Big congratulations on hitting 10K subscribers Keith!! You deserve it. Nice demonstration on proper use of the follow rest. I too am missing them for both of my lathes. Bummer. I look forward to seeing you build one for your lathe. Hey I'm hoping you get to stop by and pay me a visit soon! Thanks for sharing man. Adam
Congratulations Keith you have a very interesting channel and that is why you have so many subscribers. Thanks for your time explaning every step on restoring these historical relics. Few people in the world have your patience dedication and appreciation for these machines. Thank You!!!!
Good demonstration of that follow rest Keith; it helps to see just what it's for when it's in use, thanks for sharing! 10K viewers to nearly 66K in just 2 years?! Wow! Congrats!!
Keith, Congratulations of the 10K subscriber mark! There's a reason for this (and for others like you): You can tell that your work is a labor of love. You are also willing to let us watch over your shoulder while you work. You explain what job needs to be done and how you are going to do it. Thanks for sharing! Before you know it, you'll hit the 50K mark! Regards, Dave
Keith, congratulations on 10,000 subscribers--a milestone! I love to see those chips curl off newly cut threads. To me a custom made thread in a lathe looks like art, somewhat like Adam's and Tom's artwork introduction to their videos. Take a picture and hang it on your shop wall. In fact, be proud and take several pictures of your work for wall hangings! Showing how the steady rest keeps deflection out of your work piece was educational. As usual, I enjoyed your quality workmanship producing quality results!. Thanks....13
Consultations on your mile marker. I was cutting 3/4 - 10 left hand threads & forgot to turn my upper cross table to the left until I was watching this. :-)
That funny because it look like it belongs on your Lathe. The steed rest that is. It has the same paint job. Love the video’s. Iam just starting out as hobbyists and loving it.
Who was the lucky 10,000th subscriber? That would be cool to see you do a follow rest project from casting to finished. Especially if you use the original as a pattern.
Keith, you're super awesome so the 10K mark is well earned. Now, we have to go to 20K and beyond!!! :) Loved this video, thread cutting being my favorite part of lathe work but also because i like seeing machinery getting reunited with it's accessories, so the announcement of the casting was nice. Hopefully you will do a follow up video, even if just a smaller part of a larger video with the completed piece. Purely out of curiosity, how long do you estimate for the completion of the planer?
Hi Keith 1st..congrats on the 10k as you have a great information on your channel along with superior production Thanks for showing the steady (follow rest!!!!) rest,....lol. I purchased one for my lathe but yet have had the opportunity to use it. Hmmmm..got to think up a project! ATB Chuck
I too will be interested in seeing how you cast a follow rest. I have a little 8" Southbend that I have neither a steady or follower for. Now that you mentioned making one from cast, I think I will hold off as I was going to cut one and fab them out if steel. Congratulations on your 10k!
***** That's what I thought you were saying. I need to come up with a design to have a mold built so I can get these made. I think staying with the cast will retain the image of my 1929 heritage. Thanks for sharing! Razor!
Keith, what type of material is used on the follower where it touches the part being machined? I don't see anything that looks like a roller of any kind. Is it a soft metal and if so, does it get into the part or cause any wear? I loved doing this kind of stuff in metal shop in high school and worked for a short period of time as a gear cutter's apprentice at Otis Elevator Company in Yonkers, NY in the late 60's. Great stuff! Rich
Keith raises an interesting point. The use of bronze fingers on a travelling steady (I prefer that term because it's sometimes better to set them leading, rather than following) can potentially be a trap when screwcutting, as I found when I borrowed one years ago to cut a long stainless screw for a jockey wheel elevation mechanism. The rest I borrowed did not have really deep (or long) fingers or pads like the L&S item in the video, and they were bronze. What happened was that the trapezoidal thread I was cutting raised slight burrs either side of the groove, and the heavy cutting pressure caused these burrs to carve a shallow trench in the narrow bronze pads. This was not particularly a problem except that after a couple of passes, when I went to disengage the half nuts, I was somewhat perplexed to find that the carriage kept on moving towards the tailstock of its own volition. The newly 'threaded' steady pads were acting as de facto half nuts, with the workpiece taking over the duty of leadscrew. So when I came to make my own travelling steady (lead or follow rest) I made sure to build one with rollers. And when I fitted out a bigger lathe, I made a mobile "dead man's pedal" for it, so that whenever I take the weight off the ball of my foot, the spindle rotation stops short.
