I needed to make lots of custom screws and bolts, so I machined a big Lantern Chuck for my Colchester lathe. I put this out originally a few days ago and the sound balance was dreadful. This remix is a lot kinder on delicate ears.
The tool needs to handle 8mm stainless cap bolts as well as the M3 and M4 screws and bolts. I took inspiration from a video by Shelly142 in 2017 at homemadetools.net, which used a magnetic bit-holder that takes 1/4 inch screwdriver bits. Huge thanks to Shelly142 for the idea.
The other spur to action was that Emma from Emma's Spareroom Machineshop runs an annual Tool Fest, with this year's tag being #toolfest2021. Makers make a tool and share the video with a common hashtag. It's very jolly.
I was suffering from The Big Sad too much, grieving for Caroline, my wife of 34 years, who died in June 2021, so I missed the deadline of course.
Anyway, my OTHER excuse was that the Chihuahuas ate my homework.
Links:
Drawings of the two main parts www.g4dbn.uk/?p=1727
sorry they are not complete, but there's a lot of flexibility in the design
** IMPORTANT NOTICE - GLOVE SAFETY ISSUES **
Please be aware that OSHA and other bodies mandate NEVER wearing gloves when using rotating machinery. I wear flimsy nitrile gloves to control raging dermatitis and because I understand and accept the small but finite risk of additional serious injury from wearing those gloves and being careless. My shop, my rules, my life, my risk appetite. Please don't tell me I'm taking unwarranted risks. I'm taking a very carefully calculated risk between a 100% certain outcome of painful dermatitis and a near-zero likelihood but huge impact of an accident caused by wearing gloves and the rather higher, but still tiny, risk of me doing something careless and the resulting injury being worse than if I had bare hands. I have no dependants and no life insurance, no employer or insurance company who needs to avoid legal or regulatory action. I see all of the anecdotal reports and a few horrific cases, and I am entirely aware of the potential impact. I do real risk mitigation and impact analysis professionally and I would genuinely be interested in statistics and research papers to help evaluate the elevated risk level I am accepting with my potentially inappropriate risk appetite.
** DO NOT COPY ME **
Astute, discerning and observant viewers may notice that I am NOT obsessed with tidiness. Bravo, 10/10, Gold Star, pat on the back for realising.. I also wish I would clean up a bit, but you are not my mother, so please hush
I have an opinion to force on you: I like this a lot, carry on please.
That's the sort of forced opinion I like! Your wish is my command!
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Tidiness is an opposing force to creativity. One manager insisted on saying to me: "A messy desk is a sign of a messy mind." I oft noted tbat his desk was a sparkling expanse of polished oak...this always brought to me a corollary to his saying: "An empty desk is a sign of an empty mind..."
I’m sorry to hear Caroline passed away. It’s very sad to hear. I love your videos and can say that I get a lot of inspiration from it for my own machining hobby. Thank you so much for all the great content.
Thanks, the grief has passed and I'm feeling much more positive about life and I have a new partner who has been a friend of mine and Caroline for 32 years. I'm sure that C would approve. Messing about on KZhead has been a huge help in recovering from my loss. The helpful and positive comments have been really good.
Nitrile gloves are AWESOME to work around in the shop. They keep your hands clean and break at the slightest contact with a sharp surface or when pinched. I use them all the time particularly because my wife is not fond of "railway worker" (shop smell) and does not like me touching things with smelly hands, particularly her knobs. Lovely lantern chuck, added to my project list .
A poster in my shop reads "A CLEAN SHOP IS THE SIGN OF AN IDLE MIND" Says it all for me.
Heh heh, I'm getting round to cleaning the place now I have a replacement shop vac, but I haven't dared do the Dark Corners, where The Scuttling Things lurk.
@@MachiningandMicrowaves Well, adding on reads the one below the first that states "GENIUS IS MESSY". So I have an excuse regardless of what's going on.
Well done sir. I am sorry for your loss: I hope you find comfort and strength to carry on. God bless you!!
May her memory always be a blessing to you.
The use of ear wax to tap the M6 thread in the stainless steel body was ingenious. As a retired 'old school' engineer it is a pleasure to watch real engineering taking place.
powertapping that deep in stainless, you are a true madman and rebel!
I suddenly feel the urge to daub myself in woad and deerskin and rush off into the forest waving a spear.
I only just came across your channel and subscribed straight away, top notch stuff. I'm sorry for your loss.
I didn't mind the old video's sound balance, but then again I have the volume low enough that if a video is boring and I decide to take a nap I won't be woken. I did thoroughly enjoy the extra rant. Once the nitrile glove ASMR enthusiasts find your channel the analytics will skyrocket!
So if I'd ever thought I could join the masses doing machining videos on KZhead, I'm now even further from taking the plunge. Your low-key humour is way more entertaining that I could ever be. So I do need socks....Oh, and I'm with you on the rant too.
He is the reason I took in consideration my 26 years of experience and started watching videos my professional career on you tube with a different outlook. once I saw how my comments could and do probably seem like a keyboard warrior . I don't care how clean a shop is cause everyone's perception on cleanliness is well there's alone.no more comments on how to tune,build a engine,transmission,rewire,or weld up any type of steel or alloys.and machine parts to a engine or job shop. Great video and content. I have learned quite a few things and tricks from you.thank you .
SUBSCRIBED AMIGO!! Great work as always. My sincerest condolences to you and your family. 🙏
Hi Neil ! I can't tell how much I have been enjoying your channel !!! I just found it today and subscribed right away. I am just a young punk (47 years old), but can tell you right now that my retirement is going to include HAM and hobby machining. I have been waffling on the HAM licence (here in Canada the testing is still quite rigorous) but think I could pass it with a little prep. More importantly, I've been collecting tooling and machines in my new garden garage. I am so sorry for your loss, but I want you to know the new family you have created by sharing your talents will always be here for you. I am off to binge watch your other videos and take notes..... Sooo much to learn !!!!!!
I did the right thing and passed the UK exam to get mylicence as soon as I was old enough. At 14, you know everything and have no idea of the limits of your knowledge and experience, so everything seems easy. Some time later, I spent a rather intense day passing all of the exams and 20 wpm Morse test to get my US Extra license. Everything is so easy when you are young. I messed up the renewal, so now someone else hold K1NS, but if I re-take the Tech exam, I can renew my Extra and get a new call. I rather fancy retiring, but work keeps throwing money in return for me doing amusing things with cybersecurity, networking and architecture. I always said I only went into this computer lark as a temporary job to tide me over until I could find a proper job. Somehow the Proper Job never materialised and I've been messing with computers of one sort or another since 1972. Dreadful things, computers.
Love your work and sense of humor - hang in there brother.
Luv seeing someone who uses the proper speeds and feeds for the different tools. And thanks for showing the making of a tool I never heard of or have seen used. Very interesting.
