Lathe Leveling 

Great Job! and a great subject, to expand on. Glad I could drop in and help out! LOL ;{)------

So if I twist my lathe I can cut tapers?! I'm sold

I cannot begin to imagine how much work you put into making this video... It was totally worth it.

And to think... This well spoken, witty, brilliant, and entertaining feller (ThisOldTony) use to not talk in his videos! Truth be had Keith Helped me through some rough times. I was stuck in a hospital bed for 170+ days and had an uncertain future. Spent another year in s wheelchair and bed at home . Down and depressed I found Keith's videos while in that situation in the hospital and it kept me entertained while learning something. I'm much better these days but still spend time to time in bed flared up and too ill to get out of bed or leave the house. It's these times I learn all I can by watching these video of yours, Keith's, Abom, S/V Seeker, S/V Delos, La Vagabonde, and few more. I'm very grateful of you folks sharing your time and making these videos to share with us. Some of us know just how much time it takes to edit and load these videos and we greatly appreciate you doing so!

Haha :D I got mad at my 0,02mm/m level. it changed reading with me changing my position from one foot to another...and that on a 150mm thick concrete basement...easiest solution was to sell the level :D

I've been watching Keith for years. This was so well done and just hilarious. I really like how you unite so many familiar you tubers in some of your videos. Since I haven't watched television in ( I can't even remember) 8 years or so, you guys have become my celebrates. Well done!!!

For the record Toni I shot that Lathe leveling video 3 1/2 years ago when I was living in the mountains of north Idaho. I was not 16, I was 18 yr old, but since I've been living here in hot humid Atlanta I've aged almost 35 years. I think I should move back. LOL

Great combination of two of my favorite RU-vid machining content providers! Nicely done, Tony! I was laughing aloud! Hats off to Keith….I am sure he is good-natured enough to appreciate this in full.

Great job, that took a lot of work. Very entertaining and educational, a combination that is often hard to achieve. Strong work!

Absolutely hilarious! Especially because I have watched a lot of videos from both Keith and you over the last few years. Thanks for cheering me up.

Did you account for the tides ? Lunar gravity throws my lathe out of alignment every couple of weeks.

“Chrome, vanadium, drop forged made in Japan” ;”Close ; cast iron made in England”!!! I was crying, laughing so hard!

Watching and listening to this made my week. I had just finished watching Keith's new vid and here he was again. Well Done

That was one of my favorite videos i've ever watched on youtube! I watch all of keiths videos. Going to be watching all of yours too. Super well done, man. Thanks a ton!

Thanks for the really stomach cramping laughs in this one. I love your videos and look forward to them. Great stuff every time!

That mock-up is super great. Your movies are such wonderful bits of presentation and editing. Glad I found them, and thanks for making them!

Fantastic work as always Tony. I'm sure Keith will love it too! Just fitting DROs to my new lathe, and then onto the levelling so this video was well timed.

This Old Tony : one of the most entertaining RU-vid creators I know... Keep up the great work !

one of the best, makes learning fun, enjoy watching you and Keith

This is the most amusing video to date! I really home Keith got a chuckle out of this too! Nice work, sir.

the very best lathe leveling vid I've seen, now you see what can be accomplished when you put your head together with a Jedi Master

Awesome, you do put in lot of time and effort to create such good content. Appreciate your humor.

I appreciate your decication to the craft of filmmaking. All the best from NZ

Watched this again 6 years later and still enjoy it. It also refreshed some forgotten nightmares, ERR, memories. :-)

I find it really amusing how I can laugh so bad yet learn so much with a video about tuning up a lathe. Thank you, Tony. I love your channel.

Toooney, as a student and beginner cnc-operator I love your videos. Always fun to watch and informative. This one was great, keep it up.

I love Keith, this mash up is just what this weekend needed :D

Hands down the most hilarious machining video I've ever watched! Great info as well. Thanks!

