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I love tooling on tools to tool more tools

Feels as if I’ve been using the lathe equation for all my tools

In other words, Santa Craig not only gave you a lathe, he also gave you plenty of content for the future! It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Love the new lathe - which should come in rather handy chasing ever more perfect precision! I’ve also begun to notice pleasantly subtle differences in these videos since their humble beginnings. It’s almost like that initial production polish, that set your channel apart from others, is starting to reveal a nice patina and minor wear patterns unique to your personality and humor. Always a pleasure 😊

Always looks forward to you and CEE's videos on Friday. Thanks to both for sharing your knowledge.

Looking forward to the restoration :) excactly what I was hoping for.

I began my (hobby) machine operator's ("I'm not a machinist, I'm a guy that owns some machine tools.") journey by buying a Bridgeport-style knee mill, and promptly taking a bit more than a year to get it cleaned up and functioning. The original plan was just cleaning, but the more I cleaned, the more I saw... and the more I saw, the more I saw that needed to be fixed. It's still far from like-new condition and there are still a fair number of kluges/bubba fixes in place, but (almost) everything works, and as long as I am paying attention, I have no trouble landing within half a thou of my target dimensions. That experience has been *invaluable* as I got my lathe up and running, and as I am going through the process of getting my "n+1" lathe cleaned up and operational. Some parts (bearings, etc...) I have found to be off-the-shelf industrial parts, some parts I have found to be off-the-shelf industrial parts that can be relatively lightly modified to work (change gears), and still other parts have to be fabricated from scratch (so far, I have mostly used my machine tools to make/modify parts for my other machine tools). Exploded/parts diagrams and reverse engineering skills have been absolute lifesavers in terms of keeping these machines from becoming basket cases looking for a new home. Kudos to you for jumping into this thing!

"this lathe is more rigid than I am".... You supporting a very strong shape, mate? :D As a Mech. Eng, doing this for longer than my own strong shape, I've come to enjoy the subtleties. you're my kind of joker. On ya for that.

Im not a machinist but your ending statement really hits me. To find something that pushes you and it excites you is amazing and I feel like I have not had that in awhile so definitely something i would want to find

"Just the thought of all the things I'm gonna learn gets me really excited." - That statement right there sums up the joy that this channel brings to the audience. I suspect that all of us out here in this fix stuff/make stuff corner of KZfaq land feel the same way. It's certainly been the driving sentiment of my life. That dopamine jolt when you learn something new is the best feeling in the world and we're all very happy and grateful that you are taking us along on this learning journey.

I love this channel so much. Your voice is so soothing & your editing is perfect. I am always compelled to watch your videos at normal speed just so it lasts longer - i watch most youtube videos at 2x speed.

15:33 I'm not sure about your comment here about the Cosine Error reaching a minimum when the stylus is parallel to the surface you are measuring. That would make intuitive sense, but i think some (most) of the test indicators out there are compensated to measure most accurately (Smallest cosine error) when the stylus is at 12 degrees between the stylus and the surface being measured. This would make sense, as that would be closer to standard operation, and they would want it to read most accurately the way most users would be using the gauge.

Your best one yet. The script. The comedy. The rude dad jokes. The intelligence. Fkn banger. Nailed it dude

It's awesome to see you get more comfortable on camera/start to add more humor into your videos!

Psychology student here: The cognitive bias you are referring to might be a “Mental Set”: The phenomenon of becoming stuck in a specific problem-solving strategy, inhibiting your ability to generate alternatives. Interestingly, you exhibited another cognitive error right afterwards: The “Hindsight Bias” in which you overestimated your ability to have recognized the error after it already happened. Love your videos! Cheers!

This channel was great from the get go and is STILL getting better! I especially love the story telling on this one. I am really excited for this lathe restoration!

I have exams next week and so I'm tensed but your video while I do my dinner is a perfect stress buster for an engineering student. 😊

I honestly can not WAIT for the rebuild series! I think I may be more excited than you are!!

Okay I lost it at “more rigid than I am right now” 🤣🤣

Im going through in woodworking everything you are going through in machining: I am being challenged everyday with more and more complex projects…and I absolutely love it! Im learning something new with each new challenge, and I see my work results getting better and better. Thats why I enjoy watching your channel, because I see you experiencing these same challenges and see how you meet them head-on and conquer them every time. You inspire me. And when I mess up in my woodworking and ruin a beautiful piece of wood that I put so much hard work into, I think of you and your “box of shame,” smile and painstakingly make a new piece, this time the right way. Thank you for the inspiration, the education, and the entertainment. I look forward to each video you make like a warm fireplace fire on a cold Minnesota winter’s night.

If you normalized your first map, you should basically get the same shape as the second one you did, so it wasn't that bad :) Love it when you do measuring tests like this btw. Do a Gage R&R next?

