Probably what I enjoy most about our craft is the adventures of problem solving with minimal, undersized tools, and "unsuitable" materials. I just SO enjoy watching Brooke's work for this reason. She shows' it all: mistakes, setbacks, and successes. Plus she is a really gifted teacher and presenter.
I like the fact that you show issues in real world problems that happen during machine work ..some ppls vids edit out these problems and make text book vids which trick us into thinking its just so easy ... Thank You ...............
Blondie, You do a fantastic job with your "thinking out loud" while you work which makes you an excellent instructor. Thank you for producing these videos! I always learn a lot from your videos.
The more videos I watch, the more I like you and your channel! I'm not a machinist. I worked in a machine shops inspection and a little bit on a Monarch VMC. I'd really like to get a mill, lathe and few other machines. I'm learning so much from you and the entertainment is great! Thank you for your hard work on the videos!
Quinn, I absolutely love your humility, owning up to your calculated errors, or in other words, cock ups!. I recently made a similar adapter to yours albeit a 3 tee slot table to a 4 bolt 4 jaw chuck and encountered the same issues that you did. However, as you know, concentricity with a 4 jaw chuck is not a problem. Please keep the videos coming.
Time for a bigger shop and bigger mill & lathe. You've officially outgrown your small machine shop. It was inevitable. Great content and voice over information is outstanding.
As a novice I find the mistakes and errors you show to be so valuable and more educational than those vids that show perfection from start to finish. Thanks.
Fun tip: overheated motors cool down quicker and safer by letting them to run for a while without load. Stopping them may actually be detrimental, because of the residual heat on the coils.
I have been planning on doing the same project and since I have the same PM lathe and mill you have done a lot of the headache stuff for me. The only thing I will change is that I will go cheesy on material and use aluminum. It is cheap and readily available due to all the aircraft production work in the area I live. It also cuts so easy. It won't be as classy as iron but I think it will do the job. Thanks for all the hard work and head scratching!
Patients and perseverance wins in the end. I had to chuckle when you keep going back and retighten the hold down bolts. Reminded me of a co-worker that left a drain plug loose. Every once in a while I would see him going out to the parking lot with his drain plug wrench.
I adore you and your work. You are honest and genuine about sharing the good, bad, and ugly of the process. The retightening redux, redux.... comedy has moved my funding you via Patreon to the top of the list. I have to figure something out, you provide tremendous value and I need to pony up. Update- Your new rockstar is glad to do his part.
Having small machines can cause a lot of extra work, but it can be fun and challenging. Don't forget to tighten the clamps. It's like juggling, eventually you are going to drop the balls. Be on the lookout for more space and bigger machines. I realize it is more money but it's also more peace of mind. Actually I really loved this video. Your creativity alone is a 10+ especially after lunch. Danny
I agree with you on the premise that, if you want to learn, the best way is to make as many of your own tools as possible. A dual benefit being learning and cost control. Kind regards, I subscribed and tagged the bell.
So i only found your channel recently and watched only a few posts of yours, but so far, you are now one of my favourites. I love your humour, presentation and details. Keep up the awesome work. I am so glad I found you.🙂🙂
Wow, we had a cameo appearance of the real Quinn a 16:09 without the DuRag and those blackrim safety glasses. You should let us see the "real you" more often. Even MrPete shows up "on camera" now.... Another good video BTW...!
07:35 The ticking might possibly be one of the commutator lands now standing a liiiitle bit proud of where it should be and rubbing on the brushes as it passes. Swap in the new motor and do a light pass on the commutator, satisfyingly using the new motor to fix the old, which should stop it prematurely chewing through brushes.
What a demanding project for the existing machines. The challenges were high but your competence was able to finish the project successfully! This video among the many from you impressed me! You will get a new patreon this week👍
The best machining videos out there. I love how you stretch the capabilities of your tools and explain how you decided on a particular solution to a problem. I'm new to metal working. I finally got my PM 1440GT after an 8 month wait. I've watched your lathe skills videos like three times now and they are the best, most practical that exist. I have to start cranking some stuff out before the wife wonders why this behemoth is taking up so much garage space, lol!
