As someone who has zero experience with lathes or machining in general, this video was fascinating as hell.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@roflsyndrome

5 жыл бұрын

hell doesn't consider you fascinating either

@roflsyndrome

5 жыл бұрын

Eh, maybe so. It certainly wouldn't consider your humor useful. That's for sure.

@roflsyndrome

5 жыл бұрын

Not trolling. Just guiding you. Peace.

@Liesmith424

5 жыл бұрын

Sam, you really sacrifice the "who asked you" high ground when you're the first one to offer an unsolicited opinion.

When people ask me what I do as a machinist. I answer, "I make round things square and square things round."

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

:) Funny how we do that! Thanks

@goldeee666

6 жыл бұрын

I used to reply " I make chips" now I say " I make steel wool"

@martyshrekster

6 жыл бұрын

A wise man once told me "If anyone asks what you do for a living, tell them you press buttons and spend taxpayer money." Lol

@coryman125

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry if this idea ends up making your work obsolete and putting you out of a job, but have you tried leaving the round things round and the square things square, and just using them in the shape they start in? ;)

@UncleBman

6 жыл бұрын

coryman125 Your not a machinist are you. Creativity and humor go hand in hand. Sometimes, especially in repair and R&D work you have to with the material and machinery at hand..

Just like I used to do it with my 4-jaw chuck before I retired. Perfectly logical, and a stepping-off point for making more complex solid figures. My lathe was built in 1943 four years before I was born, by Logan, a Kentucky shop that still makes parts for my lathe. My particular lathe was sent to Detroit for manufacturing parts for World War II, and then was used in Houston to refurbish electric motors on ships that came into harbor. Logan was able to give me the history of my particular lathe, which I still own, and which still can cut to one-thousandth of an inch.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing like an old piece of equipment! I had a mill as an apprentice that was on loan to England during WW2. It had a nice plaque on it's side from the King thanking Canada for sending it. Thanks for sharing your story.

@scottrackley4457

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see your lathe, and if allowed to cut some threads on it

@lerkzor

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Daniel (a year later, heh.) Sounds like you knew that machine pretty well. I am curious, how much wear did the ways have? I know that some of the machine tools used for the war effort were rode hard, 3 shifts a day making parts as big as they can swing. Regular maintenance would have helped, but how did your in particular fare? How much wear in the carriage nut and screw? Were the jaws badly bellmouthed? I'd love to get into machining, but there are damn few places doing anything but CNC around here.

@user-ck6gi8fy5w

3 жыл бұрын

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@peterallam6494

Жыл бұрын

16/6 23, Over 50 years ago a, then, local Co advertised for skilled Toolmaking machinists - 'only apply if you can cut a dovetail on a shaper.'😊

You were the kid that forced the round thing into the square hole.

@machiningmoments

4 жыл бұрын

You've heard about me? ;)

@happylifeenjoyit9821

4 жыл бұрын

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@UncleBman

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, I fitted it, slipped right in like a piston!

@morgan5941

3 жыл бұрын

Never seen a woman with a square hole before.

@OnionChang

3 жыл бұрын

No thats a millwright

Thank you for this. My father was taught to be a machinist in the Navy before WW II, his final test was a cube accurate to ± 0.001 using only a lathe. He had a trade that served him well until he passed in 1993. This gave me some insight.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Great memories :)

@killmimes

6 жыл бұрын

Freaking MR's.....thats what your fathers navy rating was.. machinery repairman

@davidmoran4471

6 жыл бұрын

My father was a motor mac got out early from WW II as he was found no longer fit for sea duty after his ship was sunk. AM294

@leegar1537

6 жыл бұрын

my father cleaned their ass all in the ship, starting with the machinist

@AlabamaTree

5 жыл бұрын

Within 0.01 mm? That’s a massive tolerance

Wow. I have no machining knowledge/experience. Vocalizing every single action (or reason for inaction) really makes a educational video better for a lay person. This was beautiful. I would've never thought a cube could be made in a lathe - now it's like "of course!" Thanks for an interesting 20m

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words.

@MrVolcom33

5 жыл бұрын

Just for future ref it's lathe pronounced "lay the". Not picking on you just know a guy that called it a lay and heard him get torn apart by a bunch of people. I am a machinist and I could care but some people sure do. Take care pal.

@craigjohnson2259

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrVolcom33, just fyi, he posted "Lay Person": a person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.

@user-ck6gi8fy5w

3 жыл бұрын

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19:03 for the 1.5 seconds where you see the finished product

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, one thing I would change.

@LarryMarston

3 жыл бұрын

It’s all about the process

@user-ck6gi8fy5w

3 жыл бұрын

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I should have gone to bed some time ago. I suspect I'm not the only one.

@user-ck6gi8fy5w

3 жыл бұрын

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BTW everyone, it's not a gauge block, its a demo of a concept. Relax.

