Face Plate In Use 

So cool to see a gap bed actually used. Not much of this large diameter work shows up un RU-vid. Very interesting stuff!

I noticed what I think is an Enco sticker on that green cabinet behind you. When I started many years ago I couldn't afford the best stuff so I bought quite a lot from Enco. Lot of sub brands and import stuff but I got by with it and did a lot of work with it till I could do better. Now 36 years later and retired except for my little shop at home I still have some of that stuff. I found the first set of 6 inch calipers and micrometer I bought when I went to work for the Boeing company. I took care of them and they still work and give accurate numbers. They still had the calibration stickers on them with the Boeing logo. That seems a lifetime ago...

After watching again, I learned a few Keith Tricks or refreshed a few in my noggin......hope you are doing well, Paul in Orlando

Very enjoyable to watch, good job Mr. Fenner I like most of what you do, but this hit the spot,

Really appreciate you taking the time to do these videos. Alot of people learn from this. Myself included

I am really jealous , Mr. Keith of the sharpness of the Video......magnificent.......PB

Very nice to see you back professor! The Clausing lathe looks very well taken care of :)

Brilliant. I've never seen a Pi tape before. It's a direct reading from the tape which saves any messing with a chart or math. Thanks for taking the time to produce these great videos.

We see a pro at his work. Greetings from germany.

I enjoy all of your uploads, Keith, but I really like it when you do some lathe work. Thanks again! :-)

So cool the second side face cut eliminated the need to turn the back of the ID. And the two toe clamps to hold the location, pure gold!

Learned a couple new tricks as usual from the master! Thanks for the generosity Keith!

Nice work Keith. Great video. Thank you for sharing.

Years gone by in ship repair on large Pitsburg lathe the face plate got lots of use ,now in my smaller shop just had to use my face plate recently to machine a large steel pulley very useful no other way of swinging it. 40+ years later I still get a great deal of satisfaction turning. Great work Keith you know the tricks.👍p.s. need to buy a large guesstimator to measure the o.d.!

Out of all the machinists on RU-vid Keith's has and continues to be my favorite. After everything you've gone though. So glad you have trucked on and make this great content for us. Thanks man.

That clausing looks like a joy to operate, so smooth.

I have never seen a tape like that, now I need one!

That was fun Keith, I think it's the first time I have ever seen a faceplate used on a metal lathe.

Lucky for me those SAE bellhousing adapters are usually on the shelf at my local truck salvage for $100 ea. I enjoyed seeing how you went about setting it up. Don't get to see faceplate work real often.

Our Machine Shop instructor in Jr College (I was starting my ASMET, later went on to BSMET) was a crusty retired Navy Machinist. First day of class he told us the only way we'd get an "A+" was if we could do it better than HE could! I got an "A" on every project! He taught us how to "read" the chips like you did just before the 8:00 mark. When they "look right" you know your speeds and feeds are right!

Love watching that big old girl makes chips keep up the great work Keith!

Ahh. I've been missing you Keith. I went to Rumble and only occasionally come back to YT. Good Vid. Thanks from Ireland.

Man that brought back memories...I used to do rings very similar at my last job, you did it right...lol

Thanks for the education. I have little experience using a faceplate. This will help for certain.

Love the face plate work.

Hi Keith and Lisa 😊 , nicely done mate, and we saw a few good tips along the way too, thanks for another interesting video, stay safe, best wishe's to you and Lisa, Stuart UK.

Some very nice faceplate work there, Keith 👍😊👍. Now I wanna make a bigger faceplate lol. Thanks for the vid! Cheers! 🍻

Those large diameter pieces take a long time to turn! Well done!

Really like doing face plate work although jobs now seem few and far between. Last one involved mounting an angle plate onto the face plate to machine an odd shaped component. Doing this involved mounting balance weights which all ads to the fun and the challenge. To the arm chair machinists out there using jaws to grip a ring even very lightly will distort it and as Keith points out it can make the ring sing, both actually. Keith, the sound of engagement and disengagement of the feed reminds me of my apprenticeship days using Colchester Student lathes ( the Clausing being a Colchester re.badge for the US market) Been watching your vids ( even though I do machining as a day job ) for years now. I think that we both had more hair back then and it was a different colour. Thumbs up as usual.

keith all machining is good but lathe work is my favorite-- more creative to my mind maybe...--All the best E

03:10 Agreed, a few extra locating rings on the faceplate are actually a bonus for the future. War wounds, so to speak. Just keep the depth of cut to a minimum...

Thanks for sharing!

Hello Keith, Nice to see some faceplate action... enjoyable viewing, thank you. Take care. Paul,,

Nice work Keith 👍 thanks for the video.

You have classic lathe well built machine. When I was apprentice I use to make machine parts for the US Army during the Vietnam era on the next size smaller lathe. It also had Tracer attachment, Its incredible its still have travel dial. Then the went company to a H.E.S. Tracer Lathe. Soon after the company went to CNC. I rather work with manual machines than CNC. Manual takes skill. CNC is mundane production work. Spent 12 years on CNC and the rest of my remaining of 48 year career of manual lathes & Bridgeports.

Thanks for another great video Keith !

Always glad to see you at work master Keith!!!

Thanks Keith for another great video!

It seems that if ackthe ring wasn't flat to start with, clamping it to the faceplate would force it flat. After turning and releasing the clamps it would spring back to being not flat again. In this case I suppose when it's bolted up a slight warp won't matter.

great tips for flipping that ring around, thanks Keith

Amazing, your knowledge on these how to's. Excellent.

