The machining brings back memories I was a Tool & Die Maker for 35 years. Always great to see inventors at work. Keep up the good work.

Ok,you just upped your badassery eleventeen percent! please paint this a off the wall color!! we need a double thumbs up button!

Striving to make a project the best you can is how we all learn and improve. This'll be something to be proud of.

Great project; we don't see this level of work very often. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week 😎

Nice job! I have a suggestion which I learned myself. Really simple stuff can be made without mistakes going along. If it get's a little more complicated, as your gearbox certainly is, it really pays to make a plan in CAD or an reasonable accurate sketch by hand before start. I know it's an extra effort, but it pays of when you make stuff. Ideally you only have to handle/machine a part once and when assembled you're done. Off course tweaking is always a part of the process but adding length to already cut plates doesn't have to happen when you work like this. I'm a designer/builder for 28 years now and I learned the hard way. Get an idea, make a drawing and select all the materials you need when doing so. Make simple drawings to print (or draw) for the parts to be made. Make the parts, assemble and be happy. Hallelujah! Thank you for sharing your honest journey! Best! Job, the Netherlands

This is so cool. I love the idea of retrofitting. Nice work, but I wouldn't expect anything else!

Very nice work Kyle. The design, weldments, fit and finish. Outstanding work.👍👍💯 Thanks for sharing.

I have enjoyed your rebuild, looking forward to more.

If there is such a thing as re-incarnation I want to come back as a machine shop. Thank you sir for sharing.

19:20 .. That looks REALLY good so far!!!!

Great video! Subscribed! Waiting on part 2.

Fantastic build, enjoyed the process. 🐞

That's looking Awesome Great job

Wow what a great video, some amazing machining. I love that you show your "errors"

wow wow wow...great footage, love the down the spindle bore shot on the Kearny Trecker at 14.44......

Outstanding work....

adam booth, take notes on content creation for projects! this is awesome stuff! I enjoy every one of these videos!

Nice job! That's a factory feature on most Kingston Lathes. They give you selectable 1:1 or 5:1 ratios. Very handy feature to have! I use it quite often.

Looks good you don’t mind putting the extra work in to get it right 👍👍👍

Nice work on an interesting project. You have a knack for editing your video. Good story telling.

good job 👏🏻 excited to see post two

That finishing pass with the fly cutter 🙌

That is a great improvement to the tailstock.

Great job! I have a stock lathe with 2 speed tailstock - Huichon 5. Two speed is very useful when you have to drill large diameter.

Olá amigo que maravilha de trabalho!!! Acompanhando, abraço e boa sorte sempre!!!

Nice work, you are a braver man than me designing something like that on the fly. Looks like it is working for you though. I like your filming style, saves me skipping ahead while people take measurements and tell me how many extra thou's they are going to take off.

That's a good lesson to be learned always make some kind of blueprint 😊😊

Love it! Need one for my G0602 ;)

Impressive!

I own an old herbert no.2d turret lathe, it was a tail stock auto feed with 3 rates of feed ran off of the saddle feed, not much variety but you dont really need 50 different speeds for drilling. An old lathe but a beast

Hahaha “it’s about to get really boring in here at the boring” but really…this is an awesome rebuild. What a cool idea.

Worlds first is a little stretch here. My Lathe at work has a selector for direct drive or a 1:5 reduction on the tailstock. That machine is from 1998 !

Thanks for using a soft hammer this time!

12:50 That rubber work mat in this shot, is fairly expensive! .. I made an apartment in my house with a closet turned into a tiny toilet and shower! :) ... I used this rubber mat stuff for flooring! ... VERY slip resistant and with the 1/2" X 2" Plastic baseboard, and generous use of silicone sealer?? It made the little washroom floor 100% water tight!

Good stuff. That bandsaw was frigging flying though. I’d change the speed on it and it should be able to get through 4130 no issues. I cut alot of inconel with surface speed of about 60 feet per minute.

Finally someone who is actually roughing with their lathe and not babying it. Healthy feed, speed, depth of cut. What depth of cut did you take? 4mm? 5mm?

Holy Smokes 19:19........that is Art my Friend.........very tasteful and beautiful..... I don't know much about art, but it would look great with my carpet, drapes and furniture........ Seriously, do you have a background in art, because the video you shoot and capture and this or of attention to design and detail sure makes it look that way......Best Wishes from Florida, Paulie

Several older lathes had two speed tailstocks. Axelson and monarch too I think had that option. But not on small lathes.

Pretty.

Excellent Beautiful

I've never seen a Power Feed tilstock .. it would be handy for drilling!

Would like some more info maybe a video on your HBM. Never seen a Mikwaukee HBM.

Please tell me your welding jig was an old, no longer used mill table. A thin layer of MIG nozzle gel will save or minimize cleaning up any welding oopsies on the mill table. Nice looking fab job...

Wow! You are knocking this one out of the park. Was that a Suburban Tools fly cutter you were using?

That is no normal roughing end mill. That is a wave-cut/crest-cut end mill. Somewhat rare these days, but really good. Nice to see one!

I’ve been considering doing the same to my koping

Hell yeh Are you going to get as in depth with that Lucas HBM you mentioned in that update vidya as you are with the Lion? Because this series has been amazing

I enjoyed the video and the machining, but even after watching the beginning several times, I still missed the reason why you want a 2 speed gearbox. Is it that sometimes it does not go the full distance fast enough, or you want to be able to go in slower sometimes for delicate drilling? Maybe it is me and just missing the explanation. Hopefully someone can enlighten me so the reason matches the fun video of machining. :)

31:31 is that a Suburban Tool fly cutter you are using ?

22:22 Darn Engineers are always making design changes after you already made the part..... Great Modification........D.E.S.S.A, [Darn Engineers Society Seal of Approval]

Many lathes come with gearboxed tailstocks its nothing new or groundbreaking ?

@ 25:50, don't we all wish we could mill like that with a manual mill?

0:18 is that massive straight edge or are you happy to see me?

Are you no longer using any thrust bearing for the screw to case, as was originally designed? You do not want to have axial load on plain bearings…which is what it looks like you are using. Maybe you just haven’t showed us the full plan yet.

bravoo

Use coolant or oil on those big drills. You'll cook them in no time otherwise.

16:45 that looks like a Skicut end mill, Putnam maybe ????

We have a lathe that has a built in box like this. I can push a 2” twist drill like nothing.

Im all for it but is it really necessary?

My tailstock got 10 speed Allison automatic transmission... :D :D

good job 👍

Why not Vee the plate before assembly/welding?

nice. nothing new about a two speed tailstock, in my 33 years as a Tool and Die Maker, I've used two engine lathes that had this feature.

I always buy new but if you had restored a piece of machinery/equipment I would change and not hesitate to buy used from you. Ray Stormont

What is the purpose of such a tailstock gearing?

Our old lathe in the firm has a speedbox in it, so its not the world first xD

All the lathes that I run have a 2 speed gear box from the factory

WHY DO THEY APPLY BLUE INK OF THE SURFACE

Isn't every video a dramatic recreation of past events?

You very rarely use and lube or coolant - WHY

Ok

You don’t wear rings in a machine shop! Even a novice knows this !

I like that you're building something useful and interesting, but I don't think this is worlds first :) There are engine lathes that ship with 2 or 3 speed tailstock gearbox, primarily to help with drilling operations.

Too crappy to be usefully