I'm not a machinist but when I do machining I take good round things and turn them into scrap ;)

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

I've made a few pieces of scrap myself!

@yellowhammer4747

5 жыл бұрын

MEE TOO!

@MrGaryGG48

5 жыл бұрын

Now that's truly funny... and too often, really true! With many years of random experience but very little "formal training," I'm far too familiar with that concept!!

@howder1951

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite machinist used to say" I'm not very good, but I am fast" The joker in the shop used to check his production by inspecting the scrap bins!

@philldavies7940

5 жыл бұрын

I can do that, and I don't even own a lathe, just a lump hammer, I must be a natural.

I’m not a machinist but have ran a lathe a few times in my day and found this very informative and interesting on how and why things were done in keeping reference points👍👍

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it useful, thank you for taking the time to leave a comment.

I loved my time as a toolmaker in the 80's. I was taught by a genius who was born in 1933. A truly great man. I've applied that knowledge since many many times, much more in fact than anything I was taught in school. Thank you Sam. R.I.P.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Great memories, I too was lucky to apprentice under a great man! Thanks for sharing.

If you can find fault in his procedure/technique, then you do not need to watch this video. I learned the basics and that was good enough for me.

@docalexander2853

5 жыл бұрын

You didn't learn the right way to do anything by watching the video. But I enjoy seeing cuts on the lathe. He had plenty of those.

@Shortsircut1

5 жыл бұрын

@@docalexander2853 Really? Define "right way"! There are many ways to do many things. What is being demonstrated here is 1 way, not the only way! I have used a lathe as a mill many times and vice-versa. Don't be so quick to judge just because you wouldn't do it this way!

@StillNoPickles69

5 жыл бұрын

Regardless of the right or wrong way, you didn't learn the basics by watching a video lol you have to actually do it to learn it. You don't even know how to change the rpm on a lathe by watching this

@Shortsircut1

5 жыл бұрын

@@StillNoPickles69 I think the general assumption with this video is that you already know the basics and actually have a lathe to make this on.

@StillNoPickles69

5 жыл бұрын

Shortsircut1 I was referring to the guy who said he learned the basics from this lol

I remember doing this in high school it was our final exam. A perfect 1 inch cube. Some students got away with being off a few thousands and were graded accordingly but some were held to a higher standard. I got to see mine thrown in the garbage twice for not being perfect. Off by one thousandth, lol. Thankful he pushed me to always give it my best effort.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I think we had the same teacher! Great memories.

@dfektdysfunkshun6215

4 жыл бұрын

You did this in HIGH SCHOOL?! Now i REALLY feel like an inept asshole. I'm 37 and before watching this i would have told you it's impossible to make a cube on a lathe😂silly me.

That was so cool! I'm not a metal worker, but a woodworker. I always say, I make the wood do what it doesn't want to do. That's what you're doing here. But to take a piece of round bar stock, put it into a chuck spinning in a circle and have it come out square is just magical! Thanks. very entertaining.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank You

My teacher was amazed when I machined a 1" cube, no-one in the class thought I could do it. A whole afternoon of machining I had copper, brass, steel and aluminium cubes. I was taught to use the lathe by a very enthusiastic amateur who made his own race car parts. It is so good to see machining done the good old way, none of this CNC malarkey and certainly no 3D printing :)

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you had some good training.

@johnnyxmusic

7 ай бұрын

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Interesting concept. Thanks for the lesson.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to

Thanks for an interesting video showing the principle of machining a cube. It was ideal for somebody like me who spent a few weeks at a workshop practice training course over 50 years ago making the obligatory scribing block.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you for the note!

@jameszepnick9206

5 жыл бұрын

Good video!! If you don't have something good to say, keep it to your fucking self......

@sklnet9537

2 жыл бұрын

@@jameszepnick9206 I know I'm late, but there something on your mind man?

Use to be a machinist and never thought of doing this but I found it Fascinating indeed.. I use to do many things one being making or finishing complete brake rotors from a raw casting, thousands of them.

Great video, from start to finish. I was initially expecting a straightforward machining video (you know the type) but this went into so much more detail, and was very much appreciated by myself. Gotta love that ending, too, "there it is" cut!

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Curtis, thanks for your kind words...I think I was a bit quick with the ending :/

Everyone's commenting on how it's not perfect....I don't see many tutorials that are more than "I'm gonna show you what to, but you figure out how to do it better." The whole point of teaching isn't to show them exactly how to make it flawlessly, but to give them direction and then let them figure it out. That's how people learn.

@jeepmanxj

6 жыл бұрын

This is the problem with a lot of people coming into machining. They want to be told exactly how to do it and not have to think about it. All I can do is show a guy a method that gets the job done, they need to use sense to improve it or get it done better.

