wait, I just followed this channel to see stuff about TIG welding too fuck what am I getting into

:D

Why is your lathe bloody? Did you cut yourself using it?

;P

@@Turbogto_guy If your lathe never has had blood on it, it still must be new.;-)

Hi Colin, love your work! Here have a like.

Mr. Safety tie follows ToT?!

Haha, the belt stripped on mine too, makes the worst noise in the entire world!

You can tell this is an honest review because of who it is. Thanks colinfurze and ToT.

@@PracticalRenaissance how do you like yours? I'm probably going to buy one for my boat to try and be a bit more self sufficient in remote areas

Captain Picard?

@@josphe9011 Make it so

To every season, turn, turn, turn........

I have never lathed. it looks so hypnotising. one day I will get myself one....

@@sparkycorkers1196 I’ve used wood lathes (never a metal turning one), and there really is something satisfying about removing material from a chunk of wood. Even magical.

You need a mill to really do that right. I know, I am fixing some of the errors in my lathe.

Lol I bought a 1030V lathe several years ago. I got probably 10 hours on it and it died twice. First time cost me $125 to get a machine shop to manufacture some t-slot bolts and nuts to replace the cheap ones that stripped on my lathe. The second time it died I replaced the bolt that holds the tool post down. The tool post bolt replacement lasted about 30 seconds and it stripped. After that I covered it with a tarp and it hasn't been touched since. A few months ago I tried to turn it on and it's dead. So my shiny lathe is scrap metal sitting in my garage now. To me it's a hobby for the wealthy. Too much to buy the lathe and replace it piece by piece.

Like turning down some cookies?

It always makes me happy to see creators I love colliding in the YT comments section 😊

@@crispindry2815 Look everyone! He pointed out a mistake someone made. Isn't he great? Clap clap clap.

@@SW-zu7ve *two mistakes

Would they be adequately suited for small woodworking projects perhaps? I figure the variable speed would be useful and wood isn't exactly cold rolled steel.

🤣

Same. And listen to him say "I bought a variable speed *minilathe*."

Straight Yoda move

"The feral cat in my bushes just had kittens and I don't know what to do with them..." - Love your humour!

Me too!!!

This man is honestly a legend.

I didn't even notice at first :DD

He does it ever video for the most part. He’s gotten good at the subliminal stuff.

My ex wife lathed around a lot, I’ll be trading up eventually

Well, it was spelled wrong anyway. Should have been mini-lathe or mini lathe with a space between.

Best comment ever! You made my morning. Best, @HoneyOnWales

@D2RG6 how exactly do you know this? Do you know of every camera ever invented? Or perhaps all the different ways to shoot large things with small cameras making the large thing seem of normal size. And the item of normal size smaller

😂

His kitten is a kitten, not tiger

What were the most effective mods for adding rigidity? Adding a lock to the compound or replacing the compound all together seem the most obvious, but what else?

As a gun nut I call bullshit on the less than 1/4 MOA as that is almost impossible with today's technology let alone a $500 dollar budget lathe, as seeing at most u could only turn down pistol length barrels with it, and pistol caliber cartridges aren't even capable of 1 moa accuracy, ya know the only cartridges I can think of being capable of that kind of accuracy would be .408 cheytac, .416 barret and .375 cheytac. And all three of those cartridges would require a barrel that is longer than a mini lathe is capable of machining. So any other misinformation u care to spread Mr. Fudd?

@@how_about_no3287 for some reason I trust you more than that boomer

Boy now that has to be some mighty thin barrels. 0.75" through bore is enough for maybe 0.25" wall thickness on a .22 cal. A .223 government profile will not fit nor would I try cutting threads on the machine.

@@ahole5407 Before we say the man is lying, consider what he said in his post about the gunsmithing. He said he "Chambered barrels" What does that mean? I am not a builder of firearms, and I don't know what that means. He also said he "blueprinted rifle actions." Blueprinting in the automotive world means repairing loose tolerances of parts, to get them all matching factory specifications, with no "lips" or "burs" that can cause loss of performance at the bleeding edge of performance.

Ron! I’m so glad you watch Tony as well! You are a MASTER!!!

Ron, Thank you for all you do for our community. Are you still producing books and DVDs?

Well, I have 19 DVDs available at this point, and 41 KZfaq videos. I'm working on a new DVD - Part 3 of the Roadster Body series. I'm just starting a series of articles on basic metalworking for Classic Trucks Magazine, and I've have had thoughts of expanding on those articles to do a book, but that's just in the planning stages at this point.

