Many thanks for that, previously I was frightened of making gears without knowing why but now I am frightened of making gears for a good reason. Knowledge is so liberating.
dunno if anyone cares but if you are stoned like me atm you can watch pretty much all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. Have been binge watching with my gf for the last couple of months :)
My 1 year old son needed a nap and I played this video. At first he was kind of laughing with his eyes closed and then he was lights out happily sleeping within 3 minutes. Thank you again This Old Tony!
I literally came within a couple of millimeters of amputating two of my fingers off from a very thin turning of 304 stainless. I still can't feel either finger and it's been 6 months. I had my long handle hook Bill needle nose pliers in my hand I was thinking I was safe when all of a sudden an uncontrolled curl came down and was just about to wrap itself up in my aprons longitudinal wheel. I didn't even think, I just swatted it with my left hand to keep it away from wrapping up in the wheel! It was merely a split second operation but the very second that turning decided to get caught up on the jaws of my chuck in reel itself in, slicing right down to the bone and halfway through the bones on my ring finger and middle finger of my left hand. It did not feel like a cut at all. It felt like someone had taken my hand set it on a vice or in anvil and smacked it with a small sledgehammer. Yank the skin off my fingers like a glove! Luckily they were still attached by the top of my hand and it slid back down over the phone so I was able to push the skin down squeeze it with a towel and wrap it with the last clean towel in my hole shot. I was shaking so bad I could hardly walk! I was unable to dial my phone and luckily my instant messenger was open with my right hand I tapped on the phone are you trying to call my girlfriend on instant messenger which I never do and I didn't really even expect her to answer but she did? I told her what happened and they said I got to go I'm going to pass out and she had the paramedics here in a couple of minutes. The goddamn cops were here it made me unwrap my hand which was the most painful thing I ever had to do in my life. I'm on painkillers for chronic pain so much so that they don't even affect me as far as my reflexes or cognitive ability open on them for very very very long time and I can't even feel them other than the relief that they give my lower back knees and hips. (I worked construction for many years) at any rate I have what is known as hyperalgesia that means I'm enormously sensitive to any stimulus that causes pain. It had precise my pain to a degree the can I really be calculated but it is significant. For example when I get a tooth pulled it makes me want to pass out from the pain and there's nothing they can do about it. They can numb it out with 10 shots and I can still feel it full on! The moral of the story is always expect to be maimed. If you always expect that it will most likely happen your odds are greatly reduced because you'll be going to what others might think of is ridiculous lengths to be careful in all operations. But even though like I said who would have thought that just flicking away tiny chip would have caused this. To be honest that you wasn't even sure or didn't say it was attached to the work any longer. It was so fast I didn't even have time to think about it. I totally innocuous thing like that can cause mutilation it half a blink of an eye!
@@ClownWhisper I keep super glue next to my tool bucket for stuff like that. A little dab on a piece of paper and lay it on the closed and lined up cut. Maybe a little tape on top to immobilize it.
Just so you know Tony, you may think other people do better/go into more detail explaining than you do, but the way you do it is entertaining as well as informative. I remember your videos more than I do the others. If anything, your videos are often what gets me interested in a subject or idea in the first place. They often leads me down a rabbit hole of more detailed information. Those more detailed people should thank you😊
Tony, my man, you can't keep apologizing for making long and informative videos. The people that appreciate your videos are the ones that love the long videos that suck them in and make half an hour pass in a few minutes
TOT, I'm so excited about this MiniLathe series!! Can't wait to see the CNC conversion take place. Thanks for getting me interested in machining over the last year. My wife even likes watching some of your videos with me. When she asked why I needed to buy a lathe so badly I just said, "I could someday end up as cool as This Old Tony" and she understood.
I regret having to confirm that you lost me at around the 15 minute mark, but having just had a bottle of a most wonderful Portuguese red wine, this may not be entirely your fault, dear sir. Persevere, and I shall accompany you till infinity...
I found your Ch by mistake a couple weeks back, since then I been watching 10-15 of your vids daily to catch up.. You remind me so much of my dad ( who also loved his tools and making everything and anything he could..) I just wanted to thank you for such AMAZING content and you've given me the motivation to get a shed built and started kitting it out with tools,mainly all my dads tools,but also looking to buy a Lathe.. Keep up the amazing work !!