@johnpetrov6602

6 жыл бұрын

Kyo Grey I understand the idea that nobody’s perfect but this video didn’t need to be 20 minutes and it didn’t need half the narration. If you’re not smart it’s bad form to assume your audience is stupid.

@kyogrey5589

6 жыл бұрын

He doesn't need to be perfect to teach you how to do something, nor does he need to do it perfectly. Also, if you don't like the length of the video, watch it at 1.5x or 2x speed.

@vincewood657

6 жыл бұрын

You clearly haven't watched AvE's channel.

@chesleyoverstreet498

6 жыл бұрын

ive been a machinist for a decade now and this shit is sloppy as fuck.

Huh, this is the first time I've seen someone turn a cube on a lathe. Never knew that was even possible, but now it makes perfect sense.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

A lathe can make lots of neat things.

@shelbyfowler8946

4 жыл бұрын

Learned something new at every shop i worked at.

@user-ck6gi8fy5w

3 жыл бұрын

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I could watch and listen to this all day. Been in and around machine shops much of my career and still love the smell of machine oil and the beauty of hand made parts. Great vid- many thanks.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

It is a special place. Thank you for watching and posting.

i'm a cnc operator. it would never have occured to me you can actually make a cube on a conventional lathe, we just use a mill and let the computer have fun with it. very nice job there! also i can finally see the benefit of a four independent jaw chuck. thats craftmanship😀

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words. Four jaw chucks are very useful.

Some people might thing the lesson is rudimentary but for people like myself it's advancing my knowledge from the almost zero point and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it all as many others wont bother.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank You Jimmy.

I was a machinist before I got into computer networking. I really miss making useful parts. Electronics is fine, but creating intricate parts from stock metal is real skill.

@ericanderson2309

5 жыл бұрын

thank you I have made things that will be around long after I am gone

@davespangler9125

5 жыл бұрын

Someone who gets it! I was a carpenter before I broke my back forcing me into an IT job. Now I work as a software engineer and any time I discuss my former life, none of my co-workers get it at all. I miss truly making things.

@kolby4078

5 жыл бұрын

Garage CNC

@kraigrichard7043

5 жыл бұрын

Those benchtop do alls don't take a lot of space. If you need a project to make with it .... there is always art.

@therealstubot

5 жыл бұрын

I framed houses for a while ( 5 years ). Now I'm a software engineer, and I miss the satisfaction of looking at something at the end of the day, and thinking that "I made that". I do garage machining now to satisfy that emptiness. On a side note, software pays a bit better than framing. I too had a back injury that made me rethink my career choices. I miss that satisfaction, I don't miss working in the rain, or walking on 2x4 walls, or packing lumber, or stepping on nails, splinters, ring shanks, pushy general contractors, not getting paid... the list is long. I guess part of the romance of a trade is the adversity of achieving something worthwhile.

My grandfather was a machinist, later roundhouse foreman for the Santa Fe railroad shops in Los Angeles from 1898-1951. As a young kid, I remember him having the complete alphabet on a shelf in his office that he had machined on the shop lathes from scrap steel. Myself best I have ever done is a couple doorknobs' under his supervision. Great video.

@machiningmoments

4 жыл бұрын

Great memory, thanks for sharing.

I loved it! This video took me back 40 years to engineering school. All us green would-be engineers had to work through a wide range of machining/construction classes to make sure we didn't go off designing things that couldn't be manufactured. Thanks for taking me back to some great memories.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

It was my pleasure. I am very fortunate to work with future engineers. I like having the ability to show them processes and help them understand designs and fits. Great group of people.

Awesome video never dreamed this could be done, where there's a will there's a way.

@taunteratwill1787

4 жыл бұрын

No will doesn't do much for you, where there's some thinking there's a way! :-))

Wow! Centering that stock really impressed me. I mean, I'm no turner myself but the smooth confidence and ease with which you just did that, I found quite amazing. I'm sure I'd have been there all day going back and forth. I'm also quite sure that not many people out there realise just how much skill it takes to do that. But to do it with such nonchalance? Outstanding! Sir! You are a master!.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, but I'm just a guy who has done this for a long time. There are a lot of great machinists on this board. I appreciate your note.

@tomohawk5567

6 жыл бұрын

machiningmoments I thought this video great, before I started watching I tried to figure out how to you were going to do it, but I couldn't. Great video thanks for sharing 👍

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

You are an incredibly straight-forward teacher/demonstrator: thanks!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I just got my dads South Bend lathe that he got from his great uncle in 1972. I can’t wait to learn how to use it!! I’m trying to take in as much info as I can. Thank you very much.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

What a great memory for you. You will have lots of fun with it. BTW, that is a good lathe.

I am by no means blessed with machining skills. Nor will I ever acquire them. But this was fascinating to watch & I thank you for doing it!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting.

