The Most Important Machine In Our Workshop - Mazak 18 X 60 Lathe 

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Word-for-word translation of the conversation with Timo. Things that are not said in Finnish, just implied, but English needs are inside [box brackets]. 15:35 Lauri: Does it say what year it is? 15:37 Timo: Yeah, this is one nine seventy-nine. 15:56 Timo: It is this, this model. 16:00 Timo: These are inches, these sizes. 16:07 Timo: It was the [Autonen's/Aaltonen's]* Konepaja** from Lempäälä, from a bankrupcy auction. 16:13 Lauri: What year was it then? 16:17 Timo: Perhaps some eighty-five. 16:20 Lauri: Ok, how about -about what is in your mind the immemorial or the most special job that was made on that [the Mazak]. 16:30 Timo: It has been used to make all kinds [of things], plenty -plenty of all kinds [of things]. 16:33 Lauri: I told mine and Kippos one of the {Timo also saying as one} pipe-thing. 16:37 Timo: So with it, has been done for Särkänniemi amusement park pig-train wheels, and for ev.-lut. (Evangelical Lutheran) churches crematiorium, crematorium [oven] wheels. 16:59 Lauri: I think that's a good pair. [:D] And they were even around the same time. 16:51 Timo: They came- I was printing invoices at that time from the financial management program. I printed two invoices in a row, I didn't exactly know what they were, and I looked at the two printed out invoices. The other one was pig-train-wheels, and the other crematorium-wheels. 17:05 Lauri: How many percent of everything made here, some of it has been made with Mazak? 17:11 Timo: Half. 17:12 Lauri: Yea. 17:13 Timo: During the whole history [of this place], even if here are big machines, probably half are made [with Mazak]. So very much. 17:21 Timo: It has served well. Once I changed new bearings into the spindle-box, and transmission bearings I changed all into new. 17:27 Lauri: I remember to having once changing the oil into it. 17:31 Timo: Yes. There it [the maintenance history] was then. 17:33 Lauri: And the digitals were changed sometime. Or was it just the display that was changed? 17:36 Timo: No, it received all new. 17:38 Lauri: All new. 17:39 Timo: It didn't have digitals [before]. 17:41 Lauri: But the screen has been- it had a different screen before. I have used two different screens on it. 17:45 Timo: It may be that there was that some- the Sonys bigger screen. 17:49 Lauri: Yes. 17:52 Timo: Sonys Magnescale. 17:53 Lauri: [But it] has gone on the cheap and [done] a lot. 17:54 Timo: It has been. A lot has gone [through it]. *hard to differenciate between Autonen and Aaltonen, can be heard either way **Autonen's/Aaltonen's machine works/shop

After 38 years in the workshop I'd say that however much Timo paid for the lathe, he's certainly gotten his money's worth out of it!

I've been an HPC sub since the old days & seen this lathe in MANY videos. It's good to see Timo too😊

The Mazak hasn't been so clean in years. Prrritti Guud Kleeeen.

Came for the press, stayed for the machining, thank you for explaining the intricacies of your job Lauri 😊

I really like hearing your stories about these machines and the memorable jobs on them. It's always fantastic to hear from Timo too! I'm sure it's extra work to add the subtitles, so thank you for taking the time to share these valuable Finnish stories for us non-Finnish folks!

I am not a machinist, I’ve never touched a lathe. Still, I am a geek for all kinds of technology, and the tool that makes tools (the lathe) fascinates me. Yes please, more videos like this. And please have Timo in more videos.

The Japanese made really high quality optics and cameras starting in the 50s. I have some 10x50 binoculars I inherited from my grandfather that he carried 30 years as a field biologist, still the clearest image I’ve ever seen. Made in 1955 in Japan.

I love lathes! I've been turning metal for 10 years this August. My favorite lathe is a 1994 Bridgeport-Romi EZ Path lathe. Your videos are great and I want to see more of your machines!!

