Tally Ho Capstan Project: Using the Lathe Taper Attachment to Turn Tapers on the Main Shaft
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- Tally Ho Capstan Project: Using the Lathe Taper Attachment to Turn Tapers on the Main Shaft
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I really appreciate the detailed explanation of the inner workings of each machine as you use them. It greatly enhances understanding of the machinist's craft.
Yes, like the "capstan drum or the windlass drum or whatever you want to call it."
It seems as if Leo has chosen a craftsman for this project that is as skilled and dedicated to perfection as the shipwrights he has building that beautiful vessel. It truely is a gold plated build. I can't imagine a boat being built better. Perfection personified.
Perfection personified indeed!
I turn tapers on my old beat up atlas lathe all the time- mostly not on purpose!
😂😂😂
Some of my best ideas were the results of accidents.
Best comment ever.
lol
Am I going to become a machinist? No. Am I every going to build or own a boat? No.
Have I been eagerly watching all of Leo's videos plus the related videos for years? Heck yes. The craftsmanship is incredible, and the sheer amount of detail work that is going into Tally Ho just blows my mind.
I'm a former employee of Monarch machine tool in NY. Love seeing those old units still performing! Tally Ho appreciates it also!
Keith - it’s a real pleasure to watch this - I am a time served fitter and turner - long time retired.😉👍
My father had a machine shop and I loved working there. You are an amazing patient teacher, going over things clearly and as simply as possible. I would have loved having you as my shop teacher. So now, thanks to you and UA-cam, many others can enjoy it. Only thing missing is the wonderful smell of a shop.
OMG !! When I was an apprentice millwright my dad was a journeyman and I was working with him he ask me for a 1" wrench so I handed him a crescent adjustable wrench he scouled at me and threw it down and made me get a combo wrench and after he used it I carried that wrench for the rest of the day. Then he caught me using a channel lock plier on a pump shaft to turn it. Man he was so angry I put them shithooks on a machined piece of machinery!! The lesson I learned was in His words " there is a tool a proper tool for every job " even today when I pick up that channel lock it's to do some plumbing. I write this with a big smile on my face as I have much respect for your skills but them channel locks in use on that lath made my dad's words clearly come back, may he rest in peace. God bless you always sir
Amen
My Dad was also a Millwright, and had the same work ethic as YOUR Dad. I tried to follow him into the trade, but due to the economy, I joined the Air Force as an Aircraft Mechanic. 30 + years after he passed, I STILL hear and follow his advice!
@normmcrae1140 I am 68 years old and 35+ years in the millwrights seen lots of Craftsmen in all trades it was Great !! Now they havnt put on an apprentice in 4 years in this state , no one wants to do the physical part or get greasey. Sadly the trades are being sold out. Even this old school machine work has been lost to CNC. Anyway God bless you and Good Dads that handed down the "WAY"
@@kentonyoderii3443 I agree - I LOVED being able to look at a plane or machine and say that "I FIXED THAT!"
I still do with my Motorcycles and vehicles (I'm Elbows deep in my Yamaha Bolt, right now!)
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Well I turned on my rather vintage craftsman wood lathe yesterday for the first time in a year or so, to knock out a rough tool handle, and I realized that watching these metal machining videos actually helps me remember how to operate the thing.
One of things I really enjoy about this channel is the amount of detail you go into Keith. It's great to watch.
You are a natural born instructor, clear and assured. Experience is everything!
Awesome video Keith! Your explanation of cutting tapers to 'hobbyist' machinist like me is so clear. Thank you much for taking the time to pass along your skills to all of us out here in hobby land! Great video series, exciting to see it coming together.
~Newnan, GA.
There sure is something really satisfying about a snug bearing fit!
I have a South Bend 13 toolroom lathe with the taper attachment. So far I have not had the opportunity to cut a taper with it. I had been wondering a bit about how to set it up, but your explanation is the clearest one I have seen. I am sure one day I will want to cut a taper, and will refer back to this episode when that day comes. Thank you very much!
We call that "Just like downtown!" That's where all the professionals work! I have been machining for 40 years, great job Keith.
Excellent work! Not only restoring a vintage device, but modernizing it at the same time.
"We're in the short rows now..." I haven't heard that since I was a kid. 😊
Never heard that before but understand the expression.
I am amazed at the skill of this gentleman.
You don’t have to be a millwright to appreciate the hard work and dedication of Mr. Rucker’s dedication to his work.
Thanks Keith. Brings back many happy memories of my brother Stan who was a tradesman Fitter & Turner who sadly is no longer with us. Like yourself, he was a man with a precise set of skills and a vast knowledge of lathe work.
