I watched the gear cutting series 6 times, literally. I just got through cutting the timing gears for my miniature 4-cycle engine I'm building. Thank you mrpete for this series. I truly owe my successful gear cuts to you and this gear cutting series of videos. Thanks again for all you do.
I lived in Princeton Illinois for 6 years! Now just an hour north. Been watching you're videos forever. Can't believe you were probably local to me this whole time
Howdy Mr. Pete. I just recently found your videos and I think they're invaluable. I inherited my grandfather's machine tools and I need to improve my skills with them. Unfortunately he passed away when I was four years old. I would have loved to learn from him. He was a US Naval-Man who machined parts for nuclear reactors. I've worked many trades, therefore some of it is intuitive. Still, I am no machinist by far. Your videos have increased my skills a lot. I will give as much effort to learn from you as you have given to teach, which is a lot. Thank you!
My Dad worked in the Tool Room at a factory that made seats for Willy’s, Ford Mustang, etc. if He we’re still with us, He would call your videos “ quality instruction” and entertainment ! Along with a bit of Kibitz 👍😉 At 69 yrs of age I enjoy them a lot as well. Thank You
...never tire of your shows Mr P......I missed out on shop class back in the day, would imagined it was much like this.....educational, safety conscious, and a great learning experience......thanks......................nice hat tip to the wife.....never hurts.
UA-cam is what tv was hoped to become....informative content from those who supply the experience, skill, and knowledge in interesting ways....Thank you Mr.Pete...you are one great teacher.
Just wanted to thank you for your time making all of these videos they have been a great help. Personally I find them much more effective than learning in a classroom bc the lessons I learn by necessity are the ones I never forget, thanks again.
You all prolly dont care but does anybody know of a way to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly lost my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me!
@Pedro Leighton I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
tubalcain. you are helping me to make sense of what my sadly lacking education has not provided in the machining field. Thanks so very much for all of the time and effort you put into sharing the correct way to make things rather than "go out and buy one"
Beautiful part and intensely interesting commentary and explanation of the process. I wish I could go back to high school and take all of your courses, gaining the fifty years back would be pretty awesome also! Keep up the GREAT work Mr. Peterson, we respect you to the Nth degree!
Such an informative video from a gentleman with a world of machining knowledge. Although I'm a total novice and regret never doing metal work at high school, I've always wondered what and how the dividing head/gear cutting technique was. Now, thanks to this video I'm much better informed. Congratulations to the presenter. He has such a relaxed, confident way of teaching.
Ohio River Pilot "TV is just handy for the weather" - I don't know where you live, but here the weather man seems to be wrong more then he is right. Man I would love to have that job, as long as you are right more then you are wrong, it seems like you get to keep your job and earn a very nice living while doing it.
I first check the NOAA Doppler and weather.gov but the local team is working from our Doppler and they are really good and picking out the hooks in real time.. if you know what I mean,, remember what uncle Jesse said about "What does a blond and a tornado have in common?" hehehe
Hi mrpete, I agree with you about nothing to see in tv. So, here I am watching you machining good pieces. Congratulations from Brazil. Very nice video. Eng. Nilton Polydoro
Reminds me of the gears I had to cut to make a 4 to 1 ratio gear box over 20 years ago for technical college project. Thanks for the reminder on how to use the dividing head, I thought it was a great video Mr Pete!
Wish Mr. Pete was my shop teacher in High School, Not the one we had. At least he let me make 2 billy clubs for the Drama Department for a play. (1970's)
You're right, there is nothing worth watching on TV, this is way more fun, and I'm slowly learning too! Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge and the process. Very much appreciated :)
Thank God there are still professionals like you. I enjoy and appreciate every minute i spend learning from you. I may never cut gear in my life , but the shear joy of learning how to do something is totally irreplaceable- and i am 75 years old. Thank you and God Bless your efforts. Your efforts will have great effects on generations yet to come. Asress
Mr Pete. I enjoy your machining tips and help pictures lots. The same thing Atlas did (making the gears cheaper) occurs today in tools and hardware. That is how the big box stores undersell traditional supply and retail stores. Unfortunately you pay your money and you get what you pay for. Several older trusted brands are now cheap junk as well.
