Lathe Leveling
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2016
- Covering an old classic: Leveling a lathe so it turns concentric parts.
Special guest Keith Fenner!
I've over simplified in few areas -- my intention is to convey / shed light on the general mechanics while still making a watchable video about an otherwise (probably) dry topic.
Dale Derry / Metal Tips & Tricks Leveling a Lathe: • Metal Lathe 101, Tip ... - Наука та технологія
Great Job! and a great subject, to expand on. Glad I could drop in and help out! LOL ;{)------
The master has spoken. :)))
Keith Fenner
Please join Tony in another video Keith haha!
This is hilarious I watch it all the time. Please make it happen Tony.
Damn how I would have loved to have been a mosquito on the vice when you were watching this video Mr. Fenner!!!!
Now you need to get him back! Do a This Old Tony spoof. ;)
And to think... This well spoken, witty, brilliant, and entertaining feller (ThisOldTony) use to not talk in his videos!
Truth be had Keith Helped me through some rough times. I was stuck in a hospital bed for 170+ days and had an uncertain future. Spent another year in s wheelchair and bed at home . Down and depressed I found Keith's videos while in that situation in the hospital and it kept me entertained while learning something. I'm much better these days but still spend time to time in bed flared up and too ill to get out of bed or leave the house. It's these times I learn all I can by watching these video of yours, Keith's, Abom, S/V Seeker, S/V Delos, La Vagabonde, and few more. I'm very grateful of you folks sharing your time and making these videos to share with us. Some of us know just how much time it takes to edit and load these videos and we greatly appreciate you doing so!
I hope you are healing well.
Hey I hope you are doing well!
I cannot begin to imagine how much work you put into making this video... It was totally worth it.
Matt Allen Tony pours a lot of work into his editing which is what makes his channel so awesome to watch. He's a skilled machinist as well as a skilled editor. 😊
So if I twist my lathe I can cut tapers?! I'm sold
Npt
Haha :D
I got mad at my 0,02mm/m level. it changed reading with me changing my position from one foot to another...and that on a 150mm thick concrete basement...easiest solution was to sell the level :D
Great idea! I've thrown my bathroom scales out, too. Keep telling me I'm gaining weight. Why's it so hard to find accurate scales?
Stefan Gotteswinter I wonder what's going to happen when you, This Old Tony, Keith Fenner and some other guys (like AvE or EEVblog or the likes) will get together and would make a machine... it'll either be glorious or fun to watch :)
Stefan Gotteswinter this reminds me of a friend of mine who refuses to use a digital caliper because its hard to ignore the decimal errors :-)
Germans have the best senses of humour!
Trying to level my lathe with a 0.05mm/m level, not much easier. Problem is the lathe is so light I don't think it's heavy enough to sit perfectly flat. I think that is why the manual says to cast bolts into the floor and anchor the lathe onto those, then adjust.
I've been watching Keith for years. This was so well done and just hilarious. I really like how you unite so many familiar you tubers in some of your videos. Since I haven't watched television in ( I can't even remember) 8 years or so, you guys have become my celebrates.
Well done!!!
“Chrome, vanadium, drop forged made in Japan” ;”Close ; cast iron made in England”!!! I was crying, laughing so hard!
Wow, you sure are easily amused. The rest of us heard it as a boring, irrelevant waste of time that wasn't even funny.
@@johncoops6897 You replied to a year old comment just to be an ass. Keep to yourself sometimes kiddo. :)
@@johncoops6897 Not sure why you say _"the rest of us"_ since the vast majority of TOT viewers aren't miserable pricks like you.
Did you account for the tides ? Lunar gravity throws my lathe out of alignment every couple of weeks.
You're joking but Airbus had problems with that :D
@@xPentag0n I find that level of precise mind boggling.
@@andrewyork3869 prepare to have your mind blown... ua-cam.com/video/sFrVdoOhu1Q/v-deo.html -- my machinist friend is happy if he can hold a tenth. I'm an amateur and I have never needed to do better than a thousandth - good enough for heat shrink fits, small O-ring grooves, and so on. But this guy - THIS GUY - ye gods! He's so next-level I can't see his level from here.
