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.

I'm sorry Ton', but the correct answer to "what's your favourite chuck" is always "Norris". Just in case.

There really needs to be an Academy awards equivalent for KZfaq channels / videos. I was entertained, amused and learned something, thanks Tony!

Hahahaha, I actually spit out my ice scream laughing at the blurred lathe. You're the best, This O. Tony.

Late Sunday morning, the house is quiet, a second cup of tea, a little more toast and a video about chucks. Livin the dream.

7:57 "spot on" if metric. Oh man... I loved everything about this video. Thank you!

I want to see the handpuppets !!! After I discovered that the runout on my 3-jaw was up to 6 thou, I started using my 4-jaw more and more. For the first few weeks it was really frustrating, but then I got a little system working and I found it to be almost relaxing. There is a sense of accomplishment of getting a part centered in the 4-jaw to better than a half a thou. I haven't seen my 3-jaw for a year or so.

I'm watching this video for exactly two reasons. #1 the amount and quality of information #2 your very unique and refreshing humour!!!

I can learn machining from anyone. I'm here for your outstanding comedic timing. Thanks for the laughs.

We watched one of your videos in class the other day. Came home and subbed. This guy knows his stuff.

Thanks, Tony. I feel like you talk to us first-graders really well with these machining basics videos. As a guy who's just getting ready to dip his toe into machine work (I'm mostly a dead tree carcass guy), these vids are extremely helpful to me.

I love those automatic chuck changers on the old lathes, don't make em like they used to!!

I enjoyed this! The jokes actually made me chuckle! Love the devo reference!I've been retired for 5 years. Make stuff on my lathe all the time. The other day I thought I needed a bigger 3 jaw forgetting that there is a never used large four jaw in a box under the lathe. This was 6 years ago so I hope you're still turning! 😁

The best vids on Utube. Even if I don't give a fuck about the content, it's still enjoyable to watch.

Your videos are timeless and a huge help! I keep discovering more of them every day. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge

Great content as always. Only one gaping hole in this storyline, Tony. Adjustable backplate chucks. They can make a three jaw run on center, but only because they are effectively a four jaw on one side with a three jaw on the other. I suppose Clickspring would include the cyanoacrylate chuck on the list. 😎

Always great. Love the pixelated spindle nose. My south bend is modest too Jim

Im not going to "ignore that part you didnt see" Im going to be highly critical of it. 1.It felt like it went by way too fast and almost like It was gone before I wad able to digest any of the information 2. I was really diggin that interpretive dance number you and your cats did. 3. There was wayy too much stuff you left out for me. Maybe your more experience viewers dont need all the hand holding but to me the information seemed a bit empy.

I restored an old atlas lathe and ive been going back throw your old videos trying to figure out how to use it. Your videos are such an incredible collection of knowledge

I'm not a machinist, nor do I own a lathe, however I do enjoy expanding my knowledge, mostly though it's the witty humor that brings me back to these videos.

Well I'm on to you Tony! Everyone else have a theory about the pixelated part, but I think it was because you didn't want us to see how bad of shape your spindle was before you cleaned it ! 😆 All in all some good basic info ! 👍 👍 Thanks for sharing and take care.

You know, if your chuck is too inaccurate for the Energy Domes, you need to whip it...into shape.

You have such a specific type of humor and it's so rewarding when I actually start to understand

Impressive how many subscribers you got since I subscribed. Please keep the great work up! The jokes in your videos always make my day while I learn something new at the same time.

Good stuff always

Your videos are always a treat.

I have no knowledge of machine shop stuff and will never be a machine shop guy, still I love your videos. Your sense of humor and editing is just pure gold. Your videos give me a good time and I learn new things I will probably never put into practice. Anyway, just wanted to say Hi and thank you.

Another great video. You have the gift of explaining things in a comfortable, funny, and understandable manner. Again thanks!

You really have a great speaking voice and are an excellent storyteller. Thoroughly enjoyable, real gold.

As always ... i was in a hurry skipping the ad to watch your video, but this time i caught myself doing it ... never again ... awesome content!

07:01 thanks for the metric! and again and again: Extreemly interesting! You're our teacher!

Good discussion on chucks, the next one on Bob. Thanks for sharing.

Sir, I dont own a leathe and i am not planning to own one, but your videos are pure gold and I dont wana miss any of them, you have that art of explaining complicated things with such a smooth and easy way, I love it :)

Picking only one, and without sampling all the other gems that will surely follow, @2:24 ... abso/it depends is priceless, and refreshes my appreciation of TOT and my enjoyment of the exhilarating dangerous-waterslide experience his videos demand as payment.

Awesome as always! Maybe worth a mention that many smaller lathes, particularly of the precision bench type, have integral collet tapers in the spindle, eliminating the need for a collet chuck.

Round my house, Chuck is the 3 jaw (horseshoes n' hand grenades), Bruce is the 4 jaw (Power and precision), and Ip Man is the collets (Speed, Precision & wisdom). And My spindles innocence is always clean and protected by using sock puppets. Thanks for the fun and lurnin, Tony! Today is Trifecta Day....a Tony, Chris and a Mr. Pete, OH My I may melt down and run in my shoes!! ~PJ

Seen them all, liked them all, please make more.

still liking this channel. thanks this old Tony....

