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Great job, buddy. we all make mistakes at times. Welding and boring would be my choice over sleeves, I think, time, cost, and customer satisfaction, dependent of course

Playing catch up on your videos, nice work buddy 🎉

Oh man that is a nice lathe. Too bad about the oddball spindle

Nice boring slide.

I started my business back in 1980 making parts for mini donut machines in Minneapolis. My training was tool & die making. The machine was branded with the name Webb. Exactly the same machine. My wife and I built our manufacturing business up to just under 100 employees and sold just over a year ago. I always enjoyed inventing products and up until the end I still used the Webb lathe to make prototypes even though we had a shop full of high tech CNC machines. The only thing I ever did was about 20 years ago I had the machine professionally painted to match our company colors. The machine was built like a beast and still can’t hold .0005 all day long. You will be happy with your new addition! Congratulations and best wishes for success.

You large lathe looks amazing. Now way to refurbish it?

Looks like a good score

Good video. I like your installation process. Nice to help out Max, he is a great guy. Thanks for sharing. Just subscribed to your channel. Have a great weekend. 👍

Very nice lathe. Definitely a nice find. Rare to get an old lathe in such nice shape. Thanks for sharing. 👍🇺🇸👍

Wow that is a beautiful lathe. I love the size of it.

Yup, you scored. Mori seiki clone. Also badged as whachecon and webb. Parts are available from whachecon which is still in busout of LA in California. Also Greer machinery n CA has parts. I have the webb badged one at home and run a 24" version at work.

Nice score will do you for many years to come and the guy coming after you

Monarch was building lathes with helical geared headstock in the 1930’s.

The old timer that used sure had a big lathe for a home hobby shop. That's an excellent find, wish you luck in obtaining some more chucks etc. Felt for you when you explained about the chuck jaws being separated by the auctioneer into another lot, heard that too many times. Sometimes they'll point you to the buyer of the other lot in case he bought the lot for other stuff.... Looking forward to seeing it make chips in the new year :)

Very nice looking machine!

Great video sir ❤

That’s a beautiful machine ! It’s interesting, I see more shops doing more work on the smaller lathes. The bigger ones are sure capable, but they will wear out the arms after 8-10 hours of cranking ! Haha

Looks like a good machine there Ken . Machines like that are rarer than rocking horse shit in that condition ! There is a place in North America , you may have heard of them as i have forgotten their name but they have hundreds of used lathe chucks on the shelf . I just picked up 9 Chinese brand new lathe chucks half price , good enough for most work ! I will use them on tail stock's & rotary tables etc . 👍👍👍

Just because a bearing is sealed doesn`t mean that it needs no lube service... No lube lasts more than some 10 years of light use in a very well regulated shop with no moisture or any other crap... Just joink the seal off with a pick and blast the old grease out with brake cleaner and apply some good fresh grease... It will extend the life of the bearing tremendously... Just pop the seal back on after the grease has been channeled and ran in to make sure that the bearing is neither overpacked nor will it just displace grease and get a dry run before it heats up and melts the grease if it survives the fuck-up... Never trust the lubed-for-life bullshit, it just means ``you will replace this shit more often because you don`t service it``... Also, when you said that you have no idea how crap got into the table ways under the covers - the damned coolant routing is responsible for that... If you machine a large part that fills with coolant and then that crap suddenly gets released from a cavity that contained it - you have a major splash of it down into that gulley and if there are a bunch of chips in there, that can displace them into the oil compartments... It is a nifty idea and a fancy design, but kinda potentially fucky in that regard... Now, that is mostly a speculation on my part, but it kinda has no other explanation and this one checks all physical parameters required to make sense... I mean, one could argue that a rogue chip may find it`s way through the way-covers, but given the sludge in that oil-pan, i would wager that it`s the coolant theory... And that is some nice flaking at any rate, even if it was refreshed at some point... Very consistent and graceful pattern... I guess that my joke on the condition of the machine that i left on the first video is spot on... What a shame that a crude, inept dimwit owned that machine at some point in the past... Woe unto Omnissiah and the Machine Spirit... Nice work on the machine so far! She is a beauty! Best regards! Steuss

New machine day is always a good day. Your Yam has a lot of similarities with my 1981 Jet badged lathe. Probably made in the same Taiwanese factory.

A licenced copy of a Mori Seiki. Mine is imported and labeled Web. Built in Korea by (???). Yours is built in Taiwan. Tom Lipton has one like yours

I’ve got one of those!