That was awesome! Keith did a great job what a great community of metal workers.

hi tiny another great video. great sense of humor. I've never seen a lathe set up that way before. I've always separated the leveling process from the tailstock adjustment. I've always hung a shorter piece of material in the chuck without the tailstock in play and took a very light cut. adjust the levelers until the cut is true. at this point the ways are parallel to the center axis of the machine. Next mount a piece between centers and if you're cutting a taper then the tailstock is adjusted to correct. in your method any twisting of the ways will influence the part via the tail stock. I hope that makes sense. at the end of the day if it's cutting right then method isn't a problem. just thought you might want to hear my way. why I don't know LOL THANKS again for great video. I'm always waiting for more of yours.

Great editing as always tony! Hilarious and informative

Tony, I want to thank you. your videos have led me to the purchase of a lathe and a mill. I am currently setting everything up and rewatching your videos for help

Sure could have used (understand) this information years ago when I got my "well worked" lathe! Great vid again!

TOT: You are a fabulous teacher. I have leveled machines as a job, and you really makes it understandable. 🤗

Great comedy team, thanks for the video and laughs.

that was amazing! you're officially one of my 3 favorite youtubers along with keith and ave now!

It gets harder to pick a favorite of your videos every time you upload a new one. :)

This is a great video. I'm in the process of installing and leveling a new lathe myself, so this was timely. But I'm also an avid watcher of Keith Fenner's videos, and I laughed aloud throughout your video. Very entertaining as well as educational. If only all RU-vid stars were as good . . . Thanks for doing this.

Great video, thank you for your time invested to teach and make it fun.

Over the top Tony! Informative AND I LMAO! Thanks for the info and thank you Keith for helping out....

Your videos are so good. Great quality, and super original. Keep it up!

I can't mash the like button enough! You sir have entertained an unentertainable person. Once again, great content and production at the highest level

I swear, you make some of the funniest educational videos I've ever seen. Thank you.

Alright, Old Tony, I am quickly running out of your videos to watch. You got to make more of them. Like, quit your job and just make youtube videos. I promise to like every single one of them. Now that is something you can take to the bank and pay rent with. RU-vid likes.

If and when I need cheered up, simply laugh, and learn TOT and Keith. Both of you at your best!!!

Thanks, that was incredibly useful. I thought I understood the various geometric issues at hand, but you really brought it all together nicely and I definitely learned a few things.Kudos on what must have been a ton of editing to get Keith to visit. He's a stubborn bugger.

Is there some kind of award for this performance? I have never seen/heard such a dry subject keep me so entertained/listening and informed as this!!! Great, creative, WOW!!!!

I'm a changed man after watching this video! I must admit that i thought that the leveling didn´t do that much, but afte watching you put that piece of material under one of the leveling feets and show the differens it made i'v changed my mind. Thank you for your time!

Superb!! informative - and put me in a better mood too! love it. I have the same old colchester lathe, might be time to do a few tests on that - I think the world has twisted a bit since I first installed it!

That was excellent! You are a very talented guy, thoroughly enjoyed the video :)

there are a lot of components involved in accuracy, and yer efforts certainly helped, and I busted a gut with the humor, thanks for your video work

I'm impressed by your commitment to the bit.

This video was enlightening, thank you for being an outstanding mentor TOT. Happy Chips

Tony is always a nice surprise. I am happy i found his channel and hope he will produce more and more contents. Applause.

Thanks Tony. Your mock up really helped explain the issues. Greet work.

Great video and, as always, I enjoy your sense of humor

I recognized Keith Fenner's voice in the very first two words of your video. I continue to love your wry and droll sense of humor! Just great, Dude!

tony you make me giggle like a little kid. thank you for all of this, greeting from germany

Tony you always make such entertaining vides even if they weren't about machining they'd still be fin to watch.

Best youtube collaboration I've seen to date!

oh man this is awesome, cracking me up at breakfast. nice work as usual man, very entertaining!

Absolutely hilarious. I love your videos and Keith's videos.

Loved this one! Excellent work and great humor!

