Odds and Ends 136: CHAMP Drill Grinder, ArnFest 2022 and Viewer Mail



Odds and Ends 136: CHAMP Drill Grinder, ArnFest 2022 and Viewer Mail

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37 thoughts on “Odds and Ends 136: CHAMP Drill Grinder, ArnFest 2022 and Viewer Mail”

  1. Near 9:37 "You may not need it today but there's a good chance that you will down the road." Even if you don't ever need it, somebody else will be willing to trade something far more valuable to you to get it. As they say: One man's inventory is another man's treasure.

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  2. Interesting show, Keith. It is sad to see all the things the USA used to make – now, unfortunately, we have made another country extremely wealthy by sending our manufacturing processes over there and then having to share our tewch information with them. We didn't learn any lessons from WW-II. THE USA used to be the master of manufacturing. Now – we have to buy everything from other countries. The idiot who claimed to want to make America great again, didn't. Why doesn't someone do something to bring industry back again. Fortunately, Keith, it is guys like you and some others who keep the old tried and true methods alive. I wonder if any modern machinist can do what you do so easily. It's all automated now.

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  3. Hello Keith , I've been watching you for a couple years now and I just recently purchased a 1943 Monarch 16 CY lathe . I was having trouble getting the carriage and apron separated so I went back and watched you do it on your model K that is very similar , so that helped me out . I'm glad you mentioned Arnfest and I just registered , so I'm looking forward to meeting you there .

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  4. Keith, you mentioned Poland. I have a good friend and coworker from Poland, and I had noticed at the grocery store that they were selling Scottish style fish made in Poland. I asked him what rivers from Scotland flowed through there, and he stopped and thought a moment, and then he said, none of them!

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  5. My own experience with Jim Bolinger is a bit shameful. I initially dismissed him as an "all hat, no cattle" type of guy, and I left some critical comments to that effect. He responded to my criticisms with sincerity and humility, turning my opinion around 180. Hell of a guy.

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  6. The Champ is a great drill grinder with a ton of options. Back in the day I met the inventor at Westec and learned a ton about drill geometry. Probably talked with him for over an hour. He wrote a great paper on drill geometry that I referred to for years. He was from back when drilling steel with a breastplate drill where you paid in sweat for poor drill performance.

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