I try to listen to the machine and the material in an attempt to get good chip formation rather than sticking to the published rates for each tool/material combination, as those are usually based on wearing out the tool fairly rapidly and using lots of horsepower to shift material as rapidly as possible in the pursuit of Profit. As I'm only capable of pursuing Loss, I'm more interested in precision and finish and not making chips like razor wire that fast cycle times. Sometimes though I just can't get the chip load high enough because of only having a 3HP motor from four decades ago. That's perhapswhy I sometimes use high-rack polished inserts that are meant for non-ferrous on steel instead (to the horror of the assembled multitudes). Sometimes I just get it wrong, but the old Colchester has a super gearbox and I also have the variable speed inverter control, so I can even do the right thing with a fake CNC lathe spindle speed-up as the diameter of cut falls on facing cuts and pretend it's a Mazak and I'm cosplaying as Edge Precision. "Probably not..." Must go watch some Vice Grip Garage, it's been a long evening in the shop making Delrin ribbons.
@@MachiningandMicrowaves Delrin ribbons will force you to do the dreaded clean up LOL
@@michelecrown2426 If I get the aim right, I can get the ribbon to arc over the toolpost directly into the bin. I never seem to achieve that when the camera's rolling, but one day.... KZhead Shorts here I come. I nearly made one last night, but I fell asleep instead. It's probably for the best.
I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your dear wife, time is the only healing medicine I know for that I speak from experience of losing someone. Your videos are wonderful I enjoy them very much carry on brother
Time is definitely helping as everyone said it would, but I still have some days when I am entirely defeated and can't face talking to anyone and just sink into doing complicated fluid dynamics modelling of condenser microphone membranes. Today was one of those. The good weeks are now outnumbering the bad days though. I just wish I had more time to have fun making videos. Speaking of which, the current one is three days overdue because I'm waiting for parts, so I've been shooting another two in the interim, but that's not going to keep the KZhead Algorithm happy unless I publish one soon!
@@MachiningandMicrowaves One of these days, you'll catch yourself wondering why she hasn't called you for dinner yet. Happened to me, sort of. Takes a moment to recover.
@@cdorcey1735 It would have been our wedding anniversary in two days and in three days it'll be a year since she died. The thing I miss most is being able to tell her things like how there is a Goldcrest living in the garden and that it takes regular baths in the raised pond I built, or that we have three Wren nests and two Blackbirds are nesting in my workshop, and how Daisy, the junior Chihuahua is sitting by the holes where the rats live and catching the current generation and laying one next to my chair each day as a gift, and how the Swifts are back and how beautiful all the roses are. I'm still in bits, but the bad weeks and good days are now bad days and good weeks, so that feels like progress.
It is a very fine piece of work. Losing someone dear to you is more punishing than many physical injuries. May God and Time bless you and Comfort you Sir.
Some of the weird effects on my mental state have been a surprise. In early 2021, I ran a group purchase for a hundred sets of parts, cases, printed circuit boards and connectors to make up kits for a 10 GHz transverter. Caroline worked on it with me while she was still able to. I keep trying to get started on collating, packaging and shipping the kits, but the notes and labels have her writing on and I am just completely defeated by the task. £7500 of parts sitting here needing to be made up into kits. It just feels totally stupid and I can't even come up with any logical reason to offer to those folks who are waiting. I need to try a totally new approach to dealing with this. The thing is, Caroline would mock me mercilessly for being a sentimental and oversensitive idiot and tell me to stop overthinking everything and just DO IT. I need to book a week off work and lock myself in her sewing-room with several photos of her watching me so I don't lose heart and run away to hide from my responsibilities. Trouble is I have 20 other critically urgent tasks that are equally as important and equally as late, so it's easy to rationalise that by doing and finishing five of those instead, I'm making more progress than just doing 90% of the kit collation and not finishing it within the timescale available. Ten days off work perhaps then....
@@MachiningandMicrowaves you gotta do one of those jrgent 20 tasks. Just one. Doesn't matter which one.
Whereabouts do you live? We can find someone to come and help for a few days. Sounds (to my ears) like we are in the same country at least and I need a few days off work
@@Nono-hk3is I've completed and ticked off at least eleventeen of the twenty tasks and now I've only got 37 left! Although I just got another one today that is SUPER-interesting and might have to go to number 3 on the list.
@@steveganly3508 I live in a secret mountain lair, as befits all mad scientists bent on world domination. It isn't a very BIG mountain. THAT's why it remains secret!
Just found your channel yesterday, I like your thoughts on gloves and cleanliness. And I like your responses to the negative comments. It might be ok to give advice to beginners, but people should just sit back, be quiet, and enjoy the work of a master. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank You.
I love getting good and useful advice about what I'm doing wrong and things I haven't spotted. I've had some really perceptive comments and suggestions from seriously expert folks out there. I'm just wildly allergic to armchair H&S nerds, and I respond with *extreme* prejudice if I feel like I'm being bullied. Anyway, all is sweetness and light, the bits of the shop that get seen in the videos are clean enough to eat lunch off (if you don't mind cutting oil and odd bits of swarf in your sandwiches obvs). I'm very slowly getting new cupboards and drawers fitted, and moving some stuff out into a new area for sawing, grinding and welding, and setting up a separate indoor area for metrology, which will make for better precision and liberate space for some other machines. Also setting up a 3D print area in one of my other workshops and an electroplating/electroforming zone in another one of the old farm buildings. Then there's the metalcasting area and the antenna range and all the other jobs I don't have time for! At some point in the far future, I'll have the space organised so it looks like an operating theatre, but the eventual heat death of the Universe may arrive first. Right, back to making huge volumes of Delrin ribbons in the cause of Science.
Just found your videos they give me great joy! All the best to you!
I'm having a lot of fun making vids, it's very cool that other folks like watching them!
Your channel is great. Thanks for making stuff and bringing us along with you.
I'm having a lot of fun, it's cool to see that other folks are enjoying coming along for the ride!
I'd never heard of a lantern chuck before now. Now I'm educated! Lovely video!
There'll be a more classical Lantern Chuck coming along in a future video. That one uses a solid body with long side openings like the nut in this one, but the mechanism is tightened differently. That means the axis of the screw is much more tightly controlled. This version is great for screews between M2.5 and M8, or indeed Imperial sizes in that range. The new one will be for the M1.0 to M3 range, mainly for making special tuning posts and small fixing screws for microwave kit. Watchmakers have been using lantern chucks for this sort of work for ever. I just need to think how to make it pretty and shiny and a joy to use.
That's a neat fixture! Never saw something like that before today. I just split a nut with a hacksaw and use it as a clamping fixture in the 3 jaw. If its a long screw I will use 2 nuts. Thanks for the video.
I Love your rants, that is exactly how I feel about the KZhead "Do Gooder's." Much truth in your words!
