Thank you. It was an interesting project with a couple of "firsts" for me. Cheers.

Thanks Jim - the project was made easier by your compound rest sine bar :) Cheers.

Thanks Matty. I expect you to give Big C a kick in the nuts, and I'm looking forward to your next video - it'll be a sweet win. Cheers.

Thank you.

Well, I'm a hobby machinist as well and can only comment based on my experience. I have no training or credentials to support my opinion and, for context, my hobby activities rarely generate any heavy machine or tool loads. The only time I have observed slippage in a MT shank is when I started using a 30mm twist drill with a 3MT shank. That occurred because I did not preload the the drill in the socket with an axial tap from a copper hammer. Now to your question Stephen, I wipe the MT shank before use with the "clean" rag currently in my pocket and then with a wiped (but unwashed) hand. When returning the tool to storage I apply some Inox MX3 (similar to WD40) to the shank. I probably should be more rigorous and disciplined about this, but that is my approach and it has worked for me - so far :) Thanks for watching.

I used a sine bar to set the angle of the lathe compound/top slide. The angle resulted from the thickness of the gauge block stack under one end of the bar and could be adjusted by varying this thickness.