If you are depressed about what is in the news just listen to this podcast and you won’t have a chance to listen to the news again! In the longest episode to date Max and Justin talk about 10 tools that we find essential to our shops. Buried within this episode:

• As usual Justin forgets to edit something out that Max says
• Max tells us more about his Trent Pinion Mill that arrived from the UK via some sort of beaming machine
• Gearotic and Max’s Orrery build (say that without sounding intoxicated!)
• Why the Brits put the carriage wheel on the right side of the carriage
• Maintenance on cars, 3D printers, and terrible instructions
• Max tells a joke
• Fecal material on cell phone screens
• The 10 tools in the shop that we find useful … which turned out to be 8
• Plus a whole lot more punishment.

Some pictures of what we talked about:

Max’s Tiny Albrecht Drill Chuck:

The Brown and Sharp Cut Knurl Tool:

Links in this episode:

• The Trent Pinion Mill Kit: http://www.hemingwaykits.com/acatalog/Trent_Pinion_Mill.html
• Gearotic: http://www.gear2motion.com/
• Ken Toonz’s Orrery Build: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWktMyQDMMIbU5ZfDh2zmejOL8bs-MulN
• Stefan’s amazing turn your surface grinder into a cylindrical grinder tool: http://gtwr.de/projects/pro_cylindricalgrind/index.html
• Dan Gelbart’s Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/dgelbart/videos

You can listen to the episode directly here:

or you can download it directly.

Subscribe in iTunes (and please rate us!): https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/home-shop-machinists-podcast/id1180854521

Max’s website: The Joy of Precision and also his Youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMt_havo3BxZJscvRCOGcw

Justin’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thecogwheel

Stay tuned for the next episode – it shouldn’t be too far away!

It’s been more than a month since our last episode where we said we would try to record an episode 2 times a month.  To make up for it we snagged Stefan Gotteswinter for an interview.  Thankfully he hung around long enough to answer our questions and didn’t seem to be too put off by our antics.  In this episode

• Stefan is looking at Onshape.
• Max geeks out over Wine for Linux (sorry) and thinks you can easily run Autodesk’s Fusion in Linux.
• Max gets a Hemingway kit, the Trent Pinion Mill, and now he has to machine it!
• Chinese machine tools really are not that good, but are great for home shop machinists!
• Stefan suggests to think of most imported machine tools as casting kits.
• How to get banned in less than 5 minutes on Practical Machinist.
• Germans have a lot of home shop machinists, who mostly use CNC.  Germans and their tech!
• Stefan uses carbide in the shop.  We’ll make him listen to our first episode again before we invite him back on.
• Stefan would be happy on a desert island with a Deckel FP1… and all the accessories.  Who wouldn’t?
• Max happens to think German is an eloquent language.
• How could you interview a German and not ask about beer?

Plus a whole lot more.  We managed to trim 10 minutes off this time to get our 1 hour podcast down in 1 hour and 20 minutes!

You can listen to the episode directly here:

or you can download it directly.

Subscribe in iTunes (and please rate us!): https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/home-shop-machinists-podcast/id1180854521

Stefan’s website: http://gtwr.de/index.html.  and his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/syyl

Onshape: https://www.onshape.com/

Max’s Hemingway kit: http://www.hemingwaykits.com/acatalog/Trent_Pinion_Mill.html

Max’s website: The Joy of Precision and also his Youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMt_havo3BxZJscvRCOGcw

Justin’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qMguQuG7N4CFwOP1jyo4A