The algorithm got something right it seems :) Happy to have stumbled upon this project and your great sense of humor. Thanks for including us on the journey :)(definitely subbed and liked)
Welcome aboard, pull up a chair. This next video should have been the current one and it might end up as the next-but-one release at this rate of progress. The Parts are Misbehavin'..... Still, it's good news for the scrap bin, he said, trying desperately to find a chink of light amongst the gathering gloom of impending failure. I think I should retire to my boudoir and give up on today completely.
@@MachiningandMicrowaves Remember, anytime you learn something in the process, its not a failure. Its research :)
Tidying up is notoriously dangerous. Gloves or no gloves. Subscribed. Also: as a native Spanish speaker I can assure you that your comment somewhere down here in Spanish do make perfect sense. It is quite pleasant to see a creator take the time and effort to reply to a foreign viewer. Cheers!
I am not very good at languages, I can get by in French, so long as the discussion is about technical matters or cuisine. I work for a German business so I can read German enough to get by, and I know a little Russian and Welsh and Scots Gaelic, I can follow Spanish text and sometimes Italian. I can follow a little Polish, but I'm embarrassed to say that my knowledge of Mandarin, Japanese, Tagalog, Arabic, Nordic languages and the myriad of other languages out there is sadly lacking. I think English-speaking folk do have it very easy when so many people from other countries speak English. I have many friends who speak Spanish and they are a great help. My sister-in-law is French and I have several friends who are fluent in French, but they usually have no idea what I'm talking about with all the slang, technical terms and abbreviations in messages I ask them to check. I think it's basic courtesy for me to read messages in other languages and at least *try* to respond.
'Those of us not blessed with the tidiness gene" - LOL, so glad I'm not the only one that isn't.
Your shop, do it your way. Condolences for your wife. Just became a subscriber.
I'm installing a spiffy overhead suction tube thing on a tension hanger so I can pull it down to clean the machines without dragging the shop vac around. With the vac itself outside the shop, it is fairly quiet as well. I'm using a large bin as a catch-tank for fluids and shavings so the shop vac only has to deal with fine dust and the filters should last much longer. I'll probably lose hammers and wrenches up that tube with the amount of suction it will have. Marvellous. The downside is that now I can see where all the patches of bare metal are where the paint has worn off. I preferred it with that protective film of oil and brass dust. Ho hum.
@@MachiningandMicrowaves My wife complains about my shop being dusty and dirty (I do both metal work and wood work) so I told her, you don't like it, you clean it. Hasn't bothered me since.
@@ngauge22 That does sound like a slightly risky tactic!
As a newcomer to your channel I was impressed right from the start with the name dropping of one of my favourite KZheadrs who seems to keep his machines spotless and advises if you see any machinist wearing gloves, long sleeves, jewellery etc TURN OFF. I'm glad I didn't. I'm now a subscriber to you as well as his channel. A fantastic video full of tips and knowledge. I was very impressed with the tailstock DRO and I will almost look into one for my machine. Thanks for making this and passing it on. Steve
I am SO tempted to remake that video with not a single glove in sight and free of rant. Now I have the new shop-vac the lathe and mill are almost acceptably shiny, some of the time. It must be great for folks who have the time in their lives to keep their workshops looking like an operating theatre. Machine shop work is a tiny part of my time and there are hundreds of other things that I *should* be doing instead, plus the day job, family and occasional sleep. Anyway, all my recent videos only have gloves in them when the spindles are off and when the air-hose isn't broken, they are relatively free of chips. I can't say the parts are any better as a result, but I have to spend less time dealing with complaints! That tailstock DRO has been mightily useful, although for anything REALLY critical, I use a long-travel dial indicator, because the linearity of those cheap scales isn't brilliant in parts of the range. If you only care to within 0.02 mm or a thou of hole depth, then this thing works a treat. Only thing to watch is clearance when using a live centre in the tailstock. If you make one, mock something up first to make sure you don't foul the "ear" on the toolpost before making the collar.
Got to love the Southern English accent, full of humour and understated knowledge.
Heh heh, that's either a marvellous piece of God-level trolling, or ironic Horatian satire worthy of a certain Old Tony. I suppose Lincolnshire counts as the North-East Midlands, but my birthplace is about as Northern as Manchester or Sheffield. I've only ever been accused of being Southern by folk from Northumberland. I am geographically Northern, my accent is Northern, but hey, Southern is only two letters different from Northern. Oooh, perhaps I should think of myself as Eastern? Existential Crisis! Aaaargh!
@@MachiningandMicrowaves I left that message this morning April 1st. ;)
@@Horus9339 It was beautifully timed! Hahahaha! Hook, Line and Sinker. Perfect.
Very enjoyable watching and thanks for posting.atn Pete
LOL, As it should be! My chip pans and machines are full of chips ands oil most days too. They seem happier that way! Cheers
Indeed. Making machines happy is a noble and honourable pursuit.
Everyone has their list of do's and don'ts. Carry on sir....
Hey, as long as you don't damage your ways, a bit of untidyness doesn't bother, right? A tidy shop is an empty mind, right? Right? No? I'll see myself out.
I really enjoyed the lantern chuck video and it's been added to the project list. I'll get round to it RSN, as unlike you, I've retired from network management and security at a certaain university, having also failed to find a proper job over the decades. Meanwhile, the swarf on my Myford provides evidence to The Management, when she peers across the threshhold, that the expensive object does actually get used. I too had to retire my shop vac after two and a half decades of (ab)use but I bought a new one at the end of last year. I've used it four times already.
I need to make a more classic lantern chuck for the really REALLY tiny screws at M1.6 and smaller. This one is getting a surprising amount of use.
~8:40 I whole-heatedly agree!
I was in an uncharacteristically ranty mood earlier. I'm usually chilled, calmness incarnate, full to the brim with bonhomie and regard for humanity. Now and then I do get a bit snarky though...
True story: About 40 years ago, I needed to some machine work done that the local shop said that he couldn't do. They told me about a shop in East Point that they thought could do the job for me. The shop was in the "old part of town" and sure enough the shop was an old wooden building that was quite large. I could tell that at one time this had been a bustling business. Well the thing is the building had, at one time, been on fire. All the machines were driven by the "over head" pulley system. There were great wooden columns and overhead beams that were charred from the fire, some halfway through. The canvas belts had burned away and had been replaced with used ones. The pulleys and shafts hand all the paint burned off and were rusted severely. The owner had kicked the ashes under the machines and created little paths to walk in and continued business as usual. I, now, wish that I would have taken pictures of that place because I fear that no one will believe me.
Brilliant!
Just think about how much wasted time is spent on fastidious cleaning, when you know for sure that you are immediately going to scatter debris upon it. I absolutely have other ways to spend my life. Great explanation you did with appropriate labels for other people with tidiness problems. You and I are going to get along great !
Love your realistic approach. I have my shop like that, the holders on the carriage, chips everywhere, and I don't cover the bed when I polish threads. I don't trust the obnoxiously tidy and clean types.