Here I was just about to go downstairs and make some content for my new machining channel (for which you have certainly been an inspiration) but I found this just in time 😀
Probably due to the consistency of the issues in a small workshop, but again you have chosen to demonstrate another project on my to do list. The only difference on my ''process flow" would be to fit the plate to spindle nose prior to final machining of the face to maximise alignment to key features (probably not required but it makes me feel better). Also I must say that your comment on the "limitation of small machines" always makes me smile as you machines are significantly larger to the Unimat based ones that I use.
Nice work on the adapter plate. I have a grizzly 6" rotary table that is almost identical. I bought a 6" 4 jaw that has through holes for mounting and just bolted it directly to the rotary table. It was really simple works really well.
Having been a pilot, I’m a fan of acronym based checklists to remind me to not forget to tighten clamps, locks, etc. For lathe and mill Inuse the same one, SLOW. S-Safety glasses, sleeves L-Locks such as quill lock, table lock, carriage lock, set or free appropriately O-Obstructions, nothing in the way of table feed or chuck rotation (and chuck key out) W-Workpiece securely clamped
Ah, I know why reverse motor power is lower Quinn. The commutator brushes are not at exactly 180° apart. Apparently that is to avoid excessive sparking at high forward speeds. Trouble is it makes sparking much worse at high speed in reverse so the controller has a speed limit when in reverse - on my lathe it is set to 50% and it effectively limits the maximum power available. It's not the motor as such, it's the controller protecting it. Cheers. BobUK. (edit for clarification)
Blondi, yes. I have a HF bandsaw that came with cabinet base. It once fell over due to my neglegence and the plastic motor end cap, plastic fan, plastic electrical union box all shattered into pieces! HF does not sell those items separetly, but Jet does! And in metal! Except the fan blades. I ordered them all from Jet and they were perfect replacement parts and of superior material. Like you said, depending on which color ( bandsaw) you have ( brand). It does an amazing job for the price, and I bought mine with the classic January discount coupon. Love your vids and commentary. Carl - West Michigan USA
When I wanted to make a face plate for my Chinese No. 17 Lathe factory tool room lathe I realised that I could utilise a 20 Kg barbel weight purchased from a Cash Converters shop for $20 NZ. It had enough meat in it to make a reasonably thick 300 mm diameter face plate although I did find a couple of voids whilst machining it which I subsequently welded up and ground down when I surface ground it later. Thank you for showing your problems, I often wonder if anyone else forgets to tighten up things like I do. Thank you also for revealing the designation of my spindle - I had not been able to identify it until I saw this video.
Thanks for that video. Great to see someone managing too large work for their machines - I learned a lot more from this than I would have if it was made on a big mill/lathe
That's good work making the tools stretch their limits. That has to be satisfying when you realize it came out right. Love your videos keep 'em coming, they're a bright spot in my weekend alot of times.
This time next year I can envisage an ABOM size lath in your workshop, no matter what machine you buy it's always just not quite big enough. Regards from the UK and thanks for sharing
Great video. I leaned something new almost every minute watching it. Also, omg, that was way too funny, "I'll put chamfers on it because that what's separates us from the animals". That was great, how true! Keep up the great work and thanks for making this video.
We both have the same MILL and mine has been giving me problems like a burnt out motor and then a Gear breakage!!! A belt drive is in the planning giving faster and slower. This hopefully giving more torque. I converted our EMCO to this spindle nose and at the same time putting the plate further out. This now means that my fingers can get behind and do up or undo the nuts. Enjoying as usual. David and Lily Reading England.
I agree completely about the 4 X 6 bandsaws. A little tweaking and they can do very good work. I have a friend who has one that's 30+ years old and it's virtually identical to my 2 year old one (with fewer plastic parts). No design stays that unchanged for that long unless it works well.
