well it's a lathe kzfaq.infoUgkxN9zrzkkhnjUF5PQbuA_B1gYdsfCu9k6z but it wasn't what i would have anticipated. Headstock, tailstock, carriage apron are manufactured from aluminum now not cast iron. The spindle diameter for the bearings is too small allowing for a few play in the spindle so I am using some blue Loctite to take out the play.

Not sure how I ended up on this channel, but seeing a metal lathe used, to create a part like this, was pretty cool.

Very good work, I enjoyed seeing your working process. I started in machine shop work about 1953, all we had were manual machines, not like today. Must have made 20,000+ aircraft parts on them in volume production, from 50 part lots to as much as 1000 parts, holding +- .0005 many times. In 1980 I bought my first CNC lathe and what a difference! Thanks, Paul

Wow, what negative people seem to make comments here. This is a well though out and executed piece of machining with the assistance of a DRO. This type of task IS fairly impossible for a beginner and the inexperienced. A very nice demonstration, well filmed and clearly spoken in decent quality English, unlike some of the ill-educated exposing themselves for what they are in the comments below. I have been using a Myford ML Super 7 for 60 years. My workshop is well equipped with a wide range of tooling (much of it self-made). About 30 years ago I added a small plastics injection molding machine for which I have produced may moods to make various things that I use (and some that I sell). I have a small CNC machine too and I am happy to give it the space that it takes. It has its place and is something I wanted to learn how to use before I am too old. Well, let me answer @wana bear. There is nothing wrong with stringy swarf, other than that it might cut the fingers of children if they are improperly instructed as to its correct handling. You say you are a beginner, so I will tell you the VERY simple way of getting 'chips' if that's what you want. Grind a groove behind the tip of your cutting tool. It's called a chip-break. Also you could use free-cutting aluminium which is easier for beginners to obtain a decent finish. I think they add some lead to make it free-cutting. I dislike the attempts to drag down someone who is actually doing something, and doing it well. Better that you go out and drag your own techniques up to his level. What's that old phrase? Oh yes ! Put brain into gear before opening mouth. Have a nice day everyone and make something useful.

I never would have guessed Nicholas Cage could use a lathe.

I really love that people show there passions on you tube and share them with every one out there, people watch for fun or maybe to get an idea of how to try something new.but then you read all the comments from the haters or the " real engineers " . really people cut the man some slack hes got the ass to make a video and show what works for him. my hats off to you dale good job man.

When I was younger I used WD-40 and tapping fluid for cutting oil. When I went to work in Aerospace I switched to coconut oil. The reason being it was much healthier and in zero gravity it didn't come out of the material that had been machined. Griddle fry also works as it is mostly coconut oil.

In the 60,s i was a capstan lathe operator.The capstan setter would set up the lathe with turning tools parting tools and numerous tools on the turret. Once set, the operator (me),would then spend the next week turning hundreds of the same item out,only stopping for tool sharpening and the inspector checking tolerances.Depending how good you were,the speed you attained was incredible coupled with accuracy.All on a manual lathe.

Your videos are both informative and fun to watch because you exhibit an energy level I wish I still had. Thank You! JD

I too like these kind of runs. Great idea on the whiteboard! Thanks for posting and keeping it short (concise).

Love that "up and down" tool holder with the wedge action to lock it, when I was at Tech school in the dim darks safety glasses were unheard of.

This should be called simply; "dude uses lathe".

Thanks Dale, I enjoyed this, look forward to more.

i love how this video shows all the unsafe things you can do with a turning machine :P

Thanks for sharing. I also like the time lapse footage at the end.

Your videos, along with Adam Booth, Steve Summers, Keith Rucker, Tom Lipton and Mr Pete, along with many others have taken my machining skills into the stratosphere. Nine years ago I had been machining for 12 years, but you guys made me into a machinist. Thank you!,

Dir sir. is wonderful that you share you kwowledge!!!

Nice job Dale, Stay healthy.

The guys that said you cant do it must be from the milling department.

Awesome view during the time lapse video!

I'm doing it for 12 years now and i discover new things, awesome! Greetz from Belgium. Metric system rules :-)

thats a beautiful place you got there!

Loved it! Great production and great speaking.