My mom always asked where I kept the hand grenades I used to turn my clean bedroom into the junk yard I like it as. Keep up the good work!
The bits where I point the camera are mostly spotlessly clean these days. The rest, not so much, but soon there will be a major transformation in the shop as lots of changes are happening to make the space more usable. Various things are moving to the other workshop and I'm invading the house with some of the metrology stuff and setting up a separate welding/grinding/plasma area and an outdoor metalcasting area, a 3D printing area for filament and resin, electroplating/electroforming and somehow dealing with the woodworking tools and all that horrible dust. Then I need to re-jig the radio/electronics lab and the study where I work most of the time. No time to do anything right now though. I need to retire, but they keep throwing money and it comes in useful to buy stuff to make the place untidy
Sorry for your loss. Mike
Nice one. Thanks for sharing 👍
I am sorry for your wife. Sometimes working hard makes one forget the pain.
Hi, I bought an old southbend Lathe about 10 years ago, Managed to build a quarter size Steam Tractor "John Fowler" design and have continued since to repair and manufacture numerous tool's and gear as needed, previous to this the last thing i made in metal was, a poker at school! Now a pal of mine who worked in Engineering decided because i had gone this way! so would He, Oh Big Lathe, Big Mill 3 phase all singing and dancing stuff, WELL the most used item of tooling in his 30k workshop is a SWEEPING BRUSH! and he messes about making crap, just occasionally when he could be bothered visiting my Shed he would look around and smirk at the state of the place wanting to clean up, Ah well i'm still ding Steam Stuff that works and He's still sweeping and polishing, and growing old. Continue as you are Pal, Don't let the Bu--ers grind ya down.
Hahahaha! Excellent!
I am doing an oversize version of this. I will do a small one like this some day too - I already have the quarter inch drive bits that I bought specifically to do this project, but never got around to is. (Also delaying the project was the fact that I had to make a collet chuck from an old BMW wheel hub and a piece of square stock - because none of the round stuff was big enough! And then some procrastination a few times over!)
I hope you'll be able to share the end results! I need to make a tiny version to help make some solid silver M1.6 and M1.2 screws soon, perhaps I won't need to use a wheel hub!
@@MachiningandMicrowaves No, I suspect a car wheel hub may be a bit too chunky for that use. I will report back with "how it went". I've got the brass nut and main part threaded and generally shapes, but still need to make a hole through the main steel part, and then all the small fiddly drilling and threading steps... But going well so far. Probably won't get it done until the weekend... Oh, and of curse milling the cut outs on the side of the brass nut. Which means I have to tram the mill, as it's currently off-kilter. Why is it, every time you try to do one fairly simple job, it always turns into 4 other jobs first... :)
@@matspatpc It's The Law. The number of side quests and rabbit holes is theoretically infinite for any interesting job
Fantastic work many thanks for the instructive video.
Thanks Phil, just about to publish the latest video in 30 seconds or so! Cheers, Neil
As I was coming back into the house from the shop I remembered that there are creams that might allow you to not wear gloves. You might look into hand barrier creams such as Workman's Friend. If you find one you like let us know in a video. Oils don't bother me but using the parts washer which has paint thinner does.
This is an extremely well made tool and performs it's job perfectly. I think I would go another directly. Octagon stock for a three jaw chuck, clearance, drill, tap for the screw to be "adjusted", flip and trim the stock to the length you want to make the screws, turn in reverse. Would have to make one for each length and size screw but sure would be faster and so much simpler. Could use a tool steel stock so you could harden if you felt necessary. But you see, I'm impatient and like to get on with things when I'm at work. Now that I'm retired, I think I would make one just like this. ;o)
I think if I could get left-handed stub drills and reamers in a sensible range of sizes *at a reasonable price*, that would make good sense, as I could use the rear toolpost with the lathe in reverse for right-handed screws without having to use inverted tools in the front toolpost. There are two main defects with this design compared with a classic lantern chuck. First is that the collet alignment depends on the threaded barrel, so there's a limit to the precision for chamfering or drilling the screws. Anything smaller than M3 is really a step too far. Also, the axial position is defined by the screwdriver bit and the slot/hex/torx/PH/PZ in the head of the screw rather than the underside of the head. In terms of speed, I tighten and loosen it under power when the safety police aren't watching, so it's pretty fast operate, especially on short screws. It worked very well making the M8 brass tipped screws in kzhead.info/sun/ic2LgdmZgqppnKM/bejne.html but For proper precision work, it really needs the collet to fix into a solid body with side windows and then have pressure applied to the screw head using a sliding or rotating plunger. I'm thinking of making one as I need to make a load of *really* tiny tuning screws threaded M1.2 or M1.6 or extra fine threads on M2.5. The privilege I have of being able to waste endless time making stuff a particular way for the pure pleasure of doing it, is not lost on me. It certainly IS a privileged position, not having to care about choosing the most efficient/fastest/cheapest technique just so I can feed my family. Lots of fun ahead! I must make a vid about threading in reverse with that rear toolpost... Cheers, Neil
Best safety rant ever! Clip it out and make a short out of it and I'll help it go viral.
Imagine the howls of anguish and complaint and outrage from the safetybros though. There's enough stress and anger in the world without me triggering anyone else. I vented and drew a line in the sand. Some of the inspiration for the rant came from the fantastic track about self-harm by Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, "Magician's Assistant". It's very dark. kzhead.info/sun/nbmCg7mmmqhorIU/bejne.html "as you said before, this just affects you. It's your life, your body, so you can choose what you do. And if one day you can't rein it in, And of your last breath you are the only witness, Then so be it, cause it's your last breath, And it's nobody else's business." But of course it is, there are others that would be affected if I get killed or maimed. However, it will be because of my carelessness, not my choice of whether to wear flimsy nitrile gloves occasionally. It's not a hill I'm going to die on or even try to defend. I totally get it that folks who have had terrible experiences or suffered merciless indoctrination might feel they have some sort of divine right to wade in on the attack, yelling in capitals like armchair trolls, but if that happens, I bite back. Hard. Otherwise I am entirely chilled and bumble along with a cheery and generally beneficent outlook on life, accepting legitimate critiques of my techniques with equanimity and good-natured acquiescence, or sometimes a counter-argument to justify my position, even it is just "I have more fun doing it this way", which seems an entirely reasonable philosophical framework to adopt. Yeh, it's a result of huge privilege, doing this as a hobby just for the sheer hell of it, and not caring about costs or time or Management or feeding my family. The album version on "Angles" with Dan's noise accompaniment to Pip's words is quite a thing too by the way kzhead.info/sun/iaxyc9yFbaFjmIE/bejne.html
Hi, by the looks of it you have a Colchester lathe, maybe even a Colchester Triumph 2,000 which is an excellent lathe with clearly defined charts and leavers for screw cutting. Although I was trained as a professional, in my retirement years and with a home workshop I have to suffer a lathe of much lesser quality than yours. I have to change gear wheels for the required imperial or metric thread pitches that I require. For that reason because one could easily make a mistake selecting the different gears, I actually believe it is useful to do a scratch pass and check the pitch with a thread gauge before continuing . Your content is interesting and I might have a go at this as I believe it could be a very useful addition to my workshop. It is always nice to use a quality home made tool. Thank you very much foe sharing, you clearly have good turning and milling skills, always a pleasure to watch. Having watched to the end I heard you mention Bridgeport so maybe I was wrong about your lathe type, either way it is a very fine piece of kit. So sorry to hear about your loss, in time hopefully the good times you had will replace some of those horrible feelings of grief and loss. Wishing you the best going forward from a cold and damp Plymouth UK.
