Introduction - Centering the 3-Jaw Chuck - Episode 1

[inagod]

stop fooling around,lets tidy up your work area,and put the camera on a tripod for the machining part.We are all getting dizzy

[charleylol]

WOW ! THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR TALENT AND SKILLS VIA VIDEO. IT ALLOWS US NEOPHITES THE OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE OUR KNOWLEDGE BASE. I ALWAYS HAVE A NEED TO LEARN BUT OF COARSE I HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO A SHOP WILLING TO TAKE TIME TO SHOW/TEACH.

SINCERE THANKS.

Charley

[jweinrub]

Very interesting episode! I used to do welding for a while in art school.

[Nikitainthesection]

Great video, very interesting! :-)

[drutt1985]

i have alvays had dificulties in centering..

[CivilWarBBQ]

Wow, that headcam is really hard to follow. Neat concept, but please enlist the aid of a camera operator!

[AmericanFabricator]

Yeah, I dropped it after this first intro episode. Even makes me sick. LOL

[ickycan]

Not bad at all! Wish I had your talent

[gasttheplast]

5 STARS.

[Animals319]

Awesome!! Zig!!!! :~)

[OMM06]

Difficult on my eyes (made me dizzy) but very interesting. I enjoyed the music, too.

[BlitzWing00]

Great Maniacal Laughter with the Firearm! =)

Good trigger finger safety too. I'm curious which firearm is it? I can't make it out too clearly...It kind of looks like a Sig Sauer, but I don't think so.

[metalalien79]

a friend of mine has a shop much like this one. He's the one that made all the custom supercharger pulleys for my build. :) Nice video.

[DJP49]

Great video!

Your type of operation is not obsolete. It's just a very rare and valuable commodity these days for folks who want something "special" done. You must be a godsend to folks in your locale.

[willtrib]

Great show!

[evilbrainproductions]

ive got two engineer friends that would like this channel, send them an invite - ZED74 and drewez101

[medow12]

awesome

[UnitedOffensiveIII]

555555555555+

[justplayman]

Aw yea,, having a niche in the market,,,customizing is king anywhere....

finding customers takes time,,,and loyalty is developed through superior production

safety first

quality second

volume third

but of corse diligent diciplined perserverance is above all

[delacerdaa]

Do you know CNC?

[qazwas2001]

Nice shop

[AngryMediaReviewer]

The fabricator has a gun! OMG!!

Anyways, good job, American Fabricator.

[dianasatyr]

I was prepared to be interested in this. I have had peripheral exposure to metal fabrication all my life. I'm impressed by it.

But you need someone else to film while you work! Why? Because lots of us are looking at equipment we've never seen before. I couldn't get a clue as to what it really looks like and how it operates when the camera was jumping all around like that.

Will come back later and see if things have improved. I'm rootin' for you and your business!

[AmericanFabricator]

I understand. I dropped the hatcam for a third party cameraman. It makes me dizzy, lol.

[dianasatyr]

Ok, will look through the videos for more stable ones.

Based on my eBay prowling, and particularly articles in a magazine from around 1905 called "Electrician and Mechanic", plus other reading I've done, I believe that at that time lathe operators and other skilled metal fabricators were the elite of workers. I have a very rough sense that their absolute heyday was a bit before that, when making things in factories with repetitive motions of unskilled workers had not gone far yet.

[soulcoke123]

cool

[djavidu]

nice

[dangeroustoys56]

I had to use one of those at my last job to drill holes in some machined parts- its a beast!

[smurfmanser]

that bridgport looks like it'd hurt!

[AplG7]

Hey, you learn something new everyday.

[blk59]

Cool camera work Dude.

[stopcrohnsdisease]

nice channel and vids

[TalcumX]

i think your video is very interesting and i've always had a hard on for this type of cool shit. i only wish you had filmed it better. don't get me wrong, i really do admire your profession and your obvious craftsmanship, it's just hard to follow what the chuck is going on.

[roadjournal]

Are you wearing a eyeglass camera? nice... Its nice to see some one making something interesting

[wildgift2]

Let's bring back some tariffs!

[wiitech]

aweasome man im glad i subscribed

[MastaMike4Life]

very cool. i like it.

[AmericanFabricator]

Thank you, sir!

[misterbaghead]

Gotcha.

You're cooler than I thought. Thanks for offering up your subs too. More GUNS!!!

Catcha Later man.

[AmericanFabricator]

LOL. Thanks for watching!

[Celebbb]

AmericanFabricator: my old friend,your prod. are so real and proffess.any one can learn something from your content, yu have a natural way of communicating, i have done some fabricating work, but nothing to the degreee you show here, thanks much for this, and we got you on our next promo show, god bless

sincere:

Celebbb,Elvis,Bennie

[AmericanFabricator]

Thank you very much! God bless you and yours.

[NewWorldGod]

Cool---nice intro

[AmericanFabricator]

Thank you very much :-)

[clodomirojackson]

brings good memories, see i used to be a machinist but CNC took over so now everithing is easier but is missing this kind of stuf

[AmericanFabricator]

I hear you. I use both CNC and manual machines. There will never be a total substitute for the manual machine.  There are too many "one offs" and many times you can complete the chore on a manual in less time than it takes to write a part program for the CNC.

