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Awesome to see a new post from you. We have missed you a lot 😊 glad your back hope all is well.

Good to see you back at it. Can't wait for more videos from the Old Steam Powered Machine Shop!

I was like HEY,,,Wheres Mr Richards,,, Glad to see you back at it..

watching you work,, I feel like I am watching my father when he use to make brass nuts for boat shafts.. Thank you for my trip down memory lane. Keep up the good work

Every winter , for the last few years, I miss seeing you up in New York. I really like that old style machine shop. Until the spring, I'll be content to see this video, and any others you put up while in Florida.

Just love the videos. I wish you could make more of them.

Excellent work Dave! Always a pleasure watching and learning from you!

Nice to see you at work; I genuinely enjoy your projects. Welcome back.

Nice work Dave, keeps you busy down south.

Excellent work - thanks for sharing

I went to an all boys secondary trade college in the 1960s in Australia, we had similar, atlas lathes in our turning and fitting class rooms, they were so worn out and abused by generations of schoolboys, but they still worked. The idea was to turn out a large number of all kinds apprentices in the 60s as demand for them was massive . Seeing your videos always takes me back to those machine shop classes or my uncles engineering works. I can almost smell the cutting fluid.😁 wonderful work.

That’s really cool. I appreciate the great video 👍🙂

That little lathe is nice and quiet with no geared head.

I love watching that little lathe make good quality parts.

As you say Dave it's all in the set up, and never make mistakes only make corrections. Thanks for your time. Paul

man i hope you have an apprentice. what a wealth of knowledge

Good to see you at work again, Dave! Bet you are glad to be down south about now with all that cold winter going on up north. I miss steam machinery, so I should make me one. All I have for a shop is a mini lathe and a Hobby class mill. Should be enough to make a small one.

Great to see you again! Thanks for sharing and enjoy the Florida weather. 😅

Old school at its best! Thanks pal. Good to see you back!

Nice to see the hexagon made by hand. Good result. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for your effort and quality of work and everlasting legacy! Greetings from Romania!

its great to see you again dave!

Good to see you and a happy new year .From the north of the 49th West coast Canada

Great to watch you work, even without the line shafts. Sadly, it took 2 days before I found your video tucked way below all the other silly stuff that youtube wanted me to watch. Keep warm.

Great to see another vid.

Hi Dave, Nice job! shows what can be done on an old machine. I have a 1940's raglan lathe and I am about to try my hand at threading, seeing this video has made it a little less daunting, thank you! The thread is most likely whitworth pipe thread which was 11 TPI from 6 1/2 inches down to 1 inch and 14 TPI below that.

Nice one Dave . Looks a great little lathe . 👍

This is a wonderful video Dave. You are a great teacher, and your patience with correct decision making shine through. Thanks for the lesson.

I always enjoy your videos and solid old school craftsmanship.

I so miss your videos!! Glad to see all is well Dave. Thank you for another great video!!

Good evening David

Good to see you back at work.

Always good to see you with a new vid, Dave! And I've said it before... the more talk, the better, because the best machine in your shop is... your brain! :-)

Looks exactly like my "old" little Craftsmen lathe.

Nice work Dave good to see you again!

Nice work, really enjoyed that! I am also a great believer in sneaking up on the best fit. Every thread, especially on old machinery, is slightly different! Phil UK

looking great.....cheers from Orlando, Florida, Paul

Awesome!

Dave - A good video to watch with my after lunch tea. You're not missing anything up here in Tioga County today - raining and 39. Enjoy the sunshine down there. Dale

Good video hope to see you at the meet and greet at Florida flywheelers in February. if you need anything while in Florida let me know.

Great to see a new video! Love your content!

Enjoyed your video

Nice job! I enjoyed the video.

Nice to see ya back make'n parts. Take care

I have made many van norman 1/2 5v tooling on my atlas 10. These lathes with modern inserts and proper adjustments can keep just a few tenths tolerance if you take your time and understand the lathe.

Nice work!

I'm pleased to hear that You found the little Atlas lathe quite capable for the job David because at Lotus in the mid 1950s one of those was our sole lathe but the Boss did buy a vertical attachment for Me ! Soon be time for You to venture back up North and get that fire lit isn't it ?Thanks for the video -as ever .

Nice work Dave Have a good time down in the worm weather

Hey up mate that was another beautiful job loved how you sneak up on the thread, have watched all your videos but i do miss the clock when you're in Florida hope the hot rod is seeing some action

Nice work as always David. I was expecting you to explain the use of an 11 tpi chaser though!

Great to see another video from you. I like to sit back and reminisce about my 43 years as a machinist in the steel industry. Look forward to the assembly of the Liley engine when you back to New York. I appreciate your descriptions of what you are doing. Hope all is well.

Dave!!!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 nice to see/hear from ya! Thank you!

Nice, clean lathe and shop, it’s looking good down there!

