I appreciate that you always say "per side" or "off the diameter". So many guys don't specify when they say how much they are turning off of the part.

To hell with OSHA!! Love it! I’m in the process of buying my first lathe and mill and am so happy I’ve found your channel. Between you, Abomb and Keith Rucker (amongst others) you’ve inspired me to get into machining. As a race engine builder and off-road/snowmobile nut case with over the top OCD I think there couldn’t be a better hobby/endeavor for me than machining. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge.

It's amazing to watch you work these older machines to achieve very good accuracy and precision. It's like watching a concert violinist play an antique violin. My dad always said that it only takes two things, TALENT and PRACTICE.

Great to have you back, Keith. Thanks.

Those inserts are AMAZING-!!!

Wow that Seko insert is a real beast, didnt even flinch on those heavy cuts-!

Hi Keith. It's something just a little bit special that you allow us to watch you work. Thank you very much. Nice to see that .125 cut... you still give the old girl a workout every now and then and she doesn't seem to complain to much. No time to waste when you've got material to rough out. That's Gittin'er done!

Those chip stills at the end gonna make a nice screen saver.

Must say that I didn't know that lathe could do so heavy cuts on 4140... And the way you did it built suspense, very much appreciated. .. ☺

I had been missing a good Fenner build series, made my weekend Keith, those are some heavy cuts. keep them coming!

Two episodes with Keith and two episodes from Adam Abom79... what is this, it's not my birthday yet? Excellent, just excellent... ☺

Massive cuts, fantastic camera work, close up action video, Keith is back. Thanks Keith. Like a puppy that wants to go outside, I have sat silent waiting for you to get right with your health and all the rest, thanks for opening the door again.

Great close up video shots of some very heavy cuts. That tracer is a great bit of kit on a very capable lathe. Thanks for sharing Keith. All the best.. Jim in the UK.

Absolutely Awesome work Thoroughly enjoyed seeing you back Thanks for sharing your time and your expertise.!.!.!.

What a great invention that tracer is! Without doubt. Gonna have a mountain of chips behind the machine to vacuum up.... The still shots of the chips would make great PC screen wallpaper. A great video, thanks.

I love the work that lathe does, it takes anything you ask of it and makes it look easy! I know it isn’t, but it looks that way!

Thank you again Keith From Australia mate. good to see you back on Deck great formative Lesson.

You have really helped me to step up my game Keith.

Love the safety shoes Keith Fenner

Good to have you back. You know how to do it. Thanks

Your skills and that insert are awesome!!

Man that is one tough insert !

Yea Great Saturday afternoon enterainment !!!!!

Hey Keith. I made a similar tool for my horizontal mill. I turned the taper end, fitted it into the mill spindle then bolted my lathe tool post to the mill table to turn the business end in order to ensure concentricity.

I didn't think that insert was gonna take that cut, but it sure did!

Nice safety slippers Keith :)

Excellent! Great to see you back with the serious milling and lathe work. Thanks Oney

Never thought I'd see the day when Keith blew smoke! Ha Ha!

Getter done Keith !

Nice to see you back on the lathe!

man I love your lathe so much

Fantastic videos. Thanks.

glad youre back

Thanks for the content!!

Welcome back, Keith.

Really nice footage Keith....10 👍🏼's Up!!

Nice Ocean approved safety footwear. 🤣🤣🤣

Love them Chips

That clausing is a beast, i'm looking at an axelson of simialer size. Thanks Kieth.

Getting her done!

hell ya let the chips fly thats great man

Thanks for share

That Old Lathe surely can torque the talk . . . .

enjoyed...tracer is awesome...

Great video as always. The camera view on top of the insert is fantastic. That lathe is so awesome. Between the capacity, the ability to remove the tool post and mount heavy tooling to the carriage and the tracer puts that lathe in a whole different realm compared to the average manual lathe. How did you find that beast! a .250" cut is nothing for that machine.

Hydraulic duplicator is like watching cnc work

4140 makes me happy.

One thought/suggestion, if I may? If you fitted a spider to the back of the spindle, you could feed a bar through, until it touches the rear of the work-piece, and use it as a stop, allowing you to set the exact same length, when you flipped it around.

That's moving some metal.

