Aussie50

11 June 2025

Short | 1 years ago

Milling a Flat on an old Taiwan milling machine in 304 Stainless.

Video | 7 years ago

A little bit of mill work on the old King Rich mill. you can see a test piece I made earlier sitting on the vise on the left. Material is 304 Stainless, 38.1mm Dia. Endmill is 12mm solid carbide, was kinda trashed before I even picked it up, but it made it ...

The Parkinson power hacksaw, obsolescent but not obsolete.

Video | 7 years ago

Its Aussie made, I have spent many a day running one to cut slabs of 6" round bright steel for Flakt-Woods fan hub casting inserts, and Its the revolver of the metal cutting world, it works, its just not a good as a Glock or Sig semi-auto., AKA a bandsaw

Curie knows when to wake up

Video | 7 years ago

In tank Die-Sink EDM test video.

Video | 7 years ago

Putting the phone in a zip=loc baggie and dangling it in the tank :D bag leaked a little but no harm done, I used a beater phone. I will try an action-cam in a water proof case.

Bubble Bubble boil and EDM!

Video | 7 years ago

Running some serious amps through the die sink EDM. 100V at 25-30A DC (pulsed) A die sink EDM is essentially a power amplifier with a adjustable frequency generator driving the output. I will endeavor to do a better video in it at a later date once I know m...

Fun with cars, dogs and machine tools.

Video | 7 years ago

The big white whale AKA the Mercedes ML270 is having a bad time.

Just a bit of drilling action

Video | 7 years ago

Drilling her hard with white milky stuff squirting and dripping everywhere ;) 30mm HSS drill into 304SS with a 12mm pilot hole.

Ripping down 304 stainless, manual lathe

Short | 7 years ago

Just a short cellphone video, I make dozens of these each year, not going to share mission-critical data but just facing to length then turning a spigot on some 76mm (3") 304 stainless steel bar. actual dimensions were 24mm OAL, spigot was 64mm X 10mm. Foll...

Lathe Tapping - Tappy tap tap

Video | 7 years ago

Tappy Tap Tap Coolant oil content was low, I do not usually have galling issues like I did that day. M10X1.5 taps in 304 Stainless. Need some sturdy spiral flute taps to try out. straight flute are not really made for this abuse but spirals seem to snap eas...

Machine tool update - South Bend Lathe with Digital Read Out.

Video | 7 years ago

Fitted a Heidenhain DRO to the South-bend and it works well!

Ward Autoward Turret lathe Peg Pin control CNC cabinet overview

Video | 7 years ago

Just a bit of a overview of the ground breaking CNC Ward turret lathe control box, largely based on vacuum tubes Its actually quite simple,