I am a retired Cabinet Maker / College Tutor new to Metal Lathe work . Really like the way you teach , will view all your Videos as a novice and will , I know , learn a great deal . Thank you for taking the time to produce these Videos . Peter , Herne Bay ,UK .
Well, your videos never get old! I’m just now starting to watch the basics once I’ve got one sherline lathe. Now, talk about a small hobbyist lathe! I have an unimat that was pretty small with a distance between center of 8” and there’s no automatic feed unless you spend an extra 300$ for it on either of them but your teachings always come handy and give a solid base to start from. I love seeing you struggle with problems but keeping a calm and straight logical approach to resolve them. I’ll be starting a patron account to help you to help us. Sometimes, telling your viewers to help out give the impression that it is a large amount to keep you going but that brings just a small percentage of viewers to help and, in reality, it isn’t true! If we all have a dollar a month, first it wouldn’t be hard to contribute, second it would make the volume be more effective and keep channels like yours going. I’m a watchmaker apprentice and have another watch channel that I must go back to help out too but if all of us would give you one dollar a month instead of being afraid of being obligated to give a lot, the sheer volume would compensate for the amount necessary for you to keep helping us out and wouldn’t be even the cost of a coffee! Try to make clear that ANY AMOUNT helps, no matter how small it is! We all know the value of the information and experience you and other content creators share with others, and giving a dollar a month can make a difference just like many do by giving that same dollar to the people at traffic lights asking for it. What makes the difference ids the amount of people giving and the purpose it’s used for. You guys make this your business, your career, and that has value! You and the one who invest their time deserve to make a living like anyone else does! You have bills and obligations like any of us, you have a family and a pet you must care for, and those won’t happen for free as the information wouldn’t be free if we had to go to any institution to learn it! So, please try to explain just like the guy on the side of the road does with his sign saying “ANYTHING HELPS!” Even though they won’t offer any value for the money you give them but just a sense of doing things right in small doses so why not to help those who add value and give us a chance to learn and profit from such knowledge? Thank you very much for all you do for us!
Once you see the unfortunate guy who was caught by the lathe, you will never forget the image. In fact it may convince you to never use a lathe. My first lathe was a tiny Sherline which is so small that it's danger is mostly to the fingers. Graduating up to a South Bend 10" puts me in much greater jeopardy. Work safe or you may lose you head, literally.
Beautifully explained. we have an old battered Axminster where I work and I'm trying to fix it up and learn how to use it. I instantly made a mistake, I was wearing overalls with long sleeves and gloves (welding habbit) I will make sure I don't do that again. Thank you.
These Tutorials Are Wonderful. Thank you for selflessly taking the time to make them. You may have saved someone from hurting themselves. I know I've learn some things I didn't know even in the first tutorial. Again, Thank you!!!!!
Hi Quinn, I just became a patron because I really enjoy your machining lessons and I want you to continue. I'm a retired electrical engineer (I know you are a software engineer "person") who probably should have chosen mechanical engineering as a career. Anyway I don't have a mill or a metal lathe (I am a wood worker so...) but I did take a machining course way back. Good luck and thanks for your contribution to my sanity.
That ⬆️ is a textbook example of a perfect RU-vid comment praising the content creator. Posters like you should be rewarded with the option to rate a video with multiple thumbs. 👍🏼👍🏼
"Everything is a spring" is a gem. I've been watching machining videos for several years, and nobody else mentioned what a "screw cutting" lathe is versus an "engine lathe." Thank you for that!
I recently bought a nearly 100 year old south bend lathe and have absolutely zero experience with machining. This series is exactly what I've been searching for the past few weeks to help get me started. Thank you!
With this sort of lathe get or make a 4 bolt compound holding bracket it is so much more ridged, I would say the little machine shop sells them cheers.
Good idea! Removing the compound completely is also popular these days. For how rarely it is used, the loss of rigidity is probably not worth having it on there.
Dear Quinn, without exaggeration I can say: You changed my life (a bit). Thank you for your excellent teaching, you are are a great talent. And I like your humor too! The only thing I’m afraid of: If I do subscribe and pay you money (and many more people do) you will stop making these fantastic videos and sit on the beach with a drink in your hand… I will do it anyways. Just don’t blame me for that nasty sunburn.
All of your tutorials are done with a high quality of excellence. Without realizing it you always answer a question that most instructors neglect. The question is, 'Why do we do this>' When I attended tech in another field, I had worked in the field and knew the questions and answers that students needed to know. It put the instructor on track to provide ALL of the information students needed. Quinn, as I've said already, YOU provide a great presentation to enable us to learn from you. You are a great intructor.....(I think I'm in love LOL) I've subscribed to ALL of your videos. I can see there is so much to learn and at 67 I still enjoy learning.
This is amazing. Im just starting. This is really informative. Im so excited to learn machining. With help like this should be smooth sailing. Thank you so much
@@robinturner2300 that's where I came from I didn't know we could give shout out's for the site's we come from. It'll be interesting to see how the project develops and I hope each participant machinist tells where the part goes next so we can track it's evolution.