Not impossible! Actually back in the day I have done hundreds of the same part in an engine lathe. I also held a tolerance of +/- .0005 on large runs over 200 parts. This is how it was done back in the day before CNC. It is also done this way quite a bit today even. On an engine lathe you don't have full containment of coolant as you would on a CNC. Nor do you have an infinite range of RPM or feed rate. So the most ideal speeds and feeds isn't going to happen. You do the best with what you have as he has done in the video. I say good job!

I was put on a drill stem lathe on the first day at Svedala / Denver equipment in the 90s. My first production job was a 6" stem coupling... left hand, tapered, internal, 3 lead acme on hastaloy spray over steal. I worked there for 6 years on that machine. This video was fun and simple. Two thumbs up from Colorado. Cheers man!

Great video Dale, very well done and with lots of little tips! Thanks.

I enjoyed your video. Good Job

Had the guy that said this wa impossible ever been in a professional shop? It at least used to be done every day in shops all around the world. These days people are too impressed by cnc and end up using more time writing a program than it would have taken to make the parts on a manual lathe.

I've the utmost admiration for highly skilled machinists, but all you've demonstrated here is what I was taught in metalwork class at school aged 12-14. I didn't witness the impossible.

Very nice camera work and sound control levels.

get yourself an empty tomato sauce can to hold your oil and apply it with an acid brush. reduce the speed and increase the feed so your chip breaker works to get rid of the stringers. Nice little lathe you have there, good video.

Nicely edited video and great use of a DRO. I've pretty much always done this for multiple parts. Use the DRO just like CNC and "set your offsets." Some DRO's (like Anilam) even have multiple Zero's. Reading the comments, not every person owns or has access to a CNC machine. You explained and demonstrated the process very well. That "stringy chip" is called a ribbon chip and is all but unavoidable - even with the "right feed and speed." Your video was surely helpful for many people, I hope some of the less than grateful comments don't hinder you from making more. Good job.

Nice work

a very clean working room - fine!

It's really nice to a erase board, it's easy to track down, what you are doing. I'm just getting started with a DRO. I makes life, so much easier!

Nice video. The timelapse was beautiful. If that's the view from your shop, you are blessed. Would you share any views of the timelapse rig? Thank you

Another random cruise around YT! Love finding these videos that show people with skill.

great work

could you do a video about different tip shapes and their application?

of course you can do multi parts and hold tolerances how do you think they did production parts before cnc

Great job

You have inspired me to buy a better lathe love the one you have

Very cool video!!!!

Nice work my friend.

When did the impossible bit happen.?

Very cool. Nice work and a fine video. You make it look easy.

Good work, very informative.

I want such a workshop too!

Great video. Especially for those guys starting out. As a day in, day out job shop machinist... part of the game is bringing the next generation on.

Finally someone who uses a proper mic set up for a how to video. Good quality video, viewing angles and editing as well. Video or photography obviously is a hobby for you as well. Just wanted to offer kudos' on that. Subscribed. I am a machinest- video hobbyist as well.

I moved to Sandpoint when I was 13 back in 1969.. I remember your mountain top when there was not a single house up there.. . Sandpoint is still one of the greatest areas and I've been around the world, its always nice to come back across that bridge and see the Cabinets and Selkirks..

Dale, that time lapse has me convinced that we lived in the very same house! We rented a beautiful home with a massive stone fireplace in a living room with 20+ foot ceilings and a wall of windows facing the lake. It was at the top of Eagle Crest Drive. We rented it from 2010-2011, our first year in Sandpoint. I’ve got hundreds of photos from the deck and the tree in the right top corner of your time lapse is in many of them..

Thanks for the Video Dale. I'm new to this and enjoyed seeing you work. All these other post are just trying to brag how good they are. I don't see any of them doing a video. Again Nice video

Yeah Dale, right on, that time lapse was excellent. So was the video ;)

Yo great video! Thanks man! Also what was that song clip at the end?!

Well done, nice chipbreaker! :) Makes me want a DRO but a multi position carriage stop works quite well

I have had to make many duplicate parts on an engine lathe using a magnet on carriage ways as a reference not the most efficient, but when your employer thinks a JET lathe is the bomb you do what you can. When I would approach the magnet would switch to manual and creep. Verify with homemade T shaped depth gauges. Nice video wish we had the DRO unit.

That view is so like looking towards Dundee from Fife with the two Tay bridges in the foreground.

I see what you did there "Let's get crankin".

Great video! Machine work has always fascinated me. However I have to ask, where on earth was that time lapse shot at!?!? That is quite the amazing landscape! If I had to guess I would say Western Washington State or BC Canada, But I am dying to know!