The Lathe is a Colchester Student 1800 that has been very well cared for since it was bought new by the previous owner in 1982. The ways are still good and straight and the bearings are in great condition. The comments abotu scratch passes are entirely tongue-in-cheek, I once wrecked a part because I'd left the 1.75 mm gear in the threading dial when cutting a 1.25 mm thread. Gearbox was set up perfectly, but the indicator was telling porkies. Lesson learned. It's a great luxury to have a gearbox that can do almost any metric or imperial thread without any change wheels. I also have a Bridgeport milling machine from 1962 that's had a rather harder life in a technical college, but it can still make good parts if I'm careful to stay out of the potential problem areas where there are looser spots on the main leadscrew where there is a little more backlash so I have to put some tension on the locks if I'm climb milling, and there is a subtle difference in surface finish when flycutting 4 inch wide copper blocks when milling right to left compared with left to right that is probably caused by asymmetric leadscrew wear. I might swap the leadscrews for ballscrews one day.
I watched a video of yours earlier and I enjoyed it. I even commented. I just finished your rant around @9:15 and you instantly earned a subscription. I also made use of the bell for all it's worth. That said - manage your own personal risk and bugger off when it comes to mine.
I wish I had more time to make vids, it's huge fun, but the day job pays the bills. I'm aiming to get one a week produced, but I'm doing three at once right now as two of them need to be ready for release when a magazine is published and they need the URL by press date, so that's delaying this week's vid. I need to retire...
Nice to see someone else using inserts for aluminium on steel. I have been suggesting these as a way assist mini lathes in getting the job done. They are so cheap it hardly matters if they don't last too long. My cnc lathes are only 1/2hp at the spindle so I have had to learn to cheat any way I can to get the job done. I was watching another of your videos and was going to ask what a lantern chuck was and it turned up in an end card!
The algorithm knows what you're thinking! I just bought a load of those polished positive inserts from Cutwel on a special offer, so I can afford to use some on stainless. My lathe has a 3HP motor and it can take serious cuts on 4140 to get a really nice finish with a coated insert, but on stainless, light finishing cuts with the aluminium inserts seem to work fine. They also give a super finish on Titanium unless you stop feeding, then they go white hot and ignite the chips. Titanium fires in a bird's nest of stringy chips tangled round the toolpost are FUN
@@MachiningandMicrowaves that would be the only time the algorithm has done me any favours, certainly not helping my channel very much. I figured that end card was selected by you, or was it one of those best for viewer cards?
@@smallcnclathes Can't remember, but I usually pick "latest" and "best for viewer". Subscribed to your channel
@@MachiningandMicrowaves Thanks for the sub, I just reciprocated.
I had a job to shorten many hundreds of allen head screws like that. Doing them one at a time like that would take forever. I just took a flat bar and tapped a row of holes in it , screwed in 15 screws, put it in the mill and lopped them all off. I ground a bit for the fly cutter (no not the kind of fly cutter that all the bone heads copy from each other) that would both face mill on the outer edge and cut a 45 deg on its inside edge such that if it is brought down on the screw it cuts a 45 chamfer on the screw. Since I spaced the screw an even distance I could just turn the mill handle 2 turns to move from screw to screw. 1) Mill across 2) Center on #1 3) down chamfer 4) two turns 5) down chamfer #2 etc. etc. EASY PEASY, job was done perfectly in a couple of hours.
Yep, done exactly the same thing lots of times where there's a batch to do. I have a drawer full of different bits of bar with lines of holes in various threads. Those lantern chucks are useful where you need to machine a ball or domed face or form a precise parallel section or remove part of the thread or machine part of the thread off and cut a different thread, or length the thread of a plain-shanked bolt like I did last week. OK, that could be done on a mill with a die in a collet chuck, but not if the bolt had a countersunk head. It might be easier to single-point it, especially if it needs a fillet or a gutter at the end of the thread. For short runs and one-offs and weird stuff, it's a useful thing to have around where a slab of plate with tapped holes isn't feasible. Also much easier just to buy the right size screws in the first place I guess! Also it was a fun little project and I have the ultimate luxury of not having to earn my living from machining (or indeed, microwave radio engineering or Physics). I'd starve quite rapidly in all three cases, I'm sure.
There's just something about knurled surfaces that induces happiness. I think it's the idea that whatever it is is intended to be used by human hands.
I think that's true, it's a very clear statement of intent.
The bit about the tidyness OCD people almost killed me! I'm still giggling about it! Keep up the great videos, man! 73's - KK4YKN
I am terribly rude to them. I'm sure it's a painful affliction though. Seeing others who are free of that particular genetic tidiness quirk doing their thing effectively despite less than perfect tool storage and chip-tray polishing must cause serious stress and anguish, and I feel genuine sympathy for them. No, really. Look, stop giggling folks. Anyway, this evening I used a polishing cloth on the part of the chip tray that was going to be in-shot, as a token of my continuing efforts not to cause distress. Wasted effort. The depth of field of that F-stop was so tight that the chip tray was nothing but a distant blur. So blurred that you could *believe* it was messy, if you were so inclined. I'm working on the second and third parts of the 1296 MHz coaxial stepped low pass filter at the moment, it is taking FOREVER to do the editing and graphics and run all the simulations, but I really want to get the level of detail right and make sure the filter performs just like it does in the simulations, so it will be a few days until I can post these. I'm going to be doing more radio content showing exactly what the Things I make are used for, but it's driven by whatever is next in the order book. I need to get some more solid copper watercooling plates made and I have 15 or so SSPA heatspreaders to finish and 30 or more 122 GHz antennas, but I only have six days until I have to give a lecture at the Martlesham Microwave Round Table event and I haven't even STARTED writing it and doing the experimental work. Not enough hours in the day!
Yeah I use riggers gloves when I'm using the wire wheel on the bench grinder, the chance of the wire catching and ripping my hand in is close to zero whereas the chance of it wire brushing the sensitive layers of my fingers off is high.