My wife called me in the eighties, to say there was a pickup truck loaded with such tools at the plumbing shop she did books at, and I bought one of those saws for less than two hundred bucks, still using it, rebuilt it a couple times, more accurate than when I bought it, better ball bearings now.
Me again. I have a similar lathe, next size up I think. I installed two fans. One to cool the electronics, the other to cool the motor. At slow speed the integral motor fan does not provide much airflow. I used a bathroom fan over run timer to keep the fans going for five minutes after the motor had been stopped. It has worked a treat. There was very poor heat sinking on some of these Chinese DC motor lathe motor controllers leading to blown MOSFETS and I fixed that as well with a purpose built assembly of aluminium bar and box section. No trouble to date as a result. Bit fiddly to install, I labelled all the wiring before disconnecting to get the control board out. Tip - do not use heat print labels - ask me how I know! BobUK
My Harbor Freight bandsaw is a surprisingly good work horse. I don't use it all that much but I'm glad it's there when needed and it hasn't let me down. I guess it works and they have been in production for decades. All I would do to improve it is add a hydraulic feed control and coolant, but I'm mostly work with tubing so those upgrades aren't necessary.
I've got a Aluminum slug I keep around to make me remember just this lesson...Very out-of-round, also the upper and lower faces are not parallel...humble and checking thrice are both parts of a set...Thank U for Sharing...Great job !!
As a retired plant operator I had access to steam blank-off plates for cast pieces such as this. The city frowned on borrowing man hole covers. My 6-to-5" plate is A-36 steel but my 5" chuck is...cast iron, and my Grizzly 6" table is... cast iron. Damping is nice but some times it's: "race what you brung". (south-eastern US dialect)
Hi Quinn, thanks for another informative video. in cutting a short slug of steel on the band saw, what works for me is to tack weld a block of scrap steel on the rough side of the slug and then hold the slug in place using the block in the jaws of the band saw.
So happy you shared this! I’ve been avoiding this project for a while, but I really need one for my Rotary table! Nice project to start when I finished the lathe!
Great in!novation on your band saw, it is amazing what a cup of coffee and a sandwich (or a donut) can do. I find that you love to challenge yourself, and it works to bring out the best for you. Great work again Quinn, cheers! Bu the by, I enjoyed the cantwist clamp build and got a kit last week, thanks.
Well done. I had done something similar about 10 years ago for a dividing head. It worked well and it was beyond the limits of my machines at the time so I had to make some strange jig attachments to get things working! But it was a success in the end! Total runout over 18 inches was only .0025!
I drilled and tapped my chuck jaws for set screws that will push the stock out. Makes it real easy to dial out the discrepancy. One trick I do to ensure I always tighten the setup is I altered the mill power switch with a hook to hold the wrench. So when I go to turn on the mill BAM it reminds me.
Nice work Quinn! It's funny watching you have all the same issues I had doing the same projects that you've done. I sure wish I had a shop with full size machines... Adapt and overcome!
Quinn I'm glad you took this....for a spin :D I remember the days of pushing the outer limits of small machines. Now i'm pushing the limits of a lot bigger ones that are twice as old as I am ..or more. it's amazing what you can do with a little machine and big ingenuity. the moment you unwrapped the dura bar I knew you would...iron it out :D
Great video as usual. Chicks talk about equality and then some are leading the way and just doing it. Kudos! Working in a small shop is challenging and pushes us to our limits which although frustrating is a little rewarding, too.
"I Wanted To Make it" That statement is what makes you awesome!
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Probably what I enjoy most about our craft is the adventures of problem solving with minimal, undersized tools, and "unsuitable" materials. I just SO enjoy watching Brooke's work for this reason. She shows' it all: mistakes, setbacks, and successes. Plus she is a really gifted teacher and presenter.
I love that you showed your mistakes. It happens to everyone, and seeing other people make mistakes helps some people to not get discouraged
I like the fact that you show issues in real world problems that happen during machine work ..some ppls vids edit out these problems and make text book vids which trick us into thinking its just so easy ... Thank You ...............
