Lucas Horizontal Boring Mill Restoration: Machining a New Tailstock Crank Shaft 

Keith, I know some creators worry viewers will lose interest on the longer videos, but wanted to say that I do enjoy them. Great video once again.

Great to see Keith getting back to full health slowly

Great video Keith. Love the single tooth spline cutter for a one-off job. Guess you really don't have to purchase expensive tooling for every job.

When restoring a very old machine, do you ever etch a date on replacement parts? I'd find it fascinating to be working on an old machine and know that a part had been replaced at some stage.

You make that look easy. Now, if I just had a shop, a lathe, a radial drill, cutters and reamers, then I'd be good to go. Thanks a ton for a really fun video. I really do appreciate it.

Thanks for sharing glad you are healing well and getting back to normal great videos love watching

Keith, I really like to watch a start to finish job.

Great work Keith. A really nice result. It's a joy to watch you working.

Nice video. Looks like somebody was there before.👍👍👍👍👍

Keith I agree with you it's not worth sizing a plan milling cutter for just one part. But if you ever feel the need for one I would be happy fix one up for you .Doesn't matter straight or stagger tooth. I would also sharpened the cutter as well. I wouldn't change you anything for it. I would do it just because I like your videos. I have done this kind of thing for over fifty years and I am pretty darn good at it.

Keith. Thanks for the videos. I learn so much from watching you work. Please don't start making Shorts as I love your video lengths. Its almost meditative to watch

Part of me kinda wishes you would have just welded up where the missing tooth was and just recut it. Idk making a new shaft is really cool too. I'm sure it will help someone out a lot! I just always enjoy watching you repair old parts.

Good to see you back in action great work

It's nice to see some single cutter work, i kinda avoid it myself on account of the squeak which don't play nice with my tinnitus. 28:56 Awesome work! The mill is one step closer to completion.

"if youve gone just a little too far with the reamer, you've gone way too far" -- brilliant

I'm in the process of watching all your videos - even the ones from nine years ago (I do like steam trains!). I'm partial to the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad in Colorado - I worked on Locomotive 463 among others, and I've ridden the Georgetown Loop and the Durango & Silverton. I'm also a subscriber to Pete Larson's "A Few Acres Farm" and Dave Richards steam shop(!) on RU-vid. Time to head for Paypal (or Patreon, or...) :-)

Well done Keith.

Great job

Thanks, Keith!

I'm telling you how much to take off... wait for it to cool... then how much too take your finish cut ,thru the whole video....I'm laughing at my self... Funny !!! Cutting like SAE # 4140 by the looks of the finial finish.... Been in the machine Shop since I was 5 Yr old....I'm now 73...You did good !

Thanks for the video, Keith, Hope to see you at the Bar-Z. Jon

I love that lucas Carlton arm drill

Grab the top of the tool post and pull it away from the work as you scroll the carrage back and you won't leave those scratches.

When you ream a taper pin like he does here you make it easier for the next guy if he has to knock it out. leave the big end outside the part and the small end (the one that you would hit if you want to drive out the pin) inside the part. It's not as pretty looking as having both ends even, but nobody's going to see it most of the time anyway.

It’s easy to use the old hole. Drill and ream a piece of round stock in the lathe to take the appropriate taper pin, tap a pin in and bore a hole through it. Cut the pin to fit the larger hole in the gear just short of the shaft. Now you can drill and ream to fit. Imo the Swiss cheesed gear is almost as bad as the missing tooth aesthetically.

Great video Keith, keep'um coming..

Thanks Keith

NICELY done

The day I build my own mini lathe with mill attachment is the day touch off, face off are burned into my brain like Mr Miagi brainwashed me. Nice!

KEITH, GREAT JOB, I TRUST YOU ARE DOING BETTER [HOPEFULLY] GREAT VIDEO...SEE YOU WHEN...

thank you Keith

Great work

Sure make that look easy. Good job.

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.👍

Another great video Keith! Thank you.

Fabulous work, my friend. When you are finished with this, you will be ready to rebuild our steam rail heritage, at the very least.

That looks like it feels really nice. Nice!

Most excellent.

A complex part that required care and planning. Thank you.

Thanks for the complete job Keith! I really like the long videos myself, Some of mine are long as well. I comprehend more if I see it all at once. Thumbs up!