My condolences in your loss. I was forced to clean up my lathe as what I had been turning was VERY stringy and I had to pull out a half of a 5 gallon bucket of tangle. I should sweep the floor as I track the chips into the house. I really don't understand how some of these people keep their machines so clean.
New shop vac is helping, the Colchester is looking a lot tidier now. I always get rid of the razor-wire stringy stuff as soon as I can find my heavy gloves. Titanium is a nightmare, and 304 stainless isn't much better in terms of injury risk while cleaning. Still haven't fixed the sharp bit on my shovel either. Must remember that or I'll slice my hand again.
You have my attention. Thanks for the look.
I'm posting stuff that I find interesting, so it's a bonus if anyone else enjoys the vids as well! Thanks for watchin', as ToT would say
Found you today and subscribed, very interested in what you do mate 👍
The better you are trained, not to drop small parts (excluded swarf), the untidier it can get! I just try to figure out for myself if it is more easy to fix my clumsiness or tidy up. Best option; watching others on KZhead solves everything: No swarf, no untidiness, no small parts, no clumsy accidents, no gloves. I like a 3d probe. But I had to shift my clumsiness level in order to use it. Repeatability of a ceramic edge finder seems to be as good, if not better, risk of damage for the edge finder is less and it is cheaper than the spare probe tips :-).
I find that I'm using the Haimer a lot where I am machining enclosures with lots of features, but I still use the rotary edge finder when I'm not bothered about great precision or making lots of measurements on each workpiece. I did consider the Fuji CEZ-10, but it's a lot of money for a basic edge finder. Insize do one, but it's not that much cheaper. perhaps when I lose or ruin my current favourite edge finder, I'll treat myself.
Glad to see my lathe and work area isn't the only one that looks like that.
I must admit, I did like the added "rant". LOL
I took out the more extreme rant about gloves and replaced it with "interlude music". I just get so cheesed off with armchair health and safety inspectors acting like bullies and religious zealots, trying to mansplain how my safety risk posture is unacceptable to them because it doesn't comply with a world-view shaped by experiential trauma, indoctrination or belief systems. Oh dear, I just had another rant, didn't I! I really need to shut up about this. These days I just block any trolls who are rude enough to try bullying me. 99% of the comments scolding me for something I'm not doing the "best" way are entirely sensible, and I've had some totally brilliant tips for ways to improve my dreadful shop techniques. In some cases I do stuff the long or terrible way through choice, but mostly it's because I have no idea what I'm doing. I really value those contributions and light-bulb moments.
Fantastic work! As for cleanliness, I don't bother until the end of the project. Speaking of politicians, do you have a 35mm reamer with a reduced shank? Need to give them something to think about after a 35mm treatment. For a moment I thought this was going to be a tuning device used on microwave cavities. A very interesting way to custom cut a screw length! As we say in the Ham world, 73! Keep up the great work and humor!!!
Sadly, my largest is 20 mm. Still a "convenient" size. (cough). I'm making a much smaller lsntern chuck so I can machine extremely small tuning screws made from solid silver, and stainless screws with 1mm diameter sapphire rods in the end, again as resonant cavity tuning adjusters. So you weren't far off the mark in reality!
"Stainless?" (remembers previous encounters with stainless)... (clenches buttocks)... uh oh! Strangely, I also used to know a Nick who was over fond of saying "job's a good 'un". Your voice-overs are FAB!
I tend to use ultraviolence against stainless, and dig out mighty chips with some stainless-specific inserts and no coolant, but then for a super-fine finish I use the Noga-Cool blast mister and a super-sharp high-rake insert intended for aluminium. It makes a wire-wool birds-nest, but leaves a lovely finish and doesn't work-harden the surface. Taking big chips that make my 3HP motor wheeze and groan seems to work nicely, and gives well-formed chips, but doesn't give a mirror finish like the lapped inserts do. I'm sure I could do better with a much more muscly lathe, but I rarely make stainless parts more than 50 mm diameter, and most are under 20 mm. I take the view that nobody wants to hear me mumbling and grasping for the right words while trying to get the old clunkers to do my bidding, so it's all done as B-roll and voiceover, with ambient recordings of machine noise at a low level, but very careful attention to the clinks, clicks, clunks and tinkles of tools and parts and toolposts and gearboxes. Sort of thing that a less-principled sort of chap might label as ASMR. Shudder....
@@MachiningandMicrowaves with my low skill levels and tiny tiny lathe I've just "learned" to shy away from stainless and stick to free-machining steels. :)
I came for the project, I stayed for the added rant!
I just found your video. Awesome
I hope I've got a bit better at videos now, I still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing though. If I ever get some time, I'll be making a new version of the lantern chuck for really tiny screws. Eventually...
"I love this Mitutoyo, it was a birthday present, from me to me obviously" 😂😂😂😂👋👋👋👋👋
I need one of these ones. Mitutoyo is incrediby clear to read.
Great stuff!
I used it again today for a little job. I really need to make a tiny version with a solid body/collet for high-precision work on weeny screws.
Scratch pass is to double check you've truly put in the right configuration in your levers and buttons for the thread you try to achieve. Mistakes happen tot he best of us, and to do a thread all the way and realize it's knackered... yeah, that gets old fast :D
Ah yes, but it also shows a total lack of confidence in yer Skillz and Traininz and suchlike. My tongue was very much in my cheek with that rather rash statement! To be taken with a large pinch of salt! Heh heh
Your ‘interlude’ music whilst turning the threads could only have been surpassed by the (probably copyrighted) Jacob Van Hartog commercial theme. 😎👍 P.S., love your rant! 👍 P.P.S., After your rant I pressed the SUBSCRIBE button and then found out I’m already two years behind in your content. Oh well, binge watching day ahead. 🥂🍾
Well, I'm four months behind on my content! I've been stuck on three big projects, plus the Day Job has been madly busy. New Machine Day happened, but despite weeks of preparation and emptying the entire machine shop, when the new Thing was connected, the 3 phase inverter blew up. Replacement inverter also blew, but in a different way. New rotary converter is on order. Then all I have to do is learn how to use the beast!
@@MachiningandMicrowaves piece of cake to a trained professional. 👍🤪
You have a rather nice Colchester so thread chart and gears will be way more accurate than the hit or miss Chinese stuff the majority of us have today. I had forgotten just how much I miss the British sense of humor since I moved (and sold my Colchester 25 years ago 😥) I'm stealing that idea of hex bit holder as I often need to shorten Allen and Torx screws in smaller sizes (3mm, 4mm, 5mm thread) and need to make a new lantern chuck anyway. I was thinking of same for adjuster, drilling from back, easy enough to counter bore (drill oversize) to guide screw into position Boring bar probably squeals bad in brass because it has a positive top rake, a flat or negative rake HSS would probably cut better as it won't get pulled into work-piece (stoning a flat on cutting edge of drill bits also works wonders when drilling brass, does mean you need the sizes used most doubled up though as they don't cut well in anything else)
When you were running that "janky chinese reamer" in, i wondered...if you have air, could you use a gentle breeze to persuade the cutting lubricant toward the point where it is most needed?