Binge watching TOT !!! Extraordinary professional!!! Sense of humour, scientifically backed up research and comments , skills through the roof, pleasant voice tone . Dude you got it all , God Bless , and please keep going as long as you can . You and people like you are reason I still have faith in humanity!!!
Having worked for a major gear cutting machine manufacturer I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen produced for the newbie to understand how gears are cut.
lol, as a new fan i literally found this video by going through your history and looking for the longest video i haven't watched yet. Love your stuff, bruh
I don't know why but at 7:07 .... laughed until I cried..." it's always been a big hit for me at parties" I love old Tony! He always makes me laugh while learning new things...he is like the teacher in school you wished you could have had but instead got an old grouch!! Tony is the best on RU-vid!!!!!! Had to come back and edit.....i laughed even harder at the Module 1 rack....Miss Monroe.....Thanks Old Tony for putting a smile on my face today!!! I needed that!!!!
I want to see more types of gears now. Not just circular gears, but sliding gears, helical cut gears, intersecting gears, compound gears, gears within gears, weirdly shaped gears, etc...
Yaj a new video from this old Tony... wait I have watched the video already yesterday. Love your Videos Tony, I hope one day i have enough space and money to buy my own milling machine and lathe. But in the meantime I can comfort myself with your videos. Keep up the good work.
I just shared this with the Drummond lathes group. Gears for our 100+ year old lathes are difficult and expensive to come by . You've answered a lot of the questions that come up regularly so I hope this will encourage people to give gear making a try. Thanks
Tony, this is one of the most comprehensive gear tutorials I have seen, thank you. On a related note, have you considered fabricating a stand-alone CNC dividing / indexing head for your mill, something you can actuate with the push of a button or trip switch on the table travel? That would be something I know people would be willing to pay for.
Clickspring is going complete space cookie with the Antikythera mechanism, and I love it. However, if there is anyone who actually *could* make involuted gear teeth with nothing but a home made hand file and a wood vice covered in leather, it would probably be him :P
Spacely made sprockets, Cogswell made cogs. As always I’m amazed at how creatively you can explain such dull and heavy topics and make them fun. Always a pleasure.
Dear Old Tony, I’m still patiently waiting for the follow up videos about making gear cutters and gears with the mini-lathe... unless I missed it. I better go watch every video since this one just to be on the safe side.
I have no idea what you're talking about. But your so god damn interesting and fun to watch, I ended up watching the whole video. Your way of explaining and little sprinkles of comedy just make the video so enjoyable.
I look forward to the next videos mentioned. Ive got a light duty 3 axis machibe at the house. Cant wait for accounting to approve the budget proposal for a heavy duty conversion. Last i asked accounting told me "some day"
Son of a Pitch, I was Gearing up for a double dose of ToT and get the same vid. Nothing to gnash my Teeth over but I'll watch it again. I'm Racking my brain what was wrong with the audio before
Nice. Another take on this is having a straight V tooth (like a rack, or an actual piece or a rack with several teeth), mounted as a cutter on the shaper machine and have the rack move ever so slightly as the blank is rotated ever so slightly - this the complicated part (but there are shaper attachments for cutting gears). And since the rack does not have infinite teeth, it would have to be reseted every 2-5 teeth depending on modulus and length of the rack used. It can be done but nowadays that rack in form a spiral forms a hob and meshing a precise gear ratio between the hob and the blank and let it run and move the piece or the hob side to side from time to time to make a cylindrical gear and not a globoidal gear. Also the hob must be angled to its helix angle to cut straight teeth. Hobbing helical gears is another can of worms.
Looking forward to the CNC conversion. I converted my mini mill a few years ago, and have been very satisfied with the results. I've been eyeing up my 9x20 for the same treatment, but I need to fix the cross slide first. The guy who owned it before me replaced the gib with a piece of flat brass for some reason.
Ok, you just made my 'never skip ads' list. It is a VERY short list, and you are in good company - Project Binky, AvE, MCM and FSM. Now This old tony :)
To much lathe based time travel has resulted on huge amounts of TOT radiation being emitted from the RU-vid black hole. This feels like a TOT time loop. Now I’m wondering how many times I have seen this video before. That’s the problem with mini lathes they just can’t support the paradox!
