This old Ammco 4000 automotive brake lathe has seen better days. We need to fix some mechanical issues, do some heavy cleaning, paint it, and build it a bench. Let's get to it!
Brilliant Wes, My dads friend owned a VW bug repair shop in the 70’s. I would turn drums and rotors at his shop on the weekends when I was 10 years old up to 15 years old. That was the exact same lathe I used. He would have a stack of drums for me to turn. When he did a brake job during the week, he would swap out drums with ones I would pre turn. Funny thing. I bought a fiberglass 70’s dune buggy a couple months ago. I turned the drums on my lathe at work last week. Brought back a lot of memories. Then seeing this video just really made my day. Yes, this was a video worth making to me. Thank you Wes. I am only 50 years old. But in my lifetime I have seen the country become a throw away society. Glad you appreciate good equipment and now have the ability to use it.
Loved watching the DuPont overhaul man! Looks great imo. I grew up on an Ammco Lathes. Brought back a lot of memories watching this haha. Second can I just come work with you? I think we'd get along just swell. Plus we could swap really cool sayings and fix stuff and throw some tools and things....
I have watched this before but with time on my hands I remembered I had enjoyed it so I watched it again. I enjoyed it again because of your calm & understated approach, your broad range of skills and your willingness to accept the value in things made in the past and to do your best to bring them into the current day and provide good service again. It's a bit like the "17 years in the wild forklift" story. It's not about scrimping & saving it's about the human spirit and self belief necessary to think it through, plan & deliver in front of up to 200,000 people. After 70 years of watching people do things like this and having been involved in a few less impressive things myself I offer my congratulations on a job well done and encourage you to take on even bigger challenges in the future. Cheers, Brian
Brake lathes are great, when working on oddball classic cars they actually are a must. Nobody makes rear drums for a lot of the stuff I see any more! That was a nice restoration and will go on giving great service for years to come. Hate the throwaway society, and every little helps. Nice one Wes, interesting content as always 👍
Even if you buy new you should still turn them to make sure they are perfectly round. I've had new rotors and drums warped/out of round new out of the box before. In the automotive industry it is standard practice to turn even new but most shops don't due to time constraints plus with rotors a slight warp won't cause an issue such as shaking or a slight out of round drum won't cause a brake pedal pulsation.
Brother, the many different disciplines that you cover are what make your videos stand out. You dont burn out any one topic or repair. Definately a jack of all trades. Much appreciated!
Jack of all trades ? Nah, a real, traditionnal mechanic guy. A rarety now. I'm sure, when Wes was a kid, he put apart some stuff and put it back together - with maybe some left over parts !! Now, looking at something unusual to repair, he looks at it and figure out how it works and why it failed. Ilove and highly respect that kind of person.
The effect is enhanced by her "HeeHee, I just got away with something and you're never going to know what" grin. I know, I know, it just LOOKS that way... probably.
The amount of knowledge you have at your young age is astounding. The electronics background on million dollar machinery and then to see you work on these rust bucket snow plows blows me away. You are a one of a kind incredible man of many talents and we appreciate watching you work on anything you tackle, thank you.
I have used that particular Brake Lathe for 25 years or so. Great machine they do really good finishing. And the setup is usually very good. You are missing some adapters but they are available. The the control is really simple and works well just try to make sure you're using Good Carbide Bits. All of best from Canada
Beautifully done!!! It's good to know there are true craftsman left in this country. We need you young guys to save the future of our decaying United States. Let's make America great again.
Wes, you have made my heart flutter. I spend 40 years servicing the different types of auto repair facilities and I've sold and serviced many of these machines. You did a great job of restoring a piece of equipment that will outlive you. We live in a world now that has no appreciation for what/how things used to be done. The simple act of oiling and greasing things to make them last longer is even a thing of the past. I have always said that it all started with the Bic pens. Throw away stuff. Why? Why not fix things and keep using them. Maybe the landfills wouldn't be overflowing with cheap crap.
I currently do the same work you did. I am jealous of the room and accessibility he had to work on this lathe. You know as well as I do that they are usually pushed against a wall and things stacked all around. And filthy! I’m sure you have plenty of stories with 40 years. I just finished year 8. We don’t do a ton of lathe servicing but I work on a handful a year. We mostly work on AC machines , lifts, tire machines and balancers.
