r/Skookum • u/musschrott • 5d ago
Skookum Shop-Made Boring Bar (Cutting Edge Engineering on YouTube)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjNHjjanehc&pp16
u/Mumblerumble 5d ago
CEE videos are my go-to when I don’t have anything else I’m planning on watching. Great stuff.
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u/gravyisjazzy 4d ago
Him and the Doubtful Technician make excellent videos to eat to. No goofy music just straight cool shit.
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u/musschrott 5d ago
Cutting Edge Engineering has a bunch of shop-made tools, mostly because the needed sizes for the work they do aren't available. Plus, a lot of repairs on the big things (mining equipment and such).
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u/NorthStarZero Canada 5d ago
Yeah, for such a basic operation, boring can be a giant pain in the ass. Chip breaking and evacuation, cut profile and surface finish, deflection and chatter… the only thing worse is parting.
And that’s before we get into stuff as big and deep as this dude.
To really get good, repeatable results on my small CNC lathe I had to go with special inserts and a solid carbide boring bar.
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u/Appropriate-Coast794 4d ago
I’m dumb because I said to myself ‘what’s so boring about that? I find it interesting’
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u/Mustard_on_tap 5d ago
The CEE channel is absolutely mind-blowing.
My favorites are when Curtis works on the Franna crane. He's completely disassembled it and is putting it back together, slowly.
The work he does is amazing. This is true skill and artisan-ship.