Yes indeed, a very neat process which can be as accurate as U want it for intents and purposes. Thanks for showing and sharing. Much appreciated. ATB aRM

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to, nice to hear from you again.

Many years ago, I taught a computer controls class in which one problem was to machine a 1-inch cube on a 3-axis mill. Almost all thought it would be an easy lab, until they tried to do it. ^_^. I really like it when someone clearly explains how to do something that seems impossible at the start. Also, I’ve gained a new appreciation for a 4-jaw chuck. Great video! Thanks.

@machiningmoments

3 жыл бұрын

Its not that easy.

Artistry. If humans haven't destroyed each other in a couple of centuries, I reckon this lathe instruction will be shown in archaeology classes. I recently had to remove 3 musket guns the old man has had since I was a kid. Mum was scared of the bayonets on them. Dad had them mounted on a wooden gun rack I made him in woodworking class in 1971. On the back, it shows I got 9 1/2 out of 10. Looking at it now, I could have done a bit more sanding. I was entranced at this video. Memories of wood lathing at school.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good memories.

Love the logic of this. I couldn't imagine how a cube could come out of a lathe.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

It helps to see it, thanks for watching.

As a fellow machinist, one thing I love watching is slow motion videos of chips breaking. I've made a few slow-mo videos and they are always satisfying!

@machiningmoments

4 жыл бұрын

I saw a young person shooting a slow motion video of a cutting process, it was super cool. It has my wheels turning in my head. Thanks for your note.

As someone who does machining, but is not formally educated in the field, I like that this video demonstrates the "thinking outside the box" err cube approach.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

:) thank you

Thankx machiningmoments. For those questioning the accuracy I think the concept was to show how the X plane can be used to create flat surfaces beyond simple facing with the versatility of a 4 jaw chuck on a machine that typically is thought of as a radially cutting machine. The block could have been indicated more precise of course but cool demonstration vid. Like turning with a boring head on a mill. When square is needed and looking at all the mills set up and a mill is not available this is thinking outside the blox ;- ) Thanks again.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@doright6461

6 жыл бұрын

I know you been around machines to even do this even public. Congrats and ...thank you for reminding me of the old school beauty of a 4 jaw chuck with all the CNC now. It's amazing to think that even with the cad incorporated software on the actual cnc today withon screen tool paths and machine memorized tool data banks that the same results can be established manually. I remember a guy wanted an angle on a lathe and I used the x + z to 'draw' the angle by using a larger than needed radius tool and moved the x and z to every .005 thou move to 'generate the angle. :-) Kudos to you machiningmoments

@doright6461

6 жыл бұрын

ps. I'm still in school as I see it. Remember the day when I had to be best leading to competition. Tsk tsk! Teamwork and ideas together go sooo much more. If I had my way I'd like to attack a piece of leadloy and sink the full CNMG 422 insert at .025 per rev. Looking to grab My 1st machine for the barn now. Thx for reply and the info. lol ... No ...Thank you! ;- )

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the support!

@doright6461

6 жыл бұрын

Anytime. Well done

way cool. For those who care, it's a simple task to move over to a surface grinder and make it perfect. This tutorial is an example of how to use a lath for milling projects when all you have is a lathe. precision is a mindset. learn to use the tools you have.

@toytoy1091

5 жыл бұрын

What sort of surface grinder ? Using an abrasive to flatten a surface is extremely difficult - the edges that scrape the abrasive always get slightly more abraded than the middle. I don't think an abrader could improve on the exact flatness produced by a lathe. The only way to perfect the cube would be to re-lathe it to finer tolerances.

This was just awesome. As a hobby machinist I find this fascinating! Great tutorial!

@machiningmoments

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it Myles! Thanks for watching and your post.

I have been a lathe turner for ten years and I would never have thought this would be possible, but it's so simple! I actually remember asking my shop teacher if you could turn squares on a lathe and he said it was impossible :D

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

In fairness to your shop teacher most people only think about turning cylindrical parts on a lathe.

@jimlouttit7098

5 жыл бұрын

On

Now that is a great video. If i am making sometming from round stock i could put a flat on one or more sides whatever is needed. Thanks, Norman

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Norman

Very neat process. Thanks for sharing.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it, thanks for taking the time to leave a message.

My one and only metalworking class had us, in one term, take an ugly chunk of steel and make as perfect a cube as we could make. Some of those finished items started out as 3" x 3" x 2.5" chunks, ended up as 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/2" and they still weren't cubes. This video shows how knowing what your tool can do can make things a lot easier. Thank you for doing this one.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

Very facinating!! This has a totally new meaning to thinking outside the box

I had no idea that was even possible. Awesome video, thanks for sharing.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it thanks for watching.

@cogoid

5 жыл бұрын

Next challenge: making a fully functional Rubik's cube entirely on a lathe.