So what do you do when you are turning down the diameter? At the end of the cut at the chuck, there will be a step that is uneven which will cause you to have to start closer to the tail stock every time you go deeper. I had this problem when I was turning down some stock and couldn't think of a good way around it short of continuously taking the follow rest on and off.
Hi Keith, I am a big fan of your video's. Looking back through your video's I couldn't find one in which you showed the build of the follow rest. Did you actually find the opportunity to build it?
Hi Mr. Rucker: I found a hand written note (maybe yours) in the Lodge & Shipley Manual X Model concerning type of oil to use calling for A4B and A06B ?, can you please mention brand used for croos-refference? Thanks Jorge
Good show Keith! A few questions: What is the bearing material on the follow rest? Did you cut the bearing surfaces to match the diameter of the workpiece? Are the bearing pads replaceable to match different workpiece diameters? Is there a reason the two rests are in those exact positions (the top one makes sense, how is the angle of the rear rest determined)? I guess that's four questions, close enough to "a few" :)
***** The part is being supported by less and less follower area as the thread is being cut. It is also slightly wearing into the follower bearing surface. Do you adjust it tighter against the part as the cut is being made? Do you decrease the feed depth as points form on the thread crests to prevent damage to them?
2012 is a small mistake for us old guys. I occasionally write 19xx. I enjoy your style -- relaxed laid back and skillful without being a snob about it.
Hi Keith, nice demonstration of follower rest. I'm trying to get one for my South Bend.What's the steam whistle in the background? Does it belong to a locomotive? Where is it located?
Georgia Museum of Agriculture, Tifton, GA. It is a 1917 Vulcan Iron Works narrow gauge locomotive. If you search through my older videos, you will find some on the locomotive.
I wonder , looking at the follower, can some retro-fitting of an all steel version where adjustments can be varied to allow better free space for cutter heads? Just something rattling around in my head Keith. I do love to tinker sometimes. *smile*
Keith, if you had rotated your toolpost 90 degrees clockwise and placed your tool holder on the left hand side of the toolpost would that have let you reduce the tool overhang? Looking forward to 100k.
Congrats on the 10,000.Does your lodge and shipply have the zero stop thumb screw on the cross feed?Mine does. It is a real nice feature that is exclusive to lodge and shippley.
Good going on 10K- woot! I was wondering during your intro to the video if you would attempt to make a copy of that rest. Considering everything else you've done on camera, that looks relatively easy for an experienced machinist. I got to looking at that and it makes me think "adjustable pillow block".
***** Yeah, it was switching my accounts on me too for a while...it happened after Google bought UA-cam and they data-mine you for all you're worth. Pigeon holing each person and attempting to sell that valuable "cookie-dough". That's my little term for the money they make from trading in your viewing data, and search history. I just watched a clip about privacy on PBS last night- www.pbs.org/newshour/episode/sunday-july-6-2014/ It details how inaccurate the companies are that monitor our locations and web-browsing habits, and they are scary invasive. Sadly the USA is the only 1st world country in the West that leaves us without any recourse for false and or misleading data. We aren't even able to view what most of the over 200 "data brokers" are collecting on each one of us, and the many uses for it they have and whom can access it beside the actual person the data stream is created by. Not that I've anything to hide, or even of interest to advertisers, it is just unjust in my eyes that I can't even access the information they keep on me, and dispute it in the event it is wrong. Which according to the reporter doing the story, 6 of the 13 companies that even talked to her, had all of he info incorrect! Sorry to get so far off topic Keith, I just wanted to tell one of your viewers about the Big Brother schemes that the internet has spawned. Congratulations again on the subscriber milestone. Time for a good old crawdad boil and some fresh corn on the cob...I'd mail you some of our corn, but it is going for so cheap now that the postage would be more than the corn, LOL! Aloha to you both and have a safe trip Mr. Rucker...Chuck.
+rektalmort I actually found a used follow rest that fits this lathe on ebay for about $100, so I ended up just buying it rather than trying to make a new one.
Keith, I'm curious about how to copy a cast part. The main issue is, I'm guessing, allowing for shrinkage. Another might be the fact that the follow rest isn't in two parts, but that could probably be handled with a coped casting, like Doubleboost showed, where you build up some sand to cover part of the pattern, ram the other half on top, then flip it and do the part that was buried in the temporary sand you built up. Not sure how you'd deal with shrinkage though. -- Mike
Big congratulations on hitting 10K subscribers Keith!! You deserve it.