I guess that might be possible, but ideally the cut should be light enough to make it in one pass without extra lube. Perhaps I could have used my Noga-Cool Mini to blast a fine mist of lube to help clear chips.
2:12 Now I don't feel so bad about how messy my lathe is. Thank you!
I think folks should be free to manage their shops as they see fit.I just have no patience with those who choose to criticise others about their choices. It just seems appallingly impolite for my tastes. The new shop vac is working wonders for me though.
@Machining and Microwaves clean shops are just that, clean. (Within safety consideration) clutter & chaff tell me....this. this is a place where dreams die(lol. jk), or explode to life! Watching your creation come to life is soo gratifying.
Hey there I do not comment ever, but because of your honesty and telling the hater's to bugger off I am subscribed now ty for the refreshing honesty. If the mess does not bother you then your work can flow ;) . going to watch all the videos now ty for taking time to put them up.
Yea... I can't get on board with this thought process at all.. It's actually more disturbing hearing the excuses. Keeping clean is only a small consolation of the effort. The big pay off is taking care of your machines! Seeing the way chips cling to everything, there's no doubt there is oil and cutting fluid everywhere... It's only a matter of time before those machines are destroyed.
So Good idea
So....you can chuck drill bits and drill holes with a lantern now?
Surely, as long as the chuck isn't picking up old swarf and flailing you to shreds with it, there's no need to clean the lathe until you can no longer find the parted off components or dropped tools? 😁
One of us (probably not you) spent ten minutes just now searching for a parted off piece of Delrin that disappeared after I cleaned ten minutes worth of ribbons from the chip tray and put them in the waste bin. No sign of it in the empty chip tray. Several minutes spent pulling an ENORMOUS amount of Delrin ribbons from the bin, along with a few nasty sharp bits of Mystery Metal that was sharper than any sharp thing known to Science. No sign of it at all. Searched the chip tray again. Nothing. Put my smartphone in the chip try looking upwards. Nothing. Put it behind the carriage, and took a photo. AH-HA!! The lump of Delrin did at least have the decency to look embarrassed. It had landed on top of the protective cover of the DRO scale and rolled along, hiding out of sight in that dark, oily cavern. Chances of getting that to happen again are so tiny that my luck must be in. I'm buying a lottery ticket right now.
@@MachiningandMicrowaves 😂 I would if I was you. You just couldn't make up that sort of thing.
Always time to clean it up when you don't have anything to do. A messy shop is a busy shop.
My thoughts about tidiness in general (just for the conversation): I'm not really caring about the mess itself, but the fact that when doing stuff, precision machining, electronics etc. mess can cause you to get bits of metal or other stuff where you *don't * want it to be that can either mess with your tolerances (by getting into the collets or between precision surfaces) or in electronics it can get into the stuff you're working on and cause shorts or something else... equipment failure. So I'm trying to keep my work areas clean because being messy has bitten me from the ass before. More than that, enough mess and I start wasting time by not finding what i'm looking for, misplacing items or losing small items into the mess. So yeah, i don't have the cleanliness gene either... but I try because I've lost so much time or messed up enough things or it has costed me money to NOT be clean... my cleanliness comes from the rage and frustration I've experienced because of not being clean... not from having to be clean in itself :)
These days I keep things much cleaner having bought a new shop vac and a gallon of Simple Green! I also got very tired of the delicate snowflakes who moaned all the time about it! They seem to have regained their composure and I don't need to rant any more!
Thanks, subscribed. You sound different to the way you sound in my twitter feed - you're much funnier here (that's haha funny, not weird funny). My lathe never grows extra teeth - occasionally the opposite due to cheese-grade gears 😁
Twitter me is rather different, but it's probably the Lincolnshire accent that does it. Very hard to get the inflection and vowel sounds right in 280 characters. Cutting gears from cheese sounds like an interesting challenge though. Using Old Gouda, it might just be possible
@@MachiningandMicrowaves Haha, I'm originally a Yellowbelly myself (from the flat bit to the south) so you sound perfectly normal to me.
Thanks
you do what u do and do best.
My lathe is often very very clean now. My new shop vac thing is a monster. Probably the most dangerous machine in the shop with that amount of suction. I daren't use it if the Chihuahuas are about. The tube is big and they are not big.
Yep ... NICE project ... Cheers.
I still haven't found out where the idea for the bit-holder came from. I hope I'll find out eventually so I can say thanks to the originator for the inspiration
You know, I could have sworn that I heard running water and birds in your shop during those machining clips. If your shop is dirty enough that you can’t see a burst water main and birds flitting about, maybe it’s time for an intervention. Great videos! Interesting projects, good techniques, and quite entertaining.
It's so distracting, having to wear SCUBA gear in there, and as for all the guano, ewwwww!
@@MachiningandMicrowaves Hear in America, at our makerspace we are re-designing the Apollo space suits, to make them gloveless, yet keeping the o2 pressurization so we aren't forced to breathe toxic wood dust while keeping virus protocol, adapting the condoms aides prevention gave us some trouble for a while, but that issue got resolved when we decided to castrate the users. DONE. were presently looking for volunteers for testing.
@@stewartfrye Sounds like an offer no reasonable person could possibly refuse!
@@MachiningandMicrowaves safety is safety after all
TOT ain't got nothing on you. You're hilarious. And screw the neat freaks.
Important properties like "grip" and "bling" Yes.
Vital design elements indeed.
I am sorry may be it's a stupid question but:7 What is that device for?
It is used to hold bolts and machine screws so they can be turned to a precise length or have a hold drilled in the end or anything where you need an awkward bolt holding precisely. Normal ones are very VERY small and used to make the screws in clocks and watches. This one is rather large. An example of it being used is in this video: kzhead.info/sun/ic2LgdmZgqppnKM/bejne.html and later at kzhead.info/sun/ic2LgdmZgqppnKM/bejne.html where I'm cutting an M8 bolt to length then drilling the end to take a brass plug and then turning the tip to size
Yes, the sound is much easier on the ears; however the waterfall effects mean now my bladder is making itself urgently known!
If I was doing it now, I've worked out how to handle the audio split in sped-up sections and got my levels right, so it would be much better. I used it again today and it's earning its keep.