Blondihacks I don't see why... I like what I've seen here and you have a new subscriber... Besides Adam likes a challenge 👍. Like Avionics TechShop I'm looking forward to following the progress and seeing how many of my favourite machinists get involved... 🔨⚙⛓🔧🛠⚒🔩
hello quinn I like your videos and I will buy similar machines wath you have I m looking hbm 290vf lathe and a bf 28 milling machine now Ive only a very old sheldon lathe with any tools bye
Good advice. We got a new guy at work. When giving a tour and instructions for the shop, someone told him to wear gloves when using the grinder, lathe, or drill press. We stopped and had a discussion on the spot.
You probably saved somebody from getting hurt. Good job. At the same school as mentioned above. One of my friends was taking welding class. He was wearing thick heavy gloves on the pedestal grinder. The glove caught and sucked his finger in. His finger was ground down to the first knuckle before the wheel could stop and get his hand free.
Thank you. I am purchasing a mill nail lathe tomorrow. I am brand new to this. My buddy has been doing it for about 50 years he started doing it at 9 and his family shop. Thank you for making this video short also cuz that's a lot of information to take on. Trying to learn about this stuff. I've been watching you build stuff for about a year-and-a-half and it's amazing. I want to try my hand at it there. But my key is to not lose one :-)
I need to taper some 1 1/4'' diameter, 14'' long solid-aluminum dowels from 1 1/4 on one end to 1'' at the other. They all need to finish off the same. Can this be done with a lathe other than CNC, is there some kind of angled track attachment that can be attached to a Lathe to accomplish this task? Thanks.
You do an excellent job in your videos. Very informative, visually clear and humorous. You have the ability to be thorough without talking down to the viewer.
Hi, thanks a lot for your series, it's great getting started. I believe I have almost exactly the same lathe as you and also ordered the same/similar quick tool post. However, it does not directly fit. On my carriage there is a larger diamater piece of metal which helt the original tool post. Did you have to modify your carriage or do I need to order an alternative quick tool post?
I watched all 18 of your lathe videos yesterday. I've never seen it done better. Good job. They were all interesting. The one on buying metal was incredible. I just went to a Metal Supermarket just the day before I saw your video. Everything you said was spot on.
Hey! I'm from Brazil and I'm in need of help. I have a lathe just like yours, I would like to know the sternum and the amount of teeth of the gears on the gearbox (the ones you change). Please, if you can help, I appreciate it!
Awesome videos! I just found your channel and will be showing your videos to my beginning metalworking students these. I subbed to your great channel. Thanks for the videos.
LOL By passing through your face!!! LOL. That reminds me. I went to a vocational High School for machining. I don't remember if I was a Junior or Senior. Anyway. One of the freshmen left the Chuck Key in the chuck. So the shop teacher (Mr. DuBas (RIP) taped the chuck key in his hand. Shortly after that another Freshman did the same thing. So he got a chuck key taped to his opposite hand. Now he taped a wood 2x4 between the two unfortunate guys. So now both guys have a chuck key taped in their hands and they are both taped together with a 2x4. Our carpentry shop was at the other end of the school. The Mr. DuBas sent the two to carpentry to get separated. They had to come back to the machine shop with the chuck key and 2x4 still taped to their hands or get a failing grade. LOL One of the two never forgot again.
Awesome channel!!! I was a welder but am currently in a new job, working with the lathe. Fun fact: I am a blonde woman too ❤ thanks for the video's, I'll be coming back here quite often 🤩
As a feller who has lots of welding/fabrication experience, my buddies are often praising my skills. I like to hit YT and watch some machining videos, it’s oh so humbling! The more I watch videos on the topic, the more I realize I don’t even know what I don’t know about machining. I have turned more brake rotors and drums than I can count, so I have a small understanding of lathe basics. Thanks for putting together these very informative video series’, looking forward to binge-watching. I’m here to start at the beginning! 👍
Thank you for all your vids. That certainly helps a lot of people. I am just wondering if you made or purchased the dial indicator holder clamped to the lathe ways in this video. If you purchased it, can you please send me the link? Many thanks again. I enjoy your videos.
Blondihacks I just subscribed to your channel, very refreshing listening to your articulate delivery and informative content. Keep up the great work, thanks!
hi there. long time lurker and watcher here from the philippines. big fan of your work. while i studied medicine and am a lab scientist by trade, i have always been into fabricating and metalworking, and just last year got a vocational course cerificate for lathe and milling machine operations. most fun ive had in years is finding out how to turn between centers, and the shop owner and my foreman was asking me how i got the motor main shaft so perfectly spot on, when the lathe they had had a 3 jaw with a 0.2mm run out. anyway. things in the video that brings back memories, are the chuck key rules and the no dangly bits rule. the second shop i worked at, had a really.... misinformed "old dawg" machinist who kept telling me to wear long sleeves, gloves and has a habit of keeping the key in the chuck when not in use. what's funny is he keeps telling me to do these things his way, while i could see that he was missing a finger on the left hand and a stitched scar on his right. so you can imagine how that went, yes? yeah, he wasn't a formally trained machinist. thing is there is this culture in our country where older folk get away with talking sheet by labeling us younger or newer operators as disrespectul. and that goes against our character record. hinders employment and so on. so yeah. thanks for these videos. i introduced you, ToT and Abom79 and keith rucker to some of my machinist friends. they do like your videos and theirs.
