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Intro

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Safety

1:00

The Queen of Machine Tools

2:20

What is a Vertical Mill

4:21

Vertical Mill vs Drill Press

6:13

Drawbar

7:48

Quill

10:36

Spindle

11:51

Spindle Taper

12:43

End Mill Holder

13:08

Ann Arbor

13:43

Jacobs Chuck

14:32

Why Jacobs Chuck

15:41

Removing Milling Cutter

16:58

Milling Table

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Digital Readout

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hello internet my name is Quinton and

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this is blondie axe welcome to mill

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skills this is a new series on getting

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started with the vertical mill behind me

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there and if you're new to machining I'm

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gonna go ahead and recommend you start

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with my lathe skills series because I

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think the lathe is the best place to get

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started in machining but if you've been

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using your lathe for a while and you

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want to bust into the world of vertical

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milling well this is a series for you

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okay let's dive in now just like on the

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lathe the most important mill skill is

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safety and that means safety glasses at

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all times that means short hair short

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sleeves no jewelry no dangly bits no

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rings no watches this just like the

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lathe is actively trying to murder you

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at all times deny it any opportunity to

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pull any part of you in and for goodness

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sake keep your hands clear this whole

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area when that machine is in operation

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it really really wants to hurt you don't

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let it wait a minute you can't fool me

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that ain't no mill or is it well that

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was our special effects budget for the

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season so I hope it was good for you so

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what am I doing here well I'm trying to

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make a point my point is that machine

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tools are all fundamentally the same

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now we call the way the queen of machine

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tools because frankly it can do

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everything and that's still true so why

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would you ever need a mill well I think

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the thing to keep in mind is that the

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lathe can do everything but all other

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machine tools are more or less

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optimizations for common things that

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take a long time to set up on the lathe

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so yes in theory you can make large flat

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things and cut bevels and do all the

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other things that you might ever want to

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do on a lathe however many of those

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operations are giant pains in the ass

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and so we have Mills the lay that

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remains the most flexible and the most

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cleverly designed machine tool it

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achieves a maximum precision with the

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fewest moving parts and with the

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simplest cutting tools and for all of

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those reasons and more the lathe is

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still the most generally useful machine

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tool and it remains the one that you

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should start with when you are getting

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interested in machining however let me

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just get down off the ceiling here and

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I'll show you what the mill is really

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all about so there it is a very typical

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hobbyist bench top vertical mill and

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note that word vertical there are other

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types of mills there are boring mills

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and horizontal mills and and embrace

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things but generally speaking when we

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use the word mill we're talking about a

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vertical mill and the hobbyist ones are

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all going to be some variation of this

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form factor you might say it's run of

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the mill so fundamentally a vertical

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mill is so named because the spindle is

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vertical and it's just like the lathe in

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the sense that you've got a spindle that

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can be precisely aligned relative to the

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workpiece now in this case the workpiece

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remains stationary and the cutting tool

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is spinning which is different than the

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lathe and the reversal of that

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relationship between what's spinning and

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what's stationary makes those setups

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easier on the lathe that we were talking

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about so things like creating large flat

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surfaces or creating specific angled

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cuts cutting slots that type of thing is

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much easier if the tool is spinning and

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the work is stationary more or less I

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mean of course the table moves but you

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know what I'm saying

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vertical Mills come in two basic types

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and the differentiator is how they

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manage to move the spindle vertically

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relative to the work this is a column

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mill which is what you'll pretty much

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always find in hobbyist benchtop

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machines and this guy moves the entire

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spindle up and down on a column in the

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back hence the name now a larger

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floor-standing machines are typically

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knee mills and they work by moving the

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entire table assembly upwards to meet

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the spindle and that lower assembly that

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moves is called a knee and knee males

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are generally more rigid because there's

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more surface area back there and more

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triangulation in the front to maintain

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parallelism with the dovetails so you

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know obviously that's going to be a

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better choice if you have space but for

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these hobbyist bench type machines the

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advantage of a column mill is that while

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it can sit on a bench and the bench

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doesn't have to move now wait a minute

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you might be thinking hey that looks an

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awful lot like a drill press and

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have a drill press and it was a lot

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cheaper than a vertical mill all I gotta

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get is one of those fancy XY table

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things put down here and I don't gotta

