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Ok let's review the facts: 1. It no-kidding works. 2. He made it himself with fairly modest tools, no computers or DRO or CNC anything 3. No mis-drilled holes or anything else 4. It's as good or more likely better than $500 worth of Chinese import 7x12, in size and performance 5. The video itself is to a high standard; well lit, well focused, very well edited. All in all, credit to this man for making it happen.
*I do not argue what he did well. But the fact is that he bought a ready-made designer who needed a foundation. Have you seen how some people assemble a lathe completely from scratch and make it yourself until the last bolt? That's exactly what I call a real master. So I abstain, not like not dislike.*
@@СмыслМеждуСтрок If you mean ready-made design-the linear ways, for example, he is exactly correct to buy these "off-the-shelf", as there is no way to fabricate these with the very primitive tools he has at hand. Making every piece by hand is impossible How would you build ways by hand without a lot of sophisticated tools, HUGE heat-treat furnace, long surface grinder like Okamoto etc, etc,? Making bolts from scratch is the work of a fool. I don't think you understand what this guy accomplished. Pedantichnyy...
@@СмыслМеждуСтрок why can't you give him credit where credit is due! I will be damn if I would make some of the stuff he used when I can buy it ready made ....
@@Vodichka9 actually those can be built by hand with relatively simple tools. It needs lots of work and very flat reference surface like lapped granite. The technique is called scraping and it produce very straight surface. The idea is to use indicator color and scrape off high spots untill the surface is totally flat. I don't mean i suggest that method for home made tools, but that's how prescision tools were made in old days and some still use it when restoring old tools. Using linear bearings is interesting idea and for sure the lathe is very smooth to use. I'm not sure how long they last because sometimes vibrations can be nasty. I wouldn't at least make too deep holes. What comes to precision, there is always some machinist who is not satisfied for hobbyist's tools. In many case it is enough to have a rotating piece tightly in a chuck and moving mechanism to hold the toolbit. It is much better than any other tool to make so many things.
Really beautiful work and it goes to show what you can accomplish once you commit to doing it. Having been a machinist I notice a few small things that ideally would be more tightly fitted or precision ground for better accuracy but this is a great piece of equipment that will last years and can make any needed upgrades or replacement parts. My only criticism is that the belt and pulleys need to be covered before use and with that amount of slack a tensioner will reduce noise and slipping. Solid 9.5 out of 10. And for anyone who is upset about the half point it's for safety. No machine will tear you apart faster than a lathe. Having to watch the work is enough you don't need the pulley system as a threat too.
_"No machine will tear you apart faster than a lathe"_ I'd much rather be using my old 1940 lathe with exposed pulleys than a table saw, or one of those hideous PTO powered screw log splitters.
@@ferrumignis those machines will maim you for certain. But if a lathe grabs you you're losing whatever limb got grabbed, arm, head etc. I try to be very accurate in my words. If a lathe grabs you it will tear you apart. Not cut, not shear. Rip. You lose a finger to a table saw, or a splitter a good doc might be able to fix it. Lathe yanks your arm and rips something off or takes your whole body for a ride they ain't fixing that.
Kid, you have got IT. My dad was a machinist for 45 years, and put me and my 4 siblings through private school. Granted he worked 16 hour days for a few years, but he did it. I grew up in the 80s watching him work on a lathe at home that couldn't have been a whole lot better what you just made. Build yourself a milling machine and a clientele and you'll never go broke. You might never sleep, but you'll never go broke. I wish I could do what you did here. I definitely missed my calling. I could have inherited my dad's shop had I the interest back when he retired and sold his shop. As it turns out I have the creative mind for this kind of stuff, but lack the education. Stupidest thing I ever did was cheat my way through math class in school. In awe of you man, you're on the right track.
Don't let lack of education hold you back. I think if you have the will to do something you can make it happen! Plus we are in the age of the internet so pretty much any information you need is right out there. I think any skill takes lots of practice, so start practising, but be cautious. I taught myself to weld recently after watching RU-vid videos. I also fixed my car after my cam belt snapped and bent all my valves again mostly from RU-vid videos. I had to buy new ones and grind them in, and you have to get the torque settings for the head bolts right, but you can find most of this information in Haynes manuals.
