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Shepheard Industrial
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EVERY old lathe NEEDS this modification! - How to fit a power feed unit to a metal lathe.
Welcome back. Over the last few years, I have rescued this metal lathe from a scrapyard and fully restored it. It is a Halifax 524, a slightly heavier clone of an Atlas lathe. When I got it, it was missing everything from the motor, electronics, chuck, and toolpost, and even the upper countershaft had to be fully remade.
One of the main missing parts was the change gears and banjo assembly, meaning the lathe had no working power feed. This electronic version allows much greater control of speeds and feeds, even adapting while the lathe is cutting. This lets you change the speeds to remove chatter etc.
Having now used this for a while I can say that it is an absolute game changer for turning large pieces or repetitive work. Being able to suddenly reverse and use the rapid traverse button is extremely helpful. The only downside is that you can no longer do single-point threading, but I don't mind because mine couldn't do that anyway!
One of the main missing parts was the change gears and banjo assembly, meaning the lathe had no working power feed. This electronic version allows much greater control of speeds and feeds, even adapting while the lathe is cutting. This lets you change the speeds to remove chatter etc.
Having now used this for a while I can say that it is an absolute game changer for turning large pieces or repetitive work. Being able to suddenly reverse and use the rapid traverse button is extremely helpful. The only downside is that you can no longer do single-point threading, but I don't mind because mine couldn't do that anyway!
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Is this a bad idea!? - Making an EXTRA long double Pneumatic Drum Sander
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In this video, I make an extension shaft to fit two air-filled drums onto a large three-phase industrial bench grinder. This pushed the capacity of the Halifax 524 (Atlas lathe clone) to the max, with the tailstock slightly hanging off the end of the bed ways. This sander will be fitted with a VFD for variable speed and rotation direction sanding. This machine is to be used in the production of...
A Solution For Moving Big Gas Cylinders?
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These cylinder skates were made to help with a big project involving moving and manipulating large gas cylinders for installation. The skates moved the cylinders freely around the factory's concrete floor with little effort and allowed the cylinders to be rotated prior to craning into position. I hope that you have enjoyed this video.
Making Custom Cricket Bat Maker's Tools - How To Fabricate Clamps for Glueing Cricket Bats
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Welcome back to Shepheard Industrial. Today we are doing a production run making 30 custom cricket bat clamps. These are used by Batmakers to aid in clamping the bats while the handle is being glued in. These clamps are to be used when making new custom bats, but also when rehandling old used ones to bring them back to life. Standard types of clamps exert too much pressure on the side faces of ...
Cutting Corners to Speed Things Up - When a Project Involves a Little Bit of Everything
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Today we're making a tool for shearing the corners off of steel parts. The idea is to remove the bulk of material ahead of grinding to smooth parts off. This could be done with a grinder, but for long runs of parts this does speed it up a bit. The punch plate is made from a leaf spring, and the punch itself is made from EN8 steel. They are heat treated to hopefully increase their longevity. The...
I MODIFIED this MACHINE to make CRICKET BATS faster?!
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Pushing the limits on the small Halifax 524 (Atlas Lathe clone). Making heavy industrial steel parts for a cricket bat pressing machine. This rolling machine is what gives these bats their signature performance. Exerting immense force and compressing the willow clefts. Compressing the grain of the face of the bat is what gives performance bats their signature sound and power. I hope that you en...
Making Steel and Wood Industrial Style Coffee/Side Table!
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Making an industrial-style side/end table. Fabricating a heavy-duty welded steel frame, and finishing with a thick Oak worktop. For more content check out my Instagram: @shepheardindustrial
Forging a Hammer Eye Punch for the Flypress
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Forging a Hammer Eye Punch from an old cold chisel. The fly press is a great tool for punching hammer eye holes, much easier than doing it with a hand hammer. If you'd like to see more of what I'm making, please consider subscribing. For extra additional content check out my Instagram: @shepheardindustrial
How to make a Drawknife - Transforming old SCRAP into a USEFUL tool!!
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Forging a woodworking drawknife. Hand-forged from a piece of recycyled leaf spring suspension. Octagonal faceted olive ash handles made from an old broken hammer handle. Sharp as all good tools should be. If you'd like to see more of what I'm making, please consider subscribing. For extra additional content check out my Instagram: @shepheardindustrial
Making the ULTIMATE Anvil Stand! - Part 2
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Fabricating a large steel tripod stand for a 255lb peter wright anvil. Part 2 of 2. Its made with a 20mm thick top plate and 80mm box section legs make it very stable and heavy. The legs are filled with sand to reduce vibrations and further dampen the sound. It has a storage rack for hammers, tongs, hardie tools, and also a place to store the block brush. For more content check out my Instagram...
Making a HEAVY DUTY Anvil Stand - Part 1
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Fabricating a large steel tripod stand for a 255lb peter wright anvil. Part 1 of 2. 20mm thick top plate and 80mm box section legs make it very stable and heavy. For more content check out my Instagram: @shepheardindustrial
Anvil Restoration - Bringing a massive Peter Wright Anvil back to life!!
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Restoration of a 255lb Peter Wright Anvil Instagram: @shepheardindustrial 📷: @tobyshepheardphotograpy
Reforging a CHEAP sledgehammer by HAND??
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Reforging a cheap 7lb hammer into a rounding hammer style striking sledgehammer, using a no.6 fly press and hand forging. Instagram: @shepheardindustrial 📷: @tobyshepheardphotograpy
Love the cinematic at the end. Top 👍👍
Great job!!!!
Just finding your video after searching around. Figured it would be cheaper if not the same price to retrofit an electric lead screw then replace my broken control box for the mechanical lead screw. Any way you can give me your exact dimensions or a print of the adapter shaft?