I am a big believer that schools should not only offer academic excellence, but also excellence in skills such as woodworking, metalworking, art and music. Although I pursued my further education in science at university, I am so thankful for the practical skills that I learned at school. I really enjoyed watching this video as I have the greatest admiration for people who can actually make things.

I could listen to you talk about your work for hours, thanks for the insight. I used to work in a machine shop and I miss it 👍👍 Very satisfying occupation most of the time

My role at work is almost completely on the CNC side. I use a drill press and a bandsaw like once a year. But when I get a chance, I wander around to the back and watch the old guys do their thing on those big green monsters from the 60s when the shop opened.

Your mention of heat exchangers brings back memories. I spent my career installing large-area drilling machines for the tubesheets and baffle plates parts of heat exchangers. Thousands and thousands of holes! Biggest ones had ~20,000 holes and took more than a week to drill them all. Cheers!

Love Mazak machines, we have a couple at work, and they are amazingly reliable.

One of the best features of this lathe is the foot brake. You can stop the spindle in less than one rev. Cheers

Love it, I bet Timo has some really cool stories about the rest of the machines as well.

My most memorable event in the machine shop was actually in trade school. We had a student that somehow got his shirt caught in the lathe, and the machine tore that shirt off without the guy getting injured, but the look on his face was priceless. Never had to do a lot of lathe work. Mostly milling machine and surface grinders. Always take a second look when I see a Bridgeport Milling Machine for sale. Can always imagine the things I could fix or build with one.

I did enjoy your guided tour of the lathe. Thank you.

I love Timo. He’s quite funny!

Very interesting. I never personally worked with a lathe. Very informational video. Glad a learned something new. 😮

Even in a machine shop mostly consisting of CNC machines there still is no good replacement for a sturdy manual lathe. It's just simply much faster for some jobs. Ours isn't any fancy japanese one though, ours is a huge lump of cast iron from soviet union

I’ve trained many apprentices over the years and the first thing I teach them is never ever take your hand off the chuck key except for when you put it down. When I saw Lauri do it, I thought that’s ok, this is a man that blows shit up 😁

I ran a Poreba Russian lathe that was made in 1978. I machined eccentric shafts for rock crusher machines.

Let me show you its Safety Feature..........which after 40 years is broken. But it was a great feature back in the day. 🤣

Just a tip, For a shaving hook I use an old paint roller, take the roller off an bend it, works great with a nice handle also 😁

yes please! I love hearing the history of the machines. Preserve them on RU-vid for all to hear. The legacy of what that machine has done and the parts it has made is always fun to hear.

Thanks for more machine/machining content. Any chance you are going to rebuild the mazak? Could make a nice series

12:55 The drill press thing we call Tailstock in England. It might even say it on the red sticker LOL.....

My favorite lathe(s) have been a Hendy 16 inch(406mm) that was in our trade school, and a Harrison that we have at work

Russian made Stankoimport lathes were awesome especially ones with the rapid feed joystick. High quality and heavy duty.

Yes, more machines.

Stories and review of machines you've used makes for some pretty cool video, thank you! For the next machine, what's your 2nd favorite? ...For your merch, I think it would also be fun to have shorts that also say "T-Shirt 5000000".

@11:15 - that thing that houses the 3rd gearbox is called the saddle.

Enjoyed this, awesome lathe. I am only a year older than you, but here in Australia (Asia Pacific trade region) Japanese machines of that era, inluding Mazak, are well regarded. Depending on condition some still sell used for comparable prices to new Chinese machines of the same size. A new Taiwanese lathe might be two to three times the cost of a good used Japanese machine. All I could afford was a used Chinese machine, but I did my research and it performs very nicely. Any lathe is better than no lathe!

