This Old Tony's OPUS!

Filing and Sawing Machine?! starts at 11:00
This is an old machine: scrap metal by today's standards, but in a home shop? ... probably still scrap metal, but so far I'm impressed.

Music (in order of appearance)
"Orbital Romance" - Sir Cubworth
"Hyped" & "Wistful Harp" - Andrew Huang
"Clover 3" - Vibe Mountain

[KGJYS]

Back in my day, we filed by hand. Uphill. In the snow.

[Rsama]

I am a German certified tool and die maker. I made my apprenticeship between 1976 and 1979. The first 6 months all we did was base camp training or in other words - filing.
I learned to file H7/h7 fits. When you do precision filing you never ever lift the file on the back stroke, you will loose the feel/control of the file on the surface. For deburring I lift as well. So I fully agree.
Very good video

[a.p.b]

Abomb kills me every time. He needs a scene in a movie while he just does that look. Nothing else.

[erwinruff]

Just backup your files, so they last longer ;)

[christopherbishop]

Tony got caught dragging his file back, and had to ship that heavy bastard to explain why.

[I_leave_mean_comments]

I don't even touch the surface on the forward stroke. My files are going to last forever.

[johnforrestboone]

Anyone else notice the words change below the 140? Genius. Another of the little details that i love about this old Tony vids. Well done sir

[danieltodd]

Vote #1 Abom for best male support actor

[LazerLord]

I looked up the function of that 'love' chip just for fun, and it's a 'tone encoder' from 1982 that generates dial tones.

[DanGoodShotHD]

I actually tested this over a two-year period. Reason? None other than my own nagging curiosity. I bought 4 identical files. 2 bastard and 2 machine. They saw nothing harder than mild steel. I split workload as evenly as possible. One pair(bastard/machine) I would go to town back and forth. The other I would always lift on the backstroke. 2 years on, if it wasn't for the electrical tape on the tip I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, visually or feel. To me, the whole backstroke thing is a myth on mild steel or softer. I found working with anything harder backstroke certainly flattens out the teeth. As long the material you're working with is softer than the steel of the file there is no way backstroking will harm it. That's how I feel anyway and I'm sticking to it!! Backstroking? Is that an actual word? Huh it is now!😆

[samrowland]

My girlfriend didn't understand why I needed to watch this video, so I explained that you are a god amongst machinists, and she left me, so now I get to watch your videos unhindered

[QQTrickQQ]

I use to be indecisive but now I'm not sure.

[TheKwajkid]

Sometimes I feel like Tony buys machines just for the puns.

[JohnJaggerJack]

As a young mechanical engineer that from time to time has to get down and dirty with the work/job, this video helped me put some old-school co-workers in their rightful place and create life long vendettas-relationships with them, I am deeply thankful to you TOT. At least now my boss doesn't give me the "business" every time I'm using my phone for anything else than work related phone calls.

[vicmiller]

Adams look about the cheap shot about his shaper was priceless...very well done...thanks...Vic.

[ggliff]

Nice video Adam. The Tony cameo's are not bad as well.

[paolocanali]

OPUS company was founded in 1940 in Italy and is still in business, after a ownership change in 1991 (it is now a brand name only). There is still plenty of Opus 140 filing and sawing machines and Opus 400 bandsaw machines around. On hystorical machines like this one, the proud "brevettata" sign means that it is a original design made by a real company, not a generic copy built by some obscure small workshop.

[XavierAncarno]

I love the Adam’s Cameo.
You guys have the best channel and community of YouTube

[bicky]

I come from an electronics and telecommunications background. Probably never will come a 100 feet near a lathe or a bandsaw. Yet I keep coming here for the humor. Strange really.

[dragnus]

Third time i've watched this, and I only just now noticed that it's the OPUS 140 Big Tatas.... I love you Tony.