Simply brilliant Tony, great idea of having Keith over to the shop to answer a few questions we have all been dying to know. I'm glad you had the courage to ask about the desiccant thing, probably easier for Keith to open up to another RU-vid machinist celebrity.

Dear, This Old Tony.... another brilliant, witty and very well edited vid.

Very informative. Funny as hell, too. Nice of Keith to contribute as well.

Great vid as always, I really like the mock ups! Helps me follow along

Great topic and absolutely hilarious! Thanks Tony!

watching your videos is time well spent - awesome!!!

Great video and love the comedy!! I could watch your videos all day.

"My parts are small, or I can compensate" That's just too much information.

You're a brilliant youtuber

This was enjoyable, really liked the choice and editing of Keiths comments.

Thanks for the Link on Dale Derry / Metal Tips & Tricks Leveling a Lathe. a unique and doable by most anyone especially those who do not have an expensive Precision Lathe Level

That mock up model took a lot of the "black magic" out of lathe leveling for me. Thanks! I could never understand it before.

Wish the like button could be clicked more than once, great job Tony as always. Thanks man!!

Brilliant timing ! My mini lathe is almost running with a washing machine motor, and the thing turned tapers straight out of the box. Now i got a clue what to go looking for to fix that. Thanks !

who knew he was that sensitive about desiccant

Great video. My old atlas has been out 5 thou over 24". Could only use it for short stuff and the parts were still tapered. Got it down to 1/2 thou over the entire 40" bed. THANKS THIS OLD TONY!!!

I cannot believe I missed this video. The world needs you, Tony.

Gentlemens, thank you from France for this very comprehensive and useful vidéo ! It will serve my Colchester Triumph 2000. François

Love the videos, this one especially. Keep them coming!

FANTASTIC VIDEO. I wish now that I had spent ore time in the "Metal Shop" , verses the "WOOD SHOP" back in Jr/ Senior HIgh ... GREATLY ENTERTAINING !!

Great show, informative and funny. Thanks Tony

Thank you very much for that video! I always wondered why manufacturers making such a hype with leveling lathes with a 300$ machinists level. Now I know... Great job! Volker

This vid still cracks me up. Love the exaggerated model to show twist can affect relative tool position.

That was hilarious !!! You guys should do more of these.

Well, I am amazed this time, not only by all your knoledge, wich's normal through out all other videos I've seen, but this time I am also amazed by your imaination on how to explain these matters and the ways you made up to turn an almost unseanable video to a pleasent one... I am a self mde man, who would love to learn how to use a lathe, as how to weld properly, and how to use other precision's machines. But there isn't any sort of school around where I live, and I got a very much different job that happends I love too. I work in a secondary public school, and of course surrounded by teachers. We got some grand souls there. Yet none like you... Please keep iving us some more videos. Me and thousands others who could not came in to college classes have now maybe our last closer chance, right here at You Tube University. 1000 Thanks!!

I love it! Good job with the editing. I'm sure Keith will get a kick out of it too.

There is a reason why your subscriber count is climbing in record time. very well deserved!

Awesome video, very clear instructions and teachings

The most original and entertaining, that's for sure!

Glove the videos Tony, keep them coming . Thanks

Great video. Thanks for putting it together!

Love the guest video Tony...awesome job. :-)

Great work, hilarious! Keep them coming!

As always, clearly presented with simple yet extremely effective visual aids. One could learn more from this video than an entire chapter in Machine Tool Reconditioning. Great book, but doesn't do well at getting to the main point expeditiously.

Ok - this vid is going into my favorites list for watching whenever I need a laugh! Funniest thing I've seen in a while. Already watched it several times and it's still making me guffaw :D

Best video ever! Just hilarious. I actually did this to my lathe last weekend. I got it all level with the machinists level then checked for taper and it was out. I had to make it less level to lose the taper. I don't think I have any wear though so now I am confused. I will check it again I think.

Brilliant. Two of my favorites.