I'm really excited on this project you have!! I'd love to see the entire restoration and learning a lot about how it works!

Absolutely looking forward to seeing this restoration come together!

This is so exciting. I can't wait for the next video on the new lathe. Youre videos are so good, so many tips and tricks and great jokes in-between.

Three points: A. Christmas came early to your house. Make sure "Santa" got a plate of cookies. 2. I look forward to seeing how you correct the spindle and bed of your "free" lathe. C. I love your sense of humor!!!!!!😂

I for one, am certainly looking forward to watching the process of making this lathe true! I think it is worth tracking your estimated time of repair vs. your actual time of repair… …and of course letting us all know exactly how far off you are in the end. Best of luck and keep up the great work.

What an impressive bit of kit you've got there! And, I'm incredibly impressed with that lathe and the thoughtful design features they included. The whole time you were showing it off, my brain kept interrupting you with loud "WTF?!?!" exclamations of excitement... (e.g. metric and English standard getting along together in the same machine still blows my mind!) And then you show off your test setup... Just a massively impressive effort and a really interesting video to watch, thanks so much for posting!

Oh goodness yes! A lathe rebuild video coming! I love these!

Outstanding! Nothing better than an opportunity to rebuild a precision lathe. Waiting anxiously to see you conquer this ❤

I so enjoy my time with this channel. The pursuit of precision with the firm knowledge of what is possible/ realistic/ relevant and that failure (provided one is honest) has limited consequence. Both my grandfathers' were engineers though there practical and commercial experience took them away from practical tool use. My mother a sculptress and my father a linguist have no confidence to build the world around them. That a solution was in there power rather than at their comission was alien. Latterly I have offered to help them out, however the expectation is lesser for I am a wine merchant. The problem solving of a shelving unit or a garage door repair has brought them out of themselves weirdly. Divergent skills and different processees have become useful rather than confrontational and solutions seem possible. It started with me just buying brass dimmer switches on Amazon.

I absolutely love this channel. Ive never machined anything but its great to see the processes and problems inbolved. To overcoming new challenges and growing wisdom. Salud my friend.

Hurry up with another video already! I really enjoy your work and presentation. Watching these videos are fun, relaxing and gives me ideas on projects to do with what I have (no lathes or mills). I'm trying to learn Fusion so I can get ideas on paper.

Highlight of my Friday - cant wait to watch!

I love the vids man, great work! You sir are a wizard of machining. Just recently found this channel and can say your creativity, style, and humor has been helping me through a pretty dark time. This is the channel I go to when I’m spiraling or overwhelmed and it helps greatly. Keep up the awesome content, cheers.

This will be super fun. Glad you decided to take it on! Interesting way of inspecting too, I would have used an autocollimator but your technique made sense.

I'm as exited to watch the restoration as you are exited to restore it. Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

Hell ya new IM video! That mathematical proof is also applicable to pocket knives.

As always, great video! Can't wait to see you rebuilding this lathe.

Looking forward to it. Thanks, it will be a great project to follow.

I can completely understand that weird sense of joy that comes with the opportunity to learn something new. Trying to get that lathe back in spec promises to be quite the journey of learning, and I'm sure there will be all sorts of neat things to discover once you start digging in to it. Congrats, and big thanks to Santa Craig for making this possible!

Better to know what's wrong then not still i am sure you figure out a way to fix all them problems looking forward to seeing the video's i have faith in your ability's :3

This is going to be an awesome restoration series.

Good luck, mate! I'm looking forward for upcoming videos where you fix this beast of a lathe :D

Excellent video. Looking forward to watching the restoration of this lathe.

How did you find the space for this? I though the shop was filled to the brim

Is it possible to flip the table around? I know it's a silly question...

Excited to follow your restoration journey!

Looks like it's gonna be a busy year! Looking forward to it!

I wonder how you’re going to straighten the dips on the bed and the dovetail. I know how some Russian KZfaqr machinists do it but it’s a major pain as they literally shave off the high parts to bring the surface to the same plane. Curious what you’ll do.

The bed is ground hardened tool steel. Your not scraping this bed.

Please show every little detail and task done to restore this lathe! I love it

Can’t wait to come along on this lathe journey with you!

There's something so satisfying and cathartic about these maker and repair youtube channels. Yours especially, because on top of your diligence, you're incredibly competent! Additionally, your expertise is so well conveyed to us through the great editing. All in all, you're one of my favorite channels and I'm thankful for you and your grampa. Much love

Don't forget the n < d -1 constraint where d is the number of lathes prior to divorce proceedings.

Great video, be fun to see the improvements you come up with. Thanks for sharing.

Can't wait for videos on making this lathe MINT!

Very informative! Looking forward to the videos to come with the lathe.

