Would you recommend buying a Myford ML7? Looking at buying my first lathe and I'm used to working on a Emco Maximat 11 and a Swedish version of the South Bend named Blomqvist BSN600. But there are currently a few Myfords for sale in my area that have peaked my interest.
No. Not if you want something that works like an Emco 11. Myfords are great if you want a little lathe to play with - lots of accessories - and much better than a cheap new mini lathe. But If you have space, for the same money, you can get a larger boxford or emco, which are both really common and easy to get parts for etc. The extra size is going to make them way more rigid. If you do want a myford, try and get a Super 7 with a gearbox. The Super 7s have 'modern' headstock bearings instead of old solid white metal bearings like the ML7 which drip oil everywhere - and a gearbox is so much better than change gears. I'm not saying I'm an expert or that there's anything wrong with a Myford ML7 - but that's my shopping advice.
Boxford are clones of the south bend 9 too, much heavier built and precision taper roller bearings on the spindle, loads of interchangeable parts between all of the clones except the smart and brown sabel which has a different bed profile
Everything the venerable Mr Croker said; if I were doing it again I'd at least wait for a Super to come up, but I should have gone for a Boxford, or even a mid-sized Colchester. Instead I've got two Myfords. It's a sickness. There is no cure. Don't fall into the trap...
Just this morning I was thinking, "Mr. Croker hasn't posted in a while. I miss the Rover project."...and this is what I got. yay. glad you are well sir.
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Not gonna lie. This was the first lathe restoration series on YT that influenced me to buy my first lathe. Still enjoy the saga ;)
I paused the video to write this comment. I experienced great pleasure watching watching you put the bushing over the shaft and then the pulley... Not creepy... It was just so satisfying.
It took seeing how you did this for the reversing rum switch to make sense! Thank you. And also others safety warnings. On the wiring and these drum switches. Best to install a double pole double throw to the motor. Meaning when the switch is "off" no circuit at all goes to the motor. Then use only the top 4 connections for motor reversing. Otherwise one leg to the motor, the jumper connection 4 & 6 to the motor is always "hot" even when the reversing drum switch is in the off position. Most big button on/off switches are DPDT and you can get DPDT that are like wall switches that here in the States will fit in what we call a surface mount box or old work box. Thanks again for your explanation! Ron
@Geoffrey Croker … I found this extremely helpful as last week my motor shorted out scaring the 💩💩 out of me. So I have had to start stripping it down to get rid of the original rubber coated cable, to replace it with better quality. I took photos of the switch to help me with the rewire, but now I can do screen shots and print them, many thanks 🙏
Maybe the most underrated content on TH-cam. I so appreciate you not holding your camera arms length away for 1/2 the video. I for one like the POV of work with your voice over explaining your tactics. Bravo Sir from Fort Worth Texas. Post more!!
Outstanding!!! Framing, lighting and focus are out of this world. Top Drawer! As usual dialogue complete with puns, accent, sarcasm and humour are sweet. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for giving me another way to procrastinate on my Spanish homework lol. I just got around to actually making the motor on my lathe run, now I just need to wire it, and watching your videos has been pretty motivating, so thanks mate!
i have 4 hour test tomorrow morning and i should learn, but this indeed doesn't help! and fun fact, today i took apart my lathe motor because it has bad bearings... must be a coincidence ;)
This is an absolutely awesome series. I just picked up one of these lathe over the weekend. This video series has been very useful to get the old girl working.
I'm glad it's not just my belt guard that rattles .. parting off makes it jump around like a mad thing; makes quite the racket when it starts catching the back gear! I mean, not that I'd ever forget and let it do that, you understand.
At this point im wanting to send a search party in for him. Missing the uploads. Said it before but it's still the one channel I will actively check for uploads.
