Once you see the unfortunate guy who was caught by the lathe, you will never forget the image. In fact it may convince you to never use a lathe. My first lathe was a tiny Sherline which is so small that it's danger is mostly to the fingers. Graduating up to a South Bend 10" puts me in much greater jeopardy. Work safe or you may lose you head, literally.
I recently bought a nearly 100 year old south bend lathe and have absolutely zero experience with machining. This series is exactly what I've been searching for the past few weeks to help get me started. Thank you!
That ⬆️ is a textbook example of a perfect TH-cam comment praising the content creator. Posters like you should be rewarded with the option to rate a video with multiple thumbs. 👍🏼👍🏼
"Everything is a spring" is a gem. I've been watching machining videos for several years, and nobody else mentioned what a "screw cutting" lathe is versus an "engine lathe." Thank you for that!
All of your tutorials are done with a high quality of excellence. Without realizing it you always answer a question that most instructors neglect. The question is, 'Why do we do this>' When I attended tech in another field, I had worked in the field and knew the questions and answers that students needed to know. It put the instructor on track to provide ALL of the information students needed. Quinn, as I've said already, YOU provide a great presentation to enable us to learn from you. You are a great intructor.....(I think I'm in love LOL) I've subscribed to ALL of your videos. I can see there is so much to learn and at 67 I still enjoy learning.
You do an excellent job in your videos. Very informative, visually clear and humorous. You have the ability to be thorough without talking down to the viewer.
Dear Quinn, without exaggeration I can say: You changed my life (a bit). Thank you for your excellent teaching, you are are a great talent. And I like your humor too! The only thing I’m afraid of: If I do subscribe and pay you money (and many more people do) you will stop making these fantastic videos and sit on the beach with a drink in your hand… I will do it anyways. Just don’t blame me for that nasty sunburn.
Good advice. We got a new guy at work. When giving a tour and instructions for the shop, someone told him to wear gloves when using the grinder, lathe, or drill press. We stopped and had a discussion on the spot.
You probably saved somebody from getting hurt. Good job. At the same school as mentioned above. One of my friends was taking welding class. He was wearing thick heavy gloves on the pedestal grinder. The glove caught and sucked his finger in. His finger was ground down to the first knuckle before the wheel could stop and get his hand free.
Thank you. I am purchasing a mill nail lathe tomorrow. I am brand new to this. My buddy has been doing it for about 50 years he started doing it at 9 and his family shop. Thank you for making this video short also cuz that's a lot of information to take on. Trying to learn about this stuff. I've been watching you build stuff for about a year-and-a-half and it's amazing. I want to try my hand at it there. But my key is to not lose one :-)
As a feller who has lots of welding/fabrication experience, my buddies are often praising my skills. I like to hit YT and watch some machining videos, it’s oh so humbling! The more I watch videos on the topic, the more I realize I don’t even know what I don’t know about machining. I have turned more brake rotors and drums than I can count, so I have a small understanding of lathe basics. Thanks for putting together these very informative video series’, looking forward to binge-watching. I’m here to start at the beginning! 👍
I am a retired Cabinet Maker / College Tutor new to Metal Lathe work . Really like the way you teach , will view all your Videos as a novice and will , I know , learn a great deal . Thank you for taking the time to produce these Videos . Peter , Herne Bay ,UK .
I watched all 18 of your lathe videos yesterday. I've never seen it done better. Good job. They were all interesting. The one on buying metal was incredible. I just went to a Metal Supermarket just the day before I saw your video. Everything you said was spot on.
hi there. long time lurker and watcher here from the philippines. big fan of your work. while i studied medicine and am a lab scientist by trade, i have always been into fabricating and metalworking, and just last year got a vocational course cerificate for lathe and milling machine operations. most fun ive had in years is finding out how to turn between centers, and the shop owner and my foreman was asking me how i got the motor main shaft so perfectly spot on, when the lathe they had had a 3 jaw with a 0.2mm run out. anyway. things in the video that brings back memories, are the chuck key rules and the no dangly bits rule. the second shop i worked at, had a really.... misinformed "old dawg" machinist who kept telling me to wear long sleeves, gloves and has a habit of keeping the key in the chuck when not in use. what's funny is he keeps telling me to do these things his way, while i could see that he was missing a finger on the left hand and a stitched scar on his right. so you can imagine how that went, yes? yeah, he wasn't a formally trained machinist. thing is there is this culture in our country where older folk get away with talking sheet by labeling us younger or newer operators as disrespectul. and that goes against our character record. hinders employment and so on. so yeah. thanks for these videos. i introduced you, ToT and Abom79 and keith rucker to some of my machinist friends. they do like your videos and theirs.