Nice demonstration on proper use of the follow rest. I too am missing them for both of my lathes. Bummer. I look forward to seeing you build one for your lathe.
Hey I'm hoping you get to stop by and pay me a visit soon!
Thanks for sharing man.
Adam
4 years later and you are at 119K subscribers. Wonderful videos to watch. Thanks.
Congratulations Keith you have a very interesting channel and that is why you have so many subscribers. Thanks for your time explaning every step on restoring these historical relics. Few people in the world have your patience dedication and appreciation for these machines. Thank You!!!!
Congratulations on hitting 10,000. It is people like you who have made youtube what it is today. Thank you for all you do.
Leon
Thanks for all the good information on what is rapidly becoming a lost art.
Good demonstration of that follow rest Keith; it helps to see just what it's for when it's in use, thanks for sharing!
10K viewers to nearly 66K in just 2 years?! Wow! Congrats!!
Thanks! The channel has grown way beyond what I ever imagined that it could....
Keith,
Congratulations of the 10K subscriber mark! There's a reason for this (and for others like you): You can tell that your work is a labor of love. You are also willing to let us watch over your shoulder while you work. You explain what job needs to be done and how you are going to do it. Thanks for sharing! Before you know it, you'll hit the 50K mark!
Regards,
Dave
Here I am rewatching this one, and you're almost up to 170,000 subscribers. Five years really increased your viewership!
Keith, congratulations on 10,000 subscribers--a milestone!
I love to see those chips curl off newly cut threads. To me a custom made thread in a lathe looks like art, somewhat like Adam's and Tom's artwork introduction to their videos. Take a picture and hang it on your shop wall. In fact, be proud and take several pictures of your work for wall hangings!
Showing how the steady rest keeps deflection out of your work piece was educational. As usual, I enjoyed your quality workmanship producing quality results!.
Thanks....13
That is great! It has been years and years since I have seen the threading rest used. It brings back god days past.
Consultations on your mile marker. I was cutting 3/4 - 10 left hand threads & forgot to turn my upper cross table to the left until I was watching this. :-)
Hi Keith,
Congratulation for the 10k mark.
I like following your channel, staying with you and appreciating it.
Thanks for sharing,
Pierre
Congratulations Keith, 10K and you deserve all of them.
Nice use of he follow rest, great video. Congrats on the 10k. Thanks for sharing the project.
Hi Keith,
Nice video on the follow rest.
Congrats on 10,000+ subscribers! Many more to come!
Thanks!
Jeff
Many times I have wished for a follow rest for long shaft work on my Monarch CBB. It is nice to see one in action!
That funny because it look like it belongs on your Lathe. The steed rest that is. It has the same paint job. Love the video’s. Iam just starting out as hobbyists and loving it.
Congrats on the 10K mark, Keith keep up the great videos.
Great video! Could you tell the difference using the following rest, compared to when you did threading jobs without it?
well done on hitting 10 thousand subscriptions Keith keep the great videos coming
Happy 4th Keith! Congrats on 10k subs.
I like these shots with the camera mounted on the carriage; it kinda looks like the screw is driving itself through the cutting tool and follow rest.
9:13 I always like the train whistles in the background audio of your videos 👍
congrats on the 10k subs Keith. I can't wait for the follow rest build vids. I have wanted to make one for my lathe as well.
Congrats on the 10K mark !
That's another 2 years you have added on before you retire Keith ;-)
Congratulations on your 10,000th
Who was the lucky 10,000th subscriber?
That would be cool to see you do a follow rest project from casting to finished. Especially if you use the original as a pattern.
Great info Keith... and congrats on 10k subscribers... :)
Keith, you're super awesome so the 10K mark is well earned. Now, we have to go to 20K and beyond!!! :)
Loved this video, thread cutting being my favorite part of lathe work but also because i like seeing machinery getting reunited with it's accessories, so the announcement of the casting was nice. Hopefully you will do a follow up video, even if just a smaller part of a larger video with the completed piece.
