Happiness is a hot mug of Joe and a Winky's Workshop video! Thank you. Chris

Winnie, you are a great machinist and one smart dude. Thank you for taking the time to show us your great work.

Hi there from South.Africa. It is really nice to see you using the Southbend , all the tools you make and sharing it with us . It is absolutely motivating to say the least . I have a small Lantaine lathe and a Walker Turner drill press i restored . Me and my son are currently finishing an old 2 metre Cardiff lathe to add to the tooling for his turbocharger business that he runs from his garage at home . Your video on the square colomn drill press is just awesome . I recently bought a nice drill press but with a rediculously short pillar . I think it is a good candidate for a square colomn. Thank you for sharing all this good stuff with us .

Wow what a nicely restored old lathe! And the indexing device was to me as genius as it was simple. Thanks man! 😀👍

Glad to have someone like you willing to share the knowledge. I’m a young man who always should interest in metal work. The older generations I’m around wants to keep the knowledge a secret for some reason. But now I’m passing them because of people like you.

Pretty clever as usual! You must stay up all night thinking of these projects. Nice job!

Very clever, well done. If you have enough motivation, re-make the indexing arbor to gain more contact area when it is expanding. Drill relief holes at the end of your slots, reduce the diameter of the tapered draw pin and cut the same taper on the OD of the arbor. This way when you pull it in tight, the arbor will expand parallel to the bore. Right now it's more like a small hole gauge. [edit - like an adjustable reamer stays parallel when expanding] Stay safe and well :)

Outstanding design! And simple... THANKS!

What a great ingenious design!

Great Ideal. That is a useful addition to your lathe.

Huh, well that's dang clever. Simple, clever, and most importantly VERY useful! This should be a standard accessory on any decent lathe.

Simply brilliant! Wow! Great solution! :)

That's a brilliant idea. Thanks for sharing.

A well made drill powered tool post grinder can grind, drill and cut keyways.. an excellent addition to any workshop...

Well done Winky. Another cleverly made tool.

Brilliant idea, simple but effective!

Oh yes pretty good,and pretty easy to follow.Thank you.

Nicely engineered. That is a nice old lathe.

You’re a Great Inventor/ problem solver Winky 👍 really enjoying the Videos

Great looking lathe. Another nice video!

Hi Winky, That would be an useful addition to most lathes... Thanks for sharing. Take care Paul,,

Many thanks for the information and the added knowledge and experience.

Man that’s pretty! Great job 👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks for the idea and great video with explanations! Very helpful

Nice work. I like making things better and more useful too.

G'day and greetings from Tasmania Australia, that's one beautiful lathe. John

Brilliantly simple, the best things are 👍

Good idea Wink, I'll have to give that a go

Great idea, be making me one soon. Great info thanks.

Great idea!

very nice vido Wink,enjoyed it.thanks for sharing with us.see you next time.

Very nice work. I like the system. May incorporate it onto my lathe.

Sounds for all the world like an old repulsion induction motor when it starts.. Love your lathe.. I have a 1957 sixteen inch South Bend running on three phase.. Cheers; Mike in Louisiana

This was very cool!

Really enjoy the craftsmanship handiwork and clear explanation of the processes thanks

Very clever, thanks.

Nice idea and nicely done

Great idea for my mini lathe

Thanks Wink I'm going to copy that if you don't mind The spring mechanism reminded me of the zip guns that we made when we were kids many moons ago

I like it. Nice job!

thats a beautiful lathe!!!!!

Very slick idea. Another simple thing a person could use in a pinch is a sprocket.

Very nice idea.👍

Thanks!