Blondie, You do a fantastic job with your "thinking out loud" while you work which makes you an excellent instructor. Thank you for producing these videos! I always learn a lot from your videos.
Seeing how you recover from mistakes is the best part
Meticulous, no stupid music, good narrarive and fun to watch and learn - thank you :)
How can a video have only 3 views but have 14 likes??? No matter, another neat experience from Blondihacks!! Thanks!
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The more videos I watch, the more I like you and your channel! I'm not a machinist. I worked in a machine shops inspection and a little bit on a Monarch VMC. I'd really like to get a mill, lathe and few other machines. I'm learning so much from you and the entertainment is great! Thank you for your hard work on the videos!
Quinn, I absolutely love your humility, owning up to your calculated errors, or in other words, cock ups!. I recently made a similar adapter to yours albeit a 3 tee slot table to a 4 bolt 4 jaw chuck and encountered the same issues that you did. However, as you know, concentricity with a 4 jaw chuck is not a problem. Please keep the videos coming.
Time for a bigger shop and bigger mill & lathe. You've officially outgrown your small machine shop. It was inevitable. Great content and voice over information is outstanding.
Thank you. I'm an old guy, but I learn so much every time I watch one of your videos.
As a novice I find the mistakes and errors you show to be so valuable and more educational than those vids that show perfection from start to finish. Thanks.
Blondihacks video beats whatever thing I was working on before it popped up!
Its very valuable to me that you show your mistakes in the process of making your projects.
Your explanations are really good, clearly understandable and a pleasure to listen even for a non English-speaking native.
"Always double check those clamps".... Good lesson!!!
I forget the vertical slide clamps on the mill sometimes and that causes problems in more than one axis.
Fun tip: overheated motors cool down quicker and safer by letting them to run for a while without load. Stopping them may actually be detrimental, because of the residual heat on the coils.
Somehow through the magic of the UA-cam algorithm I arrived here. I’m tremendously impressed with the quality of both your narration and your work.
I have been planning on doing the same project and since I have the same PM lathe and mill you have done a lot of the headache stuff for me. The only thing I will change is that I will go cheesy on material and use aluminum. It is cheap and readily available due to all the aircraft production work in the area I live. It also cuts so easy. It won't be as classy as iron but I think it will do the job. Thanks for all the hard work and head scratching!
Angle plate. Bandsaw. Awesome.
Yeah, the 4x6 bandsaw is one of my greatest purchases of all time.
Ah, a 'bleep' moment! I have those. More than I think you do Quinn! Best wishes. BobUK.
Patients and perseverance wins in the end. I had to chuckle when you keep going back and retighten the hold down bolts. Reminded me of a co-worker that left a drain plug loose. Every once in a while I would see him going out to the parking lot with his drain plug wrench.
As usual, I learned a lot. Your patience is impressive and your ingenuity is even more impressive. Thanks, Quinn.
I adore you and your work. You are honest and genuine about sharing the good, bad, and ugly of the process. The retightening redux, redux.... comedy has moved my funding you via Patreon to the top of the list. I have to figure something out, you provide tremendous value and I need to pony up.
Update- Your new rockstar is glad to do his part.
Having small machines can cause a lot of extra work, but it can be fun and challenging. Don't forget to tighten the clamps. It's like juggling, eventually you are going to drop the balls. Be on the lookout for more space and bigger machines. I realize it is more money but it's also more peace of mind. Actually I really loved this video. Your creativity alone is a 10+ especially after lunch. Danny
I agree with you on the premise that, if you want to learn, the best way is to make as many of your own tools as possible. A dual benefit being learning and cost control. Kind regards, I subscribed and tagged the bell.
So i only found your channel recently and watched only a few posts of yours, but so far, you are now one of my favourites. I love your humour, presentation and details. Keep up the awesome work. I am so glad I found you.🙂🙂
Wow, we had a cameo appearance of the real Quinn a 16:09 without the DuRag and those blackrim safety glasses. You should let us see the "real you" more often. Even MrPete shows up "on camera" now.... Another good video BTW...!