Got my first personal lathe, and while working with cnc is one thing, I'm VERY glad for this series to make sure the gaps get filled for manual cutting. 💜
Beautifully explained. we have an old battered Axminster where I work and I'm trying to fix it up and learn how to use it. I instantly made a mistake, I was wearing overalls with long sleeves and gloves (welding habbit) I will make sure I don't do that again. Thank you.
Well, your videos never get old! I’m just now starting to watch the basics once I’ve got one sherline lathe. Now, talk about a small hobbyist lathe! I have an unimat that was pretty small with a distance between center of 8” and there’s no automatic feed unless you spend an extra 300$ for it on either of them but your teachings always come handy and give a solid base to start from. I love seeing you struggle with problems but keeping a calm and straight logical approach to resolve them. I’ll be starting a patron account to help you to help us. Sometimes, telling your viewers to help out give the impression that it is a large amount to keep you going but that brings just a small percentage of viewers to help and, in reality, it isn’t true! If we all have a dollar a month, first it wouldn’t be hard to contribute, second it would make the volume be more effective and keep channels like yours going. I’m a watchmaker apprentice and have another watch channel that I must go back to help out too but if all of us would give you one dollar a month instead of being afraid of being obligated to give a lot, the sheer volume would compensate for the amount necessary for you to keep helping us out and wouldn’t be even the cost of a coffee! Try to make clear that ANY AMOUNT helps, no matter how small it is! We all know the value of the information and experience you and other content creators share with others, and giving a dollar a month can make a difference just like many do by giving that same dollar to the people at traffic lights asking for it. What makes the difference ids the amount of people giving and the purpose it’s used for. You guys make this your business, your career, and that has value! You and the one who invest their time deserve to make a living like anyone else does! You have bills and obligations like any of us, you have a family and a pet you must care for, and those won’t happen for free as the information wouldn’t be free if we had to go to any institution to learn it! So, please try to explain just like the guy on the side of the road does with his sign saying “ANYTHING HELPS!” Even though they won’t offer any value for the money you give them but just a sense of doing things right in small doses so why not to help those who add value and give us a chance to learn and profit from such knowledge? Thank you very much for all you do for us!
For around 6 months I hv developed interest in machining. Its for the first time I have accidently being introduced to your vlog. Looking forward to learn a lot.
This is amazing. Im just starting. This is really informative. Im so excited to learn machining. With help like this should be smooth sailing. Thank you so much
My junior high school wood shop teacher, Mr. Weinberg had a plate fastened over the On-Off switch that had a hole drilled in it. You had to put the handle of the chuck key through that hole to press the On button. It worked perfectly, 'every time.
Great video. I learned the key chuck discipline rule in Grade 7 machine shop class. Having the key whistle past my ear at warp 10 then nanoseconds later bouncing off the concrete shop wall left a lasting impression. Forty-five years later and zero repetition of that display of stupidity.
Thanks for sharing these videos, I’m considering a personal lathe, but it’s been a couple decades since last using one. Turning to your videos as a refresher course.
I just finished the last tutorial in the series. Very well done and informative. What gets me about Quinn's demonstrations is she does them all with delicate, completely unscarred lady hands. Me, I just have to think about this kind of work and my hands break out in stigmata.
Love all your videos. Everything is calmly and simply explained. I used to work in a machine shop and many a chuck key has flown throw the air BUT I found a solution, I jammed a spring on my chuck key. It compresses to allow you to use it but it but if you let the key go it springs out of the chuck. It can never be left in.
I'm a blacksmith who's been interested in machining for quite some time. I've bought my first lathe (Trupro 12x37") and this series has been super helpful. I'm very excited to start making my first chips. I've just finished the model steam engine series and I think a steam engine's my first big project. Thanks for all the videos, Quinn! you may soon have another patron supporter.
These Tutorials Are Wonderful. Thank you for selflessly taking the time to make them. You may have saved someone from hurting themselves. I know I've learn some things I didn't know even in the first tutorial. Again, Thank you!!!!!
