Great info and I'd say that build ended up being an valid guide to a fully functioning rotary table for the DIYer. Using up all that thrown away metal, worts and all, shld be commended. You can build on a dime, if you are willing to go the extra mile as you did on this series of builds! Thanks again Jeremy!!
Kudos to you for this whole project, and 2× for your resourceful use - not to mention *finding* - all of that ancient cast and wrought iron. It saves money, it's way more interesting than just going out and buying a list of materials, and the uniqueness -especially of the wrought iron - is really cool! (Seriously, can you even buy wrought iron anymore, at any price??) Thanks for sharing. 👍
Why not make one yourself? Its a project that you do in your own time, and without having to use and deal with really rusty stock, you can make it much faster and less messier and easier while at it, as you dont have to swipe the machine ways every 10 or 20 seconds to avoid the terror that is rust dust on the ways...
@@camillosteuss cause projects that you know you can do already aren't projects. Thats just called work, and worse cause its not work you're getting paid to do and at 80 dollars an hour for high end precision machine work, you're paying 50 times more for a table thats not nearly as good as one I can buy and not have 15 thousand dollars wrapped up in it in time that could be spent somewhere else that pays bills. Not bagging on your shit for real cause you did an awesome job on it. But id imagine you'd be lying if you said you wouldn't want 5 thousand dollars for it if you sold it, because you know you have at least that in it in time alone. Now tell me I'm wrong lol. Edit* that rust dust is nothing compared to the chips and dust coming off that cast iron. In my experience, cast iron (especially black cast!) Is probably the worst thing you can machine on as far as jacking up ways and surfaces on mills and lathes. Machining cast, and beating on the machine with a hammer will ruin a machine at about the same rate if you aint constantly on it getting it off. And that's just what you can see, the real worry with cast is the junk you can't see that's working into every inch of your equipment like a virus working its way through your body. Js lol.
I've re-watched a bunch of your videos. Your methods of working with what you have are great. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels on YT.
I like the little homage to the wrought iron. Leaving the "petrified wood" look for knurling. Nice touch. In the end it came out great IMHO and I am confident it will give you many years of service. Cheers
I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 videos, Jeremy. Thanks for sharing your build. I just love machining cast iron, don't you? It machines soooo easily, and you don't need lubricant. And when your day is finished, you look like you've spent the day in a coal mine!
Re-watched this series while unable to sleep tonight -- I hope your kid has at least a passing interest in machining some day so this thing can stay in the family, what a treasure
Sir, you did an amazing job on this. What I especially like is that you are not using CNC machines and fancy high tech machinery to do amazing things. This is much the way I work: making the most out of basic machine tools. I wish you many years of satisfaction with your wonderful rotary table.
Very entertaining. I like the use of recycled materials, that must give you additional satisfaction making something cool from scrap instead of just buying stock to make something cool. Very 👍and subbed 🛎😁
Rewatching this for like 7th time, and one small advice i have is to get some setscrews that fit those screwholes to plug them up and still have a flat surface for working on... when you need remove them for clamping purposes, those which wont be used for clamping still remain plugged and all of it is much easier to blow off with a compressed air gun, as chips cant fall into holes but will just fall in the hex holes on the setscrews... A very nice project and one that i am going to embark on at sometime, tho not in cast iron but steel, as i have minimal access to large pieces of cast iron, but i do have access to vast amounts of good steel for coins... in regards to fits and friction... well, two hardened surfaces with good oilways have very good sliding ability with little to no wear, and i can always make bronze bushings to avoid steel on steel, tho with proper lubrication, i dont see much issue with homoferrotic action...
Hey! I just found your channel a week or so ago. I've got to say that I love the videos and it's so interesting to see things being made out of scrap stock. Makes me dream of my future machine shop when ever I have the funds to buy a house lol, anyways Love the vids, keep it up!
That would make one heck of a record Player just put a thin rubber mat on the turntable. To give the record some traction and protection. Them the tone arm and motor to spin it. I'm willing to bet the audiophiles would pay $10K for it, if you tell them it has Uber sound quality, it can't be beat! You would probably have orders for Dozens of them..
Hi Jeremy I also had a frozen collet ER42 in my mill. Lock the spindle so it can't turn then us a spanner to try and turn the collect, worked from me after hamering and trying al kinds of things The twist for releases it saw it on a russian man's video.. you obviously have to remove the draw bar first
Sounds like u may want to think about making an apparatus for using the lathe as a horizontal mill... It would give u ability to drill deeper holes I think
@@JeremyMakesThings yea ik... Sometimes I get carried away with subprojects inside of projects to make a project "easier" and I look up 13 hours later with blisters on me fingahs like "I'm hungry"...
Looking at building something similar but a bit larger. I believe I saw in another video that this did not have bearings but just oil for antifriction. Curious on how the oil film thickness affects runout? How does it compare to thrust bearings?