Excellent

Nice idea!

eccelent work winky.i,ll be making similar on my lathe

I think I have a video up where I made a cutter by knurling. I was exposed to increasing diameter and making cutters for softer materials in my dads race shop. In his case, he made tools to line bore 356 and 911 cases when there was an issue with the crank binding as the case was torqued up. I've also considered making an expanding mandrel by producing an incomplete thread. ;-) Gaining the expanding taper from the end of the tap/threads. I've not used the method yet. A lathe without an indexing method is an issue. I need to make a better drilling rig. I like yours. I have a tool post drill press that is pretty large for my lathes but it is inspiring me to consider doing in useful size.

Great video thanks

I like this guy

Did I miss where the spring loaded pin came from? But excellent/elegant design. Liked that knurled solution to the loose fit!

Thank you for sharing. I would like to make this.

Nice work

Great idea...... again. 👍👍😎👍👍

thanks for the tip, that a KNURL actually "expands" the diameter! have the tool, but haven't used it yet! nice to know!

Very nice, well done :)

What a great idea. Now you need another drilling adaptor with lead screw so you can cut gear teeth. :-) By the way a longer spigot for your index gear to put the taper deeper into the headstock would reduce the risk of index gear wobble. You could also use it to make index wheels with drilled holes (instead of teeth) for the index peg.

Nifty!

Winky you could design the mounting bracket to where you could still get to the oil port. I do like your indexing extension arm you added to the compound. I had made my tool post drill as short as I could get it with still little room to index from the side. Thanks for the idea I will have to make me an extension arm now to be able to do larger stuff.

as an alternative turning a taper on the shaft to seat into the headstock bore on the gearbox side would align the tool as well, assuming the headstock bore is true. Great Idea, I will be making one for my SB in the future.

I like it

I’ve got an old Craftsman/Atlas lathe that has a large gear in the headstock(keyed to the spindle) with 60 small holes evenly spaced on the face of it. There is also a locking pin that fits into whichever hole is aligned with it. This is a very easy way to index the spindle/ chuck etc. it is built into the design of the lathe. Nice project though.

Nice job

love that lathe ,I've been looking for a south Bend myself ....is that a 30 inch?

Very nice

Hi Winky, I like this idea also. It does look a lot easier to make. I wouldn’t mind making both kinds of Indexing Wheels. Mainly because I don’t have very many extra gears, although I could get a Lot of combinations with the Gear. I want to make the larger one to try and make some bigger Dials for my little 6” Atlas. Hopefully someday I will have a bigger/better Lathe. Thanks again

Very cool idea. Add another item to the to do list. Thanks.

where did you get the gear or was it just a lucky find? You have a lot of good ideas

Hi Winky, I just tuned into your channel the first time today. I sure would like to see a little better how you mounted your drive motor and Jack shaft for this lathe. I am curious the purpose of the lever that you moved at 6:04 in this video. I just inherited an older lathe that has the flat belt/Jack shaft/v-belt arrangement as yours but came in a box. Have you made a video on this arrangement or plan to?

Like it! 👍👍👍🖖

Very cool dividing head idea, now I can make one for my old Atlas's lathes. Where did you put the spring in the locking pin. ?👍👍👍👍

MR Winky, how did u make ur locator pin spring loaded? I looked at ur tap guide the one I made sure dose look like urs. Thanks again

how often do you need to oil that sleeve bearing? because you covered up the oil port...

Nice lathe, my brother has one just like it. Who makes that type of lathe?

If you have 42-45-48 gears you can do 1 to 9 divisions, plus some more like 14, 15, 16, 21, 24 If you have 60, it can do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15 by itself.

Thanks for the video. that got me to look for a 48 tooth gear and it appears that i have one covered in rust, when i cleaned it it showed center marks at certain points for indexing already, i think the previous owner did that.. or the owner before the previous owner... ;)

What year was your ligan la5he made?

Do you have a video that shows making the spring loaded pin?