I've been a machinist for 40 years and I would not have believed it if I had not seen it .enjoyed watching , Thanks

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I was worried a cube would be triangular. Thanks for the confirmation there.

I wondered about the shims when I could use slip on copper soft jaws. Then I read the comments. Now I will have to try the project using the other tricks I know to see if I can do a "real" cube. It should be fun and educational. Thanks for posting this! Process counts as much as precision.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

The reason I used a thicker steel shim is so I wouldn't mark the work from the force of the jaws. Good luck with your cube!

It fascinates me to watch someone with skills like that. Well done sir!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you watched and posted.

I did my apprenticeship at Colchester lathe company and worked there for 14 years, brought back a few memories. Thanks for sharing.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

I wish my company had access to the Colchester company, we have a tough time sourcing parts for our lathes.

@lurch1e

6 жыл бұрын

They no longer manufacture in Colchester, moved to Yorkshire in 1997. Their new lathes are all made in China or Eastern Europe.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's my experience also. We have been able to find a couple of Colchesters in England we have parted out. Too bad they are really good lathes.

@victormildew1717

6 жыл бұрын

This may help you, here in the UK, not far from me.www.colchesterspares.com/

I liked it .. then I read some of the Perfektionspolizei comments .. and I still liked it .. then I read some of the appreciative comments .. and I liked it even more.. ty for posting! : )

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment.

@angelus_solus

5 жыл бұрын

And why are you even mentioning them? That's nothing but passive aggressive slander and is still the tool of the loser.

Interesting some of the pros get their panties in a wad watching this and us rookies find it fascinating and informative.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it useful. Thanks

@playwme3

5 жыл бұрын

If they already know how to do it, then theyre not watching to see how its done. Theyre watching so they can point out mistakes and make themselves feel good.

@therealstubot

5 жыл бұрын

I already know how to turn a cube on a lathe. But I don't pretend to think I know everything, and I want to see this method, and how it is different from how I do it. I've learned a lot from watching others processes, and this is no different. I'm no pro, but there are things that I would do differently. In the context of an instructional video, this shows what it needs to show, conceptually how it's done. Is this way the perfect way to do it? No. Is it a step toward the perfect way, very much so.

@WalesRadio

5 жыл бұрын

@@machiningmoments Great tutorial for us beginners. Only question I have is (as an interested observer) Can you do this on a three jaw chuck?

@OwenWithAHammer

4 жыл бұрын

Lol that's true for so many jobs, can't remember how many times I've messed up a tiny non consequential thing and been terrified the customer will consider me an idiot, meanwhile the customer is just mindblown that my product is functional whatsoever.

Great video. You make setting up the 4 jaw look easy. I make it look a lot more difficult and challenging. Thanks!

Just lovely to watch. This brings back memory's when a was a student mecanic's. I did love it working on a Lathe!!!! Great task for students!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good job the Material is "Leadloy" for demo purposes. I've seen grown men reduced to tears setting a 4 jaw chuck!!

I did this in metal shop when I was in high school. Also made a lot of pipes too. Lol🌿

@mfwesley

6 жыл бұрын

Toolman329 salty

@MonstertruckBadass

6 жыл бұрын

Toolman329 go away Bible thumper

@JacobAbinante

5 жыл бұрын

what kind of pipes??

I never thought this was possible when I was working with lathes. Thanks for the insight!

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

I really liked the way you explained each step. It made it much easier to understand what you were doing. Thanks for sharing.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

My father was a machinist. Thank you for giving me some insight into what he might have done.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

So was my father and grandfather. Great memories.

Making a 0.1 cut on my little Atlas lathe would likely flip my entire house over.

@machiningmoments

3 жыл бұрын

:) Yes lots of small cuts. I've stalled small lathes out with a heavy cut.

Was teached to use a Lathe at school ( never made a cube though ) 34 years ago. Brings back memories thanks :-)

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

:) it was my favorite class in high school. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the show . I took in High School two years of Machine shop But went into the Automotive Mechanic part . This brought back memories . All good ones . Thanks

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Got to love great memories, thanks for posting.

Amazing! Now what about doing a tetrahedron or dodecahedron... 😃

Saw the title and just assumed it was this old tony.

For the person just starting out machining on a lathe. This is good practice. One of my first practice/ play projects was an aluminum cube in a cube. Have it laying on a shelf along with a ball peen hammer of brass with aluminum handel. Also made a 1.5 x 1.5 dice. The dice gave layout and mill experience. Making things is how you learn and gain confidence. Making things to precise dimension is where you learn of patience.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Machining can be a testament to patience!

I have been a machinist for 40 years, its nice to be able to fix things by making your own parts with a lathe or milling machine! Especially when it was a poorly engineered part to begin with......

