It's a challenge to work with something like that. I thought that everything was happening only to me :))

Thank you Ed ! Have a good weekend too ! 👍

Thank you for your suggestion to use a shop vac. I bought one yesterday. But I don't know how much it will help me because the chips are wrapped around the part. I will see. As for morse tapers, it doesn't help me to buy one for this project. I had no way to join the outer part with a morse taper bought. Thank you very much for the information provided !

Thank you for the advice given. I try to be careful, but in truth there are some risks that I take unnecessarily. About our lathe... I know that I saved the manual somewhere on my computer. I will look for it and I can send it to you by email. Thank you very much for your comment !

Thank you very much sir !

My steel bars are not perfectly round. The cone tool averages the circle and finds the best fit point. If I want to find the center of a part in the shape of a hexagon or square, what can I do with the burnishing tool or something like that? With this tool I can find it and drill at the same time any shape of a part. Thank you very much for your comments ! It means a lot to me.

@@JIMMY916 Look up a tool called a "lathe spider." It's super simple and solves the problem of square/hexagonal stock with both steady rests and bump tools. I've got a couple of them I've made over the years to tightly fit different size stock I work with. As for your cone you're on to something there, it just needs refinement and iteration.

Yes, it is an interesting tool ”lathe spider”. But I don't understand how I can use it if my part has a diameter, let's say 40 mm, double the diameter of passing through the chuck of my lathe ?( My plastic part from the test have 40.) That lathe spider is only for diameters that are smaller than the hole in the chuck ? If so, I believe my concept is better :)) Maybe we can improve it together...

@@JIMMY916 Yeah I probably got the name wrong, might be a "cat head". So many odd names for things. It's just a ring with some bolts in it to center your material. I've made a few over the years to fit common sizes of hex and square stock. As to round stock never being perfectly round - it's also never perfectly elliptical and a cone relies on the saw cut to be perfectly straight besides the roundness of the stock. Ideas to improve your design - it definitely needs shortening. A shallower cone would let you shorten the travel, making it much shorter overall. Going to a 45 or 50 degree taper would take a few cm off of it. It would also be nice to be able to remove it from the tailstock without removing the tailstock from the lathe. Maybe if it slipped off of the morse taper like a socket? Something to think about.

Yes, there are things that can be improved. Thank you very much !

Nice and unique 😂😂

I wanted one all through high school and finally saved enough to buy one. Total piece of crap. I was so disappointed. Besides awful construction (Some are actually built well) the biggest problem is the design. If you notice the tailstock doesn’t overhang the bed and so it has to be extended all the way to be used. Also because of this you can’t cut from the tail center to the chuck, you lose 2-3” on one end or the other. The mill head is too high above the table so you need a riser block to do most work plus you can’t clamp it to the column tight enough to take any kind of a cut. Still beats a hand grinder.

@@pvtimberfaller My opinion about this combinated machine after six years of ocasional use. - - - 1 Because of the milling table , long pieces cannot be turned in one pass. 2 The lowest speed is only 160 rpm. 3 The guides are always exposed and it is mandatory to be greased very very often for smooth operation. 4 The chuck has a diameter of 130 mm. No independent four jaws for this diameter. Only 125 mm. 5 The gear change is made only from the belts. +++ 1 It is very precise and no deviation. 0.01 mm is not a problem 2 Is quite robust and heavy (about 300 kg) 3 It takes up a little space for two machines. My workshop is tiny. 4 Its engines can run continuously without burning out. 5 Its price.

I forgot to add the to high of speed thing. Mine was smaller, I think the type you have came out a few years later. I had to remove the chuck every time I wanted to use it as a mill. They also had metric feed screws and imperial dials so the dimensions were never correct. They offered a planetary sheave that would reduce the spindle speed 2:1 or 3:1, I don’t know if they have that for your machine but it would be a very good modification.

My machine is from 2016. I find out that there are many models on this kind, but there are not really identical. Some better, some worse. Mine is made in Italy and is well made. Only the concept is strange. Otherwise...