Hey, take it easy on the custom paint job (hammering on that freeze plug). Besides seeing Mrs. Wes in a dress, which was a real treat, I think you reviving "grandpa's" old work table and deploying it there in the shop was an awesome tribute to the "ole gent". Great work on your part, and great video Wes, as always. Thank you sir.
Cool, I have one of these with the bench and was planning to restore it in the future. Used it at my dads shop when I was a kid. Thanks for the motivation!
One of the best episodes ever. You had it all-Great restoration, wife in fashion show(winner!) and so damn much dog I was so impressed. Great episode, hope the dog is Ok and I give this episode rotor turning thumbs, with a side of wife and dog!!!!!Thanks for the video!
The original brake rotors on most vehicles are better quality and are worth resurfacing. The aftermarket rotors are cheap but poor quality. Thanks Wes for a great video and all the tips and help you give us back yard mechanics. I am Running 2 Fords and 1 Mopar all with no payments and clean inspection stickers !!!
That red coating on the o.d. of that national seal is called, "bore tight". You really shouldn't need to coat the seal in any sort of loctite to keep it from free wheeling. Great work Wes! It's nice see someone with your skill set succeed.
I have watched this video about 5 times lol Wes you take so much off my mind with your videos my cancer treatment is more bearable with each of your videos lol I’ve been a subscriber for years and I love rewatching your videos I wish everyone good health stay safe god bless you all ❤
Very cool, Wes. Your ability to tear into tired iron, particularly unfamiliar T.I., grasp the Insidious sneaky oddities and then explain them to us in concise, understandable terms is a rare gift. Thanks once again for allowing the Walter Mitte types in your crowd to slay another rusty dragon! You ARE the Man!
Some thing to be proud of wes I’m a dinosaur and I thought the beak lathe was extinct and you just kept buying new junk rotors drums thanks for restoration video that could be in the salesman catalog
Transformed into one very good looking "work station" - almost as attractive as your assistant! Trust that holds true 2 years on; recently found your channel and like your style so much that I've started catching up on your previous videos. Cheers.
I HAVE the exact model in my shop. I bought 6 of them from TIRE AMERICA In the early 80's. i sold 5 of them an had enough money left to buy a pickup truck load of brake pads. my machine had two of every cone. My machine was brand new at the time. looked like it was used maybe ten times. i've never done any thing to it in 40 years. and now it looks like yours when you got it I dont have the circuit breaker with the on off switch. i still use mine at least once a week. its time to rebuild mine. but its been a good machine THANKS ZEMANTIRE TOWN
I'm a former canine handler for local Northern Illinois sheriff's department and my buddy Max here is a Belgian malinois talking about high energy! Max and I retired together after 8 years working together
Nice to watch the care of a machine well restored and put back into service. The paint looks fine. It really gave it a marked improvement and shouldn't be stowed outa site..
Every autoparts store I ever worked in, (and, there were many) we had a 4000 on a bench in the back. I swear I can still blow my nose & smell the steel dust that would settle there. You even have the vibration strap for vented rotors! Nice going!
Awesome job Wes. Well done. Just can’t imagine why anyone would hit dislike on an informative How-To-restoration video. For Pete’s Sake. They need to pass on bye and it stop on your page. Loved the Krylon-in-A-Can rebuild comment. For a guy they dislikes painting I think you did quite well.
What a great Channel this is only found You with this stupid lockdown in UK, I haven't normally got time to watch TH-cam, but I found Your channel due to Me fixing a fuel problem on a Forklift, I Fixed it with Your help 👍and now Am Hooked, I think I will shut My business down and just watch TH-cam all day, You cant make money with business anymore in this Day and crazy age. On serious note though Thanks for Your great info, I bet a lot people feel the same, so thanks again Wes😀
Nicely done, I would love to see how you lathe a drum though. I never saw that and when you should do it. I always changed the drums what is expensive and hell.