Mathematician here. I often wish I stopped studying math at a certain point and got into engineering when I was younger. The math problems that give engineers trouble can usually just be "engineered" around instead of directly solved. Math is beautiful but making things with your hands is so much more rewarding.
@@thetedmang There is nothing stopping you from buying the tools and tinkering for yourself. The little iGBT welders are pretty cheap these days and the one I got works great and no one ever taught me to weld, I just figured it out for myself. Just be safe. Skill and mastery come with practice.
You prove that ANYTHING is possible with the right set of skills, determination and taking action, and you my friend, are a perfect example of the above!
The above message stopped a little short: You also need the right tools and the right supply sources. I tried a Gingery lathe. Every mistake snow-balled into an incomplete and imprecise paperweight. I like his work.
I am 50 years old and have been a machinist for the last 30 years. You have impressed me sir and I don't get easily impressed. If I could I would send you a bottle of cutting oil. ;) Have I great day,
Indeed, this is an impressive construction! I'm quite cluey myself but, for some reason it never occured to me building a lathe this way other than stretching my brain how to construct a CNC type. Yet, this is a suitable one to modify it into a CNC controlled later...
I wonder what you have been doing for 30 years if you are impressed by a bit of welding, drilling and cutting connected together with some parts from the hardware store.
Woe dude. COLIN FRICKIN FURZE!!!! SWEET!! Man your doin something right when the inventor and engineer king himself says your doin good!! Congratulations!
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I like how he uses the as yet unfinished lathe to make a perfect circle out of the plate the chuck is mounted to. The lathe's begun service even before it was fully ready for service.
This is just a neverending spiral, with lathe like this you can make precise spindel shafts and so on, you can now start working on a mill and once you got lathe and mill you can work on more complicated mechanisms and so on.
@@magnitudefallout3944I know right?? I'm literally 4 months into my specialised technician certification and I can already tell this is just a flashy video.
@@magnitudefallout3944I think he would have made the lathe for himself anyways had RU-vid not existed. He put actual thought and high quality craftsmanship into this project.
Utmost respect to you, Sir. When you buy something, you improve your life by owning it. When you build it yourself, you improve your life and yourself by building it.
Thank you for teaching me how to make a metal turning machine. I have a bachelor's degree in technology engineering. It is not good for people here to be able to buy a high-quality and up-to-date device and earn money with it, but with the video that you sent, dear friend, many people can make one and earn as much money as they can with it, so that in the future, they will buy a more up-to-date device. Buy the higher quality. Since I was a child, I have wished to have a lathe to make the thoughts that come to my mind, but unfortunately I have not implemented it yet. I always thought how to make one. Fortunately, I was very happy after watching your video. So I will buy the necessary parts and make one. Thank you again dear friend.
He has the satifaction of putting his dream into reality, right in front of our eyes. True, safety was neglected, which he will overcome in time. Most of us project our dreams into his action and admire him. Both are good.
How manyPh.Ds or top graduates in mechanical or industrial engineering can MAKE a lathe from scratch? This is a man with REAL education. Saludo ako sa iyo.
You sir are not a machinist, engineer, welder, or mechanic. You are a freaking magician. Seriously, every video of yours I watch blows my mind. You have a long and prosperous future ahead of you. Keep up the amazing work my friend and never give up.
@@James-on1vyя, как инженер-механик, скажу, что тут дерьмо. Некоторые технические решения действительно отличные. Но, их напрочь перечёркивают другие технические решения, за которые автору надо руки оторвать.
Really impressed. Im sure many people told you it couldnt be done and you built something thats accurate and affordable to build anything else you desire. Bravo friend!!!
No chatter, perfectly concentric, lacks a back gear so no thread cutting facilities, but could be added, better imho than many manufactured products at the lower end of the market, I would be proud of this were it my work!
Dear Sir, just like everyone else I am in awe at your skills. Drilling accurate compound holes, beautiful stick welding and producing a low backlash device that looks like it can produce accurate and smooth results. Have you thought of making a tail stock? That would complete the build. You may need to add locking to your cross-feed and longitudinal feed so that when you are cutting cross-feed, your long track doesn’t move by itself. Well done. One day you could throw away the belts and have a fixed motor with VFD and have infinite control over speed. You’d be able to get higher speeds as well. Cheers.