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buy no mill I'm a genius nobody has ever

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thought of this well here's the thing

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there are two key and therefore

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expensive differences between a vertical

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mill and a drill press first and

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foremost is the bearings drill presses

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are designed to apply cutting forces

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only downwards and what that means is

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that they use thrust bearings in here

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and they're not designed for any kind of

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side load and milling is really all

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about the side loads you're cutting

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sideways and so the bearings need to be

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designed to handle those types of loads

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and then the second reason is how the

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spindle is secured in here

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Mills and drill presses are similar in

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that they both use a taper to secure

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tooling in the spindle and in the case

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of a drill press it's typically a Morse

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taper but the key difference is that the

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drill press spindle is held in there

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only with a taper so tapers are very

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good at resisting forces along their

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length the harder you push on them the

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tighter they seat but they are not

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designed for sideways loads any kind of

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sideways load will actually just pop

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that taper right out of there so if you

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have ever tried to do any kind of side

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loading milling type operation on a

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drill press you learn this the hard way

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because your Chuck fell out so the key

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difference with a mill is that it has a

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drawbar so the drawbar and the bearings

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are the two things that make of a mill

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different than a drill press and also

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expensive

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I mean I'm oversimplifying their you

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know mills are also built much more

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rigid than a drill press and they have

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precise dovetails and table slides and

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things for moving the work in repeatable

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ways relative to the spindle and yadda

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yadda yadda but yeah those are the two

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Biggie's that's that separate drill

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press from a mill the bearings in a

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drawbar and I'm just throwing that word

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drawbar around like everybody knows what

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that is well let me explain this is a

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drawbar every mill is going to have

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something along this line and it might

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be manually operated one like this or

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big Mills might have a pneumatic or

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electrically operated drawbar but they

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all do the same thing grab our is a

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threaded rod that runs all the way

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through the spindle and it serves two

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main purposes first and foremost

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it threads into whatever Kaulitz or

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other tooling that you're using in your

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spindle and slide that guy up in there

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and then as you tighten the drawbar it

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pulls that guy in and when you tighten

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it all the way up what it does is it

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seats that taper in the spindle so

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that's job one and then job two is when

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you come to remove the tool it will

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actually also push down on that taper to

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pop it loose because if you've been

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using that tool in there for a while

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these guys can get pretty wedged in

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there and so the drawbar will also push

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it back out again so that drawbar keeps

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the taper from breaking loose under side

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loads and that's why you can mail on a

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melon you can only drill on a drill

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press now for a manual drawbar you'll

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need some sort of tool for tightening

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and loosening this guy and if yours is a

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typical hobby mill like this it probably

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came with a tool something like this guy

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now proper technique with this tool is

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very important step one and then make up

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something like this in this case this is

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a ten millimeter square drive so I have

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a 10 millimeter pipe plug socket on here

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on a socket wrench that lives on the

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bench next to the mill and life is very

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good

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wait a minute you can't fool me I've

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seen this guy on mills and that looks

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just like my drill press

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ergo still just a drill press well not

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quite so this is the quill and it's

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another way to move the spindle

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vertically it relative to the work and

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so you might be wondering well why is

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there a quill and also a column or an e

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for moving up and down what's the

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difference why does there two ways to do

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it fundamentally the quill is a

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trade-off between rigidity and machinist

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laziness or should I say convenience as

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you can see it's a very quick way to get

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lots of spindle travel but the trade-off

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is that the quill is much less rigid

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than the rest of the system so when it's

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extended like this your whole setup is

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less rigid so if you're doing aggressive

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cuts or types of milling operations

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where you need the most rigidity you

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want to keep this quill all the way up

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keep the coil locked and use your column

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or your knee to get your vertical travel

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so what good is the quill well there are

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lots of operations that you might do

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that don't require maximum rigidity so

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if you're taking light passes or if

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you're milling aluminum

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or for example drilling just like on the

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drill press the quill is great for all

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of those and the fact of the matter is

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moving the knee or the column for all of

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your vertical travel is a ton more work

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so typically you're going to use the

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coil as much as you feel like you can

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get away with now a key difference

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though on the quill from a drill press

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is that there will typically be a course

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feed and then also a fine feed of some

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sort in this case there's a warm drive

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here on the front and this is very