Personally I probably would have gone with the single T-profile key. At the time you were considering the options, my reasoning was that this way the power is transmitted from the motor to the pulley via the key . With the 2-key solution, the motor power is transmitted via the motor key, the adapter bushing (which has very little cross-section by the longer key), and then the second key. Then as the video progressed, it became apparent that the extra machining for the one-piece key would have been made up for by the modifications to the other keys, welding, etc. Great outcome either way. I hope that broken motor went into the stash or to someone that fixes it -- it's probably something simple and/or educational to fix
My Pommy mate in Australia, with life-long experience of lathes and similar machinery, considered the best use for a Myford was as anchor for mooring a boat.
Loving the diagrams and explanations, even though they meant absolutely nothing to me... not being electrically minded you see. Nice to see you're OK and still posting. Now you have a challenge, since this video has raised the bar so much with the sound effects and artwork, people wil be expecting it on the Landie project too!
Fond memories of doing restoration work on a 60's Schaublin 135 lathe during my internship... Busted knuckles, oil drenched overalls and swear words included. Hope to get my own one day!
Geoffrey! Glad to see a new posted video, the opening was hilarious and well done. The trick with the bushing and key ways was bloody brilliant! Nice to see your still "with us" and have not succumbed to the "sickness". Stay Safe Thanks for the share!
Your video editing skills are just as amazing as your explanation of wiring switches. Restrictions in Australia are easing and I've heard it's the same for you guys across the ditch. Cant wait for the next one!
Geoffrey, ditch the top slide and make yourself a solid tool post mount that bolts directly to the cross slide. You’ll notice a huge improvement in rigidity. You can save the top slide just for turning tapers and the like. Darren
I was listinin to a Kiwi on a podcast earlier today and I was wondering what you were up to and if you were out playing on your big deck, behind the house, but I was wrong, you’d been busy with this there vijeo. Much appreciated. Superb stuff, and glad you kept the angry pixies inside the electrickeryspaghetti. Well done!
Clicked faster than the springboks making bad decisions on the pitch. Ninja edit: You used the old motor to make a bush for the new motor. You truly are heartless. Spare holes are always nice. I keep a few myself.
Thanks Geoffrey, that is very helpful. I will have to rewatch a couple of times to work it all out, but the graphics are excellent. As always your videos are very well made, informative and entertaining. All the best, Mart in England.
I use treadmill motors on my lathes,,,can't beat them,, do quiet and smooth and the soft start is so much easier on the lathe and I love the speed control, no more pulley changes
Mr. Croker, your filming, editing, and narration are best in class. Your channel is critically underappreciated. I do my best to pimp it out to interested audiences and I'm always proud to be a patron. Any tips for those wishing to start making videos? It seems like when you started you were birthed fully formed from the head of Zeus with the appropriate skills. Even your oldest videos have an extremely high standard of quality. ATB from America.
Step key and slotted bush would work. Maybe as you did but with the keys at 90 degrees not 180. Both with clamp screws, better holding and alignment. Recommended for slide fit pulleys.
It's many years since I machined anything, but I have fond memories of being an apprentice and making the chips fly off a lovely shade of blue. Fantastic until one goes down the collar of your overalls and you start doing a merry dance...
Everyone's a David Bailey until it comes to TradeMe photos :) You need to make sure you take the photo by candle light, preferably during an earthquake balancing on one foot :p
Dude... it fills me with rage. Every cell phone is capable of taking better photos than what a lot of the big second hand sellers use. Don't tell me they're taking photos through a potato by accident.
I'm not a Mechanical Engineer, but the way you made the bushing it now works as an intermediary coupling (i.e. the force is coupled from the motor shaft, 180 degrees through the bushing and finally to the pulley) instead of just from the motor shaft to the pulley with a T shaped key. Not sure if it matters though.
Very much enjoy your videos - just catching up on your back catalog (hence why 6 months behind everyone else!) Very clear, well edited and I enjoy that quirky antipodean humour... Now gotta wait for the next Landy episode.
Sheet of rubber between the mounting plates, along with a rubber washer top and bottom of the plate on the motor and base will damp a lot of that vibration down. Just remember to add a ground wire from the motor terminal block through to the body of the lathe, so that static charges can be neutralised.