Hi Keith, Haven't been here for a while, you are still living in Massachusetts...? Anyway I turned similar rings once upon a time, years ago. The finish ring (about 1 meter diameter) had a series around of threaded holes. We drilled and tapped the holes first, then I made a fixture so I could bolted the rings from undernith. Then I could turn the top plane, in and outside diameter in one set! Before it was a hell on earth :-).

Right on point, thank you Kieth

Great stuff. Very helpful seeing solutions to not being able to machine surfaces in one pass. I need to buy some more chucks/faceplates as at the moment I only have one, a decent four jaw but the prices for decent chucks is more than i paid for the lathe. (though that was a steal DSG 13/30) good tooling is so expensive.

A sacrificial face plate. Why not? You don't use it that offen. Maybe a shim or a complete ring shaped sheet under the part and clamps? Than you can turn the part without hitting the faceplate. As an additional idea. Your plasma or water cutter (too small for this job I think but segments could work) makes it in a whiffy. Thank you Keith! I can see and feel you're a happy trooper at this moment. I hope this can continue to the end. Thank you for sharing al your knowledge and way of live with us. Get it done and stay safe. All the best, Job

Back to machining. . .I like!

Great stuff as usual.

Thanks, I've never cut a ring on my face plate. I rarely use it and often struggle with getting castings well mounted & the setup takes longer than the machining. Had never seen a Pi tape before, nice.

I always learn something from you

Nice Work

thanks, enjoyed watching!

Olá amigo Keith!! Excelente trabalho como sempre!!! Abraço

A "Machinists Mile" is not the same as a "Country Mile" 🧐. Nice work, and photography Keith 👏. Thanks for sharing. Regards John.

We do watch the hands on your wristwatch, yep, knew it was the next day 😂.

Great thanks

Hi Keith, That is a nice big face plate. Would be a bit of a gut buster to put on without your gantry. I made something similar about 25 years ago for a motor to gearbox in a boat, it was in aluminium. There were bolt holes for the back of the motor but they were not all equally spaced, one was out of position for some unknown reason but the guy I did it for hadn't noticed, and I drilled them to a set pattern so he had to redrill one on site to get the last bolt in position. I like your tip on the blocks when reversing the ring, but I would have moved them further apart on the philosophy of more even distribution. Great video as always. Regards Dennis.

Thanks for sharing 👍

Just facing us off that was a great video

to have done some rings for conversions, I know that a job that seems basic, there is many fool traps, this is worse when you start from a plate that have been rough cut with an oxy fuel torch. very good job on that ring, i presume that the axis of the engine and driven component is guarenteed by a register on the engine block and the driven component, typically SAE style bellhousing. very good video.

Nice too see the faceplate on your lathe^^

Greetings from Greece

Very nice video, learned something today. Thanks for sharing. :o)

Well done

good video mr fenner

I never heard of a pitape before and wound up getting an endless list of thread seal tapes at first.Pi and pipe often sound alike.

"Ain't no flies on that!" Adapter plates always have a interesting story...can you say "Ford-Cummins"? This job made me wonder if the stock was cut with a "water-jet" or possibly a plasma torch that is submersed in water? Reason being: the ring showed little heat warpage. CAL-OSHA dictates that large plasma cutting be done under water to capture the airborne Hexa-valent-Chrome....esta no’bueno! Large water projects (MWD, LA County DWP...) cut huge pieces of material... Gota have a monster filtration unit or continuous centrfuge to handle the amount of debris that a plasma torch produces; i would think. Or it could have been lopped off a pipe? Just yapping... But, great camera work Keith.

Guy can't be scared to pull the gap!!

Wow!

in my opinion, about the only good thing about an interupted cut is it breaks the chips for you.

Keith, don't know what camera you are now using, but with the high resolution, it is amazing...cheers from down in Orlando, just getting back up to speed after the big 'Blow' we had down here Wednesday night, cheers, Paul

Great tips, I machine model engine wheels and it’s always a problem turning them around….

Hola keith como estas .muy bueno el trabajo . Yo también tengo problemas los antiojos. Ya no veo ja ja bueno te mando saludos y abrazos amigó

Hi Keith there’s a lot of work there lot of money in hours

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For alignment, when you flipped the ring, how about three thick washers, bolted to the faceplate, on the inside, hard up against the ring, at three roughly equidistant positions?

Keith try white Diekem paint the faceplate and scribe the diameter you need . 🤓

Some nice tips in this one. Keith, whats the reason for running the inner and outer operations in counter directions?

Hey Keith. Was anything done to stress-relieve the ring before you machined it? What alloy? (you said but I forgot). Thanks.

what is the capacity of your thru bore on the lathe spindle? 3?

Do you use the face plate because a four jaw can distort the ring a bit? Nice video, thanks for making them.

what are the square hole in the faceplate for?

Why do you go so close when you know you are going to change the clamps?

Keith, have you ever figured out the percentage of your work day you stand around waiting for the machines to do their job. Yeh, I know it's a weird question but then old age kinda thinks that way. 😉

How can you possibly make anything without a DRO.😅

"Face Plate in use"... should have been, "Ring Around The Clausing". Just sayin'... Great video Sensei !

33:33 Did it measure pretty much at 55 3/4?

are your glasses changing or your eyes? Or both maybe????

With all this equipment and stuff you bought for this show, you could probably open a real machine shop and do real work. Could even do it out of your studio there. It's certainly looks like a real machine shop.

19/32nds my brain melts ... how do you yankees work with this? I am not mocking the imperial fractional system it just seems so damn hard...