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important for getting accurate depths of

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cut and in this case there's a Dro

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on this coil so you can see exactly what

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kind of depth you're getting and then

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typically the fine feed will be some

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sort of warm drive so it has zero or

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minimal backlash in it which is also

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very helpful so people new to the

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vertical mill often wonder a wall okay

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what's the right mix then of quill and

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column or knee usage how do I use each

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one and when well for most milling

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operations generally what you want to do

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is get your column or your knee kind of

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in the ballpark of where your cut is

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going to be you know maybe give yourself

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enough room to get the cutter in and out

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and do your cutting generally with the

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quill mostly retracted and then as you

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do each pass you know you're going to

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drop it down 20 30 40 50 thousand so

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whatever that depth change that you're

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doing on your different passes you can

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do that with the quill and if you're

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milling just to make sure to lock the

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quill with each pass just to get the

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most rigidity out of it that you can but

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even with the quill the most precious

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resource on any vertical mill is your

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vertical real estate there never seems

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to be quite enough space in here and so

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the quill will give you you know two or

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three inches of wiggle room on your

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travel but like it or not you're going

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to end up moving the column or the knee

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up and down quite a bit and on a

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hobbyist column mill that means you're

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gonna be reaching back here for this

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column crank quite a bit your right

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shoulder is going to get buff so just

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get used to that

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so the mill itself just has a spindle

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and the service it provides is to spin

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that spindle at whatever your desired

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rpm is with good rigidity against

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lateral loads everything below here is

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your problem okay so speaking of milling

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cutters though how do we actually hold

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them in here all we've got is an empty

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taper now I know this seems reasonable

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but it doesn't actually work as well

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you think so any tooling you put in here

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needs to have a taper on it that matches

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your mill so a very common way to put

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stuff in there is gonna be a collet

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alright so holding our milling cutter in

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a collet is very simple

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that call it in there and tighten down

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the drawbar if you wondered why fancy

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Mills always have pneumatic and or

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electric draw bars this is why because

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you spend a lot of time doing this and

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then once your call it is kind of all

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the way in there you'll feel it kind of

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seat on the tape or a little bit and

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then you can go ahead and insert your

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milling cutter and then tighten that guy

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down like so and then give it the final

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snug with your spanner and you're ready

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to mill now different mills have

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different tapers in their spindles but

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there are a couple of very common ones

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the most common is the r8 like this guy

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and you'll find this on the vast

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majority of mills but some larger

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machines or like horizontal mills will

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use a 40 taper or 50 taper so there

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there are other common ones as well but

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something like an r8 is is going to

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serve you really well and of course you

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have to make sure you're getting Kaulitz

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that match your spindle taper and they

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have to have a drawbar in the back now

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the drawbar threads themselves are

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standardized to the taper dimensions you

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don't have to worry about that matching

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but the key difference with spindle call

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it's like this guy is that they have a

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place for the drawbar there's there's no

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through-hole compared to like a 5c

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collet for example which has a hole all

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the way through and can hold stock so

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don't confuse your mill spindle collets

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with general work holding collets now

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there are other options for holding

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milling cutters one of them is an end

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mill holder which will have a taper that

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goes in there and will make use of this

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flat spot on the end mill for a set

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screw and that will give you a more

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secure hold for you know very large end

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mills but on a small hobbyist machine

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like this you're really never gonna need

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that and mill holders are expensive and

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I've never had any trouble using I call

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it so call it through your friend for

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the hobbyist shop now other types of

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tooling might use Ann Arbor such as this

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Big Shell mill you'll also see this with

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face mills and another larger tooling

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and as this guy will have the taper

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built into it like this and it

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have a place for your drawbar to thread

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in and then your cutter or whatever will

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thread onto the end of the arbor so this

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whole assembly slides into your spindle

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and find that key again and then once

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again tighten that up and away you go and once

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again to get this guy out you are likely

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going to have to push down with the

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drawbar to pop that taper and then

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there's our old friend the Jacobs Chuck

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which is as useful in the mill as it is

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in the drill press and similar to the

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arbor it's got its own shaft here with

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the matching taper and a place for that

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drawbar to thread in and that guy slides

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in there just like the arbor did find

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the key and then tighten that guy up and

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the Jacobs Chuck is where you really