Silhouettes On The Shade, The Rays, 1957. One of my favorite songs. It was a great year to be a teenager! And I'll add an AMEN to nothing to watch on TV!
so nice, yes i enjoy watch the great mechanist on youtube. your channel has taught me the most. i have saved equipment from the hammer and chisel mechanics countless times by the knowledge of measuring i have learned from your channel and many others. the brain food is the best part. we took arithmetic mathematics and learned the metric system also in 1975. thanks for sharing.
I learned so much about these gears with this video #200. As a kid grew up with my dad’s craftsman benchtop lathe. Today learned about ZAMACK. Now I know why my dad’s gears were falling apart! Cracks and crumbling ZAMACK. I will be watching your #1 to #199 now!
Thanks for this video I enjoyed it especially as I have two 10" and one 6" Atlas lathe and I know how pain taking is to change gears no matter how experienced I am in that. My comment is really about the double keys which is a very smart idea. In the case of a single key there is an excentricity created by the torque. This excentricity is pressing the shafts harder to one side in the gear (or the gear to the shafts, the result is the same) and since most usage of the gear train is done in the same direction the gear which made of "softer" material eventually will have an oval bore. One can notice this effect of an unbalanced torque while installing a spark-plug without holding the wrench, at the plug letting the torque breaking the plug. Basically it's the same effect. The DOUBLE key takes care of that by completely eliminating that side effect of torque transmission. Beside the economy of using Zamac for gears there is another good side of this application. Zamac is less brittle than castiron so breaking out teeth from the gear is less likely, in case of a sudden load. The loads on these gears are not that great and their usage is relatively rare except for a few of which replacement is rather inexpensive even today. I will find the rest of your videos on Atlas-Sears lathes. Thanks again. That Old Bob
This young bob wants to know if it has anything to do with timing the gear? One key is between teeth the other is on one tooth... i dont know if timing is important. I dont even own a lathe
I just watching your #200 second, may be third times. I have 3 Atlas lathes and I consider myself one whose familiar with the subject yet it’s nice to watch again such a well, highly detailed and entertaining video, one of yours. Congratulation over and over again Bob
Here in town gears that were shipped flat on a semi-tractor due to their size and maybe 12" thick with hubs to add. They were oil field gears and the shop here poured gray iron and created finished product. Just one of the shops. They used large hobs to cut not a wimpy one like that.
hello mr. pete, i had a 1950 atlas th42 that had the original gear set that was mounted on a wooden square just as your set. i too had to remove the nail to use the gears. once again an informative and well produced effort! thank you
Nice video mrpete. Most of us don't care if any of the video's are similar to those that came before. There is new info in every one you make. I can watch each one several times. My wife watches enough soaps for both of us. I have not been in the tv room for months that's her domain. Mine is the workshop or my study. regards from the UK
What a a Beautiful Gear you made Mr. Pete. i wish i had the knowledge and Machinery to mill like this. Great work again! Have a great Evening! and thanks for sharing!
Very informative, I enjoyed the video as I have your other videos. I am learning machine work and have never used a diving head and only once a milling machine. That was in high school 51 years ago. Thank you for doing this. Elmo
Another great watch, thanks. You literally have a library of useful information, so great that there are people like yourself with the love of what you enjoy and to be able to pass it on. I have a small boxford lathe and have made plenty of gears on it and some for it most out of tufnol. Such a effortless material you work with with pretty good strength. Thanks again and keep up the great work.👍
G'day Lisle, It's not just the older viewers that can benefit from a strong torch and an optivisor. I'm only 42 years of age, and my eyesight gets worse every 6 months. Up until I was 30 I never had a problem. Go figure hey................. Good job on the video as usual. Matt
Thx Lyle i never had to use a dividing head so i learned something and never had to cut gears so the math formulas was good stuff !! and way better than the so called entertainment on the boob tube !!
On my 6" Atlas the double keyway is used for a special spacer with two "ears" that joins two gears together to form reduction ratios for feeds and threading. The center of the spacer is a hole that the attaching bolt (axle) runs through. There is no mechanical reason why one keyway wouldn't work, but for whatever reason Atlas made the locking hubs with two.
