Monarch 612 Lathe Restoration: Finishing Up - Chip Tray, Cross Slide Knobs, and Way Wipers 

Keith, just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. I have really enjoyed your honest, candid comments and the education you provide while you are restoring these very cool machines. On a personal note you are looking great I have noticed you have lost some weight. I hope it has brought you some energy!

It's got the cat smack of approval :)

And once again the world was saved by the boy cat named Ginger in a blinding flash of speed and grace. Another fine Video Keith. Keep up the great work.

From an avid subscriber from across the pond. Your carful and meticulous approach to jobs is an inspiration and example others. Very well done indeed. Best wishes from York England.

0:16 really puts into perspective how big this lathe is.

I need to commend you on the “get er dun” method of installing the knobs! I have seen many machinests where they would fixture on the mill, center find, center drill, drill, ream…..which is an essential component for some jobs. But you have the audacity to visualize the proper spot, whack the punch, use a sixty/ eighty year old drill and do it in less time than most people would use to mount in the mill. The nerve!😂. Thanks for keeping it simple Keith, it’s refreshing. (Analytical Commentary for Mr. Algorithm 😮) 😊

Good job Keith 👍

Keith, congratulations on your tremendous weight loss. You're looking great!

Good morning Keith! Looking forward to see it cutting. Have a great weekend!

That lathe is definitely looking like it's pretty much ready to do some work.

Looking great sir. Congrats on the weight loss

You have got a great channel and watching it a treat for me to watch you bring the shop together one machine at a time I think you have a place anyone could be proud to have

Nicely done ✔️

White lead is what was used for lubricant on dead centers. It's what I used in high school machine shop back in the sixties and after graduation. Still have a couple of 2 lb. cans. shhh don't tell the EPA 🤐

I think when you say it’s not perfect but a lot better than it was - translated to ‘RU-vidr’ means it’s damn nearly perfect!

15:09 you could reuse that hole to make a small tray to hold the dedicated wrench. Kinda like Adam Savage did on his lathe. I adopted the idea on all of mine and it's a really good one. Kinda ends up being a bit of a ketch-all, but very useful otherwise. I used to spend quite a bit finding the wrench in the shop before (my lathes are a bit insular, nothing around them other than some rolling carts).

14:46 That grease pocket would be great for holding a camera mount or a light.

Brian Block (bcbloc02) spent quite a bit of time straightening his 48" Monarch (two tray bed) a couple of years back... Lots of Acetylene and Elbow Grease: miserable work getting those things put right. FYI: Tracing Lathes were often not shipped with Compound Handles (or many times even a functional compound) because of the nature of how tracer lathes worked (set it and forget it).

Another step closer. Thanks for the video Keith!

Nice job Keith, I’m sure you’re looking forward to putting the Monarch in service. Just FYI, if you haven’t tried them, the small 4” paint rollers have become my go-to method for painting things like your chip pan. It’s so fast. Give it a try sometime.

I like how you make the less important at least important, Thanks for the video

A good sized Monarch was the first real lathe I ever ran. Back in 1991. Blew me away the first time I took some .2" passes. Used it every chance I got for 10 years. People even called it mine. Be something to run this beast.

Good morning Keith!!!

Looking SO much better. Small repair and coat of paint... That beat up old tray is now (almost) good as new. Protected and ready to do it's job for many, many more hours. A relatively simple job, but still so satisfying.

As always Keith, great video. Can't wait for you to finish it up!

Nice job Keith, it's always nice to see a project come to an end.

Thanks Keith for the share , the lathe is looking great !!!

Lathe and Grinder are just about ready for production !!

Ginger wants to play!

So excited to see the project that needs the new big lathe! Thanks for another video

Keep up the great work, Keith. You do great work, both with the shop work and the videos. I learn something useful every time I watch.

It gives me the warm & fuzzy’s when I see grand old machines like this restored to live another productive life. I only wish I had your patience, knowledge, & skills. I would love to kid myself that I could do this, but I would be doing just that, kidding myself. Very enjoyable to watch the way you go about bringing these machines back. This lathe, the grinder & that long bed machine as well, not to mention the Diresta band saw. As a fan of Leo’s Sampson boat company rebuild, I’m really hanging out to see the capstan winch go back together. Any idea when Windy Hill Foundry will cast the new windlass drum? 🤷‍♂️

Never a day off, it seems. Thank you Keith for such good and consistent work in machining, restoring and video story telling!

Thanks Keith. For the dauber, I have head tell of people using white lead which was also more common back in the day.

Very nice machine - great work

Keith, you are a treasury of knowledge and skill. Even though I am not a metal worker, the things you do inspire me to do better in my woodworking. Thanks!

The center dabber on my old model A Monarch had white lead in it when I got it. I've seen that on other older lathes. How times have changed. Good job on a nice machine.

These larger lathes are so beautiful.

Thank you for sharing, Many Good Days to you and yours

Your dead-center dobber holder would make a great place to mount a camera. The old-timers were planning ahead there !

Great video Kieth,, always enjoyable to watch thanks for sharing

Great to see the Monarch getting closer to up and running again. McMaster sells several thickness and densities of felt. What is the part number for the felt you used ? I'm replacing the felt on my 12KK and want to make sure I get the proper type. Thank you for all you do for the machining community.