Very good 💯
Good work 💯
I need
Wonderful.
Excellent restoration ✨🏆👍...
Just found your channel and Subscribed. Nice lathe
Do you have a side blast water cooled tue iron forge? 😮
That's absolutely right! I made it by copying lots of other designs I found online. I've been really enjoying using it for projects like this. They do need quite a high pressure blower to get good performance though..
I reallylike this idea. I am going to do the same to my Clausing 100 lathe. I do have a question. Did you drill and tap the end of the lead screw or did you just cute it down to sise and use a die to thread it? Also there is a keyway in the bronze gear and shaft. Did you cut a keyway in the adapter shaft? Thanks
Hi there, great question. The lead screw already had a threaded portion sticking out, so I attached the piece I made with a threaded hole and a jam nut. The brass gear on the power feed unit is not keyed in place, just held with compression from a nylock nut. So in a crash situation, or too heavy of a load, the brass gear actually slips on the shaft, just a little extra safety feature to stop the carriage half nuts stripping out (they are Zamak castings on this lathe)
I can't thank you enough for your reply. Your video is the only one I have found that is doing this modification. My Clausing is all cast iron and I have already made another half nut out of cast iron. My lead screw is not threaded so I may try to pin it with a soft shear pin. Again, thanks for the rapid reply.
Nice work and properly done. Rob Gunter method is the way to go. My main anvil is similar to the anvil here in your video. I got it at a barn sale in Holland, NY in May 2001 for $65.00 So far I have used it as is and see no need to do anything to it as it is in great shape. Peter Wright 2 - 1 - 17
Thanks, I'm not familiar with his method but will definitely check it out. Sounds like you got a brilliant bargain there! They are lovely anvils, have fun!
Hands down the nicest forged drawknife on UA-cam and the best video of making it!
Looks good!
Buddy I've watched a tremendous amount of making draw knife videos and I am at a loss for words, this is to me what a draw knife should look like, I am totally amazed at the craftsmanship in this knife,I've seen what high quality ones sell for and it's jaw dropping, but this one I would imagine me paying that price for this one. In other words"fantastic work".
What is the gravel-like product that you shoveled onto the forge.
Good job. I love the old gas bottle chimney. :)
Nice, but I don't think "by hand" means what you think it does.
Love this video, great film work and flawless restoration technique, really great job! Keep up the good work.
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So what is this product called? Where did you get it. My Chinese lathe could sure use this addition
Very interesting forging process. Your use of camping firelighters has given me a good idea for smokeless starting of charcoal, thanks for that; (gotta keep the neighbours happy). I have limited access to scrap steel, so made mine from a common tool used here in Asia; an old Machete. It turned out to be extremely useful.
Another idea, having looked at your video portfolio. How about a profile following attachment for your lathe? You've got the power feed (although be aware of wearing out the lead screw) so a profile follower attached to the cross slide should allow faster turn round times on identical turning jobs. May be more useful to you than my ELS idea!
That’s a brilliant idea, I’ll have to give that a try one day. Like you say that would be very handy for repeat profile turning!
Make it better? An Electronic Lead screw (search 'Lathe ELS'). Instant push button or touch screen selection of feed or screw cutting rates. Various ones available, I have James Clough's push button one and it's worth its weight in gold. Does metric and imperial feeds and threads. Takes time to put together but comes in at a reasonable cost. There are other offerings available, some of which are more comprehensive - ie automatic screw threading and also taper turning. Some are metric only so take care if choosing. Incidentally, I've never sen any one else implement your power feed mod.
I have had a look at some others creations and I agree an ELS is superior especially for threading. Well done for doing one of those! I looked into the clough42 one myself, but ended up giving this a go as I haven’t seen a video of anyone trying this before
Nice job !!
Thanks!
If you’ve got an idea for what else I can do to make this lathe even better, let me know! I’d love to hear your ideas
Great job, looks very useful.
Thank you! I’m loving it so far!
Very beautiful add there. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge on. Fab on. Weld on. Keep making. God bless.
I hope so too! Thank you
I would make one just like it but my welds… they are more like bird s#;t😂 great work.
Nice video!! Very engaging from beginning to end 👍👏👍👏👍👏. #NAME? "promo sm"!!
Very nice add on to ur shop. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.
Why?
That table will last a lifetime. 👍🏻
Great stuff.
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Very unique project there. Wow that's turned out very well there. Hopefully they enjoy them for many years to come. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.
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Great work! So glad it all ‘turned’ out so well 👏
What a joy. The beauty of a craftsman. Thanks for sharing the journey.
As always excellent stuff! With the luxury if powerfeed now for the lathe its gonna make these projects so much easier! :) Looking forward to the next upload
Well done!
Hey just wanted to leave a comment because I know it helps you out. Really cool videos, very well produced and edited. Thank you
it may have only been 4 hours but this was amazing. I can’t believe it doesn’t have more views! I thought it was made by some big channel the whole time I was watching. Keep it up!
Very nice job. That turned out very well there. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep turning. Keep Making. God Bless.
Very nice job. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep Making. God bless.
Very nice design. I really like how it turned out very well there. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab On. Weld On. Keep making. God bless.
Awesome Mate. Worked brilliantly!
Very nice job. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge on. Fab on. Weld on. Keep making. God bless.
Yes! I have been waiting on this upload! Another excellent vid :) Keep em coming please and thank you :D
Greetings. Thanks for the nice videos and nice projects you show us. I could not stop noticing that you use your flypress bits/dyes/tools without a stopper. I learned the hard way to not insert tools in the flypress' ram without a stopper. I got a tool stuck there and it was not easy to remove it. Later on I learnt from experienced blacksmiths, never to use flypress tools without a stopper and not allow the tool shank to touch the bottom of the "tool hole".