That is just amazing, I really want to buy an old lathe and make new gears for it! This is just awesome!! Its all about making something from nothing, with only raw material, amazing.
Great video and nice job. Its all the small details that you cover that make the difference between a good and a bad job. For example keeping on top of the back lash, having a set method of traveling round the dividing plate, accurately setting the z height and cutting towards the larger end of the mandrel. I have enjoyed this gear cutting series allot.
mrpete222 Ive not had much chance to work on it since the assembly of my chassis but ive been thinking through how to do the cylinders and what jogs and fixtures to make. Which is half the fun. The material has arrived so I can make a start soon. They are going to be machined from solid mild steel blocks and then i will lock tight in cast iron liners. There will be 2 bores per cylinder, one for the piston at 1 11/16" dia and a 7/8" bore for the valve.
Hey Pete !! Awesome video, It's funny you said in the video that people would probably not make gears at home. Well I am restoring a Prentice Bros lathe from 1886 and I have no change gears for it at all. The tag does list the gear sizes and what position to put them in so I can use that info to make them. I also have to make a new compound since this one was so heavily damaged. Your videos are an excellent resource for me. I'm new to machining but I have a extensive mechanical back ground so this doesn't seem to difficult to attempt, thanks to your information. I am also in Illinois. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Thanks again !!
I've worked with Zamak. Easy to cast, but very brittle. I also had problems with people putting stainless steel metal screws in it: due to galvanic corrosion the screws got stuck and you would strip the thread while removing them. I kind of hate Zamak because of all the issue I had with it.
you can say that twice " never run the cutter backward" I did that a few times and ruined my cheap cutters. Good advice Mr. Pete. I Like your videos a lot they remind me of my Jr. High Shop Teacher. Now only if I could get you to say " Hay Booy get out of the Isle-way cant you see the yellow line" Then it would be perfect! reminds me when I dare my classmate Adan to touch his work-mates skin with his red hot screwdriver tip. I didn't think he was that dumb. but he was a dumb smartass and he did it. He paid the consequences for that. He got suspended from school.
I attended Dawson Technical Institute of Technology in Chicago for Machine Shop. it was ready to close the class because it had no teacher for math. I took it upon myself to teach the math for three weeks till the school finally came up with a teacher that just did not care, but we continued. In the machine shop, they only started to show us the machine. Again I forced the shop instructor to demonstrate how the machines worked. I had known a little about running lathe and multi-head drill press and punch press at a job and had signed up at Washburn Trade School for Machine shop before the VA told me they would not fund Washburn and forced me to switch. I was lucky at Dawson. I met an Assistant Shop Instructor who had served in Vietnam and together we got the Main Shop Instructor to move his ass. Soon the students were running the machines and doing the home work in the classes. Most finished. And some even had fun learning. The school was set up in the middle of one of Chicago Housing Projects ; I guess just for show. In fact, there was a student who just came out of service and his mother was the personal secretary of the Chicago post master, who received his diploma for attending only three days! He bragged how he already got his job and just needed the diploma to say he went to school. Personally, I enjoyed the school and the students along with Willy the Assistant Shop Instructor. I wanted to continue to the Tool and Die half, but the VA no longer supported the program. The program ran 6 mos. and the Tool and Die would of made it a year. I always loved running the machines, but with the selling off of America's industry, It to has become a lost art like the Steel Mills here in Chicago and Northwest Indiana.
Me too, but I mess around in my garage. If I can, I think I will save up to buy one of those Harbor freight lathes to play around. Most of the industrial industry went else where. They had people hoping it would come back for many, many years. I love your videos and hope to see more! All that happened in 89. All the steel mills around the area are mostly scrap yard or abandon lots. I don't think we had a real president since Kennedy. Carter tried.
Zamak is famous for being difficult. Back in the 50's there was manufacturer of S-gauge model railroad engines (Miller Engineering?) that made an innovative diesel model, but the powered wheel truck frames were made of Zamak. To my knowledge, every one they ever made has flaked away into dust. I sold the remains of one my father had purchased new last year- most of the engine was almost pristine, but the trucks were rotting piles of zinc.
