+Conversation Robot I know, that was a classic come back line to all the replies he's been getting. That should be put in every safety manual, when in doubt, add another rubber band. Keep up the great work Matthias.
"if you don't have the sense to touch this part, you really shouldn't be using a lathe" - FREAKING CLASSIC! I have a sign in my shop that reads "This machinery does not have a brain of it's own, you must use yours". Common sense is your best form of safety folks. You rock Matthias!
JBpiification Well about 17 people so far seem to thing it was pretty funny. Or at least worth a thumbs up. So your minority opinion has been acknowledge. Thank you for your time.
"Not that many problems you can solve with a lathe" - I am excited to see the fallout from this comment! haha. Great work Matthias, but have you tried using Sketchup to draw your plans? It's probably better than whatever you were using.
I feel your pain man. People are sometimes helpless because it is just to easy to ask rather than think. Really enjoy your channel you have inspired me to be a better wood worker, and to push what other people don't believe is possible. Cheers.
Hey Matthias - There's this cool CAD like tool called SketchUP. You should think about using it...LOL. Where would we RU-vidrs be without the safety police and the folks who've never heard of Google...
You seem a little frustrated at some of the questions. Just remember, the internet is pretty much a dick when it comes to responses. ;-) You're doing great. Power forward!.
I didn't have the patience to turn one so I just hit her with the wood I would have used. Your probably thinking I should have hit him but if I did that she'd just get another one, now she'll think twice about it (just incase applesauce sees this it's a joke) ((he doesn't seem to catch on))
I ended up making a handle for a file at work. It's a simple thing with generally good results. I mean, it's a hunk of wood that fits the hand that has a hole in it. Why get fancy?
Interesting, the main reason I acquired a lathe was to solve specific problems (fixing new tool handles, turning pulleys and components). I don't use it for much more than that I guess.
This design gives an excellent concept to modify this to add as an attachment for the wood 4' drill press that i adapted yours, a Japanese maker's design and a drawer slide carriage design with my own interchangeable base table and lathe stock assembly design, made with aged oak from a kitchen cabinet drawer face set. That stuff is HARD!
It's just too obvious it's sketchup if you look at some of the plans / plan videos and you've used sketchup before. Anyways, here is one idea on how to convert your 4 jaw chuck into a self centering one: just put gears on each nut and add a big gear driving them. Then come up with a way to lock the big gear in place. Unfortunately it won't work that well since the diameter of the big gear has to change when adjusting it. A simpler method might be to just put a pulley on each nut and put a string around nuts *1 and 2; 2 and 3; 3 and 4; 4 and 1.* Just keep in mind that the nuts come out so in order to connect the pulleys to the nuts use coupling nuts (becouse they're longer) and let the pulleys slide on them (the pulley will have a hexagonal cutout in the center), so that when the nuts move outwards the pulleys themselves stay in place.
Re Wooden bearings. A hay mower produced in the 30's/40's used an oil soaked oak bearing on the drive shaft for the blade.. It at a fairly moderate speed. When my cousin and I took it apart for a project 30 yrs later it was still in good shape.
Thanks for the video. I'm sure we just don't want to see you get hurt. I am a tool and die and machinist guy and seen some bad accidents on machines. I love how you seem so eager to learn and try different things. You are successful already !. Rich
chuckle, people always ask about your plywood because it always looks so nice. they are used to the cheap crap frequently used in the construction industry and don't know that while solid wood is great for allot of things, good plywood looks pretty much as good (especially with veneer) and is generally stronger depending on what you are doing with it. solid wood is geat, and so flexible in what you can do with it, but plywood cheap or nice is what carries the weight as it were. so much disdain for plywood among woodworkers that folk who are new or haven't actually worked wood pick up the idea that plywood is bad and never look to see what the actual plywood you might buy from the store is, just see the sheet crap that throwaway houses are made with, or the crap that comes with prefab furniture. hell, even decent quality chip board and fiber board (mdf) are awesome materials to use for many things, particularly if you are painting, but with chip board you can even use the look with stains in some applications. don't stain mdf, it is too impregnated with glue to take a stain right, and it won't hold what it gets.
hihihi the world is a fun place. First you are asked to do 1 thing, then you are asked WHY. Its always intresting to follow your videos. I guess its a million ways to do a thing, but this is the way you did it. Wish all a good week
"In one of the videos, I broke this nutdriver handle and people suggested I turn a new one. Instead I ... used my horizontal boring machine" Did that seem strange to anyone else? His solution was simple and effective, two holes to make a rough mortise, but given the task he used one of the machines he often says is annoying to setup for non-specific jobs that don't require it. Not the drill press, or the slot mortiser, or the pantorouter, or even just his hand drills with the block in a vice; he used one of his least used machines instead, one he's said was annoying in several videos. If he didn't upload that video of repairing the chair recently (making it obvious the machine was already being used for something else), I would think that was a subtle stab at the people suggesting he use the lathe for more things in an "Even my boring machine is more useful than a lathe" sort of way. Not that I agree or disagree with that, I just thought it was kinda funny.
