Making Money on the Metal Lathe & Cutter grinder work 

Your not wrong about being busy when you have a channel , mine is only small & with work & new home shop build i don't have time to scratch myself ! I really like the t & c segments cheers .

lovely to see a real job being done. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for the torch maintenance tip. I need to do that to mine.

Another informative video....thanks Steve.

A+ work on that small part. keep up the great videos.

great work Steve .. I sure ENJOYED !! .. Thanks man..

Morning Steve great content glad the surface grinder works well enough for now and having go to tools is always a plus on the lathe. I know the feeling when I was trucking I had three phones and two tablets on 24/7 let me tell you I missed more than a few but that's life and like you people that had known me for a while understood.

We always like cutter grinder work, well we love surface grinding work also, nice job run Steve. Lance & Patrick.

Good stuff Steve. I enjoyed.

when i see people making the actual tool im always left amazed

Techno's back! Congrats!

Free grinder sounds like it works good.

I cannot wait to see your stream once the leaves are on the trees. Love the videos. I have no space for a machine shop but enjoy watching you in yours.

Just keep up the great work brother your doing a great job enjoying every show

Steve, so happy to see your grinder is a keeper! Looking forward to seeing what you do with it!

Saturday morning again!

Nice job on that lathe tool. On the Grinder that I just got I hand ground a carbide tool that had a sharp tip to a radius, It did a great job. It is a lot of fun grinding your own tools to accomplish a job. Nice job on the part as well.

Those of us who know knows what goes on in a machine shop we're just glad you take the time the share your shop with us don't worry about the naysayers... If they don't understand it's probably because the tips of their pencils got broken.. thanks again Steve

Great to see you again this Saturday Steve. I always really enjoy your posts ! You are sure at home on the tool grinder. I so wish I had one of my own. Doing hands on has always pleased me.Having the creek right past the shop and house sounds soooo inviting. You have a wonderful spot there fella ! It is always a pleasure to sit back and see what you are up to these days my friend. Great visit bud.

nice video Steve

Another Steve Summers episode again, yesssss!

Great content and great video

Thanks for another Saturday morning video. I've actually been getting stuff done in the shop the last few weeks. I got my big Parkson 2N mill running(well mostly) and re-arranged the shop. This morning I've already made a few parts for something I'm building for work. In the process I ground my first trepanning tool and it worked great. Now I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a rotary phase converter. The 10HP 3phase motor that came out of the mill will become a rotary phase converter to run the power feeds and coolant pump(and lathe's coolant pump). It will be a bit over kill but it will provide 3 phase power for future shop tools and a chain hoist that we are planning on putting in soon. Anyway break's over. Time to get back in the shop.

Thanks for another entertaining and informing video. I know that this isn't your full time job producing videos and perhaps other people should realise this as well and be patient. I think you are, as you come across in your videos a genuine, conscious man, who would never unintentionally disrespect anyone, please take this a virtual "pat on the back" and keep doing what you do.

That's some beautiful property and I love to play in the water. I've had that same engraver for over 20 years and it's still working great. A quick tip is to hold it a little more straight up and down, and hold it fairly loose. It will make deeper, cleaner markings

Thanks for another great video. Your big lathe is perfect , there's not one made today that compares .

I love Saturday my day start with Steve and end with Adam (Abom79) Greetings from France 🇫🇷

I'm enjoying these videos. It's good to see some of the lessons and equipment of our fathers alive and making a living. A safety tip. At the tank, open the oxy fully but the acet just crack it a quarter turn or so. No need for more. The safety reason is if all hell breaks loose at the torch end you can kill the bottle RFN instead of fussing with closure. Seconds count sometimes like when your glove catches fire. Not that I would know about that.

Hola Steve ! muy bueno , Que tengas buen fin de semana saludos . Ariel de T.M.P

Enjoyed Steve! ATB, Robin

Hello steve, Nice video. From the look of the trees, spring hasn't quite sprung yet.