Great video Geoffrey. Liking the animations, helps to explain things much better. But next time you need to get yourself one of the Newton Tesla units!
Im from New Zealand and also have recently bought an ML7, I saw your idea for machining new leadscrew nuts and am in the process of finishing them off, ive also decided to convert to metric at the same time and make new dials for it. I got some new feedscrew and will machine it to take the handles. Would love to have a chat about a few things if thats possible :) Thanks for the vids, keep it up!
Just for the cover that still rattles Geoffrey, could you just grab some of those little sticky rubber dots once you're allowed at the hardware store again? The kind that you stick under furniture legs etc? Great video as always, she sounds sweet! And I'm keen to see what you do with that pantograph too!
I run a link belt on the main pulleys. Agree. I would have done that except that they are crazy expensive to buy here. As soon as Amazon is shipping international again, I will be buying a few metres of the smaller size.
In drum switch if you number terminals on the left 4 5 6 and right 1 2 3 you connect TERMINAL i.e. thing in your motor that never have power to 4. Then the wire that has no power and instructions say interchange to 5. Line to motor is 6, line from outlet is 3, neutral is 2 from outlet and connects directly to motor. Finally 1 is the wire in the interchange that normally has power going forward. Draw it out and it becomes clear. The Terminal connection is the key.
I put a 1hp 3 phase motor with VFD on my myford. Totally transformed it, as my old motor was knackered. Although to be honest it’s too much motor for the lathe.
@@MichaelSteeves Wow, I'm a retired plumber and HVAC tech- I can't engineer the things, but I know how to work with them and workan applications chart and I do understand the magnetic theory- it seems so simple after the "right" explanation, which began with Ohm's Law, how that is the same as the Pressure/flow of water in a pipe, and finishes with the sympathetic acceleration of neutrons through exposure to a moving magnetic source. It's fairly basic science today, Tesla figured it out and everybody has been riding that coat tail since 1890. Machines and gears and clocks and such were my favorite toys as a child, so ratios and such are second nature to me- sorry it was a reach for anyone, because it shouldn't be, as the forces have been with us forever, maybe even the Egyptians were working it!
The excellent video really well done. Those lever switches are a bit lethal though because you can easily knock them on. Especially when you are messing with the change gears. A stop button in line wouldn't be a bad idea. How powerful is the motor?
you could redo a pulley and remove that strange bush. you could make a plate and rotate the motor 90 degrees so as to have more space and add side blocks. In any case, I'm glad you're fine, I really like your videos, I would have been sorry not to see you anymore 😁
Very nice video. 👍👍 When the wiring tests get to the blow up / work point, I like to grab an unsuspecting family member to throw the switch. Much safer when Im out of the room. 😂🤦♂️👍👍
Geoffrey Better to use a contactor!! Your switch contacts will burn otherwise. use the switch to operate the contactor, and the contactor to apply power to the motor. Regards, JJ
Excellent production, thanks for posting. Any chance we can see how the new shop is coming on with all the extra time at home? Instead of that rubber how about a bit of adhesive draught excluder, I've got the stuff all over the place, works wonders.
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Would you recommend buying a Myford ML7? Looking at buying my first lathe and I'm used to working on a Emco Maximat 11 and a Swedish version of the South Bend named Blomqvist BSN600. But there are currently a few Myfords for sale in my area that have peaked my interest.
No. Not if you want something that works like an Emco 11. Myfords are great if you want a little lathe to play with - lots of accessories - and much better than a cheap new mini lathe. But If you have space, for the same money, you can get a larger boxford or emco, which are both really common and easy to get parts for etc. The extra size is going to make them way more rigid.
If you do want a myford, try and get a Super 7 with a gearbox. The Super 7s have 'modern' headstock bearings instead of old solid white metal bearings like the ML7 which drip oil everywhere - and a gearbox is so much better than change gears. I'm not saying I'm an expert or that there's anything wrong with a Myford ML7 - but that's my shopping advice.