Girlfriends are over rated.. Pay a Professional.. In the long run, they are a hell of a lot cheaper, don't talk back and obey .. Now you can buy a cheap Milling machine to go with the cheap lathe without a dinner and movie first..

@Bob lol did he strike a nerve from you?

Teach it Ron! Hurrah!

Confucius was chinese, thus this is probably chinese commie propaganda

Confucius also said: "don't be a misogynistic dick.

Depends on how many fingers you still have.

What would happen if it got angry? Whine and vibrate for a couple minutes?

@@miles11we Don't test the temper It can through bearings n gears at you if u persist to pester it

@@miles11we that little thing have 3 jaws and carry a cutter, with a tail that hit the dead center. With description like this, cops will pull out their guns.

I was waiting for hornets 🐝 to come out of it. At least that’s what usually happens when I poke things with a stick.

Send it to the Hydraulic Press Channel because the mini lathe is extremely dangerous and can attack at any time. So we must deal with it.

Clickbait

check watchmakers' lathes.

Disliked the video. So hacky

I've got a palm out in the backyard. Looks smaller than a palm to me.

Serj Houshmandzadeh the thumbnail also shows a mini lathe held in a hand with 8 fingers, wheres the freak?

The larger lathes with true gear boxes will have a shear pin in them somewhere to handle just that problem. The shear pin will be in place of a key.

Why

@@ctsteve1967 because of his gotdam beautiful voice dummy

*_yet you moan in 0.25 for me._*

🤣

I didn’t even know that was possible. I feel like a schmuck for wasting all this time on normal speed. Thanks.

@Evi1M4chine It IS very cheap. You can't be stupid enough to think you could actually buy any sort of useful lathe for "$50-100", not even second hand. If you can't even afford this then forget about any ideas of doing any lathe work unless it's using someone else's lathe. Sorry but reality isn't going to change because you're poor.

@Evi1M4chine I think the comments regarding your financial status are thoughtless and unnecessary, not to say better have been left unsaid. That said, $1000 is a bit high. $600 will get you something similar where I live (South Africa). Try looking for pre owned. And don't let the comments from self important blowhards bring you down

I know people working that tight who have 12 work days. Or didn't have the cash to go to collage when a 4 year degree is required to shovel S**t these days. I can relate to this. That said. $1,000 is pretty much the minimum you're going to get away with unless we're talking the extremely tiny micro-lathes that use a cordless drill motor (and are still a few hundred bucks for as tiny as they are). This is true even if you make your own lathe using someone else's lathe. A good controller that's not a fire hazard can run half the cost of this thing. Tools are consumables, expensive consumables at that. So are chucks, change gears, lead screws... basically everything on this thing will wear out. If you want to get into home manufacturing on a tight budget, get a 3D printer. My Tevo Tarantula was $180. Even there, I still have to buy new end switches and hotend cartridges, not to mention filament, which is $20/kg for not-garbage stuff that won't clog. However, just like my 3D printer (more so, in fact). You can use this lathe to make parts that you then use on the lathe. say... brass change gears? making stuff for other people in your spare time can save you some cost. I've made a bit of cash printing stuff for people as well.

@@bertkutoob: " I think the comments regarding your financial status are thoughtless and unnecessary, not to say better have been left unsaid. " Dude, the guy is talking about spending LESS than $100! Get real, we're just stating the facts, it's never going to happen. DFX2KX has some informative info about this above. FFS, he couldn't even buy much in the way of cutting tools for that and a lot of them he couldn't even dream about. You go and patronise his fantasy so he can feel destroyed when he discovers how little of anything to do with this he can buy with that money. Sure, there's those ultra cheap plasticy things that can be converted into a drill press a lathe and even a mill, but even they are more than that, without any tooling and they are absolute rubbish. No accuracy AT ALL and everything flexes. That's the sort of crap someone on a budget like his is going to aim for in the end and they are going to be extremely disappointed after saving so hard to only have a childs toy to play with.

@@lorditsprobingtime6668 You are a serious dipshit. Go read the original comments l was referring to, plus mine again. At no time do I encourage the thinking that he can get something serious for $150 or less. I fact I mention I can get one of these for $600 including shipping costs where I live so anyone paying $1000 is being ripped off. Comments such as "only a fool" or "get a second job" have no bearing on the matter and I stand by my comment that they would better have been left unsaid

Yes bro he has discovery chanel voice that we love 😍🤣

Alan Alda voice

And at just the right speed, not too fast not too slow

Useless without pics of your wife.