And this why I love this chanel, Thanks

The peg hole reamer was very cool. I just did that with an acoustic guitar for the string pins.

Good evening Keith, time for a coffee and an update 🙂☕

I didn't see if you took care when drilling the tapered pin hole that the worm gear would align with the shaft it needs to mesh with. In the video it appears as if the worm gear is too close to the casting!

Hiya Keith

Keith has the coolest toys.

Always amazed how ambitious you are.

Looks like you have been doing some spindle inspection. 🙂

Thanks for sharing.

Keith, enjoy your work! But why don't you back of the cutter after reaching the desired length? I always leaves a scratch mark which would be avoided if you retract the tool before going to start (earn 200 dollars)? Simple action with better results (cosmetic at least). Thank you for all of your nice uploads. Best, Job

Thanks for sharing 👍

I'll tell ya', this is the next best thing to being right there with you Keith. I can't tell you how much I miss being in the machine shop. Something I miss the most is my Bull of the Woods calendars. Do you remember those?

pretty nice

Good video ☹🇬🇧

very enjoyable video

Keith, would it have been beneficial to heat treat the new shaft in the Hot Shot to make it more resistant to wear? And if you heat treated it, would the dimensions change so much as to require some clean up on the lathe and/or horizontal mill? Thanks, great video!

Thank!!

Hey Keith, nice progress on the project. I have a handle that will match the one you needed for this machine if you are interested let me know.

Keith, forgive me if I seem inane, but after you finished reaming and checking the pin, did you take it all back apart, remove the shim and clean the metal filings out of the case? Is that something recommended or is the detritus so miniscule as to be no worry?

Good ol' "Back drag the tool across every machined surface" Keith back in the saddle.

Keith - you make excellent videos- most excellent. But!! How many rpms are there in a minute?? 👊

I recently down graded from 500Mbps to 300Mbps Internet connection and for some reason these video's seem to be playing in a slower mode or at least I hope that is the case and Keith isn't drunk. I didn't think this was possible, Keith drinking maybe but not while working with such dangerous equipment! Someone pleas tell me if the slower Mbps is going to affect voice and Keith's hand slipping off the Crank Handle, 3:14?

That was fun to watch. Did that tail stock casting have to be scraped in or was it just fine, I forget.

Hi Keith, glad to see you back at work again. I have a HJORTH lathe and Tool Copany lathe built in Boston Mass as #96. The ways are quite rough. What can I use to flatten them out without altering the relationship between the center of rotation and the center of the tail stock.? I have not much skill and right now, at least, nothing more than standard grinding stones. I want to recondition this machine. Not necessary for extreme tolerances but reasonabley close would be fine (Yeah, and what is that?) Another great chapter, thanks for the step by step instruction.

Looks like the single cutter tool was the same method the original was made, based on the radius next to the spline on the original shaft

If you are worried about the part heating up to much and throwing off your dimensions, would flood or mist cooling it help to keep the temperature down?

I'm glad the lathe has no problems hogging out 100 thousandths at a pass.

John, not Tamara!

Lathes + long sleeves make me nervous...🚑👀

So the tailstock beds dont need scraped to the newly scraped ways Keith???

How do you lubricate that shaft?

Does anyone know where to disengage the tailstock travel?

Is the wood planer still going?

You need more audio volume! crj.

Possibly a dumb question, but it looks like a lathe and a horizontal mill are kind of the same machine, except with a lathe the tool is stationary and with the mill the work piece is stationary. Is it practical/possible to use one machine as both a lathe and a horizontal mill? or am I missing some fundamental difference?

Those splines don't feel like the greatest design choice, feels like they will always be a weak spot. I find it amazing though that a single point tool can put up with cutting like that. The forces when it contacts the piece must be enormous.

I don't understand how you can get to 1/7th of a circle since 360 is not evenly divisible by 7.

Nice job. Well done as usual.

whay are you using stainles?

I’m curious to know if it is customary in the USA to pronounce the word HEIGHT as if it has an extra H on the end. No criticism, I’m just curious.

Did you get the tail stock with the mill ?

a clapper box would be faster and that my be what they used back in the old days

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I have to wonder why the engineers used a design that requires a special cutter or has that particular cutter simply gone out of fashion and is not longer made.

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My wife said I need to work at my power reaming 😢

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Yea!.

Thanks Keith

Great job