Purely out of curiosity, how long do you estimate for the completion of the planer?
congratulations you deserve it simon
Hi Keith
1st..congrats on the 10k as you have a great information on your channel along with superior production
Thanks for showing the steady (follow rest!!!!) rest,....lol. I purchased one for my lathe but yet have had the opportunity to use it. Hmmmm..got to think up a project!
ATB
Chuck
I too will be interested in seeing how you cast a follow rest. I have a little 8" Southbend that I have neither a steady or follower for.
Now that you mentioned making one from cast, I think I will hold off as I was going to cut one and fab them out if steel.
Congratulations on your 10k!
***** That's what I thought you were saying. I need to come up with a design to have a mold built so I can get these made. I think staying with the cast will retain the image of my 1929 heritage.
Thanks for sharing!
Razor!
Congrats on your 10,000 subscribers
congrats on your 10k scribes, great video thanks for sharing :)
Hi Keith from Australia!.Congratulations on 10,000.Mate keep up the great work(-;
Keith, what type of material is used on the follower where it touches the part being machined? I don't see anything that looks like a roller of any kind. Is it a soft metal and if so, does it get into the part or cause any wear? I loved doing this kind of stuff in metal shop in high school and worked for a short period of time as a gear cutter's apprentice at Otis Elevator Company in Yonkers, NY in the late 60's.
Great stuff!
Rich
Keith raises an interesting point. The use of bronze fingers on a travelling steady (I prefer that term because it's sometimes better to set them leading, rather than following) can potentially be a trap when screwcutting, as I found when I borrowed one years ago to cut a long stainless screw for a jockey wheel elevation mechanism.
The rest I borrowed did not have really deep (or long) fingers or pads like the L&S item in the video, and they were bronze.
What happened was that the trapezoidal thread I was cutting raised slight burrs either side of the groove, and the heavy cutting pressure caused these burrs to carve a shallow trench in the narrow bronze pads. This was not particularly a problem except that after a couple of passes, when I went to disengage the half nuts, I was somewhat perplexed to find that the carriage kept on moving towards the tailstock of its own volition. The newly 'threaded' steady pads were acting as de facto half nuts, with the workpiece taking over the duty of leadscrew.
So when I came to make my own travelling steady (lead or follow rest) I made sure to build one with rollers.
And when I fitted out a bigger lathe, I made a mobile "dead man's pedal" for it, so that whenever I take the weight off the ball of my foot, the spindle rotation stops short.
So what do you do when you are turning down the diameter? At the end of the cut at the chuck, there will be a step that is uneven which will cause you to have to start closer to the tail stock every time you go deeper. I had this problem when I was turning down some stock and couldn't think of a good way around it short of continuously taking the follow rest on and off.
Hi Keith, I am a big fan of your video's. Looking back through your video's I couldn't find one in which you showed the build of the follow rest. Did you actually find the opportunity to build it?
Hi Mr. Rucker:
I found a hand written note (maybe yours) in the Lodge & Shipley Manual X Model concerning type of oil to use calling for A4B and A06B ?, can you please mention brand used for croos-refference? Thanks
Jorge
Good show Keith! A few questions: What is the bearing material on the follow rest? Did you cut the bearing surfaces to match the diameter of the workpiece? Are the bearing pads replaceable to match different workpiece diameters? Is there a reason the two rests are in those exact positions (the top one makes sense, how is the angle of the rear rest determined)?
I guess that's four questions, close enough to "a few" :)
*****
The part is being supported by less and less follower area as the thread is being cut. It is also slightly wearing into the follower bearing surface. Do you adjust it tighter against the part as the cut is being made? Do you decrease the feed depth as points form on the thread crests to prevent damage to them?
2012 is a small mistake for us old guys. I occasionally write 19xx.
I enjoy your style -- relaxed laid back and skillful without being a snob about it.
Happy 4th! & 10K!!!
Hi Keith, nice demonstration of follower rest. I'm trying to get one for my South Bend.What's the steam whistle in the background? Does it belong to a locomotive? Where is it located?
Georgia Museum of Agriculture, Tifton, GA. It is a 1917 Vulcan Iron Works narrow gauge locomotive. If you search through my older videos, you will find some on the locomotive.
I wonder , looking at the follower, can some retro-fitting of an all steel version where adjustments can be varied to allow better free space for cutter heads? Just something rattling around in my head Keith. I do love to tinker sometimes. *smile*
I am quite sure an all steel version could be made. But, I have since found an original for this machine so no longer any need!
