Thank you for not ruining this fabulous look at technology with some generic, over-the-top music. Hearing the twinkle and tink tink tink of metal shavings hitting floor is music by itself. Liked and subbed.
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Ikr... Even paper plates would need to be manufactured with countless lathed and machined parts. Pretty much anything that isn't made completely by hand depends on this tech.
The prop shafts of the carrier I was stationed on were removed to be trued and had to be transported to the machine shop by tug in sections. Always wondered what the lathe looked like that did it.
That's what came to my mind, man we would have worked all life with all that metal. so much metal gone through the drain. Now someone make me a CNC that size :)
Must be cool to see the evolution of technology on things like this. I wonder how they’ll look 45 years into the future.
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We used to have an old 1930's Ford lathe with an 8 metre bed that was used to cut gun barrels during the war. We used it to screwcut rope drums for winches, twin start, 25-30mm groove plunge. Even through it was 60+ years old it did not break a sweat.
I just ordered one of these for my garage! when the guy was done laughing (not sure why) he said the truck would deliver it any day now!! how awesome is that? :-D
There is just something incredibly satisfying about seeing these huge slabs of steel getting peeled and carved up like they were no tougher than a vegetable.
Its more than satisfying. I'm in school right now in a machining class. IT ISSO AWESOME just watching the shavings fly in all directions, and even more satifying when they are super long (3feet+).
0:25 Wow, that's some serious depth of cut and feed rate! I wonder how long the cutting tool lasts, and what kind of grinding wheel you need to sharpen it?
If the chips are coming off blue, then it has to be a carbide cutter. Carbide cutters are sharpened with a diamond wheel. The carbide inserts are not re-sharpened- when they become dull or chipped, they are replaced.
@@daleburrell6273 True to a point. Straw colors come off both coated and uncoated carbide. Blue can come off HSS, but only if you intentionally kill the cutter doing it.
@@HydraDominus Cutting tips on lathes are generally made of cemented carbide (tungsten/titanium/tantalum), polycrystalline diamond, or cubic boron nitride. They are usually coated with TiN (titanium nitride), TiC (titanium carbide), Ti(C)N (titanium carbide-nitride), TiAlN (titanium aluminium nitride) or AlTiN (aluminium titanium nitride). HSS (steel) is not used for them since the 1920's.
I agree with you Hubert. I am a mechanical engineer too and work in the steel sector, as we call it in Holland, for over 30 years. Every job can be called dangerous if you want it to be. Nothing dangerous to see here. Move along. lol
On a few of these super huge scale turning machines, the operator rides in a control booth attached to the tool carriage... You'd be amazed at the tight tolerances they're able to maintain with this equipment!
i'm curious about that is there not any other options for scraping the metal block? Such as a machine that turning around the metal block so there is no need to turn huge metal chunks?
A lathe with an operator cab!? Hmm, wow! Maybe I need to go to a few next step up to a point that a house that can provide a fridge , a microwave and a bed.
So, you don't think that any of this is considered to be extreme and dangerous??? Lol. This type of work is extremely dangerous, there's been many tragic deaths from this line of work, and clearly you know nothing about this type of work! And these machines are extremely big compared to other lathes, so I don't know what you consider to be extreme and dangerous. Lol
Roy Patterson yes I know nothing, yet I am an engineer. I just laugh at people that use such terms as , extreme dangerous etc. The job will be as dangerous as you make it. There is always a way to make everything safe. No need for such terms. Extreme lol don’t be ridiculous
At the end you see a crank shaft being milled. Ask your self how many people it took to make the one item, IE gathering materials, making tools reworking materials?
lol why. you dont keep the scrap from anything else? its factored in. removing the waste will cost more than the scrap value generally. if you buy a wood table theres probs the same weight in waste as in the actual table. you wouldnt wanna deal with that :P it still gets scrapped. in both cases you cant get it back unless you wanna fuck about inside someone elses workshop for ages getting in their way. noone wants that.
That's one MASSIVELY HUGE ass !! lathe. The bigger I'd hate to guess how much that piece of steel weighs they're turning it's gotta be upwards of 30 tons