Good project. Hit the target nicely. Grinder turns out to be a keeper 👍 I made parallels for all the kids in the neighborhood getting familiar with mine. Your videos are always good watching. I’d like to try a small shaper or a cutter grinder for my endmills someday. If someone is in a hurry for something maybe this isn’t the right forum for their question. I understand you do have a life and I’m happy whenever you can find the time to respond. Doesn’t matter when...don’t change Steve, you rock 👍👍👍❤️

I can relate on the spindle speed.. My 1942 Leblond trainer is 500 rpm tops.. Mostly a hi speed steel machine... Mike in Louisiana

Steve, everyone who complains about the email thing should just chill out. You are doing the best you can, and I really enjoy your channel and your approach. If they need something done quickly, they need to go to their local machine shop. I have worked some things with Keith R. and Abom79, and it was always "as you can get to it". Same with you. People need to just chill.

Steve; The Internet is a good place to leave your feeling in your pocket and go on with your work. " I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everyone"

Hi, Steve I've had the same Craftsman engraver for over 50 years now, and it still works perfectly, and I mark most everything with it. For HSS I usually use a electro marker, as it is much clearer, and deeper on very hard material. Love your work, and dedication to the craft. I hope to see you at the Summer Bash. Tim

Good to see you can use the surface grinder for some projects. I guess it spent most its life in the middle region causing fairly even wear in that region and less at the ends. After watching your videos for ages i finally joint patreon to support you and a couple of other channels i enjoy a few days back.

Morning Steve! Good episode. Looks to me like you have a sweat set up. The stream brings your fire wood to your front lawn. All you have to do is cut, haul and stack. Lol

Another great video. Thanks Steve, snowflakes are more common than rain these days, in my opinion if you don't like what someone says, don't listen. Digging the hoodie.

Nice work on the engine part. I still wish i could sharpen my end mills.

One good reason to have or know someone with a cutter grinder: when you have engineers from several customers who ask for non standard counterbores that they pull out of their rear ends.

Steve, Really enjoy the creek side videos, although I believe you keep the grass cut a little to short! LOL

Personally, when folks email me with a question, I typically suggest that they ask the same question on a public forum, or I will try to answer the question in a video. It seems far better for a good question to be answered publicly for the benefit of everyone. What would be really nice is if RU-vid could find a way to search the actual dialog of a video. There is so much good information out there in video form, but it's really hard to find it. Good work as always!

Nice grinding on that cutter Steve, Greetings from wisconsin!!

Awesome video Steve. Could u direct me to where I could buy one of those cutter grinder angular vices? I have a surface grinder at work and could really use one for acutely grinding form tools. Cheers.

Steve, you were talking about finish so here's a few cents worth. Mr Pete and very few others spoke of and demonstrated a "sheer" tool , essentially a simple design on HSS. The quality of the finish was incredible on soft metals ( mirror finishes), i.e. copper, lead, alum, brass, ect. and on steels was a generally a nice finish as well. The price of using such a tool of course was that you must make LIGHT cuts, which as a final last 1 or 2 passes wouldn't be too bad in my opinion. I don't have lathes anymore, other wise I would test the following idea's ..... buy a few round carbide inserts, make a special holder so you can "slant" the insert at a steep angle such as the versions done for the grinding and usage of Mr. Petes HHS " Sheer" tool. You could also create a similar cutter for a boring bar and hopefully achieve incredible internal finishes ... again though at the price of light cuts. The reason for the round carbide is that you can EASILY rotate the insert for a fresh edge. Mr Petes Sheer tool has a rather sharp edge and I'm not sure if a round insert with a slight radius on the edge would work, however if it had a nice sharp edge might be a different matter ...... Essentially I think the idea of using a Sheer Tool has been mostly undiscovered and or overlooked as a viable way to get a nice finish on at least soft metals, and often wonder if a Sheer Tool might even work nicely on plastics ... Just my thoughts ............. good videos

Would be helpful to identify the grinder tooling make and model, where might buy? thanks

You ought to try a Norton 3sg or a 5sg ceramic wheel on the surface grinder, Benefits - High removal rate & extended wheel life, they don't heat up a part near as much either

You could try a VFD on the big lathe. ~1000 rpm should be possible, if the motor cooperates.

I like how you had your camera hooked up on the lathe. You always do good. Thanks for sharing.