Nice. That's pretty much identical to mine but the compound slide is more square . I have turned Honda 90 cylinder heads to rebush the cam bearings, Made many rollers and shafts for conveyors,scraped keyways and even made plastic gears as I have a 60 hole indexing plate which is so useful and not found on modern machines much

that lathe (which OSHA would NEVER approve of) with those exposed pulleys and belts. reminds me of my restored Dalton Lot 4 which is missing the casting for the pulley cover. I first got it as scrap covered in rust and spent about a year restoring it.

Nice to see you

Dave; the problem you've faced and conquered is the fact you're cutting a fairly fine pitch thread on a lathe without prismatic ways so cross slide slop has to be watched closely. The Atlas was notorious for the teeny little small diameter graduated thimbles on the compound and cross slide. That makes cutting of threads a very exacting experience. I noticed you engaged the lead screw with tool bit at a bit of distance from the piece so you obviously know this lathe's flat-ways-cross-slide-wobble-take-up well and managed as expected.

Until the parts get back to the other shop, it would make a great paper weight! Great work Dave!

Always good seeing you, Dave. Send some of that warm Florida weather to Texas. We promise not to waste it.

Have an old Atlas just like yours but with the timken head. Love the overhead drive, smooth running. Not a production machine but have produced a lot of parts over the years!

Nice work. Those little Atlas Lathes are a good machine!

VERY VERY GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK, PROBABLY THREE MONTHS BEFORE YOU ARE BACK IN THE NEW YORK SHOP,.

Thanks for the video from sunny Florida, NE Ohio kinda soggy today and temps in the low 50's🤗😎🤗😎

Something peacful about all this.I like that lathe,but not as much as my old south bends.As my skills improve watching your videos,theres even hope for an old guy like me trying to find peace in a crazy world.Thank,s Dave

Happy New Year!

Looking good Sir. I so thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you.

Glad to see You back. Best regards from Poland ❤

Love it please make more videos

Real happy to see making chips. Nice little lathe to have at the auxiliary shop

To make it easy for me to return the cross slide I place a dial indicator on the cross slide and zero it out so the carriage can be adjusted repeatedly.

Thanks David for another excellent video! 😀👍

Good to hear from you. Always enjoy the content.

Thanks for sharing

It's great to see a new vid! I hope your having a good winter in the warmth!

great work always a thank :)

Outstanding work Dave!

Hallo David, Good to see a new video. All the best for 2024 from us in Friesland in the Netherlands

David, Great to see you back again.😀

Your looking well Dave , nice little project there . Wonderful things felt tip pen for Aide-memoire .

Good to see a video from you. I had been checking over the summer and fall to make sure I hadn't missed any. I suspect it was a hot year for steam power.

Good to see you post a video! We all missed you!! ❤

Very nice job on a small lathe. It seems all it takes is skill, training and a lot of patience. KOKO!

I'm on the hunt for an Atlas lathe. Perfect size for my shop. Great video Dave!

Dave, Thanks for the refresher on cutting threads. Might want to comment on the adjustments made to the cross slide and compound tool post. (i.e., why 29 not 30 degrees) . Minus 20 Hon for your file technique. You know files only cut in one direction...🙂 God Bless! KW

I just made a packing gland for a Huber portable steam engine. It was also a 1 7/8-11 thread. There was also a nut that was 2 1/4-11. I figured Huber was the only one to come up with such an odd thread.

Nice seeing you again Dave!

nice to see you again must be good to move somewhere warm for the winter time but I am sure you miss your shop up north take care man look forward to seeing you soon

Just love to see the work that you do and I more and more wish that I had a lathe and an mill here in my home. I have some equipment but not those bigger machines unfortunately. I have 3 phase power 400V 35 A so I could run quite big machines 🙂

Bonjour David, Bonne Année ! You are too rare on videos and I hope we see you soon surroundeed by steam again 😉 Amicalement, Raphaël

THANKS DAVID....For the fine machining work video....An it very Good to see you are doing okay my friend..... Old F-4 2 Shoe🇺🇸

Certain top-secret WWII projects take a while to come out. Like about 80 yrs ago the govt. wanted a local machine shop owner to come to the big city and work for them. He wanted to stay in his own steam powered shop so the military stationed guards around his shop and cots for them. Years later we find out that he was building three triggering mechanisms for three A-bombs in a small town in Kansas.

Good to see you back David, Best Wishes from Scotland👍

I really love your videos. It is awesome to see you using so many tools that I can make in my home shop. Thank you for finding the motivation to make just one more video. And this one you are using a tool holder that I have never seen to hold a round boring tool in a lamp post. I hope you have a minute to show how this thing works.

I wish my atlas lathe was in that good of shape. I love the thing but sadly it has seen better days.

Nice to see you enjoying that great Florida winter weather, Nice nut job also.

It's been a while Dave good to see you back, have fun in Florida, can't wait to see you put that engine together.

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Good to see you making chips!

Gday Dave, fantastic to see you back, the Atlas does a brilliant job mate, cheers

Hello Dave, would it'd been advantageous to have mounted the fitting in the lathe and lightly skim the threads to clean them up? Absolutely love your work atmospheres - so vintage and so tidy. Thank you.