The music you ok picked for the finished project footage was perfect. Dads looked alot more like where you started, it may be old, it may polishing brightwork on the titanic, i liked it...alot. thanks for the effort and for showing it
I just picked one of these up for myself secondhand from a local shop and after a bit of TLC it's a real joy to use. The scales are easy to read, the cutters consistently retreat when you back off the screws and the motor has enough torque for 1 ton rotors without stalling. I've used different brand lathes at work and these ammco tanks make the others look like something you would get on clearance at princess auto or harbour freight.
Wes, if you ever get the feeling you want to organize, clean or do construction on your shop (like the rear right corner, potential office) please film that. That would be a good watch. Love your contents
used one for 15 years or so, when I was a mechanic. I can`t begin to tell you how much money it made me.Bits last a lot longer when you take healthy cuts when theres alot of rust. rust dulls them fast. . being aggressive on the first cut gets you through the rust. Still have my 1950`s black and decker valve grinder. another great old tool. another out dated repair. seems like people just send everything out these days or buy some knock off parts.gone are the days when you did everything yourself.
I'm considering buying 2 old Ammco lathes that look a bit worse than yours looked when you started. It was very helpful for me to see the disassembly. The dress was fine but the smile was even better.
Very handy tool and it will save you a ton of time running back and forth picking up drums and rotars . Nice restore job the peg board makes it look like it came from the factory on that bench .
Very very nice. Reminds me of the one I got to run at a GULF gas service station I worked at about 40 years ago. Did a lot of tires and brakes when not on the full service island. I've been looking for one (sorta). It's what brought me here. Tnx for the vid.
I ran what looked like the same machine at a service garage in the late seventies . Every brake job, we did the drums and rotors on the lathe because new rotors were very expensive then worked great as long as you kept them above minimum thickness . The only folks that bought new rotors were the ones that were ground down to nothing because “...the brakes have been grinding for a month or so”. That AAMCO lathe looked old when I started using it
i had one of these in the 80's, used it just about on a daily bases, secret is don't get in a hurry and try and make it in one cut, do a touch off cut then two more cuts, just sneak up on it and it will do a great job. when i finished my cut i took a small side head grinder and 220 paper and cross hatched the rotor with the machine runing slow. that will stop pad squeal. just my 2 cents.
In the '70s and early '80s i used an Ammco lathe (think it was a 3000). It was old enough that it had an arc grinder for brake shoes so you could match them to the exact i.d. of the drums after turning them. We added the rotor attachment around '75. Those were the days...
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Brilliant Wes,
My dads friend owned a VW bug repair shop in the 70’s. I would turn drums and rotors at his shop on the weekends when I was 10 years old up to 15 years old. That was the exact same lathe I used. He would have a stack of drums for me to turn. When he did a brake job during the week, he would swap out drums with ones I would pre turn.
Funny thing. I bought a fiberglass 70’s dune buggy a couple months ago. I turned the drums on my lathe at work last week. Brought back a lot of memories. Then seeing this video just really made my day. Yes, this was a video worth making to me. Thank you Wes. I am only 50 years old. But in my lifetime I have seen the country become a throw away society. Glad you appreciate good equipment and now have the ability to use it.
I makes sense for me with all the weird stuff I get into.
That is a great story about a clever dad.
First garage I worked in, in the mid 70's had one as well.
Best wishes all
Yep, reminds of building my 40 Ford coupe, for figure eight racing. That sound gets deep into soul!!
The shop I worked in early 1980’s had the same model or very close to it. Brought back good memories.
Loved watching the DuPont overhaul man! Looks great imo. I grew up on an Ammco Lathes. Brought back a lot of memories watching this haha. Second can I just come work with you? I think we'd get along just swell. Plus we could swap really cool sayings and fix stuff and throw some tools and things....
Two wrongs don't make a right!
@@WatchWesWork true, but it would make for some great videos 😂
That would be no good Eric O because there would only be one show to watch not the both of you.
Definitely should collaborate in some videos👍🏻
I suggest a crustoff....find and fix the most rusty crusty car out there and put it up for a poll on who had the crustiest vehicle.
Classic Wes -“got these these aerosol rebuild kits......”
thats a Craigslist engine rebuild kit right there
The krinkle can rebuild 👍
Love it! I'm gonna borrow this expression.
