Home Shop Machinists Podcast

By Max Phillips and Justin Siemens

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April 30, 2017 Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 5 – Cake Decorating and Hauling Iron
After getting confused as to what podcast they are recording, Max and Justin talk about hauling machine tools home. Of course the stories keep getting better and more ostentatious the more they are told. We also talk about: Max’s work … Continue reading →
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1h 38min
March 24, 2017Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 4 – From Grass Cutting to Space
Max and Justin invite Dan Sherman on for some general shop talk. We started talking about what is going on in the shop but in true home shop machinist fashion this episode heads off on several slightly off topic tangents. Within this episode:
Welding and machining, is it a left brain right brain sort of thing?
Justin gets a Schaublin 102 for the home shop!
Max trams his mini mill with epoxy. Would this be an episode without mentioning Stefan? Tramming a mill with epoxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Qs-J2swIc
Max’s pinion mill is coming along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPUKtlsjPRA
Dan is building camera mounts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RtZOJ7f2LE
We all wonder what normal people do with all their time since they don’t fix anything and don’t spend all their free time in the shop. We are really starting to sound like old farts.
Bench grinder balancing with a cellphone? Dan is interested and Justin has a shameless plug to his blog: https://thecogwheel.net/2016/07/06/bench-grinder-balancing-with-a-smart-phone/
The Davenport screw machine. Yes, you can still buy one! http://davenportmachine.com/
Check out the documentary Moon Machines on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTu8nanTJo7GvulBxz9JT9JcXeXimM1Vr) and When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085E40F4/
We also talk reel mowers, grass cutting, steel, surfers helping with the space program, the SR71 Blackbird, Koenigsegg and probably some stuff in between.
You can listen to the episode directly here:
https://thecogwheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/episode_004_from_grass_cutting_to_space.mp3
or you can download it directly.
Special thanks to Dan for joining us. Dan’s website: https://www.dans-hobbies.com/ Be sure to subscribe to Dan’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrnAb5KKg47gsiyfDxo-JJg
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
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March 24, 2017 Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 4 – From Grass Cutting to Space
Max and Justin invite Dan Sherman on for some general shop talk. We started talking about what is going on in the shop but in true home shop machinist fashion this episode heads off on several slightly off topic tangents. … Continue reading →
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1h 30min
February 05, 2017Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 3 – 10 Tools
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:
https://thecogwheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/episode_003_10_tools.mp3
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!
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January 08, 2017Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 2 – Über Machinist
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:
https://thecogwheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/episode_002_uber_machinist.mp3
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
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January 08, 2017 Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 2 – Über Machinist
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 … Continue reading →
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1h 19min
November 29, 2016Home Shop Machinists Podcast – Episode 1
Max and I finally got around to recording our first episode of a brand new podcast! In our first episode:
What’s happening in our shops (it’s getting cold!)
High Speed Steel – the Scottish man’s cutting tool of choice, and also most dutchmen
Quit spreading rumors about HSS bluing!
Don’t feed the monsters: quit buying those end mills in the wood box
Max’s tip: Do yourself a huge favor and buy a 3/8 HSS roughing end mill for your mini mill (a good quality one will last a long time!)
They are not Titanium drill bits!
Max untwists a drill
We talk for 1/2 hour longer than we planned. Consider it punishment.
Youtube links:
Mr. Pete’s tool grinding video, part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDr4rYLiAk
That really old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7g8yu2iYhY
Recommended Books:
L.H. Sparey’s Amateur’s Machinist. On Amazon here.
Here is a picture of the TIN drill Max managed to untwist:
We’ll get better at this, we hope. Please leave us feedback.
For now we are hosting it on my blog. You can listen to the episode directly here:
https://thecogwheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/episode_001_hss.mp3
or download it directly.
Subscribe in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/home-shop-machinists-podcast/id1180854521
Be sure to check out and follow Max on his blog, The Joy of Precision and also his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMt_havo3BxZJscvRCOGcw
My Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qMguQuG7N4CFwOP1jyo4A
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FAQs about Home Shop Machinists Podcast:

How many episodes does Home Shop Machinists Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.