Please consider adding a Lathe video discussing cutting speeds for various cutting tools and situations. I find charts and explanations on speeds & Feeds for the mill but none for a hobbyist Lathe.
Hi Quinn, I just became a patron because I really enjoy your machining lessons and I want you to continue. I'm a retired electrical engineer (I know you are a software engineer "person") who probably should have chosen mechanical engineering as a career. Anyway I don't have a mill or a metal lathe (I am a wood worker so...) but I did take a machining course way back. Good luck and thanks for your contribution to my sanity.
LOL By passing through your face!!! LOL. That reminds me. I went to a vocational High School for machining. I don't remember if I was a Junior or Senior. Anyway. One of the freshmen left the Chuck Key in the chuck. So the shop teacher (Mr. DuBas (RIP) taped the chuck key in his hand. Shortly after that another Freshman did the same thing. So he got a chuck key taped to his opposite hand. Now he taped a wood 2x4 between the two unfortunate guys. So now both guys have a chuck key taped in their hands and they are both taped together with a 2x4. Our carpentry shop was at the other end of the school. The Mr. DuBas sent the two to carpentry to get separated. They had to come back to the machine shop with the chuck key and 2x4 still taped to their hands or get a failing grade. LOL One of the two never forgot again.
The chuck key discipline reminds me of tightening discipline in general. If you leave and come back to your work in the middle of tightening it you will forget to tighten it. Once you go to tighten something you have to finish tightening.
Found my ADHD hack for chuck key discipline. Elastic strap connected above my bench. That way if I ADHDerp and let go of the key while it's in the chuck, it gets pulled out right away (and makes a racket by smacking against my top shelf!) Makes it a little less efficient, but that's an easy trade for safety.
Chuck Key Discipline: I once thought the logical thing would be using the chuck key like a car key - put it in a slot and turn it in order to start the lathe. But that only works if you don't have a SECOND key (or more )
Awesome channel!!! I was a welder but am currently in a new job, working with the lathe. Fun fact: I am a blonde woman too ❤ thanks for the video's, I'll be coming back here quite often 🤩
Thank you for creating this series Quinn. These are very well arranged and presented. You have answered so many of my questions, including ones I didn't know I had yet!
Awesome videos! I just found your channel and will be showing your videos to my beginning metalworking students these. I subbed to your great channel. Thanks for the videos.
Chuck key discipline! I'm going to remember that. It's the landing gear lesson in flight school. Put the landing gear down! But sir, this plane doesn't have retractable gear. Put it down anyway. Decades later when watching someone in a cockpit, I'm "helping" the pilot to remember to put the gear down.
With this sort of lathe get or make a 4 bolt compound holding bracket it is so much more ridged, I would say the little machine shop sells them cheers.
Good idea! Removing the compound completely is also popular these days. For how rarely it is used, the loss of rigidity is probably not worth having it on there.
so i just got my lathe in the mail today, got it all setup where i want it an i figured lets watch a few videos an see if theres any tips or words of wisdom i can take before trying to figure this out. while watching a couple i notice all the chuck keys can go into the chuck an sit the one that came with mine has a spring fixed on it so if u are not holding it in place it pushes out an after seeing a couple videos with them without the spring i thought huh i'll remove mine an it will make it easier to deal with but then this video talks about it being a face seeking missel sooo nah i think i'll keep the spring cause id rather not forget an leave it in the chuck, dont need any extra holes in my walls or face for that matter good tip.
ref safety with chuck keys ,bench drill chuck keys in my shed workshop are always kept in a terry clip on the speed belt cover,i have seen a few incidents with chuck keys and it wasn't pretty
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I’m using “the machine tools are actively trying to murder you at all times” in my shop at work from now on. Haha classic. Great vid
Haha, thanks! I aim to please. ;)
"Confident, cocky, lazy, dead" is a good one too
Once you see the unfortunate guy who was caught by the lathe, you will never forget the image. In fact it may convince you to never use a lathe. My first lathe was a tiny Sherline which is so small that it's danger is mostly to the fingers. Graduating up to a South Bend 10" puts me in much greater jeopardy. Work safe or you may lose you head, literally.
I need this on a sign.
All the TH-camrs have a big gold wedding ring. A wedding ring seems to correspond with making TH-cam videos.
I recently bought a nearly 100 year old south bend lathe and have absolutely zero experience with machining. This series is exactly what I've been searching for the past few weeks to help get me started. Thank you!