Restoration in a can. 👍
"Reman in a can"
I love seeing old, forgotten tools come back to life. Repair & reuse is more important than recycle!
A splendid job Wes. I enjoyed watching each step.
*Can't wait to see the cleanup o the tire machines.*
Shop looks like a "Bangladesh ship breaking yard." 😂
OUTSTANDING comment Wes. I am still chuckling.
Still looks tidier than my shed. lol.
The shop looked like that from when he moved in. I am thinking when he going to get it sorted
Mine looks like it must have 6-7 ships in the process.
Not quite a "Bangladesh ship breaking yard" as you aren't wearing sandals, but close enough I guess.
I have watched this before but with time on my hands I remembered I had enjoyed it so I watched it again. I enjoyed it again because of your calm & understated approach, your broad range of skills and your willingness to accept the value in things made in the past and to do your best to bring them into the current day and provide good service again. It's a bit like the "17 years in the wild forklift" story. It's not about scrimping & saving it's about the human spirit and self belief necessary to think it through, plan & deliver in front of up to 200,000 people. After 70 years of watching people do things like this and having been involved in a few less impressive things myself I offer my congratulations on a job well done and encourage you to take on even bigger challenges in the future. Cheers, Brian
Brake lathes are great, when working on oddball classic cars they actually are a must. Nobody makes rear drums for a lot of the stuff I see any more! That was a nice restoration and will go on giving great service for years to come. Hate the throwaway society, and every little helps. Nice one Wes, interesting content as always 👍
Even if you buy new you should still turn them to make sure they are perfectly round. I've had new rotors and drums warped/out of round new out of the box before. In the automotive industry it is standard practice to turn even new but most shops don't due to time constraints plus with rotors a slight warp won't cause an issue such as shaking or a slight out of round drum won't cause a brake pedal pulsation.
Brother, the many different disciplines that you cover are what make your videos stand out. You dont burn out any one topic or repair. Definately a jack of all trades. Much appreciated!
I get bored easily!
Jack of all trades ? Nah, a real, traditionnal mechanic guy. A rarety now. I'm sure, when Wes was a kid, he put apart some stuff and put it back together - with maybe some left over parts !! Now, looking at something unusual to repair, he looks at it and figure out how it works and why it failed. Ilove and highly respect that kind of person.
Wow Mrs.Wes nice dress. That deserves a Van Halen Hot for the teacher.
Yeah notice the work boots?
The effect is enhanced by her "HeeHee, I just got away with something and you're never going to know what" grin. I know, I know, it just LOOKS that way... probably.
The amount of knowledge you have at your young age is astounding. The electronics background on million dollar machinery and then to see you work on these rust bucket snow plows blows me away. You are a one of a kind incredible man of many talents and we appreciate watching you work on anything you tackle, thank you.
Hey I just bought an Ammco 4100 from an auction and this video will help me a lot to bring it back as it was when it came out. Thanks a lot !!
I will watch Wes work on anything
I have used that particular Brake Lathe for 25 years or so. Great machine they do really good finishing. And the setup is usually very good. You are missing some adapters but they are available. The the control is really simple and works well just try to make sure you're using Good Carbide Bits. All of best from Canada
Beautifully done!!! It's good to know there are true craftsman left in this country. We need you young guys to save the future of our decaying United States. Let's make America great again.
Superb video! I just scored my own Ammco 4000 and I was looking for a video to show me basically how to tear it apart. Thank you!
Really like your restorations, saving older equipment from the scrap heap.
Wife looks very nice in the dress. Great job with the lathe, proud of you.
Yep, very nice and chic Lady. Lucky man !
Man... I was just transported back in time watching that lathe go. Ran many, many of those in shops way back.
Wes, you have made my heart flutter. I spend 40 years servicing the different types of auto repair facilities and I've sold and serviced many of these machines. You did a great job of restoring a piece of equipment that will outlive you. We live in a world now that has no appreciation for what/how things used to be done. The simple act of oiling and greasing things to make them last longer is even a thing of the past. I have always said that it all started with the Bic pens. Throw away stuff. Why? Why not fix things and keep using them. Maybe the landfills wouldn't be overflowing with cheap crap.
