Like rising from the ashes… I look forward to the real resurrection of this old beast. Always a pleasure watching you work on your equipment. Best Wishes for the New Year.

Gday Max, bloody ripper, the headstock looked to be in good nick and it’s cutting alright, big mission in the end to get it up and going but well worth it mate, great job, cheers

Awesome…from the graveyard to the play yard 🏆👏👏👏👏

Thanks for another great video. Love how you explain everything. Good to see old iron not going to the scrap bin.

Same here on the Dickson toolpost, great design. Normally theres a spigot on the lower part to radially locate. Good idea on the ATF for flushing, suspends any contaminants, as opposed to machine lils. 😀 Quick way to check if a steel is medium carbon (>0.4%), is to blob a bit of weld on it, then file it. Good size lathe. Thanks for sharing.

It was fun watching g you pour all that oil into the headstock. My South Bend FOURTEEN uses about a gallon for the headstock and transmission together.

Old machine sounds great man nice work good luck with it and thanks for the knowledge. I can't imagine anyone scrapping that thing

The transmission fluid will help to clean it up really well. Just don’t leave it in there too long. I ran mine for about 30-40 hours and drained it, flushed it once real good with a kerosene flush and man what a difference that made ! It’s like brand new in that headstock now. Not sure what was in it but it so so sticky and it stunk to all hell. Whatever it was it ruined my solvent in my parts washer, coated the inside of the washer sink. The solvent in the tank wouldn’t even touch it. It just ran right off it and the only way to get it all out was to scrub the crap out of it. It was even clogging up my Scotch Brite. But that transmission fluid cut right through it and cleaned everything up so nice. My machine is much newer than any of the ones I’ve seen in your shop. those old Iron giants are far better than my little Clausing Metosa. But I don’t miss changing gears, mine cuts metric or imperial with just a flick of a couple levers. But it takes a whole lot more passes lol. Very cool machine Max. 🫵🪄

Max Grant ,The Swan Valley Machine Shop. The Heron K24 Lathe Repairs, Completed “Almost”. What a Beautiful Shivering Mass of Iron and Steel, They are definitely not making them like that anymore, and where are all the casting foundries and the men who worked in them. But I am sure the old manual lathes will never really go completely away, these old behemoths can still do some jobs better than CNC I think. And you are doing a great service in saving these old giant paper weights from being melted down and turned into Cyber Trucks and CNC Machines. You referred to yourself as a 3rd generation fitter, Machinist, and that you were manufactured in the mid sixties, an interesting way to characterize yourself almost like you were a............... well By the way is the Horizonal Boring Machine on the restoration list for 2023, or has it been pushed forward like the Boeing 777X which is the replacement for the 747,-- into the year 2025? I used to hear the HBM mumbling over there in the corner asking for help, now I wonder if it is thinking `Nobody loves me anymore '' I can’t wait to see what you are going to do with the HBM’s ways, and for that matter all the broken paces, it will be more of a resurrection, than a restitution. Also you are posting faster than I can commit, wow! The Man in Black is getting it done.

She's a beast Max ,Great work on getting the old girl to make some decent chips. Cheers Karl

I enjoy a good restoration, but thanks for sparing us the hour long chuck derusting. I used to subscribe to that channel, I think that video was the straw that broke the camels back! Look forward to seeing you giving this lathe a proper going over!

Fan (thats me) Tastic, great progress Max :)

These videos are great fun, and you learn a lot.

Great job Max, you just took me back 30 years, I could almost smell it! I think you bagged yourself a bargain there mate, I know it needs work but 1/2 thou pre levelled is pretty amazing with the wear you have. Cheers, Jon

That's a beast max, looking good,great video, keep'um coming..

G'day Max.. now that is an excellent not going to repair much on the lathe. It runs & spits out chips better than some used lathes on the market. Be great to see the goodies you make on it. Great Videos keep up the good work

Nice job Max, did not think such an old machine would preform well. looks like you need to get the locking pin fitted in the tool post if you do heavy cuts.

Always love seeing the old iron brought back to life. Thanks Max

Well done Max. Your videos are very good and well presented with no b----------t. The lathe has been saved and will be a great addition to your workshop. Being a ex fitter and turner at the Union Steam Ship Company here in Auckland (company wrapped up in the 70's) I don't understand how a lathe chuck can be damaged like that. Some operators are butchers as we all know. Anyway I like your videos so keep the coming. Cheers Ian

Gday Max! Good luck, much success and all the best for you and your family! Best regards from Dresden! 👍☀🍀🍀🍀❤🛠🇩🇪❤🇦🇺😎

Congrats on saving another piece of machinery from the salvage yard. She looks like it'll be a fine addition to the shop

good vid Max,, the beast lives!!

Max, All she needs is some TLC 🥰🤗.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Wow, what a treat. Three in a row for the weekend. However, your deadline gives us laymen what I call "Accelerated Max" or "Max with a Mohawk!" Glad the operation was a success, cheers.

Woo Hoo it runs, and cuts ! You've been busy Max... Gota be a good feeling having another machine running again 👍👍 ATB.....Cheers...

She looks like a keeper.