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've had to make many parts over the years. I've always admired the mind of someone doing repairs.

if you're in a small job shop or a home shop, and you don't have an available mill, you gotta do what you gotta do.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Brad, likely the only place I would do this is in a hobby shop with limited equipment. Thanks for posting.

@docalexander2853

5 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't have a small job shop without a lathe AND a mill. Saw is good too.

@therealstubot

5 жыл бұрын

Before I bought my mill, I did this sort of thing pretty much constantly in my lathe.

Wow! That thing looks like it could kill you quick if you didn't perform each aspect of the job just so! I couldn't imagine how you would do it beforehand, watching it unfold was very educational. Thanks!

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@sunshadow7XK

5 жыл бұрын

Lathes are simultaneously the most dangerous and most useful tool any mechanically minded man can have. You can work out pretty quickly which man is going to kill himself in the first five minutes if you put him in front of one.

Great video! I'm not a machinist but I love watching this stuff and wish I had learned about it when I was young.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

It is a lot of fun.

This is proof of concept that can be as accurate as a machinist wishes - fantastic video!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

I thought, "Impossibru!" Amazing to see!

OK, you mastered the square. If you really want to impress me, make a triangle😉

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

That would be something!

@dannygjk

5 жыл бұрын

I suppose you mean a tetrahedron?

When I was in the shop as an apprentice (30 odd years ago) I would use the lathe to remove material off square stock as it was quicker than doing it by hand. We only had 2 mills and 2 shapers but loads of lathes. Yeah its not the most accurate, but if I wanted accuracy there was always the surface grinder. This video gets you thinking outside the box, and for that it is really great. Thanks for posting.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks you for watching and posting.

that was actually a question in school in 1981 first year as a machiniste and that video got a smile on my face ty ;)

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad memories are fun.

When's the last time you saw a person making negative comments post their own video to show their way? That's right: never.

@davelowe1977

5 жыл бұрын

The Devil In The Circuit I was proper tempted to film myself typing this!

@superchuck3259

5 жыл бұрын

The weak minded insulters couldn't even make a decent ashtray let along a precise object.

@taunteratwill1787

4 жыл бұрын

@@superchuck3259 They are not weak, just full of hate towards everything. :-)

@imarchello

3 жыл бұрын

in 2006 you could post video responses to other people's videos. KZread took that option away.

@user-ck6gi8fy5w

3 жыл бұрын

www.yaplakal.com/forum23/topic2193714.html станок точит человека death the same machine

Just chucking up the second face by eye isn't going to be very parallel. You need to use stops or parallels before you face the second side to get it parallel to the first.

@KnolltopFarms

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, when I heard "Should be parallel to each other", I clicked stop and scrolled down to find your comment, as I knew it would be here. Sadly, this is not a very thorough, or should I say, accurate, outline of working on a lathe for anyone who wouldn't already know how to do this.

@will5948

5 жыл бұрын

Checked here for that very comment. Face 1 however you like. Face 2 opposite face 1 with parallels to the chuck.

@markcayton6712

5 жыл бұрын

@@will5948 Agreed, and that's only after first indicating the face of the chuck to check for runout.

@meldavies4216

5 жыл бұрын

@@markcayton6712 My thoughts entirely...should have clocked the chuck face...That battered old Coley....looks like its done its time ? (Favourite general Iron though !). On a good Triumph....you should be looking at turning to dead...everytime...if needed ? Most now quote Limits & Fits as Bigga & Littla Hammer ?

@boots7859

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly @@JS-el3zm . Its one thing to comment on parallel or something, quite another to call someone's video showing basic operations worthless. Of course, those doing this often have no video's of their own to offer in place of their green with envy bs.

Man,I love watching cutting and machine work,great video thanks!!

@machiningmoments

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, it is fun.

This guy's a good instructor. One thing I'd recommend, though: Before moving the carriage back in towards the headstock, wait until the chuck stops spinning. And perhaps even more importantly, especially for a beginner, when moving the carriage _away_ from the headstock -- think of the consequences of an "oops, had the silly thing in reverse" disaster.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Good points it is always important to be safe. I have a bad habit of not always demonstrating safe practices as some things are fairly routine for me. Thanks for the reminder and kind words, I always tell my apprentices to 1) rotate the part one revolution before turning the lathe on and see if there is a conflict before it is under power. 2) it you are not sure of the direction of movement turn the power off before you move the tool.

This is a good example of "How do I make a square part for my mill when the mill is down waiting for a part?". You just use your lathe. I'm about to do the reverse: I need to make a round part for my lathe to get it running again. Guess I just use my mill.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I've had to do that also. A rotary table is helpful.

10:57 I can’t wrap my brain around how the heck you could do this in a 3 jaw chuck.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6mHmKp9eMadiKg.html

@brooks3racing1

5 жыл бұрын

machiningmoments OIC. I get it but that was a scary setup.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I agree!

