Ok. Tony, we need to talk. Look, you lured me in with clever, funny videos, some of which had relevant tips for the kind of work I was doing. Then, you got it in my head that I actually needed a mill and a lathe. So last week I found myself actually buying one of each. Now I'm spending hundreds on tooling and accessories. Yes, I'm having fun, and I'm saving a beautiful former US Navy lathe from the scrapper, and the whole thing is incredibly rewarding, but I'm still blaming you. Thanks for that.
Tony made me buy an old English lathe, a Smith, Barker and Willson from 1910-1920 or so, now I'm buying some old cast iron from a pre WWII ore crusher to make into backplates. I also bought a goddamn TIG welder and I'm madly chasing a shaper. He's a menace this Tony is, giving us all these godawful hobbies. I keep chasing pay rises for more tools!!
@@dontnubblemebro Menace indeed. I had to completely reorganize my shop and get rid of a bunch of crap I wasn't using in order to make room for all the new, heavy, expensive crap I won't use.
Tony made me sell my 2004 Goldwing last month and buy a 1950s Clausing lathe and a mill drill. I have developed this incredible craving for tooling that I cannot stop. Now I have to enter a twelve thread program.
He made me buy a minilathe from the usual scumbags. I then bought tools, drills, morse taper chucks and built up a small lathe bench. Today, a small 4jaw and a coolant flex pipe came in the mail. Already saving up for a quick change tool post and carbide holder and tip set. I blame it on TOT.
As a teacher of high school students, I model my approach after ToT and this past year (thanks to Covid) I was able to be faceless in person and teach my students via the internet.
This is how you make money on yootub, you make vids. Cant do that if you just buy a tool. For the ordinary time-is-money machinist or hobbyist, buying the tool will save you time and yield more better results.
Just when I thought your videos couldn’t get any better..... The pixelation was off the charts funny. I always wondered how they made those miniature lathes. 😱
@@1BCamden look up Japanese porn. By Japan law it's all pixelated. As such, the number of pixels in Japanese porn is inversely proportional to the distance of the action.
I don't have a lathe, probably never will. But your videos are so entertaining. I laughed more watching this video than I usually do in a day, and im subbed to a few comedy channels. Your vids are the best. Thank you for blessing us with your time.
I laughed a whole lot at this one. I actually paused it at the first question to think about it (because I'm no machinist) & it was so funny when I turned it back on and the bar graphed answers appeared. ToT and Ave are my two *_sanity savers._*
I managed to cut a 5/8" x 8 TPI Acme nut for an old tailstock quill. I first cleaned up and recut the male thread and it ended up 15mmm OD. My tool was a composite one like yours except it was HSS retained by a grub screw. The bar was 10mm diameter so no relief grinding reqd. Like you I cut to an open end. I drew it all in CAD first so I could get the right leading & trailing clearances on the tool. Amazingly it all worked.
Man thanks for the thoughts guys, i just got home from the ER and they im good to be off the ventilator but to stay off youtube for a few months till im fully recovered.
All the creative humor aside, there must be on “heckuva” lot of work to get the videos put together. My (unheard) laughter should be reward enough. Thanks for the edu-fun. 😍
An entire generation of kids are going to have so much of their father's knowledge cataloged and recorded on youtube for when they pass on. I wish I had this for my dad. Very cool.
Should be a thirty degree included angle if I am not mistaken as opposed to the 29 degrees included angle for Acme. I agree with your thoughts Boris Kozjan. Cheers from John, Australia.
That was one Dang Skippy Video, Tony....actually knicker ripping good! Had no idea that SPT could be so sensual and hilarious at the same time. Made my day and likely to go viral. Hat Tip and a big grin!
I don't know if you are an excellent machinist who is also a great video editor, or the other way around. But your body of work never fails to entertain and inform.
Your channel has inspired me so much that today I had a class that taught me some basics of welding and tried some basics. Thanks for being you! P.S. you make TIG look 1000% percent easier than it actually is!
