a very special visitor to see a very big lathe!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2021
- sorry, re upload , first render messed up the audio .. fixed it. apologies.
here we have a quick look at our big old lathe and remember when a special visitor came to visit our heavy. engineering workshop! @CuttingEdgeEngineering @Abom79
@GuyMartinOfficial - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Hey mate! Thanks for the shout out seriously appreciate it 😎👊💥 Awesome to see that big old girl working well they don't make them like that now. Cheers, Kurtis
WOW ... Nice to see you here Kurtis 😀 ... CEE and allistairc123 are my favorite channels 👍👍
Same here mate love both channels.
Guy Martin is such an incredible character. He certainly has a passion for all things engineering...
Lovely, a big lathe from the golden age of manual machining. Still useful and still turning out good work. Thanks for the video.
I did my indentured Engineering apprenticeship at Baguley Drewry Ltd in Burton on Trent England , Industrial locomotive , David Brown gear box and worm reduction box manufacturers and general engineering. We had an even in 1984 a very old Craven grinding machine specifically designed to grind the hardened worm of a worm shaft . It was all mechanical and the correct pitch of the various worm shafts was achieved all through calculations to determine the correct back gears to be used . The large grinding wheel and head were also angled over to suit specific worm shafts . At the push of a lever the large grinding head and wheel would move forward rapidly whilst the worm shaft was rotating it would also start traversing along and you prayed to god that the gear calculations were correct or else there was one very scrapped , very expensive worm shaft , one Big Bang and potentially a large grinding wheel acting as shrapnel as it exploded . I was 17-18 years old at the time , I wasn’t given the job to set it up just learn and actually operate the machine . Even to this day It was the scariest machine I have ever operated and with the sad closure of Baguleys in 1984 I set my own small Engineering machine shop up having just turned 22 years old , I am now in my 39th year trading through good times and some really difficult times . To this day , that machine still scares the s**t out of me 😂🇬🇧🏴🏴
Awesome to hear your story bud thanks for sharing
Thank you Alistair. I worked at Beardmore tannery in Acton Ontario Canada for ten years . They had big lathes like this .❤
Old toolmaker, of all the machines I have used my favourite has alway been the lathe. Fortunately I still have the tiny laptop lathe that I purchased when I was 21 at a UK hobby show. And so I keep on turning.
Cutting Edge Engineering Australia is a great channel, Abom79 does some good stuff and so does Fireball Tool.
All great to see proper engineering in action!
Thanks Jon always appreciate your support mate
@@CuttingEdgeEngineering No problem!
The man for big lathes, David Wilks does cool stuff too. Lots of trepanning, turning and a little toolmaking. He’s pretty cool and very very in-depth.
Has he done any videos lately? I haven't had a notification from him in ages, so I have no idea what is going on.
@@markfryer9880 He got employed...
Curtis , Karen and Homeless at Cutting Edge are brilliant and with the best blooper reels on the internet.
Homey's full name is Homeless Bignutz... For information...
Thanks mate
You can't help but love Homey ... As Karen once commented in one CEE vid "he's a special dog"
Always great content, Impressive piece of old iron! Doing a grunt and still working. Thanks, a loyal subscriber.
These are the videos that inspire us young guys to get into engineering. Second year of the apprenticeship, going well…
I am still using the tools I made 50 years ago while doing my tool and die making apprenticeship in the UK.
Damn. Really wasn't able to appreciate the size of it until the photos. Pretty cool machine. Cutting edge and Abom are indeed great channels for engineering and machining. If you enjoy smaller scale work and a some humor I'd recommend This Old Tony as well.
I thought I spotted Guy Martin while browsing your video library. Isle of Man TT is the greatest show on earth imo.
Very interesting seeing one of these older lathes in action. I helped rebuild a large lathe at Siemens that was 80 feet between centers. Sorry, I cannot remember the OEM.
kurtis from CEE is always a good watch on a friday night
Cheers Alex!