@@GeoffreyCroker Myford 7s are also ridiculously expensive compared to less "pretty" lathes like Boxfords and so-on.
“Piqued” rather than “peaked”
Boxford are clones of the south bend 9 too, much heavier built and precision taper roller bearings on the spindle, loads of interchangeable parts between all of the clones except the smart and brown sabel which has a different bed profile
Everything the venerable Mr Croker said; if I were doing it again I'd at least wait for a Super to come up, but I should have gone for a Boxford, or even a mid-sized Colchester. Instead I've got two Myfords. It's a sickness. There is no cure. Don't fall into the trap...
Yes! Do a Part 12 where you just add small rubber pads to the bottom of that housing.
I think I will turn that into a 100 part instagram story 😁
@@GeoffreyCroker It's the only way...
Great stuff! Thanks
Just this morning I was thinking, "Mr. Croker hasn't posted in a while. I miss the Rover project."...and this is what I got. yay. glad you are well sir.
Not gonna lie. This was the first lathe restoration series on YT that influenced me to buy my first lathe. Still enjoy the saga ;)
Thank you Ca Lem 👍👍
Me too, this series inspired me to made my homemade lathe following the myford project cz this video is fully detailed
Animations and sounds effects - pure dead brilliant! And that depth of cut.....
I paused the video to write this comment. I experienced great pleasure watching watching you put the bushing over the shaft and then the pulley... Not creepy... It was just so satisfying.
I've been driving that behavior out of my nephews. Oh that's so satisfying....
It took seeing how you did this for the reversing rum switch to make sense! Thank you. And also others safety warnings. On the wiring and these drum switches. Best to install a double pole double throw to the motor. Meaning when the switch is "off" no circuit at all goes to the motor. Then use only the top 4 connections for motor reversing. Otherwise one leg to the motor, the jumper connection 4 & 6 to the motor is always "hot" even when the reversing drum switch is in the off position. Most big button on/off switches are DPDT and you can get DPDT that are like wall switches that here in the States will fit in what we call a surface mount box or old work box. Thanks again for your explanation!
Ron
@Geoffrey Croker … I found this extremely helpful as last week my motor shorted out scaring the 💩💩 out of me.
So I have had to start stripping it down to get rid of the original rubber coated cable, to replace it with better quality.
I took photos of the switch to help me with the rewire, but now I can do screen shots and print them, many thanks 🙏
Maybe the most underrated content on TH-cam. I so appreciate you not holding your camera arms length away for 1/2 the video. I for one like the POV of work with your voice over explaining your tactics.
Bravo Sir from Fort Worth Texas.
Post more!!
Always a relief when the smoke stays inside the wires likes it's supposed to 👍
Outstanding!!! Framing, lighting and focus are out of this world. Top Drawer! As usual dialogue complete with puns, accent, sarcasm and humour are sweet. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for giving me another way to procrastinate on my Spanish homework lol. I just got around to actually making the motor on my lathe run, now I just need to wire it, and watching your videos has been pretty motivating, so thanks mate!
i have 4 hour test tomorrow morning and i should learn, but this indeed doesn't help! and fun fact, today i took apart my lathe motor because it has bad bearings... must be a coincidence ;)
De nada
Seeing as I bought a Myford ML7 purely so I could rebuild it using your series as a guide, this update really, really thrilled me.
This is an absolutely awesome series. I just picked up one of these lathe over the weekend. This video series has been very useful to get the old girl working.
I'm glad it's not just my belt guard that rattles .. parting off makes it jump around like a mad thing; makes quite the racket when it starts catching the back gear! I mean, not that I'd ever forget and let it do that, you understand.
This is actually the video I needed with the humor, voice, work. This helped.
Great graphic to explain the wiring as you performed it! I just wish I could follow it! Great work.
As a mechanical engineer, that was the best eletrical drawing I have ever seen! It cured my electrophobia a little
Best edited, composed videos on TH-cam. The animations showed the different methods of attaching the wires. Great detail!!
At this point im wanting to send a search party in for him. Missing the uploads. Said it before but it's still the one channel I will actively check for uploads.