That video was amazing. They all are ! I looooove the blurred out section when the tool was working it's best. I laughed so hard once I realized what it was. You are so talented! Thank you
I tell my friends this is the best machining/fabricating channel on the Internet. I'm starting to wonder though if this is just the best channel on the Internet. Keep up the great work!
How a machining video can make me laugh out loud is a mystery. And yes, agreed. One of the best channels out there. Although ToT got me to watch Alex French Guy cooking. What do they have in common? Great video editing, passion, humor, genuine, and it makes you feeling good inside after having watched it.
Thank God, going to be preforming the same fix on my lathe as well. Perfect timing Tony. Love your videos, just wish there were more. Thanks so much for passing along so many of your skills
Please don't ever stop filming ! I learn a lot from your video's when I'm not pausing cause I'm laughing to hard to pay any attention. I have been machining parts for years but never had anyone teach me, I learned what little I know on my own. I think its really great their are people like you who share their knowledge . I'm truly greatful....
I'm imagining an angled jig and some set of guides to move the bar in front of the blade... and so many missing fingertips. So, so many missing fingers...
For external easy. Internal adds 3 extra steps. 1 cut threaded bushing down 1 side. 2 turn bushing inside out. 3 braze... um weld it closed Pro tip: be shure not to get full penetration , the pixels will make it hard to see when to dip your brass rod agen.
Reminds me of the 1 3/8" - 4 - left hand, Acme threaded bushing I made for the cross feed lead screw of a Cincinnati vertical mill. I loved doing that kind of machining. Thanks for posting and reminding!
Finally “”MACHINERY’s HANDBOOK”! I’ve enjoyed This Old Tony for a while now and my interest isn’t as an enthusiast or a pro, but in part because Machinery’s Handbook is my grandfather’s life work. So I have to say I’ve been wondering when the old tome would be referenced... referencing the reference, as it were. That’s right, I’m talking about That Old Horton. Anyway, I wish I could share these videos with his now-since-deceased soul. Thanks This Old Tony for bringing up the handbook. It makes this young Horton, and perhaps that Old Horton - Holbrook Horton - proud.
Tony, You are a genius ... and probably help us to be a little less stupid. Thank you for the precious tricks and the great fun. I was cutting an internal M19x2 thread with a Chinese Minilathe and a home made tool (in aluminum...but yet successfully!) and I would have probably not even dare trying without your videos.
Undoubtedly your best video. Your comedy was spot on for this whole video, even the unintentional comedy of "I guess this tool won't cut unless it's touching the part" that you completely improvised. Congrats on a great video :)
TOT I found your channel via AvE. Love the content! I really enjoy your videos about the minila-the and it got me thinking. I was wondering with all of the modifications that you have to do it to make it as good as it can be could you/would you be better off making a minila fold... the from scratch? A little flour, a little egg, some butter, bake at 160 degrees science.
I've been blessed by a litter of 5 stray kittens abandoned in my garage. Up till now they have been a drain on the family fortune with vet , feed , toy and litter tray bills. Armed with the knowledge gleaned from this vid I am starting a "business" to utilise the copious quantities of up till now waste product I've been using for landfill. Cheers Eric
Tony, I’m tryin’ to figure out if you’re an engineer turned machinist or a machinist turned engineer....either way, your videos are outstanding! keep ‘em coming!
What a hoot ! You're presentation is great. Seriously, I love it. Keep on keeping on! I will continue to follow your vlogs and advise. Very informative. Thank you. Michael
A hot vise (vice is the opposite of virtue) would be a bad idea. It would cool down and it would lose grip on almost anything you had clamped in it. It would be unpleasant to handle, too :)
@@Pow3llMorgan I experienced the thermal expansion problem when I attempted to fry an egg by heating the vice jaws to red-hot and clamping the egg for the duration of the cooking. The floor enjoyed a better breakfast than I did. And yes, vice is the opposite of virtue; it is also (generally) how Brits spell the name of the tool. :)