I currently do the same work you did. I am jealous of the room and accessibility he had to work on this lathe. You know as well as I do that they are usually pushed against a wall and things stacked all around. And filthy! I’m sure you have plenty of stories with 40 years. I just finished year 8. We don’t do a ton of lathe servicing but I work on a handful a year. We mostly work on AC machines , lifts, tire machines and balancers.
Those machines are worth restoration and make an excellent addition to any garage or shop.
Congratulations, Wes. That's a keeper bro! I'm jealous. 😆
I spent years in a brake shop and your finished project looks exactly what I worked with for years on a daily basis,,,great job
Hey, take it easy on the custom paint job (hammering on that freeze plug).
Besides seeing Mrs. Wes in a dress, which was a real treat, I think you reviving "grandpa's" old work table and deploying it there in the shop was an awesome tribute to the "ole gent".
Great work on your part, and great video Wes, as always.
Thank you sir.
Same machine we used at Goodyear for nearly 10 years. It got a workout, with 5 Tech's going at it in a busy shop. Love that machine.
Cool, I have one of these with the bench and was planning to restore it in the future. Used it at my dads shop when I was a kid. Thanks for the motivation!
Get to it!
Great work restoring this abandoned tool! Not bad! Thanks for doing these Wes, love to watch.
Wes you are amazingly smart. A problem solver, mechanic, machinist, millwright, electrician, etc.
Nice job Wes. Nice of Mrs. Wes to put on a goin' to town dress to celebrate the lathe revival. Hope Max will be better soon.
Great job on the restoration Wes! 😀👍 It looks even better on the stand with the adapters on display! What a handy machine to have at your disposal 🙂👍
Thanks!
Saving your grandfather's bench absolutely MADE this build. Definitely one of the coolest builds to date. Nice job 👍
Nice to bring old equipment back into use.
The redo of the old machine is amazing. Great job
When word gets around that you can turn rotors and drums people may come to you instead of the parts store because of the turn around time
And at $5 a drum/rotor, it'll pay for itself over time......
Place I used to work for charged 15 a rotor...car or truck. And it could take hours.
Most Ive ever made somebody wait for resurfacing rotors is 4 hours, and I run commercial sales. Waiting days is, frankly, bullshit on the stores end.
@@TheStuntastik
They try to discourage you into buying new rotors or drums
E-Racer
The joke's on them. I'm not buying new unless it's needed. I'll go elsewhere - even if it's an hour drive to that elsewhere.
One of the best episodes ever. You had it all-Great restoration, wife in fashion show(winner!) and so damn much dog I was so impressed. Great episode, hope the dog is Ok and I give this episode rotor turning thumbs, with a side of wife and dog!!!!!Thanks for the video!
The original brake rotors on most vehicles are better quality and are worth resurfacing. The aftermarket rotors are cheap but poor quality. Thanks Wes for a great video and all the tips and help you give us back yard mechanics. I am Running 2 Fords and 1 Mopar all with no payments and clean inspection stickers !!!
That red coating on the o.d. of that national seal is called, "bore tight". You really shouldn't need to coat the seal in any sort of loctite to keep it from free wheeling. Great work Wes! It's nice see someone with your skill set succeed.
Fantastic restoration Wes.
Bringing a bit of history back to life. Great recycling
48 minutes of my Saturday afternoon well spent.
Just watched this again, loved running these.
Until the paint isn't chipped it won't look used nice to see an old machine sympathetically restored 👍
I was doing calculus homework... guess that is going to have to wait now
Who needs derivatives anyway?
I used to love mixing all those chemicals in calculus.... OK, well, maybe I didn't do very well in school...
@@giggiddy So you could calculus if it would explode?
Looks more like Pakistani truck channel..lol
@@shadowbanned69 .... Bigger 'brake lathes' tho ;
You did a Damn nice job there Wes! I'm jealous tbh.. Thx for sharing.
I have watched this video about 5 times lol Wes you take so much off my mind with your videos my cancer treatment is more bearable with each of your videos lol I’ve been a subscriber for years and I love rewatching your videos I wish everyone good health stay safe god bless you all ❤
IT IS NICE TO SEE A REAL CRAFTSMAN AT WORK.
Awesome restoration Wes! Love seeing old precision machinery restored and used again!