Old tony Videos are great ..funny well put together excel to watch.i done abit of lathe work when i was a training.and now i have a clarke 500 lathe mill machine to play with i wish i paid more attention to this then. Your videos make enjoyable view and you always take away something . Welldone tony love to meet you in person too.would be great to see you work as looks so effortless. Regards john
i wish i had gotten all this great info 6 years ago! its taken at least that long to self-understand all of these things you got into a 30 min vid! Thanks for a condensed refresher and better clarity of some of the whys things are the way they are!
Excellent treatise on indexing, gears and involutes. I would have included the involute base circle diameter is the cos of the pressure angle x the pitch diameter, but lets not nitpick ;-). Insanely entertaining and educational at the same time. ATB, Robin
10:22 for anyone wondering: the theoretical tooth count limit on spur (=straight) gears is 17, the practical (?) limit is 14. For helical (slanted) gears, the practical limit is even down to 3.
"Now, if you had to rewind to hear that last sentence again, you should just stop this video right now!" LOLZ! You are TOO much, man! It's like I always say, This Old Tony is WAYYYY funnier than THAT Old TONY!
Thanks for the lesson, i may watch a few more times as the lights were on but some of the gears were not clicking. You making your lessons a pleasure, thanks
That was one of the best videos I've seen in a long time. I've made gears before (3d printed), but didn't really understand the relationships between the teeth geometry and the size of the gears. My latest attempt resulted in a 'crunchy' feel with the meshing, and now I know why! I had changed the radius of one gear, but didn't alter the involute profile on its teeth. That means the contact surface wasn't consistent, and so, it feels crunchy. Thanks for the excellent learning material! Cheers
Nice video when your pepped up of coffee. I lasted the whole thing. I've been making gears using hopes and dreams for years but they don't work well enough. Found my problem thanks to this video.
Nice job explaining a tough subject. It can easily get very confusing, but you broke it down nicely with the signature word play. One more thing, if strength is not an issue, you could switch the module of big and small gear of one set to get a higher tooth count in a smaller diameter gear and still make them fit. Just a Thought and always a pleasure.
Tony, Thanks for taking time to do these videos. They are funny as all get out, and actually informative. They remind me of the work I've done in the past. (Retired now) I did see the video where you showed your face. Somewhere somebody speculated you are from Canada, which fills the mystery how you can speak inch and metric. Your English is flawless I must say. O'dan
9:50 Wait so you're telling me that a really massive circle... would appear flat from my puny human perspective? Oh my god! What if, and hear me out now, what if the whole world is actually a circle!? Oh man, I've gotta make some calls! The people must be told!
It's been a year and the 500 dollar Minila The I bought for making gears is gathering dust at an astonishing rate, when are you gonna show us how to make gears with the mililathe? I need to make minilathe gears for my minilathe with my minilathe, and I minineed to do it mininow TOT.
Ok, so it wasn't just me thinking the audio was wonky. At first I checked my head phones for faulty connects because I figured the fault was much more likely to be on my end than yours (because your editing, lighting and audio is always so on point it makes me envious). Then I decided that I probably just needed my ears rinsed... good to know even Gods make mistakes from time to time ;) ALSO: You soooo need to get into gear hobbing at some point! PLEEEASE!
Ok... you hooked me, I will watch it again :P Seriously, because I have nothing better to do and I enjoyed this the first time :D And I get to give you a well deserved two thumbs up!!!
Hi Tony, looking forward to the next two videos! Please explain how to choose an involute cutter, even if you don't use them on your next video. Great subject!
Uncle Bumblefu@k sent me.. And im glad he did. A minute and a half in, subbed.. Pretty sure im skipping the Super Bowl, and calling into work dead, to binge watch your vijayos.. 🍻🍻🍻👍👍👍
I hope its my age ... I'd hate to think I've been this stupid all my life, but at 67 I found myself drooling from my lower lip like Patrick Star. If I understood any of this, I will have forgotten it by the end of this comment. Tony ... I wish I could apply the Vulcan Mind thingie Mr. Spock does so I could retain this as well as I retain fluid. You sir are outstanding! Thank you for your videos!
You knew that yesterday's video had me, almost, buying a dividing head and a set of involute cutters. This repetition is simply to push me over the edge, isn't it? Audo quality my ....