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Thanks. Glad you like the spindexer idea!

Thanks.

Thank you.

Hi Kerrin, Condolences to you too. I'm going to miss being able to ask my Dad about gardening matters, about which he knew more than I do. It still surprises me who and how many people watch the videos I produce. You'll enjoy having his shaper in your shop. I don't use mine on every project, but there are some things that are so much easier with a shaper, like internal keyways, and its fun running it.

Thank you! I might have overdone the footage of bandsawing though😳

Hi Marc, Thanks. Its much worse for my mother though. When I started machining this, I used the shaper in case the tool got blunted by the flame cut edge, as sharpening is easy. However, it was more interesting for me to attempt to do most of it with the shaper. There are bits I resorted to the mill though, as you'll see in part 2.

Thanks. Funnily enough, editing it felt like it dragged on but I was pressed for time. Normally I watch through what I've done before posting but I ran out of time as we had to travel for the funeral.

Sorry, it was edited in a rush. The alternative was not to post this week as I'll not get the chance to edit any more till Sunday. I will take your comments on board and try to make part 2 move quicker.

I can't disagree with you. Sorry, I had limited time to edit the video, so I didn't get chance to review it before posting. If you stick around for part 2, I promise to do better!

I'll be there for round 2! You're work interests me !

Thanks. This is just a project to make another project possible, which is for another project... 😁

Thanks.

Hi Al, Thanks. It's not nice but inevitable, especially as he'd reached 89. Next part has been filmed but not edited yet. Takes me ages to edit,, something like about 5 hours for this one. I'm sure I'll get quicker one day😁

You're welcome!

Thank you. It seems to be a bit of a unique beast now.

Thanks. The grinder is just the right size for my workshop. It's one of the machines I wouldn't be without now.

@@ThePottingShedWorkshop I don't have a T&C grinder but so I've no practical experience but that one looks nicer (more refined) than the Clarkson. Cheers

Thanks!

Thank you. I guess if you've got one of these you'll see I didn't get all of the details of the clamp right, no spring and no shoulders to capture the flat anvil, but I was going on guesswork and after I'd finished I watched the Joe Pie video again and saw what I'd missed first time around!

Thank you. The missing parts made the uni-mike affordable. I doubt I'll wear it out! The mill is the perfect size for my workshop. I acquired the TC grinder specifically for sharpening the horizontal milling cutters which are cheap second hand. It seems to have been even more useful than I would have imagined.

@@ThePottingShedWorkshop Yes I got a whole load of horizontal cutters for my universal mill at auction along with indexible inserts and normal vertical milling bits. I think there was £2k's worth at least at full prices for £100. I just need the cutter grinder to sort them all out. And then buy the tooling to fit the inserts. 🤔

Thank you! I wasn't going to film it, but wouldn't have had enough time this week to generate any material for a video had I not.

My tailstock die holder is one I made years ago when all I had was a minilathe, hence the stubby handle. I don't have a vast selection of dies and most of the metric ones I have aren't split. I also quite often single point critical threads then finish with a die, especially if they're fairly big (thats 1/2" and upwards for me!). As for the small part on the mag chuck, I tried several locations and gave it a good tug test before grinding and was careful to only take light cuts, a thou maximum. The spindle nut is RH, I guess due to the direction of rotation at startup. Granted they could have reversed everything. Its a 3 ph motor run on a VFD and I have a 20sec ramp up and down time to avoid shocking the wheel.

I’m not a fan of the non split dies but we have to work with what we have. Regarding the Eagle there would have been no cost difference to have made it rotate conventionally at the design stage. I am tempted to make a new spindle for mine with a LH nut so I can do this provided I don’t find any other serious issues when I restore it. A grinder hand advised me to hand rotate a spindle that has been sat for more that a few days to ensure some lubrication is on all of the contact faces before running it up, this is probably more important on an oil lubricated spindle, I can’t recall right now if the Eagle is intended to be greased.I too have my working SG on a slow ramp up. Mag chuck ages it looks like you have a good one. Looking forward to your next vid.

Thank you. I've been buying the machines as I find them and I give each one a complete overhaul.

Thanks! It's an Elliott model 00. It's smaller than a Bridgeport but big enough to be useful. The slab mill is a great cutter, the helical teeth cause less "hammer" on the workpiece than a straight toothed cutter. Depth of cut is limiter by the single overarm support bar though. Take a deep cut and you can see the 3 inch solid bar bending! Then it chatters horribly. Yes, I had the doors open for this video. Dual carriageway not far away.