This lathe looks just like one of the lathes my father worked with in the late 1960s when I was a little girl in Finland. He was a chief engineer on the ship but also worked ashore and I was able to stay with him when he worked overtime and was alone in the shop. He could do anything with metal, wood etc. I saw him also at the smith's workshop heating iron till it was orange and turned to whitish. Then he pounded it with a large "moukari" and formed it to what he wanted it to be. I learnt from him to work with wood and even metal but never had a chance to do the smith work. I would have liked to do metal objects, like art projects.

Great video! Just ordered my first HPC shirt, thanks for switching to Bunker Branding.

Love the machining/workshop content

"Kids shouldn't use lathe" I remember I was taught to use lathe when I was around 11-13 years old at school in Russia in the early 90s. We had lessons of "Labour", in which we learned to do various things and starting from grade 5 (around 11 y.o.) they were taught in a workshop class with a few industrial machines like bench drills and lathes. I think the best I could do with a lathe was a chess pawn.

Yes, please do a threadcutting video

Hi. You need to check the level and align the gearbox to the ways . I hade the same problem whit my old lathe from 1972, and I made the lathe usual again . I have a similar story. I am born in 1988. I am playing on my dad lathe from like 2000.

During the Great Depression my master machinist grandfather bought a flat-belt drive F.E. Reed 18x72 inch lathe. My father inherited it in 1964. The last production job on it was circa 1970- 9,500 pieces. I donated it to the Amador Sawmill & Mining Association seven or eight years ago.

We got ours in 78 to replace a Le Blond/ I loved it from day 0ne it and a Hardinge HLV-H were my all time favorites.

I love that lathe you have a bulletproof Mazak. I currently run a Mazak super Quickturn with a T plus controller. I love Mazaks.

I run mazak cnc machines daily at work and it's great to see how far the machine companies have come

I know that this isn’t an explosives video, but I was wondering whether it would be possible to create a shaped charge with thermite instead of something like copper so it would be much hotter and therefore more destructive. Maybe a magnesium fuse fired the detonator a tenth of a second after it touches the thermite.

16:44 Timo flippin' the bird

Absolutely more machine!

Used one like this in New Zealand for years and it looked 99% the same except that it had a large vertical spindle engagement lever with an orange knob on top to the left of the operator to control forward and reverse but it was nice clutch slip operation so you could feather the control of the spindle and slip it into reverse or back to forward gently, no clunk clunk shock start. The motor was always running even when the spindle lever was in the stop position and I can see you don't have the motor start button on the headstock. Ours must have been a step just above yours. Our Mazak had 3 vee-ways along the top of the bed.

Great video, more please! And more from Timo also.

First tool I ran was an enterprise lathe when I was 14, about the same size too.

It's such a beautiful machine 😍❤️

I really appreciate your videos just going into your shop tools and more interesting machining projects.

We have one in our shop. Needs to have the crosslide screw replaced with a ballscrew. It has horrible backlash as it is

Terve! A long time ago I washed many hidraulic press videos, stopped watching a for a while, never thought you was from Finland. I'm living in Finland for a year now and then watched again one of your videos. I immediately recognized the accent, and then realized right away you are Finnish. 😃

I had the pleasure of machining an 80 tonne roll years ago , 6 inches of diameter per cut, 2 tonne chuck that was 8 feet in diameter, 11 days in lathe 24/7 until complete and ready for grinding. At that diameter the chuck speed was only 32 rpm 😂

Yes, please make more machining videos and machine overview videos!

Pretty good video. Lisää tällästä, vaikkei saiskaan kovia katsojalukuja.

I have a Lang 16x90 , Its older then I am and runs as tight as it did when it came off the factory floor.. To replace it would cost around $80K unless I wanted to go Chinese ...

In the workshop I learned (finished my apprenticeship yesterday) we had one from 1949😅

Machines are cool. I really enjoyed this, and would love to see more.

I liked the video and would like to see more machines,, even milling machines. I dont play in the shop any more so I like the tours you have been doing.

