Home Shop Machinists Podcast

Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 10 – Practitioner of the Mechanical Arts

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In this episode Max and Justin talk with the great Robin Renzetti, Practitioner of the Mechanical Arts (Robin – we hope you have that on your business card!).  We talk about:

  • Robin’s gifted ability of machining and all things mechanical
  • Robin’s resume.  A model of a helicopter rotor head.  And yes, he made very piece in his spare time!
  • A little bit about Robin’s shop
  • Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy
  • Turcite and gluing it with Loctite Black Max 380
  • Other Loctite products
  • Moore pattern scraping
  • Scraper sharpening
  • Spindle design & bearings
  • Import collet tricks
  • ER vs 5C style collets on work holding – make sure when using ER collets as work holding collets the stock sticks through the entire collet!
  • Pot collet runout and Robin’s pot collet setup:
  • Jaw chuck repeatability
  • Jacobs taper size
  • # screw size formula
  • Mapp gas turbo torch and silver soldering
  • Lathe file body oil
  • HSS belt sander backer

    • All that and much more for over 2 hours of listening!

    You can listen to it directly here:

    https://thecogwheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/episode_010_practitioner_of_the_mechanical_arts.mp3

    or you can download it directly.

    Many thanks goes out to Robin for taking the time to be on the show.  Be sure to give him a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinrenzetti/ and also subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ROBRENZ

    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 Max’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyofprecision/

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

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