It takes a thorough understanding of any theory to explain it simply. Well done.
Dave Salzer Thank you for the kind words and for watching!
That ⬆️ is a textbook example of a perfect TH-cam comment praising the content creator.
Posters like you should be rewarded with the option to rate a video with multiple thumbs. 👍🏼👍🏼
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
"Everything is a spring" is a gem.
I've been watching machining videos for several years, and nobody else mentioned what a "screw cutting" lathe is versus an "engine lathe." Thank you for that!
You are a VERY good communicator. Simple, straight forward explanation of what everything is and why. Thank you so, so much.
"Will embed in your shops far wall after passing through your face" very effective description!
I saw a video with chuck key in when turned on and the key just fell out. Didnt really go flying. 🤷♂️
@@brucemiller1696I wouldn’t risk it though. If the machine starts slow then I suppose it would just fall but even then I wouldn’t risk it.
All of your tutorials are done with a high quality of excellence. Without realizing it you always answer a question that most instructors neglect. The question is, 'Why do we do this>' When I attended tech in another field, I had worked in the field and knew the questions and answers that students needed to know. It put the instructor on track to provide ALL of the information students needed. Quinn, as I've said already, YOU provide a great presentation to enable us to learn from you. You are a great intructor.....(I think I'm in love LOL) I've subscribed to ALL of your videos. I can see there is so much to learn and at 67 I still enjoy learning.
You do an excellent job in your videos. Very informative, visually clear and humorous. You have the ability to be thorough without talking down to the viewer.
Thank you! 😁
Why have I not come over this channel before now...? This kind of serie is exactly what I have been looking for over many years. Thank you ! :)
Recently purchased a lathe, and never used one previously , 2 minutes into watching your video I knew this would be my new home for learning , Thanks
Dear Quinn, without exaggeration I can say: You changed my life (a bit). Thank you for your excellent teaching, you are are a great talent. And I like your humor too! The only thing I’m afraid of: If I do subscribe and pay you money (and many more people do) you will stop making these fantastic videos and sit on the beach with a drink in your hand… I will do it anyways. Just don’t blame me for that nasty sunburn.
Don’t worry, sand is really bad for the machine tools. I’m not really a sun person either.
thanks michael reeves i'm gonna watch this now
Hi Quinn
I'm thinking of buying myself a lathe and am finding your videos really informative. Thank you for the videos.
Good advice. We got a new guy at work. When giving a tour and instructions for the shop, someone told him to wear gloves when using the grinder, lathe, or drill press. We stopped and had a discussion on the spot.
You probably saved somebody from getting hurt. Good job. At the same school as mentioned above. One of my friends was taking welding class. He was wearing thick heavy gloves on the pedestal grinder. The glove caught and sucked his finger in. His finger was ground down to the first knuckle before the wheel could stop and get his hand free.
Thank you. I am purchasing a mill nail lathe tomorrow. I am brand new to this. My buddy has been doing it for about 50 years he started doing it at 9 and his family shop. Thank you for making this video short also cuz that's a lot of information to take on. Trying to learn about this stuff. I've been watching you build stuff for about a year-and-a-half and it's amazing. I want to try my hand at it there. But my key is to not lose one :-)
As a feller who has lots of welding/fabrication experience, my buddies are often praising my skills. I like to hit YT and watch some machining videos, it’s oh so humbling! The more I watch videos on the topic, the more I realize I don’t even know what I don’t know about machining. I have turned more brake rotors and drums than I can count, so I have a small understanding of lathe basics. Thanks for putting together these very informative video series’, looking forward to binge-watching. I’m here to start at the beginning! 👍
Fantastic!! Thanks for sharing this with us! I'll definitely be watching the series!!
I love your channel! Stay tuned for more videos in this series.
I am a retired Cabinet Maker / College Tutor new to Metal Lathe work . Really like the way you teach , will view all your Videos as a novice and will , I know , learn a great deal . Thank you for taking the time to produce these Videos . Peter , Herne Bay ,UK .
Thank you for the kind words, and for watching!
michael reeves is thankful for your service
im here cus of his scooter video too
I was just gifted a lathe. this looks like exactly the series I hoped to find! Thank you!
Thanks Blondihacks, I bought a miniature lathe about a month ago and your metal lathe videos have help me out so much. You are a natural teacher :-)
From a former CAD instructor's standpoint, these are seriously excellent, simple explanations - well done, and thank you! Subscribed.