Beautiful piece of kit you have there. So now that you’ve had it for many months, are you still please with the functional capability (other than making smiley faces in aluminum 😂)?
Great build Jeremy! Nice to see creations from scraptonium:) You may want to machine a MT taper for added versatility. Thanks for sharing, and good luck with your channel. Canadian?
That’s a very good thought! I’m been meaning to get some MT2 framers to clean up my tail stock, but it was hard to justify it for one time use…now I can use it twice! I’ve got a project on the list that would be easier if I can put my little ER collet chuck in the rotary table. Not Canadian, but not far from there.
For me it would be saving $200 to $300 for an 8" rotary table vs. $500 worth of ruined cutters and materials. I did enjoy and learn a lot from all three videos. It encourages me to try more. I am usually afraid i am going to ruin some tool or machine.
If the stuck collet Chuck is still a problem, I've had to buy drill press drifts that have a "u" shaped slot that gradually increases in height. You hammer them between the collet Chuck and the quill and the slope greats a downward pressure that "pops" the stuck tool out of the quill.
I tried doing this with some “homemade” wedges made from mild steel, and just ended up bending the wedges. I think I’ll give it a shot with some “real” ones.
@@JeremyMakesThings yes I tried home made first and there may be designs on the internet for the shape but I had no success. I've also tried coating my MT3 tools with copper anti-seize and that was partially successful.
If there was rotation of the taper it might be friction welded in. Sometimes heating the outer taper quite aggressively can expand it and help free it, but I saw one so bad it had to be cut off with an oxy torch, then the inner taper could (just) be salvaged. That wouldn't help you much...
@@wizrom3046 plan “Z” is to take the quill out, chuck it in the lathe, cut the collet chuck off and then bore out the shank of it at a “safe” angle until it gives up. That will probably only happen when I need to change the spindle bearings.
This is something different but wondering if you had have any ideas on lengthing a EMCO unimat DB 200. Has bed woth rails if ur not sure on how its made. Not a big lathe mill combo. Need to get. 12-20" be lovely. Oh the hardest part of it all. Don't have many coins. It also got to be on cheap to scrap, but not crap pile. To maybe free pArts. Salvageable off other machines idk washer, maybe treadmill I'm looking at getting fo fifty dollars and works great. Lot of parts there. Lol and if it's even possible to do it on cheap and not wnd up with a heap. I saved and got the little unimat for 500$ and its like brand new old stock. Nice little piece so im not really wanting to destroy it cut it up. Maybe something bolt on or together. Or some parts off it headstock, tailstock, carage. Idk. Thanks.
For what you started with and what you ended up with you should hold your head up. Maybe a couple of before and after photos will convince YOU that you did a good job. What the rest of us think is, more or less, unimportant. Be proud and stamp your name and date on it. Regards and Merry Christmas from Canada's banana belt. 🌟🤞🇨🇦✨✨
@@JeremyMakesThings just seems like random scraping would do the opposite. But for sure i know much less about it than you. Lol. By random I mean not as honest as the fly cutter
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Great info and I'd say that build ended up being an valid guide to a fully functioning rotary table for the DIYer.
Using up all that thrown away metal, worts and all, shld be commended.
You can build on a dime, if you are willing to go the extra mile as you did on this series of builds! Thanks again Jeremy!!
All the nice things people has said here; well done, man.
The honesty and perseverance go a long ways, I think.
Kudos to you for this whole project, and 2× for your resourceful use - not to mention *finding* - all of that ancient cast and wrought iron. It saves money, it's way more interesting than just going out and buying a list of materials, and the uniqueness -especially of the wrought iron - is really cool! (Seriously, can you even buy wrought iron anymore, at any price??)
Thanks for sharing. 👍
Outstanding job! After seeing all the steps involved I will certainly feel a lot better about spending a big chunk of money on a rotary table!
Why not make one yourself? Its a project that you do in your own time, and without having to use and deal with really rusty stock, you can make it much faster and less messier and easier while at it, as you dont have to swipe the machine ways every 10 or 20 seconds to avoid the terror that is rust dust on the ways...
@@camillosteuss cause projects that you know you can do already aren't projects. Thats just called work, and worse cause its not work you're getting paid to do and at 80 dollars an hour for high end precision machine work, you're paying 50 times more for a table thats not nearly as good as one I can buy and not have 15 thousand dollars wrapped up in it in time that could be spent somewhere else that pays bills. Not bagging on your shit for real cause you did an awesome job on it. But id imagine you'd be lying if you said you wouldn't want 5 thousand dollars for it if you sold it, because you know you have at least that in it in time alone. Now tell me I'm wrong lol. Edit* that rust dust is nothing compared to the chips and dust coming off that cast iron. In my experience, cast iron (especially black cast!) Is probably the worst thing you can machine on as far as jacking up ways and surfaces on mills and lathes. Machining cast, and beating on the machine with a hammer will ruin a machine at about the same rate if you aint constantly on it getting it off. And that's just what you can see, the real worry with cast is the junk you can't see that's working into every inch of your equipment like a virus working its way through your body. Js lol.