@@susanss70spartymix77 need pics for verification "purposes " :P

ROBRENZ, darn, I got a 6ft craftsmen wood lathe for my first, and am getting a smaller one.

I got a Unimat from an estate sale a while back. It came with a ton of tooling and accessories. I played with it for a while, but apparently there's a huge market for these things. I put it on eBay and doubled my money shortly after posting

My dad bought a Unimat SL when I was a teenager in the 1970s. I used it a lot for model rocketry (making nose cones out of balsa wood) and for a number of other projects in plastic and brass. Primitive by today's standards but I made a lot of things with it!

Nothing wrong with buying cheap if you're just buying for yourself. If you're planning on making money off of it though, don't skimp on the good tooling. I'm a landscaper, and I can't bear to look at residential-grade mowers any more. They're crap to me now.

@@BlackEpyon So what is your recommended home mower and weed whacker?

@@SiXiam The ride-on mower I use, a Walker T23, costs around $12k-13k, depending on the retailer www.walker.com/models/t23/ I got bought mine used from my old boss when he retired. 8 years old, and aside from some welding I need to do on the rim of the deck (where it contacts soft curbs), a few bearings I need to replace, and needing to be stripped down and re-painted, it's still going strong. These things are workhorses. The parts are standardized across most of their models (no obsolescence to worry about), and EVERYTHING is serviceable if you've the tools and the know-how. For a walk-behind mower, I'd go with an Exmark Commercial 21 X-Series. Retail around $1600. Self-propelled (scales hills easily), very manoeuvrable, very powerful. The blade and drive are controlled by separate control bars on the handle. I have 3 of these mowers, so unfortunately I know what parts commonly wear out with regular usage (I like to keep spare parts on hand), but this is offset by how powerful and easy to use they are. www.exmark.com/products/mowers/walk-behind/commercial-21/commercial21-x-series#ReviewHeader I've also got a Honda HRC 216, but I only use it as a spare unit. It's difficult to handle in tight areas and the drive and blade are controlled on the same handle (though one of my guys prefered this machine over the Exmarks), but the micro-cut system, which comprises of two blades stacked and offset, gives the smoothest cut I've seen on a walk-behind mower. It also uses a hydrostatic drive, so there's no belt to wear out. Retail about $1400. A lot of landscapers use this mower. powerequipment.honda.com/lawn-mowers/models/hrc216hxa For weed whackers, I prefer Shindaiwa. The T235 is lightweight and good for everyday trimming (around $340), but for heavier stuff (hills, long grass and brush) I use a T282X (about $550) www.shindaiwa.ca/Products/Trimmers.aspx Sthil and Maruyama are also popular. For home, you can use whatever your budget permits. But if you're cutting all day everyday, you need commercial units, and the ones I listed above are ALL commercial units. All prices Canadian.

@@SiXiam as for weed wacker i like using the echo SRM-266T good running machine for the price. will cut thick weeds like nothing

@@BlackEpyon Thank you for the detailed response. I'll keep them in mind. Think I need a new push mower for next summer.

What would be your pick for a truly precision mini-lathe? Does anyone make one with steel gears. What would be your recommendation for a small lathe if money was no object? Thank you

Hi can you lathe the inside of the metal pipe with this machine? The video only test the kathe outside of the steel..

@@nasigeo2790 Sure, why not. If you have a tool long enough

Good observation lol I think there is more here than meets the eye.

The biggest difference is that ToT knows what he is doing and talking about :-O

It's not the size of a man's tool that matters.... Errrr yeah

Keep in mind AvE pretty much hung his balls on the Haas hook - the bank owns them both now.

@@johnrobinson357 Give a man a tool, and he'll complain about using it. Teach a man to tool, and he'll buy a welder, a lathe, a chest full of old junk, and a CNC machine.

That's exactly what I was thinking: can't I just look at a couple guides for improving the parts? Use a tool to make a better tool

@@cdgonepotatoes4219 that's what happened with my 3d printer, my plan for a lathe is look for a secondhand lathe.

ROFLMAO!!!

Now you will also need a mill to do the gears once the blanks have been turned.....and tooling for the mill too.

@@gangleweed no, you can cut gear teeth on a lathe.

