Rotary Welding Table Build Part 6 

It 's great to see the" Big Green Machine" making those nice Big Blue Chips !!!

Dream workshop,the day i get to work/own one like yours would be the icing on the cake,waking up would be a breeze.

That Monarch is an impressive machine. Drives through that steel like butter. Can't beat vintage American iron.

I really liked that ending to the video. The pictures along with the complete music ending and finishing with your logo. It looked like a complete video. I recommend doing it that way for the rest of them.

I professional batter that can knock the ball exactly where he wants it. Nice! One thou on that spread without milking it is doggone excellent Adam. Your tips and tricks are a big help to all of us! Like TL mentioned before, you are a rock star!

That's some monster machining and one big pile of chips to clean up lol 😄 can't wait to see you carving out the threads! Great job Adam, you're welding table is going to be a work of art. Thanks, Ian Little

Multi-purpose table, love it. Great for the welder's dream home, build a dining table under and around it and have the most talked about and usable lazy-susan for those huge feasts. Always looking forward to your videos. Being a heavy equip. mechanic/welder and machinist as needed for over 40 years and recently retired I can really relate to all your work. Thanks Ed K. Cleve. Oh.

Adam that monarch lathe reminds me of a broken radio, it does not play. Even with the wear on it you really make that baby do some great work.

Thanks so much for posting this. I learned a lot about what the lathe sounds like and what the chips look like when they are breaking right and the color of the chip. There is nothing like "standing next to the man running the machine" to learn the proper set ups, speeds and feeds, what cutter to use, when to use coolant. Thanks man! You are doing a great service! Thanks!

great video's Adam,nice to see someone with great pride in their work.

One word, Adam, impressive. Very cool stuff, thanks for sharing. All the best, RS

The chips are pretty looking, but at the end of the day comes the cleanup! lol

Loved seeing the heavy cuts Adam. That is going to be a pretty sweet rotary welding table.

Adam, great video of your turning of the shaft, that looks like some great material you've got for the main shaft. I always find it interesting how the sounds of the machine are so important and give you the needed feedback on how the machining is going (great audio!)! I'm looking forward to the next step in the process

Just a boy and his chips. Enjoyed the different angles and the big chips. You were right when you changed to the trigon insert for the finishing cuts. Those chips started spraying every which way.

I watch tons of your videos and this series, which I found late, has been awesome. Was awesome watching you take .400 passes. I have an 11" rockwell lathe in my garage and it never even crossed my mind to take a pass that large. Made me want better tooling. Huge fan, keep up the awesome work!

Hey Adam, I use bronze bushings to transfer current into the cable reels on my welding rig, never had a problem. Looks like you're having fun. These videos are better than watching TV.

great video, thanks Adam. Enjoying it a lot.

Real impressed with the Monarch lathe that you use. Quite a machine. Videos are excellent. Keep em coming.

man Adam those .400 cuts were awesome. chip control was great. another awesome video. cant wait for part 7

Great Video Adam. I believe I like all the videos but I really enjoy the lathe work. Thanks for sharing.

It's mesmerizing to see that insert cut through that steel shaft like if it was butter, it's really amazing!

Hi, loving the work, great workshop you have there and nice watching someone who knows what they are doing with the lathe.

Adam, nice. Sometimes I wish I had a bigger lathe in my shop but the one I have does what I need it to do. A suggestion for your coolant spout, add a "Globe" valve downstream of the ball valve to regulate the amount of coolant flow, than you can turn off the flow with the ball valve and leave the globe valve set at the flow rate you want. Waiting to see the next step. Dan.

Nice chips Adam. Thanks for sharing.

Really enjoyed this one. The raw power of the Monarch is awesome.

That's a badass lathe man. You were hoggin the heck out of some steel.

nice job adam. i realy enjoy watching you build your rotary welding table.very good chip control man.

I still say you were born with a lathe chuck in one hand and the wrench in the other one. And I'm still going to send you the mugs . But I have not been feeling to good and I have to get them all found. They were boxed up when we thought we were going to move.