@@andrewyork3869 Ask a machinist if you can park a shop heater next to his lathe.
@@markfergerson2145 so much more goes into machining then it seems on the surface.
Great combination of two of my favorite UA-cam machining content providers! Nicely done, Tony! I was laughing aloud! Hats off to Keith….I am sure he is good-natured enough to appreciate this in full.
Watched this again 6 years later and still enjoy it. It also refreshed some forgotten nightmares, ERR, memories. :-)
Absolutely hilarious! Especially because I have watched a lot of videos from both Keith and you over the last few years. Thanks for cheering me up.
For the record Toni I shot that Lathe leveling video 3 1/2 years ago when I was living in the mountains of north Idaho. I was not 16, I was 18 yr old, but since I've been living here in hot humid Atlanta I've aged almost 35 years. I think I should move back. LOL
Yes! Move back here to Idaho!
Great job, that took a lot of work. Very entertaining and educational, a combination that is often hard to achieve. Strong work!
Thanks Jim! A pleasure to see you here.
I'm quietly in the background a lot....learning from the masters!
Watching and listening to this made my week. I had just finished watching Keith's new vid and here he was again. Well Done
Alright, Old Tony, I am quickly running out of your videos to watch. You got to make more of them. Like, quit your job and just make youtube videos. I promise to like every single one of them. Now that is something you can take to the bank and pay rent with. UA-cam likes.
ha! thanks Nick!
That mock-up is super great. Your movies are such wonderful bits of presentation and editing. Glad I found them, and thanks for making them!
one of the best, makes learning fun, enjoy watching you and Keith
Thanks for the really stomach cramping laughs in this one. I love your videos and look forward to them. Great stuff every time!
I appreciate your decication to the craft of filmmaking. All the best from NZ
That was one of my favorite videos i've ever watched on youtube! I watch all of keiths videos. Going to be watching all of yours too. Super well done, man. Thanks a ton!
Fantastic work as always Tony. I'm sure Keith will love it too!
Just fitting DROs to my new lathe, and then onto the levelling so this video was well timed.
the very best lathe leveling vid I've seen, now you see what can be accomplished when you put your head together with a Jedi Master
That was awesome! Keith did a great job what a great community of metal workers.
This Old Tony : one of the most entertaining UA-cam creators I know... Keep up the great work !
This is the most amusing video to date! I really home Keith got a chuckle out of this too! Nice work, sir.
Thanks, Tech.. that makes two of us. :)
@@ThisOldTony Do you communicate by e-mail ? I'm looking for a communicative person with a Student !
I find it really amusing how I can laugh so bad yet learn so much with a video about tuning up a lathe. Thank you, Tony. I love your channel.
Great comedy team, thanks for the video and laughs.
Tony, I want to thank you. your videos have led me to the purchase of a lathe and a mill. I am currently setting everything up and rewatching your videos for help
If and when I need cheered up, simply laugh, and learn TOT and Keith. Both of you at your best!!!
Toooney, as a student and beginner cnc-operator I love your videos. Always fun to watch and informative.
This one was great, keep it up.
Awesome, you do put in lot of time and effort to create such good content. Appreciate your humor.
TOT: You are a fabulous teacher. I have leveled machines as a job, and you really makes it understandable. 🤗
Hands down the most hilarious machining video I've ever watched! Great info as well. Thanks!
Is there some kind of award for this performance? I have never seen/heard such a dry subject keep me so entertained/listening and informed as this!!! Great, creative, WOW!!!!
Thanks Tony. Your mock up really helped explain the issues. Greet work.
Dear, This Old Tony.... another brilliant, witty and very well edited vid.
I love Keith, this mash up is just what this weekend needed :D
I'm impressed by your commitment to the bit.
Great video, thank you for your time invested to teach and make it fun.
Over the top Tony! Informative AND I LMAO! Thanks for the info and thank you Keith for helping out....
