Great job. It’s nice to be able to help folks. We all need the farmers and it great to be able to help them. Thank you

Yer A Good Man !!! Helping A Friend , This Is The " Meat And Potatoes " Of Having The Skill And The Machines To Do The Job , Even When Holding A Toddler !!!! Welldone

Nice solid repair, worthy cause for sure.

Great work.!!! I like how you explain as you go and really respect the work ethic and taking care of the farmer. Great job

I did not grow up anywhere near a farm (a few dairies about 5 miles in southern Los Angeles County, California) and tractors there are times I wish I did . We like you have a heart to help others this is one giant surprise being a KZfaq creator we did not expect at all so we know we are in the right place and on one of the right channels. A CraftTex mill never heard of one so watching closely and learning because we do not have a knee mill.

Always interesting projects Thanks

I really enjoyed your video. I am a completely self taught "machinist". My equipment has no digital read outs and it really helps me to observe how you set up and use similar equipment. Seeing issues like your cut off tool breaking is valuable as those of us who learn "in a vacuum" observe that this sort of event is just part of the learning experience. Thanks for sharing.

Nicely completed in good time. Happy cows are fed cows.

Great share Everett , ENJOYED !!.. Great daddy ..

Thumbs up buddy. Short jobs are nice to do especially when you don't have much shop time that day and you can still knock something out and cross it off he "to-do" list.

Great video!! Always nice to help out the people that feed us. See a farmer thank him for his efforts not always easy to survive farming. And i don't like the piston type either ordered one of the wedge types with 7 holders under $200 (2) holder are extra large take 3/4" bit.They came in a couple days ago. Can't wait to get my lathe going. Got to wait on help not able to do it my self. Keep up the awesome work! Watching in Alabama!!

I have the same problems at times trying to part on my lathe at times. Looked like a nice project done for him.

Cool little job it alway good to help someone. On the drill thing I never heard that of course I wasn’t formally trained. But in my early days starting out it was never mentioned to me about drill orientation. I’ve had good luck parting with my new set up. The key is keeping everything as short and close to the post as possible

Nice little project. It's a good idea not to scare the boy if you want him in the shop when he's older. I've found that with a Dremel you can cut a small "V" in the center of the end of the parting blade. This gives it two small cutting edges and doesn't seem to catch as yours did. Worth a try anyway. Thanks for the video!

Excellent video, as always. When it comes to parting off mild hot rolled steel I have found it to be "gummy" many times and will grab the parting blade. If it doesn't want to curl a chip it goes to the bandsaw. That became my personal policy after a parting blade hung up in a 2" piece that busted the tool, spoiled the work, and required some repairs on a fairly new chuck. My 16 inch Pratt & Whittney is very unforgiving of mistakes. Again, excellent video.

You just look like what I paint myself to be. An oscilloscope in the background and talking about loader pins 😀

Nice job

Way to go Everett. That part looks like a factory part.

Nice job, thanks for sharing. A lot of the CR round bar actually ends up being 12L14 which machines like a dream compared to 1018. I am with Pierre on the parting, Definitely a lot of overhang with the position of the tool post,

Hey Everett! Enjoyed the video. I've had a few parting issues on my 10" lathe as well, though several times it was my fault for not having the parting tool centered closely enough, but there are times that it seems to be the material. I think someone was yanking your chain on keeping the drill bit flutes vertical, though it could be like "don't set a battery on concrete", with many opinions based on nothing more than someone else's opinion! Enjoy every second with Little Man as he'll be grown before you know what happened and you find those seconds were more precious than most anything else on earth. All the best!

Quickie jobs can be fun too!

There is good reason to have the cutting edge of the centre drill horizontal. By doing it so you can put a little side pressure on the drill by a tool in the tool post and moving the cross slide. It turns the centre drill into a single lip cutting tool and prevents any wobble. As for your teacher and his vertical lips, never heard it this side of the pond.

The most unnerving event on my lathe was having a .090 wide HSS parting blade dig in, toolpost flexed as yours did and I snapped it off. Made me weary of parting on my lathe as well. With experimentation with speeds and feeds while parting I have been pretty successful lately. Nice looking part Everette. I usually give a big 'ole honkin chamfer if I know its being welded so they can set weld in the large gap rather than just pile it up on the exterior. Ideally both pieces should be heavily chamfered if thicknesses allow. That was nice steel, looked like 4140 the way it machined. Great job!

It's nice to help your mates. Just think what it would have cost from a commercial repair company. Great job. I've got the tee shirt on snapping HSS parting off tools. I use a 2MM wide disposable tip one now with great results.