Impressive! Way to push the boundaries of the hobby-level tools.
07:35 The ticking might possibly be one of the commutator lands now standing a liiiitle bit proud of where it should be and rubbing on the brushes as it passes. Swap in the new motor and do a light pass on the commutator, satisfyingly using the new motor to fix the old, which should stop it prematurely chewing through brushes.
Would this also apply to a Brushless DC motor, which is the motor type that Quinn's lathe is equipped with?
I really like you approach to cutting the over-sized stock in the band saw and hacksawing it to finish the cut.
Thanks for that one.
I like how you show your mistakes and explain what happened. That is very educational for me. Thanks!
DC motors typically have slight timing so when running backwards the current is coming late to the winding.
You teach by example, yet at the end of the day, you teach. Thank you, I learn much from watching you.
Hats off to the unmentioned adjustable vice support pictured at 16:49. What a great idea that maybe deserves it's own video.
It’s just a machinist jack. I did do a video on making those, for what it’s worth! 😄
You are a Hoot, I smile all the way through your videos.
Double check three times! Love it.
What a demanding project for the existing machines. The challenges were high but your competence was able to finish the project successfully! This video among the many from you impressed me! You will get a new patreon this week👍
Glad I found your channel. I love it when you make mistakes and show or describe alternative ways to continue on with the project.
Thanks!
The best machining videos out there. I love how you stretch the capabilities of your tools and explain how you decided on a particular solution to a problem. I'm new to metal working. I finally got my PM 1440GT after an 8 month wait. I've watched your lathe skills videos like three times now and they are the best, most practical that exist. I have to start cranking some stuff out before the wife wonders why this behemoth is taking up so much garage space, lol!
Here I was just about to go downstairs and make some content for my new machining channel (for which you have certainly been an inspiration) but I found this just in time 😀
Nice job. Love your "I'm going to do this" attitude, perseverance, and ingenuity.
Lovely project Quinn its good how you demonstrate pushing your tools to infinity and beyond. Think we've all had the oops forgot to tighten the nuts
Probably due to the consistency of the issues in a small workshop, but again you have chosen to demonstrate another project on my to do list. The only difference on my ''process flow" would be to fit the plate to spindle nose prior to final machining of the face to maximise alignment to key features (probably not required but it makes me feel better). Also I must say that your comment on the "limitation of small machines" always makes me smile as you machines are significantly larger to the Unimat based ones that I use.
Thanks for the review on the bandsaw too. I was thinking of getting one for Christmas, I will now.
I learned how to use lathe, cut, how to choose bits, and many other things by watching your Channel. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Nice work on the adapter plate. I have a grizzly 6" rotary table that is almost identical. I bought a 6" 4 jaw that has through holes for mounting and just bolted it directly to the rotary table. It was really simple works really well.
Birthday gifts to self are always the perfect gifts! 😁
Also i love the way you show your mistakes. I get told off on the model engineering forum often for showing my mistakes , or as I call them .Bloopers.
Great job doing that plate on this size lathe, Kudos for patience and inventiveness-!!
Having been a pilot, I’m a fan of acronym based checklists to remind me to not forget to tighten clamps, locks, etc. For lathe and mill Inuse the same one, SLOW.
S-Safety glasses, sleeves
L-Locks such as quill lock, table lock, carriage lock, set or free appropriately
O-Obstructions, nothing in the way of table feed or chuck rotation (and chuck key out)
W-Workpiece securely clamped
16:49 - The unsung hero is the vice jaw jack thing. I want one.
What a beautiful result, and seeing how you recover from problems is really instructive.
Strong Work, Quinn. You’re a warrior on improvised precision. 😁👍🏻
Ah, I know why reverse motor power is lower Quinn. The commutator brushes are not at exactly 180° apart. Apparently that is to avoid excessive sparking at high forward speeds. Trouble is it makes sparking much worse at high speed in reverse so the controller has a speed limit when in reverse - on my lathe it is set to 50% and it effectively limits the maximum power available. It's not the motor as such, it's the controller protecting it. Cheers. BobUK. (edit for clarification)
The brushes on DC motors are also usually "timed" ahead of 0º, which means in reverse, it's timed negative of 0º.