I, for one, found that a fascinating video. It never occurred to me that you could make a square object with a lathe. Thank you for teaching me something new today!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thank you for watching and leaving a message.

Thanks for posting this brilliant video. I am a professional woodworker(carpenter) in the UK. I never signed up for woodwork at school but was to be found in the metalwork shop. We could have done with a bit of your personal supervision in our classes ; how no lad ever lost a finger or a hand or eyesight or worse was pure grace of God ! We had acid baths ( for the cleaning of our copper and brass work) . I remember we had this milling machine that rocked back and forth , it was all too easy to overturn the feed wheel - the next thing you knew the work piece and vice were on the floor! Looking back , maybe the reason I switched from metal to wood in later life had to do with a pschycological dread of disfigurement :) Anyway keep up the good work Mr machining moments

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter, I have know a couple of people who lost fingers to a table saw. Thanks for sharing your memories and watching. Cheers from Canada.

Great video. Just a suggestion: spend a bit more time showing the final product. Thanks.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've heard that. If I redo this video I will definitely spend more time on the final product.

For non-machinist , it would have been a nice touch at the end to show you measuring the block showing that it it is (with in tolerances) a square. Maybe my anal trait is talking. Absent that in this video, I found this AMAZING and I have watched a number of "Lathe" videos. No matter how much one knows, there is always something simple to learn. Best wishes.

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Rick, thanks for your comment as I replied to Paul below the process was my focus. In fairness to the comments the block likely was not square...I don't know, I didn't check it as I was only demonstrating the process. I would have put more care if it was functional. No matter how well I feel I think these videos out someone on this board has a good suggestion to make it better. There are some very talented people here and I feel the input is helpful for us all. You are right, you can make super cool things on a lathe.

@rickdees251

6 жыл бұрын

I noticed that you did measure it after the second face was being cut. I assume if that was done after every necessary step it would end up square to desired tolerances. Cheers.

@3daypriest

5 жыл бұрын

rick dees ... ‘within’ not ‘ with in’. Used in a sentence, “Your English grammar is within tolerance standards for a child still in elementary school.” I’m not sure that a sentence can be made with your ‘with in’.

@tattooedmillionair

5 жыл бұрын

@@3daypriest ...seriously?

@meldavies4216

5 жыл бұрын

@@machiningmoments I am a time served Turner / Toolmaker...and I thought it was excellent ! really good to see the dexterity of a lathe being portrayed, and the skills needed to make use of it ! To the million places behind the decimal place crowd...would you really be doing this in a lathe if you wanted that sort of accuracy ? Rough it out yes...finish elsewhere...if needed ?

Thank you for a well-made presentation.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and posting.

nice tutorial. i was working machine shop for 5 years out of school. At 2 1/2 years in my little firm went into another shop which primarily dealt with steel sheet fabrication......but there was one man and a machine shop there ( with myself, my original boss, he's machines and a couple of workmates soon to be added of course!) and what the man did with the same machines I had been working on for 2 1/2 years was incredible. The work on he's bench was like science fiction to me. For the first 2 weeks we were moving in I used to stop by his bench before start time to view the astounding metal shapes he had made before the day started.....and he would knock he's spectacles down and glower at my impertinence. i would say "I won't touch anything i just want to look" I knew his skills surpassed my previous employer Ted (now foreman for a year before retirement at this new site) who had a similar amount of time in the trade to this new superman I had encountered. My former boss had so far trained me up and I considered him to be an impressive machinist - and he was. After viewing wonderman's work again one morning I said to Ted "I know that guy is in the same game as us, he uses the same machines but.....if there is anyone here who could make a round peg fit in a square hole and leave no gaps it's Vic" Ted smiled (possibly put a hand on my shoulder) and said "thats a good analogy eddie. Vic is what is called a Tool Maker and he is the very top of what our profession can be.....and sadly you may never meet he's like again" He then explained to me how CNC machines were killing the training of such engineers as, rather than a skilled machinist using several machines to make an intricate item from metal, a programmer just had to enter a program into a machine that would do the whole thing. I became friends with Vic over the next 2 1/2 years of my career, though not outside of work socially. At work he used to drop he's spectacles occasionally and look at what I was doing. Every now and then he would pop up beside me with a job and ask "how would you do this ed" and I'd work out and tell me my job MO to him. He was particularly interested in how I trued up by eye using the chuck key and would then machine straight away (even when I had already turned/bored part of the piece) and once pointed to a piece of round that he'd just nipped up in a 3 jaw chuck and went "true that up for me ed", which I did, took me 10 seconds. Instead of machining it he got out a dial caliper to check it and upon ascertaining a result he looked up at me over he's spectacles, maybe with a slight glare, and firmly stated to the whole shop "I don't believe it, he's within 1/2 a thou by eye" He did once tell me that if he could choose an apprentice it would be me. That I understood the machines and the tolerances and had a good feel. Made me proud that did. I left that firm to try another, Kangol power tools. I met the dreaded CNC there and it was a soul destroyer of a thing. I felt my skills would desert me over the passage of time there as I became another boiler suited hulk lent against the side of one of these machines with nothing to do as it ripped through metal. I went back to the previous firm for a while but left after 6 months for personal reasons and never went back into machining. The mental process I honed during my time in the field has probably saved me thousands of pounds over the years. I fix shit when I can. I find ingenius ways of getting a good result without the right machines and tools by putting bits together to make a machine or even making the right tool to do the job. I do miss the lathes, the mills and the smell of the suds still though. ps, can't believe I just wrote my autobiography in engineering.....a bit short maybe?