Still watching but so far very much enjoying this one

I love the fact that tools that are older than a lot of people using them are still being used today

Grinding and hardening of the bed is possible but its expensive. There in the whole Netherlands just one company who can do that, but have 3 years of work in stock.

There's definitely places that can make that lathe like new again. I don't think it costs THAT unreasonable of a price. I mean, spread that cost out 40+ years on a machine that wasn't part of planned obsolescence. You know the lathe, you like the layout, and if you're working with a tool or machine making a living and spending hours upon hours a day with it, it's my very humble opinion that you should enjoy using that machine.

Yes more Machining videos would be awesome

I love these videos, I have one of these toy lathes at home. It is an unknown german brand and I have a metal tool holder and one for wood turning tools. Honestly if I would restore big old machinery I probably would do it for some collab videos for you. But alas, I am but a hobbyist, if you have a computer to fix I can do that :) Please show all tha machines, and more "real work" jobs. You two are awesome, thanks for providing entertainment for us.

Yes Please more on your Workshop. Even Tools for me

MAZAK is a colaboration between Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Yamaha.absolutely the premium tool !

Oh, yes, throughout the year you get experience. And everything becomes automatic with your body, keep on😊

says in the manual , main motor 10hp 4phase , that's 7,45 kw

It has a 10HP motor, I caught that when the older gentleman was holding the manual on the specification page. It also said 4p. I'm not sure if it meant 4-pole or 4 phases.

I have same machine. Works well

Mazak is very high quality.

Japanese low end hand tools from the '50s '60s were comparable to cheap Chinese stuff today, but the quality brands of machine tools- Yamazaki, Okuma, Ikegai, Mori Seiki machines were NEVER garbage, just under appreciated. now recognized as the best in the world...

Awesome content.😊

Love this sort of video! Please do more. One thing that you might mention about lathes is all those gearboxes are driven by the rotation of the spindle. Except the tailstock gearbox, of course. And Mazak is indeed a high-end brand here in North America. Cheers!

"Hey kids" you know, these wheels will send you do your grave. ENJOY THE RIDE!" Passengers: (confused and terrified).

Timo From The Future. 🤓Best Ever. Kiitos.👍

This is lit. More plz.

So cool i run a modern cnc Mazak

As trending about sub, can you demo in your pressurized cylinder a fiberglass tube with something inside like dead mouse or something with flesh for educational purposes

hehehe "Children shouldn't use lathe... but Timo don't care"

I feel like we didn't see all of the crazy cutting contraption videos you previewed before

Seeing a manual Mazak machine is so strange when I work in a shop full of Mazak cnc machines that are >5 years old.

Dean Smith and Grace are excellent lathes too .

I have heard that Czech machines are also very good, I myself own a 1985 SV-18RA in a rougher shape but it still works allthough it need care. I think the lathe is really well designed but i sadly have nothing to compare it to.

Always nice to see Timo, though I don't understand him!

Adam Savage would love this video :D

Great video, i would ❤ to see your cnc milling machine explained

Speaking of old times... What happened to Anni? I miss her on the channel.

place a GoPro action camera on the lathe during use

If the lathe has 3-phase connection and it goes to 30A, it could have 400 V * 30 A * 3-phases = 36 kW motor.

Lets Go ❤️ All Your You Tube Videos MPH

More videos about machines or machining, please.

You can easily tell how much force this man has in him. That calmess, and that tight skin on those rough hands.

Have you ever seen Cutting Edge Engineering Australia's videos? Big lathes turning huge bits of steel.

Nice lathe. I purchased a 1941 Sidney 14x32 off ebay. Original motor and it works great. Im interested in your pressure vessel. Did you make it? What grade of steel is it. I know your end caps are of stainless steel. And what about the sight glass? Is it rated? To what pressure? Sorry im commenting on the wrong video but my service provider is of low grade and this was the first video that started playing. Thanks. You guy do good work

Did you cover the coolant and how that works?