Thanks again for another interesting video, I will probably never make gear, but at least I know how it's done. I have certainly learned a lot from your videos, a lot of which I have been able to put into practice. Also you are not the only one who remembers "Two silhouettes on the shade"
Great block of instruction as always. In the future, can you show cutting a gear using angular indexing or alternate method(s) for us poor slobs without a dividing head? I realize it's not optimum but we must sometimes work with what we have, like a rotary table. Thanks for what you do.
I watched the gear cutting series 6 times, literally. I just got through cutting the timing gears for my miniature 4-cycle engine I'm building. Thank you mrpete for this series. I truly owe my successful gear cuts to you and this gear cutting series of videos. Thanks again for all you do.
Thanks for watching--glad I helped
I lived in Princeton Illinois for 6 years! Now just an hour north. Been watching you're videos forever. Can't believe you were probably local to me this whole time
I was in Princeton last night, eating at the prime quarter
Howdy Mr. Pete. I just recently found your videos and I think they're invaluable. I inherited my grandfather's machine tools and I need to improve my skills with them. Unfortunately he passed away when I was four years old. I would have loved to learn from him. He was a US Naval-Man who machined parts for nuclear reactors. I've worked many trades, therefore some of it is intuitive. Still, I am no machinist by far. Your videos have increased my skills a lot. I will give as much effort to learn from you as you have given to teach, which is a lot. Thank you!
+Rocketninja200 Thanks for watching-I bet yours gramps was a great machinist & you will be too
I made my first gear today Mr. Pete. I followed your instructions and it came out perfect. Thank you.
Great to hear!
My Dad worked in the Tool Room at a factory that made seats for Willy’s, Ford Mustang, etc. if He we’re still with us, He would call your videos “ quality instruction” and entertainment ! Along with a bit of Kibitz 👍😉 At 69 yrs of age I enjoy them a lot as well. Thank You
Thanks
...never tire of your shows Mr P......I missed out on shop class back in the day, would imagined it was much like this.....educational, safety conscious, and a great learning experience......thanks......................nice hat tip to the wife.....never hurts.
Rick L Thanks for watching
I've been a machinist for 30 years and I'm still learning by watching Mr. Peter. Thank you sir for these wonderful videos.
Thank you very much
Your "old" videos, never get old. Thanks for another excellent video.
Thanks
Everything you do is worth watching… and I literally mean Everything… you’ll go down in history as one of the Greatest…!!
Much better than tv indeed, God bless the wives, where would we be without them! Very well explained as always, thanks for sharing.
jix177 Thanks
UA-cam is what tv was hoped to become....informative content from those who supply the experience, skill, and knowledge in interesting ways....Thank you Mr.Pete...you are one great teacher.
Thank you very much
sammy mezzacapo. well, theres plenty of stupid crap on youtube aswell lol.
mrpete222
Thanks
Fantastic Mr Pete, I'd certainly cherish that dividing head
Just wanted to thank you for your time making all of these videos they have been a great help. Personally I find them much more effective than learning in a classroom bc the lessons I learn by necessity are the ones I never forget, thanks again.
You all prolly dont care but does anybody know of a way to log back into an instagram account??
I stupidly lost my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me!
@Arthur Wesley Instablaster ;)
@Pedro Leighton I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
I see it takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Pedro Leighton It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thank you so much, you saved my account :D
@Arthur Wesley happy to help :)
The best channel out there. The Best. Thank You Mr. Pete. Enjoyed it!
Wow, thanks
tubalcain. you are helping me to make sense of what my sadly lacking education has not provided in the machining field. Thanks so very much for all of the time and effort you put into sharing the correct way to make things rather than "go out and buy one"
Thanks for watching--glad I am helping you
Hi Mr Peterson I find it unbelievable how methodical and precise you are while making an entertaining video (way better than anything on TV) thanks
Mr Pete,
You are so right about there being absolutely nothing on tv. Yes, your videos are quite interesting and entertaining
Beautiful part and intensely interesting commentary and explanation of the process. I wish I could go back to high school and take all of your courses, gaining the fifty years back would be pretty awesome also! Keep up the GREAT work Mr. Peterson, we respect you to the Nth degree!
cat637d THANK YOU very much!
