I just want to make things ROUND (accurately) 

Good to see a lathe being proper.y and safely slung, I have moved many in my working life.

The best thing about new lathes is you can fix old lathes. Congrats on the sponsorship!

I was wondering where aleksa put the lawnmower!!

Seeing Alexa made me second guess everything I knew, now I know Australia is just one very big neighbourhood

The only good thing about being an insomniac American is catching fresh uploads from Ozzie RU-vidrs!

Australian machining shenanigans are increasingly the best part of youtube. On a separate note, imagine having the self control to build a makeshift engine hoist, but not let the project inflate into a full shop gantry crane.. Incredible restraint mate, bravo

Sometimes I watch Australian RU-vidrs and then I see other Australian RU-vidrs in their videos that I watch and it makes me think that there might be 300 Australians in total

It has to be said, Mitutoyo make some darn good microphones.

This dude is the Cutting Edge Engineering machinist we have at home. I'm into it.

Riding 3 meters down your garage was a fucking awesome bit, love it

In this episode "YT money funds guys addiction to buying tools" Love the naration mate!

Man, this channel is destined for greatness. I did a thing AND Inheritance Machining in the top comments? Its official, you're an international RU-vid superstar.

You can get the twist out of the lathe by attempting to cut a cylinder, then getting a taper, then shimming the mounting bolts until you stop getting a taper. No level required for that. Level just required to make it level. Which is ideal to prevent long term un-even wear patterns. But pretty unnecessary to fix taper causing bed twist.

So all Australians know each other then?

I wonder how many people will comment about using the spindle as a lifting point ? you know that is going to really get someones blood pressure rising 😆

I feel your problems, I have Lathe at work, but "needed" one at home 10 min apart. But I brought home 1940ish Southbend clone, and lifted it off my trailer with selfmade engine hoist. I spent best part of 7 months restoring rebuilding electrifying and now I have all I need except a mill.. and a ..

Good call keeping the bidet!

That 1980s XT 250 is a beast

Probably not worth much but you just joined my personal list of great RU-vid machinists-engineers (to be or not) with the extra bit of the nice accent that helps a frenchie understand the so many variations in English.

Congratulations to the new machine!

Good on ya for your new purchase. My personal belief is that every man needs one of everything and some place to put it all. Cheers from Eastern Canada! 🇨🇦

That's the same lathe I got from Hare & Forbes in Perth mid 2019. Along with the MH-28V mill of the same brand. Managed to buy the majority of the tools for them not that long before the covid tax kicked in luckily. And it did make it easier to stay at home a lot when you have a mill and lathe you're still getting used to haha. I figured it was easiest to just buy the $250 1T engine crane from them during the same order. I haven't done too many real mods to it yet. 4 way tool post got old fast, so got the Hare & Forbes quick change. Seems fine for the price. I wanted the multi fix style, but more expensive and harder to find. I did get the silly stands as part of the package deal. But I took out the sheets that go between the pillars (don't really know what the purpose of them is, there not really structural). I had an old 7 draw Sidchrome roll cab that I used to have at work. The outside was bent/cracked/dented, but the draws are fine after cleaning and regreasing the bearings. I took the draws out and built a box frame out of 20mm square tubing and 3mm flat bar for the draw supports. It fits pretty much perfectly in the gap under the lathe. No room for castor, so put skateboard bearings inside the bottom frame, only sticking out 5mm, enough to roll it back and forward without wasting height. The only actual removing metal mod I've done to the lathe was to the compound travel, because I wanted to cut MT-3 tapers without a whole bunch of messing around to cut long tapers. I think I gained like 12mm or so of travel, by removing a bit of material at the end of the slot on the underside of the compound, then rounding the corners of the lead screw nut so the corners didn't hit the end of travel first. Removing metal there gains you travel in the retracted direction, so doesn't really lose rigidity. Then gained another 3mm by making a spacer out of 3mm flat bar to go between the handle mounting block and the top slide, and cut away the section of plate that hits the bottom slide. That gains extension, so will be less ridged, but I only use it that far extended during the final cuts of making MT-3 taper tools and using really light cuts by that stage. I use a cordless drill as a power feed and it's worked pretty well for me the few times I've done it.

