Emergency Shaft Build for a Peddinghaus Bandsaw - Manual Machine Shop

Emergency jobs are what keep small shops going. For myself, it's important to keep these customers up and running.

This particular customer has had these Peddinghaus bandsaws for quite some time, and loves them. Problem is that parts availability is not great. Long lead times are not something that keeps industry going. That is where Topper Machine LLC comes in.

Check out the first repair I did on one of these saws here:

Topper Machine LLC is an entirely manual machine shop located in Spooner, WI. Our videos will highlight some of our shop work as well as the sawmill we built in the shop and our A.D. Baker steam engine, and others we work on.

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[TopperMachineLLC]

To clarify my comment on metric threading. In the last year I have finally been seeing metric threads coming into the picture more. This is the exact reason why I bought the new Lion Lathe as it is metric capable. I hate metric, mostly because I am not great with it yet. As with anything, practice will improve this. In the US we don't have metric lead screws so it makes it significantly harder. Again, it will get better with practice. I still hate metric, ad 99.9% of the jobs I see are standard. Almost all of my customers design in inch, metric is extremely rare here.

[mdlanor]

If you get mice in the fall or anytime. A good mouser cat is what you need. My second cat was a barn cat. I got her when she was a kitten. She was the most friendly cat I ever looked after. At the Vet for some unknown reason, she became Devil Cat would go ballistic. She was also an excellent mouser. She would regularly catch house flys in flight. Every fall we would always get nice. There was a huge salt marsh across the street from my house. One time our Tortoise Shell cat named KitKat waited at our stove for over a hour. She patiently waited for the mouse to show itself . She brought the mouse to our TV room. She tortured the mouse for at least 15 minutes and then ate it. I felt horrible for the mouse. But it’s a Cats natural instinct to play with mice before they eat them. I was heartbroken when she died. Anyway I also really like all your videos. I sometimes forget but always try to remember to tap the like button.

[davidrichards]

That's what a "job shop" is all about. Doing what needs to be done to keep things moving. And you'll have a customer for

[ndguy]

I appreciate how satisfying it must be to help a customer get their business back up to full operation. I'm sure you will be receiving many more emergency jobs like this because the supply chain will not be coming back to normalcy anytime soon. Great job. Your videos are always very satisfying.

[life.is.to.short]

We need more people like him, .helping out the community at smaller price and time.

[j]

Bad condition of the old considered the new one looks better than my vision of the old one when it was new. You are a skilled clever and street smart man. I teach AC and always explain heat transfer via conduction, radiation and convection. I had a goalpost moment when you brought out the fact you always machine, cool and then when cool measure. That is street smarts my friend. You understand the metal, it's thermal properties and how heat moves in the part. I enjoy your channel now so much and subscribed. Your wonderful slightly Wisconsin accent makes the videos even more friendly and enjoyable. You are now in my top 3 and I will be looking to catch up on older content as well as checking frequently for new! Excited about craftsmanship and Topper Machine in Alabama!!!!

[kevinhewitt]

Clicking on thumbs up didn't seem to be enough. You're a great lad!

[mdlanor]

As usual well done job. Your videos are very interesting. You do a lot of one off jobs. Jobs that many machine shops would not be interested in .You definitely saved this company a lot of money. By not having to wait 13 weeks for the manufacturer to make this part. I’ve noticed that many of the parts you manufacture are either obsolete or extremely costly from the manufacturer. Please keep up with making videos.

[rjw]

Love watching your show but I cant help but smile when I noticed that your machines all seem to be way too short. Either you are very tall or your machines are very short. Keep up the great work.

[edsmachine]

Thank you Josh for the subscription.
I really appreciate that.
Take care, Ed.

[alanm]

I am not a machinist but it is interesting to watch you work. I am glad that you were able to help this customer out by making the needed part. It sure is a bind when production comes to a stop because of one part. Thanks for the video and thanks for coming to their rescue. 😃😃😃

[kamper]

I love all threads including metric. I enjoy it. You know you can disengage at the shoulder on metric too? You just have to disconnect the half nut in the relief, shut the spindle off, and don't touch the carriage. Then back out the cross slide, put it in reverse and hit the exact same number on the thread diall to bring the carriage back to the start. The key is never move the carriage after you disengage the half nut and make sure you hit the same number on the dial when going in reverse. It works I do it all the time on lathes with a brake not clutches if I'm worried about hitting the shoulder.

[pastortomolson]

Great video again...better than watching anything on TV!

[garytodd]

Wished i had that dirty old johnson saw. They are a great saw.

[royreynolds]

Have you ever tried thread-cutting from left to right with the lathe running in reverse and the tool upside down to help do away with the anxiety of crashing? It is slick. The only concern would be if the chuck easily unscrews.

[jessiemae]

Josh, Amen to keeping the other businesses running. I like your small business work ethic. This is the same ethic I've used over the past 50+ years of my work life. My wife didn't always and still doesn't understand why something has to be done now and not tomorrow.

[peterjedsawyer]

4:50 for a blade to cut that perfect that fast is impressive.

[TheMetalButcher]

Josh, for a lathe like yours without a brake, I would disengage the half nuts like normal, kill the lathe, restart in reverse, and then catch the same number going out. So long as it's always the same exact spot and you don't lose what rotation you are on, then you're good to go. You probably know this. If not, works well for metric to a shoulder.

Noah

[andrewwells]

I been a machinist for 35 years doing both imperial and metric what I see a lot of on YouTube is a lot of people turn the shaft and machine both ends I was always taught to machine in one to keep everything concentric no one use left hand tools to machine back from the chuck keep up the videos 😊

[kimber]

you’ve gone along way in convincing me I could hang up a shingle And take on some of these simple jobs I sure would like to have a milling machine though before I started excepting anybody’s jobs.
Thanks Josh