I have a 1947 Atlas 12, and the spindle has 60 indexing marks built in to the bull gears, that’s divisible by most numbers I use for projects. It has a little pin that just slides in and out, makes it easy. But the pin itself is not rigid enough to do much more than scribing/layout. If I do tool post drilling, I need to use the bull gear engagement to lock the spindle to hold it rigid. Takes a little wiggling to get the gears to the right alignment to lock them. I like your setup, but it wouldn’t be very usable for what I do without some way to index it, and then lock the spindle. I drill a lot of holes at an angle off tangent, which I change by adjusting the height of the drill and usually have to start holes with a flat nose 4-flute endmill. If I tried to do that with this setup it would shake all over the place and vary the holes positions way too much to be useful. I do like this design, but I would need a spindle lock to combine with it. My drill completely replaces the compound/tool post, and as such, I can really only use it for flange hole type drilling. It’s pretty rigid, but it’s also limited to the two angles of carriage travel and cross-slide travel. I need to make a tool post drill like this to pair with a hand drill so I can drill at angles if need be. Not really a point to all this I’m saying, but yours is a pretty neat idea

you may want a better indexing pin that is either a wider ball tip or one which meshes better with the gears to remove runout. if you ever forget, and the lathe is running and the gear-bar is present, that exposed gear is a safety hazard (binding pinch point...)

Did you have to machine the plunger tip to fit the gear tooth?

Hi Winky, Can you show how you make the Retractable Pin. Thanks

Brilliant simple solution

Great idea and reuse of a old gear.

Hi Winky. When I try to bore out a hole to a larger size on my Jet drill press, the bit always gets stuck in the part and often the whole chuck comes out of the spindle. I’m using a key to tighten the bit in the chuck. What might be wrong? Thanks, Paul

For indexing on the lathe, why do you need to make something to do it? The lathe already does it for you because when it is threading it makes the work rotate a certain number times per inch per the thread pitch. The idea here is reversing the concept that so that by measuring the cross slide movement with threading engaged you can convert that to a degree rotation in the chuck. (So for a 8 TPI engagement, every full rotation = 0.125"; therefore, with that TPI engaged, an eighth of a rotation of the chuck would be 1/64" = 0.015625" which while small, is measurable) Just put a dial indicator on the bed against the cross slide, and have the compound 90 degrees to the cross slide. With threading engaged, rotate the chuck (by hand) until the dial indicator says the correct number. Move the compound back the same distance so the tool stays where it should. Do your operation and then zero out the indicator and repeat. I've been meaning to try this out on my lathe, just haven't gotten around to it yet, so let me know how it works out.

Hello my senior..how you sir?..I like your jobs all..nice full..good luck for you🤝💯👍👏👏🤝🤝🤝🤝

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my lathe has degrees on the spindle, is it not so common? it is a 575x 2000 hb cazenueve

What happened to "PPE" and "Safety precautions"?

How teeth this gear? Sorry my English

Beautiful laite' your smart. Bet it cost a lot. I ha hf mini mill & laite'.

a notch so the pin cant vibrate and drop down?

But what if you want to make a 6 fluted reamer. You cannot have the reamer have even spacing, because that would cause chatter. Would you skip some teeth? It needs 1st 0 2nd 59.0769 3rd 121.1538 4th 178.8462 5th 241.3846 6th 298.8462 Degrees. But 1 tooth is 360/48= 7,5 degrees. So that is off to much. A normal dividing head has a 40 to 1 ratio, with 39 holes disk. 2nd 4 holes less, 3rd 5 more, 4th 7 less, 5th 6 more, 6th 5 less. So could you get a lot of gears to make it so that you get these ratios? I have seen lathes with a dividing head. And i definitely need one if i want to make reamers. The way you did it is pretty clever! Would a closed stepper motor, and pulley wheel be good as an dividing head for the lathe with that kind of precision?

nice, but I haven't any lathe, only a mill😂

Isn't a threads for a spider in the rear on the headstock spindle...

why knurl it and not put a cone mid way down the spindle?

Could go to your computer and design a plate with all the capable patterns this gear can offer and then adhere it to the gear. Just an idea. Thumbs Up!

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