There alot more to these old mill-lathes than meet the eye. That gear cutter is fascinating. Appreciate the details.
Thanks for watching
Thanks for watching
Such an informative video from a gentleman with a world of machining knowledge. Although I'm a total novice and regret never doing metal work at high school, I've always wondered what and how the dividing head/gear cutting technique was. Now, thanks to this video I'm much better informed. Congratulations to the presenter. He has such a relaxed, confident way of teaching.
Another great video Mr Pete and no interrupting ad breaks.
Mark Fryer Thanks for watching
Yes Mr. Pete you nailed me. TV is just handy for the weather,
PS, I truly enjoyed the video and the math made my 60yr old brain think a lot LOL
Ohio River Pilot "TV is just handy for the weather" - I don't know where you live, but here the weather man seems to be wrong more then he is right. Man I would love to have that job, as long as you are right more then you are wrong, it seems like you get to keep your job and earn a very nice living while doing it.
I first check the NOAA Doppler and weather.gov but the local team is working from our Doppler and they are really good and picking out the hooks in real time.. if you know what I mean,, remember what uncle Jesse said about "What does a blond and a tornado have in common?" hehehe
Ohio River Pilot THANKS
Hi mrpete,
I agree with you about nothing to see in tv. So, here I am watching you machining good pieces.
Congratulations from Brazil. Very nice video.
Eng. Nilton Polydoro
Thanks
I can't tell you how helpful these videos you've made are. Thanks!
👍👍
Utterly fascinating Mr Pete!!! The finished item is genuinely beautiful!
Thanks
Nice work Mr Pete. Great video. Really fun to watch. Love your videos.
Reminds me of the gears I had to cut to make a 4 to 1 ratio gear box over 20 years ago for technical college project. Thanks for the reminder on how to use the dividing head, I thought it was a great video Mr Pete!
Thanks
Wish Mr. Pete was my shop teacher in High School, Not the one we had. At least he let me make 2 billy clubs for the Drama Department for a play. (1970's)
You're right, there is nothing worth watching on TV, this is way more fun, and I'm slowly learning too! Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge and the process. Very much appreciated :)
Thanks for watching
I confess. I won't be cutting a gear any time soon. But this was far more interesting, nay... fascinating. Thank you!!!
Jeff Conti Thanks for watching
Thank God there are still professionals like you. I enjoy and appreciate every minute i spend learning from you. I may never cut gear in my life , but the shear joy of learning how to do something is totally irreplaceable- and i am 75 years old.
Thank you and God Bless your efforts. Your efforts will have great effects on generations yet to come. Asress
Mr Pete. I enjoy your machining tips and help pictures lots. The same thing Atlas did (making the gears cheaper) occurs today in tools and hardware. That is how the big box stores undersell traditional supply and retail stores. Unfortunately you pay your money and you get what you pay for. Several older trusted brands are now cheap junk as well.
John Leake All, very true
That just put a smile on my face, when you made that last cut, lol so cool.
Mr Pete. I happily stumbled on to your 200th. What a wonderful demeanor you have!
Much respect!
+wintersnot Welcome-thanks for watching
Two Sillouetts on the Shade.
By The Rays, 1957, covered by many artists. Man, Lyle, you're making me feel old.
Wish I were your neighbor
Silhouettes On The Shade, The Rays, 1957. One of my favorite songs. It was a great year to be a teenager! And I'll add an AMEN to nothing to watch on TV!
William Garrett Thanks for watching
so nice, yes i enjoy watch the great mechanist on youtube. your channel has taught me the most. i have saved equipment from the hammer and chisel mechanics countless times by the knowledge of measuring i have learned from your channel and many others. the brain food is the best part. we took arithmetic mathematics and learned the metric system also in 1975. thanks for sharing.
+sam yeates THANKS for watching!
Happy 200th Mr.Pete! looking forward to the next 200!
+Tad A THANK YOU
I learned so much about these gears with this video #200. As a kid grew up with my dad’s craftsman benchtop lathe. Today learned about ZAMACK. Now I know why my dad’s gears were falling apart! Cracks and crumbling ZAMACK. I will be watching your #1 to #199 now!
