Lathe Ball Turning Attachment Build
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- G'day everyone,
In todays video I will be showing you the process that I undertook to make a ball turning attachment for the mini lathe. There are many different styles of ball turners, each with their own pros and cons. For my ball turner, I wanted to make it so that it was easy to make using the tools that I had on hand, and work with the quick change tool post.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Making The tool Post Holder
3:29 - Making The Making Body Housing
5:59 - Machining The Ball Tuner Shaft
7:58 - Making The Cutting Head
13:43 - Making The Leadscrew
15:34 - Welding...
16:29 - Cutting Head Clean Up
16:54 - First Assembly
17:43 - Modifying The Coupler Nut
18:13 - Making The Handle
19:24 - Making The Height Adjustment
20:18 - Making The Cutter
22:00 - Testing The Ball Turner
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That was so poetic to have a tool finish making itself.
Someone get this man a port-a-band!
Excellent videos! Im trying to watch them all
What you and Quinn can do with bench top lathes and mills is quite astounding. I have very large lathes and mills at my disposal but I never have enough time to do these types of projects. I’ve been relegated to buying most of my tooling due to these time constraints. I shall machine these fun projects vicariously through channels such as yours. Great work!!!
Bruce here,Again a great project beautifully presented. My suggestion is make a powered hacksaw.I had one and sold it once I acquired a band saw and wish I had it back because you can use blades that are much cheaper than bandsaw blades and it seems to be a great compromise between doing it by hand and a much more expensive and complicated machine. Thanks for what you share on UTube.
What will happen to this channel once a machine saw enters the shop?
Nothing can replace the giant jack saw :(
We’ll get twice as many videos. 😺
I think its what identify this channel.
Possibly more videos because he didn't take half the week cutting a block of steel in half! 😁
For the record, he does have an angle grinder
I guess it does not take long before you have a custom ball on all your handles :)
, so inspiring to watch , thank you
I've never seen a ball turner mounted that way, it makes a lot more sense for a mini lathe as you don't need to worry about the tailstock getting in the way
Nice job. Can i suggest next project, a Bandsaw build. be alot quicker then the old hacksaw
Great video as always,
Here is some unsolicited advise, ignore it if you want to, would recommend placing zinc plated steels in a container with vinegar so that way the acidity of the vinegar will strip the zinc off whatever steel and save your lungs when welding, plus wire brushing the schmutz/residue that it leaves behind after the vinegar bath.
Or wear a respirator?
Kudos, I wish my little lathe had such tooling as you make.
Cool! I like how the button cutter (20:32) ends up leaving a radius in the final part, where the travel of the cut ends (see 24:10). That's not always what one would want, but it's perfect for this usage! Nice smooth transition between sphere and cylinder. Nice work!
Somebody get this bloke a portaband already
Just fabulous!
One more great video of making tools and showing skills. I could watch that flycutter cutting all day. Thanks for your time bro.
Filler and paint make me the welder I ain’t 👍🏻😂 great job works a treat 👍🏻👍🏻
Very nice job with the limitations of a mini lathe' you can get longer tool life and better finishes with lower speeds with high speed steel. Machining is all about speeds and feeds. I've been a machinist for over 40 yrs.
Over all good job
I am surprised he uses carbide inserts.
Man your videos are fantastic. Another awesome project. I'm constantly amazed at the great work you're able to do on such small equipment.
Chris Doms that is exactly what my sister-in-law said to me the other night the bit about small equipment.
Your hacksaw is beginning to be your brand. Splendid presentation. Looking forward to your next.
That is so cool, I've never seen this type of radius cutter. Guess I've got a project for the next time the machine shop has down time!
its been a long time since I used a metalworking lathe but you are doing a great job of reminding me how to do things..awesome videos thankyou.
Great project,man.Thank you.
I have to say, I believe it's traditional to turn two brass spheres first, so as to be able to respond affirmatively to questions about your courage. Good project, doesn't just let you turn spheres, if you use the compound to angle the rotation of the tool, you can turn all kinds of conic sections, ellipses, and so forth. Say, should you ever need a doorknob or drawer pull which is not a perfect sphere. It's been a while since I did the math on those kind of things but I think a bit of trial could get you some very fine results.
That is a great point, that didn't occur to me.
Well done. I’ve been trying to think up one in my head for a while now. Thanks Ron
Love it. There's some great info in there and I love the mini trolling with the hacksawing and even leaving the stalls in. I know I get lots of stalls with my lathe.
I like the end result the surface finish looks great
Very nice man, always impressed with your builds and they always inspire. Good job man and keep at it.
Great idea and wonderful end results.
EXCELLENT presentation! Thank you for sharing.
Best style I have seen.
Nice design and resulting tool. I love the integration to the quick change tool post.
This was my fav point too. Lots of special tools gather dust because setup is a pain, this is no fuss to fit.
awesome he is doing great for the tools he has
Nice work. Making a tool to finish off a tool.. I remember doing my apprenticeship, and all we had for a ball turner was co-ordinated left and and right hands on the saddle and cross slide! Many a tulip or mushroom where shaped....
Very well done video with impressive and creative machine work. One thing I'd like to see in the mill work is how you do the setups, I'm new to the mill and I think it would be helpful. Thanks for your outside the box ideas and projects.
very well done and i enjoyed your take on tool thank you !
