This video is three years old, I watched it randomly and it's not even about the problem I'm trying to solve and yet it just did. Just like you said, simply watching this kind of stuff turns your gears. Thanks as always for some of the most valuable content on YT!
What's so hard about the installation? Some cuts here and there, chop off the old hip joint, bolt in the new one, and granny is good to go. Can't be that hard, now can it?
There may be some nifty ideas here but frankly, my brain shut down when you revealed (or maybe just postulated?) that there are more than 2 shapes. I mean, that's a big step for a guy and after a blow like that I have to go lay down for awhile...
I started watching you a few years back. Finally took the plunge and got a mill and lathe and am not doing too bad so far. I can’t help but think it’s because I had a great teacher. Thank you Tony!
Definitely worth checking out, in 13 years of machining I've never seen this but is extremely effective, if I have learned anything about machine work it's that you're success is only limited to your imagination and experiences, I will be adding this my skill set
I was a CNC machinist and tooling rep for a number of years before succumbing to the siren song of middle management. I have been in probably a couple hundred machine shops, and I have never seen these tricks. Thanks for a great combination of entertainment and education. Due in large part to your videos, I've got my eye on an old Logan lathe that needs a little help.
I’ll have to admit that after being a machinist for 22 years now I’ve never cut a taper on a lathe like that before. Very good tip if you don’t have a taper attachment or need a nicer and more accurate taper than you can get with the compound. Now I have made spheres on a manual mill before. A fly cutter will work as well. It’s just not as easy to dial in the size you want as a boring head is.
i didn't know jimmydiresta watched JBFromOZ either! either because he doesn't share his subscriptions publicly, or.. well.. because he doesn't watch JBFromOZ ;-)
I'm in mill and lathe for more than 30yrs now and the sphere trix is certainely one of the coolest thing i ever see on manual machines. Thank you a lot TOT.
Hey there this old tony. Im here to do my speakles about how important your videos are to me Life story short I have suffered from panic disorder most of my life I am 2 months out of rehab off xanax I had watched your videos quite a bit before rehab missed them in rehab and now that im off benzos I find myself watching them even more even if I saw the video already I have no problem watching again they're quite informative which I love and your voice is quite soothing your the scott manley of the shop category Your videos are my new naxax if im having a panic attack or am stress I hop right on and watch a few of your videos, the content helps distract my brain from whats going on around me, and your voice is an added bonus to help me calm down as you walk me through the video Thanks again for the content, Mason
I have been a machinist for 10 years now and I get tips and tricks out of your every video. I like the way you think. And the great quality videos you make about the way you think. Thank you.
Dear Old Tony, i dont know what it is particularly that i love about your videos, the production quality in a tutorial sense, or just the production in general. but one thing i know, i always look forward to your next video :) thanks for being you and what you do. young tony.
I got a lot of my questions( on how to cut MT) answered by watching this video, thank you for you taking the time to teach us hobbyists the quickest/easiest methods, I love you no nonsense approach.
I knew the offset tailstock method, but turning between centers always gives me the heebie jeebies. Using ball bearings instead seems way better at first blush, and using the boring head to control the offset without having to monkey around with ofsetting the tailstock is freaking BRILLIANT. (with the caveat that you'd better have that ball bearing in the same plane defined by the headstock, tailstock ram, and your cutter - or you get a taper that has a slight skew to it...) The ballbearings also remind me of using a sine bar over at the mill, but of course the math isn't quite the same for calculating the angle of the taper... as always, your stuff blows me away!
Tony, Ah… I’m stunned! Going to have to watch this several times over! You’re using the same old equipment, utilizing stunningly new, dramatic and enlightened use of that old equipment. You just dropped generous handfuls of priceless gems at our feet. But, on the other hand… You could have divided this up into three distinct videos, each a revelation on it’s own, each a distinct OMG moment. To late now; duh. Guess there’s just no end to what you have to offer. Thanks Tony! Brad
ever since i took a cnc machinist job I don't come across much manual stuff your channel always help with my itch to run a lathe with no computer on it😅
Hey Tony i am old but new at machining and was looking at the worn out ball joints on my tractor from the 50's and ya i could buy new ones but after watching this video now i know how to rebuild them Thanks
Dude that is genius.. I have an HBM boring head and a small Myford lathe and use a homemade drawbar to lock it hard into the taper to stop unwanted slipping or rotation.. super tempted to try the taper trick, I've had to do a few cosmetic tapers in the past couple of years and it was always cut multipul steps and blend with a file.. this is awesome... great videos as always :)
I have not seen the boring head in the tail stock trick before. What a great trick, thanks! Also, had a huge laugh your comment about the lathe most likely already cutting a taper. So true! Keep up the great work.