Please consider adding a Lathe video discussing cutting speeds for various cutting tools and situations. I find charts and explanations on speeds & Feeds for the mill but none for a hobbyist Lathe.
Chuck Key Discipline: I once thought the logical thing would be using the chuck key like a car key - put it in a slot and turn it in order to start the lathe. But that only works if you don't have a SECOND key (or more )
I just finished the last tutorial in the series. Very well done and informative. What gets me about Quinn's demonstrations is she does them all with delicate, completely unscarred lady hands. Me, I just have to think about this kind of work and my hands break out in stigmata.
I left a pretty heavy key in a drill press and powered it on. I was lucky that it didn't throw it at me, and was "low speed". Still threw that chunk of metal a good 20'. I was in a hurry and one of my hands had placed the key in while the other powered it up. Very stupid move. Be careful out there.
Found my ADHD hack for chuck key discipline. Elastic strap connected above my bench. That way if I ADHDerp and let go of the key while it's in the chuck, it gets pulled out right away (and makes a racket by smacking against my top shelf!) Makes it a little less efficient, but that's an easy trade for safety.
I have a Harbor Freight 9 x 19 lathe (same as a Grizzly G4000). This has a feed lever that moves the carriage and a half nut lever for threading. Try as I might, I cannot get my marginal male brain around the difference. HELP!!! Thanks
Chuck key discipline! I'm going to remember that. It's the landing gear lesson in flight school. Put the landing gear down! But sir, this plane doesn't have retractable gear. Put it down anyway. Decades later when watching someone in a cockpit, I'm "helping" the pilot to remember to put the gear down.
Hello Blondi , just to say i've watch all your videos and i cant wait to start use the machine pm-1022v hate to sound stupid but how do i put the compound at an angle i thought i should for depth ,never owned one before kinda scared to start using it because i cant ell if there's oil in it the little window is completely clear
I’m finished trying to figure it out on my own with only a little information I’m starting with one plan to go all the way through your series thank you so much for being there check out my channel ;Kimber Zelik. Thanks again Kimber
so i just got my lathe in the mail today, got it all setup where i want it an i figured lets watch a few videos an see if theres any tips or words of wisdom i can take before trying to figure this out. while watching a couple i notice all the chuck keys can go into the chuck an sit the one that came with mine has a spring fixed on it so if u are not holding it in place it pushes out an after seeing a couple videos with them without the spring i thought huh i'll remove mine an it will make it easier to deal with but then this video talks about it being a face seeking missel sooo nah i think i'll keep the spring cause id rather not forget an leave it in the chuck, dont need any extra holes in my walls or face for that matter good tip.
HOLY CRAP - this is intimidating (your 3 rules). I just picked up an atlas 10F V48 lathe that I'll be restoring. It's missing a few pieces that I have to source.
Great video! 2:43 But Quinn, how does a small area of the tool's contact patch serve to minimize tool pressure? Pressure is force divided by area, so a smaller area makes for a larger pressure, doesn't it?
Think of it this way- which is easier- cutting butter with a knife, or cutting it with your finger? The force required to make that cut is tool pressure.
@@Blondihacks After watching a few more videos, I think I understand what is going on here. "Tool pressure" is not used in the strictest physical sense as a technical term. Rather, it is a colloquial expression. Machinist slang. I think the physical or engineering term would be "cutting force", because that actually is inversely proportional to the cutting area, as long as the stress required to achieve the cut remains constant. It may look like a trick question, but part of me was actually bugged by the cognitive dissonance.
@@Cancun771 It's not just slang- it's the pressure applied to the tool by the material. This is the force that must be resisted by the rigidity of the machine, which is why it's such an important metric.
@@Blondihacks Well in that case, if we're talking about actual pressure in the physical sense, itr would seem that it remains constant and unaffected by any change in area. Rather, reducing the area serves to minimize the _force._ (In the physical sense.) Same as in the butter analogy. "easier" means "need less force". Pressure is by definition inversely proportionate to the area the force is exerted on. p=f/a
The chuck key discipline reminds me of tightening discipline in general. If you leave and come back to your work in the middle of tightening it you will forget to tighten it. Once you go to tighten something you have to finish tightening.
A dumb question can a metal turning lathe be used for woodworking? I know it will do the job but will there be negative effects to the machine? I mean wood is softer but usually there is moisture in it and it produces diffrent chips that may be hard to remove? Anything not so obvious saying "DONT DO THAT"?
