Finally below 110 out here in Phoenix. Wearing a Parka today as it is 71 and cloudy. Always love the varied content and the laid back way of presentation. Thanks for another great one.
I’m in a part of Canada where winters are tough so ya, 32F is a warm winter day. Your summer temps and humidity in Kentucky would kill me. If there’s no snow on the ground I’m generally too hot. It’s all about what you are acclimated to. Oh and the mini lathe is the gateway drug to machine tools. Mine gateway was a taig, which is a less capable machine - no power feed.
Steve, another great video, thanks. I like seeing someone still striving for the best quality finish appropriate to the part. It's good to see quality work done on a $600 machine and not using a CNC setup that's out of reach for most folks. I love your hound, and I always search out your nature-spotting video at the end. I have no idea what you made, but I enjoyed the journey almost as much as if making the part myself! Thank you.
Yep, I grew up in the 60's and 70's (im 64) and rode in as well as drove many GM cars with this same little button, dont remember ever breaking one though, but it wasnt used all that often either.
Thanks so much for the great video. I grew up on a ranch in the Never Summer Range in Colorado. Most 4th of July was celebrated in the snow. I am now in my 80’s and live in San Diego - have had enough of cold and snow! Spent part of last week re-watching the workshop repair - really enjoy those videos. Still laugh at when you “locked” the key inside the shop! Remember safety third behind fun and educational.
I really liked the shop rebuild videos also, that was a great series and I looked forward to next episode every week. I enjoyed the truck rebuild too, I’ve always been a gearhead so that was right up my alley. I wish they would have showed the big one ton pickup with a little more detail although some viewers are more interested in the machining part of these videos, so I understand. Variety in these videos has to appeal to more people but you have to keep your base happy.
I started down the hobby machine rabbit hole with a mini lathe. I probably spent more time modifying it than I did actually making stuff with it. When I got my bigger lathe, a South Bend 9A clone made in Australia, I sold the mini but I wish I'd had the room to keep it. It was really good for making small parts.
Since you need to make two of them, I think it might be a pair of release buttons for something that retracts or folds. Maybe the foldimg handle of a lawn mower.
When I had my mini lathe I found engaging the lead screw half nuts (without the lead screw rotating of course) then use the compound for advancing the tool. This gave a bit more of a rigid set up. Also bringing the tail stock up against the carriage and locking it (no tooling in it of course) helped too. Just some thoughts.
I do the same with my mini lathe to fix the carriage quick and dirty. When I need to actually lock it, I added a clamp to clamp the saddle to the ways. Plenty of videos on RU-vid on ways to do that, all of which are well within Steve's capabilities.
I was thinking a simple plate resting in the space between the carriage and the headstock would also give a hard stop to the carriage so that pressure on the handwheel would just be a case of keep the carriage against that plate. A similar thing could be done between the carriage and a locked tailstock. Add a screw if you want some adjustability.
That's criminally cold! If they ever catch whoever's responsible for such low temperatures, they're going to do some serious prison time! Seriously though, as someone who lives in a place that almost never drops below freezing, even in the deepest darkest depths of winter, I wouldn't be leaving the house if it got that cold.
Nice work. It's the button release on I want to say a tool box or a panel on the side of a truck, tractor or generator access panel. I just can't picture the panel though. I want to say the side of a work truck or welding truck. You would push the button to release the hatch or panel to the tool storage panel maybe? I just can't picture where though.
I'm with you on cold weather, I'm a bit south of you here in TN and it was 2° F this morning! No thanks. BTW, I'm sure you know this, but for viewers that's a "right hand" cutter. I know, I've always thought it seemed backwards, but that's how our predecessors named them! Thank you, and keep it going.
Thanks so much for the video!...you guys with your big machines have taught me so much about how to think and do on my scale of 'work'! I owe All'Y'All an immense debt! Lovin the little lathe!...I have a Sherline that's made a bunch of brushless model airplane motors, along with all kinds of other very precise, tiny, widgets and gee-gaws! Like you said...brass and al-you-min-yum are its playground. 12L14 steel makes nice, soft, bits of 'tooling'...and anything harder...well...Did I mention that she really does well in al-you-min-yum?! Ooohh! That was quite the conversation your tool had with the workpiece! Reminds me of the many I've heard! Nudging the Sherline's limits is NOT rewarding at all! I get stuck a lot in situations like that pocket you are making...not enough torque to get under the frequency, and not enough power to feed through or get over the top. You just gotta put another twist in the earplugs and sit there! I've found out many times just how good those 1/4" Chinesium Carbide bits are when they chirpin' like an angry chipmunk! {PLINX!}
Good morning from the north end of Illinois and it's warming up here it' about -1 @ 7;00am . Didn't know it was you were making , But you did a nice job on it and it should out last the truck . stay warm till spring.
Love Cora shes a sweet dog - nice video of her, shes got her very own woods and creek to frolic in and a nice warm home with good food love and care to go with it - shes really got a nice life at her "summers home" - lol
Well done on your pronunciation of “aluminium” and welcome to the rest of the world, except Canada of course. I hate being cold and I hate cold weather so of course I live in one of the few places in Australia that regularly get sub zero C temps during winter. I also hate snow and I think the government should ban the stuff. Cheers, Stuart 🇦🇺
Steve my uncle has the same lathe, but he got sick of the cleaning the chip tray. So he removed it and found a file cabinet on casters of the same size to mount it to. He cut the top where he could fold down the sides at a 45* and spot welded bent trangles in the corners making a funnel so the chips could fall down into the top drawer. The drawer also had a feature when he pulled it out the bottom would open dumping the contents into a tub. Absolute Genius Right!👈👈😮😮🤯🤯Blew my mind when I saw it. 😎😎💡💡Plus he made a quick 2 sided way clamp to stop the carrage from backing off.