Hello Tony, Great "out of the box" thinking techniques! I have see this done by Tom Lipton before but it is always good to see it again, a good refresher. Thanks for sharing!
Very, very good tips Tony ! 👍 Now if you could address the problem that so many of us have with these great tips......... TRYING TO REMEMBER THEM ! ;-) Thanks for sharing and take care.
Really useful tips - I've often used a small chuck mounted on a boring head in the lathe to do offset/eccentric turning, but I never thought on using it in the tailstock.
It's video like this that brings home the fact I'm just a slack jawed yokel who so far is just lucky to have dodged putting his eye out. Like all the really smart stuff, this is so simple and obvious ... once someone points to it - but never in 1000000 years would I have thought of it on my own.
That trick to cut a concave round reminds me of a trick i use for making rivet bucking bars, involving drillbits sharpened at wierd angles and an unnatural wobble.
Although I'm I fan of the "Dead Tree Carcass" persuasion... I find these "tip/trick" videos simply fascinating! No stoping me on using these on some porous and fibrous organic structural tissue! Thanks Old Tony!
I recently rebuilt an eleven thousand dollar ball valve using this very same method. By watching how the tool cuts on the back side of the sphere you can get a very accurate sphere. Remember a circle of any size can be inscribed at any place on a sphere. My ball was round to within 0.0005 inchs
How did I never know about this? Love your videos and laugh a lot harder than I probably should at a lot of your jokes and stuff. Wish I could hang out at your garage for a weekend.
This was just great, as per usual. I recently learned about helical gear cutting from the old machinists at work and thought a video by you would really straighten out the curves
Really liked all these tricks and hadn't seen them before. I tried several different ball turner designs a few years ago and I'm surprised I didn't come across any of these techniques. I'll have to buy a MT boring head for the tailstock now. Good stuff as always.
I learnt something incredibly important today.... I don't have a lathe.... and now I appear to need one! I suspect that there's absolutely no use in me getting older if I'm not going to be doing any of that boring stuff, is there. Time to go find me a lathe!
Brilliant! I'm going to be honest, I stopped and thought about how a boring head could be used to cut a sphere and/or taper, and I couldn't think of anything. I half expected this to be another "Multimeter in the Home Shop"
I have to say humor and tutorials rarely mix well on the tube but you seem to pull it off quite well in your videos. there is nothing worse than a bad comedian trying to teach/demonstrate something that i want to learn.Yourself and and a few others (you know there names)are a blessing for me since i'm new to machining.also i'ts seems the trolls avoid these channels due to the intelligence required . so keep on with the great vids and humor .
Nice one... I bet next time you will show us how to turn lead into gold or make a greek statue with a can opener? Keep them coming... you made my day again... I will try this and I bet I will break my boring bar. ;) Thank you for sharing man!
Good stuff, thinking outside the box can often produce great results, the difficult thing I find is trying to duplicate the outcome a few months later hence I have taken to writing down and making pics of stuff I..... discover. Keep the good vids coming Sir, always enjoyable and educational
Donald R. Cossitt I suppose I shouldn't say "stupid", but what made AVE cool was that he was kinda a "rebel", a man beholden to any company, and an absolute willingness to "nerd out"; but since he's become so popular, he's lost much of his "cool". T.O.T. has just been getting better, and he's been doing that even though he's been gaining followers :-)
I also always liked how he knew so much about random parts. I've learned a lot from him just by watching him guess different parts and sizes. A lot of the new stuff is kind of just him dicking around, which I still appreciate, it hasn't been as informative or educational, and also, he is running out of jokes. I still like the guy, still watch, and support on patreon, but I prefer a few other channels including This Old Tony. I also like the longer format of this channel.
haha yea 3yrs ago in the days of lil screwy and him spelling out his whole channel name you could take home alot from 10 min of AvE. He has definitely shifted toward entertainment... or suffering from microstrokes :P Great, well presented tips on how to to use basic tooling to accomplish the previously impossible! Thanks Tony!
His wanton destruction of perfectly good tooling is not cool, it is the action of a bored thirteen year old whose parents didn't bring up properly. Having said that, I still watch hoping for the occasional (increasingly rare) nugget. PS TOT just gets better and better.
That boring head trick is great! I have long tapers I want to cut, well pool cues, and they're not straight tapers. I'm in the middle of rigging up my DRO Z output to talk to a stepper motor to run a live tool in and out on the saddle. It simplifies some things to get a straight taper first then to thin it according to the mechanics of the wood and desired flex. I did my first stick by moving the tailstock, getting it back in line sent me into deep depression... All better now!