Really impressive work and accurate enough for most work as well. We learn by doing!
I've re-watched a bunch of your videos. Your methods of working with what you have are great. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels on YT.
A very interesting video and in spite of the fact that I have been an engineer for nearly 50 years I still got something from it. Well done!
I'd hope so, every engineer I've ever met doesn't know their rear orifice from a hole in the ground.
Nice jod on taking a bunch of scrape and turning it in to a tool you can use. So that's what matters
You should be very proud of what you achieved from scrap.
Impressed I am. Well done.
I like the little homage to the wrought iron. Leaving the "petrified wood" look for knurling. Nice touch. In the end it came out great IMHO and I am confident it will give you many years of service. Cheers
I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 videos, Jeremy. Thanks for sharing your build. I just love machining cast iron, don't you? It machines soooo easily, and you don't need lubricant. And when your day is finished, you look like you've spent the day in a coal mine!
I watched this a year ago and reviewed it once again. Wonderful job and enormous efforts.
Wow, I just watched all three episodes of this build and it was awesome. I can’t believe you only have 364 subscribers!
Tell your friends I guess? Or maybe it’ll just be our secret?
Good job fella 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Re-watched this series while unable to sleep tonight -- I hope your kid has at least a passing interest in machining some day so this thing can stay in the family, what a treasure
Sir, you did an amazing job on this. What I especially like is that you are not using CNC machines and fancy high tech machinery to do amazing things. This is much the way I work: making the most out of basic machine tools. I wish you many years of satisfaction with your wonderful rotary table.
Great job. I find your work successes and mistakes very familiar. It great to see you stick with it. The table came out awesome.
Hi, I am Joseph from the UK. Craig Tate suggested I check out your channel and your work is fantastic. I learned a lot from just one video, thanks
Very Nice Build
I think murphy exists and he realy kicks your ass every now and then
Best wishes from the netherlands
Wow, that is one ambitious project, well done, and the filming & editing on top.
I'm tired just thinking about it 🥺
Turned lol out great.
Yeah man nice job.
That was a great ending. I enjoyed.
I was just getting ready to spend $400 dollars on an 8 inch rotory table until I see this video ! I will be making one now . Thanks.
Very entertaining. I like the use of recycled materials, that must give you additional satisfaction making something cool from scrap instead of just buying stock to make something cool.
Very 👍and subbed 🛎😁
Fantastic work man!!! Love the old iron being used to make new tooling!!! Good stuff!!!
Rewatching this for like 7th time, and one small advice i have is to get some setscrews that fit those screwholes to plug them up and still have a flat surface for working on... when you need remove them for clamping purposes, those which wont be used for clamping still remain plugged and all of it is much easier to blow off with a compressed air gun, as chips cant fall into holes but will just fall in the hex holes on the setscrews... A very nice project and one that i am going to embark on at sometime, tho not in cast iron but steel, as i have minimal access to large pieces of cast iron, but i do have access to vast amounts of good steel for coins... in regards to fits and friction... well, two hardened surfaces with good oilways have very good sliding ability with little to no wear, and i can always make bronze bushings to avoid steel on steel, tho with proper lubrication, i dont see much issue with homoferrotic action...
I did the set screws pretty much right away. Works like a charm.
Hey! I just found your channel a week or so ago. I've got to say that I love the videos and it's so interesting to see things being made out of scrap stock. Makes me dream of my future machine shop when ever I have the funds to buy a house lol, anyways Love the vids, keep it up!
Awesome build
I'm glad you like it
lovely job there. thanks for sharing, way beyond what I could do with what I've got.
It might have been a challenge, but it’s a great result. Well done!!
I love the ending. Well done.
This was so cool! You have great hands, tools and channel 😊
That would make one heck of a record Player just put a thin rubber mat on the turntable. To give the record some traction and protection. Them the tone arm and motor to spin it. I'm willing to bet the audiophiles would pay $10K for it, if you tell them it has Uber sound quality, it can't be beat! You would probably have orders for Dozens of them..
Thanks for sharing your shop work and putting together some great vids.
This has been a great build, thanks for sharing, great video, keep'um coming.
three great video's Jeremy , and you should be proud of the rotary table you created , i'd be glad to own it in my little shed/workshop !
7:16 thank god ur ok. The rag. The offcenter tool.
Why would you NOT be happy how that turned out !!!
That’s a damned nice table !!
I only wish I was half as mechanically minded as you are !!
That was a great series! Loved it 👍
I love stuff from junk.
