A Random machining job for the new lathe 

Heh. With that bright yellow 5 on it I immediately thought "Oh, Thunderbird 5!" It is amazing how often we still have issues between metric and imperial here, considering we have been officially metric for almost 60 years. Nicely done!

Very nice Steve, thanks for sharing this insightful video. A year from now we will be able to review this and marvel at your growth and understanding. Wishing you and your family a blessed holiday season, gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother

My wife and a bunch of my friends work for Intralox at their HQ in the New Orleans area. Their belting systems are amazing!

nice work! i miss the old days in my dad's shop working with his lathe. i have my own milling machine now, but i can't wait to get a lathe of my own. we have several at my work, but i don't have much time to use it when i'm there.

Glad to see someone honest

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you Steve and your lovely family and the chickens! Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

What am I watching,This Old Tony or Little Aussie Rockets , love it nice style Cheers from down south

Keep at it - I think the youtube algorithm is up to its tricks.... I was never shown your new videos. (only just noticed you posted this and a few more)

Nicely done!

"The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" by John Williams in key of G would be most suitable soundtrack for that opening slow pan?!

I was number 61 that pushed the like button! But what you actually achieved there, maybe went a little over my pay grade

Nice bit of machining... some of the measuring tools you used I didn't know existed, but it makes sense that they do. Probably these were invented originally by someone who had serious issue with something so minor that nobody else thought it an issue... (and the peanut gallery "yeah, we could so have invented that1)". What's your inventive contribution to machining metal going to be? Yeah, this is a challenge, but it is also a legitimate question. Over a career spanning more than 4 decades, I have met a few people who had "an idea /a passion /a drive" to create something unique, not (just) for financial enrichment, but to, for want of a better discription, "create a better tool /thing /product /method" because they could. Many were an "improvement" of existing tech /knowledge, others were disruptive in the limited space they were applicable to.

technically you went down to a 25mm shaft lol edit: i didnt see the onscreen 15/16th ahaha