Have you found a good way to sharpen (especially bigger) drills on your cutter grinder?

Show how you setup the relief angle on the grinder

Hiya Steve, I always, but always, sometimes hit the thumbs up button before I even watch because I know it will be a great video... I love that you pickup on a few different skills and show us how to not just do it but do it in a reasonable price, safe and well. You also invite us to see your great area, love that stream. Every channel gets snowflakes that think their comment is of absolute importance when we all know... One thing that does bug me, you said when you were grinding that 45 that your bench grinder was down, so why have you got a comment asking why you didn't use it? Do some people never listen to you, actually not just you other You Tubers get the same, duh... Keep up the great work and take care...

Great vid ..with regards to the more aggressive grinder cut ... excellent tip ... just to quantify a little ... what was the first cut vs the more aggressive cut in thou?

When you son gets older, you need to teach him the cutter grinder first. Keep the cutters sharp. LOL I have that same engraver, and mine works great! I've had it for probably 25 years. Nice to have tolerances to where you can chuck in the 3-jaw, and go. Where I used to work, you had to have Rhino hide to sit around the morning break table. If your feelings were easily hurt, you didn't want to sit at that table. LOL Great work. Always nice to have paying work in the home shop. 'Til next time.

thar long beard so close to the spinning chuck is giving me anxyity

Where did you purchase the torque wrench? :)

No need for cutting fluid when drilling 416?

I hope when you start making t-shirts you'll have a slogan that says 'Its basic really'

Hey Steve, another great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge, what type oil would you recommend for a Acra Turn 1340 headstock? I just got this late about a year ago haven’t used it much it’s a little low and I just want to drain and put in new oil. And if you don’t get right back to me I will cry and complain and hold my breath 😝 thanks Dave in Louisville.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Bash! Are you coming alone?

Any fish in those creeks? They would be full of brook trout in upstate NY!

Thanks a bunch Steve, enjoyed the video. Don't worry too much about the snowflakes with hurt feelings, everyone that watches regularly knows what kind of guy you are. Keep it up

What is the name of the fixture that you used to grind the HSS lathe tool?

Steve, try a coarse white wheel on your grinder for roughing HSS.

whats the fishing like in the stream by your house? can you cast from the porch or living room? lol

I recommend you use carbide for cutting SS otherwise use coolant or it will burn HSS tips as it work hardens teh SS with lighter cuts

Hopefully more ends than odds.. we have plenty of odds here.

Hi Steve. I subscribed to your channel some time back now, but have only recently really started watching (and rewatching) your videos. I wanted to say how much I appreciate your format and the way you present information and the content. Your videos are entertaining and as a hobby guy, they are extremely informative. As I watch your channel becoming more popular and racking up the subscribers I have an ask of you. Please don’t “sell out” to the retailers the way some of the other guys have done. So many creators have become salesmen and the spirit of their content has suffered. I know that there needs to be a balance between the time you put in and some benefit but when it gets to that point maybe you look at patron or something like that. I would sooner pay for the content that is “commercial free” than see great creators “cheapened” by the retailers. I will make the point that if you find a tool, gadget or item that you like that works really well for you, by all means mention it, but some of the creators are doing full on sales pitches and they don’t see how much it diminishes them and their credibility. That said, great videos, great shop, great content and for what it’s worth; from a complete stranger, my respect.

Drawing said plus zero, minus .020" for that 3/4" boss, so most likely needs to fit in a 3/4" nominal hole. So your 1.009" wasn't in spec until you recut it with that HSS. Pretty tough to get a nice finish at 575 RPM, for sure. Very nice job. I'll have to remember that "Always usually" and "Exactly almost". Words to live by. ;)

What's the worst that can happen when trying to fix the broken torch? You might break it??

I'm surprised that the repair part for your cutting head wasn't a new cutting head.

You're right, that 416 definitively benefits from some higher RPM's. It's odd stuff.... I'd swear it's leaded... but yet it's still a bit 'gummy'... Paddy

Will making bigger gears for the old lathe increase its speed?

Good video, i get 1 to 3 emails a day, and i forget sometimes. Cant imagine the emails from a sub count like yours. The price you pay to be famous, lol.