Guy Martin Rocks... if it was important enough for him to come take a look, it's important. (in gear head world anyway)
Very nice Dave Cape town
Thanks
Hi there, just a quick one about the Craven lathe, the factory was in Stockport Cheshire, reddish,. My aunt Mary worked there for years, think it was in the forties, she retired from there. The factory has gone now many years ago, it brought good memories back, than k you for showing it
Awesome! Well known world wide as the maker of giant lathes! Thanks for I do very interesting
Nice old lathe I Run a Swift also England 24d model. 52” swing.
yes, that lathe is a monster beautiful old machine you don't get to see them that big that often but in the case of craven laths that is a small one. still pretty cool to see nice one
David wilks is another good heavy machining channel
Haven't seen any videos from him In a while, let's all annoy him for a video🤣, hes got a great sense of humor,
I really hope David is ok. He hasn’t been around for months
Another+1for David
@Davidwilks
@@alexanderhowa9707 ive been wondering the same thing , hope covid didn't get him, i really loved his videos
Thanks for the video mate. All the best from Australia
It's the engineering video that bring us hear Alistair Big chap ....keep up the brill work dude ...I look forward to the next one ...
Awesome machine another to have a look at Topper machine very talented,old machines are still cutting edge.
It’s cool to see how many of those craven lathes are still in use. One at my work is the same size I think and it’s had a cnc retrofit.
Great video , enjoyed seeing the big lathe , and the part being being repaired. Would like to see a photo/ video of the finished job leaving on the truck , I like seeing the job though 😀 keep safe .
My first year out of college, I had a teaching job in Tell City, IN which is on the Ohio River. A lot of barge traffic on the river. There was a co. near there that built/rebuilt barges and river tow boats. The tow boats had either a 9" or 12" dia. prop shaft with lengths of 40-65 feet. They had lathes to turn and thread those.
The operators road a chair up on the carriage. The "throw diameters" were 2' and 4' respectively. When a tow boat stuck the propeller in a sandbar/rocks it would shear the prop shaft like a knife thru butter. For some reason repair welding was not an option.
I always love to see you work. Saint Paul Minnesota
50 years since I worked a big Craven , I won't be going back to it !
Thought Brian Block's 48" x 24' Monarch was a big lathe!
Those cone crushers are keeping you busy. 👍
Love 'em all, Joe Pie and Blondihacks to Adam, Kurtis, and of course yours. Not quite a Clickspring lathe!
Good to see some heavy duty engineering going on in n Ireland keep the videos coming
What a machine I never new they made um that big fantastic thanks for the video I'm totally amazed. 👍 👍👍
Такое впечатление, что по всему миру большинство тяжелых токарных станков было выпущено в первой половине ХХ века или даже до войны! И они успешно работают до сих пор!
It seems that the majority of heavy lathes around the world were produced in the first half of the 20th century or even before the II WW! And they still work successfully!
👍 awesome
I've been watching machiing channels for over a year now. One year on, not far off making my own swarf now.
Nearly dropped a lathe bed on me foot yesterday. Good job I can dance !
(I can't dance - but I got close)
Great to see them still on use. Look after it well and it should last another 100 years. There's bigger in J Mullins engineering in Tuam Galway. Four meters swing and fifty feet between centres. I think he has two of them.
How longs he had them?
@@allistairc123 Don't know, about 10 years i think.
Some machine. I’d say guy is good craic loves his machines
Awesome job !
Very nice Lathe.
Themetalraymond excellent channel
Fantastic.....Cheers, Paul
Careful, Stockport is a town near Manchester. They're very touchy about being referred to as Manchester.
Yip Live just a couple of miles from Greg St Reddish where the Vauxhall works still are standing however Craven did start out in Manchester and moved to Stockport
We have a pair of Craven's at my work used for roughing out cranks in Lincolnshire. Lovely old girls some one has centre punched their initials and July 1953 into one of those brass windows on one.