+isghj 9 I needed the horizontal boring machine for the overlapping holes. And that's the machine I had in the big shop. Simple as that. You can chose to read anything you want into that.
What software did you use to write your gear generation software :^) anyway, I need to go buy some Baltic birch plywood. My lathe spins very fast, I should use my oscilloscope and a magnet to determine the RPM. Its a treadmill motor on a 56v transformer and variac. The flywheel is a perfectly machined surface with basically no wobble, so I mounted a piece of wood to it to mount stuff to. Making a 4 jaw chuck is going to be a very interesting design challenge, as I cannot overhang the back of the disk like the one in this video. Perhaps I will use autodesk inventor to design mine, and use its stress analysis features to make sure it will be strong. Also I am designing a belt sander :D
I stopped coming here for the amazing builds... I now come here to see how many things fly off, get caught In a lathe or give kick back! Don't forget the amazing flying table jump tests and the always popular will it break glue and joint tests! Totally need a lab coat for testing time!
On your 4-Jaw chuck why don't you drill a small hole above each jaw for a interference fit on a pin into the face a little above the extreme travel of the jaw. Insert a pin to keep the jaws from flying out of the slots. One pin at each jaw should suffice. If you have to change the jaw just tap the pin out and replace the jaw. Possibly a small nail would work.
Nice video, it shows that you have really thought through what te build en how to construct. I really love the simplicity from your designs(Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”, Confucius). 👌👌👌
Hey Matt, A good idea would be to put the link to Google Sketch Up in the description of all your videos from here on out. Also an idea to use the lathe for ( and your girl might want to help ) is a candelabra.
Matthias, Have you ever built a device that, upon completion of a work project, can be used to trigger a toilet flush from afar? Ok guys, I know it sounds obscure, but trust me on this...
With so many questions and suggestions, your lathe is just what I need. I worried if the wood bearings would last. You proved to me that they would, for the way I would use it. 👌
ah, but you could solve one problem with it (well perhaps turn it circular)...... Make a ring/hoop, that slides over the 4 jaws/bolts of the chuck, and then is just screwed from either side with small screws into the ply. Cheers for the vids Matthias, very enjoyable. Cheers Richie.
Great stuff, Matthias. I just subscribed to your channel. I'm gonna build a lathe similar to yours. I like the idea of the wooden bearings, as well as some of the other things you did. I disagree with you about the belt guard. Make one for it. It's too simple and easy a way to avoid a potentially very serious disfigurement not to do it. Think about your kid and how maybe one day he'll be using it, and he doesn't have all your experience around power equipment. Think of all the people watching this video who do not have all of your experience. But really it's not about experience and knowing to keep away from the belt, it's all too easy for anybody to have a moment of inattention while focusing on the project at hand, or for you to lose your balance or trip or slip or stumble or get a sleeve caught in it -- just make one and have done. It's true, the spinning block of wood is a dangerous thing, and really all power tools are inherently dangerous, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't take what precautions we can to make them as safe as possible. Safety is no accident.
If you take the allthread from the 4 jaw chuck and squish the threads slightly in a vise, the flat it creates will cause an interference and prevent the nuts from being loose. It's a nice trick that is a compromise between thread locker and jam nuts, when you need an interference on a nut. This works best on a milling vise with smooth jaws.
Have you looked at Fusion 360 as an alternative to sketchup? I was a big sketchup user until i got into 3D printing, and Fusion 360 is available for free if you answer the right questions (you dont even need to lie!). It has some awesome features such as being able to create moving models of your designs.
Another great video but I have a question regarding your Adirondack chair build for which I bought the plans. The angles you have noted that are fractions of degrees as in 74.1 or 69.4 or 72.5 degrees, did you do that just to mess with people? I cannot see any logical reason for the tenths of a degree in the utility of this chair. thanx
He explained in a video a few videos back that since it's barebones it had a low moment of inertia and stops quickly if put in a bind. Honestly he could probably stick his hand straight into the gap between the work piece and the tool rest and would only have minor damage.
people most really troll your channel a lot just waiting to pounce on you for safty. i dont get that on my channel and wouldnt care even if they did lol. dont let people get to you man, you do really good work. and i like watching your videos. oh yea. i didnt catch what cad you used. lmao
Hi!!! I think that the biggest problem you have now it's to find a problem to solve with the lathe. Great video and I think you are a great content creator. Greetings from Chile.
