Another good one, John. When you finish your tutorials on the lathe, I hope you’ll do a series on the milling machine too.

Great camera shots too. They do help make individual points unambiguous. My guess is 15 minutes to machine the thread, 45 of fiddling with the camera, and another 30 for edit. Thank you for what you do, this is quite the extra mile!

Brilliant John. It took me about 5 years of trawling ebay to get a travelling steady for my Harrison M250. I finally did it though.

Thank you, John. When I took up the hobby 25 years ago there was no readily available help like this. It was all busted tools, knuckles and seized headstocks until you developed a feel for things. All for the want of a mentor. This series will help a lot of people. Well done you.

In the states we call this a follow rest

Great informative video, I was previously a centre lathe turner who became my company’s H&S officer. I had an inspection from the HSE and they condemned all machines that did not have chuck guards, mills and lathes etc.

very good John,, especially the bit about threading with the steady thank you

I've been accumulating some parts I need for making my own stationary and traveling steady rest for my lathe. I made a new longer lead screw for my cross slide back when I was trying to use my lathe as a milling machine and could have used the traveling steady rest. Naturally the threads cut toward the center were shallower due to the shaft deflection. I ended up fixing the problem by running a thread file over the shallower thread sections to make it more uniform until the nut fit nicely. Of course this is NOT the way to do it, but you do what you have to do. I also need a stationary steady rest because I need to work on the ends of larger diameter cylindrical parts that are too large a diameter to fit through the headstock.

Thanks John....

Great. Im new to this and your films really help learn basics. THANK YOU

Love this lathe tutorial John. Thanks!

i enjoy these videos thank you.

Great info John, keep'um coming..

Great explanation. Very helpful. Thanks!

Great stuff John, my Harrison didn't come with either steady rest and they're proving hard to track down, I've some wheel spindles for motorbikes to make, and I definitely can't do that without a travelling steady 👍

I've been watching your videos and it's made me realise that id love to get back into machining. I used to run a Colchester triumph 2000 mostly but I also used to do a lot of stuff on the old ward capstan lathes along with some manual milling and CNC lathe work. What sort of money are you looking at to get a decent lathe nowadays? I've only really worked on industrial machines so I'd rather avoid hobbyist stuff. Oh and in 13 years of precision engineering, not once did I use a mobile steady. I did however use a rollerbox on a capstan lathe to machine the bolts for Saddam Hussein's supergun which was a sub contract job from Colchester lathes.

Hello John, Another nicely explained video, thank you. Cheers. Paul,,

Good tips.

I'm going through the lathe tutorials now and just wanted to say Thx John. I bought my bastard lathe/mill combo about 2 years back and I'm just now getting round to learning the basics. I hope to get a nice used lathe to replace this bastard one day. When I do I'll look to see if you have any tips on buying a good used machine. In the meantime I'll continue to watch your videos and hone my newly learned skills on this bastard piece of machinery. It will never be reliable enough to do quality work but it serves me well as a tool upon which I can study. Did I mention this lathe/mill combo is a real bastard? Have you done any videos on sharpening drill bits? Thx again, Kent

9:35 what do you use for cutting oil

What goes wrong at 11:02 ? It seems to stall/have a feed issue and there is a corresponding defect in the thread visible.

Hi John I’ve just acquired a Harrison 9” lathe and don’t have a manual for it and I don’t have a clue how to set up for threading. Would it be possible for some tips. Love your video by the way there a great help. Bertie

that wasn't an airline was it?

How much can a fitter and Turner be paid a month I'm studying fitting And turning sir

Call me a FOLLOW REST! Not a steady rest. It would have been nice to see more of the threading being done to see how this follow rest would behave as the width of the thread gets wider and wider. Thank you for sharing.

There is a steady rest, meaning it doesn't move and a follower rest, that travels. Traveling steady is an oxymoron.