Nice video 👍 lovely machines. Subscribed 💪
Can’t wait to see more
Good video, and nice mention of cutting edge aust’ and Abomb
Guy martin! I recognise the mutton chops anywhere.
Good on ya mate, thoroughly enjoy Kurtis' vids and Abom79, not to mention your own work. Great stuff all round in my book!
I love that four jaw. You can use a yard stick to rough it in to center.
Agreed re. Scale. When u see guy next to chuck. It's a big lathe.
Another good welding channel is ic weld man the jobs that guy does is where the saying "everyone's a welder until shit gets real comes from
Did you see my welding vids?
There's an old Craven lathe near here (NE England) that came from Consett Steel Works. It was the works wheel lathe for their railway rolling stock. It was rescued by a preserved railway not too far away. Like yourself I've tried to get it into one photo but the room is tight with it in and it's so big!
yes I would enjoy
Lol I wonder if Guy knows that a solid steel 1000kg drum for a motorcycle Dyno was made in that building possibly in that lathe about 18 year's ago.
And that Dyno was used to tune the bikes of his competitor's at the IOM TT and may have been faster than him (S Harris lap record on a 600 cc I think was faster one year)😉
Outstanding info!
Cracking video. Craven made much bigger lathes than that one !!. Yes, the Aussie bloke has made some excellent videos too, Cutting Edge I think its called ..
Always address CEE as Kevin. He enjoys when fans say his name wrong even after he says it in almost every video
Not sure what to make of 'Kevin' - told TH-cam not to recommend that channel.
Stefan Gotteswinter does smaller stuff but to exceeding precision, if that sounds fun.
Nice speed down to 2.5 rpm!
Quite noteworthy.
Yes, we would be pretty well stuffed without the skills of engineering workshops. 👍
Your place did some turning work for a project a few years ago. We had ran out of capacity so you guys and curries were used. Did you ever get s chance to see the big giddings and Lewis VTL? Was running an 88inch table on it from memory.it was at stockham
Yes I sure did!
@@allistairc123 that was a serious machine alright like your stuff there. Also saw a huge Lumsden grinder that came out of Howdens from memory too. Nothing in comparison to abom79 video where he visited one. Definitely worth checking his channel out. His day to day machining is small but really nice precise stuff but he has good videos . Definitely knows his stuff with regard to tooling and manual machining techniques
I think remember seeing a lathe that was longer than the building it was in about 18 year's ago 🤔.
But I could have been having a hallucination 🤣
I wonder if it was at Vickers Cockatoo. Longest lathes I ever saw. For Ships prop shafts if i recall.
Cockatoo in Sydney harbour mat
Na I think the lathe came from Hartland and woolf Belfast.
It may have made the crankshaft for the titanic
More engineering vids pls
Craven was the biggest! Skoda TOS and some others never had a 5000mm lathe
I’d love to run that lathe but would hate to have to lift the tooling. Must have a lifting eye on the tail stock center and insert holders.
Love your videos! Another good equipment repair and welding channel is I C WeLD.
Mint 👍🏻
It doesn't really show it in that photo but slot of the time Guy has the same side burns as your dad lol😆
That's some bit of kit. You should check out Old Iron Machine Works good engineering channel
How big are the inserts on it?
just savage
Nice 1 👌🏻👌🏻 Al what’s the oldest piece of machinery you’d have in the workshop??
Me da 😂
@@allistairc123 knew that was coming 🤣🤣🤣
Is that a 3ft or 2ft cone head?
You need more soap and water in that drum if you're trying to do your laundry ;)
Big lathes = Craven
350$aud for oversize great content .:-)
why was guy there?
To see our old engineering facilities since he's interested in that sort of thing
@@allistairc123 i can relate to that
Boys and their toys 🧸
It’s cool to see how many of those craven lathes are still in use. One at my work is the same size I think and it’s had a cnc upgrade.