Essential Machining Skills: Working with a Lathe, Part Three

A video overview of the essential skills involved in working metal with a lathe. Part 3 of 3. For more about the open source machine tools project, please go to www.opensourcemachinetools.com

[@KatyLynnWinery]

I am retiring soon and just bought my first lathe. I truly enjoyed your video. I picked up many beginner points I needed to see first hand. Thanks X 1000

[@GavinM161]

What a wonderfully quiet lathe!

[@backwoods5196]

Is that it? We want more, we want more!
Thank you, for the great videos and good tips.

[@darrenlewis7001]

Best videos on lathe instruction that I've seen

[@awlyons2]

Gotta say, i've never seen anyone use double-sided tape on a lathe chuck before. Pretty cool.

[@billmartin4047]

Excellent video & presentation, more please!

[@matthewkleinmann]

What a great series. Thank you so much. I just got a mini lathe and now I have to go and buy some tooling for it and I have an idea what I am looking for.

[@MIGUEL-hy6bk]

Gracias por sus videos. Espero que siga ilustrándonos con su trabajo. Un saludo desde España.

[@carlitosgy6]

I'm learning so much with this videos, thanks

[@rikaridoromero5426]

thanks alot for your effort to published these videos , it's very good

[@MrLibbyloulou]

Learned lots.... thank you very much

[@davidjames1007]

Thank you...some great tips

[@faainspector9699]

Nicely done three part video..........never seen a dial indicator once........

[@doordie7560]

thanxx ...videos are pretty helpfull for me...

[@arockpcb1347]

Great vids thanks!

[@njtornoman]

very good video keep up good work,easy to understand and learn thank you ed

[@nakternal]

The miracle of double sided tape advanced lathe capabilities 100 years

[@bbtjd001]

Great...

[@heemlo649]

at 18:40 why didn't he just use the live center instead?

[@literoadie3502]

Wondering the same thing. He's even holding it in his hand right there, not like he forgot about it. Laziness or just trying to show how you would use a dead center I guess.

[@matthewkleinmann]

If I had to guess, the live center has ball bearings in it, so it has some degree of play. If you are looking for that last little bit of precision the dead center may have an advantage. However, I did question in one of the live center demos, he had the quill(?) of the tail stock extended out pretty far. I would think you would want that as short as possible. Any length there is similar to adding length to the part, and having a long part was way we wanted the live center in the first place.

[@davidwilliamson2115]

Do you use lubericat when turning these parts?

[@mike85364]

Good video....Got to find some Industrial Double sided Tape

[@tobyw9573]

Is this carpet tape or is it some kind designed especially for machine tools?

[@billherreid9661]

There are definitely some interesting ideas here, if a bit risky, but I wouldn't call these essential machining skills.

[@matthigginbotham8765]

Holy shit I fell asleep 3 times trying to watch this thing

[@wbj2064]

When turning between centers, why did he choose to use a dead center in the tailstock, rather than a live center? Is it an accuracy consideration, i.e. are dead centers more precise than live?

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Yes, with a live center, there is the slop in the bearing.

[@Derickhart]

Are those Z cavvorricis?

[@marcolamura9573]

you

[@stefano2252]

Voi

[@27workshops]

he did not just use double sided tape

[@JorneDeSmedt]

Question... What does OD mean in this context?

[@Father_of_Kos]

i think its outside diameter

[@ogochukwunjiribe2640]

Can someone here please buy me a lathe machine? I really want to learn!

[@mike85364]

Looks like Someone needs a File Card....

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

File cards are an endangered species in school shops.