@jmazoso
Thanks @millwaukee for hooking the boys up!. Love all my M18 tools
@1one3_Racing
The coolant on the mag drill is for an annular cutter. They have a pilot and annular bit and the coolant flows down the middle when you press the pilot in. For a regular twist drill you need to add cutting fluid or coolant manually. Usually cutting fluid works best because it doesn't splash everywhere.
@paulhunt598
When Milwaukee first introduced the M18 mag drill, it incorporated a failsafe feature so that it couldn't lose mag base power in a low battery condition. Look into that feature detail. This is important when "clamped" to the side or underneath. I have never used a battery mag drill, but I bet that it is a dream. Our shop owned a 1980's vintage Milwaukee mag drill. We used it seldom, but it was quite a tool. Later, we added an import smaller corded mag drill. The smaller drill incorporated some more modern features and was so much lighter and smaller that I preferred it over the much beefier Milwaukee. Early in my career, our shop was retrofitting a fully assembled printing press for a customer upgrade request before shipping. We didn't want to disassemble a $1M+ new and operational machine to get a 1.5" thick major side frame section into a mill to create a large pass through the frame hole required for the retrofit installation. Machine shop concocted the idea that we could horizontally hole saw the hole with about a 6" hole saw using that large Milwaukee mag drill IF I could make the mag drill variable speed to slow down the drill so hole saw to appropriate surface cutting speed. The Milwaukee AC motor was not variable speed. I am only a maintenance electrician, but I built a DC power supply using a beefy rectifier and Variac from shop surplus and rewired the mag drill for DC. The Variac gave me voltage adjustability for the armature, and I didn't vary the field voltage. I had no idea if I guessed correctly on sizing everything to handle the load and torque, but it worked flawlessly. It took several hours to hole saw through the assembled machine frame. A machinist did that task. The machining retrofit was completed within a single day compared to weeks of disassembly and production interruption. The customer got his retrofit upgrade timely and at an affordable expense. I was briefly a shop hero. I kept my mag drill retrofit setup for at least 20 years after restoring the mag drill to OEM design AC on the off chance that we would employ it again. We never used it again. I was disappointed when a subsequent Lean Manufacturing 5S project in our maintenance shop elected to throw out my invention trophy. By this time, our company had grown substantially, multiple ownerships, and new people didn't remember the day that my mag drill retrofit saved our company the sale of that printing press. That story happened in the 1980's??? Watching you enjoy your new Milwaukee toy reminded me of that long ago event. It was just a normal day in the life of a maintenance man. But there was a brief moment that my role stepped up to company hero. My maintenance role seldom had any direct production impact. Maintenance was facility and production support. It was only a small deal, but it brought me a lot of personal pride. We had no engineers on staff at that time that understood how to design or build my drill retrofit. I never completed college and didn't get to shine frequently above our educated staff.
@revert2625
Dear Milwaukee: I need a mag drill too!
@Machines.In.Action
This isn’t a repair, it’s a full-blown transformation episode! Can’t wait to see this beast rise from the ashes (again)... 🧰💪
@dans_Learning_Curve
At the time of this writing you have 608,000+ subscribers! Congratulations!!
@terenceblanchette9059
My winters project is miniscule compared to your undertaking. All I'm doing is swapping out the whole rear end on a 60 year old 85 horsepower tractor. I pulled the top cover off and replaced the hydraulic pump with a new one. Changed out the wheel centers, tires and rims. New battery box and step. Going to r and r the power steering box on the front axle next. Remount the fenders and rewire all the lights. Put new hydraulic hoses and outlets on. Set up hydraulic power beyond to run the loader with constant hydraulic flow. Will still have 2 outlets for the back of the tractor. After that I guess we'll see what comes up. I'm like you guys, I enjoy building and rebuilding things. I've had at least 2 projects every winter for 4 or 5 years now. I'm 72 and this keeps me young I hope? Great project you guys, a real challenge and a great accomplishment when done.
@benpattinson1
“Where have you been all my life” so true. I now need a mag drill.
@russellgilson4072
Bob and his boys are impressive with their mechanical ability!
@rs2024-s4u
I would install an oil temp gauge to monitor the PTO box then you will never accidently over tax the (no) cooling PTO. Since you don't have the work load sensors that are common on modern electronic tractors I would make my own and I would also install an EGT gauge for the engine (exhaust temp gauge) and you will always know if you either need to back off/slow down or you can go faster w/o over taxing your engine. In fact a complete set of temp. gauges is a great way to keep your tractor happy especially if you get gauges that have adj. overheat lights this will pay for itself many times over in production gains (going faster when you can and backing off when it's called for) and overheat repairs and down time. This build is amazing it's not my money but I'd add the A/C and Heat up front so you do not put it off. Ray
@volvojohn9036
Just a suggestion, split your fan shroud horizontally (lot of vehicles do) so ANY future work needed on the front of the engine you can easily remove the fan shroud. (I've never seen it but even consider splitting it on a vertical line, unbolt and the halves split out to the sides.)
@ascott6804
Have never had Milwaukee problems!! The Best Ice beer ive ever had!!
@TexasGTO
I'm extremely proud I cut off and welded back on my receiver on my trailer. Y'all take this whole thing to another level! lol
@philm9750
Thx for videos! You may want to put a temperature gage with high temp alarm light to indicate to the operator when the PTO box should be shut down till it cools off.
@BR-bj3ot
Is Bob not feeling well? Prayers for Bob and a speedy recovery. I don’t think I’ve ever met ( or not met) a better man. One can see the humility, love and kindness in him through these videos. I’ve said it before. I will say it again… The Welkers are an incredible, faith filled, hard working family. I pray that your channel brings you additional financial benefits and much success. You are worthy of all of your success. I feel like I’m a member of the family for some reason? Sounds strange but it’s true. God bless
@LundRebel
That mag drill brings back many fond memories. They are the cats meow. This bud's going to be a BMF.
@kaceesavage
Getting so close, can’t wait to see her in paint, but even sandblasted will look cool!
@Mark-ry4ye
You guys work remarkably well together no screaming and yelling 😂
@EvanC8
That magnetic drill press is awesome
@StruggleMill