One little tip for things like this. Working on the part is a lot easier if you can keep it from moving, but constantly repositioning it in a vice is a pain in the backside. For a part this size, If you get a 300mm square piece of 12 to 18mm plywood, Then screw a 30 to 40mm square baton of wood along the bottom of one side, and get two lengths of wood that are thinner than the work piece and screw them in a 90' "V" on the other side and end of the plywood, you can hook the it over the edge of your workbench and put the work piece in the V. This way you can use both hands to have more control over the scraper.

That is some major dedication to the craft. There's a select group of home machinists who appreciate this type of workmanship. Hope to see more videos on modifying and improving the mini lathe. Cheers brother

Today finally I dedicate it to do it. Finishing really good. I can part a 3/4 steel rod with no chattering! And move the compound smooth like silk! Thanks for sharing with us.

Beautiful to watch you doing that. I must learn more about scraping parts. I once watched a guy dismantle a huge machine and hand scraping all the parts, before reassembling it, back together again. I also saw a Japanese guy hand scraping high pressure steam joins, so they wouldn't leak. All in fine detail.

beautifully shot!

Grease is almost never used around machine tools such as that feed screw. Why? Because it retains the wear particles and continuously runs them back through the the parts and vastly accelerating further wear. If the feed nut had a grease zerk fitting then yes it could then be greased every so often to help flush out and clean them. Since it wasn't designed to use that then oil is used to both lubricate and an excess amount of that oil is helpful to wash out those particles. Oiling and doing so often is the cheapest method of slowing that wear. What most of the machine tool manufacturers fail to mention is it's normal maintenance to disassemble parts like this then use something like a spray carb cleaner or CRC contact cleaner to clean and de-grease the feed screws and just as important the feed nuts then relubricate once there clean. Those clean well lubricated parts will easily last 10 or more times longer than those that get ignored with little lubrication or when the wrong lubrication like that grease is used. Grease also requires a much higher clearance on the bearing surfaces than parts designed to use oil as the lubrication.

Have you ever seen any Richard King videos? Your on the right track but the idea of scraping is also to provide lubrication areas incorporated into the actual scraped surface. Very enjoyable video. Thankyou

A time honored skill. Almost like water torture. The mind constantly wants to wander. Well done.

I liked seeing the scraping process. Good music choices, too.

Nice, requires a lot of patients. thanks for sharing!!!!

Beautiful job, you have done

so cool! it's so satisfying to see that hand scraping

Great work!! Thank you for sharing. Cheers Jimmy

An absolute pleasure to watch 👍😎 and it's rare for me to keep up the volume. If I smoked, I'd probably have one right now 😁

You definitely have a ton more patience than me, nice job

Not sure how that matters if the dovetails aren't parallel to each other and to the bottom surface. You'll know if you get consistent feel when moving the top slide back and forth.

That was quite impressive. I've enjoyed you machining/mini-lathe oriented videos. Keep them coming! Subscribed.

Great project, thankyou

Wow. This was awesome. Thank you

Ajuste fino muito joia!!!

Excellent!

great job!

Nice very nice work.... beautiful 'scraping'.... great art.

Beautifull work

that good work!!!!👍

Great quality

You did a nice job, the engineers blue was far too thick for my liking. Each to their own. Thank you for sharing.

Perfect!

Very interesting and informative.

Excellent work

Très bon tutoriel

Beautifully done. But, we want about a 70% blued surface, leaving pockets of low areas to hold oil. There’s something that’s too good. It will wear to quickly if it touches completely.

Muito bom

Nice

Nice job! :)

much easier and quicker to lap these very small surfaces.

The way you checked it originally your assuming the bottom is parallel to the top, it's likely not sense this is made in china lol but parallelism really wouldn't mean anything. I bet the bottom was much flatter then you realized before you started.

Nice!

Great tutorial!

I would get frustrated holding the part that I am scraping. I could critique a lot of what you did but at least gave it a shot and I'm sure it must have helped in some way. Good Luck!

Thank you

thanks mr..

Old school, only people who know their craft can do that, I've done half my life like this.

Amazing

凄ですね。

May I ask what kind of Whestone you using? What grit is it? Thanks for sharing.

You did a wonderful, beautiful job. I can’t even begin to tell you. I’m really going to try to get surface plate. Height gauge scraper whatever you did I’m gonna do. Love your video, so helpful and understandable across all levels. How would you begin with the Bedways?