Personally I probably would have gone with the single T-profile key. At the time you were considering the options, my reasoning was that this way the power is transmitted from the motor to the pulley via the key . With the 2-key solution, the motor power is transmitted via the motor key, the adapter bushing (which has very little cross-section by the longer key), and then the second key.
Then as the video progressed, it became apparent that the extra machining for the one-piece key would have been made up for by the modifications to the other keys, welding, etc.
Great outcome either way. I hope that broken motor went into the stash or to someone that fixes it -- it's probably something simple and/or educational to fix
Your videos are such a treat!! Thank you for all your hard work in putting them together for us.
Thank you 👍
My Pommy mate in Australia, with life-long experience of lathes and similar machinery, considered the best use for a Myford was as anchor for mooring a boat.
Clever idea with the pulley key(s) well done
I jumped at the 80thou depth of cut explosion!
日本人です。毎回の動画、楽しみにしてます。あまり英語は得意ではありませんが、次回の動画も楽しみに待ってます。ディフェンダーの動画、心待ちにしてますね～。
Wow that was brilliant. I just wish I could understood it all :) An 80 thou cut would take out the grid of my entire neighbourhood !
Loving the diagrams and explanations, even though they meant absolutely nothing to me... not being electrically minded you see. Nice to see you're OK and still posting. Now you have a challenge, since this video has raised the bar so much with the sound effects and artwork, people wil be expecting it on the Landie project too!
The quality of your videos is outstanding, i hope you never run out of projects and inspiration to upload more of them!
Fond memories of doing restoration work on a 60's Schaublin 135 lathe during my internship... Busted knuckles, oil drenched overalls and swear words included. Hope to get my own one day!
Geoffrey! Glad to see a new posted video, the opening was hilarious and well done. The trick with the bushing and key ways was bloody brilliant! Nice to see your still "with us" and have not succumbed to the "sickness". Stay Safe Thanks for the share!
That thing is quiet compared to the Atlas/Craftsman. Looks really beautiful. You did a great job restoring it.
lights action camera sound filmography timing editing incredible.
Your video editing skills are just as amazing as your explanation of wiring switches. Restrictions in Australia are easing and I've heard it's the same for you guys across the ditch. Cant wait for the next one!
Geoffrey, ditch the top slide and make yourself a solid tool post mount that bolts directly to the cross slide. You’ll notice a huge improvement in rigidity.
You can save the top slide just for turning tapers and the like.
Darren
Honestly Geoff, your videos are top notch. Great work
I was listinin to a Kiwi on a podcast earlier today and I was wondering what you were up to and if you were out playing on your big deck, behind the house, but I was wrong, you’d been busy with this there vijeo. Much appreciated. Superb stuff, and glad you kept the angry pixies inside the electrickeryspaghetti. Well done!
Thanks Jocke 👍
Clicked faster than the springboks making bad decisions on the pitch.
Ninja edit: You used the old motor to make a bush for the new motor. You truly are heartless. Spare holes are always nice. I keep a few myself.
Just makes your day when a Geoffrey video comes up great! Stay safe down there in New Zealand cheers from the UK
Thanks Geoffrey, that is very helpful. I will have to rewatch a couple of times to work it all out, but the graphics are excellent. As always your videos are very well made, informative and entertaining. All the best, Mart in England.
This was fun. Thank you, Geoffrey.
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
I use treadmill motors on my lathes,,,can't beat them,, do quiet and smooth and the soft start is so much easier on the lathe and I love the speed control, no more pulley changes
Already the best part of my weekend. Thanks Geoffrey!
Thanks Adriaan 👍
Really like hiw you handled the keys on the bushing. Great idea
Lovely job on the visuals in this episode!
Hope you and those you love are well!
Awesome story telling. Up there with this old tony.
Love it
Glad to have you all back , excellent as always ....
Regards
Robert
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Thanks Robert 👍
Mr. Croker, your filming, editing, and narration are best in class. Your channel is critically underappreciated. I do my best to pimp it out to interested audiences and I'm always proud to be a patron.