Just my tinkering coming to the surface. Kinda like" I wonder if I did this or that would I have it pass or flop.
Congrats on the sub count Keith. ;-)
Great video as always.
Colin
So if you are using a follow for turning, you have to re-adjust it after every cut?
Keith, if you had rotated your toolpost 90 degrees clockwise and placed your tool holder on the left hand side of the toolpost would that have let you reduce the tool overhang? Looking forward to 100k.
As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~
Can't wait to see the pattern making on the follower rest hard to find demos on the subject.
Are the supports brass? If so, do the cut threads wear into the brass?
Congrats on the 10,000.Does your lodge and shipply have the zero stop thumb screw on the cross feed?Mine does. It is a real nice feature that is exclusive to lodge and shippley.
***** can i have your e mail address so i can send you info on the micro ball screw on the lodge and shipply?
***** i have a manual on lodge and shipply if you need a copy.Call Dave 716-830-3618 if you want.
Good going on 10K- woot!
I was wondering during your intro to the video if you would attempt to make a copy of that rest. Considering everything else you've done on camera, that looks relatively easy for an experienced machinist.
I got to looking at that and it makes me think "adjustable pillow block".
Sorry- this should be my correct nic. D@#! UA-cam keeps switching my account around....
*****
Yeah, it was switching my accounts on me too for a while...it happened after Google bought UA-cam and they data-mine you for all you're worth. Pigeon holing each person and attempting to sell that valuable "cookie-dough". That's my little term for the money they make from trading in your viewing data, and search history.
I just watched a clip about privacy on PBS last night- www.pbs.org/newshour/episode/sunday-july-6-2014/
It details how inaccurate the companies are that monitor our locations and web-browsing habits, and they are scary invasive. Sadly the USA is the only 1st world country in the West that leaves us without any recourse for false and or misleading data. We aren't even able to view what most of the over 200 "data brokers" are collecting on each one of us, and the many uses for it they have and whom can access it beside the actual person the data stream is created by.
Not that I've anything to hide, or even of interest to advertisers, it is just unjust in my eyes that I can't even access the information they keep on me, and dispute it in the event it is wrong. Which according to the reporter doing the story, 6 of the 13 companies that even talked to her, had all of he info incorrect!
Sorry to get so far off topic Keith, I just wanted to tell one of your viewers about the Big Brother schemes that the internet has spawned.
Congratulations again on the subscriber milestone. Time for a good old crawdad boil and some fresh corn on the cob...I'd mail you some of our corn, but it is going for so cheap now that the postage would be more than the corn, LOL!
Aloha to you both and have a safe trip Mr. Rucker...Chuck.
10K Cool, perhaps you will double down on that in no time with these great videos Keith.
i have searchd the video for making the Follow Rest but i dident found it.... someone knows where i can find it?
ok, then i wait for it.. I am sure it will be very intresting.
How is the making of the followrest going? Would love to see it:)
+rektalmort I actually found a used follow rest that fits this lathe on ebay for about $100, so I ended up just buying it rather than trying to make a new one.
+Keith Rucker - VintageMachinery.org - Oh I see! Well spent money :)
I was like "How the hell is he cutting right hands threads that way?" Then I saw him thread the nut. I no longer have an attention span apparently.
Nice but why so much overhang on that tool?
You make it look too easy. Congratulations on hitting 10,000 :)
Was that an Acme or square thread?
You ever end up casting a copy?
Hey, congrats on 10K subscribers! Well earned.
I bet you could make a follower without needing a cast done.
I bet he wants it to look like the OEM one.
This was filmed 2 years ago ?
*you said 4 july 2012) :D
it racing
Great video Keith, congrats on 10K! Your efforts to be through have paid off...
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Good
thank you , from pakistan
LOL 9:14........ that was on purpose.......... 😁
good video but you need to get to the point.
Can't wait to see the pattern making on the follower rest hard to find demos on the subject.
Keith, I'm curious about how to copy a cast part. The main issue is, I'm guessing, allowing for shrinkage. Another might be the fact that the follow rest isn't in two parts, but that could probably be handled with a coped casting, like Doubleboost showed, where you build up some sand to cover part of the pattern, ram the other half on top, then flip it and do the part that was buried in the temporary sand you built up. Not sure how you'd deal with shrinkage though.
-- Mike