Thanks for watching!

[nickl882]

Great show. much better than american chopper. all you need now is a bulldog to sit around.

[AmericanFabricator]

Or somebody to yell at, LOL. Thanks for watching.

[Danilo2523]

hey nice work,i didnt see so well,but when i make center i need to go in 0.005-+mm in tight mesure, but at low rang of mesure im ok

whit 0.01mm..

[LordJonRay]

Haven't seen the other episodes yet.. but it would make it easier to watch, if you used a tripod. The head cam makes me dizzy.

[AmericanFabricator]

I dropped the headcam for Episodes 5 thru 7. Thanks for watching.

[XxKushinaxX]

wow, ur awesome!

[celticnooneson]

Really sweet video. Great Shop and Tools thanx for sharing. Peace

[AmericanFabricator]

Thanks so much! :-)

[lugiare]

cool

[mickmoart]

Heh, this is awesome! Very good video, bro!

:)

[treesie69]

You should seriously contact Mike Rowe from the show DIRTY JOBS on the discovery channel! That guy is always looking for a challenge...I'm sure he'd find one there! I don't know much about metal fabication but your video was interesting. Take care & be safe while using that dangerous equipment! :p

[ProductionDesignrMAX]

My HERO! If you lived in the Los Angeles/Hollywood area I could keep you so busy with clients/work you would need to hire an apprentice. We should talk in PM about making custom camera dolly equiptment for hollywood. If I told you sale prices of finished fabricated products in hollywood/entertainment industry it would blow your mind.

[deadheadbiker]

YOU RULE MAN!

[davidpetersonharvey]

YOU ROCK! Plain and simple. We do have a metal fabricator here in Pearland who does a lot of oil company work and metal art.

[techman272002]

how often do you measure runout on all your arbers

[pornocastingcrew]

0:55 was the best one ! ^^

[meanfazer]

All you people who moan about not seeing the actual fabrication side of the job need to realise that the set up and preparation for many jobs is the most important part of it----it often takes longer to set up for a job than to actually do the machining procedure required,that was the purpose of this film ,I wish I had the coaxial indicator,I have to rely on my indicator in a collet and the Bridgeport in neutral!!!

[mcurren2004]

That's quite the set up you have there. Interesting vid. Used to follow my Dad around like a puppy dog when I was a little kid. Brings back fond memories. mc

[Celebbb2]

GOOD STUFF

[oldhippie100]

this is very interesting .I work for a indusrial magazine and I never get to see it in action

[dfp7777]

Your head mounted cam worked well.

[dfp7777]

American fab, Your set up would be quicker, If start with a ground half inch pin up inside the collet a first.

Then bring the quill down and close the three jaw onto the pin. and Bang! your within .005 of an inch if not closer. You can then indicate the chuck if you want to from there. Only you need to think a head to set the height of the table and length of the quill.

[bitscared]

That was really hard to watch! I would so apprentice myself to you if I lived in America. Do you cut yourself much? I know when I was on the tools my hands were always trashed! I am a bit of a clutz though! To many skills are being lost. It's a real shame.

[GrammaMe]

I'm sure it would have been even more fascinating if I'd had a clue what you were doing. LOL. Agree re: the head-mounted camera, and glad you're changing that technique. I'd think it would add another risk to something that must require precision. Do you use ear protection?

[Lyekka3000]

machines are yummy, babes :)

xxx

[AmericanFabricator]

Taking notes here. I've given up filming from a camera mounted on my head. CNC procedures coming up. Thanks for watching.

[Rowdyeh]

It was ok, you need to get someone else to video you as you work and do a trial run first and prepare the stuff first so we can see what you're working on, not have your view jumping back and forward as you look for stuff. Also, could you explain what CNC is, I know but they dont, (Computer Numerical Control). Good luck!

[ryanblackley1]

what the hell do you acctualy make?

[AmericanFabricator]

Anything you can dream. :-)

[amyj0nline45]

i really like your videos, it's interesting, and original for youtube, i probably would have never seen (or thought of) something as random as metal fabrication if i hadn't seen this vid

[AmericanFabricator]

More to come. Thanks for watching!

[doodmanboy]

I like this guy he's pretty fun. I don't quite understand everything you did though. That dial indicator was spinning then you grabbed it with your hand... is the mill chuck spinning on the dial indicator shaft now or is the dial seperate from the rest? I don't get it... Lets see the hoodlums!

[AmericanFabricator]

I used a coaxial indicator. The term "coaxial" means two entities that share the same axis. Both are free to rotate around the other. The feeler probe rotates within the indicator body.

[whitbit3737]

Did you say 25 years when did you start at forty?

[captaincabbage]

enough ,jaysus after 4 mins we saw ZERO fabrication ,,,oh my jaysus,,is the camera on your head or what? we dont care that you live in a bad area,lets see what you can do mr one of the last true fabricators! lets see you're technique ? ohhhhhh next vid boring

[swat253]

Dizzy. Must lay down now.

[buggable]

So what are you actually machining using that chuck then? Just for centering/drilling?

[MUSKETT30]

Don't quit your day job and become a cameraman. Why don't you show more basic techniques for beginners instead of jumping to a technique that rarely anyone uses. Mot people use a lathe to do lathe work,... or so I've heard.