Some serious metal removal Adam. Thumbs up.

I'm enjoying the building of the welding table, waiting for the next video. Tanks.

Those are some pretty chips!

Thoroughly enjoying your tubes *TOT* led me to your channel!!

and can't we tell that you are enjoying this work!! You are really in your element doing this. A true craftsman enjoying doing this task. Really pretty work and those colours of the chips are just something else as well. How interesting that the tool you used at first enjoys heavier work - quite the opposite to what I would have imagined.

This was a tasty turning video! I love the big chips! This makes me wish I had a big shaft needing reduction that I could take some heavy cuts on. I enjoy seeing these lathes getting a workout. :-)

Very enjoyable watching someone else turning heavy removal. Great camera work and getting better each time.

It's going to be a real thing of beauty Adam!! The colors of those chips is absolutely beautiful! I can tell you right at home doing this kind of machining. Very impressive indeed! Razor!

Nearly a half inch of cut... and here my tiny lathe can't take much more than .010 per cut, due to it being from 1947 and flat belt driven. Lathe envy. Those are some nice chips coming off too. Love the videos. (and yes I know this is going on 6 months old.)

nice job adam. I watch your videos from across the world from Malta

I have really enjoyed this series! Thanks!

Really enjoying this Adam. I've been out in my shop for a while but it's way too cold here in the UK at the moment. Love the riff your playing at the end as well! PaulB

Just catching up tonight, man there were quite a few great camera angles in this video, I especially liked the head stock views we don't get to see that too much, I thought it showed nicely how you work. Then a wide angle view for watching ya where you stand when turning (the dreaded body positioning has been answered) I never did think you actually was on the lathe holding the camera Adam! Never mind some big chips, I'm thinking I might be CHIP ADDICTED. Buddy Thanks Adam!

Hey Adam! I thought you were just going to put clamps on the table face, but looks much neater, and the ground will probably be more solid - love it :) Looking forward to part 7 and what you have in store for us. Thanks for sharing!

Good heavy cuts going on there man ! Enjoyed it ..Thanks

Hi Adam, Nice!!! looks like you table build is right on track. Great job as always....M.K.S.

Nice work Adam, I always look forward to seeing you vids.

Very nice video again Adam, i love it, you show the real workmanship ! :)

Your Monarch is awesome!

Beautiful pile of chips there!

Hey Adam, That was a few heavy cuts there and some really Beautiful chips man! The ISCAR insert kicked butt and left a perfect finish! Great watching a real lathe make short work of all that material removal! Ray

Hey Adam, Nice pile of chips. I bet the shop was like a sauna when you were in the middle of it. Thanks for sharing. Talk to you soon buddy. Tom

Hey Adam, Sorry I didn't watch this video before now. I don't know how I missed it. Anyway, it looks like things are coming along. I wouldn't mind having a large lathe like that and make some heavy chips. The 13x40 I want to get has a 2 hp motor and I would probably stall the motor or break a gear in the headstock if I tried heavy chips! I like your idea of keeping the current out of the bearing. Bearings really aren't designed to conduct electricity. Insulating it would be a good idea. Thanks for another great video. Love the camera work and the stills at the end. Have a good one! Dave

great show!

looking good, I think no beard is better, now to get that Turnwright shirt going. Doug Hatman

Great vid. Always amazed how fast you true the work in the 4 jaw. Looking forward to the rest of build. Have you considered adding another bushing, either bronze or delrin, to the distal end of shaft/tube. This would add additional lateral stability and reduce lateral load when the table is loaded off center, make the top bushing last much longer. I agree with Wavetube84 on using carbon brushes for the ground, but I would fashion a flat plate to the under surface of table for the brushes to bear against. This keeps the ground close to workpiece and eliminates all chances of arcing at bearing and bushing.

really slinging those chips adam cant wait to see it all together its going to look impressive really enjoyed the video excellent

Nice work Adam chips with everything !