So cool!

Great video man!

the view with snow was cool it would be awesome if your lathe were in front of a window with that view

You make it look easy! The only thing different from this compared to the old days, is, back then we had "number clips" on the crosslide and hard stops on the carriage. And instead of using a KDK tool holding setup, we used a 4-way tool post. And if you're lucky , you'll be running a turret lathe that can really put out the work, and you'll never waste your time on an engine lathe. Give me a #3 Warner Swazey or a #5 J & L and I can make the world over again.

Thanks Dale. Great videos! I just subscribed!

One of my apprentices made me watch some of this and don't know where to start. Remember this person is not a professional but a hobbyist.

I like the set-up ,like the idea and you work-methods are yours to develop as you go on your way as you do. Please stay on your path your perfect as it go's. (the basics are good to play with) Enjoy, keep playing and also import end share as muts as you want !!!!! Only then, you stand up like a real pro in the morning.

on a plung cut you can reduce vibration by making the cutter thinner than your grove requirement and plunging twice. I like the video!

That was neat! I really enjoyed the end with the timelapsed photography, that is some beutiful country. Cool bridge. What were the smoke or condensation from (chimney)? Very cool. Im in Miami Florida we love snow filled pictures. Your wheels were a thing of beauty. Nothing like DIY. Thanks for sharing.

Good video. I use all manual lathes and mills where I work, and LOVE those D.R.O.'s! Our shop started installing them on the machines about 12 years ago. Be very careful grabbing those shavings with your bare hands, man.

Great video. Keep 'em coming! (P.S., nice "outro" sequence too ... nice view!)

Parting tool trick taught to me by an old machinist. Mount cutter upside down and run lathe in reverse or mount upside down from the rear using another tool post. Takes all the chatter out and changes how the cross slide loads up.

Ive learned while grooving to set the machine at an extremely slow speed, it helps reduce chatter on the initial cut and will result in a much cleaner finish in the end

snow at the end of the vid this is so nice ! where are you ? Thanks for posting

I need to make the arbor the gear cutter on my atlas lathe (12") that I a having us==issues with=movement. I don't want any vehement at all--any ideas has to make this thing without movement/?

You can slow the head speed down to get rid of the vibration on the plunge cuts

I used to produce thousands of identical parts on a Herbert 2D capstan lathe, no problem. LOL

Nice video! Easy work with this ''helper/assistance''! What precisely were the rulers DRO? 5 micron or 1 micron? Thanks, Dan.

watching you use the wd-40 straw to catch that part made me think of times i could've saved time by doing that.

The quick change tool post is definitely your friend in this instance. I've done this at work when I've had occasional "homework" to do and need to be fairly quick. ;¬)

Good video. What brand/model lathe in your video is that ? Thanks.

Amazing, thank you from N.Ireland

Can you share some footage shot with the rig built with the part you just made?

Great video, I'd like to see the finished part assembled

I may consider making a camera sled for time laps too. May have to break down and put a DRO on my lathe at some point. Thanks! Like the tips and tricks.

That is awesome.

...he's a photographer AND a machinist; that's rare.

Clever man, wish I could do stuff like that, can't buy it or it's to expensive? Hey just make it, cool! Great time lapse video, looks like a wonderful place to live, clever and lucky :-)

what brand of lathe are using I really like the guality of it thanks great video!!!

Nice video. I have a small 9X20 Jet lathe and added DRO's a little while back. It has been very helpful for me as well.

You can can shut down lathe when plunge cut is at depth to eliminate chattering finish. You also can put lathe in neutral and spin chuck by hand it you really have to. Just some old tricks that save time.

You should show how to create a chip breaker in your tool bit so you dont get long stringy chips.

Bless you.

Dale... I have that. same lathe and have considered a quick change tool post. however I have never found one with specs that would appear to work out. Would you share the make and model info on yours? Thanks.

You came to the same methodology I did independently. I suppose the DRO was one of the greatest inventions the job shop ever received.

Really handy that the bearings fitted without any machining.lol

on plunge cutting are you may try dropping below center line to reduce vibration

Enjoyed your video. Thanks. May I ask you to point me to your lathe specs? Did you buy it digital?

I own manual lathes but once you go to a CNC turning center you really start enjoying the lack of hot flying chips on your face.

Nice view!