I'd watch that scraping again tho ;)
Beautiful work. We shared this video (and the first two parts) on our homemade tools forum this week :)
Hi Jeremy I also had a frozen collet ER42 in my mill. Lock the spindle so it can't turn then us a spanner to try and turn the collect, worked from me after hamering and trying al kinds of things The twist for releases it saw it on a russian man's video.. you obviously have to remove the draw bar first
great work, bravo
Sounds like u may want to think about making an apparatus for using the lathe as a horizontal mill... It would give u ability to drill deeper holes I think
That’s a good idea, and I actually looked at doing that for this part, but for this one “making it work” in the mill was the better option.
@@JeremyMakesThings yea ik... Sometimes I get carried away with subprojects inside of projects to make a project "easier" and I look up 13 hours later with blisters on me fingahs like "I'm hungry"...
Looking at building something similar but a bit larger. I believe I saw in another video that this did not have bearings but just oil for antifriction. Curious on how the oil film thickness affects runout? How does it compare to thrust bearings?
REALLY curious where you find scrap. I think that could be a short video in itself.
I found a circular saw blade that has 100 teeth on it to use for that particular count index.
Geese I would love some of that wrought iron to forge… you could trade that to a blacksmith/bladesmith for decent steel any day of the week
Beautiful piece of kit you have there. So now that you’ve had it for many months, are you still please with the functional capability (other than making smiley faces in aluminum 😂)?
Great build Jeremy! Nice to see creations from scraptonium:)
You may want to machine a MT taper for added versatility.
Thanks for sharing, and good luck with your channel.
Canadian?
That’s a very good thought! I’m been meaning to get some MT2 framers to clean up my tail stock, but it was hard to justify it for one time use…now I can use it twice! I’ve got a project on the list that would be easier if I can put my little ER collet chuck in the rotary table.
Not Canadian, but not far from there.
For me it would be saving $200 to $300 for an 8" rotary table vs. $500 worth of ruined cutters and materials.
I did enjoy and learn a lot from all three videos. It encourages me to try more. I am usually afraid i am going to ruin some tool or machine.
If the stuck collet Chuck is still a problem, I've had to buy drill press drifts that have a "u" shaped slot that gradually increases in height. You hammer them between the collet Chuck and the quill and the slope greats a downward pressure that "pops" the stuck tool out of the quill.
I tried doing this with some “homemade” wedges made from mild steel, and just ended up bending the wedges. I think I’ll give it a shot with some “real” ones.
@@JeremyMakesThings yes I tried home made first and there may be designs on the internet for the shape but I had no success. I've also tried coating my MT3 tools with copper anti-seize and that was partially successful.
If there was rotation of the taper it might be friction welded in. Sometimes heating the outer taper quite aggressively can expand it and help free it, but I saw one so bad it had to be cut off with an oxy torch, then the inner taper could (just) be salvaged. That wouldn't help you much...
@@wizrom3046 plan “Z” is to take the quill out, chuck it in the lathe, cut the collet chuck off and then bore out the shank of it at a “safe” angle until it gives up. That will probably only happen when I need to change the spindle bearings.
This is something different but wondering if you had have any ideas on lengthing a EMCO unimat DB 200. Has bed woth rails if ur not sure on how its made.
Not a big lathe mill combo. Need to get. 12-20" be lovely. Oh the hardest part of it all. Don't have many coins. It also got to be on cheap to scrap, but not crap pile. To maybe free pArts. Salvageable off other machines idk washer, maybe treadmill I'm looking at getting fo fifty dollars and works great. Lot of parts there. Lol and if it's even possible to do it on cheap and not wnd up with a heap. I saved and got the little unimat for 500$ and its like brand new old stock. Nice little piece so im not really wanting to destroy it cut it up. Maybe something bolt on or together. Or some parts off it headstock, tailstock, carage. Idk.
Thanks.
👍👍👍
Seems like you could have indicated off the outside of the rotary table to find the center of the rotary table.
Wouldnt you want to scrape everything in after stamping the numbers in?
Find a 100 tooth circular saw blade to set up you index.
For what you started with and what you ended up with you should hold your head up. Maybe a couple of before and after photos will convince YOU that you did a good job.
What the rest of us think is, more or less, unimportant.
Be proud and stamp your name and date on it.
Regards and Merry Christmas from Canada's banana belt.
🌟🤞🇨🇦✨✨
I do believe you need to get a surface grinder.
I’ve since got one, but it would be too small for this anyway.
After you cleaned it up with a fly cutter what is the point of scraping
To make it even flatter than the fly cutter does and also make sure it’s parallel to the bottom.
@@JeremyMakesThings just seems like random scraping would do the opposite. But for sure i know much less about it than you. Lol. By random I mean not as honest as the fly cutter
22:03 - I would 😫
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Gargantuan project to make from scrap. You should be damn proud of yourself.