Plasma cutting on the lathe while it’s running!

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On Fire Welding

8 ай бұрын

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@johnw.peterson4311 3 ай бұрын

Zack, you have a great teacher. Learn as much as you can, work hard and be loyal. A Wonderful opportunity.

@OldGeezerstoolbox 8 ай бұрын

Lots of worn-out old lathes available for near scrap value--and they do make darned good welding positioners if that's the kind of work you are doing regularly. People freak but it is giving a piece of scrap metal a whole new life. It's typically easy to build an indexing plate for the head also--which opens up a whole new world of positioning possibilities for cutting and weldments.

@alc818 8 ай бұрын

Interesting use of the old lathe! Even though you have one of the steadiest hands I have ever seen, I might have taken a few minutes to clamp the plasma torch to the lathe's cross slide. This would allow you to make very fine adjustments to make the cut more precise. This may have substantially cut down on the turning time (looking at the large pile of chips) for the second lathe... I have done similar operations using my rotary positioner...

@victorjeffers1993 8 ай бұрын

That's an ingenious way of cutting ! It's good to have ideas and put them to work especially when it makes the job easier ! 👍👍

@TIREDOFEVIL 8 ай бұрын

Never would have thought to perform that process, once again an old dog can learn new tricks.

@BruceBoschek 8 ай бұрын

Very good! You have such a steady hand! I would have to mount the plasma torch on the carriage. Thanks for letting us watch! Have a pleasant and peaceful weekend.

@thinking-monkey 8 ай бұрын

Great job and a very inventive use of the old lathe! 👍

@Gkuljian 8 ай бұрын

Haha, all that current going through the headstock bearings. Love it.

@alsecen5674 8 ай бұрын

That is extremely clever - love it

@jackdawg4579 8 ай бұрын

Clever use of the old lathe.

@miguelmills4867 8 ай бұрын

Aye boss whenever u get the time to film it could u do a shop tour and show off all the cool shit u got. That truck tour video was awesome

@jesperjohansen6047 6 ай бұрын

Probably cheaper&safer to connect the ground to the live center&tailstock rather than the mainbearings, thanks for sharing

@JonDingle 8 ай бұрын

Great idea to make use of an old lathe as a rotator.

@bruceslattengren8587 8 ай бұрын

Sanitary operations way to go I’m impressed 😊

@brianbullock9470 8 ай бұрын

Glad to see you have the most popular buckets man

@Comm0ut 8 ай бұрын

A lathe as a rollout wheel is a very old trick. If done often a copper wiper against the chuck saves the plasma cutter grounding through the headstock bearings. One popular method uses a braided flat ground strap (many vehicles use those). A mobile rollout wheel is VERY handy for welders and I'm surprised not to see one! They're easy to make with an old lathe chuck and unlike a lathe can go anywhere you like. Making a rollout wheel would be an excellent video subject. They're handy for rotating pipe assemblies which will not fit on a lathe.

@SuperSecretSquirell 8 ай бұрын

Your cuts look better than what I could do with lathe tooling lol.

@kennytoler6485 8 ай бұрын

She may be old but earning her keep right on. Impressive as hell man!!!

@terrminatoragain461 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant idea

@a-fl-man640 8 ай бұрын

back in the late 70s i built a car rotator, worked like a BBQ spit. great for welding underneath the car. but it kept getting harder to turn. had no bearings, just close fit tubing. turned out it was arcing between the tubes as i was running the ground cable to the car rotator frame instead of to the car directly. the life of a self taught fabricator.

@markboyanton9880 8 ай бұрын

Love the shopping cart!

@sjohnson1776 8 ай бұрын

Nicely done!!

@mikeboring1293 8 ай бұрын

Great video that’s one way to do it. I get it you guys are welders not machinists. If you have to do something like that again get a plung cutter for the lathe with a right offset holder it would have cut your time in half and saved on man power for that job. Like I said great video I’m not beating you up you are one of the best welder I have seen and I under stand you may not have had the right cutting tools for the lathe. Like my dad said you may not need it when you have it but you will need it when you don’t have it 😂

@502bbb 8 ай бұрын

1st - from the south pole station!

@scottpageusmc 8 ай бұрын

At my last job I worked with a guy that was at the South Pole station years ago. I was near the North Pole years ago with Lockheed and Rolls-Royce out of Stennis Space Center. That was over a decade ago, but I had my fun at -60°C.

@brendanfisher6289 8 ай бұрын

@@scottpageusmc I'd like to be one of the people that have been to both poles! Who knows - maybe I'll make it up there also👍 USMC 1989-1995 (6153)

@wheelman007 8 ай бұрын

Just need a trepanning tool for the lathe to cut circles. I use it way more than I thought I would.

@danielpullum1907 8 ай бұрын

No question it worked. A weld positioner could be used to do the same thing. If you have a weld positioner!!!!

@carloskawasaki656 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍

@uno_king 8 ай бұрын

I have the exact same equipment! Of course, I'm referring to the collection of buckets at the end. Lowes, Home Depot, Harbor Freight. What is the green one? Don't know if you have Menards out in California.

@DatBoiOrly 8 ай бұрын

i'm surprised you haven't modified the tool head to accept the torch so your hands are out of the way & so it's more accurate

@cisuris 8 ай бұрын

Shop looks massive on this one bud, good angle.

@davidfleishman2275 8 ай бұрын

Like your work.A little thought goes a long you.Waiting for your next work.

@glenngosline3303 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic as always

@rudyrivera7426 8 ай бұрын

Coolest! Thanks for posting! 👌👍

@slngblde 8 ай бұрын

Sharpen up those scrap pieces to make some death frisbees

@user-vy8lp1zv8z 8 ай бұрын

That is crazy cool

@MySynthDungeon 8 ай бұрын

Coffees on!! ;-)!!! Beauty!!

