HI!, and thanks for watching! As many viewers have noted....good project but not practical with that much stickout so I will make a one piece flycutter that goes in the spindle directly with a MT3 shank. But since I filmed it all and the lathe and mill work was worth watching I put up the video, hope you enjoy. Subscribe and don't forget the thumbs up if you liked the content....the mill is new and I am learning from my mistakes 😊 ~ Richard

Nice job. Thanks for sharing your journey with us,

Poor little lathe , now that the mill has arrived it's been kicked to the curb. Lol. Good job Richard. Good to here from you.

I have seen several of your videos including the one of the tool you made for your brother. I am a fan now. Keep up the good work.

thank you for your reply

Great project. Nicely done.

Very good work.

Very Nice Project !! I Like Your Video Style , Very Concise Calm Narrative ,Well Done !! I Am A Certified Subscriber And Avid Watcher

Nice continuity. I liked your video!

You've got a milling machine make a V-Block until you can get a precision V-block. Very good work on the arbor!

great job. another informative video

Nice video, well done. Just found your channel. I’m new to the world of machining at 59. Found a couple old machines and I’m hooked. I like the way you explain what you are doing. I’m going to check out your other videos also. Thank You.

keep them coming I learn a lot form your video's I thought you were gone for a bit but I know things happen .

Nice video Richard. Being able to clean up larger surfaces quickly is a good thing. You are getting good 👌. I always enjoy turning between centers.

Nice job Richard! You will have the mill mastered in no time. Steve

Nice work, a fly cutter is on my list of things to make.

Hi Richard. I use a fly-cutter pretty much anywhere it will work. It satisfies my sense of frugality to use tooling that's so cheap to renew; If I dull the edge on some mill scale or whatever, all it takes is a quick grind to renew the cutting edge. It does take a while though, since there's only one cut per revolution. I usually rough with whatever depth of cut will let me crank through the pass as fast as I comfortably can; there are no points for surface finish in a roughing cut and that helps move things along more quickly. For finishing I only take a couple thou and increase the revs and slow the feed. Also a shot of WD-40 on Aluminum works wonders on the finishing cut. To improve your surface finish, I'd use a HSS bit with a healthy amount of positive rake, at least 10 degrees, maybe 15. That will reduce the cutting forces and thereby the deflection. The lever arm of the long tooling setup is working against you, so as soon as you can shorten that up I'm sure that will improve things a lot as well. Finer finish comes with more nose radius on the cutter, but that has other consequences as well since you probably don't want to bother swapping bits before your finishing pass; you'll just need to find a happy medium. Anyway, some of the things I've learned :) Thanks for the video!

Very nice Richard! Richard

nice job richard glad you have a new mill. the mill and a lathe really compliment one another. really like your channel keep up the inspirering videos. thanks. ps. im also a hobby machinist with a 9x49 mill and a 14x40 metal lathe and most of the riggin to go with each.

Nice job Richard. Looks like it will serve the purpose. I think you should have made yourself a new flycutter instead of the adapter. Its a great project and you can make it any size you desire. You will find out you will need that extra space between the spindle and table that your adapter used up..

I have the same finish problems with fly cutting on my very similar mill. It seems to be a product of the head/column flexing away from the bed when under pressure. The flexion movement is even visible when I try to make moderately heavy cuts (+1thou). They just don't have enough mass and contact area between the base joint of the column and the X/Y bed. I can improve the finish with light spring passes at super high speed (with a sharp bit). Thanks for sharing.

At 3.33 our European friends will never get it. 😲🤣 I hope you don't mind I call this pretty machining. Top quality. 👏👍

good job Richard one thing I have seen on all your video's is the exhalant finish on your parts on the lathe and I see your using high speed steal too I just hope I can do as good one day soon .

Hey Richard good job I have bought one time a central Machinery mini metal lathe and some aluminum round bar I was going to try to cut some optic holders for a laser I was building I didn't ever get to it though however but I learned how to use the dial indicator because I had a Four jaw Chuck. that I bought for it I forget why I 3-jaw didn't seem like there was something not working working well with the 3 jaw anyway seems like you know your stuff

Good work on the concentricity, the irony is you don't need it for a fly cutter since it is single point, you could have tons of run out and it still would work the same.:-)

hi Richard ......nice video, sweet.

Richard What kind of mill do you have and what do you think of it, i have an encouraging 8'' by 28'' table, looking for a table top too for the basement......like I don't have enough tools already and 3 lathes,southbend 9'' southbend k10 and a small grizzly,,,I just like playing around with this stuff(retired machinist)

you can use it to hold 3/4 inch endmills too.

I have built a number of these over the years and they have bailed me out of a bunch of situations. Well done fella.Next time you need to get some square hole(it fits the tools and you just silver solder it in place) and get a foot of it eh.It isn't expensive and you will use it over time.You can get it in 1/4,1/2 and 5/8. Just drill a hole and put it into the tool any angle ya want bud.

I wanna be exactly like you when I grow up

Dang Richard, that is very impressive! Didn't catch what you used for material, was it 1018 cr?

Why did you not turn down the 3/4" shank on the fly cutter to the 5/8" needed for the Mill?

Great Video Rich. Actually I enjoyed it. I am trying to absorb all the machining operations I can. So I have a dumb question. Why not remove the HSS tool bit from the fly cutter, chuck the cutter body in the 4 jaw and turn the shank down?

As one of your other comments states, concentricity for a fly cutter is un-important. Is there a reason you didn't just turn down the fly-cutter shaft to 5/8"? Nice video work too! PS- I just subscribed :-)

Now bring on the BLOOPERS !!

Nice job, but that last clip of the cut looks polished or is it just my imagination. I can never get that reflection.😁

Mill would have to be the messiest machine to have

Why not turn down the shaft of the flycutter instead? It would avoid the long stickout.

Now the mini metal lathe sits on the shelf and should be resold

why wouldn't you just reduce the shank diameter of the fly cutter???

Why wouldn't you just mill the slot across the bottom and add grub screws to the peice you made and turn that into your flycutter

Why did you not just make a new fly cutter

Consentricity makes little or no difference on a fly cutter....

Good but it sticks out wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to much... :(

I find it heavily annoying you didn't pass the fly cutter completely across to check if the other side is level... SIGH