Fantastic video....after having spent the better part of last week tearing apart my lathe to fix damage caused by a part that was ejected from the chuck and wedged itself between the jaws and the toolpost, I found it hard to watch those heavy cuts! Nerves of steel, my friend, NERVES OF STEEL! How hot was that part after you were done roughing out the taper?

Feeding the hog. Every project that I've used to try to find the limits on my lathe, I get to .1 doc and have to go to sneaky mode. I think the wiring bugs that you eradicated from your Porsche came to rest in my little work truck. Twice in a months time that I have to bypass a shorted wire in the harness. That nasty code 44 just won't go away. I would follow your example if I didn't have another pickup waiting to take this one's place.

Nice dial in.

Who else cringed a little on that first cut when it dove into that radius? :)

Oh man... I only use the lathe occasionally at work... but I see I've been way off on the rpm... I'd probably use about half of that speed. Gotta try to change my thinking a bit.

hey theres a part 2 already for those heavy cuts like that. I usually switch to a Karachi sandle with a little more coverage or with coolent. a river fishing sandle with a felt sole I got a pair of keen real tree camo now gotta make a stub arbor so a 3/8" thread back Jacobs 3b runs true don't ask its an integral part of the financial recovery

Impressive, Keith, and, yes I did cringe on that first radius cut ...

Fenners fresh cut chip farm--we raise em right--lol

wonder what surface footage is going here? Looking great!

That is peeling a nice tasty pile of chips! I see now you did the main hogging the way I had in mind so ignore my comment on the other video. :-)

I would be arrested for wearing short pants like you have. good videos as always

I get a kick out of your footwear. Reminds me of Mig welding with sandals until a piece of molten wire fell in between my toes. I developed a new dance.

Thanks for the video!! Keith, when you do those kind of "heavy cut" on a part like that, do you let the part cool down a bit to reduce the thermal binding between cuts??

Welcome back! When was this filmed? Would I have walked in if I visited 3 weeks ago? Dang!

I wonder how much more at a sustained rate that lathe could stand. I am guessing with proper maintenance quite a lot for a long time.

Hog Heaven!

When you make those heavier cuts, aren’t you worried about knocking your building out of plumb? Man, that makes some pretty chips though!

Keith..... I would like to ask you a question. You do an awful lot of work on that lathe but if it were to have a catastropic failure (heaven forbid) could you replace it and if so what would you replace it with? Thanks

Nice lathe you’ve got there. Love the old stuff. The new stuff I great, me being a Cnc machinist as a job but there’s just something about the old manual stuff that leaves me wide eyed. Is the copier (tracer) a stand thing on that type of machine ?

Great stuff!!! Curious, do you ever change the oil in your lathe, or take all the fluff out of your drive motor. Your lathe sounded like it was working hard.??? Alan Glen. London.

Is the stylus binding up/crashing everytime it switches from the flat to the taper? (About 2" in from the end)

It started throwing off better looking chips at .100" doc

Hi Keith , i was wondering if your lathe came with the tracer attachment or did you add it ? and the carrage hold down t -slots that are for your carrier's when your line boring, or did you build those? i know your busy so maybe you could elborate in a video sometime thx I really have learned a lot watching your videos by the way thx for that to !!

Every time it drops of that ledge just before the taper it sounds like something's going to break. First time or when you stepped up the depths I understand. But the several back to back .060 cuts it seems like it shouldn't do that. .060 of a flat portion o angel portion is apparently less pressure than that drop off . Anyone know why?

6:20 how is it that the work can be less accurate near the tail center than the chuck

What do you do with the shavings?

So is the lathe and compound and everything doing that automatically when it switches from straight cut to the taper portion then back to straight and out or are you giving some manual input at certain points? Forgive me, I’m new to all of this. Thank you. I think I just figured it out when you said “tracer attachment” haha.

How do you make a MT on an ID without using a pantograph (sp?), or the compound slide?

what material is it? 4140?

So funny if you Everytime got a dollar you forget to engage your gearbox of the lathe you did not have to work one minute anymore :)

Too bad there is not a way to cut away most of the waste without turning it into chips. Maybe with some creative use of parting tools...

Pardon my untrained observation but that inset appeared to like .125 more than the smaller cuts.