Blondi, yes. I have a HF bandsaw that came with cabinet base. It once fell over due to my neglegence and the plastic motor end cap, plastic fan, plastic electrical union box all shattered into pieces! HF does not sell those items separetly, but Jet does! And in metal! Except the fan blades. I ordered them all from Jet and they were perfect replacement parts and of superior material. Like you said, depending on which color ( bandsaw) you have ( brand). It does an amazing job for the price, and I bought mine with the classic January discount coupon.
Love your vids and commentary.
Carl - West Michigan USA
When I wanted to make a face plate for my Chinese No. 17 Lathe factory tool room lathe I realised that I could utilise a 20 Kg barbel weight purchased from a Cash Converters shop for $20 NZ. It had enough meat in it to make a reasonably thick 300 mm diameter face plate although I did find a couple of voids whilst machining it which I subsequently welded up and ground down when I surface ground it later. Thank you for showing your problems, I often wonder if anyone else forgets to tighten up things like I do. Thank you also for revealing the designation of my spindle - I had not been able to identify it until I saw this video.
Thanks for that video. Great to see someone managing too large work for their machines - I learned a lot more from this than I would have if it was made on a big mill/lathe
That's good work making the tools stretch their limits. That has to be satisfying when you realize it came out right. Love your videos keep 'em coming, they're a bright spot in my weekend alot of times.
This time next year I can envisage an ABOM size lath in your workshop, no matter what machine you buy it's always just not quite big enough. Regards from the UK and thanks for sharing
Congrats on the final accuracy outcome. Talk about taking things to the limit.
Great video. I leaned something new almost every minute watching it. Also, omg, that was way too funny, "I'll put chamfers on it because that what's separates us from the animals". That was great, how true! Keep up the great work and thanks for making this video.
We both have the same MILL and mine has been giving me problems like a burnt out motor and then a Gear breakage!!! A belt drive is in the planning giving faster and slower. This hopefully giving more torque. I converted our EMCO to this spindle nose and at the same time putting the plate further out. This now means that my fingers can get behind and do up or undo the nuts. Enjoying as usual. David and Lily Reading England.
I'm jealous of your power cross feed when I have to do stuff like that
That was brilliant ! very well done ! your skill and tenacity pulled you through . just great congrats ! Skip from Texas
I agree completely about the 4 X 6 bandsaws. A little tweaking and they can do very good work. I have a friend who has one that's 30+ years old and it's virtually identical to my 2 year old one (with fewer plastic parts). No design stays that unchanged for that long unless it works well.
My wife called me in the eighties, to say there was a pickup truck loaded with such tools at the plumbing shop she did books at, and I bought one of those saws for less than two hundred bucks, still using it, rebuilt it a couple times, more accurate than when I bought it, better ball bearings now.
We don’t make mistakes but we often think of a better way to accomplish the task. Thanks for the video I enjoy them very much.
Good tip about using angle plate in Horizontal bandsaw. Always hard to hold things in them other than cutting off lengths from long stock.
That Chinese bandsaw is a hero in my shop! I have run it nonstop for 12 hours cutting 1/² inch steel.
I completely agree about the 4x6 bandsaw
Awesome Job Quinn. You are a pleasure to watch and listen to. A good laugh for me as well, check, check and re-check.
Love and admiration for you.
I guess I'm spoiled having larger machines. I forgot how much more of a challenge a job is when your at the edge of the " window " .
Great job !
Hi....i have the same Item. After 2 Years i buy this System completed. Your Adapter is great! Congratulions
I dont even know what I just watched, but it was fascinating!