First time in my life that I ever heard of or saw a taper micrometer. And I am an 81 y/o retired mechanical engineer that thought I was familiar with machine shop operations.
Edit to add: Another way to cut a taper is to offset the tailstock which I learned in machine shop class in 1957. We never measured the taper because approximate was close enough for the application we had. The application was a lathe dog and the tapered part fit in the slot of the lathe face plate.
I saw all sorts of exotic precision tools in the naval dock yard where I worked overhauling guided missile launchers and directors, but I never saw a micrometer for tapers either. One thing I did use was an engineers microscope and that would be a dream tool for my current workshop, probably hideously expensive though.
Keith, Mr Pete is right you are articulate and a great craftsman. Thank you for all the videos you share.
A very enjoyable series. Many thanks Keith 👍
So interesting to watch the taper setup, thanks for the detailed explanation…😊
Keith: You are the heart & soul of what makes America so great. So inspirational.
That may have been the most interesting, educational and enjoyable video yet! Every machinist I have ever met had an element of OCD. I think it’s a prerequisite to be an exceptional machinist!
Amazing! this is a lost art which hopefully with not be lost forever in the future.
Ancouple tenths ! wow your making a piano my friend. I used to work to those numbers a lot way back when.b A t6aper mic now.? what else are you hiding from us. The days of wires and various mics we were comfortable using and the "our bible" is haw it was done in days of old ! When in the day I was learning how to use Taper Attachments and Tracers I have to be honest, I was terrified. Having these videos our Leo will be just tickled to see this proses by an older type master machinist makes this great process come to being. He sure has picked up a bunch of real professionals to help him on in his dream my friend.
Thank you for this lesson on making tapper ends on shaft .... ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊 ....
Amazing to see how these components can be re-made.
Very nice work and camera work as well.....Thanks Keith.....
Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸
I had no clue how tapers were machined and tried to noodle how it gets done. Now, Keith has turned on the light bulb because he takes such effort to educate his viewers! This ancient capstan will be in high clover when complete. St Marys, GA
That jig in the back is not always common. The upper most slide that rotates is the compound slide. The one that the tools mount sits on. That one can be rotated to the correct angle for a taper, and then it can be used to move the cutter. That's the more common practice for cutting tapers. His jig is nice because it makes for a much cleaner cut.
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Your Head is working perfect with the Steel ! Relax and get a Cup of Tea....Earl Grey i prefer after a though thinkin'Job like this. Kind regards from Germany, Rudi 👍
it is the type of job where you take all the job or nothing at all, splitting between between different machine shops is just call for trouble.
very good project
very good video.
Oooo That sound at 25:43 was nice
Beautiful work, Keith.
I always wondered about turning tapers, I was excited to see you dedicate a video to these.
This is an example of brilliant teaching. Keith you are a wonderful instructor. This could not be done better. You nailed it.
Excellent work Keith, as usual! Thanks for the video.
Boy, you were a happy man when that shaft slid right into the drum like a glove. Leo is gonna love this when you're done.
Love this stuff. Never machined any metal but there’s something so satisfying about watching someone else do it!
Love your work Keith. You are a credit to machining and to the preservation of the knowledge we need to keep.
It will look and work beautifully on the deck. Thank you!
Pat yer back Keith. You deserve a big one EH !
So that’s how you do a taper! Great video. Looking forward to the slots now!
So satisfying. Keith breathed a sigh of relief with the phrase "Lookee there".
Bravo Keith, best wishes from Orlando, Paul
~ 12:00 Keith Fenner has some videos of fitting fish-boat propellers to drive shafts using tapers. He finishes the fit using various grades of fine abrasive compounds & bluing indicators to mate the two parts more-or-less perfectly. Lots of fussy work...
Such a joy to watch a real craftsman at work.
Not a machinist but understood how you machined that after explaining it.
I purchased a Southbend H10 with a taper attachment about six years ago. I never looked into using it. About four months ago I looked into using it, and noticed several parts were missing. I spent the last four months getting it to work. I learned from this video how to accurately set up to cut a taper. I also went down a rabbit hole of learning how to measure inside and outside tapers on the internet. Thank You for providing this information!
My father was a master CNC operater for John Deere for 30 years and made prototype parts for new tractors they were designing and watching you brings back a lot of memories.. He started off on machines just like this with high school education and learned a lot of match to perform the work he had to do...