Speaking from experience. Renting a truck with a hydraulic lift, from someone like Budget for $100 +kms +fuel does help. Idk what those lifts a rated for but it's not my truck. Congratulations on your first anchor. My 4 jaw makes a brilliant paperweight (ain't no body got time for that) it's nice to see someone using it. Would love a quick change head tho, instead of a million shims. I like the LED lighting but 50 Hz fluros are great if you want it to look like it's not spinning, when it actually is. If your motor cap ever goes, you can start it by hand.. wouldn't recommend it. Did that for a few years but they're only about $50 from CapTech. You'll never lose your chuck handle if you keep it in the chuck. Well, until you step on the foot switch by accident. Then it make a great wall decoration. Nice to see Boy Boy getting some sun, he needs it

Content from the man! Always a happy day. Excellent choice of brand, I'd say one of the highest quality importers.

This channel is like a cross between the CEE cutting edge engineering channel and I did a thing.

I came here for the tech. Stayed for the show. Brilliant and criminally entertaining. Thank you 🙂

Congrats on the machine, love your video! I see you made at least 3 tool changes on the lathe... that 2 more than me before I decided to buy a quick change tool post! Good for you being so zen about it.

love watching the growth of this channel. the editing, filming and humor is top notch !

RU-vid finally recommended me a good channel!!!!! Awesome videos, keep at it dude, high-5 from Toronto!

Good to see Jimmy Broadbent helping you move the lathe. Gets him out of his shed.

I just moved a 2,6t milling machine into my garage it was a freaking pain rolling such a monster a slight angle up over not really even ground was a big challenge. tbh you really did it good ❤

Definitely level that bad boy, but also check the headstock alignment if it is adjustable, which I dare say it would be

As an engineer, this channel is seriously awesome.

i love your various handheld 'mics'

I love it that you can make it interesting and funny. Even the Ad.

I still remember breaking my first tap…in an obsolete, discontinued part.

This lathe is a good size for a home gamer. I will have to check it out after you give it a go for a while and are still happy. I need one for my shop pretty bad and the second hand market for this stuff is just awful in my area lately. I'd rather have a brand new one too if I am going to spend more than a couple hundred bucks.

Now expecting a Miniminuteman video debunking the Ancient Egyptian Lathe.

"Got a lot of practice impulse buying machines" Kbow this myself all too well, lol

The audio out of that DTI is surprisingly good

lol. the comically short shorts in the voiceover cut scenes!! super interesting and entertaining vid bud.

good content, just binge watched all your videos.

'kin hilarious dude. Congratulations....looking forward to your creations

to get it turníng cylindrical you need to adjust the Tailstock in the front and back direction, there are usually screws hidden on the front and or backside of it near the bed. Nice shenanegans :)

I immediately recognized the machine! My mum got me one of their lathes for Christmas 2 decades ago... Now I regret selling it!

Subscribed after seeing just the title. I can tell this is gonna be a great channel! 😅💪🙏🏻

New to the channel and love your videos :). Couldnlt agree more about the manual vs CNC. I got a manual mill and lathe and used them for years before CNC mill and ,much as a love the CNC, 90% of the time I still go to the manual mill :)

Aye nice CB400 man! I sold mine a few years ago, great bikes!

Great video enjoy your stuff man

Watched it on patreon, but happy to watch it again on YT too - in service of the algo and because its just that good

The receipt say you got the BF20AV mill head attachment with the combo, can't wait for that vid too👍👌🇦🇺

Propper lolled at the motorbike gag. top notch.

Oh man, that wire brush action cut was awesome 😂

Honestly, thank you so much for including the flashing light warning. So many creators just overload videos with welding time-lapses with no warnings. No one wants to watch 10 mins of welding anyways, it's not like you can see anything...

I'm not a manual machine, you're a manual machine. Thanks man, helps a lot.

Nice looking stand. Those streets look familiar. Need to come check out my real lathe that’s also 10 minutes away 😂

Aussie makers rock!

Thanks!

thanks for the flashing lights warning!!!! so many fabricators on youtube loooove filming closeups of themselves welding with no warning, and it's just awful!

R. I bought the ALG-320...and had all the problems you had getting it in the shed out of the trailer. You dad was very handy on that day..got some pics somewhere

i can tell you without knowing anything or even watching the video, whatever you paid for the lathe was worth it. i got a cheap chinese mini lathe and it can't even do a face cut, but i have never smiled so much while trying to make a face cut. its really good at cutting tapers though, so maybe all my projects will just use tapers from now on

Bro, swap that indicator for a classy tobacco pipe. Your mannerism with that thing made me be constantly surprised that it wasn't a pipe. Could probably pull of an ascot as well. Loved the video. Congratualations on the new lathe. Subbed

Those faces and movements 3:36 were fantastic 😂😂

Was hoping to see what you would do with the old lathe so I could make improvements to mine but buying a new one is definitely the way to go.