Nice heavy chips, beautiful. ....13

You are kicking some shaft there, Adam. Cool project. It looks great. That's going to be an awesome table! Gnarly strong! Maybe put a copper sleeve on the end of the shaft and have some sort of electrical brush/contact arrangement to conduct the welding current? That would send the current straight to the table and not through your bearings or bronze sleeve? Just an idea, it's your project. No matter how you do it, you can make changes later.... or not. ha ha

Chips Ahoy!!! Enjoyed the video and good info about the restart after the stringy chip.... ATB Chuck

Beard, no beard, beard...... Enjoying the build. Brent

You could sell those chips to folks with smaller machines to scatter around their lathe! I like the pic near the end showing your camera rig on the compound. It's cool to see where your positions are to get these shots. You may notice around 7 minutes in, the fluorescent lights in the shot were fooling your camera's exposure, making the scene darker than it needed to be.

I've been working on my lathe skills and using high-school as a tool to get better. This welding table is really awesome and inspiring me to keep going!! Keep up the good work man! ~Devon

That was some serious stock removal dude! Out of interest - for the (very small) by comparison motorized table I made, I machined a dummy hub and ground three large brushes (1 x 3/4 face size) with paper on the dummy. So - now in position (delta config) they contact pretty well - made custom holders and found some adequate springs.

This welding table is going to look GREAT! Those are not chips you were removing, those were chunks lol.

coming along nicely, thanks for the video

That was some nice cutting, Adam! On the other end of the spectrum you have me, having trouble cutting my damn fingernails this morning!

Adam, I have not read all the comments so I may be a repeat. For a grounding solution on your rotary table swing by the electric motor shop you are doing work for and pick up a large carbon brush holder or 3 from them and mount on your table so the brushes will ride against the hub or the part where your threads are on the faceplate under the table. You should be able to find all that stuff at the motor shop. just think of your faceplate as the armature of a motor and the hub as the comutator of a motor. Just a thought Scott

Nice chips!

Hi Adam, Would not like to be born an insert and being shoved teeth first in a huge chunk of steel... lol About that taper issue, my solution to small differences, I divide the shaft in 3 or 4 sections and slowly advance the carriage a few tenth around each of those marks, usually works great for me. I like getting those kind of small curly chips, they pick up easy and don't fill up a pail in 30 seconds, the pail gets super heavy fast though. Excellent work, Pierre

Great camera angles on this one Adam, wow those Chips,, probably 40 lbs there..lol

Adam, like those chips. Do the chip fairies come clean up or perhaps it is Elena that does the clean up just so she can be close to you. I really like for you to tell dia. and rpm as well as feed rate,and depth of cut. I am turning a lot faster and deeper after watching your videos. Getting better finishes also.

Either you had that piece absolutely centered or the needle on your gauge got bubblegum all up in it...my wild guess, from binging on your fun and informative videos, is that you’re just that good! Thanks for sharing and including your lovely wife (in past videos). I’m getting back into machining and setting up my shop after 35 years in particle physics. It’s really fascinating how math is such a beautiful part of our lives! (Remember the class clown complaining “We’ll never use ANY of this shtuff after high school!” Wave to him and say ‘Hi!’ next time you grab a coke at the Mc D’s drive thru window!)

Looks good Adam.

that was pretty cool bud

Adam That is going to be a nice table. As I am sure you well know NEVER let electrical current flow thru a bearing ball rolller etc etc. So what you need is a slip ring which will let you ensure current NEVER flows thru the bearing AND is out of the way AND does not twist up the weld cable. I would consider a brass flat ring on the underside of the table that would let carbon brushes ride on it. Looked at stage 5 and it appears you have sufficient room on the hub of the table. The brush holders aka brush boxes would mount to a bracket on the vertical post and be insulated from that. As mentioned use brushes with a pigtail on them. Make sure your total pigtail cross sectional area will handle the amperage. In a welding circuit ie their total cross section is same or more than 2/0 (better yet 3. or 4/0) Off top of head you need one square inch contact surface area on brush (es) per 100 amp current. I would use more area ie two inches - that one inch is for brushes on commutators where brushes are desired to run hot ie 200 F. you do not want heating and the associated voltage drop. I know this complicates the design. Just a maintenance electrician who did lot of repair and redesigns Dan Bentler