I appreciate the "one step at a time" message you keep hitting on. It's pretty amazing what one can accomplish by working steadily, sequentially, and being diligent in every step. A great model for young people, if they listen!
Nice replication of the original, good for another 100 years and yes as in any complicated bit of work as you invest more effort and material costs the stress of making an error that would nullify everything invested up to that point rises exponentially!
Nice work, well done. It is scary when your working on expensive metal. As a novice fitter I wrote off a big chunk of "special K" I think it was called, not good.
takes me back to my Dad's machine shop, the taper attachment explanation really did it!
Thank you Keith!
Back in the day we had “Trava-Dials” mounted on lathes and mills.
thank you Keith
Absolutely AWESOME !!!
Love watching the channel, less a machine shop and more an art studio. You are an artist!
the tan of 3° is 0.05241
Close enough to your measured 0.052 which lets me assume, the taper was made to 3°
I was hoping somebody did the math. I did check and a MT4 is 1.4876 a MT5 is 1.5073.
The inverse sin of (0.104/1.000) is 5.970 deg. The sin of 6 degrees is 0.1045. So likely intended to be that.
It’s always a pleasure to watch mold metal into shape 👍
That fit at the end
_Engineers make the World go around ~ precision engineers KEEP it going!_
Well that turned out nicely.
well done!
I kind of love that when you first measured the tapers it gave some odd dimentions, but it turned out to be a nominal size afterall.
Nice work!
The Tally Ho is going to have an excellent piece of equipment when you are all finished.
Great explanation of taper attachment setup. Thanks
25:43 - says it all…the grand satisfaction of a job well done.
Sin(6°)=0.1045 => your measurements seem spot on
Always a good feeling when you realise you didn't screw up a huge piece of stock.
These videos give you a real appreciation of what it must cost to do do a restoration like this at retail cost. This one project is what, 80 hours of labor and machine time? Plus materials? Meoowch$.
Keith You are one of the amazing craftsman that are re-making Tally Ho into a master class of American CRAFTSMANSHIP. How sweet it is
I feel a lot better seeing all those tools piled on Keith's headstock.
Great teacher!
What a wonderful display of engineering brilliance. Keith , thank you.
Nice work Keith!
Keith your a very goo teacher t like the way you talk and show what you are about to do . Being 79 years old i like the old school way the best. The only DRO i have is on my milling machine. Thank you for a very good video.
I'd been meaning to buy an old Southbend hobby type lathe for the past 30 years. I loved machining in metal shop back in highschool. Thanks for the detailed instructions.
Beautiful!
I want to learn how to use the taper on my Monarch. Thanks Keith.
Genetic engineers should be cloning these skilled people so future generations have them. Awesome skills
watching because of Tally Ho
This is not a job that I ever see myself actually doing but, Keith you have given me a much greater understanding and appreciation of what a buddy of mine actually does for Stryker! Interesting to see, thank you!
Ok I'll feed the algorithm, Keith, you deserve it. Great job, the taper attachment sure beats hand feeding the compound. I liked seeing that taper mic in action too. You collect a lot of tools and it's great to see some of the more obscure ones brought out and used. One question: I have rarely seen you answer comments. Just busy? Your's is still one of the most watchable machining oriented channels. Quality content time after time. All the best, Mart in England.
I would watch hour-long videos like this and love every minute of them. You are informative and entertaining. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
always interesting. thanks Mr. Keith!
Great work. Totally fitting with the Tally Ho! project.
I enjoyed the farm reference "in the short rows". 😀
Wow, that was a fast 28 minutes. Bet leo is getting excited
As Richard Petty said " I would rather be lucky than good " LOL Nice job Keith.
You are doing an awesome job, with the workmanship and explaining what you are doing. I wish I had you as my shop teacher when I was in high-school.
Thank you,
I've worked on a 'male/female' tapered metal rod. It had NO keyway and did NOT twist. To disengage the tapers was the use of hydraulic oil pressurized at fitting between the two halves.
The Doctor of Precision strikes again! Fantastically Awesome job on the machining of that shaft! That taper attachment is the cat’s meow. I use mag bases and indicators on a regular basis on the CNC lathes too. It makes it easier to program the “lies” you need to make good parts…ha ha ha
A great video. What a superb lathe you have there. I used to operate a similar machine back in my youth but this one has a few extra features I could only dream of. It's great to watch an artisan at work. 👍
I'm a Perfectionist, AHH, I think That's close enough, were in the ballpark.
That's some impressive workmanship.
That was a great explanation of the taper cut. As a non-machinest, I enjoy the content
Thanks for sharing.