Why in the second part did you use the micrometer instead of the dial indicator to check the bottom piece?

Молодец супер!

Very exacting...would rubbing on a sanding block work?

Very inspiring video! Are you going to do the cross slide also?

My best Vedic in mini lathe. It inspired me to take this my next upgrade. However the ink is no where to be found at hobby price. Any advice? Please

That's something I need to leurn

What are you using to scrape? Amazing results!

This music is similar to medetarinan or the balcaninan. where r u from?

great example of how tune it up where the factory went cheap.

You didn't scrape the dovetails. Also you should produce chips rather than dust when scraping. Other than that, good job :)

难得看到国人在这发视频，赞一个。这个小拖板前后会窜动，我想在刻度盘那个地方掏个孔然后装端面轴承，你这个好像在转盘那边装了个定位螺钉，感觉这不能解决问题呀？

Thumbs up exactly. Esquire your work bears a philosophical connotation. The entire human development could only be determined by the level of “Scraping off “ big and small errors in all facets of life, not at all limited only to metal surfaces.

добрый день . интерестное видео.. так и хочется сказать..Магнитный стол вам нужен.

....are you sure the other side of the piece is planar?

This work was perfect!!!

nicely done mate. by the why, why you sensors that Miluloyo dial test indicator. :))

Thanks. Great job! Where to buy the scraping tool and spotting Ink?

Finish the job and scrape the dovetail, positive side and the gib. :)

I don't get why you didn't use your mill then scrap?

That’s what I’m talking about

Hi. Nice work. Where did you buy your scraper?

这一期有浓浓的羊肉串味儿！

ممتاز جدا جدا انتا عالم ولك كل محبه وتقدير لفديوهاتك الجميله اللتى تبهج العقلExcellent very Lanta world and you all love and appreciation for Vdyohatk beautiful mind is received and brightening

This is an honest question, it looked like at the end of each surface you scraped there was no individual points of contact instead there was a single contact point over the majority of it now the question is that on purpose because the compound doesn’t need to slide very often and full contact is better or for another porpoise? Please tell me because I am about to start on mine and I am trying to get as much information as possible before I start

I may be wrong here but seems all you gid was scrape your compound paralell to a non critical surface? from hhose readings the only material that needed to come off was the 0.03mm difference between the two initial readings

I followed this to the letter and even made the hand scraper used by watching your other video. Can this be done to the cross slide of a mini lathe as well?

great...something else for me to have to do now..lmao

Which song is this? Sounds too much like Turkish music

Please give name/type of exact tools used. The scraper etc.. I want to do same thing. Thx

You could use sandpaper

Didn't scrape the gib?

lathe scraper link:????

Does anyone else think he's using too much engineers blue on some of these tests? When propperly scraped in, engineers blue should show lots of small and roughly evenly distributed dots of contact, Not one big splodge. If you slather enough blue on you could even get a solid transfer on surfaces that are a couple of degrees out of alignment !!!

arabic music??

to zero the material, just pu a grinder paper on to "near absolute" granite and sand...

Interesting music, sounds chinese but somewhow different

Did you know the machine named that grinding machine?

Looks decent but you are using far too much blue, you should be applying a very thin later so it does not smear. Otherwise you get a false reading and not a true representation of the high spots

Mitutoyo, Miyohugo, Miguhoyo, Michochuyo... don't need to scratch. Nice work

Это не правильно! И к шабрению имеет малое отношение. Пазы ласточкин хвост не шабрил вообще. Система замеров странная... ИМХО.

way too much ink (you need to spread the ink thinner)! you don't see how many points of contacts you have.. just because it's blue on all of the surface doesn't mean the job is done.. it only begins :D also you didn't scrape the inner dovetail ways

Too much blue, too thick

There is just no way that I would spend that much time to "improve" a new lathe that should have been good from the first instance. Having to rectify all and anything possible that can be rectified tells me the user is purely doing so because he has nothing better to do with his time...........buying a better quality lathe would have been the best choice as you then have the time to actually make things you bought the lathe for in the first place and a better quality lathe would also give you better results than trying to fight against inadequate machinery design.......making a gold plated silk purse out of an old Sow's ear never gets you near a lathe of quality no matter how hard you wish.

That chinese steel isn't worth the effort. Complete waste of time. The lathe is inherently poor quality.

if you spent that time making something to sell you could save up and buy a real lathe

Nice