Great video Max, but I am a little disappointed, I wanted to see what the flush came out like.Looks like this lathe will do a lot of your "heavy lifting" jobs. Enjoyed very much, cheers mate!

good to see the old girl up and running again mate, cant wait to see the video of an 80mm screw pitch at 480rpm !!

thats a good result max. thanks for sharing. cheers ben.

A little touch of a 15lb adjustment tool and the scraptonium is looking good. Great job Max.

Will make a fabulous lathe Max. Cheers

Thank you Sir, your descriptions and informative approach to repairs and maintenance is exemplary. Have a great week.

Another awesome video.

Knocked that one into shape quickly Max, good work indeed. I’m guessing you can put a few more hours in now that your living on the block & not having to travel so much. Hopefully this one will let you complete the JFMT build, so you can get onto the Dean Smith & Grace Lathe rebuild next. Eventually I guess you will come back to the Italian Stallion in good time for a full rebuild & re-grind the bed-ways etc. If your going to go through every machine in the shop I reckon you’ve probably got a good 2-3 years of machine rebuilding videos content ahead of you. 😂 Hopefully now that you have your 10,000 subscribers - you can make it pay & quit working 4 days a week to go at it full time. 👍👍👍 Was that a hay burner I could hear whinnying in the background? 😳😳😜 And maybe Heidi riding the mower as well? 🤷‍♂️ It’s all go out there by the look. Keep it up, your going great guns.

Glad to see the rescue is off to a great start.

There is a lot of life left in the machine, good show!

You are my inspiration..............well done.................brother restorer, Mazak . From the ground up. Works out with the hours I have put into it, if I ever sell it, has to be worth $50,000......................haaaahaaaaaaaa Quite a journey though. Cheers Davo Vic.

good video friend Max,,thanks for your time

It sounds really nice, good runner for sure

great to see progress mate! thanks for sharing

WOW! this old Girl may not be Pretty but she strong like bull, and has all her Charms. I will be looking forward to her coming out party😃

Awesome job Max!

Ta Max realy interesting mate cheers.

Looks like a working machine to me. And with a little more to do maybe that oil leak on the head stock was from to much oil in the machine good Luck

Super nice when even a restrained effort yield fabulous results. 👍👍😎👍👍

Terrific job Max, Congrats!!

Enjoyed watching and learning, thanks Maxxie!

Thanks for sharing 👍

Well done Max. Looks like a very good lathe.

That DSG is living up to its name Damn Straight Gtable......🤣

Hi Max So far so good as far as the operation of the lathe goes. The head stock sounds really good. Cheers

Awesome !!

Nice lathe.....

Great work Max. What power is the motor on that beast? I was initially disappointed with it choking on the first cut, but that surface finish doesn't look like 1020. Have you been dumpster diving behind Cutting Edge?

Holy Cow, what a gearbox! I would love to see you do a video on the gearbox and all the threading combinations you can cut. I have never been a fan of the L style chuck mounts. Especially that rusty ugly one! Cheers

Cool project. I hadn't seen a quick change tool post like that one before. Is it stiff enough? If you are taking a heavy cut all of the cutting forces on the cutter are transferred through that piece in the middle of each side on the post. I over engineer everything, but I wonder?

Hi Max, keep the old going I say, on a totally different thing ,watching I think cloud 42 lad he dropped something out about video cameras etc that they are programmed to shut off after 30 minutes. Steve

She is ready for chips. 👍

Hi Max. Please excuse my ignorance, but would it be better to have a thin coating of your clear oil on the taper and in the threads, when replacing the chuck? Maybe easier to remove when required?

Problem the old oil was thick,to keep from leaking out the spindle

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Not too bad, considering it was full of 15w40 🤣. She's a far cry ahead of Lenore when I first got her 😊.

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Hi Max, WTF is that bit of plate stuck in the headstock at 40:30?. Nice work on the pre-refurb, looking forward to the full on refurb. Best wishes, Mal.

Hi Max, she does the job. Can't ask for anymore. Wonder if the lathe came with Pratt Burnerd chucks or were changed out. My Hercus 9a had them and still used regularly by my Brother, still in good condition.

Congratulations Max, it's up and running. I've never put ATF in my machines before. Does it clean the insides pretty well? My Broadbent Schoflield lathe came with a 24" Pratt chuck (no Burnerd, must pre-date a merger). It was a cast steel chuck and was probably nice in it's day but was so worn out that it was nearly unusable. I replaced it with an (ebay find) 28" steel chuck (Mario Pinto, Italy) and it made me wonder if your machine would have been originally fitted with one when new. (It would be odd if an Italian lathe was supplied with a British chuck when new, and I have seen many Italian lathes for sale with Mario Pinto chucks). You are speaking the truth when you say it takes a lot of hours to put an old machine back into proper condition (and that's without any work on redoing the slideways). My HBM rebuild nearly did me in. Ken

Hello Mr Max I wonder if your scraptonian pile have some 40 mill bar approximately 1000 mil long?

which size Litre bath cleaner did you use for the tool post and parts ?

When are you going to treat the HBM?

😂 Abom would have made a 2 part series on cleaning a chuck like that in an IBC of Evaporust rather than just a comment. Actually now I think about it........he did

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