"Self knowledge is a marvellous thing"
Wow, Did you lady friend pass who's shown on all of your video's? If so, that's a terrible shame. I give you my best thoughts, and prayers. Sincerely, Scott
Sadly for my dwindling sense of self-worth, my electronic artificial assistant AIMEE is very much still present. She was created some time after that video was made. Her skillset does not (yet) include time-travel. Or DOES it.... My wife Caroline died in June 2021. She also used to scold me for my carelessness and untidiness. We'd been together for 37 years. As a little girl, she lived in Egypt before WW2. Her father was from Bermuda and worked as an English teacher in Fayoum until he was called up to fight in the Western Desert. Her mother had to evacuate with Caroline and her baby brother from Alexandria down to Kenya and somehow across Africa to meet with a convoy on the west coast and ran the gauntlet of submarine attacks, arriving back in England in 1942. I'm blessed with seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Caroline decided it was her time to go at the end of 2020, and died in her own bed, holding my hand. listening to Bach preludes on a beautiful June morning the day after we celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary. Pain free, no drugs, a very very fine ending to a long life, life well-lived.
@@MachiningandMicrowaves 🙏🏻
Thanks for shining a light on what a lantern chuck is. I find that when you get the feeling that your workshop needs cleaning it is a sign that you need a mug of tea and a couple of chokky biscuits, the feeling will then soon pass. Gloves are for catching the bits of finger you cut off.
Tea? TEA? Foul muck. Tastes like The End Times. Liquor of Beelzebub. Although it goes beltin' with a good slosh of Bells or Johnnie Walker Red Label like my grandad used to have in his tea flask while he was out ploughing or baling. I managed a glug or two while I was helping during harvest or planting. It made driving the tractor MUCH more fun. Look, I was *almost* twelve and I could reach the pedals and plough a decent straight furrow with or without the help of that warming nectar. Tea on it's own though? Ewwwwww.
The reason most machinists do a scratch pass & check it when cutting threads on a lathe is just to double check they didn't make a mistake when setting the lathe for the desired threads. It is much better to find out you screwed up before ruining a part in the last operation. Between the labor cost & the material costs a simple mistake when cutting the threads could cost a company a lot of money and a machinist his job.
Yep, 100% correct. However... I'm in the lucky position of being able to choose to scratch or not. It's a privileged position, not having a financial or time imperative or a Boss to tell me what to do. So far my score on single-pointing is about 870 successes and zero failures, but I DEFINITELY do a scratch pass if it's something irreplaceable, and use Dykem or Sharpie so I'm not even marking the metal. I'm lucky that my ancient lathe has very obvious threading settings and no change wheels to mess with. I think 870:0 probably represents an acceptable risk ratio for a bodger in a home shop. One day it'll bite me on the bum and AIMEE will take the pee out of me with zero mercy, but so far, I'm still ahead of the game. Rule One: these vids are about "How *I* did/made ". Definitely not about "How *others* should do/make ".
@@MachiningandMicrowaves My "ancient" lathe is a 1911 South Bend with several change gears missing from the pile of loose gears. I _definitely_ do scratch passes, or at least will until I get enough experience to trust that I've selected & installed the proper gears! ;) Of course, I need to "upgrade" the old 1-inch-wide (25.4mm-wide) leather belt that slips every time I try to make a cut (though at it's maximum swing capacity) before I can get serious enough about playing with it to _(re-)learn_ single point threading -- but I *will* use the Joe Pi method everywhere it turns out to be easier!
@@bobvines00 Now THAT is a Senior lathe! Making chips for well over a century. Long may it continue
I'm ocd with my shop but I watch all these videos looking for something to learn, not to trash talk ppl. Miserable ppl always have to down somebody to make themselves feel better 🤣 wtf kind of life is that? Anyway thanks for sharing 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Loved the video. Watched to the end. And didn’t get a demo of how it works. :(
Heh heh, sorry about that, it does feature in an upcoming video about a modification to my lathe headstock material guide, making a new brass-faced stainless steel clamp bolt
@@MachiningandMicrowaves I'm excited! I won't be able to sleep until then. Like a child at Christmas. haha
The funny thing is I was cleaning up while wearing gloves and got a very bad injury from some broken glass and got small parts of the rubber glove in my hand after an ER visit later I did my own surgery because they couldn't find anything and well I'll give them that rubber gloves don't show up on x-rays but that's all they really did.
I have some fancy gloves with anti-piercing mesh that I use when picking up chips and ribbony swarf and dealing with glass and ceramic shards. I need my fingers to remain sensitive and not get pierced and tingly/painful so I can work on tiny mechanisms and 0402 surface mount devices with tweezers. Nitriles just don't work for that sort of thing. I have some anti-cut gloves with chain-mail and some chainsaw gauntlets with kevlar chaff and some deerskin gauntlets for TIG welding and some special beekeeping gloves and chemical-resistant gloves. OMIGODS, I am *such* a glove nerd, aren't I!
I think you tubers use diekem when threading because they like the contrast for their cameras. I like threading in reverse too. "Machining and Microwaves" Hmmm, Possibly you did microwave guides in the 1960s and 1970s? I did, and I did it on manual machines too.
My father worked in a gas turbine manufacturing plant in the 60s and 70s, so I could just give him a sketch and, as if my magic, a few days later, he'd come home from work with a beautiful 10 GHz absorption wavemeter and 20 dB cross-coupler. Apart from a five week course in 1976 on basic machine shop practice, I hadn't touched a lathe or milling machine until I bought the Colchester and Bridgeport in March 2017, so I'm still a raw beginner as this machining lark.
Maybe the anti nitrile glove people fear quantum entanglement
Oooh, I do love a bit of Quantum. Plenty of ⟨Ψ(t)|Ĥ† notation makes for a joyful day, although I spend most of my time at scales tens of billions of times larger than the quantum domain, where bulk properties like permittivity and dielectric loss tangent are more useful than the underlying quantum reality bubbling away down at molecular scales. I'm sure the gloveists are totally sincere in their concerns. I just got a bit uncharacteristically ranty about being bossed around based on quasi-religious belief systems without peer reviewed evidence. I should be more chilled, but an occasional rant helps stimulate the circulation
I might prefer if your lathe was a tad cleaner... however it would be downright hypocritical of me to ask that it be any cleaner than my own lathe so... carry on. ;)
I got the shop vac fixed and now that lathe SPARKLES. It's as clean as a clean thing. At least in all the parts that are visible in a video (cough). Hi mom, yeah I know the floor still needs sweeping. Cleaning is not part of my core skillset.
Ehhh, I think very thin nitrile gloves are fine to work on a lathe with.... It's a bit dogmatic to just unequivocally say gloves are verboten. We are of course all concerned about entanglement and *ahem* de-gloving hazards and the like. That's just plain bad and we don't want it to happen to us. But does anyone here really think a thin nitrile glove could ever actually pull someone into a piece of rotating equipment? I just can't see it happening even under the worst circumstances. The things break at the very sight of a burr! Plus my skin isn't a big fan of all the various tinctures and oils found in the shop. Occupational skin exposure to these things isn't great. edited: added extra
I was disappointed that this video contained zero lanterns.
It did have several chucks though, but I know they're not even close to being as good as lanterns. Profuse apologies for being a Disappointment. At least I'm good at THAT. Yay!