Making a Mini Lathe Mystery part.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This week we make a mystery button on the mini lathe. Guess what it is and Ill pin the 1st correct answer I see. Thanks for watching everyone.
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GM flasher button
Good job 👏 👍 You nailed it
@@SteveSummersAnd what is a "GM Flasher Button"?
It's for the emergency or 4 way flashers on a GMC but it is a very common type of button usually located in the steering column.
Thank You! That would've been stuck in my head like a name I couldn't remember for the rest of the day if you hadn't said it.
@@RoyBlumenthal
did you play? with the girls growing up?? while us boys watched dad repair everything?? not that that is weird. .🇨🇦🤓🤙
Aluminium. Thank you Steve all the way from England ❤❤
Aluminum.
Missing you this weekend my friend. This throws the whole weekend into a tizzy, LOL. Hope to see you soon.
Good day Steve! First time I heard an American guy say alum-in-i-um! lol take care from the UK Cambridgeshire fens!
Good to hear you speaking English. Aluminium 🤣🤣. Steve UK
You see? There are some Americans that are bi-lingual!😀
The translation into the King's English is much appreciated 😂 🇬🇧
It's those little things that make you feel welcome here :)
Is it a LIKE button??? Press here!!! I did. God Bless
We all hate that little plastic things that break . Well done . Nice B.O.M. sticker on the toolbox too .
Push button release for big umbrellas most likely less likely for a chair folding maybe for a walker
Cora in "Supervisory Mode" 🤣🤣🤣
Since you need to make two of them, I think it might be a pair of release buttons for something that retracts or folds. Maybe the foldimg handle of a lawn mower.
On behalf on every non American we appreciate your pronunciation of aluminium 😂
Aloooooohhhhminnnnuhhhhhm
Thanks for the morning entertainment, its an emergency flasher button for the trucks. Miss the good Saturday videos. Hope the family is doing well.
Always nice to see the odd 'basics' video that doesn't require $100,000 worth of specialized machinery and tool and die maker skillset. Cheers!
Steve is good at that. That is why I am a fan of this channel.
Mornin' Steve, Nice work on the flasher button and working on the mini lathe.
Cheers Steve from Dorset, UK👋 (Al-u-min-ium 😂)
It's for a pin-ball machine!
Very interesting. Great video..
Aluminium. Thank you Steve all the way from Austraya
Very clever.
Finally below 110 out here in Phoenix. Wearing a Parka today as it is 71 and cloudy. Always love the varied content and the laid back way of presentation. Thanks for another great one.
Nice to see the @BadObsessionMotorsport sticker in the frame :)
Sounds fascinating
4 way flasher button. i have a freebie former high school shop lathe and appreciate your work.
I think you got it. I swore it was a release button on a panel but I think you're right.
Sure a lot better weather this week than last!
Yeah Buddy, we were in the deep freeze last week. I was lucky to keep the pipes from freezing 🥶
@@SteveSummers None of mine froze this time but I did have to go thaw my neighbors one day. Fortunately they didn’t break.
As my dad would say; "Colder than a welldigger's knee."
Thanks so much for the great video. I grew up on a ranch in the Never Summer Range in Colorado. Most 4th of July was celebrated in the snow. I am now in my 80’s and live in San Diego - have had enough of cold and snow! Spent part of last week re-watching the workshop repair - really enjoy those videos. Still laugh at when you “locked” the key inside the shop! Remember safety third behind fun and educational.
I really liked the shop rebuild videos also, that was a great series and I looked forward to next episode every week. I enjoyed the truck rebuild too, I’ve always been a gearhead so that was right up my alley. I wish they would have showed the big one ton pickup with a little more detail although some viewers are more interested in the machining part of these videos, so I understand. Variety in these videos has to appeal to more people but you have to keep your base happy.
😁 I kept forgetting those keys.
That the work my little 6” Atlas can handle. Thanks for sharing. Would be sweet in brass.
Your content is always superb Steve. Big (work safe) love from the UK 😽
When I had my mini lathe I found engaging the lead screw half nuts (without the lead screw rotating of course) then use the compound for advancing the tool. This gave a bit more of a rigid set up. Also bringing the tail stock up against the carriage and locking it (no tooling in it of course) helped too. Just some thoughts.
I do the same with my mini lathe to fix the carriage quick and dirty. When I need to actually lock it, I added a clamp to clamp the saddle to the ways. Plenty of videos on UA-cam on ways to do that, all of which are well within Steve's capabilities.
I was thinking a simple plate resting in the space between the carriage and the headstock would also give a hard stop to the carriage so that pressure on the handwheel would just be a case of keep the carriage against that plate. A similar thing could be done between the carriage and a locked tailstock. Add a screw if you want some adjustability.
I’m in a part of Canada where winters are tough so ya, 32F is a warm winter day. Your summer temps and humidity in Kentucky would kill me. If there’s no snow on the ground I’m generally too hot. It’s all about what you are acclimated to. Oh and the mini lathe is the gateway drug to machine tools. Mine gateway was a taig, which is a less capable machine - no power feed.