Thank you, I’m glad you like the videos
U sir are a true craftsman and an inspiration...
Thanks
Thanks for this video I enjoyed it especially as I have two 10" and one 6" Atlas lathe and I know how pain taking is to change gears no matter how experienced I am in that. My comment is really about the double keys which is a very smart idea. In the case of a single key there is an excentricity created by the torque. This excentricity is pressing the shafts harder to one side in the gear (or the gear to the shafts, the result is the same) and since most usage of the gear train is done in the same direction the gear which made of "softer" material eventually will have an oval bore. One can notice this effect of an unbalanced torque while installing a spark-plug without holding the wrench, at the plug letting the torque breaking the plug. Basically it's the same effect. The DOUBLE key takes care of that by completely eliminating that side effect of torque transmission. Beside the economy of using Zamac for gears there is another good side of this application. Zamac is less brittle than castiron so breaking out teeth from the gear is less likely, in case of a sudden load. The loads on these gears are not that great and their usage is relatively rare except for a few of which replacement is rather inexpensive even today. I will find the rest of your videos on Atlas-Sears lathes. Thanks again. That Old Bob
Thanks--that was a very interesting analysis.
This young bob wants to know if it has anything to do with timing the gear? One key is between teeth the other is on one tooth... i dont know if timing is important. I dont even own a lathe
I plan to make lots of gears with my homemade lathe and mill when i have them complete. I think it will be a very enjoyable adventure. Thank you
Brings back great memories. Thank you.
Thanks for watching
I enjoy watching your video thanks for your sharing this modern knowledge.
Ark! Don't forget to stamp the 32 back to front to fool the next bloke!
+Grandpa Cocky Thanks for watching
I just watching your #200 second, may be third times. I have 3 Atlas lathes and I consider myself one whose familiar with the subject yet it’s nice to watch again such a well, highly detailed and entertaining video, one of yours. Congratulation over and over again
Bob
Thank you Bob I’m glad you like it
Here in town gears that were shipped flat on a semi-tractor due to their size and maybe 12" thick with hubs to add. They were oil field gears and the shop here poured gray iron and created finished product. Just one of the shops. They used large hobs to cut not a wimpy one like that.
Awesome demonstration. Highly appreciated. Please keep the good work flowing.
Thanks for watching
hello mr. pete, i had a 1950 atlas th42 that had the original gear set that was mounted on a wooden square just as your set. i too had to remove the nail to use the gears.
once again an informative and well produced effort!
thank you
+m walton THANKS for watching!
Fantastic Instructional Video !! 💯🤗
Glad you liked it!
You nailed that camera angle when the cutting started 😁. Good job! 👍🙂👍
Thanks
When I get my mill set up this is one of my first projects. I now have the confidence to make new gears for my lathe.
Thanks for watching
Nice video mrpete. Most of us don't care if any of the video's are similar to those that came before. There is new info in every one you make. I can watch each one several times. My wife watches enough soaps for both of us. I have not been in the tv room for months that's her domain. Mine is the workshop or my study. regards from the UK
Gary C Thanks. Sometimes I need encouragement like yours.
Really good video! I enjoyed it! Congratulations on what sounds like a fine marriage!
+Monte Hyler Thanks for watching
Outstanding job of explaining the process. Even I can understand the how's and the why's of cutting a gear. Great job.
James Stanlake Thanks for watching
What a a Beautiful Gear you made Mr. Pete. i wish i had the knowledge and Machinery to mill like this. Great work again! Have a great Evening! and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching
I really enjoy your gear cutting videos, I have learned a lot from them, thanks.
Regards
bogart999 9 thanks-thats the last one.
Very informative, I enjoyed the video as I have your other videos. I am learning machine work and have never used a diving head and only once a milling machine. That was in high school 51 years ago. Thank you for doing this.
Elmo
Congrats on your 200th! - Perfect viewing for a chilly rainy day.
+John Strange THANK YOU
Great work. Gear looks perfect. Thank you for sharing
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Thanks Mr Pete you certainly entertained me as always.