Thanks. I agree with you about losing the accessories. However the mic can be used as a depth mic without them so maybe thats what happened and they got lost in the junk.

Thanks!

Shame you didnt get that machine. I would have been very interested in the drivetrain. It looks like I'll probably have enough topics to cover in a follow up video on this lathe. I have a bunch of still photos too from where I stripped it down, so I can add them in too.

@@ThePottingShedWorkshop Cool, thanks. I'm in one of those situations where one has to build the machine to make the machine that makes the machine. Yeah, I almost blindly bought it, knowing it would be difficult. The guy was super nice, owned a huge machine shop, he was showing me around and he had these two story high presses, maybe six of them, he said he bought just so they wouldn't be potentially competing. The screw machine was very similar to the picture shown originally, approx. 6'x6'x5', looked awfully heavy, but the learning and no need for a hardware store. Now, would be the time to have one, just the other day I bought a couple of small set screws and the cashier misspoke and said $73.10 instead of $7.31 and I told her, Boy Howdy, we are in the future!

I considered it but there's not a lot of clearance beneath the belt as the camshaft motor is under there. As for moving the pulley mechanism with the headstock, I considered that too but it just moves the problem onto the next belt.

Know what you mean, great job nonetheless

Thanks. Yes, it's a bit different. I thought I'd share it for posterity if nothing else. There can't be many (any?) others in existence now.

Yes, it just might be the only example left. It would be criminal to scrap it, hence the efforts I've put in to get it going. I can't disagree with you over the headstock lock. Its possible I've missed something as I seem to learn a bit more about it every time I work on it.

Thanks! I don't think anyone has seen one before, and if they have, I'd love to meet them and learn more about it!

Isn't it just! I just wish I had more info on it. It's not serial number 001, so other examples must have existed once, but it seems, based on my internet searches, to be the only one still going. Unless you know different😁!

@@ThePottingShedWorkshop Hi again, unfortunately I have never seen the likes of your machine. Hopefully you will find another one or two still lurking out there somewhere. Good luck.

Thank you! It has tested my perseverance I'll admit. I've come close to giving up following a number of failed attempts to get it running. As for how many threading masters it came with.... absolutely none! All disappeared long before I acquired it. The 20tpi hob and follower were made by me. I will probably repeat making one on camera soon (previous one was before I started this channel seriously) as the follower is an interesting setup.

Thanks. I thought this might be a bit different to the usual offerings on youtube!

Thank you. The drive train is half bodge, half necessity to get it to function. As for finding how it was done originally, I think the drive belts were much longer. I do have an original intermediate pulley with a swivel mount, but it needs a really deep front to back depth to work and I wanted something far more compact. There is no info on the web anywhere I could find. Google it and all you'll find is a posting on mig-welding.co.uk, by... uh, me!

Glad you liked it, thanks! Yes, it's a bit different. I wish I could find more info on it.

Thanks Michel. I've been playing with this, on and off, for 4 years to get it functioning!

Thank you very much!

Thank you! I'm still not sure what I'll do with it when (if) it ever gets finished. It is indeed an ingenious mechanism. I hate the slipping clutch though, it just seems a bit of an afterthough as its just a spring washer bearing on a small area of the end of a hardened shaft.

Funnily enough, I bought the lathe off a chap who had a garage full of ornamental lathes. I think he was the president of a society dedicated to such things. I never got into ornamental turning, although to my surprise I have a copy of that book!

@@ThePottingShedWorkshop makes sense thats a clever piece of equipment that wouldn't be out of place in an ornamental turners collection. I want to do some decorative metal work along the lines of that but am probably going to do a it with an spirograph set and a pantograph engraver. Is it a project machine for you or are you looking to use it in a production capacity to produce parts?

@@ambisinisterengineering5242 I bought it a month or so into lockdown in 2020. It was intended to be something interesting to do whilst we couldnt do anything else. I'll get it finished then use it very rarely I suspect, unless someone wants hundreds of bespoke brass screws making!

I'm still amazed that people like these videos! Amazed, but very pleased. Thank you!

@@ThePottingShedWorkshop You are an excellent expainer of machine work without a load of bull that is often on other machining videos. Mechanical understanding is vastly under rated.As a home machinist with pretensions of adequacy it's easy to follow along with enough information to say why,not only how. Thankyou for sharing this with us!

Thank you! It's taken me over 4 years to get it running as the enthusiasm wanes at times.