I enjoy your videos. Your a very intelligent fella with great sense of humor

I need a tee shirt that says "dead nuts (spot on if metric)"

Man, your hilaruous, love your videos and you ' re dry humor. What I think is funny is that i used to want to eccentric machine every thing, in a 4 jaw, and get a dividing mechanism on a tail stock so you could make, like, eccentric spiral staircases, just how artfully can Manuel machining get, ya know. now I just appreciate being able to make accurate simple parts.

i only do metal work at school and this man makes it look like a baby could do it inspires so fucking much i love his content he could get a paper sheet and talk about it then some how still make it entertaining

I love your timing in editing. The way you edit your narration. It's just too good.

Thanks for the insight and the laughs. Most appreciated.

God-Damn it Tony. I was just about to go to bed.

Got a good chuckle out of that video :) I would stay away from ER for workholding in the lathe, it is relatively annoying because you cant hold very short parts without a filler-piece in the collet. You left the allimportant magnetic lathe chuck out :(

Why I love this channel this Tony is a wealth of knowledge, a friggin encyclopedia if you will

I didn't read all the comments so someone may have answered already. They do make square ER collets. Good video. I learned almost nothing, but I like to review stuff to keep things I'll never use again sharp and you're easy to watch.

The basics is the best way to get a good feel for workers! Thanks

Our Pugs really enjoyed this video! By the way, you are an excellent instructor and this is from a retired instructor! Please carry on!!

those two dislikes are from the three jaw chucks

Please don't take this the wrong way, but that was the most interesting boring discussion on chucks. I loved it! I MUST be a tool geek. Love your stuff. Looking forward to the next one.

As a newbie to lathes I found this video welcome, fun, interesting and answering a lot of questions I didn't know I had. I had not a clue about chucks before watching, now I have some understanding I am sure with a little knowledge I can be quite dangerous.

Jokes are so subtle, that I usually start laughing 5 seconds later

My metal lathe is a bit older. It has a finished surface and a threaded spindle. The face plate(s), Four and Three jaw thread on and seat on the finished surface. I also have the double angle Collets and Morse 4 head-stock. When I took delivery from Dad, I had the 3-jaw a bit out more than expected. I found the chuck was threaded on with small strips of brass in the threads and on on the finished surface. This canted the chuck and imposed the error. I cleaned the spindle and then looked at the chuck. It was full of chips also. Many years of chips found their way into the chuck. I checked the numbers and extracted the jaws and was able to clean and lube the spiral. Naturally, the 4 jaw was like new as were the face plates. I added the nice Collet and much more. What I learned was to buy as good as I could because I might upgrade the mill or lathe and would keep the quality options. I enjoy the lathe that Dad and I bought together in the basement of a massive hardware store in 1952. I used it yesterday. I hope someone will look at their chucks and find the error they chased.

That's awesome. I was a lathe operator for about 2 years. It was fun, I hit my thumb like 20 times.

I watch all these over and over again. And always have a laugh. :)

I wish you would become a machinery teacher, I absolutely love your videos and I'd be more than willing to set through your classes and do projects together

I just woke up...and u just made my day! Thanks,man. Stay classy.

I watched this 4 or 5 times already and just bought a Lathe and although I know exactly what I want and have 2 chucks already you bet I'm gonna watch this again :D

A three jaw chuck makes a dandy Christmas tree stand.

"Ignore that part you didn't see." LMAO. I am not a machinist and don't have a workshop, but I love Tony's videos and enjoy learning what he teaches.

These videos are never boring- even though I don't understand 51% of what you're talking about... and that's down from 90%.

The way you pronounced "Three-Jaw-Chuck" fit that pixelated lathe perfectly.

I need to get me one of those chuck swap levers...

It's always such a treat when I see you've uploaded something. I hope you're able to do more soon!

In a bundle Tony, you are hilarious as all get out (your poor family..haha), your knowledge; extremely thorough, your ability to convey that knowledge is as good as it gets. If you lived close by, you'd have to block me on your phone as I'd be picking your brain 24/7. Keep these awesome and informative video’s coming, n Thanks. JP

I love my Shars 4 jaw scroll chuck so much that I want to upgrade my old 4 jaw independent to a 4 jaw independent Shars. Those things are 3x the mass, with 50% deeper jaws than the old ones. Crazy stout. Really well made.

Tony, one thing i noticed about people that talk about 3 jaw chucks, is that they don’t repeat accurately. If your three jaw chuck has three pinions, only one which is sometime marked, will be the only one that will have close repeatability. It is called the nominated pinion, and it was the only one used when the chuck jaws were originally ground. You can find this information one line from chuck manufacturers. Some claim there 3 jaw chucks have .001 repeatability, but only when using the nominated pinion.

How much lathe could a lathe chuck chuck if a lathe chuck could chuck lathes.

Funny thing is that I already know everything in this video inside and out but am still watching it just because it's so good.

THANK YOU! That video answered a lot of my questions. A superb declarative work.