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Great memory! Thank you for sharing. I appreciate your post and watching.

This is that trick that shows you can make anything in a lathe. But you wouldn't want to.

@Artemetra

6 жыл бұрын

I know people that only have a lathe. Well, maybe a file and sandpaper, but c'mon!

@Shortsircut1

5 жыл бұрын

@@Artemetra Don't be too quick on that one. As an green horn apprentice T&D maker back in '76 I had to take a piece of crs saw cut on all 6 sides and hand file a precision cube out of it. My boss/instructor back then was an older German dude right from the old country with a heavy German accent, we called Hard Core Harry who accepted nothing less than perfection. He used to come by, pick up a part off your cart or machine, look at it and say things like. It's a good thing you don't have to make a living at this or you would STARVE TO DEATH and then walk away leaving you to figure out just what the hell you were doing wrong. He forced lazy ass kids to actually use their brain, me included, we all hated/feared him. As I got older and more experienced I came to understand that he was a brilliant T&D maker. His "in your face" drill Sargent style teaching techniques were pretty barbaric by today's standards but every single apprentice that survived hard core Harry were top notch T&D makers and machine builders! I learned more from that man then any other person in my life to date. Today's snowflakes would be running for their safe spaces with their blankey if faced by him!

Very interesting! But I can't cope with this measurement "thou" - sure I know its 1000th of an inch - but using metric is soooo much easier in general and way less risk of miscalculation!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, but in North America we almost always work in the inch system.

@shaunatate

4 жыл бұрын

We're Americans. And gotta toss up a middle finger to everyone else. But I wish we

@RemyMartinVSOP

4 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Both are accurate depends entirely what are you making.

@MuzikHead

4 жыл бұрын

Numbers don’t lie....English or metric!

@avalonholierhoek1463

4 жыл бұрын

@@MuzikHead English or metric? You mean Imperial or metric, right?

Always found turning very therapeutic. As an Apprentice Turner I had to make a cube in a cube in a cube. Really peeved I couldn't keep it as they mounted it in some gimbles and gave it as an award to some School girl who was doing a one day course.

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

It is fun, sorry to hear about your cube :(

As far as teaching videos go, this is excellence! Well done sir!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

thank you!

He’s not making it for use like a set of parallel spacers. Relax people.

can you pls also post a video of "using a lathe to make a leather shoe"

Well I’ll be showing this off once I master it at work..thank you for the video!✌🏼👍🏼

@machiningmoments

6 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see your finished product, good luck!

I'm Neither a machinist nor an engineer but am often told that I think like one. Probably why this was fascinating to watch. Thanks for the lesson. ;~)

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the post!

Very clever... but CLICK ON LIKE if you felt like putting on your safety eye wear the moment the chuck started spinning with the work piece placed in sideways.

@kmusket9656

5 жыл бұрын

I also wanted to YELL, first rule of Lathe use is NEVER LEAVE A CHUCK KEY IN THE CHUCK REGARDLESS OF FOR HOW LONG :), otherwise it was cool

@DIYToPen

5 жыл бұрын

I clicked dislike, because you begged for likes.

@SisyphusTwo

5 жыл бұрын

@@DIYToPen I hate you..

Humanity: can you please give us the lathe? jacques vaucanson: to make perfect cylinders for rolling silk? Humanity: yeeeeeeess jacques vaucanson: okay i dont see why not! Humanity: * makes cube * * dabs * ITS MINECRAFT TIME

@AmmaarSolkar

5 жыл бұрын

This made my day

@Hanni93472

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks I’m happy now

@Vaasref

5 жыл бұрын

Jacques Vaucanson begs to differ

@funy0n583

5 жыл бұрын

@@Vaasref sorry just realized that I made a stupid mistake

@brandonrusenko8758

5 жыл бұрын

How did a fellow 9 year old get here 🤔🤔🤔

Good old Colchester! Just like the energizer bunny. They keep going and going! This one is identical to ours. Great job!

@machiningmoments

5 жыл бұрын

A great lathe!