Looking forward to seeing the repair of the new to you lathe in the coming weeks. Keep up the hard work.

Looks like a fun project! I can't wait to come along for the ride and see how you fix it up.

I dream of having an HLV and I cannot wait to follow along as you check out all the various ways the lathe has aged and you tuning it into fantastic shape. Thank you for sharing!

The “worth it” at 11:30 sums up how I, myself, watch every time you’ve ever added chamfers or corner rounds with your new radius fixture plate. Glorious. Keep up the amazing content!

I'm really looking forward to the resto! This is going to be fun

I'm so excited for this project! This is going to be amazing, and I really hope you enjoy it

I was given a very similar lathe and am very excited to see you bring that machine back to life.

I love the little graphic drawings of the internals of the lathe! It would be cool to include that more often!

Worked on multiple of these lathes, they're a blessing to work on!

Looking forward to watching this journey!

I have just started machining in my new job and have found your videos so helpful! At 50 and in a new career I wanted as much of a head start as possible. The way you present your processes and share your knowledge has a nice way of sticking with my brain. I wish I could give 2 thumbs up per video. Thank you and I can’t wait until the next one.

Your videos have me cackling all day long. I loved your workmanship. And it's super cool to see how you go about fixing problems. as a fellow machinist, I can relate to some of them.

It's good to see your excitement. It's infectious!

I’m also here for this project. I’m very excited to watch you tear this lathe down and rebuild it!!!

very good video brandon..thanks for your time

NIce dive into the precision of this lathe. I like your measurement methods and thinking how I can adapt them to my shed. Cheers Steve O. From the Outback.

I like a lot how those video smell cuting oil and metal chips and still feel cosy. Nicely cinematographied and (re?)scripted. Some great pieces of well produced (just-on the-edge-of-hobby) mechanic's movies you got here.

Thank you for the metric conversion.

An avid viewer of your videos( and CCE), I have been given an old Interkren IK-D400 (I think Chinese made-Herman labelled) lathe to start my machining journey late in life. I eagerly and very excitedly await your lathe restoration videos. It will reliably guide me through restoring my ‘new’ but very much loved machine. Thank you so very much.

Heck of a good learning experience, truing up a used lathe. I did that some years ago and it was very fun and rewarding. "The more you put into something, the more you get out of it." Sounds kind of Irish, yet never the less, still true.

Brilliant ! really looking forward to seeing this beautiful lathe restored to its former glory!

Just discovered your channel. Going back to video #1 to catch them all. Good stuff. You honor your grandfather's memory.

Looking forward to seeing everything you do to make the new lathe better. 👍👍

excellent method of checking the bed looking forward to how you go about the fix.

What a brilliant solution to your problem of measuring without needing the lathe to be level. I don't know if you thought this up yourself or if you saw it somewhere, but I have never seen anything other than the leveling method so it's new to me!

the videography of this video was super nice. I don't know if this was intentional or not but some shots really caught my eye. excited to see where this goes!

Love the precision

Cant wait to see the Journey!

I am VERY much looking forward to this series!

Craig has given you/us some great future content! Fast becoming one of my favorite channels, thank you!

Brilliant video, its been great keeping up with your channel and the amazing work you have done. Just a note: The lever indicators are calibrated to have a 12degree angle between the lever arm and the horizontal surface. Deviation away from the 12 degrees will give you a cosine error, exactly as you described. Awesome video, keep up the good work G

On reversing your fixture - part of my job is in software realm. Sometimes I realize that for a couple of weeks I've been going on wrong direction. Then I'll take a deep breath and delete a lot code. It used to feel bad but nowadays it kind of feels nice - there was a mistake, I caught it before production and learned something I'll never forget.

This is going to be a very interesting project. Can’t wait to start seeing how this plays out!!

Always a great pleasure to see your meticulous work and to hear your dulcet tones.

That lathe is ready for a full restoration. AND SO ARE WE! LET'S GOOOOOO!

Woohoo!!! Lathe restoration in multiple parts!!! Looking forward to the series! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Looking forward to see the whole process, greetings from South America.

looking forward to this project!

Not sure if you've heard of it before, but there's a technique called "Thermal Spray Welding" that can add very, very small amounts of metal onto whatever surface you need. It might be worth looking into getting a company to do this to the bed of your lathe if you want to remove the wear in it. The applied metal is VERY hard so you shouldn't have to worry about it wearing away. It's normally used for repairing and rebuilding things like driveshafts or camshafts.

Please keep us updated on the rebuild!

I'm very excited to see You scraping. Looking forward to this revival with fervor!

Love the videos. I've got a shop full of machine tool myself that need restoration. Most came from my dad (it's his old shop) but I have added some of my own. It's going to be a little of work, but I can't wait.