Hi Adam, I'm not a machinist, but am mechanically inclined. I enjoy watching your videos and feel as if I have learned a lot from them. I have worked in the automotive aftermarket industry for 25+ years, mainly on new cars and trucks. I notice that your shop is clean and organized which is a pet peeve for me. Every tool has its place. It just makes jobs go by quicker not having to look for tools. I noticed you haven't shown clean up after jobs, at least not that I've seen. I'm interested in what happens with all the flood coolant as seems you use quite a lot during the course of a job. Do you filter and recycle it or is it a one time use? By the way, I ordered and received my "Do you even indicate, Bro? shirt this week. Keep up the great work.

Are you sure the table will be strong enough Adam? It looks a bit flimsy ;-) I was looking forward to the work on this part, and you delivered nice big blue chips. The flood coolant repair was so worth it. Now you just need to get that gantry in, not that we don't want to see Gill of course. That face grooving will be most interesting too.

Set those chips (or swarf, as I call it) in resin and sell them as ABOM79 paperweights... :)

Adam, what beautiful machining you do. Why not spray it with clear polyurethane instead of a color. That way the beauty will be there from now on.

Just a thought idea about camera position is to mount it suspended over the lathe at an angle, like just barely behind you and looking the whole x-axis of the end of the chuck to the tail ...maybe

Hi Adam, very interesting video but, please, verify the automatic light control of your GoPro....I preferr the oldest one...!!

A fun video to watch, Adam. So now that this piece is going to stick out of the center column, do you need to put a bushing on the bottom end, too? Thanks for sharing.

Pretty cool Mr Booth

awesome work

Hi Adam, I watch a great deal of your smaller projects like this one and enjoy the knowledge gained from all of them. One question, how many chips did this project make? Just an guesstimate would be ok.

Adam for removing a a lot of material it is hard to beat those LNMX inserts, I ran the job that we use them on some this week. They work well removing stock. I didn't catch the material that you was machining the center shaft of the welding table out of, I did catch you cut it off an old shaft. Do you know the what the material was?

thanks

Love those chips boss

At 25:40min you found a really great camera setting and kept it there for the rest of the video and the SMS. Would you share the settings with us? Machine work is excellent as always! Thanks!

Adam great show as it always is .. could you let us know at times how long it took too turn down a part ? we see the high lights which is great but i was ??? how long it took 1 hr 8 hrs ? thank you for doing the show you do great work

very cool. i could barely make out the design on the whiteboard. Where are you going to put the cup holder?

Hi Adam ! Oh, I love these heavy parts and that heavy machining ... and that nice finish - just top class, I think ! Any special reason for NOT using the cooleant in the finishing paths ? Ok, it's a mess but else .... ?

Adam , it's looking good. I have been taught to never weld through a bearing surface, I see that you have made plans to not do this. I would of choose a magnetic ground base that could be placed on the side of the table.

I like that lathe.

A guy at the shop got sick of not having a turntable so he made one out of junk parts and I did the machining for him. The spindle was an old truck front wheel hub and he used a flywheel and starter motor gear run by an old heavy duty external Hobart wire feed DC pwm motor and controller. It works very well. The table was just a piece of round plate and the ground was the cable attached to an isolated brass welding cable connector machined flat with a spring that pushed it up against the machined underside of the table with about an inch square of ground contact. He was welding 316 stainless and ran the welder maxed out at about 350 amps I think and it never arced and showed hardly any wear at all after many hours of use.

Real nice chips from that insert. It looks like a fairly thin, vertical insert. Curious on the geometry of it...? Love the pics of the chips at the end.. ;-) Colin

Definitely a good idea not earthing through the bronze bushes, they will be running in oil from your oiling cups anyway, why not just clamp onto you table and have a direct contact?

So Adam, What kind of tool life on your LNMX are you seeing taking the 375 - 400 cuts? Watching your video leads me to believe that you did it with one carbide and some finishing with the trigon. Was it just one insert that did the bulk of that work?

awesome!