Hi Keith, Nice to see the big Monarch almost ready to run. Those compound handles look nice ! ATB.....

A note for those who need to paint on greasy or oily wood., fiberglass or metal items. Interlux paint has a product called Bilge Coat. It will stick to a cleaned surface even if there is still some oil or grease in the surface. You can get in in gray or white and can paint over it. Thanks Keith, I really enjoy your videos, and have always been interested in machine work. I contract out custom metal work for radars, antennas and misc. other items when working on boat electronics.

Thank you for your time Keith!

Great job straightening the drawer.

*_Heat straightening. Same process ship builders use and many other metal working industries. You don't beat up the metal, it doesn't give you a work out and you can get near perfect results if you understand how to brace the metal, heat it and cool it to reform it._*

Keith that hole on top of your tailstock is not for grease but for your driii chuck key to park..........try it out .

Thank you Keith!

if you shovel the chips out and lever on the edge over time it does that.

Thanks for this content Keith, the machine is looking great and so are you!

Mannnnnnn, that's the chip pan?! Hello from TEXAS!

Great job thanks for sharing

Nice job this lathe it's ready from second life. We expected chips. John Grizopoulos retired machinist from Greece.

Thanks for sharing.

First job...by chance does it go on a wood boat? :)

I just noticed that drill press from what I could see is the same one that I have . Craftsman / Sears from about 1938 still very tight but was rusted that did clean up and looks new. FYI $35 at a garage sale.

your vids are so interesting thank you keith!

Very nice video

and that coolant pump...if ya have the time!!!

Some how I see tally ho as one of the ear marked projects soon to be on this machine , im sure that project will see a few videos in its restoration and its already seen many hours planning one was getting this machine working for the task of a major part of restoring a capstan from a manual to a power driven masterpiece

A gorgeous machine- you could turn some big stuff on that.

I'm thinking, Keith al need a box to stand on, to drive that lathe 😉😉🤣🤣

Hi Keith, I have a model 610 that was a tracer and I am converting it to a standard lathe. I took my saddle apart and there is an oiler built in so when you crank it the pump lubricates the ways. I would guess yours has that also. Just wondering if you need to have another system added for lubrication. Have a great day!

The dead center dauber hole on the tailstock makes a handy place to keep a chuck key for Jacobs chucks 0:08

Most excellent.

I always enjoy the videos and look forward to new episodes. Thanks for all you do in creating these instructive and interesting videos. A comment on the center lubrication. In the "old days" they used a white lead lubrication material on the dead centers and that was the old high pressure lubricant at the time. I had a very old Lablond lathe years ago and it still had residue in the cavity for the white lead. I don't know if that was the practice when your Monarch was new as newer high pressure lubricants were being developed. Just a comment on old machining practice.

Ginger is like "Ooo, he set a cat treat up there for me!!!!"

enjoy your videos

14:19 I see you got some help assembling the machine

Keith, a while back, Stan Z. whipped up a blend of white lead and extreme pressure lubricant for use with old style non-revolving dead centers. Maybe you can coax some of that stuff out of him for the 612.

I really need a lathe in my life! I got made redundant from my job in December, I had access to a nice Boxford CUD lathe during break times and the whole workshop. Now I've moved away from the UK to Mauritius of all places and who knows where I could get something like that here!

Don't forget the tailstock clamps!

Nice

Your fine Keith... that detent just needs some fur around it!

Hi ginger

Jenger wanted in on the fun as well.

Atta big lathe!

it's going to be like new

Keith - ypou left out the most exciting part of the video - watching the paint dry! 😀 Nice job of work, as always.

Keith you answered something I had been wondering about for ages! What on earth were those tailstock pockets near the quill were for! Oil / grease dobber pocket, presumably could have also had red lead in it as well.

Nice work! the tail stock is so close that unless you know what its supposed to look like, it aint really noticeable.

First comment! Looking good Keith. Let's see this thing throw some chips.

Gee Keith; what, no primer before the gray paint?

Wow you are so skinny. Well done. Christian hard Fasting! Congratulations

Good video as always do you have and use an oil gun for your K&T milling machine vertical attachment ? I use mine all the time. my Bullard also has many alemite fittings that use the gun. Thanks for the video ed

Getting really close Keith. Looking good. I noticed a couple bolts or studs missing on the tailstock, are they being replaced, waiting for parts?? Thanks for sharing.

Don't forget door cover finger nuts to hold door closed on pulley door. Meow

great work. What about feet for this lathe?

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What about the missing lock down bolts on the tailstock ??

Is that an optical illusion or does the tailstock handle hit the base at 6:43.

Keith, Sampson Boat Works says that the Tally Ho Capstan is coming up for reassembly pretty soon. Do you know if Windy Hill Foundry has cast the replacement top yet?

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Keith, are you going to replace the wood cribbing with leveling feet?

Whatever happened to the lathe that you upgraded the drive electronics

Did you get the carriage wheel bolted on? I remember you needed specialty nut.

'getting in the short rows' ... day job reference?

cat 14:18

that dobber could be 3d printed.