Leveling a lathe doesn't need a precision level, you can do it with an aluminum rod with two flanges between centres. Keep taking skim cuts on each flange and adding shims under the right parts until it turns without a taper. Though I've not done that, don't need that level of precision on my little AL-250... Yet.

2:40 that is the best I've ever heard it described. I've always felt like stands that take up a bunch of space just to put another big soace hoghing machine at usable height are such a waste

Love your vids mate...just keep wearing those short shorts 👍

03:34 lmao.. Love the little touches of sense of humour

Looking to buy the same lathe, and thinking hard about how I'm going to get it into my shed, so this was very interesting.

This channel needs more love

2:32 is fantastic lol

Legend mate. Living the dream.

hey! fill your stand with sand or rocks and resin! it makes the lathe heavier and more rigid for better accuracy and better performance!

another great video man. remember to take the chuck key out tho !!!!!!

I need to know what you're using that linear rail on the edge of your bench for. I see the bearing off to the side with a vertical something or other attached to it.

cutting 20mm plate with a hacksaw just got me LOL

Your lathe delivery was better than mine... I paid for liftgate service, but when the truck turned up the liftgate was apparently not working, so the bloke literally hoiked the lathe off the side of the truck (semi-trailer, not a small truck) because he didn't want to come back out some other day to deliver it, granted we were living about an hour out of Melbourne at the time but still... Fortunately the lathe was largely unscathed. To their credit Hare and Forbes refunded the difference for the liftgate delivery, next time I ordered big gear I just got it shipped to the depot and got them to fork it into the back of our passenger van, then extracted it at the other end using an engine crane...

This is why I try to keep my machines below 50 pounds. It's so nice when you can just pick them up and move them around all the time without any effort. Also make them CNC with hand cranks so you can do some operations manual and some CNC in a single setup.

Ooh a fellow motorcycle and machining fan

I remember the joy of getting my first lathe - I grenaded the gearbox within a week! To be fair, it was a cheap mini lathe that I bought to teach myself to machine safely and without costing too much money if i broke it - this was a great idea and within six months I had rebuilt it twice and had it machining more accurately than it had any right to. i then boiught my current machine which is 760Kg all up. Had i made the same mistakes on this - would probably not be able to type tis message

My chin bang lathe cut a noice taper , and I got it out by moving the head stock. That trick I learned from google and RU-vid 🎉. Thanks google and RU-vid 🙏

I think you could make your own precision level, need to bend a bit of glass pipe and fill it with something , and the beauty about levels is you can just rotate them 180° to calibrate them very accurately, I assume you would need a decent surface to do that tho

“I used to have so many round things. I wonder what happened to them.”

All right, your humor convinces me to buy you a beer

I've got the smaller optimum tu2004, but thay tu3008 is the dream sized lathe......one day👍👌🇦🇺

Have you put thought into how you're going to level the lathe with the custom stand for it?

Nice impulses you have 😉

Man, Aleksa is just such a nice piece of man isn't he

My favourite Aussie engineer

Phwoar! Now thats a machine!

Dude is that a 1980 xt250?! I fuckin love those, last summer i rebuilt the engine and repainted the frame on mine

Holy crap a RU-vidr who can actually weld

Sorry. I got stuck on the non-flying Flymo. Can you start over, please?

a) I really hope the blue paint on the tubing is some kind of weld thru primer. Otherwise you are a true monster. b) You should fill the stand with sand or something for vibration dampening IMHO. c) There are no wrong size tools as long as they are attached properly and used accordingly to their size. d) If you have a decent CNC mill, I'd consider using it as manual with a jog instead of buying a cheap chinese manual crap.

Aaaaand around we go! 😜

That breath after the engine hoist question. "this took me 20 hours and 1500 dollars but I did it" "why didn't you just buy the right tool?" *ssssss-hhhaaaaa*

Little safety advice at 0:52. never leave the chuck with the key in it :)

Machine tools are self justifying 🙂 at least that's what I keep telling my husband when a suspiciously heavy crate turns up at our home.

I am lucky enough to have manual & CNC machines and I opt for the manuals every time unless it's something really odd.

3:33 steel bristle handy