I really like it when you left some parts of it to be unfinished, you put some imperfection to makes this build Perfect ! Outstanding ! Very Well Done !
Phenomenal !!! I only have a 10" mini lathe . Thanks to the clear instruction subtitles describing the parts l can try and duplicate what you've done . ( key word here is try 😊 )
I know your secret. You think simply and simplify your thinking, then you apply your thinking to your structural design, you also apply that simplyfing touch to your broblemsolving tasks. Then you come out with simple but brilliant materialised outcome, im student of this process. Brilliant!
This is the best video on how to make a homemade lathe. And ive watched hundreds of them. You make this with simple tools. And even list the parts you use. Thanks for the great video tutorial.
Very nicely done! No need to build a machine that's initially accurate to tens of thousandths.... if you're making parts to hundredth's! Now you have a machine, that can make the machine that made them, more precise if you need to!
@@DavidGrassSrit's simple really. esp. if u have a tig or/and mig. i did a shorter version.. for my coil cores (tattoo machines). a 2800 rpm motor, steel plates and rail. i only use it for coil cores i dont worry much about runout and all.. way better than those cheapass mini lathes online (plastic gears 😂)
Hi, I am an Iranian and I live in Iran. I saw this clip that you made and I fell in love with it. I wanted to make one myself like the device you made, but unfortunately I did not find any of the devices that you used in Iran? I wish I could see you up close and make friends with you and learn from your knowledge. Your family will surely be proud of you. Blessed is the happiness of your family and friends who have you. May you always be successful and victorious! Ebrahim Hamid from Iran, Ahvaz
This is excellent. The only oversight is a belt guard over the pulley's and belt for safety purposes. Without the guard, this lathe can also be used to slice, dice & julienne fingers!!! Adding a belt-guard would not be difficult or expensive... and well worth the effort & expense. It will also protect the belt from unintended damage.
That needs to be rephrased. It speaks nothing to what you’re trying to state. All you’ve managed to say is that his parents are skilled at sex… What you should be saying is: your parents did well with your upbringing as you’ve displayed amazing skills. That, is more appropriate and more indicative of what you wanted to convey.
@@carbon_no6 That's not what I'm trying to say. How tf do you know what I'm thinking?! LOL. I'm telling the dude that his parents must have had Da Bomb Ass Sex when they were producing him! THAT'S what I meant! Go bug someone else, you freak. Trying to explain what I meant when you don't even have a clue...lol. You must be a democrat! LOL
I like the fact that it has several speeds, a hollow spindle, and the linear supports for the slides. Now you need to make a tail head, and a compound slide. Very useful. I would have put a 4-jaw chuck on it.
Now he can use the lathe to build a drill press and make screws, bolts, nuts, and ball-bearings. and the drill press and lathe to build a planer. And the planer, drill press, and planer to build... ...a lathe...
Although i'd say that even that mini lathe is more accurate than his homemade one. Lots and lots of unmachined surfaces and everything is measured with rather basic tools or by eye. Also this doesn't look very rigid. So next step would be using the lathe to build a mill, then building a new lathe and a new mill with those tools.
I was looking for a D.I.Y. lathe build to turn and produce banjo pots. This was fascinating, enjoyable and revealed your design capabilities, familiarization with parts, machining, etc. What my experience of making things has been is that if you have to buy tools to produce something it exceeds the price of simply buying it. So ... It then becomes a matter of self challenge, creativity, possibly doing it better and the satisfaction of knowing you made it, even if it runs over what a purchase would have cost. It would be interesting if you kept a running tab and totaled the cost and compared it to a similar one available. I swear there is a economic Desmond out there making sure the act of making something is cost prohibitive vs buying. Loved the video.
Well, you comment indicates you know nothing about machine tools .....but that's OK. What IS very clear about this video is the guy actually knows very little about lathes .....but he does know something about welding .....and that's about all. The one weld along the top of the "headstock" was very good. ANY kind of metal "chip-making" machine cannot be made from "steel". This was found out by one major machine tool builder 50 years ago. White Sundstrand built a series of machining centers based on fabricating. the machine frame was very thick plate. The end result was a machine rampant with vibration. CAST IRON HAS INHERENT DAMPENING PROPERTIES. The "E: value of steel is much "better" than cast iron ...but when it comes to machining, cast iron is simply the only "best" way to make ANY machine tool. How do you turn to a specific "known" diameter? How do you generate a thread? How do you machine a taper? A lot of work .....and you can't actually do much on it. .
