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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have enjoyed your rebuild, looking forward to more.

Fantastic build, enjoyed the process. 🐞

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

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

That's looking Awesome Great job

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

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

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

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

Great video! Subscribed! Waiting on part 2.

Outstanding work....

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

good job 👏🏻 excited to see post two

That is a great improvement to the tailstock.

That finishing pass with the fly cutter 🙌

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.

My Ikegai A-20 came with a 2 speed tail stock, comes in handy for drilling big holes!

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

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

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.

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.

Love it! Need one for my G0602 ;)

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 !

Pretty.

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

Impressive!

Curtis at Cutting Edge Engineering Australia needs one of these

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!

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

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

Thanks for using a soft hammer this time!

Excellent Beautiful

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?

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.

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

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

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...

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

bravoo

31:31 is that a Suburban Tool fly cutter you are 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 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. :)

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?

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.

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]

good job 👍

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

Why not Vee the plate before assembly/welding?

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

Im all for it but is it really necessary?

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

What is the purpose of such a tailstock gearing?

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.

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

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

WHY DO THEY APPLY BLUE INK OF THE SURFACE

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

Ok

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

You very rarely use and lube or coolant - WHY

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.

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

Too crappy to be usefully