Would you be able to give me some advice on where to get a cheap lathe that I can make wooden bowls with please? I don't have much money, so I'm hoping to find something cheap. I'll even do it by hand if necessary, I just need to know the bare minimum tools I'd need to get the job done. I'd really appreciate some advice! I want to be able to make some money selling them to help my family. I have a pyrography pen, and I'm hoping to make bowls and things of that nature, burn designs into them, and hopefully turn a small profit in time☺️

I have one just like this. Yes base price $600.00-$700.00 and I probably have about that much invested in various cutters and tools for it. I’ve had it for a bit over a year. I run it easy as I don’t punch a time clock. I use it to learn and have fun. They told me in June just over a month ago I have lung cancer. It’s spreading. I need to sell all I can to raise money for medical treatment. I’ll sell this lathe and even the table it’s mounted on and everything I’ve bought for it. Approximately $1,400.00-$1,600.00 invested total. I’ll sell everything for $750.00 OBO. Text at 620 951 8017. greaper132654@yahoo.com

Usually threading dials can be disengaged. Also, consider any new machine to be a work in progress, and to need multiple tweaks to fine tune.

@@lifuranph.d.9440 Oh, absolutely!!! Very well said, but, these need a wee bit more TLC, then the old school castings of vintage machines. The castings are really soft, of course strong enough to monkey around, but scratches on the bed ways come very fast, as an example. I wipe clean constantly with paint brushes, in my opinion, is a must, which is I small part of why I completely re-machined and ground all mating & sliding surfaces while putting alignment into the out of alignment set up they had, and re-flame hardened the bed ways and hand scraped all the dove tails ways, added way wipers or felt wipers to each of the respective areas and still, squirt oil all over everything, which is something that my tables (by my design) allows me to do, as all the oils / cutting fluids are gravity flowed to a catch basin, which lets me continuously re-fill my lil squirt cans, to continue using the oil endlessly. So all the oils simply drip off the machines and funnel to one side of the tables into a chip trap, and then into a jug, that has one of those flippy valves on each table like what one finds on a water cooler, for ease of re-filling the oil cans. Not to sound like a parrot, just saying that I suppose it is easier for me to slop oil all over my dinky machines and not create a mess, as it is all self contained. With in approx one month of the machine learning curve, the ways got trashed,when the machines were new and didn't think I was doing anything wrong, as I did clean the excessive swarf/chips away and did oil things often, but still scratched morbidly... Well, after the improvements & mods, I didn't want that to happen again, so, oil on the contact sliding ways has 99% eliminated scratches. Or at least any heavy ones, it simply is that soft junk cast material/alloy. Please note, I am not an expert on anything, rather, just really enjoyed doing the best I could come up with ways to improve this little machine, and I learned so much while doing it!!! Mind you, it was very time consuming, as I had to blue print everything, while it is together, then tear it apart, blue print some more, then design the stuff that would allow for more advantages and efficiencies, and ease of operation, and smoothness. Ball bearings installed, where there was none, or to replace where oil-lite bronze bushings were. Thrust roller bearings in a few key locations, like the lead screws. The entire gear train is sealed roller ball bearings. A sure mounting method for the motor mount that allows for 3 axis of adjustment. Then after designing everything on paper and CAD, I assembled the mini lathe, and then made all the parts, once the parts were made, tear the lathe back apart, modify the lathe parts and tried those up, installed the newly made upgrade parts, rd-assembled the lathe, aligned everything... 19,000 plus hours later... lol... Very time consuming doing it this way. At that time, I didn't have another machine that would let me make them . Anyway, the gear train from motor to Chuck & lead screw's efficiency went up by 70% to 80%, from what the factory was, respective frictional loads on to the voltage & current measurements which is also why or how I can have a 800 watt 90 volt @ 1/3 up motor, hog (0.050" ), which is huge for a dinky machine and still have a wonderful and accurate finish. I do not like to do that though, just no need to, as I am never in a hurry for anything. Wow, I wrote another novel again, I am sorry, I just get so excited talking about my dinky "jet engine sounding lathe", I suppose I could have simply stated, (((yup!))) And all woulda been well... Lol yes, I agree with you sir, Dru

@seaplaymarine9828 Hi, thanks for the info ! Do you remember the reference/name of that lathe ? That would be very useful for me starting into machining

Indeed, chinese just ask "What you are willing to pay for it?"; And makes it to that budget. If you say you want 10$ lathe, well... They'll make it for you, but don't expect much :) Is there a site devoted to the mods you are talking about? I've been thinking about getting my first lathe for sometime, maybe it is time to do that :)

@@skaltura www.mini-lathe.com/

@@skaltura littlemachineshop.com

@skaltura absolutely correct👍🏻

It's similar to a 3D printer made from a kit, lots of your first projects are making parts to make the 3D printer print better, then making the same part in even nicer quality-repeat until satisfied. Did this with my part cooling fanduct, for instance. will eventually do so for all of the axis parts. I imagine you could really go ham and get something pretty nice after awhile. I would get this lathe cutting reasonably well, then I'd use it to make the parts for a somewhat larger, but much nicer, handmade lathe piece by piece. and learn how to use a lathe while doing so.