I’m a plumber and welder by trade. People don’t understand how brains like ours work. To the uneducated it looks hard to build, but if you have a mechanical mind it all looks very step by step and easy to build!! I built my own drill press, belt sander,wood lathe and now I’m going to build one of these!! Your x and y axis on your tool post look very rigid ! You know how i know ? You were able to make clean uniform passes . I already have all the steel and it was so easy and informative that i ordered all the rails and other stuff. I’m going to use a 3 hp variable speed motor with a forward and reverse module though. Very and i mean very nice build !!
What a great project! I'm fortunate to have a couple "proper" lathes but I would rather have yours than none any day. Nothing like the feeling of completing such a huge project, is there? You should be very proud of yourself. I'm impressed and subscribing. I'm sure you already realize you'll need a DRO since you don't have graduated dials. And if you discover that chatter is a bigger issue than you had anticipated you can add mass and vibration damping by filling those base channels and tubing with lead. Just melt some and pour it in. I would also consider some more bracing inside the headstock box, again only if you experience excessive chatter as I suspect you will with a welded thin wall steel frame rather than a heavy iron casting. Just ideas for future improvements. First make lots of chips to get to know your machine well before changing anything else. I look forward to seeing more!!
@@peterdurica8022 Lead is FIVE TIMES heavier by volume and malleable. Concrete is hard to the point of being brittle. Cast iron is used for machine castings largely because it is less prone to ringing than other cast metals. Vibration damping is more valuable than "absolute" rigidity (really there's no such thing) because the more rigid something is the more likely it is to crack under stress. Concrete is better than nothing, but lead would surely outperform concrete for this purpose.
Love the video. Not sure if it'd be possible to build a lathe any simpler without making deep compromises on what kinds of parts it's capable of producing, this is very much a 'minimum viable' lathe for making precision metal parts.
EXTRAORDINARY!!! THANK YOU for the thought! For the lesson in Transfer Layout! For showing us new layout tooling! Concevability, Design quality, Genius, Perfection, showing what a True old-fashioned Machinist's perspectives can do! Bible says anything we can think of, we're capable of doing. ((about the time, at Bable, when Nimrod pulled his screwup with his tower to Heaven, and all the different Languages were born of God; to confound their work. It was in a Heavenly conversation between God and His Son.)) Now, it's time to make a Tail-stock. I loved your editing...slowed the fast forward down to show one finishing item at regular speed and fast forwarded thru the rest, but not so fast you couldn't decipher it. Great camera and angles! The whole video was perfect! I applaud you!!!
Well done lad! 👍 Very innovative and well thought out, you should be proud! 10/10 I don’t know why people have thumbs down this vid? Jealous most probably! Keep on being awesome 😉👍
Amazing engineering ! A few Gory comments relating to arms been torn off etc ! I nearly spewed up my tea reading these. All I can say I was highly satisfied watching this video IT WAS BETTER THAN WATCHING DEBBIE DOES DALLAS !
Oh my... that’s amazing!!! Brilliant!!! makes me want to build one... do you have a list of everything that went into making it? Any drawings? Well done!
One does not have drawings for such a build. Usually one has the plans in the mind and it develops in a certain direction as progress is made Sometimes compromising and adapting bits as they become available. My way anyway....
I've watched this a couple times, and it's quite fascinating, but I'm not sure how you reliably get the spindle nose/bore lined up with the rails with precision. On short pieces may not be noticeable, but it seems like on longer ones you'd be cutting a taper. But it was very ingenious, and I'm sure will prove quite useful.
Clever sod, I think he's done an awesome job, OK not like the leading brands, but really functional. A few health and safety issues, other than that. Very good mate.
It takes lot of skills to do such lathe within so shortpart of time. And done with précision. I would like so much to have your skills. No plan, just the iron plates and rois along with new pièces b oght from the dealer. Thanks. Your video is among the most instructive. Thanks you so much.
Можно много тут трындеть о том что станок не точный,не жесткий и не долговечный. Но сам факт что у чела руки ростут откуда надо достоин лайка и подписки.