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start to feel that vertical real estate

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so you can imagine trying to get your

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workpiece in here and also a room for a

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drill and we're running out of space

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pretty darn quick so with the Jacobs

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Chuck I'm a small hobbyist mill you're

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generally gonna have to crank this guy

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up as high as it'll go and then that

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leaves you room with your quill to do

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your drilling operations and

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what-have-you so yeah vertical real

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estate very precious now at this point

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you might be thinking hey I don't need

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all that fancy tooling for holding end

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mills this here Jacobs Chuck is designed

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to hold these guys and these look an

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awful lot like these guys so what if I

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just grabbed machine is no cookie okay

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so what's the straight dope on putting

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an end mill in a Jacob's Chuck why can't

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you do it there's a bunch of reasons

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first is hardness now while these guys

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are both high speed steel assuming this

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is a quality drill the the end mill

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actually is much much harder than the

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drill and Jacobs Chuck jaws are also

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very very hard so it's kind of like two

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pieces of glass trying to grip against

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each other you're gonna get a very poor

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grip on the shank of an end mill with

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Jacobs Chuck jaws second reason is

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lateral loads Jacobs chucks are designed

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for drills and so they're only designed

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for upward forces on them lateral loads

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on these little jaws would make them

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very sad you know what said Jacobs Chuck

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jaws and even if all that wasn't reason

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enough the other is frankly just

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rigidity Jacobs chucks are not as rigid

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as other types of tool holding and look

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at all this length it's adding to the

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end of your spindle imagine this end

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mill way down here and lateral loads down

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here you're losing a ton of rigidity so

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you would never want a side loaded

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cutter this far from your spindle in any

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case old machinists tell tales of the

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greatest machinist who ever lived and

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she was so because she had three hands

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there are many operations in machining

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that really seemed to require them and

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removing your milling cutter is one of

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those here's the problem if I go ahead

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and loosen the drawbar right now I've

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got one hand on the drawbar wrench I've

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got one hand on my spanner wrench and

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well what's gonna happen the milling

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cutter is just going to fall right out

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of there it's gonna damage the work it's

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gonna chip the cutter chaos ensues cats

00:16:09

and dogs living together so when you're

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first starting out just go ahead and put

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a board or something down there to

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protect it just in case the cutter does

00:16:15

fall out of there but there is a

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technique to avoid needing a third hand

00:16:18

here just put your spanner wrench on

00:16:20

there just kind of put a finger on that

00:16:23

milling cutter keep it from falling and

00:16:24

then loosen up your drawbar and then

00:16:28

when you just break that drawbar loose

00:16:30

the milling cutter won't actually fall

00:16:33

the collet is still holding it so then

00:16:35

what you can do is just grab the milling

00:16:37

cutter and the spindle with your hands

00:16:39

and then loosen it all the way the rest

00:16:41

of the way and in fact you can see it

00:16:43

still doesn't actually want to fall

00:16:44

because they call it hasn't been popped

00:16:46

off of that taper yet so there's going

00:16:48

to be a point right here where it pops

00:16:50

the taper and now you can take the

00:16:51

cutter out so this technique takes a

00:16:53

little bit of practice but it'll save

00:16:55

you a ton of time and you won't drop

00:16:56

milling cutters on your work and of

00:16:58

course I can't leave you without talking

00:16:59

about the table

00:17:00

much like the lathe there's a stack of

00:17:02

slides here and in this case they move

00:17:04

the work relative to the spindle instead

00:17:07

of the lathe where you're moving the

00:17:08

tool bit relative to the work but it

00:17:10

works much the same way there's gibs and

00:17:12

locks on each slide for those times when

00:17:15

you need extra precision or extra

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rigidity and there are markings on the

