
- Digital readouts (21:07)
- Milling machine set-up – squaring/tramming the head square (22:37)
- Squaring the vise – adjusting the vise so the stationary jaw is parallel to the bed (32:33)
- Milling machine accessories and workholding techniques (41:15)
Machine Shop 5 – Milling Machine 2 (1:03:33)
- Square and hex collet blocks – used to hold/clamp parts to machine features on 4 and 6 sides of a part respectively (1:02)
- V-blocks (2:10)
- Hold-down clamps – used to hold large or irregularly shaped parts (3:40)
- Using angle blocks – used to hold materials to machine features not perpendicular on a part (6:15)
- Drill press vise – using a vise within a vise (8:29)
- Lathe chuck with vise – can be used to hold parts in the milling machine (11:11)
- Double sided tape – can be used to securely hold a part without distortion (12:00)
- Squaring high aspect ratio parts (16:02)
- Right angle attachment (23:04)
- Slitting saws – used to cut slots/slits/features in a part (33:21)
- Rotary table – used to machine circular parts, grooves, circles, and segments (41:16). A dial indicator (43:20) or Coaxial indicator (47:25) can be used to square/center the table to the X & Y axes
- 5C collet indexer – used to hold collets and to position parts in up to 24 positions (52:42)
Machine Shop 6 – Milling Machine 3 (42:36)
- Squaring a part – machining a piece of metal so all of the surfaces are flat, perpendicular and milled to the nominal size (1:00). Also covers using a fly-cutter (4:50) and deburring (8:40)
- Squaring a plate (17:52)
- Using the edgefinder (32:00)
- Drilling holes with a mill (35:32)
Machine Shop 7 – Milling Machine 4 (23:07)
- Reaming holes (1:00)
- Boring holes with a boring Head (3:04) – also covers using Plug Gages to measure hole sizes (8:54)
- Milling a slot (10:45)
- Milling a shoulder, conventional and climb milling (17:11)
- Cleaning the machine (21:05)
Machine Shop 8 – Lathe 1 (42:37)
- The Lathe components
- Turning tools (6:40)
- Turning and facing (11:04)
- Cutting off a part (22:45)
- Drilling (32:20)
Machine Shop 9 – Lathe 2 (46:15)
- Tapping
- Boring (7:31)
- Knurling with a bump knurler (15:30)
- Cutting tapers with the vompound (22:21)
- Turning shafts – using a live center (26:18)
- Single point thread turning (31:03)
Machine Shop 10 – Lathe 3 (29:00)
- Lathe chuck
- Lathe arbors (6:42)
- Turning between centers (15:40)
- Face plate irregular shapes (19:00)
- Face plate thin materials (21:13)