Any tips for those wishing to start making videos? It seems like when you started you were birthed fully formed from the head of Zeus with the appropriate skills. Even your oldest videos have an extremely high standard of quality. ATB from America.
Fantastic video. Nothing better than having a spare hole ! 5:19
Good to see you back. You are the Yin to Maximus Ironthumper Yang.
I love Maximus ironthumper
Clearly one of the best TH-cam channels on..., well TH-cam.
Been bong watching and it is a blast.
Step key and slotted bush would work.
Maybe as you did but with the keys at 90 degrees not 180.
Both with clamp screws, better holding and alignment.
Recommended for slide fit pulleys.
It's many years since I machined anything, but I have fond memories of being an apprentice and making the chips fly off a lovely shade of blue. Fantastic until one goes down the collar of your overalls and you start doing a merry dance...
It takes a bit to get blue shards flying off a little lathe like this 😁
Such a pleasure to watch!
Thank you for taking the time to present your excellent work!
Great video Geoff, the work on those bushings was tops.
Cheers
Mark
Brilliant series Geoffrey I’m looking to buy Myford ML7/Super 7 in UK this has been very helpful and informative
Not sure why, but I imagined this lathe was much bigger when you restored it.
Oh man, worth being in lockdown to have this stellar content! Thank you!
Production values thru the roof! Great stuff.
So glad you decided to upload after a long wait.
a well edited video on TH-cam, so rare
TWAT !! made me jump with that fire ball at 80 thou lol, thanks for your upload.
I enjoy your sense of humour and have always enjoyed your videos. Thanks
Everyone's a David Bailey until it comes to TradeMe photos :) You need to make sure you take the photo by candle light, preferably during an earthquake balancing on one foot :p
Dude... it fills me with rage. Every cell phone is capable of taking better photos than what a lot of the big second hand sellers use. Don't tell me they're taking photos through a potato by accident.
Good to see you back in business again, mate!
Long time no seen. Nice to have you back. Thought never see you again.
I'm not a Mechanical Engineer, but the way you made the bushing it now works as an intermediary coupling (i.e. the force is coupled from the motor shaft, 180 degrees through the bushing and finally to the pulley) instead of just from the motor shaft to the pulley with a T shaped key. Not sure if it matters though.
Very much enjoy your videos - just catching up on your back catalog (hence why 6 months behind everyone else!) Very clear, well edited and I enjoy that quirky antipodean humour... Now gotta wait for the next Landy episode.
Sheet of rubber between the mounting plates, along with a rubber washer top and bottom of the plate on the motor and base will damp a lot of that vibration down. Just remember to add a ground wire from the motor terminal block through to the body of the lathe, so that static charges can be neutralised.
Great video Geoffrey. Liking the animations, helps to explain things much better. But next time you need to get yourself one of the Newton Tesla units!
Great video - perfect amount of cowbell!
Im from New Zealand and also have recently bought an ML7, I saw your idea for machining new leadscrew nuts and am in the process of finishing them off, ive also decided to convert to metric at the same time and make new dials for it. I got some new feedscrew and will machine it to take the handles.
Would love to have a chat about a few things if thats possible :) Thanks for the vids, keep it up!
Just for the cover that still rattles Geoffrey, could you just grab some of those little sticky rubber dots once you're allowed at the hardware store again? The kind that you stick under furniture legs etc? Great video as always, she sounds sweet! And I'm keen to see what you do with that pantograph too!
i swapped both my old belts for linked belts. Wow what a difference. Much quieter.
I run a link belt on the main pulleys. Agree. I would have done that except that they are crazy expensive to buy here. As soon as Amazon is shipping international again, I will be buying a few metres of the smaller size.
Fuck I miss New Zealand! Helps to hear your voice though. Glad you’re doing ok!
What we All have been waiting for, Test run...! Yeah Great job 😁
Love your videos. It's a real treat when they come up.