Was not expecting to be entertained, but I’m glad I was.

Working between centers with the dog is how we were taught in high school, 26 years ago. This is the first of hundreds of random lathe videos that mentioned the dog.

Never quit your style of humor.

Some have a lever to change feed rates but only Tony has a lever to change chucks... must have gotten it installed during his time travel adventure. Nice work.

Holy carp, you're editing is awesome, I can't even tell where you splice.

You are welcome. BTW FYI you have costed me a lot of my money and my first born child, as I got into metal works since I started watching your videos 😆

Anyone else eating when he removed the 3 jaw and spit food out? I knew something was going to happen, but totally got hit unawares. Very well done. Still chuckling about that one.

Your editing is always on point. Your videos crack me up. Lol keep them coming.

Nicely done Tony. My big take away here was the fact that a 3 jaw chuck run out can vary with the diameter of the stock chucked up. Never considered it but the scroll dimensions can definitely vary.. Cool fact.... Thanks for sharing

You said the four jaw chuck is nice because it's flexible. Shouldn't a good chuck be rigid? 😉

Fantastic work Tony thank you - CHUCKled all the way through ! I've been (hobby) machining for a long time, but only recently bought a lathe and found out everything you said in the video the hard way ! As for your comments about editing, I've posted a few videos myself where my arms are in shot (but not in your league) and now have a special T-shirt set aside to keep continuity as a 10 minute video can take several days / a week to film.

I am in the process of making a back plate for a 5C collet chuck for my 10" LeBlonde. I was hoping this video would be a very timely gift from heaven... a God-send. It wasn't so much of a God-send, but I still enjoyed seeing how beat up your center was! BTW I wish I had a keyed spindle so I could thread in reverse like the big boys. :-(

Love your humor, T.O.T. Educational and hilarious!

Thank you O. Tony, what a great video, you taught me lots and lots.

So there was a part you cut out? I uh, kinda need to see that. For science. Has nothing to do with my addiction to your channel. Seriously your production quality is so good I think you should be in cinemas. I hope you get paid for this, it's quality.

I freaking lost it when you protected your lathe's tender parts with the pixelization.

Right now my lathe is wearing a taper adaptor right in the nose which features a BT30 / 30 INT / SK30 internal taper as I am making a new touch-probe mount for the milling machine. (Due to historical reasons my milling machine is 30 INT on the horizontal and SK30 / BT30 on the vertical). If you find yourself making milling-spindle tooling often then I think that it's an attachment worth having. I also have two 3-jaw chucks. One wears inside jaws, the other wears outside jaws. It's quicker to change chucks than change jaws. (and leaves me the option of changing jaws if I need to leave something in the chuck). I have also made an adaptor for my milling machine dividing head that takes the same chucks as the lathe (I am D1-4 all over now) so that I can easily transfer work. And one other point, I managed to find a driving centre on eBay. That's a headstock-end centre with a set of drive dogs, a bit like they have on woodworking lathes. The inner centre point and drive dogs are linked (hydraulically or just with a viscous rubber) and that allows you to machine the entire outside surface of a shaft in one setup. They mar the shaft end, but in practice, who cares? There are also internal and external step-chucks. These are pulled up by a collet tube as normal but use a closer-ring or expander cone. This is a set for a Holbrook lathe. photos.app.goo.gl/YLkjdYjnZ1wcmdrM2 (I covet them, they belong to someone else)

Entertaining and informative. Many thanks Tony!

The dryness of the humor is very savory

“Dead nuts”! Is the freedom units term, “spot on” the across the pond equivalent. I choked on my breakfast.

Thanks for the information. I just bought a SHARS for my Logan 821. After some work on the back plate it is OK. Haven't gone to collets yet. Keep the videos coming...........

Your correct about 5C collets in needing lots of them BUT they're almost THE universal holding device for everything in the shop for up to 1 1/16" (27mm) Diameters. Lathes for work holding, mills have many indexing work holding fixtures, grinder fixtures, drill presses, belt sanders, almost any machine can fixtured up for them. 3&4 jaws not very easily and they're cumbersome to use. We're not including Abom79 sized work... altough there *are* 6" collets available if you want to spend the big bucks....😄

My Favorite chuck is 'Norris'

Tony, I was using my lathe chuck to hold work that I was tapping to 7/8 14. My chuck hole is 3/4" I accidentally ran the tap through and tapped about 1/4" of my chuck. Hahahahaha. BUT it turned out to be a fortuitous mistake. I use my mini lathe mostly for making reloading dies from 7/8 14 bolts. Usually just wrapping some aluminum or copper around the threads and chuckin it up. Now I can screw part of it into the chuck first...makes it work better. Yay!

Awesome, enjoyed it and learned few things along the way.

Hi Tony. New subscriber here. I am working toward getting a lathe. Still learning a lot. I found your video, so far the easiest to understand and therefor the most helpful. Thank You.

Always one step ahead that Tony is. Very good video Tony. Sock puppets make machinery seem less intimidating. You should have left them in, it's the method my wife used to teach me the basics. :-) Thanks for all the hard work Tony. Steve Summers

Sorry, I missed what you said about repeatability.