Tailstock Quill Modifications for New Acme Nut 

Fantastic work as usual. I find your videos very informative as well as therapeutic. Great job, thanks Adam 👍🏻

Did you know that many CPO's recommend their machinist mates watch your work for additional training. I sat through a 30 min safety meeting that spent most of the time talking about your videos. Then 5 min going over TMDR records. We were in the middle of nowhere, on station, and you are more popular than porn. Thanks for the content, keep up the very practical training.

Lathe Envy. Especially with that chuck.

Yeah that 6 jaw chuck is right on!

As usual, beautiful work. As a mostly self taught machinist, got my worn out South Bend 9” Lathe in 1964, moved up to bigger, better iron over the years. Two take away, nice to see I was doing things right most of the time, but the best advice I picked up, how go get to the final dimension with the divide by two method, final two cuts the same depth. I just watched another RU-vid machine channel where he tried to “sneak up on it” and overshot every time. I used to do that! Thank you.

A starving man will take whatever food is placed in front of him. So happy to see some machinist work as it's been awhile. And CHIPS! Not many and small but I missed them. Just love Abom's videos.

I just finished tapping 770 1/4-16 4 start acme threads by hand today. I'm jealous of how easily that tap went.

Lovely work Adam. Thanks for sharing

Same feeling here as well, fantastic work

Awesome and elegant... it takes a great machinist to work so hard on what seems to be a simple project. I know what a lousy job most local guys would do over here so this is a joy to watch. Nice work Adam!

I do this all day on my Precision Matthews lathe and Bridgeport mill. Abom is making it look easy. The only thing easy about machining is easy to make mistakes.

I truly enjoy watching you work Adam and love the new music as well

Greetings from Durban South Africa. First Class machining Adam, your standard of work never fails to impress me. As a retired Fitter and Turner i find all your videos highly interesting, brings back sweet memories of my past year's making chips.Thank you for taking the time to share with us.

So glad to see more of this job. I was hoping you were just busy but feared you may have lost the footage.

Wow u r blessed to have access to all the amazing tools to be able to make anything u want. Man, I would love to be ur apprentice!!!

Hi Adam, lovely work as always, that 6 jaw vice is a thing of beauty!

Job well done. Thanks for the video.

Nicely done. Thanks.

The quill came out beautiful

Good job man it’s like a piece of art work

Very nice work 👍

Excellent video thanks

Adam - Gotta love the 6 jaw !

Adam, art in the making Abom79 style thanks for sharing.!.!.!.

My one is an old Grizzly. The bronze nut is held in by two screws each side with no heads or slots to screw them out.

Beautiful work Adam.

Thank you brother, great work

Beautiful!

That looks great Adam.

Adam you make some nice things. I often skip your videos because most of them last for over 30 minutes. This once I watched and it is 👍🏻👏🏻

When I did my work experience at Dunlop aerospace a 6 jaw chuck was what we used on our first lathe to learn how to do nurling that was in Coventry in the UK many years ago 🙂

Whoa. That's what the hole in the top of the tap wrench is for! Good to know!

Very good tools you have to do all nice video

Very nice. Wish my ENCO quill looked that nice.

Geez Adam, you make everything you do look like a piece of cake. Obviously this isn't exactly a challenging thing to do LOL, but still I love watching a pro (you) work on things, it's impressive no matter what you do. You make it look like it's nothing. I know it's a very basic thing for someone with your expertise, but still. Hell, even I could probably do this if I had the tools... especially w/ the DRO - granted it'd take me a LOT longer. Because I'd make myself practice it on a scrap before even thinking of doing it to someone's lathe tailstock But still, center the piece on the DRO, use center drill and mark one spot, move 120* then repeat, move another 120* and do it again. Then drill it out, move 120, drill again, move 120, drill last hole. Tap hole, move 120, tap next hole, move 120 again tap last hole. Keep the good videos coming man, I watch every single one that you make!

Will miss Grant. I found you through him. Maybe indirectly but without him, I'd never have found you.

ya darn right , GREAT JOB ADAM !!.. ENJOYED

Awesome work once again.

Молодец! Красивая работа.

beautiful work, as usual, show off... 😂👍

It’s really interesting to watch precision work being done, I’d have used a magic marker n a cordless. Amazing workmanship.

👍Nicely done. Watching in Alabama

That intro had me looking for Keith Rucker for a second :). . Great video Adam.

Go! Adam Go! Very good, as always, Adam.

Man, that 6 jaw is a beauty

Great work

That center is nice to help you keep it straight while your taping the hole

You are AMAZING.

Great vid as always Adam. Just one question though, would you not need to cut a slot in the new bushing you made, to match the quill notch?

Nice work, as always

Good content, great work, very nice intro and exit music.

Looks much better than the original way it was done.

This music makes me think maybe this quill is going through some struggles in life lol. Great Video Adam

nice work...

Nice job Adam, best regards from brasilians viewers!

estupendo Adam quedo genial amigo saludos desde España

good time in lexington last night...keep up the great work

Nice Job!!!

I would have bored the bore a little short so the nut bottomed inside so the thrust went thru the nut body and not the nut flange. Maybe you did but I couldn't tell. Either way for a little lathe it will be fine, I just like to make everything as heavy duty as I can. :-)

Great video abom79

Great vids - Many Thanks! Are you going to make a notch in the new ACME nut for the pin?