Fantastic job, will be putting it on my to do list
Interesting. It took all the way to the end until i could understand how this setup would work, but then it was very impressive how well it worked in that (unintuitive) way. Kudos.
Super nice job. I learned something new today, thanks.
A note about thrust bearings: the two races may not be identical.
One will have a precise I.D., and a slightly _under_-size O.D.
The other will have a precise O.D., and a slightly _OVER_-size I.D.
The first is meant to turn/spin with whatever passes thru the bore, with clearance for the "outer" object.
The second is meant to turn/spin with the outer object, with clearance for whatever passes thru the bore.
This is because the two races always turn in opposite directions, relative to each other.
I discovered this when adding thrust bearings to the compound of my mini-lathe. In this case, one race turns with the cross-feed screw, but must have O.D. clearance so it doesn't bind against the compound. The other race contacts the compound and does not turn, so it must have clearance for the cross-feed screw to turn freely.
Now depending on the application, it may not make a difference in practice. But, it's something to be aware of.
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I really like the idea of using a round insert. It gives a good looking junction of the turned ball to the shaft.
I tried to add a dropbox reference to pictures of my 3D printed ball turner (design model and guide to making the real one), but youtube didn't let me.
Very good video, with excellent description of various procedures.
Looks great , works great !
Well done excellent piece of work. Cheers.
Nicely designed ball turner. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎
Nice one chap I might have to add this to my project list
Excellent video. Very interesting. Thanks a lot.
Ditto that!! (a bandsaw would save you enough energy for more vid's). Great job!!
Dude that's dope as hell!
Very cool design
As always great video well design ball turner
Genial...!!...Excelente la presión y belleza de trabajar los metales...Gracias por Compartir.... Saludosss..
I've got to make me one of these. I've seen other designs and I think yours is way better built. thanks for sharing.
EXCELLENT JOB AND VIDEO!!
Excelente idea y muy buen resultado, gracias por compartir tus ideas maestro , un saludo y muy respeto !!!!! .
Thats so nice! Very intresting project
Very interesting and encouraging innovation
Thanks so much 🙏
thanks for sharing,enjoyed your video
Nice work! Love your channel!
I like it a lot, I may look into making one for myself. Lee
Well done!
That was awesome dude.
I really look forward to watching your videos, this one very interesting thank you👍🇬🇧.
Wow that smart...I never thought about that way or style. Impressive brother 👍
Like nice tools thank you for sharing
Very nice! I like the round cutter. Looks like my boring head will get a 2nd purpose.
nicely done
Really amazing work
Very nice. I like it! 🥸👍✅
That was awesome Thanks.
Gday, this is the same configuration as I made and it works quite well, good simple design, great job, Cheers
Buenos días gracias por compartir tus conocimientos es una buena herramientas
Awesome video
Nice job!
Impressive!
Tool making itself. :D Great project!
Nice job, well done!
Awesome job!
Top Job, Sir👌
Nice job
All i know is this man must have one hell of an arm!
Great vid
👍👍👍 well done!
Really nice design and well executed (as always). I have a ball turner like the 0:25 design and whilst it does the job it's hard to adjust the radius accurately and it's not very rigid when there is a lot of tool stick out.
It's not his design. It's a well known technique. He doesn't like to admit that he copies most of his stuff from TH-cam videos, in this case from th-cam.com/video/1AUPBj8cBQ8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AdeSwash
Well done 🙏
well done! ..thank you for sharing , i'll build one as well
Love you vids AM. You just roll with it.
Thankyou, glad you enjoy them
As a professional engineer I winced at a lot of this
Well then some details would be helpful. But this is no different to many off the shelf ball turners
Thats a really clever solution, and extra cred for making it on a quick change tool holder so you can install it on the lathe in a few seconds.
Well done, and really entertaining video! 👍😁
I've commented before on this project and I'm back considering the task myself, without the lighting and camera setup.
I must say that I really appreciate the way you break your videos into chapters for ease of reviewing. Not many, if any others I'm subscribed to, do this. It's just one long video usually.
You never mention plans and I was wondering if you work your projects as you go or do you actually have plans or drawing that you follow?
After all, we all know that sometimes the finished item is not the fist attempt but the 3rd, 4th or Nth and drawing or plans would surely cut down that trial and error.
Thanks again for your time and responses.
well done!
Good work
I can't wait to see how your ball turner shaft knob shines up
This is what I got a lathe for really, was to turn ball shaped objects among other things - but my main project was to make a shifter ball for my car lol
I've seen a lot of different ways of doing this. From just a simple turn table to a tool post holder for a boring head. Always interesting to see how people tackle this type of tool.
You should make a handwheel to attach to your powerfeed gear since you don't use power threading often. Seems like that hex key has to get annoying / painful to use after a while.
Nice build, handy tool! I do like the fact that you used a round cutting tool, this will make set ups much easier. I will be making this for my machine, just a tad bit larger though, thanks for the inspiration!
Now you can turn some awsome spinner tops..also good for subscriber welcome gifts
Absolutely no idea what this is or what it’s used for but I enjoy watching people make things with precision.
Thanks
brilliant
Fantastic
I wish I was your hack saw blade salesperson. I’d probably make enough to buy a power saw 😂
Exelente!!!