It gets harder to pick a favorite of your videos every time you upload a new one. :)
Two years later and it's impossible to pick just one favorite
Sure could have used (understand) this information years ago when I got my "well worked" lathe! Great vid again!
Loved this one! Excellent work and great humor!
Very informative. Funny as hell, too. Nice of Keith to contribute as well.
Great editing as always tony! Hilarious and informative
Ok, I actually like leveling lathes. Its a challenge to do and keep your sanity at the same time. My question is, how do you know that 'V' block you used on the front rail and that 1-2-3 block on its 2" side are parallel across the top? Did you cut the 'V' block? Nice level by the way.
@ 18:14 he says they are not the right blocks, but he has the combination somewhere :-)
He said he was just getting the bubble within the range he could read relative changes from one position to the next. It is irrelevant if the lathe is actually level. It is important that it is not twisted.
Agreed. Constant is a good indicator too. Thanks
You could use a planer gauge or adjustable parallel as part of one stack to get both sides equal.
How about an accurate automatic site level and a set of verniers ?
I swear, you make some of the funniest educational videos I've ever seen. Thank you.
This video was enlightening, thank you for being an outstanding mentor TOT. Happy Chips
This is a great video. I'm in the process of installing and leveling a new lathe myself, so this was timely. But I'm also an avid watcher of Keith Fenner's videos, and I laughed aloud throughout your video. Very entertaining as well as educational. If only all UA-cam stars were as good . . . Thanks for doing this.
I'm a changed man after watching this video! I must admit that i thought that the leveling didn´t do that much, but afte watching you put that piece of material under one of the leveling feets and show the differens it made i'v changed my mind.
Thank you for your time!
Tony is always a nice surprise. I am happy i found his channel and hope he will produce more and more contents. Applause.
I cannot believe I missed this video. The world needs you, Tony.
Great topic and absolutely hilarious! Thanks Tony!
hi tiny
another great video. great sense of humor.
I've never seen a lathe set up that way before. I've always separated the leveling process from the tailstock adjustment. I've always hung a shorter piece of material in the chuck without the tailstock in play and took a very light cut. adjust the levelers until the cut is true. at this point the ways are parallel to the center axis of the machine. Next mount a piece between centers and if you're cutting a taper then the tailstock is adjusted to correct. in your method any twisting of the ways will influence the part via the tail stock.
I hope that makes sense. at the end of the day if it's cutting right then method isn't a problem. just thought you might want to hear my way. why I don't know LOL
THANKS again for great video. I'm always waiting for more of yours.
What you described is correct. Didn't intend to do a step by step (I think I make ref to that in the beginning?), more meant to expose that lathe alignment affects the work and how it does that. In my case my lathe was fine (headstock, tailstock, twist) before I moved it. It started turning a taper after I moved it back .. so I already knew what the problem was. Thanks for watching and good comment! Maybe I have to do a follow up.
Was looking for this answer, but being a newbie I thought I better read all the accolades rather than ask a dumb questions 4 years after the fact. Cheers guys
that was amazing! you're officially one of my 3 favorite youtubers along with keith and ave now!
Your videos are so good. Great quality, and super original. Keep it up!
Great video and, as always, I enjoy your sense of humor
Great vid as always, I really like the mock ups! Helps me follow along
"My parts are small, or I can compensate"
That's just too much information.
the first guy on UA-cam to admit his parts are small
And it turned out tapered
I just knew there was a "thats what she said" coming but I guess not.
Best youtube collaboration I've seen to date!
I recognized Keith Fenner's voice in the very first two words of your video. I continue to love your wry and droll sense of humor! Just great, Dude!
This was enjoyable, really liked the choice and editing of Keiths comments.
Absolutely hilarious. I love your videos and Keith's videos.
who knew he was that sensitive about desiccant
watching your videos is time well spent - awesome!!!
That was excellent! You are a very talented guy, thoroughly enjoyed the video :)
there are a lot of components involved in accuracy, and yer efforts certainly helped, and I busted a gut with the humor, thanks for your video work
Great show, informative and funny.