In drum switch if you number terminals on the left 4 5 6 and right 1 2 3 you connect TERMINAL i.e. thing in your motor that never have power to 4. Then the wire that has no power and instructions say interchange to 5. Line to motor is 6, line from outlet is 3, neutral is 2 from outlet and connects directly to motor. Finally 1 is the wire in the interchange that normally has power going forward. Draw it out and it becomes clear. The Terminal connection is the key.
I put a 1hp 3 phase motor with VFD on my myford. Totally transformed it, as my old motor was knackered. Although to be honest it’s too much motor for the lathe.
Yeah. 3 phase with vfd is the way to go with everything. I would have gone that way if I had to buy a motor.
Great to see another video from you again. Cheers
I once turned Stainless Steel on a Vöest Lathe.
With 5mm depth of cut and decent Feedrate.
Someone been watching AvE? Huh? Huh? You TH-cam guys...;-) Great vid and nice to have you back!
Today I leaned that I am not going to be an electrician when I’m older, that wire diagram made no sense to me😂
Electric motors are black magic. I'm an electrical engineer. (well, specializing in I&C). Electric Machines was not my favourite course!
Its easy if you master the principals of electric motors.
@@MichaelSteeves Wow, I'm a retired plumber and HVAC tech- I can't engineer the things, but I know how to work with them and workan applications chart and I do understand the magnetic theory- it seems so simple after the "right" explanation, which began with Ohm's Law, how that is the same as the Pressure/flow of water in a pipe, and finishes with the sympathetic acceleration of neutrons through exposure to a moving magnetic source. It's fairly basic science today, Tesla figured it out and everybody has been riding that coat tail since 1890. Machines and gears and clocks and such were my favorite toys as a child, so ratios and such are second nature to me- sorry it was a reach for anyone, because it shouldn't be, as the forces have been with us forever, maybe even the Egyptians were working it!
I'm older, not an electrician, and it made no sense to me, either.
@@MarkH10 Yep, I got nothin. But it's always good to watch Geoff even if you don't understand what he just did.
The excellent video really well done. Those lever switches are a bit lethal though because you can easily knock them on. Especially when you are messing with the change gears. A stop button in line wouldn't be a bad idea. How powerful is the motor?
Bro.. We need land rover videos!
you could redo a pulley and remove that strange bush. you could make a plate and rotate the motor 90 degrees so as to have more space and add side blocks. In any case, I'm glad you're fine, I really like your videos, I would have been sorry not to see you anymore 😁
aww. My ML7 has that same rattle in the belt cover. it's one of their little quirks :) Cheers from over the ditch!
Very nice video. 👍👍 When the wiring tests get to the blow up / work point, I like to grab an unsuspecting family member to throw the switch. Much safer when Im out of the room. 😂🤦♂️👍👍
Heroic work from the little lathe!
I reckon 😁
My bloke is back, hell yes!
.040" looking really good tbh
HEI Geoffrey all right? I miss your videos, they are brilliant. Anyway I hope you look good regardless of the videos
👍 There are three or four videos on the way. First one should be ready in a week or two. The next couple are already done to follow it.
jees i almost fell of my seat with the explosion thing. kind of did not expect the loud noise haha
Don’t forget to add this to the playlist 👍
Haha. Thanks
Another awesome video, we need more vids, they are super informative, good job!!
Geoffrey Better to use a contactor!! Your switch contacts will burn otherwise. use the switch to operate the contactor, and the contactor to apply power to the motor. Regards, JJ
JEEZUS FREEKIN CRISTOS!!I've never yelled at my television this much,...ever.!??...!!
Is that an Alexander pantograph? Hopefully you got a set of collets with it, they are impossible to find! Great video.
the animations are top notch!
Excellent production, thanks for posting. Any chance we can see how the new shop is coming on with all the extra time at home? Instead of that rubber how about a bit of adhesive draught excluder, I've got the stuff all over the place, works wonders.
I will do a shop update soon. Yeah pretty much anything glued on would be better. But the inner tube works so I've just never got round to it.