Thanks for the sub! 😁
I watched all 18 of your lathe videos yesterday. I've never seen it done better. Good job. They were all interesting. The one on buying metal was incredible. I just went to a Metal Supermarket just the day before I saw your video. Everything you said was spot on.
Awesome! Thanks for watching! 😁
hi there. long time lurker and watcher here from the philippines. big fan of your work.
while i studied medicine and am a lab scientist by trade, i have always been into fabricating and metalworking, and just last year got a vocational course cerificate for lathe and milling machine operations. most fun ive had in years is finding out how to turn between centers, and the shop owner and my foreman was asking me how i got the motor main shaft so perfectly spot on, when the lathe they had had a 3 jaw with a 0.2mm run out.
anyway. things in the video that brings back memories, are the chuck key rules and the no dangly bits rule.
the second shop i worked at, had a really.... misinformed "old dawg" machinist who kept telling me to wear long sleeves, gloves and has a habit of keeping the key in the chuck when not in use. what's funny is he keeps telling me to do these things his way, while i could see that he was missing a finger on the left hand and a stitched scar on his right. so you can imagine how that went, yes? yeah, he wasn't a formally trained machinist.
thing is there is this culture in our country where older folk get away with talking sheet by labeling us younger or newer operators as disrespectul. and that goes against our character record. hinders employment and so on.
so yeah. thanks for these videos. i introduced you, ToT and Abom79 and keith rucker to some of my machinist friends. they do like your videos and theirs.
Very well explained. Enough said.
Got my first personal lathe, and while working with cnc is one thing, I'm VERY glad for this series to make sure the gaps get filled for manual cutting. 💜
I'm looking forward to this. I'm a pipefitter by trade and this is infinitely more precise.
Beautifully explained. we have an old battered Axminster where I work and I'm trying to fix it up and learn how to use it. I instantly made a mistake, I was wearing overalls with long sleeves and gloves (welding habbit) I will make sure I don't do that again. Thank you.
Well, your videos never get old! I’m just now starting to watch the basics once I’ve got one sherline lathe. Now, talk about a small hobbyist lathe! I have an unimat that was pretty small with a distance between center of 8” and there’s no automatic feed unless you spend an extra 300$ for it on either of them but your teachings always come handy and give a solid base to start from. I love seeing you struggle with problems but keeping a calm and straight logical approach to resolve them. I’ll be starting a patron account to help you to help us. Sometimes, telling your viewers to help out give the impression that it is a large amount to keep you going but that brings just a small percentage of viewers to help and, in reality, it isn’t true! If we all have a dollar a month, first it wouldn’t be hard to contribute, second it would make the volume be more effective and keep channels like yours going. I’m a watchmaker apprentice and have another watch channel that I must go back to help out too but if all of us would give you one dollar a month instead of being afraid of being obligated to give a lot, the sheer volume would compensate for the amount necessary for you to keep helping us out and wouldn’t be even the cost of a coffee! Try to make clear that ANY AMOUNT helps, no matter how small it is! We all know the value of the information and experience you and other content creators share with others, and giving a dollar a month can make a difference just like many do by giving that same dollar to the people at traffic lights asking for it. What makes the difference ids the amount of people giving and the purpose it’s used for. You guys make this your business, your career, and that has value! You and the one who invest their time deserve to make a living like anyone else does! You have bills and obligations like any of us, you have a family and a pet you must care for, and those won’t happen for free as the information wouldn’t be free if we had to go to any institution to learn it! So, please try to explain just like the guy on the side of the road does with his sign saying “ANYTHING HELPS!” Even though they won’t offer any value for the money you give them but just a sense of doing things right in small doses so why not to help those who add value and give us a chance to learn and profit from such knowledge?
Thank you very much for all you do for us!
Thank you for your support! 😊
@@Blondihacks anytime!
For around 6 months I hv developed interest in machining. Its for the first time I have accidently being introduced to your vlog. Looking forward to learn a lot.
This is amazing. Im just starting. This is really informative. Im so excited to learn machining. With help like this should be smooth sailing. Thank you so much
My junior high school wood shop teacher, Mr. Weinberg
had a plate fastened over the On-Off switch that had a hole drilled in it.
You had to put the handle of the chuck key through that hole to press the On button.
It worked perfectly, 'every time.
