Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
G'day everyone,
This is a fun retrospective video that I have been planning on doing for a while. The fly press is easily my favorite project that I have done in the workshop and apart from the lathe and mill, it is my favorite tool. However when I set out to make it there was no guarantee that I could even make it and I lacked a lot of the tools to even pull it off. Some of them I wouldn't be able to buy and had to make it myself, which I did over the course of 10 months. It was a real gamble with a lot of time and money spent in the pre production phase, and many long weekends spend trying to get it finished.
So in this video I would like to cover the journey from start to finish in a chronological(ish) order, listing all the projects involved and why. This is heavily edited down from the 4-5+ hour run time to something more manageable. I hope you enjoy the video.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:44 - Designing
3:40 - Steady Resting
5:50 - Helical Milling
9:00 - Screwing
10:18 - Tapping
16:22 - Tap Handling
18:24 - Vise..ing
20:13 - Fly Cutting
23:04 - Fly Pressing
36:05 - Summarizing
G'day everyone,
This is a fun retrospective video that I have been planning on doing for a while. The fly press is easily my favorite project that I have done in the workshop and apart from the lathe and mill, it is my favorite tool. However when I set out to make it there was no guarantee that I could even make it and I lacked a lot of the tools to even pull it off. Some of them I wouldn't be able to buy and had to make it myself, which I did over the course of 10 months. It was a real gamble with a lot of time and money spent in the pre production phase, and many long weekends spend trying to get it finished.
So in this video I would like to cover the journey from start to finish in a chronological(ish) order, listing all the projects involved and why. This is heavily edited down from the 4-5+ hour run time to something more manageable. I hope you enjoy the video.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:44 - Designing
3:40 - Steady Resting
5:50 - Helical Milling
9:00 - Screwing
10:18 - Tapping
16:22 - Tap Handling
18:24 - Vise..ing
20:13 - Fly Cutting
23:04 - Fly Pressing
36:05 - Summarizing