Nice little quickie job. Most quickies jobs i get, it would take me longer to setup 2 cameras than to just do the job.

yeah what Pierre said. parted off 6" diam of 4340 HT last week with no issues.. Just Saying.. LOL nice work

Hi Everett - re the drill flute orientation - I don't think it matters a whole lot and as Pierre mentions, always better to finish to size by boring - particularly if at all critical - not the case here of course. Also - Pierre mentions some good thoughts for parting... something that can always hit a curve ball! Your buddy is a lucky guy to have your help. Nice job :)

Try putting the parting tool upside down in the tool holder and running the lathe in reverseif you do not have a threaded spindle. Also snug the gibs up a bit. Feed into the cut with steady pressure . If you get chatter increase the feed and slow the lathe down. Hope this helps.

Ditto on the parting tool, my lathe is even lighter than yours and it seems to be a rigidity problem. I have had a little luck with an Asian insert parting tool and they are affordable. Cheers and enjoyed the vid!

That’s daddy machining 101. You know those guys that say they can do this with one hand tied behind their back? You’ll mean it! Lol!

always brings me a lot of joy to help others when they are in need. our farmers don't catch many breaks so its good that you could help him out. I have a question you may or may not be able to answer. it may make a good video as others may have the same question. I'm lately thinking about upgrading my scratch start tig welding outfit to a high frequency start tig welder. my situation is the location I'm welding in is very close to the digital display for my milling machine. will the High frequency start mess up my electronic digital read out on my mill or my cell phone or laptop if they are close by while welding with the machine? any insight into this would be helpful. my scratch start set up does just fine but I sure would like being able to weld aluminum with the newer machine.

Hello Everette, I seen that you received some ccmt ( I think) inserts from a viewer. Those work excellent on your type of machine for turning. Great chip breaker, less undesirable turnings. FYI.

Everett have you considered removing the compound and adding a solid riser block to mount your tool post for greater rigidity ? Christopher

I have virtually the same lathe and ended up flipping my parting tool upside down. Whats happening with yours is it digs in and tries to climb under the job resulting in broken insert. If it is upside down and digs in it lifts up out of the way. I have gone back to using hss blades for parting and haven’t had a problem since.

Its more important to keep your tongue at the wright angle.

Hi , that style of parting tool i consider to only be a grooving tool at worst & a tool for the rubbish bin at best !!! The one i tried snapped the end clean off . Parting in that size lathe can be a bit dodgey at the best !!! . i use an Iscar parting tool , found them very good . My channel The Swan Valley Machine Shop , Swarf & Chips episode 3 , part 2 I am parting Caterpillar undercarriage bolts on my small lathe like yours with no problems . Cheers , your filming is heaps better than mine !

I don't want to be too critical but I prefer a wedge tool post since they appear to me to be more rigid. I'm also a bit anal about making sure the tool is at right angles to the lathe axis and right on centre height. I even made a blatant and shameless copy of edge tool's centre setting tool, although a straight scale will also work fine.

Oh by the way, I have all but given up on parting on my lathe, the work piece seems to almost always climb up the parting tool causing it to dig in and break. I had an indicator on the chuck when I was trying to part off the other day and I could see the top of the chuck rise by .006- .008 with not much pressure on the parting tool, maybe I might need to replace spindle bearings.

Oupse...!!! How fast are you turning when parting...? When looking at the video, we see the post flex towards the left. This means a rigidity problem. Maybe a few things I've seen from my seat, try to bring your toolpost closer to the pivot, I.E. backing up your slide, get the tool as close as possible to that pivot, try playing with the angle of the coumpound, hope I'm expressing my idea clearly... Carbide inserts are able to run quite fast, I'll be parting a 3" piece as fast as 650rpms, but try to keep it above 300RPMs if no chatter shows up, have you tried Coblat HSS blades, they do great if carbide is too demanding on your machine...? Drilling vertical or horizontal, never noticed any difference, and, when I really want a close toleranced hole, it's done with boring equipment... Unless you're using a 200 pounds drillbit in a 100 pounds Atlas lathe, maybe there... ;) Train them youg, you'll soon be 2 males against one lady of the house... lol

Next time try using a four jaw chuck to part off. Three jaw chucks are not very stable

I don't think it matters....very very minute if anything.

I need to live closer to you. I raise beef cattle (as opposed to dairy) and have had my own issues with bushings like the one you made. You may or may not want to forward a tip to him/those that you know. Locally I have a steel & pipe place - basically a recycler that sells new material as well. Years ago I bought a couple of feet of steel rod to make new or replacement pins and a relatively thick walled pipe that they fit nicely into. Wall thickness is not always critical for most applications, but in what I saw in the photo, it may have been important in your example. In comparison to what I do, what you made looks like the gold standard.

Farmers have a pretty tough time competing in this so called global economy. Commonwealth countries get insane breaks in tariff reliefs so they can flood countries like Canada with cheap product. I live in an area that grows thousands of tons of apples and the local store puts apples from New Zealand on the shelf. The fruit sellers here sell their apples to the public for less than $0.35 per pound so it is not the price that is driven, it is the politics. The apples on the shelf are marketed for $3.00 per pound for Honeycrisp variety. So try to buy from your local farmer if you can. Thank you for helping the farmer.