I am subscribed and haven’t seen a video of yours in my feed for over a year….. I almost forgot about your channel. I hate when UA-cam does that.
Nice work. It's the button release on I want to say a tool box or a panel on the side of a truck, tractor or generator access panel. I just can't picture the panel though. I want to say the side of a work truck or welding truck. You would push the button to release the hatch or panel to the tool storage panel maybe? I just can't picture where though.
I started down the hobby machine rabbit hole with a mini lathe. I probably spent more time modifying it than I did actually making stuff with it. When I got my bigger lathe, a South Bend 9A clone made in Australia, I sold the mini but I wish I'd had the room to keep it. It was really good for making small parts.
Good morning Steve and fellow Steve watchers. One of my favorite weekly views. Who wouldnt have a bear with this guy, hes great.
Great Video.
Awesome parts..
Great little project. It is an emergency flasher actuating button on General Motors cars and trucks. It mounted on the side of the steering column.
Machinist show: using a tool to repair itself; for which we had to make a tool using a few other tools. Nice
Great to see a new post! --20c here in North Ontario with about 1&1/2 ft of snow on the ground.
Looks like a 4 way flasher for older gm products. My quess would be for 1 for each of the 2 square body truck 4 way flasher column switch
Thank you Steve for another great video i have my shop built now but no heat yet and im in Oklahoma this past week has been freezing lol
Steve, another great video, thanks. I like seeing someone still striving for the best quality finish appropriate to the part. It's good to see quality work done on a $600 machine and not using a CNC setup that's out of reach for most folks.
I love your hound, and I always search out your nature-spotting video at the end.
I have no idea what you made, but I enjoyed the journey almost as much as if making the part myself! Thank you.
Yep, I grew up in the 60's and 70's (im 64) and rode in as well as drove many GM cars with this same little button, dont remember ever breaking one though, but it wasnt used all that often either.
I suspect it broke because the plastic "aged/oxidized"...
Mini lathe is a gateway tool, I speak from experience!!!!!!!
The triangle vent window.
That's criminally cold! If they ever catch whoever's responsible for such low temperatures, they're going to do some serious prison time!
Seriously though, as someone who lives in a place that almost never drops below freezing, even in the deepest darkest depths of winter, I wouldn't be leaving the house if it got that cold.
Thanks a bunch for today my friend. That is a fun one.
The flasher button you pulled in your dad’s ol square body along with messing with anything else in the cab as a kid.
I think I would have been tempted to make it out of black Delrin.
Steve my uncle has the same lathe, but he got sick of the cleaning the chip tray. So he removed it and found a file cabinet on casters of the same size to mount it to. He cut the top where he could fold down the sides at a 45* and spot welded bent trangles in the corners making a funnel so the chips could fall down into the top drawer. The drawer also had a feature when he pulled it out the bottom would open dumping the contents into a tub. Absolute Genius Right!👈👈😮😮🤯🤯Blew my mind when I saw it. 😎😎💡💡Plus he made a quick 2 sided way clamp to stop the carrage from backing off.
Looks like a toy compared to all your other machines but seems to really work great for something small. Really nice job. Good to see you this week, miss not watching your videos Saturday mornings, but very understandable. So till next time take care n give the little one a hug.
Pretty cool on the little mini lathe..love seeing em being used!
Keep em coming!!!!
Aloom in eeyum 🤣🤣
Chevy flasher switch!
yup i have used that button many times
It's cold where I'm too! I start wishing for summer about the first of November.
Dang it I drove so many GM trucks back in the day. I should’ve guess it. Thankfully for your time and knowledge, your neighbor Dave in Louisville
Aluminium, must sound strange saying it like that. 😁 I heard that and thought to myself, did I just hear that?
Well done on your pronunciation of “aluminium” and welcome to the rest of the world, except Canada of course. I hate being cold and I hate cold weather so of course I live in one of the few places in Australia that regularly get sub zero C temps during winter. I also hate snow and I think the government should ban the stuff. Cheers, Stuart 🇦🇺
Thanks so much for the video!...you guys with your big machines have taught me so much about how to think and do on my scale of 'work'! I owe All'Y'All an immense debt!
Lovin the little lathe!...I have a Sherline that's made a bunch of brushless model airplane motors, along with all kinds of other very precise, tiny, widgets and gee-gaws! Like you said...brass and al-you-min-yum are its playground. 12L14 steel makes nice, soft, bits of 'tooling'...and anything harder...well...Did I mention that she really does well in al-you-min-yum?!
Ooohh! That was quite the conversation your tool had with the workpiece! Reminds me of the many I've heard! Nudging the Sherline's limits is NOT rewarding at all! I get stuck a lot in situations like that pocket you are making...not enough torque to get under the frequency, and not enough power to feed through or get over the top. You just gotta put another twist in the earplugs and sit there! I've found out many times just how good those 1/4" Chinesium Carbide bits are when they chirpin' like an angry chipmunk! {PLINX!}
Top of the steering column… nice job…
some of us can take the cold,, I would die in your summer heat and humidity. You seem to handle it just fine.