Me again. I have a similar lathe, next size up I think. I installed two fans. One to cool the electronics, the other to cool the motor. At slow speed the integral motor fan does not provide much airflow. I used a bathroom fan over run timer to keep the fans going for five minutes after the motor had been stopped. It has worked a treat. There was very poor heat sinking on some of these Chinese DC motor lathe motor controllers leading to blown MOSFETS and I fixed that as well with a purpose built assembly of aluminium bar and box section. No trouble to date as a result. Bit fiddly to install, I labelled all the wiring before disconnecting to get the control board out. Tip - do not use heat print labels - ask me how I know! BobUK
My Harbor Freight bandsaw is a surprisingly good work horse. I don't use it all that much but I'm glad it's there when needed and it hasn't let me down. I guess it works and they have been in production for decades. All I would do to improve it is add a hydraulic feed control and coolant, but I'm mostly work with tubing so those upgrades aren't necessary.
I've got a Aluminum slug I keep around to make me remember just this lesson...Very out-of-round, also the upper and lower faces are not parallel...humble and checking thrice are both parts of a set...Thank U for Sharing...Great job !!
As a retired plant operator I had access to steam blank-off plates for cast pieces such as this. The city frowned on borrowing man hole covers. My 6-to-5" plate is A-36 steel but my 5" chuck is...cast iron, and my Grizzly 6" table is... cast iron. Damping is nice but some times it's: "race what you brung". (south-eastern US dialect)
Thanks for including the trials and tribulations. As a rookie I will try to remember, to adjust my reactions when things don't go as planned!!
Yay! I was getting worried I was running out of your videos after binge watching them all 😂
Wow that wore me out. Congrats on your problem solving skills you really put them to the test on that project. Thank you for the video.
Feels like this sort of machining is 75% order of operations, 60% clever clamping methods and 40% lucky.
Quite so, and about 175% math.
Love your channel and that pink, rose colored tool box, very very cool Quinn 👍👍👍👍
One thing that always worked well for me turning cast iron using tool steel was to use a tool with large radius.
Just a thought. Love your content
Hi from Australia! First time watching. Great work Blondie!
Hi Quinn, thanks for another informative video.
in cutting a short slug of steel on the band saw, what works for me is to tack weld a block of scrap steel on the rough side of the slug and then hold the slug in place using the block in the jaws of the band saw.
So happy you shared this! I’ve been avoiding this project for a while, but I really need one for my Rotary table!
Nice project to start when I finished the lathe!
Great in!novation on your band saw, it is amazing what a cup of coffee and a sandwich (or a donut) can do. I find that you love to challenge yourself, and it works to bring out the best for you. Great work again Quinn, cheers!
Bu the by, I enjoyed the cantwist clamp build and got a kit last week, thanks.
Well done. I had done something similar about 10 years ago for a dividing head. It worked well and it was beyond the limits of my machines at the time so I had to make some strange jig attachments to get things working! But it was a success in the end! Total runout over 18 inches was only .0025!
Very nice work. You are truly a very talented person. I enjoy your videos very much, so keep doing what you do.
Great improvisation for figuring out how to cut that big old chunk of cast iron in your bandsaw .
You almost burned the lathe! You're a monster! LOL, i love your videos!
I drilled and tapped my chuck jaws for set screws that will push the stock out. Makes it real easy to dial out the discrepancy. One trick I do to ensure I always tighten the setup is I altered the mill power switch with a hook to hold the wrench. So when I go to turn on the mill BAM it reminds me.
Nice work Quinn! It's funny watching you have all the same issues I had doing the same projects that you've done. I sure wish I had a shop with full size machines... Adapt and overcome!
Quinn I'm glad you took this....for a spin :D I remember the days of pushing the outer limits of small machines. Now i'm pushing the limits of a lot bigger ones that are twice as old as I am ..or more. it's amazing what you can do with a little machine and big ingenuity. the moment you unwrapped the dura bar I knew you would...iron it out :D
Excellent job at overcoming adversities.
Great video as usual. Chicks talk about equality and then some are leading the way and just doing it. Kudos! Working in a small shop is challenging and pushes us to our limits which although frustrating is a little rewarding, too.
good girl very clever and your honest and admitted your mistakes keep up the good work