"It will embed it in the wall by passing through your face" I love it!
Great video. I learned the key chuck discipline rule in Grade 7 machine shop class. Having the key whistle past my ear at warp 10 then nanoseconds later bouncing off the concrete shop wall left a lasting impression. Forty-five years later and zero repetition of that display of stupidity.
Those switch labels are simple and effective. Also good for a smile. Love your work.
This is a really really great intro.I think I hit the J key like 10 times to jump back and lets some concepts soak in. Thanks!
Thank you very much! I actually didn't know about the J key in TH-cam, so we both learned something today! :D
Thanks for sharing these videos, I’m considering a personal lathe, but it’s been a couple decades since last using one. Turning to your videos as a refresher course.
You have a special way of teaching.
I just bought a South Bend lathe model A.
I just finished the last tutorial in the series. Very well done and informative. What gets me about Quinn's demonstrations is she does them all with delicate, completely unscarred lady hands. Me, I just have to think about this kind of work and my hands break out in stigmata.
Thanks. Looking forward to next video.
Perfect video, I’ve recently bought my first lathe without any prior knowledge or experience. Easy to follow. Thx!
So good! Thanks Quinn!
Hey, back atcha! I'm a fan of your videos. :D
I just started my machining class last week, a life-long goal of mine! ...God bless you and these videos!!!
This is great, Quinn! I am so looking forward to the rest of the series (or, heck, pretty much any material you feel like posting for us)!
So useful, can’t wait to watch the rest of the series!
Love all your videos. Everything is calmly and simply explained. I used to work in a machine shop and many a chuck key has flown throw the air BUT I found a solution, I jammed a spring on my chuck key. It compresses to allow you to use it but it but if you let the key go it springs out of the chuck. It can never be left in.
I'm a blacksmith who's been interested in machining for quite some time. I've bought my first lathe (Trupro 12x37") and this series has been super helpful. I'm very excited to start making my first chips. I've just finished the model steam engine series and I think a steam engine's my first big project. Thanks for all the videos, Quinn! you may soon have another patron supporter.
These Tutorials Are Wonderful. Thank you for selflessly taking the time to make them. You may have saved someone from hurting themselves. I know I've learn some things I didn't know even in the first tutorial. Again, Thank you!!!!!
Great video and great reminder of the safety rules. Thanks to Rex Krueger for sharing your channel. Subscribed
Good job fitting all that info into such a short video 👍 nice to see you at the bash.
Likewise! Great to meet you. 😀
Nicely dono Quinn.
Please consider adding a Lathe video discussing cutting speeds for various cutting tools and situations. I find charts and explanations on speeds & Feeds for the mill but none for a hobbyist Lathe.
Hi Quinn, I just became a patron because I really enjoy your machining lessons and I want you to continue. I'm a retired electrical engineer (I know you are a software engineer "person") who probably should have chosen mechanical engineering as a career. Anyway I don't have a mill or a metal lathe (I am a wood worker so...) but I did take a machining course way back. Good luck and thanks for your contribution to my sanity.
Thank you very much for the support and the kind words. Both mean a lot to me!
I am so late to great content ... thank you for the Theory Tutorial...
Great educational and interesting videos, thanks.
Just got my first lathe (It’s not arrived yet). Time to learn how to use it. Going through these one by one. Thanks
LOL By passing through your face!!! LOL. That reminds me. I went to a vocational High School for machining. I don't remember if I was a Junior or Senior. Anyway. One of the freshmen left the Chuck Key in the chuck. So the shop teacher (Mr. DuBas (RIP) taped the chuck key in his hand. Shortly after that another Freshman did the same thing. So he got a chuck key taped to his opposite hand. Now he taped a wood 2x4 between the two unfortunate guys. So now both guys have a chuck key taped in their hands and they are both taped together with a 2x4. Our carpentry shop was at the other end of the school. The Mr. DuBas sent the two to carpentry to get separated. They had to come back to the machine shop with the chuck key and 2x4 still taped to their hands or get a failing grade. LOL One of the two never forgot again.
🤣
The chuck key discipline reminds me of tightening discipline in general. If you leave and come back to your work in the middle of tightening it you will forget to tighten it. Once you go to tighten something you have to finish tightening.
Right on Blondihacks! Looking forward to more videos.