Very cool, Wes. Your ability to tear into tired iron, particularly unfamiliar T.I., grasp the Insidious sneaky oddities and then explain them to us in concise, understandable terms is a rare gift. Thanks once again for allowing the Walter Mitte types in your crowd to slay another rusty dragon! You ARE the Man!
Nice job rebuilding the Armco brake lathe.
They are not obsolete by any means. Just very useful.
That thing is beautiful now. A very useful machine brought back to life.
Some thing to be proud of wes I’m a dinosaur and I thought the beak lathe was extinct and you just kept buying new junk rotors drums thanks for restoration video that could be in the salesman catalog
Yes, those "beak lathes" are extinct, they were replaced with, what we call today, brake lathes.
Great job! Love the time and care that you put into your tools! Keep up the great work. I enjoy the longer videos!
Transformed into one very good looking "work station" - almost as attractive as your assistant! Trust that holds true 2 years on; recently found your channel and like your style so much that I've started catching up on your previous videos. Cheers.
I HAVE the exact model in my shop. I bought 6 of them from TIRE AMERICA In the early 80's. i sold 5 of them an had enough money left to buy a pickup truck load of brake pads. my machine had two of every cone. My machine was brand new at the time. looked like it was used maybe ten times. i've never done any thing to it in 40 years. and now it looks like yours when you got it I dont have the circuit breaker with the on off switch. i still use mine at least once a week. its time to rebuild mine. but its been a good machine THANKS ZEMANTIRE TOWN
Amazing resto, well done Wes, looks great and I'm sure will come in very handy, I lost count how many rotors I could have saved with one of these :)
just off to slumber, now I've got to watch Wes, my Saturday fix.
Can't believe it's taken me this long of seeing the vid in my recommended list to actually sit and watch the thing!
Seeing that lathe brings back memories.
My Saturday is complete with a WWW video to finish my day 👍
Nice job West think it turned out very well. Poor puppy I hope he has recovered okay.
Cheers Rob.
Wish there was a mechanic like you near me that has the talent like you do .
There probably is.
NICE Job!!! This takes me back to the 90's when I was a GM Tech... I turned my fair share of rotors and drums on one just like that...
“aerosol rebuild kits” love it.
i got spoiled when i stopped working off a pallet , started to use a hydraulic lift table
I'm a former canine handler for local Northern Illinois sheriff's department and my buddy Max here is a Belgian malinois talking about high energy! Max and I retired together after 8 years working together
Had mine for 2 years now. Thanks for making this video.
Great addition for the shop..
Great content Wes, nice machine. Can I be the first to say mrs Wes looks good in her new workshop overall 😂
Nice to watch the care of a machine well restored and put back into service. The paint looks fine. It really gave it a marked improvement and shouldn't be stowed outa site..
Brilliant to see you using your Granddad old table. Good job on the refurbishment rotor lathe. Bless your hands.
"Grrrrr!" 😂. Need a small shop vac on the back of the table to collect all that rust dust. 😉
Use cold blueing for the adapters!!!!
Or heating up an quenching in motoroil?
Nice idea!
both of those are good ideas
That was going to be my suggestion.
Lin seed oil (put the item in an owen and apply the oil with a rag - some of it will burn.)
Every autoparts store I ever worked in, (and, there were many) we had a 4000 on a bench in the back. I swear I can still blow my nose & smell the steel dust that would settle there. You even have the vibration strap for vented rotors! Nice going!
Great addition to your shop. Thanks for taking us along.
Thought I wasnt gonna see a video today. Would've been a crap Saturday
That looks like a great restauration that will serve you well! :-)
nice to see that people still turn rotors and not throw salvagable items away... I do it on a classic lathe
one machinist and mechanic to another. good job of rebuilding. truly enjoy your family and dog. keep up the good work. Mike Brewer
Best thing about a RonCo brake lathe: you can... **points to audience, audience yells** "Set it and forget it!"
Same one we’ve got st the Chevy dealership
Awesome job Wes. Well done. Just can’t imagine why anyone would hit dislike on an informative How-To-restoration video. For Pete’s Sake. They need to pass on bye and it stop on your page. Loved the Krylon-in-A-Can rebuild comment. For a guy they dislikes painting I think you did quite well.