👍👍👍👍
Thank you for watching
Another great watch, thanks. You literally have a library of useful information, so great that there are people like yourself with the love of what you enjoy and to be able to pass it on. I have a small boxford lathe and have made plenty of gears on it and some for it most out of tufnol. Such a effortless material you work with with pretty good strength. Thanks again and keep up the great work.👍
Thanks
Mr. Pete, that video was "Clear as mud" I loved it! 😂😂
👍
Absolutely wonderful, truly a thing a beauty. Nothing quite like a well machine spur gear!
Yes
G'day Lisle,
It's not just the older viewers that can benefit from a strong torch and an optivisor.
I'm only 42 years of age, and my eyesight gets worse every 6 months. Up until I was 30 I never had a problem. Go figure hey.................
Good job on the video as usual.
Matt
Matthew Gischus Thanks
Thx Lyle i never had to use a dividing head so i learned something and never had to cut gears so the math formulas was good stuff !! and way better than the so called entertainment on the boob tube !!
Thank you for watching
Thanks for the video. I totally agree with you that there is nothing worth watching on TV anymore. My "TV" time is all UA-cam videos!
MurphysSidekic Thanks for watching
Bill Nichols Shade Tree Gunsmithing Excellent Video
Love your videos, I learn alot from them, thx for sharing your knowledge!
+azonicds THANK YOU
Another very well done, entertaining video. Your presentations are always A+.
+sinkhole40 THANK YOU
hmm... maybe I can start cutting my own gears. Never thought I could do it like this. Great Video!!
👍👍
On my 6" Atlas the double keyway is used for a special spacer with two "ears" that joins two gears together to form reduction ratios for feeds and threading. The center of the spacer is a hole that the attaching bolt (axle) runs through. There is no mechanical reason why one keyway wouldn't work, but for whatever reason Atlas made the locking hubs with two.
That is just amazing, I really want to buy an old lathe and make new gears for it! This is just awesome!! Its all about making something from nothing, with only raw material, amazing.
I enjoyed watching your skill. Best regards
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent series Mr. Pete! I hope to tool up enough some day to where I'll be able to cut gears also, this series is going to help!
Thanks as always!!
Love your work mate, thanks for your videos!
Thanks for watching
Great Show!
Love the video enjoy all of them very educational thanks for all your work
Thanks
a man of my kind ,nice job
Mr Pete nice learning lesson.Good luck.......!
+Amara Kuruppu THANK YOU
as always graet teacher .thanks a lot .am keeping watching.
Great video and nice job. Its all the small details that you cover that make the difference between a good and a bad job. For example keeping on top of the back lash, having a set method of traveling round the dividing plate, accurately setting the z height and cutting towards the larger end of the mandrel. I have enjoyed this gear cutting series allot.
MrCrispin96 Thanks--hows that locomotive coming along?
mrpete222 Ive not had much chance to work on it since the assembly of my chassis but ive been thinking through how to do the cylinders and what jogs and fixtures to make. Which is half the fun. The material has arrived so I can make a start soon. They are going to be machined from solid mild steel blocks and then i will lock tight in cast iron liners. There will be 2 bores per cylinder, one for the piston at 1 11/16" dia and a 7/8" bore for the valve.
Complex yet entertaining
Beautiful just beautiful. You make me want to become a machinist.
Andy Manly If you think you'll love it ==> Go for it, I love it...!
+Andy Manly THANK YOU
Thank you Mrpete, good video
Hey Pete !! Awesome video, It's funny you said in the video that people would probably not make gears at home. Well I am restoring a Prentice Bros lathe from 1886 and I have no change gears for it at all. The tag does list the gear sizes and what position to put them in so I can use that info to make them. I also have to make a new compound since this one was so heavily damaged. Your videos are an excellent resource for me. I'm new to machining but I have a extensive mechanical back ground so this doesn't seem to difficult to attempt, thanks to your information. I am also in Illinois. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Thanks again !!
Good luck with those gears
@@mrpete222 Thanks, I'm sure I'll be referencing the video often during the process.
Most excellent video!!! Thanks much!
Glad it was helpful!
really nice work and thanks for the step by step explanations I sure liked watching it even though I might never do it its nice to know how its done
+DriveShaft Drew THANKS for watching!