Offer - Slightly used machine, light work only, no mechanical wear for the most part, the third operator down the line was a moron that should never have been allowed near a machine, headstock flooded with coolant and swarf... Good condition, don`t bargain here with me - i know what i`ve got! Jesus, some ``people`` are just... Anyway, looking forward to binge watching this machine series... That sure is one stunning machine... Pity she was owned by sludge that had taken on a human form... Such machines were made to essentially outlast mankind so long as there were worthy operators who would take care of them and now and again refresh the turcite or whatever way replacement material when needed... Bloody animals some people... I just recently snagged a small lathe that some beast cut into with an angle grinder to increase the max. swing dia... That is gonna be a fun project that i`m managing to delay for the moment... Best regards! Steuss

Congrats on the machine ! Its got a Webb 17x40 with a 5hp motor, its idendical to your machine. Its probably my favorite lathes ove ran, very smooth and accurate

great looking machine thanks for the video

Nice machine.

nice, but i like the big lathe lol

Love the air clutch. Sweet! --Doozer

New machine days are always fun. How much does she weigh?

Your lathe is a copy of a Mori Seiki. Copies of the Mori Seiki were also made by Whawcheon and Cadillac. A very good lathe. ---Doozer

Gorgeous machine! Congratulations. Good looking workshop, too.

Would you mind sharing your chuck storage solution sometime?

Accidentally came across this video and Wow. Absolutely amazing. Loved the thorough tour of the ChinHung Lathe (now Kinwa - Chin Hung Machinery Co) but also loved the tour of the clutch assembly and pneumatic Clutch & Brake setup. Amazing. I never would have though about adding a "clutch" to ease into the power load-draw! Plus the fact that you made it yourself! Literally, you made a hybrid automotive Air conditioner / Transmission clutch assembly, w/Disk Brake no less. Totally awesome! FWIW, most of my family worked/works for a very large air plane company and were / are machinists so they know... but I only recently got interested in machining / lathes and I'm amazed with what can be done on a lathe. I'm a 100% noob on this stuff but would like to learn more. This video was fantastic. Keep up the good work! BTW, where / how did you learn to be a machinist? Thanks.

that poor vise was hanging on for life (or thats what it looks like from the 2 bolts holding it down )

Here in the uk .. most of the radial machines in the Toolrooms were Asquith .. they were king .. they come with a boring head attachment.. solid machine 1950s .. it just carried on going

Hello Ken! I encountered some difficulty during my drilling process because there was a lot of material that needed to be drilled. Do you have any advice on jigs or tools I could use or create to solve this issue? Thanks!

Thank you very much.

I do enjoy working horizontal milling machines and unfortunately missed an opportunity to get one for peanuts but instead the narrow minded owers decided to chop it up for scrap money instead. Lovely work and enjoyed your video 👍

Hello Ken, from Washington state. Thanks for the view to mount DRO. I have the goal to add this feature to my South Bend. And, like you, I watch Max repair and adjust various machine tools. Your post was very clear as recording and the tips were super. M.

Nice one. It's always good to help a TH-cam friend. And, of course, other friends too :)

Very nice work sir. I just love DRO’s. Great work

Nice to see these videos where one TH-camr helps out another :) BTW: Did you ever get customer feedback from the rock breaker hammer you cleaned up?

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Thanks for that Ken . I like the Z axis mount like you have it . That was the one that looked the most problematic . I just looked at the one on my big mill & that faces away from the chips as well . Food for thought , Cheers 👍👍👍

Any chance you could do the same DRO explanation for the Taiwanese lathe (with the pneumatic clutch)? I've got the same lathe and a brand new DRO kit and having trouble coming up with a good solution for mounting the DRO. Love your videos. Please keep them coming!

You always explain so clearly and good videos also !!!!!!!!

Great job of explaining the problems and solving them.

Finally figured out you dialed in the indicator to 0 on that live center before using it, so you can measure the flex in between the setups. Incredible, thank you! Haven't seen that anywhere over the past 2 years i've been learning this stuff

Recently started tinkering with a smaller spade drill (9/16”) on the low hobby end with a small import lathe, been incredibly impressed so far. Running a 55mm deep hole in titanium with just oil hand pumped through the drill, and it has so far been about 8x faster than doing it with carbide tipped twist drills. The ability to put oil to the cutting surface certainly helps, but the spade is cutting very stable with chips that evacuate well even with the hilariously anemic coolant “flow” from an oil can. Can run the hole in one go with no pilot hole and a massive reduction in heat generation

They are a lot easier to resharpen also ..