What a great Channel this is only found You with this stupid lockdown in UK, I haven't normally got time to watch TH-cam, but I found Your channel due to Me fixing a fuel problem on a Forklift, I Fixed it with Your help 👍and now Am Hooked, I think I will shut My business down and just watch TH-cam all day, You cant make money with business anymore in this Day and crazy age. On serious note though Thanks for Your great info, I bet a lot people feel the same, so thanks again Wes😀
Nicely done, I would love to see how you lathe a drum though. I never saw that and when you should do it.
I always changed the drums what is expensive and hell.
We'll do one at some point.
Noooo! Must have captions, how else can I watch in the middle of the night, while my wife snores like a steam train? 😁
headphones
Earbuds .
Your own bedroom
A shed . Vast ways of making this happen. ✔👍 good luck
I could turn the speakers to full and my wife wouldn't even flinch.
@@WatchWesWork 🤭😁
I like the old school stuff. This sounds like something I would do. I enjoy watching your videos.
The music you ok picked for the finished project footage was perfect. Dads looked alot more like where you started, it may be old, it may polishing brightwork on the titanic, i liked it...alot. thanks for the effort and for showing it
I just picked one of these up for myself secondhand from a local shop and after a bit of TLC it's a real joy to use. The scales are easy to read, the cutters consistently retreat when you back off the screws and the motor has enough torque for 1 ton rotors without stalling. I've used different brand lathes at work and these ammco tanks make the others look like something you would get on clearance at princess auto or harbour freight.
One of your better videos. I was sorry to see it come to an end.
Always nice to see equipment being put back in service if you treat your tools right they will last you a lifetime
Nothing more satisfying than restoring a quality vintage machine.
Wes, if you ever get the feeling you want to organize, clean or do construction on your shop (like the rear right corner, potential office) please film that. That would be a good watch. Love your contents
used one for 15 years or so, when I was a mechanic. I can`t begin to tell you how much money it made me.Bits last a lot longer when you take healthy cuts when theres alot of rust. rust dulls them fast. . being aggressive on the first cut gets you through the rust. Still have my 1950`s black and decker valve grinder. another great old tool. another out dated repair. seems like people just send everything out these days or buy some knock off parts.gone are the days when you did everything yourself.
I'm considering buying 2 old Ammco lathes that look a bit worse than yours looked when you started. It was very helpful for me to see the disassembly. The dress was fine but the smile was even better.
Very handy tool and it will save you a ton of time running back and forth picking up drums and rotars . Nice restore job the peg board makes it look like it came from the factory on that bench .
Very very nice. Reminds me of the one I got to run at a GULF gas service station I worked at about 40 years ago. Did a lot of tires and brakes when not on the full service island. I've been looking for one (sorta). It's what brought me here. Tnx for the vid.
Nice job Wes, it shows to me that you actually give a damn how things look.!
Amazingly wide array of skills, Wes. I am suitably impressed !
I ran what looked like the same machine at a service garage in the late seventies . Every brake job, we did the drums and rotors on the lathe because new rotors were very expensive then worked great as long as you kept them above minimum thickness . The only folks that bought new rotors were the ones that were ground down to nothing because “...the brakes have been grinding for a month or so”. That AAMCO lathe looked old when I started using it
The amazing power of rust jacking. Most people have no idea. A cleaver man might make a video on the topic.
i had one of these in the 80's, used it just about on a daily bases, secret is don't get in a hurry and try and make it in one cut, do a touch off cut then two more cuts, just sneak up on it and it will do a great job. when i finished my cut i took a small side head grinder and 220 paper and cross hatched the rotor with the machine runing slow. that will stop pad squeal. just my 2 cents.
Sounds exactly like the way I used to run the 4000 lathe. The cross hatching of the rotor was great to minimize squeal and it looked good too!
In the '70s and early '80s i used an Ammco lathe (think it was a 3000). It was old enough that it had an arc grinder for brake shoes so you could match them to the exact i.d. of the drums after turning them. We added the rotor attachment around '75. Those were the days...
I have turned drums on an engine lathe and it sucks.... Great job, now you have a tool that will last years .