The first (wood) lathes date from c.1300 BCE in Ancient Egypt. Metal cutting lathes date from the mid-18th century. The first fully documented, all-metal slide rest lathe was invented by Jacques de Vaucanson c.1751. Original Egyptian lathes are probably hard to come by, and the few remaining 18th century machine lathes are very expensive. Probably best to consider a readily available present day lathe.

I believe stockpiling during the time when there were very limited videos coming out. but maybe he solved the Causal loop and boot-strap paradox.

I suspect his workplace couldn't match the bucks he's getting from his videos and he quit his day-job. Pure speculation, but would be a shame - the world needs skilled engineers.

I think one of his editor traps might've sprung, allowing him to record much more raw footage and have videos automatically edited. Dunno what design of trap he used to catch them though.

I think it's a good time to upload, not everyone wants to watch Elf while farting in their onesie .

I think you are on to something.

...and 'kinda' don't? Why would that be? Masterful command of language.

Pure high quality chinesium

chee chinee. free po

The Latin is surely 'cuntium fuckies cheapilathe

Biggus Dickus

@excited box I have exact same one mine to my door was $450. Never seen that tool post holder he got before that looks like it has some robust compared to the aluminium one we see everywhere. Metal gears only seem available for the common brands like grizzly little machine shop ect ect wonder where he found those?

solid snape

A lathe?! Get off the line, Guy!

Watch carefully ... I think this one too cuts a taper .. but he did say he hasn't leveled it.

Lol check out AvE if you havent already.

I like his personality too

Same here:)

Same

what about belting a 25cc weedeater engine ??

@@rwbimbie5854 I have a need for my weedeater, not for my neighbors glorified coat rack. :P

What's wrong with a cage, belt, and twin hamsters? Might have to stiffen the bed with 2 coats of paint to handle the extra torque though, but do-able.

Most treadmill motors are brushed high torque DC, you would only need a single belt not a bunch of gears. That said, why doesn't someone just use a large hobby brushless motor with a VFD/ESC with a single belt to the spindle, would make an awesome mini lathe without all the gearing.

oh and all metal gears and a set of spares for both metric and SAE thread cutting!

it's a secret? ;)

lol, isn't it funny how that works.

Yes, it isn't.

First project get and arduino or a raspberry pi and maki it a cnc lathe.

With that money you could have an old big an solid lathe with lot of tools ! I don't really understand why TOT make advertising for this chinese crap ! : (

@@TJ-ed8xg Well, at least I do not have space for an old big and solid lathe. But I can fit a toy grade lathe like that one. So as always, it is supply and demand ;)

I did the same thing. LOADS of fun.

Ah, good to hear about the plastic gears. I have the metal ones. And yes, I do some 17-4ph too with crazy good results. I have even done titanium:). I am using inserts specified for alu on everything and I think it works because they are quite sharp.

As for the head stock change gears, ToT's doesn't have that and a lot of the blue lathes don't either. (bear in mind, these are sold in all sorts of colors). That's a setup that's meant for the more powerful brushless motors but watch out as I think a lot of the newer "gearless" blue lathes don't come with the brushless motor... So, no low speed gear and still the older, less powerful brushed motor. Mine came like that and I suspect ToT's did, too.

Thank you for a great video and lots of sound advice, That is why I decided to ask your expert advice I bought an old Chinese bench lathe sight unseen on eBay a few weeks ago,I was pleasantly surprised on pick up that apart from surface rust and being covered in dust It appeared to be in sound condition . It is a Huangshan CQ9330 model ,no Idea of the age but it cleaned up well and after adjustments to all gibs ,and making and fitting the missing tail stock gib have had really good results on a few projects in steel The lathe is belt driven . With all steel gearing . Impressed with the general construction In the process of a complete strip down to replace suspect headstock taper roller bearings “a bit nosy ,but look ok ?? “. The strip down is just to see may have been worn Every thing looks perfect except the bearings and the drive belts. My main problem is that I can find no information on the lathe Hope you or some of your followers could help , I have a mechanical background but have limited turning skills T.I.A