@theephemeralglade1935 8 ай бұрын

Isn't that not so good for the lathe's bearings?

@timf2914 8 ай бұрын

Thats the way to work smarter not harder 👍

@lefty1999 8 ай бұрын

2nd - from the desert of Arabia

@sighpocket5 8 ай бұрын

Nice!!!!

@michaelhaiden6718 8 ай бұрын

Saved time and a lot of incerts

@fascistpedant758 3 ай бұрын

I can't help but feel sad for the old lathe.

@markbraham5439 2 ай бұрын

Work smarter, not harder!

@4thgradedropout980 8 ай бұрын

👍🏿 VFD FTW

@Cancun771 8 ай бұрын

Have the lad knock out a lathe tool clamp for the plasma torch so you can get some smoking break^h^h^h^h errr, *_repeatability!!1_*

@michaelhaiden6718 8 ай бұрын

you could use those india railroad spike incerts?

@scotthultin7769 8 ай бұрын

482👍's up on fire welding thank you for sharing 😮🎉😂

@fredbloggs4829 8 ай бұрын

G'day from England. Now don't get me wrong, it was super cool to see the plasma cutting on the lathe. But seeing how many passes there were on the finishing lathe, it would have been quicker and easier to trepan that extra material off.

@mjsmason 8 ай бұрын

As with all rush machining, welding or fabrication jobs you go to the war with the army you have at the army you want

@fredbloggs4829 8 ай бұрын

Yep, I agree with your comment. My comment was meant to be informative, so that next time the army might have something more in it's arsenal.

@mrsock3380 8 ай бұрын

LOL, What kind of animal uses a lathe with the compound at 90 by choice?

@12Georgia83 8 ай бұрын

👍🏻

@gacherumburu9958 8 ай бұрын

👍👍

@woodintheblood4104 8 ай бұрын

Pls excuse my ignorance but wouldn't a parting tool used on the face of the ring be faster and more precise?

@OFW 8 ай бұрын

What I had didn’t work. Maybe there is a different tool available but I didn’t have it.

@davidwulf288 8 ай бұрын

@@OFW Was thinking the same thing. But the job got done👍👍👍

@RambozoClown 8 ай бұрын

@@OFW You can always grind a trepanning tool from high speed steel. Doesn't need to be anything fancy for a job like that.

@horstszibulski19 8 ай бұрын

I had a button insert in mind, running it straight into the face of the workpiece...but this worked also with the plasma cutter on a lathe that isn't considered much of precision anyways... I think this wouldn't hurt that much, other people do spray welding on lathes, that can't be healthy for the machine as well...

@iainkinsella4708 8 ай бұрын

Sick....

@ZombieNinjaMan1 8 ай бұрын

3rd is the one with the treasure chest

@user-yr5ee9vm9e 8 ай бұрын

Saved time and Inserts....Makin Mula💸💸💸💸💸

@davidholder3207 8 ай бұрын

Cool. Ah Cal-Tran the authority that can't build a HST.

@MyLilMule 8 ай бұрын

Thinking outside the box. But that poor lathe. LOL. Couldn't you have used a rotary welding positioner?

@OFW 8 ай бұрын

This is my positioner. It’s the reason I kept the lathe

@juquinha7195 8 ай бұрын

Fix torch on castle

@danmcleod7365 8 ай бұрын

way cool jr

@1973tjv 8 ай бұрын

Where was the plasma cutter's ground clamp connected to? Always pay attention to this when electric welding (cutting) on a lathe, current passing thru bearings may damage them.

@robertoobregon3750 8 ай бұрын

I do not have a lathe, but do have a roll out wheel to do the same thing and not risk a lathe. But you got to do what you got do to get the job done with what you got.

@R.E.HILL_ 8 ай бұрын

You can't do it like that, that's cheating... 😉🙂👍

@MuzzahA1 8 ай бұрын

Sorry. just have to mention that eathing thru bearings is bad, Earth to chuck ok,

@ralfirion1043 8 ай бұрын

Right, all the current goes through the bearings, you will destroy them very fast! But I don´t see a better way to connect the moving chuck.

@MuzzahA1 8 ай бұрын

It could be clamped to the work piece, it's only doing a single turn slowly.

@jameswood9764 8 ай бұрын

Need to clamp the ground lead to the chuck let it wrap around during cut then reverse once cutting is done in order to keep from destroying the head stock bearings due to arcing.

@dirtfarmer7472 8 ай бұрын

Turn it 1 way on the 1st & reverse for the next, just back & forth.

@x...CrankyOldMan...x 8 ай бұрын

You could most definitely make this video longer, and some of the others. I feel like you rush some of the editing, Take your time and show use more, yes you may not have much video, but then dont time laps it. take us with you on the delivery, show us the stack before and after... I understand that this is a rush job, so there isnt time to video everything. Still you do a great job, your audience just want to follow along. Great job guys.

@Jcreek201 8 ай бұрын

Cool that you found a way to get the job done in a pinch...but yikes. This seems like a "how to destroy your lathe" speed run. No real covering on the ways, grounding through the spindle bearings, and cooking the motor running the VFD that slow. 😬 Not sure any jobs worth that.

@jjmatejka 8 ай бұрын

Miss the part where he said it was a junk lathe specifically for welding/cutting on? As mentioned, its better than scrapping a piece of equipment. I have a 1940s south bend with a huge sag in the ways that I have zero issues using like that. Even when the tolerances get to be unsalvageable, old lathes make for versatile roughing tools.

@Jcreek201 8 ай бұрын

@@jjmatejka Yep..carry on.