Just got my machine today, and ready to kick it off like a dead lepers head. Thanks from Australia!

Make sure you use Mitutoyo calipers for scribing lines on hard materials in the lathe. The combination of expensive calipers and your lathe's highest RPM setting ensure that the lines will come out very neat. And the little screw end of your Mitutoyo micrometer makes a great hammer for bashing things into alignment in the chuck. Just some pro tips to save you time.

well it's a lathe kzfaq.infoUgkxN9zrzkkhnjUF5PQbuA_B1gYdsfCu9k6z but it wasn't what i would have anticipated. Headstock, tailstock, carriage apron are manufactured from aluminum now not cast iron. The spindle diameter for the bearings is too small allowing for a few play in the spindle so I am using some blue Loctite to take out the play.

G’day ADE, top idea, got five kids in mind. As for chocking, when a child is old enough to flick their fingers I’d say they’re old enough not to eat it, caution ensure the youngest in the household meets the criteria. We worry so much. Cheers, Peter

"ish" is my favorite disclaimer. Nice relaxing project for an evening

Thank you Ade, Excellent little project. Took a bit longer than 15 mins for myself but it was the first use of my super 7 (Never used a metal lathe before). Can't believe how well it works! Really has inspired and given me the courage and confidence to go further. Lot to learn still!

Ade, Love the spinners, Great vid. Gives me a new way to try to make a top... Thanks.

Thanks for posting this. Loving that music!

What a great idea! I'm in the process of getting my first mini lathe to learn on, so this will be one of the first projects I'll do. Cheers Ade 👍🏻

Great simple project, wish I'd thought of it when I bought my first lathe :-)

A very nice beginner's project indeed. Top-notch in fact :)

very nice! I'll give it a shot when my lathe arrives. I'll use the aluminum though, as the brass would be a very expensive lesson for all my mistakes to be

Great video...just considering purchasing a warco mini lathe so looking for projects and found this one...just about to subscribe as well...

Thanks for the video, inspiring for a newbie like me.

Just found your channel, just bought a Myford Ml7

cool gonna try one now!

Give em to the kids... Or maybe not, they'll choke on them these days.. so funny, sad and true! Thanks for the share.

I like the opposed mount for your parting tool. I'll have to copy that.

Love It!!! Thanks a lot!

you are a lot, a lot faster on the lathe then me :)

Very video, thanks I like the way ur cutoff tool works, I have a Atlas lathe I am going to c if I can make it fit The way urs dose.

Excellent video, Ade. Clear and concise as always. Slightly concerned that my ML7 doesn't have the long cross slide and that I'll make a pig's breakfast of parting-off. Only one way to find out, I guess... Many thanks for posting.

excellent project.

Ayup there Ade every time i hear that intro music i expect to see Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce step onto the screen .ATB Andy.

Awesome video, where did you get the solid metal rod?

Looks fun. Is this set to the max speed? Have just got a Myford ML7 and have some brass so will have a go as my first project.

I'm with you on hogging off material with deep cuts. The Myford is capable, so why not. I can't wait for grandchildren, so I can make these for them.

Big thumbs up ! Recently got a a Myford 7 (1952) And had a practice today . One spinner in brass the other in aluminium. Longer than 15 mins I have got to get a quick change toolpost ! Many thanks ! Are there more ? 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Yep the sizes are approximate, but one thing you have to learn as a beginner is to get dimensions accurate. So it is better to practise that on object like this where it is not critical, start practising getting accurate dimensions from the start.

Nice little job, little tip, use an old paint brush n the tool insert when machining brass, saves a lot of flying mess.

Hi Ade. Good video, love your measurements. good for this project, a good beginners project. Regards Shayne -- Australia

This video was approved by Mr Approximately 👍🙂

Thanks! Just got my mini lathe. You turned the tool turret for one cut, and angled the base slide for another.....how to decide which to angle?

Great project dear man 👍

Hi Ade, My father has different type of lathe machines in India. He has business since last 50 years. I would like to connect with you and discuss about future projects in which we can work together.

I've never really seen a caliper used in that fashion. I was wondering why you wouldn't use the carriage indicator to dimension the part?

I am new to turning myself, what size tooling do you use in the Dickson style qctp? Trying to get my head around the tooling hss or carbide ?

Just subscribed.

dear Ade, I was very fortunate to have inherited a 1949 ML7 from my late uncle who was a life long engineer, unfortunately I have a very limited knowledge of what can be achieved on it or how to go about achieving it, I find your videos very informative and would be grateful for any tips and advice you may be able to give without me becoming a pest, the lathe its self seems in good working order and i have tinkered with it with varying degrees of success on a few projects, I have noticed that mine is blue, most peoples are grey, and there are parts on your lathe that are not on mine, I understand that each one was probably uesed for a specific job but each time i watch a video of an ML7 i look and think, I havent got that bit, like your thread turning indicator and so on, i would be grateful for any tips and help,, ,, , yours john

Darn kids, choke on anything these day's. Ah the good old days, when kids played with marbles and didnt eat them

do you have a video on the drop hammer?

its the hogging off with my chinese 7x14 thats the killer rest is easy

Hi Ade do you undertake commissions?

Holy Cow! Using the caliper points to scribe a moving part in a chuck, 'nice' way to wreck a caliper, I'd be fired if I did that! (idea, make a scriber point and mount in a quick change tool holder!)

boy you were really taking off a lot of material that on each pass that's not really advisable that's where all the noise was coming from

2:56 EH? WHASSAT? YOU SAY SUM'N? ME GEAR IS BEATIN? I CANNAE HEAR NON! I THINK ME EARS IS BLEEDIN...

do you have a blueprint for this ?

There we have 95% of one's stock brass becomes sand and grit on the floor. Cute.

Nice but beginners like me can't do it for 15 minutes.

use er collet next time? 🤔

Why so many dislikes?

my gosh you cut down and wasted so much still to make that little thing course I guess if you're just playing around it's good practice

why do folk use callipers as scribers?

I would have got a kick in the pants if I used a digital caliper to scribe lines,not a good look

A caliper is not a scriber

G'day Ade, It's Geoff from downunder Melbourne Australia. I did expect a reply from you like that.I don't care if it's your caliper, it's tool abuse a precison measuring instrument cheap or not. If you were working in my shop and I seen you doing that , it would be onya bike and don't come back. As I said not a good look. COOEE GE🎃FF

Poor calipers……

Why does every hobby machinist think it's ok to do that to calipers? FFS.

I hate seeing vernier type callipers being abused in this way!!!