Thank you for your appreciation. As for pants... It's the only alternative to the heat in my workshop. If I didn't film, I think I would give up on them too. :)) I'm happy that you like my work.

@@IsZomg Thank you :))

@@DolezalPetr Thank you very much ! Your comments makes me happy.

Thank you very much !

I didn't use the word "bigger", I used the word "deeper" I made the hole two milimeters deeper, two millimeters different from my plan. Thank you for your comment!

Oops. Yes that makes much more sense and also you were drilling, not boring. Thanks for the vicarious machine shop.

@@edwardhuff4727 Thank you very much for your comments Edward ! I will try to be more explicit in future videos though.

I don't have a long tailstock tip and my live center doesn't have the necessary precision for something like that. Anyway, my centers can't get that close. I don't think that another method would give better results considering the accessories and the lathe I have. Time can certainly tell us a lot, but I don't know what role it will play here. One use in cycles of 30-40 sec. I'm sure it can't cause any wear and tear. I certainly don't worry here. Thank you very much for your comment and I'm happy for the pleasant morning to which I also contributed.

My index finger had a very painful embedded chip. I couldn't use it. And I don't have a brush. I hope you can get over the psychologigal trauma I did to you. I assure you that nothing was planned. You are thinking too far... Thank you very much for your comment !

I will buy one. I know it is useful. Thank you for your comment!

Are you sure you understood something from this video ??

@@JIMMY916 I don't own a lathe. Just watched what you were doing. The reason why you decided to make what you did - I have no idea & couldn't work out what the finished atrial would/could do, that is why I asked. Are you going to tell me why you made it & when you will be using it for.

@@ColinLennard Please forgive me. I thought you comment was a frivolus one. I sometimes receive such comments and I always wonder why are written.!? Now I understand that this is not your case. The tool in the video helps me fix a bar in the lathe chuck and balances it for turning. That plastic cone is on the same axis as the chuck and so I can balance the part. That's pretty much the story. Thank you for your comment and I apologize once again.

@@JIMMY916 Not to worry, I'll keep an eye on you to see what you get up to. when I see you using your invention I will understand better.

@@ColinLennard I am honored that you will return to my channel

Yes, I'm sure it's not to be played with plastic either. The following video is without mistakes like this and so will all be from now on. I promise. Your concern about my safety honors me but the habit is a hard addiction to correct. Thank you once again, my dear friend !

Why do you think it would be in a different place than the right one ? Thank you for your comment !

@@JIMMY916 intension always follows by verification otherwise we learn nothing in our course.

I don't know how I would be able to verify such a thing. No metal or plastic bar is perfectly round from the factory (with some exception). There can be no question of absolute precision at this stage. It is an approximative center. No method in this world can find the perfect center of an imperfect circle. My intention was to present more of a concept. I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions whether it's a good tool or not. That account, I assure you, makes finding the best necessary center for the live center. I will always use it from now on. Thank you very much and I'm sorry I missed to film this aspect. I thought it was obvious the result.

I agree. You lost me in going so far to make this tool to overcome a problem I’m not aware of. Your advice?

My bad.. Sometimes I make a mistake in interpreting some messages and I have set the expectations in an erroneous way. Our conversations contain only a few words and this can lead to misunderstandings.. I hope you will come back with other comments in the future.. Thank you very much for your comments !

There are only two screws. The first, wich is the smallest, fixes the drill bit, and the second screw (larger one) fixes the central shaft in which this drill is mounted. All that needs to be done is to loosen the big screw and take the axle out. ( we don't dismantle anything ) After loosening the screw, the spindle will be pulled out. After changing the drill bit we will insert the shaft back and tighten the screw with an allen key. I really regret not showing this in the video. I simply omitted. Thank you very much for your comment !

@@JIMMY916 ok make sense great work.

@@arturperreira5680 Thank you for your appreciation!