Ironically, as soon as the video ended and the GM part was pinned by Steve, a Ford ad started.
As an auto tech, I knew what it was as soon as you showed the broken pieces of plastic. I didn't realize you hadn't said what it was at that point.
The gas station owner i worked in the repair shop called me at 1am. Get to the station right now. I jumped in my massively loud big block chevy powered 66 GTO and sped over. Reached into his 79 eldorado and grabbed that whole hazard flasher knob assembly and tugged on it to turn off the hazard flashers. The owner said top off your car with premium and have a good night. Premium was like $1.28.9 a gallon. Nothing like an early morning cruise to santa monica beach . Down to LAX to watch the planes take off and land. Seems like yesterday. But it was 42 years ago
4 way flasher button. Nice! We have snow in Hells Canyon!
Love Cora shes a sweet dog - nice video of her, shes got her very own woods and creek to frolic in and a nice warm home with good food love and care to go with it - shes really got a nice life at her "summers home" - lol
Life’s good! Lol
4 way flasher button
Gm column push pull flasher button.
Hi Steve. I have to admit that although I've seen that part 100's of times, I didn't recognize it out of its natural habitat. Nice little bit of bling for the square bodies!
Yea we played in it when we were young
GMC Hazzard button on the steering column
did appreciate the nod to your UK watchers at the beginning - also BOM sticker 👍
Thank you @Steve for having a really good try at pronouncing Aluminium correctly. 😆
4 way Flasher button
Small to Big? This takes me back to 2018. My machinist retired, and said "You need to find another or buy you some shop machines (@@)! A craigslist SB 9c popped up with lots of tooling. Basket case for under 500. A year later (& watching too many YT Machinist like you) after it was fully restored and the new wore off, went back on craigslist, and brought me 2500. That of course bought a nice LeBlond 17 with tons of tooling. But still miss that old SB 9 at times. Great little video Steve, but like you, ready for summer 🙂. Kora made me cold running the creek line,,,Burrrrrr ! Yeepers, another viewer nailed it on a flasher 4 way button 😞Bear.
I really, really miss my SB 9.
Nice little project Steve, hope the weather warms up soon.
ATB.....
For some inexplicable reason, I kept expecting Steve to make a bracket. Dunno what made me think that...
Hazard light button on the steering column of your C10!
My bad, looks more like a K10.
I'm with you on cold weather, I'm a bit south of you here in TN and it was 2° F this morning! No thanks. BTW, I'm sure you know this, but for viewers that's a "right hand" cutter. I know, I've always thought it seemed backwards, but that's how our predecessors named them! Thank you, and keep it going.
I knew as soon as you held up the other part. I actually have never had 1 break.
nice 👍👍👍👍
Good morning from the north end of Illinois and it's warming up here it' about -1 @ 7;00am . Didn't know it was you were making , But you did a nice job on it and it should out last the truck . stay warm till spring.
Binky fan ... nice!
Oh Steve! Well done, 1:07 American's spell it Aluminum and pronounce it Al-lum-in-um which is correct for the spelling. Here is Aus we spell it Aluminium, the addition of the i, it sounds Alu-mini-um Great work on the pronunciation especially after you have een sayiong it the other way for probably all your life. Regards a fan from Aus - now back to the video for me.
Steve, why didn’t you use the other end of the parting off blade to make the pocket tool, would have been less grinding work? Would have given you more time to spend with your grandchild ❤👍🏴
Taken lots of those off to rebuild steering columms om older GM's
Made one of the same for my 93 truck with some contour lines that match the base to my steering wheel and transfer case knob
Steve: Thanks from Thailand for another fun video on peeling aluminum. Cora doesn't like the cold, but it's not too bad as long as she can nap close to her Daddy! I swear, if she gets any sweeter she will spontaneously cumbust.
Hope the family is doing well to start this new year. BTW, next week marks my 78th iteration of "once more with feeling"!
Frank
Happy Saturday Steve, Cora, and Grits! Very inovative tool design. As always, innovative, informative, inspiring. Thanks for sharing to this 1 degree subscriber in Michigan.
Gm flasher button for sure
Thank you for sharing.👍
Hey Steve, great video and little project. I find myself missing you on Saturday morning when there's no video. But, I know that living life is much more important than making a video. Setting proper priorities for the life that is before you, is an important life skill.
Hope your doing well Steve n family glad to see ya
looking at the tiny nub left on the grooving tool for the spring pocket i wonder if it had been eazier to solder a toolsteel pin to a piece of square and cut that down to the cutter , because its round theres allready quite a bit of relief once you ct it intoo a halfround
Hazzard button.
On one hand I'm surprised to see a BOM sticker, and on the other hand it wouldn't surprise me if Steve is a BOM fan. XD They are also making car buttons.
The mini lathe is worse than all other lathes.... but way way better than no lathe at all :-)
Hazzard Lights on a GM steering column!
I did guess it was truck related, but admittedly I had to read the first comment. Never had one of those old square body's.
I've been driving for 61 years and have yet to wear out an emergency flasher button.
I'm 6'1" and I broke two of these in my Monza in the 80's with my knee while gerrin in and out.