Found my ADHD hack for chuck key discipline. Elastic strap connected above my bench. That way if I ADHDerp and let go of the key while it's in the chuck, it gets pulled out right away (and makes a racket by smacking against my top shelf!) Makes it a little less efficient, but that's an easy trade for safety.
Chuck Key Discipline: I once thought the logical thing would be using the chuck key like a car key - put it in a slot and turn it in order to start the lathe.
But that only works if you don't have a SECOND key (or more )
Alan Campbell That’s a great idea! An interlock that requires the chuck key!
The lathe I learned on had a key with a spring tab at the tip so it couldn't just sit in the chuck.
I’m just starting with turning. Thank you for this series!
Your videos are clear and to the point. Thank you.
Very good content-clear and concise...I love cats.
🐈🐈🐈
nice work
This is the smartest person i have ever met.
I'm just getting ready to get my first mini metal lathe and your instruction and explanation is excellent. I'll be watching all of these. Thank you!
I'm hooked, 1 minute and 28 seconds in!!!
Awesome channel!!! I was a welder but am currently in a new job, working with the lathe. Fun fact: I am a blonde woman too ❤ thanks for the video's, I'll be coming back here quite often 🤩
I've watched a bunch of your videos. I like your style! Learned a lot. Thanks!
Loving this channel - going to use this for teaching my pupils theory of lathes/mills whilst in lock-down - best channel I have found so far
Thanks!
Great video! The lessons on safety are outstanding.
Thank you for creating this series Quinn. These are very well arranged and presented. You have answered so many of my questions, including ones I didn't know I had yet!
hey there! just stopping by to tell you that your avatar is really cool, and this video was super informative. Thanks!
First video I've ever watched of yours. I'm going to be forcing interns to watch them now.
Great explanation of lathe basics.
Watching all ❤
Thank you for making these great videos. Very helpful
Thank you for your great advice.Much appreciated.
I’ve just bought a small metal lathe. I’m up to 1:20 of this video and I’m considering selling up 😂
Awesome videos! I just found your channel and will be showing your videos to my beginning metalworking students these. I subbed to your great channel. Thanks for the videos.
Thank you 😍 ..newbie here
Chuck key discipline! I'm going to remember that. It's the landing gear lesson in flight school. Put the landing gear down! But sir, this plane doesn't have retractable gear. Put it down anyway. Decades later when watching someone in a cockpit, I'm "helping" the pilot to remember to put the gear down.
Random idea for the Chuck key discipline part: have it on a wrist loop as soon as it leaves its "home".
With this sort of lathe get or make a 4 bolt compound holding bracket it is so much more ridged, I would say the little machine shop sells them cheers.
Good idea! Removing the compound completely is also popular these days. For how rarely it is used, the loss of rigidity is probably not worth having it on there.
Thank you Queen.
so i just got my lathe in the mail today, got it all setup where i want it an i figured lets watch a few videos an see if theres any tips or words of wisdom i can take before trying to figure this out. while watching a couple i notice all the chuck keys can go into the chuck an sit the one that came with mine has a spring fixed on it so if u are not holding it in place it pushes out an after seeing a couple videos with them without the spring i thought huh i'll remove mine an it will make it easier to deal with but then this video talks about it being a face seeking missel sooo nah i think i'll keep the spring cause id rather not forget an leave it in the chuck, dont need any extra holes in my walls or face for that matter good tip.
Thanks
This was a great video even though I couldn’t see the middle 1/3 of my screen due to my cat.
Thank you for the great content
Great stuff thanks Quinn
ref safety with chuck keys ,bench drill chuck keys in my shed workshop are always kept in a terry clip on the speed belt cover,i have seen a few incidents with chuck keys and it wasn't pretty
Awesome Video, thank you so much, new subscriber.
Thanks for subscribing! I'm glad you like my videos. :)
Subbed from Making It podcast, very impressed so far! 👍🏻
Awesome, thanks! Love those guys. :D
Blondihacks Yeah, been fortunate enough to meet Bob and Jimmy, they’ve been very inspirational to me in my own journey. 😊
Very good video! Love your common sense and down to earth approach, looking forward to watching more of your videos. 👍🏻
Thanks Berry! I really appreciate that!
Put a spring on the chuck key so you can't forget and leave it in the chuck - it will spring out.
Nice video!
Hi. I just started watching your videos. They are very nice and helpful. Thanks and congratulations. The cat is very nice. I have one as well 😊
Excellent
You did very well.