I've worked with Zamak. Easy to cast, but very brittle. I also had problems with people putting stainless steel metal screws in it: due to galvanic corrosion the screws got stuck and you would strip the thread while removing them. I kind of hate Zamak because of all the issue I had with it.
Awesome job and well explained thank you
Thanks
you can say that twice " never run the cutter backward" I did that a few times and ruined my cheap cutters. Good advice Mr. Pete. I Like your videos a lot they remind me of my Jr. High Shop Teacher. Now only if I could get you to say " Hay Booy get out of the Isle-way cant you see the yellow line" Then it would be perfect! reminds me when I dare my classmate Adan to touch his work-mates skin with his red hot screwdriver tip. I didn't think he was that dumb. but he was a dumb smartass and he did it. He paid the consequences for that. He got suspended from school.
I had a boy do that in welding class. He Branded another boy in the back
Thanks Pete, I always wondered how gears were cut. Cheers
+Daniel Wahl THANKS for watching!
I attended Dawson Technical Institute of Technology in Chicago for Machine Shop. it was ready to close the class because it had no teacher for math. I took it upon myself to teach the math for three weeks till the school finally came up with a teacher that just did not care, but we continued. In the machine shop, they only started to show us the machine. Again I forced the shop instructor to demonstrate how the machines worked. I had known a little about running lathe and multi-head drill press and punch press at a job and had signed up at Washburn Trade School for Machine shop before the VA told me they would not fund Washburn and forced me to switch. I was lucky at Dawson. I met an Assistant Shop Instructor who had served in Vietnam and together we got the Main Shop Instructor to move his ass. Soon the students were running the machines and doing the home work in the classes. Most finished. And some even had fun learning. The school was set up in the middle of one of Chicago Housing Projects ; I guess just for show. In fact, there was a student who just came out of service and his mother was the personal secretary of the Chicago post master, who received his diploma for attending only three days! He bragged how he already got his job and just needed the diploma to say he went to school. Personally, I enjoyed the school and the students along with Willy the Assistant Shop Instructor. I wanted to continue to the Tool and Die half, but the VA no longer supported the program. The program ran 6 mos. and the Tool and Die would of made it a year. I always loved running the machines, but with the selling off of America's industry, It to has become a lost art like the Steel Mills here in Chicago and Northwest Indiana.
+Alberto Ortiz Thats quite a story & it saddened me.
Me too, but I mess around in my garage. If I can, I think I will save up to buy one of those Harbor freight lathes to play around. Most of the industrial industry went else where. They had people hoping it would come back for many, many years. I love your videos and hope to see more! All that happened in 89. All the steel mills around the area are mostly scrap yard or abandon lots. I don't think we had a real president since Kennedy. Carter tried.
Zamak is famous for being difficult. Back in the 50's there was manufacturer of S-gauge model railroad engines (Miller Engineering?) that made an innovative diesel model, but the powered wheel truck frames were made of Zamak. To my knowledge, every one they ever made has flaked away into dust. I sold the remains of one my father had purchased new last year- most of the engine was almost pristine, but the trucks were rotting piles of zinc.
+componenx THANK YOU
Thanks again for another interesting video, I will probably never make gear, but at least I know how it's done. I have certainly learned a lot from your videos, a lot of which I have been able to put into practice. Also you are not the only one who remembers "Two silhouettes on the shade"
+Bob Auer THANK YOU
Lyle, thanks for that most interesting regards Frank
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I did enjoy your video , and you are absolutely right about the TV, what a huge waste of money, but my wife likes the old movies.
I watch Mr. Pete for the shear entertainment... I bet it has been so long since he made this that he don't remember say shear entertainment!!!
It’s been a long time all right
@@mrpete222 Wow, Mr. Pete does read his comments!!! LOL... Thank you Sir!!!
Great block of instruction as always. In the future, can you show cutting a gear using angular indexing or alternate method(s) for us poor slobs without a dividing head? I realize it's not optimum but we must sometimes work with what we have, like a rotary table. Thanks for what you do.
+blmeflmm66 THANK YOU
Loved it :-) Thank you Lyle. I'll be referring back to this video soon.....
+68sweetnovember THANK YOU