Thanks Tony
I can't mash the like button enough! You sir have entertained an unentertainable person. Once again, great content and production at the highest level
Great video and love the comedy!! I could watch your videos all day.
Superb!! informative - and put me in a better mood too! love it. I have the same old colchester lathe, might be time to do a few tests on that - I think the world has twisted a bit since I first installed it!
Awesome video, very clear instructions and teachings
Thanks, that was incredibly useful. I thought I understood the various geometric issues at hand, but you really brought it all together nicely and I definitely learned a few things.Kudos on what must have been a ton of editing to get Keith to visit. He's a stubborn bugger.
Simply brilliant Tony, great idea of having Keith over to the shop to answer a few questions we have all been dying to know. I'm glad you had the courage to ask about the desiccant thing, probably easier for Keith to open up to another UA-cam machinist celebrity.
That was hilarious !!! You guys should do more of these.
Brilliant timing ! My mini lathe is almost running with a washing machine motor, and the thing turned tapers straight out of the box. Now i got a clue what to go looking for to fix that. Thanks !
Tony you always make such entertaining vides even if they weren't about machining they'd still be fin to watch.
Great video. My old atlas has been out 5 thou over 24". Could only use it for short stuff and the parts were still tapered. Got it down to 1/2 thou over the entire 40" bed. THANKS THIS OLD TONY!!!
tony you make me giggle like a little kid. thank you for all of this, greeting from germany
That mock up model took a lot of the "black magic" out of lathe leveling for me. Thanks! I could never understand it before.
Yeah, it was a really good demonstration of what we're looking to correct.
Holy fuck that was so funny!
I hope Keith is a good sport about it :)
I think he is, it's not as serious as a 4 jaw competition after all!
I haven't watched this video in 4 years, but just rewatched and I'm still laughing. Keith talk-over is just hilarious.
Gentlemens, thank you from France for this very comprehensive and useful vidéo ! It will serve my Colchester Triumph 2000. François
oh man this is awesome, cracking me up at breakfast. nice work as usual man, very entertaining!
Love the videos, this one especially. Keep them coming!
I love it! Good job with the editing. I'm sure Keith will get a kick out of it too.
Thanks for the Link on Dale Derry / Metal Tips & Tricks Leveling a Lathe. a unique and doable by most anyone especially those who do not have an expensive Precision Lathe Level
Wish the like button could be clicked more than once, great job Tony as always. Thanks man!!
Love the guest video Tony...awesome job. :-)
You're a brilliant youtuber
Great video. Thanks for putting it together!
FANTASTIC VIDEO. I wish now that I had spent ore time in the "Metal Shop" , verses the "WOOD SHOP" back in Jr/ Senior HIgh ... GREATLY ENTERTAINING !!
Thank you very much for that video! I always wondered why manufacturers making such a hype with leveling lathes with a 300$ machinists level. Now I know...
Great job!
Volker
I love that your use a Colchester student lathe, I live and work in Colchester. Shame Colchester lathes shutdown..
thats so true !! was intruduced as a machinist on a good old cholchester...thats true for all the good old companys from Germany , England and the USA ..
Excellent video! Fun and I learned something, rare combo nowadays!
Great work, hilarious! Keep them coming!
The most original and entertaining, that's for sure!
OMG, Tony you have gone to fare! lmao, keep vid's coming. thanks again and as well Keith for joining Tony in the shop.
Well, I am amazed this time, not only by all your knoledge, wich's normal through out all other videos I've seen, but this time I am also amazed by your imaination on how to explain these matters and the ways you made up to turn an almost unseanable video to a pleasent one... I am a self mde man, who would love to learn how to use a lathe, as how to weld properly, and how to use other precision's machines. But there isn't any sort of school around where I live, and I got a very much different job that happends I love too. I work in a secondary public school, and of course surrounded by teachers. We got some grand souls there. Yet none like you... Please keep iving us some more videos. Me and thousands others who could not came in to college classes have now maybe our last closer chance, right here at You Tube University.
1000 Thanks!!
This vid still cracks me up. Love the exaggerated model to show twist can affect relative tool position.