Looks like a toy compared to all your other machines but seems to really work great for something small. Really nice job. Good to see you this week, miss not watching your videos Saturday mornings, but very understandable. So till next time take care n give the little one a hug.
Small to Big? This takes me back to 2018. My machinist retired, and said "You need to find another or buy you some shop machines (@@)! A craigslist SB 9c popped up with lots of tooling. Basket case for under 500. A year later (& watching too many YT Machinist like you) after it was fully restored and the new wore off, went back on craigslist, and brought me 2500. That of course bought a nice LeBlond 17 with tons of tooling. But still miss that old SB 9 at times. Great little video Steve, but like you, ready for summer 🙂. Kora made me cold running the creek line,,,Burrrrrr ! Yeepers, another viewer nailed it on a flasher 4 way button 😞Bear.
The gas station owner i worked in the repair shop called me at 1am. Get to the station right now. I jumped in my massively loud big block chevy powered 66 GTO and sped over. Reached into his 79 eldorado and grabbed that whole hazard flasher knob assembly and tugged on it to turn off the hazard flashers. The owner said top off your car with premium and have a good night. Premium was like $1.28.9 a gallon. Nothing like an early morning cruise to santa monica beach . Down to LAX to watch the planes take off and land. Seems like yesterday. But it was 42 years ago
Hi Steve. I have to admit that although I've seen that part 100's of times, I didn't recognize it out of its natural habitat. Nice little bit of bling for the square bodies!
I didn't recognize it until you showed the turn-it-off collar. Then I recognized it in a few seconds! I like your upgraded one. So, how about an aluminum collar for it, too? :)
Steve: Thanks from Thailand for another fun video on peeling aluminum. Cora doesn't like the cold, but it's not too bad as long as she can nap close to her Daddy! I swear, if she gets any sweeter she will spontaneously cumbust. Hope the family is doing well to start this new year. BTW, next week marks my 78th iteration of "once more with feeling"! Frank
Oh Steve! Well done, 1:07 American's spell it Aluminum and pronounce it Al-lum-in-um which is correct for the spelling. Here is Aus we spell it Aluminium, the addition of the i, it sounds Alu-mini-um Great work on the pronunciation especially after you have een sayiong it the other way for probably all your life. Regards a fan from Aus - now back to the video for me.
Steve obviously likes the Dickson toolposts I had a lathe with a T2 size on it, liked the toolpost but ended up selling the lathe, still have toolholders kicking around though. Currently back to using a 4 way, until I get around to fitting a B size Multifix to my current lathe. Cheers from Dorset UK.
Thanks for the comedy relief. LOL..."It's cold". Yep...I live in the Detroit area. Saw the devil the other day and I asked "What are you doing here?". He said "for some reason the temperature dropped in h3ll, and I need some more brimstone to stoke the fires". He went on to say he didn't understand why this was happening. I told him "The Lion's one the division, and the Lion's also won the first round of the playoffs". He said "I don't think there is enough brimstone around...it has been said that h3ll will freeze over if the Lions win the superbowl". LOL... That said, I looked at my jacket today...it sighed when I walked by to go outside. It's still above 0, so, as the Phil Collins album said "No jacket required". :) Have a great week Steve, and enjoy that grandbaby. This is the time before they get all independent and tell you how life should be (as my 16 year old boy tells me everyday).
Steve, why didn’t you use the other end of the parting off blade to make the pocket tool, would have been less grinding work? Would have given you more time to spend with your grandchild ❤👍🏴
Hey Steve, great video and little project. I find myself missing you on Saturday morning when there's no video. But, I know that living life is much more important than making a video. Setting proper priorities for the life that is before you, is an important life skill.
looking at the tiny nub left on the grooving tool for the spring pocket i wonder if it had been eazier to solder a toolsteel pin to a piece of square and cut that down to the cutter , because its round theres allready quite a bit of relief once you ct it intoo a halfround
Happy Saturday Steve, Cora, and Grits! Very inovative tool design. As always, innovative, informative, inspiring. Thanks for sharing to this 1 degree subscriber in Michigan.
It’s 38 degrees centigrade today tomorrow it is expected to be 40 degrees in Australia 🇦🇺 that’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Nice swimming weather. ps. Love your videos keep up the good work 😊
It don't get that hot here. But we got humidity that'll make you feel like you're in a sauna. When you walk out the door it's like someone threw a hot towel on your face.
On one hand I'm surprised to see a BOM sticker, and on the other hand it wouldn't surprise me if Steve is a BOM fan. XD They are also making car buttons.
On the front right corner of the saddle there should be a grub/set screw directly above the top of the inverted v-way. If there is, I believe you will find that it is a carriage stop. The only problem I can determine is that it will lift the carriage a small amount. I have yet to measure the amount of lift on my carriage. I made on upgrade to my mini lathe that I really think is a big improvement. There is a kit that reduces the RPM of the lathe by quite a bit. The main benefit I have found with this kit (two slotted pulleys and a belt) is that I can part mild steel. Good to see what can be done with the mini lathe. KOKO!
