Saving the Machine the World Forgot

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the ending segment with the wife was adorable lol, she's so excited about this machine

25:55 "That's as small as I can go with these letters" Well, thats the thing, your wife just made you letters that are 10 times smaller you can use!

A pantograph is used in the production of coins. The artist does not carve a coin at coin scale, but rather on a 8 to 10 inch disk. Once approved, the design is then scaled down, checked and cleaned up, then scaled down again until it's at a coin scale. All this is done in soft metals to keep the detail vivid. Once at coin scale, a steel inverted one to one blank is carved. It's from this blank that the working dies are then made. The scaled coin copies are sometimes sold to collectors. I had a special 6 inch silver nickle come across my desk when I was working for a recycler. That was really cool.

Hi, tip from the professional here: I've worked a lot with this machine. We ground a cutting edge at the tip of the cutter. The size of the cutting edge determines the flat surface in the letters. The cutters will always break off very sharply. The cutting edge must be slightly slanted and exposed to the rear. Thanks for your videos, greetings from Austria

Project idea: use the pantograph to make your own set of smaller template letters.

Hey, I've seen two of these on youtube now - Uri Tuchman also has one. It's good to see these old machines being looked after and appreciated.

Did not have any idea how much I wanted one of these machines until I saw it moving. That thing is mesmerizing!

"I made this wall removable." is the most brilliant thing I've heard this year. 10/10.

I felt that “I am going to make you make so many swirly curls” in my soul.

"*GASP* IT'S TINY! Oh! LOOK AT THE TINY!" -Mrs. Inheritance Machining Dude, your wife is awesome, you are awesome, and I love your interactions.

I live next to that Deckel factory in Munich. Went to school passing it in the 70th. I can literally see it from my home. BUT they gave it up und became DMG-Mori. So now that buildings are used by different companies and a private school. Deckel was always known for top notch machinery here around.

7:14 Small tip for strapping down things, whenever you have a length of strap exposed to wind in parallel with the wind's direction, put about 1 twist per 18-24 inches into the strap. Having those twists causes the wind to spiral around it and will prevent it from vibrating and slapping. It's the same reason why tall narrow smoke stacks have thin metal ribs that spiral around them.

A tip for the future, when moving machines with a shop crane, rest the load on a couple of 2X4's on the legs, stops it swaying. I have a Taylor Hobson, my first use was a brass plaque that read 'Residents only' for my cat door.

Very much yes! Congrats on your new machine!

Exactly what I used for engraving insignias, mould numbers and instructions. Figuring out height and width ratios and also necessary depths. It was a more relaxing part of toolmaking. Miss those days and glad to see you have saved this engraver. I never used D-bits, as you have found, they break easily. The best cutter is a 3-sided bit. You will need a Deckel tool grinder for that. I don't know if you have one. You start with a rod of tool steel and set at 20 degree angle and grind to a point first at 60deg then 120deg then 0deg and put an angular flat on the tip.

I love your interactions with your wife. It's amazing how much love is present and obvious from how you two speak to eachother

18:55 I think the reason it looks better is because the chisel tip hasn't reduced in size, but at a lower ratio, the spacing of everything has reduced. It gives the text a more bold appearance at reduced scale. It's a really good look, nice work.

Block ordered! I'm leaving on father's day to go down to my grandpa who was a master machinist during his career. I'm dragging a trailer with me in order to pick up his lathe and mill. I'm hopping I can bring this block with me in order to work on it with him before bringing his tools home to my shop. This channel raises the bar for what can be expected from YouTube entertainment.

The "don't mix my apples and oranges" pun was so clever lmao