Has the Hendey been re-pullied or something, or did they come from the factory only running mid 500 rpm range? My South Bend only goes 725 and I thought that was pretty slow. Well in comparison to today's lathe's anyways. Have you thought about putting a larger pulley on it to get the RPM up a bit? Great video as always Steve! Have a great rest of the weekend!

Surprised that picnic table down by the creek hasn't been swept away! Did you ever do the 5 block test on the grinder to see what you got? I am still not sure by that grinders design you could entirely get rid of the table rock. I think you would need longer ways to get it all gone as It appears to not be fully supported the entire length of its travel. I wonder if you added weight in the chuck area if it would help? Maybe try putting a suitcase weight on the chuck and see what that does for it. Improving the center of gravity to over the ways would probably help a lot.

Really great video Steve. Always enjoy them. Beautiful stream. What state are you located in ?

No worries! You can not anneal HSS! Keith Fenner, for example, braced in HSS toolbits.

Steve, May I ask, what you do for a living.....your job!!....🍁

It should be possible for you to hand scrape the grinder carriage ways, and restore them to whatever level of precision you desire. I know they are hardened, but the carbide cutting edges on scrapers should should still handle the job. Keith Rucker has videos on this topic. Best Wishes...

Hey Steve! Why are you not using an angle grinder to remove the majority of the material @13:50 ? Is there a special reason why not ? I'm really enjoying your videos and your knowledge about grinding and machining. Br

Was the outer diameter an issue as I never seen you bring it down to any specification? When you went to part it out it did not look round as you were cutting it.I may have had a couple pops before watching this so forgive me if I missed something. Great videos as always.

Any fish in those creeks?

why do you use no cutting oil when drilling or boring....?

Do you ever worry about flooding during a heavy downpour? What's the highest the street has ever been?

Hi Steve, Just curious, as there was no tolerance apparent on the 0.641 thru hole, could this have simply been a 41/64" drill thru & saved some setup and time? Thanks for the videos! Ken

think about how much went into having the ability to do what your doing ..roads ..schools,farming everything thats is behind theis enable you to do this if you missed one element you could be banging rocks together to make corn tortillas instead

Hiya

In the first few minutes, while sharpening the cutter... does it matter if/what direction the grinding wheel is rotating according to the how sharp the cutting edge will result, and anybody can answer this... I realize, that anything folks like myself would ever do in our own home shops, it doesn't matter, as that would likely be considered "splitting hairs", so to speak... But, for the theory, I would like to know, for proper theory, doesn't mean that I will practice it, but still, lol...

Steve I love the Quantifiable Almost exactly's you work in i think they are pert near the pretty close almosts i work in lol

Awesome job on the bushings, Steve! They are much needed and I can't wait to see the real things! A couple viewers caught the tolerance +0/-.020... they go into a 1" hole in the engine bed. I wanted them close but don't care if they are a little undersize. We use unilateral tolerances sometimes to bias the average size of a feature toward the nominal but still give leeway for the machining. The engine being anchored can be seen here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KaVMUspGIj8.html and here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vFgioPmfE_o.html

Steve's bushings are here, Steve's bushings are here! Here's how they'll be used... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LoJIpfS_3lI.html

One thing that always puzzles me is the fact that when you and others on RU-vid drill small holes in your lathes you seldom if ever use cutting oil or coolant. Here for instance you drilled stainless steel and your bit seemed to survive nicely without going dull. How does that work? Every time I have ever tried to drill without lubricant my bit dulled out and required resharpening.

11:13 AvE Torque wrench! 20:06 Don't go saying those things. Doug over at SVSEEKER will just say your a fear monger. He claims that shattering fiber grinding wheels off a hand held grinder can't do much damage. Many told him he was full of it and they've seen horrific accidents in person using those things...nope, he can't get it to happen so it doesn't. I like what Doug Jackson is doing, but there are times where that guys ego makes me wonder how he can get through a door.

Its rubbish ...... the fish all get swept down to the Ocean when it rains ..... and it rains every episode ..lol

Please do not start promoting WD40. ;-)

416 has a lot of chromium in it. Makes it pretty sticky. 416 is magnetic as well.