00:17:19

crank for measuring your travel and then

00:17:21

there's also a moveable caller so you

00:17:23

can zero these guys out

00:17:25

now also like the lathe is some bad news

00:17:27

and that's of course backlash any

00:17:29

mechanical system has backlash in it and

00:17:31

the mill table is no different and like

00:17:34

the lathe this is not a sign of poor

00:17:36

quality this is just physics now unlike

00:17:38

the lathe however backlash is a real

00:17:40

pain in the butt on the mill because on

00:17:42

the lathe it doesn't really affect you

00:17:44

that much you know you're only generally

00:17:45

moving in one direction during a

00:17:47

and it's very easy to simply get into

00:17:49

the habit of winding out wanting back in

00:17:51

before you start a new cut it's really

00:17:53

not that big a deal it's just a little

00:17:54

bit of muscle memory the mill however

00:17:56

you are often doing cutting operations

00:17:58

in multiple directions and every time

00:18:01

you change direction of course now

00:18:03

you're into backlash town population you

00:18:06

and all of your markings are now

00:18:08

meaningless so if you're gonna go old

00:18:10

school I applaud you but you will have

00:18:12

to get very comfortable with backlash

00:18:13

and understand how to compensate for it

00:18:15

especially when milling things like

00:18:18

squares or when you're milling back and

00:18:20

forth but wait there's a better way it's

00:18:22

called the digital readout or Dro

00:18:24

now these guys are a real luxury item

00:18:27

for a lathe but I honestly believe that

00:18:29

for the mill these guys should not be

00:18:32

considered optional equipment and the

00:18:33

old-timers are gonna laugh at me for

00:18:35

needing a dro but honestly these guys

00:18:37

are transformative for your quality of

00:18:40

life on the mill now fundamentally it's

00:18:42

just like having hand wheels with no

00:18:43

backlash in them and that's great and

00:18:45

that's frankly enough value on its own

00:18:47

but it also gives you all kinds of other

00:18:50

powers that lets you find centers and

00:18:52

you can make bolt circles and you have

00:18:54

multiple coordinate systems for

00:18:56

different fixtures and for measuring

00:18:58

travel without losing the origin of your

00:19:00

part you know all these sorts of things

00:19:02

I would honestly consider the Dro

00:19:04

required equipment on a vertical mill

00:19:06

and you know with these Asian import Dr

00:19:10

OHS they're really quite inexpensive and

00:19:12

it is absolutely worth your money plus

00:19:15

if like me you're working on English as

00:19:17

a second language the manuals for these

00:19:18

things are great exercise for example to

00:19:21

clear 200 sets STM datum in ABS mode to

00:19:24

continuously press the key ten times

00:19:26

will cause to clear all the damn for 200

00:19:28

sets STM I understand thanks manual and

00:19:31

while we're on the subject of spending

00:19:33

more money than you want to the other

00:19:34

area that I think is worth splurging on

00:19:36

is the vise everything you do on this

00:19:38

machine is only as precise as this vise

00:19:40

and buying a high-quality vise is really

00:19:43

going to make your enjoyment of the

00:19:44

machine a whole lot greater and so yeah

00:19:47

it's it's really worth spending as much

00:19:49

as you feel comfortable on this guy but

00:19:51

when choosing a vise do be mindful of

00:19:53

this vertical real estate once again

00:19:55

for example don't be like me and get

00:19:57

seduced by these swivel bases on vices

00:20:00

this thing seemed really great I'll be

00:20:01

able to do angles and you know not have

00:20:04

to reset my advice all the time but yeah

00:20:06

this thing lasted about a year before I

00:20:08

got rid of it and it was one of the best

00:20:09

things I did because this extra couple

00:20:11

of inches of height that it takes up

00:20:13

makes all the difference with longer

00:20:15

drills and some of those other

00:20:16

operations when you you just need

00:20:18

another little bit of extra space so

00:20:20

yeah I think twice about this guy and

00:20:22

finally if there's any way to fit it

00:20:24

into your budget do definitely also

00:20:25

consider a power feed you will spend a

00:20:28

lot of time cranking that x-axis back

00:20:30

and forth and this guy especially a

00:20:32

model that has Rapids will save you a

00:20:35

whole lot of tiresome cranking but this

00:20:38

is also something you can typically buy

00:20:39

later and add it once you get tired of

00:20:42

cranking in my case I think I lasted

00:20:44

about two months before I splurged on

00:20:46

the power feed so those are the basics

00:20:48

of the vertical mill now of course

00:20:49

there's a ton more to learn about we're

00:20:51

holding fixed during different types of

00:20:53

cutters and so on but we will be getting

00:20:55

into all of that in later videos in the

00:20:57

mill skills series so thank you very

00:21:00

much for watching and we will see you

00:21:02

next time

00:21:10

you

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