Nice

Wile you were drilling the quill holes for the screws the camera was pulsing and it made it look like you were holding the piece by hand 🖐🤣

I would love to see video of the approach to the zero on the dial and how/when you bump out of auto feed....video always seems to just cut away or not show the hands/controls. Love your videos.

hi nice work.

I LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS BROTHER :)

Wow, when that air conditioner kicked in, it was so loud that I couldn't hear the tap break off the chips in the oil filled hole. :-)

I usually have dinner with your latest vidz. I barely got the table set with this one! Had to fill in the empty space with a 5 y/o vid. :)

Great video, thankyou. In my humble opinion the use of bronze would have been a better choice of material for that nut than brass. The longevity of bronze is far superior.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing,, don't you have to cut a notch for the keyway on that to accept the guide on the tailstock?

I miss your old shop videos, big shafts, complex parts and jobs, nowadays every video is just turning a bushing, tapping some holes or some random stuff

You always pick such lovely music to machine by. I was especially intrigued by the song you selected for the end of this video. Please tell us who is playing and the name of the piece.

Adam, check out the tap at the 8.00 mark. It appears to have some lateral movement as you rotate it. I'm thinking you were no longer using thew center guide at that depth, but if you were, something might be out.

wow...new tunes!

You'll need to clear out the bushing at the keyway so it will slide into the tailstock.

Heard you've gone on you're own now and running your own job shop. Good on ya, man!. Guess I've got some videos to catch up on, lol.

A question comes to mind watching the end of the video... was an operation left out of it or not yet performed ?.. Shouldn't the keyway be extended to the brass nut and allow for the quill to be installed in and removed from the tailstock ?

I am surprised how soft that quill is. The one on my Jet 1340 lathe is so hard, HSS wouldn’t make a scratch.

Another awesome video. Adam can you tell me where you have put your restored Gerstner tool chest it was so nice I was just wandering what you have in store for it

Adam, do you sharpen your deburr/countersinks? Or know how? Is it possible? Single flute and the through hole style. Thanks, Randy.

I so love that 6 jaw bud. Too bad they weren't around 20 yrs ago eh. Sweet fitting bud. Great post fella.

ps: my father was a machinist too, and I work on lathe I also weld and I am rectifier

😍😍😍😍😍😍

You're the luckiest guy I know Adam. You got that beautiful machine shop and it's everything in the world that you need. I know that sounds silly but I'm dying and despite the fact that I bought a woman a house because I was supposed to live there as well for the rest of my life which isn't going to be long I bought her a car I fixed your credit so she could have the house put in her name she ended up kicking me out LOL isn't that awesome? After all I did for her she kicked me out and on top of everything she stole all my woodworking equipment! All I had was my machines and now all I have is a lathe and a piece of junk Chinese meal that ain't worth a square to piss. I got a tiny garage that only holds those two items and I have nothing to look forward to in my life anymore except for dying. Never take it for granted what you have because it's a whole hell of a lot. I will never be able to replace anything financially I am strapped now after spending all my life savings on getting her a safe place to live because I didn't want her to be out on the street when I died. I would have thought that if there's a God in heaven he would have smiled on me for doing that apparently I was wrong

oh abomb and his brass nuts

Another good video Adam. I understand the usefulness of ACME threads, but I am very curious about TPI. It looks like the threads per inch are less than half of the original. Doesn't this reduce the fine positioning ability of the tailstock?

Hello, a beautiful job, one thought though, all the load pushing the quill out is on the top hat flange of the bush. I could imagine it failing as it is only brass. John.

Ace job Adam love your video make it so easy NOT lol :-)

Just a suggestion for the future. Ok you found center but how did you find the location for the three holes? Any machinist would know how but I bet most watching your videos would have no clue but would like to see how it is done. Even better without a DRO.

What brand taps do you use? That one looked like a roll form tap but i didnt catch the name.

DID YOU EVER FINISH FACING & DEBURRING THE SIDE OPPOSITE THE SHOULDER ?

Your filming is starting to rival your machinist work. Super presentation here.

the only thing I would suggest when doing real closeup video is setting the camera to manual focus... get it focused on where you want it and it won't wander off when it (the camera) gets confused about what to focus on. otherwise, full respect for your skills bro :)

that's a polish 6-jaw you said? wonder why they won't use 12.9 grade bolts as it should be standard for jaws on chucks...

Adam Adam....what will Tony say? :)

I'm not machinist, I just work in sheet metal, but I was taught by our now retired machinist to use a soluble oil coolant for drilling and c'sinking on the mill (cool tools stay sharp) and to use cutting oil for threads and drilling on the lathe (promote chip evacuation). Can someone explain why I always see people using oil for drilling on the mill? Thank you!

what equipment would I need to switch to using micron instead of thou? Kern is way ahead!

7:52 air conditioner realised that no-one had run a lawn mower in the video yet ;-)

2:05 lookit the gazillion dollars worth of tooling he's got behind him there

Couple of questions: 1. Why didn't you face off the end an amount equal to the thickness of the brass face? 2. Why didn't you cut the keyway into the brass insert?